Lu Yu stammered, "You, what did you say?"
Xia Cao looked at his face, "I heard from Shanpu and the others that you are a broken wood..."
Lu Yu: ...
This big mouth!
Xia Cao asked seriously, "Wu, are you?"
Lu Yu whispered guiltily, "I... I'm not."
Xia Cao sighed suddenly, "Okay."
Lu Yu panicked and explained, "I didn't mean to lie to them, I actually..."
Xia Cao, "Wu, it doesn't really matter. Whether you are a Broken Woodman or not will not change our opinion of you. You are the best Wu in our hearts."
Lu Yu scratched his face, "That's good..."
Xia Cao, "But, Wu, I have to tell you one thing..."
"what?"
Xia Cao's face was very serious, "Wang, he is a very tenacious person. If he has something he wants very much, he will not let it go easily, even if his head is bleeding and his body is wounded."
Lu Yu was silent.
Xia Cao said gently, "Wu, that's all I can say. I just hope that both you and Wang will be fine."
Lu Yu hummed uncontrollably.
·
At noon, Lu Yu boiled a large stone pot of wild mushroom fish soup with the stone tools he bought in the Plain of Ten Thousand Beasts.
Lu Yu had been looking for wild wheat or rice, and collected them for planting. After eating meat and vegetables for so long, he really wanted to eat a bowl of fragrant white rice, but he couldn’t find them. Later, he went to Wanshou In the plains, there is no change. Everyone's food is mainly wild fruits and meat.
Only the Matai people can resist this kind of biased diet structure. Lu Yu has discovered that many people, including those "nobles" who live in the Beast, have more or less symptoms of malnutrition.
Even Lu Yu himself, the body also needs the intake of carbohydrates.
As long as we can find wild wheat or rice, which can't balance the nutrition needed by the body, the food problem of the people in the basin can be solved. It's still summer, and there are still many wild fruits and vegetables in the woods, but what to do in winter when everything is dying...
Matai can store some meat here. He can make bacon and dried meat, which is easy to store in winter, but Matai consumes a lot of money, so it is impossible to guarantee the basin.
But where to find it...
Lu Yu was thinking about these things, and he didn't forget to stir the soup in the pot with a stone spoon.
"Wu, what are you thinking?" Stone asked curiously.
Lu Yu came back to his senses, looked at the little radish heads around him, and said with a smile, "I'm thinking about something delicious."
Shi Shi secretly glanced at the bubbling and bubbling soup, and swallowed, "Everything Wu does is delicious."
Lu Yu looked at the color of the soup, and threw some coriander into it, "But these delicious foods can't provide us with all the energy..."
Shi Shi disagreed, "Yes, every time I eat the food made by the witch, I feel very strong!"
Lu Yu took a sip of the soup and was quite satisfied, "But Wu is different from you, Wu needs to eat other things to be in good health."
Hearing this, Shitou became anxious, "What else does the witch want to eat?? I'll look for it! My eyesight is so good!! I'll definitely find it!"
Lu Yu scooped soup into a stone bowl, and said casually, "I need to eat a plant with slender stems, long green leaves, and small yellow grains on the stem..."
"I've seen this kind of plant before!" Stone said in a daze.
Snapped!
The stone bowl in Lu Yu's hand fell to the ground.
"Soup!" Shitou exclaimed regretfully, and stretched out his hand to pick up the fallen wild vegetables and fish.
Lu Yu didn't let him get what he wanted, grabbed his shoulder and asked excitedly, "What did you just say?"
The stone is unknown, so, "I said... I've seen the kind of plant Wu said..."
Lu Yu described it again, Shitou nodded and said it was that.
Lu Yu blushed, "Where did you see that?!"
"Hmm..." Shitou thought for a while, pointed to the distance and said, "Just climb over the mountain over there, and walk a short path, and there you will be!"
Shi Shi hesitated for a moment, and then said, "However, there are not many such plants, only a few..." If it weren't for his good eyesight, he might not have found it.
Lu Yu's heart was about to fly, "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, a few trees are enough." The primitive society is such a good land, so what a few trees, he can grow a large area.
Lu Yu patted Shitou's little head, and praised him sparingly, "Shitou, you are amazing! You are so amazing! Wu wants to cook delicious food for you every day!"
It's all his fault. He only asked about Tai Lie and the people in the basin before, and he forgot to ask the children like Shitou. In fact, these children catch rabbits and run around every day, and they may have seen more than Tai Lie and the others.
The stone jumped up happily.
The other little radish heads were in a hurry, and they grabbed Lu Yu's animal skin skirt, "We will look for it too..."
"Everything is delicious, don't worry, I'll serve it for you." Lu Yu swiftly scooped up several large bowls of soup from the stone pot and distributed them to several children.
"Be careful it's hot." Lu Yu reminded. He was really worried, so he watched them let them cool down before drinking. They didn't feel any pain, and they didn't even know the blisters on their mouths.
Seeing the children snoring and drinking without looking up, Lu Yu was not in the mood to drink, and was excitedly thinking about his rice.
This is rice...
After eating, Lu Yu didn't take a nap, excitedly pulled the stone and they went to collect rice.
Tai Lie stopped him, "Where are you going?"
Lu Yu was in a hurry to leave, and he simply explained, "It's a very important plant, please wait until I come back." What if some wild beast ruined the rice just now.
Tai Lie said in a deep voice, "No, you can't go alone."
Lu Yu was a little angry, "Shitou and the others usually go there, why don't I..."
Tai Lie, "They run fast."
Lu Yu: ...
Well, he is indeed not as physically fit as an eight-year-old.
Before Lu Yu asked what to do, Tai Lie said calmly, "I'll go with you."
Lu Yu frowned slightly, "Then why don't you go hunting?"
They didn't have much meat in storage, and Tai Lie was going to go hunting with the hunting team in the afternoon.
Tai Lie's expression remained unchanged, "You are more important."
Lu Yu's face suddenly turned red.
This person is really... What are the public talking about!
Also, no matter how you say this, this person can say it without changing his expression...
Shan Pu on the side said straightforwardly, "Yes, yes, Wu, your safety is more important, let the king accompany you, hunting a few of us is enough."
Lu Yu was helpless, "Okay."
It wasn't that he was moved by Tai Lie's rustic love words, he just thought that he still has the function of leading the way, and it's okay for Tai Lie to delay this hunting. He just needs to use the function of leading the way tomorrow to hunt more wild animals.
·
The place Shito mentioned was actually not far away, and they would not go far away.
Lu Yu, Tai Lie, and Shitou climbed over the mountain mentioned by Shitou, walked for a short distance, and stopped.
Shitou scratched his head and said distressedly, "It should be around here."
"It's okay, let's look for it." Lu Yu said.
This season, the rice is not so golden yet, just a little yellow, hidden in the green grass is really not easy to find.
"Is it this?" After searching for a while, Tai Lie's voice came from behind.
Lu Yu straightened up, turned around, and ran to him in a few steps.
More than a dozen wild rice plants stood there alive and well, the pale yellow ears of rice on the top trembled slightly, and the slender green leaves stretched out.
Lu Yu's heart melted when he saw it, "Yes, yes, this is it!"
His big rice! His food!
Lu Yu suppressed the excitement and joy in his heart, squatted down, carefully dug out the rice with his hands, and put the roots and soil into the basket.
Although eating these is not enough, planting is enough.
Planting it now is regarded as late rice, and it can catch up with the harvest in October. If it goes well, part of the food in winter will be resolved. Even if you don’t have enough to eat, you won’t starve to death.
·
Back in the tribe, Lu Yu was not in a hurry to tell everyone about planting rice, but first sorted out all kinds of knowledge about planting rice in his heart. Once you have the bottom line, go step by step.
But even if you grow rice later, once you get started, it will not take a lot of manpower, so Lu Yu also considered opening the skill training ground in the dream training ground to everyone in the basin.
Before opening, he still has to figure out the project and operating mechanism.
Thinking about it this way, he still has a lot of things on his hands.
You have to use the guide function to hunt wild animals, find suitable rice fields, popularize rice planting knowledge, arrange training grounds, and teach cooking and plant identification when you have time.
Busy is busy, but Lu Yu is very busy.
He used to concentrate on cooking and ignored other things. This kind of focus on one thing naturally has the benefits of only focusing on one thing, but like now, he is also very satisfied and fulfilled.
Watching their territory develop little by little, whether it is revenge with Tai Lie and the others, or a stable life, they will have the confidence and backing.
Lu Yu encouraged himself and went through the things to be done in his mind.
In the evening, Lu Yu explained to the Matai people what they would encounter in the dream training ground, and planned to throw them in for training tonight.
The Matai chattered excitedly, wishing they could fall asleep.
However, a few people looked very depressed, because it was their turn to watch the night today and they couldn't sleep.
"Alright, let's go back," Tai Lie said sternly.
The Matai people are as quiet as chickens for a moment, sleepers sleep, vigil vigils.
When everyone left, Lu Yu hesitated for a moment, and finally walked up to Tai Lie, "Tai Lie, I have something to tell you."
Tai Lie gave him a deep look, "Okay."
Tai Lie took Lu Yu to his stone house.
Bright moonlight poured in from the window.
Tai Lie stood behind the moonlight, his expression hidden in the darkness, "What do you want to say?"
Lu Yu tightened his fists, "I want to say... I lied to you when I said I was a Broken Woodman last time."
Tai Lie seemed to know it a long time ago, and said lightly, "Yes."
Lu Yu turned his head, gritted his teeth and continued, "So... actually, I like women."
Tai Lie's expression was still cold, "Really."
Lu Yu nodded, "Yes."
"Have you finished?" Tai Lie said calmly.
Lu Yu felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't care about it for the time being, and hurriedly said, "Anyway, I won't do anything to men. If you understand, then I'm done."
Having said that, Lu Yu paused for two seconds. Seeing that the person opposite had no reaction, he pursed his lower lip and turned to leave.
As soon as he turned around, his arm was suddenly grabbed, his whole body was pulled and thrown, and he fell to the wall facing the wall.
"Ah!" Lu Yu let out a short exclamation.
Before he could react, his arm was twisted back again, and a hot and tall body was pressed hard on his back.
"Tai Lie, you—" Lu Yu was interrupted before he finished speaking.
"Deer fish. Is there a truth in your mouth?" The man's hoarse and deep voice sounded.
He felt a hot breath on his neck.
Lu Yu couldn't help shaking.
What does he mean by this...
Feelings of panic crept up in my heart...