"Are you hungry?" Su Hua couldn't help but click her tongue in surprise.
It was around 4 PM. She didn't know what the three little ones, Da Lang and Yu Feng, had eaten at home for lunch, but she and Yu Feng had eaten barbecue skewers with the White Tiger family on the cliff top. They had grilled three large wild animals: a sika deer and two yellow muntjacs.
The meat weighed over 300 jin (approximately 150 kg) in total. Her and Yu Feng's hands ached from grilling it, and nearly two-thirds of that meat was devoured by the Baihu family, bite after bite.
The two babies each had at least several dozen kilograms of roasted meat in their bellies.
How long has it been, and I'm already hungry again?
What she's raising isn't a tiger, but a reincarnated Taotie!
Big White turned its head away as it was being stared at, while Big Girl grinned slightly. Then, carrying Big White and the sika deer, it walked smoothly towards the kitchen in the small courtyard, its fluffy tail swaying back and forth, looking incredibly carefree.
"Auntie, it's not that we're hungry, it's that our stomachs are craving something delicious." Chunhua touched her little belly shyly. Her belly would rumble as soon as it heard about something tasty, and it wouldn't listen to her at all.
The two brothers, Da Lang and Er Lang, standing next to him, also had slightly flushed faces.
"Alright, alright, it's all your fault for having such a big belly!" Su Hua chuckled and waved her little hand. "Let's go home! We'll feed all these greedy little bellies in a bit!"
In the Su family, slaughtering wild animals has always been the men's job.
Although Su Erhu went to Baichuan Academy to pick up Su Dahu after school and he didn't return, leaving only Su Sanhu at home, he was already quite adept at handling wild animals.
Bleeding, skinning, removing the bladder, and deboning.
In just over half an hour, the glossy-furred sika deer was sliced into evenly sized pieces of meat.
Just as the sika deer was finished, Yu Feng and Yu Yu came down from Fuhu Mountain carrying a large snake. The black and white scales on the viper's body had been removed, and if it weren't for the huge snake head still being there, no one would guess that this bucket-sized piece of meat was actually a snake.
The Su family members stared wide-eyed for a while before they came to their senses.
Su Sanhu swallowed hard, his voice cracking as he asked, "Hua'er, is this the stuff you're talking about for the Dragon and Phoenix Soup?"
Then, his eyes turned to Yu Feng and Yu Yu, and the light in his eyes became frighteningly bright.
In his entire life, he had only ever seen snakes like the rat snake, bamboo viper, and five-step snake, and he had never caught one. Yet these two managed to catch such a huge snake.
If it weren't for his exceptional skills, encountering such a snake would likely have resulted in him being devoured by it.
If only he could learn even a fraction of their skills!
Su Hua nodded gently, turned around and poured two cups of tea from the main room, handing them to the two of them, "You two have worked hard today, quickly have a cup of water and rest for a while."
Both of their clothes were somewhat torn, especially Yu Feng's, which was covered in tears. He looked as if he had been pulled out of the water, and every strand of his hair was covered in sweat.
It is clear that stalking vipers in Fuhu Mountain is not an easy task.
"Thank you, Miss Su." Yu Feng put down the snake meat, took the teacup, and drank it all in one gulp.
Perhaps because he was so thirsty, he found the tea to have a slightly sweet taste.
After saying that, he carefully took a small bundle off his back. "Miss Su, we've taken down the snake nest on the cliff. It contained snake venom and gallbladders. The viper's venom is very potent, so please be careful not to get hurt..."
Before he could finish speaking, Su Hua had already taken the small bundle from his hands.
When I looked up, I saw the corners of her lips slightly upturned.
It was as if what they were receiving wasn't highly venomous snake venom, but some delicious and fun new toy.
However, just thinking about how Su Hua crippled Old Wang's family in their house in Qingshui County half a month ago, it doesn't seem so hard to accept that she's now playing with snake venom.
He silently turned his gaze away. "Miss Su, please wait a moment. We'll go and carry the other viper down now."
Even after removing the scales and internal organs, the viper still weighed over two hundred pounds. Although he and Yu Yu were skilled in martial arts, their strength was limited. The remaining viper was left for the brothers to guard, and they had to carry it back before dark.
"No need." Su Hua shook her head and chuckled, her voice lower. "This viper meat is a rare and highly nutritious food. The remaining one can be shared among your brothers on the mountain. We'll have roasted meat skewers and dragon and phoenix soup at home tonight. If you don't mind, you can come and have a taste."
Yu Yu, who had been savoring the aroma of tea, was brought back to reality the moment she heard Su Hua's words.
She readily agreed, and as she turned around, she gave Yu Feng several glances with her baby face.
This guy usually doesn't talk much, but on the way back carrying the viper, he kept talking about roasted venison and roasted muntjac, making his stomach rumble.
Nowadays, in addition to barbecue, there's also something like dragon and phoenix soup...
Although he had never tasted the Dragon and Phoenix Soup, when had Su Hua ever made a dish that wasn't delicious? Besides, just the name itself, with both dragon and phoenix in it, must be an absolute delicacy.
Su Hua chuckled and shook her head, then turned and walked towards the chicken coop.
The name "Dragon and Phoenix Soup" comes from the mythical dragon and phoenix in Chinese mythology.
However, Su Hua did not know whether dragons and phoenixes had ever really existed in the world. She first came into contact with Dragon and Phoenix Soup when she worked in a southern city in her previous life. Dragon and Phoenix Soup was a famous local specialty dish.
The dragon is actually a snake, and the phoenix is actually a chicken.
In Old Su's chicken coop, there were five old hens, fifty-one chicks, and a rooster borrowed from the old village chief, which filled the coop to capacity.
The chicks were already bigger than ordinary chicks, and with Su Dalang and the others diligently feeding them wild grass, each one weighed more than half a pound in less than a month. Meanwhile, the village chief's red-flowered chickens were having so much fun playing with the hens that they forgot all about home, and three of the hens had already started brooding.
In about twenty days, three more broods of chicks will hatch.
The eggs were too big for Su Bai to sell. Apart from what she ate each day, she used almost all of them to hatch chicks. The Su family used to worry about not having enough eggs, but now they were worried about not having a place to raise the chicks.
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