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

After the sun set, Shen Youyou returned to the camp, put the dogtail grass she had picked into a large bamboo basket, then picked up a wooden stick and started hitting it hard.

Since the grass is very dry, many grass seeds will fall off with a gentle tap.

At this time, Grandma Hua noticed that Shen Youyou was fiddling with the light grass seeds and asked, "My dear grandson, what are you doing with this? Don't we still have food? This stuff doesn't taste good."

Shen Youyou had never eaten this kind of grass seeds before. She just wanted to confirm whether it tasted good. "Grandma, I heard from my sister that you had eaten this before. How did you eat it then?"

Mrs. Hua recalled: "How else can we eat it? We can just pick the seeds and cook them into porridge, but it tastes really bad."

So that's it! Shen Youyou breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that grandma had cooked porridge directly before.

However, the little green seeds they obtained now cannot be eaten directly because they are covered with a layer of skin.

After Shen Youyou finished beating all the dogtail grass she had brought back, she said to Old Lady Hua:

"Grandma, can you help me put these grass seeds in the pan and dry-fry them? Just stir-fry them a few times and then serve them out."

Old Lady Hua was not idle either. Upon hearing this, she advised again, "That thing is really unpalatable. You are not used to it. Stop messing around."

Shen Youyou stamped her feet anxiously: "Grandma, I can make it delicious, just help me fry it, when have I ever lied to you?"

If she wasn't afraid that she wouldn't be able to control the heat well and burn it, she would have done it herself.

Seeing Shen Youyou's anxious look, Old Lady Hua's heart softened and she decided to trust her this time. She poured the grass seeds into the pot, picked up the spatula and started stir-frying.

After frying, Mrs. Hua asked doubtfully, "Can this really be delicious?"

Shen Youyou smiled and said, "Grandma, just wait and see!"

Old Lady Hua poked it with her hand, and dark green grass seeds appeared. She asked in surprise, "What is this?"

Shen Youyou explained: "Grandma, you see, it's actually the seeds inside that are edible. If you don't peel them and cook them, it will definitely not taste good."

After saying that, Shen Youyou filled two bamboo bowls and asked her grandmother to cook porridge.

She then worked with her three sisters to grind the remaining grass seeds into flour.

Arya asked curiously, "Hey, this little black guy can also grind flour?"

Shen Youyou smiled and replied: "Of course, you will know how delicious it is in a moment."

As she spoke, she kneaded the ground flour into dough and prepared to make delicious food.

During the production process, Sister Taohua saw Shen Youyou pinching her shoulders due to exhaustion, so she took the initiative to take over the job of shaking the grinding wheel.

"Actually, this dog... um... Bright Grass is the ancestor of corn. People planted this in the beginning. Generation after generation, they selected the largest and fullest seeds and planted them, and then it slowly became corn."

Wang Taohua, Shen Daya, Shen Erya, and the people who were working nearby all opened their mouths wide when they heard this. In fact, many of them knew that this was edible, but they didn't know that it was the ancestor of corn.

"Then why didn't these turn into millet?" Shen Luming suddenly asked.

Shen Youyou was surprised: "Do you know what corn is?"

The main reason is that she felt that the child was so young and usually just ate it, so he probably didn’t know what corn was.

Shen Luming was speechless. His sister was good in every way except that she always treated him like a child. "Of course I know. It's the yellow rice that our mother used to cook porridge with."

Shen Youyou raised her eyebrows: "Not bad, you even know what corn is. Shen Luming, how come you are so smart?"

"Sister Yoyo, you're exaggerating. What's so surprising about knowing something about corn?" Shen Yuanbao rolled his eyes.

Shen Youyou is a modern person who thinks that a four or five-year-old child would not pay attention to what he eats every day, but he should pay more attention to eating meat. When she was a child, she didn't know that millet was also called corn.

I still remember when I was with my grandmother in the countryside, a neighbor said they were harvesting corn, so she had to go with them to see what corn was. Because at that time, very few people grew corn, at least in her village.

When she saw the millet, she didn't know that it came from the ears of corn that were full of fruits.

The flour was ground, but she didn’t know how to make cotton cakes. Fortunately, her three sisters cooked for her.

Shen Youyou saw with her own eyes that Erya added flour and water to a basin of wild cotton and began to knead the dough. At this time, the men who were cutting tree bark also came back, but there were obviously fewer of them than yesterday.

"What is this for?" Shen Zhiqiu asked, looking at the black dough.

Li Jingshu whispered, "Your daughter wants to use dogtail grass seeds to make cotton cakes."

“Will that taste good?”

"Your daughter said it was delicious, so it's all ground into flour."

Shen Zhiqiu thought, if tree bark can be ground into flour, then grass seeds are the predecessor of millet, so they should be okay. In any case, these grass seeds are definitely not poisonous. When he was a child in his previous life, many people used these grass seeds to feed chickens.

Think about it: Have they now been reduced to competing with chickens for grass seeds?

"Why are you reacting so calmly?" Li Jingshu looked incredulous.

Shen Zhiqiu knew that his wife had no ancient memories and probably didn't know that these two plants were edible, so he explained, "I've eaten cotton cakes. Wild cotton can make the originally non-sticky noodles more sticky. It shouldn't be too bad if it's cooked with this grass seed noodles."

After saying this, he blinked his eyes, implying to his wife that he had memories and that this body had eaten cotton cakes!

On Shen Youyou's side, Taohua and Dayajie had already started making pancakes, but the pancakes were about the same size as steamed buns. There was no oil in the pan, they were just made that way.

In fact, she was not sure whether it tasted good or not. If it didn't taste good, she would probably have ruined herself. Everyone had limited food, cicadas were almost gone, and many people were afraid to eat locusts. The grandmothers would definitely ask her to get more of these grass seeds to make cakes and porridge.

But smelling the fragrance slowly wafting out of the pot, I still have an appetite: "Is Sister Taohua ready?"

Taohua used bamboo chopsticks to scoop out four pancakes and handed them to Shen Youyou: "Okay, you guys eat first, be careful of the heat!"

Shen Youyou was still very afraid of the heat, but Erya was not afraid. Erya picked one up while blowing on it, and gently broke it in the middle with both hands.

It's so magical, the middle is actually stringy and looks so delicious, just like a dark chocolate cookie, when you break it open, it looks like stringy inside.

Erya blew it and put it in her mouth impatiently, saying incoherently while eating: "It's delicious, yoyo! Eat it quickly."

Shen Youyou felt relieved at this moment. Judging from Sister Erya's appearance, the food shouldn't be too bad.

Shen Youyou's tender white hands were very afraid of the heat, but she was also anxious. She carefully broke off a small piece and put it in her mouth. It was very chewy and tasted similar to glutinous rice cake, but with a light fragrance. It was really delicious.

Shen Zhiqiu also took one from the bowl, broke off a piece and put it in his mouth: "The more you chew it, the more fragrant it becomes. The fragrance is overflowing. And this grass seed has a rice aroma."

Shen Yuanbao and Erya are indeed siblings, and they are equally obsessed with food: "Uncle San, let me try some."

Shen Luming also came over. At this time, Sister Daya and Sister Taohua had made a lot more. Old Lady Hua also said that the grass seed porridge was ready.