Crossing to Live in the Wilderness Plains

Ah Jing nodded his head, "Chen Qi said that it takes several people to play together, so hurry up and go."

Although Ake seemed to be asleep, he was actually always awake. Hearing Ajing's words, he opened his eyes slightly, slapped a big Hal and said to Carlo: "Leave Ayao to me. , you go play."

Carlo leaned down and kissed his forehead, "Then you sleep with him for a while."

Ake nodded, moved A Yao to his side, and then closed his eyes again and fell asleep.

After Ah Jing conveyed the news, he couldn't wait to go back first. Ali simply packed up his things before going out with Carlo.

When they came to Chen Qi's house, they found that A Zhang, who had returned from changing posts with A Ze, was helping Chen Qi move the table.

"You guys are here, move the box of potatoes to the other side and put it away." A Zhang pointed to the large wooden box next to the desk and said to the few people who came in.

Chen Qi and A Zhang worked together to move the desk used for study to the corner. The hall of his house is relatively large and high enough. After removing the surrounding things, a large space is left. Chen Qi measured the distance. , Clap your hands with satisfaction after confirming that the size is enough to accommodate the swing of the rope.

Seeing that several people were coming, Chen Qi first explained to them how to play skipping rope. Ali was inconvenient in his legs and feet, so Chen Qi taught him how to jump on one foot.

After the oral explanation, it was time to start the demonstration. Ali and Carlo held one end of the rope. Chen Qi asked them to swing in one direction at the same time. After the rope's swing frequency stabilized, Chen Qi bowed slightly and jumped in. in the rope.

Well, you can't ask a person who hasn't played rope skipping for nearly 20 years to suddenly become a master skipping rope. Chen Qi jumped back and forth a few times before tripping over the rope. He was slightly embarrassed He coughed lightly, pretending to be nonchalant, and said, "Do you understand? Just like I did just now, as long as I don't get tripped by the rope, I can keep jumping.

Ah Zhang, who has been listening carefully to the instructions, is now a little eager to try. Like Ali, he can't play backgammon, but this so-called skipping rope is simply too much for a female with excellent athletic ability and quick reflexes. When I heard Chen Qi say that he was tripped and stopped, he had to change someone to continue the exercise he had made. He quickly stepped forward and said, "Chen Qi, let me try it."

Chen Qi nodded and moved out of the way, "Okay, you can try it first, and I'll tell you what you don't understand."

The two who threw the rope continued to shake the rope at the same time. A Zhang's eyes were fixed on the trajectory of the rope. When the rope touched the ground and flung back, he jumped into the rope.

Ah Zhang is relatively tall and needs to squat down halfway to avoid being tripped by the rope. His body flexibly jumps up and down with the frequency of the rope, which is much more powerful than Chen Qike.

Chen Qi was used to seeing children or petite girls playing together, but now several tall grown men were huddled in the corner of the room, playing jumping rope excitedly, watching from the side. No matter how you look at it, Chen Qi feels that this picture is really indescribably strange and inconsistent.

A-Chang jumped fifty or sixty times in a row before he tripped over the rope. Carlo, who had been rocking the rope as a coolie, couldn't bear it any longer. Seeing that A-Chang finally stopped, he hurriedly put the rope into A-Chang's hand, "Get down. It's my turn."

"When will it be my turn?" A Jing, who was just about to come forward to play, was snatched up by Carlo and asked Chen Qi beside him as if asking for help.

Seeing the anxiety in A Jing's eyes, Chen Qi was a little amused, "It will be your turn when Carlo is done jumping." A Jing is too short and Chen Qi did not let him participate in the rope shakers, but just skipping the rope doesn't hinder it of.

When A Jing heard this, he glared at Carlo angrily, only to get a grimace from Carlo.

Chen Qi silently looked at Carlo who jumped into the rope triumphantly, this guy is a father, is it necessary to care about a child?

It has to be said that there is a reason why Carlo's physique is better than Chen Qi's. The flexible movements and the clumsiness when playing backgammon are completely like two people. The frequency of the rope shaking was not high. Chen Qi made a rough estimate in his heart. Carlo jumped for at least twenty minutes in his first trial jump, but there was no sign of stopping at all, and he did not know where he came from. Physical strength, even Ali, who was shaking the rope, started to feel sore in his hands.

"Why haven't you finished dancing yet?" A Jing was dissatisfied, even A Zhang hadn't danced for that long. How could Carlo, who would definitely lose to himself within 50 rounds of Gobang, could be so powerful.

Carlo jumped a few more times and stopped when he felt that he was almost done. The long exercise made him a little breathless.

Chen Qi took the rope from A Li, who had started rubbing his wrists because his hands were sore, "Let me shake it, you go and take a rest first."

Ali nodded, handed the rope to Chen Qi, sat on the futon by the fire and watched a few people play. Carlo poured a bowl of warm bone soup, gululu drank it in one breath, wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, and said to Ali next to him, "Uncle Ali, this jumping rope is fun, it's more fun than that backgammon. ."

Ali smiled, didn't he think skipping rope was fun because he couldn't win backgammon? Of course, Ali wouldn't dismantle Carlo's little thought.

Chen Qi beckoned to Ajing, "Ajing, it's time for you to play."

A Jing ran over happily. The rope began to shake, and A Jing followed A Zhang's appearance and bowed slightly. After the shaking frequency stabilized, he jumped in.

Ajing is too small, this kind of rope made by Chen Qi is suitable for adults to play. As soon as Ajing jumps in, he feels that every time he jumps in order to avoid the rope, he has a hard time jumping. When Kan wiped Ajing over, Chen Qidu looked a little frightened. Just as he was about to speak to tell Azhang to stop, he heard a crisp "pop". Chen Qi hurriedly looked at it, and found that Ajing gave his last shot. Jumping and twisting his body, the rope was drawn directly to his little face, and a red and bright trace appeared on his face.

Chen Qi hurriedly threw away the rope and walked over. He squatted down to check the wound on A Jing's face. The rope was so thick that the scar almost covered half of his face. Chen Qi asked worriedly, "A Jing, how are you? Does it hurt? "

A Jing had tears in his eyes for a long time, but when he heard Chen Qi's question, he still pursed his lips and shook his head, "It doesn't hurt."

Chen Qi touched his little head with heartache and said to the others, "Let's play here first today."

Females are often injured when hunting, but now they were only slapped by the rope. After the pain was over, A Jing had already taken it seriously for a while. A Zhang and a few heard that A Jing said it was okay and didn't take it too seriously. At A Jing's age, he had to learn to hunt for food on his own, and the more serious injuries would be healed within two days by tying them with animal skins. Now A Jing was only slapped by the rope. Although the scars are red and bright, although they look serious, for a female with strong self-healing ability, this injury is almost the same as being bitten twice by insects. It may not take a day for red scars. will fade away.

Chen Qi said that if he didn't play, everyone tidied up everything. A Li poured a plate of warm water to clean the scars on A Jing's face. Chen Qi smashed a small handful of willow leaves for him to reduce inflammation and relieve pain. A bloodless wound is useless. After Chen Qi applied Liu Yemo, he tied him with a bandage.

After all, the injury was on his face, and if he wanted to tie a bandage, he would almost have to tie his entire head. After the incident, A Jing was almost turned into a little mummy by Chen Qi, looking so funny.

"I'm really fine, this injury is no longer painful, and I can get better after a good night's sleep." A Jing was very resistant to this look, so he didn't say anything if he was uncomfortable. What happened to Carlo?

"No, it can't be removed until you're healed. If you leave scars and break your face, you'll have to cry."

A Jing pursed his lips and stopped talking, and ran to the heated kang bed to find the little wolf cub for comfort.

In the following days, everyone played skipping rope and Chen Qi dared not let Ajing participate. He made a smaller rope for Ajing and taught him how to play single-person skipping rope. After all, everyone has something to do every day, so naturally they can't Gathered together to play, so many people skipping rope just started to feel new to play for a few days, so they all started playing solo. When A Jing saw that the others were no longer playing, he naturally didn't clamor to participate.

Chen Qi had to do push-ups every morning and evening. At the beginning, he could only do about 20 push-ups at most, and he couldn't get up again. After a few days of perseverance, he could now do about 50 or 60 push-ups.

Chen Qi made a funnel, because there is no way to make a transparent glass funnel here, and if you can't see the inside of the funnel, you can't tell the time, so Chen Qi made half of the funnel, and put a pottery plate under it to hold the funnel. It was filled with washed river sand, and Chen Qi estimated that it would take about half an hour for all the sand to leak out. Every time he skips rope, he pours all the sand in the pot into the funnel, and when all the sand drains out, his exercise for the day is complete.

It's been almost a month. After Chen Qi's hard work, the soft muscles he used to have finally become a lot tougher. He even feels that he has developed two abdominal muscles. Although it is only looming, Chen Qi has already Very satisfied.

Now other people will no longer limit his range of activities. When the sun is at its warmest at noon, Chen Qi and Aze will walk in the yard to digest their food after dinner. After several snows, the snow in the yard has accumulated to the knee Gao, now there is no need to pile snow on the city walls, and every time it snows, just clear the snow off the runway and the flagstone road.

Chen Qi held A Ze's hand and walked slowly along the runway. The surroundings were very quiet. There was almost no other noise except for the breathing of the people around him. For a moment, at this moment, he had a feeling that the years were quiet.

After walking twice along the yard, there is no other scenery to see except a flat snow, and the surrounding is also blocked by tall walls. Chen Qi stopped, looked at the snow in the garden, and thought for a while. For a long time, he seemed to want to ask the people around him for advice: "Aze, why don't we turn the snow in the yard into a snowman?"

"Okay." As for Chen Qi's request, as long as it doesn't endanger Chen Qi's health, Aze will agree to it regardless of whether he can fulfill it or not. Of course, until now, Chen Qi has not Asked what he couldn't do.

Activities like building a snowman are of course fun when there are a lot of people. At Chen Qi's suggestion, everyone went to the yard to see how the snowman was built.

After more than two months, A Yao has now learned to turn over by himself, and occasionally he will stare at his limbs and rub forward for a distance. Chen Qi has never raised children, and he does not know that the growth rate of this orc child is similar to that of human children. Is it faster than that?

At this moment, Ake also came out holding A Yao who had already put on his small clothes. A Yao had instinctively turned sparse hair because of the cold. Like a little beast.

"It's so cold outside, is it okay for you to take him out?" Chen Qi asked worriedly.

Ake smiled, "It's okay, don't look at A Yao's young age, he is much stronger than you."

"..." Didn't he accidentally get sick once? Could it be that in other people's minds, the image of himself as a sick seedling has been fixed?

Chen Qi feels that he has the potential to be a teacher recently, and these orcs who live together have turned into his students. No, even things like building a snowman must be demonstrated by Chen Qi. understand.

"What's the use of stacking things like this?" Ah Zhang, who was on guard on the fence, couldn't help jumping down curiously when he saw the people gathered in the yard. After listening to Chen Qi's explanation, he was even more puzzled.

"Of course it's for watching." Chen Qi picked up the rolled ball and placed it on the snowman's body, then turned around and instructed Aze, "Aze, help me get some branches. "

The hands, eyes and mouth of the snowman were made of branches. Chen Qi stood a little further away and looked at it with his chin up, feeling that something was missing. After thinking about it, I went back to the house and found a wooden stick, dyed it with red fruit, and took it outside before it was dry, and then inserted it into the position of the snowman's nose. The red is very conspicuous on the white snowman. The yet-to-be-featured snowman suddenly came alive.

"Is this all right?" Although it snows all the year round, Chen Qi, the orc who played with snow, was the first one. Everyone who didn't know anything about snowmen at first saw this strange new thing. expression.

Chen Qi tore a worn-out brown animal skin into strips, took one of them and wrapped it around the snowman's neck, clapped his hands, and nodded with satisfaction, "Well, that's fine, you can pile it up like this. ."

So after this day, strange and strange things of various shapes were erected in the originally peaceful white yard. Fortunately, there was no light here at night, otherwise it would be scary to see it accidentally.

"Carlo, what are you stacking?"

"Ake."

Chen Qi looked at the snowman Ake, who had collapsed half of his body, and said silently, "Why do you help him build a pair of feet?"

Carlo looked at him strangely, "Don't you just pile up whatever you want me to see? Of course Ake has feet, so of course I have to pile up a pair of feet." Then Carlo frowned again in distress, "But the feet are old It's broken, what can I do about it?"

Chen Qi didn't want to hurt his enthusiasm, so he suggested: "How about you make a picture of Ake sitting? This way, the feet will not collapse because they can't bear the weight of the body."

Carlo patted his forehead and suddenly realized: "Why didn't I think of it, Chen Qi, you are so smart."

After hearing Chen Qi's words, A Ze next to him silently pushed away the half-collapsed snowman, and replaced it with an image of a sitting snowman. If the sitting posture was carefully distinguished, it was clear that there was still a bit of Chen Qi's shadow.

After Chen Qi built two snowmen, he lost interest. He left behind a bunch of beastmen who were making strange things and went back to the house. In the house, Ali was practicing calligraphy. It's over, now his house is full of piles of cloth more than one meter high.

"Why did you come back so soon? Didn't you continue to build that snowman?" Ali was slightly surprised when he saw Chen Qi who had pushed in the door. He got up and poured him a bowl of **** syrup. Now he boils a plate of **** at home every day. Sugar water, no matter who comes back from being outside for too long, they have to drink a bowl to drive away the cold.

Chen Qi finished drinking the **** syrup, put down the bowl, and then replied, "The soybeans soaked in the morning should be almost ready. I'll come back and make something delicious for you."

Ali understood and nodded, "Then let me help you out."

In fact, Ali went out to watch Chen Qi and the others make snowmen just now, but he is a lot older than Chen Qi and the others. This kind of activity looks new, but for him, he really doesn't have much interest. The words are even more interesting.

Chen Qi took out the stone mill that he had made a few days ago. The stone mill was not big, and it was slightly wider than the pottery bowl they were using now. It was finally made, and it took almost a month from the beginning of production to testing the effect of use.

There are only half a bowl of soybeans. These are the ones that A Jing brought over before. Because there are not many, I have been reluctant to use them, so I have kept them until now. Now that the stone grinding is done, Chen Qi soaked all the soybeans in water and planned to make them. soy milk.

In fact, if conditions permit, Chen Qi would like to make tofu, but there is no gypsum found here to coagulate the soy milk, so he has to give up.

Chen Qi put the soaked soybeans into the top opening of the stone mill, added a little water to it, and then slowly turned the handle of the stone mill. The white liquid began to slowly flow out between the upper and lower connected stones, and then It flows down the interface into the pottery plate that is attached.

The small half-bowl of soybeans contained a lot of water, and a large pottery plate of soymilk was ground. Chen Qi put the pottery plate containing the raw soybean milk on a wooden shelf next to the fire to boil, and then found a clean The cloth filtered the boiled soy milk twice, resulting in a large pottery plate of milky white soy milk that was drinkable.

Smelling the familiar bean fragrance, Chen Qi added sugar in a small half-bamboo tube, and then put it on the fire to melt the sugar a little before taking it out.

Naturally, the filtered bean dregs cannot be wasted. Chen Qi has not eaten the staple food for a long time. He asked Ali to cut a large plate of diced meat, then add it to the bean dregs and stir-fry it together. When it is almost cooked, add some chopped shallots and salt to taste, and then put it on a plate.

The rest of the food was made by Ali, a large plate of stewed meat without potatoes, and two large bowls of meat patties mixed with pickled cabbage, minced and steamed. These pickled cabbage was still pickled by Chen Qi when it was just entering the winter. At that time, he was worried that the cabbage would not be able to be stored for a long time, so he marinated a lot. I didn't expect that this thing was not afraid of freezing at all. After a few months, the pickled cabbage is fully flavored and ready to use.

After dinner was ready, Chen Qi went out and called everyone to come back for dinner. What surprised him was that A Ze was also having a good time. In Chen Qi's impression, A Ze gave people the feeling that he was dispensable for many things. , there's nothing he's particularly interested in doing, and most of the time he'll classify things as needs and don't, rather than likes or dislikes.

Chen Qi stretched out his hand to remove the snow stained on A Ze's clothes. A Ze's brows still seemed a little reluctant to part with the sudden suspension of the snowman-building activity. There seemed to be a hint of childishness on his mature and handsome face. Ze is a few years younger than himself, but it's just that he is usually too strong to make people ignore his age.

Chen Qi's heart softened, "After a while, you can pile it up again."

"Ok."

Taking a mouthful of the sweet and smooth soy milk, the familiar taste seemed to instantly pull Chen Qi back to the breakfast he bought on his way to work in the morning.

"Chen Qi, why is this cabbage sour?" Ali, who took a bite of the steamed meat patty, asked strangely. When he was slicing the meat, he thought the cabbage tasted strange and thought it was just because it was marinated for too long. , I didn't expect it to taste sour.

"Of course, this is sauerkraut." Chen Qi took a big piece of meat patty and took a bite, it tasted pretty good.

The others were already used to the novel food that Chen Qi suddenly came up with, and now they just want to fill their stomachs quickly and continue to build a snowman in the yard, but they have no interest in understanding what these foods are made of.

Today is the first day of the month, and the moonlight is very bright. A few females, relying on their good eyesight, did not go back to sleep until the middle of the night, looking at the chaotic and strange things in the yard full of ghosts in the moonlight. Chen Qi couldn't help shivering, and quickly closed the door and lay back on the bed to hug his daughter-in-law to sleep. Before falling asleep, he was still thinking if his idea was wrong?

After trying to exercise but falling ill, and trying to teach them to skip rope and injuring A Jing, Chen Qi now always has a deep question mark on his idea of ​​reproducing things in the world here.

The next day's walk after dinner added a lot of freshness to Chen Qi because of the snowmen in the courtyard. Today, A Ze is going to be on guard, and the task of walking with Chen Qi is entrusted to A Jing and the little wolf cub.

After a day and a night of fighting, the orcs finally lost interest in the activity of building a snowman. Of course, Chen Qi guessed that it had something to do with the fact that the snow in the yard was basically used up.

The little wolf cub has grown a lot in the past few months, and now its size is almost the same as that of a one-month-old puppy. It happily ran in front of Chen Qi and A Jing, and then rolled into the snowman pile for a while. After a while, he barked his teeth and roared at a snowdrift that he couldn't really see what was piled up.

Chen Qi looked amused, it seemed that not only did he despise these snowmen, but he couldn't even despise the little wolf cubs.

"Chen Qi, I built this." Ajing tugged at Chen Qi's sleeve, his little finger pointed to two big snowmen, a small snowman and a smaller snowman not far away.

Although I couldn't see any familiar appearance of these snowmen, Chen Qi guessed that the two big snowmen were probably him and Aze, but Ajing himself and Aze were the rest. Little wolf cub.

"It's a great pile." Chen Qi patted A Jing's head and praised, and A Jing smiled so much that his brows and eyes curved.

"Little wolf, what are you doing?" Chen Qi found that the little wolf cub had been howling in front of a snowdrift for too long. He couldn't help but feel a little strange. Just as he was about to walk over, he found that the snowdrift seemed to move.

Chen Qi blinked, couldn't the snowman survive?

While joking in his heart, the little wolf cub suddenly turned around and ran in the direction of Chen Qi, screaming louder and louder as he ran, and then Chen Qi saw that the snowdrift really moved, and rolled to the side. , the limbs stretched out, revealing the brown claws.

The original place of the snowdrift revealed a dark hole more than one meter long. A pair of greedy and gloomy eyes stared at Chen Qi in the hole. Chen Qi seemed to be able to hear the sound of swallowing saliva.