Although it's just a lamb, it's not something that can be stewed in a small pot. Anyway, it's all done once. Since it's done, it's all done right away, so you can save it and eat it slowly.
He asked Chou Chou to take out the big pot, pick up a few stones to build a stove in the leeward area behind the wooden house, and stew it directly in the big pot.
She didn't pick out each part of the meat separately, but just put it out in one pot. She put in the condiments and checked the time, then added firewood next to it and waited for it to be ready.
In fact, she had forgotten the order of adding these condiments, so she simply put them all in. The taste should not be too bad.
By the time the lamb was stewed, it was already almost noon, just in time for lunch. I took out the sesame seed cakes I bought earlier and ate the delicious lamb meat.
Qingyan ate two sesame seed cakes in one go, and Chou Chou was even more ruthless. She ate five. Even the rich were attracted by the taste of meat and ate a large bowl of mutton.
Looking at its belly that had just deflated a little and then expanded again, I didn’t know what to say about it.
I can only tell it: "You are rich. If there are outsiders in the future, you can't eat like this. You will be regarded as a monster by others. Do you understand?"
The cat buried in the big bowl raised its head, swallowed the contents of its mouth, and then nodded to her.
Qingyan was a little surprised. Before she was rich, when she was like a little leopard, although she could understand some simple instructions and respond to calls, she was not so humane. Most of the time, she commanded her through Chou Chou.
After turning into an orange cat and having the blood of a monster, it will definitely be easier to communicate in the future.
I just don’t know if it will be able to speak human words in the future. When I thought about it, I asked, "Chou Chou, if he has money and becomes a monster, he should be able to practice. Will he be able to speak or turn into a human form in the future?"
Chou Chou nodded, then shook his head, "Normally, it should be possible, but with the current concentration of spiritual energy, it will probably be able to practice a little bit from now on until the next generation, which is more than a thousand years later." possible."
Qingyan touched Youqian's back with some disappointment, it seemed that it was not going to work.
Even if they put their money here, they may not be able to live that long if they return to the next life.
The spiritual energy becomes thinner as you go to the back. Chou Chou is talking about the current concentration of spiritual energy, and this spiritual energy will become less and less as time goes by. In other words, it will only become more difficult to practice as you go forward, and it will be impossible to succeed at all. human form.
If that's the case, it's better to take the money back and put it in a fragrant space in the future. Maybe there's still some hope.
After all, the spiritual energy in Xiangxiang's space is much stronger than outside. There is also spiritual spring water in there. Maybe if you have the money to drink the spring water, you may be able to advance.
After eating, they were in no hurry to leave because they were still observing the bandits.
Chou Chou said that the bandits had already climbed up the mountain at Yelang Village and would arrive in two or three hours. Qingyan could take a nap and call her when they arrived.
"These people are very fast on their feet. They climbed over two mountains in less than a day."
Qingyan said incredulously.
Chou Chou: "These two mountains are not big, so it only takes us enough time to climb them. They all take the kind of small roads, without any detours, that's why they are so fast."
Qingyan asked Chou Chou in confusion, "Haven't we already emptied his things? Why do we still need to see what they will do when they go back? Just kill them. They have all killed people before. Bandits, we cannot let them continue to act recklessly outside."
In fact, they can also be handed over directly to the government and let the government deal with them, but it is difficult to explain if they suddenly appear, and it may become an unsolved case.
At this time, the things about gods and ghosts make people believe it more. Everyone believes in this. This can scare the bad guys even more and let them know that there are gods above their heads, which is also a restraint on those people.
Chou Chou found a thin branch to pick his teeth, and said inarticulately: "I want to see if they have any other places to hide treasures. Although I have already explored it with my spiritual consciousness, there may be something I haven't noticed. place.
Just keep an eye on them and go back. Once you are sure that there is really nothing left, it won't be too late to clean them up. We don't care about this little time. "
Qingyan thought about it. Anyway, they didn't have a specific destination right now, so they could leave anytime. It really wasn't a waste of time.
Putting the lamb meat into a pottery pot and putting it directly in the big pot always smells like rust. Even if the Chou Chou space is static, you still have that feeling. Maybe it's a psychological effect.
After filling it up, she let Chou Chou put it into the space. She washed the big pot clean and even brushed the bottom of the pot with hay.
Because there are huge rocks and these two trees next to it, it is relatively sheltered from the wind, but the wind and sand are still quite heavy, and a layer of sand has been blown on the wooden roof.
In fact, it’s no problem to stay here for a few days. There is a mountain not far away, and there is no shortage of food. The only disadvantage is that it is far away from the water source. Fortunately, there is it in Chou Chou space, and you can also use your spiritual consciousness to get water elsewhere. There is no shortage.
Qingyan straightened up and stretched, looking at the mountain not far away, trying to look over there with her spiritual consciousness. Unfortunately, she couldn't see over there at all. After all, looking at the mountain was a dead horse. It's very close, but actually there is still some distance.
"I don't know why those wolves migrated. Where did they migrate to?"
Hearing this, Chou Chou temporarily withdrew his consciousness from monitoring those people, and then looked towards the mountain closest to them. He quickly found the whereabouts of the wolves and had a brief exchange with the leader.
Turning to Qingyan, she said: "Those wolves were robbed of their territory by another group of wolves, so they had to leave to find a new territory. Now they have gone to the mountain to the west.
We probably won't be able to stay there for long. There are also a group of wolves, two bears and leopards over there. These are all territorial, and they should continue to move forward. "
Qingyan nodded. In this way, it was a normal dispute between their animals, and it was not something strange that happened. "
She was afraid that these animals sensed some danger and migrated because some disaster was going to happen here, just like ants moving before it rains.
After that, Qingyan went into the house to take a nap. She added a few pieces of charcoal to the charcoal stove before lying down on the bed. Although the temperature was higher during the day than at night, it was only around ten degrees, so it was still a bit cold.
When she got up after sleeping for more than two hours, Chou Chou was also sitting on the bed.
When he saw her waking up, he said to her: "Those people have returned to Wild Wolf Village. There is really something I haven't discovered."
Qingyan rubbed her eyes and asked curiously: "What is it? Are there other treasure hiding places?"
Chou Chou shook his head, "That's not true. I thought they were going for these treasures, but it turned out that those people were not. Instead, they went to the cellar that had been discovered and found a pile of silver notes on the door frame. !
Who would have thought that someone would hide something there? Who would have noticed that the door frame above is hollow? At least I didn't see it before.
The door had been smashed and set on fire. It was only luck that it was not burned. "
Qingyan was also a little impressed. It was really unexpected that the person who hid these things would really think about it.
Then I heard Chou Chou continue: "Those people went towards the cliff after taking the banknotes. It seems they also know about these treasures. I thought they didn't know."
Then Chou Chou kept staring at them, and by the way, he also used his spiritual consciousness to explore the area around the road they walked. He found nothing, so he gave up.
"In that case, just send them all to the county government office. There shouldn't be anything else discovered." Qingyan suggested.
Chou Chou thought for a moment, then shook his head, "I think we should solve it secretly. If these people have some accomplices, and let them run away or something, wouldn't our work be in vain?
Also, if they want to take away the blame and reveal the location of the treasure, then the government will send people to find it. No matter if there are any marks on these things, it will not be good for us if they are discovered.
Although today's communications are underdeveloped, don't underestimate the way the ancients sent messages. If someone has some kind of flying pigeon to send messages, or something like 800-mile express delivery, by the time we get to Fucheng, these things will be leaked. Is it troublesome? Let’s just get rid of it once and for all. "
Seeing Chou Chou say this, Qingyan stopped insisting. It was indeed better to handle it this way.
Chou Chou directly received the banknotes from those people into the space, and wrapped those people with his spiritual consciousness, making them go to the edge of the cliff involuntarily.
The cliff is tens of meters high. Except for the small area with a platform, the rest of the cliff is straight up and down. If you fall, you will definitely have a narrow escape.
Even if they were lucky enough not to fall to death, and those with broken arms and legs couldn't run away, there would be wild beasts waiting for them below.
After Chou Chou controlled them to fall down, he used his spiritual consciousness to follow them to the bottom of the cliff. Seeing that they had lost more air and that most of their bones had been broken, he decided to withdraw his spiritual consciousness since they could no longer escape.
As a result, he stopped still before taking it back. He looked around in surprise and said to Qingyan, "Do you know what I found?"
Qingyan looked at it curiously, "What?"
Is it another treasure cave?
Chou Chou: "I actually found traces of human habitation on the rock wall under the cliff! It was about ten meters high above the cliff.
The cave looked like it was man-made. Inside the cave, I saw stone beds, stone tables, stone benches, and the like, as well as a stone stove dug out of a whole stone, which was connected to the stone bed for cooking. You can have a barbecue when the time comes.
Did you know that there is a flue in the middle of the stone bed? It's like a kang. "
Qingyan asked it: "Is it just that mountain? Is there a tribe living in a cave or something?"
Chou Chou looked around, don’t tell me, it’s really there!
There are a total of seven such caves on this cliff. The layout inside is basically the same, but the sizes are different.
Also, it feels very inconsistent between the top and the ten meters below. It seems that they are not from the same period, and there are layers in the middle.
It must have been due to crustal movement that separated the previously joined places, and then new cracks appeared below, so the cave became on a cliff more than ten meters high.
It should have been at a height of one or two meters before, but due to the changes below, it suddenly cracked, as if the entire lower part was split open by something.
Qingyan asked with some curiosity: "Were the beds and other things there dug out of the rocks in the cave, or were they brought in from somewhere else?
If we are moving, can we get a bed and put it in the wooden house? It's okay now. When it gets really cold, we can use this to keep warm.
There is no need to use the charcoal stove anymore. Not only is it easy to extinguish the charcoal stove, but the warmth of the wooden bed is not good either. The bottom part of the bed is empty. When I sleep, I always feel cold under my body.
For example, after the charcoal fire was extinguished today, the inside of the house became a little cold, but the current temperature is not that cold, it is still a few degrees above zero. If it reaches a few degrees below zero or ten or twenty degrees, this wooden house will not be cool at all. That small carbon stove can't hold it at all.
Unless the stove is burning all the time, it may be able to maintain a certain temperature in the room. Once the fire is reduced or extinguished, the temperature will immediately drop. "
Chou Chou nodded, looked at the stone beds in the caves, and said to Qingyan: "These stone beds were not moved in, they were all carved directly inside when the cave was dug. However, there are two stone beds that can be moved. I don’t know if they were cracked by themselves or cut by someone before.
It can still be separated as a whole. I looked at the approximate size and it fits perfectly in our house. It is about the same size as this wooden bed, but a little shorter than this bed and not as long as our bed. "
When they had people build this wooden bed, they used standard dimensions, two meters long and one meter three wide, which is considered a large single bed.
It's more than enough to sleep the three of them. There's no need to make it so big. There won't be any outsiders coming to live in it anyway.
If the stone bed is not so long, I don’t know if it’s because the person who lived there before was not tall and didn’t need it to be too long, or because the cave is so big and I’m too lazy to expand it.
"The length of that stone bed is only about 1.75 meters, and the width is about the same as this wooden bed. Do you want to get it?"
As soon as Qingyan heard the size, she said: "No problem, this size is just right, and the stone stove, see if it can be moved. If it can be moved, bring it over, so we don't have to build a stove." The platform or stove is connected to the stone bed."
If possible, you can move the chimney to the stove, so that you can cook and burn the kang at the same time.
Chou Chou tried the stove and found that it was fixed, but it was okay. This didn't bother it at all, so he directly separated it with his spiritual consciousness and brought it back.
First, he put them outside the house and let Qingyan take a look at the structure of the two. If they worked, he would bring them in. If they didn't, he would put them back.
Qingyan took a look and directed Chou Chou to put the two together. It was just right. They were the same set.
(End of chapter)
