"You were crying like a little cat just now, but now you're smiling." Ji Nuan teased Ge Ye who was running out of breath.

Ge Ye blushed, then he chuckled, took out a purple fruit from behind and handed it to her: "This is what Song Yu brought back for me when he went out hunting today. It is very beautiful for decorating the cave. I give it to you."

Ji Nuan was a little surprised: "Give it to me?"

Ge Ye nodded: "Well, if it weren't for you today, my father's leg would not have healed. And with the powder you gave to the witch doctor, my father's wound doesn't hurt anymore."

Ji Nuan was a little embarrassed: "No, if I don't go, the witch doctor grandma can also cure the clan leader uncle."

Seeing that Ji Nuan was slow to take the purple fruit from his hand, Ge Ye became anxious and stuffed the purple fruit into her arms, then turned and ran: "The grains inside are what birds and beasts love to eat, just throw them away, I'm leaving first?"

Ji Nuan looked at the little figure running away, shook her head in amusement, and looked down at the fruit in her hand.

As the name suggests, the shell of this fruit is purple. Ji Nuan pinched it and found it very hard. If you hit it with a stone, it will be broken by accident.

"Hmm? Where did the purple fruit come from?" A low voice sounded in my ears.

Ji Nuan raised her head quickly, and sure enough, Xiu Yan was standing next to two baskets of green mud, looking at the purple fruit in her hand.

Ji Nuan shook the fruit in her hand: "Ge Ye gave it to me just now, saying that it can be used to decorate the cave, but the peel is too hard and I can't open it."

Xiu Yan chuckled and took the purple fruit from her hand. A cold light flashed across his index finger and a sharp nail appeared on his fingertip. He drew a circle in the middle of the purple fruit, then held one side in each hand and gently broke it apart, and the purple fruit split into two halves.

In the center is a fist-sized black particle, which looks like the seed of the purple fruit. It is wrapped in a layer of transparent film. Outside the seed are translucent soybean-sized particles.

Ji Nuan dug one out of the soybeans and found it was very hard. Could it be the soybeans from the Beast World Continent?

After hesitating for a moment, Ji Nuan put the small pellet in her hand into her mouth.

Xiu Yan watched the little female put the purple fruit into her mouth, her eyes filled with smiles. This scene reminded him of the time he saw her in the grove.

The little female was also eating bird food, so he gave her a humming beast leg.

So, this little guy just likes to eat bird food?

Although the purple fruit was very hard to pinch, it was not difficult to chew. The slightly sweet taste of rice that slowly filled her mouth after she chewed it made Ji Nuan's eyes light up instantly.

Could this purple fruit be the rice from the Orc Continent?

Taking the remaining purple fruit from Xiu Yan, Ji Nuan smiled and said, "Brother Xiu Yan, please bring back some more green mud. I'll make something delicious for you."

Xiu Yan raised his eyebrows: "Use bird...purple fruit?"

Ji Nuan was so excited that she didn't hear the unfinished words of Xiu Yan. She ran towards the cave holding the purple fruit: "Don't worry, it will be delicious."

The petite figure disappeared into the cave. Xiu Yan retracted his gaze, poured the green mud in the basket not far from the stone slabs, and ran away with the two baskets in his hands.

In the cave, Ji Nuan used a stone knife to dig out the fruits from the purple fruit and poured them into three stone bowls. He picked up the fruits in his hands and rubbed them. As he rubbed them with his hands, the lumps of fruits turned into translucent grains and fell into the stone bowls. Except for the different color, they really looked like a bowl of soybeans.

Use the same method to prepare the fruits in the other two stone bowls, pour them into the stone pot and wash them clean.

He set up his small earthen stove, lit the fire, and put the stone pot on it in the same way as he cooked rice.

He clapped his hands and took down a large piece of beast meat from the wooden rack outside the cave. He cut it into slices with a stone knife and placed it on the big leaf for later use.

He also found a few kinds of fruits that he often used in cooking from the corner, chopped them up and put them in the stone bowl.

Everything was ready, and Ji Nuan's excitement about discovering the rice finally calmed down a little.

She patted her forehead and then remembered the basket filled with firewood that she had abandoned outside the cave.

Turning around and walking out of the cave, I found an empty backpack standing at the entrance of the cave, and a pile of firewood lying quietly not far away on the open space paved with stone slabs.

After carrying the basket, Ji Nuan couldn't help but smile. Why didn't she realize that Brother Xiu Yan was so considerate before? Hehe!

The time waiting for the purple fruit rice was torturous. Every time Ji Nuan came back from collecting firewood, she would go around the cave, feeling both excited and anxious.

Finally, when he came back from collecting firewood for the third time and just walked to the entrance of the cave, he smelled the aroma of rice, and Ji Nuan's eyes lit up instantly.

This is it, success!

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