Chapter 214

Habei tilted his little head and urged, "Chirp?"

Xie Juanhan patted its little head and took a deep breath. "Yes, this is the yellow mud I've been looking for. Thanks to you, you've been a great help."

Habei puffed out his chest proudly and exclaimed, "Chirp!"

==========Author's Note:=========

See you tonight

Thanks to Mei for the rocket launcher;

Thanks to Mingyue Banqiang for the grenade;

Thanks to Crazy Turtle, Ancient Spirit Little Girl, Ancient Spirit Little Girl, Brain Wants a Vacation, Normal Person 3.0, Ci Ning, and Happy Landmine.

Chapter 214 [VIP]

To energize Habei, Xie Juanhan praised it enthusiastically, making the little guy's tail wag so high, before he and Telingewei went to shovel yellow mud.

They walked to the pile of yellow mud, cleared away the weeds and shrubs, removed the surface humus, and shoveled up the soil underneath. Xie Juanhan was somewhat surprised. "Huh."

Telingewei: "What's wrong?"

"The yellow clay here is quite fine," Xie Juanhan said, rubbing the clay between his fingers. "It has almost no grainy texture; it's even more authentic than the yellow clay from my hometown."

Habei was wagging its tail again.

Habu even turned his head and licked Habei's round head. "Chirp!"

Harper and the others crowded around Habei, praising it for doing a good job. "Chirp!"

Habei's skill in finding ingredients is truly impressive.

Xie Juanhan quickly shoveled down a bucket of yellow mud, then a thought struck him, "Habei, do you know where I can find coarse salt suitable for pickling things?"

Habei tilted his head.

Xie Juanhan: "It's a coarser salt that's a bit more fragrant, with larger granules than the salt we usually eat."

Habei still didn't understand.

Harper understood, and getting a little anxious, helped translate for Habei: "Chirp chirp chirp!"

Perhaps the message was too complex, Habei still couldn't quite understand it, and stood there like a stunned groundhog.

Telingewei glanced at it, bent down, and lifted it up by supporting it under the Habei with both hands.

Just when Xie Juanhan thought that Telingewei could implant information into the little heads of the Companion Beast by pressing his forehead against theirs, Telingewei spoke in his adult male voice, "Chirp chirp chirp."

Xie Juanhan almost burst out laughing.

He quickly turned his head away so that Telingewei wouldn't see his smiling eyes.

Telingewei had already seen it, and after putting Habei down, he bumped his head against Habe's head.

Xie Juanhan could no longer hold back and burst into laughter. "Hahahaha."

After Telingewei personally communicated with him, Habei finally understood what he was saying.

Habei indeed knew where coarse salt was produced, and with a flick of his hip, he was about to lead them to find it.

"Wait!" Xie Juanhan really didn't want to keep going around in circles on the wrong road. It was almost dark, and it wouldn't be good if they didn't get home until midnight. "Harper, see where Habei is going? You lead the way."

Although Habei didn't understand, he was well-behaved.

It looked at Xie Juanhan with a puzzled expression, then at Harper, and finally went to discuss it with Harper.

With Harper leading the way, the journey became much easier.

Harper led the way, glancing up as he went, and soon brought them to the foot of a mountain.

Once they reach the foot of the mountain, Habei will need to go out again to lead them to find edible rock salt.

Habei ran confidently ahead, quickly traversing the various salt flats on the mountain, until he found the best-tasting rock salt. "Chirp!"

Xie Juanhan squatted down and grabbed a handful, discovering that the rock salt was indeed rich and mellow, quite different from other fine salt powders. "Good Habei!"

Habei listened to the praise with satisfaction, "Chirp!"

With all the ingredients gathered, the rest of the steps to making salted bird eggs are simple.

To make their salted bird eggs taste better, Xie Juanhan specially found their level-three magic wine and poured a small dish of it.

When making salted bird eggs, he first puts the bird eggs into magic wine, rolls them slightly, and then coats them with a paste of salt and yellow mud.

Harper and the others wouldn't go into the kitchen, but they were all curious whether bird eggs made from mud and salt were safe to eat.

That looks really weird, squeak.

Looking at the furry creatures crowding around the kitchen doorway, Xie Juanhan confidently assured them, "It's delicious. You'll know once you taste it in a little over a month."

The furry creatures were still skeptical. "Huh?"

Xie Juanhan: "Really, if it doesn't taste good, I'll make you a berry cake to make up for it."

The furry creatures were satisfied and all agreed, "Aww!"

After such a long time, the Star Berry in Xie Juanhan's family's yard have finally begun to ripen.

Xie Juanhan, carrying a small basket, followed Telingewei through the berry field, his steps uneven.

He would occasionally take out the rune templates from the magic circle to examine them.

Xie Juanhan: "The Magic Power on this batch of rune templates is almost exhausted. It seems we need to find time to replace them with the next batch."

Telingewei did a quick mental calculation. "We can exchange them. The rune templates we have at home can be exchanged for two rounds."

Xie Juanhan: "It's alright, I estimate the next batch of rune templates will arrive before the full moon. Even if we switch to new rune templates then, we'll still have enough left for two rounds."

The friends initially just wanted to help by burying the rune templates in their own tribe's settlement.

After confirming that the Magic Power released by various races could indeed promote the growth of Star Berry, Xie Juanhan wrote a magic contract, entrusting the various races to help them collect Magic Power, and then they would settle accounts with the mature Star Berry.

All ethnic groups agreed.

Xie Juanhan and his team's rune templates have also entered a positive cycle, and after use, they can be sent to friends for repeated recharging.

In the Star Berry field, the berry leaves, so green they were almost black, grew very lushly, and the Star Berry were hidden beneath them.

Xie Juanhan bent down and picked up clusters of berries, examining them carefully.

This year they picked off a lot of the small fruits, so not many berries were actually left.

These berries are growing very well; they are now generally the size of ping-pong balls.

Most of the berries are still growing, ranging in color from milky white to translucent white.

A very small number of berries have already reached maturity, and their color has begun to turn translucent yellow.

Xie Juanhan walked through the berry field, casually picked a translucent berry, rinsed it, bit off half, and put the other half in Telingewei's mouth.

As Telingewei opened his mouth, he casually asked, "Is it sweet?"

Xie Juanhan squinted his eyes in satisfaction. "Not bad."

Telingewei took a bite, and the sweet and sour, rich juice burst out, almost softening the dragon's teeth.

"Don't spit it out, don't spit it out." Xie Juanhan himself was wincing from the sourness, but he wouldn't let the other dragons spit it out. "Good stuff, it'd be a waste to spit it out, hahaha."

With his mouth covered, Telingewei reluctantly swallowed the berries in his mouth. "They're only slightly better than lemons."

Xie Juanhan: "No, you can still taste a fairly noticeable sweetness, and its aroma is much richer, and it's also quite sour."

Xie Juanhan turned his head and looked around. "Let me see if there are any Star Berry that are more ripe?"

Telingewei: "There's one diagonally in front of me, its color is quite intense."

"Let me see, it really is." Xie Juanhan walked over and picked the berry that Telingewei had mentioned, taking half from Telingewei and half from him as usual. "Mmm, sweet."

This time, Telingewei nodded in agreement.

In reality, it's far from being as sweet as a ripe berry should be.

However, having not eaten fresh Star Berry for a year, they were already quite pleased with the sweetness.

While the two dragons were inspecting the fields, they picked a basketful of the ripest crops.

When they brought them back, even the composed Moli couldn't help but take a few extra glances.

Xie Juanhan took half of the Star Berry, washed them with ice water and ate them immediately, while putting the other half in a small basket.

Xie Juanhan said, "It's been a long time since I've had ice cream. How about I make berry ice cream today?"

The furry creatures' cries nearly lifted the roof off. "Awooo!"

Xie Juanhan and his team hadn't made ice cream in a while.

The world's food culture isn't very developed, and their ice cream is all homemade. Even if they haven't made it for a while, everyone is very skilled at it.

Xie Juanhan sent the furry creatures to churn the ice cream with a foot-operated mixing bucket, while he and Telingewei picked out the berries, crushed them, and shaved them into a slush.

Soon, all the materials were ready, and only assembly remained.

Xie Juanhan stood in front of the kitchen counter and asked, "Shall we have the Uni-President Star Berry flavor today? And with a spoonful of mead on top?"

The furry creatures. "Aww!"

Xie Juanhan's family doesn't always drink the squeezing out mead immediately. Instead, they restrain themselves and store it in a wine barrel, taking it out to drink when they want to.

The Divine Goat Mead is very durable and has a shelf life that might even be longer than their Level 3 Magic Wine.

Xie Juanhan and his colleagues preserved it very carefully, so that when it was taken out of the barrel again, it looked no different from freshly squeezed wine.

Xie Juanhan specially brought out the beautiful tall glass bowl that his family used for eating ice cream. He first laid a layer of Star Berry shaved ice at the bottom, and then scooped out three large scoops of ice cream.

Orange-yellow shaved ice, creamy yellow scoops of ice cream, freshly chopped Star Berry, and then last year's stored, richly flavored honey-preserved Star Berry.

Xie Juanhan assembled the ice cream and then poured a spoonful of glistening, slightly jelly-like semi-fluid mead on top.

A delicious, cool, and sweet ice cream is now ready.

Xie Juanhan distributed ice cream to each of the little creatures, specifically instructing them, "No stealing other beasts' ice cream, or you'll lose a week's worth of snacks."

The furry creatures responded obediently, "Aww."

Xie Juanhan sent the furry creatures aside to eat ice cream, and he and Telingewei also took their ice creams to the corridor to eat.