Chapter 2: The Story of Returning Home (Part II)
At this time, the rain also stopped, and the black clouds that covered the sky gradually dispersed.
Wang Xinyi muttered strangely, and didn't think too much about it, Song Qingxuan had already greeted the two, and they walked forward along the street full of red palm trees.
Because it had just rained, the ground was wet. The greenery on both sides of the road is well done, and despite the green leaves dotted with the crowhorn bells in winter, it gives people a sense of vitality.
Judging by the architectural style here, it should be a big city in the eastern region, Tang Ruiyi is fortunate that he did not teleport him to Miami, New York and other wild areas, otherwise the language barrier alone would be enough to give him a headache.
Entering from the entrance of the alley, Song Qingxuan led them to a dilapidated small tile building.
The terrain in front of the building is uneven, covered with small stones and sand grains, some places are still bare rocks, empty, only two trees, the red brick wall is very old, the wall is also hung with the calendar of the great leader rising in the east, and the sign at the door reads "Huangtian Mutton Restaurant" with vigorous and powerful handwriting.
"This is it. Song Qingxuan said.
"Are you sure you're not mistaken? What will be delicious here?" Wang Xinyi looked incredulous, she has lived in the metropolis since she was a child, and has been influenced by Western culture, for her, the elegant environment and the taste of the food are linked, without a pleasing environment, how can it be possible to make satisfactory food?
This scene evokes Tang Ruiyi's childhood memories, when was his hometown, the smoke of cooking and the shouts of his mother at the end of school every day are as hard to forget as if engraved in the blood, and for a time the strong smell of home made him relax physically and mentally, and his brain seemed to be soaked in warm water.
"What are you waiting for, it's all here anyway, let's go inside. He said, and then took the lead in stepping into it, followed by Song Qingxuan.
Seeing that both of them were gone, Wang Xinyi reluctantly followed in.
Lifting the curtain, it turned out that there was a hole in the store, the upper and lower floors were neatly arranged like a military camp, and the three rows of tables and chairs were polished to shine, although there was no one at the moment, but the enamel cups on the table had fallen off the paint, and it was often used at a glance. In addition to the self-built kitchen and hanging shop, the corner of the wall is also facing a pile of honeycomb coal, and there is a two-meter-wide aisle between the kitchen and the kitchen, which has become a small alley, and a large pot is erected on the right side of the small alley, and an old man with white beard and white eyebrows is lying on the felt and inserting the old loofah brush into the cauldron.
The cauldron is more than a meter deep. The old man probed little by little, and after a while, he steadied himself and began to clean the bottom of the pot.
Tang Ruiyi stood aside and waited quietly, Wang Xinyi impatiently wanted to come forward several times to urge, but for the sake of the other two's faces, he couldn't help but not have a seizure, just playing with his mobile phone irritably, and he already regretted a little why he came to this place together.
Five minutes later, the white-haired old man raised his head, first glanced at Song Qingxuan, and then smiled strangely at Tang Ruiyi, the wrinkles on the old man's face were deeply embedded in the skin, he looked very old, but his body was healthy, and he walked vigorously. With the meticulous woolen sweater that was burned on the body, it actually gave people a faint sense of solemnity.
"Ahem, it's the New Year, and there are still guests coming, please sit down, what do you want?"
"Sit down and order more. Tang Ruiyi retracted his gaze, found a random place to sit down, and the old man lifted the kettle and poured a bowl of barley tea for everyone to warm their hands.
"Uncle, what do you have to eat here? ”
"Small business, there are mutton soup, lamb chops, mutton skewers, roasted whole lamb, mutton steamed buns, shabu mutton ......"
"Make a lamb soup and add a bag (a kind of Xinjiang flatbread)," Tang Ruiyi said, "What do you want?"
Song Qingxuan said: "Give me a roast leg of lamb." ”
Wang Xinyi said angrily: "Whatever!"
Okay, I actually got on the bar with him, inexplicably, Tang Ruiyi casually said let's add more mutton soup.
He likes to drink mutton soup very much, just like Su Shiye likes mutton soup, and even wrote specifically for this: "Qin cooks only mutton soup, and Long's food has bear curd." ”
"Wait a minute, the sheep are freezing in the backyard. ”
"Uncle, can I go and have a look?" he asked curiously, he hadn't seen a frozen sheep yet.
"Okay. The old man smiled, revealing a mouthful of white teeth.
When Tang Ruiyi crossed the corner, Wang Xinyi leaned into Song Qingxuan's ear and said mysteriously: "Hey, you won't like this poor dick, will you? Then you are a whooper swan chasing a toad!"
When it came to private topics, Song Qingxuan's color turned red, took a sip, and said viciously;
"Nonsense, your scalp is itchy again, isn't it?"
After saying that, the two started to play and play.
"Hahaha, I surrender, don't tickle anymore. ”
"Hmph, see if you dare next time!"
Although Wang Xinyi smiled on her face, a trace of happiness flashed in her eyes, in fact, she has always been very jealous of her best friend, obviously not as good as herself, but she uses the most expensive cosmetics every time, obviously she doesn't have any scheming and emotional intelligence, but she can provoke a group of handsome guys and beautiful men to linger, her family is wealthy, she spends money, and she can have whatever she wants, just like a dream princess in a fairy tale.
She has always been very afraid, afraid that one day there will really be a "Prince Charming" with colorful auspicious clouds to marry her, and she can only stand aside and force a smile, and she doesn't even dare to show envy.
So when she saw Song Qingxuan chasing after a dick, she was so happy, chase it, chase it! It's best to be with him for the rest of your life, and those rich second generations and male gods will be left to me!
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Tang Ruiyi followed the old man into the somewhat gloomy backyard, and came to a small snow pit and stopped.
The old man's white furry eyebrows moved, and a slight frost flower fell. "A few days ago, I drove my domestic yellow sheep to the snow and froze to death, and then buried them in a snow pit, so that I don't have to worry about the mutton being covered with a stinking bag," he said. ”
The old man picked up an iron hook from the corner of the wall and slowly dragged it diagonally into the snow pit, and soon a frozen sheep's head covered with snow revealed the snow pit. The iron hook was not biased or slanted, and it just caught the throat of the sheep, and did not hurt the sheepskin at all. Tang Ruiyi bent down, grabbed the sheep's head with both hands, and dragged a big yellow sheep to the ground with all his might.
The yellow sheep has been frozen hard, the belly is not swollen or purple, this is a yellow sheep that has been quickly suffocated and frozen to death, he looked back at the old man.
The iron hook in the old man's hand fell to the ground at some point, he stared at his cloudy eyes, and his mouth trembled slightly: "Young man, the strength is quite great! The half-ton sheep can also be lifted, almost as long as when I was young." ”
Tang Ruiyi rolled his eyes, old man, you are too good at bragging, with his current attack power of 8-9, that is, eight times the physical fitness of ordinary people, a sheep is not easy, but he also knows that he has gone a little too far, a yellow sheep weighs less than half a ton, he actually lifted it up like this, it is too conspicuous.
However, the old man was still amazed, and told him that if this strength was placed on the grassland, he would definitely be able to be a tribal warrior, which made Tang Ruiyi very puzzled, and after repeated inquiries, he learned that the old man was really a Mongolian, his original name was Saihan, a Mongolian! He had only seen it on TV before, and he took this opportunity to ask the old man a lot of questions about Mongolian wrestling, and the old man seemed to be very proud of this knowledge, and he naturally knew everything when asked, and even taught him a few times in person.
[Hint: You've got a wrestler's guide, and your attack limit is increased by one.] 】
This was really an unexpected joy, both of them were smiling from ear to ear, and the old man even stretched out the wrinkles on his head with a smile.
After that, he and the old man dragged the yellow sheep to the back kitchen, burned coal, boiled hot water, chopped onions and garlic, and made mutton soup by himself, which was really a novel experience for Tang Ruiyi.
The old man's method is to cut the fresh mutton into thumb-thick strips, dip them in flour, and then hang them on the lid of the pot, and wait for the water to boil and go down to the pot with the skin of the meat.
The old man also said that because autumn is not the fattest season for yellow sheep, the two fats are not on the list, but the meat is shelf, the meat is thin, the oil is less, the taste is poor, and people don't like to eat. Moreover, the sheep have just been sheared in summer, and the sheepskin is worthless after killing the sheep, so it can only be used as a stubble shearing robe for spring and autumn. He quietly told Tang Ruiyi that killing sheep in summer is a bad thing, and herdsmen kill less sheep in summer to eat, just like farmers will not cut wheat seedlings in spring to satisfy hunger.
This made Tang Ruiyi gain his knowledge, and he thought about whether to introduce a few yellow sheep to the other world to breed.
A birch spoon scoops up a large bowl of mellow mutton soup and fills the last gap.
To tell the truth, the appearance of this soup is very bad, turbid and inconspicuous, if Tang Ruiyi would not even look at it in normal times, but after all, it is the fruit of his own labor, he scooped a little bit and drank half a sip, and his eyes suddenly widened, the soup is beautiful, not bloody mutton soup, and the taste is delicious and abnormal. The most wonderful thing is the little white pepper flavor in it, which is just over the smell of mutton while improving the freshness, which is really delicious.
Tang Ruiyi gave a thumbs up and praised this, which made the old man laugh.
After that, the old man actually wanted to become a New Year's friend with him. Of course, he disagreed, how could he take advantage of others when the old man was so old? However, he always felt that the old man looked at him strangely, and there was a hint of scrutiny in his appreciation, and he was very embarrassed to see him, so he put forward the idea that he had no money, and wanted to live here for a few days and buy a ticket to go home for the New Year. Unexpectedly, the old man agreed without thinking about it, and was very generous to let him pick a room at will———— and his wife and tea to serve as he pleased.
Dizzy, the old man is really trendy enough, and even his wife knows it.
Two bowls of mutton soup and roast leg of lamb were quickly served, and the thick mist filled the air, and everyone sat down to eat around the wooden table. At first, Wang Xinyi looked reluctant, but she drank like a spoonful of soup, and she couldn't help but want to take more sipes, and then she was out of control, and several bags were snatched and eaten by her, and finally her stomach was round, and she cried that her fat had lost in the past few days.
"Uncle Saihan, I can't eat this meal for nothing, do you still like this gift? ”
Saying that, Tang Ruiyi took out a wolf-like tooth carving necklace from his arms, which was a small souvenir he made when he was clearing wolves in the other world, and the material was made of genuine wolf teeth, because he had always had a little quirk of collecting trophies, and he had to get some materials from the monster's corpse more or less, so his body was already full of all kinds of strange souvenirs.
The old man has lived on the prairie for half his life, and his eyes are so vicious, he can see at a glance that the material of this chain is extraordinary, non-gold and non-jade is made of real wolf teeth, and the real wolf in the 21st century is already an endangered creature, and this necklace is even more valuable.
The old man hurriedly excused himself and said no, but he was forced into his hand by Tang Ruiyi, he shook his head helplessly and accepted the gift, but the eyes that looked at Tang Ruiyi became more and more pleasing to the eye, full of kindness and kindness.
At this time, Tang Ruiyi suddenly felt that the egg that had been lying on his chest seemed to move, as if it was about to hatch.
He was shocked, Moshar didn't know that it would take forty years for the egg to hatch?
Ignoring everyone's astonished gazes, he hurriedly tore off his clothes, only to see a slender slit in the black eggshell, through which he could see a small red lizard nested in a ball, its eyes still covered with a membrane, it was trying to open its eyes to see the world, it looked very pitiful, but the thought that the mother of this lovely little thing was the cruel and bloodthirsty Moshar, he felt a palpitation.
However, Wang Xinyi's girl's heart burst and shouted cute, as if girls have no resistance to small animals, Song Qingxuan looked at the creature with some doubts, is it a pet lizard? Now there are indeed many young people who like to raise some maverick pets, and they don't feel like that kind of pompous person, and how does this lizard look so strange, it is actually red? There are also patterns (in fact, wings on the back that have not yet been developed) and vertical pupils, is it a green iguana? Rock needle lizards or, it doesn't seem to look like them.
Tang Ruiyi subconsciously stretched his finger to its mouth, it tried to bite it, and felt that the taste seemed to be very unpalatable, so he shook his tail and screamed, and his pitiful appearance was very miserable.
Tang Ruiyi took out some special plants and meat from other worlds from his arms, and brought them to his mouth to look at it. If the little guy doesn't like what is in his mouth, he will take it back, and if he likes it, he will put it in his mouth and let it eat it in one bite, and soon the little guy will fall asleep on all fours with his feet full.
"It's so cute, what kind of lizard is this, I want to raise one too. Wang Xinyi looked at the little lizard asleep and said sourly.
After hearing this, Tang Ruiyi wiped the non-existent sweat on his head, my good man, do you want to raise it too? Then you have to go to hell to find it!
But when it comes to hell, he seems to understand a little bit why the eggs hatch so much in advance, there are subtle differences between the laws of the other world and the earth, and those terrifying longevity species in the other world do not exist on the earth, so as a stowaway, the laws of the earth forcibly gave the little guy the identity of a lizard, since it is a lizard, of course it must hatch according to the normal physiological cycle.
After figuring out the joints, Tang Ruiyi couldn't help but have a headache again, how could he explain to Moshal? Hey, fortunately, there are still forty years, let's think about a way, if it doesn't work, I won't go to the other world, he still doesn't believe that no matter how strong that guy is, he can still chase him to the earth.
"By the way, he's the male and female?and you haven't named it yet?" Song Qingxuan asked.
This topic immediately attracted everyone's interest, Tang Ruiyi gently turned it over with his fingers, and the cold wind blew, and the small flesh between its legs trembled, but he didn't expect it to be a male.
Wang Xinyi put forward various names with great interest, what two eggs, Xiaohong, and meow, and Tang Ruiyi was speechless for a while
In the end, it was the old man Saihan who stroked his white beard and said, "I think it might as well be called Galu, which means flexible wild goose in Mongolian." ”
A good name, let's call it Galu, ignoring Wang Xinyi's resentful eyes, and directly finalizing it.
The name "Galu", which will become a nightmare in the eyes of countless people in the future, was so hastily decided.
Tang Ruiyi took a look at the attributes of the little guy: [Galu, race: Demon Hell Red Lotus Dragon (juvenile) life 5, attack 0-0, no armor, low magic resistance, high fire kang. Skills: Dragonskin I, Searing Breath I. 】
[Dragon Skin I: Galu ignores one point, and the damage below one point is directly immune. 】
[Scorching Breath I: Deal one damage to enemies within the radius]
With only two skills and low magic resistance the size of a palm, I don't know how many people dream of such a dragon pet.
However, Tang Ruiyi was determined not to use it to help him fight.
First of all, he didn't know if Moshar would sense the presence of his heir, and secondly, he really couldn't forget the cute action of the little one.
How can you let such a cute pet face swords and magic? So it's better to treat it as an ornamental pet......
After everyone was full, to see that the time was not early, Song Qingxuan took out cash and paid the money.
The two girls exchanged QQ and mobile phone numbers with Tang Ruiyi, and then went back to school after saying goodbye one by one.
Tang Ruiyi was about to help the old man clean up the dining table, the old man also agreed with a smile, he helped the old man wash the dishes and clean the forks, put the remaining bones on a greasy sack, fed them to a big yellow dog at the door, and then ran back to wipe the table with a rag, the efficiency of the two was good, and they quickly cleaned up.
After saying hello to the old man Saihan, he went upstairs to sleep, you must know that space transfer is not an easy thing, coupled with the drowsiness after eating, he is now eager to fall into a warm sleep immediately.
What he didn't know was that just after he walked up the stairs with a sigh, the old man sneakily took out an iPhone from his pocket and skillfully entered the password to make a call.
After the familiar marimba blues ringtone, the person on the other end answered the phone:
"Hey, grandpa, what are you looking for me?"
"Granddaughter, did you go to school with that girl?"
Song Qingxuan glanced at Wang Xinyi, who was wearing boat socks, canvas shoes, and a tunic skirt that reached the base of her thighs, and she replied:
"Well, we're at school, there's a league secretary meeting tonight, and we're getting ready to dress up and give a speech. ”
"Well, then you have to behave well, Grandpa just wants to say that the young man you brought back is good, which school, where are you going?" said the old man in a mocking tone.
"What? You think crookedly, we only met today, we are not the kind of relationship you think. ”
"Oh, don't hide this kind of thing from Grandpa, don't worry, I've seen that young man, he has a good heart, and his body is great, and you will definitely be blessed in the future." ”
Song Qingxuan's cheeks turned red and she was about to refute, but for some reason, the picture of Tang Ruiyi looking up to the sky and smiling and despising everything suddenly appeared in her mind, and her face became even redder.
She herself seemed to be aware of something, and unconsciously closed her legs: "Grandpa, don't make fun of me, I'll ignore you like this again!"
The old man on the other end of the phone hurriedly smiled.
"I'm leaving!"
"Grandpa will finally tell you again, this love is like a wolf catching a sheep, you have to start quickly and hard. The old man laughed.
"Hmph, ignore you, goodbye, Grandpa, Didi ......"
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The house was cleaned very clean, a clay kang and a wooden bed were arranged side by side, thick cotton wool cups were placed on the bed, the cupboard could only be inserted between the beds to place coal, and large wooden boxes, cotton clothes and quilts, and grain were all placed in the cupboards.
In addition to a stove, there is a black and white television in the room. These things are "old and old".
In winter, the floor is too damp, and wooden furniture is prone to decay. In order to avoid this, bricks are carefully placed on the parts of wooden furniture that touch the floor, such as under the legs of wooden beds and under the legs of cabinets.
The stove is used for heating, but it cannot be turned on directly, so you have to stuff the grass into the stove and light it, then sprinkle the coal on it, and at the same time pull the bellows desperately until the coal is lit, and then slow down the bellows.
It's not that easy to learn, it takes a long time to learn, and it takes a period of practice to master the essentials.
Even if you are very experienced, there are times when you fail and don't catch fire.
There was no fire, so I had to take the coal out of the stove and start all over again, so that a lot of grass and coal were wasted.
That's why there is so much grass and coal downstairs, just when Tang Ruiyi was about to do it himself, he had a whim, took out the sleeping little Galu and put it next to the stove, and then scratched its nose with a cotton ball, it frowned and shrugged a small nose——————Ahh
Tang Ruiyi, who was smiling, kissed Galu, then took off his clothes, covered the quilt, stretched a long lazy waist, and lay comfortably in the quilt, Galu was carefully put into the quilt by it, the little guy seemed to enjoy the temperature in the quilt, turned over and put it on his arm and continued to sleep peacefully.
"Good night, little one. ”