ebookland Chapter 197: Life is Ordinary and Happy
Chapter 197: Life is Ordinary and Happy
"Here, try it. I think it's really delicious." Lin Yeqing quickly came back with a plate of peeled yacon, asked Ruan Tang to eat it, and asked the kids to eat too.
Ruan Tang took a piece and looked at it. The color and taste were indeed very similar to the yacon in her previous life. She tried to take a bite and was immediately amazed by the crispy and sweet taste.
"Wow, this is so crispy, sweet and refreshing, so delicious!" Ruan Tang took another bite of the yacon in her hand. The juice was sweet and she liked the taste very much. She leaned close to Lin Yeqing's ear and whispered, "I think it tastes better than the duck pears from my previous life before the end of the world! It's super crisp, and the flesh is easy to chew!"
"I didn't lie to you, it's really delicious." Lin Yeqing was quite proud.
She suddenly had an idea that since there was such a large area of cassava here, there should also be yacon.
Because she loved eating yacon in her previous life, in order to eat the best-tasting yacon, she went to Yunnan Province and contracted several hills to conduct experiments. At that time, she learned that the yacon grown in the same soil as cassava also tasted great!
"Auntie Ye, this sweet and crispy food is called yacon. It's really sweet! It's so delicious. I want to eat another piece!" Jing Chu fell in love with the taste of the yacon at the first bite.
Lin Yeqing said generously, "Eat, there's plenty of yacon today. If you feel it's not enough, Aunt Ye will take you to dig more tomorrow."
"I want another piece too!"
"I also want."
"I won't eat it anymore. Although the yacon is delicious, I still prefer meat, hehe."
The little kids are carnivores and cannot live without meat, so they shared the plate of yacon that Aunt Ye brought over and didn't ask for any more.
Here, the cubs were eating fruit and chatting with the two females, while over there, the males had prepared dinner, cassava soup and cassava cakes.
The males like Ruiyi and Yuri had not helped with the cooking just now, but now they were helping to serve the food and set the table and chairs with quick movements.
"Ruan Ruan, the food is ready, let's go over." Lingze came over and helped Ruan Tang up from the recliner.
"Yeah." Ruan Tang said, "We just ate another delicious fruit. After dinner, you can peel some and try it. We'll go digging tomorrow."
Lingze knew what Ruan Tang was talking about because Yuri had already let them taste it. He helped her walk to the dining table and said softly, "We've already tasted it and heard Yuri talk about it. He said it's called yacon, very sweet and crispy, and it's really delicious."
"I think it tastes good too. Let's go dig it early tomorrow morning." Ruan Tang was very happy when she talked about this. The more food she had, the more at ease she felt. They had been heading west for the past half month, and apart from some strange beasts, they had rarely found wild fruits and new food. After all, it was spring now, and the wild fruit trees were still in bloom.
Cassava and yacon are in the fields. Few people in this wild continent know that they are edible. They have been growing in the fields for who knows how many years. They emerged after the snow melted. They are so lucky!
"Tangtang, do you want to wash your hands first?" Mo Bai had actually prepared the hand washing water, but Ruan Tang had washed her hands before going to rest, and he was not sure whether she wanted to wash them again.
"Wash, we're going to eat cassava cake soon." Mo Bai had already fetched the water, and Ruan Tang would definitely not let him work in vain.
"Wow, this cassava cake smells so sweet." Jing Chu went to the table and smelled the fragrance of the cassava cake. His fox eyes were full of joy for the delicious food.
"Don't get so close." Bai Lang pushed his cub's head with his big hand and reminded him.
"I'm so far away that I won't drool on it, haha." Jing Chu knew what his father meant. He couldn't help laughing when he thought about himself drooling.
"Let's eat." Ruan Tang washed her hands, sat in her seat and announced that the meal was ready. This was a habit that the whole family had developed long ago.
"Great! I've been drooling just by smelling that bowl of cassava syrup, hehe." Luo Chen likes sweet food, and the yacon he ate the most was also the one he ate.
"Then let's each have a bowl of cassava soup to whet our appetite." Ruan Tang waved his hand and made arrangements.
"Yeah." The little ones are always curious about new food. Of course they are happy when their mother says they can try a bowl of sweet soup first.
The males then took bowls of soup. The first bowl was of course Ruan Tang's. At the table where Lin Yeqing's family was, a bowl of sweet soup was also placed in front of Lin Yeqing first.
"Let's eat." Ruan Tang first scooped a piece of soft, sweet cassava with a wooden spoon and put it in her mouth. "Hmm, the sweetness is just right, and the cassava is cooked soft and mushy. It's delicious."
Lin Yeqing took a bite and said, "It's really delicious, Tangtang. You are a famous teacher and you have produced outstanding students. Come on, kids, show off. What are you looking at?"
"oh oh."
The kids reacted and started showing off.
Everyone had a full meal, and after the meal they played on the grass for a while. Then the kids went to the river to take a bath, and then went back to their rooms to sleep.
After Ruan Tang finished her meal, she didn't even have a few words with Lin Yeqing before she was carried into the house by Chi Yuan. Mo Ran followed her in. By midnight, all the males in the house, except Long Ming, had fallen asleep on Ruan Tang's big bed...
The next morning, Ruan Tang couldn't get out of bed. She stayed in bed for a long time and even ate breakfast in bed.
When she walked out of the wooden house, it was already noon. Lin Yeqing was another person who got up late like her.
The two looked at each other again, turned their heads away, and coughed lightly.
Ruiyi and Yuri had already taken the males and the cubs to dig yacon, and left a male at home to watch over them.
Qi Xuan finished packing up the wooden house upstairs and came down. He put his arm around Ruan Tang's waist from behind and asked softly, "Ruan Ruan, are you going to rest at home or sit and watch them dig yacon like you did yesterday?"
Ruan Tang exchanged glances with Lin Yeqing and said, "Just stay at home. I told them last night that the skin of yacon is not as thick as cassava skin. I told them to try not to damage it. I won't go."
Her waist and legs ached, and she just wanted to lie down. She really shouldn't have set that precedent. Now, several energetic men took turns to come after her, and they were going to tire her to death!
"Okay, I'll take out the recliner and put it away for you, then I'll go make food." Today Mo Ran went to the field to dig yacon, so Qi Xuan took on the task of making food.
"Yeah." I just want to lie down...
Lin Yeqing's situation was even worse than hers. Her partner rubbed her waist for a while, and when he heard her say that she wanted to be with the goddess, he took care of her and made her lie on the recliner, rubbing her waist and pinching her legs.
The two women shook their heads and glanced at each other, blinking their beautiful eyes and teasing each other for a while, then they raised their lips and smiled.
Life is simple and happy.
The males finished digging yacon and then came back with the two females to harvest the day's harvest.
The next morning, the two families packed up everything and set off again.
It was still about ten days' journey from here to the Mihu Forest. After resting for two days, they were able to travel much faster than before.
They hunted during the day and set up their wooden house in a relatively safe place at night. So even when they were away from home, they didn't really have to sleep in the open air. On the contrary, they lived a comfortable and casual life.
It was just a hardship for the cubs, because Ruan Tang did what she said. After they set out again, the cubs had to snatch prey from the adults every day. If they didn't, they would have no food to eat.
The cubs suffered terribly and went to bed hungry in the first few days.
However, the clever little snakes soon figured out a solution. After the adults went to bed, dozens of little snakes quietly went out into the forest to hunt. In order to fill their stomachs, they no longer divided their so-called "own people" into many small groups as before. Instead, they worked together every night and discussed everything.
Chi Shiwu said that this is what his mother said: "There are policies from above, and there are countermeasures from below!"