Years of comprehensive wear

Abandon.

After hearing her words, Marcus turned Ann's body around.Staring straight into her eyes, in the darkness, his emerald green pupils flickered with folds of brilliance, unexpectedly giving off a feeling of overflowing light. "As long as I have you, it is enough. If one day, let me exchange myself for your happy life, I will do it without hesitation. After being with you, I really feel the joy of living, It’s no longer just running around for food every day, it’s no longer just thinking about living every day. In my heart, your smile under the sunset is more important than everything else. If we are destined to have no offspring in this life, then the two of us, forever Being together is even more of a blessing to me.”

"Marcus." Marcus' words made Ann's heart completely relieved, and she threw herself into Marcus's arms. In this life, it is enough to have such a person, such for you.

Spring flowers

The whole winter passed by like this. Although the temperature of the log cabin was far inferior to the warmth of the house in the winter of the previous life, in An's heart, this was the warmest winter he had ever spent.

After a long winter, the spring is ushered in, and now I think about the scene when I was picked up by Marcus, it seems to be a long time ago.

When spring came, Ann began to go hunting in the forest with Marcus.Of course, as usual, they never really entered the center of the forest. Relying on the traps and bows and arrows dug by Marcus, their prey can fully meet their needs, and there is no need to enter the center of the forest to take risks.As for Ann, she followed Marcus with her wooden knife every day. Of course, her wooden knife was not for hunting at all, but Marcus asked her to use it for self-defense.Follow Marcus every day, he hunts and looks for prey, and she looks for all edible plants. Although Ann used to like to eat meat, it is a bit unbearable to eat like this every day, so she is looking forward to it I can find crops such as potatoes and sweet potatoes.

In her previous life, An had never seen what potatoes and sweet potatoes looked like when they were growing in the ground. She only knew that they grew in the soil, so whenever she went to a new place, she took the roots of those plants she had never seen before. Dig it out and distinguish it carefully.Marcus never said anything about her hobby.Ann carries the simple bags she sewed out of rushes every day, always looking forward to one day being able to fill these bags.

After two months, Ann has never found any kind of potato or sweet potato, but plants, and with the help of Marcus and the books in the space, she has known many kinds.Now, she basically knows which plants can be eaten, which can stop bleeding, and which can repel mosquitoes.

Of course, in the jungle life, they were not without danger, but they were all solved by Marcus, and Marcus was injured several times, all of which made Ann feel more truly the hardships and difficulties of life in ancient times.

Time soon came to summer, and Ann and Marcus both put on the sandals that Ann had made in winter.As for animal skins, Ann no longer wears them. She has woven cattail grass into a size that can replace animal skins, and replaced the thick animal skins on her body. Of course, Ann's weaving skills are not very good, and there are air leaks everywhere on the cattail rushes. holes, but the interlaced sewing of three layers of rushes solves their possible light leakage problem.Cattail grass is tough and thin, even if three layers are put together, it is far more comfortable and cooler than animal skin.

When another month later, Ann suddenly found something like a potato exposed on the ground in the forest, she had already given up the idea of ​​looking for potatoes in the forest.

"Ah! There are potatoes, haha, it doesn't take much effort to get them." Seeing that An was squatting excitedly on the ground, not knowing what he was digging, Marcus stopped and squatted next to Ann.

"What is this?" Seeing An squatting in front of a not-too-high green plant and digging around with a knife, Marcus asked in confusion. The thing in it, but it has not been found, and now it seems that it has been found.

"This is a potato. It's edible. You can eat it alone or put it in broth. With this kind of thing, you don't have to be afraid of winter." While talking, Ann dug out a lump There is also a yellow spherical thing with dirt.The potatoes at this time are much larger than those in the previous life.Ann was very happy to be able to find potatoes. Potatoes, which have always been a staple food in Europe, were discovered in advance, and finally no longer had to eat meat every day.

Ann carefully identified the shape and size of the leaves on the potatoes, and told Marcus to dig out all the surrounding plants.

Marcus faithfully carried out Ann's request, and the two dug potatoes together until the bag Ann brought was filled.

After digging the potatoes, the two stopped staying in the forest, and Ann and Marcus returned to their home.

After returning home, An left a few sprouted potatoes for planting. There was still a large open space in front of the wooden house. An had been thinking about what to plant there. Now that she had potatoes, all of them happened to be planted there. , This winter should be better than last year's winter.

After saving the seeds, Ann asked Marcus to scoop up a lot of water from a nearby stream, washed the potatoes one by one, and boiled more than half of them in batches. She wanted to make potato flour for these potatoes, so that in the future Eat it directly, and it will save you from eating all the sprouts in the future.Ann put a small portion of potatoes left in the small warehouse and kept them for a few days.

After the two of them cleaned up and cut up all the boiled potatoes to dry, most of the day had passed.

In the evening, Ann was going to cook a dish that Marcus had never tasted before. When An usually made broth, she always added some chicken bouillon collected in her own space. Of course she didn’t add much, and Marcus didn’t taste it either. When I came out, I just felt that the taste of this soup was much more delicious than that made by myself.

Ann took out a few potatoes, washed them, cut them into pieces, and took out a small piece of fat from a prey killed a few days ago from a stone bowl with a lid, and put the fat into the stone pot first. Melt it, then put some onion-like plants that I found in it and fry it with a wooden shovel, then put in the soaked dried mushrooms and start frying, then cut some potato pieces from the potatoes that were cooked in the afternoon and put them in Putting in the stone pot, adding cooked potatoes can make the potatoes softer and more delicious. It looks almost ready, then put in the chopped pheasant pieces, and finally add water and a little chicken essence.After stirring a few times with a wooden spatula, An covered the stone pot and waited for the soup to cook slowly.

Then Ann took some overcooked potatoes that had been boiled in the afternoon, peeled them, and crushed them into powder on a wooden board that was used as a cutting board.Put the potato powder into another stone pot, add a little water, and start to heat slowly.

Finally, when the soup began to emit a strong aroma, Ann poured the mashed potatoes that had turned into a stone bowl into a stone bowl, and poured the boiled broth into another stone bowl.

When Ann was cooking, Marcus kept watching and helped Ann with some work from time to time.In the end, when he saw that Ann had turned those inconspicuous round stone-like things into the fragrant and steamy mashed potatoes on the table, his eyes widened in surprise.

"How do you eat this?" Marcus asked Ann, looking at the rice and soup that An brought to the table.

"In this way, you can eat it alone, or you can pour the broth on the mashed potatoes." Holding the wooden spoon that An had asked Marcus to make a long time ago, Ann demonstrated to Marcus how to eat mashed potatoes.

"I didn't expect this humble thing to be so delicious. In this way, we have one more thing to eat in winter." While eating, Marcus chatted excitedly with Ann.

Of course, potatoes have dominated the European table for a long time.It can be eaten in a variety of ways and is easy to store. Even if no other crops are found, potatoes alone are considered a good harvest.

"Marcus, help me turn over the field in front of the house tomorrow, I want to grow some potatoes myself, so we can store more potatoes, and you can relax a little bit before winter."

"I don't feel hard at all. You can't even imagine how much easier I am than before. Besides, men are meant to hunt and support women." Sure enough, what Marcus said made Ann realize that men, whether they are ancient or modern Yes, there are some machismos in their bones.

"Okay, then you went out to wash the dishes." Although the stream was just outside the yard, Ann was reluctant to go. For people who were used to running water, this distance was still too far.It's not that An has never thought about making something that stores water, but the problem is that wooden barrels will leak after a long time, and stone barrels are too difficult to make. Small things like stone pots and stoves can always be made if you spend time. It was dug out, but the stone water tank was a bit too big, and Marcus couldn't move such a big stone.Unfortunately, pottery has not yet appeared in this era. Maybe one day, she can find books on basic pottery making in the space.Thinking of this, she once rejoiced that she swept through the books in a bookstore when she passed by. The study room in the villa is very large in the space, and the bookshelves on all sides reach to the roof, and her own book does not show anything at all when she puts it in. , She had no choice but to sweep through another bookstore, and put some useful books in it, such as history, geography, and various practical books.finally pretend