On March 15th, it rained more and more, often for several days at a time, and the water levels in creeks and rivers were rising rapidly.
"Hang Chi Hang Chi..."
Under the eaves of the bamboo house, Jiang Xuan worked hard to dig drainage ditches with bone blades. Chi Shao and others were also doing the same thing.
After the rain increases, it is easy for water to accumulate under the eaves. If there are no drainage ditches, their bamboo house will be wet everywhere.
Fortunately, the top of the bamboo roof is covered with two thick layers of bark, and it is a newly built bamboo house, so the leakage is not serious.
After digging drainage ditches around the bamboo house, the rainwater will flow back to the stream along the drainage ditch.
Because of the rain, muddy water from the mountains rushed into the stream, causing the stream to become very turbid and the water flow to increase.
Jiang Xuan wiped the rain off his face, washed his bones, and then returned to the bamboo house.
"Everyone has some ginger soup."
Because they were digging drainage ditches in the rain, all five of them got wet. Although they are now Yishi warriors with relatively strong physiques, Jiang Xuan was still afraid of catching a cold in the rain, so he cooked ginger soup in a clay pot in advance.
Jiang Xuan wrapped the hot clay pots with thick bamboo shoot shells, and then poured a bowl of ginger soup for everyone.
The ginger is wild ginger and has a strong flavor. There is no sugar in it, so the soup is not tasty.
However, the tribesmen have a relatively strong receptivity and have eaten even more unpalatable food. Drinking a bowl of ginger soup is nothing to them.
Soon, everyone drank all the ginger soup in the bowl.
Another clay pot contained big horn lamb stewed with bamboo shoots. It had been stewed for a long time. Jiang Xuan used chopsticks to pick up the lamb from the clay pot and eat it.
When the weather gets warmer and the rain increases, the bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest grow like crazy. Even inside the bamboo house, there are bamboo shoots popping up from the ground from time to time.
These bamboo shoots naturally become food, and they are great for stewed meat.
After drinking ginger soup, eating mutton, and warming up over the fire, my body quickly became warm. The dampness and coldness caused by the previous rain disappeared, and my spirit was lifted.
Uncaria complained: "It rains every day, so I can't go hunting even if I want to. The water in the stream has also swelled so much that all the fishing traps I dug before are submerged and cannot be used at all."
Jiang Xuan looked up at the big horn lamb being smoked and roasted above the fire pit, and said: "It doesn't matter, this meat is enough for us to eat for a while, not to mention we also raise a lot of fish, so we won't starve."
Others nodded, and only the meat hanging above the fire pit could make people feel at ease. The feeling of starvation was really uncomfortable.
"It's not like you can't go hunting at all."
Chi Shao suddenly stared outside the bamboo house and said: "Raining has its advantages. Some prey like to come out when it rains."
Chi Shao put down the bowl, suddenly picked up the spear, and walked outside the bamboo house.
"Gugua..."
A loud frog croaked suddenly, and the sound was so loud that it shook the bamboo forest.
"Frog!"
Jiang Xuan's eyes lit up, and he immediately took his bamboo house and ran out with Chi Shao.
Both of them ran away, and Uncaria, Stone Loach, and Nan Xing also went out with their spears.
Outside the bamboo house, on the newly opened farmland, there is a giant frog the size of a washbasin squatting there, constantly using its tongue to roll up bugs emerging from the ground to eat.
This is a rock frog.
It is blue-gray in color and looks like a rock from a distance, so it is called the rock frog.
Because it rained for several days, the soil was soaked, and the underground bugs couldn't stand it anymore, so they crawled to the ground one after another. These bugs became the delicacies of the rock frogs.
Jiang Xuan and the others also ate the bugs that emerged on rainy days.
Perhaps to avoid the rain, bugs of all sizes ran towards the bamboo house, some climbed onto the wall, and some even climbed directly into the house.
Jiang Xuan had no reason to refuse the food that was delivered to his door. As long as it was edible, he would catch and roast all of them.
In the same way, it will be easier for frogs who are not afraid of water to hunt insects on rainy days, which is their carnival day.
Of course, what they didn’t expect was that they were also being treated as food.
Chi Shao did not run toward the rock frog, but even bent down and waved behind her, signaling Jiang Xuan and others to slow down.
Frogs are also one of the foods on the tribe’s diet.
The long years of hunting allowed them to sum up a lot of experience in dealing with various prey.
Frogs have very poor eyesight, but they can clearly perceive fast-moving objects and avoid them.
The slower the objects move, or even completely stationary, the more difficult they are to see clearly.
Therefore, Chi Shao walked very slowly, approaching the rock frog little by little.
When she felt that she was close enough to the rock frog to hit it with a spear, Chi Shao took action as expected.
"Whoosh!"
Chi Shao suddenly accelerated, raised his spear, and pierced the rock frog the size of a washbasin.
At this time, it was too late for the rock frog to turn around and jump away. It could only jump to the side with all its strength.
However, the red peony root had sharp eyes and quick hands, and hit it in the back before it jumped, preventing the rock frog from jumping up.
"Gugua..."
The rock frog stared at its four legs and made a death struggle.
Chi Shao pulled out the stone knife from his waist and stabbed it into the back of the head. The rock frog's limbs suddenly stretched straight, obviously it would not survive.
"What a big frog!"
Jiang Xuan, who came from behind, exclaimed in amazement that insects and various animals in this world are all very big.
Chi Shao grabbed one of the rock frog's legs, lifted it up, and said, "This is still quite small. I heard from the old man in the hunting team that they had caught a rock frog before, and its legs were bigger than human legs."
Coarse."
How big would it be? Jiang Xuanguang was very shocked when he imagined it.
The three teenagers are also yearning for it, wishing they could catch such a big rock frog.
"Go back."
Chi Shao grabbed the rock frog the size of a washbasin and walked back. Jiang Xuan and the three teenagers followed happily. No one even cared about getting wet in the rain.
After returning to the bamboo house, Chi Shao laboriously cut open the skin of the rock frog's abdomen with a stone knife, and then removed the internal organs and intestines. Jiang Xuan threw these internal organs and intestines into the pond to feed carnivorous fish.
Later, Chi Shao cut the rock frog into pieces, skewered the frog's legs and body with wooden sticks, and roasted them on the fire.
As the frog meat is grilled at high temperature, the white color gradually turns into the color of barbecue, and the fat in the meat leaks out, making a "sizzling" sound.
One of the characteristics of rock frog meat is that its meat contains a strange oil. After roasting, the aroma is so strong that people can't help but salivate when they smell it.
“It smells so good!”
Jiang Xuan smelled the aroma of meat and couldn't help but tear off a piece of meat from the cooked position and stuff it into his mouth.
This is a completely different taste from ordinary animal meat.
The meat of the rock frog is very tender after being grilled, and there is not much fishy smell. Even if there is no seasoning, just one bite will be unforgettable.
“It’s delicious on earth!”
After Jiang Xuan swallowed the frog meat, he exclaimed.
Chi Shao smiled and said: "If it's delicious, eat more. One of these is big enough for the five of us to have a full meal."
After the rock frog was roasted, the five of them started to feast on it. Jiang Xuan even held a huge frog leg and gnawed it, enjoying the meal very much.
The warriors were strong and had a large appetite for food. A rock frog as big as a millstone was completely eaten. They even ate some bighorn sheep meat before giving up.
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