Chapter 63
Since he had decided to correct the sub-adult black wolves’ bad habits, Lang Shuo naturally would not go easy on them, nor would he drag things out. Otherwise, with their personalities, he feared they would not change even after three or five years.
The sub-adults would officially go out hunting next breeding season. The beginning period of hunting was the most dangerous. If it really took three or five years, it would be far too late.
Besides, the sub-adult black wolves would not always be staying in their tribe. Once enough coal had been dug for both tribes to use through snow season, this work would have to stop. Otherwise, if they dug too much, there would be nowhere to put it.
Taking all reasons into account, Lang Shuo planned to correct the sub-adult black wolves in a short amount of time. Time was tight and the task was heavy, so naturally, he would not let a single opportunity slip by. If he worked three days and rested two, within two days, they would revert to their old ways.
Of course, Lang Shuo’s goal was to correct bad habits, not to abuse the sub-adults. Where correction was needed, he would correct them. Where praise was deserved, Lang Shuo would not be vague about it either.
Today, the entire tribe’s members and the sub-adult black wolves were all here. For lunch, Lang Shuo did not plan to take the easy route like before. He planned to prepare more variety.
In fact, the meal that needed to be most filling in a day was lunch. Unfortunately, beastmen had already become used to eating only two meals, morning and evening, and even this had been slowly adjusted by Lang Shuo. Usually, the gathering team and hunting party were outside, so it was inconvenient to carry too much food. Today, everyone was eating in the tribe, so they could just eat more.
The gathering team had harvested quite a lot of food in the morning. The highest yield was potatoes. However, some potatoes had been roasted on skewers last night, so Lang Shuo did not use them as the main dish. He only had the members washing vegetables clean some of the smaller potatoes.
Fresh potatoes had very thin skins that could be easily scraped off by hand. However, it was a little rough on the nails. Beastmen’s nails were actually very hard, but the most uncomfortable thing was when mud or potato skin got stuck between the nail and finger and was difficult to clean. Lang Shuo had them scrape the skins with thin stone flakes.
The peeled small potatoes were placed in the steamer and steamed until cooked. After taking them out, he mashed them, poured in boiled fresh milk, added an appropriate amount of salt, and stirred evenly, making mashed potatoes.
The fragrance of potatoes mixed with the milky aroma. The cubs, who smelled it, were the first to be unable to resist. They whimpered as they clung to the cradle and looked outside.
Cubs had very sharp noses, and when Lang Shuo prepared food, he would not place them too far away. This led to them being able to smell whenever something delicious was made. This food already had a portion for the cubs, so Lang Shuo simply fed the cubs first.
However, potatoes contained a lot of starch. Usually, they were eaten with other foods as a side dish. Lang Shuo was worried the cubs would not be used to it, so he only served them a little, letting the cubs have a taste.
The cubs drank milk every day and had occasionally eaten potatoes before, but this was the first time they tried mashed potatoes with a milky aroma. The cubs really liked food that could enter their bellies without needing to chew, and the mashed potatoes carried their favorite flavor. After finishing, the group of cubs reluctantly let go of the bowls and licked the corners of their mouths and their paws.
At the very beginning, after finishing food, the cubs would cling to the bowls and refuse to let go, humming and whining cutely for more. After being fed so many times, they already knew that after eating what was in the bowl, asking again would not get them any more. But this did not stop them from acting spoiled toward Lang Shuo. When Lang Shuo reached out to take the bowl, they hugged his arm and refused to loosen their paws.
Lang Shuo was very experienced. With one hand, he took the bowl, and with the other, he picked up the cub. After taking out the bowl and placing it down, he also picked up a clean animal hide nearby and, in this position, wiped the cub’s mouth and paws.
“Awoo~” The cub being caught tried to struggle. They did not like having their mouths wiped. Not only would it wipe away the remaining food around their mouths, but the texture of the animal hide was not good either.
As Lang Shuo wiped, he coaxed, “Be good. I’ll make towels for you later.” The prey they had caught recently did not have long fur, but in his memory, there was a kind of prey similar to sheep. Another day, he would ask his brother if there were any around here. They could be used to make yarn. He would also ask the hunting party whether there were any plants similar to cotton. Both approaches could be tried at the same time.
The cubs could not understand his words, but when they heard his voice, they responded randomly.
Lang Shuo put away the tableware, wiped the cubs clean along the way, and then checked the progress of the other dishes.
Aside from potatoes, they had also picked back some pumpkins in the morning. This time, they were not cooked into porridge, but cut into pieces and steamed in the pot. There were two meat dishes: stewed sharp-horned beast meat and stir-fried curved-horned beast slices. Of course, leafy vegetables had been added to both dishes.
Before, the tribe had not had enough cooking tools, so every time they cooked, they needed to begin preparing early. After finishing one kind of food and dividing it, they would cook the next dish. Now, it was no longer so troublesome. There were enough stoves and pots, so several dishes could be prepared together and come out of the pots at almost the same time.
Pots of all sizes were arranged there. Before one even got close, waves of rich fragrance could be smelled. The aromas of different foods mixed together, and even members who had not originally felt very hungry could not help swallowing after walking closer.
The sub-adults had just finished digging coal, and their steps back were unusually slow, because they knew that after they finished eating later, what awaited them was even more torturous work. Because of their resistance toward the work of picking grass beads, they were not even that excited about this lunch.
This wilted state only lasted until they reached the foot of the mountain.
Once they reached the bottom of the mountain, before they had even approached the place where food was being distributed, the sub-adults smelled an indescribable fragrance. Their earlier dejection was swept away, and only longing for food remained in their eyes.
Useless tears slid from the corners of their mouths.
Lang Yong swallowed and looked at Lang Shuo by the stove. Suddenly, he said, “I think picking grass beads isn’t that bad. What do you think?”
The other sub-adults nodded. “I think so too. We should just listen to Shuo.”
“Shuo treats us so well. What’s wrong with doing a little work!”
Originally, they had planned to collectively resist. Of course, they were not truly refusing to work. They only wanted to bargain a little. After all, as long as everyone refused, Lang Shuo would definitely lower the task requirements.
But now, that little bit of resistance in the group of sub-adults’ hearts slowly faded.
Wasn’t it just picking grass beads? At worst, they would spend a little more time. Mm, this smell was really fragrant.
The group of sub-adults reached a unanimous opinion. They quickly untied the ropes on their bodies and rushed to the river to wash. Since they could not wash clean anyway, washing longer was the same as washing shorter. They casually rinsed and jumped onto the bank.
After shaking the water droplets from their bodies and returning, they saw Lang Shuo distributing food.
This time, there was a lot of food. It would definitely not work for one person to carry so many bowls, so Lang Shuo planned to distribute the dishes in turns.
The first to be distributed were pumpkin and stir-fry. Among all the foods, stir-fried dishes had less moisture and cooled the fastest. This was to prevent the sub-adults from being unable to wait. On top of each bowl of stir-fried meat was placed a large piece of steamed pumpkin, to be eaten with the dish.
The group of sub-adults, whose stomachs were growling from hunger, were not picky at all. Because they knew all the food here would be distributed to them sooner or later, they ate a bowl of stir-fried meat accompanied by the fragrance. When it became a little greasy, they happened to gnaw two mouthfuls of pumpkin. The freshly picked pumpkin was not as soft and glutinous as the one they had eaten during snow season, but after not eating it for so long, no one cared about this little difference. They seriously gnawed the pumpkin until only the outer skin remained.
With some food in their stomachs, the sub-adults were no longer as anxious as before. They went over and lined up to receive stewed meat. After eating it clean, soup and meat together, they leisurely went to receive the last dish, mashed potatoes.
Because they had been far away before, the sub-adults thought that milk had just been boiled for the cubs. Only after receiving the mashed potatoes and smelling the familiar scent did they know what had been added inside, even though they had never drunk curved-horned beast milk before. They could not help looking at Lang Shuo.
Was this really their food? He had not given the cubs’ food to them, right?
Food with a milky fragrance had always belonged exclusively to the cubs. They had envied it for a long time. It was just that robbing cubs of food was something they could not possibly do. They could only blame themselves for being too old and not catching the good times.
Seeing their hesitation, Lang Shuo said, “Eat. I specially made this for you. You’ve been working hard recently.”
The sub-adults immediately looked as if they had heard praise from heaven. “It’s not hard!”
“Not tiring at all!”
“I’ll go pick grass beads after I finish eating! With that little amount, I can pick out a whole basin in one afternoon.” The member who had been shouting that he did not want to pick grass beads in the morning was now also shouting the most enthusiastically.
“Then I’ll pick two basins.” Another sub-adult was not convinced. He was more patient than the other.
The encouraged sub-adults now felt that even a problem as big as the sky could be solved by them. Mere grass beads could not trouble them at all.
“No need to be too tired. Just maintain normal working hours,” Lang Shuo said gently.
Hearing Lang Shuo’s words, the sub-adults instantly felt incomparably guilty. The selves who had considered collectively striking in the morning really were not good things.
Lang Shuo had even left them the food cubs ate. What was wrong with having them do a little work!
When they were in the tribe, they had no rewards at all and still had to work! Lang Shuo was much better than the chief!
The sub-adults thought this and felt their whole bodies fill with strength. They wished they could go work right now.
Of course, the first thing they needed to do was finish the food in their hands.
…
“Achoo—”
In the Black Wolf Tribe’s territory, Lang Yan, who had just pinned down a humming beast, suddenly sneezed. The humming beast under his foot, which only had one breath left, took the chance to struggle, and the tusk beside its mouth nearly hooked onto Lang Yan’s body.
Lang Yan quickly came back to himself, dodged the tusk, and secured the humming beast.
Lang Qi immediately came up to help.
Their luck today was not bad. They had encountered a group of humming beasts: two large humming beasts with more than twenty small ones.
Humming beasts were not very large. When catching this kind of prey, too many people would instead make trouble. Therefore, there were only six people in total catching the large humming beasts. The other members caught the small ones.
In the past, they would only bring back the two large ones, leaving the small ones outside to fend for themselves. Occasionally, they would conveniently bring a few back for the cubs to play with.
The current situation was different. The Snow Wolf Tribe wanted live prey, and prey cubs as well. For prey of the same weight, young prey could be exchanged for more coal. Lang Yan directly arranged for the members who should have been guarding nearby to chase the small humming beasts.
Originally, six people catching two humming beasts would have been no problem. Who knew that one member tripped while chasing prey, and the two members behind him were tripped by him. In order not to waste this opportunity, Lang Yan quickly changed strategy, having the other two members chase the female humming beast while he caught this male humming beast.
One person chasing one humming beast was somewhat dangerous. Fortunately, the members chasing the small humming beasts turned back to help. In the end, they managed to catch both humming beasts without real danger.
“Boss, are you hurt?” Lang Qi asked worriedly.
Lang Yan was holding a bamboo tube and rinsing his mouth with water. Hearing this, he spat out the water in his mouth and shook his head. “I’m fine.” His arm had been hit by the humming beast. It was not a big problem.
This kind of injury was common for black wolves, and not even as severe as the injuries they received when fighting their own kind.
After asking clearly about the injury, Lang Qi felt reassured.
After tying up the two humming beasts, the one Lang Yan had caught was more heavily injured and could only be eaten. The other female humming beast and the group of small ones could be sent to the Snow Wolf Tribe. Lang Yan checked the position of the sun and began arranging things. “Rest for a while. You take three people and send this one back to the tribe. I’ll send the rest to the Snow Wolf Tribe.”
In order not to let the other members in the tribe notice anything unusual, only their hunting party caught live prey. The remaining hunting parties in the tribe were still the same as usual.
Now, the tribe members only knew that they had a cooperation with the Snow Wolf Tribe. They did not know the details of how supplies were being exchanged.
Lang Qi agreed, then suddenly thought of the injury on Lang Yan’s hand and asked, “Boss, why don’t I go to the Snow Wolf Tribe, and you go back to the tribe to rest?” Delivering supplies to the Snow Wolf Tribe meant they still had to return to the tribe afterward, which was much more walking than going directly back to the tribe. Lang Qi felt it was more suitable for him to go to the Snow Wolf Tribe while Lang Yan returned directly to the tribe.
Lang Yan glanced at him and refused. “No need.”
“Then your arm…” Lang Qi hesitated. The injury was not serious, but it could not be ignored either. Even sub-adults would quiet down for two days after being injured in a fight.
“It doesn’t matter.”
After Lang Qi left, Lang Yan said to the remaining members, “Rest a while longer.”
The other members were somewhat puzzled. If they sent the prey to the Snow Wolf Tribe now, they could return to the tribe before dark. If they continued resting, it seemed there would not be enough time.
Lang Yan said, “We’ll go back with the sub-adults tonight.”
Hearing this, the other members suddenly understood.
Without the chief watching, the sub-adults would walk for a while and stop for a while, and would only reach the tribe in the middle of the night. If the chief watched them, the sub-adults would not dare slack off on the road, and they would return earlier. They also would not sleep halfway through the night only to be woken by the sub-adults’ noise.
The chief was truly considerate of them, the group of black wolf members thought.
Seeing that no one raised any objections, Lang Yan slowly withdrew his gaze and closed his eyes to rest.
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Snow Wolf Tribe.
After eating, the sub-adult black wolves did not even rest and directly went to help pick grass beads. Not only did they need to wipe the grass juice clean from them according to Lang Shuo’s requirements, but they also had to separate them according to size.
This work truly tested patience. After picking for most of the afternoon, the sub-adults only felt uncomfortable all over and wished they could immediately go out and run a few laps. It was too boring, and their eyes were growing blurry from picking.
The performance of the group of sub-adults exceeded Lang Shuo’s expectations. The sub-adults had persevered longer than he had expected. From the very beginning, he had not counted on these sub-adults to quietly work. Now, seeing them so obedient, he was somewhat surprised. He had never expected one meal to have such a good effect.
It was decided. They would eat hot pot tonight.
Lang Shuo arranged for the members who did not want to pick grass beads to go cut meat slices.
“Shuo, are we roasting meat today too?” Hearing the new task, the sub-adult black wolves’ eyes carried excitement. Could they be eating barbecue again tonight? They liked the work of preparing ingredients! Thinking of the delicious food they would eat at night, their whole bodies filled with drive.
“Not roasting meat. We’re changing to another way of eating.” Lang Shuo answered, “Go cut meat first. Tonight definitely won’t disappoint you.”
Lang Shuo never lied when it came to food. The food he made would only be even tastier than initially expected. The sub-adults rubbed their hands together. Those who had originally not planned to continue picking beads also decided to persist a little longer. Lang Shuo had already started thinking about tonight’s food. If they could not even finish this little work, that would be unreasonable.
Thus, the sub-adults took the initiative to switch work. A few went to cut meat. After cutting for a while, they came over to replace the remaining sub-adults. This way, everyone could use the interval between cutting meat and picking grass beads to rest for a while.
Seeing that they had already arranged things themselves, Lang Shuo did not interfere again and went to prepare the hot pot base.
Modern hot pot bases generally used beef tallow simmered with various spices and seasonings, then cooled and divided into portions. This time, Lang Shuo planned to fry some meat to make the soup base.
Pork belly with alternating fat and lean was cut into slices. Then he prepared scallions, ginger, garlic, Sichuan peppercorns, and salt, as well as several kinds of fruit, chili peppers, and honey to adjust the flavor.
After the ingredients were prepared, he began frying. He added a little base oil to the pot, then added the pork belly. After rendering out the oil, he scooped the meat out and put in the scallions, ginger, and other seasonings.
Once the fragrance was fried out, he poured the meat from earlier back in. The non-spicy soup base was ready.
The method for making the soup base with chili was roughly the same as this pot. The only difference was that when adding scallions, ginger, and other seasonings, he also added chili peppers.
Because the soup bases they were going to use were all fried in one go, and because some of the soup bases also included chili peppers, the fragrance was exceptionally domineering. The sub-adults working on the other side frequently turned their heads.
Lang Shuo said, “Work properly. Don’t get distracted. We’ll eat it tonight.”
The sub-adults immediately focused intently on working. They felt that even though it was not yet dinnertime, their stomachs were already hungry. In reality, they had eaten even more than usual at noon.
It was all the food’s fault for being too fragrant!
Lang Shuo fried two large pots of soup base. After turning off the fire, he left them there without touching them. Then he took out cluck-cluck bird meat and humming beast stomach, planning to cook a soup base similar to chicken and pork stomach soup. He was not sure whether the other members would like it, so he prepared less of the final soup base.
In truth, Lang Shuo still liked eating spicy hot pot the most. It was just that the tribe usually did not eat chili peppers very often. Basically, like when they made dipping sauce yesterday, they only borrowed a little spiciness. Hot pot’s spiciness was stronger, so it would depend on whether the members could accept it.
With food tempting them, in the following time, not only did the sub-adults not slack off, they finished the work much earlier than Lang Shuo had planned.
The earlier they finished, the earlier they could eat. Lang Shuo asked whether they were hungry.
The sub-adults held their stomachs and nodded by tacit agreement.
“All right. Go wash your hands. I’ll prepare it right away,” Lang Shuo said.
While the sub-adults went to the river to wash their hands and conveniently bathe, Lang Shuo’s side also began bustling.
All three flavors of soup base were boiled until bubbling. Into them, he added the meat slices the sub-adults had just cut.
Lang Shuo had only just placed a few plates of meat when the sub-adults gathered around him.
“Shuo, how long does it need to cook?”
“Soon. Each of you take a stool and sit properly here.” Lang Shuo pointed at a line he had just drawn outside. The nearest position was still two steps away from the stove.
The sub-adults were anxious, but they also knew that if they did not listen to Lang Shuo at this time, they could forget about eating tonight. They obediently carried small wooden stools to the position Lang Shuo had marked and sat down, just right in a circle.
Lang Shuo distributed the bowls beside the stove, one bowl per person.
As yesterday, the sub-adults held their bowls and eagerly waited for Lang Shuo to feed them.
The meat slices were relatively thin. When used for roasting, one had to constantly worry about whether they would burn. In hot pot, there was no such concern. The rolling hot pot soup base quickly cooked the meat slices.
Lang Shuo held a pair of long chopsticks and picked up the fully cooked meat slices, placing them into the bowl beside him.
The sub-adults were anxious when eating. Something like picking meat from the pot into their bowls could not be handed to them at the start. He would first let them eat a few bites to satisfy their craving, then teach them how to do it.
Seeing the meat slices being fished out, the sub-adults stared unblinkingly at Lang Shuo’s movements, not knowing whose portion this would be.
However, Lang Shuo’s next action was beyond their expectations. They saw Lang Shuo pick up the bowl and begin distributing it. Each person’s bowl only received two slices.
The sub-adults looked at one another. Two slices were not enough to eat at all!
Most importantly, Lang Shuo had only given them bowls just now, not chopsticks.
Yesterday had been skewers. Even without chopsticks, it did not affect eating. But today, the meat was cooked in a pot, without sticks. Did he want them to grab it with their hands?
Just as several impatient sub-adults wanted to reach into their bowls, Lang Shuo spoke as if he had seen their movements.
“Don’t move randomly.” Lang Shuo warned the sub-adults who were about to be unable to resist. “Otherwise, the remaining food will have none of your share.”
Hearing this, the originally restless sub-adults instantly quieted down. The hands that had been about to reach into their bowls were also withdrawn.
They did not dare move. They did not dare move at all.
Lang Shuo distributed the meat he had just taken out again.
After distributing it three times in a row, when every sub-adult had almost half a bowl of meat, Lang Shuo finally gave them chopsticks. Aside from chopsticks, each person also had a small bamboo bowl in their hands.
The small bamboo bowls were about the same size as the ones the cubs usually used. In front of the cubs, they looked especially large. Held in the sub-adults’ hands, they looked like tiny toys for playing house.
Inside the small bamboo bowls was dipping sauce similar to yesterday’s. Lang Shuo had adjusted it based on yesterday’s, after all, one was barbecue and the other was hot pot.
In truth, the most correct method should have been to place the several ingredients for making the dipping sauce separately, letting them adjust it according to their own tastes. But Lang Shuo understood sub-adults very well, especially sub-adult black wolves. If he let them do it themselves, nine times out of ten, they would scoop a spoonful of every kind. It was better for him to mix it in advance.
“Eat.” After Lang Shuo finished distributing chopsticks and dipping sauce, he spoke.
Hearing this, the sub-adults could no longer endure it. Their movements were neat and uniform. They picked up meat, dipped it in sauce first, then placed it into their mouths.
After distributing the meat, Lang Shuo had also distributed chopsticks and sauce, so the meat in the bowls was no longer hot. It was just right to eat. The sub-adults finished one bite, and before they had carefully tasted it, their chopsticks had already stretched back into the bowl.
When they came back to their senses, they sucked in a breath from the spiciness, but the movements of their hands did not slow at all.
So delicious!
Fragrant and spicy, making people want a second bite after eating one. While breathing out, they kept placing it into their mouths.
After finishing everything in their bowls in one breath, the sub-adults looked toward Lang Shuo.
These had just come from that pot of red soup. Were the remaining two pots also delicious?
While they were eating, Lang Shuo had already cooked the non-spicy portion. Seeing them finish, he continued distributing in a circle.
The group of sub-adults, who had been sucking in saliva from the spiciness, ate the non-spicy kind and froze for a moment, then continued burying their heads in eating.
The non-spicy kind was also fragrant!
Hot pot was simple to eat, but the flavor was not at all inferior to food made by other cooking methods. The group of sub-adults only felt that time was difficult to endure.
In the end, Lang Yong was the first to be unable to resist. “Shuo, should I help you distribute the meat?”
Having Lang Shuo do everything alone was too slow. If they went to help, they could eat faster!
Lang Shuo said, “Only you helping?”
“I’ll do it too, I’ll do it too.”
“I can help too.”
The sub-adults who had not dared speak originally immediately chimed in after hearing Lang Shuo’s words. Even the few sub-adults who usually did not like speaking followed and expressed their thoughts.
Those few sub-adults had quietly discussed it when they went back yesterday and discovered that their behavior yesterday had actually not been quite right. They should have reminded Lang Yong and the others immediately when they did something wrong. That way, perhaps Lang Shuo would not have been angry.
In the past, when the sub-adults headed by Lang Yong shouted, they might only quietly listen. In any case, whether it was a good thing or bad thing, it was always Lang Yong and the others who rushed forward first. But today, they also began to speak.
They had to follow along with correct things, and they had to remind others about wrong things. In short, they could not continue staying silent like before.
Seeing them like this, Lang Shuo spoke again. “I can let you cook the meat yourselves. This way, you can eat faster. But there are three requirements.”
Hearing this, the sub-adults immediately quieted down. Cooking the meat themselves and eating it themselves would be much faster than now. Forget three requirements—even if there were any number of requirements, they would agree!
“One, I am responsible for putting in the meat slices. When I put in meat, your chopsticks are not allowed to be in the pot.”
The sub-adults nodded. They were not stupid. Raw meat did not taste good. It had to be cooked before eating.
“Two, each time, three plates of meat will be added. Each person gets three slices. After fishing out three slices, wait for the next batch. No snatching. Whoever snatches goes to gnaw on leafy vegetables.”
The sub-adults continued nodding. That was as it should be. When Lang Shuo had distributed meat just now, each person had three slices every time. The amounts were the same. They definitely would not snatch.
“Three, this is the most important point. The meat you fish up is too hot. You have to wait a while before eating. Otherwise, we will never eat hot pot again in the future.”
The sub-adults’ expressions turned solemn. This was only their first time eating it. How could it not be prepared again in the future! Absolutely not!
Lang Shuo said, “Can you do it? Those who can do it move forward. Those who can’t continue waiting in place for me to distribute.”
The moment his voice fell, the sub-adults’ movements were more coordinated than ever, and they all moved forward in unison.
Lang Shuo asked about their taste preferences and arranged positions according to taste. Six people circled each stove, and he was responsible for adding ingredients.
Lang Shuo first placed in several plates of potato slices to let the sub-adults get used to this mode.
To be honest, the potato slices tasted good, but they were far less attractive than meat slices. Therefore, in the first round, the sub-adults completely followed what Lang Shuo said. Only after Lang Shuo said they were cooked did they move their chopsticks. Each person picked up three slices, placed them into their bowls, then waited a while before eating.
However, when Lang Shuo added meat, the atmosphere changed.
Before the meat slices were cooked, it was still fine. The instant Lang Shuo opened his mouth and allowed them to move their chopsticks, in the blink of an eye, more than a dozen pairs of chopsticks began fighting in the pot. After grabbing the meat, they blew on it while eating.
Only after finishing did the group of sub-adults realize what they had done and secretly look at Lang Shuo.
The expression on Lang Shuo’s face was the same as before. It was impossible to tell whether he was angry.
In the next instant, they knew.
Lang Shuo did not drive them away. Instead, he carried a basket of washed leafy vegetables, grabbed a handful, and placed them into the pot.
The sub-adults: “!!!”
No! Don’t put leafy vegetables! It was just that the sub-adults only dared shout in their hearts, not out loud.
Leafy vegetables shrank after being cooked. Lang Shuo placed an entire basket into each pot. After the leafy vegetables were cooked, he said, “Eat. If you don’t finish, I won’t add the remaining ingredients.”
The sub-adults thought of their behavior just now and guiltily went to fish out leafy vegetables.
The leafy vegetables in the pot seemed endless.
Finally, after the sub-adults ate the leafy vegetables in the pot clean, Lang Shuo began adding meat dishes.
After that, once the sub-adults began snatching, Lang Shuo would add leafy vegetables. In any case, there were plenty of leafy vegetables, so there was no fear of there not being enough.
This time was different from yesterday. The punishment was collective. As long as someone by a stove snatched, everyone around it would eat vegetarian.
After a few rounds, without Lang Shuo needing to speak, the sub-adults who liked snatching food would be held down by the sub-adults on their left and right.
When Lang Yan brought the black wolf members over, he saw an unbelievable scene.
A group of sub-adults sat obediently beside the stoves, each taking one chopstickful after another to eat meat. Throughout the entire process, there was no fighting or snatching. When only one slice of meat remained in the pot, no one grabbed it. Instead, they counted how much they had in their own bowls.
Lang Yan: “???”
Perhaps he had been outside too long and was hallucinating.
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