After hearing this, the others roughly understood the principle.

"In the past, people in our area really liked to eat snakes." Fang Guozhong frowned.

Gu Lingguo said to him, "That's why it's so scary to be uneducated. You don't even know you've put something you shouldn't have in your mouth. It's just luck. If you really get an incurable disease and it spreads through your body, it's too late to regret it."

Fang Guozhong thought about it and realized that this was the case, so he turned around and let go.

Zhong Yuxiu smiled and said, "Not every snake is like this, there are exceptions. However, we don't have any testing equipment, so it's better not to eat it if we can. We have enough meat at home, so there's no need to crave snake meat."

Although snake meat is really good for the body.

"We'll listen to Comrade Zhong." Gu Lingguo nodded with a smile. After she said that, who would really dare to eat it?

On the road ahead, Gu Lingguo, Fang Guozhong, and Yan Rushan were all nervous; fortunately, they did not encounter any snakes, but instead met two pheasants and rabbits. With the help of Zhong Yuxiu's mental power, they picked up more than 30 pheasant eggs.

I actually found a litter of newly born rabbits, their meat barely enough to fill a gaping hole in my stomach. I couldn't raise them at home, so I left them alone because their mother wasn't there. I guess she was out looking for food and wasn't home with them. With their mother around, these rabbits thrive.

"It's a great harvest. It's getting late, we should go back. After lunch, you can prepare the pheasants and rabbits and stew them all in the evening. Send one portion to the Xiong family and another portion to the village chief's house. Thank you for your care, village chief." Before we got home, the pheasants and rabbits had already been assigned to their homes.

"Okay." Gu Lingguo and Fang Guozhong had their hands full, and Yan Rushan was carrying a basket filled with mushrooms and wild vegetables; on the other hand, Zhong Yuxiu had nothing in her hands, with only one hand tightly held in Yan Rushan's big palm.

On the way back, they picked up a lot of firewood. When they returned to the deep mountains, Gu Lingguo and Fang Guozhong each carried a pile of firewood. On one side of the firewood was hanging a pheasant or rabbit, and the egg was taken by Zhong Yuxiu and held in her arms.

The pheasant eggs were packed in Gu Lingguo's clothes. When they went up the mountain, no one thought they could pick up eggs, so they didn't bring anything to pack them. When they needed them, they naturally used them as a temporary emergency measure.

Descending the mountain, Zhong Yuxiu smiled, clutching a pheasant egg. Yan Rushan, seeing his wife's smile, felt happy too. At the same time, a huge weight lifted from his heart. He had some martial arts skills, but they were limited. If faced with mortal danger, he could only fend it off. In the past, people went up the mountain to live a better life. The mountain meat was a deadly temptation for people from the county and provincial capitals. Now that meat was no longer a rarity, no one wanted to go up the mountain anymore.

You can buy meat outside, so who would risk their life for a bite of meat?

The people in the village would walk on the mountainside from time to time, but they didn't dare to go into the deep mountains; the deep mountains were really dangerous, and no one would ignore these dangers unless they couldn't survive. Nowadays, no one wanted to go into the deep mountains and risk their lives for food.

"Go home." Touch the pheasant eggs and go home happily.

After arriving home, the four of them went to the kitchen yard first; Feng Zheng was still preparing the bone soup, and the other dishes were already out of the oven. Wang Daya and Gong Zhaodi were washing the dishes. Gu Lingguo and Fang Guozhong said hello and went to take care of the pheasants and rabbits.

The pheasants and rabbits are all dead. If we don't clean them out now, they will be hard in the afternoon and will be even more difficult to deal with.

Take it out now and wash it with clean water; ask Feng Zheng to chop it into pieces, and arrange it with onions, ginger, garlic and peppercorns to remove the smell. You can use it for cooking in the afternoon, either stir-frying or stewing.

Pheasants and wild chickens have a strong fishy smell, so the fishy smell must be removed in advance, and the cooking methods must be paid attention to; pheasants and wild rabbits are delicious, but they also need to be handled and cooked well.

After the two men finished cleaning, they drew water from the well to rinse it clean, and brought it into the kitchen and handed it to Feng Zheng.

"Dasha, make all of these for dinner."

"Oh." Feng Zheng responded in a naive voice, turned around and went back to work. All his thoughts were on the food.

Fang Guozhong looked at Feng Zheng like this and thought he was quite good. Although he wasn't very smart and had a bit of a brain, it was precisely because of this that he was so completely devoted to his cooking that people were more tolerant of him. If someone with a normal brain was only devoted to cooking and didn't understand the ways of the world, then people wouldn't be very tolerant of them, much less than Feng Zheng.

In the final analysis, Feng Zheng was honest and dutiful, not a smart person who would have any bad intentions. His family had always been strictly managed, and there were no outsiders trying to sow discord between Feng Zheng and others. As long as he worked hard, he would have enough food and clothing, a good salary, and the chance to marry and have children. He would have his parents to look after him, and even if his future wife divorced him, at least he would have his son to support him in his old age.

After thinking about it, Fang Guozhong suddenly felt a little envious of Feng Zheng. This was the true meaning of "a fool has good fortune".

Gu Lingguo and Fang Guozhong washed their hands one after another, and carried the prepared dishes back to the third courtyard with Zhong Yuxiu and Yan Rushan. Yan Guofeng, who smelled the fragrance from afar, looked up and saw his eldest grandson and his wife carrying two plates of dishes each, followed by Gu Lingguo and Fang Guozhong.

"You are finally back. Did you encounter any danger in the mountains?" The old man didn't know how many wolves they had killed yesterday.

Zhong Yuxiu did not take out the wolf fang in her hand, and only Gu Lingguo and others knew about the wolf leg. The cook was Feng Zheng. They cooked some wolf leg meat last night. Feng Zheng cooked it and it was delicious. The two of them did not realize it was wolf meat at all.

Old man Yan Guofeng had eaten wolf meat in the past, but in his impression, wolf meat was tough, fishy and not tasty; the meat he ate was specially made by Feng Zheng, so the taste was naturally different, and even the old man, who was a shrewd man, didn't notice it.

Yan Rushan would not tell the old man about what Zhong Yuxiu and others encountered when they went to the back mountain, so the old man was completely kept in the dark.

"Grandpa, we didn't encounter any danger in the back mountain; we did kill a snake. You don't know how powerful Rushan is." Zhong Yuxiu acted as if she was bragging without thinking. Yan Rushan shook his head helplessly and laughed. With a blushing face, he quickly walked past her into the main room and followed her.

In front of his father and his family, Yan Rushan always protected and cherished his wife. Firstly, this way, his family would attach importance to his wife as he did. Secondly, he wanted his wife to be inseparable from him and recognize his family. His approach was right. Over the years, Zhong Yuxiu completely recognized the Yan family.

She is even very patient with his parents. Of course, there is a comparison; look at Zhong's parents and then look at Yan's parents. The difference in Zhong Yuxiu's patience is too obvious.

"Comrade Gu and Fang Guozhong used branches to push aside the grass, and the snake suddenly jumped out; just as it was about to bite Comrade Gu, Rushan threw a carrying pole at it, smashing the snake's head into pieces." The description was vivid and Yan Guofeng listened with great interest.