Early the next morning, the sound of birds chirping and insects woke Jiang Xuan from his sleep.
He opened his sleepy eyes and found that others were also awake, so he said hello and went to the stream to wash his face.
The stream is very clear and relatively shallow, with some finger-sized fish swimming around in the water.
After sleeping all night, Jiang Xuan was already hungry, and everything he saw was food.
However, these small fish are very slippery and it is not easy to catch them unless you spend a long time making a fish trap.
"Crash..."
Jiang Xuan washed his face with the cold stream water, and he suddenly became much more awake.
It suddenly occurred to him that there were not only fish in the creek, but also animals that were easier to catch.
Such as crab.
It's autumn now, when crab paste is plump and delicious.
Thinking of the deliciousness of crabs, Jiang Xuan's eyes lit up, and he immediately began to turn over the stones by the stream.
Chi Shao walked over curiously and asked, "Xuan, what are you doing?"
"Looking for crabs."
"What is a crab?"
Chi Shao was a little confused. The people of the Deer Tribe mainly hunted in the forest. They occasionally ate fish, but they usually only stabbed fish with spears by the creek. They never went into the water easily. Naturally, they didn't know crabs.
At this moment, Jiang Xuan turned over a big stone, and a big crab appeared. It panicked and wanted to escape.
With quick eyes and hands, Jiang Xuan pressed down its shell, reached out from behind the crab, grabbed its four legs together, and then lifted the big crab up.
There are skills to catching crabs.
Its two large pliers are very powerful, but they can only clamp things in the front, left, right, and back, so it can't do anything.
"This is it!"
Jiang Xuan was very pleasantly surprised, because this crab was as big as a soup pot and was very heavy. In his previous life, such a big crab would have been a rarity.
"This is a crab? It looks fierce. Can it be eaten?"
Chi Shao picked up a wooden stick and put it on the crab's pincers. There was a "click" and the wooden stick was cut off neatly.
"Of course it can be eaten. In the past, in the tribe, an uncle took me to the waterside to catch crabs, which can be grilled and eaten."
In order to make Chi Shao believe that crabs can be eaten, Jiang Xuan could only lie in panic.
Chi Shao nodded. She did not doubt Jiang Xuan's words, nor did she ask who took him there.
Uncaria, Stone Loach, and Nan Xing also came over. They looked at Jiang Xuan holding such a big crab in one hand, with expressions of admiration on their faces.
Goudou said: "Xuan, you are so powerful!"
The stone loach nodded fiercely at the side. This kind of prey called crab looked very fierce, but Jiang Xuan caught it so easily.
Nan Xing was even more eager to try: "Xuan, can you get it for me?"
"Of course you can, but you have to be careful not to get caught by it!"
Nan Xing glanced at the stick broken into two parts and immediately nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.
"When catching a crab, never reach in front of it. Grab it from the back or side. Yes, that's it."
Nan Xing lifted the crab according to Jiang Xuan's instructions. The crab's huge pincers were waving left and right, but they couldn't pinch his hand. Nan Xing laughed happily.
"Get it for me."
"I also want."
Uncaria and the stone loach took turns trying to catch the big crab, which felt particularly fresh.
Jiang Xuandao: "Crabs like to hide under the rocks in the stream. You can also dig them out, but it is best to take a wooden stick. When you see a crab, use the wooden stick to press it to avoid getting pinched."
“Catch a few more and we’ll have a good meal, and then we’ll have the strength to build houses.”
"Okay, let's go too."
Chi Shao, Uncaria, Stone Loach, and Nan Xing each found a wooden stick, and then imitated Jiang Xuan's example and turned over the big rocks beside the stream.
This place is inaccessible, and these crabs have never been caught before. They are not only big in size, but also in amazing numbers.
Before long, they caught a dozen large crabs.
Jiang Xuan tied these crabs with thin flexible rattan sticks and connected them into a large string.
Interestingly, as long as two or more crabs come together, they will use their pincers to pinch each other's pincers or legs, and will not let go easily.
In this way, it would be difficult for them to escape.
Jiang Xuan and others happily returned to the bamboo shed with the big crab.
Chi Shao pointed at the big crab and asked, "Xuan, how do you eat crabs?"
The three of Uncaria also looked at Jiang Xuan. This crab was covered in a hard shell, giving people a feeling that it was impossible to start.
"Easy, just throw them into the fire and roast them first." Jiang Xuan was very confident about grilled crabs because he had grilled them many times in his previous life.
Jiang Xuan first made the fire strong, then opened a space in the middle of the fire, threw all the big crabs in, and continued to add firewood.
The flames were burning brightly, and before long, under the high temperature, the shell of the big crab gradually turned from blue-gray to an appetizing red.
However, the crabs may have parasites in their bodies and they are large, so Jiang Xuan must ensure that they are completely roasted before eating them.
Jiang Xuan used a wooden stick to spread the charcoal fire over the crabs and cover them.
After a long time, the shell of the big crab was burned black, but it did not turn into char. The crab meat inside was still intact.
Jiang Xuan was sure that they were ripe, so he took out all the big crabs from the charcoal fire.
Jiang Xuandao: "Sister, lend me your stone knife."
Chi Shao pulled out the stone knife from her waist and handed it to Jiang Xuan.
Jiang Xuan first pulled the largest crab aside. After cooling it slightly, he twisted off its pincers and legs one by one and put them aside.
Then, he used a stone knife to pry open the decurled abdomen of the big crab and cut it off. This thing was inedible.
Immediately afterwards, he used a stone knife to pry open the crab shell, remove the crab stomach, crab heart, crab gills, and crab intestines one by one. He took them out one by one and told them that they could not eat them as they might be poisoned if they ate them.
When they heard that they would be poisoned, the four of them became nervous and memorized the parts of the crab that were inedible.
"Okay, you can eat the rest."
The big crab is steaming hot, the crab roe is plump, the crab meat is white, and the fragrance is fragrant.
Jiang Xuan scraped all the crab roe into the crab shell, cut off a bamboo slice, and handed it to Chi Shao: "Sister, you taste it first."
Chi Shao took the crab shell, picked up some crab roe with bamboo slices and put it into her mouth. The delicious taste bloomed on the taste buds on the tip of her tongue, and her eyes lit up.
"tasty!"
Chi Shao praised it, and then started eating, which made Undou and the others salivate.
Jiang Xuan smiled and said: "This meat is also delicious."
He cut the big crab open and distributed the crab meat to Uncaria, Stone Loach and Nan Xing who were swallowing their saliva.
After the three of them ate the crab meat, their tongues were eager to swallow it. They had never tasted such a delicious taste.
Then, Jiang Xuan used stones to break open the large claws and crab legs, and took out the crab meat inside to eat.
For the crabs at the back, Jiang Xuan let Chi Shao, Uncaria and others take turns handling them while he gave guidance.
After Chi Shao and the three teenagers decomposed a few crabs, they completely memorized the steps of decomposing crabs and could accurately pick out the inedible parts.
After the big crab is decomposed, they don't care about the crab roe and crab meat. They just bring it to their mouths and nibble. If they can't bite, they use stones to break it open, and they eat it very quickly.
It didn't take long for more than a dozen big crabs to be eaten.
Uncaria smashed open the last crab claw and stuffed the crab meat into her mouth, still not satisfied: "It's delicious, but there are too many shells and too little meat. It's gone before you're full."
Everyone nodded, the crab meat was indeed too little.
Jiang Xuan smiled and said: "This thing can't be used as a staple food. Let's eat something else. If you eat too many crabs in one day, you will get a stomachache."
Uncaria and others felt it was a pity, why couldn't we eat more of such delicious food?
However, they did not dare to risk stomach ache by continuing to catch and eat them, so they had to wait until next time.
At that moment, several people ate some wild fruits and plant roots. After filling their stomachs, they began to build a house.
The bamboo shed is too simple. If you want to live here for a long time, you must build a house that can truly protect you from wind and rain.
