SFS Chapter 124 Why go again?
Chapter 124 Why go again?
Upon hearing Scarface's words, Lin Bao blurted out, "Are all the Gu family members blind? They can't even tell the difference between species. It seems their eyes are in serious trouble!"
"Who's blind?"
Lin Bao had just finished speaking when he heard this, and then he was completely taken aback. How could he have forgotten that his little sister was still living at the Gu family's house!
Lin Cai walked in from outside carrying a basket. She had been eating too dry food lately and wanted to eat something light, but the vegetables in the garden were still just seedlings.
She decided to go dig up some wild vegetables, and sure enough, when she got to the field, she saw a lot of dandelions.
Because there is wasteland everywhere, and wasteland is the place that dandelions love most, plus the people here think that dandelions are bitter, they don't like dandelions when they have food to eat.
Lin Bao turned around and looked at his little sister with a smile: "No, no, little sister, you misheard. I was just saying that this puppy is really cute."
Hearing Lin Bao mention Big Gray, Lin Cai laughed too: "Third Brother, you have a good eye. Big Gray is indeed very cute. I've never seen such a cute puppy before."
They can warm the bed for their owners and help guard the house. Apart from occasionally causing trouble, they are also very clingy.
Upon hearing his younger sister say that the puppy was cute, Lin Bao immediately understood why everyone in the Gu family said that the wolf cub was a dog.
He saw Lin Cai holding a basket in her arms, so he went over and took the basket from her. When he saw what was inside the basket, he frowned.
"Little sister! Why did you dig up so much bitter grass? It's bitter and doesn't taste good at all."
Lin Cai took the basket back: "If it doesn't taste good, it's because you don't know how to cook it. If you have all the ingredients, it's still a delicious dish."
Lin Bao frowned, disbelieving. What kind of delicacy was this? Scarface had lost all interest the moment Lin Bao said the basket contained bitter herbs.
He had eaten that stuff before when he was fleeing famine. Whether it was raw or cooked, it had a bitter taste and was very unpalatable.
Back then, no one would have been willing to eat unless it was for survival or to fill their stomachs.
Both of them decided in their hearts that they would never eat the bitter vegetables that Lin Cai made, and neither of them touched them when they were served that evening.
The Gu family is all present today. Apart from the three tigers at the academy, everyone from the Gu family is here, plus Lin Bao and Scarface.
As soon as the food was served, Lin Cai used her chopsticks to pick up two pieces of stir-fried dandelion and give them to Xiao Chunhua and Huaduo.
"Eat this quickly to clear heat and detoxify."
The two little girls glanced at Lin Cai, then ate all the vegetables in their bowls; they also recognized bitter lettuce.
They had all tried them, and in their memories, they all thought they were unpalatable because whether raw or cooked, they tasted nothing but bitterness.
But now the food in their bowls was personally served to them by Lin Cai, who said it was for clearing heat and detoxifying.
The two girls didn't understand what "clearing heat and detoxifying" meant, but they would never refuse anything Lin Cai gave them to eat.
When the two little girls put the bitter vegetables in their bowls and started eating, everyone at the table except Lin Cai was staring at the expressions on their faces.
The two girls, who also thought bitter herbs were unpalatable, were stunned after taking a bite.
The dish, which originally tasted only bitter, was actually not bad at all; on the contrary, it was much tastier than the dishes they had eaten before.
It has a slight bitterness, but it's negligible in the mouth, and there's even a feeling that it's meant to taste good with a touch of bitterness.
Lin Cai also picked up a piece with her chopsticks and looked at the two girls: "How does it taste?"
The two little girls exclaimed in unison, "Delicious!"
"It tastes much better than what we've had before."
Hearing this, Lin Cai smiled and said, "If it tastes good, eat more. It won't do your health any harm."
Lin Cai made two portions, one for stir-frying and the other for cold salad, as she preferred the cold salad.
Moreover, chili peppers were added, so the taste was naturally different. Hearing what the two girls said, Lin Bao was a little skeptical.
Like him, everyone else, with a try-it-out mentality, picked up a little to taste.
Seeing their cautious manner, Lin Cai was speechless. It wasn't poison; it wouldn't kill anyone if she ate it. Why were they acting like this?
What Lin Cai didn't know was that during the famine, they ate so much that the food tasted bitter and had no other flavor.
Those memories were so vivid that they could never forget them, and seeing them made them want to run away.
After much deliberation, the group finally finished both plates.
After Lin Bao finished eating, he asked, "Little sister, what's in that cold dish?"
The taste was a bit pungent; it was a flavor he had never tasted before.
Lin Cai shook her head: "I don't know what it is, but I think it's pretty spicy."
Hearing her say it was quite spicy, Lin Bao pondered the word for a moment, then nodded in agreement: "I also think it's quite spicy, but what exactly is it?"
He had drunk alcohol before, and the alcohol was quite spicy, especially the first time he drank it. But the spiciness of this was completely different from that of the other.
"I don't know what it is. I picked it up on the mountain before and thought it tasted pretty good, so I used it as a seasoning."
"Anyway, it's not poisonous, so it's edible, right? Why is Third Brother so concerned?"
Lin Cai lied; she didn't see the chili peppers on the mountain, she took them out of the refrigerator.
She kept a lot of small red chilies in the refrigerator; if she took them out and chopped them up, no one would know what they were.
Some of the seasonings they used before were taken from the refrigerator. They ate them then, but no one asked about them. Nobody knew why Lin Bao suddenly became concerned about this issue.
When his younger sister said she picked it up from the mountain, Lin Bao didn't ask any more questions. Things from the mountain are all wild, and he had no idea where they came from.
Even if his younger sister discovers that something is edible, she probably wouldn't know what it's called.
Xiao Chunhua studied with Xiuxiu for a month or two, and that very night when she got home, she gave all her works to Lin Cai.
As Lin Cai went inside to prepare for bed, Xiao Chunhua handed her her handkerchief: "Mom, this is for you, it's the prettiest one I have..."
Lin Cai took off her coat, lifted the quilt, and crawled into bed, taking the handkerchief with her: "Didn't the shopkeeper say anything?"
“She said that when the apprentices there left, they could take one piece of embroidery they had made themselves. I wanted to make one for my mother, so I made this and took it with me.”
"When you leave? You're not planning to go, are you?"
"I've already learned it, there's no need to learn it again, so why should I go?"