The whole family travels through time: escape from famine! No cheat codes yet!

Old Lady Hua was busy picking cotton, holding some white wild cotton wool in her hands. When she heard her granddaughter's call, she straightened up and responded:

"Hey! My dear grandson, run slowly. There are rocks and branches all over the road. Be careful!"

This short distance is a piece of cake for Shen Youyou, who is now a completely different person.

She ran to her grandmother easily and asked impatiently:

"Grandma, my aunt said you were picking wild cotton, but why does it look different from the cotton in my quilt?"

Old Lady Hua smiled and threw the wild cotton in her hand into the bamboo basket. She continued to pick the cotton while explaining to Shen Youyou:

"This wild cotton is not cotton, it is a kind of wild grass, but it can produce these small fruits in autumn. The small fruits are full of seeds and are covered with a layer of white fluff."

After saying that, he picked a small fruit from the wild cotton that had not yet opened, broke it open and showed Shen Youyou the white fluff and seeds inside:

"But it still has a certain warmth-retaining effect, just like the reed and willow fluff we used before."

Shen Youyou also understood that this plant was similar to dandelion, and it had fluff so that the wind could blow its seeds to other places. However, it was not as smart as dandelion, and it had too much fluff. As a result, people used it to make bedding.

At this time, Li Jingshu saw her daughter coming, and she also came over from a distance carrying a bamboo basket, with a smile on her face: "Are you hungry? Have you eaten?"

Shen Youyou nodded with a smile: "I have eaten it. I ate the cicadas made by my aunt and her family."

Li Jingshu was a little annoyed: "How did you know we were here? How dare you run around alone?"

Shen Youyou looked very proud: "No one was here. My aunt sent me here. I let her go after she saw you guys."

After hearing this, Li Jingshu showed a look of relief on his face, but he still couldn't help but remind him: "Don't run around like this anymore."

After all, her daughter is small now, and this is in the deep mountains and forests, more than a thousand steps away from the camp. What if there is any danger?

Shen Youyou nodded obediently, indicating that she understood.

At this time, the young ladies noticed Shen Youyou's arrival and waved to her and called her name.

When Shen Youyou heard her sisters calling her, she immediately responded excitedly and ran towards them.

As she ran, she turned back and said to her grandmother and mother, "I'm going to find my sisters!"

Li Jingshu quickly reminded her: "Watch your feet."

Shen Youyou ran to her sisters happily, with a gleam in her eyes. She secretly grabbed a handful of wild cotton wool, and then walked carefully to her sisters.

While her sisters were still not reacting, she pouted her lips and blew hard, and the soft cotton wool floated in the air, as light as snowflakes.

They were spinning in the air, making beautiful turns, and finally landed on the sisters' heads and bodies.

The sisters were caught off guard by the sudden "cotton rain". Erya said mysteriously, "Hey, stop making trouble. If grandma sees you, she'll scold you. I tell you, this wild cotton is very useful."

"Quilted clothes?"

Of course Shen Youyou also knew that these wild cottons were the only treasure they could find for making cotton-padded clothes, but this patch was so huge.

I guess they all had a lot left after making a set of cotton-padded clothes, but she stopped playing and helped her sisters pick cotton.

Shen Erya said excitedly: "Quilting cotton clothes is one use, and another use is making cotton cakes, which are delicious."

Shen Youyou opened her mouth wide in shock, looked at the cotton in her hand, and looked at Sister Erya.

Are there people who eat cotton? How do you make cakes with this stuff? Won't it catch fire when it gets hot?

If the second sister said she could do it, maybe she would be more receptive.

Taohua and Daya burst out laughing. In the past, the younger sister knew everything, and the three of them knew nothing. They didn't expect that there were things that the younger sister didn't know.

"Oh, wild cotton can be added to flour to make cakes. Buckwheat, corn, sweet potatoes, wheat and other grains can also be ground into flour to make cotton cakes."

Shen Youyou really didn't know this. It was the first time in her two lifetimes that she knew this kind of cotton-like plant could be eaten. Seeing Erya's excited face, she asked a soul-stirring question: "Is it delicious?"

Shen Erya nodded her head in a rush: "It's delicious, soft and chewy, and has a faint scent of cotton grass."

Shen Youyou has no resistance to delicious food. In this respect, she is most like her sister Erya. It’s as if she just ate cicadas and now she is hungry again.

But when she thought of a key problem, Shen Youyou was instantly discouraged: "We have no food left. The only fine noodles left should be saved for the little kids."

With just one sentence, the four sisters calmed down and continued picking wild cotton.

Shen Youyou looked at the wild cotton on the thin branches and felt depressed while picking them. Why did she want to try them even though she knew that what Sister Erya said was delicious might not be delicious?

She really wasn't slandering Erya, it was just that grandma and the others were too stingy when it came to eating.

Her father said: He gave a lot of money to the family and sold the land. They ate coarse grain steamed bread every day, and at most added some wild vegetables to the steamed bread. Only when they went back home would they make dry food made of white flour.

So what Sister Erya said was delicious may not really be delicious, but when I think about the taste she described, wow, I really want to eat it. I have been eating dried meat and dried cicadas recently. She really wants to eat pasta!

Although she was depressed and greedy, she still had to do the work. She didn't bring a bamboo basket when she came, so she picked a handful and put it into her sisters' bamboo baskets.

But this cotton is different from real cotton. It is in small florets and much softer than cotton. The sisters will press it down after a while.

So the bamboo basket is never full.

In fact, she was not without ideas of plants that could be used to make flour. For example, elm bark powder could be mixed with white flour to make noodles. In her previous life, she had heard that there was a very delicious elm bark noodle dish.

It is also said that flour ground from mugwort can be eaten, and dried locusts can also be ground into powder.

Well, she can try mugwort, but she has no appetite for the other two, but mugwort has been used to make mosquito coils before.

Shen Youyou was a little thirsty, so she took out her water gourd and drank the water, then picked cotton with a sigh.

Suddenly I saw the withered and yellowed dogtail grass next to me. It seems that this thing can also be used to make flour.

Thinking of this, she stopped picking wild cotton, since her sisters were picking it anyway. She reached out to pull the foxtail grass, which was everywhere. If they just found more, why would they have to worry about having no food to eat?

"Hey, stop joking. Why are you picking grass?" Daya reminded from the side, afraid that grandma would see her not doing her job and scold her.

"It's okay. I'll make you something delicious tonight." Shen Youyou pulled the dogtail grass quickly without even raising her head.

Shen Erya said: "Yoyo, don't pick the light grass, it's not tasty."

"Have you eaten it before?" Mainly because Shen Youyou had never eaten it before, but she seemed to have heard that it could be made into noodles and it tasted okay.

Erya shook her head: "I haven't eaten it, but in the past when we had leftover dry food and didn't want to eat it, grandma would tell us to be thankful that we have food to eat. When we were young, there was a great famine and we could only eat tree bark and grass seeds. This is the Bright Grass she was talking about."

She then realized that the ancients knew that dogtail grass was edible a long time ago! Who said that the ancients were stupid? Look, they knew a lot.

At least Shen Youyou didn’t know before that wild cotton is not cotton and that wild cotton can be eaten.