Chapter 12 - How Could You Eat Nice Food Alone Without Sharing? (1/2)

Profread by Claire.KK

The smell of meat soon came from the shabby kitchen. The reason why people in the village did not eat the pig’s offal was probably that they didn’t want to use up much oil. Ye Xiaoxian also only put a few drops of vegetable oil in. She asked Baozhu to burn the minimum amount of firewood in the oven, just enough to bake the iron wok. Then she placed the pig’s offal into the wok and fried it slowly, just like making guokui (a crispy pancake).

Baozhu smelled the stronger and stronger fragrance emanating from the wok. She could not help her mouth watering and from time to time she walked out to check if it was ready.

She had stopped complaining already but only asked Ye Xiaoxian, “How long will it be before it’s ready to eat?”

“Not long. Just when the two sides are fried crispy,” said Ye Xiaoxian smilingly.

“Sister-in-law, how do you know this way of cooking it?” asked Baozhu.

“I…I had a dream in which an old immortal told me this method.” Ye Xiaoxian joked.

She didn’t expect that Baozhu would take it seriously and said sulkily, “Why did no old immortal visit my dream and tell me this?”

Ye Xiaoxian: “…”

When the pig’s offal was all done, Ye Xiaoxian then asked the whole family to have dinner together. A plate of “legendary tofu”, a huge plate of pig’s offal, a bowl of wild mushrooms and, last but not least, the herbal soup cooked by Li Hongmei. The whole household enjoyed their dinner very much.

Baozhu and Baofeng couldn’t possibly stop eating and constantly said at the same time, “Yum, yum!”

Ye Xiaoxian smiled. “It’s a shame that we are lacking rice. It’d be perfect if we had two bowls of rice to be served.”

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The smell of meat made next door’s Mrs. Xiao nee w.a.n.g walk out to have a look as well. The maiden name of Mrs. Xiao née w.a.n.g, was w.a.n.g Peony. Her name did not really match her figure since she was born dark-rough-skinned and with a large figure. When she smelled the meat from next door, she couldn’t help but go to check what was going on.

The light was dim in the earth house, so when w.a.n.g Peony saw that there was some pig’s offal left, which was fried to a golden crisp, she thought it must be meat.

She then asked, “Alas, you have some goodies today, eh?”