A Cannon Fodder Female Partner To Raise a Cub In The Era Novel

Chapter 259 Garlic

 “Those who defend the country, those who defend the country…”

 “Defend the country!”

Before Li Jing returned home, she heard a string of "defending the country", all of which were unfamiliar voices.

 She stood there with a frown on her face, and the two women chased after her.

“Guardian of the country, I heard that you captured the old turtle.”

 “This old turtle is not young yet, Amitabha, Amitabha!”

"Those who are defending the country, let them go as soon as possible. This thing is spiritual, so don't dare to touch it."

“There is also a pond in the village, put the old turtle there.”

Li Jing listened to their words and pressed her eyebrows.

Well, it seems that this old turtle really can’t eat anymore.

Li Jing did not argue with them whether the old turtle was spiritual. Although the old turtle was old, he was not as rich and spiritual as them.

But since there is such a saying in the village, Li Jing chooses to respect it.

Li Jing took out the old turtle that she held upside down in the bucket and said, "I'm going to release it."

 “This is right!”

 One of the women patted Li Jing on the shoulder.

Those are a pair of hard-working hands, with exposed veins and wrinkles. There is mud between the nails and hands. They have just come from the place where they worked.

Li Jing did not avoid it, and looked at the woman in front of her quietly. A strange emotion rose in her heart, which was recognition of ordinary people in this era.

"Don't let Wei Guo go, she still has the child with her. Let's go back and pass by the pond, so we can take this old turtle and let it go!"

 “That’s fine, I’m defending the country…”

 “Sorry for bothering you two sisters-in-law!”

Li Jing heard the words and smiled back.

　　The two of them exchanged some polite words, and together they carried the old turtle and set it free.

Watching the two people leave, Li Jingcai took Jiang Xiaoya on the way home again and said with emotion: "I don't believe this. If it was before..."

 Where did anyone say this to her in the last days?

 Besides, there’s probably a lot of competition for food, so how could you give up because of someone else’s words?

"It seems that it's not difficult to get along with others." Jiang Xiaoya followed and listened carefully. When she heard Li Jing say this, she nodded.

 The little girl doesn’t talk much.

 Back home, Li Jing poured the harvest into the basin.

 Put the crucian carp in a separate basin, and put the eel and loach in a separate basin.

The fish had a fishy smell. Wangcai was originally curious about what Li Jing had caught, but as soon as he smelled the fishy smell, he ran away.

"Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo" and complained to Li Jing that he shouldn't have brought such smelly things back.

 Wangcai, an ignorant person, has never eaten fish.

Li Jing took the basin away from Wangcai's kennel, picked a place where it could be easily buried, and put the basin down.

 Before he started to deal with it, he handed Jiang Xiaoya a sharp knife and said, "Xiaoya, kill the fish."

Li Jing wants Jiang Xiaoya to help with work.

Jiang Xiaoya calmly took the knife and fished out a small carp from the basin.

As soon as the little carp that was still alive was caught, its tail was swung back and forth, making Jiang Xiaoya's face wet. However, it still had to suffer the fate of having its belly cut open, its scales scraped off, and its gills removed.

Li Jing didn’t tell her how to handle the fish, so Jiang Xiaoya knew that it was Li Jing’s first day here and saw her handling the fish.

Although she kills the fish slowly, she does it carefully and handles it very cleanly.

 After handling one piece, wash it in a basin before handling the other piece.

Li Jing saw that Jiang Xiaoya was capable and left all the crucian carp handling matters to her.

 I quickly changed into a set of clothes, washed them out at the same time, and then started to prepare lunch.

Loach and eel need to be spit out, so Li Jing has no plans to eat them today. She wants to eat the garlic noodles that Jiang Weiguo mentioned to her today, paired with crucian carp soup. Just thinking about it makes people look forward to it.

Garlic noodles, as the name suggests, are made with garlic sauce. The rich garlic sauce is mixed with sesame seeds, and it is extremely delicious.

 There is sweetened garlic brought back by Jiang Weiguo at home, but the sweetened garlic is not spicy, so raw garlic must be used.

 Garlic is something that every household has. There are strings of garlic hanging on the walls in the village, but there are none in thatched houses.

Li Jing thought for a while, took some fruits and half a bowl of sugar and garlic, and went to borrow it from Fatty Li's house.

 (End of this chapter)