Chapter 217 How Did They Know?

With the cotton-padded clothes, the Liuhua tribe was much better off. They relied on the cotton-padded clothes given to them by the White Tiger Tribe to spend one cold night after another.

"Goddess, there are bamboos here." Everyone in the White Tiger Tribe was excited. Their food was settled. Seeing this, the people of the Liuhua Tribe were very puzzled. Why were they so excited? Isn't it just bamboo? Can it be eaten as food?

They thought so and asked so. Originally, they were just joking, but they never expected the answer to be unexpected.

"Yes, this can be eaten."

Hearing such a matter-of-fact answer, the people of the Liuhua Tribe were shocked. They knew that the White Tiger Tribe ate everything, even the wild grass that they didn't even look at could be made into food, but when they were told that this bamboo could be eaten, why didn't they believe it so much?

But thinking that they could always make those wild grasses that no one wanted into food, the people of the Liuhua Tribe didn't know how to start for a while.

The people of the White Tiger Tribe were still discussing with great interest. The Liuhua Tribe then realized that what they wanted to eat was not bamboo, but bamboo shoots, but what are bamboo shoots?

Soon they took the tools to dig bamboo shoots, and took the people of the Liuhua tribe with them. The people of the Liuhua tribe were very curious about what the bamboo shoots they were talking about were. When they arrived at the bamboo forest, they did not find the bamboo shoots they were talking about, and they were a little disappointed for a while.

Soon they found that the people of the White Tiger tribe were looking for something on the ground with their heads down, and then they started digging with hoes. After a while, they dug something out of the ground. All of them were smiling. Even if they were slow, they knew that this was the bamboo shoots they were talking about.

There is dirt on it. Are you sure it is edible?

"Don't look at it as a little dirt, but it tastes really good, and we don't eat the outer skin." As if knowing that they didn't understand, the people of the White Tiger tribe took the initiative to explain, "We eat the white thing inside, this is the bamboo shoot, and the outer shell is to protect it from getting dirty." As he spoke, he peeled off the shell, revealing the bamboo shoots inside.

The people of the Liuhua tribe were stunned. How did they know that these things were edible?

Growing in the ground, there is also a layer of shell, which makes them know that they can be eaten?

"If you want to dig, we can teach you."

"Yes." The people of Liuhua tribe said hurriedly. This is food. If they don't know, it's fine. Now that they know, how can they miss it.

Let a few people teach them, and the others began to dig hard. Maybe no one cares. There are a lot of dried bamboos here, and bamboo shoots are also easy to dig. After all, no one has dug them before, and you can dig one without much searching.

They dug bamboo shoots and picked up some dried bamboos to bring back for burning. They need to burn fire every day, especially at night. Even if they are covered with thick quilts, they are in the wild after all. The wind blows on their bodies, and they can't sleep without burning fire.

The people of Liuhua tribe are the same as them. They dug bamboo shoots and brought some dried bamboos back for burning.

"Goddess, don't you let us eat this meat?" Seeing Shen Xiaoxiao and the others brought back a few big rats, the others asked in confusion. They also wanted to catch rats to eat before, but the goddess didn't give them to them, saying that those rats carried some bacteria, which was not good for them and might kill them. After hearing this, they threw them away quickly.

Some of the other people who ate rat meat also lost their lives, but some were fine, and it was not known whether it was because of the rat meat.

Regardless of whether it was or not, they were very glad that they listened to the goddess and did not eat rat meat. They did not want to gamble on this possibility, and it was best not to eat it.

But why did the goddess catch rats and eat them now?

"This is a field mouse." Shen Xiaoxiao said lightly, "They eat food from the ground, and they did not appear at the disaster site. This can be eaten." After a pause, "I didn't let you eat it before because those rats eat everything, even corpses, and they carry too many viruses. Eating those rats can easily get sick, and it is still a contagious plague. Once you are infected, it is as difficult as heaven to cure it."

"This eats food from the ground, and has not eaten messy things, so it can be eaten." She has been watching for a few days and is sure that these field mice eat peanuts in the ground, otherwise she would not have caught them back.

"You guys take these voles away first." Shen Xiaoxiao said calmly, "Tomorrow some of you will go dig bamboo shoots, and some of you will go dig peanuts with me." The reason why it is called digging instead of pulling is that these peanut vines have rotted and cannot be pulled out at all. It is already very good to be able to dig them.

She did not expect to find peanuts. After all, the vines had already rotted. She really did not realize that they were peanuts. She only knew it when she saw the shells left by the voles. Later, she also went to dig and found that they were really peanuts, but most of those peanuts had sprouted, and there were very few that did not sprout.

However, I don't care about these now. It's okay to eat it. It doesn't matter whether it sprouts or not.

And peanut sprouts are also edible, as long as they are not moldy and rotten peanuts.

"What are peanuts?"

"Food." Shen Xiaoxiao said briefly, and now she didn't know how to explain it. They would know when they went to dig.

The others were silent. The goddess was right to say that. If it wasn't for food, the goddess probably wouldn't let them go.

The next day, Shen Xiaoxiao led some people to dig peanuts, and some people to dig bamboo shoots. The people of Liuhua tribe saw that half of their people were missing, especially when they saw Shen Xiaoxiao taking them away, they became even more curious, but they did not ask much, they would definitely know what they should know.

Since no one else said anything, they would not ask questions. It was good enough that the White Tiger Tribe was willing to take them to dig bamboo shoots. As for what they were going to do, that was not their business.

Shen Xiaoxiao brought people to the place where voles were caught, told them how to dig, what peanuts looked like, and then took them to turn the land over.

They were really turning the land. They had no idea where the peanuts grew, and they didn't want to miss them, so they had to dig inch by inch, which was no different from opening up wasteland.

However, their results were quite good. They soon dug a basket. Most of the peanuts had long buds. Knowing that this was normal, they didn't care and worked hard.

It was obviously a cold day, but everyone worked hard and sweated profusely. A group of people took turns digging. It took most of the day to turn over all the peanuts in the field. Although they were very tired, they couldn't help but curl their lips when they saw three baskets full of peanuts. Although they were a little tired, they could eat enough.

It was still early, so they started looking around to see if there was anything else to eat, but they found nothing after searching for a long time. Although Shen Xiaoxiao was a little disappointed, she knew that this was expected. There wasn't that much food for her at this time, and she was lucky to find peanuts.