Chapter 5: Stewed pork with hibiscus

In recent days, the tribe had gotten a lot of prey, so they had a lot of meat. Every day, there was a large piece of meat. Li Feng used a stone knife to cut the meat smaller but this stone knife was not as fast as a steel knife. He could only saw at the meat slowly, and then use a clay pot to wash the hibiscus flowers and meat.

There was no steel pot here, so he could only cook it in the clay pot. He found two or three relatively flat stones outside and placed them in a triangle near the hole where the fire had been burning. Then he used a relatively thick and shallow clay pot as the cooking pot. He found dry weeds to start the fire, and then directly used the dry wood branches.

It was almost done. Li Feng put out the fire and left only a little kindling. Then he went to the cave and brought the little guy out. He had to be in the sun for calcium supplement and sterilization.

Perhaps he felt his 'mother' holding him. The little guy opened his eyes and spit bubbles out his mouth. His black eyes looked at Li Feng, and he smiled a little. Li Feng kissed his little face. His white face was soon covered in kisses.

Settling the little guy, he looked at the hibiscus stew. It was done. Li, who had been hunting with the tribe outside at this time, also came back. He had a few rabbits and pheasants in his hand. Obviously, they were all alive, but they were also half dead. Li Feng was still thinking about it. If they hadn't died, he wanted to keep them. In the future, he may be able to eat eggs and more and more meat. It was also amazing when he knew about the rabbit's fertility.

"Feng, what did you do today, not barbecue?" Li had some doubts. What else was there besides barbecue? The meat was not delicious at all because it tasted so light. How could Fend think of cooking it in water? However, it smelled delicious.

"No, I wanted to cook today, so..." Li Feng almost forgot that people here didn't like to eat boiled meat. Everything was roasted.

"Very fragrant!" Li opened the earthenware pot and could smell it from the steam.

Li Feng murmured to himself that if there was scallion, ginger and garlic, it would be even better. Now it was only salt and hibiscus, but it was still really delicious. After eating the barbecue for a few days, the taste was really attractive.

In fact, when it came to salt, Li Feng was quite surprised when he saw it at the beginning. Unexpectedly, they found salt. Before he found salt, they used to drink the blood of animals to get salt. According to the memory of the body, there was a place near where they lived, and their tribe also settled down here because there was salt, the mountains and forests were large, and the food was rich.

At first, people in the tribe didn't know that there was salt, but when catching animals, they saw many animals wandering around here. From time to time, herbivores come to the barren white 'rock soil' to eat 'soil.' Since there were many herbivores here, they also attracted a large number of carnivores. The carnivores relied on the blood of herbivores to obtain salt, but they would not eat the soil. [efn_note]The human body can't live without some sodium. It's needed to transmit nerve impulses, contract and relax muscle fibers (including those in the heart and blood vessels), and maintain a proper fluid balance.[/efn_note]

They chased several of the animals there and they knew what herbivores could eat, they could as well. So, when there were no wild animals around, they picked up several pieces and went back to the tribe. They also tasted them. The taste was strange and not delicious. So although they took them back to the tribe, they didn't eat them. They only put them in the corner.

At this time, Li Feng found them.

He knew that the place should be a mineral salt rock, the only salt one could eat without going to the seaside to bask in the salt. Moreover, the crystal of the salt should have high purity, which could be directly eaten. This time, he used it for cooking.

It was a big piece of meat, about the size of a fist with fat still on it. Li Feng couldn't help swallowing his saliva because of the strong smell of meat. It was his first meal today. It seemed that the people didn't eat breakfast here. Besides, it wasn't convenient to go anywhere. His stomach was empty and it was beginning to grumble.

Li Feng fed Bao Bei a little broth without salt. This one was taken out in advance and now it was the perfect temperature for him. Li also took a piece of it and couldn't wait to blow it cold. Well, there was still soup on the meat. He took a bite of the overflowing soup and the meat, plus the hibiscus flowers, and found it was really delicious.

Li Feng also picked up a piece using his hand to eat since he didn't have chopsticks. There were no chopsticks here, and since he didn't find bamboo, he couldn't find any type of wood that could replace the chopsticks. He did try but the wood was always bitter, and was even harder to insert into the hot meat. After trying several times, he could only give up. When he found bamboo, he would not only eat, but also make many of them.

"How is this made? It's delicious!" Li's contoured handsome face was suffused with some not easy to see tenderness.

"Er..." Li Feng was a little embarrassed. He simply added some salt and hibiscus flowers. "Just added some salt and that flower." He pointed to the white salt crystal and the flower in the pot beside him.

"Ah? Can I eat this like this? " Li took the salt crystal and asked. Could this thing really make the meat so delicious?

"I just tried it, but I didn't expect it to be so delicious!" Li Feng was a bit awkward. It was just salt. Why make such a fuss?