Seeing that Xiao Yuhao and Mu Xiya had already picked up the bark and started to chew it, Xiao Linger hurriedly stopped them: "Wait a minute, Haohao, mother, wait a minute."
Under the two people's puzzled gazes, Xiao Ling'er opened the bundle placed aside, and then said with a proud expression: "Look, the gods have given us something again."
Xiao Yuhao stood up suddenly, and because he was too excited, he tripped over his left foot and fell down, but he didn't care.
He stood up and bowed three times devoutly to the sky. Mu Xiya also followed suit and bowed three times.
Xiao Yuhao prayed to the gods before picking up the potato and looking at it from left to right. "Sister, it really is a gift from the gods. This is another food I've never seen before."
As he said that, he opened his mouth and was about to bite it, but Xiao Ling'er quickly snatched it away.
"Sister?" Xiao Yuhao looked at Xiao Ling'er with doubt and confusion.
"I don't want to eat it cold. I want to roast it first." Xiao Ling'er explained.
"It's not necessary to be so particular. We are on the road fleeing from famine now." Xiao Yuhao snatched it away again, still lecturing.
Afterwards, Xiao Ling'er watched her adopted brother take a bite of the raw potato. Then she saw Xiao Yuhao's face change several times.
Xiao Ling'er kept staring at Xiao Yuhao and found that he forced himself to swallow the potato in his mouth.
"Sister, let's roast it and eat it. It tastes a bit weird." Xiao Yuhao returned the potato to Xiao Ling'er and said.
"Okay!" Xiao Ling'er replied with a smile.
Xiao Yuhao quickly picked up a lot of firewood, then took out a flint from his arms and started to make a fire.
Xiao Ling'er looked at the flint carefully. It looked like an ordinary stone. Could this thing really start a fire?
Sure enough, Xiao Yuhao hit it several times but failed. Xiao Ling'er wanted to reach out to take it and try, but another pair of hands was faster than hers.
My stepmother took the flint, rubbed it gently, and the dead wood caught fire.
"Wow, Mom, have you become stronger?" Xiao Yuhao exclaimed in surprise.
Mu Xiya looked at Xiao Yuhao in confusion, not understanding what he meant.
Xiao Ling'er handed a thick wooden stick to Mu Xiya, "Mother, break this stick."
Mu Xiya took the stick and without saying a word, she exerted force and the stick broke into two pieces with a "crack".
Xiao Ling'er and Xiao Yuhao exchanged a glance, both revealing delight. Xiao Yuhao said happily, "Sister, it turns out that the pill that mother took can increase one's strength."
"Well, that's good. Even if we are not with A-niang in the future, she will not be bullied easily." Xiao Ling'er followed Xiao Yuhao's words.
"Okay, okay." Mu Xiya saw her son and daughter smiling, and she also smiled foolishly.
"Mom, if someone bullies you in the future, hit them hard with your fists. Don't tolerate it, okay?" Xiao Yuhao taught patiently.
Xiao Ling'er ignored the mother and son, took out three potatoes, threw them into the ashes and buried them.
Xiao Yuhao was talking excitedly when suddenly a fragrance came from the air. The mother and son twitched their noses and turned their heads at the same time.
"Sister, which fruit is this fragrance coming from?" Xiao Yuhao asked in surprise when he saw Xiao Ling'er peeling a fruit in her hand.
"Yeah, it's the fragrance it gives off. Also, I named it 'potato'." Xiao Ling'er said as she handed the peeled potato to Mu Xiya.
"Why are they called potatoes? Are they beans that grow out of the soil? Aren't these beans a little too big?" Xiao Yuhao asked three questions in a row.
Xiao Ling'er rolled her eyes and ignored him, but looking at the potato as big as a bowl in her hand, she had to admit that the beans were indeed a bit big.
"So good, so good." Mu Xiya made a satisfied sound at the side. Because it was hot, she ate while breathing out air.
"Mom, please eat slowly." Xiao Yuhao said with concern, and swallowed hard subconsciously.
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