Whose little lady is so crazy?

Chapter 403 Forget This

At the same time, she quickly took out a few stones from the brocade bag. The next moment, she saw several dark shadows emerging from the reeds. She realized that they were not hidden villains at all, but wild ducks that were startled by her footsteps.

Even so, her hand holding the stone still moved, and a handful of stones flew out of her hand, and several wild ducks flapped their wings and fell to the ground.

"Luckily it didn't fall into the lake, otherwise I'd have to find something to fish it out." Hong Xiaoduo muttered to herself as she walked forward. She picked one up and felt it was heavy and fat, unlike the wild pigeons she had shot along the way. Those were light and had less than two taels of meat. If the roasting temperature was not controlled well, they would easily burn. Tianxuan stewed them for everyone to eat.

One, two, three...a total of seven wild ducks were shot. She carried the ducks in her hands and stopped moving forward. She turned around and went back to the camp.

Tianshu and the others had just put up the tent and arranged the tables and chairs when they looked up and saw Hong Xiaoduo coming back with something in her hands.

"Tianxuan, hurry up and boil some water to remove the duck feathers. We'll have game tonight." Hong Xiaoduo called out.

Several children ran towards her, vying to take the things in her hands, and went to fetch water and boil water, cheering.

Quan Jinghuai didn't know what to say. She was not allowed to work. But in just a short while after she walked by the lake, she caught some game, one or two at a time!
"Brother, let's not leave in a hurry tomorrow. Let's take a good walk around the lake. There must be wild ducks. Take care of them. The temperature is not bad now. Let Tianxuan make some pickled duck. We'll have a dish for the New Year.

There should be fish in this lake, so we can go fishing. We can salt and dry the big ones, and use the small ones as dishes. We can wrap the very small ones in flour paste and fry them in oil, then sprinkle some pepper and salt on them as snacks. I've seen that the weather has been good recently." Hong Xiaoduo discussed it with Quan Jinghuai.

But to Quan Jinghuai, this was not a discussion at all, but a unilateral notification!

But he didn't mind.

"Okay, after dinner, Tianxuan and I will stir-fry some bait." Quan Jinghuai responded, feeling a little sympathetic to the creatures swimming and flying in the lake. If they met her, they would face the fate of being wiped out.

She meant that she was in a hurry to leave. During this stay, when to leave would not only depend on the final harvest. If there were wild ducks hunted and big fish caught every day, she would not leave.

Other people have to go to the shops to buy New Year’s goods, and it’s not that she can’t afford it, but she just likes this kind of unexpected gain, just for the sake of happiness!
It’s strange to say, she obviously can’t cook, but she knows how to cook many delicious dishes.

Let’s not talk about anything else, just take sweet potatoes as an example. Generally speaking, they are eaten by steaming, cooking porridge, or roasting.

But she just kept directing Tianxuan and made all kinds of things, including French fries, potato chips, dried sweet potatoes, sweet potato fried cakes, candied sweet potatoes, sweet potato balls, sweet potato steamed buns, and even sweet potato fries baked with salted egg yolk.

She can come up with various ways to eat a common sweet potato.

No matter which one it is, it’s delicious.

Quan Jinghuai felt that his second disciple was getting deeper and deeper into the direction of being a cook!

As a team, she and Tianxuan would never starve no matter where they went. They could even open a shop and support the whole family.

However, she had no chance to open a shop because she had no shortage of money. She could bring back several thousand taels of gold notes from a trip to the capital. It would have been fine if the Wei Mansion and the Dong Xiang Mansion paid her, but she actually dared to fleece the emperor!

That's not fleecing the sheep, that's clearly pulling out the whiskers from a tiger's mouth!

It’s okay. She knew that serving the emperor is like serving a tiger, and she still stuck to her original intention to continue living a carefree life. She decisively rejected the emperor and did not stay in the capital to be a female official!

However, Quan Jinghuai still admired her very much. The emperor wanted her to stay as an official. What a great temptation it was. How could ordinary people refuse such a glittering official career path!

However, Quan Jinghuai felt that the emperor thought too simply. He only saw how powerful she was. Why didn't he consider that she had only been in the capital for a short time before his Minister Gu resigned and returned to his hometown? And the power behind Concubine Xi, how long had they been accumulating strength, planning for, and spending so much time calculating, but in the end, they were eradicated because of her!

If Xiaoduo really agrees to stay in the capital to serve as an official, I wonder what kind of huge waves she will stir up!

Quan Jinghuai really didn’t think that his description was too exaggerated. Anyway, that was how he felt!
She told him these things casually, and she was so casual when she said them that Quan Jinghuai thought that she must have other things to do in Beijing. Dinner was a little late because of cleaning up the wild ducks.

However, there were two more dishes on the dinner table: wild duck stewed with bamboo shoots and braised wild duck.

Game meat is already delicious, and Tianxuan’s cooking skills have improved by leaps and bounds. The two dishes made with wild duck are both amazing in appearance and taste.

"Mom, if there are wild ducks, then there must be wild duck eggs to pick up. I will take a basket and go look for them tomorrow morning and ask my second brother to pickle salted eggs." Yaoguang said as she grabbed a braised duck leg and gnawed on it until her little mouth was greasy.

Hong Xiaoduo shook her head and said, "Wild ducks don't lay eggs very often this season, so it's hard to find any."

Ah? Yaoguang felt a little disappointed when she heard that she might not be able to pick up wild duck eggs.

"Mom, can we use arrows to shoot wild ducks tomorrow?" Tianji asked hesitantly.

"Of course. This is a good opportunity to test your archery skills. How can you improve if you keep shooting at fixed targets?" Hong Xiaoduo responded with a smile.

Tianshu explained on behalf of his brother, "Third brother, what you mean is, if we use arrows but our archery skills are not good and we scare away the wild ducks, wouldn't that be a pity? If you take action, you will definitely not miss."

Upon hearing this, Hong Xiaoduo waved her hand disapprovingly and said, "What's the pity? Go hunting tomorrow. At worst, if you miss, I can just catch another one.

I won't let a wild duck fly away while I'm here."

If someone else said this, it would sound like bragging, but when it came from her mouth, no one present thought she was bragging, because she really had that ability.

"Hehe, there's no need to kill them all." Quan Jinghuai couldn't bear it anymore and said with a smile.

Because it was the master who said this, Tianshu and the others wanted to refute, but they didn't dare to.

I really want to say, Master, if you are so kind, just eat less duck meat! Look at you taking a sip of wine and a bite of wild duck meat, it tastes so delicious!
What Hong Xiaoduo was thinking was that if this happened in modern times, wild ducks would be classified as second-level wild protected animals. Although they are divided into several species, if a large number of them are killed, the means are cruel, and serious consequences are caused, the offender would be sentenced to imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years, and would also be fined.

Don't ask her how she knows so much. The answer is that she hunted a lot of wild game in this dynasty, and when she had nothing to do, she went into her space and checked on the computer.

Unlike ancient times, game is everywhere in modern times, and every village and town near the mountains and forests has hunters who make a living by hunting.

Hong Xiaoduo was thinking that she would have a great time hunting here.

"By the way, Xiaoduo, I forgot to tell you something. The two lanterns you bought are very magical. One candle can burn for a very long time. It has been more than a month since you accompanied Kaiyang to the capital, and the two candles have been burning all the time?" Quan Jinghuai happened to look up and saw the lanterns hanging on the pole, so he remembered to ask.

Feiyan, Tianshu and the others also looked at her with curiosity.

Oh, after hearing this, Hong Xiaoduo remembered that she used to just pretend to do it every few days by changing the candles or something.

This time when I went to Beijing, I forgot about this. How can I explain this...

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