Chapter 8: A plan to steal a chicken

A table, with four seats. Tianlai Novel

Across from Li Yi was the devilish sister-in-law Liu Ruyi, and on both sides were the maid Xiaohuan and the beautiful wife Liu Ruyi who could only be looked at but not touched.

The table was radiant with people, three beauties, each more beautiful than the other, but Li Yi had no intention of appreciating them. He was staring at the bowl of plain noodles in front of him.

It was called plain noodles...it was really just plain noodles.

There was no other color in the bowl except the white noodles. Li Yi picked up the chopsticks and tasted a small bite. There was no taste at all, and his mouth was almost bland...

This was the lunch for the four people.

Li Yi, who was a little foodie, had high requirements for food. Facing the bowl of "plain noodles" in front of him, even if he was very hungry, he could not muster up too much appetite.

He turned his head and looked at the three people beside him. They were still eating with relish. The little maid next to him was full of happiness, as if filling her stomach was something worth being happy about.

In addition to being Liu Ruyi's personal maid, Xiaohuan also works part-time as a nanny, cook and cleaner. In winter, she may be used as a bed warmer. Li Yi looked at the pitiful amount of noodles in her bowl and gave her half of the noodles in his bowl.

How can a little girl of fifteen or sixteen eat so little when she is growing up?

Suddenly, Li Yi took away her bowl. The little girl was stunned for a moment. "Son-in-law..." As soon as the two words came out, Li Yi had already finished the noodles and put the bowl in front of her again.

"I'm not hungry, you eat more..." He stretched out his hand and rubbed the little maid's head. As soon as he said a word, a strange sound suddenly came from his stomach.

The three of them raised their heads and looked at him with strange eyes. Li Yi's face turned red. He picked up his bowl and quickly finished the food in the bowl. "I'm full!"

Looking at Li Yi's somewhat embarrassed figure leaving, Liu Ruyi stared for a long time, and there was something in her beautiful eyes that she had never seen before.

Liu Ruyi, who was beside her, curled her lips. Seeing the little maidservant who was moved and about to cry, her pretty face, which always looked like she didn't care about anything, unintentionally outlined a soft arc.

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The maidservant named Xiaohuan stared with a pair of big eyes, looking at the son-in-law who had just finished his meal and went into the kitchen, not knowing what he was busy with. She felt a little uneasy.

In her little heart, the son-in-law was a scholar, and scholars should stay away from places like the kitchen where only women were suitable. Of course, the little girl was more afraid that the son-in-law would waste food. There was not much food at home, and it couldn't afford any waste.

Fortunately, the little maidservant who was standing at the door and peeking didn't see any other actions of the son-in-law. When she felt relieved, Li Yi had already walked out of the kitchen.

Li Yi sat on a big stone in front of the door, holding his chin with one hand, staring at the sky in a daze.

He didn't expect that in such a big village, even the owner's family lived in such a difficult situation. I think the lives of other people should be similar, or even worse.

But it's not surprising to think about it. They don't want to be good bandits, but want to be good citizens. There was nothing to rob before, but now they can only do it themselves. In such an era, ordinary people who rely entirely on farming can struggle to survive and not starve to death. This is their highest ideal.

"Bah!"

Just when Li Yi was thinking about how to improve his current life and at least move towards a well-off life with no worries about food and clothing, a mouthful of thick phlegm suddenly flew from the side. If he hadn't seen the opportunity quickly, this disgusting thing would probably fall on him.

Turning his head and looking fiercely, he found that the middle-aged woman he had seen once was standing aside, looking at him with disdain. It seemed that because Li Yi had just dodged that blow, her almost standard round face was slightly disappointed.

Hum!

The middle-aged woman was just passing by. After a cold snort, she twisted her cylindrical waist and walked into the next room.

Li Yi looked at the woman with a bucket waist walking away, and his face began to look a little ugly.

Li Yi certainly didn't have a good impression of this spherical woman who was after his wife. Now that he didn't take the initiative to provoke her, she actually wanted to plot against him. Any man couldn't stand such humiliation.

Bang!

Not far away, the woman came out of the room, grabbed a handful of wheat grains and threw them in the yard, cursing and shouting a few words.

"Last year's harvest was so bad that people didn't have any extra food. If you don't lay eggs, I'll kill you all!"

After the woman entered the house, Li Yi looked at the chickens raised in front of the other party's house, and the corners of his mouth gradually curled up.

"Xiao Huan, do you have any thread for sewing at home? Bring me some."

The maid was stunned for a moment, then whispered: "Yes... yes."

A quarter of an hour later...

Several domestic hens shook their clumsy bodies, pecking at the ground, looking for missed grains of wheat. Perhaps some of them were cursing their stingy masters in their hearts. They wanted the chickens to lay eggs but didn't give them food. Do you think eggs popped out of thin air?

Suddenly, a white dough flew out from a corner, rolled on the ground for a few times, and finally stopped.

A hen with the largest body suddenly had a light in her small eyes. She looked back and found that no companions had noticed the abnormality here. She was happy and pretended to be calm. She walked over with small steps...

When she came to the dough, she was about to peck at it, but the dough suddenly rolled forward for a distance.

Caught off guard, she pecked at nothing. The hen took a few steps forward and was about to peck for the second time, but the dough moved forward again for a distance.

In this way, a chicken from the second aunt's family, tempted by a small piece of dough, finally embarked on a road of no return...

A mountain stream behind the village.

Skilled in killing and plucking chickens, cleaning internal organs, Li Yi was not unfamiliar with it at all after thousands of years. The only thing that was not smooth was that there was no hot water. It took a lot of time to pluck the feathers. Fortunately, the overall process was smooth...

After two meals without oil and water, this time he could finally eat meat.

After all this, the smell on his body was a bit unpleasant. Li Yi took a simple bath by the stream. After it got dark, he wrapped the processed chicken with the coarse cloth he had prepared long ago, held it in his hand, and walked leisurely into the village.

"Son-in-law, where have you been?"

As soon as he entered the yard, Xiaohuan, who had been waiting here for a long time, ran up immediately, her little face full of anxiety.

"I have nothing to do, so I went out for a walk."

"What is this?"

The little maid pointed at the cloth bag in Li Yi's hand and asked curiously.

"Uh... I picked up a pheasant when I went out for a walk just now..." Li Yi said casually.

"Pheasant?" The little maid's pretty face showed curiosity. The pheasants near the village had been killed long ago, and the son-in-law did not leave the village. Where did he pick it up?

In the kitchen, when Li Yi opened the cloth bag, the little maid was a little dumbfounded.

Is there a pheasant that is... so fat?

Moreover, not only were the feathers on its body gone, but its stomach was also ripped open. What kind of torture did this pheasant suffer after it died?