My best friend is living a famine-stricken life; you're going crazy, I'm farming.

Yang Fenglan felt that if Zhou Jingyi brought the snake back, he would definitely be met with resistance from everyone.

However, she was wrong.

Apart from Lin Cuiniang, who was on her side, everyone else was eager to discuss how to cook so much meat to make it taste good.

The two women who usually cook are on strike tonight.

Lin Cuiniang only steamed her own buns, and Yang Fenglan only mixed her own houttuynia cordata.

The three men figured out how to prepare the snake meat themselves.

Xiao Yuanshan was the one who did the cooking the most, and after discussion, it was decided that he would be in charge of it.

Xiao Yuanshan didn't refuse, and even joked, "Then let me show you my skills."

Xiao Yuanshan and Zhou Jingyi went down the cliff to deal with the snake.

Xiao Yuanshan took out the snake gall and handed it to Zhou Jingyi, but Zhou Jingyi refused to eat it and ate it himself.

The cleaned snake was chopped into pieces and put directly into a pot to cook, along with a few tree tomatoes.

One large piece was cooked and placed in a large bowl on the table.

Everyone looked at each other, especially Yang Fenglan, who didn't dare to touch her chopsticks.

"None of you are eating?" Xiao Yuanshan raised an eyebrow.

Xiao An was probably as bold as his father. He picked up a large piece of meat and put it into his bowl, saying, "Let me try it first."

Not to be outdone, Xu Chunsheng also took a piece. "It's so tender! It's even better than chicken! Uncle Xiao, your cooking is even better than my mom's and Aunt Yang's!"

Yang Fenglan scoffed; those words sounded utterly insincere.

However, the others also picked up their chopsticks and praised Xiao Yuanshan for cooking well.

Even Xu Yingying said so.

"Fenglan, it's really delicious, have a piece to try." Xu Yingying put a piece on Yang Fenglan's plate, and Yang Fenglan instantly felt that she couldn't keep the bowl.

What a terrible thing... what a terrible thing...

Hmm, it really is quite fresh and tender...

It has a hint of tree tomato fragrance.

Yang Fenglan, who had just said she would never eat snake meat, couldn't stop after taking a bite.

In the end, no one ate the houttuynia cordata she had carefully prepared; they all ate snake meat instead.

With so many people, they couldn't even finish a whole bowl of food.

Xiao Yuanshan said, "We'll cook the rest of it, tail and all, tomorrow."

"Huh? It's not finished cooking yet?"

"There's so much, we can't cook it all in one meal."

The meal was extremely enjoyable. Besides the delicious snake meat, there was also a sense of passion that broke through one's courage, making the meal incredibly exciting.

It's windy on the mountain, and the bamboo shoots we dug yesterday haven't been processed yet.

After finishing her meal, Yang Fenglan began processing the bamboo shoots.

Cut in half, then slice into thin slices, put in a pot, boil in salt water for half an hour, then drain the water and dry in the sun.

The dried bamboo shoots are packed in bags to be eaten in the depths of winter.

It was already dark by the time we finished preparing the bamboo shoots, so we had to save the tree tomatoes for tomorrow. They'll be made into tree tomato sauce, which would be a great choice for mixing with rice or noodles.

A few days later, the mung bean sprouts I had made earlier had all sprouted.

On the dining table, there was another bowl of stir-fried bean sprouts.

At first, the women and children were too scared to go down the cliff, but after a few times, they gradually became bolder and often went out to find wild vegetables together, and they also needed to stock up on dried vegetables.

Gradually, the area they explored expanded, and they found more and more wild vegetables.

There's always more food than you can eat, never less.

Xiao Yuanshan had been to the bamboo forest and dug for two days, only managing to find a few pitiful bamboo shoots. He then directly called Yang Fenglan, believing that she must have some secret to finding bamboo shoots.

Xiao Yuanshan also found a nest of bamboo rats in the bamboo forest, and cooked them that night.

Without chili peppers, people dip their food in tree tomato sauce for an extra layer of stimulation to their taste buds. Gradually, without dipping sauce, everyone said that food didn't taste as good.

Zhou Jingyi went and picked a lot of tree tomatoes and asked Yang Fenglan to make some tomato sauce to store.