Chapter 3: The female lead's mother's space

In the courtyard.

The Li Family Old Woman was still lying limp in the chicken coop, as if frightened silly, not even daring to wipe the chicken blood on her face as it flowed into her mouth.

Looking closely, her lower body was already wet, emitting a smell of urine.

The Li Family Old Man was so angry he returned to the main room with his hands behind his back, and the neighbors who were watching the fun had already dispersed.

After a long time, wailing sounds came from the Li family courtyard...

Jiang Xiaoxiao, in the kitchen, watched this scene through the window, feeling deeply satisfied.

Then she withdrew her gaze and turned to look at the woman holding the kitchen knife and skillfully cutting the whole chicken into pieces on the stove.

The female lead had survived in the apocalypse for ten years, and both her temperament and vigilance were honed to be quite formidable.

Jiang Xiaoxiao, holding to the principle that saying more leads to more mistakes, kept her mouth shut and began throwing dry firewood into the stove to start a fire.

As long as she obediently played the role of a five-year-old girl, spoke less, and did more, the female lead shouldn't discover her identity as a book transmigrator.

Jiang Wei, who had just washed the chicken pieces and poured them into the pot, turned around and saw this scene.

The little girl was silently squatting in front of the stove, actively starting the fire, her appearance quiet and obedient, so sensible it made one's heart ache.

Jiang Wei watched, and a trace of imperceptible pity gradually appeared in her usually cold eyes.

Soon, she restrained the expression in her eyes and turned to look at the seasonings on the stove.

There was only half a jar of coarse salt, not even any scallions, ginger, garlic, or peppercorns.

The only oil in the house had probably been hidden by the Li Family Old Woman.

Glancing over the half jar of coarse salt, Jiang Wei frowned slightly with disdain.

She hesitated for a while, then quietly took a pinch of salt from somewhere unseen and sprinkled it into the pot.

Jiang Xiaoxiao, on the side, watched her nose and heart, looking straight ahead.

But her heart couldn't stop being excited.

That must be the female lead's greatest golden finger, the ability space!!

The book introduced that this space was as large as ten thousand mu, filled with a massive amount of supplies the female lead had hoarded during her ten years of struggling to survive in the apocalypse!

Inside, besides countless rice, flour, grain, vegetables, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, instant buns, dumplings, hot pot, pickled canned goods, snacks, there were also many daily necessities.

Toiletries, shampoo, body wash, face cream, facial masks... and clothes, shoes, underwear, hats, and bags for every season, in every size!

There were even some modern firearms and medicine!

Moreover, time in this space was frozen; no matter what the food was like when put in, it would be the same when taken out.

Jiang Xiaoxiao felt wonderful in her heart.

Although she didn't have such a heaven-defying golden finger, as long as she stayed well by the female lead's side, she should be able to escape the original plot of dying in the first five chapters.

Jiang Xiaoxiao suppressed the corners of her mouth that were turning up, and turned to see the female lead's mother secretly adding some seasonings to the pot again.

Ginger, Dangshen, Ginseng powder... all good things for nourishing Qi and health.

The pot bubbled for half an hour, and gradually a fragrance drifted out.

Jiang Xiaoxiao, starting the fire in front of the stove, couldn't stop swallowing her saliva.

She lived a life without worries in the modern era, and she didn't know if it was because this body hadn't touched meat for too long, but she actually felt this pot of chicken smelled better than anything before...

The fragrance drifted through the window into the courtyard, and the Li family naturally smelled it too.

The Li Family Old Woman, who had just been helped back to the main room to rest, had eyes that turned red with anger, and her teeth almost shattered.

This was her old Li family's chicken; she couldn't bear to eat it, yet it was being wasted by those two money-losing brats!

The Li Family Old Woman was simply poisoned with hate, but now, even if she were given hundreds of guts, she wouldn't dare to go make trouble again.

Zhu Shi clung to the door frame, unable to stop looking into the kitchen, swallowing her saliva again and again.

The mother-in-law didn't dare to go find trouble, so naturally, she didn't dare to either; the mark on her face from the back of the knife was still throbbing with pain.

She greedily inhaled the rich fragrance in the air, as if she could eat a few bites out of thin air.

Goodness, why does this stewed chicken smell so good?

"So fragrant... Mother, I want to eat chicken!"

The Younger Sister-in-law, Li Xiufang, had her mouth watering from the fragrance and couldn't help but make a scene.

"Oh my, Xiufang, we won't eat the things cooked by that wasteful woman, it's bad luck!"

The Li Family Old Woman hurriedly stepped forward to comfort her, although she was also drooling from the fragrance, she still cursed a few words against her conscience.

But Li Xiufang was still relentless, starting to roll on the kang and make a scene.

"I don't care! I want to eat! I want to eat chicken!!"

Seeing this, Zhu Shi looked at her two sons, who were also unable to stop drooling, and stepped forward to help:

"Oh my, I say Mother, isn't there still one old hen left in the house? Just cook it for the Younger Sister-in-law to eat once."

That way her two sons could also follow along and get a taste.

Who would have thought the Old Woman would slap her backhand, "You wasteful woman! Is this chicken something you can eat just because you want to?! The old hen in the house still needs to lay eggs!"

She didn't have the patience for her daughter-in-law that she had for her own daughter, directly scolding her angrily.

Zhu Shi covered her face and glared at the Younger Sister-in-law, who was rolling on the kang and shouting for chicken, a trace of unwillingness crossing her heart.

The eggs laid every day weren't all going into the Younger Sister-in-law's mouth, so how could her two sons eat any?

Jiang Xiaoxiao followed the female lead's mother and carried a pot of chicken out of the kitchen. When passing by the main room, the noise inside suddenly went quiet.

She saw her mother turn her head and glance coldly inside, and that noisy family acted like they were facing a great enemy, their bodies trembling, no one daring to make a sound.

It was as if the scene of her hand falling and the knife dropping, mercilessly severing the chicken's neck, was still deeply imprinted in the Li family's hearts, making people's backs break out in cold sweat...

Jiang Xiaoxiao couldn't stop laughing in her heart.

Looking at the Li family's beaten-dog appearance, daring to be angry but not daring to speak, the female lead's mother's deterrent power was indeed not just for show.

Jiang Xiaoxiao still wanted to look a few more times, but her mother patted her on the shoulder and took her little hand away.

Afraid that the chicken soup in her hand would get cold and not taste good.

However, when they reached the dilapidated thatched shed, she could clearly feel the hand holding her stiffen.

What's wrong?

Jiang Xiaoxiao curiously tilted her little face to look up, only to meet her mother's pitying gaze looking down.

The fragrance drifted from the thatched shed all the way into the main room, thick and unbelievable.

Li Xiufang sniffed the fragrance in the air, making an even louder scene, shouting all the time that she wanted to eat chicken.

"Mother, look how pitiful the Younger Sister-in-law is, why can those two money-losing brats eat chicken, but the Younger Sister-in-law can't?" Zhu Shi was unwilling to give up and fanned the flames again.

"The Younger Sister-in-law is so precious, she's going to marry a high official in town in the future, how can you bear to let her watch others eat chicken?"

The Li Family Old Woman sniffed the fragrance filling the air, her face showing some movement.

"Mother, just cook chicken for me to eat, and when I marry a rich man in town in the future, I will definitely honor you well and let you eat chicken every day!"

Li Xiufang hurriedly climbed off the kang, went up to the Li Family Old Woman, and began to act spoiled and beg.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 4 =====