Orcs through the age

Now that I am preparing for the New Year, I naturally want to mobilize everyone to prepare.

I first told everyone the general reason for the Chinese New Year, and explained clearly the laws of the vernal equinox, summer solstice, autumnal equinox and winter solstice, and told them this cycle, so that they understand that it happens every year, and it is a kind of The laws that have always existed will not change with anything.

Although everyone has no intuitive understanding of this, everyone also remembers that the Harvest Festival is almost the same every year, and they probably have some impressions of these things.In addition, winter is really boring, so everyone agreed to the New Year's proposal with little doubt.

At the same time, we also officially began to establish what we later called the new calendar method, with six and 10 minutes per hour, about forty hours per day, 30 days per month, and twelve months in a year as the calculation method. history of the tribe.

I'm not sure that this method of epoch is completely accurate, in fact, in this society, if any founder wants 100 minutes per hour or something, it is completely personal will, but according to the chronological method I am used to, this system Still in use as long as I live.

Although there is no guarantee that the length of each hour is absolutely correct, because the most important thing we use is to be accurate every day, that is to say, based on the four solar terms, it is guaranteed that each day before and after will not be wrong, as for the hour or something.For a long time, this was a measure of length rather than definite points of time.That said, we all like to say, I'll spend a few hours doing this, and very few people say what time it is, because no one knows what time it is, even myself, I can only guess roughly That's all.

If you plan to celebrate the new year, then you must live well in the first year.

I still remember celebrating the New Year when I was a child, setting off firecrackers, making at least ten dishes at home, eating dumplings and glutinous rice balls, and then the whole family gathered together to watch the Spring Festival Gala. Although I never thought of watching the Spring Festival Gala when I grew up, in fact Speaking of the happiest time, it was actually when I was a child watching black and white TV around the fire with my grandparents, father, mother, older siblings and other relatives.

Here, we have no firecrackers, simple drums, and no gongs. If we want to eat, there are very few things that can be eaten.

But there is a way to live when you are full, and there is a way to live when you are hungry.I still want to try my best to let everyone try the feeling of Chinese New Year together.

So, a few days before my new date, January [-], we began to prepare.

Although it is winter and the prey on the grassland is not fat, Canaan took Hongda and the others to hunt a cow and a few sheep back. Luo Lei took Lukes and a few people to catch a few wild boars, and also hunted a few sheep. Rona and Ye Jia took a few older children to dig out a few honeycombs and got a lot of honey. In this respect, Rona is far better than Luo Lei and me.

There are no plants now, but I have wild lemons and peppers collected in autumn, ginger, onion and garlic. Ayuan also provides several plants with unique fragrances. It is said that they can also resist cold after eating and can be used for seasoning. There are also two herbs that taste similar to star anise and cinnamon.Although wild vegetables are nothing, we also dry dried radishes and pickles in autumn.

Having collected so much, some potatoes and sweet potatoes were brought out of our cellar, the barley was washed for use, and the wheat was ground into semolina for use.Moreover, I plan to show everyone my secret weapon!

The day before preparing for the New Year, the clan has already been busy.

We salted the cut meat and prepared for the bonfire meeting the next night. The barley is going to be used to cook porridge, but it can be used as eight-treasure porridge; part of the semolina I made sweet potato balls, and I plan to use oil Fried and eaten.Although we didn’t receive much oil this year, I still saw some rotten things on the ground in the back mountain, which can definitely be used as a secret weapon for next year, so I’m willing to use rare things for this one-day Chinese New Year.

Children like to eat fried sweet potato balls very much. For this reason, we made some ingredients for pancakes, and we are going to eat them tomorrow night.

Dried radish is used to make meatballs with the lean meat of wild boar and steamed in a pan. Dried pickles are used to steam those fat, boiled rotten with ginger, star anise, etc., and have no smell. wild boar.

When I was in the He family, I made steamed fish with fermented soybeans at home, but at that time, because there were not many soybeans received, fermented soya bean was hardly promoted. Pass.

Although I really want to give tempeh to everyone, but this time, I have something else to use.

For beef, I plan to use some of the few onions that I have in the cellar that have begun to shrink to make goulash with onions. Although the so-called goulash with onions is just to cook beef and onions together, but anyway It’s also a fresh taste, and it’s probably because most of the people here are of Western origin as we define, so they all like things with a strong taste. They like the taste of onions very much, of course, I also like it very much. , after all, onions are the meat of vegetables.

Prepare all the materials needed for the New Year's Day in advance. It seems that the sky is dawning after not sleeping for a long time.

Early in the morning, A Rui knocked on the door excitedly: "Ah, ah, Chinese New Year, Chinese New Year."

The term "New Year's Eve" was invented by me, and Ari and the others have already pronounced it very clearly.

Pushing away Luo Lei suddenly tightened the arms holding me, and then looked back at the resentment on Luo Lei's face, I couldn't help but reach out and rub his face, Luo Lei who is jealous with children is simply too cute up.

I patted him on the shoulder, motioned him to get up too, and told him that today, he would see more surprises.

Although he didn't seem to care much about my surprise, Luo Lei was still very obedient. He grabbed me and kissed me, and then got up by himself, leaving me sitting on the bed still dazed by this kiss——he moved his feet Habits can’t be changed, although I have warned him many times to keep a distance on days when he can’t do it, but he always can’t remember, and after he violated it, he runs faster than anything else.

With resentment towards Luo Lei, although he still wanted to sleep, Ah Rui had already run in: "Ah, ah, get up, Dad said they will go to beat the drums first, and then sacrifice to the gods, Dad said you There will be something delicious tonight, and Aque and I are here to help you, huh..."

A Rui is a snack, I have always known it, but I didn't expect A Que to come to our house early in the morning, and I had no choice but to let A Rui make room for me, at least let me put on a cotton jacket, and I saw A Rui Quezheng stood by the door and looked at us with dodgy eyes.

In order to appease the two little babies, I had to give them each a baked sweet potato first.

Seeing them carefully holding the baked sweet potatoes and gnawing them bit by bit, I felt a little sad—in the future, we must live a better life.

At noon, we had to worship the god of the day, so we made honey roast meat and dried radish stew, beef with onions, and barley porridge.

Although the things may not be very delicate, everyone is very happy, especially the children. Early in the morning, they scurry around to watch us make food, and even take the initiative to help sweep the snow on the square and clean up the food. Ice that could slip if one accidentally steps on it.

Ye Jia accidentally slipped a big somersault while clearing the ice, which frightened me and Ah Yuan, but when we asked him if he was okay, he shook his head anxiously, and ran away in a hurry, letting me Neither he nor Ah Yuan can help.

Ah Yuan sometimes looks enviously at Luo Lei and me. I think his partner is probably the most uncomfortable thing for him.Sometimes when I look at Canaan, I think he treats Ah Yuan well.

In fact, people here don't care whether it's the first marriage or the second marriage. The important thing is that both parties have feelings and can live a good life together.

Seeing Ah Yuan staring at Ye Jia, I suddenly felt that maybe Ah Yuan could also find a good father for An Xin. As for Ye Jia, if there is one, he might not look at him with that envious look. Looking at Rona and Ari.

Although I was a little restrained by the children running around.

However, the overall preparations went very smoothly.

The aroma of fried sweet potato balls kept the children around the cooking side, unwilling to leave even a single step, for fear that they would not be able to eat them if they arrived late.

As for the omelette, the greedy children drool even more. From time to time, some children come to ask: "Anuoa, when can we eat?"

I smiled and asked them to wait patiently, because there will be more delicious things later.

Maybe it's because there's nothing in the first place, and the children here are very sensible almost since they were young. I said to wait a little longer, and they gathered together and continued to drool.

Although the male group didn't rush to eat, it was obvious that they were a little hungry.Hongda walked in front of me repeatedly several times, although he didn't say anything, but looking at his longing eyes, I still clearly read the signal of "I'm hungry, I'm hungry".

The dried radish stew was very bad, and the meat on the dried pickles was also very fragrant.

The honey-glazed meat has long been smelling sweet and tempting in the hands of the male who is gathering together to make the low stool and the barbecue, and because the meat is roasted from the flame bear, we can almost imagine the deliciousness of the meat and tender.

Some time ago, I asked Luo Lei to make a large set of steamers out of bamboo strips, which are now placed on the stove made of mud and bricks, with a large earthenware pot cooking rice porridge underneath.

There are four layers on the steamer, two layers are steaming fish, one layer is steaming meatballs with rice on top, and the third layer is steaming badly cooked meat with dried pickles, although it may not reach our taste The taste of roasted pork with plum dried vegetables, but the taste should not be too much.

In the clay pots next to it, two of them were burning beef with onions, which was very popular at noon, and the other two also exuded the aroma that made people want to drool.

Everyone came to look at it from time to time, but no one could see what was missing in the pot, and I even covered it specially.

However, the fragrance is so tempting, and it is also a taste that no one has tasted before. Even Luo Lei came to me several times to see it.

Not to mention Ari, who looked at me eagerly several times.

I went back and checked the degree of ripeness of the things in the pot several times, and used chopsticks to test whether the dried pickles and steamed meat were completely steamed.

In the eyes of everyone looking forward to it, I called Canaan and Luo Lei and told them that I was going to sacrifice to the gods and ancestors.

Spoiler: Luo Lei ([-])

Arnold surprised me, he has become a completely different person.

He can hunt a lot of things, and he can cook delicious things, and he is not even afraid of others anymore.

When he greeted Monte and the others, including Luo Lie, in front of me, I found that I felt very uncomfortable.Although he came here to bring me barbecue, even though he also brought me water in a wooden tube he said was bamboo, even though the meat was so delicious that Sim Mu even snatched a piece of it when I wasn't paying attention , and triumphantly threw it directly into the mouth in front of everyone.

I don't know what kind of relationship this is, and I don't know if I started to like him after the marriage was confirmed, but I know that I sympathize with A Nuo who was always crying secretly by himself, but I don't like him.

He also became very funny. I gave him a piece of propolis and he danced happily. He also sent me out the door himself, and waved me to be careful when going out.

No female in the clan has ever done this. The females in the clan just do their own thing when the male goes out, and occasionally send it out without saying a word.

It was the first time for everyone to see him behave like this. Sim Mu even punched me, saying how I changed him.

In fact, who knows, I didn't do anything to him at all.

On this day, he went out again and came back later than us again.

Abba said he said he was only around the tribe.

I glared at Dad, do you believe what he said?If he doesn't hurry now, he doesn't know where he is going.Even Ah Nuo sighed, in the past, A Nuo stayed at home all day to make people worry, but now A Nuo is not at home all day, which makes people worry. like.

Because I was too worried, I could only wait for him at the door, and even made a decision that if he didn't come back, I would go out and look for him.

However, he came back quickly, holding a limp deer in his hand, four rabbits of different sizes, and two big animal skin bags on his back.

I have to say that I was very surprised when I saw his harvest like this.

But soon, I just helped him carry the things on his hands and back, and led him back to the tribe.

The people of the tribe naturally have doubts about A Nuo's so many harvests. Even I can't believe that a female can catch a wild boar yesterday and a deer today. The daily harvest is more than that of a male!

Everyone even started talking about how he turned into a beast when he was a child, and some even privately asked whether he turned into a beast again.

Although I also think there must be a reason, but I am still a little unhappy to hear everyone talking about it. After all, he will be my partner.

But he didn't seem to care at all, he just mentioned that he wanted to raise the deer for leg strength, and agreed that if the deer couldn't be used for foot strength in the future, he would kill the deer and share half of his food today, and stubbornly Take your stuff and go home.

When Sim Mu said that he wanted to eat the food made by Anuo, a sense of pride flashed in my heart strangely, as if it was my own achievement, and I agreed to Sim Mu's request without much consideration, Therefore, I asked Sim Mu to hurry to catch some pheasants in the forest behind us, because the stewed pheasants made by A Nuo were delicious.

Seeing Sim Mu and Ah Man eating to their heart's content under A Nuo's hospitality, and getting along well with A Man, I really felt that I was quite lucky. It turned out that the good partner that A Nuo said was, That's what it means.

I even thank God from the bottom of my heart for giving me such a good Arnold, although Luo Lie gave up on this one, even though, I used to think that I would not have any expectations of him.

When I was told by Arnold to stay and live together, I was a little surprised, but seeing his calm but worried eyes, I felt very lucky that I also ate the potato that no one dared to eat before.

I also stayed with Arnold at night, and I discovered that Arnold can not only make delicious food, but also make some strange things, and also make things that no one else has done.

To be honest, I'm a little worried. Arnold wasn't like this before, but now, he seems to be a completely different person. This can't be simply explained by being stimulated.

It's also surprising that he knows so many things all of a sudden.I hope he doesn't surprise again, or he, himself, might be in trouble.

It is incredible that a female can hunt and know many things, and she can also become a beast!With the exception of aquariums that we know eat fish, no females are capable of lycanthropy.Moreover, no one in the Shui tribe knew more than the high priest, even so much that it was unbelievable.Worse, he wasn't like this before.

It is not a good thing for him to wake up and understand so much because he died by jumping into the river.

But I never thought that he would comfort me.

In fact, I have already made a decision, even if he is still the old Arnold, I will take good care of him and give him my own food. As long as I have food, I will give him more than half of it; I will also raise our child well, as long as our child is not too stupid, I will try my best to teach him everything I know.We could live peacefully, he cooks at home and I hunt for food for him and our kids and we sleep in a tent at night.

But I didn't expect him to see my scar again.

I still remember the first time he saw my scars, he nearly fell to the ground and then staggered home.

Seeing his stupid face looking at me, I suddenly remembered that I had pulled the blindfold on my head just now for the convenience of doing things. At this moment, he is looking at my scar that scares him very much.

I almost subconsciously wanted to cover it up, and while I don't feel bad or regret it, it's a sign that I helped a clansman, but I didn't want to scare anyone or make anyone feel bad about it, especially me future mate.I didn't even know I was feeling insecure and ashamed.

But he comforted me, he was not afraid at all, but comforted me not to be weak.

Seeing him turning his back and focusing on his wooden fork, I was really sure in my heart that this was not the original Arnold, but at the same time, I was also sure in my heart that I like this Arnold, I like this meeting Arnold who cooks delicious food, like this Arnold who will work hard to live by himself, like this Arnold who will comfort me, like this Arnold who will leave me because of worry.

Such A Nuo, even if he is not the original one, so what?

Listening to him intensify my request to make a so-called "iron wood" fork, but also to be all "iron wood", watching him comb my messy hair, help me comb it neatly, and cleverly Covering my scars, and then looking so smug about it, I actually wanted to hug him.

Although I didn't know what ironwood he was talking about, it was probably the kind of wood we usually call hardwood, and I knew how hard that kind of hardwood was to deal with, so I couldn't help but nodded in agreement.

If it pleases him, why not give it a try?

When I watched him lie down on the strange wooden plank he made and heard him say it was a "bed", I couldn't help lying on the same "bed" with him and hugged him from behind.

It's just that I didn't expect that the day when the high priest would look for him would come so early.

Obviously that morning, he was still in my arms asking me what time it was, and he was busy making food for me to go hunting, but when he came back, he heard that the high priest and the patriarch were looking for me—— When it comes to business, I'm used to calling Abba the patriarch. For Luo Lie and me, being the patriarch means more to us than him being our Abba.

Maybe this is what a patriarch must do, just and selfless, so that even his own children must be sacrificed.Sometimes I wonder whether I really want to be the patriarch, and sometimes I think, if I become the patriarch, I must let everyone live a better life.

When A Nuo and A Man came in together, I was a little worried, especially when A Nuo was interrogated by Abba and looked back at me, I almost wanted to stand up and hug him.

So when the high priest interrogated him, I couldn't help but speak for him.

But, his story scares me again.

No matter what kind of Arnold he is, whether he is given to us by God or sent by the devil, more, I hope he can become my Arnold.More than that, I hope he never leaves me.

However, this, probably even he himself does not know.

I made a promise to him, but probably even he himself doesn't know whether this promise will be fulfilled.

Don't say what he said to the high priest, he will leave if he is unhappy.Even the promise he made to me was just that he would not leave for the time being.

I'm a little sad.

Even if he is the messenger of God, for me, I only hope that he is my Arnold.To me, he was the first person who would reassure me that my wounds were okay; the first person who would feed me first, not make me sacrifice for someone else; the first person who would make me think To embrace the person who allows him to live a good life.

No matter what he means to others, to me, he is who I want.

I also know that he has shortcomings. If he has something, he will hide it first and enjoy it first.On the one hand, it's because we don't know whether this food is edible, but I also understand from his eyes that he likes it like this.When he has something, he will first think of his own family to be full, and then he will think of the tribe.

But what does it matter?If he has more food, he will give it to others, and he will try his best to make more food for me, fearing that I will be hungry and would rather cook more food.

Some people may think that my liking for him is too narrow and selfish, but who can guarantee that their needs are impartial?Even the father, he wants Ah Mo and us to eat more, but he can't do it.In the whole tribe, who doesn't want to find more food?It's just that everyone didn't find it.

Rather than him hiding what he finds and eating it first, I would rather I can find more food for him so that he doesn't need to hide it, or it's okay for him to hide it.

Although his thoughts are different from mine, in a sense, I agree with him more. If it is not for the reputation of the patriarch's impartiality, who would not want to eat more for himself?Who doesn't want their family to be full?Even if the female found an extra fruit, she would happily stay at home and eat it by herself. Why should he, a female, be separated because he got too much?

From the perspective of being the patriarch and other people who benefit from it, I would very much hope that he would contribute these things, but from a human point of view, I still feel that it is difficult for me to do so.And because of that, I definitely don't want to force him to do something I don't want to do.

I want him to be happy, I want him to be well fed, I want me to give him a better life, I want me to make him happy without hiding two pumpkins.

But I didn't expect that the subsequent development was more and more beyond what I could imagine.

The author has something to say: When I typed a few thousand words, you gave me a score for slipping. Is it wrong to be lazy when writing a few words?

People who write until two o'clock can't afford to be hurt.

Arnold, hurry up and beg readers to adopt you!Or throw you away.

By the way, Chao Chao, the sister reader here doesn't like you, so she asked your little Gong to show off your cuteness.

Arnold: ==

Gu Chaoqi: Who is Xiao Gong in our family?

Magic stick: OTZ, you want the reader sister to tell you.

Therefore, everyone should be diligent and take good care of the little recipients in our family.