Third person POV
Later, before lunch time, Nate was back at his tent reading a book on agriculture. Hale and Zeke are back at their tribes not too far away from Sati's.
"That's how you do it...," he commented to himself, before jotting down some notes on a scrap of cotton paper with his charcoal pencil.
His writing is legible, but his language's writing script couldn't be understood by the Undead animals.
Then, Sati and Laura came to his tent asking him to help them improve their tribe's agricultural sector.
"Sure, you're right in time," Nate answered back, before closing his book and put it aside.
He then grabbed another piece of blank paper and went outside with Sati and Laura to see his tribe's farms.
Then, with Sati directing him where are the tribe's major farms, they arrived at a plain full of farming fields, which consisted of wheat and barley, but the rate of success is very low despite how fertile the land was. The reason why is that most of Sati's tribespeople still didn't know how to farm for the most part.
"Woah, are those wheat or something?" Nate asked.
"Yes, but we do grow barley," Laura responded.
"But, we didn't do a good job on how to grow and cultivate them," Sati said to Nate.
Analyzing the problem, Nate decided to use his knowledge in agriculture to improve his new home's farmlands. So, he inspected the wheat plants first, then the barley plants second, before jotting down some notes. After that, he gives out some suggestions and tips on how to grow and take care of their crops properly so, when the harvest season comes, they would harvest them for food. He did this with demonstration so they would know how to do it themselves. Sati and his people get what he said and did, and some of them decided to try farming again. They luckily made some tools for that as well.
Once that was done, Nate turned to Sati and Laura and asked them if they had any harvested wheat from the previous month because he'll show them how to make bread.
"I think we had a small pile of it at our tent storage," answered Sati honestly, "and we grind some of them to make porridge, and to make what the humans called flour."
"Great!" Nate responded to this positively with optimism. "Let's use some of them to make bread."
They burrowed Nate's book of machines to make a grinding wheel for the flour, despite the fact that they don't understand the book's text script, but they did returned it prior to the day Nate woke up.
They also started to make simple furniture like tables and chairs, but they were rare due to the limited supply of wood cut by the nearby Undead cat tribe.
Sati and Laura didn't know what bread is, so they asked back, "What is that?"
"That's a common food we humans eat," Nate explained.
"Okay, so that was made from wheat?" Sati asked. Nate then nodded.
"Yes, let's do this."
And so, while some of the Undead lions cultivate the crops and the farmland, Nate, Sati, and Laura, alongside some of the tribespeople, went back to the settlement to make bread.
There at another tent, after gathering the ingredients needed for this simple recipe, they are now ready to make a simple whole wheat bread. The water Nate get is from a nearby river, but they didn't have any sugar yet.
"Okay, back at my former home," Nate said to them, "I used to read recipe books on pastries and other dishes peasants eat, as well some dishes only the rich can afford."
Then, Sati raised a question, "They had a social hierarchy?"
"Yes, and I opposed that," Nate answered back, "so in this tribe, there's no social hierarchy."
"I see."
"Yeah, but let's go back to this."
He showed a bowl of whole wheat flour and a bowl of water to them and said, "First, pour water into the whole wheat flour like this."
He then put the bowl of flour on the table and poured the water into it.
"Next, mix them up," Nate continued on as he grabbed a wooden spoon and stir the mixture up.
Once the simple dough come together, he took it out and placed it on the table and continued more, "Now, knead the dough for a little bit until it's strong enough to hold together more."
He then demonstrated by kneading the dough.
Despite the fact that he never went to school due to his family's pride of pure bloodline, he managed to learn most skills by reading books and observing his household staff doing their jobs in his former palatial home.
They watched his doing as if Nate was their teacher in cooking class.
Once the dough was kneaded, he turned to them and asked, "So, does any of you had a simple oven or something to cook with?"
To that, most of the tribespeople glanced at each other, and then, one of them responded, "I do have one near my tent."
"Oh, really?" replied Nate back. "You guys used an oven before?"
"No, we only learned to use one while you were in a coma," Sati responded.
"Okay then, how?" Nate asked in response. "You built one or something?"
"Yes, using one of your books," one of the tribespeople replied back. "Sorry, we didn't have your permission."
"It's okay," Nate replied, "doesn't matter at all. At least, you learned to make something you never seen before."
He then get the dough, put it in on a wooden plate, and said to them, "Show me where."
And so, they all went to that person's tent, where there is a simple oven made of bricks taken from an abandoned house far away.
Upon seeing that while carrying the plate of bread dough, Nate was very amazed by their fast skills in making and building.
"Wow, you guys learned so fast," he commented.
"Yes, we worked together to make that thing," Sati responded.
"Where did you get the mortar to glue the bricks?" Nate asked.
"We used tree sap and mixed them with water," another Undead lion, as a lion, replied, "and thus, it's glue to keep the bricks together."
"I see, that's amazing," Nate responded back.
He then walked up to the brick oven and checked if there is fire to bake the bread.
"Oh, there's fire," he commented, before looking at them. "What do you use it for?"
"Mostly for roasting animal meat as food," the owner of the oven answered. "We no longer hunt humans."
"Okay then," Nate responded.
He then glanced back at the oven and put the plate above it, before taking out the kneaded dough and said to them, "Now, put the dough into the oven for 15-20 minutes."
He then shoved the dough into the oven as the fire burns hot and bright inside, cooking the dough.
After that, he looked at them and said, "And then everyone, we'll wait until it became brown and cooked."
"Is that the normal cooking time for a bread?" Laura asked.
"Well, it varied by bread type," answered Nate. "What? There are many types of bread?" Sati replied back while being surprised.
"Yes, we had other types of bread," Nate explained, "but most of them are complex to make, so we'll focus on the simplest ones."
"I see," Sati replied.
Later, as the dough was being baked, Nate, Sati, Laura, and most of their people sat in the tent of the oven's owner, waiting for it to be fully cooked.
Meanwhile, at the Undead dragon tribe, Zeke was talking to his tribal leader, George, an old Undead dragon sage.
"So, you're saying you wanted to unite our tribe with that human's?" Zeke asked the old dragon, who was an old man.
"Yes, so we could fend off those pesky humans who hunts for our skin," replied George back, "together."
"I see, that'll be more beneficial," Zeke agreed with him. "I think he'll introduce more things that only humans have to our tribes."
"I think he will," George responded while putting a stick into the small campfire as a meat of a deer was being cooked on a stick.
"Okay, I'll be going to Nate after eating," Zeke replied while waiting for the deer meat to be fully cooked.