It's still early summer, and although the temperature is in the mid-20s, the river is still very cold.

Taking advantage of the fact that the sun was still strong in the afternoon and the temperature was still relatively high, after resting for a while, Chen Xu jumped into the river and took a good bath, and when he went home with a pendulum, Chen Jiang had already cooked the soybean and wild vegetable rice, Xing'er was squatting next to the stove and watching the fire, Jiang Chen was processing a few fish, preparing to cook fish soup at night.

"Xu'er, you go to Dashi's house next door to borrow some salt and come back!" Jiang Chen commanded.

Chen Xu said yes and turned around and walked back, and walked a few dozen meters along a path before he saw another thatched house.

The pattern and style are similar to their own, a small courtyard, two thatched huts, there are no big trees in the yard, but there is a simple stone table, that is, a stone slab is placed on a few stones, Niu Dashi is cooking with a five or six-year-old child in the yard, there is a strong fragrance wafting in the yard, Chen Xu knows that it is a frog when he smells it.

"Big rock!" Chen Xu stood at the gate of the courtyard and shouted.

Niu Dashi stood up in surprise and beckoned: "Come in and taste it, I caught a lot of fat frogs today, and I'll bring some back to your mother and little sister later!" ”

Chen Xu walked in and saw that there was a jar full of frogs boiled in the crockpot, but none of them were peeled, all of them were boiled whole.

When I went, Chen Xu's eyes almost fell out, and he resolutely rejected Niu Dashi's kindness and said, "Is there any salt at home?" I'm running out of home, borrow me some first, and next time I go to the market town to buy it and pay it back to you! ”

"What else do we have to say that we can't pay it back, my family's is yours!" Niu Dashi waved his hand indifferently, and then shouted into the house: "Mother, is there any salt at home?" ”

"And, not too much!" A woman's voice came from the room, and after a while a woman about the same age as Jiang Chen's came out, but she was slightly fatter and had the same rough skin, and she looked like a person who often did farm work.

Niu Dashi took the salt jar in the woman's hand, looked at it, and said embarrassedly: "It's really not much, let's mix it with you, and we will go to the market town to buy some more in a few days." ”

"Okay!" Chen Xu nodded, picked a gourd leaf from the edge of the yard and wrapped some salt and left.

"Hey, bring some frogs back to my little sister!" Niu Dashi shouted in the back.

Chen Xu ran faster.

He had never heard of such an awesome way to boil a whole frog, and he looked at it and ate it...... It takes a lot of courage to do that.

Chen Jiang quickly made dinner, which was still soybean and wild vegetable rice and boiled fish in salted water, but in order to improve the taste, some wild ginger, onion and garlic were put in, although there was no chili soy sauce and other necessary seasonings for later generations, but at least Chen Xu felt that he could barely accept it.

After all, in this ancient era without the slightest pollution, the taste of wild fish was particularly delicious, and there were several kinds of fish that he had never seen in later generations, and he was hungry for a day and high-intensity labor, so he felt that even wood he could gnaw down several catties at this time.

There is not much soybean rice, but the fish is two or three catties, Chen Jiang also knows that the two children are growing up, so they are not stingy, and they cook a jar full of them, the little girl is already hungry, and her little face is buried in the big pottery bowl to eat, and she almost never raises her head.

Chen Xu also soaked half a bowl of soybean and wild vegetable rice in fish soup first, and after swallowing it, he felt a lot better.

"Eat slowly, be careful of getting stuck in the bones!" Chen Xu couldn't help but remind Xing'er.

"Woo, brother, you eat too!" The little girl agreed, picked up a fish and put it in a bowl, and then clicked her mouth like a little squirrel eating corn, and only one fish bone remained, so that Chen Xu was amazed by the smooth way of eating.

"Mother, are our family and Dashi's family related?" Chen Xu remembered the sentence that Niu Dashi said when he went to borrow salt just now, my family is your family, and he still didn't understand the meaning of this sentence in his heart.

The apricot who was eating suddenly stopped, raised her head and looked at Chen Xu with a pair of eyes, and a blush appeared on her thin little face.

Chen Jiang also put down the bowl, and said with a strange look on his face: "Xing'er was born with Da Shi to have a baby, and Xing'er will marry when she is thirteen years old, your father was still at home at that time, and Da Shi's father is still there, the two of them decided this matter, originally when I was pregnant with the two of you with Da Shi's mother, I also agreed that if a man and a girl grow up, they will become husband and wife, but unfortunately they gave birth to two boys......

I'm going, no wonder so!

Chen Xu couldn't help but be stunned for a long time, and then remembered the heroic deeds of that guy who cooked the whole frog, and was very glad that he was not a woman, otherwise he would not be able to live this life at all.

But despite this, Chen Xu is still very unhappy in his heart, a second goods who can't even figure out the basic steps of cooking, once his sister marries, can she still eat well?

What makes Chen Xu even more unacceptable is that his sister is only seven years old, and Niu Dashi is almost fourteen years old with him, and his sister has to marry at the age of thirteen.

As soon as he thought that such a young girl was about to be tortured by another second-class girl, Chen Xu suddenly felt bad.

But then he opened his mouth and swallowed the rest of the words back.

Nima won't have his turn to worry about this in six or seven years anyway.

Who knows what it will be like after six or seven years, maybe Dashi's second goods are hanging, maybe because of his appearance, the fate of all people will change, and then Xing'er will have to grow to eighteen years old even if she wants to marry, otherwise Niu Dashi's leg will be discounted.

Although this era is dark, but also full of opportunities, according to historical records, Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries after ten years later, and then Hu Hai came to power to expropriate the tyranny of the peasant uprising across the country, the nobles of the six countries took advantage of the situation to make chaos and restoration, Xiang Yu Liu Bang Chu Han war......

Therefore, if you want to be a wise peasant to protect yourself in such a turbulent era, it is definitely not possible, not only the officials of the Great Qin Empire want to come to collect taxes and collect grain, take out forced labor, build roads, build the Great Wall, repair the mausoleum of Lishan Mountain, and repair the Afang Palace, but even more, once the world is in chaos and chaos, the peasants, as the lowest and best bullying class, everyone wants to come and take a bite.

When he thought of the collapse of the Qin Empire, Chen Xu naturally thought of two giants that were incomparably powerful in Chinese history.

One is Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu who is pulling out the mountains and covering the world, more than ten years later, he seems to be only thirty years old when he kills himself, if you speculate according to the time you know now, Xiang Yu has already been born now, and his age is about the same as himself, maybe three or four years younger, and now he is a bad boy who is still on the tree, digging birds, going down to the river to catch fish, not liking to read, only like to dance with guns and sticks.

The other is Liu Bang, the founding ancestor of the Han Dynasty, who is much older than Xiang Yu, and was fifty-two years old when he established the Han Empire after defeating Xiang Yu, and the establishment of the Han Dynasty was less than ten years after Qin Shi Huang hanged, it seems to be 202 BC.