Chapter 203 Big Liar

The preparation time passed quickly, and Oswin bought her a lot of medical and daily supplies.

Josh was also busy preparing food reserves for the elves heading to the secret realm.

Although there should be no shortage of food for the elves in the Swamp Secret Realm, without the supplement of food with main world attributes, their condition will definitely not be maintained very well.

After Joshi identified the elves that would be heading to the Secret Realm of Thick Fog together, he began to prepare animal food and freeze-dried food for them.

These are two different things, but Josh plans to make a mixed package of animal food, just like the dog and cat food he has seen before.

But Josh is not one of those unscrupulous merchants. He prepares absolutely harmless, pure, natural, and high-quality products for them (deliberately pulling down)

After Qiao Xi's repeated persuasion, the big-tailed yak agreed to Qiao Xi's request not to go to the secret realm of thick fog together, but it was very angry and told Qiao Xi that it would not forgive her until she came back.

That means he will forgive her after he comes back. Hehehe, she is worthy of being his dear girl. She is smart. Qiao Xi squeezed over to give her a hug.

"Moo!" Arch open!

"No, just stick it on!"

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So it was confirmed that there would be three burrowing pigs, a brown-headed vulture, an air rock mouse, a big burrowing rat, two bucktooth beavers, and a big star, a total of nine elves, who would set off together.

Since they are all omnivores, Josh can let go and make the animal food.

Big Star was worried about the reckless bear cub going with them, and Josh understood that very well, so when Little Star was jumping up and down to vent his anger about not being able to go out and play with them, Josh gave it an important task.

"This mission is more important than going out to explore the secret realm, you know? If we didn't have a better relationship, I would definitely ask the beaver to help me, but I think I have known you for a longer time, and our relationship is better than anyone else's, don't you think?"

Little Star nodded and said, "Hurule~" That's right!

"Listen carefully, I need you to go to the Twilight Lake and catch whitefish as big as your palm. The more the better. Can you do it?"

"Snoo!" Of course, Little Bear promises to complete the task!

However, Little Star came close to Qiao Xi and asked her in a low voice: "Hulu?" Did you catch something delicious for me?

It has started to drool, slurp~

Qiao Xi was speechless and looked at the silly little bear. She really wanted to say that even if you are cured, you will still drool. Go home, go home, kid.

Josh gave the fat bear cub a big chestnut, but the bear had thick skin and flesh, and didn't seem to feel anything at all. It just looked at Josh with an aggrieved face.

"This is more important than going on an adventure, don't you think?"

"Hulu~"Okay, Josh, you say. Little Bear feels wronged/(ㄒoㄒ)/~~

"There's a saying in my hometown that goes, 'Before the troops move out, the food and fodder must be sent first.' Do you know that?" Qiao Xi continued, glancing at the confused little bear.

"You definitely don't understand. Let me tell you. Before you start doing something, you need to make preparations in advance. So now the preparations are handed over to you. Little Star, I believe you can do it well, right?"

Little Star nodded. It could catch fish! But it still didn't understand what this had to do with catching fish.

"That is to say, we have to prepare rations for the elves who follow me on the adventure so that they can replenish their energy in the secret realm. This is more important than going to the secret realm, do you know?" Josh said passionately.

"Huh~" The bear cub understood this time and snorted with disdain. It turned out that he was being tricked into working. Forget it!

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"Hulu~" Qiao Xi continued, and another one came!

At one of the water inlets of the Weiguang Lake, migrating whitefish bravely moved forward, vowing to swim back to their birthplace. Little Star slapped the fish swimming in the rapids one by one and slapped them onto the shore.

Josh was having a lot of fun picking up the grouse with the basket, hahaha, it was so cool!

The Ring-tailed Fire Bear, who was just standing by to watch, also had a full meal. He kept chewing on the fat and tender fish meat. He had eaten too many fruits in the past two days, so he ate some fish to satisfy his craving.

Although Little Star realized belatedly that Josh was deliberately tricking it into catching fish, it was also very greedy, so after Josh coaxed it for a few words, it happily ran over to catch the fish.

There is no other reason. Qiao Xi promised to leave some for it after it is done. It will definitely be delicious.

The whitebait in this season are all about the same size, with a belly full of roe. If you slap them too hard, the golden roe may fall out of their belly.

Josh would pick out the injured fish and leave them for the little bear to eat, and keep the intact ones as animal food.

In addition to the fish, Josh also asked Big Star to catch two large prey in the Glimmering Forest, as meat is essential for freeze-dried food.

Of course, the animals it was asked to capture were ordinary wild beasts or magical beasts without intelligence. Although they all ate meat, there was no point in being so particular, but Josh himself still cared a little.

She would never take the initiative to harm intelligent monsters.

"Alright, alright, little star, that's enough. No need to catch anymore. Use the rocks and mud you stepped on to pick up these little fish so as not to affect their migration. We should go back and make preparations." They had already caught three full baskets of whitefish, and there was still half a basket of badly damaged ones left for the bear cubs. That was enough.

The scales of whitebait are small and crispy and delicious after baking.

Dried fish will be more fragrant if it is dried in the sun, but Qiao Xi is short on time and has a heavy task, and the current weather makes it a bit slow to dry fish. She plans to bake it directly after marinating it. Although the flavor will be a little worse, the taste should be similar, and the freshness of the fish can be preserved to the greatest extent.

After returning to the yard, Qiao Xi found a pair of sharp scissors, used them to remove the fish head, and then used the tip to pick out the internal organs and gallbladder, and the fish was done.

He was a little unskilled at the beginning, but his speed increased as he kept cutting. However, even though his speed increased, it still took Josh a lot of effort to cut these three big baskets.

Josh did not waste the cut fish head, and made fish head soup for the little ones tonight.

But it’s a pity that there is no tofu. It would be great if she could research and develop tofu.

After processing the fish bodies, Qiao Xi washed them one by one under running water and put them into a clean basket.

Add salt and spices to the warm boiled water prepared in advance, and finally add a little bit of liquor to remove the fishy smell and enhance the flavor. Because it is for the elves to eat, Josh did not put too much, a little bit is enough.

Put the cleaned fish body into a large basin filled with spice water, soak it for a while, put it on a clean sieve and let it dry overnight.

Although time is tight, there is still time to air-dry overnight. Otherwise, if it is put into the bread oven while wet, it will be soft and not tasty after baking.

Hundreds of fish filled the yard in an instant, and the brown-headed vultures that patrolled at night were instructed not to let other small monsters steal the fish.

Josh is getting ready to start making fish head soup!

Happy Saturday babes!

(End of this chapter)