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Chapter 997: Extra - Wen Ye Couple 13
Unwilling to give up, Ye Qiao planned to take the young females for a walk near the Tribe to see if they could find anything edible.
After a round, they had some gains.
She found several wild scallions and some cumin seeds, and even came across a bunch of bright red peppers!
When Ye Qiao was about to pick the peppers, a young female grabbed her with a terrified expression, shaking her head desperately.
"No, Aqiao, those are Pain Fruits. After eating them, your mouth and stomach will hurt a lot, and you can get sick. We can’t eat those."
The other young females also advised.
"Yes, it will make you feel bad. Doctor forbids us to touch them!"
"Aqiao, please throw them away!"
"There are red fruits ahead, be good Aqiao, let’s go eat the red fruits."
The females kept talking, one after the other, giving Ye Qiao a headache.
Out of helplessness, she pinched the bridge of her nose, "I won’t eat it, I won’t eat it. I just think they look pretty in red and I want to hang them outside my cave, is that also not allowed?"
While saying this, Ye Qiao broke off a few more bunches to hold in her hand.
And truly, these peppers must be really flavorful. Standing here for a while, she could feel her nose getting itchy, wanting to sneeze.
The young females looked at each other, and for a moment, all hesitated.
In the end, it was the young female who spoke up first who made a declaration, "Then, you absolutely cannot eat them, otherwise if you get sick, the Chief will blame us."
These past few days, even though they hadn’t seen how the Chief and Aqiao got along, they could distinctly feel that every time the Chief came out of the Cave, he was in a very good mood.
And seeing Aqiao again, it was true that she had changed compared to before.
So this was enough to prove that Ye Qiao’s status in the Chief’s eyes was far from ordinary!
Lucky for Ye Qiao that she couldn’t hear the young female’s thoughts, otherwise she would have died laughing there.
The group didn’t dare to explore too deep into the Forest, so after picking some red fruits, they returned, and Ye Qiao also picked some wild vegetables she recognized along the way.
Although the females of the Tribe didn’t understand why Ye Qiao would pick grass.
Yet considering that she even picked the Pain Fruit, what would picking some grass matter? Maybe she thought the grass was pretty too and wanted to hang it together with the Pain Fruit?
Back at the Tribe, Ye Qiao had the females take everything they had picked in the Forest to the Stream to wash.
She herself found a rather tough Vine to string the peppers together, hanging them on a protruding rock at the Cave entrance.
Seeing that she indeed had no intention of eating the Pain Fruit, the young females finally put their minds at ease.
With the cleaned items, the group returned to the cookstove area.
A young female pointed at the wild vegetables laid out on a large green leaf, "Aqiao, are these grasses also for eating?"
Ye Qiao nodded nonchalantly, "Hmm, blanch them in water, mix in some Garlic Chili Oil, and the flavor is excellent—a perfect greasy palate cleanser."
As she spoke, she paused for a moment, "However, we’re short on ingredients here. Stir-frying them with meat would probably be a good choice, or even using them to stew soup."
The nearby young females all looked puzzled.
Right at this moment, the hunting Beastmen returned from the Forest with loud cheers.
Several Beastmen with Wen Jue as the leader were shouldering robust Sabertooth Beasts.
Ye Qiao’s eyes lit up, "Pork, that’s great. How about we stew some ribs? Drinking something warm in this cold weather would be perfect, wouldn’t it?"
So Ye Qiao happily approached, her eyes sparkling as she looked at the Sabertooth Beast on Wen Jue’s back.
