Chapter 564 Treasure-Seeking Racoon (2/2)

Li Du laughed. It was the outcome he had hoped for.

The cooker continuously gave off a woo! woo! sound. Under the heat of the fierce fire, the temperature of the pressure cooker rose rapidly. In half an hour, the beef stew had nearly finished braising.

At this moment, Li Du removed the lid of the cooker and threw in rosemary, tofu cubes, onions and dried chili. All that was left now was to braise for another few minutes before it was ready to eat.

The quality of the piece of newly dug up fire opal was excellent. It looked beautiful with its rarely seen flame color and inner spots of green and purple which were akin to a star.

The four admired the gemstone for a while. Li Du asked Sophie, ”Shall we give this fire opal to your father as a birthday present?”

Sophie shook her head. ”No, I want to find a piece myself. I can definitely find one.”

Li Du replied, ”This piece could be considered your finding. It was not found by me, Crispy Noodles found it. As Crispy Noodles's mother, his findings are also your findings.”

Sophie shook her head repeatedly and sternly replied, ”No, you cannot say that. This belongs to you. I will justly find a gemstone with my own abilities.”

Li Du chided in his heart. You think too much. If not for little bug's help, I wouldn't have found the fire opal.

Cyril and his counterparts were right: being able to find a gemstone here after a month's search was already considered lucky.

Finding a fire opal did not require eye power, it required luck. If your luck was good, your harvest would be, too. If your luck was not good, you might not find a piece even after a year's search.

Sophie was a stubborn lady. Li Du knew that once she had made up her mind, it would be hard to dissuade her. Instead of doing something pointless, Li Du kept the fire opal.

Li Du removed the lid once the beef stew was cooked. He took out the chopped preserved bamboo shoots to serve as the appetizer. ”Come, let's eat.”

Ah Meow, who was the most anxious of the three, hurriedly ran to the truck to search for his feeding bowl in preparation for his meal.

The ocelot was nimble, jumping into the truck with ease and bringing out his feeding bowl using his mouth. Likewise, the raccoon, who was an adept climber, climbed up the truck in search of his feeding bowl. This left the wolf pup who was unable to do so.

Ah Ow tried making the jump but ended up hitting her head on a large wheel of the Ford F-350. With teary eyes, she lifted her head and cried, ”Owwwuu!”

Ah Meow and Crispy Noodles were lying in the truck and looking out at her. Both of them, with their feeding bowls in their mouths, looked satisfied.

Ah Ow felt this was unjust and turned her head to Li Du before crying out.

Li Du, who was ready to start the meal, saw the helpless wolf pup and shouted to Ah Meow, ”Quickly, bring hers down. Come and eat before there's nothing left.”

Ah Meow straightened his tail, ran back to bring out the wolf pup's small metal bowl, and threw it down. Ah Ow hurriedly picked it up with her mouth before striding over and waiting to eat.

Crispy Noodles had fresh and preserved fruits, Ah Meow had meat and fish jerky, and Ah Ow had the stew with bones and fresh meat.

Initially, Li Du did not want to feed the wolf pup fresh meat. However, Sophie, who had asked a veterinarian, said that wolves needed to eat fresh meat in order to obtain some of the amino acids and vitamins their bodies could not produce.

The three of them had their heads buried in their feeding bowls, happily eating away. Li Du helped Sophie scoop out some stew. As she did not like to eat meat, most of the meat was left for Big Quinn and Godzilla.

Sophie had one scoop of stew while Li Du had a bowl. This left the rest of the big pot of stew to be shared between Big Quinn and Godzilla.

Sophie used the stew to soak the dried bread. When dried, coarse grain bread was like dried wood and could not be eaten directly. However, it tasted delicious once it soaked up the hot and steamy stew.

Li Du took two bites and found the stew was not spicy enough. He scooped out a little chili from a jar of chili sauce that Big Quinn and Godzilla took the rest of.