He ate voraciously and gobbled it all up in no time. Soon, two large pots of pork ribs stewed with winter bamboo shoots were finished.

Shen Youyou was wondering why she wanted to eat more meat after traveling back to ancient times?

Now that we are full, let's do what we should do. Gather the girls and take Brother Erhu with us to collect everything edible.

The women also carried bamboo baskets and walked towards the bamboo forest. On the way, Shen Mazi's wife was still muttering that she saw a bamboo rat yesterday and it ran away quickly. She would definitely look for it when she returned.

Shen Youyou also set off with her sisters and Erhu. She didn't know that Erhu was thinking about his cousin, otherwise she would have chosen Dahu.

There weren't many wild vegetables at this time of year, and with the drought, I picked all the popular purslane on the street. Shen Youyou was very familiar with them. Even in modern times, many people still liked to eat these wild vegetables.

Sometimes when her father came home from work, he would go to a vegetable market in the old city, where many farmers picked wild vegetables to sell. The prices were higher than other vegetables, but people who went there often liked them.

Dandelions can be used to make tea or eaten raw with dipping sauce. This is her father's favorite. Even after eating the sauce, he would pick a few as snacks when walking on the road, saying that it can reduce internal heat.

Purslane is best when dried and used to make dumplings, but the flour available is not suitable for making dumplings, so I'll just pick it first.

Most of their group dug wild vegetables, but there were few wild vegetables, and they didn't see many even after walking a long way.

They all looked listless. Sister Yaya from Grandpa's family complained, "In previous years, you could find garlic chives, water celery, water spinach, purple basil, and bitter herbs by the handful if you wandered around the mountains. Now we are almost catching up with the time when there are more people than wild vegetables."

"The drought is so severe that the grass is dying. It's good to have some wild vegetables. Look at where this place is. How many wild vegetables can you expect to find in the wild boar's territory?"

After Shen Youyou finished speaking, everyone suddenly realized: That's right, wild boars eat a lot of things, and there are many traces of wild boars gnawing on the bamboo shoots, not to mention the wild vegetables.

They walked and stopped as a group, but didn't gain much. They felt it would be better to go back and dig bamboo shoots!

Shen Youyou felt that she had suffered a great loss along the way. She didn't pick many wild vegetables, nor did she find any wild fruits.

There were still many branches ahead, and they had to cut them down as they went. There were no signs of wild animals, not even a single rabbit or pheasant.

I feel a little reluctant to go back like this, but the green grass ahead looks a lot more from a distance, so I might as well walk a little. If nothing works, I can dig up some grass roots to take back. Besides, where there is green grass, there must be more wild vegetables, right?

Since entering the mountain road, everyone has gotten used to walking on the mountain road. Although they have to clear some small trees or branches that block the way, they can still walk quite fast.

After walking a little further, there were fewer trees nearby and the sun was shining brightly. The sun at this time was the most comfortable, warming their bodies and removing some of the coldness from their bodies.

What caught Shen Youyou and the others' eyes was the palm tree she had always dreamed of, woooo!

At this moment, she felt that God really loved her: "Hurry, sisters are palm trees, follow us!"

She ran forward excitedly, leaving the group of people behind her with a look of surprise and confusion!

It's just a palm tree, what's the excitement?

"Yo Yo, run slower and wait for us!"

Shen Erya is a simple girl. She is just worried about her sister's safety. No matter whether she can find food or not, at least she has to keep an eye on her sister!

The others came to their senses and hurried to follow, especially Erhu, who ran out very quickly.

Shen Youyou looked at the palm tree she had been looking for for a long time, and she felt much better. Moreover, the tree was growing well, and it didn't look like it was wilting at all.

But if you think about it carefully, this kind of tree itself likes a relatively hot environment. Even in a drought, there are more green vegetables in this batch than elsewhere, so the water temperature must be very high.

Shen Youyou looked at the bunches of fruits on the tree. They were all oil.

Look at the round and strong palm trees, this is their food!

Even those pieces of dried bark can help them spend the winter warmer. You know, their cotton-padded clothes are not very warm, and palm bark can also be used to make mattresses, which are soft, breathable and warm.

When Shen Erya and the others came over, my sister put her hands on her hips and laughed heartily, as if she had hysterics.

She was so scared that she quickly asked: "Yo Yo, what's wrong with you?"

Shen Youyou finally came to her senses from her fantasy world: "Sisters, now that we have found this palm tree, we don't need to look for another one today. Let's cut down all the palm fruits and bring them back. We will ask some brothers to come and cut down trees tomorrow."

"This fruit is bitter and astringent, and it is really bitter. It is the same no matter how long it is stored. It is bitter no matter what season it is. No one picks it in the village. I think this palm bark is useful to us. We can make it into a raincoat, which can be used when it rains or snows."

Shen Daya tried to dissuade them, saying that they were sure that palm fruits were bitter because no one in the village picked them.

Shen Youyou cleared her throat, suppressed her excited heart and trembling hands, and explained: "First, the fruit can be roasted and eaten, and the roasted Zonglu fruit has a strong aroma and tastes sweet."

It has to be said that at this point in time, it was almost time for dinner, and when Shen Youyou said this, everyone’s stomachs started to growl.

In fact, Shen Youyou was also hungry. Although they brought roujiamo when they came out, which was the meat from the stewed spare ribs sandwiched in cotton cakes, it was convenient to eat and the grass seed cotton cakes tasted better. Now this way of eating has become the favorite of the people in Shenjia Village.

But Shen Youyou wanted to eat roasted palm fruits, and her mouth was watering just thinking about it.

"Sisters, let's bake now,"

Without waiting for the sisters to reply, I said, the palm trees in our south are different from the African ones you see on TV. The fruits of that kind are very big, and the trees are very tall.

The fruit grows very low, less than half a meter from the ground. Shen Youyou directed Erhu to take down a bunch of Zonglu fruit.

The orange-red palm fruits grow densely, one on top of the other. These small fruits need to be picked.

The fruit is about the same size as a red date. The skin feels hard and slippery. There is a green hard thorn in the middle of the fruit, so be careful when looking for the fruit.

Shen Youyou plucked a fruit, and some oil began to ooze out from the broken part. Shen Youyou showed it to her sisters: "In addition to being edible, this fruit can also be used to extract oil."

"Oil pressing? Is the oil you're talking about the kind of oil we can eat?"

Shen Erya's eyes lit up. Oil is something they never have too much of.

Shen Youyou nodded. There was no iron plate at the moment, and roasting on stone slabs was too slow, so she asked everyone to use the method of roasting cicada monkeys, holding the fruit with two sticks and roasting it directly on the fire.

As the flames burned, everyone turned the sticks while roasting them, fearing that they would burn.

After a while, the palm fruits began to emit fragrance!

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