Stone Age Husband Raising Journal ((SAHJR))

[{ Chapter Fifteen: Elephant Bird }]

 translator: xiin

editors: apricot & juurensha

Zhou Ji hadn't gone out today. What was the point in going out on a rainy day? He didn't want to be caught in the rain at all.

However, after seeing that Xiong Ye and the others had returned, he swept some honey on Xiong Ye's remaining Pentaceratops meat, added some spices, and reheated it for him over the fire.

The people of the Big Bear Tribe knew of several ways to preserve food, but the two most commonly used methods were curing it with salt or roasting it over the fire.

They would salt the food that they intended to store for a long time, and then hang it in a cool, ventilated place to let it dry out. For short-term food preservation, they would roast it or even roast it repeatedly.

Zhou Ji didn't like either type of meat.

Because salt was very precious, the salt cured meat that the people in the tribe had was usually a little stale and carried a slight rotten taste. As for roasted meat... meat that had been roasted and left out for a few days wasn't appetizing at all.

However, it seemed that food was scarce in this place, and they didn't have much choice. Fortunately, the weather wasn't very hot during this period and preserving food had been easy.

After roasting the meat in the fire again, Zhou Ji took the cured Scelidosaurus meat that Xiong Ye had given him and boiled it with some mushrooms.

Most likely, the people in the tribe didn't eat mushrooms because they were unable to distinguish between the poisonous and non-poisonous ones, but this wasn't a problem for Zhou Ji.

He finished cooking but didn't eat any of it himself. He continued to gnaw on fruit and vegetables––Only dinosaur meat was available today, and he didn't even want to try a mouthful of it.

Zhou Ji was already full by the time Xiong Ye returned, "I roasted your meat again and cooked some soup. Eat it while it's hot."

Xiong Ye soon noticed the improved meat and steaming hot soup.

Even his mother wouldn't prepare food for him like this back when he was still living with her as a child––Back then, his mother would usually just tear off a piece of meat for him while roasting the rest for herself.

Xiong Ye couldn't describe how he felt at that moment as he spoke in a low voice, "Thank you."

"There's no need for thanks, you've helped me a lot." Zhou Ji said.

Xiong Ye put down the roasted meat he had been allocated today, then gave Zhou Ji approximately one kilogram's worth of meat scraps that he had helped him bring back, "You didn't go to get your meat again, so I brought it back for you! Also, what you cooked for me was made with your meat. That's no good."