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

Early in the morning.

Xu Wenyan was awakened by hunger.

"Awake?" Feeling the movement of the person in his arms, Chen Sanlin turned his head and saw that Xu Wenyan was indeed awake, rubbing his ear with his cheek.

Xu Wenyan pushed his head away with a little disgust.

First she pinched her legs, then twisted her waist. Since she slept leaning against Chen Sanlin at night, she didn't feel particularly uncomfortable, just a little bit aggravated.

There was really nothing to eat, so Xu Wenyan boiled a pot of salty water with dried peppercorns and salt.

Because there are no bowls, people just drink from the pot, so don't be too particular about anything at this time.

Even though I stretched yesterday, my legs are still a little sore today.

After drinking the water, everyone looked at Xu Wenyan. After all, none of them had any experience of surviving in the wild.

Facing the looks of others, Xu Wenyan smiled helplessly: "As expected, it has to be me." After feeling proud for a while, he began to arrange today's progress.

"We'll continue clearing the thorns that we didn't clear yesterday. Brother Chen and my second uncle will go to the mountain with me. The younger ones will collect firewood, and the others will bring up some slightly flat stones." Xu Wenyan crossed his arms and thought for a while: "Let's do this for now, disband!"

Chen Sanlin picked up a machete, and together with Zhou Jianye, they carried backpacks and walked up the mountain. The way up the mountain had to pass through a dense thorn bush.

Xu Wenyan has observed that these thorns are a variety that can grow small berries, which are sour and sweet, but the fruiting period is too early and the yield is small.

This kind of thorn bush is most likely to breed snakes. If you build a home here, you must clean it up.

Because this is a deep mountain forest, and the plants grow very fast in spring, it would be difficult to move forward without a machete. Xu Wenyan is between the two of them, so he needs to observe the plants around him.

After walking along the forest road for another quarter of an hour, we arrived at a relatively open area with no tall trees blocking the view.

"Brother Chen, stop for a moment."

Xu Wenyan squatted down and picked up a piece of grass. The leaves were covered with short grayish-white hairs, white glandular dots and small depressions. The whole plant had a strong fragrance.

Seeing Xu Wenyan asking, Chen Sanlin also picked up one and smelled it. The fragrance was acceptable.

"Brother Chen, this is mugwort. Let's get some more to take back." Before going out, Xu Wenyan saw that the weather was not very good and it was likely to rain today.

After collecting the mugwort, they headed back into the woods. Unfortunately, they didn't find anything to eat, so they could only pick up some firewood and go back.

It took more than an hour for several people to go out.

Others here also have new discoveries.

Xiaohu and Chen Xingjie were clearing the thorn bushes. After having a good sleep last night, Wang Dongmei comforted him for a long time, and Chen Xingjie's mental state finally improved.

The two men were working with hoes, and yesterday when they were cleaning with sickles, they had a lot of scratches on their hands, which would hurt from time to time when they slept.

"Brother Xingjie, look." Xiaohu pointed to a dozen white eggs under the thorn bushes in front of him. One of them was broken by Xiaohu's hoe. The egg white and yolk inside flowed all over the ground, which made him feel heartbroken.

The eggs are small, two or three of them are not as big as a chicken egg.

In fact, according to seniority, Xiaohu and Xu Wenyan should call Chen Xingjie uncle, but Wang Dongmei felt that calling him old didn't sound good, so she just called him brother.

"These are snake eggs. I dug them up before from the edge of a field. Dongmei roasted them for me on the spot. They tasted pretty good." Chen Xingjie smiled after a long time.

The two carefully cleaned out a dozen snake eggs and placed them in a conspicuous place to avoid being stepped on and crushed.

Not only these little guys had a harvest, they also found a lot of dandelions in the woods above the stream, some of which had already bloomed, and their uncle taught them how to recognize them.

The three little kids picked up branches on the spot, pushed the roots of the dandelions with the branches, and a complete dandelion was pried out.

The children were also very hungry. They had been drinking some salt water since yesterday noon. Their stomachs had been growling for a long time, so they were now digging dandelions much faster.

When Xu Wenyan and the other two came back, everyone else was resting. Most of the thorn bushes had been cleared, and there were more than a dozen snake eggs on the ground, and a small hill of dandelions nearby.

"You have a good harvest." Xu Wenyan smiled and sat on the stone that Wang Dongmei and the others had brought. He looked at the snake eggs on the ground and picked them up curiously to take a closer look.

Although snake eggs are edible, he has never eaten them.

"There are prey in the woods, but they are hard to find. I only have a bow, but no arrows." Chen Sanlin put down the backpack behind him and sat down next to Xu Wenyan.

The bow and arrow can be made, but without iron arrow tips and tail feathers, the power is not good and it is difficult to control.

Wang Dongmei quickly changed the subject: "How do we eat these things?"

The dandelions were cleaned by the two women and placed in the pot.

"Just cook it directly after blanching. We'll each have one egg, and give the extra one to Chen Sanlin. He's like a pig. He won't have strength if he doesn't eat much." Xu Wenyan lightly kicked Chen Sanlin next to him.

Although what he said was unpleasant, everyone knew that he was just heartbroken but was too embarrassed to say it.

In fact, such a distribution is reasonable.

"Okay, Cuijuan and I will cook, you guys have a good rest." Wang Dongmei took over the work and started to make a fire and cook.

"Wait." Xu Wenyan stood up and moved a backpack to the side of the pot, pinching off the tender parts of the top of the mugwort leaves: "Cook some more mugwort leaves to eat."

Mugwort can relieve asthma and cough, eliminate dampness and dissipate cold. It is always a good idea to eat some mugwort around the Qingming Festival.

After pinching off the tender leaves, Xu Wenyan called a few younger ones and started to spread the old leaves evenly on the surrounding land, which could help to repel mosquitoes to some extent.

It's not a strenuous job and it will be done in a short while.

Chen Sanlin picked some branches and whittled them with a machete. A pair of chopsticks was ready. He then came to Xu Wenyan and said, "Here, this is the best pair I've made."

Taking the chopsticks handed over by Chen Sanlin, Xu Wenyan smiled and said, "Thank you."

"Nothing, thank you or not." Chen Sanlin turned his head with his hands slightly flustered and distributed the remaining chopsticks to others.

There were no bowls, so everyone just shared the wild vegetables in the pot.

Chen Dong poked Xu Wenyan carefully: "Uncle, this is for you to eat."

Looking at the four eggs in the little guy's hand, Xu Wenyan's eyes were filled with tenderness.

He looked at Rong Xiaoliu, Rongrong and Chen Xiaohua again. They were all looking at Xu Wenyan with anticipation.

Xu Wenyan put the eggs back into their hands: "Thank you, little uncle, but we don't have that much food now. We still have to work in the afternoon. How can we have the energy if we don't eat enough? When we have more food in the future, little uncle will grab it all for you, haha."

Looking at the warm appearance of this family, the other people also started smiling.

Compared with the people in the village or the northwest of Lin Kingdom, it is already a good situation that they can find joy in hardship here, isn't it?

Chen Xingjie raised his head and looked at the gloomy sky, and his heart gradually felt relieved.

Is there anything wrong with being a refugee? Yes, but not completely.

If the country is prosperous and the two countries are on good terms, this will never happen.

If I hadn't been away for a long time, I would have been starving and my lips would have been cracked from thirst.

Fleeing day after day, starving day after day, losing humanity day after day.

Did you ask him if he hates it?

He hates.

Ask him what he hates? Is it the refugees? Chen Xingjie himself doesn't know.

He is just an ordinary farmer.

In this war-torn era, there was very little he could do.

But at this moment, it started to rain lightly, which was inopportune.