Time passed swiftly. The Qingming Festival was over, and the wild vegetables along the field ridges and on the mountain grew increasingly lush. Tang Xiao'nan had already enjoyed several meals of shepherd's purse dumplings. As for Indian aster, which would become incredibly popular in later years, very few people ate it at this time.
Indian aster was only tasty when paired with meat and plenty of oil; otherwise, it was astringent, bitter, and quite unpalatable. For now, it was basically used as pig feed. Even shepherd's purse wasn't very popular. This wasn't an era of famine, so every family could just about fill their bellies. They didn't lack vegetables; what they lacked was oil and meat. Nobody really had any interest in wild greens.
