CHAPTER 96: CHAPTER 96 HAVE YOU BEEN TO MU YUANXIU’S HOME? (2)

Worry about your uncle!

Li Yuzhu huffed back to the front of the mountain cave.

In order not to arouse suspicion, Li Yuzhu hid that set of clothes in the crook of a tree, planning to retrieve them in a few days.

Princess Consort Luling had already woken up from her nap, sitting in the cave, playing with Guoguo. Seeing Li Yuzhu return with a long face, she asked in confusion, "Yuzhu, what’s wrong?"

Ever since they arrived at Niu Tou Mountain, the youngest daughter was always cheerful. How unexpectedly strange, her face looked so displeased today.

"It’s this wild chicken!" Li Yuzhu didn’t want Princess Consort Luling to overthink, so she shook the wild chicken in her hand, "It’s really wild, flapping and jumping around; it took a lot of effort to catch it, wore me out."

She threw the wild chicken on the ground, and with a tilt of her body, sat down on a stone in front of the cave.

Princess Consort Luling laughed, such a child’s temper, getting mad at a wild chicken.

"Next time if you catch one, great, if not, just let it go, don’t get upset." she said with a smile.

"Yeah, next time I’ll keep a distance from it!" Li Yuzhu cheered up, stood up, "Time to slaughter the wild chicken!"

Right, what’s the point in getting upset?

We adults should be magnanimous, not fuss over childish antics!

"Go on, go on." Princess Consort Luling nodded with a smile. This child is indeed capable, the family owes a lot to this little daughter.

Although it was still early for dinner, slaughtering and cleaning the wild chicken and stewing chicken soup took a lot of time, so Li Yuzhu got busy right away.

She tossed the wild chicken into an old clay basin.

Then, she boiled a potful of water.

After bleeding the wild chicken, Li Yuzhu immediately scooped two ladles of hot water with a gourd ladle and poured it over the wild chicken.

Once scalded with hot water, the feathers of the poultry can be plucked quickly.

The wild chickens are generally not large, rarely exceeding three pounds.

The wild chicken Li Yuzhu caught weighed just a bit over two pounds, after plucking and gutting, there wasn’t much meat left.

Besides her toothless niece, there were ten others who could eat meat, and a two-pound chicken definitely wasn’t enough.

After cleaning, Li Yuzhu cut the chicken meat into smaller pieces, ensuring everyone could have two pieces each.

Then, she took some dried wild jujubes from her storage space, washed them, and soaked them in a bowl with hot water.

They would be used for the soup later.

These were picked while she was gathering herbs in the forest.

On a crooked jujube tree, sparsely hung some wild jujubes.

She plucked them and counted; there were more than thirty.

After lighting the stove, Li Yuzhu placed a small iron pot over it.

She drizzled a little clear oil into the pot, and as the oil heated up, she immediately added the chopped chicken pieces to stir-fry. Once it sizzled, she tossed in the soaked dried jujubes, stir-fried slightly, then sprinkled in some salt and a pinch of pepper. The pot gradually filled with a fragrant aroma.

She scooped a ladle of water into the pot, once the soup boiled, she poured it into a small clay pot to simmer over low heat.

With that done, she headed over to the large stove to start cooking rice and stir-fry some vegetables.

With wild chicken soup, there’s no need for the troublesome dumplings.

Since everyone contributed today, she decided to make a pot of dry rice to replenish the family’s energy.

The dishes would be stir-fried shepherd’s purse and wild chicken soup.

An hour later, the wild chicken soup was tender, and everyone returned.

From afar, Li Xing’an and the Commandery Princess, who already smelled the aroma, ran eagerly to the stove.

"Third Sister, what’s for dinner?"

"Wild chicken soup." Li Yuzhu proudly raised her eyebrows.

"Third Sister, did you visit Mu Yuanxiu’s house?" Second Young Master suddenly came over to ask.

Li Yuzhu was taken aback, how did Second Brother know?