I was a hunter in ancient times

Chapter 64 Meat Buns

  Zhou Du drank the decoction boiled by Shenxi for several days in a row. No wonder he didn't notice a trace of coldness when winter entered, but his body became warmer day by day, not like winter, but like summer.

If it wasn't for this bowl of soup getting on his head today, he would have thought it was because he had been running outside these days, but now that he found the source, he felt a little ridiculous.

"You."

Looking at Shen Xi's pure and innocent face, Zhou Du wanted to question him but couldn't, so he pinched his nose as a punishment.

After his nose was pinched, Shen Xi didn't restrain himself, his hot fingertips were still reminiscing about the touch just now, he touched his nose, covered the malicious smile at the corner of his mouth, raised his head, his black eyes were full of innocence , worryingly said to Zhou Du: "It's hard for you to suffer like this. Since I caused the disaster, then let me help you get rid of it, okay?"

Zhou Du's height has a natural advantage, Shen Xi lowered his head and smiled triumphantly , How to avoid his eyes, he pressed his forehead, and asked helplessly: "How do you want to help me ?

"

Add another sentence: "Whatever you like, I can do it."

After finishing speaking, Shen Xi shrugged the hair of his ears embarrassingly, the roots of the ears were not only scalding, but also slightly itchy.

Zhou Du rolled his Adam's apple, not to mention, holding back to this point, for a moment, he really felt a little bit excited.

But...

touching Shen Xi's childish, slightly green face, he pressed his hand against the wall, clenched into a fist, his veins popped up, and he forcibly suppressed this thought that shouldn't have, He flicked Shen Xi's forehead lightly, and refused: "It's not good."

Shen Xi rubbed his forehead that hurt from Zhou Du's flick, and looked at Zhou Du strangely.

Zhou Du ignored what he was thinking, swallowed his throat, and said as calmly as possible: "Help me take a look at the construction site outside, I'll go back and deal with some things.

" .

Fortunately, Zhou Du was just looking for an excuse to leave casually, and it wasn't really his intention to let him visit the construction site.

Most of the villagers in Taoyuan Village are relatively simple, and Zhoudu is generous with the money. The money is settled on the same day, and the village head Chen Qingshan supervises the work. No one will be lazy.

After Zhoudu explained, he walked out of Shen's house in a little panic for the first time, and when he returned to his own house, he simply didn't burn the water. He fetched a bucket of cool well water from the well, carried it to the water room, and went there without saying a word. poured on the head.

The bone-piercing chill immediately spread from the top of the head to the soles of the feet, suppressing the almost irrepressible heat on his body.

Zhou Du shook the water droplets on the tip of his hair, exhaled hot air, leaned against the wooden door of the water room, closed his eyes, gasped slightly, recalling Shen Xi's smile over and over again in his head.

Seductive, provocative, smirking, bright, calculating...

Even a normal smile on weekdays is very seductive when I recall it, and the heat that has just been suppressed has a sign of rising .

Zhou Du hurriedly cut off the various fragments in his mind, put away his blue fingertips on the wooden board, and gradually brought his thoughts back to reality, thinking about the wild rabbit that was skinned until it was dripping with blood, and then thinking about being headshot by him with an arrow After the venomous tongue, let's think about Shen Xi's sharpness with the knife when he peeled the wolf's skin.

Gradually, his body cooled down slowly, and a bone-piercing chill surged in. Zhou Du had a cold wave, walked out of the water room, went to the bedroom to change his wet clothes, wiped his hair, lifted the quilt, and lay down in the cold room. I fell asleep at the same time.

When I woke up again, the uncomfortable hot feeling in my body had disappeared, but I had a headache and my feet were light, and my throat was very dry.

Zhou Du woke up and boiled a pot of hot water by himself. After filling his belly, he felt a little more comfortable, and rubbed his heavy head to figure out what to do next.

He was pressing his head when he suddenly felt that something was grabbing him under his feet. When he looked down, he saw that the bean bag was grabbing his leg directly and nibbling at his pants.

The light blue wolf eyes were glowing faintly, the wolf teeth were grinding and creaking, and there was still a little saliva hanging from the mouth, looking extremely hungry.

Zhou Du raised his eyes and looked out the window, the outside of the house was no longer the gray sky where the sun was not seen yesterday, but a sunny day that was rarely seen in winter.

It is not difficult to guess that he has been sleeping for a day and a night since yesterday.

And if he remembered correctly, when he came out of the water room yesterday, he remembered to put the latch on the door, no wonder Dou Bao was so hungry, he couldn't get out.

The jerky at home has long been eaten clean by bean buns, and now Zhou Du can't find anything to feed it, it just so happens that he has slept for so long, and his stomach is already hungry.

Opening the door, she was about to take the bean bag to Shen's house.

As if he had a tacit understanding, as soon as he opened the door, Shen Xi appeared in front of his house with a food box.

Seeing him open the door of the house, the smile on Shen Xi's face was so big that his teeth couldn't be seen. Even carrying the food box, he couldn't stop him from running towards him.

"You can be regarded as awake, if you don't wake up, you will miss today's festival." Shen Xi came to Zhou Du with a food box, and said with a smile.

Zhou Du was taken aback for a moment, and belatedly asked, "What's the festival today?"

After coming to Taoyuan Village for so long, he hadn't celebrated a festival, and the Shen family didn't seem to like festivals either, so gradually he didn't take festivals seriously. Things to see.

Shen Xi suddenly mentioned it, but he still couldn't recover, he didn't know what night is today and what day is today.

"Winter Solstice," Shen Xi carried the food box into the door and put it down, turned around to look at Zhou Du, and asked, "What's wrong with your voice, so hoarse?"

"It's nothing," Zhou Du clenched his fist and coughed on his lips With a sound, he cleared his throat, and said nonchalantly, "Maybe he caught a cold last night."

"How could he catch a cold?" Shen Xi frowned deeply, walked over worriedly, stretched out his cold hand to explore Zhou Du's forehead was found to be neither hot nor cold, and he asked suspiciously, "It's nothing, it can't be something happened to my soup, right?"

"No." Zhou Du shook his head, opened the food box, and saw that it was full of food. A box of dumplings, and asked strangely, "Your family doesn't even celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, why do you celebrate the Winter Solstice?"

During the Mid-Autumn Festival before, Zhou Du didn't even eat mooncakes, but this insignificant Winter Solstice can still be eaten Dumplings are weird.

"It's different," Shen Xi came back to his senses, and took out some flesh and blood from the bottom of the food box to feed the bean buns, and explained to Zhou Du while feeding, "My family is just two people, my little uncle, no one to miss, There is no need to reunite with the family, so why not celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival?"

Zhou Du took a dumpling with chopsticks that was as thin as a cicada's wing and could show crystal clear meat filling, and fed it into his mouth, listening to Shen Xi's words, he nodded secretly, rational.

He was alone, and he didn't like festivals. He always felt that the excitement was out of tune with him, so it was better not to join in.

"But the winter solstice is different." Shen Xi asked after feeding the bean buns, wiped his hands with a handkerchief, "Have you heard the saying that the dumplings in the winter solstice don't freeze your ears."

Zhou Du nodded: "I have. "

Shen Xi sat down and wiped his hands, sat down, faced Zhou Du, and asked again: "Then do you know who made these dumplings?"

Zhou Du shook his head, he only knew to eat, as for how to make this food, he didn't know who created it.

Shen Xi stared at Zhou Du eating happily, and slowly told the story: "It is said that when Zhang Zhongjing, the medical sage at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, returned to his hometown in old age, it was snowing heavily, and many people on the street were displaced due to the war. Many of the refugees who covered their bodies had their ears rotten from the cold. Seeing this, Zhang Zhongjing couldn't bear it, so he ordered his disciples to make traps with mutton, chili peppers, and some medicinal materials to dispel the cold, and made dumplings to give to the refugees, and healed the refugees. Since then, every winter solstice, everyone made dumplings one after another, so there was this proverb that the dumplings on the winter solstice don't freeze the ears."

"My little uncle studied medicine to save lives, and he admired these medical predecessors the most. Dumplings are not only thinking about these seniors, but also reminding myself of the purpose of studying medicine." After

hearing this, Zhou Du understood and nodded. Shen Xi

smiled at him again: "So guess who made this dumpling."

Zhou Du bit a plump, delicious dumpling, raised his eyebrows and asked, "It wasn't you?"

It's because he's used to it, which leads him to eat other people's food again. As long as there's a little bit of something wrong, he can taste it.

The dumplings he ate today are no different from what he ate in the past, except for Shen Xi, he can't think of anyone else who can make this taste.

"My little uncle did it." Shen Xi held back for a long time, but in the end he still didn't hold back, and spoke out on his own initiative.

Zhou Du was very surprised, he remembered that Shen Xi said that Shen Mu was like him, he was not active in his limbs, he couldn't distinguish five grains, and he couldn't enter the kitchen at all, so how could he make dumplings?

Shen Xi seemed to see Zhou Du's doubts, and took the initiative to explain: "Of course, it's impossible for my little uncle to make a pot of dumplings by himself, so I made the dumpling wrappers. I transferred it, and he only took care of packing it."

Speaking of which, Shen Xi pointed to a dumpling and looked at Zhou Du: "Look, he doesn't know how to pinch a dumpling, he just folds eight folds to seal the dumpling. I used to pinch a small ingot with one hand for the dumpling I made."

Shen Xi Not to mention, Zhou Du hadn't noticed yet, but now that he said it, Zhou Du immediately saw the difference.

"There are no more than five people in this world who have eaten the dumplings made by my little uncle. He said that only the family members he approves are worthy of eating the dumplings made by him. I don't know why. In previous years, he only made a few I mean, he made all these this year, and there are still a lot left, so I will bring them to you." Shen Xi looked at Zhou Du and smiled, "Now that you have eaten the dumplings made by my little uncle, in the future we will You are now a family, so you are not allowed to play tricks."

"Don't play tricks." Zhou Du looked at Shen Xi's smiling face, and although he said it casually, he was very serious about finding a sense of approval for him, and his heart had already softened. into a puddle.

He, Zhou Du, was so lucky to meet Shen Xi, and so lucky to meet such a lovely and lovely family, they were willing to accept him, it was too late for him to thank him, why would he act shamelessly.

Shen Xi smiled brightly: "Really?"

"Really," Zhou Du bent his index finger and stroked lightly on the bridge of his nose, promising him, "Next year on the winter solstice, I will accompany you to make dumplings, okay? Okay?"

"Okay." Shen Xi's heart shrank, and he would accompany them to make dumplings on next year's winter solstice, which meant that Zhou Du would come to marry him at the latest before the winter solstice next year, how could he not be happy.

After the winter solstice, the foundation of Zhoudu's house was almost ready to be completed. Chen Qingshan was fully in charge of the supervision this time, so before the completion, he deliberately found Zhoudu and asked, "The foundation is finished. Next, you can find the carpenter who will build the house." Did you?"

When Zhou Du was asked, he was stunned for a moment, and asked a little confusedly, "What carpenter?"

Chen Qingshan immediately said: "The carpenter who repaired the house, since your house is going to be built like Shen's house, you have to find a carpenter to repair it. People in our village are clumsy, and they can help with a mud house, but this kind of house is very difficult. I don't even understand tenon and tenon joints, so I really can't help."

Zhou Du understood, nodded and said, "I have found a few carpenters before, and I will visit them later." It's

not that Zhou Du didn't want to do these things in advance , but it is also the first time that he has participated in the whole process of building a house by himself. He doesn't understand anything, and he has no elders to help him at home.

There are many things that can only be inquired by oneself, but others say what they say, what the public says is right, what the woman says is right, whether it is true or false, good or bad, you need to judge by yourself, it is inevitable that you will be overwhelmed and forget West, many things have not been done until it is discovered that they have not been done.

You can only take one step at a time.

After Zhou Du finished speaking, his throat itched, he turned his head to one side, put his fist on his lips, and coughed a few times.

Seeing that Zhou Du still had a schedule in his busy schedule, Chen Qingshan felt a little relieved, but when he heard him coughing, he frowned slightly and said: "The weather is getting colder, you'd better take care of your health, if the repair of the house is really serious Letting you be helpless, I think you might as well find someone and give him all the money, and you just wait for the house to be collected. Although this way the money will be more, but at least you have to worry less."

After Zhou Du recovered, his throat slightly After listening to Chen Qingshan's words carefully, he asked carefully, "Is it okay?" Chen Qingshan said,

"Why not, as long as you can trust this person, and you are not afraid of him cutting corners, as long as you pay an extra wage, you will be fine." You can safely and boldly entrust him with this matter of repairing the house."

After Zhou Du finished listening, he immediately answered, "I wonder if Village Chief Chen is free, and if he can help me take over this matter."

"Me?" Chen Qingshan didn't expect that Zhou Du would immediately appoint him as soon as he finished speaking, and his face blushed immediately, "I don't mean to earn you more money, I just see you being so careless, Just to give you an idea, if you have a suitable person, you can just go to him."

"I know," Zhou Du nodded, and said in a tone of no emotion, "I think you, Village Chief Chen, are suitable."

When Zhou Du said this, Chen Qingshan was quite embarrassed. After all, he said just now that this job needs to be done by someone he can trust.

Zhou Du appointed him without even thinking about it. Doesn't that mean that in Zhou Du's heart he is the one he can trust?

Thinking about it this way, he is very popular as the village chief. After all, Zhou Du is just a foreigner who just came to Taoyuan Village not long ago, and he is different from other villagers in Taoyuan Village who are all related.

Seeing that Chen Qingshan was stunned for a while, Zhou Du didn't speak, and asked again: "But the wages are not appropriate?"

"Not really," Chen Qingshan hurriedly waved his hands, and said truthfully, "It's just unexpected that you still trust me quite a bit It's

not been a day or two since Zhou Du dealt with Chen Qingshan, and it can be seen that the village head is quite dedicated, so don't worry about him cheating himself, not to mention that he has the name of the village head and can suppress other people No matter how you look at it, he is more suitable.

Seeing that Chen Qingshan had no objection, Zhou Du took the initiative to make a decision on the matter: "Then it's settled like this. When I come back from visiting the carpenter, I will be in charge of everything."

"Well, don't worry." Dong Ri was idle at home He was also idle, and could earn more money, so Chen Qingshan had no reason to refuse, so he quickly agreed.

Zhou Du just finished talking with Chen Qingshan outside the Shen's courtyard, his throat felt itchy again, he coughed twice, and was about to enter the Shen's courtyard to find some water to moisten his throat, when Shen Xi held a Wan walked up to him, frowned and said, "I heard you coughing from a long distance away. When I was just making cakes, I made you a steamed salt orange for cough relief. You can eat it to moisten your throat."

Zhou Du Glancing into his bowl, he saw a steamed orange that he had cut in half lying inside.

Shen Xi peeled off the skin of the orange with chopsticks, and said to Zhou Du again: "This will only be useful if the orange meat and soup are warm. Hurry up, eat it early and your throat will feel better."

"Yes." Zhou Du picked it up Bowl, feed this bowl of sour and salty steamed salt orange with meat and juice into his lips.

Seeing him eating, Shen Xi asked again: "How does it taste?"

After asking, he waved his hand and said: "Forget it, forget it, your throat is uncomfortable, so don't talk."

"Not bad." Zhou Du felt nothing, he was always in good health, this time he just coughed twice and he was fine.

"You know how to coax me, pretending that I don't know that this steamed salt orange is sour and salty." Shen Xi took the bowl and took Zhou Du to the kitchen, and continued, "Fortunately, I also made you other cough medicines."

As he said, he put down the bowl, went to a special table for cooking, and lifted the gauze to reveal the brown sugar cubes that had cooled and solidified under the gauze, and explained: "This is Qiuli cream candy. I see you are so lazy. Even if I made autumn pear ointment for you, it would be rare for you to soak it in water, so I made it like a candy cube, so that you can have a piece of candy when you feel uncomfortable."

He said that he picked up a piece of candy and put it in his mouth: " I'll give you a taste first, there are two pears left, and I will cook Chuanbei pears for you later in the evening, I believe you will get better soon..."

"Um..."

Before Shen Xi finished speaking, Zhou Du couldn't help but put him on the desk, bowed his head and sealed his lips, and pressed the tip of his tongue into the crack of his lips, hooking him forcefully into his lips before he had time The melted Qiuli jelly candy entangled with his fragrant and soft little tongue for a while, and then they separated.

Sucking the candy he just snatched from Shen Xi's lips, let the sweetness spread wantonly in the taste buds, raised his eyebrows lightly, and said in a slightly better mood: "It tastes good, and my throat feels better."

Shen Xi blinked , I felt that my legs were a little soft, but fortunately my waist could still lean against the desk, otherwise he would have slipped down.

A piece of candy Qiuli cream candy was quickly asked Zhou Du to eat. Seeing this, Shen Xi stuffed another piece into his mouth, and said tentatively, "Would you like another piece?"

Zhou Du had no choice but to kiss him on the corner of his lips. , refused and said: "No, I have to visit carpenters in other villages.

" The cakes made don't look good when you come to the door empty-handed."

Zhou Du stretched out his hand and rubbed his head, thanking him: "Thank you.

" Motivation, he felt that even if Zhou Du asked him to make another 100 pastries, he could still do it.

The carpenters that Zhou Du wanted to visit were all well-known carpenters in the surrounding villages.

Being famous also means that the price is expensive. After all, if someone repairs Zhoudu's house, he has to push away other work at hand. If Zhoudu's price is lowered, he is not willing to come.

Zhou Du found a total of five carpenters, Shen Xi prepared five cakes, and went door-to-door to lobby, each carpenter Zhou Du did not treat each other favorably, and they all opened thirty cents a day.

The price of craftsmen is expensive, too low, and it is more than this price for people to make a table and stool at home.

But even if the opening reached thirty cents a day, only three were willing to come, and the remaining two had too much work at hand to take care of, so they declined Zhou Du politely.

Zhou Du wasn't discouraged either, three would be three, at worst, the house should be repaired slowly.

A carpenter surnamed Liu saw that Zhou Du was in a hurry to repair the house, so he discussed with Zhou Du, "See if this works. My son is also a carpenter, but his skills are not as good as mine, but let's start." He can still do such simple tasks as planing wood, if you don't mind, you can hire him as a small worker."

When he said this, the son of carpenter Liu happened to be helping plan wood in the yard, watching him do it well. Sweating profusely without any intention of stopping, he was quite pragmatic, so Zhou Du agreed to hire him as a small laborer for ten cents a day.

This also opened Zhou Du's mind, and he turned around and told the other two masters that if they also had apprentices who knew carpentry, they could bring one over, and it would still be the same as Liu Carpenter's son, ten cents a day.

These six people, one more than the original five, work together with division of labor, and the progress of the house will not be too slow.

Please be good to the carpenter, Zhou Du can leave all the rest to Chen Qingshan, I believe that with him around, this house is much better than him looking at it and repairing it himself.

Zhou Du took Shen Xi around several nearby villages, and when he returned to Shen's house, it was already dark enough to see his fingers.

Candle oil lamps were lit early in the courtyard of the Shen family, illuminating the entire Shen family brightly, making Zhou Du and Shen Xi feel warm when they saw it.

Shen Xi pushed open the door of the house, saw Shen Mu and Li Yu sitting in the yard waiting for them, and asked casually: "Have you eaten yet?"

Li Yu shook his head: "Not yet, I'm waiting for you."

Shen Xi was anxious, Heading towards the kitchen: "Didn't I say when I left that there are steamed buns steaming in the pot, you can just take them out and eat them when you're hungry, wait for us to do something."

Li Yu explained: "Master said that the whole family must be present to enjoy the meal, so I waited for it."

Shen Xi was still very angry at first, but when he heard about the family, he thought of Zhou Du. Being with him, waiting for him means waiting for Zhou Du, and this family also includes Zhou Du, and immediately became happy, and echoed: "Yes, the family must eat together to eat well."

Pot Li Shenxi left the fire on when he left, it would still be warm, he added another fire, turned to the table and cut two pears with a knife, Ka Chuanbei boiled quickly in Choshi, the rate Xian Duan went out to moisten Zhou Du's throat, and then went to the kitchen, picking out the steamed things from the pot non-stop.

Zhou Du finished Chuanbei pears, looked at Shen Xi's busy figure, and took the initiative to help.

"You two have been tired all day, let Xiao Yuer do these small things." Seeing that Zhou Du was carrying the bowls and chopsticks again, Shen Mu said.

"Not tired." Zhou Du replied two words lightly, not listening to Shen Mu's order to sit down and rest.

With two or three helpers, the dinner was quickly prepared and brought to the table one by one, and the family sat down to dinner.

Maybe after walking for a day, Shen Xi was really tired. He sat down and ate two big meat buns in one sitting. After eating, he urged: "Little Yu'er, help me get another one."

"The smaller one or the bigger one." Li Yu knew that Shen Xi didn't eat much, so he saw that there were smaller buns in the steamer and asked.

Shen Xi didn't even think about it and said: "Big ones."

Li Yu took the buns and teased him: "You can eat enough today, you can eat big ones."

Shen Xi took the buns from his hand, I don't know what he thought of, he was not convinced Authentic: "I just like big ones, I like to eat big ones for everything, no way."

After finishing speaking, he kicked Zhou Du under the table and winked at him triumphantly.

Zhou Du, who was eating steamed stuffed buns quietly: "..."

The author has something to say: Shen Xi: My Zhou Du is big, what's wrong with me practicing in advance.

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