Ah Jing said that he wanted to take care of the little wolf cub, so that night he moved the little wolf cub's nest to his pillow, and only went to bed after watching the little wolf cub eat and fall asleep.
After the snow stopped, it didn't fall again, and there was no snow in the yard. Chen Qi didn't plan to go outside the yard to make snow pile up on the fence. Ake returned to the tribe early in the morning and moved the previously stored food here. Although Aze still did not agree with them staying, he did not stop him. He would take turns to replace with the other party when he saw Ake moving things. transport.
After winter, the drying speed of gum fruit becomes very slow, and usually it only takes about one day to dry. This time, it took five full days for the Carlos to dry the roof before they started laying the roof.
While waiting for the new home to dry, Chen Qi took the remaining few people to clean up the weeds in the newly fenced yard. Because of the surprise of finding ginseng before, Chen Qi paid special attention to the situation in the grass this time Of course, things like ginseng are not available everywhere. After cleaning up the whole yard, nothing useful was found, and Chen Qi couldn't help but feel a little frustrated.
After clearing up the weeds, there were more than a dozen bundles tied neatly with ropes. Chen Qi rolled up his sleeves, carried a bundle of weeds back to the hall, and said to Carlo: "Go, I'll make delicious food for you." Yes." Turning grief and anger into appetite is what Chen Qi often does. Of course, in the past, as long as you go downstairs and turn left, there will be a whole street of food that can solve the problem, but now you can only do it yourself.
In order to maintain the temperature of the fire pit, the newly built stove in the house is always on fire, and bone soup is being boiled on it. There are more than a dozen boxes of Gulong bones alone, which is enough for Chen Qi to cook for a long time.
Chen Qi moved the soup pot aside, replaced it with a new one, poured half a plate of water into it, went to the storage room, took a few potatoes, cleaned them, put them in the pot and boiled them, then Cover the pot. The pot lid is directly cut from a thick tree trunk. Chen Qi not only made the pot lid out of the tree trunk, but also made a cutting board and a wooden bowl. The wooden bowl needs to be polished, which takes a long time and patience. Until now, Chen Qi has only Made two. Probably due to a lot of thought, these two wooden bowls are also the most exquisite among all the wooden products in the house.
While the potatoes were cooking, Chen Qi asked Carlo to go outside and bring in a large piece of pork belly to defrost. After defrosting, he asked Carlo to cut it into two parts, one part diced and the other mashed into minced meat for later use. Chen Qi took out the shriveled onion and garlic from the storage room, took a piece of wild ginger powder, melted a spoonful of pterosaur fat and mixed it together.
Ah Jing's wound was still not healed, Chen Qi didn't dare to give him hard food, so he planned to make mashed potatoes. The method of mashing potatoes is very simple. First boil the potatoes, let them cool down and peel them off. Chen Qi found a clay bowl, put a peeled potato in it, and mashed it with a spoon. The firewood in the stove had already been brought out by Chen Qi, and he ordered Carlo to use the weeds collected in the yard to directly light the fire. Chen Qi put a little pterosaur oil in the ceramic plate used as a pot, and after the oil was heated, put the previous Put the prepared ginger, onion and garlic in it and stir-fry for a while, then put the mashed potatoes in and stir-fry.
Chen Qi fried a bowl of mashed potatoes with ginger and spring onion, and then another bowl of mashed potatoes with minced meat. After frying, he handed a spoon to Carlo, who was already greedy. Carlo couldn't wait to scoop up a spoonful of mashed potatoes with ginger and scallions. It smells delicious, but tastes a bit weird.
After Carlo swallowed the food in his mouth, he scooped up another spoonful of mashed potatoes with minced meat, perhaps because of the meaty aroma, Carlo's eyes sparkled as soon as the food entered, "Chen Qi, I like this. "Carlo said as he scooped up another large spoonful and stuffed it into his mouth.
Chen used a wooden bowl to fill a small half bowl of ginger, scallion and mashed potatoes and handed it to A Jing who was on the fire pit. A Jing hesitated to take it, looked at Chen Qi, Chen Qi rubbed his little head with a smile, "Try it Do you like the taste?"
A Jing nodded obediently, took a spoon and started to eat quietly, A Jing's face was expressionless, and Chen Qi couldn't tell whether he liked it or not. After Ah Jing ate all the mashed potatoes in the bowl, Chen Qi took the empty bowl handed over by the other party and asked, "How is it? Is it delicious?"
Ah Jing nodded, "It's delicious."
Chen Qi filled another half bowl of mashed potatoes with minced meat for him, and Ah Jing still quietly finished eating bit by bit.
Chen Qi also made the remaining boiled potatoes into mashed potatoes. There were four big bowls, and then he took out some potatoes from the storage room. This time, he took a few more sweet potatoes. All cooked and then peeled. Beastmen like meat. This time, Chen Qi mixed the diced and minced meat into mashed potatoes and mashed sweet potatoes, and then kneaded the mashed potatoes into cakes. Heat oil in a pottery pan, and put the potatoes Put the pancakes in and fry them until they are golden on both sides. The potato cakes are fried to a crisp, and Carlo prefers the taste of potato cakes to mashed potatoes.
Azhang came here on the morning of the day when the jelly in the new house was completely dry. This time, Ali, whom he hadn’t seen for a long time, came with him. The tribal women who helped build the house did not come with him.
After A Zhang put A Li down, he was not busy laying the roof for his new house immediately, but called Chen Qi and the others over. They sat by the fire in the hall of Chen Qi's house. A Zhang sat upright with his face The expression on his face was serious that Chen Qi had never seen before. He looked directly at Chen Qi and said word by word: "Chen Qi, I hope you can be the patriarch of the Yanshan tribe."
Hearing Azhang's words, not only Chen Qi was surprised, even Aze and Carlo who were sitting next to him looked at Azhang in shock, only Ake and Ali kept their original expressions, it seemed that they had already heard what Azhang said. Just know it.
"Uncle Azhang, why did you let Chen Qi be our patriarch?" Carlo was the first to ask.
This is also Chen Qi's question. The number of times he has gone to the Yanshan tribe can be counted on the palm of his hand. Azhang's acting patriarch has done a good job, why do he suddenly want to do it himself
"I've already discussed this matter with the rest of the tribe." Azhang looked around the crowd and continued: "Although I don't know which tribe Chen Qi came from, you know a lot This is obvious to all of us. The Rock Mountain Tribe is no longer the Rock Mountain Tribe, it is just a settlement for those of us who do not want to leave. The attack of two hyena dragons almost destroyed half of the tribe. A Jing’s child was injured so badly. At that time, I actually thought he would not survive. I just asked Ake to take him with the hope of giving it a try. Coming here, I didn't expect Chen Qi that you really saved A Jing." A Zhang said this, his eyes were a little red, and he bowed deeply to Chen Qi.
Hearing Ah Zhang mentioning himself, Ah Jing glanced this way, slowed down the movement of stroking the little wolf cub's belly, and listened to the conversation of the few people around the fire.
"From making traps, refining salt stones, drilling wood to make fire, building houses, and then to the ice wall you suggested, these things are things we have never thought of and done before. Your methods can make those in the tribe People who have no ability to hunt can hunt food, so that people who have no ability to fight can stay in a safe place, so I hope to move the tribe here, and hope that Chen Qi can be the new patriarch of our tribe."
Chen Qi turned his head to look at Azhang, then turned his gaze back to Azhang, instead of responding to Azhang's words, he asked, "Didn't the people in the tribe go to the lion and wolf tribe?"
Azhang shook his head and explained: "They just went to the lion and wolf tribe to spend the winter. The migration of the tribe is not that simple. The rest of the tribe are old or have been injured and lost the ability to transform into beasts. Females, this is the wilderness after all, and it is difficult for them to survive the winter without enough houses to keep them warm. There is a special place for single elderly females in the lion wolf tribe, and there are people from the former Rock Mountain tribe to take care of them. Their patriarchs have discussed and will bring them back after the winter."
Chen Qi was a bit tangled up. Before Aze moved out because he didn't want to live in the tribe, but now that Azhang wanted to move the tribe over, Chen Qi hesitated and said, "You need to ask Aze for permission to move the tribe. , this is Aze's home."
Azhang turned his head to look at Azhe. This is the child he grew up with. Azhang naturally knew his temperament. He didn't immediately transfer the people from the tribe because of Azhe's reasons. Azhang Zhang hoped that he and Ali would move here so that Ze could get used to it for a while, after all, if it was just him and Li, Ze would not reject it.
Aze shook Chen Qi's hand, "Uncle Azhang wants to move the tribe here, so let's do it, but this is a wilderness after all, and the defense ability is not good. If you encounter hyena dragons attacking, you may be easily killed." Hyenas are coming in."
A Zhang was a little surprised, he had already planned how to spend a whole winter persuading A Ze to accept the idea of the tribe moving over, but A Ze agreed without thinking.
"Aze, have you really thought about it? Although we plan to move the tribe here, I hope you don't force yourself." Ali interjected a little worriedly, and quickly explained, "The people from the Yanshan tribe who are staying now I won’t reject you just because you don’t have stretch marks, and I won’t blame you if something happened to the tribe.”
A Ze interrupted Ali's words: "Uncle A Li, I understand everything you said. Recently, I often go back to the tribe, so I don't reject living with people in the tribe." Ze turned his head and looked at Chen Qi, "I like the tribe very much, and I also like the people in the tribe. If the tribe wants to move here, I will not object."
Hearing Aze's answer, Azhang breathed a sigh of relief, "Chen Qi, are you willing to be the patriarch of our tribe?"
Chen Qi shook his head, "No, I'm not suitable to be the patriarch." Azhang was a little disappointed, and Chen Qi continued: "I think it's most suitable for you to continue to be the patriarch of the tribe. If you have any questions in the future, you need my help. I will do my best to help as long as I can.”
Azhang wanted to say something more, but seeing Ake winking at him and shaking his head, Azhang swallowed the words of persuasion that came out of his mouth.
So the question of the migration of tribes after the end of winter was settled.
When cleaning up the dishes after breakfast, Chen Qi came to the washroom, A Ze was squeezing the fig liquid into the oily pottery plate, "A Ze, just now you said that you don't mind the fact that the tribe migrates here, it is your sincerity talk?"
Aze stopped what he was doing, looked up and saw that Chen Qi had squatted beside him, and smiled, "I encountered some unhappy things in the tribe before, and I must have lied to you if I said I don't mind."
"Then why did you agree to Azhang's request? Azhang wants my help. I can help them plan the original Yanshan tribe's place, and the tribe's defense can also be done well."
Aze shook his head, "I don't hate people in the tribe. I didn't live in the tribe before and I didn't want Carlo to stick to me all the time." Aze paused, and leaned into Chen Qi's ear. Feeling itchy ears, "Chen Qi, you always smile very nicely when there are many people."