Orc Girl's Tribal Daily Life

Chapter 11 Craft Class

Unaware that the cub was contemplating a hundred ways to cook rabbit meat, young Ge cut off four rabbit skins and then fell into deep thought while looking at the rabbits.

Waste is not tolerated in the tribe. Every food item is the result of hard work and sweat. No matter how unpalatable the food is, it must not be thrown away. As long as it can fill your stomach, you must eat it.

But... rabbit meat is really hard to eat!

Young Ge looked conflicted. He could eat it himself; they didn't have time to cook during the hunt, and they even ate a lot of raw meat. But could the cub really accept rabbit meat?

Judging from yesterday until now, the cub seems to really enjoy eating delicious food and probably won't accept rabbit meat.

However, the cub did not give the young man any more time to hesitate. Seeing that he stopped moving, she took his arm and demonstrated the movements to him.

Remove the rabbit's internal organs, wash them clean, and hang them up.

There's no need for the bleeding step, because the young man had already bled the rabbit before skinning it. If you don't bleed it, the rabbit fur will get covered in blood when you skin it, which is very difficult to clean.

Jiang Luoluo searched around in the cave and found several protruding rocks that could be used to hang things. After all, it was a man-made cave, so it couldn't be very flat inside.

However, Jiang Luoluo still observed the wind direction and chose to hang a few rabbits in a shady place near the door where they could be well-ventilated.

That's right, Jiang Luoluo is going to make dried rabbit meat.

Actually, she wasn't given much of a chance to do anything. Jiang Luoluo remembered that rabbit meat has a strong flavor that requires a lot of spices to mask, so rabbit dishes are usually quite heavy on the taste.

There wasn't even refined salt available here; they could only use a kind of natural bitter salt for cooking, and they could only add a tiny bit. Jiang Luoluo knew without even thinking that it wouldn't taste good.

However, drying rabbit meat is different. First of all, the storage time is greatly increased, and you don't have to worry about it spoiling for at least a month.

Jiang Luoluo felt that in a month, she could always find one or two kinds of seasonings. She had seen several herbs at the young witch's place that looked quite like scallions, ginger, and garlic.

They look so alike, they must taste pretty much the same... right?

Who cares? We'll find out when we try.

Jiang Luoluo thought irresponsibly.

Young Ge didn't understand what the cub meant, but he didn't hesitate much and immediately did as the cub instructed—if the cub didn't want to eat, just leave it there for now.

While the young man Ge was processing the rabbit meat, Jiang Luoluo cooked a pot of dried vegetable soup. Although the fruit flavoring from last night was gone, the dried vegetables themselves tasted pretty good, and the soup was very flavorful.

The main dish was still roasted meat. Although this was only the second meal, Jiang Luoluo already felt a sense of dread about her future meals... Could her stomach really recover?!

After dealing with the rabbit, young Ge turned around and saw the cub looking at the food on the fire with a worried expression. He looked around between the roasted meat and the dried vegetable soup.

Could it be... because there was no fruit in the soup?

Unable to think of any other possibilities, the young man scratched his head. He decided to go into the forest that afternoon to see if there were any fruits. He remembered there were two fruit trees to the southeast.

After finishing their meal, Jiang Luoluo and the young man Ge tidied up the cave, mainly the young man Ge processing the rabbit skins he had skinned.

This stuff can't be used directly after peeling it off; it has to go through multiple processes such as washing and drying before it can be turned into animal hides that can be made into blankets or clothes.

Otherwise, it will spoil and rot in just a few days after being peeled off.

Jiang Luoluo watched for a while and then unconsciously fell asleep. After all, her body was still that of a six-year-old child, so it was normal for her to be sleepy.

After young Ge finished processing the rabbit skin and checked the time, he woke up the cub and took the cub, who was rubbing its eyes and rubbing its eyes, back to the small rocky hill.

Jiang Luoluo was still a little groggy when she first woke up, but after being carried around by the young man Ge for a while, she became fully awake.

It was around 2 p.m. The children who had gone home for lunch had all returned to the small rocky hill, just like they were having a class.

No, for the children in the tribe, this should be considered a class.

Jiang Luoluo noticed that the afternoon classes were different from the morning classes as soon as she arrived at Xiaoshishan.

Because next to Brown was a pile of small stones, each only twenty or thirty centimeters in size.

"Luo, come and pick out a couple of pieces too," He waved to Jiang Luoluo.

Although it was said that she could choose, after Jiang Luoluo walked over, He pulled out two of the smallest stones, which were only a dozen centimeters long, and handed them to Jiang Luoluo.

Jiang Luoluo looked at the other children. This time, they did not stand next to the large stones they had chosen. Instead, they sat on the ground around the brown stone, each holding two stones in their hands.

Some were tapping two stones together, while others were grinding two stones together. Jiang Luoluo looked completely bewildered, not knowing what they were doing.

He didn't keep you in suspense. After handing the stone to Jiang Luoluo, he began to explain how to make it. "This is Earth Star Stone. It is very sharp and is the best material to make stone knives. Be careful of the edges so you don't cut yourselves."

"When we make stone knives, we need to learn to find the sharp edge of the stone. Some stones have good shapes and can be used directly for sharpening, but if it is a relatively intact stone, we need to break it into pieces first and then find a suitable edge."

After listening to the demonstration and watching He's presentation, Jiang Luoluo suddenly realized that this was a "craft class"!

— Teach children how to make stone knives from stones.

This is certainly not easy. First of all, there's the material; not all stones are suitable for making stone knives.

Jiang Luoluo carefully examined the Earth Star Stone and discovered that when held up to the sunlight, she could see some sparkling spots on it—there was metal inside the stone.

Because they reflect light and look like stars in the sky, they are called Earth Star Stones by the tribe members. The name is very simple and clear.

Stone knives made from this kind of Earth Star Stone are much tougher than those made from ordinary stone and won't break easily—that's for sure, since there's metal inside!

"Won't there be any radiation?" Jiang Luoluo was a little worried, but thinking about the tribespeople she had met along the way, they were all healthy and tall, and didn't seem to have any symptoms of radiation.

If you've been exposed to these Earth Star Stones since childhood and haven't experienced any problems by the time you're in your forties or fifties, then you can be pretty sure there's nothing wrong with you.

Radiation can't possibly wait for forty or fifty years to take effect, right? That would be almost the same as not having it at all.

Jiang Luoluo picked up her two stones, which had clear cracks on them, indicating that they were small pieces that had fallen from a larger rock.

Think of young Ge's elbow-length stone knife and his long stone spear...

The Earth Star Stones that the children on Little Stone Mountain used to practice sharpening their knives were probably leftover scraps from when the adult orc warriors were making stone weapons.

The tribe is truly frugal and doesn't waste a single resource.