female ferocious

Chapter 20

Chapter 20, Two people walk together when they meet in the forest—Part [-]

"No, what I said was 'what's your animal shape'? How can you be so hard to hear at such a young age." Shu Ke said calmly, not joking at all.

Beta twitched the corner of her mouth.

"My beast form is a golden guard," just when Shu Ke was silently surprised that there is such an awesome name in this world, Beta continued: "...long-haired beast."

"...What does the Golden Guard mean?" Don't tell him, this is Beta's own name.

"The beast god has two guards, the golden guarded long-haired beast and the silver guarded eagle beast, that's what the patriarch told me."

So fantastic!

Beta didn't say any more, and started to organize things together. Except for the severed head of the hexagonal beast, which was handed over to Shu Ke, all other things were put into her own basket and carried by herself.

The road to Salt Lake did not deviate too much. Beta took Shu Ke across the creek, around a bush, and almost returned to the correct route.

The two walked quietly for a while, until Shu Ke noticed that the font of the system had changed color, and it was flashing to remind him to pay attention to the plants in the front right.

Cordyceps is a combination of an insect and a fungus.The worms are the larvae of the Cordyceps bat moth, and the bacteria are the Cordyceps fungus. Whenever summer comes, the bat moths with small bodies and flowers will leave thousands of eggs on the flowers and leaves.Then the moth eggs turn into small worms, burrow into the moist and loose soil, absorb the nutrients from the roots of plants, and gradually grow their bodies white and fat.At this time, when the spherical ascospores encounter the larvae of the Cordyceps bat moth, they penetrate into the body of the larvae, attract their nutrients, and germinate mycelium.Cordyceps can also become Cordyceps when the larvae of the Cordyceps bat moth eat leaves with the Cordyceps fungus.

The system has marked the morphological characteristics, shape, growth environment in this world, species classification, including processing methods, identification, value, and even consumption of Cordyceps in detail. This may be the most detailed and up-to-date information given by the system so far. A kind of description.

"What's the matter?" Beta took a few steps and found that Shu Ke hadn't followed, so she returned to him, and then followed his gaze, except for a piece of messy and smelly withered grass in front of her, there seemed to be nothing unusual.

Shu Ke looked up at the position of the sun: "It's okay, by the way, can I walk here when I come back later?"

"Okay, stop by, do you need help?"

"...Well, let's see when the time comes."

After about an hour, the two of them finally reached the flat part of the mountainside. The air was a little salty and humid, and the surrounding vegetation gradually decreased, and the color changed from lush green to grayish yellow.

"This is the salt lake?"

Starting from the mountain wall, the place that stretches for nearly 100 mu is full of yellow and white particles, shining in the sun, like the most beautiful spar.

"Well, do you know how to pick it?" Beta nodded.

"Uh, shouldn't it be enough to just take a few?" Shu Ke wondered, such a large salt block, you can pick whatever you want.

"...the white ones are harvestable, the yellow ones are not fully ripe."

Shu Ke frowned. He noticed that Beta used ripeness. Why is an inanimate thing like salt called ripeness?

"Mature?"

"He didn't tell you?"

The man Beta was talking about was naturally Xia Zhan.

Shu Ke lowered her head and lowered her eyes. The elder brother who took care of this body wholeheartedly probably said it. Unfortunately, the memory is too vague, so I can't remember what he said at all.

"The salt lake was bestowed by the beast gods to various tribes. It is said that it was originally a salt tree, and later it slowly grew into a salt lake. The yellow ones are immature fruits, and the white ones are edible ripe fruits. When picking, Make sure to pick along the edges and try not to go in the middle."

Salt tree?Talking about it all day and night, but after Beta finished speaking, the system actually jumped out of a detailed explanation. This kind of salt lake really grows from a kind of tree, but this kind of tree basically grows under the soil, only the top The hairs of the rocks are exposed to the ground, and then crystals form on these hairs, gradually forming a salt lake.

Beta had put down the hexagonal beast on his shoulders, squatted down and began to carefully pick out salt blocks.

After seeing it, Shu Ke put down her things, took out the empty sack in the basket, and started picking up white salt blocks like Beta did.

"Hey, Beta," Shu Ke put the collected salt block at the bottom of the basket to avoid pressing other plants, then sat aside and looked at Beta who was still there: "Do you have something to hide from me?" ?”

Beta's hands stopped, without turning his head, he just sat by the salt lake: "Are you sure you want to know?"

In fact, Beta only found out recently that Cui Bo went to his house and told him specifically. Of course, when he said this, he knew what the other party was up to.

"You know?" She just asked on a whim, but Shu Ke didn't expect Beta to answer.

"Well, the team leader went to my house a few days ago and said it specifically. Afterwards, the beast father and the female father also told me. Their suggestion is not to tell you."

"If you say that, I want to know even more."

"Oh," Beta didn't look back, but Shu Ke couldn't see his expression, and only listened to his calm opening: "When you were born, the brooding flower didn't bloom."

Fertility flower is also a kind of magical plant unique to the whole world. It can detect whether a female can conceive. The blood of the newly born little female is fused with the plant, and the future fertility of the little female can be judged according to the degree of flowering. However, Shu Ke's brood did not bloom, and the bud remained closed.

"Why did you hide it from me?" This was Shu Ke's biggest question.

"I don't know, the beast father and the female father didn't say anything." Beta also asked why he kept it from Shu Ke, but his beast father and female father just looked worried and didn't say anything.

"is it?"

Was this body incapable of giving birth before?

"Are you ready? Let's go back." Shu Ke stood up and packed her things.

Beta let out an 'en', patted her clothes and stood up.

Although some more salt was added when going down the mountain, the speed was much faster than going up the mountain.

It was exactly noon when we arrived at the place where the Cordyceps was found. Shu Ke touched Dululu's stomach and looked at the creek.

"Are you in a hurry to go back?"

"No rush." ​​Although the beast father's legs are bad and the female father can't move, it's still no problem to cook. He has prepared everything that should be needed.

"Well, go over there and catch some fish."

Beta didn't object, so he put down his things and went downstream to catch fish.

Shu Ke rolled up his trousers and sleeves, then went down to the river, bent over, and started to grope.

The shape of the mussel is oval or oval, the outer shell is thin and fragile, the two shells connected by the mountain are swollen, sometimes there are small hind wings on the back, the top of the shell is wide and slightly raised, and it is located in the middle or front of the back edge; the shell The surface is smooth, with oval braces or various shades of green radiation from the top of the shell to the belly edge. They are dioecious. The mussel meat is edible, whether it is steamed, fried or boiled, it is delicious.

The system also describes the medicinal value of mussels and how they are collected and used.

When Beta came back with a bunch of fish, a long-eared beast, and a Gugu beast, there were already a lot of mussels scattered on the river bank.

"This is?" Looking through the clam, and knocking on the shell of the clam, Beta didn't find any use for this thing.

Shu Ke sat on the ground, cleaned her feet, put on her shoes, put down her pants, and didn't look back: "Did you bring the clay pot?"

"Bring it."

"That's good, you go and deal with the prey, and I'll cook the mussels."

Hold the mussel tightly with your left hand, let the mouth of the mussel face up, and then use your right hand to hold a small knife into the mussel from the water outlet, close to the meat wall on one side, and pierce the mussel into the mussel, and scrape off the connected meat inside the mussel. , and then draw out the knife, and then use the same method to scrape off the other end. With the knife tilted up and down a few times, the clam shell can be easily opened, and the clam meat can be taken out intact.

The clay pot that Beta brought was not too small, and it was the kind with a wide opening, which was just right for cooking soup.

After removing the circulatory system in the clam meat, put the meat in a clay pot and knead it back and forth five or six times to ensure that there is no mud and dust left, and then Shu Ke started to prepare other things.

The ingredients are self-contained. There are many mushrooms behind the tree next to it, and there are also many ferns and wild vegetables. When you look up, you can find a few bird nests.

Beta watched Shu Ke handle the mussel, watched him dig out the meat from it, watched him running around, picking up firewood to make a fire, squatting on the ground to pick mushrooms, and even climbed a few trees in twos and twos. Take a lot of bird eggs down.

When Shu Ke remembered that he was going to start handling fish and meat and called him back, he realized that he hadn't done it yet.

"...Um, can't you do it?" Shu Ke really didn't mean anything else, he just thought that Beta wouldn't handle the mullet in his hand.

"It'll be fine soon."

Beta, who came back to his senses, hurriedly started to clean up the fish. Unfortunately, for some reason, he cut down the head of the fish with a knife, but let the fish paddle to the grass on the side.

"...I'll kill the fish, you can deal with the rabbits and chickens."

Grilled chicken, grilled fish, grilled rabbit and a pot of delicious mussel soup.

The forest was filled with the smell of meat. Two people sat cross-legged on the grass, each of them gnawed on a Gugu beast's leg, and the chopsticks in their hands kept holding the steaming clam meat.

After eating, Shu Ke turned her attention to the piece of Cordyceps, Beta asked for help, Shu Ke didn't refuse, and gave him a brief explanation of what Cordyceps is, in exchange for the other party's silence.

"What's the matter?" Shu Ke asked indifferently, but her body was on guard, her eyes were watching Beta's every move.

"……who are you?"