Orc Girl's Tribal Daily Life

Chapter 78 Eating Melon Seeds

The rain did not lessen in the afternoon; on the contrary, it seemed to be getting heavier.

Obviously, there's no need to train on Little Rock Mountain this afternoon.

Just then, Jiang Luoluo received an invitation from the little girl happy, so she thought she would go to Xi's house in the afternoon to see what those special plants were and whether she could recognize any of them.

Brown happened to have something to do in the afternoon, and instead of entrusting the cub to Mao, who would keep it a secret, or Aka, who was even more unreliable, being with the little girl happy made Brown feel at ease for the first time in a long time.

At the very least, the little girl happy wouldn't do anything inappropriate with the cubs, would she?

What Heishan had to do in the afternoon was to lead some adult tribesmen to clear away the vines and plants on the walls of the small rocky hill to prevent them from growing wildly and taking up space on the hill when the rainy season arrived.

Brown hadn't forgotten what she'd promised the cub—that she'd leave her some hook vines—and this time she'd done it all at once.

Jiang Luoluo was taken to the home of the little girl Xi because her grass raincoat, which she had lent to He the night before, was accidentally damaged by Chi. He hadn't had time to make her a new one yet, so the two of them simply picked two grass leaves to use as rain protection.

The little girl Xi's house was located relatively close to the mountaintop, not far below Chief Jing. After all, Xi's father was a member of the herb-gathering team under the shaman, so it was normal for their residence to be close to the shaman.

The little girl loved the wooden house where her family lived. It had a small yard in both the front and back, half of which was used for storage and the other half, like the witch, was used to grow some plants.

The rain was so heavy that Jiang Luoluo didn't recognize what they were before being taken into the wooden house.

"Luo, you're here!" The little girl exclaimed with delight, not expecting to see Jiang Luoluo so soon.

Before Jiang Luoluo could respond, the little girl happy grabbed her arm and pulled her into the house.

"Luo, come and warm yourself by the fire. Your clothes are all wet. Why aren't you wearing your straw coat?"

Standing at the doorway, Brown looked at the two children, smiled, and waved goodbye. "Luo, I'll come pick you up later."

"Okay!" The little girl turned around happily and answered for Jiang Luoluo.

Jiang Luoluo took the opportunity to look around at the little girl Xi's wooden house—its completeness was Jiang Luoluo's first impression.

All functional areas are fully equipped.

The fire pit is located in the very center of the wooden house. Although it is a wooden structure, the tribe members are obviously never worried about the accidental fire igniting the wooden house.

However, the tribespeople were not foolish enough to simply build a fire on the wood. Instead, they paved a space in the center of the ground with broken stones and placed the fire on it.

Like all families in the tribe, a stone pot sits over a fire, bubbling with hot water or broth.

Surrounding the central fire are the other living areas. Two wooden beds are placed side by side behind the fire. It is clear that one of the beds, which looks very new, is probably the little girl Xi's.

On the left was a shelf with different plants, next to which was a wooden door leading to a small room where miscellaneous things were stored. On the right were some stacked boxes, and Jiang Luoluo didn't know what was inside until she opened them.

The little girl's wooden house didn't have the wooden table that the witch had; they probably didn't need it.

After the little girl Xi's father brought the plants back, he went back to the herb-gathering team and was not at home. The little girl Xi's mother was also not there—among the tribespeople who went to the small stone mountain to clean the mountainside was the little girl happy's mother.

For a moment, Jiang Luoluo felt like she was back in her childhood... She used to do the same thing, taking advantage of her parents' absence to bring her friends home to play, making a huge mess of the house, and getting a double beating from the boys and girls.

Not long after, she reappeared at her friend's house, and her friend won a doubles match.

I hope the little girl won't end up like this. Jiang Luoluo sincerely wishes her well.

"Luo, look! Sun Fruit!" The little girl happily pulled a round plant, about half a person's height, out of the small room on the left, which was why she had called Jiang Luoluo over.

Jiang Luoluo glanced over it once, then glanced over it twice...

Wait a minute! What's this?! Isn't it a sunflower?!

"Hehe." The little girl said happily, "Luo, you don't know, the sun fruit is very delicious. If we take it to Little Stone Mountain, they will definitely steal it. So I only brought you to my house to eat it!"

Jiang Luolu blinked in confusion, never expecting that the special plant the little girl was talking about was actually a sunflower, and that the reason the little girl had called her over was to have her eat sunflower seeds with her.

Jiang Luoluo took a few sunflower seeds that the little girl had plucked from the sunflower head that was half her height and skillfully put them in her mouth to crack them open.

The little girl looked at Jiang Luoluo with a puzzled expression, "Luo, have you eaten the Sun Fruit before?"

Jiang Luoluo paused, not yet deciding whether to nod or shake her head, when the little girl changed the subject herself, "Luo, look, it really is delicious, isn't it?"

The sunflower seeds, which were not fully grown and had not been dried or roasted, had a slightly sweet taste and were quite moist. They didn't make your mouth feel dry when you ate them, and the taste was not much different from what Jiang Luoluo had in her previous life.

The only difference was probably the size; it was a bit exaggerated. One of the melon seeds was as big as one of her fingers, so Jiang Luoluo could only grab a few at a time.

Jiang Luoluo ate a few before suddenly realizing why the little girl insisted on having her come over instead of taking the "sun fruit" to the small rocky hill.

Taking this is practically asking to be robbed.

The little girl was delighted to see that Jiang Luoluo liked it, so she generously opened the door to the small room on the left, pointed to the several sun fruit trees inside, and said to Jiang Luoluo, "Luo, you can take one with you when you go back later. My mother has already promised to give you one."

This is too generous! Jiang Luoluo felt a little embarrassed, but to be honest, she really wanted it.

Sunflower seeds! Sunflower seed oil!

Since Jiang Luoluo woke up, every time she used oil to cook, she used animal fat rendered from meat.

The lard did smell delicious, but its availability was too unreliable. Jiang Luoluo had to select from many pieces of meat to find the right piece of fat for pressing.

Moreover, the pieces of fatty meat selected each time are not the same, and they are not from the same animal, which results in a high oil yield at times and a low oil yield at others.

Most importantly, this is actually a huge waste, but Ge left plenty of food, and He didn't want to interfere in other people's family affairs, so he continued to indulge Jiang Luoluo.

However, Jiang Luoluo herself was aware of this, so she tried to reduce the amount of oil used, and even stored some of the excess oil when frying, to save for the next time.

Simply cutting costs is no substitute for opening up new sources of revenue.

Jiang Luoluo remembered that the extraction method of sunflower seed oil was very simple; it could be extracted directly by pressing. Although there were no machines available in the tribe, the tribespeople's superhuman physique made up for this.

Therefore, after showing a slightly embarrassed expression, Jiang Luoluo very enthusiastically nodded and accepted the little girl's gift.

She will definitely repay you!

Besides the sun fruit, the little girl happy also showed Jiang Luoluo some other plants from her home.

Most of them were pretty flowers, colorful, and Jiang Luoluo didn't recognize most of them.

Some of the flowers have been there for so long that they've become dried flowers. I don't know if they were never properly cared for or if I just planned to keep them as is.

Jiang Luoluo stared at the dried flowers for a while, then turned to the little girl Xi to confirm that these flowers were definitely not poisonous, right?

The little girl nodded happily, wondering what Jiang Luoluo was going to do.

Jiang Luoluo got a wooden bowl from the little girl happy, filled a pot with some hot water, and soaked the dried flowers in it.

So, it's fine for her to use it to make tea, right?