Chapter 105: Incredibly Fresh [seeking Monthly Votes]
“Here.” Shang Wan stuffed it directly into her hand and invited, “Come to our home to play with Xiaoshan when you have time.”
Li Xiaomei’s little face turned red, and she clutched the candy and nodded, “Okay.”
Shang Wan thought the little girl was cute, reached out to rub her head, then was pulled away by Xiao Huan who couldn’t wait to verify the taste difference of the bok choy.
Watching the two hurriedly departing backs, Li Xiaoshan couldn’t help muttering, “Why so rushed?”
“Second Brother, eat candy.” Li Xiaomei smiled and handed a candy to Li Xiaoshan.
Li Xiaoshan peeled off the candy wrapper and put it in his mouth, but saw Li Xiaomei put her own into the little pocket inside her top.
He asked: “Why aren’t you eating it? Don’t let it fall out later.”
“It won’t fall.” Li Xiaomei patted her little pocket, her little face showing a shallow smile, “Take it back to make sugar water, eat it together with Daddy and Big Brother.”
Li Xiaoshan’s chewing paused, could he spit out the candy now?
……
Xiao Huan pulled Shang Wan back home, quickly washed the bok choy from the Li Family field clean, put it in another basin, then called everyone over.
He Sizhi and his disciple were preparing to rest for a moment, and upon hearing this, they washed their hands clean and came over to join in the fun.
Xiao Huan said: “You all smell the bok choy in the two basins.”
Shi Tou puzzledly said: “Why smell bok choy out of nowhere?”
“Just smell it when I tell you to.” Xiao Huan handed him two stalks, “Smell carefully.”
Shi Tou leaned in to sniff, and the others also picked some up to smell, even Liang Liang took two to smell.
Yuan Yuan felt she couldn’t be left out, her little hand grabbed two from the basin, lowered her little head, her little nose almost touching the two bok choys, like a little milk dog, sniffing back and forth.
While sniffing, she suddenly opened her little mouth and took a big bite of the bok choy next to her.
Her millet teeth embedded into the plump leaf stem, a small stream of clear sweet juice flowed out, Yuan Yuan’s eyes lit up, and she instantly bit harder.
“Let go quickly.” Xiao Huan worried she would choke if she ate it, reached out to grab it.
Yuan Yuan guarded her food and turned her whole little body to the other side, like a rabbit, munching along the vegetable stem leaving several tooth marks.
By the time Xiao Huan snatched the bok choy from Yuan Yuan’s hand, it was covered in tooth marks. She was both amused and helpless, she hadn’t starved Yuan Yuan, so why did she start raw-munching bok choy?
Yuan Yuan pouted her little mouth, taking advantage of Aunt Xiao Huan not paying attention, her little hand quickly grabbed one from the nearest wooden basin and munched it.
Then, “Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!”
Not sweet! Tastes bad!
No need for Xiao Huan to grab, the little one disgustedly threw away the bok choy, climbed to the other side, hugged her small milk bottle, and drank some goat milk to rinse her mouth.
Everyone: “……”
“The bok choy in the left basin has a fresh fragrance.” Lu Chengjing put down the bok choy and said, “The one in the right basin doesn’t have this scent.”
The others all nodded in agreement, “That’s right.”
The left basin was spiritual field produce, the right basin was from the Li Family field.
Xiao Huan looked at Shang Wan, worriedly said: “Sister, did you catch a cold?”
She suspected Shang Wan’s nose was blocked and couldn’t smell the difference between the two.
Shi Tou surprisedly turned his head, “Sister, did you catch a cold?”
Lu Chengjing also looked over concernedly, “Niangzi?”
He Sizhi and his disciple also said if sick, must take medicine quickly.
Shang Wan helplessly, “I didn’t catch a cold.”
Everyone could smell the difference, but she couldn’t, could her nose really have a problem?
Thinking of something, she reached out to pick up Yuan Yuan, placed her on the table in front, picked up two bok choys and waved them in front of the little one’s nose, “Good baby, which one is fragrant?”
Yuan Yuan blinked her eyes, turned her little head to look left and right, completely unable to choose.
Shang Wan asked: “Do they feel the same?”
Yuan Yuan immediately nodded her little head, “Same!”
If they were different, the little one wouldn’t have just opened her mouth to munch on the non-space produced bok choy.
Combining her own and Yuan Yuan’s reactions, Shang Wan understood where the problem was.
She and Yuan Yuan were ability users, with superior sense of smell to ordinary people.
The bok choy from the Li Family field itself had fragrance, but not as strong as the space produced bok choy. She and Yuan Yuan could smell both, so felt little difference.
But Xiao Huan and others originally couldn’t smell the fragrance of ordinary bok choy, suddenly smelling the fragrance on the space produced bok choy, naturally felt they were different.
Seeing Shang Wan and Yuan Yuan’s identical reactions, Lu Chengjing slowly explained: “Medical books record that some people can’t smell scents ordinary people can, but are very sensitive to certain specific scents, perhaps Niangzi and Yuan Yuan are like that.”
If it’s in the medical books, it’s naturally an illness, Gao Yan suddenly thought: “I heard the old doctor in the city say that mothers can pass some special illnesses to their children.”
Yuan Yuan was born by Lady Shang, should be this situation.
The specific explanation was troublesome, Shang Wan chose to go along with this statement.
Since the matter was clarified, everyone went back to their own tasks.
Xiao Huan carried the two basins of bok choy to the wellside to rinse them again, remembering Yuan Yuan’s different reactions to munching the two kinds of bok choy, she also tore a piece of leaf stem from each and bit into them respectively.
The bok choy from the Li Family field had nothing special, same as the ones eaten before. The bok choy Shang Wan brought back had a clear sweetness, like biting sugarcane.
Xiao Huan suddenly understood something, glanced in Shang Wan’s direction.
Shang Wan was placing herbs on the stone slab, noticed the gaze but didn’t turn her head.
Xiao Huan withdrew her gaze, silently mixed the two kinds of bok choy together, pretending to have discovered nothing.
At lunchtime, stir-fried bok choy and bok choy meatball soup received unanimous praise, felt extremely fresh, a whole basin of soup drunk to the last drop.
After the afternoon nap, He Sizhi walked out of the shed and stretched, feeling after the nap his body seemed much lighter and more agile than usual.
He rotated his arm, puzzledly said: “Why did my shoulder suddenly stop hurting?”
When working, even swinging the hammer had more strength.
“Master, why do I feel like I have endless energy?” Ma Jieyong pinched the bulging muscles on his arm, “Not tired at all.”
Gao Yan clenched his right fist and opened it, “I also feel full of strength.”
He Sizhi didn’t pay attention, laughed: “The host family is good, you two lads ate your fill so naturally have strength. Hurry and work, don’t delay kung fu.”
The two responded, no longer joking around, focused on working.
In the open-air kitchen, Xiao Huan chopped the large bones thump thump thump, always felt today’s kitchen knife was especially good to use, chopping bones effortless.
Could it be Shi Tou sharpened the kitchen knife for her?
Behind the bushes, Shi Tou dug a pit to bury cow and sheep manure, not sure if it was his illusion, but today’s soil was especially easy to dig, like tofu, digging without jarring the hand.
Lu Chengjing stared at a piece of table corner he accidentally broke off, lost in thought.
He just felt the table board was tilted, wanted to push it out a bit, but as soon as he applied force, the table corner fell off.
Looking at his left hand in contemplation for a while, Lu Chengjing called: “Yuan Yuan, come to Daddy.”
Time to test it.
