Chapter 632 I Won’t Be Anyone’s Substitute
"Shua!" A black shadow flashed across the river.
"Puff!" A big knife pierced straight into the two green eyes, so fast that no one could react.
With a splash, a white snake tail as thick as a bowl swooped out from under the river because of the pain, raising several huge splashes of water, pouring down on Qin Feng and Liu Ji's head and face.
The snake tail swung high in the air, and after a moment, it fell down with a "snap", hitting a splash of water on the river again, completely soaking Qin Feng and Liu Ji.
Qin Yao pulled out the knife, stretched out his hand to grab the thing in the grass, and saw that it was a large light white snake, more than six meters long, and the thickest part of its body was as thick as an adult's thigh.
Seeing Qin Yao's eyes full of surprise, he hung the big snake on his shoulder, called Liu Ji and walked away. Qin Feng realized what happened and took a deep breath.
This woman is so strong!
No, this river is full of dangers. Qin Feng hurriedly followed the couple.
Liu Ji looked at the beautiful white snake skin with curiosity, and discussed with Qin Yao as they walked, "Madam, let's keep this snake skin. With such a big snake, we can make several snake skin clothes. It's cool to wear in summer."
The main thing is, if you wear this snake skin outside, you will blind the eyes of the princes and nobles in the capital!
Qin Yao looked back at Liu Ji who was talking excitedly. She couldn't imagine what others would look like in snake skin clothes, but if this sparkling white snake skin was hung on Liu Ji, it seemed pretty good.
Qin Yao raised her eyebrows because he found this big guy today. "I will peel off the snake skin completely in a while. You can take it and do some simple processing. When you arrive in Beijing, find a tailor to make a few jackets."
Liu Ji was overjoyed. "Okay!" He immediately followed her and helped to support the snake.
Everyone in the camp only saw three figures coming from a distance. When they got closer, they found that Qin Yao was hanging a big white snake.
In the light of the fire, the woman walked slowly with the auspicious white snake on her shoulder. The long snake tail left a long mark on the ground, which was mighty and domineering.
She threw the white snake to the ground, and its huge body was completely revealed. A big snake head looked weird and gloomy under the flickering firelight, almost scaring Uncle Qi and others to kneel down.
The reaction of Qin Yao's family was completely opposite to theirs.
What auspicious or not auspicious Dalang, Erlang, Sanlang and Si Niang didn't know at all. They just thought that Ah Niang was very powerful, with stars in their eyes, and secretly licked the corners of their lips.
Yin Le and Awang looked at each other, and they were so excited that they immediately stepped forward to look at the unlucky snake. It was so big that it could not be stewed in one pot.
Awang looked at his master with admiration. He found that his master seemed to have the physique of "immediately triggering events". As long as he went into the bushes alone, he would either encounter murderers and robbers or various dangerous big guys.
"Boss." Uncle Qi looked at Qin Yao's family who were pulling the tendons and peeling the skin of the white snake not far away, and asked Qin Feng in horror: "The white snake is a good omen. It's not good for the aunt and the others to do this."
Qin Feng looked at Qin Yao who was humming a song and peeling the skin with a knife, smiled lightly, and asked calmly in Uncle Qi's desperate eyes:
"Where are the dates I brought from home? It doesn't matter if I can't catch fish and snakes, it's all meat anyway."
Uncle Qi was shocked: Qin Feng, you are not the boss I know!
But it didn't stop him from actively helping to find big red dates. There was a big bag, which could be eaten dry as a snack. It's just that too many things happened recently, and he didn't have time to eat them.
Qin Feng sent a bag of red dates to Qin Yao and brought back a snake tail. Although the Seventh Uncle and his men said that the auspicious white snake could not be eaten, they did not delay the action of setting up the pot.
Eating auspicious should make you live longer, right? The guards rubbed their hands in anticipation.
Qin Feng happily sat in front of the big pot in Qin Yao's house with Liu Ji's friendly "Uncle, please" and took the wooden bowl and spoon handed to him by Dalang and Erlang, and couldn't help but excitedly knocked with Sanlang and Si Niang.
After being glared at by Qin Yao, he immediately returned to seriousness.
Awang, who was in charge of the kitchen, took a breath of the smell in the air and nodded to Yin Le.
Yin Le stood up and walked to the pot, smiling and reporting to everyone with a sense of ritual: "I'm going to open the lid!"
Everyone held their breath and waited.
The wooden pot lid was opened, and a pot of boiling milky white thick snake soup came into everyone's sight, with a few red dates floating on it. Everyone, who had been hungry for a long time, instantly had a strong appetite.
Without any words, the whole family looked at Qin Yao in tacit understanding.
She took the wooden spoon handed over by Liu Ji, first poured a bowl of snake soup into her own bowl, and then poured a bowl for the remaining four children and Yin Le.
"Madam, madam~" Liu Ji held up the bowl with a shameless face, and Qin Yao had to pour a bowl for him as well.
Turning back, seeing Qin Feng looking at her expectantly, she poured another bowl for him as well.
Awang handed the bowl directly, "Madam, pour it for me." A family should be neat and tidy, how can we favor one over the other!
Qin Yao smiled lightly and filled his bowl. Now everyone was satisfied, and with full of expectations, they picked up the snake soup to taste.
The old snake soup stewed over a high fire, the essence of bones and meat was all melted into the water, wild ginger was added to remove the fishy smell, and red dates were added and turned to low heat and simmered for two quarters of an hour. The soup was fresh, sweet and rich, and the meat was soft and melted in the mouth. Only a little salt was needed to enhance the flavor, and it was so delicious that people wanted to faint.
No one spoke in the camp. Everyone was immersed in the delicious snake soup, and soon the whole pot was finished.
After everyone had eaten and drank enough, they took a short rest and then fell asleep.
Qin Yao was on duty tonight, so Awang went to rest. Maybe she had eaten too much, and she was not yet sleepy. She leaned on the wheel of the carriage and admired the endless starry sky.
It was the first time she saw such a vast starry sky here, like a gorgeous dome, enveloping all the little humans.
Qin Feng walked over with a sword on his shoulder. Qin Yao heard the sound of his sword and was reluctant to give up the beautiful starry sky and did not look back.
Qin Feng stopped behind her and said: "The starry sky in Wangcheng is even more beautiful than this, but the most beautiful ones are in the desert, where the stars look bigger than this. They seem to be very close to people and can be picked by reaching out. Come down."
"Have you been to the desert?" Qin Yao asked curiously.
Qin Feng: "Businessmen have been to everywhere, but the desert is beautiful, but it can easily kill you, so don't go there."
Qin Yao was noncommittal, and finally she was willing to look back at him, "Do you have a problem with me?"
"I have something for you." Qin Feng smiled and handed a rectangular wooden box to her.
"What?"
"I promised to buy Ayao that day on the mountain, a golden hairpin." He did what he said.
Qin Yao opened the wooden box, and inside lay a cloud-patterned plain gold hairpin, elegant and generous, made of pure gold!
She smiled happily, then closed the box and returned the hairpin to him.
"I won't be anyone's stand-in."
With these words left behind, the person melted into the night and evaporated out of thin air.
Qin Feng was stunned while holding the wooden box, his eyes turning red.
After a long time, he left.