After eating this meal of garlic roasted catfish, the onions, ginger, garlic and seasonings at home have basically bottomed out.

Qu Jincun is so greedy every day, this oil, salt, sauce, vinegar tea and the like are very fast.

Molly said that it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and if she wants to continue to eat delicious food, seasonings are indispensable and must be purchased, otherwise she can only eat boiled rice in plain water.

Qu Jincun, who was used to being delicate, naturally couldn't let himself be wronged, so he immediately made a decision, and went to the market the next day, with all the seasonings needed at home, and grabbed a little more salt.

"Do you have any money?" When it comes to buying things, Molly has to worry about finances.

In the past few days, all he has eaten is chopping wood or caught game in exchange, and he has never been seen to take any money.

What should I do to buy daily necessities?

"After the last time I became a jade pendant, there are still some silver money left." The young man muttered, picked up the bricks of the kang, and took out a small wooden box from it, "You always don't let you mention the jade pendant, and you don't let you mention the money, how dare I say it!" ”

I blame this for co-authoring...... Molly was amused by his expression and couldn't help but reach out her little hand and pat his brain.

"Don't shoot." Qu Jincun was unwilling to dodge, "What should I do if I shoot stupidly?" ”

"If you don't let me shoot, I won't cook." Molly deliberately teased him and said with a straight face.

The young man looked at her with an unpleasant expression, and his eyes were a little complicated: "Being photographed like that by you, I always feel like a dog." ”

Molly burst out laughing.

In this way, she seems to have really found the feeling of a big childhood brother...... Looking at his awkward and fried appearance, he really looks like a little milk dog!

When she went to bed at night, Molly calmly placed two bowls of water on the kang between the two, and the earthen kang was divided into two parts, which she meant by two people and one side.

…… It has to be clear.

"Don't cross the line, don't let the water in the bowl spill out." She said domineeringly, "Although I can't kill people in my dreams, I can still come twice when I fall asleep and suddenly fly up my mandarin duck legs." ”

The young man's face flickered in the dim kerosene light, and he nodded silently, looking very well-behaved.

"Understand, you sleep, I won't disturb you." He said.

The two men, one head south and the other head north, blew out the lights and lay down, and soon Molly fell asleep.

The joy of this day's tossing made her, a person who usually doesn't exercise much, really tired, so she slept quite deeply.

However, Qu Jincun's eyes sparkled in the dark, and he didn't fall asleep right away.

He leaned against the wall, facing in Molly's direction, looking at the bulging mass under the quilt, and he didn't know what was going on.

In the midst of this darkness, something was slowly surging.

Like a breeze stirring up dust, like the heat on the stove bringing up green smoke, like human hair being gently picked up by fingers...... Something lurking in the darkness brings a vague shaking all around.

It shook like a wave of water.

The invisible undercurrent fluctuated with Qu Jincun's breathing, and gradually, there was a faint change in his body—his body suddenly increased, and then returned to normal after a while.

When the body was enlarged, it was vaguely a strong and toned man's image, and when it returned to normal, it was the appearance of a thin and beautiful boy.

As for this strange phenomenon that happened to him, Qu Jincun just observed it silently, and didn't seem surprised—or, because he was used to it......

In the corner of the kang at the other end, the girl's breath is like nothing, as long as he listens quietly, he can sketch her sweet sleeping face in his mind.

Qu Jincun was silent in the dark, silent, and slowly closed his eyes for a long time and fell asleep.

If you want to catch the market, you have to climb two mountains, so the two of them hurriedly got up when the rooster crowed.

After hurriedly eating a mouthful of leftovers, Qu Jincun carefully took out a string of copper coins from the wooden box and brought them with him, and beckoned Molly to go on the road.

The morning of late autumn and early winter is the time when it is too cold to lose the slag.

The grass beside the path was covered with hoarfrost, and the coarse cloth shoes of two men rustled on the pavement.

"Are you cold?" The young man asked with a white breath.

Molly is really a little cold, her hands and feet are cold, even if she has walked fast, but there is no heat on her body, and it seems that a large piece of ice is pressed on her back.

Hearing the young man's question, she couldn't help but nod.

Qu Jincun said naturally: "Then stretch out your hand, and my brother will give you warmth." ”

Looking at his sincere eyes and bright smile, Molly hesitated for a moment before passing her hands over.

Brother and sister, brother and sister rub their hands together to keep warm, it shouldn't be nothing......

Seeing that the young man's face is so sincere, his mind is not like "with color", and if he deliberately dodges, it will seem a little unkind......

The boy ignored Molly's deep thoughts, his hands were warm, dry and strong, and his fingers were a little longer than hers, so he could grasp all of her hands.

The mountain road winds upward, and the boy pulls Molly tightly, making her walk a lot easier, so that the first mountain can be crossed without much effort.

Slowly descending from the top of the mountain, you can see the smoke slowly rising from the houses the size of sesame seeds in the distance, and at this time, the sky above you is slowly turning white, and the morning stars are falling, and a round of white sun is slowly rising in the distance.

Molly took a deep breath and looked at the deep and shallow trees, hills, streams, and the golden morning sun in the distance.

"On the other side of the mountain, on the other side of the sea—" She couldn't help but sing.

This is the only song Molly can know, and she has learned only a limited number of songs after being out of the real world for too long, so she can only sing it even if it is not very suitable for the occasion.

Qu Jincun took the girl's hand and listened to her hum softly, he felt the same way, and the happiness in his heart was revealed on his face.

He couldn't help but squint his eyes and smile like a crescent moon.

When it came time to climb the second mountain, the thin Molly was a little unbearable, not to mention the pain of walking on the soles of her feet, even her legs were extremely sore, and she really didn't want to walk half a step.

Qu Jincun kept pulling her, never letting go, and naturally could feel her fatigue.

Without saying a word, he squatted in front of her first, and carried her on his back before the girl could react.

Molly:......

She wanted to say that she wasn't that delicate yet, and that she could try to hold on a little longer.

But I heard Qu Jincun say: "Good girl, you take a rest, my brother carries you up the mountain, but when it comes to going down the mountain, you have to move your legs and go." ”

Sister brother, brother sister,...... Somehow, Molly's heart skipped a beat when she heard this self-claim and his name.

But the brother-sister relationship was decided by her with one final word, and it is reasonable for people to say so.

Okay, okay.

Believe it, there should be no problem...... He can even carry so much firewood from an entire mountain, and it should be easy to carry a girl as thin as her......

The boy is slender and long, and although his shoulders are broad, he is obviously not fully grown, but he is still worthy of the word "Wei'an".

This is a responsible person, uh, a little man!

Molly eerily felt a sense of "cultivation" satisfaction.

She firmly believes that this progress of his is all self-inflicted.

When I think about it like this, my heart is so beautiful that I can't stop the old bubbles!

Qu Jincun was never willing to grieve their mouths, as soon as he entered the market, he first picked a few food stalls to eat to their heart's content, and the string of copper coins soon lost a small half.

Add salt, rice wine, ginger shreds, mixed noodles to the river shrimp, heat the oil, squeeze the peanut-sized shrimp into a ball, quickly put it into the oil and fry, fry it until the golden brown outside is charred and tender inside, take it out and put it on the plate, when you board it, the fragrance of the river fresh comes to the face, and the stall owner will bring a pinch of pepper salt and sprinkle it gently.

Hmm~ That taste, fresh straight to the top beam door.

The bite is crispy and refreshing, full of juice, salty, fresh and crispy, and very fragrant.

Iron rice cake is hand-made cake, and when you rush to the market, you can see a large number of people surrounding a small stall, which is a cake stall. The cake stall is filled with mung bean sprouts, shredded potatoes, fried dough sticks, braised pork, pig intestines, pickled shrimp, poached eggs and other ingredients. The cake seller stands in front of the table, grabs a ball of white cake from the cake dough under the cotton mattress with one hand, and then kneades and spreads it on the table board, and then makes a pocket in the shape of an open-top boat, and then according to the different needs of customers, from the basin in front of the table, he takes a little material from the chopsticks in the front of the table and arranges it in the pocket, and closes the bottom and both sides like a dumpling, and a tube of inlaid cake becomes, and then scoops some soup with a spoon and pours it into the cake, so that it is a bowl of sticky and glutinous and fragrant dim sum.

The color is red and white, the inside is soft and sweet and fragrant, or fresh and salty and glutinous, quite delicious, and the soup is not known to be boiled with, it is very delicious.

Molly liked it very much, but Qu Jincun didn't like this too soft food very much, so he simply gave her his share.

The pomegranate cake is a coarse buckwheat hawthorn pomegranate cake, which is a soup made of fresh hawthorn, pomegranate peel, black plum and white sugar, and the dough is synthesized with this soup, and it is baked into small cakes, which are used by mountain people to clean up the intestines, so there are also stalls selling this thing in the market.

In fact, there are very few medicinal ingredients such as hawthorn pomegranate peel in the cake stall, mainly soba noodles - so the pomegranate cakes in the market do not have the strange smell of buckwheat and hawthorn pomegranate cakes made by medicinal food shops, but are full of the unique warm and mellow aroma of buckwheat noodles.

The surface is crispy and dry, but the inside is hot and soft, sweet and slightly sour, very refreshing.

After eating greasy fried shrimp, eating this thing is just to relieve greasyness.

When it was approaching noon and there were not so many people in the market, Qu Jincun, who had eaten and drunk, pulled Molly around.

He inquired about the price of salt, salt, and spices in the grocery store, and then withdrew.

"Aren't you going to buy it here?" Molly asked, surprised.

Qu Jincun, who is very good at living, sighed softly, pulled her to a corner where no one was, and then quietly looked around.

"There are cheaper ones." He said in a very low voice.

What's cheaper?

After that, he took Molly to a stall selling bamboo shoots, and after a few words, he took out a coarse cloth bag from the bamboo basket and carefully poured it - but it was two catties of salt.

When the man quickly took the few copper coins handed over by Qu Jincun, he muttered a few words to him with satisfaction.

Molly suddenly realized.

-- It turns out that the so-called cheaper refers to private salt.

After buying salt, we are more than halfway through today's task.

Molly followed Qu Jincun's footsteps, and couldn't help but look back when she left, the dealer who sold smuggled salt sneakily made a few transactions with others=barter, and about sold out today's "goods", so she hurriedly put the bamboo shoots on the stall back into the bamboo basket, and left quickly.

The action was swift and unobtrusive.

"How did you know it was a salt dealer?" Molly also asked the boy in a low voice, "Acquaintance introduction?" ”

Qu Jincun nodded perfunctorily and said vaguely: "Almost!" ”