I was a hunter in ancient times

Shen Xi made the meal, and seeing that Shen Mu hadn't returned home, he took out the food box that hadn't been used for a long time from the cabinet, and put the fried dishes tonight into it one by one.

Spicy chicken, boiled tofu, shredded sweet potato, stir-fried bitter gourd and a small dish of capers.

Li Yu said with a complicated expression: "Xiaoxi, it's okay if the other dishes are not ready, but this dish of capers is not ready?"

Shen Xi unhurriedly scooped a large bowl of rice from the pot, put it in a food box, and said calmly, "I specially gave him this rice and capers."

Li Yu muttered, "You don't look like you're going to disgust him."

Shen Xi closed the lid of the food box, blinked and said: "I thought about it again just now, it's not good for us to do things too badly, in case people don't want to turn against us."

"..." Li Yu was speechless.

When Shen Xi was about to go out with the food box, Li Yu asked belatedly: "Do you know where he lives?"

Everyone in the village knew that he came down from Mount Fun, but Mount Fen was so vast that it was not easy to go up the mountain to find someone.

Shen Xi pointed to a certain place on the opposite mountain: "I told him about the temple on the mountain during the day, where should he be now?"

Li Yu was surprised: "The temple has been empty for many years, can people still live there?"

"It should." Shen Xi is not very sure.

When the two of them managed to climb up the mountain and found the dilapidated temple, the sky was already getting dark, and there was no one in the temple.

With the light of the setting sun, Li Yu saw the inside of the temple clearly, and sighed to Shen Xi, "I just said that people can't live there."

Shen Xi bit her lips, looked at the forest behind the temple which was completely covered by trees, "I went up to look for it, and everyone came here."

"How do you find such a big mountain?" Li Yu disagreed, "Besides, it's almost dark now, so you should be anxious if Master can't find you when he comes back."

Shen Xi raised his eyes to look at the clouds that were dazzled by the setting sun, thought for a while and said, "It's not so dark yet, Xiao Yu'er, you go back and wait for my little uncle, I'll go back as soon as I go."

Li Yu stretched out his hand to stop Shen Xi, "No, there are many snakes and insects on the mountain, what if you are in danger alone."

"Although I don't come to this mountain often, I will occasionally go up the mountain with my uncle to collect herbs. I won't get lost, and I can protect myself in case of danger." Shen Xi said with reason.

Li Yu still felt inappropriate: "Why don't I deliver it for you, I am also familiar with this mountain road."

"No, you didn't tell Aunt Li when you came out with me, she won't be worried if she can't find you." Shen Xi shook his head, he was the one who dragged Li Yu out, but now he asked Li Yu to do things for him, why? OK.

Li Yu was still worried: "But, it's getting dark."

Shen Xi swore: "It's okay, I promise to go down the mountain before dark."

Li Yu couldn't persuade Shen Xi, so he could only watch helplessly as he disappeared into the lush forest with the food box.

Shen Xi carried the food box and observed carefully as he walked, not far away, he found that the grass on the side of the road had been trampled on.

Following these traces, he climbed all the way to the top of the mountain, and finally he saw Zhou Du who was warming alone with a fire on the top of the mountain.

Ever since Zhou Du went to the temple full of cockroaches and mice, he felt uncomfortable all over. When he came back, he took off his coat and washed it in the creek, and also put his clothes in the water.

At this moment, he was wearing a short sleeve and shorts, sitting by the fire and carefully drying his clothes. He didn't think that anyone would come up, and he didn't cover up.

When Shen Xi appeared, he was also taken aback.

Shen Xi didn't expect that Zhou Du couldn't help being penniless, he didn't even have a change of clothes.He caught a glimpse of Zhou Du's legs under his shorts, slender and firm, his complexion was cast a wheat color by the flames, and his face burned hot.

Feeling that his face was about to be roasted by the fire, he moved his eyes away unnaturally, and involuntarily squeezed the handle of the food box tightly to Zhou Duo's probing eyes, and said as calmly as possible, "I'm here for you Delivery."

Fearing that Zhou Du would misunderstand, he explained again: "The chicken you sent this afternoon is too expensive."

Zhou Du's eyes lingered on Shen Xi's face that was so red as if it had been covered with a thin layer of rouge, and finally fell on the food box in his hand. He gently withdrew his eyes and said indifferently: "Thank you, No need to pay back."

After finishing speaking, he continued: "Your porridge."

The implication is to use pheasants to thank him for the porridge, and he doesn't need to pay back.

"A bowl of porridge is worthless." Shen Xi shook his head, no matter how expensive his porridge was, it was not worth as much as the pheasant sent by the penniless Zhou Du.

"The food in my food box is not very good, it's all handmade, if you don't eat it, you can only throw it away." Shen Xi thought about it and said sincerely.

Only then did Zhou Du nod his head and let out a soft "hmm".

Shen Xi avoids Zhou Du's legs, and lifts the food box over.

Zhou Du opened the food box, and a scent unique to the food wafted out, which made Zhou Du, who was not too hungry, feel hungry immediately.

The spicy chicken is slightly spicy, the boiled tofu is smooth and tender, the shredded sweet potatoes are sweet but not greasy, even the bitter gourd, which Zhou Du has always disliked, is fried crisp and delicious, not to mention the sour beans that are well cooked.

Zhou Du's taste is very good, it is difficult to come across dishes that make him not picky eaters, this skill does not seem like a practice.

And the value should be more than that chicken too.

Zhou Du glanced sideways at Shen Xi who was sitting aside and helping him dry the clothes, a very shallow wave flashed in his deep eyes, and it was fleeting.

If he read correctly this afternoon.

In this world, men and women are allowed to marry.

Zhou Du couldn't think of anything other than his own face that could make an unfamiliar young man, not afraid of danger, go up the mountain alone to face a stranger like himself, just to deliver food.

Shen Xi kept helping Zhou Du turn over and dry the clothes. He was skilled in his movements and looked serious, not letting go of any corners. After a while, the clothes in his hands were dried by him, which was much better than Zhou Du's. One dry piece and one wet piece are stronger by how many times.

Shen Xi folded the clothes, handed them back to Zhou Du, and apologized in a low voice: "I'm sorry, I didn't know that the temple was so dilapidated in advance, I made you look forward to it in vain."

"It's okay." Zhou Du narrowed his eyes, put down the empty bowls and chopsticks in his hands, re-fastened the food box, and took the clothes.

Shen Xi turned his back, leaving space to dress with Zhou Du, thought for a while, and said, "I think you can hunt. If life is really tight, you might as well exchange your prey in the village and buy some money."

After a while, Shen Xi didn't hear the answer from the person behind him, so he thought for a while and said, "If you don't know how to sell, there will be a morning market in the nearby villages every five days, right by the stream at the head of the village. If you hunt the prey and bring it to you, if you need it, you will buy it with you, and there is no booth fee, but the price is far from the price in the town."

While getting dressed, Zhou Du listened to Shen Xi's chanting silently, feeling a little complicated.

Regarding this kind of "show of favor", Zhou Du had received many favors when he lived to be 27 years old, but he had never received such kindness at such a young age, so he was at a loss for a while.

If he refused bluntly like before, he might cry.

Children are trouble.

Zhou Du frowned, and replied coldly, "Understood."

The atmosphere suddenly fell silent, only the crackling sound of burning dry wood in the air, and the fire was as bright as the sunset in the sky, bright orange red.

Seeing that it was getting dark, Shen Xi didn't dare to procrastinate any longer, and said goodbye to Zhou Du: "It's getting late, so I'll go down the mountain first."

After finishing speaking, he bent down to pick up the half-empty food box at the side. Under the firelight, there was a conspicuous green glowing slightly, which caught his attention.

Shen Xi felt familiar, so he gave up on lifting the food box, and instead picked up a dark green chicken feather that fell beside the food box.

There are a lot of pheasants on Mount Fen, and this pheasant feather is nothing eye-catching at all, but it has a tooth mark that has been cut by someone at the end of the feather.

Shen Xi was afraid that it was a coincidence, so he searched around and found several chicken feathers with scissor marks.

"Is there anything else?" Seeing him holding a few chicken feathers and hesitating, Zhou Du asked aloud.

Shen Xi returned to his senses, held out the chicken feather in his hand and Zhou Du looked at it, and asked, "Have you ever seen a chicken with the same color as this?"

Zhou Du didn't pay attention, and asked casually, "Why, your chicken is lost?"

Shen Xi nodded, pointed at the scissor marks on the end of the chicken feathers and said: "My family, A Cai, was lost the night before yesterday. I searched all over the village but couldn't find it. I didn't expect it to come up the mountain. The chicken feathers belonged to it. .”

Zhou Du looked along his fingertips and saw the mark on the chicken feathers, and there was no expression on his face, he just said indifferently: "Don't look for it, that chicken is dead."

Shen Xi didn't quite understand: "Dead?"

"En." Zhou Du responded, and kindly reminded: "If you don't believe it, you can go over there and look for it. The body should still be there."

Zhou Dushun pointed in the direction where he threw the burnt chicken.

Shen Xi really looked for it, and soon he pulled out a charcoal-like object from the grass. Because it was so burnt, the ants didn't come to visit it. If it wasn't for the cockscomb on his neck, Shen Xi I really can't tell it's a chicken.

There is no one else on this mountain, and it goes without saying that only Zhou Du can cook a good chicken like this.

Shen Xi looked at Zhou Du strangely, knocked the charred chicken with a branch, and complained: "Why do you..."

As soon as Shen Xi's complaints came out, Zhou Du's expression suddenly became cold. He was not a chicken thief, but the chicken ran in front of him by itself.

The mountain is so big, how does he know that this chicken is domesticated.

Shen Xi suddenly didn't realize it, and puffed his cheeks a little bit annoyed: "How can you let it die so cheaply."

Zhou Du turned from astonished to slightly startled, not quite understanding what he meant.

"When I picked it up, I thought of many ways to kill it, such as Huadiao chicken, five-yuan steamed chicken, soy sauce chicken, mushroom stuffed chicken, scallion oil chicken, clear stewed chicken...but I didn't expect it to beggar at the end. There is no way to find out how the chicken died, it turned out to be burnt to death.”

After he muttered all this, Zhou Du, who had just had a full meal, suddenly felt a little hungry again.