Bai Guoguo used a wooden stick to pull the mud lumps out of the fire, and used the stick to pry open the yellow mud shell that wrapped around one of the beggar's chickens.

With two popping sounds, the mud cracked open, revealing the yellow wild taro leaves inside.

She carefully used a small wooden stick as chopsticks to push aside the leaves, revealing the golden roasted pheasant inside.

The air was filled with the rich aroma of chicken, mushrooms, and wild vegetables, making Bai Guoguo and the five children drool.

"Children, come here, the pheasant is roasted, and I'll share some with you!"

Bai Guoguo took a deep breath, and her nose was filled with the aroma of roasted pheasant. She opened her eyes and waved happily to the children, asking them to come over and eat the roasted pheasant.

"Sister, meat is precious. Just give us some of the wild vegetables from the chicken's stomach. You can keep the chicken for yourself!"

Yingzi swallowed, reluctant to take her eyes off the roast chicken. The adults in her family had taught her not to eat other people's food casually.

The other children were in a similar state. Although they kept swallowing their saliva, they still nodded their heads with difficulty to indicate that some wild vegetables were enough for them.

Bai Guoguo felt like something was choking her neck, which made her feel extremely pity for these sensible children.

If they hadn't suffered early on, who would be willing to be sensible at such a young age?

Take herself for example. If she had not suffered in an orphanage as a child, how would she have known the importance of earning money and becoming independent so early?

"Come here quickly. You guys also contributed to the pheasant we caught today. If you hadn't walked, I wouldn't have been able to find the pheasant. What's more, you guys helped a lot when I was roasting the chicken.

These are the fruits of our collective labor, I can't eat them all by myself. Come here, do you still consider me your friend?"

Bai Guoguo puffed up her cheeks and pretended to be a little angry. The other children looked at each other, and finally Hu Zi took the lead and walked over.

"Alright then, but we won't eat your flesh for nothing. We'll give you all the firewood we pick up later, and we'll help you find any wild vegetables you want. If you need anything in the future, come to us and we'll definitely help!"

Hu Zi patted his chest and promised like a little adult that he would help Bai Guoguo in the future.

Bai Guoguo was so cute that she held his little face with both hands and rubbed it for a while, and the shy little tiger hurriedly pulled her hands away.

"Sister Bai, how could you do this? Do you understand that men and women shouldn't be intimate with each other?"

Hu Zi's shy little face turned red, even his ears were red. He wondered how this beautiful sister could just rub a boy's face.

His second uncle has said that men and women should not touch each other. He is the little man of their family, how can he let a girl touch his face casually!

"Hahahahahaha, this is so funny. How old are you, little brat? You still can't touch men and women! Hahahahaha..."

Bai Guoguo laughed so hard at Hu Zi's amusement that even the birds in the bushes by the stream were startled and flew away!

"Sister Bai, how could you do this? You even laughed at me!"

Little Tiger was so angry that he jumped up and down when he saw Bai Guoguo holding his stomach and laughing so hard that he couldn't straighten his back.

"Huzi, you have come to this day too, hahahahahahaha..."

"Chuckle, chuckle, chuckle..."

Now even the other four children couldn't stop laughing.

Hu Zi became even angrier, his face turned red, his little mouth pouted, and he looked like he was about to cry.

Bai Guoguo saw that something was wrong and that the child was about to cry, so she hurried over and squatted in front of him to comfort him for a while.

After being flattered countless times and apologizing to his other friends, Little Tiger was finally willing to make peace.

After a small disturbance, Bai Guoguo brought five children, each of whom moved a small stone to make a bench, and started eating around the pheasant.

"Yingzi gets one chicken leg, Xiaolanhua gets one chicken leg, Gangdan gets one chicken leg, Xiaohuzi gets one chicken leg, and Tiedan and I each get two chicken wings. We'll divide the rest after we finish eating. Okay, fair and square, let's eat!"

After Bai Guoguo distributed the chicken to the children, she raised her chicken wings, clinked glasses with the children, and took the lead in eating the chicken with big mouthfuls.

The children followed her example, clinked their glasses together, and started to eat the pheasant with big mouthfuls.

"Sister Bai's chicken is really delicious. It's different from the one my second uncle makes. The chicken isn't overcooked at all."

Little Tiger was gnawing on a chicken leg, his mouth and face were greasy, and he kept praising Bai Guoguo's cooking skills.

The other four children also nodded their heads continuously. They had never eaten such delicious roasted pheasant.

The meat is smooth and tender, with the aroma of mushrooms, wild garlic and wild leeks. It is salty, fresh, sweet and fragrant.

Even the mushrooms and wild vegetables in the pheasant's stomach taste better than what we usually eat.

"The pheasant I roast has a special name called beggar's chicken. I rub the meat with salt and other wild herbs and spices, then seal it with mud. This prevents moisture from escaping during roasting, making the meat more tender!"

Bai Guoguo explained while eating that although this beggar's chicken had the simplest ingredients he had ever made, it was also the most fragrant.

In the past, when making beggar's chicken, people used farmed broiler chickens, which were not as delicious as pheasant's meat, and they did not use wild vegetables or real wild mushrooms.

All she could say was that each had its own flavor, but she felt that roasted pheasant was more delicious.

Thinking of this, she suddenly felt that traveling back to the 1970s was not a bad thing. At least she could eat a lot of authentic green foods.

After a busy morning, it was almost lunchtime and Bai Guoguo and the children were already starving.

The pheasants were not very big, only about one and a half pounds each. The two pheasants, plus the wild vegetables and wild mushrooms in their stomachs, were all eaten by the big and small family.

Even the chicken bones were eaten clean by the children, so that each of the six people could eat half full.

But it’s just right since the kids still have to go home for dinner.

After eating the pheasant, the children collected the bones and buried them in a small hole. They also put out the fire with stream water.

After burying the ashes and cleaning up the mess, the children dug up some wild vegetables for him and were lucky enough to find some wild wood ear mushrooms on a dead tree.

Bai Guoguo also picked up a few coconut mushrooms. It is still early spring and the mushrooms have not come out yet.

It is very lucky to be able to pick up these wild mushrooms.

It was already 12 o'clock, and the gong had been sounded at the foot of the mountain to notify people to get off work. Only then did the adult and five children walk towards the village.

The children dumped all the firewood they collected in front of the door of Bai Guoguo's house, and even left all the wild vegetables they picked to her.

Adding to the fish that Bai Guoguo had caught in the creek before and the remaining pheasant, she had a great harvest this morning.