Chapter 125: Saga’s Super Grandma

Yoshiyuki specially announced that when talking about their impressions of Saga Prefecture, everyone should not mention things that are too easy to think of.

For example, there is no sense of existence and the countryside. This is a generally accepted impression among Japanese people.

Not to mention Saga Sea.

Because Mrs. Satomi mentioned it in the email.

"What! I was going to say this in the first place!" Erina complained: "If I do this, I still have to use my brain to think about it."

"Miss, something with such a good brain should be used frequently. Otherwise, it would be better to donate it to those in need."

"Humph, no one would need it!"

"Why not? I just need some brains to make hot pot tonight, so I don't have to buy it at a high price."

"Okay! Servant! You seem to obey me so much, but actually you want to eat my brain!" Erina was shocked: "Are you a zombie?!"

Although there are some ingredients in Japanese cuisine, they do not eat ingredients commonly used in hot pot such as brains, duck intestines and tripe, so Yi Xing has to go to the Chinese product store every time he wants to buy these things.

What ordinary Japanese people buy there are basically Chinese brand items, Chinese local specialties, and some Chinese snacks.

Few people buy these ingredients that Japanese people generally don’t eat, so they are expensive, stale, and out of stock from time to time.

But there is only one Chinese product store in the small town near Yitian Village, which made it difficult to enjoy hot pot in Yitian Village in the past. Either this is missing or that is missing. The taste is always a bit off.

But the situation is different here in Tokyo. If this Chinese product store doesn't have it, you can go to another store to buy it. And because there are so many customers, the ingredients are always fresh.

He was confident that tonight's hot pot experience would be perfect.

The three people started the game again.

Yoshiyuki was the first to speak.

"When I think of Saga, the first thing that comes to my mind is zombie dolls——"

"Stop! STOP!" Erina immediately interrupted him: "Huh! You are a scumbag servant who wants to eat my brain. This is too easy to think of! It doesn't count!"

"Ah, okay." Yoshiyuki had to change his mind: "Then... I will nominate the Yoshinori ruins! A large number of cultural relics from the Yayoi period were unearthed there."

"Humph, you're so stupid for scorning a servant! That's obviously from Fukuoka Prefecture."

Erina pointed out while tapping the lunch box with her chopsticks proudly.

"No, Miss, who is this stupid one? It belongs to Saga!"

Erina didn't believe it when he said this. Still insisting that it is from Fukuoka Prefecture.

After Yoshiyuki opened the phone and showed her the encyclopedia, Erina admitted that she had remembered it wrong. But she is still very stubborn, insisting that the timeline may have changed under the influence of Steins;Gate, changing the Yoshinori ruins from Fukuoka to Saga.

Yoshiyuki had long been accustomed to her unrepentant attitude, so he stopped mentioning the topic and pressed her to answer what impression she had of Saga.

As a result, she thought hard for a long time, and finally her eyes lit up and she shouted.

"Ah, I know! The steak made from Saga beef is quite delicious! This is it!"

“Sure enough, it’s still about eating!”

Given such an answer, Yi Xing didn't think it was strange.

After all, this is Erina, the geography idiot.

A woman who could say Constantinople was in Moscow.

This is not the most outrageous thing.

Her classic remarks include "Paris, I know! The people there surrender very well! If I remember correctly, it should be the capital of Germany, right?"

This is a black and white statement.

But if you think about it carefully, you may be able to find a parallel time and space that can reasonably explain this passage.

That is, after France surrendered, it joined Germany, and then Germany moved its capital to Paris and learned French military salutes.

In this way, there will be no problem.

It was Xiaoji's turn to give an example.

She slowly finished writing and raised the notebook.

There is this sentence written on it: ["Saga's Super Grandma"]

"Oh, I know!" Erina swallowed a big mouthful of rice and said excitedly: "It's a game on the NDS, right? I didn't expect that Ji-chan has played such an old game!"

"Miss, that game is also adapted from a novel." Yoshiyuki reminded him and turned to Yaodao Ji: "Xiao Ji loves reading so much. It is the first time I know that this work must be from a novel. Right Bar?"

Demon Sword Girl nodded.

That is a classic written by the master of Japanese comedy Shimada Yoichi.

Not only have games been adapted, but movies have also been adapted. Has been translated into many languages.

The plot roughly says that because the protagonist's mother was unable to raise her two children, she sent the eight-year-old protagonist to live with her grandmother in the countryside of Saga.

The protagonist was very uncomfortable at first and felt very sad to be abandoned by his mother, but later he fell in love with the village more and more, and spent a happy childhood with the care of his grandmother and the friendship of his classmates.

Many of the plots in it were interesting and left a deep impression on Yoshiyuki.

For example, because the family was poor, my grandmother picked up wooden sticks from a small river next to her home.

In this way, branches and small pieces of wood flowing down the river will be stopped and can be used as free firewood.

Vegetables floating down from the upstream market became their food. This saves food money.

The reason why those vegetables floated down was because they were in bad condition, including radishes with split ends, misshapen cucumbers, and fruits with damaged skins.

While grandma picked them up, she told the protagonist that these things just look bad, but they are actually made in the right way and taste the same.

Split radish, cut into small pieces and boiled, is no different from ordinary radish.

Curved cucumbers, cut into strips and marinated in salt, are also crisp and refreshing.

As for the fruit, if you cut off the bad parts, the pulp inside will still be as sweet.

Occasionally, intact vegetables will float in.

Basically, the vegetable washing ladies hired by the market were chatting and washing the mud, sliding their hands upstream and accidentally letting it flow down the river.

This is how the cabbage leaves that appear from time to time come from.

Chinese cabbage is so heavy that even if your hands are not slippery when you shake it, you will occasionally shake off a few outer leaves.

Grandma called the river a supermarket. And I learned a lot from it. For example, tomatoes that have been frozen by river water in summer will be more delicious - Yoshiyuki and the eldest lady have really tested this, and it is true.

All in all, relying on this river, you only need to buy tofu and condiments to make one dish after another.

The disadvantage is that you can't pick up whatever you want to eat, and occasionally things won't float down.

This situation was called "the supermarket is closed" by my grandma.

Therefore, when there is no food left, we can only eat white rice that day.

Just as Yoshiyuki was recalling every bit of that work, Xiaoji picked up the ballpoint pen with her left hand and started writing in the notebook.

Seeing that Xiaoji could actually shoot the bow left and right, Yoshiyuki was really impressed.