Chapter 39 I am embarrassed
I suffered a lot following them!

Bai Tao had no idea what Bai Duoxi and the others were thinking. She took out some of the things she had bought and asked someone to move them out of the cave.

However, after seeing the real thing, Bai Tao fell silent for a moment.

She picked up the sweet potatoes from the box and the corners of her mouth twitched. Although it is a channel to help farmers and the price is cheap, you can't do this.

The big ones weigh more than a pound, while the small ones are only the size of a baby's palm.

Look at the pumpkins again. The big ones weigh seven or eight kilograms, while the small ones weigh two or three kilograms. The contrast is very obvious.

The white radishes were also large, some were thicker than the wrist, and some were only two fingers wide, as if they had been collected before they had grown up enough to make up the number.

The big taro weighs three or four pounds each, and the small ones weigh six or seven pounds each.

Mall, you know that I am very embarrassed by doing this!

Bai Tao was still complaining, but the villagers had already gathered around and exclaimed in amazement at the sight of these ingredients.

"Wow, it's so big." This is the person holding up the big pumpkin.

"I've never seen such a big radish." Hearing this, Bai Tao looked over and thought, why don't you talk about the small ones in the box.

But in the eyes of the villagers, the small ones are normal. After all, most of the crops grown in their fields are this size.

Forget it, although it is small, it does not interfere with eating.

Thinking of this, Bai Tao stopped hesitating and continued giving orders one by one. She did not notice that some villagers had strange expressions.

"When slicing sweet potatoes and purple potatoes, the thickness should be moderate. The same goes for taro."

"Wash the bean sprouts and throw them in handfuls when frying..."

"Don't cut the lettuce slices too thick, or they won't fry easily."

"These meatballs, tofu cubes, fish cakes and crab sticks need to be skewered together."

"You can still put sausages one on a stick, and wash the eggplant and cut it in half."

"Wash the pig lungs, boil them, slice them, and then skewer them."

"These are oyster mushrooms. Throw away the bad ones and string five of them together for frying."

“Brush the chicken wings with sauce, and fry the chicken fillets in breadcrumbs…”

"..."

Just as Bai Tao was giving instructions to Bai Duoxi and others, the children next to them were looking at the sweet potatoes in the box and talking about them.

"Is this edible?" It felt like the same fruit she had seen before, but that fruit was not for humans to eat.

On the side, Bai Xiaocao said weakly: "It is indeed edible."

As if she was afraid that no one would believe what she said, she repeated it seriously: "Really, I have eaten it."

Bai Shitou also nodded heavily: "I ate it, I ate it!"

The siblings' words immediately caused the other children to jump up and refute.

"You're lying. This is what my aunt just brought out. Where have you eaten it before?"

"Yes."

"No, I really have eaten it." Seeing that everyone didn't believe him, Bai Xiaocao became anxious: "I have eaten it before, yes, yes, I was so hungry that I ate it. This fruit, although it..."

After a pause, my aunt said that she wanted to eat something delicious. If I said it was not delicious, wouldn’t that be saying something bad about my aunt?

No, what my aunt took out must be a good thing, and it must be me who is not good.

Bai Xiaocao swallowed the words that were about to come out of her mouth when she thought of this, but the other children saw that she looked guilty and they all accused her of lying.

"Liar, Xiaocao is a liar!" The children's quarreling voices were quickly suppressed by two scoldings from the adults, but Bai Tao still vaguely heard a few words.

"what's wrong?"

The children looked at each other. They were not as good at hiding things as the adults, so they soon all spoke out the reasons.

Bai Xiaocao was afraid that Bai Tao would not believe her, so she quickly said again: "Auntie, I have really eaten this fruit. It is edible."

Before Bai Tao could respond, Bai Qiao'er, who had just raised the question, asked hesitantly: "Auntie, can this kind of fruit be eaten? This isn't..."

Before she could finish what she was going to say, her sleeve was pulled by her friend next to her, and her words were interrupted.

Bai Tao looked at the sweet potato in her hand. Although it was not big, it was indeed a ripe fruit. Why couldn't it be eaten?

"Yes, it's small, but you can eat it, and it tastes good." Bai Tao thought of something and sipped her saliva, her voice became a little fuzzy: "It tastes good."

Look! Bai Xiaocao immediately raised his chin, with a proud expression on his face.

"Oh, okay." Bai Qiaoer seemed to want to say something but didn't say anything in the end.

I haven't eaten it myself, maybe it's delicious, otherwise the wild boar wouldn't always find fault with it.

Bai Tao reacted and called sweet potatoes fruits, and this world actually didn’t know that sweet potatoes were edible?
"Haven't you eaten it before?" When asking this question, Bai Tao looked at Bai Xiaocao, and it seemed like she had said she had eaten it before.

"Well..." The children looked at each other, hesitating whether to tell the truth.

Seeing this, Bai Tao was too lazy to ask the little kids any more questions, and instead called out to Bai Duoxi who was not far away: "Duoxi, come here."

"Have you seen this before? Do you know what it is?"

Bai Duoxi was stunned for a moment, his eyes showed hesitation for a moment, and he shook his head guiltily.

My aunt took it out and said happily that she was going to make something delicious. She also took out so many buckets of peanut oil. If he told the truth, would my aunt be sad when she knew it?

But the next second, under Bai Tao's burning gaze, he had to tell the truth: "Aunt, I have seen it roughly, but I'm not sure if it is the same fruit."

"Tell me what you've seen."

Bai Duoxi took a deep breath, considered her words in her mind, and then spoke: "Auntie, the fruit I have seen is definitely different from the one you exchanged for."

"That fruit, I've seen wild boars eating it. Wild boars like to eat the vines and leaves of this fruit, and sometimes they'll pull the fruit out from the ground to eat..."

Bai Tao's mouth twitched. There are vines and leaves, and the fruits are grown underground. Isn't it sweet potato?

"So, you haven't eaten it?"

"No." Bai Duoxi shook his head: "I have seen wild boars eat quite a few."

At this time, a weak voice came from behind: "Aunt, I have eaten it. My brother and I have eaten it."

"Yes, that's right."

Bai Tao turned her head and saw Bai Xiaocao holding her brother's hand, both of them looking sincere.

Since Bai Duoxi said it was eaten by wild boars and no one has ever eaten it, how could these two siblings have eaten it?

Seeing her confusion, Bai Xiaocao explained embarrassedly.

"The harvest was poor this year, and I didn't have much food at home. I was really hungry, and I saw a wild boar chewing half of a fruit, so I bravely waited for the wild boar to leave and dug up some..."

As she spoke, her voice became softer and softer, and her head slowly lowered.

Although the uncles and aunts in the village also took care of her and her brother, when the harvest was poor, she could only try her best to find food to fill her stomach.

It is not a nice thing to compete with wild boars for food. If her aunt had not taken out this kind of fruit, she would not have brought it up on her own initiative.

(End of this chapter)