Chapter 349: Self-Reliant Little Gray

After Ning Xiyue and her sister walked to the main road, they got on their bicycles, pedaled frantically, and returned to the Youth League Institute as quickly as possible.

When they returned, there were only a brother and sister in the Youth League Home, which made it convenient for them to stew the chicken.

Back in the kitchen, Ning Xiyue fed the fainted rabbit the antidote. Only a lively and energetic rabbit would taste fresh and tender.

I found a large basket to cover the rabbit next to the chicken coop, and put enough rabbit grass in its nest.

Ning Xiyue took a look and thought that with the rabbit's strength, it would easily overturn the basket and escape. She looked around and her eyes fell on a large rock in the corner of the chicken coop.

Tear down the east wall to repair the west wall, and temporarily use the stone that is pressing down the chicken coop.

Once the stone was pressed down, the rabbit could no longer escape.

Ning Qingyuan couldn't bear to see the rabbit that he had exchanged for two scratches on his bicycle have any chance of escaping, so he found a hemp rope and tied one of the rabbit's hind legs together, and then tied the other end to the basket. Everything was ready, and he just had to wait until tomorrow to come back and kill the rabbit and roast it whole.

The next step is to work hard for the chicken.

Ning Xiyue lit the fire, washed the pot and prepared rice, while Ning Qingyuan washed the morels and chopped chicken into pieces, and started stewing pheasant and mushrooms in an iron pot.

The fragrant pheasant was stewed in the pot. When it was simmering on low heat, Ning Xiyue and Ning Qingyuan sat in the kitchen, watching the fire and the pot, while washing the remaining morels and taking them outside to dry in the sun.

This pot of chicken was simmered over low heat from four o'clock to seven o'clock. In the end, only one-fourth of the soup was left in the large iron pot.

The excess fat and foam are all skimmed off during the cooking process, and what's left in the pot is the concentrated essence of the chicken and mushrooms.

Ning Xiyue opened the lid of the pot, and a fresh and fragrant aroma accompanied by the steaming hot air wafted into her nose.

"Brother, come and taste it, it smells so good."

Ning Xiyue took out two bowls and scooped two bowls of soup.

“Here I come.”

Ning Qingyuan, who had already smelled the fragrance, brought the rice to the table and turned to run towards the bowl of chicken soup.

Ning Xiyue was not afraid of the heat and blew on the soup while drinking it. The rich chicken soup was mixed with the fresh flavor of morels. It didn't taste greasy at all, but fragrant.

"This is the best chicken soup I've ever had. It's different when you make it yourself."

Ning Qingyuan took a few sips of the soup and nodded in agreement: "Well, this is also the best chicken soup I have ever tasted. It's not a waste of our entire afternoon."

"Let's go, dinner."

Ning Xiyue took out a large bowl to hold the chicken. After filling the bowl, there was still half of it left in the pot. She decisively covered the pot and scooped out more after she finished eating. If she couldn't finish it, she would save it for chicken noodle soup tomorrow morning.

The essence of the chicken was cooked into the soup, so there was very little flavor left.

But don't be afraid, Ning Xiyue took out a can of meat sauce and used it as a dipping sauce. With the dipping sauce, the chicken instantly became more delicious.

It tastes delicious when eaten with rice.

The two siblings looked very satisfied while eating. Even Xiao Hui, who had gone to the mountain to find a date, came back after smelling the food.

It ran in and walked around the table, wagging its tail happily. Its eyes sometimes fell on the table, sometimes on the brother and sister, and it swept their eyes with its tail to please them.

Ning Xiyue looked at the little grey boy sitting at her feet waiting to be fed, and said with a smile, "Hey, my little grey boy is back from dating someone, he wants to eat chicken, wait for your sister to scoop it for you."

"I haven't seen Xiao Hui for many days. He came back on a lucky day today." Ning Qingyuan picked up a piece of meat and threw it into Xiao Hui's mouth.

"It means our little gray is lucky too."

Ning Xiyue turned around and took a large bowl, put half a bowl of chicken and half a bowl of rice in it, soaked them together and mixed them.

Then rinse the small gray bowl in the corner and pour it in.

While she was scooping, Xiao Hui followed behind her and waited.

"Let it cool down. Today's food is delicious. Eat more. If you don't have enough, I'll make more for you."

Ning Xiyue put the bowl on the ground so that Xiao Hui could eat it.

She washed her hands and continued eating her own.

Xiao Hui next to him was also slowly eating the rice and chicken in the bowl.

After eating half

It stopped, barked twice, and then ran out with the bowl in its mouth.

"Hey, where is this little gray going?"

Ning Qingyuan chased after him.

"Brother, don't worry about it. It must be sent to its partner. It will bring the bowl back by itself after it finishes eating."

Sure enough, Ning Qingyuan saw Xiao Hui holding a bowl and running quickly up the mountain.

"Sister, you are right. This little gray boy ran to the mountain."

Ning Qingyuan shook his head helplessly and sat back in his seat to eat chicken.

After cleaning the kitchen and personal hygiene in the evening, Ning Xiyue was closing the kitchen door when Xiao Hui came running back.

Ning Qingyuan's eyes widened, he pulled Ning Xiyue's arm, and whispered, "Little sister, look at Xiao Hui."

"What's the matter?"

Ning Xiyue turned around curiously, looked at Xiao Hui who was walking towards her, and let out a small exclamation.

"Wow, Xiao Hui is making a living based on his own strength. Are there two pheasants in his mouth?"

"It looks like it is. Look at the two chicken heads drooping beside its mouth. It seems that today's chicken is so delicious that it knows that I have come back to look for food."

Ning Qingyuan looked pleased, feeling a sense of joy and pride that his children had grown up.

Xiao Hui ran to the door in a few steps, spit out the two chicken necks from his mouth, and dropped the two chickens at the feet of Ning Xiyue and Ning Qingyuan. Xiao Hui happily growled at them twice, wagged his tail wildly, and even dug at the two chickens lying on the ground with one of his front paws.

Ning Xiyue looked at Xiao Hui and asked tentatively: "Shall we cook it for you?"

“Ahhh.”

Little Gray wagged his tail and howled softly to show his affirmation.

Ning Xiyue pointed at the two chickens and continued asking questions.

"One for you and one for us?"

“Oh.”

"Okay, I'll cook for you tomorrow." Ning Xiyue touched its head happily.

"I'll take care of it."

When Ning Qingyuan heard this, he quickly said, bent down, picked up the two chickens on the ground, put them in a wooden barrel and took them to the kitchen.

Go in and boil water to prepare the chicken.

Ning Xiyue continued to ask Xiao Hui, gesturing as she asked: "Where's your bowl? You can't eat without a bowl."

Little Gray understood and ran towards the mountain. After a while, he came back with his big bowl in his mouth. There was a half-red peach in the bowl.

Ning Xiyue picked up the peaches in the bowl and looked at them. "Xiao Hui, where did you pick these peaches? They are so red so early. Take me to see them tomorrow. You can eat these peaches by yourself."

Xiao Hui took the bowl back to its place and put it away. He then lay down beside the nest, holding the peach with his paw and slowly chewing it.

Ning Qingyuan was sitting on the side pulling chicken feathers. Seeing this, he smiled and praised.

"Our Xiao Hui is quite capable. He caught two pheasants and picked an early peach. He knows how to be self-reliant. That's great. Thanks to Xiao Hui, we can have stewed chicken tomorrow. We will have to pick less morels today."

"It's okay. There are still a lot of morels left. Let's go to the mountain to find some more when we have time."

Ning Xiyue brought a stool and sat over, helping to process the chicken.

While the other people in the Youth League compound were sitting on the kang reading, studying or sleeping, Ning Xiyue and her brother were the only ones happily preparing the chicken in the kitchen.

The next morning, Ning Xiyue followed Xiao Hui up the mountain and found the peach tree.

The location was quite secluded, hidden in the low bushes. If Xiao Hui hadn't led her in, she wouldn't have found it.

No wonder Xiao Hui was able to get a red peach, this tree had never been discovered by anyone.

There are many peaches on the tree. They are small and hairy. Only one peach on the tree has turned red, while the others are still green and hairy. It will probably take more than half a month for them to turn red.

There are some small peach saplings under the tree.

Ning Xiyue picked the only red peach.

He took out a hoe from the space, dug up a peach sapling and transplanted it into the space.

After digging, Ning Xiyue crawled out the same way she came, covering up her crawling traces and waiting until the peaches turned red before picking them again.

While digging through the haystack, she also saw a few Chinese angelica seedlings, so she dug them up and planted them.

Since we were already in the mountain, we were not in a hurry to go back. We took the small hoe and dug some herbs along the way.

Every time she dug up a medicinal herb that was not in the space, she would plant one in the space.

Finally, she filled most of the backpack she brought with various medicinal herbs, leaving a little space for mushrooms, and then she stopped and prepared to go back.

"Little Gray."

Looking back, I found that Xiao Hui had left to play at some point and there was no trace of him nearby.

The mountain was Xiaohui’s world, and Ning Xiyue was too lazy to care about it, so she went straight back with the backpack on her back.

Who knew that when the chicken soup was just served on the table at lunch time, Xiao Hui came back, and this time he brought them gifts.