Over the years as a housewife, Lin Xia has honed her skills to be equally adept at social graces and domestic duties.
Upon arriving at the riverbank, they quickly skinned the rabbit, gutted it, and removed the inedible internal organs, setting them aside.
They wrapped the cleaned rabbit in leaves and cut the pheasant's throat to drain the blood.
The pheasant needs to be scalded with boiling water before plucking its feathers; we just need to go back and boil water to process it.
The rabbit skin was completely skinned, and Lin Xia didn't waste it. She cleaned the rabbit skin, dried it, and saved it to make clothes for her daughter later.
After a flurry of activity, Su Tang and Su Guodong went together to throw the entrails away to prevent wild animals from smelling the blood and getting close enough to find their hut.
That inevitably led to another chaotic scene in the middle of the night.
When the three returned with the rabbit and pheasant, Su Jianyuan had already started a fire.
Xiao Fu was squatting in front of the fire, carefully poking at the flames with a thin stick.
"Mother! Sister! You're back..."
Upon seeing Su Tang and the other two return, Xiao Fu immediately threw down the stick and rushed towards Su Tang with a fawning expression.
"Do you need any help? Sister, I can do chores too!"
Su Tang looked puzzled. How come this little wolf cub is so different from yesterday?
Could it be that his body was possessed by another soul?
Su Tang initially wanted to tell him to just wait and eat, but seeing Xiao Fu's bright, sparkling eyes, she casually said:
"Then you go and watch the fire, make sure it doesn't go out."
In fact, Su Jianyuan was very good at starting a fire. The wood was all laid out properly, so it wouldn't go out even without Xiao Fu watching over it.
"Okay, sister, I'll go right now." Xiao Fu happily ran to the fire and continued to squat down.
Su Guodong and Lin Xia exchanged a glance behind them.
What the hell? Has this little wolf cub changed its nature?
The two didn't think much of it. Of course, they hoped their adopted son would be obedient and not suspect them, so they wouldn't have to pretend so hard.
Lin Xia started boiling water and plucking the feathers from the pheasant.
Just like before he transmigrated, Su Guodong assisted his wife.
Su Tang looked around but didn't see her two older brothers. She walked to the fire and asked Xiao Fu:
Where are my brothers?
"My eldest brother said he wanted to make some traps to prevent wild animals from attacking us at night, and he asked my second brother to help him make them," Xiao Fu replied honestly, looking up.
He no longer doubted that his brother's trap was a waste of time.
Today's four prey have already convinced him.
From now on, if anyone says his older brother is a good-for-nothing, he'll be the first to stand up and object!
Su Tang nodded, remembering that her older brother had mentioned this matter that morning.
The sun was already setting, hanging high on the mountaintop, like a red hat on the mountain.
As the sun sets and wisps of smoke rise, the family busies themselves starting a fire and cooking, their days even more fulfilling than before they transmigrated.
When Su Tang came to help, she discovered that their family didn't even have a decent kitchen utensil, and they could only boil water using broken bowls, one bowl at a time.
Looks like I'll have to figure out how to get some kitchenware tomorrow, like pots, pans, and the like.
Otherwise, even if we have the meat, eating will be a problem.
Once the water was boiled, a wicker basket was used as a large tub, lined with several layers of thick leaves, and the pheasant was soaked in the boiling water.
Before long, Lin Xia had plucked all the chicken feathers clean.
"Honey, you've worked hard."
Su Guodong promptly handed Lin Xia a piece of animal hide cut from the animal skin skirt and used it to wipe her hands.
Although he did little housework at home before, the family income depended entirely on him. Now that he's here, he has no money, can't find food, can't afford to build a house, and works even less than his wife and children.
This has led to him feeling a sense of crisis.
I always feel that if I don't do something, I'll be disliked.
Lin Xia glanced at him, pushed him away with the back of her hand, and said disdainfully:
"I'm working, why are you wiping your hands? Go away."
How old are you? Why are you not as sensible as Xiao Fu?
Su Guodong stood aside, feeling wronged. His heart sank. It was over. He was truly useless in this family!
It seems he'll have to work harder from now on, in case his wife gets annoyed with him. It seems like polyandry still exists here, and he doesn't want to be "brothers" with other orcs.
Su Tang sensed the awkward atmosphere and was about to hand her mother the tools when she realized that there was nothing in the house except for a stone knife.
"Mom, we don't even have a cutting board in our house."
Lin Xia clasped her hands together, thought for a moment, then turned to Su Guodong and said:
"Honey, go find a flat stone, wash it clean, and bring it back."
Without tools, we had to make do with what we had on hand.
Upon receiving his assignment, Su Guodong excitedly agreed and eagerly went to find the stones.
He was quick and efficient, and soon found two flat stones.
One piece is thicker, so it can be used as a cutting board to cut meat; the other piece is thinner, so it can be used for grilling meat on a stone slab.
Both stones were quite large; although flat, they weighed several dozen kilograms each. Su Guodong was covered in sweat when he carried the stones back.
Su Tang looked at her father and saw that although his physical strength was not as good as that of the other strong orcs, it was much stronger than before.
As expected, orcs have a racial talent: great strength.
With the "cutting board" ready, Lin Xia quickly butchered a rabbit into eight pieces, while Su Tang used leaves to collect the pieces of rabbit meat for later use.
Meat is prone to attracting insects when left outdoors. If you leave it on the ground, you have to keep a close eye on it, otherwise it will be destroyed by ants and flies in the blink of an eye.
Just as they finished tidying up, Su Jianyuan and Su Shiwei returned.
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