Defeat natural disasters with farming

When the group returned to Ye's house, the sky had already darkened, coupled with the biting cold wind, it made people shrink their necks uncontrollably.

As soon as Mrs. Ye opened the door, a beige puppy rushed out and ran around them.

"Wang!"

Ye Yu was carried off the donkey cart by Father Ye a long time ago. He first rubbed his eyes to drive away the sleepiness, then knelt down and patted Xiaomi's head, "Good boy."

However, Xiaomi didn't enjoy the master's caress this time. Instead, he pricked up his ears and looked at the stranger vigilantly.

The stranger himself, Chu Xufeng, stood there calmly and let it look at him.

"Don't be afraid, this is a guest from home."

Ye Yu patted Xiaomi's head, leaned over, picked it up and walked to Chu Xufeng's side, letting him get acquainted with the smell.

Xiaomi shook his nose as if he could understand the words, and after a while his ears collapsed, and he happily stretched out his tongue to lick the little master's hand.

The moistness of the palms made Ye Yu laugh twice, "Don't make trouble, it's so itchy."

"Brother Bao, don't stand in the yard, it's so cold, go back to the house and rest for a while, and I'll call you after dinner is ready." Mother Ye said while washing her hands: "There are few rooms at home, so I have to trouble you today. Mr. Chu is sleeping with my little one, don't be disgusted, this Mr. Jia is afraid that he will live apart from you."

Chu Xufeng waved his hand, "Just call me Xufeng, or Jia Yi. Now it's our master and servant who are bothering you. If it's troublesome, it's us who bother you."

Mother Ye changed her mind after thinking about it, "Brother Bao, take Brother Xufeng to your room to rest for a while."

Ye Yu put down Xiaomi and invited, "Come with me."

Chu Xufeng gave Jia Yi a wink, telling him to leave with Ye He and the others at ease. He is still very confident in his skills, at least there should be no one in the entire Ye family who can beat him.

Immediately afterwards, he followed the child around the yard and into a hut in the southwest corner.

Ye Yu stepped forward to light the oil lamp on the kang table, and in an instant, a light the size of soybeans appeared in the room.

The hut was indeed small, but it was neatly organized. There was a kang bed under the window, and a pine-wood kang table in the middle of the bed, with some scattered objects placed on it.

There are three kang cabinets on the kang bed, all of which are pure wood, with wood texture on the cabinet surface, without any carved patterns, simple and simple, as for the hinges and handles, they are made of brass.

There is a pair of tables and stools on the left side of the kang bed. The wooden table is only as high as his waist. It can be seen that it is specially made for children. It is also made of good wood. Although the shape is ordinary, it is very strong.

On the wooden table are a few thread-bound books with blue covers, a bamboo pen holder, a brush, a stack of yellowed paper and a few ink sticks, and there is a pottery pot in the upper right corner against the wall , there are a few golden flowers protruding from it, swaying to their heart's content.

"When you go to bed at night, you can move the kang table to the end of the bed. This whole kang bed is enough for the two of us to sleep."

Chu Xufeng smiled and replied, "Okay."

Then he pointed to the yellow flowers on the desk, "What kind of flower is this?"

"It's calendula." Ye Yu touched the flower with his finger and replied, "This is a kind of flower that is not afraid of severe cold, and it can still bloom in such a cold day."

"No wonder the room is so fragrant." As soon as Chu Xufeng came in, he smelled a fragrance, which was both floral and fruity, very intoxicating.

Ye Yu sniffled when he heard the words, why didn't he smell the so-called fragrance?Could it be that he is used to it?

Chu Xufeng didn't entangle this issue too much. After getting Ye Yu's consent, he took two steps forward and picked up the book on the table. He glanced at the book cover. It was "Three Character Classic". Time for enlightenment.

Ye Yu ignored him, and sat on the kang and played handshaking games with Xiaomi for a while.

The two of them didn't feel awkward doing their own thing, but were very comfortable.

After an unknown amount of time, Mother Ye came in with a basin and opened the door, "Come here and wash your hands, it's time to eat."

They put down the things in their hands, washed their hands with soap locusts, and then went to the main room together.

The big dish tonight is a pot of braised pig's trotters. The pigs were slaughtered a few days ago, and they have been frozen in the big vat outside until today when there are guests at home.

A plate of brown-red and oily pig's trotters was placed on the table, and the delicious smell of meat rushed to the face, causing everyone at the table to swallow their mouths.

The staple food is a pot of brown rice. After the old lady Ye made it, she was still worried about whether Chu Xufeng, who was born in a wealthy family, would get used to it, but she didn't expect him to be the one who ate it most deliciously.

He eats with speed and elegance.

"Since my mother passed away, I basically grew up in the military camp. Uncle Ye should know how the food tastes in the military camp. My father is not the one who would let me make small cooking, so I have never eaten better than you It's time to eat."

This made Mrs. Ye smile like a flower, and hurriedly said: "Since you like to eat, eat more."

Ye Yu took a mouthful of rice soaked in soup, the slightly sweet rice rolled in his mouth, and then took a mouthful of oily and soft pig's trotters. After swallowing, he still felt the fragrance on his lips and teeth.

The only downside is that it is easy to get tired of eating too much rich collagen. Fortunately, Mrs. Ye specially placed a plate of dried radish next to it. The salty, slightly spicy dried radish is paired with soft and tender pork trotters, which has a special taste.

A good meal is enough to soothe the tiredness of the day.

After dinner, the tall and taciturn Jia Yi brought the luggage over. Ye Yu was surprised that there was only one package in their luggage. Judging by the capacity, it shouldn't be able to hold much.

After Chu Xufeng took it, he sent him to rest. Seeing Ye Yu staring at the package in his hand, he smiled and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Did you bring this little luggage when you came all the way?"

"Jia Yi and I alone don't need too many things. If we don't meet an inn on the road, we may even sleep in the open. It's useless to bring too much luggage."

Originally, his maternal ancestral family sent someone to pick him up, but because of his mother's affairs, Chu Xufeng never got used to his maternal ancestral family, so he brought Jia Yi here by himself. If the normal development follows, he should have lived in Zheng's family until the end. He will go back to the border town after the Chinese New Year, but he may not be able to do it now, he can't stay in the Zheng family for a day.

After he said this, he unwrapped the package and took out the contents. The first thing he took out was a large bank note. The corners of Ye Yu's mouth twitched as he looked at it, and he randomly slapped a large amount of money on the kang table.

Immediately afterwards, there was another set of clean clothes. Ashamed to say, he even bought these clothes at the market.

At this time, Mother Ye came in with a brand new toothbrush and a cloth towel.

"This is a toothbrush I made at home. I use pig bristles. The cloth towel is also new. You can just use it when you wash up."

Chu Xufeng said gratefully, "I'm sorry to trouble you."

After Ye's mother left, he made a decision in his heart that he would leave the bank note to his family when he left.

After a simple wash, the two of them lay on the kang bed and covered themselves with a quilt.

Ye Yu shrank in, and said, "The top of the kang is the hottest, do you want to come a little closer to me?"

Hearing this, Chu Xufeng moved his body and moved towards Ye Yu, and soon his calf touched Ye Yu's foot, but this made him stunned for a moment, the child's feet were cold, and even a trace of heat No.

"Are you cold?"

Ye Yu curled up his toes uncomfortably, and said with some embarrassment: "It's okay."

It's just that I forgot to fill the hot water bag today. I'm really not used to it. As for the cold, it's not too cold.

"Are you going to go to school next year? Go to an academy in the county?"

After Chu Xufeng asked this question, he naturally hugged Ye Yu's small body and put his feet on his lap.

"Yes, but if you don't go to the county seat, you can learn a few words in the private school in the village."

When Ye Yu came to his senses, he was already nestled in the hot arms of the young man.

Chu Xufeng thought for a while, and then said: "If you want to take the imperial examination, you'd better go to an academy to study. Not only is there a difference in the teacher's teaching, but even the connections are very different."

After entering the school, the teachers and classmates are one of the contacts. Even if they enter the court in the future, the students from the two same academies are always closer than others.

Ye Yu felt a little hot from his high body temperature, so he poked his head out to catch his breath with difficulty, "Let's talk about the imperial examination, we still need to learn how to read with the master first."

"this is okay too."

Chu Xufeng felt the opposite of Ye Yu's. He was born with a high body temperature, and he was not afraid of the cold but the heat. It was just right to hold Ye Yu, who had a slightly lower body temperature, in his arms.

It doesn't matter if he is not in the imperial court now, his father has not been back for more than ten years in order to stay away from the gunpowder in central Beijing, and he has lived and ate with the soldiers in the border town all these years.

Speaking of which, even though their family has the title of a great general, their life is not as good as any other family in Beijing. After all, his father often pays for the soldiers out of his own pocket.

Chu Xufeng thought about it, and his thoughts drifted away.

Ye Yu hesitated for a while, but finally couldn't hold back, and asked in a low voice, "Does your guard know martial arts?"

"Of course." Chu Xufeng looked at the round cat eyes of the child in his arms and replied, "I will too."

"Then will you fly over walls?" Ye Yu's eyes lit up when he heard that.

Fly over the roof?Chu Xufeng froze there, and it took him a while to realize, "You mean lightness work?"

"Yeah." Ye Yu was always curious about this matter, whether there is light work in this world.

"If you're talking about the kind of light work that doesn't make a sound when jumping from a tree to the ground, there is. But if you're talking about floating on water, it's absolutely impractical."

Isn't it a bit like modern parkour to say light work?

After hearing this, Ye Yu thought to himself, in this case, the so-called internal strength probably does not exist.

After satisfying his curiosity, Ye Yu finally fell asleep contentedly. He didn't feel the chill at all this night, and he had no dreams until dawn.

When he woke up the next day, he found that he was alone on the bed, the quilt was tightly tucked under him, and the temperature next to him was gone, so he guessed that he had already woken up.

Ye Yu yawned and straightened up, wiped away a tear from the corner of his eye with his fingers, then dragged the warm clothes from the end of the bed to put on.

When he opened the door, he found that there were snowflakes outside again. He didn't know when the snow started to fall, and a thick layer of snow had already accumulated on the ground.

For breakfast, I ate salty tofu nao with sticky bean buns.

The hot tofu nao is poured with a sauce made of minced pork and fungus. After thickening, the tofu nao is thick and delicious.

When you dig it with a spoon, it becomes a piece of tender and smooth tofu. It is very delicate when it enters the mouth, and it melts as soon as you sip it. The salty sauce well covers the beany smell, but makes the bean aroma more obvious.

After eating a bowl, I was sweating.

Chu Xufeng was amazed after taking a sip, "This food is called tofu? It's the first time I've seen it."

Ye Yu's hand that scooped up the tofu nao paused, and then remembered that this tofu recipe also borrowed the name of his father.

At this moment, Father Ye answered calmly, "We discovered this method by accident, and for various reasons, we borrowed General Chu's name."

Chu Xufeng understood it after thinking about it for a while, he nodded and smiled, "My father is also willing to come if I want to."

This matter was cleared up in their two simple sentences.

And the sweet and soft glutinous bean buns are extra sweet when dipped in a little sugar, but unfortunately Ye Yu can only eat one.

After breakfast, the north wind was still whistling outside the window, and the snowflakes hit the window lattice like fluttering silver butterflies.

As soon as Chu Xufeng went out, his head and face were covered with snow, and he hurried back to the house.

So Mrs. Ye asked to stay, "You two don't want to stay for another night? Wait for the snow to stop before leaving."

The snowflakes that swirled just now fell on his face like blades, and Chu Xufeng can still feel the slightest pain until now.

He originally thought about going to the county town to buy two horses today and riding them back to the border town, but in this situation, riding a horse is equivalent to sending him to death.

So he could only apologize: "Then I have to bother you for another day."

As soon as the words were finished, Ye He was the most excited. He jumped up and said excitedly, "Okay, then Jia Yi can teach me martial arts!"

Ye Yu didn't understand, he looked at Ye He in surprise.

Ye He didn't notice his eyes all the time, but Chu Xufeng explained: "Jia got up to practice exercises this morning, and just happened to be bumped into by your brother, pestering him to try his hands and feet."

After speaking, a smile appeared on his face again, "Your brother is indeed suitable for learning martial arts."

Ye He has excellent physical fitness and natural strength, and is quite talented in learning martial arts.

So he suggested: "You can find a martial arts master for your brother."

Although it may be a bit late now, he has been using various medicinal materials to strengthen his muscles and bones since he was three years old. He has used countless medicinal materials over the years, and of course the price is quite high.

But obviously Ye He doesn't need to keep improving, if he only learns martial arts itself, it is enough to eat well every day.

His words happened to be heard by Mrs. Ye, and she looked thoughtful after listening. This matter is indeed worth considering.

The snow didn't stop until the evening, but it changed from razor-sharp to soft falling snow.

The doors and windows of the house were tightly closed all afternoon, and everyone gathered in the main room to warm up by the fire.

Mother Ye is packing the silkworm chrysalis she bought from the market. They have been boiled in a pot with salt for [-] quarters of an hour, and they are thoroughly ripe.

The next step is to roast it with fire. When the skin of the silkworm chrysalis begins to crack, sprinkle with salt and pepper powder, and the fragrance will gradually spread out.

Silkworm chrysalis is rich in protein, it is crispy and delicious when chewed, and can even be eaten as a snack, one bite when you are bored.

Even the most unacceptable lotus flower before eating, after tasting one, I have to admit that the roasted silkworm chrysalis is indeed burnt and delicious.

Chu Xufeng picked up one and threw it into his mouth without changing his expression. He had eaten almost everything in the border town, especially silkworm chrysalis like this.

He can even chat with Mother Ye which kind of worm is more delicious.

"There is a kind of woodworm that is the most delicious. It is delicious only after frying it with a little oil, and there is no need to add seasoning."

The more Ye's mother watched, the more she felt that this boy was pleasing to the eye, and in the end the two chatted more and more speculatively.