Chapter 89.2 (2/2)
“There’s a lot of things to move. Let’s hurry!” Xiong Ye stated. He picked up two chairs, then climbed down from the cave, running towards his new home.
Zhu Zhan and the others saw this and picked up a few things, following suit one after the other. Even the priest was no exception-he took the chamber pot with him and slowly made his way down.
Zhu Zhan felt that the cave that Xiong Ye lived in was already very good, but after he saw Zhou Ji’s and Xiong Ye’s new home, he immediately realized that that was not the case.
He had come to see Zhou Ji’s and Xiong Ye’s new home before, but the house he arrived at was completely different from the one he had seen before.
Not only did the outside look much better, there were decorations placed inside that pleased the eye.
Everyone entered from the middle room. As soon as they entered, they saw a small round table carved from a single piece of wood, and a few stumps that served as chairs. Further inside was the kitchen, and in this kitchen, there were two stoves made from clay, with pottery pots placed on top. Next to the stoves was a stone shelf where some of the jars and containers that had been moved earlier were already placed.
Additionally, Xiong Ye and Zhou Ji’s bedroom was quite good. The bedroom was connected to a smaller room that was supposedly used for bathing, and from there, another room could be seen that led to an even smaller room that served some unknown purpose. A small round stool was placed there.
No, it didn’t seem to be a small round stool.
Zhu Zhan was curious again. When he discovered that the stool had a cover, he reached out to open it-the stool turned out to actually be a wooden bucket with a lid.
“Is this room used to store food? Is this wooden bucket used to store barley?” Zhu Zhan asked.
“……” Xiong Ye once again felt quite helpless. “That is a toilet.”
Zhu Zhan: “……” He immediately realized what this wooden bucket was for.
When the people of the Big Bear Tribe learned that excrement could make plants grow better, they began to collect their waste, along with the waste from the dinosaurs they were raising.
Now that Xiong Ye and Zhou Ji had placed such a thing in their own home… It seemed that they didn’t intend to waste even the smallest amount of excrement!
While Zhu Zhan was coming to a realization about Zhou Ji and Xiong Ye’s ‘stinginess’, the priest also opened up the toilet and took a look, “This is great. I want one in my room too! It’s so convenient!”
He spoke while studying it in increasing detail.
Zhu Zhan was speechless towards the priest’s attitude!
Zhou Ji was very calm as he let the priest look around as he liked. He even added, “Everyone is helping a lot with today’s move. If you all are open to it, you can all eat here with us later.”
Regardless of whether it was Zhu Zhan or the priest, their eyes all lit up.
Zhou Ji’s food was really delicious, but it was really difficult for them to have a chance to eat it!
Now that Zhou Ji was willing to cook for them… These people worked so hard that they soon finished moving all of Zhou Ji and Xiong Ye’s things to their new home.
There were some things in the cave, like the stone pots, that Zhou Ji no longer wanted, but he still wanted most of the things from the cave.
It hadn’t been easy for him to save up so many things at home.
Zhou Ji even went so far as to dismantle the bed that he and Xiong Ye had slept in to move it to their new home.
This was something he and Xiong Ye had slept in before, and he didn’t want anyone else to sleep there.
So, after everything was moved, Zhou Ji told Xiong Ye to bring Zhu Zhan with him and clean up the yard outside.
He was planning to plant things in the yard in the future. Since that was the case, the soil naturally needed to be ploughed, and the roots left over from the trees that had been cut down also needed to be dug out.
Moving things hadn’t been that hard, but the task they had to do now really taxed their physical strength… However, Zhu Zhan and the others felt full of strength when they thought about how they would soon be able to eat food that Zhou Ji had cooked.
At this time, the priest was leading Xiong Mao and Xiong Bai to help clean up the interior of the house as well as start up a fire for Zhou Ji.
Of course, the priest wasn’t very serious about his task. He followed behind Zhou Ji and asked endlessly, “Zhou Ji, what kind of food do you plan to make?”
Zhou Ji: “Fried wheat pancake.”
What Zhou Ji intended to make was something that his grandmother had often made for him to eat as a child. His grandmother called it a wheat oil pancake, so he also used this name.
His grandmother generally made the fried wheat pancakes like so: place a few spoonfuls of flour into a bowl and add an egg, then put in a bit of water, salt, and chopped onions before stirring it all evenly to make a paste. After turning on the fire, she would brush a layer of oil on the pan before pouring the batter in.
This batter could be spread by shaking the pan, or smoothed out with a spoon. After one side was cooked, it was flipped over with a spatula, and when the other side was done, it could be considered finished.
Generally, if it was made well, it would no longer be in a whole piece. However, this didn’t affect the eating experience, and it would actually taste very good.
Zhou Ji had really liked this kind of food back then. And since it was so easy to make, he had remembered how to do it.
Currently, he didn’t have any eggs or onions, so he wouldn’t add any egg and would instead use a different type of vegetable-in fact, it was fine not to add onions. He happened to have a type of aromatic vegetable on hand that should be very tasty when chopped up and added in.
Zhou Ji soon made a lot of fried wheat pancakes.
Of course, he couldn’t feed only pancakes to everyone… He stir fried some smoked meat with chili peppers and boiled a pot of pickled vegetable soup, then made another two vegetable dishes.
Although Zhou Ji made a lot of food, there were a lot of people over today… In order to avoid not having enough for everyone to eat, Zhou Ji simply made hot pot.
It was impossible for so many people to sit around the table and eat, so Zhou Ji placed everything on the floor of the dining room.
Nobody had any objections to this. When everyone who had been busy all day came over to eat, they even felt kind of like they had accomplished something with their efforts.
This food was really too tasty!
In particular, Xiong Bai immediately began to lament after eating a bite of the fried wheat pancakes. “I felt that the toasted barley was very tasty and already finished off my entire portion of barley!”
“That’s alright.” Zhou Ji said. “Even if you had kept your barley, you wouldn’t be able to make this.”
Xiong Bai: “……”