At last, under the children's suspicious gazes and after He Yin's questioning, Chiba gave an embarrassed cough and taught He Yin how to preserve meat with salt and how to make jerky.
However, although he had taught her, He Yin had no intention of preserving the meat using either method, and Chiba did not approve either.
First, salting required a considerable amount of salt and other seasonings. Given the current shortage of food and supplies, salt had long since become scarce. They simply did not have the means to salt meat.
Second, making jerky was rather time-consuming under the current circumstances. Besides, with the constant rainy weather, it would not dry properly. They could make smoked meat instead, but Chiba did not know the process. The weather was bad, and it would also waste time. No matter how good things were now, they still relied on traps for hunting and could barely count on tomorrow. Their time would be better spent training and studying.
Third, although the meat looked like a lot, it would mostly be gone by tomorrow. With the weather as it was, there was no need to deliberately preserve it. The meat would not spoil in a day or two. They could either process it today, boil it directly into soup, or leave it somewhere clean and cool.
In the end, all the meat was thrown together into a single pot of stew.
That dinner was undoubtedly the most delicious meal Chiba had ever eaten. Several kinds of game were mixed together with the few remaining mushrooms and herbs from the forest's safe areas. There were no seasonings at all, yet the soup was so rich and savory that it was simply an earthly delicacy.
That night, everyone ate until their bellies were round. Apart from Zong