Traveling through the 1970s: The young wife loves to make trouble

Chapter 71 Understanding Birds' Speech
When Tao Qiuyi walked into the kitchen, he saw a fire burning in the stove. Li Zi was standing by the pot with a spatula in her hand, repeatedly stirring the fat meat that was slowly releasing oil from the pot.

He looked around but didn't see Xiao Huai.

"Li Zi, why are you alone here? Where is Xiao Huai?" Tao Qiuyi walked over.

"There's not much water left in the jar. Xiao Huai went out to fetch some water." Li Zi replied, stirring the food in her hands.

Tao Qiuyi glanced into the stone water tank and found that there was indeed not much water left.

"It smells so good! The lard made from fat is so fragrant." Tao Qiuyi sat down on the small stool beside the fire and picked up the branches next to him and put them into the stove.

Li Zi noticed her movements and reminded her, "Sister-in-law, you can't use high heat to make fat from pork, otherwise the pork and the fat will easily get burnt."

"I understand." Tao Qiuyi nodded. She really didn't know that there were such details in refining oil from fat.

In her previous life, she was a foodie who had eaten all over the world. She had tried Sichuan cuisine, Cantonese cuisine, Thai cuisine, and Korean cuisine. However, her favorite was Sichuan cuisine, which was both spicy and numbing, and very satisfying to eat.

She has eaten signature dishes from so many regions and countries, but she can't cook any of them.

Watching Li Zi's skillful movements, Tao Qiuyi recalled the last conversation with Wei Jingyuan in the house.

When Wei Jingyuan smiled and said that he had not graduated from junior high school, she bought him high school textbooks and asked her if she thought there was any problem, she was really shocked.

So the sentence "You didn't graduate from junior high school" came out.

She was simply too surprised and didn't show any contempt at all.

But Wei Jingyuan seemed to have misunderstood.

At this time, Xiao Huai came into her sight carrying an iron barrel. The barrel was very heavy, and Xiao Huai had a lot of effort to lift it. He walked to the stone vat with a slightly staggering step.

He first placed the iron bucket at his feet, rested for a few seconds, then picked up the bucket and poured the water in it into the stone jar.

"Xiao Huai, wait a moment." Tao Qiuyi suddenly spoke.

Xiao Huai was startled by her voice, and the iron bucket tilted. Tao Qiuyi flashed over, grabbed the bucket, and then placed it steadily on the ground.

Not a drop of water was spilled.

"Sister-in-law." Xiao Huai looked at Tao Qiuyi in confusion.

Tao Qiuyi said, "The remaining water in the jar hasn't been drained yet, and you're pouring fresh water in. Then what we eat and drink will always be water that's been sitting there for a long time. This is unhealthy."

Xiao Huai looked confused.

"Forget it." Tao Qiuyi didn't want to explain too much. "Xiao Huai, get the water out of the jar first and use a basin to wash the pot or dishes. If you're not strong enough, don't fetch water. I'll do it."

"Okay." Xiao Huai responded and went to get a basin to fill with water.

Tao Qiuyi was very strong and fetching water was effortless for her. However, the well was a bit far away and since she only had an iron bucket, she had to run back and forth several times before filling the stone jar.

It's not tiring, it's just troublesome.

By the time she filled the stone jar, the pear oil residue noodles were ready.

The four of them finished their fried noodles in the house, cleaned up the dishes, and then went about their own business.

Wei Jingyuan continued to read his Chinese medicine book. Li Zi went to the next room to make shoes. Xiao Huai was weaving bamboo baskets in the yard. Tao Qiuyi went up the mountain with a backpack on his back.

The deep mountains are too dangerous, with wild animals often roaming around, so few people dare to go into the mountains.

In the deep mountains in winter, there are only a few wild fruits, but there are a lot of medicinal herbs, mushrooms, and fungus. Tao Qiuyi's backpack was soon full, and she put the mushrooms, fungus, medicinal herbs and fruits together in the ring space.

Xiao Huai made two bamboo baskets for her, one for mushrooms and the other for wood ear mushrooms. The medicinal herbs and fruits were still piled on the ground.

Suddenly, she heard a few birds in the nearby tree talking. "Is he dead? Did that person die from the fall?"

"I don't know. Anyway, he was lying on the ground without moving."

"Probably dead."

"I saw him drop the box he was holding several times. It even rolled down from such a high place, but it didn't break. It must be very sturdy. If we use it as our bird's nest, we won't have to worry about the wind, the sun, or the rain when we live in it."

"Don't even think about it. We can't open that box."

"We can go find a monkey and ask him to help us open the box."

"Even a monkey can't open it. I see there's a padlock on the box."

"Ah, humans are really too much. Why would they lock up the box for no reason?"

Yes, she did understand what the birds were saying.

The birds were talking so much, but in reality, they were just gossiping about whether someone was dead or not. Tao Qiuyi found it interesting and joined in the gossip. "Because there's something very important inside, if it's not locked up, it could easily be stolen."

"So that's how it is!" exclaimed a bird.

The other birds looked at Tao Qiuyi in horror and flapped their wings and flew away.

One bird was so flustered that it hit its head on a tree trunk and fell to the ground.

"Hey, don't go, let's continue chatting." Tao Qiuyi stood up from the half-human-high grass, flew to the fallen bird, and grabbed it with his hand.

"Good man, good man, good man, please don't eat me, please." The captured bird was trembling all over, fearing that it would be roasted directly by Tao Qiuyi.

"I won't eat you. You're too small and don't have much meat." Tao Qiuyi looked at the bird with disdain and put it on the ground. "But we can chat about gossip."

Anyway, it would be boring for her to dig herbs and pick mushrooms by herself, so it would be nice to have a bird to chat and gossip with.

These birds fly far and see a lot.

People think that animals cannot understand human language and do not avoid animals in many things.

Of course, there is no way to avoid them, the birds are everywhere.

"You really won't eat me?" the bird asked in disbelief.

This bird is really careless. After being released, it didn't fly away immediately. Instead, it asked the person who released it if they really didn't want to eat it.

"I really won't eat you." Tao Qiuyi smiled and took out a few freshly picked red fruits from the ring space and placed them on a leaf. "Here you go."

"Really give it to me to eat." The bird blinked its little eyes in surprise.

Tao Qiuyi nodded and spoke frankly, "This fruit looks so red and pretty, so I picked it. I'm not sure if it's edible, so I plan to take it home and show it to my family. If it's edible, they'll eat it. If not, they'll throw it away."

"It's edible, it's edible." The bird said, and even pecked a fruit to eat, fearing Tao Qiuyi wouldn't believe it. Suddenly, it remembered something and looked at Tao Qiuyi with wide eyes. "No, how can you understand what we're saying?"

When the bird said the fruit was edible, Tao Qiuyi did not doubt it, because birds would never lie with their intelligence.

He took out a handful of fruits and ate a few. They were not too sweet, but slightly sour. Overall, they were not bad. Tao Qiuyi put all the fruits in his mouth and ate them.

Although the fruit is small, it is full of juice, has a unique taste and is very thirst-quenching.

"Maybe I was a bird in my previous life." Tao Qiuyi made up a story. She was sure that it was because of the pill. The efficacy of the pill was the same, but everyone's body was different, so the effect would naturally be different.

(End of this chapter)