Wen Family Has a Wife

  Chapter 39 The Purpose of Tools

Chen Ningya found herself moving forward as happy as a child, facing the rising sun and grinning with Wen Youshan: "Youshan, look, I really moved, I can move freely on the mudflat. "

Saying that, it seemed that in order to prove that she was really able to row freely, Chen Ningya stomped hard, and the mud sled ran quickly as if she had been fitted with a wheel, and she rowed five or six meters at once. With a little force, could it be possible to draw more than ten meters, so scared that Wen Youshan's face turned white, and hurriedly shouted: "Miss, come back quickly, don't run into the sea!"

   Chen Ningya turned the direction obediently, and Wen Youshan breathed a sigh of relief.

   When she got ashore, Wen Youshan looked around curiously around the mud sled, as if trying to figure out the reason.

Chen Ningya looked at the sea and said with a frown, "Hurry up, let's get the bamboo basket on the mudflat first, dig a hole on the mudflat to place the bamboo basket, try to dig a few more before the high tide, and wait for the next low tide. See if there's anything in there."

   Although Wen Youshan didn't understand Chen Ningya's intentions, he knew that it was right to be obedient.

In this way, the two got on the single wooden mud sled together. Wen Youshan was frightened at first, but after two or three strokes, he used it smoothly. It is fast to have a big man working, and Chen Ningya digs a hole. Wen Youshan can make two pits. When digging the pits, you can harvest some shelled things such as octopus, conch, mussels, etc. You can eat everything that you can't eat. Chen Ningya doesn't dare to bring it. When I went back, I only let Wen Youshan put it in the bamboo basket first, and then went ashore and then subdivided it.

The two cooperated with one person to dig a hole and the other to place a bamboo basket, and then dig a long bamboo pole into the beach, surround the bamboo basket on three sides, and tie the hemp rope to fix the bamboo basket. When they were about to go ashore, when the forty bamboo baskets were almost placed, the sea water gradually came up.

Chen Ningya looked at the sea and the sky, and calmly said to Wen Youshan: "It looks like it's past noon, and it is estimated that the next low tide will be late at night. Then we will go to the sea to work. Now go ashore and see I'll see if I can get a shelter from the wind and rain for a while, I'm hungry after working for a long time."

   As Chen Ningya looked at her dirty look, she smiled bitterly.

  Wen Youshan looked even more embarrassed than Chen Ningya, and the moment the two looked at each other, they both laughed.

I still remember that when they went into the water, the two of them carried a lot of stuff. When they landed on the shore, there were only two big bamboo baskets full of seafood. Seeing these things, Wen Youshan was a little worried, "Miss, you said that this place is all messed up. I haven’t seen it before, it looks weird, it has everything, but there is no fish, how can we fix it?”

Chen Ningya's lower body was like she had just woken up from the quagmire. She was already dirty, so she just sat on the beach and poured out those things. She picked out some starfish that Wen Youshan had picked up and threw them away, "This thing I can't eat it, don't, and this one, this snail is poisonous, it will cause diarrhea if you eat it, so you can't eat this either."

During the conversation, Chen Ningya found out the wrong things that she had eaten in her previous life and let Wen Youshan identify them carefully. She put aside the other things she had not eaten before, and finally cleaned up, and there was a whole box of seafood that she was sure to eat. , In the face of so many things, Chen Ning was happy, and took out a large earthenware pot from the back basket that he brought, and there were a few cold rough dough cakes in it.

   When he saw the cake, Wen Youshan's stomach let out a cry of disappointment. Seeing Chen Ningya looking at him, her face blushed, "Well, I'm just hungry."

"Pfft!" Chen Ningya said amusingly: "You help me get some seawater to wash this basket of things, especially those big octopuses, just kill them and clean them up, let's find a place to rest for a while tonight. , I'll get you some soup and pancakes."

   said, Chen Ningya got up and picked up a handful of kelp that was washed up.

  Wen Youshan hurried over to help, and under the orders of Chen Ningya, he quickly cleaned the octopus, and the basket was placed near the waves. When the sea rushed up, it quickly took away the soil on the surface.

Without the sand, Chen Ningya immediately sat down with her legs crossed and started processing shellfish. She removed the shells of scallops and the like and put them in a clay pot. Don't look at the many things in this box, it's really not much peeled. thing.

   While Chen Ningya was working, Wen Youshan, according to her instructions, peeled off the remaining bamboo skins and made a dustpan in a short time.

  The husband and wife worked silently. Time passed by so fast. When the sun was about to go down, they were surprised that it was already so late. Fortunately, the dustpan was woven and the shells were cleaned up.

Without those shells, the bamboo baskets suddenly became much lighter. Under the leadership of Wen Youshan, the two returned the same way and walked to the edge of the creek where Wen Youshan last rested. When Wen Youshan was lighting the fire, Chen Ningya also put the Those cleaned octopuses are skewered and placed on the fire to dry the water, and the shell meat is spread on a dustpan and dried on a slow fire below.

Taking advantage of Wen Youshan's time to watch the fire, Chen Ningya went to the stream to wash her body and her clothes. Then she came back with a pot of clean water and put some kelp and shell meat in the pot. , and put down a few small octopuses, and a simple pot of seafood mixed soup became.

Taking advantage of the time to cook the soup, Wen Youshan also went to take a bath in the stream and put on the clean clothes that Chen Ningya had prepared for him. Without the mud sticking to his legs, Wen Youshan only felt that he had pores. After all stretched out, he let out a long sigh of relief. He hurriedly placed a pheasant around before it got dark, so he could improve his food.

   With the pheasant, Chen Ningya immediately put away the rough bread and roasted the pheasant on the fire.

  Unknowingly, the sky darkened completely, and three bonfires illuminated the small grooves on the mountain wall. The surroundings were quiet, and there were occasional animals chirping, which seemed a bit intimidating on such a night.

It's not that Wen Youshan hasn't spent the night in the mountains, but it's not that he is particularly afraid, but seeing Chen Ningya's peaceful face makes him a little surprised. Usually women stay in the mountains and forests late at night, and no matter how brave they are, they will be a little uneasy and afraid, but she But he couldn't see any uneasy emotions at all, instead he was calm like his own home.

Chen Ningya noticed Wen Youshan's sight and looked at it suddenly. Wen Youshan felt like she was peeping and being caught. For a while, she didn't know how to speak, but Chen Ningya's eyes flashed a little bit of clarity, and she took the initiative to say : "Do you think I'm not like an ordinary woman who is so calm in such a place."

  Wen Youshan nodded honestly, trying to find an excuse for Chen Ningya, but she was the first to speak, "Youshan, do you believe in the past and present?"

   "Past life and present life? What does the lady want to say?" Wen Youshan didn't turn around for a while.

   (end of this chapter)