"Okay, go to sleep." Saying that, she opened the trading system and checked the items she wanted to buy. This time, she bought twenty more items. Although she had been thinking about the corpse-dissolving water, it was not available at all. Even the fruit she wanted last time was not available.
The first ten recipes are for desserts, but the rest are books: blueberry tiramisu, strawberry tiramisu, chocolate tiramisu, soy milk tiramisu, crispy tiramisu, snow skin mooncakes, ham mooncakes, lotus seed paste and salted egg yolk mooncakes, flaky pastry mooncakes, and five-nut mooncakes.
The ten books that followed surprised her greatly. She had thought they were just ordinary books, but she hadn't expected them to be books that emperors had to read. If she wasn't mistaken, there were four more. It seemed that the trading system was serious this time and had no choice but to put her grandson on the throne.
Well, just like Shushu said, let nature take its course. Maybe her grandson really is destined to be an emperor. When he's a little older, when he's no longer a baby, I'll give him these books.
Thinking of the books, she realized she hadn't bought any of the medicine, poison, or antidote recipes from her trading system for Xiao Wu. She was just too busy and had completely forgotten about it. She would buy them for him when she got back.
He didn't have time to study the prescription, so he gave it to Doctor Liu so that Xiao Wu could concentrate on studying the poison and antidote, make the trading system disappear, and go to sleep.
The next morning, after breakfast, the two set off. This time, they didn't deliberately search; they dug up whatever they saw, but they still found many things.
That day, the two finally saw a small river with exceptionally clear water. This was their twenty-third day on the mountain. Including the previous days, they had been out for more than a month and six days.
An Shuyi's warehouse already contains many precious medicinal herbs, as well as flower and sapling seedlings, tea trees, poisonous plants, and mushrooms. Because of the rain a few days ago, although it only rained for one night, they were able to pick a lot of mushrooms, both edible and poisonous.
Looking at the little river, An Shuyi said, "Huahua, let's not rush today. Let's clean the mushrooms we picked, sell some of the flowers, plants and saplings, take a bath, and make something delicious. I want to eat roast suckling pig."
Although she had been eating mostly rice and vegetables these past few days, she wanted to try something different. Roast suckling pig, roast mushrooms, roast venison, paired with strong liquor—perfect.
Xia Hua saw that after she finished speaking, she was swallowing her saliva, definitely thinking about delicious food. She could only laugh and say, "Okay, later you can buy the suckling pig and a sheep, make lamb skewers, and save the rest for later."
"It's a pity the cow is too big, otherwise we would have slaughtered one too, so we would have something to eat later." They had eaten this beef when they were fleeing famine, but it had no flavor at all back then, so the two of them just ate a little bit to pretend, without really enjoying it.
Thinking of the delicious beef, An Shuyi nodded, "Okay, let's slaughter one then. It doesn't matter if it's big. We've killed animals bigger than cows before. We don't need the internal organs; they're too much trouble to clean. We just need the meat."
"Put the rest in a box. Cut off a piece whenever you want to eat it. You can have it for hot pot or barbecue. I'll slaughter it now." As he spoke, he bought a cow from the mall.
Looking at the cow beside her, Xia Hua sighed. This silly woman, couldn't she be a little slower? The water isn't even hot yet, and nothing is prepared. But seeing how enthusiastic she was, she didn't want to spoil her mood. Luckily, she wasn't in a hurry to buy the sheep and pigs.
"Tie the cow up with a rope and tie it to the tree. I'll set up the pot, light the fire, and boil water. Once that's done, go find firewood, and gather plenty."
An Shuyi nodded, "I'll go right away." She took the rope from Huahua, tied the cow to a tree nearby, and went to find firewood. She quickly found a large pile, put it in the warehouse, and took it back.
This warehouse is practically a portable house; it can hold anything, and it's not heavy no matter how much you put in it. You can put anything you don't want to carry into the warehouse. There's firewood piled up next to it, and Hua Hua has already started a fire with a big iron pot on top.
After the water was heated, Xia Hua slaughtered the cow. After that, An Shuyi bought the sheep, and then the pig. After all the animals were slaughtered, they began to scrape off the hair, clean them thoroughly, discarding the internal organs, and then clean them again before taking out the prepared boxes.
These boxes are all transparent, just like the boxes used to store tiger meat and venison. The meat is chopped into small pieces, placed in the boxes, and then put into the warehouse when the boxes are full.
It wasn't until noon that the two of them finally finished cleaning all the meat, chopping it into smaller pieces and putting it away. The lamb skewers and suckling pig were also marinated.
"Huahua, bring out two steamed buns. Just have a quick bite, and we'll clean the mushrooms." That way, we can save room for something nice to eat later.
"Okay!" Xia Hua took out four steamed buns, ate them, washed everything clean, put them away, then took out four basins and placed them by the river, and took out two small stools. The two of them sat there and washed the wild mushrooms.
"Huahua, let's wash the termite mushrooms first!" He said, taking all the termite mushrooms from the warehouse and putting them into basins. To avoid crushing them, he didn't put too many in one basin, but put them into three basins. "Huahua, wash them clean and put them in the basins. I'll put them back in the warehouse later."
She can put the washed mushrooms directly into the warehouse, since all the termite mushrooms inside have already been taken out.
"Okay, I'll call you when the basin is full!" Xia Hua said, picking up a termite mushroom and washing it in the stream. This way, she only needed to clean off the mud and sand. If she washed it in a basin, she would need to change the water several times to get it clean.
After washing all the termite mushrooms, we started washing the blue-and-white mushrooms, matsutake mushrooms, green-headed mushrooms, etc. There were more than ten kinds of these wild mushrooms, some more and some less. The most abundant were green-headed mushrooms and milk mushrooms, while the least abundant were dried mushrooms. We only found a few, enough to stir-fry one dish.
After washing the wild mushrooms, it was already dark. While washing the mushrooms, Xia Hua started a fire. Once the fire was no longer smoking, she put the suckling pig on the fire to roast. They could eat it as soon as the two of them finished washing.
They took out the table and stools, and together they took the roast suckling pig down and put it on a tray, letting Shushu eat first. Xiahua put the marinated lamb skewers on the fire to roast, along with green-headed mushrooms, porcini mushrooms, and matsutake mushrooms.
An Shuyi didn't eat first either. She used a knife to cut the roast suckling pig into small pieces and waited for Xia Hua to finish before the two of them started eating.
"Delicious barbecue, mellow liquor, and a close friend—that's what life is all about!" An Shuyi said, taking a big bite of meat after downing a glass of liquor.
Xia Hua ignored her, drank the wine in her glass, and turned back to continue flipping the meat. After all, this silly woman would always sigh when there was good food and strong liquor to drink, and she was already used to it.
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