When the mermaid threw the straw under the crystal, the small straw just landed on the wet sand.
Ye Zheng was very happy that the mermaid had the courage to experiment and challenge her behavior, but she still had to point out one thing: "The ground has been splashed with water, and this straw can't be burned."
As Ye Zheng spoke, he leaned back slightly with difficulty, grabbed the small straw, and put it on the dry sand to dry.
Ye Zheng pushed the mermaid who was still lying in his arms: "Get up, if you're not afraid, get up."
The mermaid refused to move, still half pressing Ye Zheng and not getting up. Since Ye Zheng set the straw aside, he took another dry straw and handed it to Ye Zheng, in a posture that he would not be able to stand up until he lit the fire and then extinguished it himself.
In the end, Ye Zheng could only follow it and let it have a good experience of making a fire and extinguishing it. Then the mermaid got up satisfied and returned to the sea.
And when the mermaid came back to play with Ye Zheng at night, Ye Zheng found that the mermaid had brought a big conch like a small bucket! Obviously, it was specially used for Ye Zheng to prepare water for the fire. Ye Zheng had to sigh that the mermaid's carefulness and safety awareness were indeed higher than his own.
Ye Zheng is relieved now, the mermaid and the fire can have both.
But after a few days, Ye Zheng found that the mermaid still couldn't get along well with the fire. Although it is no longer as afraid of fires as it used to be, its nature still makes it reluctant to stay near fires. For example, when it finds that the fire is still burning, it will usually throw down the food for Ye Zheng and return to the sea immediately, but if it finds that Ye Zheng is only using the fire as lighting, there are no potatoes and burners in the fire. When the snail is in the water, it will quickly extinguish it with the water in the big snail.
Ye Zheng built a small pit with stones and soil. The branches, leaves, and hay stalks to be burned were all placed in the sunken pit as fuel by Ye Zheng. Although it is a bit wasteful to burn water when it is not used for cooking, but since there is a fire, Ye Zheng always feels that lighting a little at night will make people feel more at ease, especially when there are no stars and moon.
When the mermaid was putting out the fire, she often poured the conch water into it mercilessly. If she needed fire the next day, then Ye Zheng had to burn the fire outside the pit, and was blown by the lightly burned ashes. It will run everywhere, and the fire is often difficult to control. Ye Zheng even regretted teaching it to put out the fire,
Ye Zheng pondered, always thinking of a way to make the mermaid more harmonious and friendly with her fire.
On this day, when the mermaid came back with fresh fish, Ye Zheng stopped the mermaid who wanted to leave after dropping the fish. A small piece of grilled crispy fish fillet was fed into its mouth. After ten or so days of tossing, Ye Zheng's grilled fish tasted good.
However, Ye Zheng was still a little uncertain. The food she fed to the human fish was cooled, so it was not as delicious as the freshly baked one, and it didn't look good. However, the mermaid still trusts Ye Zheng quite a bit. When Ye Zheng pressed the small piece of grilled fish against the mermaid's mouth, it opened its mouth and took it in.
The mermaid chewed, Ye Zheng looked at it a little nervously, worried that the grilled fish would repeat the tragic fate of the food Ye Zheng fed it in the past - in fact, except for a few fruits, Ye Zheng's recipe Most of the stuff mermen hate. Mermaid's likes and dislikes are always so obvious and straightforward.
Ye Zheng was surprised to see that after the mermaid swallowed the grilled fish fillet, he opened his mouth again. This is the meaning of "delicious, but also".
Ye Zheng was overjoyed and fed another piece of the prepared piece into the mermaid's mouth.
While constantly feeding the mermaid to keep it from leaving, Ye Zheng cleaned the fresh fish fillets brought back by the mermaid, and cut the fish meat to a suitable thickness with a knife made of the mermaid's bones.
This bone knife was still made of the large fishbone on the mermaid's back. Ye Zheng had the mermaid break off part of it, and then he held the dome and used them as kitchen knives. This thin and sharp blade is much easier to use than Ye Zheng's arrow, it is both sharp and convenient.
In front of the mermaid, Ye Zheng carefully skewered a few new pieces of fish with the trunk, smeared with fruit pulp, and slowly turned the branches to heat the fresh white fish evenly. During this period, Ye Zheng carefully controlled the speed of feeding, and cooked the fish in time before the mermaid finished eating the fish she had prepared.
Ye Zheng took a breath and carefully took a small bite to taste it. He found that the taste was good, and nodded with satisfaction. Compared with the fish that the mermaid sent back the previous day, the fish that had been dried in the sun, the fresh fish tasted more fragrant when it was grilled. If the fish-meat mermaid in front can accept it, then this one will definitely like it more. Ye Zheng then blew the rest of the fish to cool, and then carefully fed it into the mermaid's mouth. The mermaid stretched out its claws, took the tree trunk and bit it. It quickly ate all the freshly baked fish fillets, even the minced meat hanging from the tree trunk.
Ye Zheng watched the mermaid eat quickly with relief. When it came back every night, it had basically been playing in the water all day and was full. It can be so popular, it seems that this grilled fish really suits its appetite.
The fish meat was quickly eaten by the mermaid. It glanced at the bare tree trunk, looked up at Ye Zheng, and then handed the trunk to Ye Zheng, asking Ye Zheng to give it a little more.
This is in the middle of Ye Zheng's mind. Her plan is to let the mermaid try cooked food made with fire. If the mermaid likes to eat cooked food, it must not be so repulsive to fire.
It was great that the mermaid liked what she baked, and Ye Zheng happily went on to handle the remaining fish fillets. This is good, the mermaid originally brought fresh fish to Ye Zheng, but this time, the mermaid ate all the fish he brought back. Except that Ye Zheng took a bite when he first tasted the taste, the rest of the fish was sacrificed to the temple of the five internal organs of the mermaid.
Foodies are easy to deal with. When the mermaid had the last piece of fish left, it climbed back onto Ye Zheng's lap, hugged Ye Zheng's leg, and didn't care about the nearby fire. The mermaid raised his claws, and reluctantly handed the last piece of fish meat to Ye Zheng's mouth, signaling Ye Zheng to eat it.
Ye Zheng nodded the mermaid's head: "You remember me now, eh?"
The mermaid's paw was still raised, Ye Zheng held its wrist bone, pushed its paw back, and the piece of fish returned to the mermaid's mouth. The mermaid is good at this. He doesn't pinch at all, and he won't politely push it a few times. Ye Zheng pushes it back and eats it directly. But while eating, she looked at Ye Zheng, as if she was thinking about whether she had eaten dinner.
Ye Zheng now brought out a conch soup from the side, and stewed potatoes with sea bird meat.
It turned out that when she ate it raw, Ye Zheng found that the meat of the seabird was difficult to swallow, but when she plucked the seabird to remove its internal organs, then used water to shave off the blood, and finally boiled it with hot water to remove the fishy smell, Ye Zheng found the seabird. The bird potato soup is pretty good.
Especially after the fire, Ye Zheng repeatedly added fresh water to precipitate and filter, and then repeatedly heated and dried, and the resulting salt was not as coarse as before. Ye Zheng used sea salt sparingly and didn't add too much, but the soup was easier to swallow.
Ye Zheng always thought that drinking hot soup would be better and warmer, but today, she specially let the soup cool before drinking it.
Ye Zheng sipped the soup happily, but looked at the mermaid. Sure enough, the mermaid became curious, lifted his body from Ye Zheng's lap, and stared at the conch soup to drink - and before, after recognizing that the conch inside was potatoes and seabirds, the mermaid was interested in this conch soup. Not interested anymore.
Ye Zheng deliberately drank very tasty, trying to arouse the greed of this foodie. After the mermaid looked straight at the soup, Ye Zheng finally "reluctantly" let it sniff, the mermaid took a sip, and then took another...
After taking a few sips, the mermaid finally lay down reluctantly. Fortunately, it still remembered that this was Ye Zheng's food.
Ye Zheng drank the cold soup with the conch in one hand, while the other hand gently rubbed the mermaid's head, and the mermaid rubbed against her comfortably.
Ye Zheng only felt that she was too smart, she no longer had to worry about the mermaid's dislike of fire!
But everything has pros and cons. Ye Zheng, who knows the nature of mermaid eating, thinks that the next thing she has to consider is how much food she will bake for the mermaid a day...
The author has something to say: See you on Wednesday~