Chapter 263: Hurrying
The kitchen is not large, and in the middle is a square table, and due to the age, the vermilion lacquer on the four legs of the table has fallen off, revealing a brownish and yellow color.
On the table are a variety of fruits and vegetables, and against the wall is a four-tiered shelf, each full of bottles and cans.
There was a rafter with a few prosciutto hanging from it, potted flowers on the windowsill, a stove just below, and a large vat full of water next to it.
Not far away there is a long, narrow wooden table with many bowls and spoons on it, and a bunch of onions, garlic, etc., hangs high above the table.
Xu Ruoping 'tsk' twice and muttered: "It's extremely simple, I can't imagine that Hu Yihui was so simple hundreds of years ago." β
She walked straight to the rough wooden table, took three pairs of dishes and chopsticks, scooped water on the water tank, and washed the dishes with great interest, and soon she washed the dishes and chopsticks and prepared to take them to the table of the eight immortals in the hall to put them away.
When she passed by the stove, she was attracted by the fragrance inside, and she was curious to see what kind of delicious food Xiaocui had prepared for her today, so she freed up one hand to lift the lid of the pot to take a look.
Xu Ruoping, who lives in modern times, has a heat insulation function on the handle of the boiler, and when she switches to the ancient iron pot lid, she doesn't know how to use a damp cloth to put on the ears of the lid and then lift it.
As soon as his finger touched the lid of the pot, he was burned by the hot rim of the pot.
She reflexively shrank her hand back, but the dishes and chopsticks in her other hand were also unstable, only to hear the chaotic sound of "soldier pong", and the dishes and chopsticks in her hand were all knocked over to the ground, so frightened that she hurriedly picked them up with her hands.
One leaned over, his clothes hooked on a burning stick placed on the rough wooden table, and when he pulled it, the burning stick was connected with a row of neatly stacked dishes and chopsticks, and hit the burning wood next to the stove horizontally, and there was a chaotic sound of "soldier pong", and all the dishes and chopsticks on the rough wooden table were broken.
Xu Ruoping hurriedly stood up, looking at the debris and broken tiles on the ground, and didn't know what to do. As he was hesitating, he suddenly saw the stacks of hay bundled together beside him burn fiercely.
She widened her eyes and took a deep breath: God, where did this fire come from?
Oh, it turned out that it was a burning stick that pulled out a piece of charcoal from the stove and landed right on top of the haystack next to it.
Xu Ruoping panicked now, and as soon as she was nervous, she took a bottle of water on the stove and splashed it over.
How do you know that when you "whew" the ground, the small fire turns into a big fire, burning more vigorously, and it burns to the window sill next to it all at once, what is going on?
She glanced at the bottle in her hand, and saw that there were four words written on it, "Daquanyuan Wine", which is terrible, alcohol is combustion-fueled!
Xu Ruoping was even more panicked, picked up the things on the table and threw them around, onions, garlic, dried peppers, all thrown over, trying to extinguish the fire, but it backfired, the fire was like a hungry beast, throwing what to swallow.
In the end, Xu Ruoping finally did one thing right, that is, scooping up the water in the big tank and pouring it violently, and the fire was finally extinguished.
Xu Ruoping breathed a long sigh of relief, held the edge of the table with one hand and patted her chest with the other, and said, "Fortunately, there was no fire!"
But looking at the windows that were burned like black charcoal, and the black floors that had become a vast ocean, I didn't know what to do.
Just when he had nothing to do, he saw Hu Yihui and Xu Hongbo standing at the door of the kitchen without knowing when, looking at everything on the ground with surprised and helpless expressions.
Especially Hu Yihui, who opened his mouth wide for a long time before he said, "Excuse me, did you just come in and wash a few dishes and chopsticks?"
Xu Ruoping combed her wet hair with her hands, pushed a few sticks of hair stuck to her face to her ears, tried to squeeze out a bunch of smiles, and said, "That's right, I just came in to wash a few dishes and chopsticks." β
Xu Hongbo subconsciously touched his hair, gasped and said: "Sister, although you were a princess in your previous life, you are a rural baby in this life. Can you have a snack, now we are fleeing, don't even burn down the house at that time, and it will be miserable to sleep on the street. β
Xu Ruoping knew that she was at a loss, so she took a moment to wrench the corners of her clothes, and said slowly: "Everything here is more ancient, I need to have an adaptation stage as a modern person, please be patient, ah." β
Xu Hongbo raised one side of his eyebrows: "I think you better stop doing housework, let Xiaocui comeβ’β’β’β’β’β’"
Hu Yihui didn't make a sound, and silently cast an inquiring gaze.
Xu Ruoping was a little unconvinced: "It's okay, when I get used to it, these little things will no longer be a problem, besides, Xiaocui is a little girl, she has already done a lot of work, and I should help her." β
Nothing to say for a night.
It may be that the first period of time was too thrilling, and the next period of time is simply peaceful.
Xu Ruoping also slowly adapted to the life of slash-and-burn farming, although she occasionally opened up the valley, she often followed Xu Hongbo to satisfy her appetite.
Under the strict supervision of her sister, Xu Hongbo practiced the 'Heaven and Earth Mixed Yuan Wuji Sleep Gong', this exercise is the best introductory exercise to lay the foundation, easy to learn, easy to remember, easy to get started, but Xu Hongbo doesn't know if he has no spiritual root or what, and the time is not effective.
Sometimes you can quickly get away with it, and sometimes you wait until dawn.
Xu Ruoping discussed this matter with Hu Yihui and found that there were more and more unsolvable mysteries in this kid.
First of all, after eating the six immortal elixirs, he didn't react at all, let alone cultivating into an immortal body, and even cultivating the foundation realm was very difficult.
Secondly, although Xu Hongbo escaped death several times, it seems to be luck on the surface, but in fact, he has absolutely human characteristics in his body, otherwise, how could he be eaten by the ancient demon bird and still break out, and he can still be safe and sound if he is struck by lightning.
Again, this guy usually looks stunned and grinning, but from time to time he knows some unknown secrets, such as the secret grid mechanism of the six immortal elixirs, how can he open it?
If Xu Hongbo was not Xu Ruoping's younger brother, it is estimated that Hu Yihui would have arrested him a long time ago and dissected him from head to toe for experiments.
In the evening of that day, Xu Hongbo ran to the lake for a bell as usual, but when he came back, he had a black bitter gourd face.
Hu Yihui was practicing in the back mountain, Xu Ruoping was busy with housework, and was about to sit on a big stone slab in the courtyard to practice the 'True Yuan Returning to the Ruins Dafa', but before he began to vomit, he saw Xu Hongbo humming, almost smoking above his head, and walked in scolding.
Xu Ruoping guessed that he must have quarreled with Xiaocui again, and was tricked by the chick essence, this guy took advantage of the fact that people had just opened up, and always fooled people to do stupid things, and the chick essence was not stupid, and over time he saw a hint of it, and he became smarter and smarter, and gradually became more and more powerful, and learned to fight back.
Xu Ruoping closed her eyes and deliberately pretended not to see anything, saving this guy from coming to vomit bitterness.
Xu Hongbo scolded for a while, stood alone in the courtyard for a while, and saw that her sister completely regarded herself as a lump of air, without the slightest concern, and came from one place in a hurry: "Sister, don't you see that I'm angry?"
Xu Ruoping ignored him.
"You said that Xiaocui was not too much, and finally ran out to buy some clothes and supplies outside the enchantment, but most of them were for my brother-in-law and you, and I was an outsider when I co-authored, so I knew that even the swim trunks were second-hand. β
He chattered endlessly in front of Xu Ruoping to count Xiaocui, but he didn't mention anything about bullying others before.
Xu Ruoping was annoyed by him, and simply scolded him rudely: "Why don't you mention the last time I fooled people to give you eggs, the front foot said that you would use modern technology to help hatch the chicks, and the back foot would have all hatched into your stomach, if it weren't for Hu Yihui, you would have been besieged by a group of chicken essences, and buying you a second-hand swimming trunk would have been cheaper for you." β
Xu Hongbo's pupils shrank in fright, but he still pretended to be calm, picked up a slippery stone on the ground and threw it out of the yard with force: "Stoned you to death with stinky chicken essence." β
After doing all this, Fang Cai sat down cross-legged next to Xu Ruoping sullenly: "Sister, you can't blame me, I'm a big man, I have a long body, how can I eat vegetarian every day, here are wild mountains, and my brother-in-law has formed a heavy enchantment, not to mention wild meat, even a mosquito is difficult to come in, you say, am I pitiful?"
Xu Ruoping glanced at him almost insincerely: "Okay, okay." Isn't it just meat after being crooked for so long? Hurry up and refine the exercises, and go out and invite you to eat enough. β
After speaking, he threw him a hand-copied book: "Ah, I wrote the 'True Yuan Returns to the Ruins Dafa' silently last night, take it, flash it and go to cultivate well, and ask me or Hu Yihui if you don't understand." β
Xu Hongbo picked it up, turned the first page, and saw that it was densely crawling with earthworm-like words, and the first chapter of the first line reads:
"The true yuan returns to the ruins Dafa, which belongs to the internal cultivation method, the power is based on qi, the intention is the medium, and the pure and void nature is the law, and the righteous qi of heaven and earth is pure, strengthening the true yuan, stimulating the driving force of life, and providing a steady stream of energy guarantee for the future cultivation of divine skills.
The most important thing about this exercise is qi. Exhale, ventilate, intake, nourish, renew and mix in one breath.
The way to practice qi must not be impetuous, and we must maintain a calm mind, emotional stability, and a pure heart and few desires. β
I flipped through it casually, without a clue, and looked at Xu Ruoping, who was sitting cross-legged opposite, and found that the other party was as calm as a mountain, not moving at all, and said blankly: "Sister, my 'Heaven and Earth Mixed Yuan Wuji Sleeping Skill' has not been fully mastered, so I started to practice another exercise, is this progress faster?"
"I'm up to you with a heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys, it's been almost a year, you haven't finished building the foundation yet, it's as slow as a snail, I'm kind enough to change the set of exercises for you, maybe it's suitable for you, it's still too much to blame. β
Xu Ruoping spat and criticized Xu Hongbo so much that she completely forgot how she was for more than ten years, stuck in the initial stage of foundation building.