Chapter 5: The Light at the Bottom

Readers are suspicious, sensitive, and easily involved in a plot they have made up themselves, and play their acting skills perfectly in this plot. To put it simply, a reader is hypocritical.

It's okay, it's normal to take a beating.

Gu Qing is a person who is not very patient, whether it is a man or a woman, he will not coax. In his opinion, "coaxing people" is actually based on lies, a kind of verbal fraud, just like the scumbag's mountain alliance and sea oath are not credible. Secondly, this kind of behavior of coaxing people has caused the status of the two sides to be unequal, one has no fear, the other is wronged, and Gu Qing is absolutely unwilling to do this kind of stupid thing that others have wronged themselves.

The use of fists in the treatment of hypochondria has proven to be effective. Song Gensheng covered all kinds of sore spots in his body, limped and led Gu Qing to Shitan, and sprinkled barbell-like oops and cries of pain all the way.

The cry of pain is very cheerful, without any pretentious component.

The water in Shitan is very shallow, only up to knees, and the two of them did not bring tools, but Song Gensheng is a child who grew up in the village, and he is still very skilled in catching fish.

The two of them surrounded a shallow water area with stones on the side of the stone pool, and opened a hole in the direction of the pool, and then the two slowly surrounded the mouth from two different directions, and after again and again, there were a few more small fish, crabs and shrimp in the shallow water.

Song Gensheng picked up some relatively small fish and shrimp with both hands and released them back to Shitan, leaving behind relatively large ones.

Gu Qing had been quietly watching his movements, and he felt a little emotional.

The gift that nature has given to mankind, and human beings have learned to give back to nature, this truth is better understood by ancient people than modern people.

Song Gensheng skillfully kneaded the wild grass on the roadside into a rope, picked a handful of wild vegetables on the hillside near Shitan, and skewered the fish, shrimp, crab and wild vegetables and handed them to Gu Qing.

"Give it all to me? Don't you divide it in half? Gu Qing was a little embarrassed.

Song Gensheng looked up at the sky and sighed faintly: "It's all for you, it can be regarded as a thank you for your grace not to kill today." ”

Gu Qing said: "I am not a person who wants to repay the favor. ”

Song Gensheng gasped, his face was red and blue, struggling between "I can't break out" and "I can't hurt my body if I don't break out", and he looks like love.

The two walked into the village, and there was silence for a long time.

Gu Qing suddenly said: "Gensheng, I just said that I forgot a lot of people and things, and I didn't lie to you." ”

Song Gensheng hesitated for a moment and said, "I believe in you." ”

"Also, I'm not going to kill you. In the afternoon on the mountain, I just flashed this thought, and I am still full of guilt. ”

Song Gensheng was stunned for a moment, and finally smiled with relief: "You have changed a lot in the past two days, I almost don't know you anymore." ”

Gu Qing also smiled: "The change is indeed very big, if others bully me again, I will never swallow my anger." If someone bullies you, I won't swallow it. ”

Song Gensheng pondered for a moment and asked in a low voice, "Is the 'coal' you said really important?" ”

Gu Qing thought for a moment and said, "It's very important, but I haven't figured out what to do with it yet." ”

Song Gensheng looked at him worriedly: "You must not use it to smelt iron, you will be questioned." ”

Gu Qing smiled: "No, I don't have the courage to challenge the royal law." ”

After a pause, Gu Qing said again: "The pit where the coal was found has been filled, but I still hope that you can keep it secret and don't say it to anyone, including your father, okay?" ”

Song Gensheng swore to the sky: "I won't say anything if I am killed." ”

The sworn look was too much like a scumbag, Gu Qing was suddenly a little worried, and looked at him fixedly.

Song Gensheng said uncomfortably: "You don't believe me? ”

"Honestly, I don't believe it."

Song Gensheng was anxious: "I am not a person of unfaith, how can you believe it?" ”

"I only believe in the dead."

Song Gensheng: "............"

Gu Qing suddenly patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Scared you, don't take it seriously, you are more like a dead person among the living." ”

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Gu Qing was in a happy mood when he returned home.

I can finally eat meat today, I feel happy when I think about it, and happiness is mixed with a trace of sadness, and sadness is mixed with a little worry about the future, after all, tomorrow's meat does not know where it is.

You have to live a careful life, Gu Qing is a very insecure person, he is used to having all kinds of daily necessities at home, whether he can use it or not.

Now the biggest inconvenience is that there are too few daily necessities at home, there is no iron pot at home, only a broken clay pot and a pottery bowl for cooking, and the seasoning for cooking is even less pitiful, Gu Qing rummaged through the whole house, and only found a small lump of coarse salt, nothing else, not even oil.

I can't believe what kind of life his predecessor lived, did he really only eat rice every day and didn't need anything else? No wonder he has thin arms and legs, and he looks malnourished, and Ding Erlang's appearance can hurt him.

Gu Qing wanted to make a braised fish for himself, but he didn't have the tools, so after thinking about it, he had to decide to make a simple version of the fish soup.

Fill a small half jar of water, put the fish and shrimp into the water and simmer over low heat, after the water boils, put in a handful of wild vegetables picked in the mountains and forests during the day, and a little coarse salt, the bamboo chopsticks stir gently, and soon the clay pot exudes a strong fresh fragrance.

Gu Qing's nose twitched and he sighed in satisfaction.

Falling to the lowest point of life, a bowl of hot fish soup is a ray of light in the dark valley bottom.

Filled with a bowl of soup, Gu Qing held the pottery bowl in both hands, carefully leaned to the edge of the bowl and took a sip of the soup gently, the delicious taste exploded in the tongue bud, flowing into the abdomen, warming a lonely heart.

Gu Qing smacked his lips and added half a bowl of rice to himself, the fish soup was soaked in the rice, he ate very slowly, every mouthful of soup, every grain of rice, had to be chewed carefully in his mouth, and he swallowed reluctantly.

The food crisis is imminent, and now he is really eating one bite less, so he cherishes every bite of food in his mouth.

No matter how slow he chewed, half a bowl of rice was finally eaten, and his stomach was less than three points full, Gu Qing picked up the clay pot again, fished out the fish and shrimp in it and ate it, but he still ate it very slowly, and the fish bones and shrimp skin were reluctant to spit it out, chew it and swallow it.

It's August, it's the hot summer season, and there is no refrigerator in this year, so the cooked meals must be eaten on the same day. Gu Qing saved the process of psychological struggle, and quickly ate the fish soup cleanly.

The stomach is still not full, but ...... That's all there is to it. The family has food in stock, but it must have a strict plan, because Gu Qing is not sure when he will be able to earn money or food from other means.

After eating, Gu Qing washed and put away the clay pot and bowl, and then sat on the threshold and looked at the stars and moon in the night sky.

It is said that after a person has eaten and drunk enough, his spirit will fall into sleepiness and he will be easily confused about life, but he has only eaten less than three points full, and he is also confused at the moment.

In my previous life, I was in an orphanage, but now I am so lonely at this time. People who are sad always like to compare themselves to meteors, crossing the dark night sky, leaving a fleeting scar, what about Gu Qing? In just 30 years of life, what traces did he leave behind?

Came out of the orphanage with nothing, studied, worked, promoted, and later got achievements, subordinates, and a group of young people who opened up territory for him, and the whole team took him as the soul and faithfully and thoroughly carried out his will. The world had just given him a hint of warmth, and in an instant it had pushed him into the ice cave.

Coming to this strange world, what to do next?

Gu Qing was very confused, he didn't know anything about this world, if he only lived for food and clothing, he felt unwilling, and if he went out to do something about the emperor's hegemony, he felt very middle-class.

He has such an extraordinary experience, destined not to be mediocre, maybe the great tide of the times will push him to a high place, at that time, he couldn't help standing at the top of the world, looking down on all living beings with a face of loneliness like snow, and the vicissitudes of life passed through the vicissitudes of thought of "losing her, winning the world".

Tsk, it's more middle two, shaking goosebumps......

In short, live well, how fate plays tricks on him is a matter of fate, if you are lucky in this life, I hope you can live the way you want.

In the hot summer, the night is not as hot as imagined, the mountain village is very cool, the night breeze blows, and there is even a hint of chill.

Gu Qing sat on the threshold, looking back at his dilapidated home, looking at the outrageously simple furnishings in the home, the tattered bed and table, he suddenly decided to set a small goal for himself.

Let's solve the food crisis first, and then make this home fuller, if you can build a new house, add new furniture, all kinds of daily necessities, and make a few suitable clothes.

As for marrying a wife and having a baby......

Is meat not tasty? Isn't it nice to live in a big house? Isn't it happy to dig a pit and bury people?

What do you want your wife to do?