CHAPTER XIV

Soon they came to a pond that was still a little out of the way, and it was strange that she was not afraid at all, and that she had never been afraid of him.

"Where's the food?"

"Far away, close at hand."

As he spoke, he pointed to the plants that looked a little like rice, but were wider than rice, like grass and taller than grass.

"Are you sure this can be eaten?"

"Good things always need to be discovered slowly."

"But no matter how I look at it, I don't think it's edible."

"Then let you see how the Great Sage turned decay into magic."

As he spoke, he used his hands to tear the grass-like thing in half from the middle, revealing the white flesh in the middle, which looked like bamboo shoots, but did not have the clear lines of bamboo shoots.

"What is this?"

"That's what I call delicious."

"I really haven't seen it, I've seen bamboo shoots before, but this is a bit like bamboo shoots."

"Well, but it's better than bamboo shoots."

"It's more nutritious than bamboo shoots?"

"It's easier to eat than bamboo shoots, and you don't need to put it in the pot."

As he spoke, he handed the flesh he had just picked with great effort to her mouth.

"Taste it, it's delicious."

"You eat first, I'll eat later."

As he spoke, he took a bite with his mouth, and checked it with his previous experience, and it didn't take long for him to spit out the flesh that he had just bitten into his mouth.

"What's wrong?"

"This can't be eaten."

"I can't eat it, you still let me eat it."

"No, you can't eat this, you see that there are these little black spots in it that can't be eaten."

As he spoke, he showed the part of the flesh that he had just bitten and was still in his hand in front of her.

"Isn't that a recipe for deliciousness?"

"No, that's just a special case, I'll make sure you eat something delicious."

In the same way, he plucked a lot of flesh. Then he broke open the flesh one by one with his hands and examined it, and among the flesh he picked, there were some with small black spots and some without small black spots. He picked out all the ones that didn't have the little black dots, and threw out the ones that had the little black dots. Then he picked out the small and thin flesh from the flesh without the little black spots, and handed it to her.

"Just eat these!"

"Why don't you be fair, give me so many small ones, although the total portion is about the same as your big ones, but it takes a lot of effort to eat them one by one."

"The small ones should be tasty, you believe me."

"No, it should be divided equally."

In desperation, he broke the big ones in his hand into two with great effort, and then handed her some of the big ones that had just been broken. At the same time, she also picked out some of the small ones in her hand and was about to hand them to him, but he refused.

"You don't want to be small."

"Eat! I eat it a lot, and it doesn't matter to me whether it's big or small. ”

So saying, she began to eat. At first she ate a few small ones, which felt sweet and crunchy, which was really good. Later, she took a few more bites, and it felt hard and astringent, and it was really ice and fire for a while. Looking at the expression on her face, he said with relief.

"You'd better eat small! Give me the big one. ”

"No, I like to eat big."

She took a few more bites of the big one, and at the same time she took a small one with her other hand and handed it to his mouth.

"I said, if you dare to eat, I will dare to eat, and now it's your turn."

He couldn't help but open his mouth, then closed it. He wanted to keep it in his mouth forever, forever.

"Why don't you eat it! Isn't it tasty? ”

He just shook his head.

"Are you stuck?"

He shook his head anyway.

"So what's wrong with you? You speak! Don't scare me. ”

"I'm fine."

He said as he chewed.

"And what happened to you?"

"It's the thing you just handed me in my mouth that is so sweet, I'm a little overwhelmed by the sweetness."

"You're just going to bully me and scare me."

"No, it's too sweet."

Oh, yes! Sweet to the heart, sweet to the bones. It's so sweet that I don't want to eat it, so I keep salivating.