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Winston said, âItâs a pity that thereâs too much rain now and the food canât be air-dried. Itâll rot if we canât finish it. Otherwise, we can bring back all the behemoth corpses, and itâd last us all the way to next yearâs light rainy season.â
Bai Qingqing let out a âhuhâ and then asked in surprise, âDidnât you guys store the food?â
Winstonâs brows raised, immediately understanding that his mate had another idea. He was delighted and said, âWe did. Many beastmen smoked the food in tree holes, but it takes a few days to get a piece of meat done. The speed is very slow, but we can still store some.â
Bai Qingqing quickly said, âIsnât there a lot of salt in the village? Preserve them with salt!â
Winston gave it some thought before saying with uncertainty, âItâs true that using salt to preserve food can allow it to be stored for longer. But itâll still spoil, right?â
After all, it was fresh meat.
Bai Qingqing let out a cry, regretting that she hadnât asked this earlier. She then said with certainty, âAs long as we use more salt, they can be stored for very long, just like smoked meat. From where I came from, this is how we store food in winter. I mean, in the cold season.â
She had gotten a little sick of the preserved meat in the modern world, so she found the taste of smoked meat unique. This method would also be able to save them from using salt. Therefore, she hadnât mentioned the method of preserving meat with salt.
Winston did not doubt Bai Qingqingâs words and immediately planned on putting things into action. âHow much salt would be enough?â
âUhh... How much salt do we still have? If thereâs enough, the more the better. If too little salt is used, food will still spoil easily.â Bai Qingqing recalled that in her hometown, theyâd bury pork in salt. After they ate all the meat, the same salt could still be used to preserve the meat for the next year. There wouldnât be any waste.
Winston gave it some thought and said, âThen, letâs bring out all the salt. Weâll just dry more salt at the seaside next year.â
âMm.â Bai Qingqing nodded.
With this method, there was no need for Curtis to go out. The one to head out changed to Winston instead.
Winston led a flock of eagle beastmen and brought all the remaining salt in the village to the behemoth region. He planned to preserve all the meat and then hide it in the caves nearby, bringing it back during the cold season.
It had become dangerous to look for readily available food in the region in which the behemoths were having chaotic battles, but the return was massive. Theyâd be able to get a transparent crystal with each behemoth they dragged out.
Therefore, no matter how dangerous it was, the beastmen still swarmed there. The City of Beastmenâs overall strength increased a little as a result of this, with the eagle beastmen gaining the most.
After a chaotic battle that lasted three days and three nights, the new behemoth king was born. The group of behemoths became more stable and started to look for food and to mate.
When Winston led a team out, it was already impossible for them to pick up behemoths effortlessly. Theyâd have to send out the villageâs strong beastmen to group up and hunt them.
When the eagle beastmen came back with this news, Parker also rushed off. He still had to repay Muir.
With that, only two adult males were left at home. More accurately speaking, two natural enemiesâCurtis and Muir.
Behind the stone castle, thick smoke came out from a short stone house, rising upright steadily in the blurry raining day.
âCough cough... Cough cough cough...â
Bai Qingqing coughed incessantly from the thick smoke, her clean and fair face covered in soot. She turned her head to take in some fresh air, then started blowing into the stove again.
Above her, the sound of clanking metal kept on ringing out, with sparks and liquid splattering out occasionally.
Curtis put away the metal spatula and tossed the metal wok with a solemn expression.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om
Parker had spent great effort into making this wok, and even though he was able to use it smoothly, Curtis hadnât used it before and was still trying it out. The result turned out to be... simply horrendous!