When Ji Huan woke up the next morning, he was in a daze as he rarely lay in bed for a while.
He was still thinking about the “dream” just now, to be precise, he was thinking about the demon in the dream.
The sun gradually rose outside the window, shining through the glass window without curtains, and Ji Huan’s eyes slowly became clear.
As he gently got up, he glanced at the little demon next to him, who was holding his hand in a tight grip and sleeping soundly.
Pulling out his hand carefully, Ji Huan plucked the soft fluff on the little demon’s head and said: “You have worked hard enough.”
I don’t know if the little demon felt something but he pushed his head up and felt that his head was completely wrapped in his uncle’s palm, only then did he continue to sleep with satisfaction.
Ji Huan smiled and covered the little demon with the quilt. He got out of the bed and went to the cabinet to pick up the phone. He set an alarm before putting the phone at the end of the bed, and then walked out of the bedroom on his own.
He went straight to the vegetable garden, where the lush greenery smelled of dew. In the dry Yefar, the humid air in Ji Huan’s house could be considered extremely precious. After taking a few deep breaths and stretching his body, he walked towards the well, took off his clothes, and stood in the yard to wash himself with cold water.
As he washed himself with cold water, a thin layer of goosebumps appeared on Ji Huan’s fair skin. But in this way, the fear brought by the previous dream quickly evaporated like dew.
Only the shadow of a demon remained, faint and shallow, but it could never be forgotten.
“Ho! Ho!” Ji Huan heard two cries of a pig when he was about to rush out. He looked towards the pigsty: Sure enough, it was Da Bai who woke up.
Seeing the master he hadn’t met in days, Da Bai was also very excited.
Ji Huan put on his shorts, and waved to Da Bai with his naked upper body: “Da Bai, come here.”
Then Da Bai happily jumped out of the pigsty.
Ji Huan quickly found the usual place to give Da Bai a bath as he heard a grunt behind him, and soon the three-headed Ms. Eroka also jumped out.
Ji Huan scooped up yesterday’s hot spring water with a large basin to bathe the two pigs.
After Ji Huan gave the two pigs a bath, they did not go back to the pigsty. Instead, they ate something in the garden and by the way, they also fertilized the garden with their poop. As they wandered around, Ji Huan wasn’t idle either, he followed the two pigs and checked the growth of the vegetables.
Perhaps due to the proper care of Ji Huan’s family, the garden began to have some weeds.
For Yefar, where most of the land is almost barren, this was an extremely rare occurrence. Ji Huan also didn’t pull them out, allowing them to grow in the garden will give Da Bai a change of taste. The chickens at home can also eat the grass seeds.
However, it was also for the sake of raising chickens that Ji Huan rummaged for a long time, only to find that there were no bugs on the vegetable leaves.
Picking the two largest cabbages, Ji Huan turned around and went into the kitchen.
“Xiao Hua, why don’t you sleep a bit longer? Isn’t today your day off?” Grandpa happened to just come down from upstairs, wearing a tattered old shirt. The old man’s clothes now look more and more like those of local residents in Yefar.
Unlike in Bade Town, Grandpa now sleeps a lot everyday, almost more than Ji Huan, second only to Hei Dan.
At the beginning, it was acceptable as Grandpa’s serious injury still hadn’t healed. But now that all of his injuries are fully healed, it was still like this, and Grandpa himself felt a bit embarrassed.
There is only one alarm clock at home— Ji Huan’s mobile phone, and the right to use the alarm clock belongs to Hei Dan, so Grandpa had to rely on the only rooster in the family.
But unfortunately——
Ji Huan’s chickens don’t crow at all.
Ji Huan and seriously Grandpa analyzed it: It is estimated that these chickens instinctively know that they are in a place with a high risk factor, and they honestly stay in the yard everyday, without worrying about them flying out ← Yes, the chickens of Ji Huan’s family have excellent flying ability, much better than ordinary chickens. Although it’s not to the point that they can really fly, it is absolutely possible to pounce out of the yard.
“It was time to wake up.” Ji Huan said as he put the two cabbages on the chopping board. Grandpa took the cabbage and started washing it.
“Shall we have some noodles for breakfast?” Grandpa said, “By the way, I marinated those hooves. Without a pressure cooker, we will have to marinate them for a whole day~”
“But the hooves marinated in this way taste much more delicious.” Ji Huan replied.
So Grandpa happily took out a ~large~ pot of various hooves and tails from the refrigerator. Ji Huan was a little surprised by the large number.
“So much!”
“Da Bai’s wife goes hunting with me every day! Not only does she take care of her own food, but she also gives half of it to Da Bai everyday. What a capable girl!”
Ji Huan: “…”
No wonder Da Bai looks more round and plump.
Ji Huan picked out the hooves in the basin and shaved them one by one, some of them even had thick and hard nails which also needed to be taken care of. These… Well, many of these are not really hooves, having all kinds of weird shapes. Ordinary people probably won’t have the desire to eat after looking at it, but… Ji Huan looks very calm.
Ji Huan dealt with the monster’s hooves, while Grandpa started preparing to roll out the noodles.
Grandpa is not good at cooking, but he can roll out the noodles very well!
Previously, Grandpa would always make a big bowl of longevity noodles on Ji Huan’s birthday every year. The noodles were long and chewy.
The main reason was that grandpa has the strength and is willing to spend more time kneading for a while, so the rolled out noodles naturally taste more delicious.
However, after Grandpa’s health began to deteriorate, Ji Huan didn’t allow him to do it. In Bade Town, it was because of Grandpa’s physical problems, but after arriving here, it was because of lack of materials.
Some of the grains that Ji Huan took out from the nest of the bone monsters could be ground into flour, but unfortunately the quantity was too small. So, Ji Huan was a bit surprised when he heard Grandpa say that he was going to roll noodles yesterday. But when he saw Grandpa mysteriously taking out a large bag of light yellow flour from the lower cabinet, Ji Huan froze.
“After searching hundreds of bone nests, I’ve finally saved enough.” Grandpa said, “Xiao Hua loves noodles the most.”
Pursing his lips, Ji Huan let out a soft “um”.
Seeing his grandson’s expression, grandpa felt even more happy in his heart. He ran to his grandson’s room and stayed there for a while. When he came out of the room again, he had already turned into a tall lamb-horned demon, wearing a pair of big shorts.
With a roar, he signaled his grandson to tie up his apron, and grandpa started to knead the dough.
Well, the most important reason why Grandpa’s rolled out noodles taste better than others: he kneads the dough in his monster form.
Grandpa’s height and strength in his monster form are much greater than in human form. He was happily kneading the dough while humming a little tune.
Ji Huan looked in Grandpa’s direction: the white scales looked transparent, and the black scales underneath had already grown back. After a while, those white scales would be pushed out by the black scales.
What was even more obvious than the change of scales was the hair on Grandpa’s body ← After this period of recuperation, the previous gray hair has completely turned black.
Seeing the changes in Grandpa, Ji Huan was completely relieved.
Seeing Grandpa wearing an apron and a pair of big shorts, Ji Huan suddenly remembered many small details:
That was when his sister was still there.
“Grandpa, there is a long hair in the noodles.” The little girl with a pair of ponytails was originally eating the noodles happily, but as she ate, she pulled out a long hair from her mouth.
It was a long black hair.
Then Xiao Hua defended his Grandpa with an unhappy face: “It must be your hair. You are the only one in the family with long hair and a braid.”
Throwing the black hair out, Xiao Hei continued to eat noodles in large gulps.
Grandpa just laughed on the side.
At that time, Grandpa must have been using his monster form to knead the dough, and it is inevitable for a monster with a full body of hair to shed hair.
Ji Huan remembered that when he was a child, he was very worried that Xiao Hei would go bald in the future, because he would find a lot of hair everyday while cleaning.
Then Xiao Hei would look at him speechlessly.
However, after she started going out to work, she sent back a lot of walnuts and black sesame paste, urging Grandpa to cook every day.
“I want to work hard and make a lot of money in the future, and then buy the mountain.” This is a sentence that Xiao Hei often said when she was a child. Although she didn’t say it everyday after she grew up, she worked very hard to make money. Before she left, the pillar of Ji Huan’s family was actually Xiao Hei.
When Ji Huan was young, he was very shy and didn’t like to talk, which made him look very gloomy. Because of his quiet personality, he was often bullied when he was a child, but every time they were beaten back by Xiao Hei.
Xiao Hei…
Ji Huan remembered these things from a long time ago.
If Xiao Hei was here now, if brother-in-law was here now, they would be living well, right?
“Xiao Hua loves noodles the most, but Xiao Hei loves pig’s feet the most. The combination of the two was pig’s feet noodles~” It was originally supposed to be pig’s feet, but Grandpa was flexible. He loved both of his grandchildren equally, so he invented a new dish: pig’s feet noodles.
In the kitchen, only Grandpa’s humming could be heard for a while.
After a while, the alarm in the bedroom rang, and the sound stopped after a short while. Ji Huan hurriedly washed his hands and went in: Hei Dan had already gotten up on the big bed in the bedroom.
Extending his small arms, Hei Dan showed his uncle a smile with his only four teeth.
After washing Hei Dan’s face and teeth, Ji Huan applied lotion to his whole body, combed his hair and braided it into two pigtails, then quickly went out. Hei Dan is so small that it was impossible for Ji Huan to leave him alone without anyone looking after him.
Ji Huan hugged Hei Dan and let him sit on the table, then he brought out the book that he had been reading recently. Hei Dan obediently sat on the table and looked at the book, he not only looked but also read out the things he knew.
So a baby’s tender voice kept coming out of the kitchen.
During this time, Ji Huan also stewed all the hooves.
At noon, the pot kept emitting a tempting aroma, and Grandpa took out several eggs from the basket.
“Marinate the eggs too, Hei Dan loves eggs.”
Pig’s feet is Xiao Hei’s favorite food, and Xiao Hua’s favorite is noodles. Now that we have Hei Dan at home, Hei Dan’s favorite food should also be stewed.
There are all the dishes that his grandchildren like.
Ji Huan was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: “Then I will marinate some butt meat by the way, grandpa loves it.”
That evening, Ji Huan finally ate the long-lost noodles.
Hei Dan also tasted some stewed hoof meat and his eyes sparkled. The little guy who never liked to eat meat actually liked the hoof meat very much.
But he also loved noodles, so he ate a small bowl.
The stewed egg inside was his favorite, and the proof was that he only ate one that he cherished very much.
The next day, Ji Huan packed a box of stewed hooves, a box of noodles that Grandpa freshly rolled, and a bowl of stewed eggs before he went to work.
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