Ancient Eden - Chapter 141
~End of chapter 140
Mu Qing stared at the two fish in surprise. She didn’t expect that Li Mang would go out early in the morning to get fresh fish.
The streams in their valley had pretty much all frozen up long ago because they were relatively shallow, so they could not catch fish. He couldn’t have gotten fish unless he walked in the snow as deep as his thighs to the Great River about a kilometer away and broke the ice to catch and bring them over.
Seing his hair, eyebrows and whole body stained with snow that had yet to melt, she felt warmth in her chest, the words coming out of her mouth became a soft complaint: “Why did you spend so much effort to catch two fish? The snow is so thick, what if ……” she could not say the following words.
Chapter 141
(44.2)
“I am very familiar with the terrain, it’s all right. You can’t eat the pickled fish, I wanted you to eat fresh fish.”
Li Mang simply said so, looking like he wasn’t too concerned.
He quickly turned around and went out. Xiao Hei also hurriedly followed after him.
Mu Qing knew that he probably went to cook fresh fish soup.
Even since he knew she was pregnant, he took over the cooking as well, and with a few days of experience, it seemed as if he already became a skilled cook.
When he squatted in front of the fire to simmer the fish soup, she couldn’t help but go behind him, silently hugging his neck from behind, pressing her face against the back of his still cool neck.
He smiled back at her and pushed her to go inside.
What was called a meal directly delivered to her mouth, clothes available at hand, Mu Qing now finally knew.
She had thought that her stomach would be even more repulsed by the smell of fresh fish, so when he was cooking the fish soup, she was silently thinking in her mind that she had to eat it no matter what, and that even if she felt like vomiting again, she had to suppress it down, because that was his kind regard. But contrary to her expectations, when he served the soup in front of her, as she looked at the steaming milky broth in the red clay pot with white fish floating around a few slices of green and brown dried vegetables and tender slices of salted meat, she immediately felt her mouth salivating.
The fish under the ice in winter was more fat and tender than during summer and autumn, so the soup was fresh and salty, the most wonderful thing was that she could not taste any fishy taste.
Mu Qing’s appetite was aroused, and she finished the whole pot of fish slices, and even drank all the soup, before finally burping. When she raised her head, she saw Li Mang looking at her and smiling, while Xiao Hei was squatting there with his mouth open and drooling, and only then did she start to feel a little embarrassed.
It turned out that it wasn’t that she had a poor appetite but rather that she craved for fresh food.
From this moment on, Li Mang every other day would go outside to catch fresh fish for her, and sometimes if she was lucky, he would also bring back one or two small prey that he encountered when he went out to hunt for food. They would put the fresh meat that they could not finish directly outside, as long as it was not stolen, it would very quickly become frozen, and when they wanted to eat, they just had to take the meat inside to melt it and that was it.
Mu Qing felt that he was working too hard and she felt sorry for him in her heart, but after trying to stop him a few times to no avail, she had no choice but to let him be. Only Xiao Hei was very enthusiastic about the new actions of his male master. Because it also benefited from it, by occasionally being able to eat fresh and tasty meat.
There wasn’t a moment when Mu Qing wasn’t looking forward to the arrival of the spring, especially now. With the arrival of spring, they would have a much richer source of food, and Li Mang would not have to go out in the cold like he did now to satisfy her appetite.
On this day, Li Mang went out to catch fish again, and Xiao Hei, who loved to join in the fun, also followed him. In fact, the vomiting symptoms of her pregnancy were now much better, she could eat other things without vomiting. But most likely he was bent on making her eat fresh food, so he didn’t stop.
Although her pregnancy sickness had gotten better, her whole body was still a bit weak and she felt sleepy whenever she had nothing to do. So now she was wrapped in the warm tiger skin lying comfortably, calculating that Li Mang was about to come back. Her eyelids were a little heavy, she yawned, in a daze, about to fall asleep, when she suddenly felt a slight shaking underneath her body.
Translator : Laura
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