Beginning Backpack [Farming]

The low temperature in the cold season made it rare for Shen Huaijin to be lazy to get out of bed. Since Li moved to live with him, the other party got up every morning to fetch water. The bed was no longer so warm, so Shen Huaijin would wake up leisurely and accept his fate. get up.

The two of them took salt to clean their teeth and rinsed their mouths, and then rubbed them with cold water to wake up their faces.

Next, Shen Huaijin will generally stew a few sweet potatoes, which can be served with side dishes in the morning to satisfy his hunger.In the rest of the time, he would nest by the fireplace and do his own business, while Li Ze would lie beside him in the shape of a beast, and occasionally Shen Huaijin would grab him and spin wool together.

When the weather is good, I cook a hearty lunch, and when the weather is bad, I just roast some meat in the house to deal with it.In the afternoon, the two of them usually go to bed for a rest, continue to work after waking up, and simply make something to satisfy their hunger when they are hungry.At night, as usual, Li transformed into a beast and fell asleep beside Shen Huaijin.

The days passed so plainly and truly.

Counting the time, Shen Huaijin reckoned that his jar of salted duck eggs was almost done.

He got up early and took two, washed them, boiled them in boiling water for about 15 minutes, took them out of cold water, and then cut them in half with a bone knife.

As soon as I cut it open, I saw red and yellow oil flowing down the cut surface. Shen Huaijin hurriedly dug it out and put it on the crushed taro paste. It's an appetizer, but the egg whites are a bit too salty, probably because there's too much salt.

However, oily egg yolks and salty egg whites cannot have both, Shen Huaijin still prefers the former.

He quickly put the salted egg whites into the sharp bowl, and then continued to taste his own salted egg yolks like no one else was there.

After tidying up the bowls and chopsticks, Shen Huaijin, who was tired of spinning, planned to make a real bone knife for fun. The length of the blade was set to be as long as the distance from the elbow to the fingertip.

The raw material is a leg bone of a longhorn. The longhorn is the kind of beast that hurt the tree before. Shen Huaijin heard everyone's description that it looked like an elephant on earth, with long horns, a big body, and strong strength.

According to Li, when he was just an adult, he captured the longhorn along with Yan, and Yan left this leg bone to him.

However, because Li felt that it was useless, he kept it idle, and did not bring it when he moved. Later, when he was asked, he realized that he still had this animal bone, which happened to be given to Shen Huaijin who was struggling to find the materials. .

The long knife that Shen Huaijin wants to make is no different from the bone dagger he made before in terms of craftsmanship, but since the length is several times that of the latter, it is necessary to carefully consider the shape and thickness of the long knife to prevent it from breaking when it is used halfway.

He flipped through the USB flash drive when Li occasionally went out, and after several times he finally determined the shape of the long knife and began to saw the bone.

After sawing out the rough shape, you can start sharpening the knife, and this step will be taken over by Li.

After all, the length of this knife is "amazing", and the sleep time of the two of them has increased a lot during the cold season, it took a total of four or five days to finally grind it.

He didn't intend to wrap the handle of the long knife with bark rope crudely this time. He collected it in the off-season—a small bit of resin, which is now just used to install the wooden handle.

Shen Huaijin picked a thin log with a diameter three fingers wide, sawed out the shape and smoothed the surface, and slowly burned a hole from the cross-section with a wooden branch with sparks. After estimating that the depth was about the same, he inserted it into the wood. For the bone handle, the edges are filled tightly with burnt resin, and then glued with some sawdust and the like.

The resin is a type specially selected by Shen Huaijin. It has a high melting point and can withstand the high temperature in the hot season. It will gradually soften only when it is close to the flame.

In this way, the long bone knife was ready, and Shen Huaijin swung it twice, only to feel that the tiger was in full swing, and he was very happy in his heart.

The giant wolf rubbed against him, Shen Huaijin gently tugged at his wolf ears, and suggested in a good mood: "Let's cook rice noodles for lunch. I will eat hot and sour rice noodles, and you will eat bone broth noodles, and I will add some barbecue and rice noodles for you." Taro paste."

The giant wolf growled in agreement.

Shen Huaijin first soaked the sweet potato vermicelli in warm water, regenerated the fire, cooked a spicy soup base for himself with hot pot ingredients, and made a light bone soup base for Li with animal bones. Minced ginger and garlic.

After the preparation work, he poured an appropriate amount of water into the pot and boiled it, put in the sweet potato vermicelli and cooked it, took it out and put it into two bowls.

Put salt, ginger and garlic, licorice powder, and lemon juice into the bowl as needed, and finally pour in spicy soup base and animal bone soup base respectively, add chopped green onion, and put sour radish slices on top.

The crystal-clear and plump vermicelli is soaked in the bright red rich soup. Stir it with chopsticks and put it in your mouth. It is mixed with the spicy pepper, the sourness of lemon, and the special fragrance of licorice. It feels soft and not lost when chewed. Strength.Taste again - a mouthful of soup, hot and sour, fragrant, oily but not greasy.

Shen Huaijin hadn't tasted spicy food for more than half a year, and this time, she felt refreshed, her already bright lips were dyed even more alluring by the bright red soup.

Li mixed his own animal bone powder on the opposite side, smelling the special smell coming from Shen Huaijin's bowl, and swallowed unconsciously, "Why is the one in your bowl so fragrant?"

Shen Huaijin raised her head and blinked, "I added chili to this fruit, which has a special taste but most people will want to eat it straight after eating it. Do you want to try it?"

Li heard that the chili was brought back from the market by Lin, and he also wanted to taste the taste of this kind of thing that made Shen Huaijin teary and still couldn't stop mouthing.

Fearing that he could not get used to chili, Shen Huaijin took another bowl, added chopsticks vermicelli and two spoonfuls of spicy soup, and added two spoonfuls of clear soup to let him taste it slowly.

Li Di—Chopsticks vermicelli entrance, after chewing twice, the movement stopped.

Shen Huaijin saw with his own eyes that his cheeks and earlobes turned red in an instant, with a tangled look of swallowing, spitting, and not spitting, marveling at how blushing could be seen with such a dark complexion, and quickly poured him a glass of water , "This is the first time I ate it. If you feel spicy, spit it out quickly, don't hold back."

Li shook his head, made a swallowing movement, and then took Shen Huaijin's water and drank it, "Fortunately, that sip just now was a bit irritating, and I was sweating all over. It's quite suitable to eat in the cold season."

After he recovered, he added some hot and sour powder to eat, and gradually got used to it, boasting: "This powder with chili powder, after the first bite, my mouth and tongue feel a little prickly, but if I eat too much, I feel a little prickly." Cool."

Shen Huaijin said: "Chili peppers will taste different from different foods, but unfortunately I don't have many chili peppers now. I will plant a batch of chili peppers by the side of the house after the cold season is over, and we can eat them freely after harvesting. "

Li Shi couldn't understand, "Kind?"

Shen Huaijin explained: "During the water season, if we bury the pepper seeds in the soil and pay more attention to watering, weeding and fertilizing, the peppers can grow in the valley according to our wishes. As long as we remember to save the seeds after harvesting, we can — Straight to the chili.”

Li suddenly realized, "It turns out that you can still do this, no wonder you asked Rin to find plants for you. But if this is the case, why don't we plant sweet potatoes and the like in the valley?"

Shen Huaijin shook his head, "The tribe has limited land resources and insufficient manpower. There is no need to specialize in planting sweet potatoes, which have a large yield outside the valley. I only want to grow onions and garlic, which are not easily found outside the valley, and peppers. It's a plant that's only found elsewhere."

Li thought for a while, and said, "Next summer season, I should lead the team to the Omori tribe to go to the market, and then I will help you find useful plants."

Shen Huaijin was naturally happy when she thought of the rice-like plants growing in the Dasen tribe.

The two of them were also a little sleepy after lunch, so they took a good nap while their bodies were still warm.

Shen Huaijin was woken up by Ann's knock on the door. Seeing that Li was also in the room, the other party didn't show any surprise, but smiled meaningfully.

The orcs and sub-beasts in the tribe have stayed in their houses obediently since the snow fell, and they will not come out to communicate as usual unless they have lunch at noon.An came to Shen Huaijin to give him the thread spun by the sub-beasts.

Shen Huaijin took the dozens of rolls of wool, noted which sub-beasts spun a few rolls of yarn, and brought two freshly stewed sweet potatoes for Ann, before watching the other party leave.

Although the sub-beasts are all spinning for the first time, they are skillful and serious in their work, so each coil of thread is at least uniform in thickness, which makes it much easier to knit sweaters later.

During the period after the cold, whether Shen Huaijin was lazing under the blanket or by the fireplace, as long as her hands were idle, she would definitely take the opportunity to spin. In addition to these, it was more than enough to knit a sweater.

Moreover, he has also learned some from his mother. The tool stick needle is also easy to make, and it is not a problem to knit a sweater that does not need patterns.

The thread spun from the polyhair animal wool was still too thin, so Shen Huaijin combined three strands before starting to weave. As the hands flew up and down, the soft wool gradually formed.

Li lay on the side and watched, he hadn't guessed what Shen Huaijin was doing this time, but he had to admit that although Shen Huaijin's white hands seemed insufficient to him, they could always create everyone's dream. I don't understand but in the end - there must be something useful.

"What are you doing?"

While knitting, Shen Huaijin replied, "Sweater. It's made just like the clothes I wore before, but it's much thicker and warmer."

Li nodded, "You are afraid of the cold, so you should wear thicker clothes." He asked again: "What did you exchange these yarns with other sub-beasts in the tribe?"

Shen Huaijin said casually: "Most of them are pottery, and there should be sub-beasts that want to exchange tools such as bows and arrows."

"After the snow melts, I'll find wood to make bows and arrows for you. Don't be too tired."

The sound of crackling sparks came from the fireplace, making people drowsy.

Because Li realized that Shen Huaijin was extremely tolerant and even a little dependent on his animal form, he turned into a giant wolf for most of the day, and was correspondingly more sleepy. He put his head on Shen Huaijin's lap, breathing He fell asleep peacefully.

When Shen Huaijin heard Li's promise, she looked down and saw that the giant wolf had closed its eyes and was fast asleep, except that its shuangli ears trembled slightly occasionally.

He couldn't help smiling.

In the house - a piece of quiet and peaceful.

The author has something to say: What is the feeling of this old couple!The relationship line has gone through two chapters, and the next chapter will be different.

Shen Huaijin: Hot and sour noodles are forever gods!

Snail powder: Wait for me.