Wu Jian and Huǒ Shuchang woke up early the next morning and went down for breakfast.
The desert had its own cuisine, which vastly differed from both the Shang Kingdom and Ming Dynasty. Their breakfast consisted of a plate filled with ostrich eggs, figs, and sliced cactus. While he wouldn’t say the food was bland, it did lack flavor when compared to the richly seasoned foods of the Ming Dynasty.
During their travels through the desert, Wu Jian had been forced to forage for similar foods to eat. There were several types of foods that could be found, including figs, doum palm trees, date palm trees, magaria trees, gazelles, jack rabbits, and ostriches.
Each of these foods was considered common, though that was a misnomer if he’d ever heard one. They were only common in the fact that everyo
