When gutting a pheasant, several people would first ask Chen Qi what to keep and what to throw away. After finishing, Chen Qi asked A Ze to cut a pheasant into pieces. The pheasant was very big. Chen Qi divided it into two pottery plates, filled the pots with water, and added a few pieces of chopped wild ginger and Daylilies, simmering slowly.
The other pheasants, Chen Qi, scratched the surface with a knife, then wiped it with salt, wrapped it tightly with washed cattail leaves, tied it with root hair thread, and asked Aze to dig it beside the fire. I made a big pit, spread a thick layer of red charcoal on the bottom of the pit, and then spread a layer of cattail leaves on top, put the wrapped four pheasants in, and covered it with a layer Soil, and then set up a new fire.
A Ze once saw Chen Qi baked sweet potatoes like this, and he still remembered the taste of the sweet potatoes until now. He couldn't help but keep looking into the soil under the fire, but of course he couldn't see anything except the glowing red flames.
Naturally, the others had never seen this method of handling food. Although they were very curious, they all waited patiently. Anyway, they would know what it was like after a while.
Chen Qi was worried that everyone would be too hungry, so he roasted the two snow geese directly according to the usual method.
Pheasant and snow geese don't have much fat, but several of them add up to more than half a bowl. Chen Qi boiled the fat slowly to make oil, put the boiled oil in a ceramic bowl, and cut the remaining fat The offal was fried in a large plate, and the aroma made several orcs sniff their noses. Carlo and Ali sat beside Chen Qi, carefully keeping every step of Chen Qi in mind, and planned to go back to the hospital. Try this at home too.
There are not many pottery bowls at home, Chen Qi still uses bamboo tubes as bowls, and fills a large bamboo tube full for everyone, and puts the rest in pottery bowls and puts them aside, whoever likes to eat can add more by himself it is good. Chen Qi took a few pieces of chicken kidneys from one of the bowls and tasted it. Although the recipe was a bit simpler, the taste was still good.
Chen Qi could only accept chicken kidneys for pheasant viscera, but he didn't particularly like them. After eating a few pieces, he put down his chopsticks, intending to see how the chicken blood coagulated.
Seeing that Chen Qi no longer wanted to touch those fried internal organs, A Ze silently brought the bowl that Chen Qi had picked up in front of him, causing the other orcs to stare meaningfully. A Ze pretended not to see it, and took care of his own food with a calm face.
"Aze, I'm going to the lion wolf tribe in a few days, do you still plan to go by yourself this year?" Azhang stuffed a chicken heart into his mouth and chewed it and asked.
The movements in Aze's hands paused, the lion and wolf tribe was about three days away from here, and it would take six days at the fastest to go back and forth. If he went to Chen Qi and stayed here alone, Aze would naturally be worried. But if he took Chen Qi with him, he couldn't bring too many animal skins to exchange. The lion wolf tribe's meeting was only held once a year, and it was to exchange needed supplies for people from other tribes.
Chen Qi, who had just checked the coagulation of the chicken blood, just came back with the pottery plate in his arms. Hearing Azhang's question, he asked suspiciously, "Is the purpose of going to the lion and wolf tribe for a rally? How many tribes will participate?"
Azhang thought for a while and replied: "Tribes who travel back and forth within a month will come. We mainly exchange salt stones and flints with tribes close to the inland, and their tribes are close to the big lake, and most of them feed on the creatures in the lake. So there is a lack of animal skins, so we need to exchange animal skins with us tribes close to the forest."
"Food on the creatures in the lake? Don't you guys not eat fish?" Chen Qi asked strangely. He saw those fish swimming in front of Aze before, and Aze had no intention of catching him at all. Later, he asked Next, the answer is that they don't eat fish.
"The lake there is salty, and there are some creatures that look like leopards, lions, and elephants living in the lake. Those creatures have to climb up to the shore to bask in the sun every once in a while, and they rely on catching these creatures The ones that survive are also not eaten by other fish in the lake," Ali added.
Chen Qi thought for a while, a salty lake? Is it the sea? However, based on the information Chen Qi knew, it was impossible for a boundless sea to appear in a place that could be reached within half a month's journey. You must know that the Dora Plain is very large, almost equivalent to the area of the earth.
"By the way, why don't you eat fish?" Chen Qi always had doubts about this point.
Carlo swallowed his mouth full of food, and interjected: "I heard that there was a winter long ago, some tribes went to the lake to catch fish because they couldn't find food, but they got stuck in their throats and couldn't eat. Many people died. Everyone said that it was the animal god warning not to eat fish, so every tribe defaulted not to eat it.” After speaking, Carlo curled his lips, “I secretly caught one and ate it when I was young. Hard and tough, it's unpalatable."
Ake tapped Carlo's head lightly with his chopsticks. He had grown up with this guy, so why didn't he know that the other party was so bold and secretly went to fish for food? You must know that although the Chishui River is close to the tribe, there is still a distance.
Carlo giggled and held a piece of chicken kidney close to Ake's mouth, and smiled flatteringly.
Chen Qi's head was full of black lines, hard and tough, maybe he ate fish scales together? When hunting, the fur will be processed first, why don't the fish remove the scales first? And when it comes to fishbone, Chen Qi doesn't know the difference between the fish here and the fish he ate before. He also suffered from the pain of being stuck in his throat when he was a child. At that time, his mother poured a big bowl of vinegar for him Swallowing the bone, until now he can still recall the sour taste of vinegar at that time, and when he grows up, he always feels that his mother took care of him without taking him to the hospital, it was his fate.
Chen Qi didn't continue the topic of fish, but became interested in the gathering of the lion wolf tribe. If the orcs living by the salty lake brought food in addition to salt stones, they might be able to exchange for some seafood. of. "Can I go to that rally with you?"
Azhang was a little hesitant, looked at Aze and said: "It will take three days at the fastest to go to the lion and wolf tribe at the speed of the females, and winter will be a few days after the meeting." The implication is that unless Az Ze took it with him, otherwise at Chen Qi's speed, don't expect to be able to go there.
Chen Qi turned to look at A Ze, A Ze nodded, "Okay, we will go together when the time comes." After A Ze finished speaking, he said to A Zhang: "This year, I will go with people from the tribe." With Chen Qi According to Qi, those who follow the tribe will be safer.
Azhang raised his eyebrows angrily, don't think he just asked him if it was the troubled look on his face when he went by himself, but his own affairs have not been resolved yet, and he has no position to take care of Aze's affairs. Pick up the empty bamboo tube and refill it with food, and by the way, pick what Ali likes to eat into the other party's bamboo tube. After this period of contact, several orcs have been able to master the use of chopsticks proficiently.
The coagulation effect of the chicken blood is not bad. Chen used the wooden spoon made by A Ze to divide half of the stewed chicken soup into the pottery plate where the internal organs were fried, washed a small handful of daylilies, put it in the soup and burned it. When the soup started to roll, cut the coagulated chicken blood into pieces with a sword angle knife, scooped it into the soup with a wooden spoon, added a little salt when it almost changed color, and burned it for a few minutes and served it in a new bamboo tube Taste it a bit, although it is not as good as the chicken blood soup that I usually eat in restaurants outside, but Chen Qi is very satisfied with being able to make a familiar taste under such simple conditions.
Chen Qi made the bamboo tubes that Ake had cut back before. At this time, Chen Qi took out new bamboo tubes and each filled a bamboo tube of chicken blood soup. He didn't know if the orcs could accept chicken blood. Taste, so don't do much, just let them all try first.
The others ate very slowly. They usually drank broth, so the taste of chicken blood boiled in broth was naturally different. Aze, as always, drank the soup from the bamboo tube with the chicken blood clots in one gulp, and it was unclear whether he liked it or not. Chen Qi asked in a low voice, "How does it taste? Can you accept it?"
"Very good." Aze licked his lips and added: "You can do this with the rest of the chicken blood, they will like it."
The other people really like to eat it. Although the taste is a bit strange at the beginning, but after eating it, they feel that it is delicious and has a sense of freshness. In the final analysis, they are already tired of it. I have eaten the same barbecue for decades.
Chen Qi felt relieved, so he cooked another plate of chicken blood soup, and the two roasted snow geese were almost ready. A Ze helped Chen Qi cut the roasted snow geese into slices, and neatly stacked them on the Pu Ye Shang asked them to eat chicken blood soup together, and for a moment, Chen Qi had the illusion that he was a chef.
Seeing that Chen Qi was busy all the time, Ah Ze handed the warmed chicken blood soup to the other party, "Eat some first, don't be hungry."
Chen Qi took the bamboo tube, took a sip, and narrowed his eyes happily, feeling that the fatigue of the whole day was swept away.
After the chicken blood soup and the roasted snow geese were wiped out, Carlo nestled next to Ake, his eyes staring at the direction of the pheasant buried on the ground. The fire had been extinguished slowly, leaving only some red charcoal. "Chen Qi, why did you bury the pheasant in the ground? When can it be eaten?" Carlo looked at Chen Qi with a greedy face and asked.
"Make beggar's chicken." Chen Qi estimated the time. If the beggar's chicken wants to have a crispy skin, it's better to keep it for a longer time. Although it can be eaten now, the taste may be worse. "Let's wait a while, the longer the time, the better the taste."
"Oh." Carlo replied with a little disappointment, his eyes still staring at the bottom of the pile of charcoal fire.