C10 Food Basket

"There are no fish in the water. What's the use of being pure? I can't even support a single fish. Otherwise, I can catch fish and feed them to my big brother every day." Mu Jin curled his lips, and thinking back to the days when he had never eaten anything, he felt even more hatred for Mu Family.

stared at Mu Jin strangely. Could it be that the people here didn't eat prawns nor crabs? It can't be, what a waste.

After entering the mountain, Shen Jingli picked up a sturdy tree branch that was lying on the ground and gave it to Mu Jin, "Take this, wave it while you walk, you can chase away some of the insect snakes that are hiding in the grass."

"Alright." Mu Jin took the branch and followed behind Shen Jingli.

Although his family was suffering from hardships, because his body was weak since he was young, his mother and brother would always take care of him and never let him do farm work, so he had never picked wild vegetables before. Now that he was in the mountains, he was like a wild horse without reins, full of curiosity.

Shen Jingli was not afraid to explain things to him in detail. They walked up a slope and around, but did not find any lentinus edodes, wood ears, etc.

"Sister-in-law, what are these?" Mu Jin picked a blade of grass and was about to put it in his mouth, but he was stopped by Shen Jingli.

"Don't put anything into your mouth until you've washed it clean, but you've heard of diseases coming from your mouth. Have you not heard of it?" What kind of education did this child receive? Why didn't he talk about hygiene at all?

"This is wormwood, it's used as a ingredient for the grass cuisine ku, and this is hairy bean. When it bears the fruit, we'll pick it again, then we'll make salt water hairy beans for you to eat as snacks." Shen Jingli introduced them one by one.

"So it's edible." Mu Jin licked his lips as he salivated, feeling hungry again.

"Greedy Cat." Shen Jingli tapped his forehead, and walked towards the somewhat dark and humid slope on the other side. Borrowing the sunlight that was seeping through the gaps between the leaves, he was able to easily find quite a few wild herbs such as Dragon Whisker Grass, Mountain Celery, Mountain Su, and Chinese Toona.

For example, as long as one used ginger to stir-fry the tassels, adding a bit of salt to it and mixing it with an egg before starting the pan, it would be a very delicious delicacy. And Shansu could also be stir-fried with ginger.

He told Mu Jin that those were edible wild vegetables, and how to pick them. They had picked some of every type of wild vegetable, and just as they were about to stand up, they discovered a dead tree that seemed like it had been moth-eaten, laid down not too far away.

He curiously looked closer and his eyes widened in surprise. Heavens! What did he see? Mu Er! The clusters were like cockscomb flowers, and the ears were black and shiny.

"Sister-in-law, what are you looking at?" Mu Jin walked over and saw that Shen Jingli's eyes were shining brightly in surprise and joy. He looked like a hungry rat that had discovered a full pot of rice.

"Of course it's good stuff." Shen Jingli laughed until he split open. Without any hesitation, he picked the black fungus that was blooming like flowers one by one and put them into the basket. Only when he had picked all the ears he could see did he start carrying the basket and preparing to leave.

"Sister-in-law, what are you going to do with all that dark stuff?" The black things looked dirty. If he took them back, they probably wouldn't even eat chickens.

"That's fungus, it's very tasty ingredients. You can fry it, cook it, eat it with soup, and even mix it with cold. You little thing that you haven't seen before." Shen Jingli knocked on Mu Jin's head.

Mu Jin rubbed his forehead in grievance, how could she blame him? No one had ever told him about this.

When he came out from the forest, Shen Jingli saw that it was still early, so he went over to the stream and put down the bamboo basket. He took out the wild vegetables and wood ears and washed them carefully, making sure that the sand had been washed away and the water had been dried off.

When he wanted to get up and go back, he found that although there were no fish in the stream, there were many river prawns and river crabs, all of them big and with clams of different sizes.

He casually pulled out a piece of water grass from the side of the stream to fish for prawns. Seeing his strange actions, Mu Jin wondered if his sister-in-law had a screw loose. There weren't any fish in the stream, what were you planning to do with a piece of water grass?