Chapter 202: Shortcuts
Seeing Huangfu Jingchen's doubts, Xia Wenjin said without changing his face: "Shortcut!" ”
As for whether it is a shortcut or not, only God knows.
Xia Wenjin knew that Xia Wanqing had come down the mountain to arrest her, where did he dare to take the official road? Of course, it's a walk in the countryside.
It's not easy to get in the news, and it's easy to hide.
She was determined that she would never go back.
For Huangfu Jingchen, in fact, there is no difference between avenues and roads.
The only difference is probably that the avenue is wider, Xia Wenjin is faster, and he has to always lift his internal force to perform light skills.
The path is sometimes narrow and difficult to walk, and Xia Wenjin let the horse go slowly. The wild grass and basil on the roadside, the mountains and valleys in the distance, the scenery is not bad.
When it was dark, Xia Wenjin had no plans to stay, and Huangfu Jingchen didn't care. This is a mountain country in the wilderness, and there is no inn restaurant.
Although you can go to the villagers' homes to spend the night, Huangfu Jingchen prefers to sleep in the open.
At that time, he was seriously injured, and they had been in the wild for nearly ten days, and Wen Jin was taking care of him, and he also wanted to take care of her.
The place where Xia Wen Jin chose to stay overnight is a sloping land, there is a clear water pond not far away, and there is a cluster of lotus flowers in the east corner of the pond, a water chestnut.
Huangfu Jingchen asked Xia Wenjin to rest, volunteered to cut thatch, and slept on the bed at night.
Poor his soft sword was probably used as a wood knife for the first time, and the sharp blade rolled over, and it was a piece of thatch that fell to the ground.
Xia Wenjin let go of the horse and let it graze by itself, and watched with a smile as Huangfu Jingchen pulled his sword and cut the grass.
With that bright smiling face and smiling eyes, when Huangfu Jingchen looked back, he was almost dazzled.
His mood also improved, and the sword in his hand flew more and more like a flower.
Xia Wenjin smiled: "Enough! Let's just stay overnight temporarily, we have to pave the ground and dust, and then cut it down, we can directly make a big bed! ”
A queen bed?
The corners of Huangfu Jingchen's mouth raised, he was very happy, but it is estimated that Xia Wenjin was not happy!
Huangfu Jingchen said: "I'm going hunting!" ”
Xia Wenjin looked around and said, "It doesn't look like there is any game here, there are farmers two miles to the west, you can just buy a chicken." ”
Huangfu Jingchen didn't say a word, and immediately went to buy it.
Xia Wenjin rested for a while, got up and stretched her arms, looking at the corner of the pond covered with wild water chestnuts on the water surface, she couldn't help but pick one with a branch, there were a lot of tender water chestnuts on it, she picked some big ones back, and picked a few lotus leaves.
Just as he was about to collect some firewood, Huangfu Jingchen had already returned.
He bought two fat hens.
Xia Wenjin said with satisfaction: "How much is Hanako?" ”
Huangfu Jingchen was in a very good mood and said: "It's very cheap, only ten taels of silver!" ”
Xia Wenjin: "......"
Cheap? Ten taels of silver?
I'm afraid this son doesn't know that ten taels of silver can make the mountain farmers eat for most of their lives.
However, Xia Wenjin didn't feel a pity, it was not easy for farmers in the mountains, and if spending some silver could make them live a little better, it would be considered a good deed.
Huangfu Jingchen said about buying chickens, and he was very emotional: "Wen Jin, you don't know, they only have two chickens, I just wanted to buy one, but after paying the silver, that aunt caught the other one with me!" He also has a little piglet at home, and my aunt wants my uncle to give the little piglet to me together. It was I who tried hard to refuse, and they dispelled the idea. Wenjin, the people in the mountains are real! ”
Xia Wenjin smiled: "It's true, fortunately you didn't bring that little pig!" "The peasant is simple, and he knows the value of ten taels of silver, and he hates to give everything he can give.
They didn't know that ten taels of silver was nothing to Huang Zheng.
Xia Wenjin said: "Let it go, I'll pick up some firewood first, and deal with this chicken in a while!" ”
Huangfu Jingchen immediately said: "I'll go collect firewood!" ”
Xia Wenjin smiled: "I want dry wood!" ”
Huangfu Jingchen's face turned red, remembering the incident when he was sleeping for the first time, and said embarrassedly: "I pick up dry wood!" ”
Seeing that he was flying and running to collect firewood, Xia Wenjin smiled, picked up the two chickens, and went to the pond to deal with them.
Remove the feathers of the chicken, disembowel and clean the internal organs, clean it, smear a layer of salt on the belly of the chicken, plus the big ingredients she added when she went shopping yesterday, and paste a thick layer of pond mud on the outside. I wrapped it in lotus leaves and came back.
When they went out, they were two chickens, and when they came back, they were two lumps of mud.
When she came back, she found that Huangfu Jingchen had not only picked up the firewood, but also lit a fire.
This time there was no smoke, it turned out that Huangfu Jingchen used dry thatch to ignite it, put small dry branches, and then put some thick ones.
Xia Wenjin glanced at him appreciatively, this person learns things quite quickly.
She walked over and picked up the dagger to dig into the dirt on the ground.
This Huangfu Jingchen didn't understand, and said strangely: "What are you digging for?" ”
Xia Wenjin said casually: "Dig a pit and roast chicken!" ”
"Isn't it baked on a shelf?" That's what she did last time.
Xia Wenjin raised his eyes and smiled: "Let's make a fresh one today." ”
The dagger was sharp, and she quickly dug a small hole in the ground, put the mud bag in it, and dug another hole.
Two clumps of mud, two pits.
Then set up a pyre on two pits to make a fire.
The current weather is not the time to bake the fire, after Xia Wenjin moved the fire to the pit, added the withered branches of appropriate thickness, and told Huangfu Jingchen to watch the fire, don't let the fire go out, she went to the pond to wash her hands.
Estimating that the time was almost up, she came back leisurely.
Huangfu Jingchen was adding firewood, and when he saw Xia Wenjin coming back, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, he didn't see how Xia Wenjin dealt with the two chickens, but he also guessed that in the mud, he actually felt weird in his heart, the chicken was wrapped in the mud, can it still be eaten?
Will you eat chicken or puree for a while?
Or is it muddy soup chicken?
However, suspicion is suspicion, he is not the slightest displeasure, but he still has some expectations, even if it is a muddy soup chicken, as long as it is made by Wen Jin himself, it will definitely be eaten.
Xia Wenjin picked it up with a branch, and the two mud balls were already roasted and cracked, but the cracks were very small.
She turned the two mud balls over with thick branches, and added some heat to roast the other side until it was dry.
Seeing that it was almost over, extinguished the fire and got the two dry mud balls out of the pit.
Huangfu Jingchen looked at the two oval giant dry mud eggs, he felt that he should not say anything first, in case Xia Wenjin was not baked well, he would definitely be embarrassed.
He had even figured out that if it was really bad, he would go hunting, and even if there was no game here, he would always find something to eat.
The thick branch in Xia Wenjin's hand poked the mud egg and rolled a few times, and the outer ring was about to be burned into bricks, which was very hard.
Xia Wenjin stretched out his hand and handed over the thick branch: "Come, you come and knock it open!" ”
Huangfu Jingchen said: "Knock? ”
It's broken, it's broken, it's really the whole chicken is burned to mud, otherwise why use it? Don't know if chicken jerky is good or not?