CHAPTER 150: TAKING THE RISKS FOR HER

Xie Daiyu quickly scraped off the meat from the bones and then cracked the large bones into smaller pieces before handing them all to Ruan Chanchan.

Ruan Chanchan looked down at the meat that Xie Daiyu had handed to her and got up to wash it. Once the meat was washed, she rubbed the crushed spirit dew on it and then put it on the stone slab to roast. As for the soup that had been cooking all night, Ruan Chanchan added the mushrooms just before the meat turned tender. However, as Ruan Chanchan roasted the meat, she couldn’t help but sigh. She had a supermarket as her golden finger, and yet she couldn’t even get her hands on rice. There was no rice and no flour. Every meal was either soup or barbecue. Even she, who had lived off bland rice, felt like she was suffering a little under such circumstances.

Eating barbecue meat every day, no matter how delicious it was, sooner or later, one would start missing rice and pancakes. That too, without any condiments to enhance the flavour.

However, for the sake of her stomach, Ruan Chanchan was willing to eat these meals. But, honestly, she really did miss eating rice. Those shiny, sticky grains—they were calling out to her.

Don’t worry, darling. As long as we continue collecting the goodwill points, sooner or later, you will be able to unlock the granary as well. When Xiao Xi saw that Ruan Chanchan was feeling depressed, he immediately cheered her up. We just need a few more goodwill points.

Ruan Chanchan looked at the number of points that was displayed on the screen and sighed. Indeed, she was rather close to opening the second level. She just needed ten thousand more points. Till then, she would have to continue relying on the seven or eight kinds of fruits that she had found along with the instant noodles.

Xie Daiyu turned to look at Ruan Chanchan and frowned when he saw that she was looking at the roasted meat with a sad look on her face. "Ruan Chanchan, what’s wrong with you? Why are you unhappy?"

"I am hungry," Ruan Chanchan pouted with an aggrieved look on her face. She couldn’t tell Xie Daiyu that she was missing rice, so she had no other choice but to make up a random excuse.

"Just wait a bit more; the meat is about to be roasted. You can eat it," said Xie Daiyu, but when she continued to look upset, he said to her, "Why don’t you eat those instant noodles? If you are hungry, then you can just cook them." At that moment, he couldn’t help but glare at the meat for cooking slowly; his destined one was starving, and yet this thing was taking its own sweet time.

"We might as well have some," said Ruan Chanchan. She couldn’t eat rice, but she could at least eat some light porridge?

Now that she had already decided that she was going to cook some porridge for herself, she was not going to hesitate. She whipped out a few packs of instant porridge and started boiling water.

Seeing that Ruan Chanchan was busy, Xie Daiyu took over the task of roasting the meat. There was only one fire burning in the cave, but even then, the two of them were able to make do. The two of them shared the tasks and easily finished their tasks by sharing the burden.

After Xie Daiyu finished roasting the meat, he placed it on a clean leaf. At the same time, Ruan Chanchan finished boiling the water and poured it into the packets of instant porridge; as for the third packet, she left it alone. By the time they were done, the scent of the thick soup with mushrooms added to it started to waft in the cave. Ruan Chanchan handed the bowl of porridge to Xie Daiyu, along with the soup.

She ladled some soup for herself as well, but before she could take a sip of it, she was stopped by Xie Daiyu.

"Wait, let me taste this soup first. You can eat it later. If you are hungry, eat the barbecue and porridge first." Even though Xie Daiyu believed in Ruan Chanchan’s words, he still wanted to be the first one to test the mushroom soup. What if she made a mistake because her mind was not clear back then? If something happened, then at least he would be able to stomach the poison or toxins involved in the mushrooms. But Ruan Chanchan was too weak to stomach the toxins in her body. There was no way she could stomach these mushrooms if something went wrong.

Ruan Chanchan understood what the mer was trying to do. She felt helpless when she realised that Xie Daiyu still thought that these mushrooms were poisonous. He wanted to eat the mushrooms first to make sure that there was nothing wrong with them.

Although she knew that this soup was non-toxic, Ruan Chanchan was still moved. Why was this mer so nice to her? To put it bluntly, the two of them didn’t even know one another that well, but still, he was willing to take such a risk for her. To think that the mer was willing to take care of her like this.

"Alright, since you want to do it, then I will not stop you," replied Ruan Chanchan. She started to eat the porridge along with the roasted meat first.

Xie Daiyu took a sip of the soup and started to eat the long-haired beast’s meat; at the same time, he started to cultivate his spiritual energy within his body to deal with the poison in case it started to spread before he got to know about it. But half an hour passed by and nothing happened.

"Is the mushroom soup delicious?" Ruan Chanchan asked when she saw the mer drinking the soup. Maybe he didn’t sense anything amiss and was drinking it on instinct?