The two fish brought back were placed on the cutting board, while the turtle caught in the wild was kept in a wooden bucket, attracting several children to gather around and look at it.
After washing the fish again, Ye Wenxue quickly chopped the fish meat, separating the meat from the bones.
She set the fish meat with bones aside, intending to use it to make soup. She roughly removed the bones from the sliced fish meat, then simply marinated it with chopped scallions and ginger.
Once the pot is hot, slide in the meat with bones and sear until fragrant, then pour in hot water to stew.
During this time, after checking his wounds and re-bandaging them, Suiye came out of the cave and saw Ye Wenxue cooking. He snorted heavily, took a stool and sat down under the bayberry tree. He propped his face up and looked at the few turtles watching the tub. He couldn't help but get angry again.
snort!
Ye Wenxue didn't believe in his character!
Even though he was a tyrant in the capital, he never bullied children!
I'm so angry!
"Here." A hand was held out in front of him.
Dazhuang handed over the last two wild kiwis: "Want some?"
Sui Ye turned his face away: "Don't even think about bribing me with this piece of junk. She kicked me for no reason, and this isn't over!"
Dazhuang sat down next to him, looked at his mother and younger siblings, and said calmly, "You're overthinking it. This isn't a bribe. You deserve to be beaten."
"You!" Suiye repeated, "I've worked all morning, what's wrong with eating more?"
He muttered under his breath, "Your food is not tasty at all, it's coarse and hard, and there's sand in it. If it weren't for that... I wouldn't have ended up like this."
Dazhuang remained silent. He wanted to say that many people couldn't afford coarse rice and barely survived by eating tree roots, wild grass, and clay.
But then I thought about it again, and realized it wasn't necessary.
This man may be a bit simple-minded, but his aura is even more astonishing than the constables he had seen when he went to work at the county government office in town with his father. It's clear that he comes from an extraordinary background.
You can't understand why people suffer or how they can't survive.
It's better to save our energy and continue cultivating the vegetable garden and planting crops this afternoon.
There was no point in saying more when everyone was at odds. Dazhuang put down the wild kiwi and turned to leave when Suiye suddenly said, "You don't seem like an eight-year-old child."
When he was eight years old, all he knew was how to skip school by climbing over the wall to fight crickets; he didn't understand anything else.
Dazhuang wasn't tall, but he acted and behaved like an adult.
Da Zhuang was annoyed by the subtle look in his eyes as he openly assessed Da Zhuang's height. He snorted and turned to leave, saying, "You don't seem like a man in his twenties at all. You act so childishly. No wonder you were seriously injured and still soaked in the lake."
Sui Ye's aura suddenly darkened, and he looked like a storm was brewing, with a sullen and expressionless face.
With a sizzling sound, the aroma of fish filled the air.
After a morning of hard work, and being a patient who needed to replenish his strength, Suiye's stomach rumbled as he smelled the aroma of meat.
He took the wild kiwi fruit that Dazhuang had left behind, clumsily peeled it, took a bite, and his handsome face suddenly wrinkled up.
The taste was both sour and astringent, which seemed even stranger against the backdrop of the fishy aroma.
Just as Sui Ye was about to vomit, he suddenly noticed Ye Wenxue's gaze and instinctively swallowed: "..."
Like mother, like son!
While eating, Suiye became depressed.
It's so hard to get a decent meal these days.
No one paid him any attention; the fish had bones, so he had to eat it carefully.
Ye Wenxue picked out the bones, mashed some fish meat and fish soup, mixed it with rice, and fed it to Yuanyuan. It was Yuanyuan's first time eating fish, and she was a little confused, but she ate happily. She even stopped nibbling on her little toes and begged for another bowl.
Ye Wenxue was afraid that she would overeat, so she didn't feed her too much.
During the meal, Su Jiu stared intently at Sanyuan, as if he were making a major decision:
"Do you want to study medicine?"
Sanyuan, engrossed in eating fish: "?"
Su Jiu clenched his fist: "As long as you pass my three tests, I will pass on all the knowledge I have learned in my life to you."
Sanyuan was about to shake his head.
Ignoring Ye Wenxue's piercing gaze, Su Jiu continued, "Was the pork tripe, angelica, and red date soup I made last time delicious? It's a medicinal dish. I have countless other medicinal dish recipes here, which I only teach to my personal disciples who have passed the test."
Sanyuan stopped eating the fish: "Delicious."
Everyone: "......"
Before Su Jiu could continue to deceive Sanyuan, Ye Wenxue forcefully stopped him: "Now that you've found that herb, you must be going home, right? Where would you find the time to teach Sanyuan medicine?"
It's better not to learn medicine at all than to learn it halfway.
After all, with this kind of thing, it's not that you're not an expert ... that you're not an expert, it's that you're only half-knowledgeable and can't explain it properly.
Su Jiu put down the bowl and took a deep breath: "Don't worry, I need to heal Sui Ye's injuries before going down the mountain, so I'll have to trouble him to give me a ride. I won't stay at home for long this time, at most a month, and I'll be back soon."
Ye Wenxue looked at Sanyuan and let him make the decision himself.
Sanyuan thought for a moment and said, "I want to learn how to make medicinal cuisine."
Shuangshuang and Siwang's eyes lit up. Wouldn't that mean they could eat delicious food every day?
Su Jiu: "...If you want to learn medicinal cuisine, you must learn medicine. I don't just teach how to make medicinal cuisine."
Sanyuan readily changed his mind: "I want to learn medicine."
Su Jiu was satisfied and whispered to Sanyuan about the three tests: "You have already passed the first test of finding herbs. The second test is on medical books. Can you read?"
Sanyuan frowned and shook his head.
So the two decided to start with basic education before studying medicine.
Ye Wenxue stopped worrying about Sanyuan's medical studies; she tried to eat quickly because she had to continue working in the afternoon.
She vaguely sensed that the sun wasn't as scorching as usual today, and that autumn was approaching, so the temperature should be dropping and the autumn winds should be blowing.
We need to speed up the construction process; we can't keep living in caves in the winter.
Moreover, before winter, Ye Wenxue needs to go down the mountain to stock up on food and quilts, which will make her even busier and less likely to have time to build a house.
Suiye reaped what he sowed, enduring two days of leftovers.
What's most infuriating is that Ye Wenxue wouldn't allow him to feed the geese and rabbits with leftovers, forcing him to eat spoiled food.
Ye Wenxue wasn't targeting him specifically; she just wanted Suiye to understand what it meant to cherish every grain of rice.
Over the next seven days, Ye Wenxue and Suiye worked tirelessly to build the kitchen next to the main house.
The kitchen, built from lake mud, was rather rudimentary and barely passable in appearance, but Ye Wenxue's requirements were not high; she just wanted it to be draft-proof and leak-proof.
Therefore, the two planned to build the main house and the outbuildings in the same way they built the kitchen.
During this period, while Dazhuang was developing the land, he studied with Sanyuan, Shuangshuang, and Siwang under Su Jiu's tutelage.
To strengthen Sanyuan's resolve to study medicine, Su Jiu cooked every meal and prepared medicinal cuisine daily to help everyone, including the seriously injured Suiye, recover.
With this diet at every meal, the skinny children all gained some weight, especially Yuanyuan, who couldn't do any work yet, and looked even fairer and more delicate.
That day, when Ye Wenxue returned to the valley for lunch, Dazhuang was squatting by the vegetable garden, looking completely bewildered.
He pointed to the chili pepper tree with small fruits hanging on it: "Mom, can we eat these?"
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