Ancient Eden - Chapter 112
Chapter 112
(35.3)
Mu Qing was a little dumbfounded.
She thought that Li Mang would be very excited, and even if he wasn’t, that he would at least be very happy. But she didn’t expect him to react like this. She even had the feeling that the smile he gave her afterward might have been forced in response to her impatient look.
Alright. He wasn’t enlightened. He didn’t know what a wonderful mineral salt was. After having salted meat for the evening meal, he would come to realize his mistake.
She decided to forgive him for his ignorance.
But that was all. He had better not hope that he could get any other benefit from her right now.
Li Mang was driven back to the ditch by her.
Her clothes were already dry, and she put them back on immediately. She felt much better.
She rubbed a fine layer of salt on the rabbit and racoon dog meat she had washed earlier to marinate it. She couldn’t contain the flood of saliva in her mouth at the thought of having a salted barbecue for the evening meal.
She suddenly remembered the net she had set up in the stream. She hoped that a fish had the good sense to run headfirst into it and got trapped in it. If she could add some grilled fish to the evening meal, it would be perfect.
She hurried toward the stream.
Surprisingly, there were really twenty to thirty fish swimming leisurely in the net, oblivious to their upcoming fate of becoming salted fish. The biggest one seemed to be weighing around two to three pounds.
Mu Qing was overjoyed and hurriedly tried to close the net. Unfortunately, the process did not go well. When she tried to close the net, one of the knot she tied got stuck, the frightened fish scurried around in disarray, struggling from side to side, and not only the big fish ran away, but the rest also followed it and smoothly escaped from the opening of the net that she was too late to close. After she brought the net on shore, there were only four fish left still inside, jumping around.
She was a little frustrated, but Xiao Hei, who loved to cause more trouble, perhaps because it might never have seen a fish, was obviously very excited and could not stop using its paws to slap the fish, and even tried to bite it to have a taste. The fish in pain fiercely bounced up to break free from its mouth, and caught off guard, Xiao Hei was startled, and quickly hid behind Mu Qing’s feet. Poking its head out, Xiao Hei looked at the fish warily, but after seeing that it was nothing threatening, it rushed at it once again and heavily bit on the fish.
Mu Qing who had been frustrated for a moment was amused by Xiao Hei’s antics. On second thought, after all, it was the first time that she did not return empty-handed, so she should actually be proud of herself.
Just before, Li Mang had not been surprised by her great discovery of salt, that was ignorance on his part. But if he still didn’t show appreciation for her learning how to catch fish later, she was really going to ignore him.
She crouched by the stream to scrape the scales and gutted the fish with the sharp edge of a stone knife.
It might have been easier to use her knife hanging from the button of her pants, but she couldn’t bear to use it. It was the only belonging she had from over there, so it was better to treasure it.
It was her first time killing a live fish, so she would be lying if she said it went well.
The fish’s body was extremely slippery, and it kept jumping around and opening its mouth. She tried to cut it for a while, but she was only scratching the skin.
She thought of the woman selling fish in the food market next door before. She used to hit the fish with the back of her knife to stun it before killing it, or she simply slammed it on the ground with all her might. When Mu Qing saw it, she used to find it unbearable, but now she was going to borrow this barbaric method.
She took a rock, closed her eyes and smashed it on the fish’s head.
When she was finally done killing and gutting the four fish, she skewered them by their mouths with grass sticks and happily carried them back to the cave, before rubbing them with salt just like she did before with the meat.
Translator : Laura
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