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Chapter 242 The Simplest Wish

Holding the jade comb in her hand, Yue murmured to herself, "Our black hair is intertwined, and we will never be apart until our hair turns white!"

He stared at the jade comb in his hand, and read the eight characters twice more, a special light rising in his eyes.

These eight words are his simplest wish for love!

"Ling, I really like your gift." Yue didn't say thank you, because there was no need for thanks between them.

Bai Ling's eyes were incredibly gentle: "Yes, Yue, I'm glad you like it."

The two gazed at each other, their eyes filled with tender affection. Although there were several other people sitting there, they could only see each other and no one else.

The others present also felt somewhat superfluous.

Grandpa Yue coughed lightly twice, pulling Bai Ling and Yue out of that romantic atmosphere: "Yue, Ling, would you like some fruit?"

Grandpa's call brought Yue back to his senses. He gripped the jade comb in his hand even tighter: "Grandpa, I'm not hungry yet."

Grandpa Yue handed over a piece of fruit: "It's okay if you're not hungry, eat this while you play."

As he spoke, he handed a few more fruits to Bai Ling: "Ling, you have some too."

Bai Ling said thank you and took the fruit. The fruit that Yue's great-uncle handed over was exactly what Yue liked to eat. After peeling the fruit, Bai Ling placed it in front of Yue.

Although he didn't say anything, his meaning couldn't be clearer. Yue smiled at Bai Ling and unceremoniously picked up the fruit that Bai Ling had peeled and started eating.

The two were perfectly in sync, and it was obvious that this kind of thing had happened countless times before, which made the adults from both families laugh.

When children get along well, parents are naturally happy.

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The New Year is almost here. On New Year's Day, all the orcs in the tribe will eat together, but each household will also prepare some delicious food in advance.

In the days following the New Year, the entire tribe of orcs would stay comfortably at home, enjoying good food and drink.

Bai Ling's family had quite a few livestock, and Bai Ling persuaded his father and grandfather to slaughter a sheep for the New Year.

Bai Ling had been wanting to eat lamb skewers for a long time. Before, she didn't have the time or the skewers to skewer the lamb. Then winter came and it was not good to go out hunting. Since she was going to slaughter a sheep, she might as well make some roasted lamb skewers.

Bai Ling and Yue went to the ironworks together. They were going to make knitting needles themselves, which would be used to skewer mutton.

When the beastmen working in the ironworks heard that Bai Ling wanted three hundred knitting needles, they were stunned. They couldn't understand why Ling wanted to make knitting needles. Did knitting needles have any other use besides knitting sweaters?

Bai Ling didn't hide anything, saying that these knitting needles were used to make food. The orcs in the ironworks didn't ask any more questions. The whole tribe knew about Bai Ling's excellent skills. Since he said that knitting needles could make delicious food, then they definitely could.

Making sweater needles is very simple. Just remelt the refined iron block and pour it into the mold. Bai Ling needed too many sweater needles, and the weather was not good for making new molds. He and Yue could only pour molten iron into the mold one after another. After the molten iron in the mold solidified, they would use pliers to take the sweater needles out and put them in cold water.

Bai Ling and Yue spent most of the day just making these knitting needles, and they barely ate any lunch.

While the two men were busy in the ironworks, their family members were also busy, as they slaughtered a sheep.

In the past, orcs didn't even use stone knives to kill wild animals. Instead, they would transform into their animal forms and use their teeth to gut the animals. Now that the tribe has knives, orcs use knives to kill wild animals.

Nothing on the sheep is wasted. The sheep's blood flows into the earthenware basin, the sheep bones are put into the earthenware pot, the mutton is cut into large chunks and placed into the earthenware basin according to the fat and lean ratio, and the internal organs and tendons are also placed separately.

When Bai Ling and Yue returned home, the mutton had already been divided up, with various parts of its body filling several earthenware bowls. Bai Ling looked at one of the bowls and suddenly said, "Father, let's have mutton offal soup for dinner."

Feng didn't know what mutton offal soup was, but that didn't stop him from agreeing with his son: "Alright, let's have mutton offal soup. How do we make it?"

Cang then asked, "What is mutton offal soup?"

Bai Ling pointed to the large earthenware basin containing sheep offal and said, "It's soup made from sheep offal. Drinking a bowl of it when the weather is cold will warm you up."

"Yue, go and tell your grandpa and great-uncle not to cook dinner tonight, but to come over and have some mutton soup together."

Yue nodded. He would never disagree with Bai Ling on such matters, nor would he think there was anything wrong with letting his grandfather and great-grandfather come to Bai Ling's house for dinner.

Just like when he has something good at home, he will think of sending it to Bai Ling's family, and Bai Ling will say "thank you" but never refuse.

Bai Ling went inside and got a small knife, then shaved off all the muscle and flesh from the sheep's head. Cang and Chen were also there, cleaning up the sheep's hooves and heart and lungs.

Feng went to the kitchen, cleaned up the pots and stoves, added water to the pots, and started cooking the lamb bones.

Clean the fresh lamb bones thoroughly, blanch them in a pot to remove blood and scum, then change the water, add salt, scallions, ginger, and spices, and start simmering.

Lamb itself has a gamey smell, and wild lamb has an even stronger gamey smell. Lamb bone soup is also considered lamb soup, so the gamey smell will naturally be stronger. Bai Ling added a lot of homemade spices, as well as a lot of scallions and ginger, just to cover up that gamey smell.

“Father, just turn up the fire. The longer you cook bone broth, the better it tastes,” Bai Ling said.

Feng nodded: "Okay, I understand. Leave the fire-starting to me, Ling, you can go and get busy."

Yue and her grandfather and great-uncle also came to help. Bai Ling planned to grill lamb skewers tomorrow, so she had to cut the lamb today. Yue's grandfather and great-uncle and Bai Ling's uncle Qu sat together and cut the lamb together.

Bai Ling cleaned the sheep's head meat, trotters, heart, liver, and lungs, washed them with water and alkali made from wood ash, then lit a fire on another salt stove and boiled the offal in the salt water. After boiling, he took out the offal, rinsed it in cold water, and then poured it into the mutton bone broth to cook together.

Bai Ling scooped up some bone broth with a wooden spoon, carefully blew on it twice, and tasted it. The taste was not bad, but it had no salt at all.

You have to add salt to your mutton soup yourself. Bai Ling didn't add that much salt. He threw a handful of sesame powder into the soup and said, "Father, let me start the fire."

Feng didn't say anything, stood up from the stone he was sitting on, and Bai Ling sat down on the stone in front of the stove. A little while later, Yue came over.