The old lady quickly put the pottery pot on the stove, took out the food bag inside and returned it to Qingyan, "Young lady, you can't help me. We have enough food in the house. We don't know how to thank you. Hello, we should have a meal." You deserve your share, how can you let the girl provide the food herself?"
Qingyan took a few steps back and said with a smile: "I bought this when I came here today. I didn't expect it was raining heavily. You see, this bag is already wet. It won't last for a few days. It's better to put it away now." It did."
Although Chou Chou had just taken out this bag of grain, the basket had been hanging under the car, so the rain had indeed wet the basket before, so now there was really a lot of water on the bag.
In fact, it was only the bag that was wet, not the inside. As long as the bag was changed, it would be fine. Qingyan was just looking for an excuse.
Because of Qingyan's insistence, the old lady couldn't refuse, but she didn't want the rabbit at all. "We are ashamed to receive this food. Just keep the rabbit for yourself. Keqin often goes to the mountains to hunt. Is there any food in the kitchen?" Less dried wild animals, we can just eat that."
Qingyan shook her head directly, "I don't have to stay with you for a day or two. This rabbit will stink. Your dried rabbit can be kept there, but this one cannot.
I caught this in the field on the roadside on my way here. I will just catch fresh ones when the time comes. If you feel bad about it, just ask Brother Keqin to teach me how to tan the leather.
We also often catch some prey, but even if we don’t know how to tan the skin, we just throw it away. It’s such a waste. "
In fact, no, those leathers that were beaten before were simply tanned by Yang Erzhuang with plant ash and sewn together when he was with the people in Yangjiaping. They were used as mattresses to sleep on when sleeping in the open at night.
The prey that Chou Chou secretly harvested were not wasted, they were all piled up in its space, but they could not be used without being tanned.
When the old lady saw what she said, she looked at her son.
Yin Keqin stood at the door of the kitchen at some point. He responded without saying a word, took the rabbit from her hand, and said to Qingyan as he walked out: "It's actually quite troublesome to make leather, but there are also things that are simple. Methods.
I can tell you the steps now. Miss Hengyue is smart. If I tell you about it, you will probably learn it. Let’s do it in the yard. "
Qingyan nodded and followed him out of the kitchen.
The old lady put the food aside and boiled hot water for her son to pick up the rabbit. The rabbit had to eat for a while, otherwise the meat would not be soft.
What Qingyan took out was flour, and when the rabbit was stewed, she could fry the flatbread in another pot.
Qingyan followed Yin Keqin to the yard and was impressed by how skillfully he peeled off the skin completely.
She can also skin rabbits. She learned it from Yang Erzhuang before, but she is not so skilled and the skin she peels is not very complete.
Later, when we ate rabbits and pheasants, Chouchou had prepared them before cooking them for her, and they were very clean.
There is a difference between occasional hunting and those who exclusively rely on hunting for a living. Professionals and amateurs are indeed different.
Qingyan memorized his skinning steps, and then listened to him explain the simplest method of tanning leather.
It’s similar to Yang Erzhuang’s method. Just clean it up, soak it in plant ash, and then let it dry.
After cleaning up the rabbit, Yin Keqin carried it into the kitchen, and then there was a sound of "dang-dang-dang", which must be that he was chopping the rabbit.
Qingyan sat on a small bench in the courtyard. As soon as she sat down, someone came in outside the courtyard door.
Just when Qingyan was about to call Yin Keqin to have a guest, he came towards her and shouted: "Oh! Girl, I was running away for my life before, and I didn't even thank the girl for saving my life. It's better to calm down now." I'm coming over.
We don't have any good things in the backcountry. This is my family's wish. I hope the girl won't dislike it. "
Immediately afterwards, there was a basket in Qingyan's arms, and inside it was a neatly folded piece of coarse cloth, which she must have woven by herself.
She pushed back quickly, "It can't be done, it can't be done. I'm just trying to save myself, but I can't say I'm showing any kindness to you."
The two of them were excusing each other, and a few more people came to the courtyard gate, and then a dozen more people came one after another, all holding things in their hands, including eggs, a chicken, and some dry goods from the mountains. Anyway, there were all kinds of things.
The old lady heard the voice and came out of the kitchen. Seeing the look of help on Qingyan's face, not only did she not help her refuse the thank-you gifts from the villagers, but instead persuaded her to accept their wishes.
In the end, those people simply dropped their things and ran away. The old lady returned to the kitchen and continued cooking. Qingyan looked at the things on the ground and couldn't help but smile.
She sent a message to Chou Chou: "This is the first time that I feel that others are too enthusiastic and scary. What should I do with these things? I would be too embarrassed to accept them."
Chou Chou: "Take it. It was us who saved them, otherwise they would have died there. You don't have to feel guilty at all if you take it."
Qingyan sighed, "It's easy for you to say. How can I put so many things? The carriage is almost full."
Chou Chou couldn't help but rolled his eyes, "You can just eat the food in these two days, and then return the baskets, there won't be anything left in the end."
"All right."
Qingyan carried the grain, eggs, and chickens directly into the kitchen. Before the two of them could speak, she spoke first: "I'll stay here for two more days, so we'll eat these, and I'll take care of the rest." Leave.
By the way, I have to ask my aunt to take me to return those baskets and baskets. I can't tell which one belongs to which house. "
The old lady choked back before she could say anything. She shook her head and responded with a smile. Fortunately, they sent many kinds and not many quantities. She should be able to finish it with three meals in the past two days.
The chicken was still alive, so she put it under a bamboo basket and killed it again before eating.
There were a lot of eggs, so she just fried one with green onions, which was a perfect match with the flatbread.
They didn't raise chickens at home, but they had raised chickens before. Because they were close to the mountain, they were always stolen by wild animals coming down from the mountains at night. After that, they didn't bother to raise chickens. Anyway, their family didn't lack meat.
Qingyan was so full after eating this dinner that she felt the food was even more delicious than the food in the restaurant.
This dish is made in a home-cooked way. There are no ingredients, but it is very fragrant. It makes people want to eat it and eat more.
Especially the plate of scrambled eggs with scallions and freshly baked crispy flatbread, it's so delicious.
The taste of this kind of home-cooked meal cannot be compared to that in a restaurant. Of course, the prerequisite is that the cook must be good at cooking.
Obviously the old lady's cooking skills are very good. She thought the radish stewed with cabbage in the fantasy world was delicious. She thought it was beautified by her imagination. Unexpectedly, the old lady's cooking skills were better in reality.
After dinner, it was still dark, so the old lady and Yin Keqin were not in a hurry to leave this time. The three of them sat in the main room and chatted.
Qingyan asked them: "What are your plans in the future? The ancestors in the sacrificial place have disappeared. Will you leave here in the future or stay in the village and continue to live?"
She asked because she knew they wanted to leave here before.
The old lady and Yin Keqin looked at each other and thought for a while before speaking: "I wanted to leave before because of Keqin's sister and brother. I was afraid that they would be chosen to be sacrificed alive. Who knows that they might not escape death later?" Tribulation.
Now we are the only two left. It doesn’t really matter where we are from now on. We have lived everywhere, and we are still familiar with each other in the village.
The only idea now is to bring the bones of his father and brother back and bury them in the ancestral graves, so that they don’t become lonely ghosts anymore. But I don’t know if we can stay so far away from the village. If we are gone, no one will visit the graves in the future. None. "
Because Yin Keqin's father and brother and sister had escaped, they were not allowed to be buried back in the ancestral grave. Because the place where they died was too far away, they couldn't transport the bones back, so they were buried directly in the nearby mountains.
The two of them didn't even have a chance to take a look, because they were far away from the village. Even if they died outside in the end, the whole family would be ruined.
The news of the death of father and son was reported by people from the government. They gave the yamen officer some money and asked someone to help bury them there.
Fortunately, the yamen officer probably knew something unusual about Qinian Village, so he didn't refuse. He even made a special trip to tell them the approximate location after the burial.
They all remembered it, and every year when the festival came, they would recall that location, thinking that if they could go there one day, they could move them back, or they could go there to worship.
Qingyan nodded, "Don't worry, there will be no hindrance if you want to go out in the future. As soon as Yin Jin disappeared, the formation here was also destroyed.
The reason why you couldn't leave here too far before was not because of the curse or the formation, but because your ancestors had a contract with Yin Jin.
Now that the owner of the contract has disappeared, the contract has disappeared with it. I was sacrificed alive by the illusion before, and I accidentally knew the reason. "
In fact, she and Chou Chou had studied the contract. If their ancestors were still alive, they would all die together once Yin Jin died. Fortunately, after so many generations, the power of the contract is no longer so powerful, but it can still trap him. Just stay within the range they left.
They couldn't be too far away from Yin Jin before, which was actually very scary, but now they are completely free. Even if Yin Jin is not dead yet, he has been received into the space by Chou Chou, which is equivalent to being isolated from the world. It is nothing like death. the difference.
When the mother and son heard this, they smiled from the bottom of their hearts.
After more than ten years, they can finally worship their husband/father, son/brother, daughter/sister.
Now that there is no obstruction from the clan leader and clan elders in the village, they should be able to move their bones back directly.
The remaining villagers are all people with the same problem as them, so they should not object. Some people's families also fled Qinian Village, otherwise everyone would not say that as long as they stay away from the village, they will die outside.
So if you go and tell those people the good news, then everyone can go out together and bring back those who have died in a foreign land.
It happens that the clan leader's branch is dead. They have an ox cart at home. It should be no problem to use it when the time comes. Then they can buy a coffin in the town, pick up the bones in the coffin, pull them back, and bury them in the ancestral graves in the back mountain. .
The three of them chatted for a while and then went back to their rooms to rest.
Qingyan went to the house in the fantasy before. Only now did she realize that this house belonged to the old lady's daughter. It had been kept for more than ten years. She thought that the old lady really loved her daughter.
He asked Chou Chou to take out a basin and water and wash himself briefly, then took off his outer jacket and lay in bed wearing single clothes.
As soon as I lay down in bed, I shivered from the cold air in the bed. The temperature was a bit low this night. I don't know if it was because of the heavy rain before. It felt much colder than in the inn yesterday.
Qingyan missed the feeling of sleeping with the little leopard and Chou Chou in her arms. They were like little stoves, and the little leopard always slept next to her. She was not used to it when they were suddenly gone.
"Chou Chou, is it okay if you have money? How is it doing now? How long will it take to come out?"
Chou Chou replied: "It won't work in a short time, at least it will take ten days and a half, and it will have to slowly fuse with the blood essence. Don't worry, nothing will happen to it as long as I protect it.
But you have to be mentally prepared. After it comes out, its appearance may change a little, and it probably won't be much like what it looked like before. "
Qingyan wondered: "Could it be that after merging the essence and blood, you can still look like that Qiongqi? Can't you also grow wings and turn into a tiger?"
No, it's a leopard. How could a leopard turn into a tiger? These are completely two species. "
Chou Chou shrugged: "I can't say for sure, anyway, there will definitely be changes. As for what it will look like, it's hard to say.
But if I really have wings, it will be even harder to appear in front of people in the future. I'm afraid I will have to stay in my space most of the time, or hide in the carriage. "
For a moment, Qingyan didn't know whether to be happy for the little leopard or feel sad for it. In the future, she might have to hide in Chou Chou's space, and it was hard to think about it.
Of course, it is also possible to become like a normal beast. As long as it doesn't become weird, then you can only hide in the dark.
Thinking that Chou Chou said before that living creatures can enter the space, but he can't sleep now, he said to it: "Then can I go into your space and take a look? Anyway, I can't sleep, so I want to go to your space for a walk." ”
Chou Chou nodded, "Of course, but you'd better be mentally prepared. My space is different from Xiangxiang's space."
Qingyan raised her eyebrows, what does this mean?
Then I felt my eyes flash, and I appeared in a dark place.
When I was in the house before, there was moonlight coming in from the window, and I could vaguely see something. Now I can't really see anything.
(End of chapter)
