328 The Lew Family Harvest Festival, Again ③ - The Beginning of the Feast

Before the light burning ritual fire, Mother Meer Ray and Grandmother Ziba, accompanied by Vina-Lou, stood.

On its dead branch-like fingertips is a grass crown of blessings purified with vanilla smoke.

As more than a hundred families watched, it was Ziza-Lou who was drooling his head in front of Grandma Ziva.

Ziza-Lou beat Mida, and Gazran Rutim beat Rudd-Lou - so that the final match against the power that your father could not take part in was executed by his sons, and Ziza-Lou won.

"... and bless Giza-Lou, the eldest brother of the house of Lou, who left another hunter and showed his strong soul in the woods..."

When the grass crown of blessings was dedicated to Ziza-Lou from Grandma Ziva's hand, more than a hundred of her compatriots cheered like rocking the heavens and the earth.

Giza-Lou stands up and responds to that blessing with a soft look as usual.

So Ziza-Lou went up on a yara built behind him, and Grandma Ziba slowly retreated.

On behalf of both of those names, Donda-Lou, who hung his right arm, stands before the ritual fire.

"Now we begin the harvest feast! O family of Lew, give thanks to the forest, and make its grace your own flesh!

Another big cheer.

A tremendous amount of enthusiasm and vitality swirl around in the squares lit by a number of burning flames.

People offered their words of gratitude to the forest as they shook up the earthen bottle of fruit liquor.

It is the beginning of the feast.

"Okay, then you're going to cut more and more meat."

The "Gibba's Round Grill", which had been on fire as long as it had been attached, had been moved over a slab laid with Gonumoki leaves.

Because there is no table, it is a great place of cloth. On my knees there, I took away the iron skewer and the meat cutter in front of the meat chunks that were freshening hot air.

In the square, the food was prepared in the same way everywhere, and apart from that, the cloth was laid so that people could calm their hips. By the dishes are loaded with wooden dishes, like mountains, so that every dish can be divided into your favorite dishes.

Fortunately, at the same time as the feast began, a lot of people came to me and killed me.

Again, the one called 'Giva's Round Grill' would have a huge visual impact. It is baked in dark brown, and not a single shrunk gibbon is placed on the board with the dendrimer. Young children in particular and many others were gathered with their eyes sparkling with curiosity.

To make sure the fire is going through properly, there are already some cleavages in Giva's back. Now I put a knife in it to be perpendicular to it, and I cut the loin off my back first.

The skin on the surface, which has completely lost moisture, cuts along with the sakurakuri and light tones.

The thick fat between the skin and the meat also loses water and fat, resulting in a gelatinous texture.

Sleeping meat underneath is also moist and soft.

It has an exceptionally soft texture than normally roasted meat.

Forestside hunters don't want any softness or anything like that in their meat, but they can still convey something called the unique delicacy of grilled meat.

I switched the meat into large, square pieces onto a wood dish offered by Barsha.

"Then this is to Donda-Lou, the chief, and this is to Giza-Lou, who won by comparison of powers"

"Yes," he nodded safely, and Barsha walked away just like Yara.

On the side, I laughed at the kids.

"Thank you for waiting. Then I'll cut everyone's share."

"Wow!" raises the voices the children have haunted.

The rest was already even a cut of meat.

Cut meat off my legs and buttocks as well as my back. It is a lump of meat that has just been gutted out, but the stiff muscles are also softer, and the meat is then removed from the bone, so there is no other trick besides thoughts. People come hiatus, so they also lose 30 kilos of discerning meat within sight.

"If you can enjoy the flavor as it is, try this seasoning as well"

As I said, I let the cut meat be seasoned.

One is a sweet spicy sauce based on tau oil, sugar and fruit liquor, the other is a pong vinegar broth based on seal fruit and mammalian vinegar and tau oil.

I entrust Momo and Rose with those seasoned dishes, also to Barsha. Giza-Lou has been unable to move for some time, and Donda-Lou didn't seem to move out of his seat, so he needed to be fed this way.

"Oh, dusty and this isn't delicious. How can it be better than normally cooked meat?

A bunch of Lou's branch women, who know their faces but don't know their names, laughed at them that way.

"It's definitely a strange story, isn't it," he said, putting one piece of meat on the wood dish offered by Ey-Fa, while making me smile back, too.

"The only difference is the length of time you put the heat through. This softness and flavor is created by cooking it carefully."

Loss of water and fat has created a different texture than just baking it. Besides, the flavor will be concentrated in a pinch. Furthermore, it can taste all parts of the body at once. This was the flavor of the whole grill.

Though I prepared sauces and pong vinegar, it would be as delicious as it was unnecessary. And this dynamic look is only deserving of a feast. It should also be in keeping with the culture of the forest people, who have the idea of incorporating the power of Gibba into us. Such spiritual action must also lead to an effect that enhances the taste.

After more than a dozen minutes of that, the shadows were finally sparse.

Guys, would you have gone at least one bite at a time? Giva is already half-boned.

"Ai-fa's just this guy's stuffing, too. Then it won't be enough, will it? I'm fine on my own here, so why don't you try some other dishes?

"You still can't move?

"Yeah. It'll be hard for us to separate this ourselves, so I thought we'd clean it all up and then enjoy the rest of the dishes."

"Then I can do it too"

Ai-fa, whose chest was secured by a bandage, could not break his posture, so he was pinching his spine down on the cloth. He is truly Rin, with his hands on both knees.

"You don't have to worry about anything, do you? Because of that, Grandma Ziva's coming out."

"I could even exchange words with the Ziva woman during the day.... and I'm not so hungry because I'm not doing my giva hunting job right now."

"Oh, really? You eat a lot at Fa's house."

"I need a meal to heal my wounds. But just when I've been stuck at home for half a month, it makes me wonder if I don't need this kind of meal"

That was a very sad statement, but I don't even know what it feels like to be an eye-fa. When I injured my left arm, I was ai-fa trained not to lose any other area, but now that I have broken my ribs, even that training is considerably restricted. Considering the amount of exercise until then, there was no way to make the food thinner.

"Even if I keep eating at the same rate, I get extra meat on me. Behold, would that still be obvious at this point?

"Yeah? Am I?

I didn't feel any sign of that at all, so I seriously stared at Ai-Fa.

Wherever you look at it, it's a supple limb as before. Sleek, limp, wasted meat and more nowhere to be found. It is a finished flesh as a hunter of women, graceful and powerful, which only Ai-Fa possesses.

When I thought, for example, I was suddenly slapped in the face with my hands flat.

"Uggu," he glanced and then glanced back at him, somehow Ai-Fa is blushing and cat's eyes are on him.

"... don't hesitate to look at people"

"That's irrational. I just saw it because you told me to look."

"Obnoxious," Ai-Fa turns that way.

I was also followed and my pulse was about to rise, so I decided to resume the work I had been interrupting.

There, Rimi-Lou rushes over.

"Um? Are you still doing this? Everybody's taking turns eating this one. Okay?

"Yeah, it's a task I have to train myself. I can't let anybody else do this."

"Oh well. Then give Limi another sip, too? Tali-Luu brought it to me earlier, but it was sooo yummy!

"That's good. Now I'm gonna give you a spot where you don't get a chance to eat."

As I said, I sliced Giva's face off her skull.

I usually peel my fur off, so I hardly leave any edible areas on my face. Even now, it almost feels like cutting it off rather than peeling it off.

However, beneath the crunchy, roasted skin is lurking a layer of elasticity that doesn't add anything to the fat content.

Unfortunately, my ears had burned a lot, but the skin on my face also seemed to have a texture close to that of Mimiger.

On the wood dish that Rimi-Lou brings, he loads the skin of his face, which has become like that sharpening.

Rimi-Lou carried it to his mouth as he tilted his little neck, but eventually let up a delightful look on its little side.

"You're so delicious with so much richness! Giva skin, I love the rims!

"Yeah, Giva's skin is delicious, isn't it? I don't usually get a chance to say it.... Ok, so now I'm going to kill my head too"

Dimension the head from the torso, peel off the flesh and skin to be peeled, then remove the mandible first. The tongue hidden in it was also baked white with a good heat through it.

It is a well-fed tan. Cut into any thickness that has not compromised this sense of volume, and arrange it on the leaves of the gonumoki so that anyone can take it.

Next thing I know, I'm gonna scratch my eyeballs and remove my brain from my skull as well.

It is unclear whether it will suit your mouth, but these are rare areas, so we decided to dedicate them to Donda-Lou and Giza -Lou with a few pieces of pong vinegar.

In the meantime, people were coming, so they also shredded the meat from the bones of the abrasives and feet, and offered the meat called meat. In less than half an hour's time, the 30-kilo-size giva was to become boneless without remaining.

"All right, we're done for today!

"What about that plate? Donda, if it was your father, would Limi take it for you?

"No, this is for Lem-Dom. What is it? I'm hiding so the Zazas won't find me.... Ai-Fa, this is the only one I want to deliver first, okay?

"Uhm."

That's how I took three people, Ai-Fa and Limi-Luu, to the promised place.

People enjoy the feast with the same vigour. Sliding between them, we turned to the back of the house where the Balshas lived.

"Oh, Ai-Fa, you're here too"

and a long shadow appears from beyond the darkness.

"The feast seems a lot more exciting. I think my stomach and back are already stuck."

"That was bad. I had a job, too.... Yes, just starve me with this one"

"Oh, it's just like this?

"When it comes to the Lou family meal, Donda-Lou gave me conditions. I know it's probably okay, but I was hoping I'd check it out before I carried the food."

While I handed Lem-Dom a wooden dish, I made him try to repeat the words from Donda-Lou.

"Before this purple moon is over, exchange words with Dom's parents.... If you can keep this promise, you can eat whatever you want."

"Yeah. Reconcile with Dick this month, that doesn't mean, does it?

"Yeah. Anyway, let's face each other once and see how you're feeling. I hear Donda-Lou isn't going to interfere with the Dom family's internal affairs, but I guess I don't agree that my family lives apart."

If you're a forest folk who weighs the edge of blood, that seems natural.

"Okay," Rem-Dom shrugs his shoulder.

"How dare I leave Dom's house near the second moon? In the meantime, I've been able to put so much effort into this, so it's time to get along."

"I wonder if Dick-Dom will hear Lem-Dom's wishes"

"I don't know. Well, if you can't, we can finally get rid of Mr. Dom."

To the words of Rem-dom, Ai-fa frowned all the time.

"Lem-Dom, if you mean abandoning your family, what are you going to be a hunter for? The hunter's doing his job for his family, above all else, right?

"Alas, even Ey-Fa did his job as a hunter after losing all his family, didn't he? Even if you don't have a family, you should be able to live your pride as a hunter."

After saying it in a strong tone, Rem-Dom can flatter his mouth all the time.

"I love Dick, too, and I care about the division and the families. Still, I want to live without killing my feelings. … If it is not forgiven, surely the forest will call my soul"

"Right," Ai-Fa shook her head.

"If you're ready to get that far, you can no longer stop. Live as you believe."

"Yeah, thanks.... I feel like I'm the first person in the world who's ever truly recognized my feelings."

Rem-dom smiled happily. It's not the usual cynical, colorful way to laugh, it's an innocent smile like a child.

but that smile freezes along the way.

Seeing it, Ai-Fa looked backwards in disgust.

"... you were hiding here, Lem-Dom"

Out of the shadow of the house, the idle figure of the women appears.

It is a sharp, eye-catching woman - Spira-Zaza - with long hair knitted into one threesome and draped on her right shoulder.

"I thought you would be stealing a comparison of the power of the hunter.... you've finally met me, Rem-Dom"

"S, Sphilla-Zaza......"

Rem-dom lags back as he says in an uphill voice.

This was the first time I had ever seen her lose me so much.

"Damn, someone named you......!

And, Sphilla-Zaza rushes over with a bullet-like momentum.

We walked barely in front of the three of us, and Sphilla-Zaza leaped to Rem-Dom.

"I can't believe the moon left Dom's house! How can you stay like that, without reversing the feelings of others!?

"Wow, hey... so don't shut up and watch, somebody help me!

Rem-dom turned like that, but he didn't feel more malicious about Sphyla-Zaza.

No, on the contrary of malice, she took it to Lem-Dom's chest and eventually began to cry hard.

"I can't believe how worried we are... that we want to abandon our lives as women and live as hunters... that I can never stand it..."

"Hey, why do I have to cry to you! Let go, Sphilla-Zaza!

Sufila-Zaza shakes her head to do no, hugging Rem-dom's body.

It should also have been easy to escape forcefully if Lem-Dom, but instead she looked up to heaven with a bewildered look and sighed deeply.

Often I stare at the sight, and then I pull Ai-Fa's hips when Limi-Luu is difficult.

"Hey, Limi, I'm hungry again -"

"Right. Shall we return to the feast?"

"Ai-Fa! Are you going to abandon me!?

"There is no abandonment or snagging. It will also be a test for you to live as you wish, Lem-Dom."

"Lovers!" and left the twitchy Rem-dom and Sphilla-Zaza on the spot, and we were to return to the square.

I don't have anything to be sorry for, but I guess it's not even a story about people in the spare house being able to talk. As Ai-Fa put it, Lem-Dom can hardly go down the path he believes in unless he can convince his family and family.

"That's all I have a family that thinks of me. Isn't that a happy story"

"That's right. I think Sphyla-Zaza is very emotional!

So me and I-Fa finally decided to have a treat for the Lew family.

I don't have a single hand, it's a heart-building dish served only by the Lew family and their families.

As we approached the closest gathering, the people of the Rutim family were bickering around the iron pot warmed by a rush of tears.

"Oh, isn't that Asta and Ai-Fa! You didn't see him in a whisper! The meat was delicious again!

Dan-Rutim should have been fed by Ama Min-Rutim's hand with abalone meat that he didn't dare remove from his bones.

On the spot, not only Gazran-Rutim and Ama Min-Rutim, but also Ra-Rutim and the crackling Morn-Rutim, were crowded with people from the Rutim main house.

"It's a hiccup, Asta. This is a juice dish, would you like to have it?

"Thank you, Morn-Rutim. I'll make sure you get it."

This was an exclusive stew developed by Raina-Lou and Sheila-Lou.

Once the giva loin is teriyaki, it is simmered in the soup of the tarapa main body. I guess the soup is also based on what I once made, but now it has a completely different flavor.

The ingredients used are tarapa, aria and myrmu, along with sugar, fruit liquor, pico leaves and chit fruit, and even various herbs, to give it a taste like an intermediate between Italian and Ethnic.

The balance between acidity, sweetness and spiciness is perfect, and thickening is added there with poitan. Besides, you can't take the stock of giva meat just by teriyaki, so you can throw giva meat from all kinds of chopped areas.

And the pivotal giva teriyaki is cooked in a sauce with tau oil and panam nectar, from which the melted flavour will give depth to this dish again. I have the impression that if I take a step back, I am stuck on the line of the cliff where it is likely to taste as complex as the dishes in Castle Town. Whatever it is, I'm pretty sure the encounter with Varcus affected the Raina-Lou guys.

In addition to the classic aria and Tino and Nenon, the ingredients are also used, such as Rohyoy like Luccola, Ma Pra like Paprika and Chan like Zucchini.

Raina-Lou and the others had planned to put this up for sale in 'Giva's Mothpot' and rotation from the day after tomorrow. To that end, it also responds to Polearth's request to "use ingredients from Castle Town to make them known for their flavors".

While I use so many ingredients, I haven't bumped the flavor at all. But Rayna-Lew and the others should have started drilling for this dish from the time they met Mim, so thinking about it would have taken them two months to pursue the flavor.

Yes, so I'm sure it's strongly influenced by Mim and Michelle's creed that we can harness the flavour of ingredients. I even got the impression that the shock I got from Varcus and the shock I got from Mim was at best in this pan as it was.

Perhaps the woodland women, who were underdeveloped in food culture, are more absorbent when sponged than people with another foundation, like me.

Even though it was still a trial and error phase, it made me feel such a strong willingness and challenging spirit, this was the work of the Raina-Lou's.

"This is great food, isn't it? It feels like we're using so many ingredients that we're not familiar with, but they give us so much strength."

Ama Min-Rutim said so.

Even with the influence of Vulcus, the Raina-Lou people probably have the idea of "for their fellow countrymen" at their forefront. That's why, using so many different ingredients, it doesn't have a very rushing flavour, it's somewhere gentle, and then it has a powerful flavour.

It may be difficult for other women to reproduce a dish so carefully calculated. In that sense, I didn't know if I could call this "cooking by the woods," but it was definitely "cooking by Raina-Lou and Sheila-Lou".

"While I was away from the settlement, the Raina-Lou's got their arms up a lot, didn't they? I was amazed from the bottom of my heart."

Morn-Rutim is also smiling with pleasure.

I haven't been able to reunite with my family in a month and she looked so happy.

Not to mention Dan-Rutim and others, and Ra-Rutim, an elder who has always faced tough, also feels a lot more serene than usual.

"Gazran-Rutim, I was to be amazed at your growth"

and after a while of ridiculing the faces of the Rutim family, eventually, even rarely, Ai-Fa raised such a voice.

"In just a few months, you'll be able to do so much. The fold of the last harvest festival was as if it were someone else"

"But still, it didn't reach Giza-Lou"

Gazran-Rutim replies as he smiles quietly.

"I think I've been able to do the best I've ever done, too, but Ziza-Lou was reaching even higher heights. It's probably the first time I've felt so sorry for myself for losing in comparison to power."

"That's the only thing! All this time, Giza-Lou would have been in an unbeatable position too!

And, with the earthen bottle of fruit liquor in one hand, Dan-Rutim says delightfully.

"This time, Donda-Lou couldn't compete! In that, Ziza-Lou, who is ordained the next generation of parents, probably was in the mood for no one in his family to lose. The Lew family is a parent muscle, and they have now become a chieftaincy muscle, so even more so!

"So you're saying that Ziza-Lou, like me, could have given more strength than ever due to the absence of a strong father"

"Naturally! And Gazlan would have been prepared to do the same, but Ziza-Lou had been more prepared than that. Only a slight difference in readiness would have made the battle that Parental Luu cannot show weakness to Child Lutim!

Laughing, Dan-Rutim banged his loving back.

"But that was a bloody battle! I'm just as proud of having a son like you and a strong parent like the Lew family! What, I can make out with Jizza-Lu as much as I want from now on, so sooner or later I can clear up my mouth!

Either Donda-Lou or Dan-Lutim will pull themselves completely out of the hunter's work, and Ziza-Lou and Gazran-Lutim and others will lead the clan.

Even if it is five or ten years from now, the day is bound to come.

It was even hard for me to imagine at all, but maybe Dan-Rutim, who had left the seat of his parents, and Gazran-Rutim, who had inherited it, had a more realistic sense of such a future.

I wonder with what thoughts Donda-Lou or Giza -Lou are having this time.

We greeted the people of the Rutim family and decided to leave the place in search of further food and interaction with them.