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Chapter 29 A Big Meal

Qiao Xi slept exceptionally deeply this time. He was so tired. Although he looked very excited during the day, his body could not hold on any longer.

When she got up, she found that it was almost noon. Well, she would get up and have lunch directly, getting ahead of others by a meal time.

I put away all the things I bought yesterday so that I can find them when I need them. Then I returned the iron walnut to the little squirrel and prepared to start making lunch.

Qiao Xi took out the spare ribs she bought yesterday and prepared to make a different-world version of lotus root and spare rib soup. Don't ask her how she bought the spare ribs. God knows how excited she was when she saw someone selling pigs, but she found that most of them were sold whole. How unreasonable was her request for only bones?

In the end, she paid half the price of a pig to buy all the bones of the pig, and of course she also got (picked up) four pig's trotters as a gift.

This pig was a half-sized pig that she had carefully selected. They said it was a variant of some kind of magical beast, and the meat was very tender regardless of size. However, Qiao Xi was skeptical about their words, so she only dared to try the little pig. She didn't want to face the naughty pig right away.

She took out about two pounds of ribs and put them in water to thaw and soak out the blood. The rest were packaged and frozen by the big-tailed yak. ​​She recently discovered several plants that looked very similar to ginger. She wanted to dig them out and try them today. The effect would be different.

In the weeds behind the cabin, Qiao Xi pulled out the stalk with force, and dug a few times on the side with a small hoe, gently, for fear of damaging the ginger inside.

After it came out, she dug up the soil and took out the ginger intact. She smelled it and found the smell was right. She broke off a small piece and licked it. Wow, it was spicy! The taste was right too. It was so good that she just needed to cook a pot of pork ribs to try it out.

Lotus roots are available at Shimmering Lake. Qiao Xi has seen many strange big birds digging lotus roots to eat, so she also went to dig some this time.

Putting on her waterproof leg coverings, which were newly bought yesterday and which she couldn't wait to use, Qiao Xi asked the big-tailed yak and the brown-headed vulture to watch her. If anything went wrong, they could freeze the mud and save her life.

The big-tailed yak was helpless. It could have solved the problem by just rolling over the ground, but Qiao Xi refused to let it.

If she knew about this, Qiao Xi would definitely cry out in injustice. This flip would ruin the small lotus pond in front of her. She didn't want to do anything to stop eating because of choking. It was just some lotus roots, a piece of cake.

Bullshit! In order to get the lotus roots from the deep mud, Qiao Xi used her feet to feel the direction of the lotus roots, and she would start to pull them out as soon as she felt the feeling. However, the mud was very thick, and she would almost sink her face into the mud every time before she could pull out the lotus roots. These lotus roots were very thin and long, not much thicker than a bamboo pole. So few of them were not enough to eat.

What to do? Fish it out!

By the time Qiao Xi had scooped up enough lotus roots and emerged from the water, she was completely covered in mud. The big-tailed yak even refused to let her touch its snow-white mane, fearing that she would dirty it.

The croaking of the brown-headed vulture echoed in the sky. What a joke, you stinky bird.

Qiao Xi thought angrily, everyone will drool when drinking the soup later, but I won’t give it to it, it will be so greedy.

Motivated, Josh quickly took a quick shower to wash off the mud, and then he began to scrub the lotus roots in front of the faucet, washing them carefully before he dared to break them, for fear of washing mud into them.

After peeling off the skin in two strokes, the blood in the ribs was soaked out. Qiao Xi squeezed it hard to pick out the dirt and broken bones, and then washed it with clean water and it was clean.

Find a cooking pot, put the ribs into the pot with cold water, flatten the washed ginger and throw it into the pot, cook out the foam, and skim off the foam with a spoon.

After skimming it clean, there is no need to change the water. Just put the cut large pieces of lotus root in and stew them together.

The meat is fresh, so there's no need to change the water. The lotus root is better cooked than not reaped, so let's simmer it on low heat. While waiting, Qiao Xi made himself a cup of hot honey water, sipping it while daydreaming. It was so relaxing.

In less than an hour, when Qiao Xi poked the lotus root with chopsticks, it had been boiled and shredded. He tasted a piece of the meat and found that those people were right. The meat was indeed tender, fragrant and soft enough.

Add some salt and stir, okay, let’s serve!
Before Qiao Xi brought the pork rib soup to the table, Kong Yanshu was already waiting at the table. He was really proactive.

Josh rewarded it with a piece of pork ribs and let it gnaw on it first.

Wow, the little squirrel grabbed the ribs and exclaimed, confused by the fragrance, and gnawed at them.

Qiao Xi looked at the stinky bird outside the window, which was pretending not to care but was actually twitching with greed, and deliberately lifted the soup bowl over to make the aroma stronger.

I’m so greedy!
However, no matter how much he wanted it, Qiao Xi couldn't bear to let it go hungry, so when it wasn't paying attention, he quietly sent a small bowl of pork ribs to the attic.

But Josh just pretended to ignore it. The poor bird thought he was just watching it, so it flew back to the attic dejectedly to heal itself.

As a result, it almost lost the bowl of meat that belonged to it, but it was so delicious that it just picked it up and ate it. The bird happily ate the ribs in the attic.

The big-tailed yak here is easier to deal with. Qiao Xi deliberately gave it a piece of pink lotus root, making it think that Qiao Xi was no longer angry. As a result, it took a bite and didn't give it another bite. Hahaha, go ahead and drool.

The calf was so angry that his tail was shaking like a propeller. In the end, he accepted Josh's beating before getting the rest of the rations.

Finally it was my turn to eat. Josh scooped up a full bowl and ate a large piece of pork ribs without hesitation. It was soft and boneless, and the meat was fragrant. It was delicious!
Take another sip of the soup, the fat from the ribs has been completely absorbed into the soup, combined with the light sweetness of the lotus root, take another sip.

A mouthful of meat and a sip of soup, Josh, who hadn't tasted this for a long time, didn't want to eat anything else. He just wanted to eat as much meat as he could. Oh my God, do you know what a hard life I've been living these days?
After drinking the last mouthful of soup, Qiao Xi's belly was slightly protruding. She was already full, but her mouth still felt not full. She quickly patted her mouth and said, "Stop eating, you idiot."

He quickly stood up and cleared the dishes, not giving himself a chance to have another bowl.

Someone was coming to see the house in the afternoon, so Qiao Xi didn't plan to go back for a nap. He lay on a chair outside the house and slowly digested the thought.

After eating and drinking enough, I don’t want to do anything. I just want to rest and feel comfortable.

The afternoon always passed quickly. Josh was lying in a chair, half asleep and half awake, when he suddenly heard the croaking of a brown-headed vulture. Someone was coming.

But it just circled in the sky without any reaction. It must be the Goben brothers coming. The big-tailed yak must have informed it, it knew it.

After a while, there was a sound of footsteps, and a horse-drawn carriage came running. The carriage was too deep, and Qiao Xi couldn't see their figures.

When the carriage stopped, Goben stood up from the carriage and greeted Josh, "Hello, Miss Josh, we are here."

(End of this chapter)