Half an hour later, a large table of dishes was ready: braised rooster, a big pot of mushroom soup made from chicken bones, and several stir-fried vegetables. Oil, salt, soy sauce, and vinegar were all added, and even the vegetables smelled delicious.

Everyone's eyes are filled with nothing but meat right now.

This is meat!

Before fleeing famine, they could only afford to eat meat during festivals and holidays; in bad years, they might only have a little bit of minced meat.

Where can you eat so many chickens in one go?

Each person can get several pieces of meat in their bowl.

Everyone says that Lin Jinyue's family deserves the most credit, so they should eat more meat.

However, Lin Jinyue declined. She still had a few chickens and two pregnant rabbits in her space. The villagers had been fleeing famine for so long and hadn't had a decent meal. Even though there were many chickens, there weren't many pieces of meat in each person's bowl.

He thought about it and decided against it, so he just picked up a bowl of meat and asked his daughter to take it back.

After Lin Shucheng finished distributing the food, they ate the pot of stir-fried chicken with mushrooms along with a bowl of rice that the village chief had brought.

There were four people in their family, but they didn't have much meat and weren't very full.

To be honest, Lin Shucheng doesn't cook often. Although he always makes a mess when killing chickens, he remembers the recipes Lin Jinyue wrote, and the chickens he makes actually taste quite good. The meat is tender, not dry at all, and very flavorful.

Seeing his daughter's eyes darting around as she looked at the bowl, Lin Shucheng leaned closer and whispered, "I'll make it for you tonight."

Yes, the space can buy a pound of pork every day, and we can have braised pork for dinner.

The atmosphere in the village is especially nice at night.

At dinner time, the villagers were kind-hearted and untied them, giving them a meal of pine needles and black beans so they wouldn't starve.

That's right. When Li the blacksmith's family saw that the villagers were dressed in rags and were unreliable in their words and deeds, killing chickens for the little kids, and seeing that Lin Shucheng, whom they admired, was cooking, the villagers even argued over how much oil, salt, soy sauce, and vinegar to add.

More importantly, the person in charge of these people was actually an eight-year-old child, which made him somewhat unsure of what to do.

It's not that men can't cook, but Li the blacksmith thought that his cooking skills suggested he might have been a cook before fleeing the famine.

In short, it's not quite what he expected, and it doesn't seem very reliable.

In particular, he subtly inquired why they all listened to Lin Shucheng's daughter, and what they said in return.

They say Er Ya is a lucky star who brings good fortune to their group. If it weren't for Er Ya's luck, they wouldn't have survived until now. Just listen to what they say.

Does this person seem like a reliable person?

Li the blacksmith felt a pang of regret. Why had he been so hasty and impulsive? He hadn't even asked them what was going on before selling his property at a low price, rushing around in a panic, afraid they would leave.

But we're already on the wrong path, what can we do?

Li the blacksmith thought that if it was really unreliable, they would go their separate ways. They couldn't really listen to a child in everything, could they?

Lin Jinyue's family, on the other hand, did not notice anything amiss with Li the blacksmith and even invited them to eat roast chicken, though each person only got a few pieces.

When evening came, everyone found an open space to rest.

With the Lin brothers keeping watch outside, the family could finally enter the space with peace of mind after setting up their tent.

They hadn't paid much attention to the changes in the space these past few days. They weren't in a hurry tonight, but when they took a look, they were shocked. The flow of energy in the space was so fast that it had changed drastically in just a few days.

In the past few days, they took some time to dig a small pond, the kind where it's difficult to even swim, and planted lotus seeds in it. The seeds have already sprouted, with a few small lotus leaves on the surface.

Jiang Yun sighed, "Sigh, if I were a little older, I could have tried making lotus leaf chicken. Why didn't I eat more of it before? I'm really craving it now."

Lin Jinyue glanced at the general situation in the farm. The hen had laid a nest of eggs, which they hadn't had time to collect, so the hen started incubating them. After a while, the chicks would probably hatch soon.

The pregnant mother rabbit has already given birth to a litter of babies, and the baby rabbits have begun to grow downy fur.

However, it's not the right time to eat yet. We have to wait a while until there are more rabbits before we can eat to our hearts' content. For now, we can only settle for the pork that the system bought.

Lin Jinyue recalled how to make braised pork and bought a pound of pork belly from the system this time.

She taught him step by step, and Lin Shucheng followed her instructions. Soon, the aroma of pork filled the air.

Lin Jinyue: "Alright, simmer over low heat to reduce the sauce, and let it sit for another twenty minutes or so before eating. I really want to eat this meat when it's tender."

While waiting for the meat, Jiang Yun mentioned Lin Youliang's family.

She hated Lin Youliang's family with a passion. Today, she stood up for Chunhua and Qiaohua in the village. The two girls had just eaten roast chicken and were telling her about Lin Youliang's family's plans.

First, let the grandson marry someone from the village, regardless of whether they are within the five degrees of kinship. Just get them to rely on him for now, and then they'll still have designs on Lin Jinyue later.

Thinking that Lin Jinyue was growing more and more beautiful, if she became disobedient in the future, they would find someone willing to spend a lot of money to marry her off to. They also said they would try to repair their relationship with Lin Shucheng's family.

Jiang Yun felt like vomiting after hearing this, and she had to find a way to drive Lin Youliang's family away.

Jiang Yun whispered again, "Can't we secretly abandon him halfway? We can just tie him up, he won't die, right?"

Lin Shucheng said, "What does his life or death have to do with me? Don't think that just because we're related by blood and I still have memories, I have absolutely no good feelings towards this family. If we hadn't been passed down, how much suffering would my daughter have endured? You guys go through your memories, how did they treat our family?"

Neither of them spoke. The Lin family, especially the eldest and second eldest Lin brothers, had always bullied them. Doing extra chores was nothing to them.

Before fleeing the famine, Lin Jinyue's original body was only eight years old. Her family had already begun discussing her marriage and wanted to give her to a mentally challenged man as a child bride, all for the sake of a dowry of a dozen or so taels of silver.

After the famine, the first ten days or so were chaotic with many people. Some had left in a hurry without food, while others were wealthy families who had received the news earlier and fled with their carts and food.

Several young masters from wealthy families took a fancy to pretty peasant girls, and many of them would bring their daughters and wives to exchange for grain.

Those families weren't asking people to be their maids or concubines; they were just asking them to sleep with someone for one night in exchange for some silver notes and dry food.

Surprisingly, some people were actually willing to make the change.

Those wealthy people simply dragged other men's wives and daughters to the nearby woods, where terrified screams echoed everywhere.

But after these women and young girls were violated, they still had to come back to continue fleeing famine. They faced the pointing fingers of others, the push of their own relatives into the abyss, and the scorn of others because they had lost their chastity.

In this era, for a woman to lose her reputation is worse than death.

The next day, all the women threw themselves into the river.