I was a hunter in ancient times

Zhou Du drank the decoction boiled by Shenxi for several days in a row. No wonder he didn't notice a trace of coldness when winter entered, but his body became warmer day by day, not like winter, but like summer.

If it wasn't for this bowl of soup getting on his head today, he would have thought it was because he had been running outside these days, but now that he found the source, he felt a little ridiculous.

"You."

Looking at Shen Xi's pure and innocent face, Zhou Du wanted to question him but couldn't, so he pinched his nose as a punishment.

After his nose was pinched, Shen Xi didn't restrain himself, his hot fingertips were still reminiscing about the touch just now, he touched his nose, covered the malicious smile at the corner of his mouth, raised his head, his black eyes were full of innocence , worriedly said to Zhou Du: "It's hard for you to feel like this, since I caused the disaster, then I'll help you get rid of it, okay?"

Zhou Du's height has a natural advantage. Shen Xi lowered his head and smiled triumphantly. How could he avoid his eyesight? He pressed his forehead and asked helplessly, "How do you want to help me?"

"Just..." Shen Xi's eyes lit up, eager to try, "I can do whatever."

At the end he added: "I can do whatever you like."

After Shen Xi finished speaking, he brushed the hair of his ears embarrassingly, the roots of his ears were not only scalding, but also slightly itchy.

Zhou Du rolled his Adam's apple, not to mention, holding back to this point, for a moment, he really felt a little bit excited.

but……

Touching Shen Xi's childish, slightly green face, he pressed his hand on the wall, clenched into a fist, his veins popped up, and he forcibly suppressed this thought that shouldn't be there. He flicked his forehead lightly, and refused, "Not good."

Shen Xi rubbed his forehead that hurt from Zhou Du's bullet, and looked at Zhou Du strangely.

Zhou Du ignored what he was thinking, swallowed his throat, and said as calmly as possible: "Help me take a look at the construction site outside, I'll go back and deal with something."

"Oh." As soon as the wishful thinking came to nothing, Shen Xi agreed with a sullen tone.

Fortunately, Zhou Du was just looking for an excuse to leave casually, and it wasn't really his intention to let him visit the construction site.

Most of the villagers in Taoyuan Village are relatively simple, and Zhoudu is generous with the money. The money is settled on the same day, and the village head Chen Qingshan supervises the work. No one will be lazy.

After Zhoudu explained, he walked out of Shen's house in a little panic for the first time, and when he returned to his own house, he simply didn't burn the water. He fetched a bucket of cool well water from the well, carried it to the water room, and went there without saying a word. poured on the head.

The bone-piercing chill immediately spread from the top of the head to the soles of the feet, suppressing the almost irrepressible heat on his body.

Zhou Du shook the water droplets on the tip of his hair, exhaled hot air, leaned against the wooden door of the water room, closed his eyes, gasped slightly, recalling Shen Xi's smile over and over again in his head.

Seductive, provocative, smirking, bright, calculating...

Even a normal smile on weekdays is very seductive when recalled now, and the hotness that has just been suppressed has a sign of rising.

Zhou Du hurriedly cut off the various fragments in his mind, put away his blue fingertips on the wooden board, and gradually brought his thoughts back to reality, thinking about the wild rabbit that was skinned until it was dripping with blood, and then thinking about being headshot by him with an arrow After the venomous tongue, let's think about Shen Xi's sharpness with the knife when he peeled the wolf's skin.

Gradually, his body cooled down slowly, and a bone-piercing chill surged in. Zhou Du had a cold wave, walked out of the water room, went to the bedroom to change his wet clothes, wiped his hair, lifted the quilt, and lay down in the cold room. I fell asleep at the same time.

When I woke up again, the uncomfortable hot feeling in my body had disappeared, but I had a headache and my feet were light, and my throat was very dry.

Zhou Du woke up and boiled a pot of hot water by himself. After filling his belly, he felt a little more comfortable, and rubbed his heavy head to figure out what to do next.

He was pressing his head when he suddenly felt that something was grabbing him under his feet. When he looked down, he saw that the bean bag was grabbing his leg directly and nibbling at his pants.

The light blue wolf eyes were glowing faintly, the wolf teeth were grinding and creaking, and there was still a little saliva hanging from the mouth, looking extremely hungry.

Zhou Du raised his eyes and looked out the window, the outside of the house was no longer the gray sky where the sun was not seen yesterday, but a sunny day that was rarely seen in winter.

It is not difficult to guess that he has been sleeping for a day and a night since yesterday.

And if he remembered correctly, when he came out of the water room yesterday, he remembered to put the latch on the door, no wonder Dou Bao was so hungry, he couldn't get out.

The jerky at home has long been eaten clean by bean buns, and now Zhou Du can't find anything to feed it, it just so happens that he has slept for so long, and his stomach is already hungry.

Opening the door, she was about to take the bean bag to Shen's house.

As if he had a tacit understanding, as soon as he opened the door, Shen Xi appeared in front of his house with a food box.

Seeing him open the door of the house, the smile on Shen Xi's face was so big that his teeth couldn't be seen. Even carrying the food box, he couldn't stop him from running towards him.

"You can be regarded as awake, if you don't wake up, you will miss today's festival." Shen Xi came to Zhou Du with a food box, and said with a smile.

Zhou Du was taken aback for a moment, and belatedly asked, "What holiday is today?"

After coming to Taoyuan Village for so long, he hadn't celebrated festivals yet, and the Shen family didn't seem to like festivals either, so gradually he didn't take festivals seriously.

Shen Xi suddenly mentioned it, but he still couldn't recover, he didn't know what night is today and what day is today.

"Winter Solstice," Shen Xi carried the food box into the door and put it down, turned around to look at Zhou Du, and asked, "What's wrong with your voice, so hoarse?"

"It's nothing," Zhou Du squeezed his fist and coughed on his lips, cleared his throat, and said indifferently, "Maybe he caught a cold last night."

"How can you catch a cold?" Shen Xi frowned deeply, walked over worriedly, stretched out his cold hand to touch Zhou Du's forehead, and found that it was neither hot nor cold, and said in doubt: "It's okay, no Could it be something happened to my soup?"

"No." Zhou Du shook his head, opened the food box, saw a box full of dumplings inside, and asked strangely, "Your family doesn't even celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, why do you celebrate the winter solstice?"

During the Mid-Autumn Festival before, Zhou Du didn't even eat mooncakes. On the contrary, it's strange that he can still eat dumplings during the winter solstice, which doesn't matter.

"It's different," Shen Xi came back to his senses, and took out some flesh and blood from the bottom of the food box to feed the bean buns, and explained to Zhou Du while feeding, "My family is just two people, my little uncle, no one to miss, The family is also around and there is no need to reunite, so why celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival?"

Zhou Du used chopsticks to pick up a dumpling whose skin was as thin as a cicada's wing and could show crystal clear meat filling, and fed it into his mouth. Hearing Shen Xi's words, he nodded secretly, it was reasonable.

He was alone, and he didn't like festivals. He always felt that the excitement was out of tune with him, so it was better not to join in.

"But the winter solstice is different," Shen Xi asked after feeding the bean buns, wiped his hands with a handkerchief, "Have you ever heard the saying that the dumplings in the winter solstice don't freeze your ears?"

Zhou Du nodded: "I heard."

After Shen Xi sat down and wiped his hands, he sat down, faced Zhou Du, and asked again: "Then do you know who made these dumplings?"

Zhou Du shook his head, he only knew to eat, as for how to make this food, he didn't know who created it.

Shen Xi stared at Zhou Du eating happily, and slowly told the story: "It is said that when Zhang Zhongjing, the medical sage at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, returned to his hometown in old age, it was snowing heavily, and many people on the street were displaced due to the war. Many of the refugees who covered their bodies had their ears rotten from the cold. Seeing this, Zhang Zhongjing couldn’t bear it, so he ordered his disciples to make traps with mutton, chili peppers and some herbs to dispel the cold, and made dumplings to give to the refugees, and healed the refugees. Therefore, every winter solstice, everyone makes dumplings one after another, so there is this proverb that the dumplings on the winter solstice do not freeze the ears."

"My little uncle studied medicine to save lives, and he admired these medical predecessors the most. Eating dumplings during the winter solstice is not only to remember these seniors, but also to always remind himself of the purpose of studying medicine."

After hearing this, Zhou Du understood and nodded.

Shen Xi smiled at him again: "So guess who made this dumpling."

Zhou Du bit a plump, delicious dumpling, raised his eyebrows and asked, "Isn't it you?"

He is used to Shenxi's handicrafts, which caused him to eat other people's cooking. As long as there is a little bit of something wrong, he can taste it.

The dumplings he ate today are no different from what he ate in the past, except for Shen Xi, he can't think of anyone else who can make this taste.

"My little uncle did it." Shen Xi held back for a long time, but in the end he still didn't hold back, and spoke out on his own initiative.

Zhou Du was very surprised, he remembered that Shen Xi said that Shen Mu was like him, he was not active in his limbs, he couldn't distinguish five grains, and he couldn't enter the kitchen at all, so how could he make dumplings?

Shen Xi seemed to see Zhou Du's doubts, and took the initiative to explain: "Of course, it's impossible for my little uncle to make a pot of dumplings by himself, so I made the dumpling wrappers. I transferred it, and he only took care of packing it."

Speaking of which, Shen Xi pointed to a dumpling and Zhou Du looked at it: "Look, he doesn't know how to pinch a dumpling, he just folds eight folds to seal the dumpling. I used to pinch a small ingot with one hand for the dumpling I made before."

Shen Xi didn't say anything, Zhou Du hadn't noticed it yet, but now that he said it, Zhou Du immediately saw the difference.

"There are no more than five people in this world who have eaten the dumplings made by my little uncle. He said that only the family members he approves are worthy of eating the dumplings made by him. I don't know why. In previous years, he only made a few I mean, he made all these this year, and there are still a lot left, so I will bring them to you." Shen Xi looked at Zhou Du and smiled, "Now that you have eaten the dumplings made by my little uncle, in the future we will You are a family, you are not allowed to play tricks."

"Don't play tricks." Zhou Du looked at Shen Xi's smiling face, although he said it casually, but he was very serious about finding a sense of approval for him, and his heart had already softened into a puddle.

He, Zhou Du, was so lucky to meet Shen Xi, and so lucky to meet such a lovely and lovely family, they were willing to accept him, it was too late for him to thank him, why would he act shamelessly.

Shen Xi smiled brightly: "Really?"

"Really," Zhou Duqu stroked his index finger lightly on the bridge of his nose, and promised him, "Next winter solstice, I will accompany you to make dumplings, okay?"

"Okay." Shen Xi's heart shrank, and he would accompany them to make dumplings at the winter solstice next year, which meant that Zhou Du would come to marry him at the latest before the winter solstice next year, how could he not be happy.

After the winter solstice, the foundation of Zhoudu's house was almost ready to be completed. Chen Qingshan was fully in charge of the supervision this time, so before the completion, he deliberately found Zhoudu and asked, "The foundation is finished. Next, you can find the carpenter who will build the house." without?"

When Zhou Du was asked, he was stunned for a moment, and asked a little confusedly, "What carpenter?"

Chen Qingshan immediately said: "The carpenter who repaired the house, since your house is going to be built like Shen's house, you have to find a carpenter to repair it. People in our village are clumsy, and they can help with a mud house, but this kind of house is very difficult. I don’t even understand tenon and tenon, so I really can’t help you.”

Zhou Du understood, nodded and said: "I have found a few carpenters before, and I will visit them later."

It wasn't that Zhou Du didn't want to do these things well in advance, but it was the first time he participated in the whole process of building a house by himself. He didn't know anything, and he didn't have any elders to help him.

There are many things that can only be inquired by oneself, but others say what they say, what the public says is right, what the woman says is right, whether it is true or false, good or bad, you need to judge by yourself, it is inevitable that you will be overwhelmed and forget West, many things have not been done until it is discovered that they have not been done.

Only take one step at a time.

After Zhou Du finished speaking, his throat itched, he turned his head to one side, put his fist on his lips, and coughed a few times.

Seeing that Zhou Du still had a schedule in his busy schedule, Chen Qingshan felt a little relieved, but when he heard him coughing, he frowned slightly and said: "The weather is getting colder, you'd better take care of your health, if the repair of the house is really serious Letting you be helpless, I think you might as well find someone and give him all the money, and you just wait for the house to be collected, so although the money will be more, at least you will worry less."

After Zhou Du slowed down, his throat felt a little more comfortable. After listening to Chen Qingshan's words carefully, he asked carefully, "Is it okay?"

Chen Qingshan said: "Why not, as long as you can trust this person, and you are not afraid of him cutting corners, as long as you pay an extra salary, you can trust him to repair the house with confidence."

After Zhou Du finished listening, he immediately answered, "I wonder if Village Chief Chen is free, and if he can take over this matter for me."

"Me?" Chen Qingshan didn't expect that Zhou Du would immediately appoint him as soon as he finished speaking, and his face blushed immediately, "I don't mean to earn you more money, I just see you being so careless, Just to give you an idea, if you have the right person, you just go to him."

"I know," Zhou Du nodded, and said without emotion in his tone, "I think Village Chief Chen is suitable for you."

When Zhou Du said this, Chen Qingshan was quite embarrassed. After all, he said just now that this job needs to be done by someone he can trust.

Zhou Du appointed him without even thinking about it. Doesn't that mean that in Zhou Du's heart he is the one he can trust?

Thinking about it this way, he is very popular as the village chief. After all, Zhou Du is just a foreigner who just came to Taoyuan Village not long ago, and he is different from other villagers in Taoyuan Village who are all related.

Seeing that Chen Qingshan was stunned for a while, Zhou Du didn't speak, and asked again: "But the salary is not appropriate?"

"That's not true." Chen Qingshan waved his hands hurriedly, and said honestly, "I just didn't expect that you still trust me."

It's not been a day or two since Zhou Du dealt with Chen Qingshan. It can be seen that the village head is quite dedicated, so don't worry about him cheating himself. Besides, he has the name of the village head and can hold others down. How come? It seems that he is more suitable.

Seeing that Chen Qingshan had no objection, Zhou Du took the initiative to make a decision on the matter: "Then it's settled like this. When I come back from visiting the carpenter, everything will be left to the village chief."

"Hey, don't worry." Dong Ri is also idle at home, and can earn more money, Chen Qingshan has no reason to refuse, and hastily agreed.

Zhou Du just finished talking with Chen Qingshan outside the Shen's courtyard, his throat felt itchy again, he coughed twice, and was about to enter the Shen's courtyard to find some water to moisten his throat, when Shen Xi held a Wan walked up to him, frowned and said, "I heard you coughing from a long distance away. When I was just making cakes, I made you a steamed salt orange to relieve your cough. You can eat it to moisten your throat."

Zhou Du glanced into his bowl, and saw lying in it was a steamed orange that he had cut in half.

Shen Xi peeled off the outer skin of the orange with chopsticks, and said to Zhou Du again: "This will only be useful if the orange meat and soup are warmed up. Hurry up, the sooner you eat, the sooner your throat will feel comfortable."

"Yeah." Zhou Du picked up the bowl, and fed the sour and salty steamed salt orange with meat and juice into his lips.

Seeing him eating it, Shen Xi asked again: "How does it taste?"

After asking, he waved his hands self-consciously and said, "Forget it, forget it, your throat is uncomfortable, so don't talk."

"It's not bad." Zhou Du felt nothing, he was always in good health, this time he just coughed twice and he was fine.

"You know how to coax me, pretending that I don't know that this steamed salt orange is sour and salty." Shen Xi took the bowl and took Zhou Du to the kitchen, and continued, "Fortunately, I also made you other cough medicines."

As he said, he put down the bowl, went to a special table for cooking, and lifted the gauze to reveal the brown sugar cubes that had cooled and solidified under the gauze, and explained: "This is Qiuli cream candy. I see you are so lazy. Even if I made Qiuli ointment for you, it would be rare for you to soak it in water, so I made it like a candy bar, so that you can have a candy bar when you feel uncomfortable."

He said that he picked up a piece of candy and put it in his mouth: "I will give you a taste first, there are two pears left, and I will cook Chuanbei pears for you later in the evening, I believe you will get better soon... ..."

"Well……"

Before Shen Xi finished speaking, Zhou Du couldn't help but put him on the desk, bowed his head and sealed his lips, and pressed the tip of his tongue into the crack of his lips, hooking him forcefully into his lips before he had time The melted Qiuli jelly candy entangled with his fragrant and soft little tongue for a while, and then they separated.

Sucking the candy he just snatched from Shen Xi's lips, let the sweetness spread wantonly in the taste buds, raised his eyebrows lightly, and said in a slightly better mood: "The taste is not bad, and my throat feels better."

Shen Xi blinked, and found that his legs were a little soft, but luckily his waist could still lean against the desk, otherwise he would have slipped down.

A piece of candy, Qiuli cream candy, was quickly asked Zhou Du to eat. Seeing this, Shen Xi stuffed another piece into his mouth, and said tentatively, "Would you like another piece?"

Zhou Du had no choice but to kiss the corner of his lips, and refused, "No, I have to go to another village to visit the carpenter."

"Okay," Shen Xi was unambiguous when he was doing serious business. He took out a few pastries wrapped in oil paper from the side and said, "This is my pastry. It doesn't look good to go empty-handed."

Zhou Du stretched out his hand and rubbed his head, thanking him, "Thanks for your hard work."

"It's not hard." Shen Xi seemed to be greatly encouraged, and he was full of energy. He felt that even if Zhou Du asked him to make a hundred more pastries, he could still do it.

The carpenters that Zhou Du wanted to visit were all well-known carpenters in the surrounding villages.

Being famous also means that the price is expensive. After all, if someone repairs Zhoudu's house, he has to push away other work at hand. If Zhoudu's price is lowered, he is not willing to come.

Zhou Du found a total of five carpenters, Shen Xi prepared five cakes, and went door-to-door to lobby, each carpenter Zhou Du did not treat each other favorably, and they all opened thirty cents a day.

The price of craftsmen is expensive, too low, and it is more than this price for people to make a table and stool at home.

But even if the opening reached thirty cents a day, only three were willing to come, and the remaining two had too much work at hand to take care of, so they declined Zhou Du politely.

Zhou Du wasn't discouraged either, three would be three, at worst, the house should be repaired slowly.

A carpenter surnamed Liu saw that Zhou Du was in a hurry to repair the house, so he discussed with Zhou Du, "See if this works. My son is also a carpenter, but his skills are not as good as mine, but let's start." He can still do simple work like planing wood, if you don't mind, you can hire him to do a small job."

When he said this, the son of Carpenter Liu happened to be helping plan wood in the yard. Seeing that he was sweating profusely and didn't want to stop, he was quite pragmatic, so Zhou Du agreed to hire him for ten yuan a day. Do small jobs.

This also opened Zhou Du's mind, and he turned around and told the other two masters that if they also had apprentices who knew carpentry, they could bring one over, and it would still be the same as Liu Carpenter's son, ten cents a day.

These six people, one more than the original five, work together with division of labor, and the progress of the house will not be too slow.

Please be good to the carpenter, Zhou Du can leave all the rest to Chen Qingshan, I believe that with him around, this house is much better than him looking at it and repairing it himself.

Zhou Du took Shen Xi around several nearby villages, and when he returned to Shen's house, it was already dark enough to see his fingers.

Candle oil lamps were lit early in the courtyard of the Shen family, illuminating the entire Shen family brightly, making Zhou Du and Shen Xi feel warm when they saw it.

Shen Xi pushed open the door of the house, saw Shen Mu and Li Yu who were waiting for them in the yard, and asked casually, "Have you eaten?"

Li Yu shook his head: "Not yet, I'm waiting for you."

Shen Xi panicked, and headed towards the kitchen: "Didn't I say when I left that there are steamed buns steamed in the pot, you can just take them out and eat them when you're hungry, wait for us to do something."

Li Yu explained: "Master said that the whole family must be present to enjoy the meal, so I waited for it."

Shen Xi was still very angry at first, but when he heard about the family, he thought that Zhou Du was with him, waiting for him meant waiting for Zhou Du, and this family also included Zhou Du, so he immediately became happy and agreed. Said: "Yes, the whole family must eat together to enjoy the meal."

Shenxi left the fire in the pot when he left, and it would still be warm, so he added another fire, turned to the table and cut two pears with a knife, Kachuanbei was boiled quickly in Choshi, He took it out first to moisten Zhou Du's throat, and then went to the kitchen to pick out the steamed things from the pot non-stop.

Zhou Du finished Chuanbei pears, looked at Shen Xi's busy figure, and took the initiative to help.

"You two have been tired all day, let Xiao Yuer do these small things." Seeing that Zhou Du was carrying the bowls and chopsticks again, Shen Mu said.

"Not tired." Zhou Du replied two words lightly, not listening to Shen Mu's order to sit down and rest.

With two or three helpers, the dinner was quickly prepared and brought to the table one by one, and the family sat down to dinner.

Maybe after walking for a day, Shen Xi was really tired, sat down and ate two big meat buns in one breath, and urged after eating: "Xiao Yu'er, help me get another one."

"Small ones or big ones." Li Yu knew that Shen Xi didn't eat much, and he saw that there were still smaller buns in the steamer, so he asked.

Shen Xi said without thinking: "Big one."

Li Yu took the buns and teased him: "You can eat enough today, eat the big ones."

Shen Xi took the steamed stuffed bun from his hands, thought of something, said unconvinced: "I just like big ones, I like to eat big ones, no way."

After finishing speaking, he kicked Zhou Du under the table and winked at him triumphantly.

Zhou Du, who was quietly eating steamed buns: "..."

The author has something to say: Shen Xi: My family is Zhou Duda, what happened to me practicing in advance.

——感谢在2021-01-2523:52:06~2021-01-2623:47:08期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who cast the rocket launcher: Duan Baiyue 1;

Thanks to the little angel who threw the grenade: Duan Baiyue 1;

Thanks to the little angel who threw the mine: Duan Baiyue 3;

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