The Most Dazzling National Style of Comprehension

【05】

The quilts, mattresses and pillows have been dried in the sun, and they are soft and smell like sunshine.The water tank in the kitchen was full, and dead branches were piled up beside the stove.Zhou Man walked around the room, enjoying the treatment of someone in the room for the first time, feeling a little warm in his heart.

"Zhou Man, teach me how to make a fire as a mortal." Ying Feichi, the snail boy, still felt that he didn't do enough, "I will cook yams for you in the future."

Zhou Man looked back at him, and the child had a very familiar expression on his face - he was afraid of being abandoned if he did not do well.He had this kind of emotion more than once when he was young, especially when every household in the village in Wuhuang June was almost unable to open the pot, he would not be able to sleep all night and all night. Don't deny me food and don't dislike me.

At this time, it is useless to tell him that it is okay and I will not abandon you. The only useful thing is to let him do things and make him feel useful.

"It's actually very easy to make a fire." Zhou Man said gently, "Come with me."

Ying Feichi nodded and followed him to the back hill.A large fir tree is planted on the back mountain, and a thick layer of fir branches is piled up on the ground.The fallen leaves of the fir tree are one by one, and the branches are covered with pointed fir leaves.

"The fir branches on the ground are very dry, and they are the best material to start a fire." Zhou Man bent down and pointed at the fir leaves, "but be very careful when picking up the fir leaves, because the dry cedar leaves are very sharp and can easily pierce the skin. Take the branch between the leaf and the leaf."

Say it and demonstrate it.

Ying Feichi looked at it and found it not difficult, and he didn't have to grab it himself, wouldn't he know how to carry it?

With a little tentative mentality, Ying Feichi recited the formula silently, and immediately a cedar branch flew from nowhere, and soon piled up a large pile on the ground.

It's really moving things in the air!Zhou Man saw the so-called spell for the first time, even though he maintained a mature and stable middle-aged man's mentality, he couldn't help but be surprised, and opened his eyes slightly to watch.

Ying Feichi turned his head to look at him, his eyes were full of surprise, novelty, and sudden realization, but there was no greed or fear.Ying Feichi felt relieved, moved Zhou Man's cedar branch over with a wave of his hand, and said with a smile, "Let me come, is this enough?"

"Enough." Zhou Man clapped his hands and walked back, "I said why you are so good today, you are so small, you can move quilts, fetch water, and pick up so much firewood, so you used magic. Not bad!"

Ying Feichi was praised, and she felt sweet in her heart. "Teach me how to make a fire when you go back. I learned how to make a fire. In addition to drying the quilt and fetching water and firewood, I can also cook yams for you to eat." He said burning yams, and immediately thought of the fragrant taste, and couldn't help swallowing. I swallowed my saliva.

Zhou Man laughed: "Why do you only want to eat yams? Don't you want to eat delicious food?"

"Compared with Bigu Dan, yam is already a delicacy!" Ying Feichi said, "Master said, contentment is always happy, and you can be happy with whatever you encounter."

Zhou Man shook his head with a smile. He couldn't let his children eat yams all the time. He had to earn money to buy rice and vegetables as soon as possible.

Ying Feichi piled the cedar branches beside the firewood, lifted the hem of his Taoist robe and squatted beside the stove.Zhou Man was still wearing a short jacket and shorts, so it was convenient for him to do anything.Ying Feichi also felt that he should change his clothes, but he still couldn't accept that he should show his arms and legs like Zhou Man.

"First of all, check to see if there is any ashes in the stove. If there is too much ash, you will not be able to start a fire. You must rake out all the ashes." Zhou Man demonstrated how to rake the ashes with tongs, and then folded a fir branch in two and stuffed it into the stove. In the stove, the stove was filled up one after another, and then the firewood was placed on the fir branches, one by one.

"This thing is called a match." Zhou Man picked up a small cardboard box on the stove and showed it to Ying Feichi, pointing to the black side on the narrower side and said: "This is nitrate, you can get it from the white side." Push it, look, there are a lot of small wooden sticks one by one inside. You wrap the nitrate with a wooden stick and scratch the nitrate on the box..."

Chi - After a burst of white smoke, Ying Feichi exclaimed in surprise: "It's really burning! What kind of spell is this?"

"It's not a spell, it's a chemical reaction. I'll tell you the principle later." Zhou Man put the lighted match on the fir branch in the stove, boom!The cedar branches all over the hearth were crackling and burning.

"Now, you can add water to the cauldron, otherwise the cauldron will burn out." Zhou Man said, stood up and started scooping water.

The large water tank in the kitchen is made of clay, but the water ladle is a round hemisphere with a handle.

"This is half a gourd." Zhou Man said, and quickly filled the cauldron with water.

At this time, the cedar branches were burnt out, and the firewood started to burn. Ying Feichi dug out the yams he dug yesterday and was eager to try, but Zhou Man shook his head: "No, it won't work until the stove is completely hot and charcoal starts to appear. fragrant."

Ying Feichi waited patiently. After a quarter of an hour, Zhou Man added some firewood, and pushed the firewood to one side of the stove, then nodded: "It's ok."

Ying Feichi glanced at the long scissor-like tongs, and felt that his spells were not as effective as his own, so he didn't use them, and directly used spells to move the yams into the stove and put them in the stove.

Seeing this, Zhou Man shook his head, but he didn't stop. He just said, "Turn the yams every once in a while to ensure that they are heated evenly. When the skin of the yams turns light gray, it's ready."

"Well, I'll remember it!" Ying Feichi nodded seriously, turning the yams carefully.

The two waited in silence for a while, Ying Feichi felt that the yams were all right, so he looked at Zhou Man inquiringly.Zhou Man's eyes were full of smiles, but he didn't express anything.Ying Feichi gritted his teeth and took out the yam. It was scalded and he hurriedly broke it into two pieces. He peeled one piece, took a bite out of it carefully, and chewed it carefully.Then a smile appeared on his face, he took the bitten half in his mouth, and handed the other peeled one to Zhou Man.He couldn't speak, so he looked at Zhou Man with a pair of big black eyes.

He was afraid that the yams would not be cooked the first time he baked them, so he tasted them first, which is a caring child.Zhou Man took a bite of the yam, nodded and said, "It's well done."

"Hmm!" Ying Feichi's big eyes suddenly became crescent-shaped, and there was only a gap left in the smile, and he quickly took another yam and put it in the stove to burn.He was lowering his head when suddenly there was a movement in his mouth.He raised his head in confusion, but Zhou Man was the yam in his mouth.

Ah, he must have been starving after a day's walk on the mountain. No one is ever hungry!Ying Feichi quickly let go.

But Zhou Man peeled the yam and put it near his mouth, and said with a smile: "I burned the yam last night and you peeled it. It's time to change it tonight."

That's right!No one had ever fed him except when he was a milk baby.In fact, he can peel the yams with one hand and turn the yams in the stove with the other, but isn't it bad to refuse others' kindness?

So Ying Feichi blushed and fed him mouthful.

That's how the night passed. Ying Feichi, who had made the decision, slept soundly, but was awakened by the sound of birds the next morning.As soon as he opened his eyes, the seat next to him was empty, and when he ran out of the room, Zhou Man was poking his mouth with an object, foaming at the mouth while poking it.

"You...!!" Ying Feichi gasped, burning with anxiety, and circled around Zhou Man. "Zhou Man, what's wrong with you? Are you poisoned?"

Zhou Man rinsed off the foam in his mouth and explained: "No, I'm brushing my teeth. Everyone in our society brushes their teeth at least once a day, and most people brush their teeth once in the morning and evening. This is toothpaste, which is the foam produced by washing teeth. Not poisonous."

Foaming at the mouth when cleaning your teeth?Ying Feichi couldn't understand some things in this world.

Seeing his frightened expression, Zhou Man suddenly felt like teasing a child, and said with a smile: "When I earn money to buy a toothbrush, you have to brush your teeth too!"

He was going to foam at the mouth too?Ying Feichi's complexion became even worse, he was actually willing to eat roasted yams until Jindan Bigu!

Zhou Man was amused by his expression and laughed inwardly, but he didn't show it on his face.After washing his face, he ate a few yams - the yams in the morning were boiled in a whole square of water, not so fragrant, but very, very glutinous, and Ying Feichi almost filled himself up again.

After breakfast, Zhou Man put a few cooked yams into the basket, and was ready to go out with the steel drill. Before leaving, he said: "Ying Feichi, take care of yourself. Also, take the yams I brought back yesterday. Everything is dry."

"Well, I see!" Ying Feichi sent it to the gate of the courtyard as usual, and closed the gate after watching Zhou Man's figure disappear into the woods.He went back to the kitchen to finish the task that Zhou Man gave him. Zhou Man memorized dozens of Ganoderma lucidum and some plants that Ying Feichi knew were herbs but whose names he didn't recognize.Ying Feichi used the moving technique again to move everything to the roof, and repeated the work of collecting firewood and fetching water yesterday. When Zhou Man came back in the evening, he asked, "What are you doing digging Ganoderma lucidum? Is it alchemy? I have to take care of this." Research."

"No, it's for sale tomorrow." Zhou Man wiped off his sweat and said.

"Sell?"

"Well, tomorrow I'm going to a far, far market." Zhou Man glanced at the child who opened his mouth, and said firmly: "You can't go, it's too far, you can't go back and forth."

He is a cultivator of immortals!Ying Feichi wanted to argue, but hesitated when he saw his skinny arms.

After hesitating, he didn't go with Zhou Man. He could only watch Zhou Man carrying a heavier basket than usual, and set off before dawn.