Ancient Eden - Chapter 117
~End of chapter 116
The light in the outer cave was already dim. Li Mang lit a torch made of resin and fixed it in a crack in the cave wall. The inside of the cave was instantly illuminated.
The roasted meat on the fire had become charred black on the side facing the fire, and the roasted fish that she had wrapped in leaves and put on one side of the stone table had been opened. Only one fish was left inside, and the remaining three had disappeared.
Mu Qing heard a suspicious smacking sound, seemingly coming from behind the stone table, and when she stretched her head forward to take a look, she saw Xiao Hei, pressing down on the fish with his front paws while licking it with great gusto. When it heard the sound of her movements and raised its head, seeing that it was Mu Qing, Xiao Hei immediately held down the leftover roasted fish to protect it, as if it was afraid that she would come to snatch it.
Chapter 117
(37.2)
When she had just picked up Xiao Hei, Mu Qing wondered about what kind of young mammal beast it was, thinking that he was used to drink its mother’s milk, she started to chew on the food before feeding it to it. But she didn’t expect that now, at a time when she was unprepared, it would smell the aroma of the roasted fish and come over to steal it.
The teeth in Xiao Hei’s mouth had just sprouted their pointy heads, so it wasn’t eating very fast. But the three fish on the ground had all been nibbled by it one by one, and it looked like they were covered in shiny drool. Even if she snatched them back from its mouth now, they couldn’t eat it anymore.
Fortunately, there was still the last one left, Mu Qing consoled herself with this, as she then looked at the equally miserable roasted meat.
Li Mang squatted at her feet, smiling in amusement as he looked at her dejected face.
Next time, if there was a similar situation, no matter how much Li Mang tries to charm her, she absolutely had to remember to come back first to hide the food and put it out of Xiao Hei’s reach and also put out the fire, that was especially important.
Li Mang reached his hand towards her, asking for the knife, presumably to get rid of the pieces of charred meat. But she didn’t give it to him. She wanted to bring the meat with a novel flavor to his mouth herself and wait for his gasp of admiration.
Although the side facing the fire was blackened to the point of being inedible, the upward-facing side, which had been roasting for a long time with the remaining heat, was glowing with an oily golden color, and looked not only edible, but also very tempting.
With her knife, she removed all the blackened parts of the meat, put aside tomorrow’s portion, and then cut the meat she intended to eat now into pieces on the same stone slab she had used to boil the salt today. Considering that the fish would taste better when eaten hot, she made the fire more ardent, and put the only remaining grilled fish close enough to roast it slightly, before she cut and tore it into small pieces as well. Then she used chopsticks to pick the most tender piece of fish meat, and then carefully brought it to Li Mang’s mouth.
She had made the chopsticks from small branches she found today by shaving them. Two pairs. From now on, she planned to consciously train Li Mang to adopt the good habit of using chopsticks to pick up food when eating, instead of just using his hands to pick the food up and then casually wiping off the grease from his hands all over his body.
Li Mang seemed to be attracted by the dexterous movements of her hand holding those two thin wooden sticks, and his eyes just stared at her hand without opening his mouth.
Mu Qing pressed the fish against his lips and he opened his mouth and took it in.
He chewed a few times, while Mu Qing looked at him with wide open eyes.
He swallowed it. But he didn’t seem to have any particular reaction. It was just like how he usually ate.
Mu Qing was a little incredulous, and almost thought that she had forgotten to put salt on it. She couldn’t help but take a slice and put it in her mouth as well.
Perhaps it was because the fish grew up in a stream that was not polluted and had plenty of natural food, but the fish meat was extraordinarily fatty and tender, and had a hint of burnt flavor. Especially when her tongue tasted the fresh and salty flavor, she wanted to savor it forever and couldn’t bear to swallow !
How could he just swallow it without taking it seriously at all.
She then remembered the story of the pig and the ginseng fruit ……
She did not give up and picked a piece of half-fat, half lean rabbit meat that was glistening with oil and delivered it to his mouth, and while she was making him open his mouth, she looked at him and almost pitifully whispered, “It’s a different flavor, can you taste it?”
Li Mang, as if to respond to her, sticked out his tongue and licked his lips, smacking his lips a few times, and suddenly, as if he had discovered something, he took the meat at the tip of her chopsticks in one bite and chewed it. After that, his eyes lit up.
Mu Qing finally breathed a sigh of relief.
His mouth most likely had finally noticed the special flavor of a meat that had been salted, right?
Translator : Laura
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