Chapter 71: Thinking about earning life all the time
Chapter 71: Thinking about earning life all the time
The next day.
The sky is bright.
In a small isolated valley.
Noticing the movement next door, Liu Xi got up early, which was rare since he came to this world.
"Brother, are you up?"
Pushing open the door, Liu Xi saw Xiao Yixian squatting on a small open space outside the house, lighting a fire and fiddling with a small ceramic jar. When she saw him come out, she turned her head and smiled at him.
Stretching lazily and moving his feet, Liu Xi walked closer, touched his nose, and said, "Junior sister, are you making porridge?"
"Well, when I woke up this morning, I found that I hadn't been here for a while. The small bag of grain I left in the house when I last came was still there. It hadn't been visited by the small animals in the valley... It was just right for today's breakfast."
After greeting him, the Little Medical Fairy lowered her head again and continued adding firewood to the bottom of the small jar.
"Is that so..." Upon hearing this, Liu Xi smiled and walked away without disturbing the little medical fairy who had gotten up early in the morning and was diligently making breakfast.
In fact, he had a better idea for breakfast this morning last night.
Of course, it would be nice to have porridge to drink so early in the morning in an isolated valley, but he didn't want to give up the thought of eating dry food for dinner last night.
But then again, porridge can be the staple food in the morning. If conditions permit, it would be better to have some side dishes as "seasoning".
In the open space, the little medical fairy caught a glimpse of the direction he was heading, which was the small pond behind the thatched hut.
Of course Xiao Yixian knew that there were fish in the pond. It wasn't that she didn't think of catching a few fish to make the meal more sumptuous, but the fish in the pond were originally raised by her.
After all, they are the things we raise ourselves, so we have some emotional attachment to them and would not easily think of catching them as food.
"Alas, it seems that my senior brother has never had a hard life before..."
She curled her lips. From eating dry food last night to seeing Liu Xi's reaction when he saw her cooking porridge, she was certain that her cheap senior brother must have had a relatively affluent life in the past, which was not comparable to her who was born in a small mountain village.
"However, it's no wonder that a pharmacist lives a life of luxury. It's my fault for not considering it carefully." She thought to herself.
……
Not far behind the house, next to a small pond.
The water in the pond was a little turbid and did not look very clear, but Liu Xi knew that clear water could not raise fat fish. If fish wanted to grow big and fast, there must be abundant moss and humus in the pond water.
"Tsk tsk, get a few, pick out the fish bones, chop them into small pieces and mix them into the porridge to make fresh fish soup, it's simply delicious."
While muttering to himself, Liu Xi stared at a few medium-sized silver carp in the pond and predicted the direction in which the fish would swim in the water. At the same time, he secretly accumulated fighting spirit in his palms.
Clap!
Wow!
Wow!
wow...
The fighting spirit left his body and struck into the pond with a tricky move. With the sound of several water splashing, several delicious silver carp were blasted out of the pond and scattered on the ground beside the pond.
He was about to go forward and pick up the few days of fish, but Liu Xi glanced at the surroundings, took out an exquisite knife from his ring, and simply gutted the fish by the pond, scraped off the scales, used local materials to shave out a wooden board, then chopped the fish heads aside on the simple wooden board and picked out all the remaining bones from the fish.
After doing all this, he chopped the fish into fine pieces with the knife, with a little bit of fighting spirit attached to the blade. In a short while, he had chopped the fish into fine pieces.
At this point, it is not over yet. He took out a dark red flower bud with six petals from the ring. Then he plucked out a petal, crushed it in his hands, squeezed out a drop of juice and dripped it on the minced meat, then mixed it evenly.
This flower bud is actually a medicinal ingredient that can be used as an ingredient in refining some first- and second-grade elixirs, but now he uses it to remove the fishy smell from fish meat.
Next, he did some other processing on the fish on the wooden board.
After finishing the task, he picked up the wooden board in one hand, walked to the open space in front of the house, and squatted down beside Xiao Yixian.
"Come, Junior Sister, let me pour the fish meat into the jar and cook it together with the grains."
The Little Medical Fairy looked at the minced meat he brought in front of her, her almond eyes lit up, and she asked in surprise, "Brother, can you cook fish and meat soup?"
She originally thought that as an alchemist, Liu Xi lived a life of luxury. Even if he got some fresh fish, he would at most grill it on the grill in a proper manner. It was unlikely that he would be able to prepare food using fish as an ingredient.
"Hehe, you'll know after you try it later, Junior Sister."
Pouring the fish meat into a small jar, Liu Xi carefully mixed it with the almost cooked grains, then turned his head and smiled at the Little Medical Fairy.
As a foodie in the era of information explosion on the Blue Water Planet, Liu Xi is quite good at cooking. When conditions permit, he can make many kinds of delicious dishes by himself.
"You don't have to tell me, I will taste it later. I hope that the fish I use for cultivation and appreciation can become a delicacy after being turned into food by you, senior brother!"
The Little Medical Fairy stared at Liu Xi with her beautiful eyes and said with a smile.
"Haha, Junior Sister, don't worry. The fish soup I make is a rare dish... Hmm? Are those fish in the pond raised by Junior Sister?"
He really doesn't know this!
Liu Xi reacted with an embarrassed look on his face, and was a little afraid to look him in the eye.
This is really embarrassing...
The scene fell silent for a moment.
Liu Xi was just about to say something when he saw the little medical fairy pursed her lips and turned her head away, leaving the back of her head facing him, obviously not wanting to pay any attention to him.
Seeing this, Liu Xi didn't want to embarrass himself and gave up talking.
The noise he made at the pond just now was not small. Since Little Medical Fairy did not stop him, she must have tacitly allowed him to catch a few fish to satisfy his craving. However, seeing her cold attitude towards him now, he was not sure what she was up to...
Is this the look of a woman, like the weather in February, changing in an instant?
But even so, knowing that he was in the wrong, he believed that when the fragrance from the jar overflowed, or when the fairy doctor tasted the fish soup herself, no matter whether the fish in the pond were raised by her or not, they would definitely exclaim in their hearts that it smelled really good!
He has confidence in himself on this point!
Fish soup does not need to be cooked for too long.
About a quarter of an hour later, the delicious aroma of fish soup emanated from the jar.
……
Half an hour later.
On the way to the cliff outside the basin in Xiao Yixian’s memory.
[Ding! Main quest completed +1]
[Note: The target of completion is Xiao Yixian, and the reward is to extend the host's life span by three months! ]
[Remaining life span: forty-four years, nine months, twenty-three days and four hours! ]
On the back of Blue Eagle, Liu Xi happily closed the system virtual panel.
Just half an hour ago, the little medical fairy, who had just taken the first bite of fish soup, praised his cooking skills and asked him what was special about this "Liu's Fish Soup".
That’s right, he certainly didn’t make the fish soup just to satisfy his appetite in the morning.
He is not so idle even though he already has food to eat.
All of this is to try to complete the main task and better extend one's life.
It has been proved that the evaluation criteria for the completion of the system's main tasks.
Very wide.
Very wide.
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