It is not easy to traverse the wilderness

Song Lai in An Ye's eyes smiled and shed tears.He was quite used to Song Lai's occasional convulsions, so he stepped forward and hugged him as usual, and comforted him softly, "Be good and don't cry." He patted Song Lai's back lightly with his hand.After a while, "Okay, let me go, the dishes are going to be mushy." Song Lai gently pushed An Ye away, walked to the pottery pot, and gently stirred the pot a few times with a wooden spatula made of bamboo. However, the oxtail in the other hand was always tightly grasped.

"I'm going to bring the baby and let's have dinner together." An Ye turned and left the kitchen, obviously Song Lai needed a quiet environment to calm himself down.

Song Lai looked down at the oxtail in his hand, this feeling of wanting to cry but no tears could be calmed down no matter what.What kind of firm belief do I still hold, thinking that I am still on the earth at least, have I really forgotten how boundless the universe is.The red fruit on the oxtail is chili, because very, very hot chili.Song Lai has always had an inexplicable confidence in his heart. He feels that although this place is a bit weird, it is still the earth that he is familiar with or knows where he is going. No matter how difficult the world in front of him is, he is omniscient like God. can not.

But this chili pepper, this chili pepper brought by the buffalo in an unknown distant place, grows on a small branch of a woody plant, that is to say, this pepper grows on a tree.Moreover, although the appearance of this pepper is very similar to the ones I have seen before, it has no seeds, or it may have seeds, but it has not grown enough to be seen.This is a plant that looks very similar to what I know, but the environment and structure it grows in are completely unfamiliar.

Song Lai used to like spicy food very much, so he has seen all kinds of peppers, almost every continent on the earth has its own peppers, and even some peppers are not spicy or sweet, but all of them are called peppers The plants are all herbaceous and the peppers never grow on trees.

He lowered his head and looked at the red pepper repeatedly. On the earth, if the pepper is of this color, it means that he has matured.But now it's clearly not.The structure and shape of the chili in my hand is very similar to the kind of chili I know.It's a pity that it is not. It is completely different from the chili pepper I am familiar with, except that it is very, very spicy.Song Lai carefully put the pepper that he had bitten into a pottery bowl, then searched and found the oxtail of this pepper. The long tail hair on the oxtail was tangled up because of a branch. Song Lai carefully put the pepper The branches with peppers slowly separated from the oxtail little by little.

This is a branch about [-] centimeters long, with dark green leaves. Song Lai pinched a piece and put it in his mouth. It smells like grass, but not spicy. There is nothing special about it. The branch is already a little wilted, " An Ye, bring me some water." He shouted loudly without looking back, and within a moment, there was a bowl of water filled with Tao Wan by his side.Song Lai put one end of the branch into the water, and there were some small white peppers of three to four centimeters in the first half of the branch, which looked a bit like rice peppers.Uncontrollably, I reached out and picked a small white pepper and put it in my mouth, "嗞~~~" It's also very spicy, but not as spicy as red.

After thinking about it, Song Lai went to find Oss with red peppers and white peppers. "Oss, do you know what this is?" When Song Lai held the two peppers in front of Oss, Song Lai found that the little old man's expression was obviously split.It's a feeling of total collapse, and even seems to be a little scared. "This is an immature devil fruit. You brought it from there!"His tone was unavoidably too brisk, and he looked up at Oss's expression carefully, expecting something unexpected to happen. "I'm about to throw it away!" Oss's expression became grim, "Don't throw it away, burn it quickly. Burn it, burn it clean." Song Lai looked at Ossnasis in doubt, just a pepper? ? "Oss, calm down first, this thing doesn't change shape after eating, so calm down."

Song Lai comforted Oss with a relaxed tone, carefully put the chili pepper aside, then pulled Oss to sit on his side, just when Rich came out of the back room and asked him to get a cup of sugar water for Oss, and he himself Sitting down with Oss, "Oss, tell me everything about the devil fruit." Song Lai still wanted to laugh.Rich came over, handed Oss a cup of warm sugar water, and then sat down beside him, "The fruits you brought me are immature devil fruits, which are black when they are ripe. , this kind of fruit is very scary, its juice splashes on people's body carelessly, it will cause invisible flames to burn, if you accidentally eat this kind of fruit, it will burn from the inside to the outside, until this People died." Oss looked very frightened.

"Then why An Ye didn't tell me when he saw the fruit?" Song Lai was a little surprised. If the chili peppers were really terrifying to the ancients, then An Ye couldn't have watched him eat them. It's going to be stressful. "Devil fruit is also called God's Punishment Fruit. The flames it attracts are invisible but can be felt, so this fruit is used by God to punish the world." Oss said dryly and looked up at Song Lai.The indescribable complexity and fear in the eyes.

Song Lai patted Oss's back lightly, and found that Oss's back was wet and cold, the old man was terrified. "Who else in the tribe knows this kind of fruit?" "Only shamans can know this kind of fruit, and not all shamans can know this kind of fruit." Oss looked at Song Lai pitifully. "Oss, I told you that I am not with your so-called god, I came from another place, there is no god of you, so I did not come to you with this fruit to punish you, just I just want to know if you know this fruit." After speaking, he got up and took his chili and planned to leave.

"Where did you get this fruit, I haven't seen this kind of fruit for a long time." Oss suddenly asked when Song Lai was about to leave the room. "It was sent from far away." Song Lai replied coquettishly, "What are you going to use it for?" Aussie's tone was strong. "Oss, are you questioning me?" Song Lai turned around and shook the pepper in his hand.Seeing Osna's instantly pale face, "Pfft~ Take it easy, I'm teasing you, I plan to eat it, this thing is delicious." After speaking, he turned and left shaking the pepper in his hand.

As soon as Song Lai stepped out of the room, he heard a bang behind him, and the sound of a heavy object falling, "Oss, Oss!~" Then Rich's voice came out.

When I got home, Song Lai made a small flowerpot out of bamboo, put some soil on it, put it on one side of the room, and used a bamboo tube to remove the pepper branches. Since there are no seeds, let's see if the cuttings can grow alive.Song Lai is really looking forward to this so-called devil fruit, the immature one is already so spicy, and the black one is scary just thinking about it.The invisible flame, heh, should be caused by capsaicin irritating the skin. People who eat too irritating things must not be able to bear it in their stomachs.Ha Invisible Flame, so creative.

Fortunately, the people in the tribe don't know about the devil fruit yet, so they should have no problem eating it.There were three small red peppers on that branch, and it was a small white pepper.It's too little, but it's true that it's spicy enough. I, who is good at spicy food, can't stand it, let alone An Ye and the others. Song Lai thought about it, put all the peppers aside, and then had dinner with An Ye and the others.

"What did Oss say?" During the meal, An Ye asked about Song Lai's visit to Oss's place, "It's nothing called chili, it's just a seasoning." When Song Lai answered An Ye's words, he suddenly thought, What if the black chili is too hot to eat and used as a weapon.I really look forward to it.

The next day, Song Lai soaked the peppers and cucumbers in boiling water and salt, and made some kimchi, so that the capsaicin in the peppers could be combined with salt water, so that he could eat them without being too spicy. In the future, the number will obviously increase, and it is no problem to eat something for the winter.Rich came over while Song Lai was busy making kimchi.Sitting next to Song Lai and watching him busy, "Oss seems to be sick." Song Lai stopped what he was doing when he heard that, "He didn't even get up in the morning to eat." Song Lai shook his head, went into the room and was talking to Xiao The baby who was playing together was picked up and put into Rich's arms, "You keep the baby away from him, and then go to do your own thing, and he will be fine when you go back at night."

After listening to Song Lai's words, Rich smiled and left with the baby in his arms.After Song Lai finished making kimchi, he suddenly remembered that he picked a lot of blue flowers and put them room by room, and then he was so busy that he forgot to change the water. It must have dried out, An Ye, please don't add water to it. Ah, it must not be retting for such a long time.

Running to the bamboo tube in the house, Song Lai held his breath, and carefully lifted the bamboo tube, yes, An Ye added water to it.The flowers on the bamboo tube had withered a long time ago. Song Lai stretched out his hands and held the bamboo tube out, wanting to throw this rotten thing out, but he really didn't dare to look inside the bamboo tube, grinning and closing Walking forward angrily, it turned out that An Ye was entering the house, and he didn't know what he was thinking, so the two bumped into each other head-on.

Wow~ Song Lai could imagine what An Ye saw with his eyes closed, at that moment Song Lai almost wanted to travel back to modern times.

The sour and smelly liquid was poured from head to toe, and nothing was wasted.Song Lai heaved a long sigh, opened his eyes and looked at An Ye who was stunned opposite him, walked around him silently, walked out of the room and walked towards the central lake, his face was itchy like hair, Song Lai stretched out his hand and pulled it, and the result was A few thin hair-like white filaments were pulled out.

Song Lai was so frightened that he immediately ran down the central lake, it's not a bug.I don't dare to look at the things in my hand even if I lose them. I am the most disgusted by this kind of thin and long insects.Plop~ I jumped into the lake and took off my clothes. After washing carefully, I immediately ran ashore without even taking the clothes. With those withered flower branches.

While putting on his clothes, Song Lai looked at the withered flower branches on the ground. The small blue flowers had withered long ago, and then the shriveled flower stems, and the part inside the bamboo tube had been soaked, leaving only some white and gray filaments.Frowning, he picked up one and washed it in the central lake. After washing, the thing was thinner than hair, and he pulled it with his hands. It was a little tough but not elastic. Could this thing be fiber? !