Orcs’ Time Through Time

Speaking of this quack fruit, I really don't know what miraculous effect it has. It is worthy of Lu Yin's desperate effort to pick it, and it almost killed Luo Lei.

It tastes like an apple, well, it's a bit sweeter than an apple, this is the only thing that can be praised. Smaller than apples, except that the skin and flesh are all red, there is nothing special, and the taste is not as good as their red dew fruit here. At least they can also be called our kind of purple and black cherries. Although they look a bit like round Fengshui pears, they can’t bear the taste of cherries. As for the things that look like our cherries here, they are all called Grugos (probably this sound), but the taste should be like the gooseberry in our definition. The red ones are usually the same when you pick them. Used it for Luo Lei to make fruit wine. It seems that this fruit wine is particularly good? As for the black like blackcurrant, everyone just eat it.

In fact, there are a lot of wild fruits here, but I really don’t have time to organize this stuff. So I know only a few of them, except for the ones mentioned above, one is apples that look like us but tastes like passion fruit. My wish is to plant a few for soaking wine in the future; The plant looks almost like an orange, but the flesh inside is mango-flavored. The juicing of that thing is very popular with A Rui; as for the thing that looks like a tomato but tastes like citrus, it is really just a pinch. It's easy to rot, and most of the adults here can hardly eat-probably because most of the females here are actually very rough...

Seeing Luo Lei holding the fruit, my first reaction was that he wanted to eat it too? However, his expression is not the same, and Ah Miao has repeatedly told me that I must eat more of this fruit myself, and I must eat it as soon as possible.

However, doesn't it mean that this is a fruit that enhances physique? It should be okay to feed the wounded. Thinking about this, I reluctantly said: "Do you want to eat too? I'll wash it for you..." As he said, I threw down the work in my hands and prepared to wash one for him to eat.

It’s just that before I got the fruit in his hand, I saw him take it away: "No, I don’t want to eat it. Have you eaten it?"

I nodded, isn't that nonsense, didn't I have a half in my mouth just now. Speaking of which, although I don’t like apples, I don’t eat fruit for a long time. It’s okay to eat it once in a while.

However, when I nodded, his facial twitching became more obvious, and he even stared at me without blinking, as if to see a flower from my face.

I just can't figure it out, what's the matter with me eating a fruit? Or maybe I can’t eat this thing? Or shouldn't it be eaten like this? Am I the one who eats bananas and eats banana peels?

I frowned and looked at him, waiting for him to give me an answer. I saw Rona and Ari walking in from the door, probably the morning's things were almost done. Seeing that Luo Lei and I were sitting in the hall, they yelled "Abba, Ah Mo" in unison and walked towards us together.

Seeing fruit on the ground, the first reaction of A Rui, a snack food, was to take one to eat. In this regard, I never want to care too much. There are not many things to eat here, especially for children. Think about my nephew before, who had a lot of food and fun, he still saw this and wanted that. For Rona and Ari, I always feel that they are actually very pitiful, and they haven't even eaten a few fruits. And since they arrived at our home, they really feel distressed. It's as if Rona picked two fruits for Ari two days ago, and Ari quietly left one for me. So in terms of life, I don't mind giving them a taste of what they can eat, so that they can eat and dress warmly.

It’s just that I don’t wait for me to tell A Rui that he must wash the fruit before eating, so as not to leave residues of dust, spider silk and wild yeast on it. He is too young for fear of ruining his stomach. I saw Rona's face suddenly reddened suspiciously, and he split his hand to **** the quack fruit that Ari had picked up: "You can't eat this."

A Rui seemed to be taken aback, looked at his brother, looked at me again, cried and threw into my arms with a cry, and almost made me fall on the wooden board again. Fortunately, Luo Lei reached out and pulled me from the side. Unexpectedly, his face twitched again, but this one should obviously be painful.

I motioned Rona to look at Loray’s wound with my eyes, and I held A Rui and patted twice in my arms: "Okay, okay, don’t cry. If you can’t eat, you can’t eat. Let’s eat later Grilled bear paws, A Rui and Ama will pick two radishes later, okay? Stew some radish bone soup at noon. It's okay, brother is worried about A Rui..."

Seeing Rona’s sight on Lore’s wound, he nodded to me. It didn’t seem that the wound was cracked. I was relieved a lot. Putting Ari beside him, I asked Rona, "Rona, this fruit Why can't Ari eat it?"

Obviously I didn't expect that I would ask such a question, or that I didn't know the fruit, Rona's face was flushed, and he didn't know what to say.

I don't think he could say anything, and in the end he could only cast his gaze to Lo Lei, who was calming his pain.

Luo Lei seemed to take a deep breath for a while, and it didn't hurt that much. When he met my eyes, he could still smile and hand me another fruit: "This, it's not a quack..."

I was a little surprised, this is not Gagago? Then why does Lu Yin have to give it to me? No matter how I refuse, you must give it to me. They are all members of a tribe, and I don't believe that Lu Yin and A Miao will feed me poisonous or bad things. So, I waited more curiously for Luo Lei to continue speaking for me.

Putting the fruit in his hand aside, looking at Rona standing aside and Ari sitting beside me listening with ears upright. Luo Lei looked at me with gentle but unclear eyes: "Well, this It is not quack fruit, this is a kind of fruit on the tree that grows with quack fruit, we call it Chongchong fruit. Gaga fruit trees and Chongchong fruit trees have always accompanied each other, and where you can see Gaga fruit trees, you can see Chongchong fruit trees. According to the legends of the Xing tribe, Gagauo can improve the physique of females who are going to have children, so that they can give birth more safely. At the same time, Chong Chongguo can increase the probability of a female having a child and make them more likely to be pregnant. Baby." He smiled and glanced at me, "Actually, what Gunan didn’t know was that not only the Xing clan had such legends, but the Yi clan also had such legends. However, the fertility rate of the Yi clan was higher than that of the Xing clan, and Probably because the children of the Wing tribe are younger than the children of the Xing tribe at birth, and the probability of the Wing tribe’s females being safe to give birth is also higher, so the Wing tribes generally don’t risk doing such things."

With that said, he glanced at the remaining "Chong Chongguo" and smiled at me, "I just didn't expect Lu Yin to think of this." He pulled it over again, only knowing that he must A Rui who can't eat the fruit and is a little frustrated: "Don't be sad, A Rui, this fruit can't be eaten until you grow up. When you grow up and get married, Abba and brother will pick Chong Chongguo for you to eat."

Hearing this, A Rui's face naturally turned from cloudy to sunny. He didn't know anything about this anyway, he was just happy to hear that there was something to eat.

It’s just that I still don’t understand. They all look the same. Yesterday, I also vaguely saw the fruit on Lu Yin’s back. They are all mixed together. They look the same, but some are red and some are. It’s just cyan. I also saw that Luin gave me red fruits.

Maybe my puzzled expression is too obvious. Rona was a little embarrassed to explain to me: "Well, the quack fruit is blue, the red fruit is red. Although they look the same, they are easy to distinguish, and they are really useful. In the past, Abba, who was the Abba of the Xing clan, ate this for Ama of Xing clan, and then gave birth to A Rui’s..."

Seeing that Rona believes in the effect of this thing, I can't say much. He nodded and asked Rona to put away the fruits first, and pulled A Rui to the yard to pick the radishes.

In my heart, he has already scolded Lu Yin many times for not telling me clearly. This guy, who gave me this fruit, didn't tell me anything, which made me ashamed in front of Luo Lei now. I also ate that fruit! No wonder Lore always stares at me and even Rona looks back and forth between me and Lore from time to time...

I originally wanted to give the fruit to others, but Lore wouldn't let it. He also said that Lu Yin and A Miao gave it to us to express their gratitude and apologies. If I gave it to others, what would they think? How uncomfortable will they be? Let him say this, I also think there is some truth, and I just don't care how he handles this small bag of fruit.

Since Luo Lei woke up, the atmosphere in our house began to improve a lot. Although Luo Lei did not go hunting today, but with the blessing of traps, we actually have enough food every day. Sometimes, if I slaughter a rabbit or fish at home, the meat allocated by the clan can still be sold. Get up and cook dried meat. So even if Luo Lei didn't go out, the food distributed to us by the clan was still enough. Even if it wasn't enough, I could go to the yard to kill a rabbit or something.

At noon we cooked a big pot of radish stew and put a lot of wild boar in it. Lore and the two young ones were very happy to eat. Originally, I wanted to give Luo Lei a roasted bear paw by himself. But after he ate for a while, he said that he couldn't eat anymore and he insisted on giving it to us. I looked at how Rona and Ari were still eating, and I didn't share the half of the bear's paw. It’s just that I drank more loofah soup. For people like me who are used to rice as a staple food and meat only vegetables, vegetables are more delicious.

Although I want Luo Lei to drink more loofah soup, it may be good for his wounds. But he frowned, his face was bitter, and he only drank half a bowl for a long time. It was radish stew, and he ate a bowl after a while. Well, this is male, animal instinct. So I can only go with him, is the wounded the most. Originally, I wanted to make steamed fish with fermented black bean sauce. Seeing that the wounded were taboo fishy, ​​I didn't make it after thinking about it. After all, even the high priest didn't know how the fish here would affect the people here. So let's wait until he gets better.

As a staple food, I specially made potato pancakes. Although meat is the staple food for Luo Lei and others, this is just a snack between the teeth. Use pre-cooked potatoes mixed with semolina and beaten eggs to deep-fry. The deep-fried orange butter is moisturized and very fragrant. Although it is more expensive, the family members are still very happy to eat, even Luo Lei has eaten a few. A Rui wanted to eat more, I was afraid he would get angry, so I didn't give it to him. He moved over to Luo Lei and looked at the potato pancakes in Luo Lei's bowl. In the end, Luo Lei gave him another one from his bowl, but instead he ate more carrots.

In fact, Luo Lei loves the child more than I do, and he hurts the child unconditionally, which is almost responsive. Sometimes when I think about it, I worry, if it were me and his children, would he be spoiled by him? Education alone is probably hard enough for me, and I get a headache when I think about it.

In mid-to-late September, we officially started harvesting potatoes. After nearly ten days of recuperation, Luo Lei has also improved a lot. Although he can't go out hunting yet, he can already patrol and walk around the clan for a while. The high priest said that in ten days or so, he should be able to go hunting. I also have to admire the speed of recovery of these orcs. With such a big wound, it is estimated that it will take us a month or two to be hospitalized.

But because he was injured and healed again, even I had to start doing things in the clan that I had to take care of him. Even if everyone knows that I need a lot of time to study other things and think, and give me only about half of what others have, it is still not easy to instruct them to collect potatoes, dig cellars and so on.

Although they have eaten potatoes before, for safety, I emphasized at the monthly meeting of the clan that we must pay attention to the problem of eating. Especially these parents, we must pay attention to the condition of the potatoes for their children. . Seeing what I said was serious, you couldn't help but get serious, but there have been no problems for many years. They just need to instruct them to dig a cellar, run around the entire plantation to see the growth and storage of the dug potatoes, and check the condition of these animals every now and then. Luo Lei still couldn't work hard, and the animals in the house also had to be fed. Although Rona's help was getting more and more capable, it still made me tired. When I returned home, I made a meal to feed a few people at home, took a shower, and fell on the bed and didn't want to move anymore.

Starting from the fourth day, Luo Lei had moved back to bed to sleep. Although I should have paid more attention not to let me overwhelm his wounds, but because he really insisted on going back to bed and not letting me sleep on the bamboo bed, we still huddled together to sleep.

Every time I fell on the bed and couldn't fall asleep, I could feel Luo Lei reaching out, rubbing my shoulders and back, and then sighing behind my back.

Isn't this all for a better life? How else would I work so hard? Look at our life, think about our past, and compare the aquariums now downstream, and you know that hard work has results.

Although it is indeed too tired, every day I lie down, my back hurts and I want to grind my teeth. I don't want to get up every morning. I don’t even think about other things...

And this kind of day is not just a while, but a month, from mid-to-late September to mid-October, when the potatoes are harvested, the cotton is harvested. When the cotton is dried, I will be responsible for watching them harvesting sweet potatoes and instructing them. They dig cellars to store potatoes and sweet potatoes, and they have to repeatedly warn them of the correct use of the cellar. And Luo Lei was injured and couldn't help. Later, he was too busy to prepare for the winter in the family, so I had to get involved. When it comes to tragic destruction, I feel that I am truly tragic.

After finishing my family affairs, I have to put away the vegetables that I have grown at home that should be put away for storage. Those that cannot be put away are eaten as soon as possible, and those that need to be planted must be preserved. I have collected more than 20 large pumpkins and put them on the shelf at home, and I can open them when I want to eat them. The loofah can only be eaten no longer. I got too old to make loofah. I also piled up some radishes and onions and threw them in the cellar. The remaining radishes were dried radishes and put them into the soup to cook when needed. Although the dried radishes are not delicious, but there is no me here. I can’t make stir-fried dishes if I want the pot, and even if I make stir-fried pork with dried radish, I can’t imagine that they eat this as their staple food. Stir-fried pork with dried radish consumes oil, and there is not much cooking out, so I don’t want to make it for the time being, but if my life is better, I will consider asking Gunan to cook a few pots for me. Because our cellar is full of potatoes, sweet potatoes, and onions, I am actually a little worried. I don’t know if the potatoes, sweet potatoes and onions in the cellar will sprout. I can only talk about it next spring. Save the seeds for all kinds of green onion, **** and garlic, and wait for next year to plant again.

Our cellar is actually very big, but with so many things right, I still want to get some ice cubes in it, it still seems a little insufficient, but there is no time to dig it now, so Lore promised me to help me with it next summer The cellar is bigger. As for the ice cubes, I still asked Gunan to help make several square pots, and let Luo Lei make several wooden basins, which I plan to use to make ice cubes and put them in.

Since Luo Lei is in good health, he still takes the hunters to hunt every day, and when he comes back to inspect the winter reserve of the tribe, he is also very busy. Moreover, he has just recovered from a serious injury. As far as I am concerned, I still hope he will not be so tired. However, for the patriarch Luo Lei, my advice is completely useless. Even when I say this to him, I am worried that he will be sad, so I can only let him go.

As far as our own family is concerned, in fact, the clan no longer distributes things to us. We can survive the winter or the year. Moreover, there are already nine cows, 19 sheep, 32 wild boars, more than 400 fat rabbits, and a pond full of no less than 500 or 600 fish, and our family gave them to the clan. Ten wild geese, ten wild ducks and fifteen little turkeys used for breeding. Everyone has barley, wheat, sweet potatoes, potatoes, etc., which have been divided into a total of thousands of catties, and everyone in the clan should also be able to survive. If it is not that everyone is used to the hard life, we are afraid that there will not be enough food at that time, and would rather store more. Even if we eat these, it will be enough for us to eat for half a year.

However, in order to raise these animals, just the reserve of hay and wheat grains, we have built six new warehouses near the breeding circle.

Our house used to be piled with firewood and hay in the front part of the corridor, mill and toilet. Now that there are more and more animals, I had to ask Luo Lei to find a few people to tear down a vegetable plot and build a larger warehouse. I am accustomed to the convenient life of tap water, piped gas, etc., and I didn’t have anything to raise at that time. I didn’t expect that there was such a need for a while. Now that I have raised so many animals, I realized that not having a large warehouse is not enough. I will build a house later. , It seems that a special warehouse must be built.

I swept away the things of this winter, and took time to show everyone how to dry cotton. I also made a wooden spinning machine and a frame-shaped simple loom for everyone to refer to, and teach everyone how to do it. Spinning, how to weave, looking at the smooth or tangled finished products, I began to imagine what will happen next year when everyone is wearing all kinds of cotton clothes... As for the quilted jackets and quilts, adults feel that they are temporarily absent. Necessary, only those who have children at home will feel sorry for the children and leave some cotton for them to make quilted jackets.

Because Aman was about to be born, Xinmu couldn't do this. They wanted to make some cotton clothes for the child, so they entrusted our family to make the cotton.

I think so, although most of the children born here were brought up casually, just like Luo Lai (or Lu Lai), the little tiger of Luo Lie’s family, and I haven’t seen them take care of him, especially After he walks on his own, he always puts out to let him chase the children in the clan to play. When he was born, he couldn't drink the broth and was almost given up. Ah Xing had already done things in the clan when he was only two or three months old. As for Luo Lei and Luo Lie, there is no mention of grandparents taking care of their grandchildren. When Ah Xing was doing things, he put him in the pile of animal skins at home. So although in my opinion he is a very weak little thing, but he has also grown up.

But in my opinion, for such a low fertility rate, children should actually be taken care of carefully, at least before he can leave by himself, he should pay more attention. There were no conditions at that time. Now that the living environment has improved, it is also necessary to give them a corresponding improvement in the living environment. So in addition to using the cotton sent by Xin Mu to help their home spin a few pieces of cloth, I also used the cotton left over here to make a little quilt for their little baby that can be wrapped in sleep later. I still said to the outside world. That is the cotton sent by Xin Mu. Xin Mu and Aman themselves also understand that this kind of thing can't be said nonsense. In addition to being very grateful to Luo Lei and me, they also kept the same calibre. However, I am too bad at sewing clothes, so I left it to Aman to do it myself.

After I’m busy, it’s winter when I can take a little free time. I do things that I don’t have time to do every day. I have to take care of the meals of a family of four. I have to teach Rona how to make bows and arrows when I have time. Teach A Rui spinning and weaving, and occasionally chat with Aman who comes over. He also visited the tribe with Luo Lei twice a day. Although it is busy, it is much better than spring and autumn. So the spirit is more abundant.

But at night, it's time for me to face Luo Lei...