Chapter 30: Why Eat So Much At Night? It’s Enough That You’re Not Starving! (1/2)

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He had picked many medicinal herbs, and also brought back a bundle of firewood and a sack of wild herbs.

The sack contained wild herbs, fungus, some wild mushrooms and a few wild fruits.

There was not much, perhaps a few more mushrooms.

In terms of game, there was only one pheasant and two other birds.

Even Gu Qingyao could not identify these birds. But since Gu Yunshen had brought them back, they were definitely edible.

Gu Yunshen had returned to see Gu Ruoqing washing clothes by the well. He was somewhat surprised, but did not say anything. After all, the Gu family could not continue to support her freeloading.

In the past, she had listened only to him. Now Gu Ruoqing was actually working when he was not at home. Gu Yunshen was very pleased.

He handed the things to his younger daughter in the kitchen, then went outside to boil water to clean the pheasant and the other two birds.

There was a large ceramic jar under the eaves outside. They had built a platform and used it to cook, and it was very convenient.

Gu Ruoqing was very angry when she saw that her father did not pity her at all when he returned to see her working.

Gu Qingyao quickly finished cooking dinner. By then, Gu Ruoqing had finally finished washing the clothes.

She seldom worked and now she had washed so many clothes. She also had not eaten all day and she was so hungry that she was seeing stars, and so tired that she ached all over. When she saw that dinner was ready, she quickly hung the clothes and went over to eat.

Gu Yunshen also called Gu Chonghua and Wen Ruyu to come over. Everyone washed their hands and prepared to eat.

Dinner was wild herbs, sorghum bread and dried sweet potato porridge. For vegetables, they had dried radish and vegetables fried with mushrooms. There was a little more of the latter, but not enough for so many people.

Gu Ruoqing was unhappy when she saw there was no meat.

“Where’s the meat in the house? How am I supposed to eat this? It’s tasteless.”