People are the least lacking thing in their military camp; everything else is extremely scarce!
All Yue Jiuyue could provide were the things grown at home. The servants in the family had dug up medicinal herbs before, but they had all sold them, and there weren't many left. They couldn't dig up much more, so it was better for them to help with other work, such as digging lotus roots.
Lotus root is not only edible, but it is also a medicinal herb. It has the effects of clearing heat and moistening the lungs, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, relieving constipation and diarrhea, and promoting digestion and generating body fluids. Taking it with you is a worthwhile investment.
Also, the soap from the soap workshop will no longer be delivered to the store from now on. Yue Jiuyue plans to give it all to Lin Chaoxi and the others to take away, so that they can exchange it for money or food in the future.
Sigh! If it weren't for her age, her lazy nature, and the fact that her special abilities couldn't be easily revealed, bringing any amount of stuff wouldn't be as useful as bringing her along.
Tonight's dinner table featured crayfish and lotus root, prepared in various ways, which truly broadened Lin Chaoxi's horizons.
Back in the border town, as long as they could fill their stomachs, they would eat anything.
Later, they went to the capital and did see a lot of the world, but they didn't have much money, and all they saw were cheap roadside stalls. In terms of experience, it was not as impressive as the experience they had at home.
Lin Chaoxi ate until he was completely full, looking very satisfied.
The next morning, he went to Yue Jiuyue's courtyard even earlier than the day before, because Yue Jiuyue had said yesterday that she would teach him how to make food with cornmeal and sweet potato flour, and would start by teaching him how to knead the dough.
The person who taught him naturally didn't need Yue Jiuyue, which also saved Yue Jiuyue from revealing her secret.
Just imagining the endless cycle of adding water when there's too much flour, adding more flour when there's too much water, Yue Jiuyue shuddered. She wouldn't be a good teacher; she would only ruin her apprentice.
Breakfast consisted of various foods made from sweet potato flour and cornmeal, including steamed, boiled, baked, pan-fried, deep-fried, and even stuffed dishes. A few bites were enough to fill one's stomach.
Finally, a bowl of corn and wild vegetable porridge fills the empty space in my stomach, bringing this breakfast to a perfect end.
Yue Jiuyue is not used to eating until she is seven or eight tenths full. She is afraid of being hungry, and the feeling of being hungry is very unpleasant.
She prefers the feeling of being full, even if she feels a little bloated, she just feels satisfied.
This is probably the aftereffect of going hungry, or perhaps rural people simply don't have the concept of eating until they're full. How can you not eat your fill? It's not like there's nothing to eat, right?
If Yue Jiuyue goes out to advise them that eating until they are seven or eight tenths full is good for their health, they might turn around and scold her for not letting them eat their fill, asking what her intentions are!
If someone were to advise Yue Jiuyue in this way, even if she knew it was right, she would still roll her eyes at them. Life is nothing more than eating and drinking; if they wouldn't even let her eat, they wouldn't even allow her to roll her eyes.
Ha ha……
Thinking about it this way, Yue Jiuyue couldn't help but laugh.
"Mom, doesn't it taste good?"
Look, even his mother is smiling; it must be because his cooking is delicious.
Lin Chaoxi was instantly filled with confidence in his craftsmanship.
"Mmm, it tastes really good!"
Yue Jiuyue nodded. If it wasn't delicious, would she eat until she was stuffed?
Yue Jiuyue only takes a small bite of anything she doesn't like. Even if she's not full by the end, she won't eat any more. She'll just have some snacks and fruit after the meal, or she can go to the mall and buy some of her favorite foods.
"hey-hey……"
Lin Chaoxi chuckled foolishly at the praise, which made Yue Jiuyue's lips curl into a smile.
Lin Chaobei: (￣ｏ￣)
I can't bear to look! I can't bear to look! My second brother has gone mad!
After the meal, Yue Jiuyue showed Lin Chaoxi her family's warehouse, which contained commonly used items such as needles and thread, cloth, cotton, writing brushes, ink, paper, dried sweet potatoes, corn, peanuts, millet, wheat, dried chili peppers, and dried wild vegetables...
The gifts the emperor bestowed upon Yue Jiuyue were all placed separately next to Yue Jiuyue's bedroom, and Lin Chaoxi's eyes almost popped out of their sockets when he saw them.
Those writing brushes, ink, paper, inkstones, ornaments, decorations, fabrics, and so on were truly wonderful things he had never seen before!
Lin Chaoxi especially knelt and bowed respectfully before the two imperial edicts.
We've been to several warehouses; there's just too much stuff, and it's all categorized and stored separately. It's impossible for one warehouse to hold everything.
Yue Jiuyue felt like her legs were about to break, so she went straight back to the courtyard and had Lin Chaobei take Lin Chaoxi around to see the sights.
The last place we went to was a cave, which was filled with fresh things: sweet potatoes, corn, apples, pears, ginger, garlic, etc. Most of them were this year's new grains, and there wasn't much of last year's old grain left.
Their cellar was almost abandoned. They had been using a cave dug behind the house, which was built with stones, just like the stone house, so there was no need to worry about it collapsing.
This autumn's harvest was plentiful. One cave wasn't enough, so we expanded the cave where we used to hide from floods. It was also built with stones and now we have many things stored inside.
It's breathtaking!
It deeply moved Lin Chaoxi!
He truly never imagined that his family had so much food!
Ugh, I want to take them all! I want to plunder them all into their military camp!
"Mother! I'll go and send a message to my comrades right away, telling them to come here by galloping through the night!"
Lin Chaoxi was incredibly excited. So much grain! So much grain! It almost felt unreal to him, and he was afraid that something might go wrong if he waited too long!
There's nothing we can do; we're all too afraid of being ripped off by those people in Kyoto!
"OK!"
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