Arriving at the market felt like opening up a whole new world for Xia Yu. He stared at the plump green caterpillars in front of him for a long while.
"Want some soybean caterpillars, young man? They're delicious." The vendor, who had a towel around his neck, smiled and grabbed a few caterpillars from his basket. In his hands, they looked like toys.
"You can eat these?" Xia Yu reached out and gently poked one of the caterpillars in front of him. It was soft.
"Of course you can. They're really tasty," the vendor replied with a smile.
"Then give me a jin to try."
"Sure, I'll prepare them for you." After weighing them, the vendor took them into the clean little room behind him to prepare them.
Next, Xia Yu came across all sorts of strange ingredients, such as sandworms, silkworm pupae, pig brains, and so on. Without exception, he bought them all.
[Now I finally understand what Hou Yunqi meant.]
[Watching this livestream is making my scalp crawl.]
[If the director had only sent Xia Yu out to buy ingredients, I guarantee both lunch and dinner would be a total disaster.]
[I wouldn't dare eat a single thing Xia Yu bought.]
[All I can say is, I admire anyone who can eat two or three of those things.]
Things were much more normal on Yun Xi's end. He and Zhong Ran had headed in the same direction, but they hadn't chosen to buy from the same stall.
"How much are the bell peppers per jin?" Yun Xi asked with practiced ease as he looked at the red and yellow bell peppers in front of him.
"Ten yuan a jin," the stall owner replied with a smile.
"That's too expensive. Seven, and I'll pick out a few." Yun Xi