The boy glanced at me, apparently interested in my mention.

I thought about it, looked at him and said, "The two of us, who will do it?" ”

A trace of hesitation flashed on the young man's face, and he immediately changed his expression and said, "Do you still need to ask?" Of course it's you! "Don't forget how many fish I grilled for you that day?" He hugged his elbows as if he was inviting merit.

Hey, this guy is so stingy!

It's like I took advantage of him, it's not that he himself is interested in getting it, otherwise even if I force him, how can he compromise with his temper?

However, I didn't expect him to do it, I was ready to come on my own.

But I can't offer it, so that he refuses and then I take over the way is more impressive than the former.

As for why he was impressed, I didn't understand it, but I just subconsciously felt that it was easier for people who could cook good dishes to get better treatment.

For example, if you live here for a while, it's not good to eat and live for nothing, you always have to make some efforts, hunting is a layman, at least help carry some loot.

The impression is that most of the mountain people hunt in groups, and often one person is mainly hunting, and the other is an auxiliary role to run errands and carry things.

I thought to myself that I didn't want to go hunting in the woods, and I would rather prepare food in the kitchen than run in the woods.

There's a clear division of labor, and everyone knows their responsibilities, doesn't they?

Now that you have a plan, it's time for the next steps.

Although I am willing to contribute to the completion of this meal, I have to assign some tasks to him.

"You go to the back yard to get some food, and go to the chicken coop to get a few eggs."

These are light and simple tasks. He won't have any objections.

When I finished speaking, I saw that he didn't move. Stretched out his hand and pushed him, "What are you still doing in a daze?" ”

The young man looked at me with a complicated expression and added, "Xiaoling." You really know how to cook or are you blind, if not, you better leave it to me, although I'm also "

"Don't worry, nothing else is as good as you, this should be fine." I turned my head to look at him, and said confidently. "Don't waste time, remember to wash it before you bring it."

I also made a point of admonishing him, though I knew that even if I didn't say that, with his character. The same will be done.

The boy was pushed out of the kitchen door by me without saying anything.

I wasn't idle, I was about to move a stool and climb up to get the dried meat hanging under the eaves, but I didn't want the young man to go and return, looked at me and shook his head and said: "Xiaoling, I think I should change with you, these things should be done by me." "You're too short to even get a piece of meat."

He jumped up and took the jerky I wanted. "You shouldn't be good at knife work, right?" The boy reached out and took the rough-looking kitchen knife from the wooden board and asked me, "Do you want to slice it or not?" "Slicing."

The boy was just about to do it. Suddenly, his eyes froze and saw the knife in his hand clearly, he frowned and shook his head and said, "Wait a minute." “

He came back from the courtyard, and the knife was brand new. Even the board has been cleaned!

Especially the knife in his hand, it looked like it had just been punched.

The young man's hand rose and fell, and the silver light flashed. Cutting jerky is like cutting tofu, and the slices of meat are neatly spread out on the cutting board.

I almost forgot that people are practicing families. Knife work is really not comparable to me.

When he was done, he glanced at the rough notched bowls on the long table. The look in his eyes was clearly familiar to me.

I know, I have wronged the young master again!

Not to mention the dishes, these dishes alone can't get into his eyes. "You're going to just take it, I know it's a little shabby and you can't look past it, I'll take it to the courtyard and wash it with well water later."

The young man sighed and said, "Xiaoling, I won't tell you, it's not a little, it's too much." "Forget it, I'll take care of the cooking," the young man paused and continued, "but I'll take care of the rest." “

I raised my head and looked at him unexpectedly, the eldest young master is so easy to speak? I'm really impressed with him. "What are you doing stupidly," he paused again, frowned at me, and urged, "Hurry up and go to the backyard, I'll leave it here." “

I was afraid that he would regret it, so I quickly replied: "I'll go immediately, but you have said everything, you can't perfunctory me." "There are no perfunctory words in the dictionary of the master, either you don't do it, and you will naturally do it if you promise, less verbose."

This time, it was the teenager who pushed me in the direction of the backyard.

I walked out of the section and saw him turn back to the kitchen, and I listened to his tone not like a joke, and decided to obey the young master's wishes

Seeing the thin figure heading in the direction of the backyard, the boy breathed a sigh of relief.

I don't know why, I feel that it feels very uncomfortable to use a knife with such a thin arm, but I have carried it all on my back, and I have done so many things for him, and I don't care about helping him fight this time.

The young man summed up in his heart, or clean up the kitchen first, he really couldn't look past it, not only was it dirty, but it was also very messy.

With his requirements, he must be more critical than the eyes of ordinary people.

The young man rolled up the cuffs of his robe, and tied a knot at the hem, if Ah Fu was here, he would probably lose his eyeballs when he saw him like this.

When the boy went to the courtyard, he first put down the bucket by the well and fetched a bucket of clean water.

He glanced down at the water in the bucket, it was still very clear, and nodded in satisfaction.

There is a layer of grease and dust on the stove, doors and windows, and the doors and windows are still upside down, and they are not a place to sleep anyway, and they will not stay here for a long time.

But the stove is not successful, and Xiaoling will use it to cook for a while.

The boy felt that it was imperative to clean the dirty stove.

But when I walked around the kitchen, I couldn't even see a clean cloth that could be used for scrubbing.

He hesitated, for the second time he had shown a hesitant look in the hut, and finally tore a piece of cloth from the mezzanine of his robe.

It was used as a temporary cloth for scrubbing!

Just the bucket of water that was fought. The boy carefully scrubbed the stove clean.

He spent some time doing this, waiting for the first step. He felt that the cleaning of the kitchen had just begun.

Those broken bowls and broken plates resting on the stove, no matter how disgusted they are, will not help. You can't just wait and eat the food with your hands, it's even more awkward to think about it.

The boy went out into the yard with a wooden barrel and utensils, and took down the pot on the earthen stove by the way.

Draw water directly from the well and clean them one by one.

When I came back from the backyard with vegetables and eggs, I didn't expect that the eldest young master left in the courtyard was in full swing.

I called out to him, "Hey, you've got it all right?" “

I pointed to the kitchen, because I had already seen the eldest young master washing the dishes. "You go check it out." The boy bowed his head and continued to work.

When I came back from the kitchen and went out into the yard to help, my eyes were even more different than before.

"You're good." I smiled at him. "You can do these menial jobs with your hands!"

The boy turned his head to glance at me, and with a cold snort in his nostrils, I could see clearly that his face was a little red.

As I said earlier, he's a twisted person!

When it was finally all done, the boy leaned against the pole of the tree and looked up at the sky.

The mountain wind is blowing, and he is in a good mood at the moment, and he has encountered too many things in the past few days. It doesn't feel bad.

The smell of the kitchen also reminded him that the kid inside didn't boast that he could cook.

Just like the one in the previous room, the young man was also surprised. Looking at Xiaoling's pampered appearance, I didn't expect that she still knew how to cook

"Young Master, help bring the dishes out." I shouted at the courtyard outside the house.

The boy seemed to be asleep, leaning there motionless. Hearing my voice, he immediately came over and pushed open the wooden door of the kitchen.

"Dinner should be eaten in the courtyard, right?" I asked him.

The boy thought for a moment and said, "There is a hook and a lamp on the big tree in the yard, but I think it will be done in the summer." ”

"It's cold. Or stay in the house and eat. ”

"Then you can help move the stools in the yard, there is not enough to sit here."

"Why do I do it?"

"Do you need to say anything? You've got a lot of strength. ”

The boy came in with a stool in each hand. With the addition of another one in the kitchen, it is enough for three people.

"Xiaoling, what kind of dishes did you cook?" The young man turned around the stove with a hungry face, a few home-cooked dishes, but he looked very greedy, and he did so much rough work for most of the day, and his appetite was hanged.

"You taste it first, if you, the young master, think the taste is acceptable, that Orion should also be satisfied."

"You're definitely a lot more picky than others."

The young man took the chopsticks, lowered his head and picked up the dish to taste it, nodded approvingly: "You really know, it's very good." ”

"I haven't made these dishes for a few days, in the palace" I said smoothly, almost saying the word "palace", but fortunately I stopped it in time, and I was startled. "You think it's good, I'm relieved, but I'm worried that I haven't done it for too long, and my hand is raw."

I smiled awkwardly, turned my head away, and said, "What I want to drink most is chicken soup, but you can't do it without the permission of the host's family, and you can ask when he comes back." "Why don't you speak?" The young man's eyes suddenly had some suspicion, and when he stared at me, I felt empty.

I hope he didn't pay attention to what I said just now, but I still heard it with his expression, and I thought about it, and the explanation at this moment was inevitably suspicious, so I simply vaguely passed it over, and didn't mention it to him too much.

Seeing that he didn't speak, his eyes stayed on my face, I turned my eyes away and said, "Young Master, you said that you would see that Orion later, and what you want to say to him, you have to think about it first." "You and I have to speak the same language, and we both told him that they are two brothers."

The young man pondered for a moment and said, "You'd better change your name, at least call me eldest brother, I'm afraid that if you don't pay attention and shout like just now, people will definitely be suspicious." “

"Xiaoling," the young man said as he looked at me in a questioning tone, "where did you say you used to be?" ”

"I just heard you didn't finish, why don't you continue?"

There was silence in the house for a while, and footsteps suddenly sounded on the mountain road outside the courtyard, and the two of them looked out of the courtyard together.

I breathed a sigh of relief, the host's family came back in time, and it was a relief for me!

Orion came back with a pile of things on his back, and went into the courtyard to see the two of us, one standing in the doorway, and the other with half of his body on the doorframe, still hiding behind him.

"Uncle, I cooked with my brother, you can taste our craftsmanship, the dishes are all ready-made from you."

When Orion saw the new kitchen, he praised it several times.

At dinner, it is the most leisurely time of the day for the mountain people, busy with the work in hand, and on a cold winter night, the family sits around the fire to eat.

Orion seemed to have something on his mind, his eyes repeatedly looked out of the window, and the "big brother" sitting next to him was silent most of the time, so the responsibility of adjusting the atmosphere fell to me.

I looked at the Orion strangely, who had not even given us his name, and at this thought, my eyes suddenly turned back to the one beside me.

I realized that I had missed such an important thing, and I still don't know the name of the person next to me.

I've been with him for two days, and he's had countless opportunities to bring it up, and I've had many opportunities to ask, but I don't know how, but I don't know how to do it.

I made up my mind and would have to ask him in a moment.

Orion said little, but he was not idle, and he took out a basket from under the shelf in the corner of the room halfway through his meal.

The basket was well hidden, and neither I nor the boy had ever noticed it.

He reached out and uncovered the contents of the basket, revealing several bottles underneath. "This is wine bought in the town outside the mountains, and it is not yet the end of the year, and there is not much rice wine among the mountain people, so it will take a few days to exchange it with them."

Orion poured a full bowl for the boy, and then poured the small bowl in front of me as well.

The young man, who had rarely spoken, suddenly stretched out his hand to block it and said, "Uncle, my brother doesn't know how to drink." “

Orion looked at him, then stopped his gaze on my face, and said with a smile: "The children of the mountain people are as old as your little brother, and this little wine is like drinking water." “

Although the boy had a smile on his face, his position was very firm. "Uncle, I drank it for him, I can drink it."

I tugged at the corner of his coat under the table, and the boy patted the back of my hand and removed it.

Soon he finished his share, reached out and moved the small bowl in front of me, and drank it in a short time.

Eating and drinking were a bit troublesome for him, and he had to turn his back and not remove the cumbersome cloth on his face.

However, it's a fact that the bowl is empty. "Uncle, when I met you on the mountain road in the afternoon, you told me that the village where the mountain people live is quite far from here."

I asked curiously, "Uncle, why do you live alone in such a remote place and in such a deserted forest?" (To be continued......)