Chapter 100: Chapter 100: The Roots Cannot Be Eaten Chapter 100: Chapter 100: The Roots Cannot Be Eaten Er Dan looked at their carrying baskets, “Are you guys gathering firewood?”
Da Bao nodded and said, “Yeah, mom is taking us to gather firewood, to pick up bamboo shells.”
“I’ll help you gather firewood.”
Gather firewood together?
Let’s do it together then!
“Da Bao, Xiao Bao, you gather firewood here, mom will look around, okay?”
“Mom, co back soon.”
Er Dan was curious about what sister-in-law was going to look for around the area?
But seeing that Da Bao and Xiao Bao were still young, he helped them pick up bamboo shells and bamboo leaves, which catch fire quickly.
Yun Xiaoxiao had already begun her little tricks over here.
Physalis, this thing looked just like a wild fruit.
There were also blueberries, which also resembled wild fruit.
Ginsengfruit also looked like wild fruit.
Yellow fruit as well, and that soft-centred apple, two pounds of each.
She carried these back.
“Mom, you’re finally back.”
The two little ones were very excited to see their mom return.
Er Dan just saw Yun Xiaoxiao co back with a basket in hand.
“Look what I’ve brought back?”
Sothing delicious?
“Mom, are these all wild fruits?”
Even Er Dan was curious, were there so many wild fruits in the mountains?
How co he didn’t know about them?
“Er Dan, this one looks like an apple, have one.”
An apple?
Yun Xiaoxiao had intentionally chosen those high-altitude soft-centred apples with skins that looked like they had cracks.
She had also intentionally bought the small kind, just a tad bigger than an orange.
Er Dan didn’t even wipe it, he just bit into it, and a surge of sour sweetness hit him.
“So sweet…”
“I’ll pack so for you, I was lucky to pick quite a bit of wild fruit, you probably haven’t noticed these usually.”
Especially the Physalis, covered with a layer of yellow sothing on the outside, you peel that off to find the berry inside.
Er Dan seed to have seen this fruit before but never knew it was edible.
He suddenly felt like he had missed out on a lot of food.
She gathered so for Er Dan and then took Da Bao and Xiao Bao back ho.
Er Dan looked at the food he had and hurried ho to hide it away.
He wanted to find more food in the mountains as it was starting to get cold already, but it wasn’t winter yet, so he could still find so food.
“Mom, Brother Er Dan said he wants to look for food in the mountains, but there isn’t much food left in the mountains.”
There’s no food in the mountains?
“There’s kudzu, and so yams, as well as cassava roots, they’re all edible.”
The little ones heard their mom ntion so edible things, but they were all roots.
“Mom, you can’t eat tree roots.”
Yun Xiaoxiao began to explain, “So roots are edible, the kudzu I ntioned earlier, its root can be dug out, pounded, filtered, and you get kudzu powder. This powder makes even tastier food than what is made with flour.”
Kudzu flower is a redy for alcohol poisoning.
Kudzu powder can beautify and nourish the skin.
And making dumplings with kudzu powder results in transparent dumplings when stead.
She had eaten them before.
As for yams, they are even better for children.
Cassava root contains so toxins, but once cooked, they are gone, and you can make a lot of food from it.
These foods, if you’re not a doctor, you’d hardly know you could eat them.
“I’ll draw them for Er Dan, then you give him the drawing, so he can look for them in the mountains, and dig up their roots.”
Tree roots?
“Mom, can you really eat them?”
Da Bao truly didn’t know that you could eat tree roots, he had never considered eating them even when hungry.
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