Chapter 648 His Determination
The taste of that dish was fairly normal, leaning toward the salty side.
He chewed for a while, swallowing slowly, finally managing to dilute the peculiar taste that had filled his mouth.
Lysander asked, “Are you okay?”
Josiah waved his hand dismissively. “I’m fine.”
“Why must you do this? You’re surely not used to the food here. You don’t have to force yourself. You should hurry back to the city.”
“I’m used to the food.”
Lysander was puzzled.
“Give me a bit more time to adjust. I’ll get used to the food here.”
Lysander tilted her head slightly to look at him. “Are you really planning to stay here?”
“You’ve been here for half a month, no? I can also do it.”
“I’m not like you. I come from an ordinary family. As a child, we struggled, and I’ve experienced my fair share of hardships due to our poor conditions. This level of hardship doesn’t faze me, but it’s almost worlds apart from the life you’re used to living…”
“It’s okay,” Josiah said. “I’ve told you I want to experience your life. I can handle it.”
Lysander let out a soft sigh.
Josiah served her some food. “You should also eat.”
the dishes, which had been kept warm by the stove, were quickly served, filling
all consisted of
was a curly dock salad, boiled dandelion,
as to make special arrangements. Pointing at the steaming ravioli that had just been served, he said, “These are filled with chickweed. They were
the nurses as a token of their appreciation. By the time they were preparing for the welcome feast in the afternoon,
respect, made
of wild vegetables in the city. If it
the local customs and lifted the clay
didn’t express any dissatisfaction with the dishes served, the villagers finally relaxed. They returned to their respective seats and started to
to Lysander and Josiah, filling their
serving spoons didn’t exist. Anita simply used her
that moment, she was eating several bites from her bowl
taste of the dandelion was simply too bitter for him. Just the smell alone was enough to make him want to give
Anita was about to serve Josiah more food. “Didn’t I tell you before? The city folks, especially the big shots, are very particular about
words spoken were somewhat
issue wasn’t about the cutlery. However, stating outright that he
age, realized that she had made a mistake at such an important banquet.
Josiah’s bowl. Identifying the problem, she directly took his bowl and poured all the wild vegetables into her own, saying, “It’s all right. I’m not picky, and I absolutely love wild vegetables. If he doesn’t want to eat them, he can give them all to me.”
Josiah couldn’t finish. She seemed to accept the natural
that the food she had served was not wasted, Anita finally breathed a sigh of relief. She rose to her feet and headed
bitterness of dandelions, yet he felt somewhat uneasy.
wondering what kind of
much relieved. “Dandelions, also known as cankerwort. It’s actually a kind of
Dandelions are great for their cooling and
left her lips than she saw all the dandelions from her bowl being transferred back by Josiah.
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