Chapter 22: Going up the Mountain (Part 2)

Tang Yue was not going to continue on her journey at night. Looking at the dark forest around her, the whistling wind was really scary. Her mind instantly entered space, and she was alone in the deep mountains and forests. It was really terrifying. Tang Yue was going to reward herself with a good meal.

Walking into the courtyard and coming to the stone table, Tang Yue poured a glass of spiritual water and drank it, then prepared to go to the kitchen to cook. She took a piece of bacon from the warehouse, some wild onions picked today, a handful of green vegetables, peeled some garlic and ginger, went to the river to wash the wild onions and green vegetables, and prepared to go back to cook.

Use the previously cooked rice. If you have time, cook a little more rice and put it in the warehouse. Light a fire, wash the pot, heat it and pour in oil. When the oil is hot, put a little garlic, then pour in the vegetables and stir-fry, add some salt, and when they are cooked, serve them out. Wash the pot, heat the pot and pour in oil, pour the sliced ​​bacon into the pot and stir-fry, when the oil comes out, add garlic and ginger, then cut the wild onion into sections and pour into the pot, add a little chili powder, when it is almost done, add some water, cook for a while, and serve it after two minutes.

Wash the pot clean, add some detergent, and wash it until there is no oil. Then fetch water from the river to boil to prepare bath water. Put the dishes on the stone table outside and get two bowls of rice from the warehouse. The wild onions are really fragrant, and they are really delicious when fried with bacon. I eat all the rice and vegetables.

After eating, she walked around in the space and fed the pigs before walking back to the yard. It was still early and she didn't feel like sleeping so much, so Tang Yue took out a sheet of oil from the warehouse and spread it in the yard. She used her mind to control the wild vegetables in the warehouse and moved them all to the river. Then Tang Yue stood by the river, picked out all the wild vegetables, washed them, and dried them on the oil sheet. She had picked up too many wild vegetables today, so she spread two more sheets of oil outside the yard before washing and spreading all the wild vegetables. Although there was no sun in the space, the wild vegetables could be dried, but it would take a little longer.

After washing the wild vegetables, Tang Yue took out a few plastic buckets, poured all the wild grapes into the buckets to wash them. Wild grapes are good for making wine, but Tang Yue doesn't drink, so she decided to make some snacks. She took out two more oil bags from the warehouse, and hung the washed wild grapes on the oil bags. When the two oil bags were full, only one-third of them were dried. She washed the rest, put them in plastic buckets and put them in the warehouse, and then dried them slowly when she got home. She heard that pickled wild vegetables are delicious, so she tried pickling a jar of them after they were a little dry. She washed a basket of white radish, red radish, and green vegetable stalks, and took a kitchen knife and a cutting board from the kitchen, cut them into slices, and hung them on the oil bags. After they were dry, they were made into kimchi.

It took several hours to wash a bunch of things, then he took a bath by pouring water from the pot, and hung the washed clothes in the yard. It was time to get ready for bed, and lying on the bed, Tang Yue thought about moving forward another day tomorrow.

When Tang Yue woke up, it was still daytime outside. She used her mind to sense the outside and found that it was already dawn. It seemed that she had slept long enough. Tang Yue washed up and ate a bun as breakfast. Then she poured a glass of spiritual water on the stone table and drank it. She packed up her things and prepared to go out.

When Tang Yue went out, it was already daybreak. He continued walking forward with the stick in his hand. This time, Tang Yue did not stop but kept walking forward. During the time, he encountered many animals coming to the stream to drink water. He also saw several caves on the road. But after he walked in to check, he found nothing inside. It was impossible that these caves were abandoned by some animals.

At noon, Tang Yue had already left the dense forest. She ate two buns and drank a cup of spiritual water, then walked straight forward. Tang Yue felt that she was almost at the end. Sure enough, less than half an hour after walking, she saw that the source of the water came out of a cave. Tang Yue took out the solar lamp, put on her rain boots, and followed the stone wall along the river to follow the water source. It took her almost half an hour to walk out of the cave. After leaving the cave, the view suddenly opened up. She saw cliffs all around. There was a field in the valley in the middle, but it was all abandoned. There were fruit trees planted around, including apples, pears, peaches, and dates. Except for peaches, there were still other fruits on the trees. The peaches had fallen to the ground and rotted. Tang Yue ignored these fruits and continued to follow the stream. She had already dried up with this stream.

Follow the stream straight ahead until you reach a corner. Go around the corner and you will find that there is a small valley inside, but it is not as beautiful as the one outside. The fields here are planted with things, and you can only roughly know that they are herbs, but you don’t know the rest. The source of the stream seeps out from the cracks, and there is a cave three meters away from the stream. If you look closely, there is a small path, but it has been abandoned for many years. Tang Yue took a hatchet to cut out this path, and was scared out when he just walked into the cave.

Can you imagine entering a cave and seeing a skeleton lying on a bed made of polished stones, looking at you? It would scare you to death. This cave has the breath of life everywhere. The person on the stone bed must have lived here for many years. Looking at the stone walls of the cave, they always seem too smooth. There were no masonry machines in ancient times, so I don't know how they were made.

After bowing three times to the person on the stone bed, Tang Yue saw a wooden box on the side of the stone bed. She walked over and opened the box. There was a faint fragrance from the box. Inside were some bound ancient books. The original owner had learned traditional Chinese characters from her grandmother, so she could recognize the words on them.

Tang Yue took out a book with an autobiography written on it. The general meaning was that he was born in 1710. His family was inherited from the previous dynasty. He was an imperial physician specially trained by the clan for the empress in the palace. He was a direct descendant of this branch. The imperial concubines in the palace were so favored and gave birth to so many children because of the sons offered by this branch. Otherwise, he would not have been able to give birth to princes in his 30s. You know, other concubines in their 30s would no longer serve the emperor in the bedchamber. Children born with medicine were much better than those born with medicine. They conceived frequently and were weak in body. Except for the youngest prince who was born from a common pregnancy, the others died young or were weak in body. Later emperors found out about this and exiled all the children of that branch, both direct and collateral, to Ningguta. The protagonist of this book was away from home studying and providing free medical treatment. He came back a year later and learned what had happened at home. He did not dare to stay in the capital any longer, so he found the medical book hidden in the secret room at home and ran away. At that time, there were people chasing him, so he ran to this place in the deep mountains and forests and stayed there for decades.

Tang Yue picked up a book at random and opened it. The book contained some beauty secrets. She flipped through it briefly and found that the tips were quite comprehensive. They all used some flowers and herbs, which were made into pastes to be applied to almost every part of the body.

Tang Yue was not interested in these. The spiritual water she made had these effects. Tang Yue flipped through the other books. In addition to the secret book on having a son, she also found a secret book on having a daughter. There were also some taboos on the use of flowers and plants, some that could cause allergies all over the body, some that attracted insects, and even some drugs to induce sleep. There was also a medical book that introduced all kinds of herbs, and a book on regulating the body. Finally, there were some gold and silver, jade pendants, and a dagger wrapped in a sheath.

After looking through the things in the box, Tang Yue looked around the cave. There was a cooking stove, clay pots, and sacks filled with moldy food and medicinal herbs. Tang Yue walked out of the cave and looked at the many medicinal herbs outside. Tang Yue didn't know how to cook them, so she planned to learn it after she returned. With so much land, she could sell it after tidying it up, and also make room for seedlings, so she would have a steady stream of income in the future.

Tang Yue thought of the bones in the cave, so she went outside the cave and dug a pit outside to put the skull bones. She returned to the cave and put the bones into the warehouse. Then she went to the pit and put the bones from the warehouse in. She then filled the pit with soil to make a small mound.

Tang Yue left the small valley and came to the mountain valley outside. The temperature in the mountain was a little cooler than outside. Tang Yue knocked on the trees with a stick, fearing that there might be snakes inside. Tang Yue walked under the fruit trees and picked all the fruits.

The trees were too high to pick the fruits, so Tang Yue put some oil underneath and shook the trees hard. In the end, there was not a single fruit left on the trees. In the end, she picked several thousand kilograms of each fruit. She saw some small fruits under the trees, so she picked a few jujube seedlings and planted the others in the valley. Tang Yue didn't plan to grow food here, so she planted them all and came here to pick the fruits when they were ripe.

Tang Yue was preparing to dry the fruits. Seeing that the sun was about to set, Tang Yue planned to go back down the mountain tomorrow. She silently entered the space, and when she returned to the space, she looked at the half-dried wild vegetables and hung them in the sun until they were almost dry tomorrow.

Tang Yue walked into the yard, fed the pigs with her mind first, then picked up the chicken and duck eggs, and prepared to go into the kitchen to cook. She took a bunch of pakchoy from the warehouse to wash it, and then took a pound of pork and some green peppers and garlic, preparing to make a stir-fried pork with peppers and a stir-fried pakchoy. She put the rice in first. Tang Yue put in a lot of extra rice, and put it in the warehouse to keep it warm. If she couldn't finish it, she could eat it next time. After cooking the dishes, she brought them to the stone table outside and prepared to eat. After the meal, she drank a glass of spiritual water as usual, cleaned up the dishes and prepared to boil water for a bath.

After taking a bath, Tang Yue went to the river to wash the dates and put them in a plastic bucket. Fortunately, the fruits were not dirty. After washing more than ten buckets, she suddenly thought of controlling it with her mind. Then it was very fast. She used her mind to control the fruits in the river, and then lined up the plastic buckets, put the rinsed fruits in the buckets, filled one bucket, and collected it in the space. It was washed in half an hour.

Tang Yue roughly counted and found that one bucket could hold about 100 kilograms, and there were about thirty buckets. There were really too many fruits here. There were so many of one kind of dates, and thinking about the many other fruits, how long would it take to dry them?

Tang Yue didn't plan to wash other fruits now, as she would be too busy. Thinking of the 250-acre orchard in the space, she felt that the road ahead was dark. However, she could sell fresh ones. Next time she went to the commune, she would see if there was a house for sale. This way, she wouldn't have to trade in a small shabby house, which was not safe at all. Once she had a house, she could just put the goods in the house and ask them to move them themselves.

After cleaning up the yard, Tang Yue returned to the bedroom and lay on the bed ready to go to sleep.