Chapter 9: Sweet potato and purslane

The basket was full, the bottom was full of sweet potatoes, the top was salt stones, and the top was purslane. It almost broke the basket. Fortunately, although the shape wasn't very good-looking, it was still strong and hadn't been broken.

Ruo wanted to learn more when he saw that the basket could hold so many things. Other people in the tribe were waiting to learn too. Li Feng was nervous. He could barely make this one basket. How to teach? It didn't matter if he only taught Ruo. Let him think about it. Now he had to teach the whole tribe how to do it. It seemed that he had to wait for Ruo to think about it and then teach it to others. Now he had to continue to improve himself.

Back at the cave, Ruo came in this time. He was curious to death, waiting for Li Feng to say how to eat the earth lumps and green grass. Since he asked all the time and Li Feng couldn't make it clear, he let him come to their house for dinner in the evening.

Ruo was also a loner anyway. Ruo's parents have passed away and were killed by wild animals while protecting the clan. So Ruo had always lived alone in his cave. But if one had a family and wanted to live, they needed to find a place to move, but they couldn't be too far away from the clan, which was not safe. Those who were not adults and had no parents or were only one person lived in a big communal cave. Ruo didn't want to live with so many people, so he chose a smaller cave to live by himself.

Bao Bei had fallen asleep. It was about 4:00 p.m. right now and it was time for dinner. Lunch was just fruit in the woods. Li had walked so far and Feng had been hungry for a long time. Since he came to the world, he had not eaten well and had poor health. Therefore, he decided that even if he could not exercise and be as tight and smooth as Li, he would have to be as healthy and fit as his previous life.

It was tragic to say that Li Feng always wanted to live in a house, but he never had time to provide for his house. In order to eat and live, he kept running all day, so although the small body was not strong, at least it was healthy. Unlike the current body, it was estimated that there was a lack of calcium, iron and zinc. In a word, there was a lack of nutrition. Now he needed to work hard to improve his food intake, or he would have no energy to work and exercise.

Today, the men didn't go hunting, but escorted them to pick salt and fruit together, so there was no meat for dinner. Li Feng was used to living in the cave. He didn't even have a door, so there was no sense of security. Although the cave was very strong, he wanted to have a door to block it. But after so many days, he didn't see anyone's cave with a door. So, before it was dark and Li was there, he'd like to make a door for Li to go in and out of, which was the simplest method.

But the branches and wood should be prepared first, so Li was going to cut wood nearby. Li thought that Feng seemed to be getting smarter now. Strange things will come to his mind. He first made underwear, then ate salt, and then dug out a lot of earth lumps and green leaves. Now he was asked to cut wood since Feng said he wanted to make a door. Li didn't know how he thought of these things, but it was always good things.

Li Feng asked Ruo to wash seven or eight sweet potatoes, put them in a clay pot. He made some wet mud, wrapped the pot with it before putting it in the fire and baked it. The simple purslane lean meat soup was made by Li Feng.

He cut off the old leaves and roots, and then cut them with a stone knife. They were all small. Then the lean meat was also diced and washed with boiling water. This lean meat was also salted by Li Feng. It was not completely tasted but was ready for use today. Then it was easy. He just needed to put everything in the pot and add water to cook it for an hour or two. Finally, he added some salt. There was no other seasoning here, only salt.

Li Feng and Ruo were chatting while burning the fire. Soon, the sweet potatoes were cooked, while the purslane soup needed to be cooked for a while, just waiting for their mouth to dry. Li Feng stood at the entrance of the cave and saw Li, who was busy chopping branches. Here, the tools were only stone, so it was very slow. Fortunately, he was strong enough, rough enough, and had cut a lot. Li Feng watched. He yelled at Li to come back for dinner.

After shouting, he felt like a wife yelling at her husband who was busy outside. He couldn't help sweating. Seeing Li looking over, he pretended not to see him. He was busy with his own affairs. In fact, he was preparing dishes and chopsticks, waiting for him to come home for dinner...

The cooked sweet potatoes were put in a big pottery dish. Now it was not the season for the sweet potatoes to mature, so they were not big. The biggest one was the size of a man's fist, and the smallest one, as big as a finger, was put in to cook together. Then the baked ones were also pulled out with wooden sticks. The fresh sweet potatoes were still very hot, Li Feng smashed the mud off, then tossed the sweet potato in both hands, waiting to adapt to the current high temperature and quickly cool the sweet potato.

Li Feng liked to eat the roasted food. It tasted delicious and didn't have the soft feeling of boiling. Breaking open a roasted sweet potato, it was soft inside, crystal clear white, but the core was slightly red, not only beautiful, smelling sweet, it tasted sweet and delicious. It made him almost bite off his tongue.

Ruo took one of the cooked sweet potatoes as soon as they came out. He didn't think it was too hot. He broke one and tasted it. He didn't dare to swallow it. He kept opening his mouth and fanning his hand to cool his mouth. Finally, he could not wait for it to burn. He chewed it quickly.

Mn, it was really delicious. Next time, I'll dig some to eat.

After eating a boiled one, he smelled the baked one in Li Feng's hand. It seemed more fragrant. No way. I want to eat that one. Ruo rushed to grab one to eat, but it was the one Li Feng just broke off and hadn't eaten yet, which made Li Feng glare at him. "There's still some there. You have to eat it yourself. Don't rob me." He tried to distract Ruo.

As soon as Li came in, he found that they were fighting for food. It was the lumps he had dug up. It smelled delicious. He washed his hands and saw a plate on the table. He reached out and took one. It was soft and almost pinched in half by him. He thought it was hard. It was good to eat a piece of skin. One was not big. He ate it in three bites. He looked over to find the two of them still fighting for the earth lumps. He took one when they were not paying attention to him, broke off the mud, and then three of them were eaten.

As soon as Li Feng and Ruo found out, they immediately piled up the roasted ones to themselves. In fact, there were only three or four left. They didn't bake much at first, because the fire was not big and there were too many.

"You eat it and cook it," they said, pointing to the boiled sweet potato on the table.

Two people looked at each other and saw that there were still four left. There was no dispute, it was two against one. Anyway, Li had no share. Li had no choice but to pamper and watch the red and lively Feng. He picked up the food on the table. It was delicious anyway, and the boiled one was the same.

Although sweet potatoes were delicious, they couldn't eat more. It was easy to be full, and it was easy to accumulate food, distend the stomach, and feel sick. So it was still necessary to have a proper amount of sweet potato. After eating the baked sweet potato, the two people were almost the same. They just had a little room left in their stomachs to drink the purslane lean meat soup.

The soup was very good-looking, green purslane, light yellow meat, and smelled very fragrant. Li Feng served a bowl with salt, which was a little light. If there was a little more monosodium glutamate, it would be more fresh. It was not bad now, it was very light, and was very comfortable to drink. The purslane leaves were plump and had a good flavor, coupled with the fresh flavor of meat, the three people ate almost all of it.