Male Lead's Canon Fodder Wife - Chapter 1022

Chapter 1022: Fairy And Demon
It’s not rare for a hen to produce an egg with two yolks, but Zhang Ermu had never heard of a hen producing an egg with three yolks.

Noticing his confusion, Li Jingqian’s eyes flashed and he quickly said, “Actually, it’s not that often. Maybe only one egg with a double yolk appears every few months. As for three yolks, it’s only happened once since we raised the old hen.”

When Dong Huang heard her cousin’s words, she realized that she had made a mistake. Her brother had reminded her not to talk about their old hen’s magical egg to others before he left for the capital, and now she had let it slip due to her excitement.

She glanced at her cousin gratefully. Fortunately, her cousin was very smart and knew how to cover for her. Otherwise, she would get spanked on the butt by her brother again if he found out when he came back.

Zhang Ermu didn’t find anything wrong with their words. After all, children often like to brag about the good things in their families. So, he took Dong Huang’s words as exaggeration and didn’t think too much about it.

After a moment of surprise, he patted Dong Huang’s head and said with a smile, “Dong Huang’s family chicken is great.”

Li Jingqian breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this and said, “Uncle Zhang, let’s go eat first and we can move the vegetables.”

Since he had been invited three times, Zhang Ermu no longer refused. He would just help them with work to repay them for the food.

In the kitchen, Li Jingxu beat the eggs and made them into steamed eggs. Since the eggs produced by his third uncle’s hen always had three yolks, he couldn’t make them into boiled eggs or it would be exposed.

When he first found out about this a few days ago, he was so shocked that he thought the old hen was a demon like the one in Journey to the West. Because the old hen not only laid one egg with three yolks, but she also laid five eggs at once. Every day, he saw his little cousin take out ten eggs from the chicken coop.

But after he visited his third uncle’s house several days, he discovered that the hen was the same as the one raised by his family. It didn’t take him a long time to realize that what made the hen in his third uncle’s house different was the food.

There was once when he asked for a small bag of chicken feed from Dong Huang and fed it to his chickens. After eating the chicken feed, the old hen in his family also laid an egg with a double yolk.

Li Jingxu knew that everyone had secrets. Therefore, he never pried into his third uncle’s family’s secrets. No matter what secret they had, they were family, and as a family, it was his responsibility to help them protect those secrets.

While he didn’t tell his parents, he couldn’t hide this matter from his noisy brother. When he shared his findings with his brother, the two had a long discussion in their bedroom that night.

In the end, both of them concluded that everything had changed since their third uncle married their third aunt. Their third aunt also changed after she recovered from a high fever back then.

With all these hints, both of them considered the possibility that the current Lu Jueyu was not the same person as the previous Lu Jueyu. Although it sounded crazy, they had met someone like this before. So, they believed that nothing was impossible in this world.

Fortunately, the one in their third aunt’s body was a fairy and not a demon like the one inside Xiao Yiqing. Otherwise, they would use any means to get rid of her. Just the thought of how crazy Xiao Yiqing had been back then made both of them shiver.

She talked to herself and argued for a whole day. One moment she was crying, another moment she was laughing maniacally. She called herself Mu Yiqing at one time and Xiao Yiqing at another time. This was how they discovered that there were two people inside that body.

While he was lost in his thoughts, Li Jingqian entered the kitchen and asked, “Brother, have you finished cooking? I’m starving.”

Hearing this, Li Jingxu was pulled out of his thoughts and said, “It’s almost done.”

When he opened the steamer, he saw that the steamed eggs were ready and said, “Let’s bring the food out. Today, we will have steamed eggs, bacon and vegetable porridge, and scallion pancakes.”

Li Jingqian felt his mouth water at the mention of the dishes. Although his brother had just started learning how to cook, he had learned from their mother and third aunt. So, the food tasted much better than what their father made. This was why he was tasked with making breakfast today.

When they brought the breakfast to the living room, Li Chenze had just returned from washing his hands.

Looking at the dishes on the table, he said with a hint of pride, “My son is indeed great. You managed to prepare so much food in less than an hour.”

“Father, it’s not hard. The ingredients were ready, and these are just simple dishes,” Li Jingxu said calmly.

Li Chenze nodded and took his seat. Both of his sons were nine years old this year. Now that their family no longer lacked food, both of them had grown taller and stronger.

They no longer looked like small children. He was pleased to see his sons gradually turning into young men. It would be wonderful if they grew strong enough to protect their sister when she was born.

Unaware that his father was thinking far into the future, Li Jingqian scooped a bowl of porridge for Dong Huang before serving himself. The other men could serve themselves.

They ate breakfast while chatting. After finishing their meal, Li Jingxu and Dong Huang cleaned up the table and washed the dishes.