Chapter 44: Finally Caught



"Good afternoon, Master Miwa Masayo!"

"Hello to you too, meow, Shisui."

"Brother You, good afternoon!"

"Okay, have you had lunch?"

"Of course not, hehe."

"Then come and help."

"yes!"

"Master Shisui, let me help as well."

"Ah, ah, ah! Butler Xin Yin, sir! Can you hold it in--!"

"Shisui! Take your old housekeeper away, quickly!"

"Uncle Xin Yin, you are an old man of Uchiha Madara's generation, please don't scare me. I am only eighteen years old and can't stand being scared. Just sit down and rest."

"Stupid Shisui, how did you pull this great god here?" (whispering in frustration, but actually very happy to have succeeded)

"Brother You! Butler Xin Yin insisted on coming with me. Can I change his mind? You and I are both his great-great-grandchildren. You are still the eldest grandson after all!"

"Hey, nonsense, I am just an ordinary member of the side branch and cannot be considered as such. You are the eldest grandson of the fourth generation!"

"Then I can't convince Butler Xin Yin. He couldn't do it when my father was still alive, so why can I?"

“…”

"How are your teeth, old man?"

"Brother You, he is already 82 years old..."

"Okay, there are some bananas at home, I'll go prepare a soft lunch."

"What's the dish?"

"Tofu."

"Ah? What's so delicious about that watery thing?"

“It’s not water tofu, but processed old tofu.”

Uchiha You found the water tofu, also known as silken tofu, that he was going to use to make tofu with green onions, wrapped it in layers of gauze, put it in a water leaking box, covered it with a chopping board, and found his own weight block to press it down.

When the tofu is under heavy pressure, water flows out and it gradually turns into hard tofu.

In fact, this is medium tofu. The real old tofu needs to be made with brine from the beginning. But as the old saying goes, there are three hardships in life: mining coal, forging iron, and grinding tofu. The main hardship of grinding tofu is that it is time-consuming and troublesome. Now there is no time to make tofu from scratch, so we can only make do with this.

Even if you just press it casually, it tastes better than water tofu that is like soy milk.

Taking advantage of the last bit of time, Uchiha You prepared some small condiments. After all, in order to take into account Miwa Masayo's taste, the amount of salt added to the roasted lamb was very low, almost like white meat.

There was one more person at lunch today, he was the oldest elder in the entire Uchiha family. Even Uchiha Madara, who was lingering in a cave, was not older than him.

Elderly people have changed the way we eat.

When they were having lunch before, the two of them and the cat sat around the square table without any rules and ate to their heart's content.

Even Uchiha Shisui, a good boy, had to fight for food regardless of his image, otherwise all the food would be swallowed by Uchiha You, and he might not be full, which would affect his afternoon training.

After Shisui also became a big glutton, the atmosphere during meals at Uchiha Yu's house became worse and worse, with no rules or etiquette at all.

But in front of Uchiha Shinin, the young Uchiha should not act rashly.

A long table was set up, and Uncle Xin Yin naturally sat at the first seat on the north side. Opposite him was the cat hermit Miwa Masayo. Uchiha Yu was the older brother and sat on the uncle's right, and Shisui sat on the left.

Uchiha You smiled and cut off the tenderest intercostal meat from the deer and handed it to the old man respectfully. He then brought out some steaming hot old tofu, topped it with bright red chili sauce and fragrant chive sauce. The aroma even briefly overwhelmed the venison.

Uchiha Shinin couldn't help but take a bite. His six remaining teeth were severely loose, but he had no problem dealing with tofu. He finally tasted the delicious flavor that he had forgotten for a long time.

The most important thing is that the old man finally felt the fullness after solid food entered his stomach. It was completely different from the various vegetable and meat porridge he had eaten for more than ten years. It was the sense of happiness that came from the instinctive feedback of life.

The life that was originally dark and waiting for death suddenly became bright and colorful, and life was filled with new hope.

The old man in his eighties was not good at speaking, he expressed his feelings in the simplest words:

"tasty!"

"Please eat more."

The old man even tried hard to taste some of the rib meat. Even though this was the most tender meat, he ground it up with great reluctance and in the end he only tasted a little bit of the flavor of the meat.

"This old tofu is still the best."

The two young Uchiha didn't say anything. They knew that it was not that tofu was the most delicious, but that tofu became the most delicious thing when there was nothing they could do.

But this has made Uchiha Shinin deeply satisfied. While eating with great relish, he did not forget to let his two great-grandsons and the cat hermit start eating so that they could not watch him eat alone.

Next it was the turn of the three gluttons to perform.

Although the charred shell on the outside of the venison was burnt black by the fire, the inside was soaked with the fat of the venison. It was fresh, crispy and fragrant when you took a bite.

After eating the outer shell, the venison is exposed. The meat is golden and shiny on the outside, crispy and fragrant when eaten, and it blends the essence of all the spices, with an unparalleled aroma.

After cutting off the outer layer, you can see the pink inner layer of venison. The meat is well protected and is cooked by the gravy of the outer layer. The meat is soft and tender and can be sucked from the bone into your mouth with just a light suck.

You can taste the refreshing aroma after just a little chewing. The delicious venison has the fragrance of herbs, which has been fully stimulated at this time. It is not greasy at all and is so delicious that it makes people intoxicated.

The two persons and the cat enjoyed the food more and more, and gradually they became less reserved and no longer cared about the presence of the old butler.

Shisui stuffed his mouth full, taking bites of meat and fresh vegetable leaves, and was extremely satisfied with his meal, without the distressing mature look of a little adult.

Miwa Masayo let out a humming sound of satisfaction from his throat. He bit into pieces of meat one by one, making a crunching sound on the bones, and couldn't help squinting his eyes as he swallowed.

But what surprised Uchiha Shinin the most was Uchiha You.

He held the knife in his elegant and graceful right hand and cut the venison along the gaps in the deer's bones. The knife moved very smoothly without making any sound of cutting hard objects. He cut off pieces of fat meat to satisfy Sanlun Yashio's appetite.

And Uchiha Yuu didn't delay eating meat. He held the deer bones with his left hand and put them into his mouth. His white teeth bit gently and broke the deer meat and bones. He closed his mouth and chewed a few times, and the meat went into his stomach, and the bones... also went into his stomach.

In just less than ten seconds, Uchiha Shisui was chewing and had not swallowed a single piece of meat, Miwa Masaya had just swallowed a piece of meat, and Uchiha You had already finished a whole rib in just two or three bites.

He calmly cut off another rib, gave the most tender meat to Shisui and Miwa Masayo, and then ate the rib with a crunch like he was eating a puffed corn cob.

Uchiha You's teeth are now better than a bone-cutting knife, and his stomach urgently needs hard food like bones to satisfy the needs of strengthening his body during the foundation-building period.

The old Uchiha was stunned.

Comparing this child's teeth with my own, it's really sad.

It's a pity that when he was young, it was the Warring States Period, and there were no elderly people over 45 years old in the Uchiha family. The clan leader Uchiha Tajima died in battle at the age of 42, which was a rare longevity.

In such an environment, he had never considered the possibility of living beyond the age of 35, so how could he care about his dental problems.

If he had known when he was young that he could live to be eighty, Xin Yin would definitely have taken good care of his teeth. He would be able to eat meat happily now and might even live another twenty years.

I feel a little regretful.

After all, it still smells like meat.


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