"My wife is back! My wife is back!"

Dai Zi, a tiny bundle, climbed onto Xu Mi Lu like a clever little monkey, her chubby little hands outstretched as if wanting a hug, tears welling up in her eyes.

"Having been away from home for half a year, my wife must have forgotten about Dai Zi! Humph!"

"You're making that weird face again. Do you think I don't know that your tears are all made of dew?"

Xu Milu couldn't help but pinch Dai Zi's chubby cheeks and praised her with a light laugh:

“Your cultivation has progressed. In just a few months, you have already been able to break free of the wooden body and walk alone outside this small courtyard.”

—When Xu Milu didn’t see the wisteria tree in the backyard earlier, she had a vague idea of ​​what was going on.

If it were to follow the normal cultivation progress, Dai Zi would probably have to stay in the small courtyard for another hundred or eighty years to cultivate into human form, let alone take the original body with her to travel around.

The little sprite's face turned red with excitement, and his tears disappeared just as quickly; he was very clever.

“Since my wife is away, I sleep in that paulownia tree every day. Over time, thanks to my wife, I have shed my wooden roots and revealed my true form. From now on, wherever my wife goes, Dai Zi will be able to follow!”

"Why are you the only one at home? Where are Chenxiang and Moxuan?"

Xu Milu couldn't help but touch the little imp's braid at the back of her head affectionately and said, "You went to Sister Yin's house again to ask her to braid your hair, didn't you?"

"My lord has been staying at the estate outside the city these past few days, saying he wants to keep an eye on this batch of white berries before returning. Big Black Loach went to Dongting Lake a couple of days ago to celebrate his aunt's birthday and will be back in a couple of days."

Dai Zi replied earnestly, counting on her fingers:

“Dai Zi is very obedient. Every day, she follows her mother’s instructions and provides fresh fruits and vegetables to Grandpa Great Sage. Everything is done in season. On the first and fifteenth of each month, she offers incense and sacrifices to Buddha, the Clean Altar Messenger, and the Golden Arhat. She never dares to slack off for a single day.”

"Dai Zi is great! I'll take you out to play tomorrow! This is your sister A Qing, she's a good friend of mine from my diplomatic mission these days, and she'll be staying at the restaurant for a while."

Xu Milu didn't hold back her praise, giving Dai Zi a big kiss on the cheek. The little demon blushed instantly, snuggling into Xu Milu's arms and acting like a kitten.

"Wife, wife, give me another kiss, Dai Zi is such a good girl!"

Ah Qing watched with longing, saying, "Is this little baby your child? Let me hold him!"

Because she carries poison in her body, she cannot get close to people and usually keeps her distance.

Now that Xu Milu has a way to isolate the poison from her body, and seeing such a lovely doll as Dai Zi again, A Qing naturally felt maternal.

"I'm still a cub myself, how can I lay eggs?"

Xu Milu was both amused and exasperated, and quickly explained, "Dai Zi's original form was a wisteria flower fairy who had lived in this courtyard for a hundred years. She only took human form in the last few years and is still a little baby."

Dai Zi usually enjoyed being close to beautiful women. Seeing A Qing's stunningly beautiful face, which possessed a kind of bewitching beauty, she opened her arms and asked A Qing to hug her.

"Hello, Madam Aqing."

Aqing hugged the little bundle of flesh, feeling its weight in her arms, and happily pretended to pluck fur from her body for Daizi:

"Come, come, this is a poisonous feather from your aunt's tail. Just dip the tip of the feather in water, and even a god could be poisoned. Here, take it as a gift, play with it! If anyone bullies you, just use this—"

Xu Milu's expression was subtle.

Should she correct Aqing's naive values?

...

...

Xu Milu finally got a good night's sleep.

It is said that the phoenix perches on the parasol tree, and the ancient parasol tree wood shavings given to her by the Clean Altar Messenger were also of great benefit to stabilizing her soul. Being in it, she felt as if she had returned to her mother's womb, enveloped in warm amniotic fluid, and her whole being... her whole bird stretched out.

So much has happened in the past six months. In order to successfully kill Lavinia, Xu Milu's nerves have been on edge the whole time. Now that she has suddenly relaxed, she is a little disoriented when she opens her eyes.

"Splash—"

The wind rustled through the paulownia trees, the fragrance of orange blossoms filled the air, and birds perched on the eaves of nearby houses, chirping merrily.

Calm and peaceful, nothing happened.

"yawn--"

Xu Milu lazily flapped her wings and shook her claws before jumping down from the top of the sycamore tree. In a flash of white light, she transformed back into human form.

Although it is late autumn, the vegetation in the yard is still lush and green, and Xu Milu suddenly felt like eating some spring vegetables.

Spring vegetables are a type of wild vegetable eaten in spring, such as mustard greens, tender leeks, mugwort, bamboo shoots, deer ear fungus, scallions, and sand garlic...

Moreover, one must choose a time when it is just before dawn, before the dew has dried, to pick a large basketful, wash it, and use it in dishes, filling the table with the taste of spring.

The wrong season didn't faze Xu Milu. She traversed several planes in a short while, leisurely strolling as if taking a leisurely walk, and soon she had a basket of spring vegetables, as well as four plump "yellow mud arches".

It is actually a tender bamboo shoot that has never seen the light of day.

Ordinary bamboo shoots, once they emerge from the ground and are exposed to sunlight, lose much of their flavor.

The tender bamboo shoots that grow in the mud and have not yet emerged from the ground have just pushed open a crack in the ground, with the shoot head barely showing. At this time, digging them up by the roots will reveal that the bamboo shoot skin, flesh, and roots are all tender yellow, with a fresh and sweet taste.

Wash and slice the yellow mud arches, stir-fry them in a pan with a little oil, and sprinkle with salt to season before serving. This will give you a taste of spring.

If using mature bamboo shoots, dice them and cook them in a soup with dried shiitake mushrooms, wood ear mushrooms, daylily buds, and tea tree mushrooms. Add a whole block of soft tofu and simmer slowly until the soup turns white and flavorful. Then, shredded mustard greens are sprinkled evenly on top, and you have a soft tofu and shepherd's purse soup.

Xu Milu didn't waste the remaining wild vegetables. She blanched them in a pot, then sprinkled them with salt and marinated them for a while. She added some leftover oil residue from rendering oil to make the filling.

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