"Fine, fine!"
Although this daughter's temper was nowhere near as cute and obedient as she looked, Fu Hua still doted on her immensely.
Putting away the fishing rod, Fu Hua picked up the wooden bucket holding the fish and prepared to take her back.
"Are we having grilled fish today?"
Kaguya followed beside Fu Hua. Seeing the three large fish in the bucket, she could not help swallowing. She swore... even on the moon, she had never eaten food this delicious.
It was not that the ingredients were particularly exceptional. In fact, they could even be called quite ordinary. Yet once Fu Hua cooked them, they became something entirely different.
Simply put... they tasted unbelievably good.
Aside from the first few days, when she had only eaten porridge, honey, and soup, once she had grown a little older, she began eating all sorts of food with Fu Hua. And as long as Fu Hua had made it herself, every dish was endlessly memorable.
She had eaten Fu Hua's grilled fish a few times before, but she still could not resist it.
"Not grilled fish. I'm making boiled fish and braised fish..."
Fu Hua had found quite a few seasonings in the wilderness and felt she could make several different dishes.
"They already sound delicious."
Though she had never tried them, Princess Kaguya was greatly looking forward to them.
Carrying the bucket, Fu Hua led Kaguya to an abandoned shrine. It seemed to be a shrine to some local earth deity. It was not large... merely a tiny single-room structure, but it at least kept out the wind and rain.
After encountering Princess Kaguya in that bamboo grove, Fu Hua had not stopped traveling. After staying in the grove for a few days, she had continued eastward.
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