Live Strong in the Wilderness-Chapter 140: Do You Know How to Make Soy Sauce?
"You head back to camp and start the fire, I’ll go take a look." Relying on his experience, Lei Jie thought the sound resembled a brown bear. These animals were extremely dangerous, and the trap might not have rendered the bear incapable of fighting. If Ivica went along, she could easily get injured.
Therefore, Lei Jie wanted to send Ivica back while he checked the trap himself.
"I... alright, but be careful." Ivica remembered that she had just promised Lei Jie to follow his arrangements, so she suppressed her curiosity.
Watching Ivica walk towards camp, Lei Jie sighed with relief and then tightened his grip on his bamboo spear.
Walking quickly towards the trap, Lei Jie soon saw an animal covered in scale armor.
"Isn’t this the Black Scale Lion? I didn’t expect a Black Scale Lion to fall into Lei Jie’s trap."
"This trap seems a bit shallow, won’t the Black Scale Lion jump out? If it does, Lei Jie’s probably done for!"
"Its scale armor is too tough, but it doesn’t run very fast. If it did, they would dominate the wilderness."
"Dominate my foot! When it faces Xu Yi’s machete, it can’t defend itself!"
"I think the Steel-Clawed Earth Wolf can break through their defenses."
"I hope Lei Jie thinks of using a fire attack, otherwise this creature is really hard to kill. Those two Russians tried all sorts of methods back then, and only succeeded by using fire."
"Luckily there’s a trap, otherwise Ivica might have been eliminated."
Lei Jie didn’t know what kind of animal was in front of him, but instinctively he knew it was extremely dangerous. If it escaped the trap, he and Ivica would be in danger.
So either avoid angering the animal, or deliver a fatal strike to render it defenseless.
For animals covered in scale armor, the mouth is a relatively easy target.
Another place is... its rear.
However, after observing, Lei Jie found that both the mouth and the rear were not easy targets.
"Lei Jie, did you kill that beast? How much score did you get?" Ivica asked immediately upon seeing Lei Jie return.
"Not yet, it’s an animal covered in scale armor, looking like a lion. I’m worried that if I act rashly, it might jump out of the trap to attack me, so I haven’t made a move yet." Lei Jie explained.
"A lion covered in scale armor?" Ivica’s eyes lit up, then she pointed at the fire and continued, "Can we burn it to death?"
"We can, definitely. Ivica, your idea is brilliant, let’s burn it to death." With that, Lei Jie excitedly grabbed a bundle of bamboo.
These bamboos had been dried and were excellent firewood.
Thus, the brother and sister moved some bamboo to the vicinity of the trap.
Then, they took a few long bamboos, tied firewood to the end, forming a giant torch.
After lighting two large torches, they moved them into the trap.
The flames dealt high damage, and the Black Scale Lion immediately started screaming in pain, desperately trying to escape the trap.
But Lei Jie and Ivica held sticks, continually beating the Black Scale Lion, giving it no chance.
After about ten minutes, the Black Scale Lion began to burn.
"Killed a Black Scale Armor Lion, gained 7 points."
The two of them breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this.
"The Black Scale Lion, it really is a lion." Ivica looked at the burning Black Scale Lion in the trap with a few regrets on her face, then said, "I don’t know if it’s tasty, it’s all burning, can’t be eaten anymore."
"Let’s go, I’ll get some water, extinguish it, we can still eat it." said Lei Jie and then went to fetch water with Ivica.
As Ivica and Lei Jie were busy fetching water, Lu Ke and Xu Yi had already cooked the yams.
Due to the lack of seasoning, Xu Yi just boiled the yams in a clay pot without planning to process further.
For them, eating a meal of boiled yams was a great treat.
Whether it’s potatoes or yams, they’re lifesavers.
After all, they’re easier and longer to preserve than jerky.
"These yams are a bit gray but tasty. If we could dip them in soy sauce, they’d taste even better. By the way, Xu Yi, do you know how to make soy sauce?" Lu Ke was quite pleased with the yam’s flavor, eating several times while closing her eyes, seemingly savoring the taste.
Xu Yi proved Lu Ke’s words by peeling yam after yam and stuffing them into his mouth.
"Soy sauce?"
Xu Yi shook his head, he really didn’t know.
"I only know soy sauce requires beans, beyond that I don’t know." After all, Xu Yi wasn’t all-knowing, he hadn’t delved into this.
"I also don’t know. I thought you knew. What about vinegar, can we brew vinegar?" Lu Ke thought, if there’s no soy sauce, some vinegar would do too.
"Vinegar? There are many kinds of vinegar, rice vinegar, wheat vinegar, glutinous rice vinegar, brown rice vinegar, and various fruit vinegars. However, I’m not familiar with the methods. Right now, I wish our wine would turn into grape vinegar. I think vinegar is much more useful." Xu Yi wasn’t familiar with vinegar brewing, he only knew about the yeast needed, but nothing else.
However, regarding the craftsmanship and materials for yeast-making, he was completely clueless. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮
"But if we have time, we can research a bit, maybe we’ll figure it out. After all, we still have some free time in the evenings." Xu Yi said, then continued peeling yams.
"Yeah, our seasoning is still a bit lacking, it can be richer. I wonder if there will be an exchange for seasoning in the supply crate?" Discussing vinegar, Lu Ke felt her mouth watering, even tasting a hint of sourness.
Exchange for seasoning?
Xu Yi shook his head, he wouldn’t waste points like that.
After a hearty meal, Xu Yi and Lu Ke rested for a while.
Then Xu Yi began to butcher the Bone Wolf.
Lu Ke continued the task of hanging and smoking the Tree Sheep meat not yet preserved from today to prevent it from spoiling.
After skinning the Bone Wolf, Xu Yi found the pelt very thin, ideally suited for making clothing.
After removing the Bone Wolf’s pelt, Xu Yi discovered quite a lot of fatty meat.
So, he cut it all off and set it aside to be rendered into oil.
Xu Yi planned to make some torches, which require oil fat.
With torches, if they return late, they’ll have a lighting tool.
