Chapter 25 Chapter 25 Can there be any reaction?
Huo Xing looked at the unassuming grass, not understanding why Miao Ying was so excited. "What is this?"
Miao Ying then realized that he was still being held by Huo Xing, who was stepping on a few rapeseed seedlings. He quickly got off Huo Xing's body, then squatted down cautiously, gently stroking the leaves: "Don't you grow this here?"
"It's just a wild grass growing in the mountains. It blooms yellow flowers in the spring, but after the flowers fade, it's not pretty anymore. The seeds are also tiny black grains that are inedible."
Miao Ying shook his head vigorously. What foolish ancient people! Such good things were wasted here!
"This is rapeseed. The small black grains you mentioned can be used to extract oil." Miao Ying stood up and looked around the wooden house. It was surrounded by rapeseed. There were barely dozens of them.
The god who traveled through time couldn't bear to see him live in poverty all his life, so he gave him a chance. He could already imagine how many delicious dishes he could make with rapeseed oil.
If you have delicious food, you have money, and if you have money, you can live a better life!
Miao Ying was excited for a while before he said, "I want to live in the mountains too. I want to protect them."
The rapeseed ripening season is at the end of April and the beginning of May. It should be January now, and there are still three months left. These little seedlings are his gods of wealth, and there can be no mistakes.
Huo Xing was silent for a long time before he said, "They're very well-maintained. There's no need to keep an eye on them."
Every spring, it blooms with gorgeous flowers.
Miao Ying disagreed: "You know what? There are no bees in these deep mountains and old forests. I have to pollinate them myself."
Huo Xing didn't understand what he said and had no way to persuade him. He could only think about getting down the mountain and asking his mother to persuade him.
Miao Ying finally had enough of the rapeseed seedlings, and then she followed Huo Xing to look inside the wooden house.
This wooden house can only be used to shelter from the rain. The roof is made of wood and thatch wrapped together. The four sides are nailed with wooden pieces and the middle is stuffed with thatch. It probably can't even block the wind. If you want to live in it, it needs to be renovated.
The room was quite messy, and the floor was made of wooden boards, but it was flat and you wouldn't sit or sleep directly on the floor.
There was everything in the room. There was a stove in the middle of the room, but it had not been used for a long time. There were some homemade weapons hanging on the wooden walls, such as bows, arrows, and wooden swords. There was also a box in the corner, which was covered with dust.
"If you come here, where will you sleep?" Miao Ying looked around and there was no place to sleep.
"The box contains my master's belongings." Huo Xing wiped the dust off the box. "There's a tiger-skin mat inside. I'll go get some firewood and start a fire."
Huo Xing's master must have been a very powerful person to be able to kill a tiger and make a tiger-skin blanket. Huo Xing was also a good person. Even though his family was in financial difficulty, he never thought of selling his master's things. A tiger-skin blanket should be able to sell for some money.
Miao Ying nodded and started packing up without thinking. He wanted to go see if there were any other good things outside. Fortunately, he came up the mountain with Huo Xing today. If he hadn't come, he would have missed his rapeseed!
Huo Xing came back soon. Seeing that the house had been tidied up by Miao Ying, he started a fire and the house gradually warmed up.
"Is there nothing else to do nearby?" Miao Ying had just walked a short distance, fearing he would get lost, so he hadn't explored anything fun.
Huo Xing shook his head. He had never played in the mountains before. In his mind, this mountain was where he depended on for food and survival. He had never thought that the mountain was for playing.
"Then take me for a walk." Miao Ying warmed himself by the fire. "I want to see if there's anything else on the mountain. The season isn't right, though. If it were spring, I'd probably be able to dig up a lot of wild vegetables."
He grew up in an orphanage. The conditions in the orphanage were not very good at that time, so when they were older, the headmistress and several aunts would take them on a spring outing. During the outing, they would dig some wild vegetables. Most of the children in the orphanage would join them in looking for them. Later, this became a feature of their orphanage. They would go digging wild vegetables every spring, and Miao Ying knew quite a few of them.
Huo Xing nodded and took him out. Huo Xing was so familiar with this place that he could walk back with his eyes closed.
Heading east from the cabin, the trees to the east were taller than those on this side, and there was a stand of pine trees nearby. Miao Ying looked at the hillside now covered with pine needles and asked, "Do you come up the mountain to pick mushrooms in the summer?"
Huo Xing nodded: "There are several mushroom nests under this patch of pine needles."
In the summer, he not only hunts, but also picks wild products, which is a considerable source of income. Sometimes these wild mushrooms are sold at a higher price than meat.
Miao Ying licked his lips. He also wanted to eat mushrooms, such as chicken mushrooms, pine mushrooms, and green onion mushrooms. After graduation, he was no longer in his hometown and could not afford these things when working in other cities. Now that he was in ancient times, he could finally satisfy his appetite.
Huo Xing looked at him and said, "Eat it in the summer." Although there were people who went up the mountain to pick up mountain products in the summer, Huo Xing could walk farther than them and knew more mushroom nests. As long as Miao Ying wanted to eat it, he could always find it.
Miao Ying smiled and continued walking forward.
There were a few chestnut trees not far away. Miao Ying ran over and saw a lot of chestnut shells fallen on the ground. He quickly called Huo Xing over and said, "Have you picked these up before?"
Huo Xing nodded. This thing was not rare and could not be sold at a good price, so it could only be used as a snack.
Miao Ying dug through the shells one by one, only to find they were all empty. Not a single chestnut was left. His shoulders drooped again: "I knew they were all picked up."
Huo Xing pulled him up from the ground and held his thin wrist: "There are more in other places."
The chestnut tree was far away and required a long walk. Huo Xing was afraid that he would be tired, so he asked him to wait there. Listening to the sound of the wind blowing through the bushes, Miao Ying felt a little scared, but he still followed Huo Xing.
"This tree is far away, no one will come to pick it up."
After all, everything in the mountains is a gift from nature, and no one can take it privately. It’s only first come, first served.
The place where the chestnut trees that Huo Xing mentioned grew was a bit dangerous. Most of the fallen chestnuts fell down the cliff. When Miao Ying saw Huo Xing actually going down to pick up chestnuts, he quickly shook his head: "It's too dangerous, don't go."
"I often jump here." Huo Xing said that when he was a child, he went up the mountain to hunt. Sometimes he encountered prey bigger than himself. He was defeated and had to run away. Sometimes he climbed up a tree, and sometimes he jumped into a pit. This place was also where he often hid. Those were the cracks in the rocks, and there might still be chestnut shells that he had eaten when he was a child.
Watching him jump down, Miao Ying's heart was in his throat. He hurried over and saw Huo Xing landed steadily on the stone. There were some chestnuts scattered on the stone slab. Huo Xing carefully peeled off the prickly shells and put the chestnuts carefully into his arms.
He climbed up the rock wall until his arms could no longer hold anything.
"Okay, let's go back." Miao Ying looked at his bulging chest and then looked away. "Shouldn't we prepare to go down the mountain? Otherwise, it will be late."
Huo Xing nodded and walked in front to lead the way for him.
But the weather started to change at some point, and it started to rain before they reached the wooden house. Miao Ying was already exhausted and wanted to just get wet in the rain. But Huo Xing at the side didn't think so. He simply picked up Miao Ying, who could no longer walk, and walked into the house with big strides.
Fortunately, neither of them got too wet, but the rain was getting heavier and heavier, and it was no longer realistic to go down the mountain in the rain. Huo Xing rekindled the fire in the stove that was about to go out, and called Miao Ying over to warm himself by the fire.
Miao Ying looked at his arm nervously, fearing that the lie they had told earlier had come true and Huo Xing's arm would never heal.
Huo Xing shook his head at him and said it was nothing serious.
"Maybe we can't go back today." Miao Ying finally felt relieved. Listening to the sound of rain outside, he was a little worried that it might be raining heavily outside and lightly inside this simple wooden house.
"The house is very sturdy." Huo Xing was also warming himself by the fire, and took out all the chestnuts in his arms. Miao Ying placed them one by one beside the stove without thinking.
Seeing this, Huo Xing took down the chestnuts one by one. Miao Ying was puzzled. Huo Xing took out a dagger, cut a hole in the chestnuts, and then placed them on the stove one by one.
"It will explode." Huo Xing said.
Miao Ying said "oh" and watched the sky outside gradually change color, but the sound of rain never stopped.
The wooden house would indeed not leak, and it would not be too cold after the stove was lit. In order to avoid coal poisoning, they left the small door of the wooden house open. They could see the raindrops falling on the ground, but they didn't know where they were flowing.
Fortunately, they brought dry food with them and would not go hungry. The roasted chestnuts gradually became fragrant. Listening to the sound of rain and peeling chestnuts one by one, they felt a unique sense of peace.
No wonder people nowadays love to brew tea around the fire. It’s not because it tastes so good, but because of the leisurely and relaxed mood.
The dry food was heated on the stove, but it tasted a bit hard. The water in the water bag felt cold, so Huo Xing found a small pot in the box and boiled water.
Miao Ying ate the dry bread and imagined that if he could grill some meat, it would be worth God's effort to keep him here.
Huo Xing seemed to know what he was thinking. When he was about to leave, Miao Ying stopped him: "Didn't you say there is no prey?"
"Maybe there will be gains from the traps we set up before," Huo Xing said.
"It's getting dark."
With just these words, Huo Xing stopped and felt that Miao Ying was too wronged.
Since he couldn't be satisfied with food, he could only make him more comfortable, so he took out the tiger skin blanket and spread it on the ground.
Miao Ying hesitated for a moment, feeling that it was not a good idea, as this was his master's relic after all.
Huo Xing said, "My master has never used this blanket. He hunted it for me and told me to use it for my marriage, as a betrothal gift, or for household use."
In the dim light from outside the room, Miao Ying could clearly see the brand new blanket, which was well preserved. He said, "Your master treats you very well."
Huo Xing nodded, it was a pity that his master couldn't see him get married.
To some extent, his master was more like his father, teaching him how to make a living and how to behave in society. So when the family business was divided, he did not feel any reluctance at all, because Huo San only gave him life, but not raising him.
Perhaps because it was just the two of them, Huo Xing spoke more today.
The peeled chestnut shells were thrown back into the stove, and the chestnuts were placed next to Miao Ying. He ate them one by one happily.
The coarse flour cakes were a little hard to swallow after being baked dry, so Miao Ying soaked them in boiling water and added some chestnuts, turning the coarse flour cakes into a pot of coarse chestnut porridge. There were also a few wooden bowls and chopsticks in the room, probably made by his master himself, and they were all neatly stored away by Huo Xing.
Huo Xing was not picky about food, and he could even drink this pot of rough chestnut porridge that tasted like pig food. Miao Ying watched him eat it with relish, and tried a little himself. There was no salt, and the chestnuts had very little sugar, so it was not sweet and tasteless, and could only barely fill his stomach.
After dinner, the rain outside still didn't stop. The rain had washed out gullies on the road in front of the door. It was already dark, and the only light in the house was the fire in the stove.
It wouldn't be too cold sitting on the tiger skin mat. Miao Ying yawned and moved closer to the stove. After all, it was almost the New Year, and it would be even colder on rainy days.
A gust of wind blew the rain sideways, blowing through the cracks in the wood onto Miao Ying's body. He shivered and asked Huo Xing, "How are we going to sleep tonight? I wouldn't have stopped you from bringing your bedding."
Huo Xing didn't collect much firewood, so it might only last until the second half of the night. What would he do after the fire went out?
Huo Xing took out another mat and shook it vigorously at the door. "This is what I used to sleep on. Just make do with it. Cover yourself with the tiger skin and stay close to the stove. You shouldn't feel cold."
Miao Ying clearly sensed the fragility of this body and was already shivering with cold. Huo Xing, however, continued to add more firewood as if nothing had happened. He wrapped himself in a tiger-skin mat but still couldn't stop shivering. "No, Huo Xing, it's still very cold."
Huo Xing didn't know what to do. There were too few things to keep warm here. If Miao Ying really stayed cold here all night, he would definitely get sick when he went down the mountain tomorrow.
After thinking about it, Huo Xing sat directly on the mat and stretched out his hands to hug Miao Ying tightly. Miao Ying leaned his back on Huo Xing's chest, with his chest covered by the tiger skin mat and warmed by the fire, so he was not as cold as before.
Miao Ying sighed: "Can you hold me tighter? It's so warm."
Huo Xing tightened his arms again, and Miao Ying leaned his head on his shoulder. After warming up, he felt sleepy and quickly closed his eyes.
Huo Xing held him motionless. In the dim light of the fire, he tilted his head and looked at Miao Ying's face.
She looked much better than when he picked her up, and her cheeks seemed to have gained some flesh, but she was still thin. She could feel his shoulder blades pressing against her through her clothes.
It was my own fault, Huo Xing thought.
As if he was uncomfortable sleeping in this position, Miao Ying adjusted his position in his sleep and rested his head in Huo Xing's arms. Huo Xing could only wrap his back with the blanket again and move closer to the stove.
Huo Xing hardly slept a wink all night. He kept checking whether the stove was off, whether the tiger-skin blanket was still properly covering Miao Ying, and even touched Miao Ying's forehead to see if he had a fever.
In the second half of the night, the stove really went out. Miao Ying quickly felt it and struggled to get into Huo Xing's arms. Huo Xing had no choice but to take off his coat and wrap it around Miao Ying, then wrapped him tightly with a tiger skin blanket. Only then did he fall into a more sound sleep.
I don’t know when the rain stopped. When Huo Xing opened his eyes, the sun was already shining outside.
He subconsciously touched Miao Ying's forehead and found that he was fine, without fever or discomfort. Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief.
Miao Ying also woke up. He slept well, but his neck and back were sore. He opened his eyes and found that Huo Xing was only wearing his shirt. He looked down and found that all his clothes were wrapped around him.
Miao Ying quickly stepped away and hurriedly tore off all his clothes, saying as he did so, "Why did you give me all your clothes? Aren't you cold?"
Huo Xing shook his head: "I'm not cold."
Miao Yingcai didn't believe him and hurriedly gave him the clothes, but found that he didn't move for a while. Miao Ying squatted down and found that he had maintained this posture all night and his legs must be numb.
He sat down cross-legged, reached out and touched Huo Xing's leg, intending to help him press it. When his hand touched Huo Xing's leg, Huo Xing wanted to move away, but his leg had no feeling and he couldn't move it at all.
Miao Ying's hands were small and not very strong, so when he pinched Huo Xing's hard, muscular calves, he seemed a little powerless.
He pinched it a few times and it felt like he was tickling Huo Xing, and he made himself a little tired, so he stood up again, took off his shoes, and stepped on Huo Xing's legs. One foot seemed not strong enough, Huo Xing didn't even frown, so he stepped on it with both feet.
Miao Ying was small in stature, but in order not to hurt Huo Xing, he controlled his strength and stepped slowly. Occasionally his feet would slip, but Huo Xing would hold on to him steadily.
"Are you okay? Are you feeling again?" Miao Ying got off his legs and touched his calf again.
Huo Xing's legs regained consciousness and he instantly moved away. He cleared his throat and said, "It's okay now."
Miao Ying saw that he moved so quickly, so he moved closer to look at him and found that his sitting posture was a little strange. After taking a closer look, he realized that he had a physiological reaction, and was trying to cover it up, which made it even more obvious.
He laughed and comforted Huo Xing: "It's normal for men to be like this so early in the morning."
After he said that, he remembered something and the smile on his face gradually disappeared. He then realized that he had not had any physical reaction since he came here. Even in the morning when every man was more agitated, he had no reaction. A few days ago, he could say it was because of the injury on his head, but now his injury has healed, so why is there still no reaction?
He asked with a trembling voice, "This guy here, can he, can he react?"
Huo Xing blushed: "I, I don't know. I haven't seen it."
This was a bolt from the blue for Miao Ying. He always thought that the world was weird because men could get married. Because he had seen it while taking a shower, this body was the same as men's, there was no difference, so he didn't care much about it. Now he knows, it turns out that it is different?
Miao Ying sat down like a zombie and prepared to put on his shoes, but Huo Xing was faster than him and had already grabbed his shoes and was ready to help him put them on.
He sat too low and couldn't even put his feet up, so he could only watch Huo Xing put his shoes on. He moved his toes to show his refusal, but Huo Xing didn't care and even pinched his instep.
Miao Ying didn't dare to move anymore, feeling that the soles of his feet were getting hot.
He felt a little strange and felt that the brotherhood between him and Huo Xing seemed to have deteriorated a bit. After all, Guan Yu would not put shoes on Zhang Fei!
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