Chapter 236: Men Remain Boys Until Death!
After finishing the forging techniques, Lin Ye continued to read.
The forging techniques only recorded the methods for making various weapons and tools.
In other words, it just taught you how to be a blacksmith.
However, it did not include the method for smelting iron; only the means of forging.
Lin Ye then went through the items one by one.
All sorts of knowledge appeared before Lin Ye.
At the end, Lin Ye spotted a book with a green cover, different from the pale yellow ones he had seen before.
Lin Ye curiously focused his gaze on it.
[Dwarven Forging Techniques]
Upon seeing the information for this book, Lin Ye froze.
After a moment, he swallowed and a look of ecstasy appeared on his face.
On his previous planet, Earth, regardless of whether it was in movies, TV shows, games, or novels, dwarves were known not only for their height but also for their exceptional forging skills.
It could be said that dwarves were synonymous with exquisite weapons.
Looking at the Dwarven Forging Techniques, Lin Ye couldn’t stop smiling.
Without a second thought, he discarded the general forging techniques he had just seen.
He then looked at the exchange price for the Dwarven Forging Techniques.
When he saw the price of 100,000 exchange points, Lin Ye’s eyebrows furrowed slightly.
But it quickly relaxed.
Lin Ye could afford 100,000 points.
A single compass had previously yielded 250,000 points.
However, like the regular forging techniques, the Dwarven Forging Techniques only covered blacksmithing and not the technology for smelting steel.
So Lin Ye continued to look.
He looked through all the book items.
Finally, he chose the simplest iron smelting technique.
Lin Ye had already decided to exchange for the Dwarven Forging Techniques.
The only requirement for iron smelting was the ability to produce iron ingots.
And the simplest iron smelting technique could perfectly meet this requirement.
The Dwarven Forging Techniques cost 100,000 points, while the iron smelting technique only required 20,000 points.
After exchanging for both items, a vast amount of knowledge flooded into Lin Ye’s mind.
Another benefit of this type of item was that when the system imparted the knowledge, it also transferred decades of experience to Lin Ye.
This allowed Lin Ye to instantly become a highly skilled blacksmith.
Lin Ye organized all the knowledge.
He quickly sorted out the technique for smelting steel.
The Dwarven Forging Techniques were not as simple.
The forging methods for various weapons and tools were all different.
And it wasn’t just weapons; Lin Ye saw that the Dwarven Forging Techniques could even create armor.
At this point, Lin Ye saw the method for making a thousand-refined iron bow.
He saw that the dwarves used thousand-refined iron, hammered countless times, as the bowstring.
Finally, after finishing the organization, Lin Ye opened his eyes again.
He found that the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls had finished grinding the wheat.
Now, each of their small faces had patches of flour on them, and their bodies were covered in white flour.
After they had finished grinding, the Unicorn was wagging its tail, glaring at three Wolf Cubs.
The Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls were watching Sakura and Diona, laughing heartily.
Sakura, thinking it was delicious, had directly scooped up a handful of flour and stuffed it into her mouth.
But the consequences of eating unprocessed flour were as expected.
Sakura choked and spat it out.
Diona was standing in front of Sakura and was directly sprayed in the face, turning her entire face snow-white.
Lin Ye saw one of them coughing incessantly and spitting out flour, while the other was covered in flour, her face looking like that of a Kabuki actor, with two streams of white smoke coming out of her nose.
Seeing their predicament, Lin Ye burst out laughing. “Hahahaha!!!”
“Shi, take them to wash up. Don’t let them stay here,” Lin Ye said to Shi after laughing for a while.
Shi quickly took the hands of the two cat-eared little girls and ran towards the water pipe.
Everyone watched with smiles as the three of them walked away.
The remaining Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls then turned to look at Lin Ye.
Ling swallowed a mouthful of saliva and asked Lin Ye, “Ye, the flour… the flour is all ground.” “But how do we eat it to make it delicious?” Ling asked, swallowing her saliva.
Ling had firmly remembered Lin Ye’s earlier statement that wheat was delicious.
And with Ling’s reminder, all the other Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls also remembered.
They all looked at Lin Ye with expectant eyes.
Seeing them like this, Lin Ye couldn’t help but laugh a few more times.
He then said to the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls, “Go to the cave and get some dried mushrooms and bamboo shoots.” “Also get some salt and Sichuan peppercorns, but no chili peppers!” “And get a few pieces of dried meat that are all fat.” “Also, get five pottery pots and a few potatoes.”
“Oh, and someone go find some bird eggs, big ones.”
With each instruction, some of the Winged Girls flew off to retrieve the items Lin Ye had requested.
After speaking, Lin Ye led the remaining Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls towards the open space.
With only the limited seasonings and food available in the tribe, Lin Ye planned to make Gnocchi Soup.
The Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls had excited expressions on their faces. They followed Lin Ye to the open space, and the Winged Girls who had gone to the cave also flew back.
“Two people, go get two buckets of water, well water.” “Light the fire and set up the stove.”
Upon arriving at the open space, Lin Ye said to the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls.
Immediately, two Winged Girls took off to fetch water.
The Beast-eared Girls began to gather firewood and set up the stove.
At this moment, Shi returned with the washed Sakura and Diona.
As soon as they returned, Sakura and Diona exclaimed in shock to the others.
“You guys know? As soon as this flour touches water, it becomes a very sticky thing that won’t come off your hands!” Sakura said to the other Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls in shock.
Diona nodded continuously from behind, saying, “It’s true, it got all over my face just now, it was so scary!” Shi watched the two cat-eared little girls with a helpless expression.
Thinking of their chaotic scene at the water pipe just now, Shi couldn’t help but cover his forehead.
When Lin Ye heard this, he smiled at the two little girls.
The other Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls, upon hearing this, also looked at the flour in the pottery pots with shock, wondering how this substance could change. Was it that magical?
At this time, the two Winged Girls who had fetched water flew back with a bucket of water.
The stove was also set up, and the fire below had already been lit.
The water was placed aside first.
In the expectant gazes of the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls, Lin Ye began to prepare the ingredients.
First, he soaked the mushrooms and bamboo shoots in a pot of water.
Then, he peeled the potatoes, washed them, and cut them into fingernail-sized pieces with a bone knife.
After cutting just one potato, Lin Ye had the Beast-eared Girls take over the task of cutting the potatoes.
Next, Lin Ye used the bone knife to shave the lean meat off the pieces of dried meat.
Then, he cut the fatty meat into strips, the size of braised pork.
The pottery pot was heated on the stove, and the fatty meat cubes were placed into the pot to render pork lard. “Ssss~~!”
With the sound of the fatty meat hitting the bottom of the pot, Lin Ye stirred the fatty meat in the pottery pot with two long chopsticks whittled from branches.
After a while, Lin Ye saw that a good amount of pork lard had been rendered at the bottom of the pot.
He then removed all the fatty meat, placing it together with the lean meat he had just cut.
He took the pottery pot containing the pork lard off the stove.
Lin Ye then cut the rehydrated mushrooms and bamboo shoots into small diced pieces, the size of corn kernels.
Then, Lin Ye began to chop the fatty and lean meat, just like chopping filling for dumplings.
The Beast-eared Girls had also finished cutting the potatoes.
After checking everything, Lin Ye placed the pottery pot with the pork lard back on the fire.
After all these preparatory steps were completed, the sun had already begun to set.
As soon as the pottery pot was placed on the fire, it began to bubble.
Seeing this, Lin Ye threw in the Sichuan peppercorns first.
Then he began to stir with the long chopsticks.
The fragrance quickly spread.
The Beast-eared Girls, smelling the aroma, crowded around the pottery pot.
Lin Ye, however, kept his distance, stirring the pottery pot with two long chopsticks.
Even though Lin Ye could now kill a black bear, when it came to cooking, he was still afraid of being splashed by oil.
It was like men remain boys until death, something etched into their DNA.
