Fast Wear: A Different Life

Chapter 267 Qinling Sacred Tree (26)

A hint of surprise flashed across Hei Xia Zi's eyes. He obviously did not expect Ji Xiao to know so much about these things.

Ji Xiao seemed to know what he was thinking, and smiled slightly, "Don't forget what I studied. Besides, Sichuan and Changsha are not too far away. Moreover, during the war in the past, people from my master's Qingyun Temple also participated in the war. There are records in the temple now, and my master participated in everything in that era."

Hei Xia Zi brushed off the dust on his body, slowly stood up and said, "That's right. But the most urgent thing for us should be to fill our stomachs. Wu Xie and Fatty will probably be back soon."

After that, the three of them walked side by side towards the place where Wu Xie and Fatty were looking for food. Not long after they walked, they met Wu Xie and Fatty carrying two chickens and walking towards them.

"Naive! Fatty! You guys are amazing. You can catch chickens in a place like this." Hei Xia Zi praised with a smile.

"Of course not. Look at what I do." The fat man looked complacent and raised the fat chicken in his hand to show off.

Wu Xie raised the corner of his mouth slightly, revealing a faint smile, and urged softly: "Alright, stop dawdling, let's go back quickly, my stomach has been growling for a long time, and now I'm so hungry that my chest is sticking to my back."

Hei Xiazi glanced at the two of them and asked, "Did you run into that Aning?"

Hearing this, Wu Xie came back to his senses and replied: "I didn't see her. Could it be that she has woken up?"

Black Blind nodded indifferently and replied casually: "Well, she woke up as soon as she came out of the cave. I was thinking that she might have run to find you."

When Fatty heard this, he snorted coldly, his face showing contempt, and he said sarcastically: "Humph, I expected that this woman had bad intentions. She would do anything to achieve her goals and would have no bottom line. Fortunately, Wu Xie found her and carried her out. She is a complete ungrateful person."

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After everyone arrived at the camp, Fatty and Wu Xie started to deal with the chickens; Hei Xia Zi built a bonfire nearby, and Zhang Qiling built two simple stoves with stones.

Just then, Ji Xiao slowly walked back from not far away, holding a few fresh coconuts and a bucket full of seafood.

Ji Xiao walked straight to Zhang Qiling and said to him in a tender voice, "Qiling, I want to eat seafood hotpot." As she said that, she put the seafood in front of Zhang Qiling.

"Okay, just leave it there and eat it later." Zhang Qiling looked at the seafood in the bucket expressionlessly and said calmly. A closer look revealed a dazzling array of seafood in the bucket, including various shellfish, plump crabs, palm-sized shrimps, and even a lively sea eel.

"Well, I'll go find some mushrooms to make soup later." Ji Xiao responded.

After hearing this, Zhang Qiling reminded her: "Okay, then be careful on the road."

"Yeah." Ji Xiao nodded obediently in agreement, then turned around and walked away quickly in the opposite direction.

After watching Ji Xiao go away, Zhang Qiling turned his attention back to the seafood in the bucket. Then, he took out a bucket of water, a soup pot, a vegetable washing basin, and a brand new and unused brush from his personal space, and then found a place to sit down and began to carefully process the seafood.

Fatty and Wu Xie, who were standing by, witnessed the whole process with astonishment on their faces. After all, no matter how you looked at it, Zhang Qiling didn't look like someone who was good at cooking.

However, when they saw the complete range of tools he took out and his skilled and professional techniques for handling various types of seafood, they couldn't help but smile at each other and teased: "Menyouping, I never thought you had such a great cooking skill!" Wu Xie said with a smile.

The fat man also echoed, "That's right, we're in for a treat today!" After that, the two of them burst into laughter.

Zhang Qiling ignored their chattering and focused on handling the seafood in front of him. After a moment, he took out two fresh lemons from the space.

Meanwhile, Wu Xie and the others had quickly prepared the chickens, but when they saw the seafood Zhang Qiling was preparing, they couldn't help but be moved. So, they decided to roast two chickens as the main course first, and save the rest to see how to cook them later.

At this moment, Ji Xiao appeared in front of everyone. She was holding a basket full of wild vegetables, seasonings and various fungi. She had obviously just returned from hunting somewhere else.

Zhang Qiling gently put the cleaned and cut seafood into the pot, added the appropriate amount of seasoning and sweet coconut water, and then slowly simmered it. Before long, an alluring fragrance filled the air.

This time she did not put the basket in front of Zhang Qiling, but she was not idle either. She skillfully cleaned the mushrooms and put them into another pot to cook.

In order to make the pot more flavorful, she took out a few cured pork ribs from her own space and put them in, and then put in a chicken that Wu Xie and the others had prepared.

She stuffed the other one with mushrooms and wild vegetables, then picked a large banana leaf to wrap it, and finally covered it with a layer of mud and put it into the hole that the black bear had just dug.

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