153 – Year 1(1)
After Chester curdled Monia’s attempt to eat the rabbit she caught raw, the two hurriedly built a bonfire.
Monia was making an ecstatic expression on one side of her buttock, as if she had seen a masterpiece of art, looking at the rabbit carcass with the marks she had bitten as hard as she could, and Ant was salivating all the time.
However, once you catch a rabbit, you cannot eat it right away. The preparation did not end here. It is a big burden to suddenly add greasy food to a shrunken body after eating only dry food for a long time. If it’s serious, you may get sick and die after eating the food.
Knowing that, Chester brought a pot and some grain before going out to hunt rabbits. The pot was obtained from the sailors, and the grain is the grain that will be planted in the field when the day is warm. I was going to make thin oatmeal out of this grain.
After roasting the grain in a pot for a while, Chester crushed the roasted grain with a stone, put a lot of snow in it, and put it on the fire.
Snow is a mixture of not only water but also air, so it is bulky. So when it melts and turns into water, the air escapes and the amount naturally decreases.
When the snow melts into water, additional snow is added. Repeat this until a satisfactory amount of water is produced, add the roasted and crushed grains, and begin to boil.
Soon after, the pot was full of watery oatmeal, and Chester and Monia poured the oatmeal into a cup and began to eat it cautiously.
“ah.”
“Well.”
The moment you add oatmeal, the moment you add warm, moist food, your body sends a signal of dizzying pleasure. Ant, too, moved his eyes to his tongue and ate them in a hurry as he dipped them into the hot oatmeal to cool it down.
“Oh, shit, oh, shit.”
While saying that, Monia ate the oatmeal. Do not swallow in haste, chew and eat carefully.
“… … nice.”
I had to worry about what would happen after the winter ended, so even though I knew that I could eat grain during the winter, I couldn’t eat it. Potatoes, peppers, and peppers were also left to be planted in the ground after winter.
“Ahhh. I feel like my body is melting. It was hardened.”
“Yeah. I got a cramp in my leg because I ran too much to catch the rabbit.”
They had a cramp, but their bodies were so broken that they didn’t feel the pain.
The three of them ate the oatmeal slowly over an hour, slowly over a long period of time. Then, after a while, when the body felt relieved to some extent, I ate thin oatmeal again.
Take time to calm down and wake up your body. Then gradually thicken the oatmeal, mix in a very small amount of meat pieces, and boil and eat to adapt to the body.
After reviving their bodies by eating oatmeal all day, Chester and Monia were able to eat the meat they had caught.
The caught fish was left untreated for a whole day. However, it is still chilly on the island, and since it is left unskinned, it won’t do anything for a day or so. The flesh of a living creature decomposes rapidly the moment it is peeled off.
“I’ll get the rabbit out!”
As soon as morning came, Monia went to get the rabbit buried in the snow, smiling briskly as if it were a lie that they were all dying until yesterday, and Chester prepared to roast the rabbit over a bonfire.
After neatly removing the skin from the rabbit, the whole rabbit is grilled.
“Ohhhhh.”
“Ahh.”
Why is it so beautiful to see the oil dripping from the roasted rabbit meat? Why does that flowing oil feel so sweet? Chester and Monia swallowed.
After the rabbit was all cooked, Chester carefully began to cut it into thirds.
“Ah… ! I don’t have enough!”
“It’s the same! Besides, you have something you ate yesterday!”
“Eat the ant who ate the intestines ate more!”
“… … ! that’s… Right. Then, isn’t Ant’s share not necessary?”
– Meeing! Hey hey!
“Kyaa, cute! But, Ant, when you have more to eat, mom has less to eat! Should I sacrifice?”
“It’s not something parents tell their children. You shouldn’t have children.”
“Are you saying you don’t want to have children with me?!”
“I want to make it.”
“… … hehehe.”
Chester left Monia laughing strangely and took a rabbit’s leg in his hand. Monia, who saw that, also hurriedly took the rabbit leg in her hand.
Ant looked at the two humans with hateful and resentful eyes as the lean, bony ribs appeared in front of him. It’s shameful to eat delicious food only for themselves! Dirty Humans! Then he gobbled up the ribs, wagging his tail fervently.
“aaa!!”
And at the same time, Monia, who bit off the rabbit’s leg, began to shed tears reluctantly as the sorrow and pain she had accumulated while enduring the harsh winter exploded as if bursting.
“Hueeng! It’s meat! It’s meat! hi! Hey!”
“Ah, that’s good.”
Chester quietly closed his eyes and enjoyed the sensations in his body that began to come alive the moment he ate the meat.
Isn’t it a feeling that I haven’t felt in a long time.
It is the time when the dry winter passes and spring arrives, when the frozen ground melts and buds sprout. The time has come to dispose of all the preserved food accumulated over the winter. They devise various methods to make everything from dry meat to fruits and vegetables as delicious as possible because they are made into preserved food and left unattended during the winter.
It was a means and culture to process preserved food and at the same time give strength and vitality to work again in the spring to the body weakened by overcoming the winter.
In Chester’s village, it was a kind of festival called Spring Dinner, and every time Chester went hunting in the mountains with his father.
The dizzy feeling you get when you grill and eat the meat you hunted before others, or when you put greasy food in your mouth after a long time. It really feels like a long time ago.
‘I miss it.’
While Chester was immersed in memories and ate the rabbit leg, Monia cried out and chewed on the leg bone with not a single piece of flesh left, as if she was sorry that she ate all the rabbit legs. said
“This bastard! Are you trying to steal mom’s food?! Poor baby! Come on!”
– Kwang! kong! kong!
“Not with Chester! It’s just that I’m easy, I’m easy! I’m not satisfied! This!”
Hearing Monia scolding Ant, Chester thought.
‘Where do mothers learn such words?’
As I listened to Monia scolding Ant, I thought of the mischievous kid whose hobby was picking up the skirts of the girls next door. After growing up a little and falling in love for the first time, I naturally became docile, but I heard that instead of being docile outside, he started to have accidents at home.
‘Will he be all right?’
In the last letter they exchanged, it was written that they would definitely leave the village and head for the city.
‘It was written that I would be an adventurer in the city, but I hope you are safe.’
Chester picked up the rabbit meat and put it in his mouth. Thoughts of a friend whom he doesn’t even know well because he has only communicated through letters for a long time disappear in an instant, and he focuses all his attention on rabbit meat. I could see the lines of light reflected in my eyes jumping wildly with cheers.
After eating all the rabbits, Monia regained her strength and stood up vigorously.
Strength returns to the body. energy surged. As if a young man who had undergone a coming-of-age ceremony and was officially considered an adult by those around him took a step forward with a burning youth and a brave heart that did not know the fear of the world, his heart was full of energy.
“I want to eat rabbit again!”
“yes?”
“yes! Let’s find it!”
Monia really felt like she was revived after waiting for her to quietly close her eyes in front of the threshold of death.
“Well. I definitely want to eat more. But maybe this rabbit woke up early from hibernation… … .”
Chester was saying that when Ant suddenly looked somewhere and signaled.
– growl. growl
Both Chester and Monia looked in that direction as Ant cried quietly. That behavior of Ant is a signal that informs that it has found its prey.
Chester and Monia quickly cleared their seats and got up.
“It’s Ant.”
– growl.
“let’s go.”
Ant jumped out, and Chester and Monia started chasing after him.
On an island covered in mud as the snow melts, two men and a woman and a wolf run eagerly in pursuit of a frightened beast.
Not long after, the beast was beaten to death by a stone thrown by a wicked man from a catapult.
“Got it!”
“It’s bigger this time! Big! Cheer up! meat! It’s meat!”
“Light a fire! Light a fire!”
“Kyaaa! meat!”
“If you’re not going to light a fire, dismantle it quickly!!”
The snow melts. the cold goes away New shoots began to sprout on the ground and on the trees, and the island began to come alive again.