The Transmigrated Farm Girl Has a Cheat Code

Chapter 5 Beggar Chicken

Lin Yan led Lin Yu along the way, stopping every now and then to listen for any sounds. They soon found a pheasant that was looking for insects to eat on the ground.

Lin Yan put her finger to her lips, signaling Lin Yu to be quiet, then bent down and picked up a small stone.

Approaching silently, Lin Yu held his breath, watching nervously as he wondered how his sister was going to catch the chicken, when a stone flew by and pierced the chicken's neck.

Lin Yu: "…………" When did his older sister become a martial arts master? Lin Yu was completely bewildered.

Lin Yan then stepped forward, picked up the chicken, and showed it to Lin Yu, saying, "You're going to have meat to eat!"

"Sister, are you my sister?" Lin Yu finally realized something was wrong.

"If I'm not your sister, then who am I!" Lin Yan grabbed Lin Yu's ear, a method the little girl used to discipline her younger brother. Lin Yan couldn't bear to tell the Lin family that the little girl had died of illness. Fortunately, she still had her memories of the past.

Lin Yu only came to his senses when his ear was pulled, and the familiar feeling returned. "Ah, I know, sis, sis! Be gentle!"

Lin Yan put her hand down and explained, "Actually, I really died this time when I was sick, and I even went to the underworld." Lin Yan didn't even bother to think before she lied, and just kept fooling her younger brother.

"What?! What?!" Lin Yu was indeed shocked!

"However, Yama said my time hadn't come yet, so he sent me back and gave me spiritual power as compensation," Lin Yan continued to deceive without changing her expression.

“No wonder my sister was so weak before, but suddenly she got better. It turns out that the King of Hell had chosen the wrong person. I see!” Lin Yu said, nodding as if he had just realized something.

Lin Yan twitched her lips, thinking that her adopted younger brother might not be very bright. She sighed inwardly, realizing that the ancient people's reverence for gods and ghosts far exceeded her imagination.

Carrying the pheasants, Lin Yan and Lin Yu continued their search in the mountains. By noon, Lin Yan had two pheasants and a rabbit in her basket.

Lin Yan led Lin Yu to an open space, intending to process and cook the chicken and rabbit. If they took them back and cooked them, they would definitely be discovered by Old Madam Lin and the second branch of the family, so it was better to roast and eat them here.

"Are we having roasted rabbit today too?" Lin Yu asked excitedly.

"Okay, I'll make you roast chicken, beggar's chicken!"

"Beggar's Chicken? Why is it called Beggar's Chicken? What a strange name!"

"It is said that this chicken was made by a beggar, hence the name."

Then Lin Yan and Lin Yu gathered some branches in the woods and went to the riverbank to build a fence around it with stones. Lin Yan took out a lighter from her spatial storage and lit it. Lin Yu only saw flames appear on Lin Yan's hand before the branches caught fire. She then instructed Lin Yu to mix some mud. Lin Yu obediently went to do so.

Lin Yan cut off the pheasant's tail and made a small incision from the back to take out the internal organs, cleaned the cavity, and then took out the seasonings stored in her space. Because in her previous life, Lin Yan and her teammates often cooked outside when they went on missions, she still had some commonly used seasonings stored in her space.

However, she only rubbed some salt and some mint picked from the forest on the inside. Beggar's chicken doesn't need too many seasonings.

Lin Yu had already prepared the mud as his sister had instructed. Lin Yan then evenly spread the mud on the chicken. Lin Yu watched as his sister smeared mud on the feathered pheasant. "...This chicken hasn't been plucked yet, sister?"

"No need to pluck the feathers. Just apply the mud to the base of the feathers, and it will come off with the mud after the feathers are baked."

After hearing the explanation, Lin Yu also began to help coat the other pheasant. Once the two pheasants were coated into oval shapes, Lin Yan took out tin foil from her space and wrapped them. Actually, they should have been wrapped in lotus leaves so that the chickens would have a lotus leaf fragrance after roasting. However, there were no lotus leaves here, so she just wrapped them in tin foil to prevent them from overheating and burning.

Dig a small hole in the ground, put the ball in it and fill it in, then light a fire on top of it, and you're all done.

While waiting, Lin Yan skinned and cleaned the rabbit, then set up a barbecue grill on the stone and put the rabbit on it to roast, rubbing it with salt and cumin every now and then.

Lin Yan checked her inventory space; she didn't have much barbecue seasoning left. In the apocalypse, no manufacturers produced these seasonings anymore; they were mostly stored in her inventory while she was raiding supermarkets. If it weren't for her spatial abilities, no one would waste space in their backpack to store barbecue seasoning.

"I wonder if they have cumin at this time of year, otherwise barbecue would be so boring."

About half an hour later, the rabbit was roasted. Lin Yan tore off a piece and called Lin Yu over to eat.

Lin Yu's mouth was already watering from the aroma, and he couldn't wait to blow on it to warm it up before putting it in his mouth. "Wow~" Lin Yu exclaimed with satisfaction.

Lin Yan looked at him amusedly and said, "Eat slowly, it's hot."

"It's so delicious!" Lin Yan watched him eat and ate a piece herself. Then she wrapped the remaining half in oil paper, intending to take it home to her parents.

By this time, the fire was almost out. Lin Yan cleared away the firewood and soil to pull out the two roasted chickens and set them aside to dry. She used a stone to break open the mud on the outside and peeled it off with her hands. The chicken feathers and skin were pulled off with the mud, leaving only a light aroma of chicken meat.

Lin Yu, who had just eaten roasted rabbit, was drooling again. This was beggar's chicken. The chicken meat was roasted to a light yellow color, with clear oil and broth flowing out, making it look extremely tempting. Lin Yan broke off a chicken leg and handed it to Lin Yu. The original aroma of the chicken meat was brought out by the roasting. Unlike chickens that are roasted directly over a fire, this chicken meat was roasted to be tender and juicy. Lin Yu ate it with great satisfaction and wrapped the rest of the chicken in oil paper.

Lin Yan took a bite and then stopped eating. She walked to a tree, sat cross-legged, and began to absorb the spiritual energy of the forest plants.

Lin Yu was happily munching away when he noticed pale green light emanating from his sister's body. A peaceful and vibrant aura enveloped Lin Yan, and the wild grass and flowers on the ground swayed without wind, as if they were joyfully waving in the rain after a long drought. Lin Yu could clearly see these plants slowly growing, becoming even greener, and the unopened flowers beginning to bloom. Before long, the area around Lin Yan was teeming with life.

Lin Yu was so amazed by the scene before him that he forgot to eat the delicious food in his hand.

"Is this the spiritual energy my sister was talking about?" Lin Yu looked at Lin Yan, seemingly lost in thought, his eyes suddenly dimmed as if tears were about to fall. He then looked down at the chicken in his hand and smiled contentedly, his eyes sparkling as he ate it.

Lin Yu had almost finished the entire beggar's chicken, and lay contentedly beside his sister on the shady grass under the tree, feeling the gentle breeze and smelling the fresh scent of grass and trees in the air, almost falling asleep. Lin Yan, sensing Lin Yu lying beside her, peacefully continued her cultivation.

Suddenly, Lin Yan opened her eyes wide, her gaze filled with murderous intent. The wild grass on the ground began to sway, clearly showing her unease.