Chapter 20: Communication Tool Upgrade

Seeing her uncle and grandmother arguing, Xiao Qing quickly stepped forward to mediate.

“Grandma, uncle, the beautiful sister tells Qing’er about her private affairs.”

Imperial Concubine Yun immediately changed the target of the conversation: “Qing’er, tell grandma quickly, what private affairs did your beautiful sister talk about?”

“Today, the beautiful sister cried while eating noodles. Qing’er and brother comforted her and asked her why she was crying. Sister said she missed her parents.”

Hearing this, Imperial Concubine Yun urged: “Tell me quickly, where are Miss Si Si’s parents?”

This time it was Xiao Mujin who answered, and he finally got the chance to answer: “Sister said her parents left, Mujin thinks they went to a very far place.”

The two children didn’t understand the meaning of the word “left”, but Imperial Concubine Yun and Qi Mohan understood.

The mother and son looked at each other, unable to hide their pity.

Imperial Concubine Yun took a deep breath: “She is a poor child. I don’t know how she can live alone and provide us with so much food and water.”

This was something Qi Mohan hadn’t expected. He never thought that such a capable girl would not have the support of her family.

Inexplicably, his curiosity about Si Si became stronger and stronger. He even wanted to know more about her past……

But Qi Mohan was a man after all. He would not show what he thought in his heart like his mother.

Therefore, his expression at this moment seemed to Imperial Concubine Yun and the two children as if he was listening to something that had nothing to do with himself.

Imperial Concubine Yun has long been accustomed to her son’s attitude.

If it weren’t for the drought in recent years, in everyone’s eyes, Qi Mohan would be an iceberg prince without any emotions.

No one knows better than Imperial Concubine Yun, the mother, that her son was cold on the outside, but not cold-blooded on the inside. He has lived in the palace, a place full of intrigues, since he was a child. If he hadn’t been used to restraining his joys, sorrows, anger, and happiness, he wouldn’t have lived to this day.

Although she understands her son’s personality, in Imperial Concubine Yun’s view, his indifference can be to anyone in the world, but she felt uncomfortable when he was also indifferent to Si Si.

“Mohan, Miss Si’s life is so pitiful, you should pay more attention to her when you record messages to her in the future.”

Qi Mohan didn’t understand his mother’s true intention, but he didn’t reject this idea in his heart: “This son knows.”

Imperial Concubine Yun muttered for a while and sent the two children to accompany Si Si more.

As soon as the two children appeared, Si Si pushed the shopping cart full of items in front of them.

“Qing’er, Mujin, this is the food that sister prepared for your uncle and grandmother, you take it to them.”

Hearing this, the two little heads poked their heads into the shopping cart at the same time.

Well, the carp turned over impatiently in the car, scaring the two little ones. Xiao Mujin pointed at the carp and said:

“Sister, the fish tastes very fishy and is not delicious at all.”

When Xiao Mujin said this, Si Si suddenly remembered several time-travel novels she had read.

The novel said that the people of ancient times were not very good at handling fish, so the dishes they made were very fishy and even difficult to swallow.

Could it be that, like what was written in the novels she had read, people in Daqi Kingdom did not know how to cook fish?

Thinking of this, Si Si asked: “Don’t people in your place eat fish?”

“Sister, Qing’er knows this.” Xiao Qing answered before her brother: “Qing’er heard from an uncle that before the drought, no one ate the fish in the river. Later, the river water gradually dried up, and these fish could not survive. People had no food to eat, so they roasted these fish to fill their stomachs.”

“Uncle also said that many people have stomach problems after eating fish, but there is no way, only by eating this unpalatable thing, can they avoid starving to death.”

Xiao Qing and Xiao Mujin only knew half of it.

After all, they were not even five years old this year. When the drought started, they were two-year-olds who knew nothing. How could they know the specific situation before the disaster?

They said this because they had heard Qi Mohan mention it once, and they were sure that the fish didn’t taste good.

Therefore, they had such an explanation.

In truth, fish would be served on the table, but that was only the table of the rich.

If people want to make fish delicious, putting seasoning is a must. It was difficult for ordinary people to make a living at home, so it was impossible to prepare various seasonings in the kitchen like some nobles, so the taste of fish dishes would naturally not be delicious.

Even some people don’t like the smell of fish, and they start to reject it before they even eat it.

Because of this, fish was only eaten by some people in the Daqi Kingdom.

Si Si has now determined that Qi Mohan’s people don’t know how to cook fish, but she brought so many fish from the supermarket, that it was not easy to send them back, and she can’t eat so much by herself.

She thinks that the best way is to teach Qi Mohan’s people how to cook fish so that she can let the two children take the remaining fish ingredients to the supermarket.

Si Si looked at the other ingredients and seasonings in the shopping cart again and estimated that Qi Mohan and his people didn’t recognize most of them.

How can she popularize these things to the other party?

After thinking about it, Si Si finally came up with a good idea.

“You two wait for me, I’ll be back soon.” Si Si said and hurriedly took the elevator downstairs.

When she came back, she held a brand new mobile phone and a mobile phone stand for recording videos.

Under the gaze of Xiao Qing and Xiao Mujin, Si Si put the mobile phone on the stand and turned on the recording function, with the front camera facing her direction.

After placing the mobile phone, Si Si returned to the front of the shopping cart.

She picked up an item in the shopping cart and said to the camera of the mobile phone: [Imperial Concubine Yun, Qi Mohan, I prepared some ingredients for you alone. Now, I will explain to you how to use and eat these ingredients.]

Si Si pointed to a bag of quick-frozen dumplings in her hand: [This is dumplings. I believe you should be familiar with it. It’s just that some technology is used to quickly freeze the wrapped dumplings, which is easier to preserve. When you want to eat them, just steam them in boiling water to cook them.]

Then, she picked up the mandarin fish and several seasonings needed for cooking: [This is mandarin fish. After cleaning, marinate it with scallions, ginger, and cooking wine, and then steam it in a pot…]

Si Si introduced the items in the shopping cart one by one in detail through the video, hoping that Imperial Concubine Yun and Qi Mohan could eat better while helping the people.

The two little ones stood stupidly aside at first and watched Si Si’s introduction, but later they understood more and ran to her side to help carry the ingredients.

 


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One thought on “Chapter 20: Communication Tool Upgrade

  1. I’m so dumb…it said communication upgrade and I thought it was gonna be some new unlocked magic skill.
    Nah, she does the obvious and grabs a cellphone. Heh heh…

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