Stone Age Husband Raising Jornal

C126 - Egg Fried Rice

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he people of the Grass Tribe found Zhou Ji’s proposal too tempting, to the point where they wondered if Zhou Ji was a bit of a fool, “Are you sure you want to trade meat for rice? We’ll need a lot of meat…”

“I’m sure.” Zhou Ji replied.

“This rice doesn’t taste very good…” The people of the Grass Tribe added.

“I very much enjoy the taste of rice.” Zhou Ji said.

On Earth, before the Han Dynasty, rice and wheat had been reserved for the lower class people to eat because people at the time hadn’t known to hull the grain, and eating these two crops along with their husks wasn’t tasty at all.

In this place, it was obviously the same situation.

However, Zhou Ji really wanted to eat rice… Also, hunting might be difficult for the Grass Tribe tribesmen, but to them, hunting was an easy matter.

“In that case, one bag of meat can be exchanged for two bags of rice.” The tribal chief of the Grass Tribe said.

“Wait a moment. I’ll have someone go get the meat right away.” Zhou Ji said, then continued, “Can you give me some rice first?”

The chief of the Grass Tribe was naturally willing to give Zhou Ji some rice. In their tribe, rice really wasn’t worth anything.

Their tribe grew much more millet than rice, but they usually ate rice because most of the millet that they grew went to the Giant Rhinoceros Tribe.

As for rice… The people of the Giant Rhinoceros Tribe wouldn’t want rice even if they gave it to them for nothing.

Zhou Ji soon obtained five kilograms of rice. After he had it on hand, Xiong Ye didn’t even wait for him to say anything before offering, “I’ll remove the husks?”

Zhou Ji easily handed the rice to Xiong Ye, then had Hai Feng go and bring back some meat––the river that separated the Beastman Continent from the wild forest ran from east to west, and they had constantly been traveling in a westerly direction. They were now located some distance away from the large river, but they weren’t too far away.

At least, based on Hai Feng’s speed, an hour was enough for him to run to the riverside.

Rice and barley were slightly different. At the start, Xiong Ye hadn’t gotten a grasp on the level of strength that was needed and crushed some of the rice into bits, but he soon started to knock off the rice husks with just the right force, allowing the grains of rice to remain relatively whole.

“Add some water to get rid of the remaining husks, then boil it to eat.” Zhou Ji directed.

The barley they had eaten previously had to be ground into powder and had to remain dry; that was why he had chosen to remove the hulll by blowing air at it However, rice just needed to be cooked in water, so they didn’t need to go to such lengths.

After hearing Zhou Ji’s words, Xiong Ye added water to the hulled rice, waiting for the shells to float to the top before pouring it out and obtaining hulled rice grains.

“This rice is tasty when cooked?” Xiong Ye asked curiously.

He had already discovered that things like barley tasted mediocre on its own, but was delicious when paired with other things.

It should be the same for this rice, right?

“Yes,” Zhou Ji replied. “This is one of the best foods that the Beast God has blessed us with.”