Country Maiden: Fields and Fortune-Chapter 66

65, Scared (1 more)

A young lady is supposed to be delicate and beautiful, and upon seeing such a thing, she should say with affected tenderness, “Bunnies are so cute, how can one eat bunnies!”

But this lady, she took the matter into her own hands, a single stroke, and the rabbit’s head was chopped off. When it came to skinning, she was incredibly skilled.

“Miss Xie, you, you…”

Xie Zhinuan looked up, smiling at Yuanbao, “You’re here, I’m killing a rabbit!”

Turning around to look, the dim-witted girl had already run off to the backyard to help her mother dig the soil, and grandma Chen seemed to have gone to the kitchen.

She nodded slightly, “Just put the things down there for now, I’ll take them inside in a moment!”

“Miss Xie, you’re killing a rabbit!” Yuanbao asked again.

If it were a man killing a rabbit, he would not be so surprised.

But it happened to be Xie Zhinuan, a woman.

“Yes, Routuan dragged it back, so I decided to kill it. I’ll stew a pot later; do you want a bowl?”

“No, no need!” Yuanbao waved his hands repeatedly. Then, curiously, he asked, “Why don’t you keep it?”

To keep it? What for? It would need feeding with grass, and looking after, better to eat it!” Xie Zhinuan replied with a smile.

She didn’t quite understand what Yuanbao was getting at.

Her hands and feet deftly gutted the rabbit.

Watching made Yuanbao’s eyes hurt.

Those fair and tender hands, stained with blood…

“Miss Xie, my master sent me to bring you the wage for these past few months!”

Xie Zhinuan looked up upon hearing this.

“Wage? I’ve only just started cooking!”

“My master said, since Miss Xie you just moved in and bought a servant, you’ll need silver for various expenses. So he’s giving fifty taels for this year in advance. Starting next year, we’ll count from the beginning of the year and give more!”

Who would complain about having too much money?

Xie Zhinuan certainly wouldn’t, and besides, cooking for the noble young master across the way wouldn’t be an easy job once it got hot.

Xie Zhinuan accepted the fifty taels of silver Yuanbao brought.

But Yuanbao had been considerate.

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Forty one-tael pieces of Silver, and ten taels exchanged for Copper Coin; this would make it more convenient for her to use.

“Please thank your master for me and rest assured that I will do my best to cook well!” Xie Zhinuan earnestly pledged.

It was just cooking, after all, not some great undertaking.

“Thank you for your trouble, Miss Xie!”

Yuanbao chatted with Xie Zhinuan for a while before leaving.

Xie Zhinuan finished cleaning the rabbit, washed her hands thoroughly, and after making sure there was no smell of blood, she began thinking about preparing the noble young master’s lunch.

It wasn’t good for him to always eat plain porridge, so she decided to cook him a pot of Kalimeris Indica tip porridge. She also made a cold dish of Kalimeris Indica, and fearing he wouldn’t be used to it, she cooked an extra pot of bland porridge.

Xie Zhinuan wasn’t idle either; braised rabbit meat certainly called for some rice.

Aunt Chen and the dim-witted girl were turning over the soil in the backyard while Xie Zhinuan and grandma Chen prepared lunch.

When Yuan Liuwang arrived, he could smell the aroma from afar and took a deep breath.

The desire to make money intensified.

Calling out from the entrance, Xie Zhinuan wiped her hands on her apron and went to the gate, seeing him holding two dead pheasants, “Brother Liuwang, what brings you here!”

“I caught a few pheasants in the mountains and brought you a couple!” Yuan Liuwang said, his eyes stealthily observing Xie Zhinuan.

He wanted to see her reaction.

But she remained calm, showing neither joy nor surprise at the two pheasants, but rather a look of puzzlement and hesitation.

“You should take them back; we have few people here, and none of us particularly like to eat chicken,” Xie Zhinuan said softly, politely refusing Yuan Liuwang’s kind gesture.

Pheasants run fast, and they are generally very difficult to catch.

She absolutely did not believe that Yuan Liuwang had caught several and decided to give two to her.

If she wasn’t mistaken, Yuan Liuwang had probably only caught these two.

And he brought them all here to gift to her.

She could not accept them.

“But, but…”

Chapter 67