On the evening of the fourth day of the third month, the neighboring Wu Yaoxing household was stoking the stove and preparing a meal. Even from inside the shop, Xu Qing could smell the savory fragrance of stewed Hen.
The next day was when Wu Wencai would sit for the Children's Examination. His cousin Wu Zhiyuan had passed the Children's Examination years ago, but in a few days he would also have to go to the prefectural city and take the Prefectural Examination to qualify as a licentiate.
A licentiate was what ordinary people commonly called a Xiucai.
Earning an official degree was a major event in an ordinary person's life!
Therefore, Wu Yaoxing had not skimped on food and drink for several days in a row. His household had fish and meat at nearly every meal, despite eating only twice a day. They even lit the stove for a late-night snack after breakfast in the morning and the afternoon meal.
Every mealtime, the fragrance drifting over from the neighboring house was enough to make even a zombie drool.
The problem was that low-level zombies had limited diets, relying mainly on blood plasma as a liquid food. Even if there were a few edible fruits and other things, such as Bayberry Fruit, incense candles, and persimmons, they could not eat too much of them.
Those items merely contained certain elements and could replenish specific nutrients for zombies.
Xu Qing guessed that they might have some effect on maintaining corpse teeth, fingernails, and Corpse Hair.
For example, after consuming animal fat and candles made from Bayberry Fruit oil over a long period, the newly grown Corpse Hair on his body had become noticeably more luxuriant, and its color was also smoother and more lustrous.
He strongly suspected that the grease secreted