LSLFBW: Chapter 76

The stone slab on the barbecue grill had been heated by the charcoal. Qi Bai used bamboo chopsticks to pick up a piece of butter he had specially cut and spread it evenly on the stone slab.

He looked at the scene in front of him, which looked like a barbecue restaurant, and an idea flashed through his mind.

At this time, Lang Ze washed his hands and came over. Qi Bai handed over the bamboo chopsticks in his hand and said excitedly, “Lang Ze, I thought of a particularly delicious seasoning.”

Lang Ze took the bamboo chopsticks and naturally replaced Qi Bai’s position. He thought Qi Bai would go outside the tribe to collect some fresh plants, but Qi Bai just turned around and started moving around the bamboo pavilion like a spin top.

He saw Qi Bai pick up a large stone bowl and run to a stone cabinet full of seasonings. Qi Bai opened the lids of small bamboo tubes and added peppercorns, star anise and salt to the stone bowl in turn. He put the mixed seasonings into the stone pot and baked them slowly.

Since this dry dipping sauce could be preserved for a long time, Qi Bai made a lot this time. It didn’t matter if he couldn’t finish it today. He could put it in a ceramic jar and scoop it out when he wanted to eat it later.

Lang Ze looked at it for a long time but couldn’t figure it out. Nevertheless, his hands never stopped moving.

Now that the large stone slab on the stove was at least one meter long, it was more than enough to put ten slices of beef on it to cook at the same time. Lang Ze obviously wouldn’t waste such a large stone slab.

After a moment, Qi Bai smelled the aroma of barbecue. He sniffed, turned around, and saw two rows of barbecue neatly placed on the stone slab. Lang Ze was starting to flip the first piece of beef.

Qi Bai swallowed silently and quickened his movements.

The seasoning in the stone pot was fried until crispy. Then Qi Bai immediately served it. Before the seasoning cooled down, he used a stone mortar to crush it into powder and got a full bowl of earthly-yellow seasoning.

Qi Bai picked up some seasoning from the stone mortar and put it into his mouth. He savored the familiar taste on the tip of his tongue. “It is successful.”

Qi Bai had always used peppercorns and salt directly as marinade and cooking condiments. He had never thought of mixing them together to make a dipping sauce.

It wasn’t until today that he suddenly realized that adding peppercorns and salt together made pepper salt. This was a great tool for barbecue.

Qi Bai took out two small ceramic plates, poured the dipping sauce into them, and brought them to the front of the stone slab.

He rolled the grilled beef in the dipping sauce, wrapped it with cauliflower, and served it together.

The beef was soft and tender, the salty and spicy flavors were just right, and the cauliflower was crispy. He could experience a different texture and flavor with every bite, which was really satisfying.

Qi Bai’s cheeks puffed up, and his eyes narrowed in enjoyment. This was too delicious.

As he chewed, Qi Bai also wrapped one for Lang Ze and put it directly next to Lang Ze’s mouth. “Try it.”

Of course, Lang Ze wouldn’t refuse the food handed to him by Qi Bai. He just chewed it twice, and his eyes lit up like Qi Bai.

Qi Bai asked expectantly, “Is it delicious?”

Lang Ze nodded. “It is delicious.”

The taste of the cauliflower was diluted by the taste of meat and pepper salt. Even Lang Ze, who usually didn’t like eating vegetables, wanted to eat a few more pieces.

The speed of grilling on the stone slab wasn’t very fast, so the two of them simply stayed next to the stove.

One person held a pair of bamboo chopsticks in his hands, and his eyes stared at the beef slices covering the entire large stone slab. As long as any beef slice changed color, the chopsticks would catch it in the next second.

There would be no shortage of prey in the mountains and forests until autumn. The tribe had recently stored a lot of bamboo shoots, so Yang Luo didn’t store any fresh meat.

In this way, everyone could get much more meat than before.

For example, the amount of meat that Qi Bai and Lang Ze got today weighed almost 2.5 kilograms in total.

Now all the fresh beef, along with the large pot of green leafy vegetables prepared by Qi Bai, had been completely eaten up.

Qi Bai sat backward on the stone bench, resting his elbows on the stone table behind him and rubbing his palms against his little belly.

He was a bit overfed.

Even so, Qi Bai gulped when he saw Lang Ze remove the baffle in front of the oven and bring out the fragrant roasted rabbit.

In order to ensure the temperature inside the oven, Qi Bai also placed a few pieces of charcoal around the ceramic plate.

At this time, the skin of the freshly roasted rabbit had tightened, and there were some slightly burnt areas near the charcoal. The rabbit legs were split at the skin, and translucent juices squeezed out along the texture of the rabbit meat, truly interpreting what it meant to be crispy on the outside and tender on the inside.

Qi Bai held a rabbit leg in his hand and watched Lang Ze taking big bites of the rabbit meat.

In the end, he had to quietly put the rabbit leg into the ceramic bowl and put it back into the oven.

Lang Ze looked at him with some confusion.

Qi Bai didn’t want to admit that he had lost so completely in terms of appetite, so he said in an aggrieved manner, “I want to wait a while before eating.”

The early spring wind still carried some coolness. The misty drizzle had stopped, and bits of golden light were shining through the gaps in the clouds, making this evening look particularly gorgeous.

Lang Ze ate the entire plate of roasted rabbit meat and the vegetables on the baking tray. As Qi Bai slumped on the stone bench, he washed all the bowls, chopsticks and stone slab and put them back in their original places.

Then he reached out and poked Qi Bai’s round cheek. “Do you still have the strength to go down for training?”

Qi Bai said ‘go go go’ but his body didn’t move at all.

Lang Ze reached out a hand to him. Qi Bai naturally put all his strength into Lang Ze’s hand and stood up lazily.

As the days grew longer, the training time of the beastmen in the tribe became more varied.

In winter, the training of the beastmen was mostly concentrated on when they went out patrolling.

During that time, the tribe members could see the hunting team members with big dark circles under their eyes, but their spirits were getting better.

Even Qi Bai, who lived next door to Lang Ze, only knew that Lang Ze went out early and came back late every day. He had never seen them training.

Through Lang Ze’s description, Qi Bai roughly analyzed that Lang Ze should be training the tribe members’ endurance and perseverance during this time.

Of course, there were no such fancy words in Lang Ze’s mind.

These training methods and rules were engraved in his mind when he had just learned to walk, so he instinctively knew how to improve the fighting capabilities of the warriors in the tribe.

Now, before dark every day, Lang Ze would lead the horned beastmen in training. This made everyone curious.

Except for those who were assigned to be on duty, almost everyone would appear in the square on time.

Today’s training program for the beastmen was ‘tussling.’ Qi Bai felt that it looked a bit like wrestling.

All the horned beastmen in the tribe maintained their human form and worked in pairs to restrain and compete with each other.

Of course, the most important thing in this type of training was that the strength of each group of players must be equal, or some very embarrassing situations would arise.

Zhu Ya defeated Niu Lu, the opponent assigned to him by Lang Ze, and pulled him up from the ground with some pride.

If he fought alone, he might not be able to defeat Niu Lu.

However, wrestling wasn’t about fighting ability, but real strength and the stability of the lower body.

Zhu Ya was a pig whose adult body was second only to that of an elephant, so he was very confident.

After seeing the sub-beastmen sitting around and applauding, the victorious Zhu Ya became more and more excited. He walked towards the lonely Huan Ping.

Zhu Ya had his own considerations for choosing Huan Ping.

Normally, Huan Ping was more low-key than Ma Ling, and he was shorter than Xiong Feng and Ma Shu. Naturally, Zhu Ya thought Huan Ping was the weakest of the adult horned beasts.

If he could defeat Huan Ping then he would surely impress everyone.

Huan Ping didn’t want to pay attention to Zhu Ya’s provocation. Then he saw Lang Ze nodding at him from the corner of his eyes, so he smiled. “Okay, this is what you asked for.”

As he spoke, he squatted down and took a defensive posture. “Come on.”

Zhu Ya also half-crouched down and attacked Huan Ping.

However, in the next second, Zhu Ya’s body flew through the air.

He fell heavily to the ground, splashing up a cloud of dust.

……

“Hahaha!’

“Haha!”

Huan Ping had chosen an empty space with no other tribe members, so everyone saw Zhu Ya’s miserable appearance.

Laughter immediately broke out in the square. Everyone’s laughter was hearty and mixed with occasional jokes.

“Pfft!” Qi Bai also laughed.

Zhu Ya crawled up from the ground. Fortunately, he had thick skin and flesh so he was still normal after the fall.

Huan Ping asked, “Are you coming again?”

Zhu Ya: “……”

What was this person saying? He and Huan Ping weren’t on the same level at all.

At this time, Ma Ling came over, hugged Huan Ping’s neck, and raised his chin at Zhu Ya. “Do you know why Huan Ping is alone? It is because he is the most powerful person in our hunting team. You are so brave that you dare to challenge him directly.”

Ma Ling’s words actually gave Zhu Ya a way out. Zhu Ya stiffened his neck and said, “Once I grow up, I will definitely be more powerful than you.”

Zhu Ya’s words made the onlookers laugh again. Zhu Zhu walked up to Zhu Ya and brushed the dirt off his head.

The two of them had similar names, but they weren’t from the same tribe.

The beast form of Zhu Ya was a black tusk bear with bristles and fans, while the beast form of Zhu Zhu was somewhat similar to the Juliana pig on Earth, which was a light-colored, big-eared pig.

As the deputy director of the Black Mountain Tribe’s nursery, she looked very serious, but she still diligently brought Zhu Ya to the side of the sub-beastmen.

The team of sub-beastmen was much more scattered. At this time, many people were following Qi Bai curiously and learning to do radio gymnastics with him.

This was Qi Bai’s training for himself.

For Qi Bai, daily work and exercise were enough. He now had a thin layer of muscles on his arms and stomach.

At this time, the radio gymnastics that students usually avoided had become a good way to relax his muscles and bones.

Just then, someone suddenly spoke up from behind Qi Bai. “Bao Bai, I don’t want to dance anymore. I also want to learn wrestling. Do you know how to wrestle?”

That’s right. When Qi Bai claimed that he was exercising, everyone actually thought he was dancing.

The person who spoke was Sun Qing. He frowned as he looked at Zhu Ya, who was covered in dirt and didn’t seem to be very smart. “If the tribe is only relying on beastmen like him for protection, I might as well learn it myself.”

Qi Bai put down the stretching exercise he was halfway through.

For Qi Bai, Lang Ze was now training warriors.

In the danger-ridden Beastman Continent, the members of the Black Mountain Tribe not only had to deal with the wild beasts in the mountains, but more importantly, they needed to protect themselves from being occupied by foreign tribes.

Therefore, rather than saying that Lang Ze was training the hunting team for hunting, it was more accurate to say that they were preparing for battles that might occur at any time in the future.

As sub-beastmen, they didn’t need to be involved in this.

Therefore, as a Chinese person who transmigrated from peacetime, he followed Lang Ze to learn how to hunt in order to have a better life.

However, Qi Bai always placed himself in the position of logistical support. He had never considered learning how to fight, nor had he thought about facing the battlefield one day.

It was different for Sun Qing. His tribe was defeated, and he and his brother became slaves. They might’ve become members of the Black Mountain Tribe now, but he still felt uneasy.

Qi Bai shook his head. “I don’t know how to wrestle.”

Still, he felt that Sun Qing’s words made sense. After all, no one had made the strict rule that sub-beastmen couldn’t become warriors.

Just as Qi Bai hesitated over whether to find Lang Ze to discuss it, a short and sharp whistle suddenly came from the edge of the wall.

This was the signal they had agreed upon.

Qi Bai and Lang Ze looked at each other. They finally arrived, a few days later than expected.