The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family-Chapter 59 - The Fame of Running into Evil (2)_1

Eldest sister said this big rat’s meat is delicious!” Pei Wendong, craving meat, pleaded softly with Lady Fang.

“Let’s cook it thoroughly first!” Pei Qin took a knife and killed the bamboo rat.

The two small bamboo rats weighed over three pounds each.

After skinning and dressing them, Pei Wendong was tasked to hang and dry the hides.

Pei Qin slit open the bamboo rats, cleaning them thoroughly.

Looking at the nearly pink meat, Lady Fang sniffed it; there was no sour or fishy smell.

She dried her tearful eyes and headed to the kitchen to start cooking.

“I’ll cook,” Pei Qin called for San Ya to prepare seasonings such as chili, green onion, ginger, garlic, and cilantro, getting ready to make a dry pot bamboo rat dish.

Pei Wendong eagerly brought the green onion, ginger, and garlic, and helped with peeling them.

The bamboo rat meat was first blanched, poked with chopsticks, taken out to drain, and then stir-fried in a dry pan.

Lady Zhu had wanted to scold them and prevent them from using oil, to not waste the household’s resources, but upon seeing the meat, she uncharacteristically kept silent.

Once a fragrant aroma began to emerge from the pot.

Pei Wenlee and Pei Wenbo, who had gone out to play, also returned.

Old Pei and Pei Houli had returned as well.

“What delicious dish is being cooked today?

The scent is wafting throughout the courtyard!” Pei Houli laughed as he set down the firewood and headed toward the kitchen.

“Rat meat!” Lady Chen watched him, filled with hatred.

Her own cooking was always deemed unpalatable, while that wretch’s cooking filled the entire courtyard with its delicious scent!

Pei Houli was startled by her response, “Rat meat!?” He hurried into the kitchen, “Da Ya’s mother?

Are you really cooking rat meat!?”

Pei Qin blocked him with a spatula in hand.

Pei Houli looked at Lady Fang with a pained, apologetic expression, “It’s all because I’m useless and can’t provide you with a good life!

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Tomorrow I’ll butcher some meat!

But you can’t eat that rat meat, it’s not safe!”

“Nobody’s asking you to eat it!” Of everyone in Old Pei’s House, Pei Qin despised Pei Houli the most, with his outwardly honest appearance!

“Da Ya…” Pei Houli looked into her cold eyes, sensing her defensive posture, and said in pain, “Da Ya!

You really shouldn’t eat rat meat!

It could make you sick!

If you want to eat meat, your uncle will bring some back tomorrow!”

“Oh, really!

How much of that meat do we daughters actually get when you bring it back?!” Pei Qin sneered, telling him not to be in the way in the kitchen.

She turned to have Lady Fang scoop the rice.

Pei Houli’s face turned an ugly shade, but it wasn’t noticeable due to his dark complexion.

Pei Qin shoveled the dry pot bamboo rat meat into a basin and took the stir-fried radish and nests to the main hall.

“They actually made meat and didn’t include us!” Pei Wenbo’s face was flushed with anger.

“You want to eat rat meat too?

Aren’t you afraid of getting sick from it?

There might even be plague!

The doctors in Taiping Town won’t be able to cure that deliberately!” Pei Qin raised an eyebrow.

Her words were frightening, so of course, they didn’t dare to eat it, but the aroma of the bamboo rat meat was tantalizing, and Pei Wenbo was yearning to try it.

Pei Wenlee pulled him aside, “Let them eat first, if it doesn’t kill them, then we’ll eat too!”