184 Chapter 176 - Let's Have a Food Feast.

"Probably?" said Maria.

"But who? And why would anyone want to live in this place?" said Ai, a bit confused and felt suspicious.

"I guess this place must belong to those dried corpses out there." said Maria, totally clueless.

"I see..." said Ai, despite not so convinced by the statement, as she is not familiar with things in White's Village.

They continued to explore the place but found nothing extraordinary.

"This looks just like an ordinary room, and I didn't find anything special about this room, maybe we should head back to start analyzing those dried skeleton samples." said Maria, and Ai nodded in agreement.

And so, they leave the cave after Jason collected all the samples he needs, however Maria and Ai seem to overlooked something in that room, on a table in that room, there is a photo of a family consist of father, mother, and son, and the father has white hair...

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After a while, they gone back to the village and found out the chief (Grandpa White) is having an intense discussions and arguments with Madam Fetty and the other elders in the village. All of them seem to be in a depressed mood.

"Uhm, is there anything I could help?" Maria slowly approaching them and carefully asked the question.

"We were supposed to be having a feast today for all the travelers and friends from neighboring villages, but all the sudden, the person that was supposed to be in charge of the food is unable to do their job due to some personal issues, so we are facing problems with the food." said Fetty.

"Hmm... This could be quite troublesome. Can't you get someone else to do the cooking? Or can't anyone in this village do the cooking instead?" Maria asked, in a casual manner.

"It's almost impossible to find a cook from the other place, as the feast will be this evening, not enough time left for that, as for the villagers... It's a shame to say but, I'm probably the only that can cook a proper meal." said Fetty.

"What? But how is it possible? How about their daily meals?" Maria asked, a bit hard to believe what he just heard.

"I don't know if you know anything similar before in your place, but there is a type of process dried food that you just need to add hot water to turn it into a cooked meal." said Grandpa White before leading them to the house and show them how to turn a solid brown cube into a bowl of stew by adding hot water.

"Wow! Technology~" said the girls, copying Seito's behavior.

"But it's certainly not good and impolite to serve this kind of food to our guests, right?" said Fetty. Maria nodded in agreement.

"Or can't you postpone it?" Maria asked.

"So, we are in a dilemma whether we should postpone it or not, but if we don't, the meal will be an issue." said Grandpa White.

"How many people we need to serve?" Jason asked, all of the sudden.

"About a hundred people." said Grandpa White.

"A hundred huh? Possible to get it done before evening." said Jason.

"Eh?" Both Grandpa White and Madam Fetty are confused with Jason's words.

"Ah... I just remembered! Jason chan used to be emperor's chef in the ancient Qing's empire." said Maria.

"Oh my! It would be great if you could help." said Madam Fetty, both surprised and happy.

"How many food materials we have at this moment? Especially meat." Jason asked.

"We still have ten living poultry in our farm along with a huge supply of vegetables that is enough for a whole month." said Grandpa White.

And of course, he is talking about the food supplies they are allowed to use, not included those personal belongings of the villager.

"Oh! And there are some fishes in my pond." said Madam Fetty

"Ten poultry... Minus the reservation, which will be at most eight. This is definitely not enough to feed a hundred people." said Jason.

"That's another dilemma, we seriously don't want to use those personal livestocks of the villagers." said Grandpa White. Madam Fetty thought for a while, she seems to remember something.

"Hold on... I remember my husband free-range raised a flock of goats in the forest. We might be able to use that, let me ask him first." said so, Madam Fetty run back to her Inn looks for her husband.

While Madam Fetty is looking for her husband, the girls are having some small chit-chat.

"I wonder why do the villagers need to keep the livestock while they basically can't cook at all?" Yuki asked.

"Hmm... I don't know, maybe they keep them as pets?" said Ai, a bit naive.

"And how about the crops, why do they even planting those?" Yuki asked again.

"For a gardening hobby?" said Ai...

After a while, Madam Fetty came back and informed them that they are allowed to use the free-ranged goat, with just one condition... They need to find and catch them out from the forest since Fetty's husband doesn't remember and doesn't know where those animals are at that moment.

"I see. In short, we need to start the process from hunting the food materials." said Jason, rather emotionless...

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*Something out of the story

Sky: "Dear readers."

Chris: "Hmm?"

Sky: "As what Chris said. Right now, this story is free on the authorized platform, so please read it from authorized platforms as mental support for the writer."

Chris: "Mhm... There are two authorized platforms. One is webnovel.com. And another one is that messy and half-dead Weebly site that she uses for draft and backup... But not recommended."

Sky: "Ah... Haha. Yes, as Chris said."

Chris: "But look out, those scums might change this note to their own website link. So, be cautious.

Sky : "By the way, if the cover page is the old cover page that shows  two stickmen, stop reading it, it's cursed and might caused the writer to stop writing."

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