The New Year's Eve feast brought unprecedented liveliness to the small courtyard.
The two new members tasted one dish after another made by Chen Zhou, occasionally widening their eyes in awe.
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Under Chen Zhou's guidance, they gradually learned to roll dumpling skins, mix fillings, wrap dumplings, or pick up kitchen knives to try cutting vegetables and creating their own fruit platters.
Among the many dishes, Dodoru's favorite was stir-fried octopus legs.
In the tribe, no one would ever suggest that this strange creature with eight legs could be eaten.
If the number of octopuses increased by the seaside, the priests would tell them it was because they hadn't been working hard enough, angering the Celestial God, and that if they continued like this, a violent storm would soon come to punish them.
The appearance of octopuses was unpleasing to begin with, but after being endowed with the special meaning of "God's wrath," they became feared by everyone in the tribe.
