CH 16

Looking at Ruma’s frightened pale face, Qin Fei shook his head and couldn’t help but laugh, “Priest Ruma, don’t need to be so nervous! This kind of plant is quite good and edible.” f7bTRA

When Ruma heard that it was edible, his eyes widened in surprise, “Is it really edible? Isn’t it poisonous?”

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Qin Fei carefully dug out the taro with his bone knife, the size was as big as a head, he couldn’t accept it, it was bigger than a normal watermelon! He couldn’t help but be amazed and mutter in a small voice, ‘Weird continent, weird world, even the plants here change their seasonal growth. This taro can grow to be this big!’ He removed the mud from the taro, cut a small piece with his knife and stuck his tongue out to taste it. VMCmpD

The frightened Ruma tried to stop him but was half a step too slow, stamping his foot in irritation, “You, you, you, what if it’s poisonous?”

Qin Fei smacked his lips before then pointing at the taro that had been cut on the ground and said, “Priest Ruma, this is called Taro. It also has a little medicinal use. It is especially suitable for people who have poor health to eat it, but it is a little poisonous when it is raw. However, when it is cooked, it’s not poisonous anymore. Its juice tends to cause skin allergy or itching as you call it, but it can be relieved by rubbing it with the juice of the ginger. “

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Ruma stared at the large taro on the ground and then turned around to look at the large area of taro and blinked, “Oh my, so many taro, enough for us to eat it for a long time. I…I’ll go back and ask them to get more animal skin bags and take these taro back.”

Qin Fei pulled the anxious Ruma back and pointed to his bag of animal skins, “Grandpa Ruma, this bag may be big but it doesn’t seem able to hold two taro. Besides that, apart from the two bags we use, almost all of the bags are taken by the females who are responsible for gathering food.” YZyRdD

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Seeing that Ruma was somewhat depressed, Qin Fei said comfortingly, “Priest Ruma, please don’t be upset! I’ll think of another way out.” Iy3qBd

Ruma patted Qin Fei’s shoulder, “It’s because of you that we can find another source of food again, it’s even this big and this much food. I don’t even know how to thank you. Qin Fei, you don’t have to think of anything else, just wait until tomorrow when we all come here together to move the food.”

Qin Fei shook his head, “Priest Ruma, using the animal skin bags for carrying small fruits is still fine, but carrying something this big is obviously not suitable. Even if we use all the animal skin bags, we will have to make many trips just for the taro here. It would be better to have something that is easy to obtain, instead of the animal skin bag, so even if those things were damaged, it would be easy to make the new one. Like this, it would save more animal skins to use against the harsh winter.” LOsAxC

Hearing what he had said, Ruma kept nodding his head, “It would be great to have something like that. But where can we find the things that you’re talking about?”

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Qin Fei had long had the idea of making the backpack basket but he always didn’t find anything suitable. At this moment, he told Ruma his idea in a simple way, not only did he describe the use of the backpack basket but he also explained what kind of materials were needed to make them. e5aTfD

Pointing to some vines not far away, Ruma said, “In the mid-spring, in the dry season, the trees somewhat lack moisture and its branches are hard, so I’m afraid they don’t bend easily; however the vines are not affected. I wonder if the vines can be used?”

Qin Fei was suddenly enlightened. The vines were easily bent yet hard to break and difficult to set, but if he used thicker branches for the framework and weaved in it or inserted in between the framework with vines, he could make a backpack basket! nfxk7C

With that in mind, he cut some vines and branches with his knife. Sitting on the ground, he worked on it. In just twenty minutes, a large and crudely made big backpack basket was ready.

Ruma held the basket and grinning from ear to ear, “Good stuff, this is good stuff. Not only does it hold more than an animal skin bag, it’s also much stronger. It doesn’t look like it will be too difficult to make either and even if it breaks, you can make it again. Moreover, it will save a lot of animal skins.” As he said this, he put the basket on his back and tried it out, surprisingly it was so nice that he could not bear to take it off. frx5ZQ

Qin Fei smiled and suggested, “Priest Ruma, do you think that this is okay? You go back to the clan with this basket on your back first and call more tribe members to come here. I will knit the basket here so when you return here, I already made a few more.”

Hearing this, Ruma nodded to him several times. The mountains near the tribe were passed by the tribe members every day and there were no big beasts. However, Ruma still told Qin Fei to be careful before rushing back to the tribe with the backpack basket. QFCGw4

After sending Ruma away, Qin Fei cut some branches and vines and began to make the backpack basket. By the time Ruma returned with some of the tribe members, Qin Fei had already made eight large backpack baskets. 

Several clansmen with better physical strength put some of the large taro into the backpack baskets and went back to the clan first. The rest of them, under Qin Fei’s instruction and guidance, weave the baskets. t6QkIR

This kind of backpack baskets made of twigs and vines were crude and simple, so it wasn’t long before the rest of the group had finished making them one by one. Qin Fei and Ruma took the rest of the clansmen, filled the baskets and returned happily to their camp.

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It was the first time, those tribe members who stayed behind to take care of things had seen so much food, but some of them who knew about the toxicity of taro, were a bit timid. Qin Fei took the initiative to explain how to cook or prepare it before eating the taro and what to pay attention to. He also demonstrated how to use ginger to treat skin irritations if it was caused by the taro juice. fnMjyT

Knowing the benefits of taro and how to avoid that terrible itch, the people of the tribe were overjoyed and went to the river to wash the taro and prepare the sumptuous dinner. The children were salivating by Qin Fei’s talk of how delicious the taro was, while they were also busy collecting firewood. Qin Fei even promised Xiao Bu that he would make him some delicious taro cakes later. Xiao Bu jumped for joy and looked like a child as he should be. 

Qin Fei looked at the lively tribe and secretly said: ‘The ancestral motto of the Qin family is to heal the wounded and rescue the dying, by making no distinction between the senior and junior or superiors and inferiors.’ Then, by coming here, it would not be a bad thing if he could free more people from disease and hunger. Instead, if he stayed in the modern times, he wouldn’t really be of much use, apart from doing research and wasting his ancestral inheritance. When he thought about it, it seemed that it was right for him to come here. Perhaps it was really God who opened His eyes and favoured the Nata tribe. LZmRu7

He then looked at the friendly clansmen again, just like a family, attentive and taking good care of each other. Qin Fei felt that perhaps God was concerned about him, making ‘the all alone him’ to come to this hardship place yet it was full of compassion and warmth. 

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