My Husband, a Marshal: Conquering the Stars with My Culinary Arts Chapter 248 - 85: Picnic (Part 2)2

"Let 2569 place things here, I’ll accompany you for a stroll around." Ke Lian held Du Xixi’s hand, noticing her constant gazing at the surrounding scenery, as if searching for sothing, and lightly tapped her cheek while smiling.

Among the things Du Xixi had 2569 prepare earlier, there were indeed ingredients, but since it was ant to be a wild picnic, Du Xixi still wanted to forage for suitable ingredients outdoors.

For this reason, Du Xixi specifically consulted the staff working on CD-0329 Star, learning that the flora and fauna there had already been scanned and inspected. Knowing that there were many wild species, Du Xixi followed those inspection reports to find several potential picnic spots.

It seems that due to a nearby stream, wild species frequently appeared here, and there were plenty of plants around. Du Xixi quickly identified this area with abundant ingredients, not far from ho.

Of course, this decision was made with the safety assurance of having Ke Lian and 2569 around. Otherwise, if Du Xixi were camping alone and encountered so wild boar or yak, she might have ended up dead.

Du Xixi pouted and pulled down Ke Lian’s hand making mischief by her cheek, then pinpointed a direction and dragged Ke Lian towards it, "Let’s go and take a look over there."

Du Xixi naturally wasn’t heading over to a random spot. It was the turn of spring to winter now, with limited sunlight. She carefully observed and found the sunlight seed to concentrate on that side. Plants grow towards sunlight, so presumably, there would be more plants over there.

Du Xixi started the livestream, heading in that direction with Ke Lian, and the stream naturally followed her. As if noticing the virtual screen now, she rembered she was actually still in a livestream, and smiled bashfully, "Next, let Ke Lian and I together take everyone to the outdoors to see if there are any edible ingredients!"

Du Xixi’s transition seed flawless, as the viewers in the livestream didn’t even notice that she had forgotten them, and the comnts were all expressing anticipation.

Du Xixi sighed in relief, pulling Ke Lian forward, and soon noticed what seed to be a patch of dark little plants on the ground. She quickly walked over to check, seeing black-gray ear-shaped fungi growing on a massive rotting log. She laughed, "These are wood ear mushrooms, soft texture, delicate taste, flavor is wonderful whether stir-fried or stead."

Listening to Du Xixi, Ke Lian understood they were edible, crouched down to pick, then took out a large basket from the Space Button, collecting a large handful and tossing them all into the basket.

After walking a bit further, Du Xixi noticed what looked like one or two familiar vegetable seedlings. Upon closer inspection, she realized they were shepherd’s purse.

"Shepherd’s purse usually matures in spring, around March to May." Du Xixi squatted down to pull up the rather lonely shepherd’s purse seedlings by the roots, placing them into the basket Ke Lian was carrying, "Perhaps it’s the temperature causing them to mature early."

Seeing comnts asking about ways to prepare shepherd’s purse, Du Xixi, now standing and dusting her hands off, answered with a smile, "There are many ways to prepare shepherd’s purse, you can make spring rolls, shepherd’s purse cakes, shepherd’s purse dumplings... Shepherd’s purse also has dicinal properties and can stop bleeding!"

The harmony between food and dicine, though Du Xixi hasn’t researched various ingredients’ dicinal traits deeply, she’s seen and made plenty, and so understands sowhat.

For example, pork clashes with soybeans, snails, cilantro, shrimp; lamb clashes with cheese, vinegar, waterlon, pumpkin; duck clashes with turtle, chestnuts; chicken clashes with mustard, garlic, carp fish...

As stated in "Essential Prescriptions of the Golden Cabinet", chives can’t be eaten with honey, lethal; "Compendium of Materia dica" states eggs with chives and garlic cause shortness of breath...

Thinking of clashes and harmonies, Du Xixi feels a headache, rubbing her temples and saying, "But don’t get too caught up in its dicinal effects, specific usage is unknown, and it’s better to follow dical advice and dication prescribed by a hospital."

In the Star Era, technological level is already very advanced, and ancient dicine of Blue Star is long forgotten. As for Shepherd’s purse, an ancient Chinese dicine ingredient from Blue Star, Du Xixi doesn’t need to guess to know it surely hasn’t been studied.