Chapter 084

It was as if some kind of autumn harvest mode had begun. Walking into the mountains along the path that was mostly trampled by Beiming Island Xingmei, Qingxi discovered many non-toxic and edible wild fruits under the guidance of Tsurumaru Kuninaga and Jiro.

Beimingyu Xingming had to go to practice so he didn't stay to help pick the fruits. The remaining man and one crow started to work after Qingxi said, "Pick them all and make wine."

The two people and the crow were too slow to move, so Qingxi released all her food-carrying ants. Once the backpack was full, Qingxi took away the wild fruits one by one. After one or two times, Tsurumaru Kuninaga and Jiro decided to be lazy.

"Master, what kind of black technology is this? It's quite useful." Tsurumaru Kuninaga squatted beside the backpack curiously, looking at the mechanical ants on the ground with a cold metallic glow. They were carrying wild fruits on their backs and lining up to crawl into one end of the backpack, put the wild fruits on their backs, and then crawl out from the other end of the backpack.

Then continue into the jungle to pick wild fruits and carry them back.

"The food transporter ants, as the name suggests, help me move things," Qingxi explained to him simply. "But they're not from my time, they're from the food world."

"Master." Tsurumaru Kuninaga looked up at the girl.

"Hmm?" Qingxi let out a puzzled sound from his nose.

Tsurumaru Kuninaga: "Hey, Master, did you buy a lot? Is it solar powered or does it need to be charged?"

Qingxi felt uneasy when she heard the questions he raised. She asked cautiously, "What do you want to do?"

Tsurumaru Kuninaga: “Of course I want to purchase a batch for Honmaru.

From now on, picking vegetables in the Honmaru farm will save a lot of manpower."

Qingxi resisted the urge to roll her eyes and asked, "Wouldn't it be best to buy another batch of gourmet tiller earthworms to help turn the fields? Or maybe a batch of gourmet planting monkeys to plant the land as well?"

"Eh? Do you have any other machines like that?" Tsurumaru Kuninaga's eyes sparkled. "Give me some too."

Qingxi snorted and said unhappily, "No."

"Besides, Hata Touban can improve your experience in various areas, right? Tsurumaru, don't keep trying to slack off," Kiyomi added. "Although I don't remember much about the game Sword Men, thanks to you and Yaken, I did manage to recall a few things. I won't comment on the details, but I don't know, but based on the game's stats, Tsurumaru, are your abilities among the lowest among the katana players?"

Qingxi said in a serious tone, "We are already the worst students among the katana students, can't we work harder?

Besides, now you can get some permanent experience for free just by working in the fields. We may not be able to pass the exams, but if you don't work hard to get this experience that you can get with just a little effort, then that's your fault."

Tsurumaru Kuninaga's pupils dilated, Tsurumaru Kuninaga had nothing to say, Tsurumaru Kuninaga wanted to be autistic.

"Master, please don't be partial." Tsurumaru Kuninaga puffed his cheeks and sulked, "If I wasn't sure that you really didn't remember the Sword Men game launched by the Time Government, I would have suspected that you were targeting me.

And Yaoyan, please at least talk about him, so that I can feel more at peace."

"Yaken? But he has no flaws," Qingxi said. "Everyone agrees that daggers before polarization are all fragile, but after polarization, daggers are all powerful.

As for Yaoyan, well, he feels more reliable and is an absolute hexagonal warrior."

Tsurumaru Kuninaga: ...What should I do? This feels even more heartbreaking.

Tsurumaru Kuninaga decided to defend himself: "Master, I do have some advantages."

Qingxi interjected, "Is it true that fair skin is such an advantage that can be seen at a glance even at night?"

Tsurumaru Kuninaga choked.

What on earth is going on today? Why am I always choked by my master?

The food-carrying ants all came back after picking wild fruits nearby. Qingxi collected the wild fruits in the basket, and the food-carrying ants collected them. Then they continued to walk along the small mountain path, carrying the empty basket on their backs.

Without hearing the footsteps of someone behind her, she turned around and urged, "Tsurumaru, stop daydreaming and hurry up and catch up."

They walked and stopped along the way, and by the time the two men and the crow arrived at the place where Xingming practiced daily on Beiming Island, the sun was already about to set.

"Hey! Isn't our main goal today to pick wild chestnuts? But it seems that we have picked the most wild fruits along the way." With his back against the wild chestnut tree, Tsurumaru Kuninaga kept crunching the wild chestnuts in his hands, and as soon as he pinched one, he put it into his mouth and ate it, mumbling.

Raw wild chestnuts do not taste as sticky as cooked ones, but they have a powdery sweetness. For people who don’t have too many requirements for food, this taste is acceptable.

"Have you picked any?" Qingxi asked, putting another basket full of wild chestnuts into her gourmet bag. "Aren't you eating them all the time?"

Thinking of something, she continued, "Tsurumaru, keep the whole day free tomorrow."

"What's wrong? Is there something wrong?" He finished eating the raw chestnuts and tossed the empty chestnut shells on the ground. "Is there anything I can do for you?"

Qingxi nodded, then shook his head, "Nothing much, just processing some of the game I caught in the traps I set when I came here two years ago, and making them into dried meat, bacon, smoked meat, braised meat, etc. to give away.

Mr. Beimingyu doesn't eat meat, so at the moment, only you and I eat meat at home, but we can't finish so much food, and I have plenty of food here, so let's cook it all."

She lowered her head and found a stone to sit on. From the appearance, she could tell that the stone she was sitting on was the one that Xingming from Beiming Island had found somewhere today and used as a weight after running around the mountain for several laps. He then put it here and broke it with his own punch.

Now the position of the three of them and the crow was like this: Tsurumaru was leaning against the wild chestnut tree, and she was sitting on a piece of gravel diagonally above him. More than twenty meters ahead was a waterfall, and the people of Beiming Island were sitting under the waterfall, feeling the impact of the water falling more than ten meters above their heads.

She didn't know whether Beimingyu Xingming could hear their conversation in the midst of the turbulent water crashing down from the high altitude and making a huge noise on the water below. In any case, she couldn't hear it.

"Before, the clinic provided food and accommodation, and even the extra meals were from the world of the gourmet world. I never thought about it, but now it's okay.

If we have the time, the venue, the manpower, the right time, the right place, and the right people, we can do it then.”

"... Go buy some more soybeans, wheat, and konjac. Since we're planning on making it, let's make a lot... Mr. Beimingyu doesn't eat meat, so we can make all the meat plain. Whether it's braised or sweet and sour, anyone who likes meat will love it after trying it."

"Vegetarian meat?" Tsurumaru Kuninaga was surprised. "There are vegetarian meats?"

"It's a processed food. I'm not sure if they even exist in Japan," Qingxi said. "It's usually made with plant protein. Because it's a soy product, the texture is more like firm or fried tofu, but with a more complex texture."

"It sounds delicious." Tsurumaru Kuninaga smacked his lips, "I've never eaten a vegetable dish that tasted nearly as good as meat.

Master, let's make some extra and put it in your gourmet backpack. You can take it out and cook it next time you want to eat it."

Qingxi didn't agree immediately, but instead said, "Then contribute your strength first."

Tsurumaru Kuninaga rolled up his sleeves and said, "No problem, leave it to me."

I didn't hear what the two people said at the beginning under the waterfall next door, but later I could faintly hear Tsurumaru Kuninaga's excited cry: ... ?

The next day, Tsurumaru Kuninaga, who was always very active at certain times, went out to the morning market at dawn with the list of ingredients he had pestered Qingxi to write last night.

When he came back with a lot of bags, Qing Xiren, who looked half awake, went to the kitchen to cook porridge and lit the stove, while she went to the well to wash.

When Beimingyu Xingming came back from patrol and came to the kitchen, he was blocked by something at the door.

He leaned over and touched it with his hand. "Tsurumaru, why did you buy so many soybeans? Are you going to make tofu?"

Beimingyu Xingming was puzzled, but even if it was made into tofu, wasn't that amount a bit too much?

"No, it's vegetarian meat," Tsurumaru Kuninaga said eagerly. "The meat made from vegetarian vegetables that Master mentioned yesterday is something Mr. Beiming Island can eat."

Grief Island Xingming: ...

If it's just for him, then there's no need.

For him, rice or vegetable rice is fine, but vegetarian meat... just hearing the name sounds like it would be very complicated, he thinks it is really unnecessary.

The tall young man's expression of wanting to say something but hesitating was too obvious. Tsurumaru Kuninaga patted his shoulder and said, "I didn't make this specifically for you, Beiming Island. The master was preparing to make bacon and sausages, and he thought of it."

After a pause, he peeked out of the kitchen to confirm that the girl, who had become the topic of conversation between the two grown men, had not yet arrived. He said in a serious tone, "It would be good to ask the master to do something else. He has been staying in the house studying this and that. Not only is he physically and mentally exhausted, but he's also pushing himself too hard."

"Tsurumaru, what has Aki been learning during this period of time?" Beiming Island Xingming asked the question again with a slightly depressed tone.

He knew that Ah Xi seemed to have confirmed some goal and suddenly became more hardworking, but he didn't know what the goal was that made him feel uneasy.

Tsurumaru Kuninaga shook his head, "The master won't let me tell you, it's a secret."

Seeing the pressure around Beimingyu Xingming dropping again, he had no choice but to explain a few more words, "Anyway, it's not a bad thing, right? The little girl is worried that she'll fail to achieve her goals after working hard. Wouldn't that be embarrassing? So she might as well not say anything. That way, if the goal is achieved, Beimingyu might receive a surprise. If the goal isn't achieved, she won't say anything and you won't know. That way, she'll save face."

Beiming Island Xingming: "..."

Is it necessary to make such a fuss? They are family. Even if she fails to achieve her original goal after trying hard, he will only encourage and comfort her. How could he let her feel ashamed?

The golden eyes could already see the girl, who had just washed up, walking towards them while constantly tying her hair. The white-haired young man said his last words to the blind young man, "Daughters are always more sensitive and delicate than sons. Besides, girls of Ah Xi's age already understand a lot of things, like shame and how to care about their image... Unlike us, who are thick-skinned and don't care much about appearance."

Beimingyu Xingming, who is only twenty years old this year and can't give birth to an eight-year-old daughter, said: ...

Qingxi came back in a hurry after washing up. Seeing the two men chatting in the kitchen, she said, "Tsurumaru, since you're here, why don't you at least watch the fire? Don't you want to eat breakfast?"

"Hey, hey, my bad, I'm watching the fire now." Tsurumaru Kuninaga, who was called, walked to the stove and squatted. Seeing that the flame burning inside became smaller, he picked up the firewood beside him and added it in.