The two bamboos in front of Xia Lunong died quickly.

Xia Huoqu looked up and said, "Let's cut them down first."

"Okay." Xia Lunong turned around to find a hatchet, and Kong Zhi silently handed him the hatchet.

Xia Lunong smiled at Kong Zhi, took the hatchet, and was about to cut it down when Xia Huoqu said, "I'll do it."

Xia Huoqu bent down and cut from the bottom of the bamboo.

He chopped down the bamboo tube with the hatchet.

A large amount of water immediately seeped out of the bamboo tube, soaking the withered and yellow bamboo skin.

At the same time, the bamboo nuts above their heads fell down, and raindrops hit their heads like raindrops.

The bamboo nuts were big and solid, and they brought a slight pain when they hit their foreheads.

Xia Lunong originally looked up, but after being hit in the face, he quickly lowered his head, jumped back, and left the range of the "bamboo nut rain".

Yan Xinian quickly held the bamboo and prevented the bamboo from falling. "How about we put sacks underneath and then cut it?"

Xia Huoqu looked up and said, "No need, there is still one cut left, just clean it up later."

Xia Huoqu said, and with another cut, the bamboo broke, but it did not fall because Yan Xinian was holding the whole bamboo.

Yan Xinian carried the bamboo to the cement floor they had cleaned and put it down gently.

Xia Lunong leaned over to take a look.

The bamboo branches were full of heavy gray-green bamboo fruits, each about the size of a soybean, longer than a soybean, and elliptical.

Xia Lunong picked one off and put it in the palm of her hand, feeling heavy and full.

He picked up the bamboo rice, put it in his mouth and took a bite. His teeth crunched and he took some effort to bite it off.

The taste of the bamboo nut is quite similar to raw rice, but it has a stronger bamboo fragrance than raw rice, and it is also a little sweet.

Xia Lunong put the bitten bamboo nut in front of his eyes.

The cross section of the bamboo nut is gray-green and white, which is similar

to rice. "Good guy, it tastes good." Xia Lunong looked at the bamboo nut and muttered, "It doesn't feel much different from rice?" Kong

Zhi said, "Bamboo is also a grass plant."

"No wonder." Xia Lunong turned around and asked, "Shall we cook some bamboo nut rice later?"

"You decide." Xia Huoqu said as he came under another bamboo and motioned Yan Xinian to hold the bamboo.

Yan Xinian held the bamboo with both hands, "I'm done."

Xia Huoqu said "hmm", picked up the hatchet, bent down and chopped, and chopped off the bamboo in one stroke.

Yan Xinian looked down, squinting his eyes and praised Xia Huoqu, "Beautiful!"

"It's not difficult to chop bamboo." Xia Huoqu said, "Carry the bamboo over there."

Yan Xinian also put another bamboo on the open space.

Xia Huoqu "bang bang" two times, directly chopped off the long main trunk below the bamboo, and then stood up the long trunk, directly chopped off the top of the bottom section, and then handed this section of bamboo to Xia Lunong.

The cut bamboo joints did contain water. Xia Lunong held the bamboo joints in her hands, tilted her head slightly and looked down, "There are probably more than one thousand milliliters."

Yan Xinian sighed, "It's really a water storage artifact. There are so many joints, if each bamboo tube has so much water, it must be enough."

Xia Huo said, "Taste the water first and see if it tastes good or not."

Xia Lunong nodded, and without taking another bowl, she held the bamboo joint and lowered her head to take a small sip, savored it slowly, and said, "It's okay, except for a little bamboo fragrance, there is no other taste, it feels like mineral water."

Kong Zhi stretched out his hand, "Let me try."

Xia Lunong handed him the bamboo tube, "You try it."

Kong Zhi took a sip, tasted it carefully, and nodded in agreement with his judgment.

While they were drinking water, Xia Huoqu had already chopped off another bamboo section with a clang, took a sip, nodded, and expressed satisfaction with the quality of the water.

After taking a sip, he handed the water to Yan Xinian to deal with the bamboo seeds.

Yan Xinian was the last to drink the water.

He tasted it very carefully, and after tasting it, he said: "It's perfect drinking water, almost the same as mineral water."

Xia Lunong agreed, "I think so too."

Yan Xinian smiled, "Then wherever we go in the future, we can take you with us, and the water source will be basically guaranteed."

Xia Lunong: "As long as I have enough superpowers and don't go to the desert, there should be no problem."

"Okay, I'll remember what you said."

Xia Lunong tasted the bamboo seeds and drank the bamboo water, and then he had time to see what they brought back.

"Wild birds?" Xia Lunong squatted and looked through the wild birds his brother brought back. "They are very fat."

Yan Xinian said, "Of course I'll pick the fat ones. How can skinny ones be eaten?"

"That's right." Xia Lunong said, "The bamboo shoots have just grown. Are we going to eat pickled pepper bamboo shoots and bird meat tonight? And a rice with white rice and bamboo shoots?"

No one had any objections.

Kong Zhi picked up the wild bird and said, "I'll go pluck the feathers."

"Then I'll go wash the rice and cut the vegetables."

Xia Lunong went back to the truck, took out the pot and rice, started a fire to prepare to cook, and boiled water at the same time, because the hot water would be used to pluck the feathers of the bird.

After the fire was lit, smoke came out, and a smell of cooking smoke was instantly heard.

Under the yellow sky, they were busy with their own things, and the scene was very warm.

Xia Huoqu first brought over some of the bamboo shoots that had been cleaned. Xia Lunong didn't know what the bamboo shoots tasted like, so she didn't put too many. She only put two handfuls in the small pot of rice.

After washing the rice, Xia Lunong hung the pot on the firewood and went to watch Kong Zhi pluck the feathers.

The bird had been killed, and the bird's blood was kept separately. The bird meat was placed in a basin and boiled with hot water before the feathers were plucked.

The skin of wild birds is very thin, so you need to be careful when plucking the feathers, otherwise you will pull off the skin together.

Xia Lunong's cooking skills are okay, but she always fails at doing these chores.

Kong Zhi, on the other hand, is calm in everything he does.

Soon, Kong Zhi finished processing the bird meat, chopped it into pieces, and handed it to Xia Lunong.

Xia Lunong first blanches the bamboo shoots in water and then stir-fries them in hot oil.

The evening breeze blew over, and the aroma of fried bird meat was everywhere.

At the same time, the wind was also mixed with the aroma of bamboo shoots and white rice.

Several people had not eaten yet, and their stomachs were growling at the smell.

Yan Xinian and his team had already taken down all the bamboo shoots, but they had not yet been sieved, so there were a lot of debris inside.

It was inconvenient in the wild, so they put them in sacks first, and then sieved them after they were transported back to the base to dry, and then stored them.

Yan Xinian put his arm around Xia Huoqu's shoulder and returned to the pot to sit down. He took a bamboo tube from the side, gave Xia Huoqu some water first, and then gulped down the rest of the water himself.

He drank enough sweet water, but he was still hungry. He rubbed his stomach and asked Xia Lunong, "Xiao Nong, how long do you need to cook the bird meat?"

"It's almost done when the soup is dried up. Bird meat is tough, so you need to simmer it for a while longer, otherwise you won't be able to chew it." Xia Lunong half stood up and took a look at the situation in the pot, then sat back on the stool, "The rice is not cooked yet, it will probably take another 10 to 20 minutes."

Yan Xinian sighed, "When I'm hungry, I always feel that the food smells especially delicious, and my stomach is burning."

Xia Lunong tilted her head, "There's jerky in the car, Brother Xinian, why don't you eat some to fill your stomach?"

"Forget it." Yan Xinian said expectantly, "I have to save some space for the fried bird meat."

Xia Lunong held her chin up, "Then wait a little longer."

The four of them sat around the fire, waiting for the food to be ready.

As the night fell, the firelight illuminated their faces red, saving the time of lighting another lamp.

After waiting for the bird meat to be stewed, Yan Xinian was the first to jump up to get the bowl and chopsticks, "Hurry up, hurry up, I'm so hungry."

Xia Huoqu sat by the fire, lazily not moving.

Yan Xinian shook off the water in the bowl, took a rice spoon to scoop rice, and stuffed the first bowl he scooped out to Xia Huoqu, "Hurry up and try it."

Kong Zhi also gave the first bowl of rice he scooped out to Xia Lunong first.

The four of them removed some of the firewood from under the wok, and gathered around the wok to eat the rice with the bamboo shoots and bird meat stir-fried in the pot.

Xia Lunong took the rice bowl and smelled it first.

The rice they ate was all new rice grown this year. The cooked rice was oily, fragrant, and sweet.

This time, bamboo shoots were mixed into the rice, and the white rice was dyed a light green color, and it smelled even more like bamboo.

Xia Lunong picked up the rice, blew on it, and stuffed a big mouthful into his mouth.

The boiling rice was fragrant and soft, and the unique sweetness of starch was very obvious when it entered his mouth.

Xia Lunong closed his eyes happily, feeling that he could eat three bowls of rice without any side dishes.

When Xia Lunong was enjoying his meal, his brother said, "Something is wrong."

Xia Lunong looked up at his brother with half a mouthful of rice in his mouth, not understanding why.

Yan Xinian tasted it carefully and agreed, "This bamboo nut has a bit of the effect of honeysuckle."

This description was magical. Xia Lunong looked at Kong Zhi.

Kong Zhi also nodded.

Xia Lunong's eyes were full of suspicion, and he moved his cheeks to chew and taste it carefully.

After a while, he himself felt that there was indeed something surging in the bamboo nut rice, similar to honeysuckle, and also similar to honey, very light, and almost imperceptible if not carefully captured.

Xia Huoqu took a piece of bamboo shoot from the pot, tasted it and said, "It's also in bamboo shoots, it feels like a kind of energy, also very light."

Several people reached out to pick up bamboo shoots.

Xia Lunong took a piece of bamboo shoot and put it in his mouth. The first feeling was delicious.

The bamboo shoots were very tender, fully soaked in the soup of the bird meat, fresh and tender, with a light spicy and salty taste, and a unique taste of pickled peppers, very delicious to eat with rice.

He tasted it carefully again, and then he felt the faint energy.

"I think I understand why Giant Bull is particularly interested in Xia Huajiao." Xia Lunong paused her chopsticks, "Do you think Giant Bull can also taste that energy?"

Yan Xinian nodded, "Maybe? We have used the pepper produced by Xia Huajiao, and we didn't seem to feel anything at the time."

Xia Lunong said, "Is it because we don't use much? If we don't taste bamboo shoots and bamboo seeds carefully, we just think they are particularly delicious and it is difficult to find the energy in them. When we use peppercorns to season food, we also think it is particularly delicious. We probably didn't find much energy."

Xia Huo said, "We will know when we go back and check. Then compare the pepper produced by Xia Huajiao itself and the pepper produced after you input your supernatural power."

"Okay!" Xia Lunong nodded, "We also have to check whether this energy is harmful and whether it will cause distortion."

Yan Xinian felt a headache talking about this, "We need to find someone special to study it, and we need to get a batch of instruments. I guess we have to fix the computer we got from N University last time."

Xia Huo said, "Take your time, no rush. Contact other bases first, explain our findings, and ask all the major bases to investigate together."

Yan Xi Nian nodded, "Let's talk about it when we get back. Let's not talk about Xiao Nong's special ability, let's just talk about the edible fruits produced by mutant plants that contain a special energy." Kong Zhi said

, "There are also products from mutant animals, such as honey, milk, etc."

Xia Lunong wanted to reply belatedly, but found that they had finished talking. She had to sit back on the stool with her butt slightly raised, and stuffed a big mouthful of rice into her mouth, which made her cheeks bulge.