I Became a Sugar Mama to an Ancient General during a Famine! - Chapter 3 Part 2

Ye Mumu had just finished her meal and was about to clean up when suddenly smoke began to billow from the vase.

The acrid smoke made her cough.

She set down her chopsticks and glared fiercely at the vase.

If it dared to bring in more garbage, it would face dire consequences.

Suddenly, a ball of black ash floated out of the vase’s mouth.

It fell onto the white carpet, leaving a long, dark streak.

The ashen ball continued to roll forward.

This was her mother’s favorite carpet, purchased at great expense from the Middle East!

Her anger flared.

“Besides hauling trash into the house all day, what else can you do?”

“How many generations of my family have treasured you, and this is how you repay me?”

“Do I owe you something?”

This vase kept bringing in garbage!

Fine, if it wanted to play this game, she’d retaliate!

She sealed the unfinished meal box and hurled it into the vase.

Then she stormed to the kitchen and ransacked the cabinets.

She found a box of expired noodles, fifty packages in total, each weighing two jin, and tossed them all into the vase.

Not satisfied, she hunted for more expired food in the kitchen.

A box of instant noodles, over a dozen bags of pickled vegetables, expired seasonings, oil, salt, MSG, and dried vegetable packets.

The kitchen boasted two large freezers and one upright refrigerator.

The freezers were filled with meat frozen for who knows how long, dumplings, wontons, steamed buns…

She dragged the vase to the kitchen.

She ripped open the box of instant noodles and poured them all in.

All the pickled vegetables were shoved inside.

Seasonings, vegetable packets, frozen meat, dumplings, wontons, steamed buns… everything went in.

She emptied one of the two freezers completely.

The upright refrigerator held drinks, beer, and fruit bought who knows when…

She dumped it all into the vase.

Only when she could find no more garbage in the kitchen did she haul the vase back to the living room.

She glared at it menacingly, thinking if it dared to spew more trash, she’d lock it in the basement!

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Not long after the prayer was sent, the vase started dropping noodles..

Fine noodles, made of white flour, pressed into perfectly uniform sizes.

These noodles were so exquisitely crafted that even imperial court chefs couldn’t produce such consistency.

Next came instant noodles and pickled vegetables.

The packaging of the instant noodles was more intricate than anything the soldiers had ever seen.

Chen Wu immediately opened a packet of pickled vegetables and tasted it.

He nearly jumped with joy, exclaiming, “General, it’s salt! These vegetable roots contain salt!”

“Our army has lacked salt for so long; we can finally taste it again!”

Rock-hard frozen meat kept tumbling down.

One piece even struck Chen Kui on the head.

Seeing the table laden with frozen meat, everyone was elated.

“It’s meat, General! Frozen meat!”

“Beef, lamb, and mostly pork! General, our prayers to the gods truly worked! They’ve bestowed food upon us!”

Over three hundred jin of meat had fallen, with more still coming.

“What are these dumplings and wontons? We’ve never seen them before. Oh, there are even steamed buns and baozi!”

“What’s in these green glass bottles? Beer… is it some kind of alcohol?”

“There’s even tea, but why is it in soft bottles? What material are these bottles made of? We’ve never seen anything like this!”

“General, fine salt! Pure white fine salt!”

At the mention of salt, everyone abandoned their tasks and gathered around.

“This salt is so white, without a trace of impurity!”

“The salt is so fine, each grain distinct. Is this the sacred salt used by the gods?”

“The gods use glass bottles for their wine; how luxurious!”

The ten commanders excitedly examined the items, many of which were beyond their comprehension.

They meticulously sorted and categorized the divine gifts:

Fifty packages of fine noodles.

Three hundred and twenty jin of meat.

Twenty-four glass bottles of beer.

Three types of fruit: twelve apples, eight pears, and ten unknown long, yellow fruits with curved tips.

Three bags of dumplings, five bags of wontons, ten bags of baozi and steamed buns, ten packets of dried vegetables.

Twelve pickled vegetables, twenty-four instant noodles.

Also included were a small bottle of oil, several bags of white salt, and ten small packets of MSG…

Though the bounty was considerable, it was still far from sufficient to feed all the soldiers and citizens in the city.

For this reason, Zhan Chengyin penned a letter of gratitude to the gods.

「Thank you to the gods, for bestowing food. It was Yin who asked for too much, placing the gods in a difficult position.」

「Yin is truly fearful and grateful for troubling the gods. From this day forward, Yin vows to offer three incense sticks daily in worship.」

He finished writing and dropped the letter into the vase.

Only after releasing it did he realize he had forgotten to burn it!