When eating fried chicken, Su Qingluan looked at Song Bo cautiously: "Can you handle spicy food?"

Song Bo was stunned: "It should be possible, I don't eat spicy food much."

"What about spicy food?"

"It should be okay," Song Bo scratched his head, not knowing why Su Qingluan asked specifically, "When times are tough, you can eat anything. It doesn't make sense that you can't eat normal seasonings, right?" Song Bo, who came from a military background, has never been picky about food. Especially at the beginning, he was not so good at cooking. It was all learned through thousands of blood and tears.

However, even when my cooking skills were the worst and I couldn't even ensure that the food was fully cooked, neither I nor Mu Xingzhi would be picky about the taste of the food that I had worked so hard to get.

After all, their situation was extremely difficult at that time, so they had to be extremely grateful to God for having food to eat. As for whether it tasted good or not, they could not be so picky.

However, Song Bo, who arrived at this moment, obviously did not understand Su Qingluan's resentment that she loved Sichuan cuisine in her previous life, but had to abstain from it in the last few years due to illness.

It is really not possible to not give up eating. Although Su Qingluan is young, she has undergone a series of lengthy and extremely damaging treatments in the last few years, which has greatly reduced her overall resistance to below the normal level.

Therefore, even a very mild cold or fever would cause her to fall down and not be able to get up for ten days or half a month; any wound would not heal for several days; especially inside the mouth, whether it was a bump from the teeth or a scratch from slightly hard food, it would cause a new ulcer on the oral mucosa that would not heal for a long time.

This type of ulcer appears one after another, covers a large area, and is difficult to heal. It was even difficult for Su Qingluan to open her mouth to drink water. What's more, if she wanted to eat such irritating Sichuan food at this time, it would be like branding her mouth with an iron.

Su Qingluan is a normal person and has no intention of going crazy or self-harming.

So during the last few years of her illness, Su Qingluan spent her time using the simple and monotonous cooking method of boiling everything in light salt water. This cooking method can save energy to the greatest extent and prevent the food from being too hard and causing secondary damage to the oral mucosa. Although the food produced is rather boring, Su Qingluan is still very satisfied that she was able to survive this way.

However, satisfaction doesn't mean contentment. Everyone has their cravings, and Su Qingluan is no exception. One time, her mouth ulcers hadn't recurred in a month, so she decided to treat herself to a mildly spicy hot pot soup base.

Then the excruciating throat ulcers and stomach ulcers took their toll on her. She was almost dehydrated due to severe diarrhea and had to go to the hospital to get an IV drip to maintain electrolyte balance.

From then on, even if Su Qingluan was still tempted by greed, she was always trembling with fear and did not dare to go beyond the line.

When Su Qingluan traveled to this time and space, she finally regained a healthy body. However, when she learned that many of the ingredients she loved very much in her previous life, including chili peppers, were not found in this world, at least for now, Su Qingluan's loss can be imagined.

However, as a foodie who never gives up, Su Qingluan has always been willing to put in the effort to satisfy her taste buds.

There was nothing she could do about her health problems in her previous life, but she was in very good health in this time and space. Although there were no chili peppers available, Sichuan peppercorns and Evodia rutaecarpa, which produces spicy flavor, could serve as substitutes.

So Su Qingluan took Evodia rutaecarpa as the starting point and frequently visited the spice shops of the foreign merchants. In addition to finding inspiration for developing new flavors of jam for "Su Ji", she also wanted to find more substitutes for chili peppers, or other spices that were not very spicy but had unique aromas for various uses.

After two years of repeated attempts, Su Qingluan finally created her own special spicy noodles.

It still cannot be compared with those devil peppers like Mexico's super spicy pepper, but judging by Su Qingluan's Sichuan brain in her previous life, this "spicy powder" made with various spices and sesame seeds can at least reach the level of "medium spicy" mentioned by her Sichuan friends in her previous life.

Seeing Song Bo nod very affirmatively, Su Qingluan also believed it without a doubt - at least when it comes to food, Song Bo should have no reason to be deliberately modest, not to mention when it comes to taste, whether or not one can eat spicy food does not mean anything.

As for Mu Xingzhi… never mind. Su Qingluan knew he wouldn't even mention his taste preferences. Even if Su Qingluan asked casually without any hint of probing, he would just say something like, "I'm fine, I eat everything."

As expected, when Su Qingluan turned her gaze to Mu Xingzhi, he smiled slightly: "I can do anything."

Well, it was all in vain for her to worry, Su Qingluan shrugged.

Su Qingluan then confidently sprinkled the spicy powder, which she had originally intended to sprinkle only half on, evenly over all the chicken wings. Worried that the powder wouldn't fully reach every piece of fried chicken, she lifted the oil paper underneath and tied it tightly, letting all the chicken pieces shake thoroughly inside so that every piece would be fully exposed to the spicy powder.

This way, Su Qingluan didn't have to worry about the flavor differences between the chicken nuggets and simply gave half to Song Bo—after all, Song Bo had the biggest appetite among the three of them. Then there were the yam fries, fried steamed bread slices, and some refreshing vegetables.

"Thank you, Madam." Song Bo was about to turn around and leave when Su Qingluan shook a small porcelain bottle beside him and said, "Song Bo, let me pour you some of this salt. This is different from ordinary salt. It tastes better when dipped in steamed bread or yam."

"Qingluan's salt is very unique. Is it added with fruit peel and pepper?" Mu Xingzhi looked at Su Qingluan.

Su Qingluan turned around and looked at him: "Have you smelled it? You have a really good nose. I did add a little bit of dried lemon peel and pepper."

In fact, this is "lemon salt" made by imitating the Japanese yuzu salt she ate in her previous life. Su Qingluan prefers lemon or orange to the fragrance of yuzu, but she only has lemons on hand at the moment, so she made this seasoning salt with lemon peel. She just tried it with yam in the kitchen, and it has a completely different flavor from tomato sauce, and is more refreshing.

Mu Xingzhi looked at Su Qingluan and said, "Qingluan has been busy for a long time. I have a little wine here to show my appreciation." Then he looked at Song Bo and said, "Go and get the fruit wine."

Su Qingluan quickly shook her head when she heard that. "No, I've never drunk before. What if I get drunk and go crazy?" The most important thing is, this person is only fifteen years old...

However, she seemed to have secretly drunk red wine in her previous life when she was in elementary school, so she didn't seem to have any right to say so...

Mu Xingzhi smiled and said, "It's okay, it's just our own. Besides, this national wine is not very spicy. Qingluan will like it."

Since the other party said so, Su Qingluan thought about the brewing technology of this era and estimated that it could not be a particularly strong liquor. Besides, she had a good alcohol tolerance in her previous life, so she nodded and agreed, and then began to eat the spicy chicken nuggets with relish.

Su Qingluan squinted her eyes happily as she took a bite of the chicken. "Ah, even though it's not hot peppers, it's this spicy, numbing, and fragrant feeling! It's truly refreshing! This exhilarating feeling of eating spicy food is finally back!"