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Whenever she thinks of Chu Qi’s affectionate confession to her a few days ago.
Zhuang Xiaolan's young heart was still beating like an uncontrollable deer.
Heat surged on her rosy, pale face, and she felt shy and happy.
Seeing his daughter smiling even when washing vegetables, Zhuang Aiguo looked at her suspiciously:
"Girl, what are you laughing at?"
"No." Zhuang Xiaolan wanted to drop her head to her chest, pursed her lips and smiled slightly: "Dad, you put the bucket down, I'll go fetch the water!"
"It's okay, your father still has strength."
Zhuang Aiguo replied indifferently. He did not dispel his doubts. She smiled so happily. His daughter must have something wrong.
But since his daughter didn't say anything, he didn't ask any more questions.
***
The next day.
Chu Qi woke up refreshed and lay in bed for a while before she remembered what she should do.
Tsk, what a sickly body.
It made her thinking become much slower.
She hadn't recovered from her cold yet, and her cold medicine was still on the only table in the house.
Unlike the granular cold medicines of later generations that can be taken directly, the cold medicines of this time were made by the village barefoot doctors, who directly picked the medicines up in the mountains for the patients to take.
The boiled Chinese herbal medicine is bitter and astringent, and most children don’t like to drink it.
To feed medicine to children, you have to pinch their noses and force them to drink it.
Chu Qi is not a child, but she is also not interested in the bitter Chinese herbal medicine.
Chu Qi had breakfast and was boiling medicine in the kitchen. She sniffed the bitter smell in the air, wrinkled her nose, and tilted her head back tactically.
From a certain perspective, the original owner was also a werewolf.
In order to avoid farm work, he deliberately made himself sick.
Chinese herbal medicine didn't even blink...Oh, he blinked.
I pinched my nose and forced myself to drink a lot of Chinese herbal medicine, which made my body smell faintly of medicine.
It doesn't smell bad, but instead adds a bit of the fragile temperament of a sickly beauty to him.
***
Autumn, the season of harvest.
The villagers of Zhuangjia Village start their hard work day in the early morning.
After breakfast, every household put on straw hats and took sickles to cut rice, and rushed to the fields in a hurry.
On some walls, words such as "Self-reliance and hard work!", "Adhere to the socialist direction, work hard and get food from the barren mountains!", and "Fight against heaven and earth, man will conquer nature" were written in paint.
Chu Qi took the medicine, took a few gulps of water to get rid of the smell, and then went out for a stroll.
The original owner requested two days of leave, and today is the second day.
It was not time to work yet, and she was not feeling well. She did not like to go to work while sick, so she planned to relax today.
Take good care of yourself and prepare for tomorrow's collective labor.
Chu Qi didn't have much knowledge about this era, and the only way to make money was fashion design. For a moment, Chu Qi had no idea what to do. If she wanted to live independently, she could only join everyone in collective labor.
Earn more centimeters so you won’t starve to death.
In fact, she has something more urgent to do in her mind.
That was to send a letter to her poor parents in the city, telling them to eat well and not think about her.
After more than two months, my parents received their salaries, so I no longer had no food to eat and went hungry.
Unless they, as their fate had originally destined, desperately sent food and supplies to their eldest son.
Then I had nothing to eat and got stomach problems due to hunger.
Chu Qi didn't intend to ask the two elders for so many things.
Just enough for her to eat.
We should be thankful that the two elders eat well and keep in good health.
Unfortunately, the postman won’t arrive in the village for another two days.
***
Children from poor families have to grow up early. Children in the village have to help feed the chickens at home until they are five years old.
Usually, the older children would take them to herd cattle.
Therefore, on working days, few people in the village would stay at home except for the toothless old people and three-year-old children.
Chu Qi walked in the village and didn't meet anyone.
As she strolled, she came to the back mountain and unexpectedly discovered a river with many wild fish swimming in it.
You can also see rabbits and bamboo rats on the mountain.
Looking at the fish swimming around, Chu Qi felt itchy and wanted to go fishing...
These days, we are cracking down on speculative trading.
There is no ban on hunting in the mountains, but the farmers in Zhuangjia Village have been honest and hardworking for generations, there are no hunters, and there are still wild boars and wolves in the mountains.
When animals encounter danger, they run into the deep mountains. The deep mountains are the territory of wild boars and wild wolves. It is extremely dangerous to chase them in, so ordinary people dare not go in.
So this also leads to a lot of prey in the mountains.
Also, the river that Chu Qi found was located next to a mass grave.
At night, there is a faint green light here, which is said to be a ghost light. The villagers are so scared that they dare not approach.
Even in the daytime, it's eerie here.
Only Chu Qi is brave enough to stroll here.
"If I catch fish and take them back to eat, wouldn't that tell them that I found a good place with fish? So I can't take them back to eat."
Chu Qi had already thought of four ways to eat the fish, and without exception, they all had to be eaten in the wild.
Chu Qi has no psychological burden at all when it comes to eating alone.
And she really enjoyed this sneaky feeling.
Just do it if you want to. Chu Qi has no fishing equipment at the moment, so a plan forms in his mind.
Before traveling through time, Chu Qi was a young person who worked from nine to five and had weekends off, so he had a lot of free time.
Apart from volunteering to help at the orphanage every week, her only remaining hobby is watching TV series and videos to relax.
Among them, she likes to watch "Man vs. Wild" very much.
When talking about survival in the wilderness, we can’t help but bring up Uncle De who went hungry for nine meals in three days.
Chu Qi was deeply impressed by one of the methods of catching fish he taught her, and she felt that it was the easiest one for her to do at the moment.
One of the fish traps requires palm stalks.
Weave it into two circles, then connect them with palm stems, and finally surround it with palm stems to make a simple fishing trap that can only be entered but not exited.
It’s one thing to see it in a documentary, and another to do it yourself.
It sounds simple, but it requires a lot of manual skills to do.
Without a suitable knife, Chu Qi spent a lot of effort in the process of handling the matter.
The production process took more than half an hour, and I finally finished one.
She didn't have much else to do today but had plenty of time, so Chu Qi was not in a hurry and did five in a row before stopping.
All things are difficult at the beginning. Once you get used to setting traps, it will be much easier and the less time you spend on it, the easier it will be.
After doing five, Chu Qi's delicate fingers and palms were slightly red and swollen, and a slight burning sensation was transmitted to her brain through the pain nerves all the time.
She frowned slightly.
"I'll have to get a tool next time..."
Now that the tools are made, the next step is to find bait that will attract the fish into the trap willingly.
Um.....
Uncle De’s method is divine, at least Chu Qi can’t do it at the moment.
Chu Qi secretly rejected Uncle De's method and started digging in the soil with a stick.
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