Reborn as Tycoon's Wife in the Countryside-Chapter 55 - bird eggs chicken eggs

55: 55 bird eggs chicken eggs

55: 55 bird eggs chicken eggs

In the morning, when Su Xiaofeng got up, He Ximei had made some porridge and boiled a few eggs.

Seeing Xiaofeng rise, He Ximei felt somewhat awkward about the tens of thousands of yuan from last night, “Your dad can’t eat anything else for now, so I made him some porridge.

You and Pengzi each get two eggs.”

As she spoke, she served a bowl of porridge and went into the house.

There was also a small bowl of chili sauce on the table.

The so-called chili sauce was nothing more than raw red chilies, chopped up and mixed with soy sauce and scallions to accompany the porridge or rice.

Su Xiaofeng remembered that she had bought quite a lot of dried radishes at the market and thought to herself that she could prepare some for lunch.

She scooped a bowl of thin rice porridge, took two eggs, peeled one, drizzled it with chili sauce, and took a bite—it was pretty delicious.

Su Peng returned from cutting pigweed in the field, his palms green and his trouser cuffs damp with dew.

“Feng, Feng,” Su Peng’s eyes gleamed with excitement, “I’ve found a nest of eggs.

I’ll take you to see them.”

“What eggs?

Eat your breakfast first,” He Ximei emerged from the house and gave Su Peng a stern glance.

Su Peng immediately went to wash his hands and eat, and once He Ximei went back to the kitchen, he looked at Xiaofeng with a face full of eagerness for approval, “It’s really eggs.

Let’s go collect them later, there are so many.”

He stretched out his palm and smiled with simple honesty.

After breakfast, Su Peng couldn’t wait to show Xiaofeng his great discovery.

It was located in a thick patch of vegetation at the foot of the mountain.

Su Peng carefully parted the leaves to reveal five or six eggs, smaller than chicken eggs, lying there quietly.

Su Peng carefully picked up the eggs from the ground and held them out for Xiaofeng to see, “Xiaofeng, count them, are there six?”

“Brother, there’s five,” Xiaofeng corrected after glancing at the eggs in Su Peng’s palm.

Su Xiaotao returned from picking vegetables in the field and smirked upon seeing Su Peng and Su Xiaofeng standing so close together, engrossed in something, “Some people really have no shame, openly seducing their own idiot brother in broad daylight.

Tsk tsk.”

This ‘idiot’ wasn’t even Xiaofeng’s real brother; who knew what Su Xiaofeng was capable of.

Su Xiaofeng turned around and looked at the sisters in front of her, curving her lips slightly in a smile, “Someone must have eaten crap early in the morning, they reek so badly you could smell it from ten miles away.”

Su Xiaotao’s face darkened, “You’ve got some nerve showing your face.

If I were you, pregnant with a fatherless child, I’d find a hole to hide in instead of strutting around at the entrance of the village, showing no embarrassment.”

“I haven’t stolen or robbed, so what should I be ashamed of,” Su Xiaofeng replied with a slight smile.

“Or are you saying you’re pregnant, too?”

After finishing her sentence, Su Xiaofeng’s eyes lightly swept over the other’s belly.

Su Xiaotao’s face flushed red, glaring fiercely at Su Xiaofeng, “You really think everyone’s as shameless as you.”

After glancing at Su Peng, she stepped forward and snatched the eggs from his hands, “I was wondering where all the eggs from our new laying hen went.

Turns out they’re all here.

Idiot, open your eyes wide; these are chicken eggs, not bird eggs.

Can’t tell the difference between a chicken egg and a bird egg, no wonder you’re an idiot.”

The new hen had laid very small eggs, almost the same size as bird eggs, but the ones here were indeed bird eggs, as they were patterned.

Of course, the person in question was an idiot; it would be strange if he could actually differentiate between chicken eggs and bird eggs.

Listening to Su Xiaotao repeatedly calling him an idiot, Su Xiaofeng’s eyes narrowed, and she stepped forward to glance into the bushes, feigning surprise, “Brother, there are three more here.”

Upon hearing there were more in the bushes, Su Xiaotao eagerly scrambled to snatch them.

Su Xiaotao was so intent on seeing if there were more in the underbrush that she completely missed Su Xiaofeng’s foot sticking out.

With a loud thud, Su Xiaotao leaned forward, accidentally flinging the eggs in her hand.

One was crushed beneath her, while the other four were scattered around.

Luckily there was plenty of grass around, so they didn’t break.

Su Xiaofeng picked up the bird eggs from the ground and blew on them, “Brother, let’s go back, we’ll have bird eggs for lunch.”

Su Xiaotao climbed out from the grass, her face covered in egg liquid.

Watching the siblings Su Xiaofeng heading home, she clenched her fists tight and thought, Su Xiaofeng, you wretch, just you wait.

After returning, He Ximei went to the fields with Su Peng, leaving Xiaofeng at home to look after her dad.

With nothing else to do, Xiaofeng busied herself with cooking.

She took out the radishes to soak in water, planning to stir-fry one for lunch.

Then she would make egg drop soup with the bird eggs, followed by stir-fried pork with green peppers and bok choy.

“Xiaofeng, this dried radish is quite good.

I actually find it quite tasty,” said He Ximei at lunch after trying a piece of the dried radish, surprisingly finding it delicious.

She marveled inwardly at how much Xiaofeng’s cooking skills seemed to have improved.

Xiaofeng took a few bites, the radish was crunchy, firm to the bite, and flavored with garlic and chili oil, it indeed tasted great.

She recalled asking for the address last time, it seemed to be the radishes from Tangjia Pit.

“Auntie, do we have any dried radishes at home?” Even within the same town, due to different soil qualities, the taste of the crops can vary significantly.

She wanted to compare the dried radishes from their village with those bought to see what the differences were.

“Yes, we’ve dried some ourselves,” said He Ximei, who was quite capable and handled all farm-related tasks: “Aren’t these our own home-dried radishes?”

“No, I bought these.”

“We have dried plenty at home, and you still went to buy more?”

“I heard that the radishes from Tangjia Pit are particularly sweet and crunchy, so I wanted to give them a try.”

“The soil there is sandy, so the radishes grown there are indeed sweet and tender,” He Ximei understood why the dried radishes tasted so good upon hearing they were from Tangjia Pit.

Hearing He Ximei say this, Su Xiaofeng felt assured; it seemed that only the radishes from Tangjia Pit had that special sweetness and crunch.

After lunch, old Su, who could already get out of bed and was wrapped up snugly, headed straight to his third uncle’s house.

There was no helping it; old Su couldn’t sit still.

Once he got the idea to build a new house, he was eager to start making it happen immediately.

Upon hearing this, the third uncle was slightly baffled, “What, you’re going to build a new house?”

He paused, then laughed, “Old Su, not a day goes by that you can sit idle.

Your mine just compensated you yesterday, and today you’re already thinking about building a new house.

Isn’t that a bit too hasty?”

Speaking of houses, old Su’s was indeed the oldest in the village, even the newly built pigsties at the village entrance were newer than his.

Old Su chuckled, “Well, I’ve hurt myself and have nothing to do at home, so I might as well find something to keep me busy.

We received some money from the mine yesterday, and we have some savings ourselves.

Besides, we have someone in the family wanting to get married; how can he do that without a new house?”

When the topic of the fool came up, the third uncle had to say a few words about old Su, “Old Su, is the father of Pengzi really not going to take care of him?

He’s over twenty now, and we haven’t seen anyone from the other side show up, right?”

“Uncle, now Pengzi is taking my surname.

Even if they want to get involved, they’ll have to see if I agree,” replied old Su.

“That’s hard to say,” the third uncle pulled out some tobacco to roll a cigarette, “Pengzi has their blood in his veins.

If Pengzi were to seriously consider getting married, they surely couldn’t refuse to contribute anything, right?”