Chapter 2: Eating

Sheng Tang said Fengyue, but at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, he said to eat. Not long after the Xuanwumen Mutiny, the world had just calmed down, and there was simply not enough food. Although there is no such thing as changing children and eating them, it is common to sell children and girls.

Now Cai Cong is facing a crisis of eating, and the world is decided, but at this time, except for the wealthy families, the people's homes are basically empty, and it is difficult to find a mouse. Rats live in people's homes, afraid of being boiled in the middle of the night!

Cai Cong eats gruel, which is also mixed with a lot of wheat bran, and it feels like swallowing a knife when he eats it.

"No, I can't eat anymore, I feel like I'm going to die if I eat again." Thinking about it, he suddenly screamed, startling his mother.

"Cong'er, after my mother hands over the embroidery to the store, I will take you to eat noodles, you can bear with it!" Sister Cai felt that her son had become very different, she used to eat more actively, but now she can't finish a bowl. More picky eaters than those sons of the family.

"I'll go out and find something to eat." Relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and relying on the water to eat the water, there are mountains and rivers here, and he wants to find meat to eat.

"Son! Where are you going, don't scare your mother, obediently, it's not easy to live these years. We are not the landlords, and it is good to have some to eat. ”

Sister Cai was so frightened that she hurriedly hugged him, how could she be so assertive when she was only eight years old!

"Mother, let go of me, I promise not to go far. Really, I'm going to be angry if I don't let go again. After being hugged, Cai Cong said unhappily, but he endured it and didn't break free.

Sister Cai let go of him in a sneer, I don't know why she felt that when her son was serious, he was very scary, and his speech was more majestic than that of the patriarch.

"Shall the mother go with you?"

"You're at home, I'm going alone, don't worry, I'll be back soon." Cai Cong said softly, but he thought in his heart that this was probably a loving mother! But he enjoyed it.

Sister Cai was actually very reluctant in her heart, but she was afraid that her son would be angry, so she thought that it would be okay to follow secretly for a while, so she nodded. Unexpectedly, Cai Cong walked around the village, and she lost it.

Ignoring how anxious Sister Cai was, Cai Cong walked on the mountain road whistling. Sister Cai'er wants to follow him, it's really a bit wishful thinking.

More than 1,000 years ago, the wild was by no means comparable to the wild today, and although the game was not visible, it was very dense.

Animals like goats are very unrealistic for Cai Cong now, but it is not difficult for him to catch birds and rabbits, this kind of thing he did when he was very young in his previous life.

After getting off the set, he found a place with a steady current and started fishing. Throwing out the hook, he lay down on the stone and basked in the sun. The autumn sun is warm and pleasant.

The most important thing is that he feels fulfilled, an eight-year-old child says fulfillment, others sound a little unbelievable, but he just feels fulfilled.

When a person feels happy, time always flies. The afternoon time was brilliant, and Cai Cong's mood was even brighter. He couldn't lift the five fat river fish, so he put some hay on the mat and dragged them all the way home. This made him sigh, in the end, he was still too young.

When he returned home with the fish with great difficulty, Sister Cai'er had a big mouth, how could she catch so many big fish with one needle? Others catch a day, sometimes it's just a few small fish.

"Mother, you cook the fish soup first, and I'll go out again." Cai Cong's little face was flushed, and his hands were sore and swollen, but he was very happy that he could finally eat meat, and if there were some fresh vegetables and fruits, it would be even better.

"Son~ Where are you going to go at this time? It's getting dark? Sister Cai looked at the sun and said with some concern. Actually, it's only past four o'clock in the afternoon, but the sun sets, and the autumn sky gets dark around six o'clock.

"It's nothing, I'll be back in a minute." Cai Cong said without looking back, he didn't dare to tell his mother that he would go up the mountain by himself, otherwise he would definitely be hugged tightly.

Out of the door, he went straight to Cai Gang's house and knocked on the door, he had a lot of covers, if half of them were hit, then he couldn't get them back, so he needed to find a helper.

"Uncle Gang, it's polite. My little nephew has something I would like to ask you for help with. As soon as the door opened, Cai Cong clenched his fists and said politely, he didn't know how the ancients spoke. So Wen Crepe gave a salute and said politely.

"Obediently, God, how can this baby be like a scholar." Cai Gang leaned against the door frame at a loss, muttering to himself. He had seen from afar that he was reading in the city and reciting poetry in a restaurant, acting exactly like his nephew, so much so that he was frightened.

"Hey, dog...... Look at my mouth, Cai Cong! What's the matter with your uncle? I don't know if I was frightened by Cai Cong's abnormal performance that night, Cai Gang is always a little stunned when he sees this nephew who is methodical and calm.

"I want to ask my uncle to accompany me up the mountain, not deep, only on the small ring mountain. The nephew is afraid that there are too many prey, and the person is not strong enough to move. "Cai Cong doesn't care about his almost slip of the tongue, he has to give people time to change!

"Obediently, you just said that I would accompany you up the mountain. It's so tongue-twisting, I almost don't understand it. Cai Cong, did you go to the private school to eavesdrop on Mr.'s lecture? ”

In this era, there is a great reverence for readers, even if they are stolen.

"Haven't you, uncle, have you been free? Would you like to accompany me up the mountain? Cai Cong said seriously, just now he almost blurted out, damn, it turned out to be all vernacular, fortunately he used to stop talking.

"Available, free. But where did you get your prey? Could it be that the fox fairy sent you? Cai Gang said and walked out and closed the door. Ever since the goddess said that Cai Cong could talk to the fox fairy, he was endowed with a mysterious color in Cai Village.

"It's nonsense, it's just nothing." The idioms in Shangshu were too difficult for Cai Gang, so Cai Cong hurriedly translated them.

One big and one small, whether it is life or knowledge, the two are destined to not talk together, just bury their heads in the road.

Then Cai Gang began to be surprised, Cai Cong took him to every place, he would see a few ropes tied to pheasants, rabbits, and big birds on the ground, and the small places were densely strung together.

"I'll drop God, this must be sent to you by the fox fairy." Cai Gang opened his mouth wide, and there was a hint of awe in his eyes when he looked at Cai Cong.

The means of play of children in later generations are unknowable means in the eyes of today. In this era, bows and arrows were relied upon, and traps were also used to catch terrifying creatures such as wild boars and bears. How can anyone use a chain sleeve and small thorns to catch animals? At most, someone uses the stupid method of Roque.

I have to say that the power of food is immeasurable, Cai Gang carried a hundred and ten catties of things, and walked from the mountains to the village in one go, without even taking a break halfway.

And Cai Cong has not eased up holding the two little rabbits, and the harvest is too big, which makes him see the terrible ecology of this era.

"Sister Cai, come out quickly! Come and see! Your Cai Cong has been gifted by the fox fairy. Cai Gang's voice rang out across half of the village, and now the villagers couldn't sit still, so they came out with bowls one by one, sticking their heads out to see the strangeness.

"Look at it, just now Cai Cong asked me to accompany him up the mountain to collect things, and I still wonder what to collect! When I went to the mountains, I saw that it was full of these fat rabbits, pheasants, and so on. He took me from place to place, which must have been told to him by the fox fairy in advance. ”

Cai Gang's face was full of red light with a smile, as if he was the one who got the gift, and his proud head was held high.

"Wow! It was really sent by the fox fairy. ”

"Mother! Do you want to eat meat from rabbits, chickens, and dogs? ”

"Not really! Now his family has handed in great luck, you see how much food you have to exchange for so much meat! ”

Everyone looked at the prey on the ground with envy, and the children drooled even more.

Cai Cong's house has no fence, just a fence, and Sister Cai pushed open the gate and saw a full of prey, so shocked that she couldn't close her mouth.

"This, this, or we'll go back! Son! My mother heard the old man say that the fox fairy will give you as much as you want, and our family will be surrounded by four walls, it won't harm your life, right? Sister Cai persuaded her bitterly, she didn't know what was beyond her ability to understand, and she felt afraid.

"Mother, rest assured, these are not gifts from the fox fairy, but I caught them myself. When I'm older, I'll kill a big worm and make you a tiger fur coat. Cai Cong said intimately, seeing that Sister Cai'er's clothes were thin and a little nervous in the night breeze, he couldn't help but praise Haikou.

"Don't dare! The big worm is so fierce, my son is not an opponent. Just what to do with these things? ”

Sister Cai was frightened, but the surrounding villagers were in awe. Whether it is a gift from the fox fairy or not, at this age, this kind of speech and behavior makes the villagers feel that he is not ordinary, this is a prodigy.

"Take a chicken and cook it. For the rest, my son will take it to Chang'an City to exchange money, and I will buy a lot of rice when the time comes. Tomorrow, I will trouble Uncle Gang, and the boy will give you 20% of the rice. ”

"I can't help it, I'll help pick out the things, how can I accept your rice!" Cai Gang waved his hand embarrassedly, in the era of simple people, he didn't dare to accept his cousin's rice when he did such a thing.

In the crowd, Cai Gang's wife, although she looked envious, raised her head proudly when she heard Cai Gang say this.

"Just listen to the boy, please don't excuse your uncle, because there will be a lot of trouble for you in the future. Mother, these little rabbits are kept in separate cages, and the others are locked up, don't let them die. I'm tired, go and rest first, eat and then call me. ”

No matter how outstanding Cai Cong's performance is, it can't change that he is only an eight-year-old child now, and he has long been exhausted by a day's physical work. And only when he yawns does he look like a child.

Early the next morning, Cai Cong was awakened by the fragrance, and last night's meal was too simple. The fish is boiled with salt and ginger, and the chicken is boiled and tasteless to eat. This is also true today, but the taste of meat is appealing in years of food scarcity.

Cai Cong wanted money, he wanted clean money, so he decided to raise his voice in the Tang Dynasty, an era of food scarcity.

When he killed all the chickens and rabbits and splashed blood, Sister Cai almost cried. wanted to stop it, but was a little scared, Cai Cong was covered in blood at this moment, his eyes were cold, and he didn't look like a normal child at all.

"Mother, take these rabbits and pheasants to sell, one can only sell for 20 wen, and after I concoct a delicacy, one can sell for 100 wen." Cai Cong said patiently, one by one the chickens were wrapped in his hands, waiting to be roasted with fire.

At noon, everything was done, and then he took Cai Gang's ox cart and headed towards Chang'an.

This went to Chang'an, and many people couldn't sleep well at night.

(End of chapter)