Oh my god, I became the vicious stepmother of four villains

The room was very quiet and Xia Yingying's steady breathing could be heard.

He fell into a nightmare again.

Why would he continue to suffer from nightmares when he could calm down his nightmares just by getting close to Xia Yingying?

After wiping the sweat off his face, Lu Ziren got up and changed into a new set of underwear. He then crawled into Xia Yingying's quilt, put his big hands around her slender waist, put his head on her neck, and smelled the gardenia scent emanating from her body. The uneasiness and fear in his heart slowly subsided.

Lu Ziren pressed Xia Yingying's sleep point behind her ear, closed his eyes, and fell asleep. But this time, he did not dream.

The first crowing of a rooster in the village broke the tranquility of the village. Lu Ziren opened his sleepy eyes, hugged Xia Yingying tightly, closed his eyes and fell asleep again, resting his eyes for a while.

By the time the first ray of sunlight shone into the yard, Song Ruyi had already gotten up and started boiling water.

Lu Ziren then got up and pressed the sleep point with his finger again. Xia Yingying couldn't help but twist her body. She scratched her neck with her hand, frowned and moaned, and then a steady breath came.

Seeing this, Lu Ziren couldn't help but hold his breath, and when he saw that Xia Yingying didn't wake up, he breathed a sigh of relief, dressed himself quietly, put away the mat, and went to wash up.

Chen Yi also woke up. After washing, the two of them carried bows and arrows and went to the mountain together.

After Lu Haojie got up, he talked to Jingjing for a while. Then Xia Yingying was awakened by the voices of the two children.

I don't know if she has a stiff neck. Her neck felt a little sore, so she tilted her head and rubbed it, which relieved it a little.

It's very strange. She has never had a stiff neck problem. Why did she suddenly get one?

Also, if you have a stiff neck, why are there two red spots on the back of your neck? That's very strange.

We'll have to ask Doctor Qin to take a look at her later.

Normally, she would worry about such things, but she would not want to go to the clinic. Now she has a free doctor at home, and she can see a doctor anytime and anywhere.

Xia Yingying took a look and found that Lu Ziren had already left. There was no sign that he had slept on the bed. Thinking that he had slept on the floor last night, Xia Yingying felt comfortable all over.

Qin Qingfeng also got up. He spread the herbs he had picked in the yard to dry, and Jingjing and Lu Haojie also helped.

Song Ruyi baked a few pancakes in the kitchen for breakfast. She had been eating noodles or leftover pastries for breakfast these days, so she wanted to change the taste by eating pancakes.

After Xia Yingying washed up and had breakfast, she started to make pastries.

But since Lu Ziren was not there, there was no one to beat the eggs. She didn't want to spend so much effort making a cake, so she simply made the simplest goat milk square first.

Xia Yingying had already tried to bake cakes in an oven, and decided to make some cookies this time.

The raw materials on hand were relatively simple, so Xia Yingying decided to make original, walnut, peanut, and goat milk flavored cookies.

Now is the harvest season. Peanuts and walnuts are easily available in the village and are not expensive.

But cookies need butter.

But there was no butter. Butter had to be whipped from milk. She didn't want to whip it herself so she temporarily stopped making egg cakes. In order to solve this problem, Xia Yingying decided to use corn oil instead.

There are animal oils and vegetable oils here. The most common vegetable oils are rapeseed oil, soybean oil and sunflower oil, while corn oil is very rare.

Coconut oil is something that people in this remote area have never heard of. I guess only people in Beijing know whether this thing exists.

Corn is also grown in Daliang, but it is used to feed livestock. Xia Yingying paid a craftsman to make oil from corn just for making pastries.

Xia Yingying prepared the ingredients and began to stir them. She put the mixed batter in a clean waterproof cloth and slowly squeezed it onto the mold.

Xia Yingying makes a lot of cookies because they are dry and very durable, with a shelf life much longer than egg cakes.

Although it can be stored for a long time, Xia Yingying only dares to make enough for three days, and she dare not make more than that.

We need to wait for good market feedback before doing more.

Otherwise, it would be bad if they were left there. The biscuits would become soft and not crispy, and the taste would be bad. There was no film to isolate the air, so they could only be left in the air. She could use space to keep them fresh, but others had no way to keep them fresh.

The cookies are ready and it's almost time for lunch.

Yesterday, Lu Ziren had already killed and chopped the rabbit for today's meal. All he had to do was add seasoning and cook it.

Yesterday we had diving rabbit, and today Xia Yingying decided to make braised rabbit.

The wild boar meat at home is almost finished. Now there is only one ham that has not been touched. Fortunately, Xia Yingying bought some pork in town. Today I will make a fish-flavored pork shreds.

When Xia Yingying came back, the innkeeper's wife gave her some salted fish, and Xia Yingying steamed one of them.

In addition to the three meat dishes, there are also yam, carrot and black fungus, hand-shredded cabbage, ants climbing a tree without meat, dry-pot tofu, shredded potatoes with green peppers, and cabbage and tofu soup.

The meal is a combination of meat and vegetables, with soup and rice, which is very rich.

When Xia Yingying was cooking the third to last dish, Lu Ziren and Chen Yi returned to the village.

When the people in the village saw the two of them, everyone widened their eyes as if they had seen something extraordinary.

Lu Ziren was carrying a dead wild boar with an arrow stuck in its heart, while Chen Yi was carrying four pheasants, eight rabbits and twenty bamboo rats on a wooden stick... This, this was too scary...

Why can Lu Ziren and his team hunt them, but they can't even see any hair? It's really frustrating to compare yourself with others.

“Tsk tsk tsk, you are indeed someone who has been on the battlefield. You can fight and carry such a big wild boar just by saying so!”

"That's not right. Xia Yingying also used Lu Ziren's crossbow to shoot and kill a big wild boar that crashed into a tree. If you also have that kind of weapon, you should be able to kill a wild boar that big as well."

When Lu Ziren heard the conversation between the two, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.

Crossbow?

What crossbow?

He didn't have that thing and had never used it, so how could it be in his house?

How did Xia Yingying have a crossbow? She had shot a wild boar before. What was going on?

"Ziren, was this shot by the weapon you used on the battlefield?"

"No, I did it myself when I came back." Lu Ziren suppressed his doubts.

For him, as long as it is a weapon, it has lethality, regardless of whether it is on the battlefield or not.

"I thought this was something you used on the battlefield, and I was thinking if you had any extra, you could sell me one."

"Weapons from the barracks cannot be taken out. I had someone shoot the crossbow arrows at Yingying."

Although Lu Ziren didn't know what the crossbow arrow was, he knew it was Xia Yingying's secret, so he couldn't help but help Xia Yingying cover it up.

"When your wife shot the wild boar, she said she used the crossbow arrows you left on the battlefield. We heard it with our own ears."

The man didn't quite believe what Lu Ziren said and thought that Lu Ziren was unwilling to sell it to him.