Hongji:...
The five sisters had stayed in the room for only a short while, for after all it was New Year's, and with the hearts of children, facing the food on the table, they began to forget the unpleasantness of before.
Ye Shiqi had no interest in the melon seeds, peanuts, or some of the fried foods on the table, regarding them as junk food.
In these ancient times, people did not know how to make vegetable oil or peanut oil, all fried foods were completely cooked in pork fat.
Eating such food not only contained a lot of fat, prone to cause weight gain, but it could also affect certain bodily functions.
In these times of undeveloped medicine, a minor illness or pain could escalate from a small problem into a serious one, an illness one could ill afford.
She did, however, like to eat some soft rice cakes and conveniently took a piece made from lotus root powder, filled with sesame seeds and peanuts, enjoying its soft and chewy texture and sweet taste.
