"...This is the bracken, known as the 'king of mountain vegetables'. Like dandelions and chicodile, it is a very easy-to-identify mountain vegetables.

It evolved from ancient ferns and is a perennial herb of the Phoenix-tail family. Because its unstretched buds look like cat claws and fists, it is also called cat claws and fists. Fist vegetable - some places in China call it dragon vegetable.

When you pick mountain vegetables in this piece, don’t pick them randomly except for the few I’ve just introduced. You should ask me to confirm whether they can be eaten before starting.”

In the late spring forest before the plum rain season, because the apostles appeared twice in succession, not many people have been interested in coming to the campsite for hiking recently, so the grass where Chu Xuan and others stood was full of various mountain vegetables.

However, in order to avoid accidentally picking poisonous weeds, Chu Xuan carefully explained to them several methods of identifying edible mountain vegetables with very obvious characteristics before asking the three qualified people to do it themselves.

——Of course, you can also see sporadic mushrooms at the roots of the tree nearby, but that was something Chu Xuan prohibited them from picking, but Chu Xuan promised that if he found edible mushrooms, he would call them over to pick them.

After working together to build up four tents, Shigeru Aoye and Makoto Hinata were pulled by Miri Kazuki to process the ingredients instead of her. Although Ibuki Moya was very interested in picking edible wild plants that "pure natural green, pollution-free, no fertilizer, no medicine, no hormones," unfortunately, her senior sister Riko Akagi has passed the age to participate in this "young man" action with great enthusiasm, so she had to accompany her senior sister to process the ingredients.

——After all, her senior sister knew nothing about cooking. The two men seemed to be unreliable. If she wasn’t here, it was really worrying what the ingredients that had been roughly processed would eventually become.

But if Riko Akagi is there, even in the worst case, you can handle animal and plant-based ingredients according to the principles of biological experiments. At least there should be no problem with the hygiene that Ibuki Moyah attaches importance to.

"etc."

Just as Ayaba Ri, who was standing not far from Chu Xuan, bent down to pick a bracken tree beside her feet, Chu Xuan stopped her movements and also called Shinji Ikari and Black Cat who had just dispersed.

"What bracken can eat is the tender buds that shrink into a ball and the tender stems on the upper part. If the buds and leaves are almost completely expanded, they will be old, but if they are too short and thin, they can grow up, don't pick them.

In addition, there is a secret to picking bracken…”

In order to demonstrate in person, Chu Xuan bent down almost against Ayaba Ri's body, reached out and pinched the stem of a thick bracken that looked very much like a cat's claw, and pulled it up slowly and forcefully. When he was halfway through, the stem broke off with a "pop".

"The place that is automatically disconnected is the edible part, and the stems below are quite hard. They taste like old garlic shoots, and it is difficult to pick them all out when mixed in other tender stems."

Seeing Chu Xuan and Ayanami Ri standing intimately together, Shinji Ikari seemed to understand something.

Then he subconsciously looked at the black cat that had solemnly warned him, but found that the black cat was holding a few ferns like cat claws, and his other empty hand was holding it as if he was a cat claw, and he cried cutely at Chu Xuan and Ayanami Ri, as if he didn't care about the ambiguity between the two people at all.

As a man, it is impossible not to think of "Why is that person not me" when he sees this situation? However, because that person is Chu Xuan, Shinji Ikari cannot feel any envy, jealousy and hatred at all, and he dare not think about "I can replace it". He can only turn his head with a little embarrassed and enjoy the fun of finding a mountain dish honestly.

"Chu Xuan, what is this?"

After a while, Shinji Ikari heard Ayamari's extremely calm voice coming from not far away. He turned his head and found that Chu Xuan and Ayamari had moved to a round leaf weed not far from him at some point, while the black cat was squatting in another direction and trying hard to pick mountain vegetables. It was still easy to distinguish in the green field.

Next to Ayanami Ri, Chu Xuan was bent over to pinch the purple-red tender leaves of the round-leaf wild grass, and he didn't even let go of the larger green leaves below. He looked at it carefully, but he didn't know what kind of grass it was.

"This is perilla, the leaves and tender stems are edible. At noon we will use it and other mountain dishes to fried tempura.

It has high nutritional value and can also be regarded as a spice."

"It's a little different from the perilla used by Black Cat."

Chu Xuan and Ayanami Ri were talking lightly there, while Shinji Ikari secretly swallowed the water here. The fresh marina tempura, just thinking about it, I felt like a faint fragrance was smelling in my nose.

With expectations for the tempura of the yam, Shinji Ikari buried his head and worked harder to find edible yam dishes. He searched and dug along the way, and soon came to the end of this forest field.

Stand up his waist, which was already quite sore, Shinji Ikari looked back and saw Chu Xuan, Ayahari and Black Cat have separated, and they were picking mountain cabbage in four directions in a cross shape with him, but the progress was not as fast as him. Chu Xuan was still called by Ayahari and Black Cat from time to time to identify the mountain cabbage, so he fell in the last place.

Although he knew that the idea of ​​"I am the fastest" was quite naive, Shinji Ikari felt a little happy. When he was about to go to Chu Xuan to do some help, he suddenly noticed the red spots appearing in the woods at the corner of his eyes.

“That’s…”

Shinji Ikari's eyes lit up and he immediately walked towards the red with joy. After more than half a minute, he ran happily towards Chu Xuan, and there were a few red fruits gently in his right hand in front of him.

"Chu Xuan, I found wild strawberries there, a lot of them!"

Before he could run to Chu Xuan, Shinji Ikari shouted to Chu Xuan excitedly, as if he was a child who was anxious to offer treasures to adults. After Black Cat and Ayanami also ran over after hearing the sound, he spread his hands in front of everyone with some smugness and showed a few big and red wild strawberries.

——But this is not a wild strawberry, and it is still obviously different from strawberries on the outside, but Shinji Ikari is not aware of the scientific name of this thing.

"This is indeed also called wild strawberry, and its scientific name is 'raspberry'. Because it grows on shrubs, it is also called 'raspberry'. Now it is the season of ripening.

It belongs to the same family as strawberries, but one is the genus of the genus of the genus of the genus of the genus of the genus of the genus of the genus of the genus of the genus of the genus of the 194 kinds of raspberries selected in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia and can be used as medicine."

Chu Xuan, who seemed to know everything, accurately identified this red wild berry as beautiful as a gem. Shinji Ikari would not be amazed by this little thing now, because in his heart, it was already natural that Chu Xuan was so knowledgeable.

"By the way, be careful before eating."

After Shinji Ikari took the initiative to divide the four very beautiful raspberries in his hand and give them to the other three, Chu Xuan reminded them while these "children in the city" had not put the raspberries in their mouths.

"Be sure to look behind the back before eating. Sometimes there will be ants or other larvae running in there - but you can blow it away with a forceful blow."

I heard that there were bugs inside, and Shinji Ikari and the black cat changed their faces slightly. Shinji Ikari raised his hand and put the tail of the raspberry in front of him. Behind the fruit, he looked in from the round hole that originally connected the calyx. The flesh was neatly put together, which felt a bit like a beehive.

Since it is a beehive, of course, bee larvae are indispensable inside.

“Wow——!”

Seeing the white larvae squirming inside the raspberry, Shinji Ikari's goosebumps immediately arose, and his scream threw the ruby-like fruit into the air, but was caught by Chu Xuan in time.

"Is it a bug, worm..."
Chapter completed!