"Does it still hurt?" Molly asked in a whisper, and her subordinates kept talking.

"It hurts." Qu Shao said honestly, "But I can't die anyway, so it hurts." ”

Seeing his indifferent appearance, a trace of confusion rose in Molly's heart: is this the Qu Gongzi in the system who is arrogant and expensive and didn't know the difference between wheat seedlings and leeks until he was sixteen years old?

It's unbelievable how resilient he is.

…… How did he learn these survival skills? And it pretends to have rough skin and thick meat.

The slight sound of water sounded in the room, and after Molly wiped him clean, she carefully and carefully applied the golden medicine to the wound.

As soon as the gray medicine touched the dark red wound, a layer of green smoke rose up.

Qu Jincun's whole body was shocked, and beads of sweat the size of beans came out.

Molly saw that his face turned pale, and the movements of his subordinates couldn't help but pause.

This medicine looks quite domineering, and the boy is a little overwhelmed.

For a few moments, Molly could hear him clenching his teeth.

When the cold sweat was not so much, Molly wiped the sweat of the boy a little worriedly, and then looked at his face, which was not as refreshing as before the medicine.

"Is this Jinchuang medicine okay?" Molly asked softly, "From Orion's house...... Will it be ......"

Qu Jincun breathed a sigh of relief and shook his head very lightly: "It's okay...... It's good medicine, I'm fine. ”

After speaking, he seemed to lose the strength to speak, and sat against the earthen wall and closed his eyes, his breathing slightly rough.

Molly tried her best to clean up the blood stains on the cloth on the ground and ground as silently as possible, and when she was done, she went to see the boy and found that he was still in that position.

Is it so painful that you can't even move?

"Hey," Molly whispered worriedly, "do you want to lie down and sleep for a while?" ”

The young man Qu slowly opened his eyes, although his face was pale, his eyes were still as bright as morning stars.

"I want the fairy daughter to blow on it," he gasped slightly, his expression could be called pitiful, "The mother said that with the pity of the fairy daughter, the place that hurts will not hurt." ”

For the first time, Molly felt that Qu Jincun was younger than the actual appearance.

She lowered her gaze, gently picked up the young man's injured arm, and blew on it like a breeze like a warm sun.

He was injured because of his protection, and Molly, who had a clear grudge, naturally couldn't bear to refuse this small request.

Who knows, the young man Qu has to inch in, puffing out his cheeks and muttering: "Brother and sister's blowing is useless, it is only useful if you want the lady's kiss!" ”

Molly was dumbfounded, glared at the arm wrapped in the new strip of cloth, and shook her hand away.

Qu Jincun: "Hey, don't go......"

Because of the injury of her hand due to her strong labor, she was temporarily unable to chop wood for money, so Molly thought about making something to sell so that she could feed the two of them during this time.

They brought some beans from the market, and Molly took some of them and soaked them in water, and by noon the beans had sprouted tender shoots, like little saplings, which were lovely to roll in the water.

Molly grabbed a handful of bean mouths, took a piece of bacon that she had marinated earlier, chopped it into minced meat in three or two clicks, and then began to stir-fry it with chicken fat picked from the pheasant.

Stir-fry on low heat until the bacon spits oil, then turn to high heat and stir-fry, the fragrance of the bean mouth and the incense of the bacon will quickly burst out, and when the water vapor in the pot is gone, it will be quickly put out of the pot and put on the plate.

This is the simplest cured bean mouth, the country lo-mei.

Molly took a small plate and walked into the room to let Qu Jincun taste it, if he ate it and said that it was good, then he could sell it, and it would be considered an income.

Bacon has an irresistible mountain village flavor, and before Molly entered the door, Qu Jincun smelled the gluttonous smell.

"It smells so good." He said aloud, "What is it?" ”

After the severe pain when he first took the medicine, he is much better now, and he is bored and doesn't want to sleep anymore, so he is always paying attention to Molly's movements.

A girl dressed in a fat but ill-fitting coarse cloth and short brown walked in with a smile on her face, holding a rough black pottery dish in her hand, on which there were red dices of red meat mixed between the crystal clear bean mouths, which looked very beautiful.

"Give." Molly happily brought the plate to the boy's mouth, held it up with her own hand, and shoved a pair of chopsticks into his uninjured hand.

Qu Jincun looked at the food and then at her, curiously picked up the bean mouths that had been fried to a golden brown, and put them in his mouth one by one.

Smoked bacon, the inside and outside are consistent, transparent and shiny after being cooked and diced, the color is bright, the yellow is translucent and red, the taste is mellow and fragrant, the fat is not greasy, the thin is not stuffed with teeth, the salty and palatable is palatable, and the incense is rich.

Since the fat of the bacon has completely penetrated into the bean mouth, the beany smell of the bean mouth is completely covered, with a strong meat aroma and plant fragrance, which is very refreshing.

The two are matched to add a mellow fragrance.

"It's delicious!" He said in surprise that he sped up, like a whirlwind passing through, and in the blink of an eye, he ate a plate of lo-mei.

Molly nodded with satisfaction, and then said, "After dinner, I want to go to the next village to sell this, so that I can eat and drink." You rest at home, and I'll be back before dark, no matter how much or how little I sell. ”

"Shenma?!" Qu Jincun screamed, his face elongated, "How can there be any reason to let a woman's family go out to do business?" Don't go! ”

Molly paused, didn't say anything, just sighed leisurely.

Qu Jincun felt that as the head of the family, he had to be tough, so he didn't agree with her decision.

Until lunch, Molly couldn't convince him.

"You are not allowed to go out until you have eaten everything you bought at the bazaar!" Qu Jincun ordered Molly in a vicious voice, "Otherwise, otherwise I will go out to feed the wolf shirtless!" ”

How can anyone threaten others with their own safety?

Molly rubbed her brow, feeling poked in the underbelly, and she really couldn't help it.

"Okay." She said softly, "Listen to you." It's just that everyone will starve together. ”

Qu Jincun ignored the stubbornness in her words, and smiled proudly, and a smile appeared on his youthful and handsome face, illuminating the whole room like sunshine.

"Well," he said with a smile, "my brother covers you, so you don't have to worry about your livelihood." ”

Molly:......

Just because she can't go out doesn't mean she has to sit and eat.

Molly heard that the bacon here is a popular commodity for everyone, so she decided to start making zuò bacon, and the raw materials were taken from Orion's house, and of course, the sales were all on Orion.

- This is the only place where Qu Jincun agrees with her to go.

All poultry, wild animals and aquatic products can be crispy cured meat, the finished product is red and bright, smoky and salty, fat but not greasy, delicious and abnormal.

This is the season of smoking at the beginning of winter, and if it is preserved properly, it can be eaten after the Spring Festival......

When Molly went to Orion's house and said that she was going to make bacon for processing, Orion's lady didn't even ask for a deposit, so she gave Molly more than a dozen catties of wild boar at home, so that there were two wild pheasants and a large bunch of sheep intestines.

Since it takes a lot of time to make zuò bacon, Molly calculated and saved some of the things she bought at the bazaar, which would almost last until the bacon was ready to be sold for money.

Knead the meat with peppercorns, salt and sugar, put it in a clay pot with the inner skin downward, the meat up, the top layer of skin upward, and press it with a heavy object. After a few days, hang the meat that has been half-dried on the kitchen pot and start smoking, so that all the smoke and the meat are golden brown, then remove and hang it in a ventilated place on the eaves.

When smoking the meat, Molly cleverly added some cypress pine branches and orange peel to add the flavor of bacon, so that the finished product she made has a more fragrant flavor than others.

After the finished product is untied from the rope, the meat color can be seen to be dark red, and the taste of steamed cooked food is delicious, with a strong smoke aroma.

Molly felt very satisfied, and put the bacon that had shrunk to several catties into a bamboo basket, planning to send it to Orion's family.

In the past ten days, Qu Jincun has been unable to move his hands, except for eating and sleeping every day, and there are not so many words between the two of them.

Seeing that she was going out today, Qu Jincun put on his robe without saying a word, put on his shoes and followed her.

“？” Molly gave him a blank look.

"I'll go with you." Qu Jincun said calmly, as if he was afraid that she would refuse, so he hurriedly added, "It's okay to be idle anyway." ”

In fact, in the past few days, his wound has almost healed, but he can't use force, Molly thought that a young man of this age had been holding back at home, and it was easy to hold back abnormal thoughts, so he silently agreed to follow him.

When they came to Orion's house, Orion's lady told them that the meat was owed to them on credit, and her family was not there for the past few days, so she couldn't sell mountain goods.

Therefore, Molly needs to take the bacon to the market and sell it herself, and after getting back the money, she can return the meat money on credit to her family.

was said by Orion's lady, Molly was dumbfounded: Isn't that what she said, isn't it just for his family's processing work?

Why, why do you have to be responsible for sales?

"That's what my head of the house said anyway," Orion gave them a helpless look, "I can't do anything else." ”

It seemed that there was no other way to talk about it, so Molly had to carry the bamboo basket on her back to see that it was not too late, and she really planned to carry it to the market by herself.

Qu Jincun took the small basket without saying a word, put one shoulder on his own intact shoulder, and walked towards the mountain road.

"Let's go." He said without looking back.

"You, you rest," Molly said with small steps to keep up with him, "I can do it myself." ”

The young man patted the firewood knife on his waist and asked lightly, "Can it work?" This thing has such a big fragrance, aren't you afraid to attract wolves? Something else didn't sell, but fed you to the wolf with bacon. ”

"......" Molly got goosebumps from what he said, looking at the artemisia grass and dark woods around her, how could she not see how it was not as beautiful as before, she asked in a low voice, "In broad daylight, will there be ......?" ”

"The wolf in winter is hungry," Qu Jincun replied casually, "who knows when it will come out?" ”

The wind rustled in the trees, as if ten thousand living creatures were in ambush.

Molly couldn't, so she had to follow Qu Jincun closely, silently reciting the blessing of the dream space in her heart, don't let him crow mouth say it.

Fortunately, it was the first half of the morning when I went, the sky was very bright, and there were a few people on the road, and sure enough, there were no wolves.

Molly's bacon was sold at a good price in the bazaar, and in addition to the meat money that needed to be handed over to the hunters when they returned, they bought the rest of the silver money to buy grain, which was enough to buy a small half pocket of coarse grain mixed with bran, and they could eat it for four or five days if they saved a little.

At noon, the two didn't dare to eat at the market, so they hurriedly walked back, the basket was still carried by Qu Jincun, and Molly couldn't carry it for him for a while.

It wasn't until we crossed the first mountain and reached the valley where the two mountains met that something was wrong in the air.

Several fishy winds whirred in the valley, and Qu Jincun, who was walking, changed his face and hurriedly pushed Molly to a big tree.

"Get up to the tree," he whispered, "there's a tiger!" ”

Molly was on the verge of crying.

In addition to the pastoral fun in this countryside, there are tigers, leopards and jackals that choose people to eat, and they may bite your bones at any time!

Moreover, anyone who goes to this place where there is no village in front of the village and no shop is as dark as the lair of the old demon in Montenegro, and when he hears the word "tiger", it is impossible to get up calmly.

She climbed up the tree as fast as she could, Qu Jincun followed, and at the first fork, he crossed Molly and climbed up two or three more branches.

"Higher," he said to Molly quickly, "climb up to my branch, some tigers can jump up and reach the first branch." ”

He could climb so neatly with an injury, and Molly couldn't say that she was so scared that she couldn't crawl, so she could only struggle, trying to move up again.

The branches where Qu Jincun is located are very thick, enough to withstand two people, and there is an empty big crow's nest below, which can cover the figure of the person on the tree.

As soon as Molly got close, Qu Jincun couldn't help but say that he tightened her upstairs...... With that "wounded" arm.

With his other hand, he firmly grasped the branch above his head, making sure that the two of them would not fall.

Molly's heart was beating like a drum, and her thin figure was huddled in his arms, almost completely hidden by him.

They were already quite far from the ground at this point, and when they looked down, the shaking of the branches was enough to make people dizzy.

Involuntarily, Molly hugged the other party's waist with her backhand.

Soon, the fishy wind became stronger and stronger, and the tiger roar continued to come from far away.

As if driven by fate, two tigers, one big and one small, one male and one female, rushed over from a certain mountain beam at a fast speed.

The hideous momentum and the white fangs of the forest all showed the danger of the overlord in the mountains.

Molly couldn't help but shrink an extra inch into the boy's arms.

Qu Jincun hugged her tighter, and suddenly whispered in her ear: "Don't look down." ”

He said that no one was allowed to look down, but on such an occasion, in such a tense moment, it was like a hint that people could not help but look at.

…… Molly couldn't help herself and glanced down.

I saw that in the open space below, the larger male tiger had caught up with the smaller female tiger, and knocked the female tiger over and pressed it to the ground with one paw.

Molly was just about to think that it was two tigers fighting for territory, fighting or arguing over prey, when she saw the male tiger's body sink, and then—

It crushed the female tiger.

That's right, that's the verb.

Straight, gun, while, in.

The two of them sat high in the tree and could see clearly, and the movements of the two tigers did not fall at all...... I saw it in the eyes.

Even the details of the "tools of the crime" can be seen clearly!

Molly:......

Qu Jincun: ......

"Winter and spring are the season for tigers," the teenager exhaled like an orchid, and his hot breath sprayed on Molly's eardrums, leaving the latter's brain blank, "Be considerate of them." ”

Molly:......