Make home in the bird's nest

Chapter 28

Wu Li quickly caught a big fish.After living with the stone for several months, his prey handling skills have become more and more perfect. He scraped off the scales and gills of the fish with his fingernails at the river bank, cleaned the fish by dissection, and brought the cleaned fish home.

After putting the fish in the kitchen, Wu Li flew up to the tree hole and caught the stone.

The stone happily lit a fire to boil water, and the sweet potatoes were buried in the firewood.The fish is marinated with salt, ginger and garlic for a while, and the water is just boiling, and the fish is steamed in a pan.

The kitchen setting is simple, but although the sparrow is small, it has all internal organs.The hearth is a rudimentary form made of stones, covered with yellow mud mixed with lime (lime was originally bought to process animal skins), and after drying, it becomes the current hearth.The fire stove made two, one large and one small, one for steaming rice and one for stir-frying.The big one has been used a few times and has turned a dark gray from the smoke.There are seasonings such as oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar on the stove, and there is a chimney leading to the roof at the rear, and a pile of dry firewood is opposite the firewood feeding port.

There are also various small items in the kitchen, pots and pans that I bought, and a few wooden barrels that Shishi himself made from the remaining planks. Every day, he fetches a bucket of water from the river for backup.

Next to the kitchen is the hut, which was just finished this morning.

Wu Li is still wondering what this hut is for, to store sundries?But why do you have to dig a big hole outside the wall, and you have to dig a passage to connect to the house, aren't you afraid that something will come in and make trouble?

The two sat on the small bench, Shitou looked at the burning firewood eagerly, swallowing his saliva from time to time.

The time of steaming fish should not be too long, otherwise the fish will be old.Shi Shi estimated that it was almost time, so he opened the lid of the pot and poked it with chopsticks, and said with a smile, "Okay."

Wu Li's eyes were fixed on the stone's hand poking the fish. Hearing this, he immediately got up and moved the wooden table outside. After the stone brought the two plates of fish with soy sauce to the table, Wu Li moved out two wooden chairs.

Wu Li sniffed, licked the corner of his mouth, grabbed a pair of chopsticks and poked the fish, picked up a lump of fish and put it into his mouth.

The food made by the stone is not bad, which is much better than that of the female black raptor, and he is not too disadvantaged.Wu Li narrowed his eyes in satisfaction.

Glancing at the kitchen, Wu Li asked, "What are you still doing?"

"I buried the sweet potatoes, and the sweet potatoes should be cooked after eating the fish." Shito shouted in the kitchen. After burying the sweet potatoes, he scooped up a ladle of water to wash his hands before running to the table.

"Eat it quickly." Wu Li pushed the larger plate to the stone, and poked and ate it with the tail of the fish in his arms.

"Yeah." Seeing that Wu Li was still awkward with chopsticks, Shi Shi suddenly thought of an idea.

Wu Li can't use chopsticks because his fingers are not very flexible, and they are still like bird's claws. Why don't he make a small wooden bird's claw and let Wuli eat with the small bird's claws, just like a spoon.

"What are you thinking, eat." Wu Li said sternly.

"Oh." Shitou picked up the chopsticks obediently, and a fishy hot air floated to his nose, and his stomach suddenly felt blocked.

It's so fishy, ​​the steamed fish seems to have failed this time.Subconsciously glanced at Wuli, Wuli was chewing his food, and when he saw that he still didn't eat, he gave him a majestic look.

Shi Shi hurriedly said, "I'll eat it right away." As he said that, he picked up a piece of the most tender belly of the fish and put it in his mouth, regretting it immediately.Although the fish belly is tender, if it is not cooked properly, it will be the fishiest place.

The fatty fish belly melts with a sip, but the fishy smell makes the melt-in-your-mouth taste disgusting.The stone frowned and swallowed, suddenly there was a violent churn in the stomach, and the hot fish rushed out of the throat as soon as it went down.

"Ouch!" Shitou hurriedly turned around and vomited out the hawthorn he ate just now.

Wu Li immediately put down his chopsticks, walked to the side of the stone and asked anxiously, "What's wrong?"

Shitou shook his head, wiped away the tears that flowed from the stimulation just now, covered his chest and said, "It's okay."

"Then eat quickly." Wu Li hurriedly brought the food in front of the stone.

The stomach that had just subsided started to stir again, the stone covered his nose, and whispered: "I don't want to eat."

"But didn't you say you were hungry?" Wu Li looked flustered, carefully looked at Shitou's face, and looked at his body around Shishi.

Seeing that Wu Li was nervous, Shi Shi wiped the corner of his mouth and said, "I'm fine, I'll be fine now."

"Really?" Wu Li asked in disbelief.

"Ah."

Wu Li pushed his own fish to the side of the stone and said, "Eat more."

Seeing that Wuli didn't seem to notice that the fish was fishy, ​​Shitou asked, "Don't you think today's fish is not tasty?"

"It's the same as usual." Wu Li said as he poked a piece of fish into his mouth, eating with relish.

"Oh." Stone replied.Probably the taste of the bird is not as sharp as that of a human. Wu Li said that the beef he ate at the restaurant that day was not as good as the braised pork he made himself.

Thinking of this incident, Shi Shi's heart warmed, as if no one could surpass the food he cooked in Wu Li's heart.

"I don't like to eat, so I'll give it to you." Shitou smiled apologetically: "Every time I let you eat my leftovers, I'm sorry."

Seeing the stone, Wu Li didn't even dare to smell it, so he had to pull the fish in front of him, and ate all the food without taste.

Shi Shi was still hungry, so he ran to the kitchen and pulled out the sweet potatoes. After pressing the button, they were already ripe, so he cut the sweet potatoes in half with a kitchen knife.

The hot aroma drilled into the nose, making people salivate immediately.

Shi Shi came out with sweet potatoes, looked at Wu Li embarrassedly, and whispered: "Can you still eat? There are still sweet potatoes." He said and handed half of the sweet potatoes to Wu Li.

"You like it?" Wu Li glanced at the stone.

"It's delicious. I've been used to eating since I was a child, and I like it very much." Shitou said with a smile, stacked the dishes and pushed them away from him, and sat down.

Wu Li said: "Then you eat, I won't eat."

"But it's really delicious, why don't you eat it too?" Shitou pulled Uli's hand and begged.

Shi Shi held Wu Li's hand with the heat of roasted sweet potatoes, Wu Li only felt the warmth of his hand, and his heart seemed to warm up in an instant.

Wu Li looked at the stone softly, and said tenderly: "You like it, so I won't eat it."

Shitou blushed and felt his ears warm up again. He put half a sweet potato in front of Wuli and gnawed it, saying vaguely, "Anyway, I gave it to you, I won't take it anymore."

Wu Li looked at the stone helplessly, and said: "This is just a plant root, I'll catch prey for you again, what do you want to eat?"

"no need."

Wu Li insisted: "Say it quickly, or I will catch it casually."

Shi Shi couldn't help but think of the stir-fried beef slices and roast whole duck in the restaurant, and his mouth suddenly flooded with fluid.

It is impossible to stir-fry beef. If it is roast duck, roast chicken is the same.

"I want to eat roast chicken." Shito lowered his head and whispered.

"I'll go right away." Wu Li stood up and looked around, then pulled the stone and walked towards the kitchen: "You wait for me in the kitchen, close the door, and come out when I call you."

"Yes." Stone replied obediently.

After Wu Li left, Shi Shi sat on a small bench and ate sweet potatoes.Seeing that the fire was about to go out, I added some more firewood to burn hot water.

Wu Li will be back soon.

Stone cut the neck of the pheasant first, put a bowl of blood in it, added some salt, stirred it, put it aside, then scalded the pheasant with hot water, and began to pluck the hair.

The plucked pheasant also smelled fishy, ​​and Stone's stomach began to feel uncomfortable again.

Strange, is he too sensitive to smell recently?Or today's pheasant and fish are particularly fishy?

Shi Shi couldn't take it anymore, and the matter of disembowelling fell on Wu Li again.Wu Li's nails tore open the chicken belly and cleaned the inside.

Roast chicken and duck stone have never been made, but I heard from the naughty boys in the village that they stole someone's chicken, washed it and wrapped it in mud and roasted it. They said it looked like roast chicken and was very delicious.

After much deliberation, this is the only way to do it. Stone was also curious about what kind of food their method would make, so he decided to do it.But you can't just touch the mud like this, otherwise the outer layer will be dirty.

The chicken is first spread with soy sauce, salt, ginger and garlic, then wrapped in circles with reed leaves that can be seen everywhere by the river, and finally wrapped in yellow mud and buried in the firewood pile.

Wu Li looked at the stone and turned the chicken into a ball of mud, and wondered, "Can I still eat it?"

Wu Li thought of the big lump of mud, and suddenly felt a dull pain in his stomach.At that time, I won't throw it all to him again, or call that little one, isn't it a skill that has always wanted to eat stones.

"That... I don't know either." Shitou smiled shyly, and glanced at Wu Li: "I heard from friends in my hometown that it was my first time doing it."

Shitou fell into memories while talking, and looked at the burning firewood with empty eyes: "I always wanted to try it, but I didn't have the money to buy it, and I couldn't bear the two hens that laid eggs at home. The boy asked me to steal it together, but I didn't go." He couldn't help laughing as he spoke, he glanced at Wu Li, and found that Wu Li was looking at him intently, so he couldn't help closing the conversation.

Wu Li felt an unknown pain in his heart, held the stone in his arms, and said in a deep voice, "I'll grab what you want to eat in the future."

Shi Shi smiled slightly, and nodded slightly in Wu Li's arms.

The chicken wrapped in mud didn't know how long it would take to roast. He piled up a lot of firewood on the stone, put out the fire, and roasted it slowly. Then he and Wu Li went back to the tree hole.

Stone leisurely sharpened the 'bird's claw' with a knife, and Wu Li flew out and brought back a little bird of prey, letting it stay on the kitchen roof.

Wu Li returned to the tree hole and finally let go, feeling his stomach suddenly relieved.Waste of food resources will be condemned by God. If you can't eat up the stones, leave it to the greedy bird.