Chapter 6 Meals and Accommodation
As night fell, the temperature was already cold.
There are stars all over the sky, and a crescent moon hangs slanted above the mountains, emitting a faint green glow.
Frogs croak in the mountains and wild animals croak in the weave.
Occasionally, night birds flew past, and wild beasts roared in the distance.
The world is silent.
Chen Xu looked up at the moon in the sky, thinking that he might have burned to ashes at this time two thousand years later, and his parents were in pain, and relatives and friends might be attending his memorial service. While his heart was a little painful, he also sighed that everything in front of him was like a bizarre and weird dream.
Perhaps from now on, I will be in this era and depend on the mother and daughter in front of me for life.
"Little sister, can I give you a name?"
"Okay, okay!" The little girl sat up excitedly, her eyes flashing with joy under the faint nightlight.
Jiang Chen's face also showed inexplicable surprise.
"Just name is Xing'er!" Chen Xu turned his head and looked at the paved apricot tree in the yard.
"Thank you brother, I will have a name in the future!" The little girl threw herself into Chen Xu's arms and hugged his neck affectionately and acted coquettishly.
The night is as cool as water, and a crescent moon slowly rises into the air.
Chen Jiang had already walked into the room to sleep with Xing'er in his arms.
With the faint light of fire and moonlight, Chen Xu sat on a stone in the middle of the yard and was polishing the bronze dagger on the stone.
This is the only metal product in the house except for two hoes.
Apart from the absence of a handle, there is not much damage, but no one has used it for a long time, and the blade has been wrapped in copper rust and turned into a blunt weapon.
The Shang and Zhou dynasties were the most glorious era of the development of bronze ware in China. A large number of exquisite bronze ware unearthed in later generations reflects the extraordinary level of craftsmanship of the ancient Chinese in the manufacturing of bronze alloys.
In the Spring and Autumn Period, iron tools began to appear, but most of them were cast iron, with too many impurities and very brittle nature, so they could not be used to make weapons. Therefore, even in the Qin Dynasty, bronze weapons were still mainstream. Most of the soldiers in the army were still bronze weapons, and most of the weapons used by the people were made of bronze.
As for the historical fact that Qin Shihuang confiscated the world and cast twelve bronze men after unifying the six kingdoms, all the confiscated weapons were the weapons of the army of the six kingdoms, and the management of the weapons among the people was not strictly strict.
You should know that wild beasts are rampant in this era, and hunting is an important method and means for many people to survive and protect themselves. Qin Shihuang could not have let several households use a kitchen knife like the Yuan Dynasty in later generations.
What's more, the Qin people were generally strong and fond of martial arts and honored their military achievements. Even in the capital Xianyang, ordinary people were not prohibited from carrying weapons, so they were even less responsible for weapons in the countryside.
The sound of hoho hoho hoho seemed extremely clear in the quiet night.
As Chen Xu continued to polish, the copper rust was worn off and the beautiful blue-gold color inside was revealed, and the blade began to become sharp, flashing with a faint golden light under the moonlight.
Many years later, this bronze alloy dagger once again revealed its original appearance.
Holding this new dagger, Chen Xu looked at the shaky thatched hut in front of him and began to make a medium- and short-term plan for the future.
At present, he urgently needs to solve two problems, one is eating and the other is accommodation.
Through observations over several hours during the day, the problem of eating will not be too big for the time being. Although there is no food at home, there are many fish, shrimps, crabs, shells, and frogs and snakes everywhere in the river. With his childhood experience in living in the countryside and bamboos in nearby forests, it is basically no problem to make some simple fishing tools to fill your stomach. If you want to eat better, there are small animals such as rabbits and turtles in the forest. However, it is not easy to get without tools. Especially for rabbits, you must use steel wire if you put a trap, but even hemp rope is scarce.
The second is accommodation. The hut in front of you may collapse at any time, and there are several big holes on the roof. If it is not repaired in time, it may be a rain or a strong wind one day and the whole family will bury it inside.
To repair the house in front of you, you have to cut at least ten trees as thick as a thigh. It is definitely not possible to rely on the half-foot-long bronze dagger in your hand, and you also need tools such as an axe and a saw.
In addition to these two urgent problems that need to be solved, there are more long-term plans. To live well, we must also have various daily necessities. Not to mention toothbrushes and towels, at least clothes and quilts must be needed. Then there must be cattle for plowing the land, pigs, sheep, chickens and dogs, and when you go out, you have to ride a horse and marry a two or three wives who are as beautiful as flowers...
Entering the room, lying on the tattered bed, looking at the stars in the sky through the big hole on the roof, Chen Xu slowly tilted his head and fell asleep
The next morning, just dawn, Chen Xu put on his torn clothes and turned to the back of the yard to urinate, then wrapped the handle of the bronze dagger with a piece of ripped linen and went out.
Once you come, you will be at peace.
After the ideological struggle in the middle of the night, Chen Xu roughly figured it out.
Parents, elders, brothers, sisters, relatives and friends in thousands of years later were like clouds, and began to slowly dissipate in the entanglement of reality and dreams. Since he had traveled to this bizarre and strange era and place, he had to look to the present and look forward to the future, and all memories would only bring him pain and anxiety.
What's more, in that era more than two thousand years later, he lived for twenty-five years, and there seemed to be nothing worthy of praise or pride.
Apart from the grace of sorry for his parents' raising, his life is almost no different from a salted fish.
There is a mist flowing in the mountains and fields.
A faint red glow has emerged in the white horizon.
Chen Xu walked in the mist in the morning light, and walked to the river for more than ten minutes later and found the place where he got the fish basket yesterday.
Looking at the green vines that were still tied to the small tree, Chen Xu breathed a sigh of relief and untied the green vines and slowly pulled the fish basket out of the river.
Perhaps because the water plants were entangled, it felt very heavy when I bought it. The thin green vine was stretched straight and shaking slightly.
Chen Xu didn't dare to exert too much force, for fear that it would be more than worth the effort if the green vine was suddenly broken.
After slowly pulling, the fish basket was dragged to the river bank and slowly exposed to the water surface after a few minutes. At this time, Chen Xu obviously felt that the fish basket was constantly shaking, and there seemed to be a lot of things inside. Therefore, he became more and more careless and his movements were slower because there were more water plants by the river. After losing the buoyancy of the water, the fish basket seemed heavier.
The fish basket was dragged to the shore without any danger. When Chen Xu reached out to grab the fish basket, he finally couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. In just a few minutes, sweat had already flowed out on his forehead, and his hands and feet were shaking a little.
The fish basket was lifted ashore, and as a large amount of water flowed out, the whole fish basket began to shake violently. When he excitedly pulled open the thin vines and opened the lid, he couldn't help but his eyes were protruding outwards.
I saw half of the fish baskets were large and small, and there were also loaches, eels and crabs. He couldn't help but reach out and sucked them in, and even saw a turtle the size of a fist.
Damn it, this half basket of fish is more than ten kilograms, and some wild vegetables and other things are enough for a family for a week!
Chapter completed!