When they returned back to their home, the first thing Yu Dong did was to clean the water vat behind their house. Earlier they caught so many fish but now they didn't have a place to keep them, she didn't have a bathtub of spring in her space, so she couldn't keep them there. And leaving the fish in the bucket would only make them stink more, so she cleaned the water vat with detergent and immediately filled with vat with water that was instilled with spiritual energy.
Only then did she empty the buckets of fish that they didn't need right now. Then she poured the snails that they caught in a large basin and cleaned them with salt and spiritual water. Cleaning snails was a tedious task but with her cheat trick, she easily cleaned the snails.
They did eat their dinner in the evening but after playing in the river, Yu Dong and the others were a bit hungry. As for Yu Mai, that little glutton asked for spicy snails the first thing after entering the house. Since Yu Dong couldn't eat the braised rabbit meat earlier, she thought that she might as well cook something delicious to pad her stomach till morning - not much but enough for everyone to eat.
After an hour Yu Dong placed the bowl of savoury and spicy snails on the table and sat down. Since they were only eating to pad their hungry stomach, Shen Li only cooked some polished rice to eat. There was no need to fry fish at such a late hour, it might disturb their neighbours.
Poor Shen Li didn't know that when Yu Dong was cooking the snails, their entire neighbourhood woke up because of their grumbling stomachs. Because Yu Dong wasn't at all with the condiments, the delicious aroma coming from the spicy snails was enough to make their neighbours sit up straight and gnaw on their bedsheets unhappily.
They couldn't even eat three meals a day yet this Yu Dong and her family were eating meat at such a late hour? Did they strike a lottery or something?
However, no one in the Yu household knew the misery of their neighbours instead Yu Mai, immediately reached for a snail and started eating. The savoury taste soon spread all over his mouth and he exclaimed excitedly " sister this is simply too good! I never thought snails would taste so yummy !"
After that, he reached for another one and slurped the meat in one go.
Yu Dong shook her head at his speedy pace and poker his forehead " I know it's tasty but you need to slow down, if you eat too much your tummy will hurt and then you will have to drink bitter medicine "
Because Yu Dong had two brothers, she always kept emergency medicines for heat stroke, fever and stomach ache. So she wasn't worried about not finding decent medicine with her spiritual energy and her space she can treat Yu Mai in a jiffy but - too much medicine can also harm his body. If Yu Mai realised that she could treat him with ease without him suffering, then he wouldn't listen to her, instead, he would stuff himself and then ask for medicine. So it was better not to make him too dependent on artificial medicines.
Sure enough, once Yu Mai heard that he have to eat bitter medicine if his stomach ached, he slowed down. Eating carefully as he picked snails one by one instead of piling them in his bowl.
Yu Dong saw that he was willing to listen and didn't stop him from eating, as long as he slowly ate and went to take a walk around the backyard it would be fine.
Then she too picked one and immediately wished to open a can of beer in her space. Because she liked to have something spicy with her beer, she always had a stock of beer cans. However, she couldn't take it out because she was afraid of terrifying Chen Mi. Ye Liu and Shen Li knew about her powers so it was alright but Chen Mi had no idea.
This, this was kind of really troublesome maybe she should come clean to Chen Mi?
But what would Chen Mi do then? He was such a scaredy-cat who jumped on the slightest bit of noise if she told him that she occupied the body of his dead wife, wouldn't he be scared to death?
The timid Chen Mi who already knows about her "..."
The midnight dinner finished and everyone departed to their rooms to sleep, all except Yu Dong. She went to backyard and picked some berries and, in a few days the wine that she prepared will be ready to be sold. So, Yu Dong decided to take a step further in the path of becoming rich and decided to make jam and sell it together with the wine.
After living in this village, for two months, Yu Dong realised that the villagers like sweet things a lot and the same could be said for the people in town. Most of the stalls sold candied Hawthorne and sweet pastries in the town, so Yu Dong wanted to try her luck.
She was sure that no one would be able to replicate the exact taste of her jam and wine because they were made from berries that she grew with her spiritual energy, which not only enhanced the taste but also washed away the fatigue and tiredness of a person in a jiffy.
That's why she was determined of her succeed even though it was a little risky. But then again if she wanted to become rich and live a comfortable life, such risks were indeed necessary.
After picking up the berries, she washed them clean and started to make jam. As she needed a lot of sugar, Yu Dong pulled an entire sack of sugar from her space and was just going to pour it in the heavy base crock when -
" Wife?" a small voice interrupted her making her so startled that she jumped.. Yu Dong immediately turned around and found herself face to face with Chen Mi who was staring at her with wide eyes and a gaping mouth.