Carrying a Jurassic on me

Xu Xiaoyan rubbed her legs, with tears in her eyes.

Just before, she held back her laughter so much that she unknowingly pinched her thigh until it turned red. Now she felt unbearably painful. Thinking of Yan Fei's seriously nonsensical talk just now, she felt a mix of laughter and pain. It was a mixture of feelings that made her almost go crazy.

It took a while before Yan Fei managed to calm her down.

Xu Xiaoyan was completely speechless towards Yan Fei. He talked nonsense without batting an eye, deceiving people more easily than drinking water. Seeing him only made her angry. Smack talking, she said: "Go ahead, spill it. Just now, it was all for you that I kept quiet. What's your plan now?"

Yan Fei knew her well: "Don't worry! You are my future wife, I won't let you suffer! So, what delicacy do you want to eat?"

Xu Xiaoyan automatically ignored his first half sentence: "I also want to eat hare. Today is your first time catching one and I didn't say I wanted to eat it. Tomorrow you must catch one for me so I can taste it."

Yan Fei hummed: "Such a small wish? It doesn't give face to your dear Yan. From now on, a hare every three days, until you go to school."

Xu Xiaoyan had already learned to only listen to the key points when Yan Fei spoke and continued to ignore his first half sentence: "You said it, one every three days! Don't be stingy. It's still uncertain whether you can catch one every three days! You're such a bragger!"

Yan Fei sneered: "Hmm, just wait for it, you'll eat until you want to vomit!"

Xu Xiaoyan shifted her gaze: "Do you think I forgot when school starts? It's not far away. Even if I eat one every three days, it won't make up for my leg. I saw it just now, it's turning purple from the pinch!"

Yan Fei thought to himself, she was really tough on herself! Then he realized that she did it all for him, he felt warmth in his heart: "Rest assured, when your school starts, I will deliver on time, ensuring that you eat until you don't want to anymore! So, what else do you want to eat?"

Xu Xiaoyan scornfully watched him bluff: "There's a lot I want to eat, I will just randomly say one, I want to eat watermelon during the New Year, do you have it?"

Yan Fei: "Um..."

Sancha River area can be considered a blessed land. Whatever you plant in the fields will grow. So there are plenty of watermelons. Every household just plants a bit, and they can have watermelon as a meal, so no child here seems particularly excited about eating watermelon.

But there's none in winter.

Greenhouses have only just started to appear elsewhere, this place is a bit behind, and there's not even one nearby!"

Yan Fei usually only cares about eating and playing around, he has no idea about greenhouses. But he has a way, he instantly thought that it's really simple, just plant some on the island.

Why didn't Yan Fei plant anything before? Mainly because whatever can grow from the ground here can't be sold at a high price. Some people who had been to Xinjiang said that if you take our land there, you'd become rich. Cabbage costs three yuan per catty during New Year's in Xinjiang, but here it's only three cents, and they even have to pack it for you.

Making a few cents is good enough. In a village to the west of Sancha River town, most people plant vegetables. A couple of years ago, a family was so desperate to make more money that they had even offered to give away radishes for free!

So besides planting sweet potatoes on the island under Lin Baoguo's recommendation, Yan Fei never thought about anything else.

This time, upon the girl's rare temperamental request, he remembered. Immediately, before Xu Xiaoyan could continue her scornful gaze, he agreed: "Okay! I'll calculate the timing so that you can eat watermelon in winter."

Xu Xiaoyan snickered: "Who can't boast? Never mind, I'm lenient. I'll pardon you as long as there's hare meat to eat! Hehe, I've never had hare meat since I was a kid! I've only seen it at your place once, and you didn't even call me over, letting me watch the hare skin hanging in your yard!"

How desperate for food was this girl? Yan Fei thought for a moment. They usually eat the rabbit meat that his uncle raises, and when his uncle delivers it, it's already cleaned and skinned, so this girl must not be referring to that. She specifically mentioned hare skin. The last time they ate hare meat ... seemed to be the year before...

Initially, Yan Fei regretted promising the winter watermelon too hastily as keeping the secret of the island was the most important thing. But seeing the girl so eagerly awaiting, he felt sympathy, and thought about making up some excuse for her to taste winter watermelon?

At that moment, Xu Xiaoyan remembered to ask him: "You lied to your uncle today. How will you sell the hares you catch secretly in the future while eating them yourself?"

As Yan Fei thought about this, he became gloomy: "It was already difficult to fool him this time, do you think I could have a future if I hadn't fooled him?"

Seeing his expression, Xu Xiaoyan suddenly burst into laughter. She laughed so much that Yan Fei looked at her as if she were a madwoman, and then said with a laugh: "Oh my, stop looking at me, the more I think about it, the funnier it gets..."

This girl laughed for a while, and Yan Fei didn't want to bother with her. He started cooking lunch. But she followed Yan Fei, mimicking what he had said earlier, repeating it intermittently, and laughing to the point of breathlessness.

Yan Fei was too excited last night and when he came back, he didn't prepare things like dinosaur eggs or meat. Fortunately, he usually keeps the eggs at home - if it weren't for them, he wouldn't have had any to give to Lin Baoguo earlier.

Probably feeling like she had made a significant contribution by not exposing Yan Fei this morning, Xu Xiaoyan boldly shouted to her neighbors: I'm not coming home for lunch!

So Yan Fei went to the noodle shop not far from next door to buy some noodles, a rare treat, and made a proper bowl of egg noodles.

Only after they had eaten and drank to their satisfaction did Xu Xiaoyan return home for a nap. Yan Fei locked the door and prepared to go to the island to plant watermelons.

To plant watermelons, you need watermelon seeds, which were easily available. They were all over the windowsills on both sides of the backyard. Not only dried watermelon seeds, but also pumpkin and winter melon seeds. And there were several dried loofahs hanging on the wall. When they were cracked open, seeds would pour out.

There was not only dried loofah, but also strings of garlic, dried gourd, and anything else that could be hung up. These were all given by the relatives in the countryside; things that couldn't be eaten or used were stored this way.

Yan Fei was pretty deterministic, saying that if we're to plant watermelons, we should just stick to watermelons and ignore the rest. So, he picked out the watermelon seeds one by one from the sill.

There was no choice, though there were plenty of things, they were not considered rare in the countryside, so why bother?

Because in the past, aside from meat and eggs which were considered rare, he was fed up with everything else. That's why Yan Fei would particularly focus on these two things, taking them as his staple and all the rest as a side dish.

Watermelons are the easiest to grow; dig a hole, toss in a seed, and water it - simple.

Yan Fei didn't use up all the small bag of watermelon seeds he'd collected. These things needed to be grown in the sun for the watermelons to be tasty. The ones grown in the shade weren't as good, and might as well not be planted - but if it wasn't for that, Yan Fei would plant some more.

When he came back and was getting ready to go back to sleep, he thought for a bit and also scattered a few winter melon and pumpkin seeds on the island. These were for the chickens in the yard; he thought that once they grew, they could feed the chickens.

After the chores were done, it was time for a nap and dinner. When the night was deep and everyone else was sleeping, the Compsognathus was once again activated.

In the evening, Yan Fei didn't go to the bamboo forest again, it was too far anyway. His plan for today was to catch a rabbit, so the slopes around the town would do.

The summer nights were always filled with countless sounds of insects and frogs, he walked along the slope looking around, the surroundings were immersed in the quietness of the night. But for Yan Fei, this was all quite normal.

The process of searching for a rabbit was uneventful. As he passed by a large field of sweet potatoes under a green gauze, a poor rabbit was discovered by Yan Fei. Without any surprise, this rabbit fell into the hands of Great Demon King Yan and was about to become dinner.

Due to his money-making plan being unexpectedly obstructed, Yan Fei really didn't feel like continuing the hunt for rabbits. So, holding this luckless rabbit, he returned.

The task of skinning was often practiced on Compsognathus, so now he was quite experienced. A whole rabbit skin was soon hanging at the entrance of the cave.

As a Compsognathus, he ran wildly in the forest for a while, allowing him to witness many strange little creatures in the sea. When the Compsognathus had all returned to their nesting place, the Dinosaur Butcher, Great Demon King Yan, once again wielded his big hammer and smashed a Compsognathus that had just been running with him a moment ago.

The reason he didn't use a knife was because they usually ran wildly together, so he tried to make sure that they had a full body when they died!

The rabbit meat was to be stewed, with a small pot for the stewed rabbit meat, and a large pot for the Dinosaur soup.

Normally the food shouldn't be stored in summer, but Yan Fei found that his cave on the island was like a cellar: not only good for hiding things, but also made food hard to spoil. So this time, he hammered three in one go, and it was deep into the night by the time they were all cleaned up and put into the pot.

The moment he lifted the pot lid, he turned his grief and indignation into appetite and devoured one whole. After finishing, he was startled by the sight of so many bones strewn on the ground.

After eating and cleaning up the battlefield, he disposed of the things that shouldn't be seen by others by obliterating them and sending them into the sea. As soon as he opened the door, a greedy girl slipped in.

"Yan Xiaofei, I didn't expect you to be so capable. I thought you might not be able to catch any today! Why aren't you eating?" Xu Xiaoyan, feigning seriousness, grits her little white teeth on a piece of rabbit with a determined exertion, while falsely complimenting Yan Xiaofei, who provided her with the delicious food.

Seeing a girl with such a hearty appetite first thing in the morning, Yan Fei was at a loss for words. He was so full that he could hardly keep his eyes open, "I'll take a nap, you eat by yourself, I've already eaten!"

"It's really tasty!" Xu Xiaoyan praised while eating. "I used to pass by old bridge every time I came back from school during the weekend. Looking at the painted pictures of roast chicken and braised elbow on the signs of the roadside restaurant, I would be drooling. Indeed, nothing beats the joy of eating meat in large bites!"

Yan Fei, still drowsy, replied: "Of course, I specifically wanted you to enjoy yourself, so I made fewer chops."

He had spent part of the night catching rabbits, had run with the Compsognathus for a while, and then skinned a rabbit and three Compsognathus. When it came to chopping the rabbit meat for cooking, he was almost exhausted, so he hurriedly chopped the rabbit and tossed it into the pot.

"Hmm." Xu Xiaoyan continued to talk while eating. "It's a pity we are a bit far from the county town. If we were closer, you could sell the rabbits in the county town where the price would certainly be higher than here!"

"Is there a restaurant in the county town?" Yan Fei replied randomly in his daze, then suddenly sat up, his eyes gleaming. "Right, I could sell rabbits in the county town? As long as I don't run into my parents, it should be fine."