After all, it was already the fourth dish, and everyone stopped wolfing down their food, adopting another method of eating instead.
Okay, you win.
The high school classmates no longer cared about the strange looks they were receiving from across the table; they had given up. After all, this dish was extraordinary even before the apocalypse, and they probably wouldn't get a chance to taste it again in their lifetimes post-apocalypse.
The fourth auction item, unexpectedly, was aloe vera. Aloe vera is an extremely hardy plant that can survive just by pinching off a corner to replant. Sadly, many died in the first-year drought, so there weren't many left.
There's no need to mention the benefits of aloe vera—beautification and skin care, dabbing on wounds as a hemostatic, and also very useful for treating inflammations and frostbite. Jing Shu planned to grow some to have on hand for when the temperature dropped to minus 70 degrees.
