By the stream, the men were in charge of fetching water, while the women and their children began to pick up vegetables. Bai Li was lazy, picked up a clean stone and sat down directly, picking up stones and throwing water into the stream while looking at the surrounding scenery. I have to say that the scenery in the mountains and forests behind this is still quite good, if you build a thatched house by this stream, you can live in seclusion directly.

Just when the villagers of Huaxi Village were busy fetching water and picking vegetables, fog suddenly rose in the forest. The fog was originally very light and thin, but as the area of drifting became larger and larger, the fog became thicker.

Bai Li raised a stone, frowned lightly at the mist, and then subconsciously looked in a certain direction to his side. Faintly, she seemed to see a pair of eyes, eyes bigger than the bowl she used to eat.

Picking up a wooden stick and holding it tightly in his hand, Bai Li found that something was not quite right.

First I heard a strange sound, that kind of snoring...... Whoosh...... A loud wheezing sound, followed by a gust of hot wind overhead, looked up, a pair of white eyes like a thick fog were staring at her coldly.

Bai Li was startled, subconsciously retreated, stumbled under his feet, and squatted on the ground.

"Save ...... Help me! As soon as Bai Li wanted to shout for help, he saw that the originally lively villagers stood still one by one as if they had been immobilized.

"Am I having hysteria, or am I hallucinating?" Bai Li slapped his head hard, and before he could figure out what was going on, he could only temporarily focus on the monster in front of him.

From the angle from which she sat on the ground, the monster was so large that it was impossible to see it in its entirety in the thick fog. Swallowing his saliva carefully, he seriously thought about how much chance he still had to survive.

This monster's mouth is very big, and with the small body she is in front of, it is estimated that it will not be enough to stuff the monster's teeth. Quietly moved on the ground, subconsciously grasping something beside him. It feels good, fluffy, look down, it's actually a sheep's hoof bigger than the lid of the pot, and the appearance of this sheep's hoof is still a little familiar.

Bai Li swallowed his saliva, and the practice of the big sheep's hooves had already appeared in his mind. First remove the sheep's hooves, then scrape it with a knife, cut the two toes into two, wash and blanch for later use, and then add some cooking wine, bay leaves, fennel, cinnamon, and peppercorns to simmer together. Simmer for three hours, then transfer to a wok, add an appropriate amount of soy sauce, sugar, salt, cover the pot, simmer for half an hour, take out the plate, it is a braised lamb's trotter with full color and flavor.

When I thought of the braised lamb's trotters, I suddenly felt that this monster became cute, and the more I looked at it, the more it looked like a good ingredient. Rubbing it secretly on her gurgling belly, Bai Li suddenly remembered that at this moment, she didn't have anything in her hands.

Hunting monsters for food is probably something that only fantasy novels dare to write. She squeezed the little wooden root tightly, and was wondering if she would sneak away before the monster found out, but the monster lowered its head and sniffed at her. The heat wave that came out of her two big nostrils blew her skinny body directly to the ground, and she rolled around twice. When she finally got down on her stomach, the monster spat out a pot from her mouth and gave it to her.

"Pot?" Bai Li first blinked his eyes, and then looked up at the monster: "Are you asking me to cook vegetables for you?" ”

Before Bai Li could finish asking, the monster actually pulled some vegetables to her with a sheep's hoof, and then touched the pot she had just held in her arms with another sheep's hoof.

Yes, I really asked her to cook for her.

Adhering to the principle of being able to live as much as possible and living for a while is temporary, Bai Li took a sharp breath, stood up from the ground with a numb movement, and obediently picked up the ground vegetables.

Xu was worried that she would not be able to work alone, and the monster used its horns to push Dong Li over. But this Uncle Dong was also angry, and finally woke him up, and before he could see the monster's appearance clearly, he fainted again.

"Excuse me, you're stepping on my turf."

"Trouble me again, I'm going to wash vegetables in the stream over here."

"May I ask, can the horns on your head be used as a sword? Look at those two trees over there, can you split them. Also, this pot is too small, even if you cook it ten times, it won't be enough for you to stuff your teeth, why don't we change the pot again? ”

Before Bai Li could finish speaking, a huge copper tripod spit out of the monster's mouth.

Bai Li was startled, but soon calmed down again, she pointed to the copper tripod and asked the monster, "Do you want me to use this to cook?" ”

Ding, in ancient times, had two functions. One is a food utensil, and the other is a ritual vessel. The fire is burned below, the dishes are cooked in the ding, everyone sits together, and there is really an atmosphere of eating hot pot.

"Although this ding can also cook vegetables, it is a technical job to make a fire." Bai Li pinched the copper tripod and estimated how much firewood she had to pick up. God can see mercy, I hope that before she collects enough firewood, this monster will not swallow her because of unbearable hunger in her belly.

As soon as Bai Li finished speaking, the monster spewed out a breath of fire. The fire snake burned directly onto the copper tripod, and it formed a circle for a long time.

When the moon set, the monster was finally full, and Bai Li, who had been busy all day, was so tired that he fell asleep directly on the stone.

The silver-white moonlight penetrated the branches of the dense forest and fell on the monster, and the white pupils like a thick fog spread out, and with a slight tremble, the monster turned into an old man with a small wooden stick in his hand and a little joyful looking like a little happy. He stroked his bulging belly, came to Bai Li, and said with some disgust: "People are the most undelicious thing in the world." I'd rather eat these black things than eat you. ”

Bai Li seemed to hear this, her little nose wrinkled slightly, and then she muttered a few words dreamily.

The old man didn't listen carefully, and he didn't know what she was muttering. He looked at her body like thin wood, shook his head, and said the second sentence of the night: "It's skinny and ugly, but these hands are good, and he can cook." Well, for the sake of how you can cook, I'll reluctantly let you be my apprentice. ”

In the dream, Bai Li only felt that her body was warm and weak, and her body was weak because of hunger and thirst, and it seemed to be full of energy in an instant. As your body warms up, you sleep more and more soundly. When I woke up, it was already two hours later.

When I first woke up, I was a little dazed, and it took a while for Bai Li to remember that I had crossed by myself.

What about the monster? She sat up and searched around, but the monster in her memory seemed to have disappeared out of thin air, and only the two huge sheep's hoof prints left in front of the stream clearly told her that the monster was real.

Bai Li stared at the two huge sheep's hoof prints, the more he looked at them, the more familiar they became, and slowly the two scenes in his memory overlapped together. She remembered, and the last time, she and Uncle Dong went to the forest to find branches to use as chopsticks, and the time the tiles were knocked over, the same mark appeared by the stream. It's just that it was dark at that time, and she didn't look carefully, thinking it was two shallow pits.