CHAPTER 171: BAMBOO RICE SHOOTS

Ruan Chanchan now had rice in her supermarket, and she more or less understood and trusted Xie Daiyu. Thus, she didn’t hesitate in taking out the rice, as the mer already knew that the beast goddess had blessed her. When Xie Daiyu saw Ruan Chanchan taking out another weird thing from thin air, his eyes widened, but he was no longer as surprised as before. He sneaked close to her and questioned, "What is this?"

"It’s rice," Ruan Chanchan happily replied. Her eyes turned into crescents as she turned to look at the mer with a grin on her face. "It’s really delicious; you will be surprised after taking the first bite."

As she spoke, she scooped a few handfuls of rice into the boiling water and watched it boil. Though she knew that this stone pot won’t do a good job in cooking rice, she knew that this was the best she could do at the moment. As for the electric rice pot, she might as well forget about it. Who knows when she would be able to get her hands on it, and even if she could get her hands on it, would she be able to make electricity in the beast world? She had no idea about it.

Ruan Chanchan watched the rice being cooked in the stone pot and, for a few seconds, forgot all about the chances of getting out of this primitive society. How was she supposed to change this entire world? But then she thought about her successor, who changed the entire dimension and made it liveable for not only humans but also the animals and plants and her heart was once again filled with hope.

Ruan Chanchan gritted her teeth and thought, ’So what if I am in this situation now? Maybe in the future, I will be living a completely different reality. I just need to work hard.’

With that thought, her energy was once again rejuvenated. She boiled the rice and quickly took some jerky as well as the herbs that she had collected on the side of the mountains and started to make bamboo shoot fried rice. Just the thought alone was enough to make her mouth water.

Gulp.

Ruan Chanchan touched her lips, thinking that she was the one who was salivating, but when she touched her dry lips, she realised that it wasn’t her. She turned her head and turned to look at Xie Daiyu, who was looking at the stone slab with shiny eyes like a child, and her eyes softened. She raised her hand and touched him on the head before saying to him, "Okay, I know that you are hungry. Just wait for a while; it will be done."

When Xie Daiyu saw Ruan Chanchan touch his head, his face turned red with embarrassment, but at the same time, he felt his heart swell with happiness. His destined one was really nice to him. She didn’t forget him when she was eating delicious meals.

"What is going on here?"

The two of them were patiently waiting for the bamboo stir-fried rice to cook, when a mer walked over and looked at them with a frown on his face. Li Xiaohu looked at the two people sitting on the floor of the cave and sniffed the delicious scent floating in the air.

Though he knew that this must be something that Ruan Chanchan came up with, his eyes were still narrowed in confusion and wariness.

"Li Xiaohu," Xie Daiyu greeted the mer with a smile. He got on his feet and walked over to the mer before pulling him to where he was sitting. "Come and take a bite; this is something that Chanchan just made for me to eat." There was a note of pride in his voice.

Li Xiaohu also heard it and rolled his eyes. He looked at Ruan Chanchan, who was stirring the suspicious-looking thing on the stone slab, and wondered where Ruan Chanchan got it from.

How could Xie Daiyu not notice that the mer was looking at Ruan Chanchan suspiciously? He patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don’t worry, this is food from the world of the gods. The beast goddess was the one who blessed Chanchan with these grains. So don’t think too much."

When Li Xiahu heard that these grains were from the world of the gods, he was stunned. He whipped his head to look at Xie Daiyu and questioned, "Are you sure about this?"

"Why don’t you take a bite and see it for yourself?" said Ruan Chanchan as she handed a small portion of the bamboo rice served on a big palm-shaped leaf.

Ruan Chanchan’s words made Li Xiaohu narrow his eyes. Though he was still slightly suspicious, the scent of the rice was too tantalising for him to ignore. He took the palm leaf and took a bite of the shiny grains. One bite and his eyes lit up in excitement.

"It’s good!"

"Of course, it is good; this is the food of the gods," said Xie Daiyu.

Ruan Chanchan touched her nose guiltily when she heard the mer say such words; her eyes flickered uneasily, as she knew that this dish was nowhere close to being the food of a goddess. Fortunately, no one knew it, so even though she was acting like a scammer, Ruan Chanchan didn’t feel that bad about it. She wouldn’t get caught. That was a plus of being here.

The two mers finished the bamboo fried rice in a matter of a few seconds.

Once they were done, they took their leave, but before leaving, Xie Daiyu told Ruan Chanchan that he would remember what she had asked for and keep his eyes open for it.

After that, he ignored the curious look in the eyes of Li Xiaohu and walked out of the cave. The mer chased after him in confusion while asking him what he was looking for.

While the two of them went on hunting, Yuan Ni came looking for Ruan Chanchan with the rest of the tribe members who went to hunt for mushrooms.