The boy looked at her expectantly, eager to get her affirmative answer.
"I like it! I like everything Aguo gives me!"
She kissed the boy's cheek gently, and the boy smiled back at her.
"Aguo also likes Mumu, and Mumu is very nice to Aguo, so Aguo should grow up quickly so that he can marry Mumu home!"
Mu Yi's expression was sluggish for a moment, but he didn't care much.
"Well! Then I'll wait for Aguo to grow up!"
The two of them were talking and laughing, but Long Ran was jumping up and down while listening.
It was not easy for him to teach that arrogant brat a lesson in front of Mu Yu, but his remarks made Long Ran furious!
"I'm going to cook. Can Aguo come down for a while?"
Mu Yu carried him to the wooden platform where fish cakes were made. The boy was put down obediently. Mu Yu brought a high stool, picked him up and placed him on it.
"I'll teach you this. If Aguo is hungry in the future, you can catch some fish and cook it. It's delicious!"
At this time, the children also brought back all the ingredients. Mu Ji ordered them to mix the eggs and fish roe in the wooden barrel, pour bags of flour into the depressions of the wooden platform, and throw the fish meat into it.
The leader of the wood demon seemed to have a premonition of what Mu Qi was going to do next, and quickly took out a wooden hammer.
"Miss Mu, use this! We used to use it a lot when making rice cakes in our village!"
Mu Yi was just about to summon the Thousand Forging Hammer when he saw that the size of the wooden hammer handed over by the man seemed to be more suitable, so he took it over.
"Okay! Look at my performance!"
"Miss Mu, let me help!"
Mrs. Chun came over, washed her hands with clean water in the wooden bucket, then stood next to Mu Yu, and rolled her eyes at her husband again.
"When people are making fish cakes, don't you know how to help pour water and mix them? You don't know the proportion of radium, don't you know how to move the bucket?!"
The leader of the wood demon did not speak, silently took the empty barrel away, and quickly walked to the well on the side to draw water.
The other wood demon children were all concentrating on stirring the egg liquid and fish roe, while Mu Yi wielded the wooden hammer with ease to fully break up the fish meat and flour.
Mrs. Chun used every opportunity to roll the pink meat ball in the flour-bottomed wooden trough. After it was fully mixed, she pulled her hand away and interrupted Muxing's tapping.
The joyful scene made the atmosphere of the entire Wood Demon Village seem particularly harmonious, and everyone, men, women, old and young, was busy at the moment.
Long Ran was also very moved when he saw this lively scene.
On weekdays, he travels through the center of the capital and the imperial city. Although those places are prosperous, they are still places of luxury and hypocrisy. Compared with the fireworks here, they are ultimately less humane.
It was just such a life that he could only watch from the sidelines. His status as a true dragon's heir and his increasingly complicated bloodline did not allow Long Ran to have the slightest yearning for the life given by Zhanzhi.
But after he ascends the throne as emperor, he must let Fei Long and even all people and spirits in the entire spiritual world enjoy such a peaceful and peaceful life.
Just like what he promised when his mother was alive, he would create a country without differences and discrimination, just like Qian Du.
Now that I think about it, even the ideal of governing the country is inseparable from this woman.
And the prototype of his current ideal has taken a step further, and it must be attributed to her.
He is not completely ignorant of the fireworks in the world, but he cannot feel the beauty in them.
Now that I think about it, maybe it's not that I can't feel it, but because there's no one in the fireworks who can arouse my heart, so no matter how much I watch it, it's less interesting...
Soon the ingredients for the fish cakes were hammered out, and the wood demon children gathered around Mu Yu.
"Wow! It's so delicious! Sister, what did you add?"
"The special spices I brought from outside will make the fish delicious!"
Mu Yi smiled and poured a layer of light yellow grease from the jasper bottle, and lightly applied it on the fish cake that was placed in the mold to set.
"This is fish paste extracted from Ran Yiyu. If you apply a layer of it, you won't have nightmares when you eat it! It's perfect for children!"
"Thank you sister! I have so many treasures!"
After cooking the fish cakes, Mu Yu divided out three more buckets of egg liquid and fish roe, and poured the rest into the large pot. After preparing the vegetable oil and other seasonings, he threw the huge lid on the pot.
"It will take about an hour before you can eat this. Don't be naughty and lift the lid of the pot during this period!"
The little wood demons nodded one after another, while Mu Yi put aside the remaining three barrels of mixed fish roe.
"Mrs. Chun... help me set up another oil pan and heat the oil a little..."
She brought the remaining flour to her side. After setting up the oil pan, she scooped up the extremely viscous fish roe mixture with her hands, coated it in flour, and threw it into the oil pan.
A strong aroma spread instantly as the fish balls floated up, and all the little wood demons began to drool——
"It smells so good! When can I eat this..."
"If you want to eat the best, you have to wait patiently!" Mu Yu packed up a long wooden chopstick, kept pinching fish balls with one hand and threw them into the frying pan, while telling the children to get out of the way.
"Don't get too close, everyone! The oil is very hot, and it will hurt you very much when it pops out and hurts you!"
The children all moved away obediently, and Mu Ji took care of the children very skillfully, as if he had experienced this kind of scene hundreds of times.
Long Ran took the initiative to walk to the side and took the chopsticks from her hand.
"I'll keep an eye on the pot for you while you make the fish balls."
He carefully observed that several small spots burned red by boiling oil had appeared on Mu Yi's wrist, and naturally he did not want her to continue to be distracted.
After all, this woman doesn't care about any injuries most of the time.
Mu Yi stopped talking politely to Long Ran, and the two of them were speechless. Soon many children were attracted by the strange noise in the steamer, and they all ran away after a while.
Her hands were extremely dexterous. She rolled the fish liquid in her hands a little and then patted them with flour, and she had a plump fish ball.
Long Ran looked at it in a daze, and the chopsticks in his hands were a little slower. Many orange-yellow meatballs did not turn over, and they were a little burnt.
"I told you!" Mu Yi curled his lips, "If you want to help, just concentrate! Look, it's all burnt!"
She stretched out her hand to hold Long Ran's wrist, and her flour-coated palm landed firmly on his skin.
"When you fry the meatballs, you have to do this first..."
Long Ran simply ignored his hands and put his other hand on his leg, looking at her lowered eyebrows.
Her arms were at her mercy, just like her sight now, and just like her heart now.
"I didn't expect you to look rough, but you are very good at taking care of children."
"Well, I expected you to be a young man who doesn't know how to work."
Mu Yi never forgets to talk to Long Ran, but he just smiles understandably.
He was targeted over and over again, but he gained some resistance.
It would be a good idea not to argue with her in this regard. Anyway, the person who is wronged is not herself, and she will be at the mercy of others...
"Mu Yi, how long have you been doing these things?"
She was a princess of a country, but now she was proficient in such rough housework. Long Ran thought he could understand the reason, and still wanted to know more about her past.
"It started in Qiandian."
Mu Yi said naturally——
"I wasn't taken seriously at the beginning. Sometimes I didn't have enough to eat, so I had to do it myself..." She thought for a moment, "But I didn't really like cooking at that time. I just wanted to satisfy my hunger."
"Then you like it now?"
"I like it!" She smiled brightly and picked out the last remaining fish ball from the pot. "I feel very happy cooking for important people! You may not understand this! But most civilians in the spiritual world
Every woman can feel this kind of fun!”
"For the family?"
Long Ran's tone was extremely solemn, and he didn't even know what he was nervous about.
Women from ordinary people's families cook food like this...for their parents, for their children, and for their sisters and brothers...but for him...
Long Ran wanted to ask, and he wanted to hear another explanation from her.
"Family..." She paused, "Of course it's for the family, but it's not just for the family!"
Mu Yi shook the fish balls in the bamboo basket and drained out the oil residue and juice.
"My brother told me that cooking delicious food would be pursued by many male monsters, but I didn't like anyone except my brother at that time, so the meaning of cooking was just for my family! It's still the same now!"
She and Long Ran walked side by side, and he took the heavy bamboo basket from her hand as a matter of course.
"But if I can meet someone for whom I am willing to cook for the rest of my life, I will definitely not think so!"
She walked forward quickly, but failed to see the unusually fiery brilliance in Long Ran's eyes.
It was pretty much the answer he expected... very good!
At least it means that she still has expectations...and he doesn't have no chance at all, right?