Chapter 12: Bitter Melon
Tang Su was taken aback when he heard this.
"Leaves...... Can you eat it? She stared at Tang Lan.
Tang Lan put the bowl back in its place, hung his head, and whispered, "When you're hungry, everything is delicious." Both of them were born in hardship, and they didn't even have to eat tree bark when they fled the famine. ”
Tang Su was silent for a while, stood up, and walked out.
Tang Lan hurriedly followed, and said babblingly: "Sister, in fact, those wild vegetables and leaves smell bad, and they don't taste very bad......
Tang Su stopped, his eyes a little lonely: "Have you eaten it too?" ”
Xiaolan nodded subconsciously, and immediately shook her head: "I only tasted a little, I didn't eat the leaves......"
"Even if you're hungry, not everything tastes good."
After Tang Su finished speaking, he walked out of the long workshop quickly.
In the past three days, she has been holding on to the psychology of escape, always feeling that her world is in the modern era, and this is just a temporary place to stay.
Everything here has nothing to do with her, she always has to go back.
However, whether it is Shi Ma, Xiaolan, Zhang San and Li Si, they all treat her sincerely and treat her as the real Tang Su. They would rather go hungry and eat leaves and grass roots, but keep that gorgeous big bed so that she can sleep comfortably at night.
The green paste of the half bowl of leaves and wild vegetables made her feel uncomfortable.
She realized she couldn't go on like this.
It is as close as the subsistence problem of six people, as far as the debt of thirty taels of silver per month, and even more so as the position of grain chief in the Tang family. After the autumn harvest is over, if the Tang family can't safely transport the grain to the capital, I'm afraid that their heads will not be guaranteed.
This kind of sword is a sword hanging over her head, and if you are not careful, you can take her life again.
The more Tang Su thought about it, the more frightened he became.
Out of the long workshop, she went straight into the kitchen.
Shi Ma was squatting in the stove, her chubby body sitting on a low stool with a missing leg, lighting a fire on the stove, and coughing straight from the smoke.
Seeing Tang Su, she coughed and stood up: "My young lady, alas, you can come here too?" Go out and play, are you hungry? Wait a while, Shi Ma will make food. ”
Tang Su stepped forward and lifted the lid of the pot and saw that there were four snow-white steamed buns in the steamer, as well as seven or eight black and strangely colored nests.
"What is this?" She reached for a black nest.
Shi's mother hurriedly reached out to get the white-flour steamed bun and gave it to her: "That's what I ate with Xiaolan, Miss, you eat this......"
Tang Su put the head of the black nest into her mouth and took a bite, and she almost couldn't help but spit it out because of the bitterness. She swallowed it forcibly, and a pool of tears appeared in her eyes: "Mother Shi, why is this so bitter?" ”
Tang Lan, who followed up, hurriedly reached out and snatched the head of the nest, scooped a scoop of water from the tank and gave it to her: "It's mixed with bitter gourd here, isn't it bitter." Sister, you've always hated the smell the most. Drink a little water to get rid of the taste. ”
Tang Su took the water scoop, took a big sip of water, and said, "Why don't you take the bitter taste and make it again?" ”
Shi Ma said: "This cold melon is so bitter, so no one wants to eat it." There are so many grows in the ground, and they are thrown everywhere. I went to the field yesterday to pick up a basket. ”
"Really?"
Tang Su turned his head to look at the corner, and sure enough, he saw a basket of bitter gourds piled up there. If she hadn't found out, I'm afraid that for a long time in the future, Shi Ma would have to satisfy her hunger with this bitter gourd.