When Pei Shaorong decided to go up the mountain to see Mo Xiaobao, he had already made up his mind. He decided to help Mo Xiaobao solve the problem of escaping from marriage.
Although he didn't know why he was so kind as to help a boy whom he had only known for two days, this was what he thought in his heart.
As for making clothes, Pei Shaorong originally planned to make a few pieces of ancient clothes directly in the cloth shop.
After all, he can't always wear the weird ancient costumes he made. He has to integrate into the life here in the future, and he has to dress himself up like an ancient person.
However, after asking about the price of ready-made clothes in the cloth shop, Pei Shaorong finally decided to buy the cloth and go back to ask Aunt Qin to help make it. Even if he had to pay Aunt Qin for the labor, it would still be cheaper than buying it directly from the cloth shop.
He did have some bed sheets in his space, but he didn't really want to wear clothes made of bed sheets. After thinking about it, he went to the cloth shop and bought two pieces of cotton cloth.
As a result, when he returned to the village to find Aunt Qin, Aunt Qin was too busy and had no time to help him. He was not familiar with other people in the village, and he was too embarrassed to ask, so the matter of the clothes was delayed until now.
"What do you think? Have you thought about it? You help me make clothes and I'll give you three strings of cash. It's the best of both worlds..." Pei Shaorong smiled at Mo Xiaobao.
“…”
When Mo Xiaobao heard that Pei Shaorong wanted him to help make clothes, he felt a little embarrassed. How could an unmarried young man in this village make clothes for a strange man? It would be so embarrassing if it got out to others.
However, thinking of the three strings of money Pei Shaorong mentioned, he began to hesitate. That was three strings of money. With the money he could cancel the engagement and wouldn't have to hide in the mountains all the time.
Anyway, my reputation is like this. It's just making a piece of clothing. He pays the money and I do the work. The money and goods are cleared. There is no shameful relationship between them.
If he doesn't say anything and I don't say anything either, no one will know about this. There's no other place where you can get such a good deal of three strings of cash for making a piece of clothing. Well, let's do it!
After thinking about it, Mo Xiaobao nodded and agreed, "Okay, I'll make clothes for you!"
Although he agreed to make clothes for Pei Shaorong, Mo Xiaobao still felt a little confused. He stared at Pei Shaorong and asked, "Hey, why are you helping me? You can buy two sets of clothes in town with three strings of money..."
"Just think of me as a rich and stupid person..." Pei Shaorong said with a smile. He didn't know what was wrong with him that made him so kind. He just thought of it as a good mood.
"Pfft..." Mo Xiaobao couldn't help laughing, and he found Pei Shaorong much more pleasing to the eye.
"Don't worry, you won't waste these three strings of money. I will definitely make it for you. By the way, do you have the rope? I'll help you measure the size now..."
“I brought it!”
Pei Shaorong nodded readily, immediately took out a rope from his backpack and handed it to Mo Xiaobao, then stood up and asked someone to measure the size. He never thought that Mo Xiaobao would not agree, so he had already prepared everything.
Mo Xiaobao was happy that his own problems were about to be solved. He quickly measured the people's sizes and made clothes. He could get his wages earlier and go home earlier. Living in a cave every day was too uncomfortable.
"Well, squat down a little. You're too high for me to reach. By the way, I don't know your name yet. My name is Mo Xiaobao, you can just call me Abao..."
Pei Shaorong squatted down to cooperate with Mo Xiaobao and replied, "My name is Pei Shaorong..."
"Oh, Brother Pei, what kind of clothes do you want? A long gown or a short jacket?" Mo Xiaobao measured the dimensions skillfully.
"Well, it's all right. Just do as you see fit..."
While cooperating with Mo Xiaobao to measure the size, Pei Shaorong stared at Mo Xiaobao circling around him, feeling inexplicably good.
After taking the measurements, Mo Xiaobao prepared to make clothes. Anyway, he was bored every day staying in the cave and didn't dare to go out.
Seeing Pei Shaorong still standing in the cave, Mo Xiaobao blinked and asked, "Why are you still here?"
"I have to stay in the mountains for several days hunting. You don't let me live in the cave. Do you want me to sleep outside in the woods?" Pei Shaorong grinned.
"...But, but you are here, where am I going to sleep at night?" Mo Xiaobao looked embarrassed and whispered, "We can't, we can't sleep together..."
After saying that, a slight blush appeared on Mo Xiaobao's dirty face. He lowered his head and didn't dare to look at Pei Shaorong. He had never been alone with a strange man for such a long time in his life.
In the dim light of the cave, Mo Xiaobao lowered his head, his mud-covered face slightly flushed, and his shy look made Pei Shaorong's heart tremble slightly.
"Well, this cave is so big, you sleep here and I sleep there, it's okay, I... I won't do anything to you..."
At the end of his words, Pei Shaorong suddenly felt that the atmosphere was a bit weird and awkward, and he coughed to cover up and break the atmosphere. In his opinion, the young man was obviously a man. Why would he be embarrassed when two men were staying in a cave?
Shaking his head, Pei Shaorong took a quilt from the backpack and placed it next to Mo Xiaobao. "This quilt is for you. The weather is not warm now. If you get sick, there will be no one to take you to see a doctor..."
"Thank you..." Mo Xiaobao's face turned even redder, and his heart was pounding as he stared at Pei Shaorong.
After giving Mo Xiaobao the quilt, Pei Shaorong opened another quilt and made a place for himself to sleep on the other side of the cave. Then he continued to take out the things in the backpack and made a fire to cook a pot of instant noodles.
It is most convenient to cook instant noodles in the wild. Just make a dough, tear open a few bags of seasonings and mix them together. It is very delicious. I also cut half a pound of braised meat and added a handful of freshly picked wild vegetables, which made Mo Xiaobao next to me swallow his saliva continuously.
However, Mo Xiaobao was very self-aware. He had just eaten an egg from someone else and had to take three strings of coins from him as wages. Now he felt embarrassed to stare at someone else's dinner.
Smelling the aroma of instant noodles, Mo Xiaobao swallowed his saliva, turned his head silently, picked up his wild fruit with a sad look and slowly ate it.
Really, knowing that he hasn't had a hot meal for a long time, he still cooked noodles and meat, deliberately bullying him. Hmm, what kind of noodles is this? It smells so good, even better than the Yangchun noodles in town...
"Here, take it, let's eat together!"
Mo Xiaobao was chewing on his wild fruit and feeling sad when suddenly everything in front of him went dark. He looked up and saw Pei Shaorong handing him a set of bowl and chopsticks with a joking look on his face.
After hesitating for a moment and smelling the aroma of noodles, Mo Xiaobao immediately put aside his embarrassment and said, "Yes...you asked me to eat it. I, I won't be polite..."
"Well, eat it, you're welcome!"
After getting the nod, Mo Xiaobao finally couldn't help but took the bowl and chopsticks. Although he was told you're welcome, Mo Xiaobao still resisted the urge to take the meat from the pot and only ate the noodles.
But this also made him very happy. Noodles were considered a precious food in the village. Mo Xiaobao ate very happily. His cheeks began to bulge, which aroused Pei Shaorong's appetite.
Pei Shaorong put a piece of meat into Mo Xiaobao's bowl and said, "Eat meat. I'm a hunter. My family lacks everything except meat..."
“………”
Mo Xiaobao raised his head and stared at Pei Shaorong, his face blushing again. He silently stuffed the meat into his mouth, and his eating movements suddenly became gentle.
From time to time, Mo Xiaobao looked up at the man in front of him, and the slight blush on his face could not be removed. Occasionally, when he met Pei Shaorong's smiling eyes, his face became even redder...
When it was night, Mo Xiaobao was extremely nervous as he watched Pei Shaorong lying on the quilt opposite him.
She was secretly annoyed in her heart, wondering how could an unmarried boy like her spend the night in a cave with a strange man. If her father knew about this, he would beat him to death.
After being secretly annoyed for a while, Mo Xiaobao stared at Pei Shaorong who seemed to be asleep and couldn't help but wonder in his heart, why did this guy seem to be helping me? Could he be a liar?
Suddenly thinking of what Pei Shaorong said during the day about him being rich and stupid, Mo Xiaobao couldn't help laughing again. What a weird guy.
Forget it, forget it. There is nothing I can be cheated of. If this person really pays me three strings of cash as wages, then I will have made a lot of money!
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After telling Mo Xiaobao about making clothes, Pei Shaorong stayed in the mountains for the next two days. He was alone at home anyway, so it wouldn't be too late to go back after Mo Xiaobao's clothes were ready.
It is said that if you live by the mountain, you can eat from the mountain; if you live by the water, you can eat from the water. There are many treasures in this mountain. Pei Shaorong stayed in the mountain for a few days and found that the most abundant things in the mountain were wild fruits and vegetables.
Wild vegetables are basically the main dish on the villagers' table. On weekdays, when the villagers have nothing to do, they like to go to the mountains to find some wild vegetables and fruits to bring home to increase their food supply.
He had eaten it before when he was cooking instant noodles. It tasted pretty good, a bit like bracken, but not really. It must be a unique thing in the world.
As for the wild fruits on the mountain, not many people eat them because they are all wild and don’t taste particularly good. Some are very sour, and some are very astringent. No one likes them very much. After picking all the delicious wild fruits, there are still a lot left.
After the season is over every year, most of these wild fruits fall to the ground and rot and turn into fertilizer again, truly reflecting nature's recycling.
After wandering around in the mountains for a while, Pei Shaorong almost had the urge to put everything on the mountain into the space.
There's no way around it. People like him who came back from the end of the world have a problem, and that is collecting food. No matter what it is, as long as it's edible, they would like to put it all in their bags!
But his space was simply unable to accommodate all the modern supplies. There was not much space left, so he had to give up.
However, Pei Shaorong also had an idea in his mind. The wild fruits on the mountain could be used to make money. There was no shortage of food in this world, but he was short of money!
Every day Pei Shaorong wandered around the mountains hunting and looking for delicious wild fruits, and the rest of his time was spent chatting with Mo Xiaobao in the cave.
Although one of them is a modern person and the other is an ancient person, there is essentially a generation gap of thousands of years between them, and they often do not speak on the same channel.
But overall, Pei Shaorong felt that chatting with Mo Xiaobao was quite enjoyable. It was better than staying at home alone and talking to himself.
Pei Shaorong originally planned to wait for Mo Xiaobao to finish making the clothes before going down the mountain. However, after only two days in the mountain, Mo Xiaobao’s male best friend, Brother Lin, came to him in a hurry…
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