Chapter 36: Building the Foundation in Five Years (3)
Liu Ci did what he said, and since the snowfall of this year, he really hasn't gone out again.
At first, she was very uncomfortable with the slow pace of returning from the intense life of experience and fighting, and for most of the day she didn't know what to do, often walking around the house, causing the corners of the silver wolf's eyes to twitch.
It wasn't until Liu Ci began to pick up the pen and practice calligraphy again, that she quickly calmed down after a few days.
Focusing on one thing, her spirit is pinned on calligraphy. Because of the need to accumulate aura, Liu Ci rarely drew talismans, she began to write Li Taibai's poems, and after she finished writing, she wrote Lu Fangweng, and even the famous name of the Su family crashing on the shore. When the artistic conception of the wild grass changed from murderous at the beginning to light and wanton and uninhibited, the silver wolf finally determined that Liu Ci had become normal.
Liu Ci herself also breathed a sigh of relief, immersed in the pleasure and excitement of killing, and if she didn't wake up, it was estimated that her cultivation would have to go crazy.
Fortunately, fortunately, he was able to return to the right path in time.
I haven't planted vegetables for a long time, and only a puddle of leeks and ginger and shallots in the vegetable field are still strong and alive.
When I got up in the morning, I kneaded the dough with flour, cooked a bowl of hand-rolled noodles and ate it hot, Liu Ci stretched his waist. After soaking some dried bamboo shoots and sun-dried carrots in hot water for lunch, Liu Ci saw that there was no sign of the snow, so he simply moved the loom out to work.
In the past two or three years, she has grown very fast, but she has no leisure to weave, except for a few fur coats in winter, and the clothes of other seasons are so tattered that they are not in shape, and it is time to weave new clothes. The silver wolf's killing festival is estimated to have arrived again, and there has been no one since yesterday, and without the silver wolf jumping around, Liu Ci's life is more lazy and comfortable.
After weaving cloth all morning, there was no short fruit by noon.
The snowflakes added some food to the livestock, and the few acres of wheat in the field were green and oily in the snowy scene, which looked very gratifying.
The jerky soaked last night has completely swollen, and it has a different taste with dried bamboo shoots and carrots. To be honest, after eating jerky for three years, Liu Ci now has no appetite when she sees jerky, if it weren't for its highest aura content, she wouldn't be too lazy to touch it. Forget it, why don't you have any appetite when you think of eating jerky? Liu Ci simply put together a bowl of flour, took a soaked old sour radish from the kimchi jar, cut it into shreds, beat the eggs and wrapped the shredded radish in the batter together, and spread a small half pot of radish cakes to eat.
After eating the radish cake and swallowing the dried bamboo shoots and roasted pork, Liu Ci felt that his whole body was full of strength.
Meditating and spitting to absorb the aura that he had just eaten, Liu Ci jumped up and took the giant sword and practiced in the snow for a full hour before he felt that the calories in his body had been consumed to the standard value.
At that time, the heavy snow was like goose feathers, and Liu Ci held a giant sword as light as a branch. After collecting the sword, the top of her head was steaming, and half of the snow had fallen from her body.
In the afternoon the cloth was woven for a while, and the snow stopped.
Seeing the silver wolf appear again in good spirits, Liu Ci was also a little happy for it - it had survived the most painful time of the year, how could it be celebrated.
"Big wolf, let's get up the fish pond today!"
Silver Wolf learned Huaxia well, and immediately understood that Liu Ci had the idea of hitting the pond behind the house. I'm afraid that the fish pond is still second, and I want to eat lotus root for a few years, and finally I can't help it.
However, as a foodie, there seemed to be no reason to refuse Liu Ci's proposal, and the wolf god happily agreed.
"Fish pond", ancient China before the new era, until the scientific and technological civilization is a big event for fish farmers. A little earlier, when the fish pond was still public property, every winter when it was time to release the water into the fish pond, every household was smiling. The fish in the fish pond are often distributed by household, and every household has fish to eat, so of course everyone is active.
The silver wolf was right, Liu Ci really wanted to dig lotus root and eat it at the beginning. The water in the pond is not up to the waist, and there is no way to dig the lotus root without releasing the water, and the fish that have been raised for several years have also reached the time when they should fulfill their obligations, and the "pond" is also incidental.
Liu Ci hadn't used the talisman since she decided to accumulate aura to build a foundation, and the silver wolf was only to accompany her to mess around. The pond was already on low ground, and she couldn't see the bottom of the water when she released it, so she went down to the pond herself and poured water out with a large wooden bucket until the water in the pond was only shallow.
The silver-white scales shimmered in the setting sun, and in a short time the mud at the bottom of the pond was muddy.
Liu Ci was dumbfounded, she still remembered the number of fish stocked in the pond, and forgot to count the fish that had grown up and multiplied in the past three years, and now the harvest in the pond was beyond her expectations.
"You can't eat ...... with so many fish"
Fish and shrimp and other aquatic products are called river fresh, seafood, it can be seen that to eat fish and shrimp is inseparable from the word "fresh". There are so many fish, I'm afraid that they all have to be made into dried fish and stored, although it tastes different, it is a pity to lose the main feature of the ingredients.
"Big wolf, catch it."
Liu Ci grabbed a big carp of seven or eight catties and threw it ashore, the silver wolf thought that the fishy smell was unpleasant, so he only patted it lightly, and the big carp went into the barrel.
One person and one wolf cooperated tacitly, Liu Ci was responsible for catching fish, and the silver wolf threw all kinds of fish into the bucket, filled it and then put it into the house. For more than an hour, not only all kinds of fish, but also a lot of shrimp and crabs were found, only picking big fish and prawns, and there were seven or eight hundred catties, Liu Ci became more and more worried about how to eat fish.
After catching the big fish about the same, Liu Ci started digging lotus roots.
The ice and snow had been frozen in the pond for a long time, and Liu Ci's physique began to feel unwell.
Digging lotus root is a technical job, first step on the pond mud to find, the mud is hard and cool strip-like object, is the lotus root. Find out the location, and then dig with both arms, be especially careful not to break the lotus root from it, the lotus root poured into the muddy water, even if it is clear and clean, it is not good to eat. Therefore, when digging lotus roots, you can't pull them hard, and you have to dig up the pond mud along the growth direction of the lotus root little by little to take out the lotus root completely.
Liu Ci stepped on a lot of lotus roots when he caught fish just now, and he squatted down, almost digging one by one.
The lotus root can be stored for a period of time out of the mud pond, except for the one that was accidentally stepped on by her, a pond of lotus root was dug up by Liu Ci, and some old roots and leaks were still left in the mud, and in the summer, there was a pool of lotus leaves to grow.
"It's strange to humans that lime water can be used to order bean curd, and now black things are dug up in the stinky mud pond, and you say they are delicacies."
Liu Ci was now wet and smelly, and instructed the wolf god to guard the pond where the water was released and wash the lotus root by the pond by the way, and ran to take a bath with a puff of smoke on his black lips, too lazy to take care of the silver wolf's questioning.
I washed it three times and soaked in the bath for a while before I felt the blood flow all over my body again.
After changing into clean clothes, Liu Ci cooked a bowl of ginger tea for himself, and the slightly spicy soup warmed the whole person.
Lord Wolf God dragged the last bamboo basket of washed lotus root in, and with a wave of his paws, he shook Liu Ci's face.
Liu Ci laughed instead of being angry, the wolf god was affected by her, and most of them did not use magic to wash hundreds of catties of lotus roots by himself, so that his paws were covered with water.
"Big wolf, your good fortune will be rewarded!"
Chong Yinwolf made a grimace, Liu Ci was going to make a lotus root banquet tonight.
Stewed pork ribs with lotus root is a traditional Chinese folk dish, simmered for two hours, the pork ribs are crispy, and the deliciousness of lotus root and pork ribs is all in one soup.
There is also a "lotus root clip", where the meat is chopped, put in green onions, minced ginger and other ingredients, and the meat filling is sandwiched in two pieces of lotus root, wrapped in egg white, and fried. Among them, the meat filling can be according to your own taste, Liu Ci caught a lot of fish and shrimp in the pond today, picked a big fish to remove the scales and chop the spines to be used as the filling, and the fish and lotus root should have a unique flavor to eat.
Dry pot shrimp, cold salad lotus root, pan-fried fish steak, a large table of dishes are all from the labor when going down.
The oil in the crystal lamp is mixed with rosin, the dark red wine sways in the crystal glass, and the silver tableware is soft and textured in the light, making the food in the plate and bowl appear more classy.
The atmosphere was perfect and impeccable, and thinking that he seemed to be having a candlelight dinner with Lord Silver Wolf, Liu Ci couldn't help but bow his head and laugh.
The wolf god moves elegantly like a nobleman, and she sometimes really forgets the identity of the other party's great demonic beast.
Biting the fish steak, Liu Ci lived a savage life for a few years, and had already thrown the rule of eating and sleeping silently to the sky, and suddenly remembered what to do with those fish.
"Big wolf, has the cooing bird been free lately, can you invite it to eat fish?"
The corners of the silver wolf's mouth twitched, when it comes to eating fish, the stinky bird just doesn't have time and says it's free, right? But the smile in the dwarf's eyes was too warm for the silver wolf to tell a lie.
"Okay."
As soon as the coo-coo bird received the message, regardless of the distance of the mountains and rivers, he rushed to the outside world, and also brought news from the outside world:
"The Three Great Empires are at war!"
Its tone gloated, wishing that human society would be more chaotic.
Liu Ci raised his eyebrows, and the three empires went to war? The mountain range has become a pure land, and it seems that the idea of building a foundation with peace of mind is correct.
However, "When the three empires go to war, who will fight whom first?" ”
The coo bird buried his head in the food and replied vaguely, "I heard that the Xiyi Kingdom suddenly sent troops against the other two countries in order to grab something. ”
Fighting on two fronts? The art of war also pays attention to the combination of vertical and horizontal, and no matter how powerful a country is, it is not a wise move to fight on two fronts. Even if he has heard the gossip, Liu Ci's main concern at present is how to build a foundation.
The cooing bird only stayed for three days, the same as the silver wolf, it also has to have a "temper" every winter, at this time it is naturally not suitable to stay in the crystal mine for a long time, and reluctantly took a can of "fish sauce" given by Liu Ci to go back to his own mountain. "Fish sauce" is better than dried fish, with carp meat as the best, the fish meat is scaled and cut into thin slices like making fish tart, the fish bones and fish bones are removed, and the wine, salt, dried ginger, orange peel are mixed evenly, and they are sealed with mud in an urn, and they can be eaten in summer for only half a month, but they can be eaten in winter when they are made in spring.
The orange peel is hard to find, Liu Ci replaced it with dried chrysanthemum petals, and I don't know how it tastes when it is opened, the coo bird can still pack a big meal after a few days, and he is very happy to receive a jar of fish sauce.
Liu Ci was puzzled by the mania of high-level demonic beasts every winter, and he also kept silent when he asked the wolf god earlier. As a result, the "one" of the five elemental mines and the reason for the mania in winter, coupled with the fact that the wolf god belonged to several orders of demonic beasts, became the "three major mysteries" of Liu Ci's residence in the Morok Mountains for several years.
Winter goes to spring, the aura in Liu Ci's body is increasing, and when she made a yellow table paper in early summer and cut several sets of exquisite summer skirts, only useless aura was accumulated in the meridians in her body, which was already viscous like pulp, and there was always the illusion of hearing the faint sound of water when she was running.
It was another autumn, the sixth year of Liu Ci's crossing, five years of practice, she finished writing a big character in the study, feeling the artistic conception of the autumn forest depression and harvest, and the aura that had been precipitated in her body for a long time suddenly began to run at a high speed.
When the silver wolf heard the news, Liu Ci had already begun to retreat, and it was stationed outside the door with some worries to protect the Dharma for her.
This retreat lasted until the leaves fell and the winter snow melted, and Liu Ci did not appear.
After five years of cultivation to build a foundation, she was closed for two months, and even the silver wolf who didn't know the depth of the cultivation realm began to worry.
The talent of the single line of Mu Dao Ji has no reason to build a foundation in five years in the cultivation realm, but I don't know whether it is a blessing or a curse for Liu Aci to advance so quickly.