“So even though we’re processing it, we’re not going to eat the pig brain.”
Of the eight girls, seven have protested, and only Anya, who was cleaning the internal organs carefully, remained silent.
"Well, then I'll eat alone tonight..." Scratching his head awkwardly, Zhang Liu said, "Just wait until you guys finish your bath, I'll stew it."
"Then I'll eat with you." Holding a banana leaf full of large intestines and pork head slices, Anya walked to Zhang Liu and said with a smile: "I can accept this, as long as it is not eaten raw."
Qin Ruoyan opened her mouth, although she suddenly wanted to say: "I can do it too"
But considering that doing so would be tantamount to a direct conflict with Anya, Qin Ruoyan forced herself to hold back the words.
Then she successfully cleaned the blood membrane on the outer layer of the pig's brain and began to dig down along the bones with her fingers.
With a slight force, in less than three seconds, Qin Ruoyan lifted the entire pig brain out of the pig's head and placed it on the banana leaf.
"Zhang Liu, you must wait until I fall asleep before eating!" Gu Qingrou glanced at the pig brain that Qin Ruoyan had dug out intact.
Just this one glance made her face turn pale and her expression showed a bit of nausea.
"Well... don't let me see you eating pig brains."
Beside Gu Qingrou, Su Yan also nodded seriously. She didn't want to suddenly remember that Zhang Liu had eaten pig brains when she kissed him in the future.
That kind of scene will definitely ruin the whole atmosphere!
The other girls around Su Yan also nodded, obviously having the same concerns as her.
"Okay... okay." Scratching his head awkwardly, Zhang Liu said, "I know."
Beside him, Anya, holding a pile of pig heads, also looked a little helpless.
She didn't quite understand why these classmates didn't like eating pig brains...
This is the end of our little episode about the pig brain.
As the pot of stew began to simmer, the smell of offal soup began to spread around the shelter.
Then, under the standing gaze of a group of girls, Zhang Liu sat on the ground and prepared to start dealing with the beehive.
The entire circular honeycomb has a diameter of at least one and a half meters.
Double layer styling.
The width of a single layer is three fingers, which is about four centimeters.
In other words, it is a short mound with a volume of about 0.4 cubic meters, and each hole covered with a layer of "white cream" is filled with bee larvae or honey.
Pretending to roll up his non-existent sleeves, Zhang Liu began the squeezing process.
Next to him were six bamboo tubes made by splitting a three-meter-long bamboo. Compared to the previous nine bamboo tubes with holes on one side for drinking water, their shapes were more special.
Although the bamboo covers at both ends were completely preserved, there was a thumb-sized hole on one side that was made by "burning it with red-hot charcoal."
Above the hole is a banana leaf rolled into a funnel shape with an open bottom.
This was Zhang Liu's preparation to ensure that the honey would be carried on his body and would not be wasted due to spilling.
But before he started squeezing out the honey, he also had a situation to deal with.
"Well, are you sure you don't want me to cut a few pieces off as your daily snacks?" Pointing at the huge piece of honeycomb honey in front of him, Zhang Liu looked at the girls gathered around him and asked.
The eight girls looked at each other, all of them seeing each other's dilemma.
In fact, they all want it, but they are too embarrassed to ask for it.
Because honey is really precious at present, and it may even be related to Zhang Liu's safety when he travels through the rainforest in the future...
For the sake of the men they love, girls choose to be patient.
"Zhang Liu, you go ahead and do it. We will have to eat all the honeycombs you crushed later." In the end, Xiang Wanying made the decision on behalf of everyone: "This island is so big, we will definitely be able to find other bees in the future, and then we can eat the honeycombs!"
At this point, she curiously pinched a circular pattern on the beehive with her fingers, picked up a white and tender bee pupa from it and said, "Speaking of which, why are the bee pupae in this beehive different from those raised in the manor?"
The manor that Xiang Wanying was talking about was the Xiang family manor.
Since there are quite a lot of people, the permanent staff alone include Xiang Lingying's father, his seven confidantes, Xiang Lingying himself, Xiang Wanying and twenty-seven maids.
The ingredients they eat and drink on a daily basis are all specially grown in the mountains or specific plains. They are not sought after for the best taste, but for the best quality and the highest level of safety.
After all, the taste can be made up by the chef's skills.
These ingredients naturally include honey, which is an essential seasoning for desserts.
As the head maid, Xiang Wanying occasionally needs to go and confirm the quality of the ingredients with her own eyes.
Out of curiosity, she once went over to see the beehives.
The bee pupae in the honeycomb over there are a lot bigger than the ones in your hand, and their shapes are also quite different.
To put it bluntly, Xiang Wanying even felt that the bee pupa on her fingers looked like a maggot...
"I feel very strange too." Zhang Liu understood that Xiang Wanying had seen something wrong, and he also said, "The beehive that Gu Qingrou and I found on the river east of the island was also like this. The bees were very small."
"Okay." Under Xiang Lingying's horrified eyes, Xiang Wanying casually put the bee pupa into her mouth, and then held her finger in her mouth to wipe out all the honey on it.
Then she said in a speculative tone: "It must be some special kind of bee. It's really strange that its hive is shaped like a small bowl."
"Hmm..." Without any further response, Zhang Liu picked up a knife and cut the honeycomb on the ground into fist-sized pieces. Then he picked them up and squeezed them into a bamboo bowl that was cut in half next to him.
The golden sticky honey overflowed from the gaps between his fingers, which he had washed very clean.
Zhang Liu has proposed several solutions on how to squeeze honey.
One of them is to cut it into nine parts, then each girl squeezes it herself, and then collect the remaining beeswax.
Its advantage is that it is relatively clean. Girls will only eat the honeycomb that they have squeezed with their hands, not him as a boy.
Although honey tastes good, its sticky texture is not very acceptable to people.
So after a brief discussion, the task finally fell to Zhang Liu.
As the honey was squeezed by him and flowed out.
A sweet fragrance also began to fill the air.
The eight girls were all subconsciously looking at the clear honey that had filled a bamboo bowl. At this moment, Zhang Liu was using his fingers to pick out the white bee pupae that had fallen into the honey.
The efficiency of squeezing honey with just his hands is actually not very high.
In fact, if you make a sleeve with bamboo and then make a hole at the bottom for squeezing, both the squeezing degree and efficiency will be improved.
But Zhang Liu did not use this theoretically optimal solution.
Because he wanted to save as much honeycomb as possible for the eight girls who were surrounding him eagerly.
Zhang Liu knew that they wanted to eat, but he didn’t want it to affect his future jungle adventure, so he forced himself to hold back.
But he would rather starve himself than let the girls suffer any injustice!
Chapter 360: Honey Mint Tamarind Hand-Typed!
This beehive provided Zhang Liu with a total of five and a half bamboo tubes of honey.
Under the unanimous gaze of the eight girls, he handed one of the bamboo tubes to Anya, whose eyes were filled with anticipation but who kept saying no.
"Happy birthday."
Looking at the girl in front of him who had helped him so much, Zhang Liu said with a smile.
Next to him were the girls who were applauding enthusiastically.
Next to the crackling bonfire with applause.
They opened their mouths to wish Anya: "Happy birthday!"
After the applause, the next task was to prepare dinner.
Zhang Liu picked out all the white bee pupae and wrapped them in banana leaves. They will be part of dinner.
The crushed honeycomb is evenly divided into nine packages, one package for each person.
They also agreed to collect the beeswax after chewing the honey in the hive.
As for the main dish tonight, it is offal soup.
Although girls don’t really like pig intestines.
And without any spices, pig intestines are not very tasty.
But they couldn't resist the urge of hunger. They had been hungry for a whole day and had only eaten some fruit and honey.
After taking the first bite and feeling the meaty aroma.
Everyone started eating their portion in silence.
Moreover, the addition of bamboo fungus makes this offal soup taste light, salty and fresh when you taste it carefully.
And its special smell can also reduce the fishy smell of offal soup.
Generally speaking, the more people eat, the more delicious it becomes.
After Xiang Lingying finished drinking, she looked at her head maid eagerly, wanting some more.
After the offal soup was finished, roasted bee pupae as dessert were taken out from the fire.
Faced with these white insects, people had different reactions.
Gu Qingrou, Su Yan, Lan Yueting, Qin Ruoyan, Zhang Liu, Anya, and Xiang Wanying are acceptable.
But Qin Ruoshuang and Xiang Lingying were determined not to eat it, and chose to use egg yolk fruit instead...
After eating the roasted insects, Zhang Liu mixed half a bamboo tube of honey with mint leaves and tamarind in a sheepskin bag to make the first official drink on the deserted island.
This is much better than the original banana juice and honey!
And it can definitely beat that horrible pine needle tea.
"Hmm, I think it should be considered a honey mint tamarind hand-made?"
After stirring frantically with a peeled branch, he smiled and spoke to the girls in front of him.
After saying that, Zhang Liu poured the drink in the sheepskin bag evenly into nine cups.
Not too much, not too little, just the right amount.
After nine cups were poured, only the raw materials were left in the sheepskin bag.
Looking at the drinks in front of them, everyone looked at each other hesitantly.
It’s not that they don’t believe in the taste.
After all, the taste of mint, honey and tamarind combined is definitely not bad.
Everyone just felt embarrassed to drink when Zhang Liu wasn't drinking.
However, Zhang Liu, based on the idea of giving priority to ladies, did not take the initiative to speak, but waited silently.
For a moment, they were stuck in a completely unnecessary stalemate.
And the more the stalemate becomes, the more awkward it becomes, and the more embarrassed you feel to take the initiative.
Usually it was Anya who broke the awkward atmosphere, but today she received a birthday present and was thinking about how to return the gift, so she blushed subconsciously when she saw Zhang Liu.
Then Xiang Wanying broke the awkward atmosphere and took the first sip. She smiled and said, "It tastes good...but there are not enough mint leaves, so the taste is not strong enough."
"Well, I feel it's okay... Sister Wanying, your taste is too strong!" Beside Xiang Wanying, Xiang Lingying smacked his lips lightly, expressing his own feeling, and at the same time joked with his head maid to ease the atmosphere.
After the two of them started.
The other girls also enjoyed the refreshing drink after the offal soup.
The taste was really good. For the sake of the flavor of the mint leaves, Zhang Liu did not use boiled spring water for cooking for the first time, but scooped some directly from the pond.
This results in the water being cool and without any smoky taste.
It is sweet and delicious.
Not to mention the flavor added by the various ingredients.
But after drinking, the girls began to sit quietly by the fire without saying a word.
For them, this kind of drink with multiple flavors mixed together is so rare.
It's hard to even recall the time when we were not in danger.
For a moment, except for Zhang Liu and Xiang Wanying, everyone else had a gloomy expression.
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