Orc Girl's Tribal Daily Life

Chapter 80 The Endless Jam

When He came to pick Jiang Luoluo up to go home, he looked incredulous.

Jiang Luoluo arrived empty-handed, but left with bags full of things, including a giant sun fruit almost as tall as her.

“Luo, you…” He hesitated.

Jiang Luoluo was a little embarrassed, but she had already made arrangements with the little girl, Xitong, that she had exchanged these things for jam, not for free!

The little girl wiped the dirt off her face. When she saw that Jiang Luoluo was interested in the plants her father had planted, she immediately ran to the yard, dug up several of them, and gave them to Jiang Luoluo.

It sounds a bit like the behavior of a naughty child.

It really is the behavior of a naughty child.

The little girl's mother stood in the house, smiling and waving at Jiang Luoluo, while her other hand, behind her back, held a vine.

The little girl's mother had to get home a little earlier than He, since He had promised to get some hooks and vines for Jiang Luoluo, and it took some time to prepare them. It also took some time to send the things back to the cave and then come back.

During this time, Xi's mother had enough time to return home and find that her child had picked several medicinal plants from the yard, and then she found out what had happened.

These were all plants that weren't dangerous or particularly important, so giving them away was fine—the little girl was very clever; she knew what things in the house she couldn't touch, what things she could touch, and what things she could get away with by whining.

But children who need education still need to be educated.

The things Jiang Luoluo was holding were all taken with the approval of the little girl happy's mother.

There's no way around it, she really needs these things. I hope Xi doesn't cry too much when she gets beaten up, and I'll definitely make it up to her!

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Carrying large and small bags back to the cave, Jiang Luoluo saw two large clumps of hooked vines piled up at the cave entrance, standing like door gods on the left and right.

Jiang Luoluo turned her head to look at He in confusion, wondering why He didn't move them into the cave.

Brown pointed inside the cave, gesturing for Jiang Luoluo to go in and take a look, "...there's no room inside."

Jiang Luoluo walked in with surprise, and when she looked up, she was so shocked that she couldn't move.

The open space inside the cave was almost entirely filled with all sorts of fruits, including several types that Jiang Luoluo was familiar with, as well as many fruits that she had never seen before.

Meeting the cub's gaze, Brown spoke with a touch of reluctance, "Red brought these. She heard you really like...making jam, so she specially went to the forest to pick these fruits for you."

The cub likes making jam? No one knows better than Brown how relaxed the cub looked when the jam was finally made from those fruits.

So after hearing what Red said, Brown didn't know what to say and could only look at the cub with sympathy.

"Luo, it's okay, take your time, you can finish it."

Jiang Luoluo's expression changed several times before she finally stepped inside in a fit of grief and indignation. Resigned, she began to tidy up, at least to create an open space where people could walk in.

No, what on earth did Chi do? How could she pick so many fruits in just one afternoon?

"Luo, I'm going to find Mao." He said, "We can't just leave the hooked vines outside the cave to get rained on."

Without roots, they are just a pile of dead wood that will rot soon. The cubs want these hooked vines so much, they certainly don't intend for them to turn into mud.

There was no room in his own cave, so he had to ask Mao, who lived nearby, for help. Mao's house had plenty of empty space.

Mao naturally had no intention of refusing; he was more than happy to help the cubs.

After overhearing the reason from He, Mao followed He back to see Jiang Luoluo... and the fruit all over the ground.

"I'll help you with that, Luo," Mao said, trying to comfort the cub whose face showed no sign of happiness.

Jiang Luoluo knew that Chi meant well, but the thought of endless jam-making that she was about to do made her unable to smile anymore.

She had gone to great lengths to make jam from all those fruits!

Why can't I finish this?!

It was still a long time before dark, so instead of just waiting, Jiang Luoluo gritted her teeth and decided to start making jam now. That way, she could make at least a dozen pots by the time she went to bed—she had four stone pots at home that she could use.

Just as Jiang Luoluo was about to start, she realized that there wasn't much of the most important ingredient for making jam, the water chestnut.

Jiang Luoluo's jam mainly relies on the syrup from the water chestnut to enhance its sweetness; you can't make such sweet jam using only other fruits.

Brown also noticed the problem and frowned slightly.

The skin of the water puff is fragile and easily broken. In heavy rain outside, it is estimated that less than one in ten wild water puffs will survive intact.

It took a lot of effort for Akashi to bring such a large quantity of Water Pellets in this weather.

However, this is far less than the amount needed to make jam, and is completely insufficient for cooking jam.

Brown instinctively looked to see the cubs' reaction.

Jiang Luoluo reacted quite calmly, and after a little thought, she came up with two solutions.

The first method is to use the leftover fruit instead of making jam to make fruit wine. When making jam before, some fruit was already fermenting, so Jiang Luoluo put it away to make fruit wine.

During this time, Jiang Luoluo did not forget to check the progress. Perhaps because there was a fire in the cave, the fruit wine was brewed quite successfully. It would be good to brew more.

The second method is even simpler. If you don't have fruit to enhance the sweetness, just add ready-made jam.

Adding a little ready-made jam to a pot can make a fresh batch of jam again.

This method is commonly used by Jiang Luoluo's grandmother in her hometown when kneading dough. After each kneading, she would leave a small piece of dough and put it in the next batch of dough, repeating the process.

Yogurt works too. Leave a little bit of leftover yogurt, add fresh milk, stir it casually, and let it sit for a day or two. Soon you'll have a fresh batch of yogurt.

There are many ways to accomplish something. Jiang Luoluo is never troubled by small troubles; she is only troubled by the endless repetitive work in front of her.

How could Chi repay kindness with enmity!

Mao spent the whole night washing fruit and also helped fetch a lot of water—there are several springs on Silver Peak Mountain, and the water flowing out of them has always been the source of drinking water and washing clothes for the tribe.

Every household in the tribe has a stone water tank or a wooden water tank for storing water. The former is commonly found in caves, while the latter is commonly found in wooden houses.

Water can be drawn using stone buckets or wooden buckets. The former are durable, while the latter are easy to make. The weight difference is negligible for the tribe members who are naturally strong.

Jiang Luoluo took the opportunity to invite Mao to stay for dinner. In order to make less jam, Jiang Luoluo made a pot of rich fruit and meat soup for dinner. A bowl of it was full of fruit and not much meat.

So much so that Mao's dreams at night were filled with the lingering sweet smell of jam.

The next morning, Mao and Chi appeared at the entrance of Jiang Luoluo's cave at the same time.

Mao came to help Jiang Luoluo make jam. He had promised Jiang Luoluo last night that he would stay and help the cub finish processing the fruit for the next few days, no matter what the weather was like.

In this way, when the brown-clad children are being trained on the small rocky hill, there is no need to worry about the cubs being poisoned and causing accidents.

Chi came over to eat the stir-fried rabbit meat with fire-roasted flowers that the cub had promised yesterday—the dried rabbit meat needs to be soaked for a day, and Jiang Luoluo soaked the meat yesterday, so it's ready to be cooked today.

Before even entering the cave, the two could smell a sweet fragrance emanating from it.

Jiang Luoluo got up early in the morning and started making jam while washing up and packing her things, not wasting a single moment.

Even breakfast consisted of chunks of meat cooked in a pot of jam, which made even the brown man hesitate to take a bite.

However, it must be said that the cubs have never been bad at making food, even if it seems like some kind of revenge against food, they can still make it taste delicious.

Jiang Luoluo looked at the brown-haired man with a complicated expression... Is it possible that the tribespeople have very undemanding tastes?