green grass on the stream

When the sky light came in through the crack of the door, Ji Tingyu got up gently from the bed.No matter how careful he was, the rustling of dry grass still woke Qi Yanfan up.

Qi Yanfan elongated his body like a cat: "Wake up?"

Ji Tingyu hummed, bent over to put on his shoes, and said, "I'll fetch water first."

Qi Yanfan couldn't remember when he fell asleep last night. It would be much more comfortable to sleep with an extra heat source next to him. It would be so beautiful if he could hug him to sleep in winter... He immediately despised himself a few times, Thinking about food and clothing, my stomach is still empty now, thinking about what to do with what I have and what I don’t have.

Qi Yanfan boiled the chestnuts he picked up the day before yesterday in clear water. Although no sugar was added, the chestnuts still tasted soft and sweet.He boiled two more boiled eggs, added the remaining chestnuts, and rolled them into the burden as dry food on the road.

It is estimated that no one has come to this mountain for a long time, and it took a long time just to go down the mountain.I thought that I could see villages and people when I got to the foot of the mountain, but it still looked inaccessible.

Ji Tingyu explained to him: "People in this mountain are generally like this, and there is only one family after a long distance. If it is by a big river, there will be a village."

Qi Yanfan nodded to express his understanding.

As the sun rose higher and higher, the fog in the mountains dispersed, and the temperature became hotter and hotter.

"How long will it take?" Qi Yanfan couldn't help asking.

"We've been walking for almost an hour, and we'll be there soon."

"Oh." Qi Yanfan replied listlessly.Qi Yanfan, who used to live in a high-tech society, used to walk so many roads except for military training when he was studying. How convenient is it to take a taxi when going out.Now he only felt that the soles of his feet were stiff, and his head was dizzy and swollen, and he was afraid that he would not be able to survive the town.

He staggered, but fortunately Ji Tingyu reached out to support him in time.Seeing that his complexion was not good, Ji Tingyu said: "Let's rest for a while."

Qi Yanfan sat on the stone by the roadside, watching Ji Tingyu peel the chestnut and hand it to his mouth, he opened his mouth to eat it.Watching him break open the eggshell and hand the boiled egg to his mouth, he opened his mouth to bite.The chaotic brain thought in a daze: I am a little choked, if there is water, it will be fine.

After resting for a while, Qi Yanfan regained some strength, and he was able to react to the fact that Ji Tingyu had fed him just now, so he dared to look down.Ji Tingyu only pretended that he hadn't recovered yet, and took care of him vainly.The two walked for a while, and finally saw a bustling town at the end of the wide road.

There are no city walls and gate defenses. It is more like a large market. There are various vendors on both sides of the main road, and some low-rise houses along the street are open for business.

Ji Tingyu pointed to the front and said, "I just inquired about it just now. This is a place where grain is sold. Many people who come to the city come here to buy it. Further on, there are mostly restaurants and shops, which is the center of the town."

Qi Yanfan nodded, understood, to put it bluntly, people from the mountains come here to buy things.

Going further, he first passed a steamed stuffed bun shop, and Qi Yanfan swallowed his saliva because of the fat, white steamed stuffed buns.

In the past, eating steamed buns from a mobile stall for breakfast every day would make him vomit, but now Qi Yanfan feels that his eyes turn green when he sees steamed stuffed buns. Anyone who eats sweet potatoes as dry food for a few days will not be able to hold back the sight of steamed stuffed buns.

He stepped forward and asked the owner of the bun shop: "Boss, how much is a bun?"

"It costs a penny each, and there are pork stuffing and red bean paste stuffing, how many do you want?"

"I'll buy it later."

Qi Yanfan thought in his heart that in the modern society, buns cost one yuan each. If a penny is equivalent to one yuan now, he still has a few small pieces of silver in his hand, which is estimated to be 2 taels plus dozens of copper coins, which means he Now the money for the whole body is just over 2000.

I hope that the prices in ancient times were low enough, otherwise the money would not be enough.

He dragged Ji Tingyu straight to Mipu first, to solve the urgent task first.The rice shop also has polished rice that is eaten in modern society, but when Qi Fan asked about the price, Qi Fan was dumbfounded. Polished rice costs 10 yuan a catty, while brown rice is relatively much cheaper. Ten yuan a catty of rice is not cheap. In the past, ordinary rice in supermarkets cost only 10 or 2 yuan per catty.Two big men can make themselves poor by just eating in one day.

In the end, Qi Fan bought 4 catties of polished rice and 10 catties of brown rice, as well as some refined noodles and cornmeal.He is also afraid of getting used to eating brown rice for fear of coughing up his throat... He was really afraid of eating it a few days ago, he couldn't wait to buy it and store it for dozens of catties, but looking at his slender body, he couldn't carry it back at all , I just want to cry but have no tears.

Later, they found another cloth shop, Qi Yanfan asked the boss to pull a few pieces of coarse and cotton cloth to make two clothes for each of them, paid a deposit, and picked it up after about half a month.After ordering another bag of cotton, fabric, and some needles and threads, Qi Yanfan planned to go back and order the quilt by himself—it wasn't that he had transformed into a good woman, but that it was not easy to think about it.

Ji Tingyu, who had been carrying things silently behind Qi Fan, suddenly said, "Pull two more feet of cotton cloth."

"Why?" Qi Yanfan was puzzled.

"It works, listen to me."

Humph, this is my money!Qi Yanfan groaned in his heart, but obediently ordered two extra feet of plain cotton cloth. After haggling with the boss, he only added some leftovers as a gift.

I went to buy a few more plates and bowls, and some oil and salt, which are necessities. He didn't dare to think about condiments such as sauce and vinegar for the time being.

In addition to the shops with storefronts on the street, there are also various small stalls on the side of the road. Qi Fan is not uncommon to see those gaudy stalls.

In order to start a new life in this unfamiliar world, the first priority is to have enough food and clothing.In the end, he spent money to buy a lot of seeds and seedlings, and went to buy 10 small chickens. The boss gave a bamboo basket for the chickens as a gift.

There happened to be a pork shop opposite the street stall, and Qi Yanfan went over to inquire about the price of the meat. Lean meat was 20 renminbi a catty, pork belly was more expensive, and pork offal, which no one cares about in Time Traveling, was not cheap either.

Qi Yanfan struggled for a while, he spent hundreds of dollars today, and there will be nothing to grow in the field for a while, the meat is too expensive and it is not worth it, and the lack of seasoning is probably not good enough to buy water, in the end he decided to cut it first Small pieces of meat, buy a few bones and go back to make soup.

On the way back, he passed by that bun shop again, Qi Fan ordered two meat buns.

He handed one to Ji Tingyu, and took the other in his hand and couldn't wait to bite down.

Finally, I can taste the meat. Although it has a bit of a meaty smell, the meat is delicious when you are hungry.

"I'll give you this." Ji Tingyu handed the bun in his hand to Qi Yanfan.

"You eat."

"There is still a long way to go back, and I have to move things." The implication is that you should eat more, what should you do if you run out of energy?

Qi Yanfan blushed, met Ji Tingyu's smiling gaze, took the bun embarrassingly and ate it silently.

Ji Tingyu was holding more than 30 kilograms of rice noodles and pig bones, and cloth and cotton were hung on his back. Qi Fan was carrying a bamboo basket for chickens in one hand and a bowl of oil and salt in the other.The two returned home with a full load, and it was another two-hour return journey. Although he was exhausted to death, Qi Yanfan finally felt safe in his heart.

By the time he got home, it would probably be almost afternoon, Qi Yanfan was already so hungry that his chest was on his back, and besides, he had eaten a lot of food all by himself.

He unloaded his things and went into the kitchen immediately, cracked the remaining 3 duck eggs, and cut two handfuls of leeks that he had been thinking about yesterday.

The fire was lit in the stove, oil was poured into the pot, there was a sound, the duck egg liquid was poured into the hot oil first, and immediately fluffed up, a smell of scrambled eggs rose, Qi Yanfan sniffed hard, it smells so good .Then he added chopped leeks, the first time he cut vegetables, Qi Yanfan could only use the dagger in his bag as a kitchen knife.The scrambled eggs with leeks came out of the pan quickly, and Qi Yanfan put the vegetables on a new plate that Ji Tingyu washed and handed over.Because vegetable oil is used, the whole dish is more oily, and the scrambled eggs are more bright yellow.

"Eat when you're hungry, and I'll cook a meal later."

Ji Tingyu said: "No hurry, I'll wait for you."

The first rice that Qi Yanfan came to this world used was all polished rice, because it was the first time to cook with an earthen stove, so he couldn't grasp the timing well.I lifted the lid of the pot and looked at it several times in the middle, and finally it was not burnt.After being cooked, the white rice is crystal clear and the grains are distinct. It is indeed expensive for a reason.

The two sat on a bench, picked up chopsticks and began to eat their first serious meal.

Qi Yanfan seemed to be reincarnated from starvation. He took a big mouthful of rice and chewed hard. The starch was decomposed into maltose, and there was a hint of sweetness in his mouth.He took another chopstick of scrambled eggs with chives, the aroma of eggs and chives blended together, it was really tempting.On the other hand, Ji Tingyu, he eats very elegantly, chewing slowly, eating is not like filling his stomach, but more like a kind of enjoyment.

Qi Yanfan deliberately slowed down, hesitantly said: "I heard people say that when you have food, you must be full, otherwise you will feel hungry in the future."

Ji Tingyu looked at him with a smile: "I'm full."

Qi Yanfan silently picked up another chopstick and stuffed it into his mouth, thinking whether to be so tacit, I haven't said anything yet, it's not at all worried about whether you will be full or not.

After breakfast and dinner, Ji Tingyu took an iron rake to plow the ground by the stream, Qi Yanfan planned to open a vegetable field there, where besides leeks, there were some wild garlic, he told Ji Tingyu to be careful when raking.

He picked up some dry grass himself and set up a nest for the chicks in the kitchen, surrounded by branches in a random circle.There is no feed in this era, so I only bought a small bag of grain bran, and first went to pick up some wild grasses and vegetables, boiled them together, and regarded them as food for the chickens.

After finishing all this, he put the pork bones he bought into the pot, filled it with water and submerged it, added some large firewood, carefully skimmed off the foam a few times, and kept the soup gurgling.In the steaming kitchen, he carefully cut off the fat from the piece of meat he bought, cut half of the remaining lean meat into pieces, and pinched it with salt a few times to marinate it.The other half was chopped into stuffing with his little dagger.

Ji Tingyu walked into the kitchen, took the dagger in his hand and said, "Let me chop it up, the ground outside has been turned over."

Qi Yanfan was not hypocritical, he flicked his sore wrist and went out to look at the vegetable field.

The vegetable field was turned evenly, and it was a long strip. Qi Yanfan bent down and picked out some weeds mixed in, and then dug the seedlings he bought into holes one by one.The vine-climbing loofahs, pumpkins, wax gourds and the like are planted in the south, and then sign a fence or something for them, and you can sow some seeds and grow some vegetables near the house.

In the end, he sorted out the things he had bought, and just as dusk fell, the aroma of pork bone soup floated leisurely outside.

Today was a tiring day, and he was sweating all over. There was no condition for taking a bath, but Qi Yan Fanchao wanted to wipe his body with hot water and then soak his feet.

"Oh." He sighed loudly.

"What's wrong?" Ji Tingyu asked.

"I really want to have a basin to soak my feet in." He said pitifully, before Ji Tingyu could answer, he groaned again, and said with a bitter face: "There is no hot water today, and the pot is occupied by bone broth!"

Ji Tingyu was also taken aback when he heard the words, and then said: "I'll go and twist a veil, and I'll just wipe it off today."

Fortunately, the weather wasn't so cold anymore, the poor two wiped it with cold handkerchiefs, then slipped into the haystack in the dark and fell asleep.