Chapter 443 Quack
When it comes to midnight snacks, Zhao Yeqing is no longer sleepy.
I should say I wasn't very sleepy to begin with, and now I feel very energetic.
"What do you mean, what to eat?"
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Half an hour later, the two men sat in the kitchen on the second floor of the house, lit a fire, and put out a metal net with two freshly slaughtered fish on it.
Zhao Yeqing happily brushed some oil on it: "How do you know there is a pond above?"
Yu Muxi also felt a little disgusted by this drainage ditch. There used to be a lot of dirt in the ditch, and even though it was clean now, it still felt disgusting.
"I guess I'll have to stay in this mountain for a few days. When you were looking for something in the house of the oil press, I walked a few steps to the terraced field beside before I came to look for the bucket. I found that before the water flowed down, it had accumulated into a fairly wide pool on the top."
Zhao Yeqing just thought that he was going to pick fruits from the tree next to him, but he didn't expect that he came back with two fish in more than 20 minutes.
Farmers like to plant some fruit trees next to their houses. Most of them are grapefruit trees, tangerine trees and the like. This family also planted a jujube tree next to their house. At this season, the jujubes are densely hanging on the tree, and many birds can be seen perched on the branches during the day.
Before eating the fish, Zhao Yeqing got a small bowl of red dates, washed them and had them as a snack. They were still juicy and the flesh was crisp and tender. Each one was about the size of a thumb and was crunchy when eaten.
"You are so brave. If I had known you were going to catch fish, I wouldn't have let you go. It's so dangerous at night. Who knows what kind of animals are hiding in the mountains now."
Mu Xi shook his head and said, "It's not dangerous. You'll know when you go up there tomorrow."
This time he really didn't want to keep her in suspense, but the geographical location varied greatly, and the description was far from as comprehensive and clear as seeing it with one's own eyes. It wasn't that far away, and one could see it by just walking a few steps up the hill, so it would be more convenient to wait for her to see it herself.
Zhao Yeqing also knew this principle. After eating the fish, his body felt warm and he lay down with his eyes closed and fell asleep.
In the morning, the two opened their eyes almost at the same time. It was not because they woke up naturally, but because they were woken up by the croaking of frogs outside.
Neither of them had been to the village here before, so they didn't know whether there were so many frogs in the village before or they appeared later due to climate change. In short, when they came up from the mountain, they found many frogs they had never seen before in the grass and tree trunks on the roadside.
Most of them are green tree frogs with smooth skin and bright green color. They do not have the patterns of common small frogs. Their entire backs are pure green. They do not have the big bumps like toads, but only some small textures. They do not look disgusting and are even somewhat cute.
She was so cute when she was lying quietly on the tree yesterday, but now I woke her up...
Not cute at all.
The calls of the different species of frogs were all different; their sounds intertwined and mixed together, with great penetrating power, as if they were calling beside her pillow.
He was still having supper late last night, and it was only seven o'clock in the morning when he was woken up by the croaking of frogs. Zhao Yeqing turned sideways and raised his hands to cover his ears. He struggled to sleep for a few more minutes, but the more he slept, the more his head hurt. He sat up in surrender with dark circles under his eyes.
Mu Xi got out of bed after being woken up, went to the kitchen to boil a kettle of hot water, filled the kettle, poured the rest into the basin, added cold water and soaked a towel, then walked into the room and handed the towel to Zhao Yeqing.
"Just wipe it and you'll be awake."
The effect of wiping my face was mediocre, and I didn't feel refreshed until I had breakfast.
Breakfast was hot cured meat porridge. The food we brought included rice. The cured meat was not the same cured meat as the Laba porridge, but the cured meat. It was not the old cured meat that was difficult to clean, but the Nanfeng meat that was made this year.
When I was picking red dates last night, I saw a piece of wild ginger next to the house. I dug out a small piece, washed it, and cut it into two slices. I put it in the pot, poured a little oil to stir-fry the ginger slices, and then put the diced Nanfeng meat in and stir-fried it.
Cook until the fat of the Nanfeng pork becomes transparent, then pour the rice soaked last night into it and cook until the rice blooms.
The soaked rice only needs to be cooked for ten to twenty minutes. The Nanfeng pork has its own salty taste, so there is no need to add salt to the porridge as it is salty and fresh enough.
After breakfast, Zhao Yeqing thought of the pond that Mu Xi mentioned last night and planned to go up and take a look. He also had to go up the mountain to cut some wood to make a loom.
The tools for chopping down trees can be found in the family's house. The two of them only brought light tools such as sickles and hatchets with them this time, and did not bring an axe for chopping down trees.
The family's house is luxuriously decorated and has a complete range of tools, including an electric saw, but unfortunately there is no electricity or oil.
You can only take an axe and a saw into the mountains.
The axe and saw were a little rusty. Mu Xi found a large box of new saw blades in the cabinet. They were well preserved and had a brand new metallic luster. He carefully took out the saw blades and replaced them with new ones. He took yesterday's notebook and planned to get the wood back according to the data.
The morning in the mountains is quite different from that in the meadow. The meadow is relatively flat, so even if there is fog in the morning, it will not block the view too much. The mountains are uneven, and you can only see the area around the house clearly in the morning. If you want to go up, you will go into the fog.
It was almost nine o'clock when the thick fog mostly dissipated and the morning light shone through, making the dew-covered branches and leaves appear golden.
When you reach the top of the terraced field, you will see the pond. Originally, this pond was a rice field, the top one, which was filled with water. Then a large rock fell from somewhere and smashed a pit in the middle of the field, so this pond was formed.
Fish and small shrimps are swimming in it, there are a lot of aquatic plants at the bottom of the pond, and the water is very clear.
There aren't many signs of animal activity around the pool, unlike the meadow lakeside where every time I go I can see small animals' footprints on the sand by the water, sometimes in clusters, sometimes in a mess.
Behind the pool was a forest. Zhao Yeqing saw the forest as soon as he looked up, and also understood what Mu Xi meant by "not dangerous".
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