I'm bad and I'm hitting a wall, primitive life requires hard work

Nishi Ichisu squeezed the mud ball in his hand hard.

This soft touch...

She curiously lifted up the mud ball and looked at it carefully. She saw that it was oval in shape, covered with mud, and faintly showed a little yellow.

Suddenly, Nishi Ichiki seemed to have thought of something, his eyes lit up, and he immediately put down his hand holding the "mud ball", roughly wiped the mud on it, and pinched it with his long nails. Sure enough...

It's potatoes!

Nishi Ichiki was extremely surprised and tried hard to suppress the expression on his face.

Potatoes are better than carrots. Not only can they be stored for a long time, but they are also easy to grow. You just need to cut the potatoes into small pieces and bury them in the soil to sprout and take root.

At the same time, the growth cycle of potatoes is also very short. They can be harvested in a few months and the yield is particularly high.

In modern society, their status is second only to rice, corn and wheat, and they are one of people's staple foods.

Not only that, potato tubers contain a variety of vitamins and inorganic salts, which can prevent scurvy and stimulate hematopoietic function; inorganic salts are indispensable elements for human health and the development and growth of young children, and are beneficial to protecting cardiovascular and cerebrovascular health and promoting overall health.

In addition to being eaten directly after being cooked, it can also be made into starch, and the method of making potato starch is also very simple.

Therefore, the discovery of potatoes was great news for Nishi Ichisu.

the most important is……

If all goes well, they will have the capital to trade with the Wasa tribe.

People in primitive tribes would not waste food like this, so the Wasa tribe may not have discovered this kind of food.

but……

Nishi Ichiki recalled that the little fat boy looked a bit like a modern second-generation rich kid, but he wasn't completely sure.

Seeing that Wu Yu had wiped the mud off the boy's face, Xi Yiqi walked quickly to his side without waiting for him to stand up, leaned over slightly and whispered a few words to Wu Yu.

Wu Yu's expression changed slightly. He lowered his head and stared at the mud ball in Xi Yiqi's hand, with a hint of shock in his eyes.

Suddenly, he raised his chin slightly and looked into Nishi Ichiki's eyes.

I saw confidence and determination in her eyes.

He nodded imperceptibly.

Just as the two were looking at each other, those naughty kids from the Wasa tribe had already run away without a trace, disappearing from the sight of the four.

Nishi Ichisu came back to his senses and looked expressionlessly in the direction they left, secretly thinking about how to teach them a little lesson before leaving.

Wu Yu saw this and whispered to the boy, "Just come with us this time. I still have things to do. You can go with Xi Xi to the pond to wash your body first, and then wait for us in the cave."

After hearing Wu Yu's words, the young man neither nodded nor shook his head. He just turned his head to look in the direction where those people left, with a cold look in his eyes.

"it is good"

Nishi Ichiki had no objection to this arrangement. She reached out her hand and tried to grab the boy's arm, preparing to go to the pool to wash.

However, the boy showed obvious resistance as he moved sideways to avoid Nishi Ichisu's hand.

……

have to,

Quite a personality.

It is better to maintain a safe social distance for the time being.

Xi Yiqi did not force it. After handing the mud ball in his hand to Wu Yu, he turned around and walked towards the cave with the boy.

Wu Yu took the mud ball, glanced at it casually, and found some small yellowish-brown spots on it.

Nishi Ichisu just said it was called "potato," but he didn't know much about the plant.

Thinking about what she had just whispered, a hint of deep meaning flashed in Wu Yu's eyes.

His eyelashes fluttered slightly, covering his eyes.

When he raised his head again, he had turned into that gentle and peaceful wizard again.

He casually threw the potatoes into the basket, turned around, and saw Waya standing there, looking at him at a loss.

Wu Yu walked lightly towards Waya, took his thin little hand, and walked together to the straw mat on the stone platform of the Wasa tribe.

After the two sat down, Wu Yu opened the backpack, carefully placed the herbs inside on the straw mat, and patiently taught Waya how to dry the herbs.

Just then, a potato accidentally rolled out of the basket.

Wu Yu picked up the potato, and seemingly casually held it up and played with it in his hands, muttering to himself: "It seems that there is no such fruit near our tribe. I don't know if it can be eaten..."

Waya was bending over and lying on the straw mat with his butt sticking up, fiddling with the herbs. When he heard the "teacher" mumbling to himself, he turned to look at the fruit in Wu Yu's hand.

His little face wrinkled into a ball, and he said in a childish voice: "Wu, throw this away quickly."

Wu Yu looked down at Waya, raised the corners of his mouth, and asked calmly: "Oh? Why is that?"

Waya couldn't help feeling a little secretly delighted when he saw that there were rare plants that even his "teacher" didn't recognize.

How to describe that feeling?

It was like he had finally discovered a secret that even adults didn't know, and he wanted to show off proudly.

Waya replied: "The woman also found this thing before, and she kept mumbling something. She was crazy and no one could understand what she said. She pointed to her mouth and touched her belly, and the aunts thought this was edible."

Wu Yu's heart moved. Could it be really as Xi Yiqi said?

"What happened next?" he asked.

Waya blinked and tilted his head as if thinking. He also heard what the previous witch said.

"Then the tribesmen ate it, and many of them got sick. In the winter, several people died! After that, no one dared to eat it anymore."

After that, he pursed his lips and added seriously: "I also secretly tasted it. It's not only ugly, but also very unpalatable. It tastes bitter, and my mouth is dry after eating it."

After the lesson, the people of the Washa tribe have no interest in this fruit, only children occasionally kick it for fun.

"How do you eat?"

Waya tilted his head, his face full of confusion, as if he was very surprised by Wu Yu's question.

"Isn't this a fruit? Of course you should eat it directly!" he answered as a matter of course.

In the past, Wu Yu might have held the same view as Waya, but since Nishi Ichiki's recent diverse cooking methods had opened his eyes, he began to understand that some foods could be eaten in more than one way.

Moreover, Nishi Ichiki has already made it clear that these fruits are edible, so why did the situation described by Waya occur?

Wu Yu gently turned the potato in his hand with his fingertips and asked again: "Has the woman eaten it? Why is she fine?"

Hearing this, Waya wrinkled her nose, pouted her lips and muttered, "She was bitten to death by a poisonous beast before she could eat it. This was found on the same day she was bitten by the poisonous beast. She was on her way to pick nettles. There was a large patch of nettles in the soil nearby."

After listening to Waya's explanation, Wu Yu roughly understood about 70% of it.

He naturally believed in Nishi Ichiki's judgment. After all, everyone could see the knowledge that Nishi Ichiki had acquired after becoming a witch doctor.

This thing is most likely similar to the spiny-mouthed beast, which is the "fish" that Xi Yiqi mentioned. It is not poisonous in itself, but it is eaten in the wrong way.

If Xi Yiqi were here, he would definitely be very dissatisfied.