Cooking with Wild Game, Volume 3 by EDA

Author:EDA [EDA]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2019-06-29T00:00:00+00:00

Intermission: An Unexpected Reunion

The remaining four days before the banquet flew by at an incredible speed.

While trying to develop my new menu all the while, I had to instruct the men on bloodletting and dissecting and the women on cooking techniques, and also work out the procedure for the day of the banquet. That made for some completely and utterly exhausting days.

But still, the men and women of the forest’s edge really were diligent and quick learners. I couldn’t just sum it up by saying they were highly skilled or good at swimming with the tide, but at any rate, they were all very serious about things. That must have been down to their work ethic, or perhaps their feelings towards their family.

At any rate, they were hard workers. For the sake of their families and to keep living on, they worked away without any complaints or grumbling. Rather than being cold like machines, it felt more like they were naturally giving their all to work as if it was the same as breathing, yet their emotions like joy and pain were still clearly present.

Should I just say that they were simply earnest, the way that the hunters of the forest’s edge saw working and living as directly tied together?

At any rate, it was a very favorable situation for me, and I thought of them as the perfect partners.

The women in particular warranted special mention.

From the second day of preparing onwards, several from the Ruu branch families hastened to join in, too. But even so, they were still incredibly busy. While the men were taking care of the hunting, a wooden stage and simple stoves needed to be constructed for the banquet, and the wood and stone for that needed to be collected, too. And by and large, that was all considered women’s work.

Their exhaustion had to be far beyond the norm, seeing how they had to fit in the lessons on cooking they had never seen before in the midst of all that backbreaking work. And traditionally, they would be done once they finished preparing the usual giba stew and grilled meat, as well as the basic meal preparations and securing of the firewood and ingredients, so I’m sure plenty of them must have thought I was just being a pain and needlessly increasing their workload.

But even so, once they tried out the steak and hamburgers, joy and surprise flashed over their faces, and afterwards they gleefully helped out.

We were able to dissect two or three bloodlet giba a day, so we got ahold of enough meat for the banquet in no time at all. And when we split up the excess meat to send to the five branch families afterwards, those girls shed tears of joy.

I already saw as much with the main Ruu house, but it seemed that women really did appreciate delicious food more than men.

Well, that wasn’t so strange, though. After all, it sure was a happy thing, bringing deeper joy and peace of mind to your family through your work.

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