Chapter 34

“...What festival?” Su Ce looked up and asked.

Tan Tu pouted: “It’s a festival that many outsiders are coming to...” He put down the bowl, jumped up and went back on grinding.

Somehow Tan Tu felt a little hesitant. He spoke for a long time before Su Ce figured out what the festival was.

Fire Dance Festival.

It is also a relatively important event to communicate with other tribes. After contacting the Patriarchs of each tribe, they will decide which tribe to choose for the festival. At that time, people from other tribes will take their tribes to the carnival. At the atmosphere of barbecue and wine, males can also have more opportunities to pursuit.

This year is undoubtedly the one where Su Ce is located... a large tribe known as ‘Tiger’.

Strictly speaking, this is a good thing. In the Tiger tribe, there are more than three times as many as the females. Originally, there are more monks and less porridge*. When females from other tribes come, the males here exert their efforts to add population to the tribe.

*僧多粥少 (idiom) - in a state of scarcity

But Tan Tu doesn’t seem so happy... If he was afraid that Su Ce will be pursued by other males, but they are married, the orcs are loyal to their partners and in a monogamous system, what is there to worry about?

Su Ce raised this issue several times but Tan Tu refused to say it. This is something that has never happened before—so he’s considering whether to go out and ask others.

Speaking of that, Su Ce also rarely gone out since marrying Tan Tu. First, he was not fully familiar with the people of the tribe. Second, he was too busy. He had to be familiar the works he didn’t know well before.

After thinking about it, Su Ce decided not to tangle with this.

With Tan Tu’s assistance, the millet gradually ground into millet flour. The more detailed ones were packed in dry hide bags and piled in the kitchen. After two days, they will be made into cakes. Some of them could be fried together and taken as dry food for Tan Tu when he’ll go hunting. Speaking of this, a lot of meat was also made into dried meat. Tan Tu was also allowed to take them with him... Hmm...those white radishes also has to be dealt with.

Thanks to the life of a bachelor, Su Ce can make some home-cooked dishes, and at the same time...he can make pickled cabbage too.

As a good and simple thing for a bachelor to eat—and not easy to break—this is the key point, you can handle these white radishes all at once.

This is one of the reasons why Su Ce chose to plant this in the first place. After all, pickled cabbage is sour. When you get tired of eating meat, it will be much better with this.

So before that, Su Ce specifically asked Tan Tu to make several small jars—pottery—which were used by the males of the tribe to hold wine. However, the technology is still very crude.

There are not many people in the tribe who can burn this, but it really burns quickly. When Su Ce proposed it to Tan Tu, he moved back ten meters a meter high in two or three days. Now, looking at the pile of radishes, Su Ce began to be thankful that he had got two more pots than previously expected.

The method of making pickled cabbage is very easy. Seasonings and the like have already been prepared. Put the water in the pot and add the seasoning then add a vegetable to check the degree of soaking water. It’ll take about seven to ten days.

Although Su Ce was prepared, he only tried to soak the water five days ago and now it’s almost ready. Fortunately, although white radish can’t last long, there’s no problem waiting for two more days.

Speaking of it, should they dig another cellar? The amount of things stored at home are gradually increasing. Food and meat and so on are not good together with those bones, he always feel that they aren’t so clean...

As Su Ce was still planning to live with his various reserves, someone suddenly called outside the door.

When he looked back, it was Mo La and the twins.

There was no pursuers around Mo La this time nor did the twin protectors. Su Ce felt strange, but the cute Guo-er called him out: “Brother Ah Ce, what is Tan Tu doing? How strange...”

Before Su Ce could answer, Mo La also found what Tan Tu was pushing. After looking curiously, three non-partner females stared at each other side by side, making Tan Tu get goose flesh. But as a graceful male, he can’t be rude so he turned to his partner for help.

Su Ce came decisively to the rescue: “...this is a stone mill.”

The three females attention was immediately drawn to his attention. Ai Guo trot over, grabbing Su Ce’s clothes: “Brother Ah Ce, what is a stone mill?”

Ai Mi grabbed the other bank and looked up with his watery eyes.

Mo La didn’t come but looked at Su Ce expectantly.

Su Ce thought for a moment and felt that it was difficult to explain, so he said directly: “It is something that can squeeze the millet grains more finely.”

There are still half of millet left on the ground. Su Ce simply grabbed a handful and went to the front of the grinding plate to make a demonstration. It also made Tan Tu’s grinding slower.

Mo La stopped halfway to watched the grains entered the round mouth of the mill, and then saw the smaller particles constantly flying around the grinding plate—it looked better than just smashing them with a stone mortar.

Su Ce said: “After this, it will taste better.”

Considering that there was nothing to entertain the guests, Su Ce simply added: “Look at Tan Tu pull grinding first, wait for me.”

Mo La was obviously more interested in the stone mill, and nodded at the words: “Okay.”

The twins were more curious about what Su Ce was going to do and followed him.

Su Ce came to the kitchen, scooped a bowl full of millet flour with a wooden spoon, poured in some water and stirred vigorously with chopsticks.

Ai Guo is just a little taller than Su Ce’s waist now. He can’t see anything in the wooden bowl at all. He jumped several times unconsciously and Ai Mi was also standing tiptoed. When Su Ce found this, he bent down and picked up Ai Guo first, showed him then put him down and picked Ai Mi lastly. After that, the stirring continued.

The twins were so curious that Ai Guo asked: “Brother Ah Ce, what are you doing?”

The white flour turned into paste after adding water, and then it became more and more dry. It looked strange to them. It was completely different from the millet grains they’ve seen.

Su Ce kept working and said: “This is fried cake. You will know later.” As for the principle, he could not explain it clearly, but he knew something about it... Specific success or failure, you have to test it first.

The twins stopped asking. Su Ce’s action was too fast and made the noodles after a while. He went out with the basin in his arms and came to the kitchen set in the courtyard.

Well, there’s still something he didn’t know.

Su Ce only said: “This is to prevent air leakage.” to which blocked the twins’ curiosity. However, Mo La saw him come out and walk over, and raised doubts about the wok. All of them were prevaricated by Su Ce with ‘mother taught’.

Set a good fire and good pot then put the oil in. Su Ce watched the oil gradually burn. When the white smoke rose, he took down the dough with his hands, clapped it into a pie shape and threw it into the pot. He quickly threw the second and third pieces... Moreover, the spoon in his hands must moved quickly so that the cake will not stick to the pot wall.

Soon, small bubbles rose from the top of the small cakes that were initially put in, then slowly floated up and rolled together in the oil pan. Su Ce immediately picked the golden cakes and threw them into another clean bowl beside him.

The faint scent is floating everywhere. Tan Tu had just eaten something but his stomach still responded.

Mo La and the twins also felt a little salivation. When Su Ce saw it, he couldn’t help but laugh and shouted to his partner: “Tan Tu, go and get some chopsticks.”

Tan Tu swished into the kitchen.

Ai Guo narrowed his eyes: “Tan Tu is really obedient, isn’t he?”

Mo La sighed and said: “Tan Tu is a good male!”

“Even if Mo La regrets not taking the initiative first, Tan Tu is better to Brother Ah Ce!”, Ai Guo smiled.

Mo La continued to sigh: “Actually, I am envious of Tan Tu...”

The fried cakes are scorched yellowish and looked good-looking. It taste creamy in the mouth, not as rough as the cakes.

Tan Tu, of course, is one mouthful at a time and soon go down to less than half the bowl. When the other three females ate, they were so novel that they bite off their tongues.

After Su Ce finished his work, he took a bite and thought he did it..more successfully that he thought.