Chapter 006
In the afternoon, Qing Xizhen carried a hoe and dug several deep and shallow traps not far from the temple. Then she used a spare kitchen knife she bought in the food city to cut some long wooden tips and inserted them upside down at the bottom of the traps. Finally, she found some large leaves and spread them on the surface of the traps.
After making a mark on where the trap was, Qingxi went back carrying the hoe.
After all, she set these traps for Youta, Sho, Airi, Sayo, and Beimeijima Gyomei to see, and she didn't care whether they could catch the prey or not.
In order to avoid eating the bland soup made by Airi for three meals a day, Qingxi went home early today.
In order to be able to eat good food, she decided that at least one of the meals at home every day must be prepared by her.
Just think about it, she traveled back from the world of food, but couldn't find her home and ended up in another world. She couldn't eat the delicious food openly. It was too difficult, really, it was too difficult for her.
Qingxi became more and more angry as he thought about it, so he followed Airi to a nearby stream and started chopping the wild rabbit in his hand.
Skin it, bleed it, and remove the internal organs. Discard the smashed meat and the head... Because wild rabbits carry a large number of parasites and viruses, Qingxi handles it with the dialysis eye on. By the time she finishes, the only thing that can be eaten is the half of the rabbit below the belly.
Airi, who was squatting on the side and watching the whole process in a daze, said: "..." Can she beat up this bad boy who spent the whole family?
Qingxi explained: "Those cannot be eaten. They contain parasites and viruses."
Airi looked dead in the eyes: Where? Why didn’t I see it?
Qingxi: "..." This, she really couldn't explain it well.
Qingxi picked up the unwanted rabbit fur and meat and threw them into the stream without Airi's help. He then stuffed the remaining half of the processed rabbit into her hand, and she lifted up her long skirt, went into the stream barefoot with the bamboo basket.
The stream water was very clear and shallow near the shore. Qing Xiren stood at the place where she had thrown the rabbit fur and meat and waited quietly. When the fish in the stream were attracted by the food here, she put a bamboo basket down and caught three fat carp.
After catching this wave of fish, Qingxi stopped catching fish and hit the head of the fish that was flapping its wings in the bamboo basket. Although the tail of the fish was still shaking, it was much better than before.
Qingxi secretly sighed in his heart.
Once she returned to the time before liberation, the skills she had learned before would be greatly reduced.
Airi took the fish from Qingxi's hand and pulled her out of the stream with her other hand.
With the rabbit meat and three fat fish, Airi chose to accept Qingxi's previous wasteful behavior.
On the shore, Qingxi used the kitchen knife from the temple to scrape the scales, remove the internal organs and gills of all three fish. Finally, he rinsed them with stream water, separated them from the rabbit meat with a large leaf, and put them into a bamboo basket before returning home.
How to eat rabbit deliciously?
Qingxi could immediately think of seventeen or eighteen different ones in his mind.
However, most of them were spicy recipes, and in her limited memory, there were not many people in Japan who could eat spicy food, and the spicy food they made here was not spicy at all in her opinion.
This is a difficult situation.
Just when Qingxi was having a headache because she had the ingredients but couldn't get them out, Beimingyu Xingming mentioned that they had pickled a jar of vegetables before, and if they calculated the time, it was just the right time to eat them. So she followed Airi to take a look.
After looking at the pickled vegetables, she decided on the spot to use the pickled vegetables to make a pot of pickled rabbit.
Dice the rabbit. If you don't have oil, you can only boil it in a pot with water. When the rabbit meat is 70% to 80% cooked, add the pickled vegetables that have also been diced and cook together. When the juice is reduced, sprinkle a little MSG from the chicken with level 1 MSG and it's done.
There was no need to think about the remaining three fish. There was nothing to be found in the temple, so she could only use them to make soup. After that, she had to find an excuse to go to the mountains to take out the fishy smell-removing ginger with a capture level of 0 from her food backpack and throw it into the fish soup to remove the fishy smell.
Yangtai and Xiang came back, and as soon as they came back, the smiles on their faces could not be wiped away.
"Judging from your appearance, the pheasant must have been sold for a good price," Qingxi said.
"We met a wealthy boss who seemed to be planning to entertain someone, so he bought it from us for four yuan." Yang Tai said as he took out the money from his pocket. "We bought the pot you asked us to buy, and some vegetables. This is all the money left. Ah Xi, keep it."
Qingxi took the money handed over by the other party and put it together with the 62 coins they gave her in the morning. Well, don't ask her why it was 62 instead of 63. If you want to divide the money, just be fair. Give them one cent, and she will naturally get one cent as well.
"You've worked hard today." She pushed Yangta and said, "Go and rest. I'll make dinner."
When they heard that Qingxi would be the one doing it that night, both Yangtai and Xiang's eyes lit up.
Those who understand will understand. Ah Xi’s cooking is generous with plenty of ingredients, so it tastes very good.
Airi, who was standing by, put her hands on her hips and was very angry.
"What? What's with that look on your face? I'm just worried that we'll run out of rice at home soon."
"It's okay, it's okay." Qingxi comforted the only three girls in the family and said, "There are still a lot of wild animals in the mountains recently. We should be more diligent. Although we can't eat thick rice porridge three times a day, we can still eat it once a day.
Airi will be in charge of two meals, and I will be in charge of one, and we will both be the chefs for everyone."
Airi felt a little flattered by Qingxi's word "chef". Although she felt that there seemed to be something wrong in her words, she thought about it again and felt that there seemed to be no problem, so she let it go. However, Beimingyu Xingming, who had been recuperating in the temple for the past two days, heard the subtext of Qingxi's words. Hearing Airi's silly words of "Yes, I am also a chef", his mouth twitched again and again, and he tried very hard to hold back his laughter.
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On the third day in Meiji, Qingxi was silently woken up by Airi while everyone else was still sleeping.
There was nothing for Yangta and Xiang to sell in the town today, so Airi was thinking about the trap that Qingxi had set in the mountains and the wild fruits in the mountains.
Qingxi was so annoyed by her that she had no choice but to crawl out of the bed.
Beimingyu Xingming, who had woken up after hearing the noise here, opened his eyes and sat up at this time.
"Teacher, did we disturb you?"
"Hey! Mr. Beimingyu, did you disturb my rest?"
Two soft and tender girls' voices rang out at the same time, but even so, both of them subconsciously lowered their voices so as not to disturb Youta, Xiang, Sayo and the other three who were still sleeping.
Beimingyu Xingming tried to move his body and found that the broken ribs no longer hurt. He said, "I am worried about you two girls going out. I will go with you."
So, the original group of two people became a group of three consisting of a young man and two children.
Qingxi was walking in front, leading the two people behind her to the place where she had dug the trap. She was not as energetic as Airi. In fact, she was not suitable for sleeping in a large bunk bed with several people. Compared with sleeping with several people, she preferred to sleep alone. So this led to her becoming less and less energetic over the past three days.
Feeling someone tugging at the hem of his sleeve, Qingxi focused his somewhat dilated pupils on Airi's face.
"What's wrong?" she asked.
Airi pointed ahead and asked uncertainly, "Aki, you said before that if prey falls into the trap, the trap will be exposed, right?
Is that the trap you dug over there in front? I saw one sticking out."
Qingxi perked up a little, looked in the direction that Airi pointed, and muttered in his heart.
No way, no way, could prey fall into the pit she dug so casually? How could that be so blind!
After confirming that there was indeed a pit, Qingxi was speechless. The three of them walked closer to take a look, and saw a wild rabbit in the trap with a wooden spike piercing its body, deader than dead.
Qingxi went down the wall of the pit and picked up the dead wild rabbit, and at the same time put the wooden spike that was stuck in its body back to its original position.
"Let's sell this one." Qingxi climbed out of the pit, patted the dirt on his palms, and said to Airi.
They just ate rabbit yesterday, and there is still some left in the pot. If she has another rabbit, it seems that she can only make pickled rabbit... But she wants to eat spicy rabbit head, sauerkraut rabbit, pickled pepper rabbit cubes, and fresh pot rabbit with young ginger.
Airi, who was not on the same wavelength as Qingxi, was still thinking about saving money to buy everyone new clothes for the winter, so she also agreed to take the rabbit to the town to sell it.
They covered the trap on this side with large leaves again, and then the three of them carried the hare back.
After eating the heart-shaped (crossed out) breakfast made by Airi, Youta and Xiang prepared to go out again, but this time, there was an adult among them.
"Teacher, are you feeling better now? That's great." Yang Tai held Beimingyu Xingming's left hand and walked down the mountain step by step.
Xiang held his right hand and said, "Yes, yes, if the teacher's health is not good in a few days, Brother Yangtai and I will go to the town to ask a doctor to come back to help the teacher."
Yang Tai nodded: "However, Ah Xi's medicine is really effective. If the ribs were broken, I heard that the doctor in town would need at least more than a month of recuperation, but the teacher recovered in three days."
"I'm not well yet. I can just walk." Beimingyu Xingming explained briefly.
The two boys immediately focused their attention upon hearing this, and held Beimingyu Xingming between them, one on each side, as they were afraid that he would run out of energy while walking, or that one of them would bump into something and break his ribs, which were the only part of his body that allowed him to walk.
Even though Beimingyu Xingming couldn't see it, he could still feel the nervous look.
However, what he was thinking about at the moment was something else.
He lied to Yota and Xiang, saying that he was completely healed, but he didn't want the two children to tell others without knowing anything, thus causing unnecessary trouble for Qingxi.
Her sudden appearance helped them avoid being eaten by ghosts. Later, she stood up to guide public opinion and removed the title of murderer from her head. In just three days, she took the children to sell wild fruits and animals and earned enough money so that they didn't have to worry about food for a short time.
After the incident with the ghost, he knew that even though the misunderstanding between him and the children had been resolved, the fact that the children he raised had betrayed him was an indisputable fact.
He thought that he would still help children in need in the future, but he could not get rid of the wariness towards children in his heart.
Beimingyu Xingming used his big hands to support the two small hands that were holding him.
Of course, these children are different to him.
The topic has strayed a bit, so let's get back to the point. To summarize, his feelings for Qingxi are even more complicated than those for Youta's four children. I won't go into the rest of the story; let's just wait and see.
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