Traveling through time and space to meet a replacement bride? But I’m a man!

Because Chen Sanlin fanned me last night.

Xu Wenyan slept quite comfortably.

He woke up early in the morning, and with the help of dim light, Xu Wenyan discovered mosquito bites of various sizes on Chen Sanlin's arms and legs when he got out of bed.

"Fool."

Xu Wenyan went out and took the mugwort juice squeezed yesterday and gently applied it on Chen Sanlin's body.

Before I finished applying it, I felt a pair of big hands grabbing my wrist.

"daughter in law."

The man's lazy voice came, and Xu Wenyan looked up at his half-open eyes: "I'll put some medicine on you. You didn't tell me what happened to your hand."

Chen Sanlin stroked the ends of Xu Wenyan's hair and smiled: "I'm fine."

Xu Wenyan just felt warm in his heart, and didn't say anything else to him: "Sleep a little longer, I'll go cook."

"Ah."

Xiaohu had to lie down all day today because he was injured yesterday. What he feared most at this moment was that the wound would get infected.

Xu Wenyan cut the crabs that Zhou Jianye and his friends caught yesterday into pieces, mixed them with the crab roe and wild onions and stir-fried them. If you have been eating steamed crabs, you have to slow down the taste.

"Brother Xu, why are you preparing delicious food so early in the morning?" Rong Xiaoliu rubbed his eyes and came to the stove.

"Go wash up first, and help me watch the fire later."

Rong Xiaoliu yawned and immediately went to wash his face and brush his teeth. Nowadays, toothbrushes are made of bamboo and palm tree fibers, and they are quite good to use.

With Rong Xiaoliu's help in controlling the fire, Xu Wenyan hung strings of dried mugwort in each hole and then hung them in every corner of the house.

Several pieces of limestone were placed in bamboo tubes in the corners of the wall. It rained a lot in the summer, and it gradually became too humid. Xu Wenyan didn't want to get rheumatism at such a young age.

After dinner, Xu Wenyan put on his long sleeves and went into the mountains. It had rained a little last night, and Xu Wenyan kept thinking about the rotten wood by the pond.

With the lesson from Xiaohu, Xu Wenyan took a longer stick and started knocking on the rotten leaves all the way. There were a lot of things like centipedes, spiders, millipedes and the like under the rotten leaves.

Although it can be used as medicine, Xu Wenyan doesn't dare to catch it. When he was young, he would cover them with plastic bottles, and he would kill one every time.

It took a lot of effort to climb this small hill, and I slipped with every step I took on the wet dead leaves.

Xu Wenyan could see the brown wood ears from a distance. The wood ears grew on both sides of the dead tree, like a line of wood ears. Xu Wenyan picked a large handful from this tree alone.

Also because of the rain, the fungus was moist. I picked several dead trees together and in less than half an hour I had collected half a basket of fungus.

Fungus has the effects of replenishing qi and blood, losing weight, and cleaning the stomach and intestines. It can be stored for a long time if dried. However, it should be noted that fungus cannot be soaked for a long time.

If the water is not changed for a long time, mold will easily appear and produce mycotoxins, which will lead to symptoms such as diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, and dizziness.

Xu Wenyan had seen people selling dried black fungus in the county before. One pound could be sold for two or three taels of silver. If he could take these mushroom sticks back and create a humid environment himself, these black fungus could grow all year round.

Even if you only harvest once every two or three months, you can still make a lot of money. You can also harvest mushrooms like shiitake mushrooms. People in this era only eat shiitake mushrooms and oyster mushrooms. Few people eat other mushrooms.

In autumn, many mushrooms will emerge from this dead leaf forest.

It will be another great harvest then.

When he had almost finished picking, Xu Wenyan remembered that there were a few wild plum trees above. They were ripe now, right next to the palm trees.

Climbing up the slope, you can already see the plum trees in front of you. The fruits of the two trees are somewhat different. The red fruits are sweeter, while the purple fruits are sourer. Both types of plums are very small.

There are also many small plum trees growing around. Xu Wenyan estimated that last year's small plum trees were frozen to death in the winter, and this is a new batch.

Wild plums are not big, about the size of normal cherries. Fortunately, these two trees are big. With the experience from last time, Xu Wenyan first observed the surroundings.

Make sure there are no hidden bugs before taking action.

This is faster to pick than the hairy cherry.

The fruit is hard.

When Xu Wenyan returned, only Xiaohu and a few other children were drying mud bricks in the yard.

"Huzi, where are they?"

Xiaohu looked aggrieved: "Brother Sanlin took them hunting, and he wouldn't let me go."

"It's okay, Brother Xu will make you something delicious." Xu Wenyan took out the fungus from the basket to dry, and Xiaohu grabbed a handful of wild plums and started cooking.

Xu Wenyan made a manual juicer. The principle is to soften the bamboo with fire and fold it in half so that it will not break in the middle.

Drill a hole in the concave part below, then remove the pits of the plums and put them into the groove. Then pinch the bamboo above and press it down, and the juice will be squeezed out.

Don’t be fooled by the small size of wild plums, they have a lot of juice. Don’t throw away the remaining pulp. Put it in a ceramic pot and cook it with mountain spring water and two pieces of yellow rock sugar.

I haven't used this yellow rock sugar much since I bought it, so there's still a lot of it left. After the boiled fruit pulp fades, use a sieve to sift out the pulp and feed it to the rabbits, then pour in the juice I just squeezed.

After adding the last bit of honey, Xu Wenyan put all the juice into bamboo tubes, filling a total of fifteen cans. Then he put the homemade juice into the stream to chill for a while, and it would be ready to drink after half an hour.

"Hu Zi, do you want to get married?" Xu Wenyan asked while weeding in the field.

Xiaohu was slightly stunned: "Brother Xu... I'm still young, and aren't we at war now? Who will marry me?"

"Then you want to go out." Xu Wenyan had this idea a long time ago. He couldn't stay in this mountain forever. After the war was over, he would leave here.

As for whether others want to follow him, that is their choice. As for Chen Sanlin, we can ask him later when we have time.

Xiao Hu was obviously a little hesitant about Xu Wenyan's question: "Don't even think about it. Actually, we live quite well here.

I can play with Xiaoliu and Xiaodong every day, and learn knowledge from you, Brother Xu. Now I can even do addition and subtraction!

Besides, don’t we have to learn hunting from Brother Sanlin in the fall?

But if I never get married, my grandmother will definitely blame me in the afterlife."

Xu Wenyan nodded, and the issue ended there.

The vegetables in the field have grown very tall now. The green peppers can be seen to be the size of beans, and the tomatoes are slightly red. We will be able to eat tomatoes in another week.

Many vegetables are infested by insects. After all, it is in the mountains, so this is inevitable.

The only thing we can do is to work harder every day.

"Ah——." Xu Wenyan stretched his waist: "The juice is almost cold, Rongrong, Xiaohua! Go get five back."

When the sour, sweet and cool plum juice goes down my throat, I feel the temperature all over my body drops by a few degrees.

Sitting on a small stool, leaning against the wall.

Cross your legs and take a sip of juice, this is how comfortable life is.