“Go, go! You don’t need to come back later. It’s fine to let your mother take back the tableware later. We, as fully-grown men, can finish it soon,” Liu Pei said. He poured half a bowl of duck blood stewed with tofu and soaked the flatbread in the stew. Then, he proceeded to gulp down the soup with relish.

Yu Hai also agreed with his eldest brother-in-law’s words. He said to Xiaocao, “Hurry and take your eldest maternal aunt back home to eat, or else the food is going to get cold.”

After she finished eating, Xiaocao put all her energy into making salted duck. The salted duck that she made was an improved version of the Nanjing salted duck’s recipe. After all, she didn’t have all the seasoning and spices she needed for the original recipe. However, she realized that she can improve the braised food’s taste by using the mystic-stone water to braise the food, making it much tastier than before.

Looking at the time, the marinating and braising process should be completed. Xiaocao looked outside like a thief and she saw her eldest maternal aunt and Xiaolian, who had returned home from selling braised food. They were busy tending the vegetable field, so Xiaocao was at ease as she summoned the little divine stone.

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