Jin Xuyao shook his head and smiled, saying, "I won't have a meal. It's been a long time since I had bamboo rat. I'm having bamboo rat tonight, would you like to join me?"
Jin Luoyin had never eaten such a thing before, and pointed at it curiously, "This... can really be eaten?"
"Of course, when it's roasted, it's quite delicious," Jin Xuyao said.
Jin Luoyin beamed with joy. Little girls are easy to cheer up; they cry hard, and they laugh just as quickly.
Jin Xuyao saw that the bamboo rat was cleaned and started roasting it over the fire.
As he turned it over, he laughed, "I can't go down the mountain, so I go up the mountain. Every year at this season, the bamboo rats in this Bamboo Sea are the fattest. I catch one or two, roast them up and eat them. At first, what I roasted wasn't good, some were charred, some were undercooked. After a few tries, my skills improved. Try it!"
He sprinkled some seasoning on the bamboo rat before giving it to Jin Luoyin.
