Chapter 178.1: Salad Scheme (2/2)

After she made her decision, she pulled up her sleeves and started working. Anyone who made a salad before would know that it actually wasn’t hard to make. The only troublesome part was how to handle each fruit. And a bone-ash level foodie like her was not only very demanding towards the taste, but also towards the food’s shape, the knife work, and the arrangement.

Because of that, she had spent plenty of time practicing knife work at home. At the very start, she would get layers of blisters from handling the knife too much. Every time Grandpa saw her injured hands, he would admonish her for not knowing to treasure herself.

Tang Doudou’s nose started to sting when she recalled her grandfather. She tilted her head back in order to keep the tears from falling out. She then placed the readied fruits to the side before stooping down to get the yogurt Nan Maner had gotten for her a couple days ago.

Although this place was isolated, every family had yogurt. When she asked, she found out that these people used to be nomads that herded livestock and had gotten used to eating yogurt. As of now, they no longer had much room to raise livestock but they still kept that fondness for yogurt.

This local yogurt tasted much better than the yogurt she used to buy at the supermarket.

“What are you doing?” Just as she was getting into it, Shen Moru’s voice suddenly came from right next to her.

Tang Doudou stayed cool and didn’t even turn around as she continued to smoothly pour the yogurt over the fruit cubes. The original shapes were soon covered. “Didn’t you tell me to replenish my poison blood? The food Nan Maner brought was seriously unbearable, so I had no choice but to make food myself!”

Although Shen Moru had good hearing, he still couldn’t hear something that far away. Moreover, the thought that Tang Doudou would be dumb enough to try and use those fruits to poison him had never occurred to him. Despite all that, he still asked about those fruits. “There are no plants in Tree Valley other than the sacred tree. Where did you get so many fruits from? It couldn’t be from the sacred tree, right?”

It was clear from his tone that he didn’t realize what they were!

This reassured Tang Doudou and she replied without a change of expression, “Do you dare to eat the sacred tree’s fruits?”

“The sacred tree has numerous distinct fruits. Although their flavors are wonderful, they all have one special characteristic and it’s that they’re poisonous. Unless a person has a constitution that is immune to ten thousand poisons, he would definitely be poisoned upon eating one. Of course, each one contains a different poison. If they are used well, they could be utilized to make a medicinal bath that strengthens the constitution and cleanses the meridians. However, I have no need for those things so I naturally don’t eat them.”

After he finished speaking, he revealed a strange smile. “Of course, Maner has probably already told you about this. Based on how scared you seem to be of dying, you definitely wouldn’t dare to eat them.”

“Tch…” Tang Doudou gave a disdainful cold humph in response to what Shen Moru said. What ‘he doesn’t eat them?’ It was clearly that he didn’t dare to eat them!

Though Nan Maner didn’t tell her about those things, she had figured them out on her own. Although she didn’t have a constitution that was immune to ten thousand poisons, she had eaten the bug heart that cures a hundred poisons, and had the poison blood cultivated by the Disseminating Tassel Fragrance, so she was sure that she at least possessed a constitution immune to a hundred poisons. Hence, she tried eating one fruit a day. On one hand, it was for the sake of understanding the characteristics of the fruits. On the other hand, she had been trying to figure out which fruits to use in order to make a blend that would cause Shen Moru to lose his martial arts and his ability to move…

Shen Moru’s constitution seemed different from ordinary people so she wasn’t sure if those fruits could kill him. She planned for the worst, which was that the fruits would only buy enough time for her and Mu Ye to escape this valley.

Even if it just caused him to have diarrhea, it would be good enough.

In any case, please Buddha and all the gods, let him not be immune to these fruits!

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