"Sister Wan, can this soil be eaten?"
"Ayu, this isn't soil, it's potatoes," Song Wan explained haltingly, "they're the big, fat beans that grow out of the soil."
Song Wan took the two buns to the stream and washed the mud off the potatoes, revealing their original appearance. "Look."
Gu Yanji also picked up two small potatoes, washed off the mud on them, scraped off half of the skin with the dagger he carried with him, and sniffed them close to his nose. There was a very faint fragrance.
"Miss Song, are you sure this thing is edible?" Gu Yanji had some hope in his heart. This place is close to Guizhou. If these so-called potatoes can grow here, maybe Guizhou can do it too.
"Of course!" Song Wan answered affirmatively, her eyes turning to the two buns who had found the potatoes. "But I almost forgot to ask, where did you two find these potatoes?"
We have to dig them out quickly before anyone notices.
"It's over there." Gu Chang and Gu Yu pointed in a direction tacitly.
Song Wan was immediately excited when she heard this, and hurriedly said, "Gu Yan is in a hurry, please help me get a few bags."
"I'm going too." He took the opportunity to put forward a condition.
Song Wan glared at him, snorted, and then shouted to the busy Song Qi, "Song Qi, grab a few big bags and come with me."
Song Qi put down the knife in his hand and immediately responded, "Okay, Miss!"
Gu Yan was anxious and helpless, "I really can't go?"
Now he is the only one left and can't go anywhere. Uncle Song can now get off the car and walk a distance before coming back.
"No." Song Wan refused decisively, "Although the poison in your body has been cured, the wound in your abdomen has not yet healed."
In fact, Song Wan discovered that the absorption of mental power had slowed down a lot in recent days, and he had not been able to break through the seventh level of mental power.
She suspected that this was the reason why Gu Yanji's injuries had not healed.
Gu Yanji still had plenty of supernatural energy, but it was becoming increasingly difficult for her to absorb it. What was this? She couldn't just let herself quench her thirst by looking at the plums in the future.
So Gu Yan could only watch anxiously as Song Wan and Song Qi, followed by a few idiots, walked away step by step.
Yes, that's right, he was fixed to the grain cart by that internal force again.
When Song Qi went to get the empty sack, Song Yue saw it and clamored to come along. Song Wan liked this girl and agreed with a wave of his hand.
Song Qi was now blindly confident in Song Wan. He carried a thick sack on his back and walked step by step. "Miss, what are we going to do?"
Song Wan walked ahead with the children in tow, saying without even turning her head, "Dig potatoes!"
Song Qi nodded subconsciously, "Oh, digging potatoes——"
Wait! What are you digging for? What are potatoes?
Arriving at the destination, Song Wan's eyes lit up as she looked at the potatoes that had already sprouted. She said excitedly, "This is it! Song Qi, start digging! Remember, don't break them! If they break, they must be cooked and eaten immediately. They can't be stored for long."
Hearing that it was food, Song Qi was shocked and immediately became energetic. "I understand!"
Song Wan didn't know why these potatoes grew here, but since she had found them, they could only belong to her.
Song Qi dug for more than half an hour. In the middle, Song Wan went back and called Song Wu over. The two of them dug while Song Wan led the radish heads to pick up the radishes and put them into the bag.
Five large sacks were filled, and Song Wan's hands and face were covered in mud, but this could not hide the joy in her heart.
She returned with five large bags of potatoes and excitedly told Qi that she wanted to eat braised pork and stewed potatoes.
Just as Mrs. Qi had cooked a large pot of braised pork, she heard her daughter say she wanted to eat stewed potatoes.
"Are these lumps of mud potatoes?" Qi had never seen them before. "Ah Wan, how did you know this?"
"I read in a book before that many foreigners eat this." Song Wan was not lying. She remembered that potatoes and sweet potatoes seemed to have been tribute from some foreign country in the beginning.
Qi believed it and asked hurriedly, "How do we do this? Tell me."
Song Wan scratched her hair. She couldn't cook, but she remembered the general steps, so she replied, "It seems to be just peeling the skin and cutting it into pieces of similar size. After the meat has been stewed for 25 minutes, put the potatoes in and simmer for another 15 minutes. When it's cooked, you can eat it."
"Okay, mother will do it for Awan." Although Qi had been a noble lady for more than ten years, before becoming the Crown Prince's wife, she was just an orphan raised by the late Weiyuan Marquis' wife.
Thanks to his kindness, she was married to the prince and became his wife. Qi still remembered that the prince liked her cooking very much.
Awan looked greedy, just like the prince back then.
After the long-awaited braised pork and potatoes, Song Wan talked about another way to cook potatoes.
Peel the potatoes and cut them into shreds, rinse them with water to remove the starch, stir-fry over high heat. For spicy and sour potato shreds, vinegar and chili peppers are essential. However, since there is no chili pepper here, we can only use dogwood instead.
Qi followed Song Wan's instructions and fried the so-called hot and sour potato shreds in another pot. It was just as she said, sour and spicy, appetizing and delicious.
"These potatoes are great. They can be stewed or fried." Qi wanted to make a simple potato feast for lunch today.
So she discussed it with her sister Liu, got some white flour, and made potato pancakes, which tasted unique.
Song Wan had never thought that she could make cakes. While eating, she thought that if Qi was born in the era of her previous life when the end of the world had not yet come, she would definitely become a great chef.
Everyone was very satisfied with the new food, potatoes, especially the secret guards, who ate the most.
Song Wan looked intently at the few people who could eat, and thought to herself, it seems I can assign them more work in the future.
After Gu Wu came back from his investigation, Gu Wen, Song Qi and others were already half full.
"What is this? It smells so good." Gu Wu, who was about to report the situation, skillfully took out his bowl.
"Braised pork with potatoes." Song Qi swallowed the fragrant potatoes in his mouth, squinted his eyes and sighed, "Do you know what potatoes are? They can be stewed or fried, and they are delicious!"
Gu Wu didn't care about potatoes or not, he still preferred meat, "Give me a bowl of braised pork."
It took nearly two hours to practice the exercises back and forth, and Gu Wu was tired and hungry.
Song Qi opened his eyes, blocked his empty bowl, and said with a gloating look, "The eldest lady said that you don't have any share of the braised pork."
Gu Wu was puzzled. “Why?”
Song Qi: "It seems that your master has made the young lady angry again, so you can only eat potatoes, and your master can't eat potatoes, he can only eat meat."
Gu Wu...
What kind of logic is this? For a moment, he suddenly wanted to be the master, at least he could have meat to eat.
But Gu Wu was immediately slapped in the face. A bowl full of potatoes soaked in gravy were stewed until they were soft. When he took a bite, he found that they were soft and glutinous with the aroma of meat. They were so delicious.
Gu Wu ate a mouthful of rice and a big potato, and ate until he forgot everything else.
But Gu Yan, who had been waiting for Gu Wu to report the situation, became anxious and his face turned pale. He was considering sending Gu Wen to investigate next time.
"I didn't expect that Gu Wu is actually a foodie." Song Wan was holding the potato strips that Qi had fried later. Song Wan reminded her to simply coat them with flour before frying them. This way they would look like French fries in later generations, except for the ketchup.
But it tastes good when eaten alone. Song Wan fed Gu Yanji one and put the rest into her own mouth.
"Didn't you say that I'm not allowed to eat?" Gu Yan chuckled anxiously.
At some point, everyone started to follow Song Wan's lead, and whatever she said was what mattered.
So when she told him not to eat potatoes, there wasn't a single potato in the food his brother sent him.
"I forgot." Song Wan looked at him seriously, "You can choose to spit it out."
She really forgot that the action just now was really unintentional.
Gu Yan is anxious...
When will she play by the rules?
Having been stopped from talking, Gu Yan hurriedly decided to change the subject, "Do you want to know what I asked Gu Wu to do?"
After finishing her French fries, Song Wan didn't really want to know, but she glanced at the man's expression that said "just ask me", pursed her lips, and decided to go along with him. After all, a good mood is good for wound healing.
"You wouldn't let him rob."
"Miss Song..." Gu Yan chuckled helplessly, "Guess carefully."
Song Wan didn't have that much patience. She curled her lips and said, "If you don't want to say it, forget it." He kept making her guess, thinking he was teasing her.
Gu Yanji finally understood. She was probably only patient when it came to food. She didn't seem anxious even after stewing the braised pork for half an hour.
I just asked her to guess something, but she got impatient after a while.
He finally sighed and replied, "I asked Gu Wu to go to the residence of the Xinzhou prefect."
"They said they weren't going to rob people, but they went to people's homes."
"I asked him to explore the dungeon of the prefect's residence." Gu Yan paused here, her eyes shifting to her younger brother nestled in her mother's arms not far away. After a pause, she continued, "To save someone."
"Save people?" Song Wan rolled her eyes. "Is there anyone else who hasn't been rescued?"
In the original owner's memory, except for the two brothers who were missing and their lives or deaths were unknown, everyone was here.
"I'm not sure if he is there." Gu Yan said in a daze.
"Is that person important to you?" Song Wan tilted her head.
Gu Yan hurriedly shook her head, "Not to me."
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