After hurriedly finishing off the last few pieces of lamb, Chen Zhou took down a pile of glass jars from the top shelf of the kitchen's food rack, sorting out the ones that might contain plant seeds separately, lining them up by the stove one by one, and opening the lids to fan the scent towards his nose to take a whiff.
Most of the seeds in the glass jars emitted very faint, yet peculiar smells.
Some seeds were spicy, some had a slightly sweet aroma, some were quite bitter, and there were even seeds with a moldy scent, and even some with a stinking smell.
Chen Zhou found it hard to describe the strange and peculiar smells of these seeds in words.
He could only say that these medicinal smells had something in common with traditional Chinese medicine, all stemming from nature, full of primitive, natural scents.
Apart from the seeds with obvious smells, there were also some that seemed to carry no scent at all.
To deal with these "understated" seeds, special means were necessary.
