After they had eaten and drunk their fill, neither of them spoke. They had eaten too fast and were feeling stuffed.

When you're overly tired, you're more likely to eat until you're stuffed.

After a while, the soldiers beside Bai Luoti suddenly noticed a middle-aged man squatting on the grass behind the canteen, doing something they didn't know.

"Captain, look."

The soldier nudged Bai Luoti, gesturing for him to look over.

"Hey, what are you doing?"

Chen Dong was picking wild vegetables when he heard someone calling him, so he quickly turned around to look.

The soldiers' leader stood behind him, looking at the wild vegetables in his basket.

"Sir, I'm picking wild vegetables."

Upon hearing this, Bai Luoti quickly waved his hand, "Hey, hey, fellow villager, don't get me into trouble. If the political commissar or that person hears you call me 'soldier,' we'll be punished."

"You can just call us comrades."

After saying that, he squatted down and asked, "Are you not getting enough to eat? Why are you out picking wild vegetables?"

Chen Dong looked at him and waved his hand: "No, no, I can eat my fill. These wild vegetables are ones I planted here myself. Now that they're ripe, I thought I'd pick them and give them to the chefs."

"Oh, I thought you weren't getting enough to eat."

Bai Luoti breathed a sigh of relief and stood up to leave: "Don't pick these wild vegetables. The chefs in the kitchen are tired of eating meat and fish every day. They won't want this kind of thing."

Chen Dong scratched his head: "Then, then I won't pick them."

"I thought this stuff could enhance male virility, and that chefs would like to eat it."

Bai Luo paused, his eyes lighting up as he looked at the wild vegetables that resembled grass in the basket on his back.

"Is this stuff an aphrodisiac?"

"Fellow villager, people from the Ming Dynasty don't lie to people from the Ming Dynasty. Does this thing really have aphrodisiac properties?"

"Sure, this stuff is called aphrodisiac herb, and it's very effective."