Crossing to Live in the Wilderness Plains

Because A Jing is young, in addition to helping with housework or tidying up the fields in the yard, he only gives the people in the tribe an hour or so of writing lessons every day. The rest of the time is quite free. During Qi's absence, in addition to reviewing and practicing calligraphy every day, he also added another painting.

Probably because of his young age, his thinking and cognition are not as rigid as that of adult orcs, and his ability to accept is also strong. Coupled with his intelligence and seriousness, A Jing has now become the best person in Qi Zecheng middle school. Unfortunately, there are no shortcuts in painting, even if he is talented. No matter how good it is, it needs to be practiced slowly.

Looking at the slightly messy picture he drew, compared to Chen Qi's sketch of the majestic charm of the Duosa River with just a few strokes, A Jing bit the pen and took the bone knife next to him to cut the wick. The dim lights were brightened again, the colors were readjusted, new paper was put on, and the painting continued.

The little wolf moved his ears, raised his head to look at A Jing, found a comfortable position and arched to the corner of the wall. Now the weather is hot and the stone walls are cool, the little wolf narrowed his eyes comfortably. , looked up at A Jing again, and then slowly closed his eyes and fell asleep.

The next day, when Chen Qi opened the door refreshed, he saw the energetic little wolf cub and A Jing who looked a little grumpy.

Chen Qi was startled, and quickly pulled the other person's small hand, and asked worriedly, "What's wrong? Is there any discomfort?" After speaking, he reached out and touched the other person's forehead, compared his own body temperature, and found nothing. Signs of fever.

A Jing shook his head, "I didn't draw it well."

"What?" Chen Qi looked confused.

A Jing ran back to the room and took out the paintings that he spent all night drawing last night. There were as many as ten paintings. Chen Qi was stunned for a while, and opened them one by one to take a look.

"It's obviously the same color, but the drawing is different." A Jing frowned in confusion. No matter how many times he tried to draw it last night, it was different from Chen Qi's. When he woke up in the morning, he found that even the color was different. There are discrepancies, not to mention how depressing it is.

Chen Qi chuckled lightly and rubbed the other person's head a few times, "The light of the oil lamp is already yellowish, and it's still so dark, it's pretty good that you can paint like this. Don't paint at night next time, in case of short-sightedness. What should I do? I don't know how to make glasses." Chen Qi felt a little funny when he thought about how A Jing had to wear a pair of heavy glasses to hunt when he grew up.

"Painting is something that needs to be done slowly. Don't be in a hurry. You must sleep well in the future, you know? Otherwise, you won't grow taller."

A Jing was startled, and quickly nodded in agreement, he didn't want to be a small man forever, A Zhang said that he could only go hunting when he grew up, and that only when he learned how to hunt could he hunt food for himself and the little wolf. He is a female, he can't let Chen Qi keep him all the time.

In the morning, A Jing ate five milk fruits for the first time in the morning.

A Ze was probably really tired. It was rare that he didn't wake up until noon. Chen Qi didn't wake him up, but warmed his breakfast beside the charcoal fire that had been removed from the fire. After he was full, he followed A Jing out to school.

The writing class was arranged in the morning before the girls started to work. Chen Qi had not seen him for more than two months and needed to see how the others were doing.

The orcs of the Yanshan and Luoshui tribes were also very interested in the so-called classes. They went to the school with the owner of their temporary residence early in the morning. Although the classroom was large enough, there were about thirty tables. It happened to be one person per person in Qi Ze City, and everyone would not feel crowded when they sat in, but now there were almost twenty people pouring in, and the space was a bit insufficient. Chen Qi asked them to go home and get some futons. Come here, put it in the middle of the aisle between the table and the table, this is barely able to squeeze down.

It took a lot of time for everyone to check their studies. After all, there are still a lot of things to do in the tribe. After the check, it was time for get out of class, and Chen Qi let them go back to work.

Seeing that the orcs from other tribes were interested, Chen Qi also taught them how to write their own names. After all, the names of the females only have one character. Even so, everyone taught them once and chatted with them. noon.

When he got home, Azer was not there, only a note was pressed on the table. Ayan followed Chen Qi home. He promised last night that he would go with Azer to pick grapes in the forest, but when he arrived, he didn't see Azer himself, so he couldn't help but be a little puzzled.

"Is Aze not here? Do you want to go to the forest today?"

"He's gone first."

A Yan was a little stunned, "Go first? How do you know?" He was with Chen Qi all morning, and he didn't see A Ze coming to him.

Chen Qiyang raised the note in his hand, "He left a message for me."

Ayan took the note that Chen Qi handed over in surprise, and there were indeed a few words on it that looked like what Chen Qi taught them just now, but unfortunately he can only barely recognize his name now, seeing that his words are in his eyes and heavenly books.

Unexpectedly, just a few words can convey the information, Ayan raised her head and looked at Chen Qi, feeling that she really came to the right, perhaps compared to the Luoshui tribe, Qize City may be more suitable for them.

Seeing that Aze was not there, Ayan didn't stay too long. After saying hello to Chen Qi, he left. After class, Azhang took people from Luoshui and Yanshan tribes to visit the tribe. In the past, just in time to catch up with A Zhang and the others, they led people up the city wall.

At noon, Chen Qi boiled a large plate of mung bean porridge, and then baked a few pancakes and Ajing to settle the lunch hastily. After all, the appetite became weaker when the weather warmed up.

In the afternoon, I went with Ali to count the pile of luggage piled up in the school. It was even more surprising to see Chen Qi leaning on a few stones and making a large plate of ice on a hot day.

"It's a pity that these saltpeters are not enough for everyone in the tribe to use. I plan to keep them to make fire/powder at that time, so I won't be afraid next time even if a hyena dragon comes again." Although the people who asked the Luoshui tribe to come to the next meeting Bring some saltpeter over here, but the Luoshui tribe is too far away from here. This batch of saltpeter will be used until next winter. Chen Qi is not willing to carry it so far to get a few ice cubes. Too high.

Ali pondered for a while, "You said Brimstone should let Ah Zhang and the others look around the forest next time they go hunting. There are many mountains in the forest, maybe one of them will find what you need." If that fire/ The medicine is really as powerful as Chen Qi said, and for a tribe with a small number of them, it is indeed safer to have it.

"Will it be unsafe to search in the forest?" Chen Qi was a little worried.

A Li shook his head, "There are quite a few mountains outside the forest. Although they are all hunting in a fixed area, there are not many prey they have been able to hunt recently. A Zhang is planning to expand the hunting area a little bit. Look for that thing called sulphur."

Chen Qi nodded, "As long as it's not dangerous, go look for it."

A Li wrote down this incident and planned to talk to A Zhang at night. He opened another animal skin backpack next to him and found that it was actually a fluffy white thing. He pulled out a piece in surprise, "What is this?"

"This is cotton, which can be used to make clothes, quilts and weave." Chen Qi explained.

"Weaving?" Ali looked at the handful in his hand, how do you weave this kind of thing? There is no connection.

Chen Qi looked at the bale of cotton with a headache. He really didn't know how to turn it into cotton thread. He could only study it slowly in the future when he was free.

He took out a small bag of cottonseeds from another backpack. "Although I don't know how to weave these cottons into cloth now, if I use it to make cotton clothes or quilts, the heat preservation effect in winter is still good." At least it is better than those tanned. Technically rough hides work much better.

"I plan to plant some cotton after I harvest the crops at home later, but there is too little land in the yard, and there are still a lot of vacant land in the tribe. When the time comes, we will open up some land in those vacancies to grow some of the land. Crops with short cycles are planted so that another batch should be harvested before winter."

Ali responded. After the last planting experience, he already had a certain understanding of the growth of crops. This method of planting in his own yard and harvesting is much more convenient than searching aimlessly on the plain. , and the amount of harvest is also considerable. Even if you can't hunt enough food in the forest this summer, you shouldn't have to go hungry this winter.

Chen Qi explained some dried seafood to Ali one by one. After finishing everything, he put away the saltpeter. Chen Qi took the food and seeds that belonged to him and Aze and went back, while the rest left Ali to Ali. It was distributed to other people in Qi Ze City.

It was so busy until the evening that Chen Qi had time to start working on the pile of mature crops in the yard. The crops were growing very well. Even if they were mature, there were no withered leaves at all.

A Jing, who was studying in the room, saw Chen Qi go out with a **** and a bamboo sieve and quickly followed. Chen Qi first picked the red and bright peppers that had grown on the branches. There were about ten peppers planted, but they were resistant to Not to mention that it is highly productive, there is a small pile on the bamboo sieve after all the picking.

Chen Qi spread the peppers directly on the bamboo sieve to dry. He is not a spicy person. The reason why he grows peppers is to prepare for winter. After all, in the cold winter, even people who are not good at spicy, just eat a little pepper. Can drive away some chills.

After the peppers were picked, Chen Qi dug up potatoes and sweet potatoes, and harvested five or six bags from the two fields. Usually, only one or two trees can be found outside at a time, at most only one or two. A dozen or so, seeing so many this time, A Jing couldn't help swallowing, "Chen Qi, can we make French fries and dried sweet potatoes again this time?"

Since Chen Qi left, he hadn't eaten these two kinds of food for a long time. Occasionally, Carlo would be greedy to make some, but because there were not many materials he found, he could only get a little bit and half of it each time. For the little wolf cubs, there is simply not enough to eat.

Seeing this harvest, Chen Qi was also very happy, "Of course, we'll make a bunch of snacks tomorrow." Not to mention A Jing, he was a little greedy even if he hadn't eaten it for so long.

A Jing cheered, and couldn't help holding the little wolf cub for a circle, so frightened that the little wolf cub grabbed his hand tightly with his front paws, screaming in dissatisfaction.