Chapter 55 Wang Dani
Liu Ye nodded, nestled in Bai Zilin's arms, her heart pounding with excitement. She was trembling all over, and the scent that Bai Zilin carried made her feel weak...
She quickly got out of Bai Zilin's arms and calmed her pounding heart: "Brother Bai, can you help me plant the garden?"
Bai Zilin wiped his flushed face and looked at the garden behind him: "Why bother with a garden? We're building a house tomorrow. If you plant vegetables, they'll just get trampled by the workers. And the garden will need bricks, gravel, wood, and stuff like that. Don't plant anything. If you want vegetables, just go to the village and buy them. Uncle Wang has a whole garden of vegetables next door. I'll go buy some in a bit."
Upon hearing this, Liu Ye exclaimed, "Of course! How could I have forgotten about building the house? You don't need to go buy it. Just wait for me to go. Oh, right, I forgot to ask, we don't need to provide meals, do we?"
Bai Zilin shook his head and said, "No need, we've already contracted everything to Liu the bricklayer. We've paid him and we don't have to worry about anything. It's still early, I'll go up the mountain to chop some more firewood. You stay home and watch the house."
Liu Ye nodded, and Bai Zilin drove the oxcart into the mountains. Actually, she also wanted to go up the mountain to smuggle the wild duck eggs out of her space. She also wanted to go to the town. She was tired of eating coarse grains every day and wanted to eat rice and wheat flour. The grains in her space were all unprocessed, and she would have to find a place to process them.
I wonder if she can process wheat into noodles in her online space. She hasn't tried it yet. I'll wait and see if she can.
Liu Ye came to the kitchen, waved her hand at the basin, and took out three cucumbers, three tomatoes, a large bunch of spinach, a large bunch of chives, a bunch of scallions, five or six peppers, and more than ten potatoes from her spatial storage. Okay, that's enough. She was about to tell Brother Bai that she bought these from the village.
It was almost noon, so what should she cook? She had an idea! For lunch, she would stir-fry smoked chicken with chili and cucumber, and make a pot of steamed mixed grain rice. Okay, it would definitely be delicious; there wasn't a single dish in her space that wasn't tasty.
At noon, Bai Zilin returned from the mountains with a cartload of firewood. After unloading, Liu Ye called him back to the house for lunch. During the meal, Bai Zilin ate his mixed grain rice and vegetables with great relish. He didn't even ask Liu Ye where the vegetables came from, assuming that she had bought them in the village. After lunch, he drove the oxcart up the mountain to chop more firewood.
After Liu Ye finished washing the dishes and returned to her room, she flashed into her spatial dimension. She walked to the pile of wheat and thought to herself, "I'll process the wheat into flour." A miracle happened. The pile of wheat flashed with golden light and turned into white flour.
Good heavens, that's amazing! "Hahaha, now she'll have white flour to eat. Oh, and rice too, she'll want rice as well."
She walked up to the pile of rice, thinking about processing the rice into rice. Suddenly, the pile of rice flashed with golden light and instantly turned into white rice.
"Hahaha, she succeeded again! That's great, she can have rice again."
After Liu Ye finished being happy, she went to the side to get a rice bag, filled it halfway with rice and halfway with flour. She couldn't take it out to eat yet; she would have to go to the market to smuggle the rice and flour out.
Although it was raining in Xiancheng, food was still very expensive. Everything related to food was expensive, and oil was also very expensive. She and Brother Bai bought two catties of rapeseed oil, which cost one tael of silver. It was ridiculously expensive. Buying some food was like being robbed.
She approached the wild boar, then looked at the domestic pigs beside it. The pork fat was fragrant and delicious, and the pork itself was also tasty. Perhaps she should process both pigs and smuggle the pork fat out to make a living. There was no pork for sale in town right now; the only pork available was smoked bacon, all imported from the south, and ridiculously expensive.
Without hesitation, she grabbed a machete and chopped at the wild boar's head. An hour later, she had easily butchered the boar. The boar's skin was covered in hair, so she cut off all the skin and discarded it. The pork fat filled five large basins, weighing over 100 jin (50 kg). She didn't plan to keep the contents of the boar's belly; she would throw them up the mountain when she had the chance.
The rest were all good meat: pork kidneys, lean pork, four large pig legs, pig's head, pig's trotters, a huge pile of meat, stacked into a small mountain, weighing over 200 jin (100 kg).
Okay, this huge pile of meat is enough for her and Brother Bai to eat for a long time. As for the other domestic pig, we'll deal with it later. She needs to hurry up and get out of here, otherwise Brother Bai might think something happened to her when he comes back and doesn't see her.
Liu Ye washed her hands and then flashed out of the space. A moment later, Bai Zilin returned and handed Liu Ye a bag full of wild eggs: "I almost crushed them. We'll stew them tonight."
Liu Ye took the eggs and saw that there were quite a few, 15 wild eggs: "Okay, let's stew the wild eggs tonight and have them. Tomorrow morning I'll stir-fry the eggs with chives. Brother Bai, I'd like to go to town another day to buy some rice and flour. I want to eat dumplings and also some white porridge..."
Bai Zilin looked at her with a doting expression and said, "Go if you want to. Why don't you go tomorrow? The workers will come to do the work tomorrow, and you won't have to do anything. I'll take care of things. Go to town and have a look around. Buy whatever you like."
“If you don’t need our oxcart, you can take it. If you do need it, you can walk. Our village isn’t far from the town anyway.”
Liu Ye nodded happily: "Okay, I'll go cook then."
The next day, just after Bai Zilin and Liu Ye finished breakfast, Liu the bricklayer arrived with 25 workers to start work. They took hammers and began demolishing the house, raising clouds of dust. The broken pieces of earth that were smashed down had to be hauled to the hillside by oxcart and dumped.
Bai Zilin put the machete into Liu Ye's basket and reminded her, "Be careful, go early and come back early. If anyone with ill intentions tries to talk to you, run away immediately."
"Okay, Brother Bai, I'm off," Liu Ye said, carrying her basket and heading into the village. But as soon as she reached the gate of the Wang family's house, Wang Dani saw her and ran out of the yard to stop her: "Wait a minute, your name is Liu Ye, right? Where are you going?"
Liu Ye thought to herself, "What I call myself is none of your business, and what I do is none of your concern!"
At this moment, Wang Dani's mother, Aunt Wang, also came out of the house. She came to the front door with a smile and asked Liu Ye, "Oh, Liu Ye, where are you going? Dani is bored at home. Let her go for a walk with you. You two are about the same age and can play together."
Liu Ye said in a cold and distant voice, "I'm going to town to buy some things, not to go anywhere for fun. Aunt Wang, you stay here with me, I'm leaving."
Just as Liu Ye lifted her foot, Aunt Wang pulled her back: "What a coincidence! Dani also wants to go to town for a stroll. It's perfect that you two go together so you can keep each other company. Dani, you should go back inside and get a basket."
Upon hearing this, Wang Daniu quickly ran back into the house. When she came out again, she was carrying a backpack on her back.
Liu Ye rolled her eyes speechlessly and said, "Then let's go together."
Aunt Wang smiled and waved to the two of them, saying, "Be careful!"
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