allonlinenovel Chapter 143 was alright, I guess.
Chapter 143 was alright, I guess.
The Snow Wolf King has practically delivered himself to our doorstep; we can't just throw him away, can we?
If they were to abandon them, they might not even be able to climb the rocky hill and would fall prey to the wolves.
Gu Qingfeng looked at Zhou Hanzhang's little wolf cub and said, "Let's give it a name. How about we call it Zaza?"
Zhou Hanzhang & He Shi: ...
What's your name?
"I'm just looking at its mixed fur; I wonder if it's a Snow Wolf King's offspring."
"I think so, otherwise why would it bring it here by itself?" Zhou Hanzhang was also somewhat puzzled.
"I've heard that snow wolves are sometimes mixed-colored when they're young, but they grow out of it and their fur turns snow-white."
"Really?" Gu Qingfeng looked left and right, completely unable to connect the little wolf cub in front of him with the previous Snow Wolf King.
"One of its eyes looks just like the Snow Wolf King's, didn't you notice?"
Gu Qingfeng then looked at the wolf cub's eyes. "Huh, why are these eyes so strange? Did the Snow Wolf King have eyes like that too?"
I'm speechless.
Well, I'll just pretend I didn't say anything. That's what he was thinking.
Zhou Hanzhang was close by, so she naturally knew that she had already noticed when the Snow Wolf King looked over, with a green glow flashing in both of its eyes.
The little wolf cub has two-colored eyes; it's unclear whether it inherited them from the Snow Wolf King's other half.
"Zaza sounds awful."
Zhou Hanzhang thought for a moment, "It's fate that it met us here, and its eyes are also peculiar. Why don't we name it Emerald Flame?"
"Hey, this is a great name, why didn't I think of that?"
He completely ignored Gu Qingfeng's nonsensical words and directly praised Zhou Hanzhang, saying, "The name you chose is naturally excellent."
Seeing that they had no objections, Zhou Hanzhang picked up the little wolf cub, stood up, and spun around. "From now on, your name will be Cuiyan."
The little wolf cub was quite happy, its tail wagging constantly, making excited little cries, and repeatedly sticking out its tongue to lick Zhou Hanzhang's face.
It played with Zhou Hanzhang for a little while, then moved closer to the jerky in Zhou Hanzhang's hand. First, it stuck out its tongue and licked it. After tasting it, it looked at Zhou Hanzhang and let out a soft "Awoo..."
Seeing that Zhou Hanzhang didn't react, it bit down, but since it didn't have teeth yet, it couldn't reach the food no matter how hard it bit.
It looked at Zhou Hanzhang with its big, watery eyes and whimpered.
Zhou Hanzhang softened at the way it called him and took the jerky out of its mouth. "Good boy, you're too young to eat this."
She then realized that she had no idea how to raise such a small wolf cub.
Do you know what wolf cubs eat?
"It's nursing, right? But we don't know where to find milk for it to drink."
Zhou Hanzhang glanced at the things the wolves had brought back, examining them one by one, and finally picked up a dying pheasant. "Kill this one and make some minced meat to make soup?"
When Shi He and Gu Qingfeng couldn't think of a better solution, they could only do as Zhou Hanzhang said. Fortunately, Shi He had considered that they might need to stay in Shishan for a while and was worried that his young master wouldn't eat well, so he brought a pot with him. Otherwise, they really wouldn't know what to do.
When did he take out some rice? "I brought some rice with me. Let's cook some minced meat soup with it?"
Zhou Hanzhang looked at the rice that He Shi had taken out and was very happy. "He Shi, you said you would never do without me."
Gu Qingfeng looked into the depths of the cave. The faint, scattered light had long since disappeared with the departure of the wolf pack, leaving only the gurgling water.
He looked at Zhou Hanzhang and asked, "Shall we go over and take a look now?"
Zhou Hanzhang looked outside; the dust and sand were still everywhere. After thinking for a moment, he nodded. “Alright, let’s take these prey and spend the night inside. We’ll set off again tomorrow when the dust and sand have cleared up.”
The group quickly gathered the prey brought by the wolves and headed towards the sound of flowing water in the cave. Sure enough, they soon found a pool of running water.
“I told you there was water here,” Gu Qingfeng said happily.
He didn't talk as much as he did at any time, and quickly set up the items.
Seeing that Gu Qingfeng was still looking at it, Zhou Hanzhang said, "Why don't you deal with those things?"
Gu Qingfeng looked confused. "I should handle this?"
"Or should I do it?"
Gu Qingfeng looked at Cuiyan still clinging to Zhou Hanzhang, then at Zhou Hanzhang's fair and delicate hands, and remembered that this person was the apple of the royal family's eye. He sighed and resigned himself to dealing with the situation.
"Luckily, I'm not one of those pampered young masters, otherwise I really wouldn't know how to cook this chicken. I have to thank my husband, Old Gu, for sending me out into the forest to train me before."
As Gu Qingfeng tidied up, he muttered to himself, looking at the knife in his hand and sighing, "I never thought this knife would be used to kill chickens before it could even split mountains and rocks."
Zhou Hanzhang burst into laughter. Gu Qingfeng stared blankly at Zhou Hanzhang's bright smile, almost cutting his own hand in the process.
Fortunately, he was subdued at the crucial moment, otherwise he probably wouldn't even be able to keep his hands now.
Zhou Hanzhang was startled. "Gu Qingfeng, can you be more careful? What if you cut your hand here? We won't be able to handle it and will have to send you out. Wouldn't that cause delays?"
Gu Qingfeng naturally knew the seriousness of the matter and dared not look any longer. He quickly lowered his head and began to deal with it as soon as possible.
Having the right tools really makes a difference; they quickly got everything sorted out.
These prepared chickens in front of him were clearly sent by the Snow Wolf King to be prepared for the little one.
"Should we cook all of these?" He Shi asked Zhou Hanzhang.
Zhou Hanzhang looked at the chickens in front of him, not many of them. "Why don't we cook them all? It's inconvenient to carry them raw. We can put one in a pot to make porridge, and roast the rest. If we can't finish them, we can keep them for a couple of days. We can then use the roasted chicken to make porridge for the little one."
"Roasted chicken porridge?"
Gu Qingfeng had never tried this cuisine before. "Is this edible?"
"What can we do then?"
Gu Qingfeng couldn't come up with a better solution either, and finally resigned himself to his fate, saying, "Well, well, it's alright."
Zhou Hanzhang ignored him and watched as Shi He skillfully cut the chicken into pieces and threw them into the cooked porridge. When it was almost done, he took the chicken out, found a stone from somewhere, washed it in the running water, and began to tear the chicken into pieces and pound it on the stone.
He pounded the chicken into minced meat in no time and then poured the minced meat back into the porridge.
Gu Qingfeng was amazed by his move, "I never knew you had this skill."
"When I was young, I was always hungry, so I learned to do all sorts of things. I never imagined that someone like Young Master Gu would kill a chicken."
Of course, he wouldn't ask his young master to do chores. He initially planned to do it himself, but unexpectedly, Gu Qingfeng surprised him.