Xiao Mu always said that the master was a traditional mountain runner.
In Ye Luoxin's mind, he imagined him as a strong, honest and capable old man.
But the furnishings in the West House are very elegant.
A wooden table was placed near the window. In addition to the pen holder, there was also a tea set on the table.
Further inside is a wooden bed with a curtain as white as snow and a neat bedding.
What surprised Ye Luoxin the most was the guqin hanging beside the bed.
The body of the guqin is bright and shiny. It can be seen that it is old and has been well maintained.
Who is a real mountaineer and is proficient in music?
It seems that Xiao Mu's master is not that simple.
Ye Luoxin did not enter the room to check. After looking around at the door, she closed the door again.
Things haven't been put away yet, so she has to put away all the food she brought and get familiar with the furnishings in the house as soon as possible.
She entered the east room and changed all the bedding on the bed.
The original bedding was very old, and it seemed that Xiao Mu had brought it in a long time ago.
She first took off the outer layer of quilt cover and mattress cover, and then took the quilt and mattress to the yard to dry.
Then he put the newly brought quilt and mattress on the bed.
After cleaning up the house, she went to the kitchen again.
The rice vat and noodle vat in the kitchen both contain grain.
Ye Luoxin found two basins, poured out all the original rice noodles, wiped the jars clean, and poured the new grain into them.
Eat the old grain first these days, and the new grain can be stored for a while longer.
Apart from rice and noodles, there was no other food in the kitchen. I don’t know if the chef left after eating all the vegetables, or if he didn’t eat vegetables in the first place.
Fortunately, they still have more than half a can of pickles left.
Ye Luoxin went to the yard to get firewood, lit a fire, boiled a basin of water, and wiped the inside and outside of the house with the hot water. She was not satisfied until the windows were clear and clean.
Then she refilled the pot with water, took out the japonica rice, and then took out the only bit of dried sweet potato, and put them all into the pot to cook.
The porridge cooked in this way not only has the aroma of rice, but also the sweetness of sweet potatoes.
Before the porridge was cooked, Xiao Mu walked in from outside.
He was holding a dead pheasant in one hand, and the thing in the other hand was tightly wrapped in leaves, making it impossible to see what it was.
"Luoluo, look what good things I have found."
Xiao Mu looked happy, threw away the chicken, took a bowl from the shelf, and put the leaves in his hand on the bowl.
Ye Luoxin looked over and saw a white thing in the bowl, with a yellowish liquid slowly flowing out from under the white.
"Honey!" she shouted in surprise.
"Yes!" Xiao Mu also said happily: "I'm lucky today, I picked an entire honeycomb back."
Hearing this, Ye Luoxin quickly raised her head and looked at Xiao Mu. Picking the honeycomb was not easy, and the bees would be desperate to retaliate.
Although Xiao Mu was strong, Ye Luoxin still saw two red envelopes on his forehead.
"Does it hurt?" she asked.
"It doesn't hurt." Xiao Mu said nonchalantly and broke off a small piece of white stuff from the bowl, which was covered with thick honey.
He handed the piece to Ye Luoxin's mouth and said, "Have a taste. Is it sweet or not?"
Ye Luoxin stuck out the tip of her tongue and tasted it, feeling the sweetness on her tongue numb.
She quickly took a whole piece of beeswax into her mouth, chewed it slowly, and savored this rare dessert.
"Find a cover to cover the bowl later. The honey can be kept there, so you can keep it and eat it slowly."
"Have you eaten?" Ye Luoxin suddenly asked.
"I don't like sweets, so I'll save them all for you."
"Try a piece, it's delicious." Ye Luoxin also picked up a small piece from the bowl and brought it to Xiao Mu's mouth.
Xiao Mu followed her example, took it in in one mouthful, and then chewed it slowly. The two of them chewed it together, and then looked at each other and smiled.
This smile not only swept away the fatigue of the past few days, but also swept away the few remaining feelings of strangeness between the two people.
Beeswax has no taste. After Xiao Mu spit out the beeswax in his mouth, he said to Ye Luoxin: "The trap I set before didn't catch anything, only one pheasant. Although it's not big, it's enough for the two of us."
Ye Luoxin had seen it a long time ago. When she heard Xiao Mu say this, she asked, "How do you eat this?"
"I can only cook grilled food. If you don't want to eat grilled food, we can think of other ways."
The miserable scene of roasting rabbit yesterday was still vivid in his mind. Ye Luoxin thought for a moment and said, "Let's have something different today. You clean up the chicken and make a fire. I'll do the rest."
"Okay!" Xiao Mu was very happy.
His wife dares to control him, which means that her relationship with him is getting closer.
Ye Luoxin went to pick a few large leaves from the oak tree outside the yard and went back to the house to wash them. Then she picked through the seasoning jars in the kitchen and selected the seasonings that could be used. She mixed the seasonings thoroughly with soy sauce and then went outside. I saw Xiao Mu had returned from washing the chicken.
Xiao Mu lit the fire, and Ye Luoxin used a small brush to spread the sauce just prepared evenly on the chicken skin and belly.
After coating it, she wrapped the chicken in leaves and tied it tightly with grass.
At this time, Xiao Mu's fire was already lit.
Ye Luoxin asked him to dig a pit next to the fire, just deep enough to put a chicken in.
Then he filled the soil and asked Xiao Mu to move the fire to the filled pit.
"Don't worry about it anymore. When all the firewood is burned out, the chicken below will be cooked." Ye Luoxin said.
Xiao Mu suddenly realized.
He has been out there for so many years, but he never thought that chickens can still do this.
"The chicken made this way is more tender. If you come out by yourself in the future, you can try eating it this way." Ye Luoxin said.
"Um."
Xiao Mu rubbed his hands and asked Ye Luoxin to rest in the house while he took advantage of the time to chop some more firewood in the yard.
After the master left half a year ago, he rarely came by himself, and rarely cooked when he came, so the firewood was piled there for a long time without being used.
Now they have to live here for a month. It seems that when they have time, they will have to chop more firewood.
"Is the Wangfenghe you are talking about the tree behind the yard?"
Since Ye Luoxin arrived here, she has been paying attention to what Xiao Mu said she wanted to guard.
After looking around for a long time, I found that this one tree looked similar. It had two lotus root-shaped fruits on it, and it looked like it was about to mature.
"yes!"
Xiao Mu nodded.
"Wangfenghe is very difficult to survive, and it must grow in the forest next to the stream. The master said that he also traveled all over the mountains and rivers of Daliang before he finally found such a plant here."
"Normally, a lotus blooms in ten years and bears fruit in another ten years. Fortunately, the master only had eight years left when he found this place."
There is no such species in Ye Luoxin's memory. It is estimated that it is difficult to reproduce and has become extinct in future generations.
"Then this fruit must be very valuable." She couldn't help but ask.
"It is said that it is a medicinal material. The master wants to use this medicine to save a person."
