Chapter 76 Late Night Snacks and Screws
Su Yun was extremely hungry.
So I got up in the middle of the night and had a late-night snack.
"Hmm, this chicken is stewed just right." The chicken soup was put back on the small stove, and after it was slightly boiling, Su Yun ladled out a bowl of soup and began to drink it slowly. "Have some chicken soup to warm your stomach first. Ye Feng, would you like a bowl?"
Ye Feng squatted beside the stove, adding fuel to the fire, intending to give Su Yun some vegetables. "No need, I already ate tonight."
He wasn't very hungry; he was just worried that she might be scared, so he got up with her to find something to eat.
"Oh, no need to cook vegetables, it's too much trouble. I'll just drink the soup and that'll be enough. Eating too much will cause indigestion."
"It's alright, the vegetables were washed this afternoon and put in the cupboard for you. Just wash them again and you can eat them."
"Ah, okay then." Su Yun didn't expect the other party to be so well prepared. Not only had dinner been prepared and everything packed, but even a late-night snack had been prepared for her.
"Night Breeze, you're so kind!" Su Yun smiled as she looked at her cat.
Ye Feng's ears turned red, and she trembled slightly. "Mmm."
Su Yun was somewhat surprised, "When did you learn to do these things? I fell asleep this afternoon and didn't have a chance to tell you..."
Night Breeze blushed slightly, lowered her head, added some fuel to the fire, and said softly, "It's all Rose's teaching. She said we should learn to share the burden with girls."
"Wow! That's rare. Rose has finally done something right." Su Yun exclaimed. This girl has finally been reliable for once.
"It's so delicious. Home-cooked meals are always the best." Having been eating outdoors for the past few days and not having a proper meal, Su Yun felt completely satisfied after drinking this delicious chicken soup.
"Seriously, late-night snacks always taste especially good. Hehe~" Su Yun picked up her bowl and started serving herself a second bowl.
Although the night was overcast with no stars or moon, the wind was still cool. Su Yun sat on a low stool, holding a bowl, and slowly drank the soup by the fire, feeling very comfortable.
"Next time we can just move dinner to the yard, it's so cool there!"
"good."
"We can install the curtains and screens we brought back tomorrow. I think the light green color is very pretty."
"Okay, whatever you say."
Su Yun happily planned the home's decor while eating his late-night snack, while Ye Feng quietly watched his human girl decorate their home...
In the early morning, the thick, dark clouds finally began to drizzle.
"It's raining. That saves me trouble. I was planning to water the fields, but now I don't need to. I can sleep a little longer." She stretched and became lazy. She stayed in bed wrapped in the blanket for a while before belatedly realizing, "Huh, where's the night breeze?"
Su Yun groped her way to the kitchen and found Ye Feng there. She rubbed her eyes and said, "Um, why are you up so early today?"
"Cooking breakfast, egg drop soup."
Su Yun peeked out and saw the other person pouring the beaten egg mixture into boiling water. The heat of the water instantly solidified the egg mixture into flower shapes.
With practiced ease, Ye Feng tossed down a handful of chopped scallions, then scooped them out and placed them in a bowl, creating a steaming bowl of egg drop soup.
"Hmm, it looks pretty good." Su Yun couldn't help but praise. The other person's cooking skills were becoming more and more proficient. Su Yun felt that she was really amazing and had taught her well.
"I originally wanted to cook fresh ones, but when I went there this morning, there was a hen squatting in the corner and wouldn't leave. I tried several times, but it pecked at me every time... In the end, I couldn't get any, so I could only cook the ones that were already there."
"Ah, it won't leave? That hen must be incubating chicks. Don't worry about it, we'll have new chicks in another month!" Su Yun smiled, not expecting such an unexpected bonus when she didn't even have time to collect the eggs.
"It's raining anyway, and we don't have much to do, so why don't we go collect some snails?" There were many snails in the stream, and Su Yun had been wanting to collect some to cook, but she had been busy with the fields and hadn't had the time. Now that it was raining, there was basically nothing to do, so she picked up her iron bucket and followed the night breeze to the stream.
They often come to this stream. A little further downstream from the cornfield, the shallows at the bend are covered with smooth white stones that have been washed by the stream. Snails are most likely to be found around these moss-covered stones.
These snails that like to attach themselves to rocks and eat moss are called stone snails.
"Just pick them up and put them in the bucket." Su Yun looked at the clear stream water and deftly removed the snails clinging to the rocks, tossing them into the iron bucket. "They won't run away anyway, just pick them up when you see them!"
"Okay, I understand." Ye Feng also carried an iron bucket, and the two of them began to bend down and look for stone snails in the stream.
The water in this stream is very clear, and the snails that grow there are also very clean, with almost no mud. They are all bluish-brown shells. You can add some salt to them to disinfect them before eating.
"Wow, this is huge!" Su Yun picked up a green snail and held it up to Ye Feng. "Look, it's bigger than my thumb."
"I have one here too, and it's bigger than yours."
Su Yun: "Hmm?"
As he spoke, Ye Feng flipped over the iron bucket, pulled out a plum-shaped snail, and held it out to Su Yun. "Look, it's even bigger than yours."
Su Yun took a look and exclaimed, "Oh, it really is a huge one—a golden apple snail!"
"Hey, you can't eat this," Su Yun said, pointing to the golden apple snail in Ye Feng's hand.
"Can't we eat them? I thought these big ones were good, and I picked up a lot more. Now I'll pick them up and throw them away." As he spoke, he rummaged around and found a few more giant snails of similar size in the bucket, intending to throw them away.
"You picked up so many golden apple snails?" Su Yun looked at the snails in his palm in surprise, about a dozen of them, and saw that Ye Feng was about to throw them away.
Su Yun suddenly noticed that there were a few snails mixed in with the pile of "giant" snails, so she quickly stopped them, saying, "Hey, wait a minute, don't throw them away, these snails are edible."
Night Breeze stopped what he was doing, turned around and looked at her in confusion, "What?"
"Wait, let me see." Su Yun leaned over and rummaged through the snails for a while. Sure enough, she picked out a few large snails from Ye Feng's hand. Holding up the snails she had picked up, she said, "These are snails, they're edible, don't waste them."
Ye Feng looked at the snail in her hand with a puzzled expression, "What's the difference between this and the one in my hand? How can it be eaten?"
"Huh?" Su Yun paused, looking somewhat embarrassed. "They do look very similar, but there are actually quite a few differences. Look, the river snail's tail is a bit more pointed, and its shell is a bit greener, while the apple snail's tail is rounder and flatter, and it's not edible." Su Yun placed the river snail in her palm, then picked up an apple snail and compared them.
Ye Feng stared blankly at the two extremely similar snails in Su Yun's hand, utterly bewildered. "These two are clearly identical..."
"Sigh, it's a bit difficult to tell the difference. I have to examine it carefully to distinguish it... This one..." The flesh of the golden apple snail is rather coarse and contains many parasites. Due to its unique flattened, thick shell, it's not easy to cook thoroughly, making it prone to parasitic infections. It's best not to eat it.
Night Wind: "Parasits? Infection? I don't understand."
"It means that eating undercooked snails will make you sick."
"Then can we eat it once it's cooked?" Ye Feng's attitude towards food has always been clear: if there's food to eat, we shouldn't waste it.
"To be fair, it's not impossible. It's just that..." Su Yun hesitated. She had been taught from a young age not to eat golden apple snails, so even under these circumstances, Su Yun still didn't really like eating them...
Night Breeze: "It's alright, Su Yun. If you don't like it, then don't eat it. I'll just pick them all up."
"Huh?" Su Yun rarely saw Ye Feng so easily give up on food. "But...but..."
Seeing the other person's distressed expression, Su Yun suddenly had a flash of inspiration. Humans are afraid of parasites and can't eat them, but animals can! That way, nothing will be wasted.
So she quickly said, "It's okay, let's keep it. If we can't eat it, we can feed it to the ducks. Anyway, it's all in shell, and ducks love to eat that."
"Hmm? Like snails?" It's been raining a lot lately, and the two of them have collected snails to feed the ducks quite often, so they're very familiar with this.
“Yes! They’re all shelled anyway, and ducks love them. But I wonder if they’ll get parasites. It’s better to cook them before feeding them.” Su Yun thought for a moment and decided it was a good idea. “Let’s collect them first!”
"Okay, sure!" Seeing that the snail wasn't wasted in the end, Ye Feng became happy again.
So the two of them resumed their joyful time collecting screws.
"Hey, there's a crab here." When Su Yun turned over a small stone, he found a river crab hiding under it, motionless and holding the small stone. He reached out and pressed down on its gray shell.
The small river crab, as small as a pebble, was resting under the rocks when Su Yun suddenly grabbed it and pinned it down. It frantically struggled, brandishing its sharp pincers.
Su Yun, feeling playful, pointed her finger at the little pliers. "Hehe, you can't grab it, you can't grab it, I'll make you so mad~ I'll make you so mad~"
The night wind, with its sharp ears, turned its head. "What? Are you talking to me?"
Su Yun held up the small, clawing crab in his hand and said, "No, I'm talking to it. Look! I caught a crab."
"Crab?"
"Yes, look, this is it." Su Yun held up the crab and waved it in front of Ye Feng. "When I first came here, they were all small crabs, but they seem bigger now. Come on, let's go home together~"
Su Yun smiled and put the crabs into the iron bucket, saying, "Add more food, add more food."
"Can we eat this too?" Ye Feng asked curiously as she tossed the small crab into the bucket.
"Yes, yes, it's really delicious when stir-fried with scallions!"
“I just saw a lot of them, but I didn’t catch any. So I’m going to catch some too.”
"Okay, catch more. We can stir-fry some ginger and scallion river crabs tonight, but don't bother with the really small ones." This was the principle she and Ye Feng agreed on: no matter what kind of prey they caught, they wouldn't accept anything too small or pregnant, after all, it's all about sustainable development!
Night Breeze nodded: "Yes, I know."
......
The two of them spent the whole morning searching in the stream in the light rain, and finally harvested half a bucket of snails, a dozen or so small river crabs, and a silly fish caught by the night wind.
"This fish is so clumsy. When it saw you touching the snails, it actually managed to crawl under your feet."
Night Wind moved swiftly, and of course, it caught the foolish fish that had walked right into its trap and brought it to justice.
"It's not that it's stupid, it's that I'm fast."
"Oh? Is that so?" Su Yun was a little skeptical. After all, this wasn't on land, and Su Yun always felt that felines wouldn't be as agile in the water.
Ye Feng looked at Su Yun's suspicious gaze and remained silent.
The two continued to collect snails for a while.
Gradually, the drizzle, which had been fine, began to intensify. Seeing that it was about to pour, Su Yun, adjusting her raincoat, called out to the night wind in the distance, "It's almost time! It's going to rain heavily! Let's go back quickly!"
"Okay!" Ye Feng replied, his eyes still darting around, somewhat reluctant to leave.
"Stop picking them up! We can't pick them all up. Let's come back next time. We'll get soaked if it rains too hard later!"
"Oh—" Ye Feng replied and began to slowly wade back through the water, his eyes still lingering on the water with reluctance.
What are you looking at?
Favorite stone?
Just as Su Yun was about to ask, Ye Feng suddenly moved. With a flash of black shadow, Ye Feng caught another fish in the blink of an eye. He then held up the fish with great joy and pride, smiling at Su Yun.
The meaning is self-evident.
See? See? I'm amazing! Praise me! Praise me!
Watching the other's constantly wagging tail, Su Yun thought to herself, "When did I pick up this habit from Rose? I start wagging my tail whenever I get excited."
Seeing the other person's expression that begged for praise, Su Yun deliberately refused to say anything. She pretended to be serious and said, "Hmm, not bad, not bad. You're really lucky today. Another silly fish."
Night Breeze: ? ? ? What happened to the praise? He worked so hard to prove himself.
"Huh?" Ye Feng stared blankly at the fish, his ears drooping slightly and his tail ceasing to wag.
"They really write everything down at the end!" Su Yun couldn't help but chuckle. "I was just kidding! Of course, it's not just good luck, it's because you're amazing!"
Hoping to return to the human world, the little tail wagged proudly again, adding, "Rose said women like strong men. How wonderful..."
This time it was Su Yun's turn to be startled. She stumbled and almost fell.
What... what kind of strange statement is this? What's so great about it?
Just how much pornographic material did Rose secretly feed her cat?
Su Yun glanced at Ye Feng's expression again. The other person was still looking at her innocently, still happy about the praise. It seemed that the other person only took the "amazing" comment as a compliment from Su Yun.
Ah, thank goodness, thank goodness her cat is naturally innocent and hasn't been corrupted, otherwise the consequences would have been unimaginable...
However, if things continued like this, Su Yun coughed and said seriously, "What's all this talk about being amazing or not? No matter what Rose taught you, forget it immediately, forget it all. It's all a lie."
"Huh?" Ye Feng looked completely bewildered.
Why so suddenly? Is there something I didn't do well enough? I was just saying this morning that Rose taught me well. Sure enough, just like Rose said, women are not good at expressing themselves. The more they say they don't want something, the more they want it.
But Su Yun clearly said no.
Whose advice should we listen to?
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Looking at the girl with a slightly flushed face, Rose's talk about dating and such is really complicated, and Meow can't learn it.
Thus, Night Breeze Cat Life fell into confusion.
Author's Note:
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