Xu Chen reluctantly let go of his hand, stepped forward with a smile and pulled Ye in, stretched out his hand to rub her hair and glared, "You're not going to sleep at this late hour, why are you coming to my room?"
Ye pouted and said nothing.
Xu Chen didn't care, but sat down and took another sip of fruit wine, and then gently picked the pine knots inside the pottery lamp a few times with a wooden stick to make the flame brighter.
There are many miscellaneous trees on the nearby mountains, including many pine trees. A lot of them were cut down last time when the house was built, leaving a lot of pine knots and rosin. A group of women gathered them together to start fires. After Xu Chen saw it, he had an idea and thought they could be used to make fires.
In order to provide lighting, a batch of small pottery lamps were made in the kiln.
It is said to be a pottery lamp, but it is actually a long-legged shallow cup, with a structure like a Holy Grail. There is a base half a foot high below, and some pine knots split into small pieces are placed in the mouth of the cup. Because pine knots contain a large amount of rosin,
It can burn for a long time after being lit. If you want to use it for a longer time, you can also put some rosin, but the oil smoke when burning is very large. It only took half a month, and the wall was already blackened.
However, since the introduction of this pine knot pottery lamp, lighting at night has indeed become much more convenient. After dark, you no longer have to stand in the yard boringly to look at the stars and the moon. Instead, you can write something alone in the room.
Since moving down the mountain, I have no place to write a diary.
Xu Chen could only get some animal skins that could not be made into clothes, scraped them clean and cut them into small pieces of half a foot by a foot. He put the wooden sticks on the pottery lamp and burned them until they started to carbonize. Then he dipped some of the melted rosin in the pottery lamp.
Then write on the animal skin.
This method is more troublesome, writing is very slow, and basically you have to burn it to write each word, but the effect is still good, the words are very strong after being written, but the color depth is difficult to control, so the animal skin after writing looks like rotten leather
Same, looks very weird.
Because the carrier is limited and recording is cumbersome, and long speeches are not allowed, Xu Chen can only cherish ink like the ancients. Basically everything recorded only has a few words. Some major events will also be marked with time, but it is also simple.
Only year, month and day.
In terms of time, it is less than a year since he traveled through time, but in terms of natural changes, it is already the second year, so the most recently recorded times all start in the second year.
Ye suddenly came in and caught him secretly eating fruit wine, but Xu Chen didn't take it to heart.
The little mother has a kind heart and will never tell anyone.
So he sat down in front of the desk made of clay bricks, picked up an animal skin with a lot of writing on it, put the wooden stick he used to write on on the oil lamp and burned it for a while, lightly dipped it in rosin, and then concentrated on
began to write on the animal skin one stroke at a time.
Although Ye didn't say anything, he still moved behind him in small steps and looked at him quietly with his eyes wide open.
"Dig a well..."
Looking at the two characters that Xu Chen slowly drew one stroke at a time, Ye read them in a low voice behind him.
"Do you think there will be water?"
After Xu Chen finished writing, he put another spoonful of fruit wine into his mouth and asked with a smile.
"Moga!" Ye replied softly.
"Why?" Xu Chen turned to look at the little mother's savage cousin.
"Only on the mountain...is there water..."
Ye's voice was very low, and she tried her best to organize her thoughts slowly using the language Xu Chen taught her.
"Then why is there water in the river?" Xu Chen asked.
The little female savage cousin was stunned. She held her skirt and thought for a long time and whispered: "On the mountain... it's obscene!"
Xu Chen corrected with a dark face: "It's shed, not obscene!"
Ye muttered and asked: "It doesn't matter if it rains...but it doesn't matter if it rains..."
Really? Why is it okay to rain but not dirty?
Xu Chen thought for a long time and couldn't figure out why this word he was familiar with had an impure aura.
Why is obscenity associated with hooliganism? What is the origin of this word?
However, he would not give up just yet, so he said with a cheeky face: "If it doesn't work, it won't work. Don't say obscene words in the future."
After saying that, he smiled and stretched out his hand to rub her messy hair and nodded with a smile: "But you are right, the water in the river flows down from the mountains."
Ye's rubbed body swayed with the light, and he seemed a little happy, but he deliberately pouted with a sullen face to show that he knew what he was doing.
"You seem unhappy. Come on, have a sip of fruit wine and cheer yourself up!"
Xu Chen scooped a spoonful of fruit wine and handed it to Ye's mouth.
Tempted by the strong aroma of fruit wine, Ye shook his head and couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva. In the end, he couldn't hold it back anymore. He stuck out his tongue and lightly added some fruit wine, and then slowly took the pottery spoon into his mouth.
"Gudong!"
Seeing the little female savage cousin eating food, Xu Chen couldn't help but shrug his Adam's apple.
My little cousin’s tongue is so flexible!
This person is living in the dark, alone and alone...
Although he usually doesn't think randomly, after all, he has been a vegetarian for too long. Although his body is small, his soul is already thirty years old, and he has not touched a woman for a long time.
The little cousin in front of him was completely different from the little female savage who wore fur before. Although she was still dark and thin, which did not meet his aesthetic standards, he couldn't see clearly at night, and the haziness actually made him a little confused.
Uncontrollable heartbeat.
"Chen Ga..."
Seeing the seemingly evil look in a certain little cousin's eyes, Ye's cheeks instantly became hot and he nervously grabbed the hem of his skirt.
"Oh, oh, is it delicious? Do you want another bite?"
Xu Chen came back to his senses instantly and took back the spoon.
"No...you have to get drunk!" Ye lowered his head and hummed softly.
"Then go back to bed quickly!"
Xu Chen remembered that the last time Ye got drunk after eating sashimi, he forced himself to sleep all night with his arms around him, and then all the men and women in the tribe looked at him strangely. He thought it would be better not to make such a mistake in human ethics.
"oh!"
Ye seemed to be a little dizzy, so he turned around and walked out. Not long after he went out, Xu Chen heard a thud from outside the door. He quickly went out, and under the cold moonlight, he found Ye Zheng staggering out of the dripping ditch.
He got up, took two steps, and fell to the ground with a thud.
Xu Chen didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he quickly went up to help Ye up.
"I'll carry you back!" Xu Chen carried Ye on his shoulders.
"Mo... Mo Ga, mother Ba is scolding me!"
Ye lay on Xu Chen's shoulder. Although he was drunk, he still understood. He nervously held Xu Chen's neck and shook his head vigorously.
So Xu Chen could only carry her little cousin back to her room, take off her dirty straw sandals, go to the fire pit to fetch a basin of warm water and help her carefully scrub her hands, face and feet, and then throw her on the big warm bed and cover her with it.
Get a luxurious tiger skin quilt.
My little cousin has a very bad ability to drink. She drinks wine in one gulp. It seems that she must not be given fruit wine in the future.
This is the first time in his life that he has taken care of a woman so carefully, and she is such a savage.
Xu Chen had never thought about this.
Seeing Ye falling asleep with a tiger skin blanket in his arms, Xu Chen could only sigh in his heart.
I'm afraid that when he wakes up early tomorrow morning, the savages in the yard will look at him with strange eyes.
…
Early the next morning, Xu Chen was awakened by the sound of gnawing and digging outside.
I looked around and found that my little savage cousin was gone.
He yawned with panda eyes and walked out of the room.
It's another beautiful spring day.
There are more than a dozen transplanted wild fruit branches in the yard with whirling leaves, and there are many finger-sized green fruits among the branches and leaves. They are swaying gently in the warm morning breeze, which looks very pleasant.
Gu and Ju have already started digging the well.
In the yard, men and women were busy at work, some were arranging fishing nets, some were packing bows and arrows, some were weaving rattan baskets, and many women were preparing to go out with baskets on their backs.
When they saw Xu Chen getting up, everyone had a strange look on their faces. After a brief silence, they continued to do their own things.
Xu Chen was very helpless. Although he slept with his little cousin for another night, he really didn't do anything.
Ye Qian slept quite well in the first half of the night, but when he woke up in the second half of the night, he was like a wild doll equipped with a small motor, tossing and turning on the bed, causing Xu Chen to not sleep well most of the night.
But there seems to be no explanation for this kind of thing. He picked out the feces in his eyes and went to get water to rinse his mouth and wash his face and hands. Ye helped him get a large bowl of warm fish, meat and vegetable porridge, put it into his hand, turned around and ran away.
Already.
There are two peeled wild duck eggs inside.
"Ah Qi Gaga!"
Mother Ba had a strangely kind smile on her face, gently touched the top of his head, turned around and went to work.
Xu Chen looked at the two duck eggs depressed for a long time, then waved to a few children who were watching the well digging, used chopsticks to cut the two duck eggs into several pieces and put them in their hands, then squatted down and hugged the big pottery bowl.
He wolfed down the food, finished it quickly, and then dropped the dishes and went to work.