Barbecue

Lu Yu smiled politely.

Very good. The Lu family has been a Chef for generations. They have cooked countless of foods. They have satisfied the emperor’s dragon belly that can make the next child cry. Since he learned how to cook, no one has said the word ‘bad’ in front of him.

Today is a good experience.

The Matai King ignored the muttering of his clan and said, “Do it.”

Lu Yu nodded and turned around to let some Matai pick up some branches and stones.

The Matai people did not dare to go against the order of the king, and got up to look for it.

But they’ve made up their minds not to eat the witch-made barbecue.

After all, the king couldn’t force the meat down in their mouth.

Lu Yu used the stones to form a circle and put some flammable leaves and branches in the middle to make a simple bonfire. Then he inserted two Y-shaped thick branches on either side of the bonfire to make barbecue.

He asked Shan Pu to placed the meat that was prepared for him in a long branch.

Shan Pu hesitated, “Witch, do you want to roast other meat first?”

Not that he couldn’t bear the meat, its okay the give the witch as much as he want, but this piece of meat was the freshest and most tender. In case it was roasted and the witch did not want to eat it, there’s nothing else.

Lu Yu was expressionless. “Just use this.”

“Okay…”

Shan Pu grieved on the side and skewered the meat.

Lu Yu took out his basket from the storage ring and took out two pieces of flint from the back side.

It was only thanks to the game panel for telling him that this kind of stone can make fire. He was a little unskilled at first but now he is much better.

He held the two stones, hit it a few times and some spark landed on the flammable leaf. The leaf burst with a small fire and he guarded the small fire with his hand and put it into the bonfire.

The fire started.

The Matai cheered beside him.

Lu Yu fanned the flames, adjusted the Y-shaped branch and took the simple kebab from Shan Pu’s arm and placed it across.

“Oh? Witch, why don’t you place the meat on the fire?” Shan Pu stopped him in a hurry.

Lu Yu: ???

Shan Pu seriously instructed him, “That way, the meat will be cooked.”

… I dare that all of you have only been eating charred meat, right?

Lu Yu pulled his hands away.

Spinning the branches of the kebab, roasted for a while, and then pulled out some important items from his basket.

Salt stone powder, pepper corns, wild peppers.

These things were sealed in a hallow wood by him, and is the treasure he had found these past ten days.

Seeing that the meat had been roasted a little and became charred and oily, he poked some holes in the meat with fine branches, and evenly sprinkled the meat with salt, pepper and wild peppers.

Originally, it was a meat with a slight flavor, and then it suddenly burst into a strong and pungent fragrance.

The onlookers of the Matai people involuntarily swallowed.

“What’s that witch? The smell of the barbecue changed after it was sprinkled over…”

“It’s really fragrant…”

Lu Yu continued to roast the meat patiently.

Barbecue looks simple. It seems that as long as you brush some spices in the meat rack a few times then its done. In fact, take this large piece of meat with uneven texture as example, you need to carefully control the side of roasting on each side of the meat, the time of roasting, the right place to open in order to have a roasted taste and not like firewood.

A the ingredient seeped in a little, the meat on the fire became even more fragrant.

The sound of the Matai people swallowing was growing louder and louder.

“Witch,” Shan Pu wiped his mouth,”Is it cooked yet, or should I help you give it a try?”

As soon as he spoke, he received a look of contempt from all directions from his righteous words.

“Shan Pu, you just said earlier that barbecue taste bitter and dry, not delicious at all!”

“Don’t try to deceive the witch!”

“Go away!”

Shan Pu.

Did he say that?!

Several radish heads took advantage of the opportunity to drill in while Shan Pu is being chased away.

Compared to the adult Matais the little Matais are very good, did not speak. They only bit their fingers and stared eagerly.

Lu Yu look at the almost roasted meat, cut a piece of meat with a thin stone, and handed it to the mouth of the youngest girl who only looked to be around seven or eight years old, smiled and said “Open your mouth.”

The girl’s eyes are bright. She raised her head and opened her mouth wide, “Ah–“

Lu Yu blew the meat twice and put it in her mouth.

“Hum!”

The little girl’s hands covered her mouth, her eyes wet.

Lu Yu frowned, “Is it hot?”

The little girl shook her head vigorously. Afraid of the meat falling out, she held her chin and talked gibberish, “Good!”

It was so delicious that tears appeared in her eyes.

Lu Yu rubbed her plush head and smiled.

The youth smiled mildly, and the light of the bonfire jumped in the corner of his lips and eyes, giving the white skin a soft orange glow.

The little girl looked at him through her tears vaguely.

The bottom of her heart is like a small sparrow.

Their witch is so good.

“Witch, witch, I want to eat too.”

“I also want to…”

“Me too…”

The originally quiet little Matais looked at the fragrant appearance of the little girl and couldn’t help it.

Shrinking on one side, Shan Pu leaned his head sharply, “I want to eat too!”

Lu Yu looked at the Matai people around him who are also eager, but he was helpless. “There’s enough for everyone to take one bite, and let the children eat the rest, okay?”

The Matai people, even if they went hungry themselves, would leave their food to the little Matais so nobody has any problem. Besides, everyone can take a bite isn’t it?

The Matai are optimistic and easily satisfied.

Lu Yu called Xiao Cao and another female Matai. The three of them gave each adult a piece of meat.

Roasted mammoth meat with golden crispy skin, and pink meat inside and will melt in your mouth after chewing twice. The salty and mellow gravy like meat slowly flow from the mouth down the throat…

Shan Pu held the meat, his throat rolling and did not even chew. The meat directly went to his belly.

He looked foolishly at the others.

The other Matais ignored him. They were so excited at the deliciousness of the meat that they couldn’t wait to lick the stick of the barbecue.

“It’s delicious!”

“I’d like to eat a little more.”

“Let’s go and help the witch find sauce tomorrow.”

“Okay, okay. I feel more motivated in hunting now!”

Lu Yu sat of the nala grass and ate the flavored meat. Originally, he wanted to give it to the little Matais to eat, anyway, it’s not the first time he ate something like this, but the Matai people strongly disagreed. The little Matais also followed them saying that it was the witch world, if the witch do not it, they will not eat it.

Lu Yu had no choice but to accept it, calculating in his heart while eating.

He certainly can’t make a meal for so many Matais alone, and he will follow the other to hunt and collect treasures. He doesn’t have a lot of time, he should quickly teach some Matai how to barbecue and make ingredients.

Thinking a lot, he unknowingly eat all the meat, and bit the leaves, almost swallowing it.

“Ugh.” Lu Yu spit out the bitter leaves.

A big hand held a leaf with a piece of meat in it, “Take it.”

Lu Yu raised his head. At this angle, he saw a perfect eight pack abs, with a trench like deep wound on it, and a mermaid line hidden behind the animal skin skirt. The strong male hormone were smoking in his eyes.

Tai Li stood, upright and majestic, still looking cold and serious as ever.

Lu Yu looked away, embarrassed, and focused on the meat on his hand, “This is… for me?”

“Hmm.”

Lu felt that his ears were a little hot, and waved his hands. “No, no. I’m full.”

“The leaves can’t be eaten.” Tai Li placed the meat in front of him and turned away.

?

Lu Yu held the meat with a delicate mood.

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Night.

There was a strong wind, and the scent of the roasted meat rolled away into the distance.

Lu Yu couldn’t sleep, turning his body over, paused for a few seconds, and raised his eyes to the right and look up.

Tai Li closed his eyes, sitting on the floor with his back against the cave wall, his long legs bent, and held a wooden stick in his right hand, maintaining a vigilant posture, ready to stand up and fight any time.

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How can he sleep like this? Isn’t this being a little too cautious? There is also someone guarding at the entrance.

Lu Yu thought to himself, then suddenly heard a roar like a thunderbolt out of nowhere.

“Wolf attack–!”

T/N: since our mc is a cook, cooking will be more detailed but not to the point this novel become a primitive gourmet one. i tend to avoid those novels, since reading them makes me hungry, and they also tends to be repetitive. I prefer reading the reaction of the people about the food than reading about the step by step process on how to cook them. Like this one novel I’ve read once, where there was only around 30 chapters left but there’s still nothing about the development of the MC and ML other than ‘he cooks, so amazing’ and almost half of that was the procedure on MC’s cooking. I ‘noped’ and dropped it. Just. like. that.

hehehe, back to the novel, the matais are looking more and more adorable! and the ML now enters the category of cold,expressionless, powerful, eight pack abs with mermaid line type ML!! Yay! my favorite cold and silent type doggu who stands behind the MC and guards him ❤

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