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

Let Chen Xingjie and his wife stay at Chen Sanlin's house for two days.

The main thing is to take care of three children. I feel uneasy without an adult at home. I can't take three little ones for such a long distance.

After gathering everyone, they headed towards the shelter.

Wild flowers of all colors were blooming on the roadside. Xu Wenyan walked in front of Xiaohu and picked a bunch of azaleas and handed them to Xiaohu: "Huzi, they are delicious."

Xiaohu thought carefully for a while and said, "Brother Xu, are you trying to trick me? I won't be fooled."

"Forget it, I'll feed my dog." Xu Wenyan took a few steps forward and caught up with Chen Sanlin: "Brother Chen, you eat."

Chen Sanlin: ...Baji, Baji.

Just like when I first came here last year, walking through the mountains, I could see patches of white wild cherry and plum flowers blooming on the opposite side.

Among the white flowers on these trees, you can occasionally see a cluster of pink or red flowers.

Seeing such beautiful scenery, it is no wonder that ancient poets were able to write so many famous lines that have been passed down through the ages. Without the brainwashing of short videos, people can appreciate the beauty of nature more.

It was also the first time that Xu Wenyan realized that the flowers, plants and trees in reality were a thousand or ten thousand times more beautiful than those in the books.

That is a spiritual beauty.

As Xiaohu called out twice at the edge of the waterfall, Zhou Jianye hurried over from above.

"You finally came back. How are you living in the village?" Zhou Jianye said with a smile. He couldn't suppress the joy on his face after seeing so many people suddenly after a month.

Xu Wenyan was also happy. In fact, this place was good in every way except that it was too far away from the county. Making money was the most important thing to do at this time.

If this place was closer to the county, Xu Wenyan would just settle down here.

You can see that most of the fruit trees they had planted before are in bloom, and the air is filled with the fragrance of flowers when you pass by.

"His aunt, bring some tea quickly!" Zhou Jianye yelled.

Wang Cuijuan also heard the sound early, and the wild chrysanthemum tea was already on the table to cool down.

"Xiaoyan, Xiaolin, you're back." Wang Cuijuan was also very happy, and pulled Zhou Rong to the stove to cook: "You can chat slowly, you both look thin from hunger."

After chatting for a while, Xu Wenyan told Zhou Jianye about everything that happened in the village.

"Well, well, the war is finally over."

Xu Wenyan nodded: "In half a month, you two can go back, second uncle. I have already told Wang Zeren about your house. The people who previously lived in the Zhou family's old house will move out."

Smelling the aroma of meat and the pungent smell of chili coming from the stove, Xu Wenyan's saliva was already secreting. There were not many chili peppers in the village, and the most he could do was to get some dried chili peppers from Wang Zeren.

I can only have a little bit of it with each meal, and it’s never satisfying.

The lunch was very sumptuous, with scrambled eggs with wild onions, dried rabbit slices, and cured pork ribs stewed with pea tips. There were also a lot of wild vegetables in the hot pot.

It was a rare opportunity to eat rice. Although the shelter did not produce much rice, Zhou Jianye and his wife were very frugal with their food and were waiting for the little ones to come and have a good meal.

The most fragrant part of the potato rice is the rice crust. This kind of rice crust is only fragrant when it is cooked in the iron pot in ancient times. Many electric rice cookers at home today cannot produce rice crust.

The pork ribs soup soaked with this rice crust is so delicious that you want to swallow your tongue.

Luo Sanyuan and his group were not polite either. After so many interactions, they all became familiar with each other. In the military tent, the men took turns cooking: "Sister-in-law's cooking skills are really amazing. It smells so good."

"If it smells delicious, eat more. There's more in the pot." Wang Cuijuan also entertained them warmly.

Everyone knows that in this age of food scarcity, almost half of the food we have to eat depends on Xu Wenyan, if he hadn’t discovered it in advance and planned ahead.

Now I feel that I can no longer eat such delicious and fragrant food. At worst, I may become a refugee. At worse, I may even die.

After they had eaten, these men quickly cleared the dishes on the table and washed them without Xu Wenyan's words. Wang Cuijuan praised them for their efficiency.

After all, there were not many men willing to wash dishes in ancient times.

"We're full, let's get to work." Xu Wenyan called everyone. This time they came to help Xu Wenyan with his work.

The sweet potatoes in the shelter's fields can now be harvested. Xu Wenyan is his. If it were only up to Zhou Jianye and the other three, it would take a long time to harvest them.

Those who had hammers took hoes, and those who didn't have hoes loaded the fruits into backpacks and carried them to the basement. Looking at the peppers and peas planted around, Xu Wenyan naturally would not let them go. He would make sure to bring more peppers back when he left tomorrow.

"Second uncle, why are you still scattering pumpkins outside?" Xu Wenyan could see that the pumpkin vines were in bloom, with bright yellow flowers growing one after another around the periphery of the field.

"Pumpkins are easy to grow. They won't die easily no matter it's hot or cold. We won't be able to farm in the future, but these pumpkins will rot in the ground and continue to grow next year.

If we need to come back someday, the melons on this field will be enough for us to eat." Zhou Jianye explained to Xu Wenyan seriously.

It has to be said that the old farmers know more and look at the long term.

It took them two full hours to dig the sweet potatoes. There were still some scattered ones left in the field, so Zhou Jianye and his team had to pick them up.

Afterwards, Xu Wenyan took them to the pond nearby. A lot of small cattails had already grown in the pond. Xu Wenyan planned to get some more and plant them in the newly dug pond behind the house.

The newly grown cattails have to carry this soil with them, and it’s okay to leave them overnight. Xu Wenyan also caught some frog eggs with a bamboo tube nearby.

It should be noted that frog eggs are scattered and in clusters.

The ones that are connected in a long line are toad eggs. Although they don’t bite people, they are disgusting.

Xu Wenyan had never seen frogs in the ditch in Jixiang Village, although he could hear the frogs croaking.

Afterwards, I picked some water celery. Anyway, the pond behind the house was used to raise clams and snails, and it would be difficult if there was nothing to feed them.

Xu Wenyan wants to ensure the species diversity as much as possible, and he can also raise some fish if he catches them later.

When he had collected almost all the mushrooms, Xu Wenyan took a fancy to the wood with mushroom buds on them. The mushrooms on them were wood ear and shiitake mushrooms. He could earn more than one or two taels of silver a year just by selling them.

However, it is unrealistic to transport all these woods back because the journey is too long. If the fungus spores are killed on the way, it would be a waste of time.

He also asked Luo Sanyuan and others to find some wood, and then put two sticks without mycelium on both sides of each stick with mycelium, so that the mycelium could slowly spread over.

Just let them grow here from now on. We will come back to harvest the wild fruits later anyway.

As for the two cans of wine, Xu Wenyan opened one. As soon as he opened it, the smell of fermented fruit wine came up, and it was obvious that it had been successful.

Now just waiting to drink it tomorrow.