Chapter 178: Bitter Vegetable Fried Egg
Spring seafood is much smaller than in summer and autumn.
But actually, for Su Ran, it was already quite large.
It was just that she had eaten seaside seafood at the end of autumn last year, so these by the seaside, which were already considered large compared to those on Earth, did not seem so stunning anymore.
The current time had not yet entered summer, but in this forest, many wild vegetables and wild fruits could already be eaten.
Recently, Su Ran found a new green leafy vegetable near the freshwater lake in the forest by the seaside.
The leaves of this vegetable were emerald green, very wide, a bit like lettuce, but the leaf surface was much smoother than lettuce.
Su Ran named this vegetable bitter vegetable, because it had a slightly bitter taste, and eating it was very similar to the taste of dandelion leaves on Earth.
At her grandmother’s house, that kind of dandelion was also called bitter hemp vegetable, which meant almost the same as the bitter vegetable Su Ran named.
Bitter vegetable grew on the lake shore on the other side of that freshwater lake, and mostly did not grow alone, always crowding under some thin and dense shrubs, as if wanting the shrubs to help block shade.
Su Ran had not discovered these bitter vegetables last year, also because last year, she had not gone to the other side of the lake shore.
While there was also bitter vegetable on this side of the lake shore, the quantity was obviously very small, and plus it was blocked by the surrounding shrubbery, so she had not noticed it.
After discovering these bitter vegetables, Su Ran first took the ones she found home and fed them to the four-eared oxen and white-headed sheep at home for three consecutive days.
Seeing that these animals had no reaction after eating them, and would even actively eat these bitter vegetables, she then felt relieved and tried them herself.
As for ways to cook bitter-tasting vegetables, the only ones Su Ran could think of from before were bitter melon eggs and bitter hemp vegetable dipped in sauce.
There was no sauce here, so she could only try frying with green-skinned eggs.
Because she was afraid Hui would not be used to it and making too much would waste it if not finished, when making bitter vegetable fried eggs, Su Ran only used two green-skinned eggs.
Then she added chopped bitter vegetable to the egg liquid, plus sea salt powder, and directly heated oil in the pan to fry the eggs.
While frying the eggs, she also threw in a few oysters, which gave it a bit of the feel of a snack from a certain province in Huaguo.
When it was time to eat, Su Ran first tasted the flavor of the bitter vegetable fried eggs.
The result was that it was surprisingly not bad!
Although it was a bit bitter, probably influenced by the theory her grandmother had instilled in her since childhood that “things that are a bit bitter are good for clearing heat,” she could still tolerate this bit of bitterness.
Moreover, although bitter vegetable tasted very bitter, after chewing it a few more times in the mouth, one would find that the leaves also carried a rich plant aroma.
This aroma immediately made Su Ran think of something.
Tea leaves!
Perhaps because the eggs were fried, the bitter vegetable exposed on the surface of the fried eggs had been fried to lose much of its moisture, and as the moisture was lost, its natural plant aroma became more pronounced.
Su Ran thought that her grandmother had also used washed bitter hemp vegetable, that is, dandelion, stir-fried dry to make tea.
So this bitter vegetable should work too.
She still had a little wild cabbage flower tea made from collected wild cabbage flowers last year, but not much anymore, so now she could use bitter vegetable tea to replace it.
But compared to Su Ran, Hui’s attitude toward this bitter vegetable was, after trying one bite, absolutely refusing a second bite.
It even did not want Su Ran to take a second bite, so when seeing Su Ran eating it happily, the expression on its face seemed particularly indescribable.
But Hui did not remain indescribable for long.
Because the season for this bitter vegetable was very short, almost as soon as spring ended, the traces of bitter vegetable also suddenly disappeared from the forest.
In the end, the bitter vegetable tea Su Ran stir-fried was only one jar in total, which she carefully stored away.
The new year’s summer came very quickly, but Su Ran, who had already experienced one summer on this continent, now had no confusion or panic about the unknown future.
Facing this summer, Su Ran seemed much more composed.
The huge blue star in the sky arrived as promised with the coming of summer.
At this time, it was still early summer, so the halo around the blue star was still very faint.
The moon hanging not far from it was round like a jade plate, and the moonlight shone on the river beach at night, illuminating a silver-bright jade ribbon on the still river water.
After Su Ran and Hui finished dinner, they spread a thick blanket of four-eared ox hide inside the rain shelter.
Hui sat inside the shelter, while Su Ran lazily leaned directly in its embrace.
Beside them was also a jar of wild cabbage flower tea that Su Ran had brewed.
Wild cabbage flower had a fresh floral scent, and after being dried and brewed, the floral scent was particularly rich, and probably because of the flower nectar, the brewed tea water also carried a slight sweetness.
Hui liked drinking it a lot.
Tonight’s moonlight was already bright enough, so there was no fire lit outside the house at this time.
The night wind brought over the floral scent from the purple berry flower cluster at the edge of the rain shelter, which was the very thick fragrance that Su Ran liked very much.
A little in front of the purple berry flower cluster, the blue flowers that Su Ran had often picked last year had also bloomed.
They bloomed in large clusters, contrasting beautifully with the white purple berry flowers, exceptionally harmonious and pretty.
In summer, under Su Ran’s lead, Hui’s sleep time was also pushed back by two hours. Without Su Ran, Hui’s bedtime every night would probably be around six or seven in the evening.
Because it went hunting at four in the afternoon, finished eating food a little after five, and then had nothing else to do. But now with Su Ran, Su Ran was not used to going back to the house to sleep before it got dark.
Especially now that it was summer, the time it got dark was getting later and later, and if it reached peak summer, Su Ran’s bedtime would shift even later to eight or nine at night.
However, recently it was not just Su Ran and Hui sleeping late; the other beastmen were also not sleeping so early.
Because some of the beastmen in the settlement had probably seen the benefits of the house Su Ran built and were also preparing to build houses.
Among them were Xiao Ju, Yao Yao, Bai Bai, A Huo, and Xiao San.
Several neighbors next to Su Ran and Hui’s home were also preparing stone bricks for building houses.
However, when Su Ran and Hui built the house, they had not yet come here, so the method for making stone bricks was exchanged with Su Ran using prey.
Su Ran was naturally willing to teach them.
Moreover, she specifically taught the beastmen how to avoid being corroded by the sap of black-flowered Malan grass. Although it could not completely prevent the beastmen from getting injured, it could at least reduce some harm.
For example, after being injured by black-flowered Malan grass sap, they could immediately burn it with fire to quickly reduce the damage to the skin from the grass sap and such.
