green grass on the stream

Waking up the next day, Qi Yanfan cleared the reeds in the kitchen. Most of the water stains on the ground had dried up, but they were stuck together with the original dust and looked dirty.This hut was originally built by the landlord’s family for people who looked after the orchard. The landlord must have been rich and powerful at the time, and the floor in the house was paved with bricks instead of the usual muddy floor of a farmer’s house. Otherwise, it would be impossible to set foot on it. .

Qi Yanfan frowned and looked at the ground, he desperately needed a broom.

He asked Ji Tingyu: "I want to make a bamboo broom, where can I find bamboo?"

Ji Tingyu replied: "The landlord of this mountain used to plant bamboo, and we should be able to find it later."

"But you said that there were fruit trees planted on this mountain before. I didn't see any of these fruit trees when they were in bloom."

"In Peach Blossom Village to the north, there are fruit trees planted in front of and behind every house. Where do you think it came from?"

Qi Yanfan said: "It turns out that the fruit trees have been dug up, but the bamboo doesn't need to be dug and planted specially, so we can definitely find it."

"Not bad." Ji Tingyu said.

After eating, Qi Yanfante took the bamboo basket that was given to him when he bought the chicks—his only bamboo basket, and the two set off for the back mountain.

Sure enough, it didn't take long to find a small piece of dwarf bamboo forest.The bottom of the bamboo forest is covered with thick bamboo leaves, and there are no weeds. A few shoots have already grown high.Qi Yanfan immediately ran over and searched carefully, but he couldn't find any bamboo shoots worth digging up, so he couldn't help feeling a little discouraged.

Ji Tingyu thought for a while, and said to him: "The distance here is short, let's look for other places first, and then come here again."

Qi Yanfan thought it was okay.

The two went up again, and after climbing for about a quarter of an hour, a large bamboo forest appeared in front of them. The thick bamboo pole was about as thick as an adult man's arm.The wind blows through the bamboo forest, making a rustling sound.Qi Yanfan's eyes lit up, he turned his head and asked Ji Tingyu: "Brother Ji, can we chop some for cups?"

Ji Tingyu estimated, nodded and said: "Yes."

He moved his hands and feet a little, took out the sickle, found a relatively crisp bamboo, and gestured where the knife should be cut.

Qi Yanfan felt it was inappropriate to say it, and immediately said: "The bamboo is too hard, don't force it."

"It's okay." Ji Tingyu signaled him to step back, and then gathered enough strength to raise the knife and drop it, and a neat knife edge appeared from the middle of the bamboo.

"Wow!" Qi Yanfan opened his mouth wide in shock.

"The mouth of the cup should be flatter." Ji Tingyu looked at him with a smile.

"This, is this the legendary martial arts?"

"I have practiced boxing and kicking a little bit."

"Then do you know how to fly like that?" Qi Yanfan looked at him with shining eyes.

"This has never happened before, it's just that the strength is slightly stronger than others."

"Oh," Qi Yanfan's disappointment was only for a moment, "but it's already very powerful, actually splitting the bamboo in two with one knife!"

Ji Tingyu cut the standing half bamboo into several sections according to the bamboo joints, picked it up to have a look, and said, "I have to polish it again when I go back."

Qi Yanfan gathered these bamboo segments into the bamboo basket, looked at one and felt the other, and said happily, "I think several of them can be used to drink water directly."

Ji Tingyu smiled when he heard the words, and clenched his fists behind his back to soothe his numb jaw.

Qi Yanfan also dug up a few bamboo shoots in the forest, and put them together beautifully.

Once people are happy, their luck improves, and Qi Yanfan found another clump of reed bamboo by the stream: "Brother Ji, look!"

"Oh, what is this?"

"This is reed bamboo, I know it," Qi Yanfan said. He used to travel to the best bamboo places in the west, and he couldn't remember too many kinds of bamboo, but the reed bamboo by the water is too strange. I want a few, and I will build a melon frame in the future, and the tuft of whiskers on it can be used as a broom!"

"Okay, I'll cut it." Ji Tingyu said.

"No, no, I'll do it," Qi Yanfan said with a smile, "This reed is so fragile." He stomped on a few of them with his feet, peeled off the leaves on them, and folded off the tufts at the top .

When they returned, they chopped some dwarf bamboos and some twigs, and Qi Yanfan thought about taking them back to make more brooms.

Qi Yanfan was very satisfied with today's itinerary. When he got home, he immediately peeled off the bamboo shoots, cleaned them in the stream, cut them into shreds, and fried a shredded spring bamboo shoots with wild vegetables to eat.After the dishes were out of the pot, he hurriedly cleaned and steamed the rice.

Ji Tingyu looked at the busy figures in the kitchen, and the faint smile on his mouth never faded.He hangs the cut bamboo to dry in the yard. Before the meal is ready, the leaves of the bamboo are curled up by the sun.

The smoke was rising from the kitchen, Ji Tingyu picked up a bamboo knot and looked at it for a while.The bamboo loses some moisture under the sun and is not as green as before, but it feels more comfortable in the hand.Ji Tingyu took the dagger and slowly trimmed the uneven bottom of the bamboo joint bit by bit.

Brown rice is added to the meal at noon, so the price is a bit different, and the taste is also slightly harder, so you need to chew for a while.But if you eat a few more bites, you will find that the aroma of coarse grains is different from that of white rice, and it should be more subtle.

Qi Yanfan was afraid that the young master would not be used to eating it, so he brought up the topic casually: "We don't have soy sauce, otherwise the spring bamboo shoots can be stewed in oil."

"The stewed bamboo shoots taste mostly like the sauce. On the contrary, the fried shredded bamboo shoots can highlight the sweetness of the bamboo shoots, as if the atmosphere of the mountains and forests is in the mouth, which is refreshing today."

"Yes, is it..." Qi Yanfan thought he could still be so powerful, do these young masters eat so elegantly...

"Xiaoqi's cooking is delicious." Ji Tingyu said seriously.

Qi Yanfan, who was suddenly praised, was a little embarrassed, and quickly took a few mouthfuls of food.

In the afternoon, Qi Yanfan was sitting under the eaves making a broom, and Ji Tingyu was weeding the open space in front of the house with a hoe.

This piece of land should have been a small yard before, but because no one lived there for a long time, it was gradually encroached by weeds.Now, they're going to clear out all the weeds and restore it to a tidy yard.

The chickens in the kitchen were driven to the open space to let the wind out. At first, they were all trembling because of the change in the environment, and they were huddled together and dared not move.But where Ji Tingyu swiped his hoe, some young leaves and bugs flew up one after another, and the chicks ran around chasing after each other, spreading their inconspicuous short wings and chirping very actively.

From time to time, Qi Yanfan looked up at the men in the yard and the chickens surrounding him.Sometimes because these little yellow dumplings are so close together, he has no place to put a hoe.

At this time, Qi Yanfan would watch it with great interest, he thought, this man who has always been prudent would also be so gentle and amiable sometimes.

He finished pricking the bamboo broom first, tried it twice and thought it was good, then turned around and went into the house to sweep the floor.When he came out, he was holding a bamboo cup in his hand, and he handed the bamboo cup to Ji Tingyu.

Ji Tingyu took it and took a sip, then stopped strangely, and asked suspiciously: "Sweet?"

"Well," Qi Yanfan said, "They said drink some sugar water to replenish your energy."

Ji Tingyu smiled and said thank you, and drank the water in one go.

Qi Yanfan took back the bamboo cup, turned around and went back to the kitchen.But he kept thinking about the scene of Ji Tingyu sticking out his tongue and licking his lips just now in his mind, and felt that he was fascinated again.

Holding the bamboo cup anxiously, he wandered around the kitchen for a long time before coming out.

He used reed bamboo to build a simple triangular drying rack, and then took the clothes he changed from taking a shower yesterday to wash.Qi Yanfan thought that the next time he went to town, he must not forget to buy soap and candles, and he didn't know if the sets of clothes he had ordered were ready, and Ji Tingyu didn't have a change of clothes, and he was still wearing his clothes inside. ... Thinking of this, Qi Yanfan blushed again inexplicably.

Fortunately, the clothes were not very dirty, they were mostly dust and mud spots, even after Qi Yanfan scrubbed them in the water, they were clean.

After drying the clothes, he started to tie another broom. With hands-on experience, he made this broom very quickly.Because there are dense fluff on the whiskers of reed bamboo, even the dust can be swept cleanly when sweeping the floor.He happily sweeps here and there, or chases the fluff that falls down for a while, having a great time.

Little did he know that the men outside were also looking at him. At this moment, Ji Tingyu thought of such a poem for no reason:

In the dream, there is nothing busy in the world, and the spring flowers are sweeping in the quiet courtyard in the mountains.