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"That's it, as the saying goes, stay in the green mountains, don't worry about not having food, we won't starve to death." Yuan Qing was so quick for a while that she completely forgot that she was already a 12-year-old girl.
Yuan Bao couldn't understand what his sister was saying, and looked at her in confusion.
"Hehe," Yuan Qing laughed dryly, his face was much more ruddy than a few days ago, "My sister means: This mountain is so big, we can't starve to death." ”
This kind of discourse, coming out of the mouth of this thin girl with no social experience, will be somewhat puzzling, but Yuan Qing can't be blamed, she is an adult woman in the 21st century, and she will be embarrassed to let her learn the milky words of a child.
As the saying goes, her true colors are hard to hide, and she pops out a few words of modern language from time to time, which can be regarded as her very restrained.
A lot of mushrooms were picked, and Yuan Qing thought about washing and drying the extra mushrooms so that they could be saved for later.
I also dug up a lot of wild vegetables, so you can eat wild vegetables first tonight, after all, wild vegetables are no longer than mushrooms.
Wild fruits, Yuan Qing also picked badly, after eating the fruit, the pit was retained, Yuan Qing planned to plant the pit near the thatched hut, although the fruit tree ripened for a long time, but there is always a hope is always good.
There is no field in this valley, Yuan Qing thought, if she wants to live here for a long time, she must open up the wasteland and grow grain, so she took advantage of Yuan Bao's nap time, she took a sickle, and prepared to go out to find land suitable for land.
Looking around, the most suitable place for clearing the wasteland is the vacant land where Yuan Qing buried the old man a few days ago.
Yuan Qing came to the grave of an old man, she was very sincere, after all, she occupied someone's house. "Old man, hello, Yuan Qing has come to see you again! Hehe, my brother and I have nowhere to go, occupy the house you lived in, you won't mind, I'll kowtow to you three times, even if you agree. "After speaking, there was no negotiable, Yuan Qing kowtowed three times with a bang.
The breeze blew her slightly yellowed hair, but it all meant that they could live here - but they would burn me more paper money, and come to worship me every Qingming...... From an old man's roar, cough, he's already returned to the West.
"Don't worry, when I have money, I will honor your old man." Yuan Qing seemed to understand the old ghost's thoughts, and smiled slyly.
So, Yuan Qing cleaned up the debris on the ground with a sickle on this land that could be cleared. Halfway through the cleanup, he could only hear a crisp children's voice behind him, Yuan Qing turned his head and smiled: "Xiaobao, are you awake?" ”
"Well, I didn't see you when I woke up." said that the little face revealed grievances.
"Hehe, isn't my sister here?" Looking at his cute face, Yuan Qing couldn't help but smile, walked up to him, patted his little head and said, "What a clingy little guy." ”
"Hmph, sister, aren't you a little guy?" Yuan Bao was brought by his sister and learned to talk back.
Hearing this, Yuan Qing laughed, how could she forget that she was already a little girl, and she was no longer the old-fashioned modern woman.
The two little ones continued to clean up the remaining weeds.
As the sun goes down, the weeds are cleared, and tomorrow we can dig them directly.
Yuan Qing pulled Yuan Bao to the old man's grave and told him what happened.
"This old man's house was given to us to live in, and he is such a good man." Yuan Bao's little face showed surprise and joy.
Under Yuan Qing's teaching of slightly processing the facts, Yuan Bao also obediently kowtowed to the old man's grave three times to thank him for his kindness of 'letting the house'.
That house isn't for nothing, hey! Rent to be paid.
In the evening, the sister and brother still ate boiled wild vegetables, and they spent the night.
In the days to come, Yuan Qing's sister and brother were busy, clearing the wasteland, digging the ground, planting the wheat seeds 'stolen' from Huangtong, watering them, and waiting for them to sprout slowly.
That's three days alone.
The matter of clearing the wasteland in three days, although the land area is not large, it is enough for the sister and brother to be busy.
In the following days, Yuan Qing made bamboo and hardwood cut from the mountains into bows and arrows, and he was tired of eating vegetarian every day these days, and he was tired of eating them, and how could he do it if the two children who were still growing their bodies were vegetarian all day long? So, Yuan Qing made some 'murder weapons' out so that he could go up the mountain to hunt.
Therefore, she worked hard at home to specialize in the practice of bows and arrows, after the bow and arrow was formed, she worked hard at home, trying to use her little arms and legs to pull away the bow and arrow tailored for her, closed one eye, in the state of a professional archer, 'su', the wooden arrow left the bow, and Yuan Qing finally shot the first arrow in her life.
Alas, this little arm and leg, looking at this thin physique, Yuan Qing couldn't help but smile bitterly.
She has the mentality of an adult in her thirties, controlling this body that is only twelve years old, no matter how you look at it, it is not harmonious.
On this day, Yuan Qing finally hit the first prey in her life, an unlucky rabbit, although this rabbit was unlucky enough, but it took a lot of effort to catch it. Despite this, Yuan Qing was still happy not to laugh off his big teeth.
In the evening, Yuan Qing and Yuan Bao were eating rabbit meat and drinking rabbit soup, while listening to Yuan Qing talk about her 'great achievements' in catching this rabbit.
Alas, children are so easy to deceive.
With this beginning, the life of the sister and brother is gradually getting better. Don't worry about eating anymore.
In this valley, the mountains and rivers are clear, isolated from the world, no one disturbs, and the two sisters and brothers live a life of paradise, which can be regarded as leisurely.
Unconsciously, five months have passed, and the wheat planted on the wasteland is about to mature, Yuan Qing looked at the food he planted for the first time, and the excitement in his heart was amazing! You can finally eat wheat!
At this time, the season is also about to enter winter, the weather is getting colder and colder day by day, and the clothes on the two sisters and brothers are very thin, and there is no way to survive this cold winter.
Do you want to take some medicinal herbs out and buy some clothes to go back? Yuan Qing was calculating in his heart.
The original owner of this thatched hut, that is, the old man who went west, he left a few medical books in the house, after Yuan Qing found it, he took it out and flipped through it in his spare time, and the characters of this world turned out to be in tune with the traditional Chinese characters of the People's Republic of China in the previous life, and Yuan Qing, who came through the 21st century, could also understand it.
Since Yuan Qing read those medical books, she has scooped up all the medicinal materials on the mountain that she has neglected, dug them up one by one, and she has never tired of it. These medicinal materials are widely distributed in the mountains, and there are many of them, the most important thing is that they are not only of high medicinal value, but also most of them are rare, like Ganoderma lucidum, matsutake mushroom, ginseng, in short, very rare.
In the past five months, Yuan Qing's sister and brother have collected and dug up a large number of these medicinal materials, making the whole thatched hut fragrant, and the sister and brother are happy in their eyes and hearts.
On this day, the morning breeze mixed with a little chill blew, which made these two lightly clothed people shiver.
Yuan Qing rubbed her hands vigorously, her palms were hot, she applied her warm hands to Yuan Bao's cold blue face, and said softly: "Xiaobao, like my sister, rub your hands hard, and your palms will be warm." ”
Feeling the warm touch of his face, Yuan Bao obediently rubbed his hands, and after his palms were hot, he stood on tiptoe and sent two hot little hands to Yuan Qing's face, as if she was warming his face, he warmed her face.
"Sister, this method is really effective, you can see that your face is covered with hot by me."
"Of course, this is called friction heat, and when two things rub against each other, heat is generated." Yuan Qing is spreading knowledge to her little brother again.
"Sister, you are so good, you know everything." This little child almost thought that his old sister was a god in the sky.
Yuan Qing smiled and said nothing, it felt really good to be worshipped.
Each of them carried a burden on his back, and the burden was full of medicinal herbs, although the herbs were not much, but it was enough for their living expenses.
Yuan Qing also knew that the two children took out a lot of precious medicinal materials to buy at once, what if this matter was targeted by the gangsters?
In this ancient world where there was no security, two children who had no power to protect themselves had to be careful.
So, the two siblings carried some of the medicinal herbs in the thatched hut on their backs, and prepared to cross the green mountains and go to the small county town they had just been to a few days ago.
The mountain road is long and difficult to walk, and it takes two hours to walk outside the mountain to reach the county seat. The two siblings walked like sweat, and the biting cold wind had degraded to the point of wiping their sweat.
The two of them continued to walk against the 'breeze'.
Outside the green mountains is an endless hill, far and near sit a few families, the sun is born, a few wisps of cooking smoke from the farmhouse are dyed, the sky is blue and white, and there are several ink paintings from a distance.
"Hungry, huh? Let's take a break, eat something, and then we're on our way. Yuan Qing wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead and said to Yuan Bao, who was tired and panting beside him.
"Yes." Yuan Baolei's little face was flushed, and his big eyes, which were hazy in the past, now looked extremely clear, adding a bit of cuteness to this delicate little face.
Yuan Qing took out the dry food from the baggage, and the sister and brother ate it in two.
This dry food is what they eat on weekdays, and the prey caught in the mountains will be eaten along with wild vegetables, and they have no dry food such as steamed buns, steamed buns, and dry cakes.
Therefore, the lives of the two children still need to be improved!
After drinking some water, I had to continue on my way.
Luoxian is a small county, although there is no prosperity of a big city, but there is also the stability of a small city. It may be that the country has been peaceful for a long time, and people go in and out of the county, which is very easy.
The sister and brother finally came to Luo County