The tantalizing aroma wafted over, causing Xiu Yan’s mouth to water visibly.
Looking at his eager expression, Ji Nuan jokingly pointed to the room next to them and said, "Go wash your hands quickly so you can eat."
Xiu Yan glanced at his claws, seeing the firm look in her eyes, he could only relent and droop his head to go to the next room. Not long after, the tall Orc ca back, first stretching out his clearly articulated hand for Ji Nuan to inspect, then he sat beside her to enjoy the fragrant food.
After dinner, Xiu Yan cleared the table and washed the pots and plates, while Ji Nuan took out an early marinated Green Bull Beast at. She carefully cut the at into finger-sized strips and placed it in a porcelain basin nearby.
"What’s this?" Xiu Yan, hands cleaned and dried, stepped up behind Ji Nuan to ask.
His warm breath sprinkled onto her ear, causing the fine hair on her neck to tousle back and forth; it tickled.
Ji Nuan shrank her neck: "I’m preparing so jerky for you. I heard the Dashi Tribe and Gray Bear Tribe still consu raw at. If you were to eat food there, you could also fill up on so jerky."
Xiu Yan looked at the small female cub in front of him with soft eyes, reaching out and taking the chunk of Green Bull Beast at from her hands: "Let do it, the stone knife isn’t easy to handle."
Ji Nuan stepped back, nodding in agreent. Indeed, she had only managed to cut less than half of it, and the stone knife had already badly chafed her palm.
With sharp claws extending from Xiu Yan’s long fingers, the at was effortlessly divided with a light cut.
In less than a third of the ti it took Ji Nuan, an entire piece of beast at was cut into equal-sized at strips.
They then carried the porcelain basin outside to light the open fire pit used for roasting at, and stacked chunks of firewood on top before slowly spreading out the jerky.
"What is this?" Xiu Yan pointed to the yellow-green leaves spread over the firewood.
Ji Nuan grinned, "This was recently discovered by Shaman Ama. When roasting at, wrap it in these leaves, the cooked at will have a unique, delicious flavor."
Xiu Yan’s gaze imdiately brightened. His attention fixed intensely on the roasting at above the fire pit.
As the flas charred them, a unique, light aroma drifted into Xiu Yan’s nose: "Delicious!"
Ji Nuan laughed and looked at him: "Isn’t it? The first ti I tried it at Shaman Ama’s place, I had the sa reaction."
Having said that, she flipped the at strips and continued roasting: "Once the jerky is done, you can have a taste."
A look of satisfaction flashed through Xiu Yan’s deep eyes, and he nodded in agreent.
With every passing minute, the moisture in the at strips slowly evaporated under the fla, transforming into brown pieces of jerky with deliciously enticing slls.
Ji Nuan used chopsticks to pick up a dried strip of at and offered it to Xiu Yan: "Brother Xiu Yan, try it. Is it good?"
Ji Nuan looked at Xiu Yan expectantly. The last ti she had jerky roasted with these leaves at Shaman Ama’s house, it wasn’t pre-marinated. She wondered whether her pre-marinated jerky might spoil the flavor of the leaves.
Xiu Yan popped the piece of jerky into his mouth, savoring it carefully. The taste of the jerky, with a hint of spicy flavor and the flavor of the condints usually used by Ji Nuan, combined with the enticing flavor of the leaves, made Xiu Yan focus his glance on the jerky that Ji Nuan had moved to another porcelain basin after finishing the piece in his mouth.
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