Master of Strange Dao

It's possible that certain bird species may have higher egg production, some may grow quickly, all are the most basic resources.

Always paying attention to these matters, this time, when this type of duck migrated, records were made routinely, and no one was allowed to hunt them recklessly.

After years of Jade Tablet advocacy, even the villagers below cooperate well.

Actually, there's no need to say much; tell them, each type might turn into domestic fowl, into egg-laying chickens.

They care more than anyone."

Yu Ziqing observed the surroundings, as the New Dynasty began, everything was renewed.

The once barren environment also began to change continually, the ecosystem severely negatively impacted by the Earth Deity also started to slowly recover.

Yu Ziqing listened quietly to the detailed report.

The large direction he set ultimately had an effect.

After all, mortal life has always been quite difficult, eating meat every day was something beyond imagination.

Encountering migratory birds, killing some, quietly taking away some eggs, was also a normal thing.

Mortal wisdom would also make them realize that if the losses to migratory birds were too great, they might not come next year.

A full meal today versus yearly abundance, they can still tell the difference.

Additionally, Yu Ziqing established the first national policy, namely food security, striving to prevent anyone from starving to death.

Everyone could eat their fill, only then these arriving birds could have the opportunity to breed here.

As a result, there were even people wanting to occasionally eat meat and eggs in the future.

When encountering such obviously edible and tasty ducks, their first thought was to protect them, preventing anyone from misusing them.

Let's see if the court's people could cultivate and domesticate them, transforming them into those anyone could raise.

This lake, with several villages around, a mere few hundred ducks, couldn't even feed these people a meal.

Yu Ziqing listened to the detailed information reported, feeling a bit dazed, and couldn't help but smile.

He indeed hadn't thought of it.

The materials he wanted, no longer existed in the Wilderness, but after Dadui nurtured and recuperated, they appeared in Dadui.

Moreover, they were preserved, allowing him to hear about them.

It's still because the many decisions he made before sowed the seeds, resulting in an overall change leading to today's result.

If not for the step-by-step accumulation of everything before, he might never have hoped to see these ducks.

Doing some good deeds, the good karma appeared inadvertently.

Yu Ziqing momentarily didn't know if this was inevitable or benefits slowly gained after Dadui Country's fortune improved.

But it was all unimportant now, the main ingredient for jerky was unexpectedly at hand.

Yu Ziqing especially instructed to protect this red-headed, flat-eyed Green Feathered Duck, preventing its extinction.

Commended all those involved, everyone received rewards.

Yu Ziqing quickly left Dadui with ten ducks.

Back at Jinlan Mountain, Yu Ziqing released the ducks, looking at the cook, Hungry Ghost.

"Is this the duck?"

Cook Hungry Ghost picked up a duck and thoroughly examined it for a long time, nodding repeatedly.

"That's right, it's this one. It used to be plentiful in the northern Wilderness every summer but eventually disappeared.

Back then, the number was quite large, the hunted portion couldn't be entirely eaten, many people made preserved duck.

Some wanted beef, couldn't get it, so they used these to make jerky."

Yu Ziqing knew the original intent of those making fake jerky wasn't to sell it as real jerky.

Just to eat as if it were real.

No one buys jerky here, northern Wilderness had experienced mutations, wasn't good enough, who would be willing to buy jerky to eat, where to buy?

Hardly anyone slaughtered cattle for beef.

"Let's give it a try first." Yu Ziqing felt a bit expectant.

The cook Hungry Ghost's skills were undoubtedly impeccable.

Even real beef could be made to taste exactly like fake jerky.

If not for the slight difference in meat texture, Yu Ziqing wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

After waiting for a few days.

Cece and Wu Shuangge came back, and other Hungry Ghosts also paid attention to the matter.

Newly roasted jerky, Yu Ziqing didn't immediately take it.

Instead, he had someone find a place to wrap it in oiled paper and bury it.

Then instructed other Hungry Ghosts to dig it out, delivering it to Yu Ziqing in his Hungry Ghost King state.

When the jerky was in hand, Yu Ziqing personally touched it, instantly sensing it.

There was no mistake; it was this thing.

In that moment, he realized.

The most important token wasn't that it's jerky.

It's that such an object is the first interactive carrier between Hungry Ghost and Hungry Ghost King.

Following how Yu Ziqing was pulled back from starvation the first time, this object was the anchor point.

From that moment on, the significance of the object was completely different.

The important thing was never the specific material or the specific method to make fake jerky.

It's the meaning carried by fake jerky.

Unable to find a substitute, it's because only this fake jerky could carry this meaning.

With meaning, this thing gifted from Hungry Ghost to Yu Ziqing and then from Yu Ziqing to Hungry Ghost.

It became a proof of transition for Yu Ziqing's mouth, the necessary medium for other Hungry Ghosts to complete evolution in their hearts.

Yu Ziqing opened the oiled paper package, picked out a slender piece of jerky, and began to savor it.

It was identical to the original jerky, with hardly any difference.