Di Nai continued to walk through the forest, leaving Frey and the others far behind. He found a nest of bird eggs on a tree and was pleasantly surprised. He took all of them and put them into the basket on his back.
After digging out the eggs, he caught a glimpse of a stupid rabbit eating grass in the forest. He immediately pulled his bow and shot an arrow, shooting the rabbit down.
When Maji, who had followed behind, saw the rabbit Di Nai shot, she admired him so much that she prostrated herself on the ground. She shouted that he must also shoot a prey.
Di Nai only smiled and did not comment.
Maji had just learned archery. It was basically impossible for her to hit a moving target. Unless a miracle happened and he accidentally hit it. That would be a blind cat bumping into a dead mouse.
After entering the forest for some time, Di Nai actually saw a few corn on a hillside. He couldn't contain his excitement and ran to pick all the corn cobs. Unfortunately, the corn was too old to be cooked and eaten. However, Di Nai thought that it would be good to use it as a seed.
Actually, he had already considered farming. After all, there would definitely be fewer fruits in winter. If they ate meat every day, they would definitely be bored. He would continue to live in this tribe in the future. For the sake of a long-term plan, he had to consider planting some agricultural products in the tribe.
Maji, who had followed them, glanced at the corn that Di Nai had picked. She felt a little strange and asked,"Why are you picking this thing? It was not delicious at all. The people in our tribe usually don't pick this to eat.”
Di Nai thought that Maji must have eaten the corn raw, which was why it didn't taste good, so he smiled.""It's called corn. It's very sweet when cooked.”
"Aren't fruits eaten directly?" Maji was puzzled.”
"This can't be considered a fruit," Di Nai explained."It should be considered food.”
Maji nodded in understanding. Di Nai was not prepared to explain further. After all, science had to depend on the target. To them, seeing was believing. When he planted the corn next year, they would naturally be able to accept it.
Along the way, they encountered many fruit trees. Autumn was the harvest season, and many plants bore fruit during this season. What made Di Nai happy was that he found a lemon tree and picked a lot of lemons. Maji saw that Di Nai had picked so many and thought that they were delicious fruits. She picked one and took a bite, then quickly spat it out. However, it was still so sour that her teeth went soft. He pointed angrily at Di Nai and accused him," You, you, you, you're not a good person. How dare you lie to me…" Before she could finish her sentence, she continued to cover her cheeks and cry out.
Di Nai laughed loudly. He did not do it on purpose. Indeed, lemons were too sour to eat, but they were very good seasonings for cooking. Frey had just hunted a pheasant, and Dini was thinking of making a simple lemon chicken to eat!
There were still a lot of wild vegetables in the jungle. Di Nai had picked a lot of them, and there were all kinds of them. He planned to eat some of them and make some pickled vegetables. Di Nai had also picked some of the seasoning herbs he had eaten at the Patriarch's house last time.
However, when it came to seasonings, Di Nai was from Sichuan, so chili was essential. Hence, he wandered around the jungle again, looking for chili peppers.
Fortunately, chili peppers were not uncommon. However, because it was autumn, some of the chili peppers had already dried up. Di Nai picked all the chilies, whether they were dry or wet. The dried chilies might be able to be used to sow seeds!
Di Nai thought that since there was chili, he should be able to find other seasonings. He looked around carefully and found ginger and garlic as well. He dug out the roots of the ginger and garlic and prepared to plant them in the small open space at the entrance of the cave when he returned. That way, it would be more convenient when he needed to eat in the future. There was no need to come to the jungle to search for food.
When Di Nai was looking for ginger and garlic, Maji also came to help in high spirits. In the end, she walked further and further away in the jungle. In the end, he didn't find any ginger or garlic, but he brought back a big melon.
Di Nai had never seen such melons. The melon was as golden as a pumpkin. Its skin looked very thick, but it looked like a round ball. It was heavy in his hand. He knocked on the door and a muffled sound rang out. Could it be a mutated watermelon?
"You've never seen this before, have you? It's a round melon." It can be used to make soup."
Di Nai thought that since this was used to make soup, it should not be watermelon. He just did not know how it would taste.
Di Nai rubbed his stomach and looked at the sun above his head. It was already noon. He was indeed hungry. Thus, everyone counted their spoils of war and prepared to return to the tribe.
As expected, Maji didn't manage to catch a single prey in the morning hunt. Instead, Heda shot a deer with his bow and arrow. This was probably the first time that the orcs had used external forces to hunt. It could be considered to have an epoch-making significance.
Apart from that, Frey had also hunted a deer. Dini and Maji had a lot of fruits and wild vegetables in their baskets. Overall, it was a fruitful trip.
On the way back, Maji was still on Heda's back, telling Di Nai that he would practice archery after he returned and that he would definitely hunt a prey the next time he came.
Di Nai was also encouraging him, saying that he would teach him properly when he got back. Di Nai thought so. He felt that if the non-orcs in this world could hunt independently, it would change their state of being completely dependent on the orcs for survival. In that case, it should be able to cultivate their ability to think independently. No matter what, it was still a form of social progress.
As the two of them were chatting happily, Maji suddenly pointed at a black dot on the grassland below and shouted,"There's a non-orc there! Strange, how could there be a lone non-orc? Quick, let's go down and take a look."
Heda and Frey quickly flew down. When they got closer, they saw that it was a non-orc with long black hair. When he saw someone coming, he frantically wiped the tears off his face.
As soon as Margie landed, she quickly ran over to grab the non-orc's hand and asked him worriedly,""Canny, why are you here alone? Don't you know how dangerous it is outside?”
Channy sobbed and hugged Maji, as if she had finally found someone to rely on.
Di Nai's eyes twitched as he listened to the crying. A grown man wailing. No matter how beautiful he was, it still sounded a little scary. Only a lover could see the tears in her eyes.
However, Di Nai himself had just cried a few days ago, so he really had no right to judge others. Thinking of this, he felt that Frey's patience at that time was really too good. He raised his head to look at Frey, but he didn't expect Frey to also look down. Thus, their gazes met. Di Nai looked into Frey's big golden eyes and felt his usual purity and gentleness.
Di Nai's heart suddenly skipped a beat. He looked as if he was frightened and hurriedly lowered his head.
He quickly reacted and felt that his behavior was too strange. He thought, Frey isn't a woman, so why does he think that Frey is very beautiful, and so beautiful that it's exceptionally dazzling?
Of course, that kind of beauty was not feminine at all. It was the kind of beauty that was masculine and handsome.
I must be crazy to think that Frey is beautiful. He patted his head, unable to figure it out. Could it be that after staying in this world for so long, his thoughts had changed?
No, it must be because the noon sun was too dazzling, which was why Frey looked so dazzling.
While Di Nai was in a dilemma, the crying on the other side gradually stopped. Maji comforted him for a long time before Cena gradually calmed down. Maji then introduced her to everyone. This was a good friend of his, Cheni, whom he had known since childhood. Later, the whole family moved away, so they had not contacted each other for a long time. Then, he introduced them to Chani.
Canny greeted everyone with a red face. She probably felt embarrassed and kept her head down. However, Di Nai still saw his beautiful, wet blue eyes. His eyelashes were very long, making him look unusually obedient.
Maji didn't dare to ask what had happened to Canny in front of everyone. She only asked him,"Why don't you come back to the tribe with us? How about staying in my old cave first?”
Canny nodded and agreed. Thus, on the way back, Heda had another Cheni on his back.
Back at the tribe, everyone decided to go to Di Nai's place for lunch first. The soft toad that Frey had brought back yesterday was still in the cave. It was just nice to eat it today.
Hence, the beastmen went to deal with the wild game. Frey's pheasant and Heda's deer were the first to be offered. Frey decided to keep the rabbit that Dini hunted. In the morning, Dini had said that he would take care of himself in the future, so he had to store his own food, so Frey had thoughtfully left Dini with the prey he had hunted. The soft toad was too big and couldn't be eaten all at once, so Frey only cut off one tentacle to wash.
Dini and Margie went to wash vegetables, round melons, onions, garlic, and other seasonings. Nietzsche also obediently expressed his willingness to help.
This way, the more people there were, the more strength there was. The preparations were quickly completed.
The first dish Di Nai made was lemon chicken. Lemon chicken was a traditional dish of the Dai people in Yunnan. After Di Nai arrived in Yunnan, the first ethnic dish he ate was lemon chicken. Because the taste was so good, Di Nai had even carefully asked about the cooking method, preparing to make it himself when he had the chance. He did not expect it to come in handy so soon!
However, although Di Nai had already found ginger, garlic, and chili, there were still some seasonings that he had not found yet. Therefore, Di Nai could only make do with the existing materials and try it out.
The pheasant meat had to be cut into pieces and placed in a clay pot with water to make soup. Di Nai put the boiled soup aside first. He only took out the chicken meat and tore off the chicken meat on the bones. The bones continued to be placed in the pot to boil the soup.
He put the torn chicken into the lunch box, then mashed the garlic and ginger and mixed them. He peeled a few lemons and squeezed lemon juice on them. Di Nai rummaged through the pile of wild vegetables for a long time and finally found a small handful of coriander. He chopped it up and put it in.
As he was afraid that Canny wouldn't be able to eat spicy food, Di Nai simply divided the dish into two bowls, one with chopped chili and the other without.
The chopped raw chili was too spicy, and they didn't dare to eat it. So Maji volunteered to go back and take the chopped chili that Di Nai had made. She put some into one of them and mixed it.
Di Nai tasted the one with chili and felt that although his food was not as authentic as the ones in the restaurant, the taste was refreshing, sour and spicy, and it was still edible.
The processed roe deer meat was still placed on the wooden rack to be roasted and eaten. The beastmen had big appetites, so they ate roasted meat to their heart's content. Di Nai also stir-fried the internal organs of the deer.
The soft toad's tentacles were cut into pieces, and Frey skewered half of them with bamboo sticks, smeared them with seasoning grass, and roasted them over the fire. The taste was not bad. It was exceptionally tender and fresh, with the taste of seafood. Di Nai stir-fried a plate of vegetables with the remaining tentacle. It tasted quite good.
Because there was a large pot of pheasant soup, Di Nai wanted to just stir-fry the wild vegetables and eat them. Maji took the initiative to take on this task and happily stir-fried several kinds of vegetables.
With that, the dishes were all ready. They sat down and began to eat. It was the first time that Canny had eaten all kinds of dishes other than roasted meat. She was amazed, and even her originally depressed mood improved.
After eating, Maji wanted to send Cheni to the cave where he used to live. The two of them hadn't seen each other for a long time and wanted to have a private chat, so Margie announced forcefully," The beastmen could not follow. Thus, Frey and Heda could only run off to hunt.
Maji probably felt that Di Nai was already her new friend, and she couldn't wait to get her old friend familiar with him, so she pulled him over.
Di Nai felt extremely troubled that Maji treated him like a close friend. However, he only had a few good friends here, so although he had no choice, he still tactfully followed them.
Maji held Cheni's hand and talked about their feelings the whole way. When they reached the cave, they finally got to the main topic.
Di Nai had dozed off listening to their conversation, but his sleepiness had been driven away by Canny's story.
The author had something to say-today was the first day of the college entrance examination.
I wish all of you good luck in your exams and get into your ideal school!
Thank you, qy**, zth**, pure demon, and if you can't see me, for being my little cuties.
Kiss kiss…
Speaking of which, in the next chapter, I'll tell the story of Cheny from a different perspective. Does everyone have any objections?
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