LSLFBW: Chapter 84

Qi Bai was frightened by the appearance of Xiong Feng and Huan Ping.

After all, the two of them were usually relatively stable people, especially Huan Ping, who had a fearless spirit. They must’ve encountered something terrible to make the two of them look frightened at the same time.

Lang Ze looked at the two men, who were in such a miserable state and waved to the salt-seeking team who had just entered the tribe. Xi Zhou and Hu Qiao immediately stepped forward and helped them up.

Lang Ze looked around and asked, “Where are the tribe leader and priest?”

“The chief has taken the beastmen out hunting. They also need to check the situation of the wild bulls on the grassland. It is uncertain when they will return in the next few days.”

“The priest took Diao Lan and Hu Xue to the mountain to collect medicinal herbs early in the morning.” Qi Bai looked at the sky and said, “They should be back soon.”

Xiong Feng and Huan Ping’s eyes were blue, and it looked like they hadn’t rested for a long time. In addition, Lang Ze’s group had been on the road for a few days with heavy bags.

Qi Bai pushed Lang Ze. “You guys go to Grandpa Priest’s cave to rest for a bit. I’ll be there soon.”

Lang Ze looked at the tribe members, who also had expressions of fear on their faces, and nodded to Qi Bai. He didn’t know what happened in the tribe, so it would be better to leave it to Qi Bai to deal with at this time.

Qi Bai watched the people leaving and held Shu Lin and Yang Ling’s hands to comfort them. “You saw it too. They are just a bit frightened, not injured.”

“Xiong Feng and Huang Pen must not have eaten well these days. You should go back to the cave and make some food. It will be just right for them to have a meal after the priest comes back to ask questions.”

Shu Lin and Yang Ling finally seemed to wake up. The panic on their faces faded a bit, and they said repeatedly, “You’re right. I’ll go back and make some food.”

“Yes.” Qi Bai smiled at them. “Go quickly.”

The remaining tribe members worked together to move the rattan baskets brought back by the salt-seeking team into the tribe’s warehouse.

“Don’t worry about it. No matter what happens, we can definitely find a solution. We just have to wait in the cave for news.”

Qi Bai had a calm expression and spoke at a moderate pace with a natural persuasiveness. Everyone looked at him with dependence and returned to the cave as Yang Luo had instructed earlier.

Yang Luo’s cave had two compartments, separated by a high stone wall that was the height of half a person. The inside of the cave was where Yang Luo rested and the outside was the living room used for meeting guests.

Once Qi Bai entered the room, he discovered that Yang Luo had already returned to the tribe from the mountain while they were carrying the salt barrels. Now he was sitting at the stone table in the cave with Lang Ze, Xiong Feng, and Huan Ping.

There were two bamboo tubes on the stone table in front of Xiong Feng and Huan Ping. Steam was still coming out of the tubes. It seemed that it was hot water prepared by Yang Luo to calm the two of them.

Both of them were wearing animal skins, but they couldn’t hide the dirt on their bodies. However, their condition was obviously much better.

Yang Luo had already told Lang Ze about what happened in the tribe in the past few days. Once he saw Qi Bai coming in, Lang Ze turned to Xiong Feng and Huan Ping. “What happened when the two of you went out to look for the red birds? Tell me in detail.”

The strength of Xiong Feng and Huan Ping meant it was impossible for them to be in such a state due to two red birds. Besides, they just mentioned ‘many red birds’ at the gate of the tribe.

Xiong Feng and Huan Ping looked at each other as if to encourage each other. Then they repeated everything they had seen and heard along the way.

Yang Luo’s face changed drastically. “The sea is full of red birds? How is this possible?”

Huan Ping said anxiously, “It is true. We saw it with our own eyes.”

Qi Bai asked, “What are they doing?”

Xiong Feng shook his head. “I don’t know. There were always red birds flying in the sky, so we didn’t dare to get too close.”

The group of people discussed it in Yang Luo’s cave until noon. Seeing that they couldn’t get any more useful information, he let them go back to the cave to rest.

Lang Ze and Qi Bai walked together on the stone steps leading to the cave. He had long noticed that Qi Bai seemed to be thinking about something, but he didn’t bring it up in front of others.

At this time, there were two people left. Lang Ze asked, “Did you think of something?”

Qi Bai turned and looked around. Then he whispered hesitantly, “That stretch of sea is likely the breeding ground for the red birds.”

“Breeding ground?”

Qi Bai nodded. “It is a place where red birds gather together to lay eggs and hatch them together.”

Unlike most animals that raised their young, many migratory birds had the habit of gathering together to lay eggs and reproduce.

They would arrive at the same place at the same time, lay eggs at the same time and hatch their chicks at the same time.

For this fixed breeding season, they might even fly tens of thousands of kilometers across the entire continent.

Xiong Feng and Huan Ping couldn’t be wrong, so this was the only answer.

“If that is the case, it would explain why so many red birds gathered here.”

Qi Bai squeezed his face together, desperately trying to dig out the fragmentary memories about bird habits in his mind. Then he heard Lang Ze chuckle beside him.

Qi Bai turned his head in disbelief. “You can still laugh?!”

Lang Ze smiled slightly. “You have found an answer, and we just need to verify it. This matter has become easy all of a sudden. Of course, I can laugh.”

After all, apart from Qi Bai, he was afraid that even the high priest of the City of the Beast God wouldn’t know so much.

As they were all worried about the appearance of these red birds, wondering whether they were guarding a miracle in the sea and warning the beastmen not to get close, Qi Bai gave a seemingly bizarre but more reasonable explanation.

Qi Bai, who frowned like this, made Qi Bai feel that he was very… cute.

The ‘cute’ Qi Bai’s eyes widened. “How can it be easy? The red birds are very dangerous.”

Qi Bai quickly rubbed QI Bai’s raised white hair and took a few sticks up. “No matter how dangerous it is, we need to see it with our own eyes to be sure.”

Qi Bai knew from looking at Lang Ze’s relaxed footsteps that this guy didn’t take the gathering of red birds seriously at all. He reasonably suspected that Lang Ze was even looking forward to collecting bird bones to make bone knives.

Lang Ze stopped at the top of the stone steps, turned around, and said, “I brought back prey from the sea. Can we eat it now?”

Qi Bai couldn’t hold back his smile anymore and said, “Eat, eat, eat!”

It seemed really useless to worry about these things now. It was better to have a good meal before going.

Lang Ze had brought back quite a lot of seafood from the beach.

Qi Bai took a quick look and found that in addition to the kelp and seaweed he had specifically ordered, there were also large crabs that could only be held with two hands, large shrimps that were as thick as three fingers, and many shellfish.

These were seafood that wouldn’t die immediately after leaving the seawater, especially crabs.

Qi Bai poked the crab’s protruding big eyes with his hand. It blinked extremely slowly. It was actually still alive.

Now Qi Bai was really happy because the crab looked full of meat.

They had decided to wait for the hunting team to return to the tribe to discuss arrangements for the next few days with Hou Yan. Then they would set off immediately.

Therefore, these seafood must be eaten now, or they will be spoiled by the time they came back.

There were two pots on Qi Bai’s stove. He added water to one of the pots, put the washed crabs and shellfish on the bamboo steamer, covered the pot, and started steaming.

Taking advantage of this time, Qi Bai filled the washbasin with water and washed the kelp and seaweed.

The kelp was strung together with straw ropes and placed under the eaves of the bamboo pavilion to dry, while the overly fine seaweed was spread flat on a winnowing basket to dry.

Qi Bai used a bone knife to cut off a piece of kelp and decided to make some kelp soup for lunch.

He approached Lang Ze, who was slicing meat for the barbecue, and said, “Cut some shredded meat for me.”

“Okay.”

The bone knife that Lang Ze was using and the bone knife in Qi Bai’s hand was made from the same red bird bone, but Qi Bai felt that it seemed more obedient in Lang Ze’s hand.

“Is this okay?”

In the blink of an eye, the meat was cut into strips of even thickness.

Qi Bai gave Lang Ze a thumbs up and offered the half of the kelp in his hand with a smile, “The kelp can be cut a bit thicker.”

Qi Bai ran to the empty pot, scooped in some butter, put the shredded meat, green onion, and garlic into the pot, and stir-fried them. Once the meat had almost changed color, he added the minced garlic.

Garlic was key to the flavor of the kelp soup. Qi Bai added a large spoonful without hesitation. Thanks to the support of the small vegetable garden, Qi Bai could now occasionally enjoy some garlic freedom.

At this time, put the kelp directly into the pot and stir-fry it evenly. Then add mountain spring water to simmer it.

The two of them worked together, and breakfast and lunch were all on the table in no time.

A larger steamer of seafood was placed directly in the middle of the stone table. Next to it was the meat that Lang Ze had grilled on the stone grill. Finally, there was a clay pot of kelp soup.

Qi Bai took the jar of pepper and salt and sprinkled it directly on the stone slab.

There were only three dishes, but the quantity was so large that they filled the entire stone table.

Not to mention Lang Ze, who had been on the road, even Qi Bai felt his stomach growling despite just eating breakfast.

The two of them sat down and Qi Bai took a big sip of kelp soup first.

He smacked his lips in satisfaction.

The kelp was cooked until it was soft, but it still retained its tender texture. Combine this with the aroma of butter and it was still fresh and delicious with just a bit of salt.

Qi Bai looked at Lang Ze, who was eating meat, and took a big crab from the steamer.

He lifted the crab shell, removed the gills, whiskers, and heart, broke the crab in half from the center, and exposed the snow-white crab meat.

Follow the growth lines of the crab leg and just apply some force. Then the crab meat would leave the crab shell intact.

Qi Bai lowered his head and worked hard. Finally, he closed the crab shell with satisfaction and handed the slab to Lang Ze. “Look!’

Lang Ze treated the kelp soup as water and gulped down a bowl of it. He reached out to open the crab shell and was stunned.

He saw a whole crab made of crab meat on the stone slab.

Qi Bai said with sparkling eyes, “How about it? I’m awesome, right?”

Lang Ze nodded. But in the face of the beautiful crab on the stone slab, he was a bit reluctant to eat it.

After all, when he usually ate crabs, he would bite them with the shell on. He had never eaten them so delicately.

Seeing this, Qi Bai directly picked up the leg with the most meat and handed it to Lang Ze’s lips. “Eat it quickly. It will get cold soon.”

The first time Lang Ze ate the snow-white crab meat, he was surprised to find that the crab meat actually had a sweet taste.

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