Chapter 92 Boiled Corn
Hou took the slightly burnt corn on the cob that Xu Que handed her and started munching on it.
Before long, half of his face and his entire mouth were covered in ash from roasted corn.
Xu Que picked up a piece of charcoal that hadn't completely burned to ashes from the ashes, and while Hou was eating corn, he secretly added a ring of mustache to her mouth!
The children in the tribe who received the candy from the rooster showed off their candy to the other children in the tribe, and as a result, the children who did not receive candy all ran to the rooster to ask for some.
Looking at the children's dirty little hands, I didn't know what to say for a moment!
"Alright! You guys play here for a while! I'll try to find you some candy! Don't blame me if I can't find it! Do you hear me! If I really can't find it, you can't cry!" Hou pouted and said to the group of children from the primitive tribe in front of him.
"Huh? But I want to eat it! I want to cry if I can't have candy! But I'll try my best to hold back! I'll hold back my tears!" A little boy with clear, bright eyes pouted and shouted back.
"Don't cry! If you cry, you won't get candy! You'll get candy if you don't cry! All of you, stand on my side and make a pinky promise with me! If you don't cry after making the pinky promise, you'll get candy!" After saying that, Hou made pinky promises to each of the children from the Black Deer Tribe who wanted candy.
Xu Que sat on a half-timbered stump, cracking sunflower seeds and waiting boredly to get hungry!
Ha Gang and Ping Yao approached Xu Que, picked up three or five sunflower seeds from the cowhide spread on the ground, and imitated Xu Que by putting them in their mouths, chewing them, and spitting them all out, including the kernels and the chewed skins, onto the ground. They asked Xu Que in bewilderment, "If you spit everything out of your mouth like that, what are you eating? It looks like you're enjoying it so much!"
"Eat sunflower seeds! Sunflower seed kernels! What I spit out is the sunflower seed shell, brother! What you spit out is a mixture of sunflower seed kernel and shell! You spit out everything you ate, so of course you won't feel like you can eat anything! Newbies, don't try this at eating sunflower seeds! The first time you eat sunflower seeds, you should do it like this: Pick them up vertically with both hands and squeeze them open forcefully, then put the white kernel in your mouth and throw away the shell! Got it? Eat them like this! Come on, you guys try it!" Xu Que demonstrated the newbie way of eating sunflower seeds to Ha Gang and Ping Yao beside him.
Unfortunately, Ha Gang and Ping Yao's hands were too big; two of their fingertips were equivalent to four of Xu Que's! They picked up a melon seed from the cowhide spread on the ground, but it was completely hidden from view!
"Squeeze it by feel! Then throw it on the ground and look for the kernels on the ground! That way it'll be easier to find them!" Xu Que said to Ha Gang and Ping Yao.
Ha Gang and Ping Yao followed Xu Que's advice, starting by popping one seed at a time, then gradually increasing to ten, and finally becoming more familiar and adept at it. Their speed in peeling sunflower seeds also gradually increased.
"Hahaha! Eating this is so much fun! So much fun! It tastes pretty good! I think it's much better than beef! And you can even exercise your hand-eye coordination while you eat it! It's a win-win situation!" Ha Gang said with a smile.
The other members of the Black Deer tribe saw Ha Gang, Ping Yao, and Xu Que gathered together, and with great curiosity, they came over to watch.
After watching the three of them for a while, the tribal members squatted down on their own initiative, reached out and took the melon seeds from the cowhide on which Hagang, Pingyao, and Xu Que were holding melon seeds, and began to peel the melon seeds like they were doing.
After a while, more and more members of the Black Deer tribe crowded around, picked up sunflower seeds from the cowhide, and started cracking them open without any restraint, just like the people in front of them.
Seeing this, Xu Que quietly slipped away from the crowd and went to a secluded spot behind them. He then took out a package from the system's inventory, opened the seal, and leisurely started chewing it.
Hou turned her brown leather backpack inside out, and even her animal hide food bag inside out, but she couldn't find a single piece of candy to give to the children, or even a single melon seed!
"What should I do? I can't find a single piece of candy! Maybe I should just hide and not see those kids. They'll forget about me in a few days!" Hou thought to himself as he walked towards Xu Que, carrying a backpack and kicking a pebble.
Seeing Hou sitting next to him, Xu Que handed her the sunflower seeds he was holding: "Here! Eat these!"
Hou shook his head: "Do you have any candy? Give me a few."
"You want candy again? Didn't you just have some yesterday? And you took a whole bag of candy yesterday, and it's only been one night. I don't believe you finished it all. Be careful, too much candy can rot your teeth!" Xu Que raised an eyebrow and yelled.
"I didn't eat any myself! I gave them all to the children of the Black Deer tribe! There are still some children who didn't get any candy, so they're waiting over there for me to find some. Once I find some, I'll give it to them!" Hou pointed to a group of children who were looking over at them from a distance.
"I don't even have a single piece of candy on me right now!" Xu Que said, patting and patting himself all over with his hands, then spreading his arms and shouting.
"Yeah! I know you can find a way to get it! Stop pretending! Hurry up!" Hou nestled next to Xu Que and gently shook him as he spoke.
Seeing that Xu Que was unmoved, he started playing the victim: "Look at them, they're all malnourished! They're so pitiful, and nobody ever surprises them! Giving them some candy to cheer them up is a good deed, isn't it!"
"Hey! Kids, come here! There's candy here! Come and get it!" Hou shouted, waving to the children not far away.
When the children of the Black Deer tribe saw Sister Roar waving and beckoning them, they all ran faster than rabbits, some even running so fast that they didn't bother to pull their pants up.
"He has candy! Lots of candy!" Hou said to the children, pointing at Xu Que.
The children looked at Xu Que one by one, a little shy, and just watched him quietly without saying a word or reaching out to him for candy.
Seeing the children's appearance, Xu Que couldn't help but recall his own childhood.
He opened the system's exchange shop and redeemed several large bags of all kinds of candy. Gummy candies, hard candies, chocolate flavored, fruit and vegetable flavored—you name it!
Hou helped Xu Que by opening a package, taking out a corn-cob-shaped gummy candy from the packaging, and putting it in her mouth to chew.
The children around, watching their older sister chew, swallowed hard and hurriedly asked, "Sister! How does it taste? What flavor is it? Is it sweet?"
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