Chapter 9: Farming & Wild Fruits

"is this real?"

Hua Zizhou... Hua Zizhou... He also has a name. From today, Hua Zizhou will be

his name.

Mao'er looked at Qu Qing ignorantly. At this time, he still didn't understand

what this name meant to him. He just vaguely felt that something had changed

from before.

Hua Zizhou, he thought a little excitedly: this is really... a really

beautiful name.

Seeing the light in his eyes, Qu Qing knew that he liked it very much, and he

liked it best. After all, no one wanted the name they thought up happily and

was rejected.

"Then I'll call you Zizhou from now on, okay?"

"Ok!"

Qu Qing also didn't have much time and patience to linger on trivial matters.

After deciding the names of the two, he recalled the method of farming he got

from Hua Zizhou yesterday, and began to organize the first day. The seeds I

used, I was thinking about today's plan. After I got it done, I poured water

first, and then I went to the kitchen. I accidentally dug out a little flour,

and made a three-part roll of the dough myself with the flour.

Hua Zizhou gave him a hand on the side.

While doing it, Qu Qing thought that he had dropped out of school to work and

learned to cook in order to save money. Now, it seems that it is not a bad

thing at all. If the pampered self before the age of eighteen came here, I am

afraid not to mention life ten years old. Years later, I'm afraid he won't be

able to stay even a minute.

But... if he was eighteen years old, why would he be worried.

Qu Qing's hands that rolled the noodles paused for a while, and his eyes

became silent, and then he continued to make the noodles without changing his

face.

The texture of the noodles is not as good as modern ones, and it is slightly

deteriorated. The taste is not good in Qu Qing's view, but he still endured

eating all without saying a word, and the two people in front of him followed

him. After washing the dishes, Qu Qing picked up the seeds without saying a

word and let Hua Zizhou go to the front.

When he got to the field, he first asked Hua Zizhou to demonstrate how to sow

seeds, and then Qu Qing followed suit.

One mu of land is about six hundred and sixty-six square meters. No matter how

precise the calculations are and how thorough the understanding is, there is

only one sentence in the field: work hard.

There is no room for rejection, he has no golden fingers, and he has nothing

to rely on. The only thing he has is his current roommate.

After getting all the seeds, he found that the rice that the mysterious man

gave him was just enough for him to plant an acre of land, and there was no

extra catty. It can be guessed that the other corn and potatoes should also be

the same. If this is the case, He can't move those seeds easily from now on.

After the busy work, the morning passed, the sun rose to the highest sky, and

the hottest time of the day came. With a tired body, Qu Qing went ashore to

the tree and lay under the tree like a dead dog.

After Hua Zizhou was busy, he went to look for little Qu Xin, who didn't know

where to go to play. In places where Qu Qing couldn't see, he taught him

sentence by sentence.

"In the future, you have a new name. If he can let you follow his surname, it

means that he accepts you and is willing to protect him. You must respect him

in the future, be filial, and you must never call yourself a cat again, you

know? "

Kitten looked at him, and although he didn't understand, he nodded obediently.

Sure enough, after that, he recognized the name.

Qu Qing closed his eyes for a while, when he heard footsteps in his ears, he

didn't need to open his eyes to know who these two footsteps were.

He opened his eyes, sat up straight, and unexpectedly saw Qu Xin holding a

handful of green plants in his hand, he already had a guess, but he was not

quite sure, so he asked, "What is this? ?"

Hua Zizhou said, "It's the wild vegetables that the cat went to pick, ah, I

was wrong, it's Qu Xin, the wild vegetables that I went to pick."

"Really?" Qu Qing didn't care about his slip of the tongue, but seeing how

nervous he was, he smiled, got up and rubbed Xiao Qu Xin's head, and with a

little bit of interest, he scoured out a small compliment from his chest. The

child's words: "At such a young age, I know that I can help share the burden

of the family. Qu Xin is really a good boy."

Being praised, not only the person being praised, but also Hana Zizhou next to

him is also very happy.

"Let's go, it's noon, go home for lunch."

After finishing carrying the tools they brought, the three of them walked back

on their way.

Along the way, I occasionally encountered other people in the village busy in

the fields. Although many eyes fell on them, no one took the initiative to

talk to them in the past.

Qu Qing thought to himself, his current hairstyle is a bit weird, and the

original owner doesn't seem to be a good person. It can be seen from no one

who took the initiative to say hello to him. The popularity of the original

owner is really not that bad. I have a good relationship with the people in

the same village, but for now... I still do my own thing well, and then

consider how to manage interpersonal relationships to obtain better resources.

While secretly analyzing the people in the village, he was also looking at the

environment and plants here, deducting the information he had learned a little

bit in his heart.

While Qu Qing was observing the surroundings, Hua Zizhou by his side was also

observing him. After spending more than a day together, he vaguely discovered

that Qu Qing is a good person, which is beyond doubt. If you work by yourself,

you will not treat him harshly. You can even say that he is very kind to him,

and he will speak to him equally.

However, he also discovered that Qu Qing seems to be a relatively cold person.

On weekdays, except for the smile he deliberately showed when he needed to

appease himself, his face was always cold and indifferent, making people dare

not approach him. Don't dare to speak to him.

Just like him who was thinking about things seriously at this time, he seemed

to be completely different from himself.

Qu Qing suddenly asked: "Zizhou, in winter here, are most of the leaves in the

mountains still green?"

"Yeah." He answered without hesitation. When he lowered his head and continued

to walk, he suddenly felt a little strange. Why did Qu Qing's tone sound like

he...not from here?

He wondered why he often felt this way.

After Qu Qing asked, he also realized that he seemed to be asking the wrong

question. He glanced at Hua Zizhou, thinking that he should not dare to harm

himself if he was given ten courage now. Regardless of your own small

loopholes, some things will become more and more black.

Afterwards, he summed up the information he had just obtained in his mind:

there are many evergreen dicotyledonous plants, and the forest is also green

in winter, which confirms the characteristics of the subtropical evergreen

broad-leaved forest that was studied in high school geography. This

characteristic is distributed in the eastern part of the continent at 25°C to

35°C north-south latitude on the earth. In the original world, the Yangtze

River Basin had such a climate. He was thinking about whether he was now in

the past of the earth's history.

If it is really in the past, he may be able to rely on the historical

knowledge he has. Although he can't do much, he can generally try to avoid

disadvantages.

Of course, there is a terrifying possibility that only flashed in my mind

once. In this world, if a man can marry a man, and a man can have children,

then does it prove that... Maybe this is really another world?

It seemed that he had to find a way at night to learn more about the world

from Hana Zizhou.

Thinking back to the present, the subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest

area generally has a subtropical oceanic climate, the rain and heat are in the

same period, and there is no obvious dry season, which means that as long as

he farms the land well, there will be basically no crop failure due to bad

weather. The situation is warm in winter, this climate will not be lower than

zero degrees Celsius in winter, and the problem of heating in winter will be

solved very well. There is no need to specially manufacture the kind of kang

in the north. You only need two thick quilts to spend the night. , And the

heating during the day can be completely solved by firewood. If there is

firewood on the mountain, there is no need to worry at all.

But the biggest difficulty he is facing now is the problem of food shortage.

Qu Qing initially calculated three meals a day for the three of them. Even if

they save a little, the rice in his rice jar will only be enough to eat for a

month, and the oil is only enough to eat. Even less, if you only eat two meals

a day, you can last five or six days, but it still won't work...

One month, this shows that within this month, he not only needs to plant all

the grains of the three acres of land, but also find a way to find a way for

about eight months before the grain in the field matures. get food.

Even if you can eat crops that are not fully mature, and the time without food

is reduced by two months, if today is the first month of eight months, and

there is still one month of food, if this month is subtracted, then he will at

least Have to face the situation of having nothing to eat for five months.

In fact, there is nothing to eat and it has not reached this step. There are

wild vegetables and wild fruits on the mountain.

The food for three people, even if the child eats less, can be regarded as

nothing. One person normally consumes 20 catties of rice in a month, and two

people consume 200 catties of rice in five months. This is still the case of

one less child. .

In five months, where will he go to get so much food? If it is in modern

times, this is not a problem at all. It is easy to make money, but the trouble

is. This is the ancient times where poverty was so poor that it was sent to

you yesterday. You can tell from the sallow face and thin skin of one big and

one small in his own family. He doesn't think this is a place where there is

enough food. Thinking of this, his frown deepens, and his expression is not

good-looking.

Seeing his expression next to him, Hua Zizhou didn't know if he was unhappy

because he thought of something or if he was making him unhappy, so he was a

little empty. He just wanted to pull Qu Xin's little hand, but found that the

child was happy because he was praised. , At this moment, he had already run

to Qu Qing, and accidentally stumbled on a small stone under his feet, and

fell to the ground on the spot.

Hua Zizhou was startled. Usually at this time, the cat would be scolded and

blocked by others, looked annoyed, etc. If he was not careful, he would be

kicked and beaten twice. But because he has encountered too many situations

like this, fear has become a habit.

Just when he put all his eyes on Qu Qing, he found that Qu Qing was not as

angry as he imagined, but squatted on the ground and helped Qu Xin to pick up

the wild vegetables on the ground, handed them to him, and then stretched out

his hand. Carrying Xiao Qu Xin on his back, he continued to think about his

own business.

This action is very natural, and anyone who looks at it will feel that they

are biological father and son, and there will be no doubts.

Hua Zizhou opened his mouth slightly, stopped to look at his back for a while,

and then caught up with a lot of emotions mixed with emotions in his heart. He

couldn't tell what it was, it was sour.

After returning, Qu Qing first cooked the rice, then called Hua Zizhou and

asked him how to get rid of the worms. After all, the rice at home was already

so nervous, and if the rice worms ate a lot of them, it would be true. down.

"Put it in a cool and ventilated place, and it won't take long for the bugs to

crawl away by themselves."

After speaking, I started to act. There was not much rice. After a while, I

got it all under the clean eaves. After that, I made a vegetable with the wild

vegetables picked by the cat at noon. Because I knew the preciousness and

scarcity of seeds, I put them in that room. Potatoes that remain as seeds are

temporarily immobile.

After eating, Qu Qing got up, went to get the potatoes and started cutting

them before sowing. Since there was only one knife at home, under the eyes of

Hua Zizhou who wanted to help, he worked for a while and then handed over the

task to him. Then he began to think about repairing the thatched hut that was

already leaking.

Climbing up on the roof, lifted the thatch on the roof, and studied how it was

laid. After he understood it clearly, he could see the appearance of the

thatch clearly, and after thinking about it, he found that most of the ground

outside seemed to be this kind of plant.

After going down to the ground, he took the sickle, went out and started to

cut the thatch. He felt that the amount was almost there, so he stopped and

took all the thatch back and put it in the yard to spread out to dry. After

thinking about it, he began to find the hemp rope he needed to use. Yes, these

grasses are estimated to take a few days to dry before drying.

Seeing that Hua Zizhou was busy with Qu Xin in the house, he couldn't help

much in the past, so he decided to go to the mountain to have a look.

After saying that, he went out.

Looking at the back of Qu Qing leaving just like that, Hua Zizhou looked at

the whole bag of potatoes in disbelief: He was so relieved to hand over so

much food to himself for safekeeping, isn't he afraid of eating or hiding it

by himself? ?

At home, all food-related things are always well hidden, especially to prevent

him and Qu Xin, but... Qu Qing has only known each other for two days, why can

he trust himself so much.

Xiao Qu Xin stretched out his hand and pulled Hua Zizhou's clothes, with joy

and disbelief in his tender voice: "Just now, he praised me."

"Yeah!" Hua Zizhou nodded heavily.

"Just now, after I fell, he carried me on his back!"

"Well! I saw it with my own eyes just now!"

Qu Xinxin covered his face with his hands, stomped his feet in place

excitedly, and then ran out, waiting for the door to remember to say a word.

"I'm going out!" he said.

Seeing Hua Zizhou nodding, he happily ran out.

Hua Zizhou wanted to stop him, but when he went out, he found that he had run

far away. After hesitating for a while, he let him go with a little worry.

Qu Qing walked for a while, and when he turned around, he suddenly found a

small figure behind him. It turned out that Xiao Qu Xin was chasing after him.

"Cat?"

The panting little man caught up, still closed one eye, raised his head, and

said softly: "Zizhou said, I am now called Qu Xin, and told me not to be

called a cat in the future."

"Okay, then little friend Qu Xin, what are you doing with me?" When talking to

the child, no matter who it is, his voice will be soft. When he saw the scar

on his arm, he wondered why someone would hurt such a small child.

"I..." When asked about this Qu Xin, he lowered his head and drew a circle on

the ground with his toes, "I just want to see where you are going?"

"I'm going to the mountain, so do you want to go with me?"

"Is that okay?" Qu Xin raised his head and looked at Qu Qing brightly.

Such eyes can easily make one's heart soften. Qu Qing stretched out his hand

to him: "Yes, but you have to go by yourself. If so, do you still want to go?

It's too late to regret that you want to go back."

"Go!" He answered decisively, and he quickly stepped forward and handed his

hand to Qu Qing timidly.

Qu Qing grabbed his hand and continued to move forward. Although he took a

child with him, he walked slowly, but Qu Qing wanted to understand the

surrounding environment, so it was okay to be slower. Although this child was

a little sticky He, but he doesn't talk much, he is quite quiet, and he is

very well-behaved. As long as he says not to move anything, he will never

move.

Walking back up the mountain, there was a hillside halfway up the mountain,

and Xiao Qu Xin suddenly pointed at the hillside happily and said, "There are

delicious fruits there."

Qu Qing was also curious, and pulled him over to take a look. The ground was

covered with round fruits the size of little fingers. The immature ones were

green, and the eyes of mature ones were close to red. After tasting them, he

found that the wild fruits were very soft and sweet.

The kitten had already squatted on the ground and picked it one by one, but

did not eat it, and carefully wrapped the picked fruit in her clothes.

"Why don't you eat it?" Qu Qing took another pill and asked him curiously next

to him.

He said earnestly like a little adult: "I want to pick it up and take it back

to ... for Zizhou. He likes to eat it the most. When I take it back, I will

eat it with him."

Qu Qing was a little surprised. He didn't expect that he would care about

people at such a young age. Generally, it is difficult for such an old child

to know how to share with others. It is also a rare person.

Qu Qing picked one and squatted down beside him and fed it directly into his

mouth: "Eat some of your own first, we will go to the mountain later, I

promise you, I will pick it for you when I come back, promise to pick more. ."

Qu Qing chewed the fruit and narrowed his eyes happily.

I like it very much...but for the sake of others, can you endure it?

Qu Qing could see that he was very reluctant, but he still agreed to his

request, but instead of eating the fruit in his pocket, he handed it to Qu

Qing: "Give it to you to eat, Zizhou didn't eat it, neither did I. eat…"

Qu Qing rubbed his little head hard, and said sincerely: "I really envy

Zizhou, I can get such a caring little person like you, if you can be so kind

to me..." He stopped here. Mouth, I feel that I have become stupid for saying

these words to children.

However, he thought, the person who can educate such a good child will not be

too bad.

When Xiao Qu Xin heard this, his face suddenly became excited. He grabbed Qu

Qing's hand and tugged it, and said, "I can be as nice to you as I am to

Zizhou, but can you grant me a request?"

"Oh? What kind of request? Just tell me, if it's too difficult, I can't do

it."

"It's..." He suddenly twitched.

After a while, he said, "Can I call you father in the future?"

Qu Qing was stunned for a moment, and suddenly remembered that a long time

ago, when he was a child, he dragged his mother and asked his father why he

hadn't come back.

He touched Qu Xin's small head, and then dragged him to continue walking into

the mountains. Seeing that he did not respond, Xiao Qu Xin thought that he had

refused, so he lowered his head in despair, pocketing the fruit that he did

not send out, saying a word. Walk forward without any hesitation.

After a while, Qu Qing's voice sounded in front.

"Okay, you can call me dad, this is your right, you already have my surname,

so you can naturally call me that."

Qu Xin's small head suddenly lifted up.

"father?"

"Ok."

Qu Xin, who received a response, felt that he had received the best gift in

the world today.

"Father, can I call me Father Zizhou in the future? In the old home, I would

be beaten if I called him like that. If you don't allow me to call me like

that, I will never mention it again."

"Can."

"Then this is a gift I gave to Dad, Dad, you eat them, okay?" He insisted on

giving his fruit to Qu Qing, as if he definitely wanted to donate something.

Qu Qing looked at him and took his fruits. Although some of them were crushed,

he ate them all.

The little Qu Xin was satisfied.

After walking slowly, he began to enter the forest. He found that the forest

was like this, and he couldn't see any flowers, so he picked up some firewood

in his hand and prepared to go home.

After walking through the ** just now, he remembered that he had promised

Kitten to help him pick wild fruits. When he turned his head, he saw Qu Xin's

eager eyes.

He put down the firewood and explained, "I almost forgot about this important

matter, Qu Xin, why didn't you remind me just now?"

"Because, I think... If Dad doesn't want to pick it, then forget it. Qu Xin

doesn't want Dad to be unhappy."

Qu Qing didn't say anything, squatted down and wiped his hands with the

leaves, and then quickly picked the fruits that were just ripe. Soon there was

a big handful, and the kitten also collected some, and the two returned with a

full load.

As soon as he entered the door, Qu Xin rushed inside and called out loudly for

Daddy.

When Hua Zizhou heard what he was calling himself, he was suddenly startled,

and he almost cut his hands while cutting the potatoes.

Putting down the knife, because his hands were dirty, he hugged Qu Xin vainly.

Before he could ask anything, Xiao Qu Xin explained: "Zizhou, I will call you

Daddy from now on, and Daddy just agreed with me. From now on, you will be my

father, and I will have a father too!"

Just at this moment, Qu Qing walked in and threw the collected firewood in a

corner of the yard. He just met Hua Zizhou's eyes. Hearing Xiao Qu Xin's

words, he nodded, as if he agreed, and then he went straight to Go to the

kitchen.

Hua Zizhou hesitated. He knew that many people in the village had rumors that

the cat was his own child. Because he was afraid of losing face, he said he

picked it up, saying that he went outside and learned to steal people at a

young age. , he used to scold those who slandered them back, but when faced

with a situation that needed to be explained, he had no idea at all. He... is

really innocent. Does Qu Qing also think this is his child?

At the age of thirteen, he was jealous of the world because of his brother's

low status. After a big quarrel with his family, he ran to the mountains,

maybe it was fate, and he saw the cat who was still in swaddling.

Normal people will throw away the weird children born, but he looked over and

found that the kitten is not unhealthy or abnormal except for the difference

in the color of the eyes and pupils. If you must find an abandoned one. The

reason, that is probably because the cat is also a brother.

Just as he was immersed in the memories of the past, Qu Qing brought a large

bowl full of wild fruits he picked from the mountain. It was washed cleanly,

and there were still water droplets on the fruits, which looked very pleasing.

.

Qu Qing put the bowl on the table: took the kitchen knife in the past, and

said to him, "Wash your hands and eat, Qu Xin specially picked it for you,

you've been busy all day, let me come."

Hua Zizhou got up hesitantly, moved his stiff back, washed his hands, and ate

wild fruits with Xiao Qu Xin.

Qu Qing looked at the potatoes that were almost all made in front of him, and

was slightly surprised. He finished it in a few seconds, which was equivalent

to taking a tail by himself.

According to what he had learned last night, he began to organize the diced

potatoes, put them all in place, and the sun began to turn westward.

One day is about to go by.

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