Inside the closet, Lin Shanyue was feeling drowsy from the warmth of the room when she suddenly heard the door open and snapped awake.
Through the crack, she only saw a figure flash by, and she held her breath in tension. But soon, she smelled a rich and tempting aroma of food.
It tastes like meat!
It smells even better than the food she just ate!
Lin Shanyue couldn't help but swallow. Wasn't it said that the beastmen ate raw meat and drank raw blood, and that their food was extremely unpalatable? How could it smell so good? What was this beastman eating?
Could it be that they misunderstand the Orcs?
The room was quiet. Lin Shanyue knew that the beastmen were inside, but she didn't dare to open the cabinet to look. Her mind, however, had already wandered outside.
I really want to know what they eat outside!
"If only this beastman would still leave the leftovers in the house like before..." Lin Shanyue murmured to herself.
Whether it was the gods who heard her prayers or not, the beastmen outside actually got up and came out of the house again.
Hearing the footsteps fade away and there was no further movement outside, it seemed they had gone to other rooms. Lin Shanyue finally couldn't hold back any longer, took a deep breath, and carefully opened the cabinet.
The house was indeed empty.
An enticing aroma wafted over, and Lin Shanyue, her limbs stiff, emerged from the cabinet and eagerly went to the table.
Her eyes widened when she saw the huge bowl full of meat.
"Beastmen, how extravagant! Aren't you going to eat it all?" She swallowed hard and whispered, "It's a waste to throw it away. Since you're not going to eat it, I'll help you finish a little bit, just a little..."
Instead of taking the meat from the basin, she took the chicken leg that had been bitten twice and was in the bowl.
It was what the orc left over.
She was thinking she'd only eat a little bit and leave after finishing the chicken leg, but her mouth and hands wouldn't obey her. After finishing one chicken leg, she couldn't resist grabbing a second one, followed by pig's trotters...
By the end of the meal, Lin Shanyue had lost all will to escape. While gnawing on the tender and juicy pig's trotters, she thought to herself, "Even if I had to die here after this meal, it would be worth it."
"Who said the beastmen were barbaric and backward? It's warm here, the food is delicious, it's simply paradise..." Lin Shanyue couldn't help but exclaim.
Lin Shanyue couldn't eat anymore after eating half of the bowl of meat. She looked at the remaining meat in the bowl with a reluctant expression. If it weren't inconvenient to take it with her, she would have liked to take the whole bowl with her.
Lin Shanyue took a breath. Before that beastman returned, she needed to find a safe place to hide.
Thinking about it, she quickly left the place.
...
outside the house.
At Lin Xia's invitation, Su Tang and Hu Shen brought their five children over for a free meal.
Su Tang felt that her poor cooking skills were inextricably linked to her mother and Hu Shen; one prevented her from cooking, and the other wouldn't let her into the kitchen.
The five little ones seemed to have smelled the aroma of food and ran ahead of the group, entering the gate first.
When it was time for dinner, Su Jianyuan returned with Xiao Fu. The two of them were drenched in sweat, and anyone who didn't know better would think they had been to a sauna.
Seeing this, Lin Xia hurriedly urged the two to go back to the house to change their clothes, and then went into the kitchen to prepare to bring out the dishes.
As soon as Su Tang entered, she heard a gasp from the kitchen.
"Where are my dishes? Who ate them?"
When Su Tang entered the kitchen, she saw Lin Xia holding a pot lid, staring intently at the food in the pot.
"What's wrong, Mother?"
"My food has decreased, which is strange. I clearly stewed four pig's trotters, but now there are only three left. There are also two fewer chicken legs, and the amount of food on the plate has decreased..."
While checking the vegetables in the kitchen, Lin Xia asked, "Has a thief broken into the house?"
Su Shiwei, who had just come from the inner room, heard this and said without changing her expression, "Is someone hungry? Have you eaten first?"
"Who will eat first? The second son and Xiao Fu just got back." Lin Xia was saying when she suddenly saw the five little ones outside the door.
"Da Bao, did you eat it?"
The five little ones all looked up at Lin Xia, blinking at her with innocent expressions.
Before they could explain, Su Shiwei continued, "Mother, Dabao and the others are still young, it's normal that they can't control themselves. Just close the kitchen door properly next time."
The five kids, who were inexplicably blamed for stealing food: "???"
Now Lin Xia and Su Tang no longer had any doubts and were certain that it was the kids who did it.
Su Tang pulled the five children outside and gave them a long lecture.
Su Shiwei, on the other hand, was indifferent to the matter. He comforted Lin Xia for a few moments and helped carry the remaining dishes out.
There are so many people in the family that we eat in the living room, where we set up two large, low tables.
There's a fireplace in the living room, so the whole house is warm and cozy, and you don't have to worry about the food getting cold when you bring it out.
Before long, the whole family of more than ten people arrived.
Lin Xia and her husband lived in the middle stone house, Su Shiwei lived on the far right, and Xiao Fu and Su Jianyuan were close, so they lived together in the fourth stone house.
The two rooms on the left were where Daqing and Yingliu lived.
There is a corridor connecting the back of the stone house, with a roof to shelter it from the wind and snow. When the family eats together, they usually eat at the old couple's house, which makes it convenient for the family to move around.
"The meat you just ate will be deducted from your portions for today. Don't you dare steal it again," Su Tang said to the five children.
"Ahem." Su Shiwei coughed lightly, her fist to her lips. "Dabao and the others are growing a lot, don't be so strict."
As she spoke, she cut half of her portion into the children's food bowls.
"Eat."
Da Bao hesitated for a moment, his round, beastly eyes filled with confusion, as if he didn't understand why his uncle, who had just slandered them, was suddenly being so kind to them.
After thinking about it, I still couldn't figure it out, so I decided to just focus on eating the meat.
What you eat is what you truly own.
Seeing that their elder brother had eaten, the remaining four children also began to eat.
Feelings of injustice come quickly, but they also go quickly.
Su Tang looked at Su Shiwei strangely. Why was she suddenly spoiling the kids so much today?
She remembered that her brother wasn't like this before.
Su Tang's doubts didn't last long. After eating and drinking her fill, she remembered yesterday's plans.
Just then, Hu Shen had to go deal with matters at Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain, so Su Tang made an excuse to send Da Qing and Ying Liu'er away, and told Lin Xia about teaching the orcs how to make dry rations.
"No problem! This is easy, leave it to me."
Lin Xia readily agreed.
She had nothing to do all day, and since it was snow season and she couldn't go out, and she was unfamiliar with the area around Wan Shou Shan, she could only stay at home and cook.
She was more than willing to teach the orcs how to make rations.
People her age are afraid of being idle. She's happy as long as she has something to do.
As for the stingy idea of not wanting to share the method, she never even considered it.
Hu Shen is now her daughter's partner; helping Wan Shou Shan is helping her daughter.
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