Chapter 7: The Neck Has Already Been Washed Clean

Even the most delicious food shouldn't be eaten for all three meals a day, every single day.

That would get sickening.

Fortunately, she has an ability, enough to satisfy her stomach.

With her palm pressed to the ground and her ability flickering, a tiny vine grew rapidly, its stem gradually thickening and enlarging.

The green, tender leaves unfurled, turning from light green to dark green, growing to the size of half a palm.

In clusters, they looked extremely delightful.

Ruan Mian stopped her ability, plucked a large handful of tender green leaves, and then continued to use her ability to force the plant to grow.

Until the sweet potato buried in the ground was fully mature.

That's right, she was preparing to make a Roasted Sweet Potato in a moment, and stir-fry some sweet potato leaves while she was at it.

Sweet potatoes are a good thing; they are delicious no matter how you make them, the leaves are edible, and you can make starch, vermicelli, and so many other ways to eat them.

The few sweet potatoes she grew were also twice as big as those grown on Earth during the apocalypse.

A single sweet potato was as big as her small forearm.

She estimated that if she forced it a bit more, she could grow an even bigger one.

Could it be that the soil in the Interstellar is unusually fertile?

Never mind.

It's good enough to have something to eat.

"These... are plants?"

As soon as Ruan Mian looked up, she saw Lu Yi, who had appeared behind her at some unknown time.

She felt that if he came around a few more times, she would become desensitized.

In a place he couldn't see, she silently rolled her eyes, giving a somewhat perfunctory response to his surprising question.

"Yeah."

Lu Yi approached with a hint of excitement, yet was extremely cautious, reaching out as if to touch them, but not daring to.

He was terrified that if he stepped forward with his left foot first, these plants would feel displeased and just drop dead.

Watching the proud, cocky youth reveal such a reserved and cautious expression, she couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"You don't have to be like that; if you want to touch them, just touch them, you won't lose a piece of flesh."

"What do you know? These are plants, not some stinking rocks on the side of the road that you can just..."

Wait!

His gaze finally landed on the handful of freshly picked tender green sweet potato leaves in her hand, and the large, bulky one still covered in black soil.

His eyes shifted again, seeing the soil by her feet that was clearly just dug up, and a cluster of leaves that had already withered.

A terrifying fact formed in his mind.

"Could it be that the things we eat have always been plants?"

Ruan Mian frowned; how could this person ask such a stupid question?

"Otherwise?"

Ignoring the stunned man, she got up to wash the ingredients, preparing to cook.

Only this time, there was an extra little tail; wherever she went, that person followed her.

His eyes were fixed on the things in her hands the entire time, without blinking once.

It was as if he were staring at some rare treasure.

Even until she placed the roasted sweet potato in front of him, he continued to stare at it.

"You won't be able to eat it just by staring."

What is wrong with this person?

The next moment, he looked at Ruan Mian, those light brown eyes bright and sparkling, as if starlight were flowing within them, overflowing with emotion.

"Really for me to eat?"

A person who treats incomparably precious plants as food, and is still able to share them so generously for him to eat.

How could she possibly have ulterior motives toward him?

If she were to take out a single leaf casually, people would go crazy fighting for it on the black market.

How could she possibly... toward a good-for-nothing like him...

His raven-feather-like eyelashes drooped, extinguishing the light in his eyes, and even his hair strands hung down.

His whole body was shrouded in a low-pressure atmosphere.

Ruan Mian: "?"

What is this about now? When did she ever say she wouldn't let him eat?

Are all men in this Interstellar this troublesome?

"I can't eat that much by myself; if you don't eat it, I'll have to put it on the Light Brain to sell."

"You sell these things on the Light Brain?"

Speaking of this, Ruan Mian remembered that she had put a few roasted potatoes on the Light Brain yesterday, and she didn't know if they had sold or not.

She picked up a chopstick of stir-fried sweet potato leaves and stuffed them into her mouth; although no seasonings were added, there was animal fat and a little bit of salt, which better brought out the tenderness of the leaves and the faint lingering sweetness.

Unexpectedly delicious!

Only after swallowing did she have time to answer his question, "Yeah, yeah, I would have forgotten if you hadn't mentioned it."

Opening the homepage, she discovered that the five roasted potatoes she had put up had already been sold out.

There were also a few more comments.

【Ahhhhh, what kind of divine delicacy is this? It's too delicious, boss, do you have any more? Do you have any more?】

"What is this roasted potato? How can it be so delicious? Where did the boss get it?"

"Does the boss have any more? Will you restock? Love it, love it, love it!"

This real-time feedback is actually quite good; one can receive feedback from customers directly.

The tiny roasted potato is merely an appetizer.

Wouldn't what comes next be enough to leave you all completely spellbound?

Having harvested another 100 Interstellar Coin, this little treasury is becoming increasingly full.

Taking another bite of the Roasted Sweet Potato, the starch inside the roasted sweet potato had converted into super sugars; the sweetness doubled, the soft, glutinous texture doubled, and the deliciousness doubled too.

A texture completely different from the potato, it also captured the heart of Lu Yi in an instant.

When facing Ruan Mian, his gaze flickered somewhat, unilaterally feeling a bit awkward.

He pursed his lips and lowered his voice, "This, what kind of plant is it?"

Oh, she seemed to have forgotten to tell him.

"This is a sweet potato, and there are many ways to prepare it; this is what you get when you make it into a Roasted Sweet Potato~"

She suddenly felt that she had one more dish to list for sale.

However, isn't there a reference person right in front of her!

Lu Yi's hand reaching toward the stir-fried sweet potato leaves paused; he swallowed his saliva, a flash of panic crossing his face.

"What is it?"

It was truly because Ruan Mian was smiling a bit too obsequiously.

"Lu Yi, which do you think is more delicious, Fried Fries or Roasted Sweet Potato?"

"Both are very delicious." He finally picked up the tender green sweet potato leaves and stuffed them into his mouth in a big mouthful, "And this, it's delicious!"

Forget it, his words provide absolutely no reference value.

Ruan Mian picked up the half-eaten Roasted Sweet Potato and was about to get up.

"Wait, are you planning to put all these foods on the Light Brain to sell?"

"Yeah, otherwise what?"

"Then I suggest you had better only sell the Fried Fries and Roasted Sweet Potato."

Lu Yi's expression was indescribably serious, his brows deeply furrowed.

This seriousness made Ruan Mian's heart thump.

"What's wrong? Is there a problem?"

"If you don't want to die, you had better hide these things that make it obvious at a glance that you possess plants."

As soon as the word 'die' came out, Ruan Mian swallowed her saliva as a conditioned reflex.

"Is it that serious?"

Lu Yi pressed his lips together tightly, staring fixedly into her eyes, solemn and earnest, "Do you have no concept of what you possess? If it gets out and others learn that you have extinct plants here, can you withstand the covetousness of the entire Interstellar?"

Almost, just almost, her neck would have been washed clean and placed in front of everyone, and then they could shout, "Everyone come and take a slash!"

Why was she so stupid?!

Wait!

Ruan Mian looked at the man in front of her in terror.

"Then what about you? Do you want to kill me?"

Kill to seize the treasure?