Chapter Seventy-Seven: Digging Ice for Fish
Xiao Xuan looked at Lu Xin and said, "Miss, you must be hungry, right?"
Lu Xin smiled and said, "It's okay, I can stand it, let's take a walk around!"
By the light of the moon and the reflection of the snow, everything around is clearly discerning, not much darker than during the day. Lu Xin came out to forage for food, but she never thought that there were trees nearby.
She was so hungry that she thought to herself, if the bark could satisfy her hunger, she would have liked to hold a tree and gnaw on it, but unfortunately there was not even any bark to gnaw on.
Lu Xin took Xiaoxuan for a while and then turned back to the camp and sat with everyone. Lu Xin was listlessly holding her cheeks in a daze, Xuanyuan Rui personally walked over with a bowl of hot water, handed it to Lu Xin and said, "Xin'er, drink some hot water to warm up your body first!"
Lu Xin said "thank you" and took it to drink, she looked at the water in the bowl and asked, "Where did the water come from?"
Xuanyuan Rui said, "Hehe, there is a river not far away, although the surface of the river is thick with ice, but our people have carved a big hole in the ice, and then they have taken some water and boiled it."
Lu Xin listened quietly, didn't think much about it, drank the water slowly, and when the warm boiling water fell down to her throat and then to her stomach, she felt warm all over her body, but Lu Xin still felt very hungry.
Lu Xin looked at the water, and then thought of the fish, shrimp, and big crabs that grew in the water, these were her favorite foods. She sighed and thought, "If only there were fish to eat now!" You can fish anything, I'm so hungry. ………………………………… Hey? Fish? River? If there is a river, there must be fish, right? The more Lu Xin thought about it, the more thoughts popped up.
She wondered how fish would come to the river in the winter, and wondered if she had ever seen or heard of such a thing. She thought of similar knowledge or reports in the past, about how villagers in some places fished for their livelihood in the winter after the river froze, and some about ice fishing. Combined with the knowledge of chemistry and physics, it is known that fish also need to forage and like to permeate oxygen. Thinking of this, she was even more sure of her thoughts, there will definitely be fish in the river, there will definitely be fish.
Lu Xin simply told Xuanyuan Rui about his guesses and thoughts, and asked him to take a few people and bring some tools to try his luck in the river with some tools for netting fish and fishing. After all, Lu Xin has never practiced it, and she doesn't know whether the knowledge in the book is true or false, but at this time, she can only give it a try. She had often heard about ice fishing, and she could sit and fish by just digging a big hole in the ice. Come to think of it, there must be fish underneath the ice.
When Xuanyuan Rui and Lu Xin took a few people to the river where they had just taken water, they heard a poof... Burst... A few rings. Everyone looked at it, and five or six big fat fish were poofing on the ice... Burst... Burst... Jumping around.
Chen Ping was the first to shout: "Fish, it's fish!"
Immediately, everyone rushed to the ice in excitement, happily picked up the fish, and put it in the prepared bucket. And when everyone saw that on the top of the water hole, a large group of fish were scrambling to blow bubbles, and from time to time one jumped out of the water hole, everyone was so happy that everyone couldn't close their mouths.
When Lu Xin looked at these fish, her heart was also excited, and she seemed to be not hungry all of a sudden. She also thought that there were so many of them that if a few of them were busy catching fish alive now, they would not know how long it would take to have enough fish to eat, and she would have to mobilize everyone.
Lu Xin asked Chen Ping to go back to the camp and summon all the strong men to come over, while the maidservants hurried around to collect dry firewood and come back, the more the better.
Chen Ping had an idea, and said to Lu Xin with a smile: "Miss Xin'er is planning to let everyone grill fish tonight?"
Lu Xin tapped his head with her finger and said with a smile: "You kid, your brain is quite good, go and go back quickly!"
Chen Ping's face was not very good when he saw the prince looking at them, so he ran to the camp in a huff. As soon as Lu Xin turned around, she saw Xuanyuan Rui looking at her with a dark face.
She smiled and said, "Haha, there are fish to eat, there are fish to eat, look at why you still look unhappy?"
Xuanyuan Rui said: "You are not allowed to flirt with them in the future." After speaking, he didn't pay attention to Lu Xin anymore.
Lu Xin looked surprised, and said to herself: "Flirting? With whom? Be all abroad. ”
It is said that there is great strength in the number of people, and after a while, there are several more water holes on the ice, and the fish are crowded on the water holes to breathe and blow bubbles. And they kept jumping, and some of them fell directly on the ice, and each one was a big fat fish.
Lu Xin licked her lips and said with relish: "Absolutely pure wild, delicious!"
Lu Xin asked the guards with knives to kill the buckets of fish, while the family members who picked up the fish continued to find ways to get more fish, anyway, if they couldn't finish it tonight, they could stay and eat it tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.
Although the surface of the river is very cold and slippery, some families always slip and fall when they run to pick up fish, which makes people on the river laugh from time to time. Xuanyuan Rui looked at everyone's happy and satisfied looks, and he also laughed aloud, and laughed out loud with everyone.
When everyone saw the prince smiling, they all said, "The prince smiled, the prince smiled, hehe!"
Some family members said: "Little Liuzi, your wrestling is worth it, our prince laughed when he saw it."
Of course, Lu Xin knew that Xuanyuan Rui usually looked very serious, and never easily showed his mood in front of others. At this time, Lu Xin felt that he was really happy, so she smiled, and she stood beside Xuanyuan Rui and felt his joys, sorrows, and sorrows.
Lu Xin watched the guards kill the fish skillfully, and it only took more than ten seconds to accurately disembowel the fish and take out the fish dirty, and the speed was as fast as juggling.
Lu Xin asked Xuanyuan Rui with a smile: "Look, they are all good at killing fish, they can be called fish killing masters." Do you often ask them to practice killing fish? ”
Lu Xin originally wanted to make fun of herself and find a topic, but after she finished speaking, she laughed.
And the guards who were killing fish couldn't help but laugh when they heard Lu Xin call them masters of killing fish. Only they know that they are the highest-ranking professional killers from Iris Valley. It was specially sent to escort the prince back to China, and this Miss Xin'er actually said that they were masters of killing fish, fun, fun.
Xuanyuan Rui regained a serious expression and said, "They are masters, but they are not masters of killing fish, but masters of killing."
Lu Xin felt even more funny when she heard it, she simply laughed and bent over, she gave Xuanyuan Rui a thumbs up, and said with a smile: "Humor, Xuanyuan Rui, you are so humorous, a master murderer!" Ha ha! Master Killer! Ha ha.........! ”
Xuanyuan Rui asked suspiciously, "Is it so funny?" Don't you believe it? ”
Lu Xin looked at Xuanyuan Rui's serious appearance and thought, "This man, lying is as true as it is, it's strange that I want to believe you."
Immediately, Lu Xin smiled again and said: "Believe in it, kill people, haha.........!" If someone kills them, you don't have to talk about it. ”
Xuanyuan Rui finally saw that Lu Xin would not believe this, and he said lightly: "You will understand in the future."
After finishing speaking, he stood aside with his hands in his hands, watching everyone happily harvest the big fat fish.
Lu Xin suddenly felt that Xuanyuan Rui had become very serious again, so she stopped smiling.
By the time they had returned, a bonfire had been lit in the camp, and many people were sitting around, except for a small fire that had been raised next to it for the eight concubines to warm up.
Lu Xin knows that in this era, there is a strong distinction between respect and inferiority, and the estrangement between people is much more serious than racial discrimination.
Lu Xin walked straight to the big fire where the people were and happily taught everyone to use swords or knives or bamboo sticks to put fish and roast it. Everyone happily learned, imitating how Lu Xin grilled fish.
Wan Ji is still a playful young girl after all, she picked up Zhu Ji and ran to Lu Xin's side, looking at everyone's joyful appearance, Wan Ji said to Lu Xin: "Sister Xin'er, you also teach me how to grill fish, right?"
Lu Xin suddenly heard a voice of "Sister Xin'er", and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, but she felt very kind, which made her suddenly think of Xiaoxiao in the General's Mansion, Xiaoxiao used to call her like this.
Lu Xin turned around and saw two young girls in noble clothes appear in front of her, and she recognized them as Xuanyuan Rui's concubines Wan Ji and Zhu Ji. When Lu Xin was about to speak, another concubine came to her, it was Li Ji, who was the first to support her during the day, Li Ji smiled softly: "Teach me too, I want to learn too."
Lu Xin smiled happily and said to them: "Okay, good, there are many people, it's very simple, ...... like this, spread out the fish and ........., and then wear it through like this, you can ...... it, you can roast it, come on, try it!"
So, the three of them studied very seriously, and Lu Xin was also very happy to teach them. Liji also smiled at Lu Xin from time to time, making Lu Xin feel that she was very kind and that they were all friendly.
Xu Ji felt unhappy when she looked at Liji's disgusting appearance on the other side, she stomped her foot and said to the other four of them: "Disgusting, really disgusting, look at her like that, she is really a smiling tiger, Mianli needle, maybe she is already a bad heart."
Li Ji said disdainfully: "Hehe, lowly people just get together with inferior people, otherwise, how can they say that things gather like like."
Zhang Ji also opened her mouth and said: "Sister, don't say this too early, what kind of cheap person?" Our Highness is still sitting there! Don't you really want to go there? ”
After Zhang Ji finished speaking, he sneered, got up and walked over to the big fire, and then all the concubines walked over one by one and sat next to Xuanyuan Rui.
Xuanyuan Rui watched Lu Xin keep busy happily, thinking of her goodness, her cleverness, and her appeal, in a short period of time, everyone in the whole house looked at her with admiration, and she also made herself like her more and more.
To be continued..................!
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