Crossing to Live in the Wilderness Plains

On the morning of the second day of the second month, the sun shines on the floor through the half-opened curtains, and the crackling sound of burning wood in the fire from time to time echoes from the silent space. Recalling the scene from last night, I reached out and wanted to put the person beside me in my arms and continued to be gentle, but I felt empty.

Chen Qi opened his eyes, blinked, blinked again, what happened? The bridal chamber candle the next morning, the daughter-in-law is gone?

The room was still as it was yesterday, the leftover food was still sitting on the low table beside the fire, the suit that was thrown to the ground yesterday by himself was placed at the end of the bed, and Chen Qi's drowsiness was completely awake. Now, I walked around the room before I got up and put on my clothes, but I didn't find Azer at all.

Chen Qi couldn't help but help his forehead, didn't he work hard enough yesterday? Where can Azer go without having to hunt early in the morning?

Chen Qi put on his original warm animal skins and opened the door to find that Carlo was hurriedly running back holding a large pottery plate of clean snow. It was Akke who usually did the melting of the snow, how did it become Carlo today?

There is a place in the yard for storing snow that is usually used to melt snow water. A clean slate is laid on the ground to separate it from the soil. When you need water, you will go there to fetch it. The snow there is almost one meter thick. Now, enough for them to use the next snowfall. Chen Qizheng wanted to ask Carlo if he saw Aze, but before he could say anything, Carlo entered the room and closed the door with his backhand.

Chen Qi: "..."

Chen Qi opened the door behind Carlo and entered the house. The structure of Carlo's house is very similar to that of Aze's previous house. The ceiling is very low. Chen Qi can touch the top of the ceiling as long as he raises his hand. Unlike Chen Qi's house, Carlo's house The animal skin curtain at the door is behind the wooden door. Chen Qi opened the heavy animal skin curtain and found that in addition to A Ze, A Zhang and A Li were also in the room, and even A Jing and the little wolf cub were sitting obediently by the fire.

"Why did you all gather here so early in the morning?" Chen Qi was puzzled.

Carlo, who was putting the pottery plate into the fire, heard the question, raised his head, raised a big bright smile at Chen Qi, and said proudly: "Chen Qi, I am a father."

"What?" Chen Qi, who had just entered the door, was so frightened that he almost fell, and A Ze, who was standing beside him, hurriedly pulled him. Only then did Chen Qi realize that Ake had been sitting on the heated kang bed, holding a white fluffy animal skin in his arms, which seemed to be wrapped in something.

Aze pursed his lips and smiled, "Ake gave birth to a little girl last night."

Chen Qi's mouth was half-opened in surprise. The females did not wear as many animal skins in winter as he did. He had never noticed how obviously Ake's stomach had swelled. He had watched him climb up and down two days ago. After tidying up the walls, why did he give birth after a good night's sleep? Is it that easy to have a baby?

Chen Qi took a few steps forward and looked into Ake's arms. Ake had a rare tenderness on his face, and put the animal skin in his arms in front of Chen Qi, so that the other party could see the child inside.

The newborn child's face was flushed, the skin on his face was wrinkled together, the hair on his head was sparse, and his small mouth would smack from time to time. This was the first time Chen Qi had seen such a small child.

"He looks ugly." A Jing, who was holding the little wolf cub, muttered softly.

How could Carlo, who just turned into a father, allow himself to hear the words that he disliked his own cub, and tapped A Jing on the head, "You were even uglier when you were born."

A Jing pouted and was too lazy to refute him. He hugged the little wolf cub and sat far away, stroked the little wolf cub's beautiful white hair with his little hands, and complained silently in his heart that he was not as good-looking as his little wolf.

"Want to hug?" Seeing that Chen Qi kept staring at the child, Ake asked tentatively.

Chen Qi quickly took a step back, waved his hand and shook his head: "No need." What a joke, what if such a small child accidentally knocks himself.

Ake saw that Chen Qi was unwilling and did not reluctantly. At this time, Ali had already opened a milk fruit and handed it to Ake, "Let's feed the little girl some milk fruit first."

Seeing that Ake was going to directly feed the opened milk fruit to the child, Chen Qi couldn't help but ask: "Can he bear the milk fruit directly in such a cold day? No need to heat it?"

Ake stopped what he was doing and looked at Chen Qi suspiciously. The orcs had never tried to heat milk fruit for children to eat.

"Uh, can't children drink heated milk fruit?" Seeing that everyone else was looking at him, Chen Qi was a little puzzled.

"No, you can drink it." Ake handed the opened milk fruit to Chen Qi, "Can you help me warm it up?"

Chen Qi took it over and found a clean pottery bowl and poured the milk fruit into it. A milk fruit was only about half a bowl. Carlo quickly came to Chen Qi's side to study. After all, the milk fruit was picked before winter, but the weather was too cold for fear that the children would not be able to adapt to the stomach and intestines, and also afraid that it would be contaminated with bacteria if it was not stored well before. Chen Qi boiled the milk fruit and then let it cool until it felt When the temperature is right, hand it to Ake.

Carlo was surprised by Chen Qi's practice of heating food first and then cooling it down. Isn't this superfluous? Chen Qi briefly explained the reason to him. Although Carlo still didn't understand it very well, he knew that it would be better to heat the milk fruit before feeding it to his own cubs, so he planned to follow Chen Qi's method in the future.

Carlo's family has children. After all, his kitchen and bedroom are in the same space. Chen Qi was worried that the smell of cooking oil here would smudge the children, so he suggested that he can go to his house for dinner during this time. Carlo naturally agreed. At noon, Carlo directly grilled a large piece of pork and dragon meat to make up for Ake's body, but was directly stopped by Chen Qi, "How can you give him grilled meat right after Ake gave birth?"

Carlo held the barbecue with a blank face, "What do you eat if you don't eat barbecue?" He saw that the orcs in the tribe also ate barbecue directly when they gave birth to children. Well, it is better to say that they used to have nothing but stew and barbecue. Eating, it is thanks to Chen Qi that he can make so many different kinds of food now, so in terms of eating, Carlo almost 100% obeys what Chen Qi said.

Chen Qi thought for a while, "I'll do it, while you watch."

"good."

Chen Kai opened a sweet-smelling rice berry and poured it into a pottery plate, then went to the wooden box with meat outside the door to get a piece of pig kidney, which is the internal organs of the warthog that Azer hunted back before winter, and put it in a boil. Thaw it in hot water, stir fry it casually in the pot, and then put it in the rice and berries to boil together. The pig kidney was salted before, so Chen Qi didn't add any more salt, and the rice porridge was almost cooked. Then I added a little smashed wild **** and a little wild onion to taste.

Chen Qi wrapped the pottery plate directly with animal skin, covered it with a wooden pot cover, handed the pottery plate to Carlo, and told the other party to warm it by the fire when he got home, and Ake would pack it for the other party if he wanted to eat it. eat.

As a result, when Carlo handed Ake a bowl of rice porridge, Ake couldn't help frowning even though there was pig kidney in it, "I want to eat meat."

"Chen Qi said that you should not eat barbecue after giving birth to your baby, just wait a few days." Carlo coaxed.

Ake's head is full of black lines. If he can walk now, he really wants to rush to Chen Qi and tell him that he has nothing to do with it. Which beast doesn't eat meat after giving birth to a child? However, some people really feel uncomfortable for a long time after giving birth to a child, and I don't know if it has anything to do with eating. Ake looked at Carlo who was holding the child carefully, sighed secretly, and stirred the rice porridge with a wooden spoon. Take a big mouthful. Hmm, the taste is a bit bland, but the taste is not bad.

At this time, Chen Qi was checking the food at home to see which things were suitable for making confinement meals for Akko to replenish his body. He used to hear that confinement was very important. Ke is a big man, but he has just given birth to a child, so he should be confinement.

Seeing Chen Qi staring at the pickled birds in the storage room in a daze, Aze walked over, "What's wrong?"

"I'm wondering if it's not suitable for pregnant women to eat pickled food." Chen Qi thought in distress, holding his chin. He never thought that he would have a child, so naturally he wouldn't pay attention to what a confinement person should eat. thing. Although I know that chicken soup is very nourishing, these birds are all marinated, and I don't know if the boiled soup is still effective.

"We still have a lot of dragon meat and antelope meat." Azer reminded.

"I know, but these meats have been frozen for a while, and I'm wondering if there is something fresher and more nutritious." Chen Qi paused for a while, "Aze, is Chishui River frozen? already?"

Aze nodded suspiciously. The reason why the locust dragon swarm could cross the Chishui River was because the surface of the Chishui River had already frozen.

Chen Qi high-fived, "Let's go fishing."

"Fishing?" Can the fish be eaten? Thinking of those legends about eating fish and then starving to death, Aze hurriedly stopped and said, "Chen Qi, let's not eat fish, we can't eat fish, we already have enough food, if you want fresh food, I will You can go and look in the forest."

Seeing A Ze's panicked appearance, Chen Qi patted him on the shoulder soothingly, "It's alright, don't worry, when did I make something that I couldn't eat?"

Although what Chen Qi said was the truth, Aze was still very worried. After all, fish was something that was told from generation to generation that it must not be eaten.

Naturally, wanting to go to Chishui River to catch fish is not a matter of starting immediately after an idea. It is now past noon, it is getting dark in winter, and Chishui River is still some distance away from here. The things are ready, I will go to investigate tomorrow and see how to catch them.

Seeing that Aze was still disapproving, Chen Qi couldn't help but put his arms around his waist, "Why did you leave me and run alone this morning?"

"I heard the cry of a child next door, and I guessed that Ake may have given birth to a child. After all, his due date is in these days, so he passed it first." Speaking of the morning, Aze naturally thought of last night's scene, He couldn't help his face get hot, and even what Chen Qi said just now about going to catch fish was temporarily forgotten by him.

"Then why didn't you wake me up?"

"I see that you are very tired, so..." A Ze's voice was getting lower and lower, and his face was blushing. Why didn't he think that Chen Qi was a person who likes to ask questions before? And how would he answer such a thing?

"Tired?" Chen Qi's voice increased a little, and his hand had slipped in from Aze's animal skin coat. Aze had already put away the fur because of the wedding. At this time, the skin inside the animal skin coat was smooth and felt very good. . "Then do you want to try if I'm really tired? Huh?"

Listening to Chen Qi's tone, Aze naturally knew what the other party meant, "It's still daytime." Shouldn't this kind of thing be done at night?

"It's alright, I locked the door when Carlo left just now." How could someone who just opened the meat-free look could hold back the shy and shy face of their other half, and Aze was usually indifferent in front of people. Chen Qihe's expression, Chen Qihe had seen the other party's face blushing after being teased by his own words, his throat couldn't help moving, and half coaxed, he dragged the other party to the place where he fought last night.

I don't know whose hand has begun to remove the wooden buttons that are in the way of the animal skin coat, and the crackling sound of the burning wood in the fire has long been covered.

Even in the daytime, there is nothing that cannot be done.

It was swept up in red waves that lasted from the afternoon to the next morning.