Chapter 490: A 'Delicious' Lunch
"Eat Luo~" With a gentle greeting, the wooden house that had been smoking before was opened, and two middle-aged women dressed as women walked out of it carrying a huge wooden barrel.
This huge wooden barrel was covered with a wooden lid, but it still couldn't stop a trace of heat and strange smell from missing from the barrel, as the barrel approached, Zhuang Xiaoyuan could clearly smell the smell of the barrel, mushrooms, meat, and the smell of mixed vegetables.
"Wow, it's time to eat." As the middle-aged women carried the barrels out and scattered them in the hollows of the surrounding towering trees, several young children soon sprang out.
They were barefoot, wrapped in an obviously ill-fitting set of clothes around their thin bodies, and their faces were full of anticipation, longing and excitement to meet the middle-aged woman carrying the barrel. Behind the children, women in ragged clothes and patches came out of the hollows of the trees, and on the treehouse, the men who were on guard around them also climbed down from the trees.
"Now that it's time to eat, let's eat first." Zhang Lin, who was originally going to start explaining the situation to Zhuang Xiaoyuan and Le Youyou, happened to be interrupted by the sound of opening a meal, and noticed that Zhuang Xiaoyuan and Le Youyou looked at the eyes of those children, Zhang Lin smiled slightly and beckoned Zhuang Xiaoyuan and Le Youyou to eat together.
Soon, as the adults approached, the children who had been gathered around obediently sat down on the long table, and turned their heads expectantly to watch the middle-aged woman carrying the wooden barrel filling the wooden bowl in front of everyone for lunch.
Although the wooden barrel carried by the middle-aged woman is very large, and it looks very difficult for two people to carry it, there are many people who can't bear to eat, and the wooden barrel is getting lighter and lighter as each wooden bowl is filled with lunch one by one. When everyone's bowls were filled with lunch, there was not much left in the barrels.
"Alright, let's start eating." In the process of filling the meal, although the children had an expression of anticipation and eagerness to eat, none of them started to eat first.
After the wooden bowl in front of everyone was filled with lunch, with Zhang Lin's order, these children couldn't wait to reach out and grab the small wooden spoon in the wooden bowl. Regardless of the heat of the lunch, they scooped up a spoonful and put it in their mouths, and as the lunch was eaten, their faces all showed happy smiles.
Looking at the happy children around him, he scooped up a spoonful of soup in front of him and put it in his mouth, but Zhuang Xiaoyuan's face showed a complicated expression. This so-called lunch is actually just a bowl of vegetable soup.
All kinds of strange vegetables were mixed together, and with Zhuang Xiaoyuan's tongue and cooking knowledge, he couldn't fully recognize how many strange vegetables were in it, and the only ones he could recognize were mushrooms, asparagus, and a little bit of meat that couldn't be found at all.
Actually, the ingredients of this lunch dish are not a problem, what matters is the taste and quality. A spoonful of a mouthful full of bitter taste with a hint of grassy earthy stench, mixed with a hint of mushroom fragrance and a subtle aroma of meat, formed a very strange taste.
The spoon was stirred in the soup, and most of the bowl was full of soup, and there were very few grass blades that could actually fill the stomach, and there were very few mushrooms. Therefore, when Zhuang Xiaoyuan was in a complicated mood because of such a bowl of lunch and looking at the children who were eating with relish and excitement, these children had already eaten the things in their bowls quickly.
"Won't my sister eat it?" Just when Zhuang Xiaoyuan was stirring the soup bowl in his hand in a complicated mood, a girl who was sitting next to Zhuang Xiaoyuan just now looked at Zhuang Xiaoyuan with a puzzled expression on her face and asked. As she spoke, she secretly glanced at the soup bowl in Zhuang Xiaoyuan's hand, with a hint of salivation in her eyes.
"My sister doesn't have much appetite, do you want to eat?" Noticing a hint of longing in the girl's eyes, she obviously didn't eat enough for such a bowl of clear soup, Zhuang Xiaoyuan pushed the wooden bowl in front of him and said to her.
"Don't have much of an appetite?" Tilting her head in confusion, the girl obviously didn't know what it meant to have no appetite. But Zhuang Xiaoyuan wanted to give her his share, but she heard it.
A hint of longing flashed in her eyes, but she quickly retracted her gaze and turned her eyes away from the wooden bowl, and the girl shook her head very seriously and said, "No need, Niuniu has already eaten." As she spoke, her stomach made a gurgling sound, which made her blush all at once.
"Huh." Hearing the girl's body reaction, which was obviously completely opposite to the meaning of his words, Zhuang Xiaoyuan couldn't help but show a smile on his face.
However, although she blushed because of her stomach, Niuniu still did not accept Zhuang Xiaoyuan's lunch after all. was rejected for the second time, and Zhuang Xiaoyuan no longer said anything for her to eat, but scooped up a spoonful of soup and put it in his mouth.
The taste of the soup is still bitter, and the thick earthy smell cannot be ignored, but in this taste, Zhuang Xiaoyuan felt something else. Maybe it's human nature, maybe it's innocence, maybe it's Niuniu's words that I'm full.
"Do you eat this all the time? Why? In the forest, there should be a lot of food, pheasants and hares. Gently putting down the wooden bowl with no soup left, Zhuang Xiaoyuan looked at Zhang Lin who was sitting opposite him.
After looking at a few people around him, Zhang Lin showed a wry smile on his face: "Maybe if you continue to live like this for decades, many people will be able to learn the correct hunting skills." But nowadays, we can't catch prey with rudimentary tools, we can only use traps, but traps don't always have prey falling into. ”
"No guns? A low-powered beam gun, or a live gun or something? Thinking of the nimble mechanical mouse controlled by Jia Zhai before, Zhuang Xiaoyuan's eyes showed a hint of doubt and looked at Jia Zhai.
"Don't look at Ah Zhai, his rats were brought back from outside. He's not a local either, and his experience is similar to yours. A few years ago, a spacecraft crash-landed on the planet, and he was the only survivor at the time. Actually, we still have some guns, although there are not many of them, but guns can't be wasted on things like hunting, and our guns can only be used against those bastards of the Silent Clan. ”
"Who the hell are you?" Life is so embarrassing, eating such things every day, but keeping important firearms to fight against the silent people. Moreover, perhaps their guns were also snatched from the Silent Clan. Such a situation can't help but remind Zhuang Xiaoyuan of those awe-inspiring ancestors. However, Zhang Lin said something surprising.
"We? If you put it nicely and put some gold on your face, we are a rebel. To put it mildly, we are actually fugitive slaves of the Silent Clan......" With a bitter expression on his face, Zhang Lin said slowly.
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