PNB Chapter 111 I Want to Eat Chicken
Chapter 111 I Want to Eat Chicken
Linni glanced at her busy companions; they didn't need her to do these things, so she continued observing the Pheasant Tribe. Then, some male Pheasants began to stroll around the tree hollow where they were, displaying their exaggerated pectoral muscles, somewhat like the pre-fight battles at the bonfire party in the Tiger Tribe. Linni leaned against the tree hollow entrance, watching with great interest. Those exaggerated pectoral muscles and slender lower bodies... she thought of the comical figures with similar physiques from a few cartoons she had watched as a child. But to the other males, it seemed she was enjoying watching the males; they really liked the way these Pheasant Men looked.
More and more pheasants gathered, and after displaying their muscles, they transformed into magnificent pheasants and began to fight—or rather, cockfight? They ran, leaped, and wrestled, feathers sometimes fluttering down from their flapping wings. Linni watched intently; she had never seen cockfighting before!
After a fierce battle, a level four male won the beast fight. He then transformed into human form and walked proudly to Linni: "Beautiful little female, I am a level four pheasant beastman with two wings. Please be my partner."
Linni: She just realized that all these fighting cocks are single beasts! Linni's smile faded, and she turned to look at her partner, only to find everyone staring at her! Linni looked at Feng: "Feng, do you remember what you said at the bonfire party in the Tiger Beast Tribe?"
Feng's slightly uneasy eyes suddenly lit up, and then he leaped forward, transforming into a three-meter-long tiger in mid-air. As he landed at the entrance of the tree hole, he roared at the outside, "Roar—if these lone beasts don't leave, I'll bite them all to death!"
Maple's roar caused a flurry of chickens to fly—no dogs jumped, only chickens flew, leaving a mess of chicken feathers in front of the tree hole. Then all the golden pheasant beastmen disappeared, even the females who had been watching from their tree hole entrances hid.
Linni covered her mouth and went into her tree hollow, then snuggled into Yao's arms and burst into laughter: "That's hilarious! These orcs from the Golden Pheasant Tribe are so funny! Hahaha---"
Yao looked at her with doting eyes and smiled.
Bai waited until she had laughed enough before saying, "Lin, you were having so much fun just now, I thought you had taken a fancy to the male of the Jinji tribe!"
Lin Ni's smile, which she had just managed to suppress, returned: "What are you talking about? I just think they're hilarious!"
"That's good!" Bai and the others didn't understand what was so funny about the Jinji tribe's beastmen, but as long as she didn't particularly like them, it was fine. They didn't mind Linni finding another partner. On the beastman continent, females rarely had only five partners; usually, it was ten or so. A beautiful, cute, and gentle female like Linni, who was a natural-born female and had now become a high-ranking one, they were prepared for her to be pursued by males wherever she went, and they were also mentally prepared for her to have a dozen or twenty partners like other females. But they were worried about her encountering another male she really liked. There was already Yao here, and Yao seemed to be a beastman of beastman descent as well. If she had another partner she liked so much (not every male would expect females to treat their partner fairly like Yao did; most males preferred to monopolize their partners), then no one would be able to get close to her in the future. That's why Feng felt disappointed when he saw her smiling at the single Jinji beastmen; he didn't dare to think about that possibility.
Lin Ni waved her hand with a smile: "No way, I can't help but laugh whenever I think of them. I want to eat chicken!"
Night said, "The chicken is ready, come and eat."
Linni sat in front of the campfire, picked up her wooden bowl and took a sip of chicken soup. Suddenly she looked up and said, "I want to eat fried chicken. Fried chicken wings, fried chicken legs, popcorn chicken..." As she spoke, she looked at Ye and said, "Ye, does Wanren Stone Cliff have any animals that have a lot of oil? We can render the oil and then fry things to eat."
Ye nodded: "Yes, there is a kind of wild animal that looks a bit like a wild boar, but it doesn't have teeth. We call it an oil pig. They have a lot of fat and don't taste good."
Linni: "Let's catch one tomorrow and make fried chicken." Thinking about how she'd been enjoying all sorts of chicken-eating antics in the Golden Pheasant Tribe, it was so much fun!
"Okay." Ye thought for a moment and decided to go catch some tonight. Lin wanted to eat it, so they had to catch some quickly.
Lin Ni took another sip of chicken soup, but didn't feel like eating. Seeing her expression, Yao handed her a roasted chicken leg: "If you don't want soup, eat the roasted chicken."
Lin Ni took a bite, then suddenly opened her eyes and sniffed the air: "Can you smell anything?"
Everyone sniffed hard, looking at her blankly. Feng said uncertainly, "It's dinner time now. Can you smell the food from the Golden Pheasant Tribe?"
Linni put the chicken leg down: "Yes! That's the taste of food!"
She remembered! She smelled the aroma of rice! More than three hundred days! She hadn't eaten rice for over a year, and now she could actually smell it! Lin Ni left the tree hollow and went outside. The aroma of rice was even stronger, filling the air with its fragrance. She didn't know where to look for it.
Several companions followed them out, and Yao said, "Shall we go and take a look at the tree hollow of Changchun, the chief of the Golden Pheasant Tribe?"
“Okay!” Lin Ni nodded.
Yan and Bai stayed behind to guard the tree hollow, while Yao, Feng, and Ye accompanied Lin Ni as they walked toward Da Chun's tree hollow.
As Ye walked along, she said, "I can smell them cooking rice."
"Grain rice, that must be rice." The group arrived at Dachun's tree hollow, and Dachun and his companions came out: "Feng, what's the matter?"
Feng said directly, "We want to see the food from your Wanrenshi Cliff. We've never smelled this kind of food in our towering mountains."
Da Chun made way for Lin Ni and the other three to enter his tree hollow. Inside, a middle-aged female pheasant and eight males sat together eating. Besides a pot of rice, there was a large pot of sorghum porridge, and next to it was a pile of sliced wild boar meat. They were eating the raw wild boar meat with the sorghum porridge, except for the female who ate white rice. The white rice grains were about the size of olives, and they were using wooden bowls and spoons—not stone pots, but earthenware pots! Lin Ni's first thought was: While the towering mountains were still in the primitive Stone Age, had this area of the towering cliffs already evolved to slash-and-burn agriculture?
Da Chun and his female partner explained the purpose of Feng and the others' visit. Da Chun's female partner smiled and said to Lin Ni, "Hello, little female, would you like to try our rice? It smells delicious!"
Linni smiled and said, "Hello! My name is Lin. May I see what these grains look like when they're not fully cooked?"