A table was divided into four sides.
Opposite Li Yi was his devilish sister-in-law, Liu Ruyi. On both sides were his maidservant, Xiao Huan, and his beautiful wife, Liu Ruyi, whom he could only look at but not touch.
Beside the table, there were three beautiful women, one more beautiful than the other. However, Li Yi was not in the mood to appreciate them. He was staring blankly at a bowl of plain noodles in front of him.
Although it was plain noodles … it was really plain noodles.
Other than the white noodles in the bowl, there was no other color. Li Yi picked up his chopsticks and took a small bite. There was no taste at all. The taste was so bland in his mouth …
This was lunch for the four of them.
Li Yi, who was a foodie, had high requirements for food. In the face of the bowl of "vegetarian noodles" in front of him, even if he was very hungry, he couldn't bring himself to eat much.
He turned to look at the three people beside him. They could still eat with such relish. The young maidservant beside him was full of happiness. It seemed that as long as they could fill their stomachs, it was something to be happy about.
In addition to being Liu Ruyi's personal maidservant, Xiao Huan also worked as a nanny, a cook, and a cleaner. In winter, she might even be a maid to warm the bed. Li Yi looked at the pitiful amount of noodles in her bowl and gave half of his to her.
A fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl was growing up. How could she eat so little?
The young maidservant was stunned when Li Yi suddenly took away her bowl. "Son-in-law …" The two words had just left her mouth when Li Yi had already prepared the noodles and put the bowl back in front of her.
"I'm not hungry. You eat more …" He reached out and rubbed the head of the young maidservant. Just as he said this, a strange sound came from his stomach.
The three people raised their heads and looked at him strangely. Li Yi's face couldn't help but turn red. He picked up his bowl and quickly finished the food in it. "I'm full!"
Liu Ruyi stared at Li Yi's disheveled figure for a long time. There was something that had never been there before in her beautiful eyes.
Liu Ruyi, who was standing beside her, pursed her lips and looked at the young maidservant who was so touched that she was about to cry. Her pretty face, which had always looked like it did not matter to her, unintentionally curved into a gentle arc.
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The servant girl called Xiao Huan widened her big eyes and looked at her son-in-law, who had just finished eating, who knew what he was busy with. She felt a little uneasy in her heart.
In her little heart, her son-in-law was a scholar and a scholar should stay away from places like the kitchen where only women were suitable. Of course, the little lass was more afraid that her son-in-law would waste food. There wasn't much food left at home and they couldn't afford to waste it.
Fortunately, the young maidservant who was standing at the door and peeking did not see the son-in-law doing anything else. By the time she felt slightly relieved, Li Yi had already walked out of the kitchen.
Li Yi sat on a large rock in front of the door. He rested his chin on one hand and stared at the sky in a daze.
He did not expect that even the family of the chief of the stronghold would live in such poverty in such a large mountain stronghold. He thought that the other people's lives should be similar or even worse.
However, when he thought about it, it was not surprising that this was the case. They had given up being bandits and insisted on being good citizens. In the past, there was nothing to rob, but now they could only do it themselves. In this kind of era, the commoners who completely relied on farming to survive, to be able to struggle to survive and not starve to death was already their highest aspiration.
"Ptui!"
Just as Li Yi was thinking about how he could improve his current life and at least move towards a well-off standard where he didn't have to worry about food and clothing, a mouthful of thick phlegm suddenly flew at him from the side. If he had not reacted quickly enough, this disgusting thing would have landed on his body.
Turning his head to look, he saw that the middle-aged woman who he had met once before was standing at the side, looking at him with a face full of disdain. It seemed that because Li Yi had dodged that attack, there was a hint of disappointment on her almost perfectly round face.
Hmph!
The middle-aged woman was just passing by. After a cold snort, she twisted her cylindrical waist and walked into the house next door.
As Li Yi watched the woman with a bucket-like waist walk further away, his expression began to turn ugly.
Towards this ball-shaped woman who had designs on his wife, Li Yi naturally did not have a good impression of her. Now that he had not taken the initiative to provoke her, she actually wanted to plot against him. No man could endure such humiliation.
Bang!
Not far away, the woman came out of the house and grabbed a large handful of wheat grains and threw them into the yard. She cursed a few times.
"Last year's lousy harvest, there's nothing left to eat. If you still don't lay eggs, I'll slaughter every single one of you!"
After the woman entered the house, Li Yi looked at the chickens in front of her house and the corners of his mouth gradually curled up.
"Xiao Huan, do you have any sewing thread at home? Bring some over for me."
The servant girl was stunned for a moment, then said in a small voice, "Yes … yes."
A quarter of an hour later …
A few domestic hens swayed their clumsy bodies and pecked at the ground, looking for wheat grains that they had missed. Perhaps there were a few among them who were cursing their stingy master in their hearts. He wanted the chickens to lay eggs, but he did not feed them. Did he think that the eggs would just pop out of nowhere?
Suddenly, a white dough flew out from a corner. After rolling a few times on the ground, it finally stopped.
The eyes of the sturdiest hen suddenly shot out rays of light. She turned her head and looked around. She found that none of her companions had noticed the abnormality here. She was delighted. She pretended that nothing had happened and walked over with small, wobbly steps …
When she walked in front of the dough, just as she was about to poke her head out to peck at it, the dough suddenly rolled forward a distance.
She was caught off guard and pecked at the air. The hen took a few steps forward and was about to peck a second time when the dough once again moved forward a distance.
Just like this, one of the chickens in Second Aunt's maternal home, under the lure of a small dough, finally embarked on the path of no return …
In a mountain stream behind the stockade village.
Li Yi skillfully slaughtered the chicken, plucked its feathers, and cleaned its internal organs. Even after a few thousand years, he was not rusty at all. The only thing that was not too smooth was that there was no hot water, so he spent a lot of time plucking the feathers. Fortunately, the overall process was considered smooth …
After eating two meals without oil, he could finally start eating meat this time.
After this series of actions, the smell on his body was not very pleasant. Li Yi simply took a bath by the stream. When the sky turned dark, he used a coarse cloth that he had prepared to wrap the chicken that had been cleaned. He carried it in his hand and leisurely walked into the stockade village.
"Son-in-law, where did you go?"
Just as he entered the courtyard, Xiao Huan, who had been waiting here for a long time, immediately ran up to him. Her little face was full of anxiety.
"I have nothing to do, so I went out for a walk."
"What is this?"
The servant girl pointed at the cloth bag in Li Yi's hand and asked curiously.
"Uh … when I went out for a walk just now, I picked up a pheasant …" Li Yi casually gave a perfunctory reply.
"Pheasant?" A curious expression appeared on the servant girl's pretty face. The pheasants near the stockade village had long been hunted, and the son-in-law did not leave the stockade village. Where did he pick it up?
In the kitchen, when Li Yi opened the cloth bag, the servant girl was instantly dumbfounded.
Was there a pheasant that … was so fat?
Moreover, not only were the feathers on its body gone, but its stomach was also cut open. After this pheasant died, what kind of torture did it go through?
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