No matter if you are a human or an immortal, you can still farm for me after traveling through time!

The next day, Ji Qingyue got up when he heard the chickens outside.

A few months later, he had finally adapted to the routine of going to bed early and getting up early. The moment he got dressed and opened the door, he was stunned for a moment. It was completely white outside.

Snowing.

When the snow falls on the hand, it is a complete and exquisite hexagon, the size of a fingernail, crystal clear.

What occurred to him, he quickly ran to the vegetable field to take a look. The wheat was fine, but the vegetables were more or less frostbitten. If he wanted to continue growing vegetables in winter, he had to find a way to build a greenhouse. A greenhouse can be built, but a greenhouse that is both light and windproof is a bit difficult to build at the moment.

There are no seeds left for this batch of vegetables. If the snow falls more heavily, all these vegetables will freeze to death in the ground.

He quickly picked all the vegetables he could harvest. Fortunately, he saved a lot of seeds last time, and Li Erlang didn't plant all the seeds he bought.

What worries him the most now is the wheat. It is just a short step away from harvest. In a few days, these heavy wheat will turn yellow. This sudden cooling is likely to affect the quality of the wheat.

He put all the vegetables he picked into the thatched cottage and gave them to Li Erlang next time.

His task today is to go to the mountains to find stones.

The Li family still got up early, and immediately got busy. Aunt Li's voice was heard everywhere in the yard: "Ah Weng, the charcoal fire has been lit in the yard. Hurry up and hang the marinated half of the mutton for roasting. This meat will take a long time to roast." Here! Auntie, you and Qing Niang will light incense and fruit, Jin Niang will carry the wine, and I will carry the meat. We will go to the village to find Silk Niang and the others to worship the gods. Then they will come back with us." Silk Niang is her brother. Daughter-in-law Li Liu, Aniang Li hurriedly said: "Dad! I left your paper money for incense candles in the house. Later you will take Erlang, Sanlang and the others to worship at the ancestral hall!"

Li Aweng and Li Erlang responded in the room respectively. Li Erlang and the others had just gotten up and were getting dressed.

Today, the ancestral hall in the village needs to be cleaned. During the official Chinese New Year, the whole village comes to kneel down and worship.

Ji Qingyue cooked a can of thick millet porridge for breakfast, heated up two pieces of frozen biscuits, wrapped them and put them in the lining pocket of his robe, filled the thermos cup with hot water, and put some more Put the tools into the bag and tie them to your body.

He looked up at the towering green mountains. Different from when the weather was warm, the peaks were covered with white snow, and the pine trees halfway down the mountain were white and green, which was very beautiful.

The altitude of the mountain behind Caolu is very high. He has never reached the top of the mountain after coming here for so long.

The time he was hung in the sky, he woke up and vaguely saw something else behind the mountain. He wondered if he had misjudged it before he fell into coma.

Ji Qingyue stared at the mountain peak for a long time, silently making up his mind that when the weather warmed up and the snow on the mountain melted, he must climb to the top to take a look. There seemed to be a black jade-like lake there.

After he was fully prepared, he put on his cloak and hood and walked slowly into the pine forest.

The rustling snowflakes were falling bit by bit. The wind was not strong at this time, and it was a rare mild weather. The leather boots made a squeaking sound on the snowflakes, leaving neat footprints.

The pine forest became denser as he went down the mountain. He looked up and saw that the branches between the pine trees were occupying each other's space and intertwined together. Heavy snow piled on them, causing the branches to make a crisp crackling sound, as if it was falling. The snow will soon break the branches.

Ji Qingyue knew that he couldn't stay long, so he picked up a relatively straight branch, took out the woodcutter and cut off the excess branches, preparing to use it as a hiking pole.

Arriving at the foot of the mountain, the originally flat terrain suddenly curved in front of us, winding steeply upwards. There were usually many thin vines growing here, but now they were all covered in snow.

He found a place with a gentle slope along the foot of the mountain and climbed up bit by bit on the rocks.

When Ji Qingyue saw this mountain for the first time, he discovered that this mountain was not a mountain of earth, but a mountain of stone. After removing the snow on the surface, he could see the hard stone underneath. These pine trees grew from the cracks in the stone. The current momentum is sky-high.

He knocked it with a stick. The stone under his feet was not a loose, weathered rock that would break into pieces when broken. Instead, it was a sedimentary rock with a dense structure and a hard texture. The rocks on the mountain had experienced a series of natural erosions such as long periods of weathering, exposure, freezing, etc. Large pieces of rock It cracked and scattered on the mountain, but the broken stones were still hard.

His target is these broken "small stones".

Compared to its predecessor, the small stones may be broken into pieces but still weigh tens or hundreds of tons.

The stone mill is a cylindrical stone weighing about three to four hundred kilograms. Ji Qingyue focused on finding the target stone. The higher the coincidence with the target, the less time he would need to process it later. Slate was easy to find, and after just one morning of shopping, Ji Qingyue found several slates that he expected, which could be processed into desktops or stone-milled countertops.

After looking around, he found that the water-milled slate was already a piece of hard sandstone weighing eighty or ninety kilograms. Although the thickness of the slabs varied, it was already the stone he could find that best met his expectations.

At this time, he was already standing at the edge of the pine forest halfway up the mountain, and further up was the cold and hard stone forest. The wind on the mountain was very noisy. As soon as he walked out of the pine forest, the howling wind could knock him over.

In a blink of an eye, it was already noon. Ji Qingyue was sitting in the pine forest halfway up the mountain. There was a vertical distance of four to five hundred meters from the flat ground. He could clearly see the vast expanse of white on the other side of the distant stream.

Ji Qingyue took out the Hu cake that he had been holding on his chest. Although it was no longer hot, it was still warm with his body temperature.

He took the time to chew the pancake quickly, taking a bite of the pancake and a sip of water to finish his lunch.

All the stones that he likes are marked along the road. After all, there are stones all over the mountains and plains. He is afraid that he will not be able to find them next time after being dazzled by them.

After lunch, Ji Qingyue walked forward along the edge of the pine forest. After walking for a long time, he found that the mountain seemed to be endless. Did he not go far at all?

But looking down from here, we can no longer see the thatched cottage and the wild grass from the familiar perspective, nor can we hear the sound of the waterfall.

At this time, Ji Qingyue couldn't help but wonder, could this mountain be a ring? A giant crater?

The sun began to turn westward and the temperature slowly dropped. He could not continue walking. He had to quickly return to the place where he had lunch, find the eighty or ninety-kilogram stone slab, and then carry the stone slab with him and walk diagonally down the mountain through the pine forest. .

Finally going down the mountain, it had been dark for a while. He stopped and put down the stone slab, used the rosin and pine wood he had prepared in advance to make a simple torch, and then dragged the stone slab forward.

When he returned to the thatched cottage, Li Erlang was waiting anxiously outside. He came in to deliver dinner, but no one responded no matter how he called, he wondered if something had happened to Ji Qingyue, or had he left?

"Erlang?"

Suddenly hearing Ji Qingyue's voice, Li Erlang was instantly frightened and threw himself in front of the painting: "Did something happen to you?"

Ji Qingyue heard the sudden approaching sound and was frightened to take two steps back. However, thinking that his behavior today was like going out without telling his parents where he was going and being grabbed and beaten when he came back, he felt a little guilty: "I'm going to the mountain today. I'm looking for rocks, I forgot to tell you before I went out, and I'm really sorry for making you worry."

It turned out to be the case.

Li Erlang took a breath and sighed: "I don't blame you. If I don't come to find you, you can't tell me. But if this happens, you will suddenly go out next time and still not come back until so late, and I won't know anything." I don’t know what I should do if I’m always on tenterhooks?”

Uh……

Ji Qingyue choked for a moment, and then heard Li Erlang continue: "Next time if you want to go out on a whim and can't find me, how about hanging something obvious under the thatched cottage?"

He thought about it and thought it was feasible. Now the thatched hut has been turned into his storage room, a place where agricultural tools and vegetables are placed. Two straw curtains are hung on the opening of the thatched hut, and stones are placed underneath to prevent them from being blown up by the wind. .

Although doing this would change the appearance of the painting, Ji Qingyue felt that it didn't matter now. He knew that the Li family had already guessed everything.

Li Erlang heated up the dinner again and served it to Ji Qingyue. When he heard that he was going to make a water mill, he whispered: "I heard that there are water mills in places south of the capital. Unfortunately, I have never seen one. There is not enough water here." There is plenty of water, but in times of drought the river water will dry up and there will be no way to fill it with water and grind it.”

Today's dinner was very sumptuous, and it was all specially set aside. It included a bowl of multi-grain rice, pancakes stuffed with meat, roast duck, roast chicken, pork and sashimi topped with sauce, and the indispensable mutton soup.

"Today my aunt and my three cousins-in-law came over for dinner. When the Chinese New Year comes, we will go back to our old house for dinner..."

Ji Qingyue was eating happily and waved his hands without paying attention: "Now I have a lot of rice, noodles and vegetables. If you don't worry about me being home alone, give me some meat. Maybe when you come back, you can taste the food I cooked." .”

What is this called? This is called crow feeding back!

Li Erlang thought for a while and became a little excited: "Seriously?"

When asked this way, Ji Qingyue felt a little bit hypocritical: "It should be true, right?"

"I will buy chickens, ducks and fish when spring begins. Do you want bigger pigs and sheep?"

Chickens and ducks were fine, but he hadn't thought about pigs and sheep. He didn't know how to raise them at all, so he decided conservatively: "Give me two sheep first? Forget about the pigs. I don't have food to feed them yet."

Li Erlang smiled so hard that his eyes narrowed: "Okay."

As the two chatted, Li Erlang told him another piece of good news: "There was news from the border today that Uighur was beaten away by us! I guess we can spend this winter with peace of mind!"

It was Ji Qing's turn to be more surprised: "Really?"

"Really! Notices were posted in the village saying that the Huihe people tried to sneak in through the cave in Lancang Mountain. Unexpectedly, the young general who was guarding there discovered their plot and caught them off guard. We won a great victory! The news has been sent to the capital, I wonder how the officials will reward the general!"

Ji Qingyue turned from surprise to astonishment: "Is there a cave in Lancang Mountain?"

Li Erlang is not sure about this. Although they are very close to the starting point on the west side of Lancang Mountain, it is said that the entire Lancang Mountain is very long, covering four to five hundred miles. It forms an insurmountable wall with other mountains, blocking Dali. Between them and Uihe, the grasslands and deserts north of Lancang Mountain became their buffer zone.

Where the cave is, no one knows except those who discovered it.

"I heard that there is a Ghost Crying Gorge in Lancang Mountain. Once the wind blows, sounds like ghosts crying and wolves howling will be heard on the mountain. No one dares to go near there."

Ji Qingyue was not afraid at all. This was a normal natural phenomenon. He also thought of the mountain he climbed today. Could it be that, as Li Erlang said, the mountain in the painting was also as long as four or five hundred miles?

You still have to climb to the top to know the answer.

"By the way, Yue Lang, you are in a hurry to make water mill, but the wheat is ripe?" After receiving Ji Qingyue's affirmative answer, Li Erlang continued to ask: "But in this weather, how are you going to dry it?"

……

He still can't escape the fate of watching the sky and eating. "so what should I do now?"

"I'm afraid this batch of wheat can't be saved as seeds for next year. How much have you planted, Yue Lang?"

"one……"

One acre? Li Erlang suddenly broke into a cold sweat. How much wheat would be wasted...! Can he handle this acre of land by himself?

"A pound of seeds."

"..." Li Erlang's mood suddenly became unstable.

Ji Qingyue continued: "I planted two pieces of land, and about a pound of seeds were sown on each piece."

Li Erlang calculated in his mind that even if he had a good harvest, he would only be able to harvest ten or twenty kilograms of wheat from two fields.

"The wheat is harvested and spread out to dry in the house. It can be stored for a few days. When you want to eat it, you can soak it in water or cook it in water. Then you can rub it to remove the wheat husks, and then you can Mix in some rice to steam rice or make porridge.”

"Okay, I understand!" Ji Qingyue thanked Li Erlang very much. Without him, he would have been blind.

The two talked about other things. Li Erlang was still injured. He couldn't help but yawned sleepily, and then they dispersed.

At this time, more than two hundred miles away in Guiwei Gorge, there was laughter and laughter in the military camp. Yang Huang bought several sheep with his own money, and let the soldiers kill them and roast them together during the New Year!

Several sheep were skewered on the bonfire, sizzling oil on the fire, and the fragrance spread throughout the military camp. A large pot was placed on the fire, and the soup in the pot was bubbling. It was haggis soup, and there was no aniseed treatment. Everyone was still enjoying themselves while drinking!

It’s rare to eat meat!

The soldier's perception of Yang Huang has undergone earth-shaking changes. Although he still looks careless towards everyone, in the battle a few days ago, he raised his spear and stabbed the cave like a candied haws. , the action of poking out a series of bloody people is shocking.

They had been lying in ambush by the cave for a long time, and each of the five teams took turns lying there for a day, until finally the bastards came out. When they were almost out, they heard Yang Huang shouting and giving the order to attack. He was the first to rush over with a lunge, swung his spear and stabbed it into the hole, and then pulled out his long knife with his backhand to deal with the ones that had already emerged. Huihe people.

A hearty fight.

Yang Huang held a wine bowl and sat beside the campfire with the soldiers. On the plate at his feet was freshly cut mutton. It was only seasoned with salt, but the soldiers still ate happily.

Someone asked: "General! How did you know that the Uighurs would use the cave?"

"General General! How do you know that the cave leads to Lancang Mountain?"

The soldiers were jostling and asking Yang Huang to explain. Yang Huang drank a bowl of warm wine and stood up with the cold wind blowing on his face: "You really want to know?"

"miss you!"

"Then you get up and run around the military camp ten times for me to warm yourself up. Don't eat mutton and drink mutton soup and just think about listening to stories! I'll tell you stories after you finish running!"

The soldiers did not complain. They were more excited than ever to know the truth. They started to run, pushing and shoving.

Now, except for the people on duty, everyone was running around the military camp.

After a while, several centurions came back with their people: "General Qi! The ten laps have been completed!"

Yang Huang did not break his promise. He shushed: "Listen."

Everyone fell silent, and the sound in their ears suddenly became clearer - the sound of wind like howling ghosts and wolves.

"That's what the wind told me. It told me that there is a passage running through the mountain in Lancang Mountain." Yang Huang drank another bowl of wine: "I have taken you hunting these days, but you haven't found anything yet?"

After everyone was quiet, they all replied: "The general said he was going hunting, but he was actually surveying the situation on Lancang Mountain!"

"And there are no wild animals on the mountain. We have only shot two skinny hares in a month."

Yang Huang smiled and said: "Yes, since there are no wild animals on Lancang Mountain, why do wild wolf hairs appear next to the cave?"

Everyone was surprised that they didn't notice.

Li Changji's eyes in the crowd darkened, and he had to admire the general in front of them.

"How do I know there is a cave on Lancang Mountain..." Yang Huang raised his head and drank a large bowl of warm wine, wiping the liquid from his lips coolly, "Of course...!" I have a way!

After the military turmoil, it is strange that people have been unable to find a cave in Lancang Mountain! Do you really believe that the Uighurs’ divine soldiers descended from heaven?

Humph……

Yang Huang snorted coldly, "Of course the wind told me." After that, he stopped explaining and allowed the soldiers below to speculate.