Cute Beast Food Garden

"I've already picked the medicine, but the amount is not enough." The man immediately got up and followed Ah Jin to the village, almost forgetting that there was an unknown "little tail" behind him.

Fortunately, the bird reacted in time. One second before the man was about to leave with his long legs, it swooped forward, squeezed its chubby body into the man's trousers, and followed him.

While rushing forward, the man asked about the situation at home.From the conversation between the two of them, Qi Yan deduced that the man named Ah Jin was the man's neighbor or friend, and he had been helping to take care of the man's mother while the man was out looking for medicine.

"Brother Mo, your younger brother is really serious. As soon as you left, he packed the package and said that he went hunting with Lao Kang in the north of the village, but left Lingtang alone at home. If I hadn't gone out this morning You took another look in the room, no one knows that Lingtang has passed out at this moment."

Hearing Ah Jin's ramblings, the man frowned, his expression solemn.

"... But luckily you finally picked the medicine back. The journey of seven or eight days was hard, right?" Ah Jin caught a glimpse of the scars exposed under the man's clothes, "Bailing Mountain is not very peaceful. Some strange beasts come and go, and some even eat people."

The man replied in a low voice: "It's not just a beast. On the way back, I encountered a mountain torrent, and I couldn't run in time. I was washed directly into the river by the flood, and almost lost my life."

"Encountered a mountain torrent...!" Ah Jin's eyes widened in shock, looking at the side of the man's face, hesitant to speak.

"Hmm... the luck of the misfortune. I came back alive, and the medicine I picked was not lost."

"That's right." Ah Jin casually picked up the towel on his shoulders and wiped it on his face.The muddy sweat was smeared all over his face, making him look even more like a big painted face.

"In recent years, river floods have occurred frequently, and the river's mouth has always burst its embankment, washing the fields inside the embankment into a mess. The water is dangerous." Ah Jin sighed, "In my opinion, our village is not very peaceful. Many villagers in the upper reaches of the Nianjiang River were hit by disasters, and they escaped after they didn’t want the fields. These days, people have been squatting outside my house to beg for food. Alas, Feng Shui turns, and it may be our village’s turn at any time gone."

Ah Jin's attitude towards the future is very pessimistic.The man bowed his head in silence, and the two arrived outside a small courtyard in the center of the village one after the other.

The man rushed into the room, and immediately saw the pale middle-aged woman lying on the bed.

"mother……"

"Brother Mo, she has been asleep and hasn't woken up. Let's cook the lark root quickly!"

The man carried a cloth bag and dragged the catfish meat, and walked quickly into the kitchen.Ah Jin came to help, and the two quickly boiled a pot of water, then picked out the lark root from the cloth bag and poured it into the pot.

One of them burns firewood, and the other uses a spoon to stir the pot from time to time.There is no so-called "range hood" in the quaint firewood room. When the wood under the stove is lit and a fire is started, the thick smoke that has not had time to dissipate overflows from it and fills the whole room.

Eyed by the thick smoke, the little bird covered its mouth and nose with its wings, and sneaked out from the man's trousers.In order not to disturb the man making the medicine, it took small steps and walked quickly outside the house.

The air here is very fresh.Qi Yan opened his eyes wide, looked around, and breathed freely.

Here is a real country, and an ancient country at that.In his previous life, he grew up in the city and rarely had the opportunity to play in the countryside.This time, he was lucky enough to see the real rural countryside with his own eyes. Behind him was a simple house made of earth and stones. A small vegetable garden was planted in the yard, and he also fed a few chickens.

"Blah blah blah..."

From a distance came a flock of poultry.Seen a lot of wild monsters in the river, Qi Yan seldom saw species similar to the earth in the other world, but now he found that the hens pecking rice on the ground are similar to the hens on the earth.

Perhaps, the species in this world is very rich and diverse. There are not only exotic animals that are completely different from the earth, such as catfish, cotton candy, etc., but also similar or identical species to the earth, such as chickens, ducks, and crucian carp.

"Cuckoo?"

A khaki hen was looking for something to eat on the ground with a series of chicks behind her, when she suddenly saw a red penguin-shaped bird standing at the door of the house.It stretched its neck curiously, and looked this way.

"Gack, cluck..."

Qi Yan felt a little nervous when he noticed that the hen was getting closer and closer to him.After all, he is just a fledgling now, not much bigger than the bunch of chickens following behind the hen.Seeing the hen and its children walking towards him, Qi Yan felt surrounded by fluffy balls, and immediately tensed his nerves.

The hen came closer.Before it had time to do anything, a yellow-feathered chick ran out from behind it, with two short legs, and flew straight towards Qi Yan.

"Jeep!"

The brave chick suddenly ran forward, circled behind Qi Yan, pecked the red bird's back twice, then turned around and ran away.

"Guji!" Qi Yan yelled softly, he was suddenly pecked by the bad chick with his sharp beak on a place that was difficult to guard against, and he couldn't help jumping up in pain.

"Giggle!"

Seeing this, the hen spread her wings and slapped the bad chick twice.It angrily drove the naughty chicken away from Qi Yan, then turned its head to face the red bird.

"Giggle!"

Qi Yan originally thought that he would be punished if he came to someone else's territory, but he didn't expect that the hen didn't drive him away, but told him to follow it to catch bugs in the vegetable field ahead.

"Cluck! Cluck!"

Seeing the little chick standing behind him blankly, the hen personally demonstrated and taught it to catch worms in the field.Finding that no matter how much he taught the little bird, he would stay where he was and was unwilling to move. The kind hen pulled the bug out of the ground and put it in front of the little bird.

"Cuckoo!"

Qi Yan watched the hen's movements.He knew in his heart that the mother hen might be looking at him alone, so he kindly fed him the worm.However, looking at the squirming green guy on the ground, Qi Yan felt nauseated, and stood awkwardly in front of the bug, at a loss for what to do.

Suddenly, two balls of fur, one yellow and one white, rushed out from the chickens behind, flashed past in front of him, and snatched away the bug.

"Cluck!" The hen screamed and chased the two balls of chicks, and ran away thumping.Only then did Qi Yan heave a sigh of relief.The appearance of those two naughty eggs is just right, at least they don't have to face the dilemma of being forced to eat bugs raw.

While the hen was chasing them, the little red bird ran away from the vegetable garden with short legs.

After more than an hour, the medicinal herb was finally boiled, and an extremely strong medicinal fragrance spread in the simple house, and the steaming smoke filled the entire kitchen.

The man took out a bowl of medicinal soup from the pot and brought it to his mother in the bedroom.Ah Jin helped the man's mother to sit up, and the two cooperated with each other, one helped him and the other scooped the soup, and finally fed a bowl of herbal medicine spoon by spoon.

"The doctor said, eat a bowl of Bailinggen after boiling, and eat another bowl after half an hour."

The man helped the mother back to the bed, lay down and continued to rest. She didn't wake up until the medicine was fed.Ah Jin wiped his sweat casually, squatted on the small stool in the kitchen and fanned himself.

"It's boring enough today, and it's even more boring in the room. Sigh."

After taking the medicine for his mother, the man's tense face finally relaxed a bit.He looked back at Ah Jin: "Thank you for today."

"It's okay." Ah Jin waved his hands indifferently, "Why are you being polite to me?"

While talking, a fiery red flannel waddled in from the kitchen door, taking small, pattering steps.

Ah Jin's eyes widened: "Hey, this is..."

"I don't know what kind of bird I picked up on the way home."

The man bent down and stretched out his hand.The little bird immediately raised its short legs, jumped onto the man's palm, and cooed softly.

The man picked up the little red bird, and Ah Jin looked at it curiously: "Hey, this little bird is different from other birds. Look, it's small and fat, with big dull eyes. "

"Guji!" The little bird flapped its wings and protested loudly.I will not stay!

Ah Jin was taken aback by the sudden flapping of its wings, and scratched his hair: "This little fireball has a big temper. Hey, yes—" He looked up at the man, "Brother Mo, this little bird seems to be You can understand me saying 'bad things' about it."

The man smiled: "It may be the cub of some kind of spirit beast. It's smart. I was swept into the river by the torrent when I came back from collecting medicine, but it saved me and helped me to apply the medicine."

"This is really terrible..." Ah Jin smiled and grabbed the little bird's plush head, and was immediately glared angrily by the big light blue eyes.

"Haha, I'm pretty hot-tempered, it's really fun." Ah Jin grinned, and pulled his hair more vigorously, "I've never seen this appearance before, but it looks very clever, maybe it's really some kind of clever The cubs of the beast."

After hearing Ah Jin's conjecture, the man didn't answer.He touched the little bird sitting sullenly in his hand, and a faint smile appeared in his eyes.

"Oh, that's right..." Ah Jin glanced into the man's room, and said in a low voice, "Speaking of collecting herbs... your mother is so seriously ill, but your brother doesn't care about her, and goes out for two or three days I haven't even heard from you. Although this is your family matter, I, an outsider, have no right to talk, but... Le Hong is really outrageous."

"Hong'er is not a child anymore, and his mother is hoping that he can learn a craft. It would be great to go out with Lao Kang to learn hunting. In the future, when he develops skills, he will be able to make a living by himself."

Ah Jin said softly: "That's not what you said. It's not a good time to learn to hunt, but you have to sneak out when your mother is sick. I think he deliberately wants to be happy outside, but puts all the burden of taking care of the family on the back." It's too ignorant to put it on your shoulders."

The man lowered his eyes.In the end, he looked at Ah Jin helplessly, and said, "As you said, Hong'er has such a temperament, playful and lazy. It's hard to find a job, so let him go."

Ah Jin hesitated for a moment, and said to the man: "It's not an option for your family to go on like this. My younger brother is idle, but you are chained at home all day and can't get away. If you don't have to take care of your mother, you can follow my father and my brother." Let’s go to the mountains to hunt together.”

He leaned forward and said in a low voice: "Brother Mo, just rely on your skill—follow, what kind of things can't we catch? Pour some fruits, wild vegetables, dry goods, animal meat, and even wild ginseng from the mountains." What’s more, if you sell it in the town, the silver and copper coins you get will make you a lot of money, and the preservation is much better than the few acres of land you planted at home. Brother, you are so clear and transparent in your heart, why? Will you not be able to calculate this account?"

The man stared straight at Ah Jin, and looked away uncomfortably from the other side.He smiled: "A Jin, haven't you given up the idea of ​​encouraging me to go into the mountains?"