She realized that although the cubs had accepted her, they were still cautious most of the time, afraid of making mistakes.
She was like this when she was a child, because her parents often told her that she was a burden and her relatives told her that she was an unloved child, which caused her to feel inferior for a long time.
The cubs must have already formed such a shadow in the tribe before, which is why they live so cautiously.
It's true that she hopes her children will be sensible, but she doesn't want her children to live a life without confidence like she did when she was a child.
The four cubs didn't seem to expect Hu Jiaojiao to think this way, and were a little at a loss for a moment.
Their rights
Do cubs have rights too
Seeing that the cubs were all in a daze, Hu Jiaojiao smiled, stood up, and took Long Yao and Long Zhong's hands:
"Come on, mother will take you to make something delicious that you can share."
She has nothing in abundance, but a lot of supplies.
It's a rare opportunity for the kids to make new friends and want to do things, so as a mother, she must give her full support!
Long Mo also stepped forward, raised his hand and gave Long Yu and Long Xiu a thump on the head, and said in a deep voice:
"Your father won't let you starve to death, so do whatever you want."
Although he is usually strict with his cubs, he loves them very much in his heart.
Apart from him and Jiaojiao, no one can let his cubs suffer any injustice!
Fox Jiaojiao brought the cubs to the kitchen, where there were several bags of new supplies that the clan leader had sent yesterday.
There were mostly foods that the tribe leader had never seen before. He didn't know how to eat them, but he guessed that Hu Jiaojiao would definitely eat them, so he sent them all to her.
Hu Jiaojiao opened one of the bags and found a large bag of fresh sunflower seeds.
Winter is the season for eating melon seeds!
"Mom made some fried melon seeds for you today." Hu Jiaojiao narrowed her eyes and said with a smile.
She used to live with her grandparents. Her grandmother often collected seeds of various melons and fried them to eat. When she was a child, there were no snacks, and this was the most delicious snack.
“Pumpkin seeds!”
“What are melon seeds?”
“Can this little black thing be eaten?”
The four cubs asked questions at the same time and surrounded Hu Jiaojiao, making unusual noises.
As Hu Jiaojiao looked at the cubs, she couldn't help but recall that when she was a child she also stood by the stove like this, waiting for food with eyes full of anticipation.
"Long Mo, make a fire."
Hu Jiaojiao looked at Long Mo, took a basin, poured out about ten pounds of melon seeds from the bag, and placed it on the stove.
Long Mo glanced at the four followers behind Hu Jiaojiao, a deep look flashed in his eyes. He retracted his gaze and cooperated with Hu Jiaojiao to make a fire.
The two of them have a great understanding of each other.
After a while, the pot was heated, and Hu Jiaojiao poured ten pounds of melon seeds directly into the pot and kept stir-frying.
Orcs have big appetites, so the pots in her house are also very big, two or three times the size of ordinary pots, and can fry a lot of food at a time.
Soon, wisps of white smoke came out of the pot.
Hu Jiaojiao added powdered salt and increased the speed of stir-frying until the surface of the melon seeds turned slightly browned. Then she asked Long Mo to turn off the fire and quickly put the melon seeds into the large bowl.
The four kids subconsciously took a deep breath.
I smelled a faint burnt aroma.
It doesn't have that bitter, burnt smell, but rather a crispy, peppery, salty taste, which is very pleasant.
Several kids swallowed their saliva at the same time.
Smells so good!
Looks delicious...
Fox Jiaojiao took out four small animal skin bags, put one bag for each animal, and handed them to the cubs.
She peeled a roasted melon seed and showed the kernel inside to the kids, "The kernel is inside, the shell is inedible."
Long Mo was also watching, preparing to learn how to peel the melon seeds for Jiaojiao to eat, when the time came, the melon seeds suddenly stretched to his mouth.
He subconsciously opened his mouth and took in his hand and the melon seeds together.
"Try it." Hu Jiaojiao looked at him expectantly with her eyes curved, "Is it delicious?"
The melon seeds were small and inevitably would touch the fingertips, but Hu Jiaojiao didn't care.
However, a strange color flashed across Long Mo's eyes, and it seemed as if an invisible flame was gradually ignited in the golden beast's pupils.
"Hmm, delicious." He swallowed it in one gulp without even chewing.
Fox Jiaojiao: "..."
Is he Zhu Bajie
Eat without chewing
Long Yao pinched the melon seeds, which were slightly larger than rice grains, with a slight look of disgust on his face, "They are so small, I wonder how many I need to eat to be full."
"No, if you peel and eat at the same time, you'll be wasting your energy. Wouldn't that mean you'll never be full?"
When he thought of this, his eyes widened blankly with a silly and cute expression on his face.
Long Zhong raised his hand and flicked his forehead, "Eat yours, you're talking too much, if you don't want to eat, give it to me."
Long Yao immediately stuffed the melon seed into his mouth, but ended up swallowing a mouthful of air, with the only melon seed kernel stuck in the gap between his teeth that had not yet fully grown.
"… "
Long Yu and Long Xiu were more gentle. They savored the food carefully, with satisfaction on their young faces.
How come you can’t stop eating such a small melon seed kernel
"Is it delicious?" Hu Jiaojiao asked with a smile as she looked at the cubs who couldn't stop eating.
"Delicious!" The three kids nodded in unison.
"Woo..." Only Long Yao opened his mouth wide, constantly picking up the melon seeds between his teeth in various postures.
Woohoo! Xiaowu hasn't tasted it yet!
Long Mo rubbed his eyebrows, and a trace of sadness flashed across his cold face.
Could he be any smarter
Seeing that the cubs liked it, Hu Jiaojiao took out some sugar and milk and made a pot of caramel-flavored fried melon seeds and a pot of milk-flavored fried melon seeds.
Because Long Yao was greedy, Hu Jiaojiao made many small animal skin snack bags, which came in handy now.
Hu Jiaojiao put melon seeds of different flavors into bags, about thirty in total, each weighing about half a pound, and then she tightened the drawstring at the bag to seal it.
There were still about four or five pounds of each flavor of melon seeds left, so I put them in stone jars with good sealing properties. I could take them out whenever I wanted to eat them, and there was no need to worry about air entering and affecting the taste.
After doing all this, Hu Jiaojiao distributed thirty small bags of melon seeds to the cubs.
"Take these melon seeds and share them with the cubs. If you want to eat anything else in the future, just tell mother and she will make it for you."
She rubbed Long Yu's head and spoke softly.
"Thank you... Mother." Long Yu felt the warmth coming from his head and took the small bag. His childish voice gradually changed from hesitant to firm.
He looked at the dirty pot on the stove, put down the small bag, and ran to get the bucket, "Mom, I'll get you some water."
In order to fry the melon seeds, the pan was burnt and a layer of milk and sugar dried up, making it look black.
"Long Yu, wait..."
Before Hu Jiaojiao could stop him, Long Yu had already run out with the empty bucket.
She looked at the pot, which was already in a terrible state. There was no water in the water tank at home. It was time to fetch some water, so she followed Long Mo.
Long Yu came to the river carrying a bucket.
A thick layer of ice had formed on the surface of the river. The orcs would come every day to break the ice and fetch water, but after just one night, the opening that had been made yesterday had frozen over again.
Long Yu was a little confused.
He can't even fetch water
When Hu Jiaojiao came out, she saw Long Yu transformed into a beast, scratching the ice with his two dragon claws, like a little gopher digging a hole.
However, the ice was too hard, and Long Yu dug for a long time before he could only scrape off a thin layer of broken ice.
There is still a long way to go before we can dig out the entire block of ice.
Long Mo was responsible for fetching water for the house. Seeing Long Yu's difficult movements, Hu Jiaojiao realized how difficult it was for the orcs to fetch water in winter.
She suddenly had an idea, and the corners of her lips slightly raised. She suddenly thought of a good idea...