After transmigrating into the book, the prime minister always wants to farm with me.

Chapter 9 Dried Fish

Many small fish and shrimp swam by in the stream, and Qi Yunran's eyes lit up.

"Little Xuan'er, we're in for a treat today!" she said, drooling as she looked at the fish in the stream. These were completely green, natural, and pollution-free foods!

Xiao Xuan'er also saw the fish and shrimp in the stream and said to Qi Yunran, "Godmother, they're too small to catch, and they have too many bones and don't taste good. People in the village don't bother catching them because they don't have much meat."

"Those are them, they're here to look after their godmother."

Qi Yunran wandered around the stream for a while, then picked a handful of wild grass and smashed it with a stone.

They threw it into the stream, and soon several small fish, belly up, and some small shrimp floated to the surface.

Xiao Jingxuan looked surprised and stammered, "God...mother, they floated up by themselves?"

Qi Yunran smiled but said nothing. She walked over and began to pick up all the small fish that had floated to the surface. Before long, more and more small fish floated to the surface.

Xiao Jingxuan excitedly came over and immediately helped Qi Yunran pick it up.

In no time, they had picked enough for them to eat today.

Qi Yunran wove a small basket out of vines and put them all in it.

I brought them back, and on the way, I also hunted two plump pheasants and brought them back with me.

This was quite a main dish! Qi Yunran carried small fish and shrimp in one hand and two pheasants in the other, weighing about eight or nine pounds, and then took Xiao Jingxuan back.

After Qi Yunran returned, she prepared the small fish and some small shrimp.

Although they are small, if processed properly, they can be made into dried anchovies. When fried, they are crispy and sweet with every bite, and they are incredibly delicious.

She was worried about not having enough oil, so she went and hunted two pheasants to fry in chicken fat. Just thinking about it makes her mouth water.

They found some wild Sichuan peppercorns and wild chili peppers on the ground, and finally discovered a wild ginseng, which was a pleasant surprise. They kept it to sell for money.

Xiao Xuan squatted by the pot, remembering the roasted pheasant her godmother had made yesterday, and swallowed hard: "Godmother, how do we eat this?"

"You'll know when your godmother makes it. When it's done, you'll want to swallow your tongue."

Xiao Xuan'er looked on in amazement. If it could swallow her tongue, wouldn't it be incredibly delicious? Her eyes immediately lit up with anticipation.

My godmother's cooking must be delicious. After cleaning the small fish, Qi Yunran marinated them and immediately started processing the wild pheasant. The knife in her hand was one she had found in the house; it was still quite sharp after being sharpened.

She couldn't handle the large, chipped sword that Xiao Xuan'er and the others used to have.

The pheasant was quickly plucked by her skillful movements. She had done this many times before when she was learning the craft from her master in the deep mountains.

After removing the chicken fat, we started rendering the oil. These two chickens were quite plump, and the chicken fat weighed about two pounds. After frying the oil, we put the covered dried anchovies into the oil and fried them until golden brown.

They were scooped out, coated with honey, and fried again before being taken out.

Xiao Jingxuan smelled the fragrance and took a deep sniff.

"Ah... Godmother, it smells so good!"

Qi Yunran picked up a fried dried fish and put it in his mouth.

Xiao Jingxuan immediately started eating, her eyes filled with increasing surprise: "So delicious, godmother, so delicious!" The crispy dried fish immediately awakened Xiao Jingxuan's taste buds, and after chewing and swallowing, the fragrance lingered on her lips and teeth.

I wanted to eat more after I ate it.

Qi Yunran also took one and put it in her mouth, and it tasted pretty good!
Although it can't compare to what she used to eat.

However, it was so much better than the wild vegetables we ate the other day.

Then she fried a few small mushrooms in a little oil, and made a bowl of sweet and sour honey water in a bamboo bowl she had made to cleanse Xiao Jingxuan's palate.

Little Jingxuan's little hands were never empty, and her little mouth was constantly eating with great satisfaction. Before long, the two of them had finished eating the dried fish they had made.

Qi Yunran poured the remaining oil into a bamboo tube for preservation and then sealed the lid.

This is what she just made by chopping bamboo.

The problem is that there's nowhere to store this oil.

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