It is still early summer. Although the temperature is about twenty degrees, the river water is actually very cold.

While the afternoon sun was still strong and the temperature was still high, Chen Xu jumped into the river and rubbed it for a while and took a shower. When he returned home with a stool, Chen Jiang had already cooked the soybean and wild vegetable rice. Xing'er was squatting beside the stove and watching the fire. Jiang Chen was processing a few fish and preparing to cook fish soup tonight.

"Xu'er, go to Dashi's house next door to borrow some salt and come back!" Jiang Chen ordered.

Chen Xu agreed and turned around and walked back. After walking along a small path for dozens of meters, he saw another thatched hut.

The layout and style are similar to that of my own. There are a small courtyard and two thatched huts. There is no big trees in the yard. There is a simple stone table, just a stone slab placed on several stones. Niu Dashi was making fire and cooking in the yard with a little kid of five or six years old. A strong fragrance floated in the yard. Chen Xu knew that the frog was cooking as soon as he smelled it.

"Dashi!" Chen Xu stood at the door of the yard and shouted.

Niu Dashi stood up in surprise and waved to his hands, "Come in and try it. I caught a lot of fat frogs today. I'll take some back to your mother and little sister later!"

Chen Xu walked in and looked at the cans of frogs that were indeed cooked in the clay pot, but they were not peeled, and they were all cooked.

When I went, Chen Xu's eyes almost fell out. He firmly refused Niu Dashi's kindness and said, "Do you still have salt at home? I'm using it all, so I'll lend it to me first. Next time I go to the market town to buy it and return it to you!"

"What else do we say about not returning it yet? My family is yours!" Niu Dashi waved his hand indifferently, and then shouted into the room: "Mom, is there any salt at home?"

"There are not too many!" A woman's voice came from the room. After a while, a woman who was about the same age as Jiang Chen came out, but she looked a little fatter and had rough skin. She looked like a person who often did farm work.

Niu Dashi took the salt jar from the woman's hand and looked at it and said embarrassedly: "It's really not much, just half of it. We'll go to the market town in a few days to buy some."

"Okay!" Chen Xu nodded, picked a gourd leaf from the edge of the yard and wrapped some salt and left.

"Oh, bring some frogs back for my little sister!" Niu Dashi shouted from behind.

Chen Xu ran faster.

He has never heard of such awesome way to cook a frog. It looks creepy and eats it... It takes a lot of courage.

Chen Jiang quickly prepared the supper, and still boiled fish with soybeans, wild vegetable rice and salted water. However, in order to improve the taste, some wild ginger, green onion, garlic was added. Although there were no seasonings such as chili soy sauce, such as the necessary seasonings in later generations, Chen Xu felt that he could barely accept it.

After all, in this ancient era without any pollution, the taste of wild fish was particularly delicious, and he had never seen several types of fish in later generations. In addition, he was hungry for a day and had high-intensity labor. At this time, he felt that even if it was wood, he could chew several pounds.

There was not much soybean rice, but the fish meat was 2 or 3 pounds. Chen Jiang knew that the two children were growing, so he was not stingy. After cooking a full jar, the little girl was already hungry, and her little face was buried in a big pottery bowl and ate it in a scattered manner. She almost never raised her head.

Chen Xu also soaked half a bowl of soybeans and wild vegetable rice in fish soup and swallowed it voraciously before he felt much better in the stomach.

"Eat slowly and be careful of being stuck by fish bones!" Chen Xu couldn't help but remind Xing'er.

"Woooo, brother, eat it too!" The little girl agreed, picked up a fish and put it in a bowl, and then walked over like a little squirrel eating corn, leaving only a fish bone. Chen Xu was amazed by such a smooth way of eating.

"Mom, are our family and Dashi family relatives?" Chen Xu remembered the words Niu Dashi said when he was borrowing salt just now, and he still didn't quite understand the meaning of this sentence.

Xing'er, who was eating so hard, suddenly stopped, raised her head and looked at Chen Xu with her eyes, and a hint of shame appeared on her thin little face.

Chen Jiang also put down the bowl, and said with a strange expression on his face: "Xinger was born and married to Dashi. When Xinger grew up to be thirteen, she would marry her. At that time, your father was still at home and Dashi's father was still there. They decided to make this matter. When Dashi's mother and I were pregnant with you two, we also agreed that if a man and a woman would become husband and wife when they grew up, it was a pity that they gave birth to two boys..."

I'll go, no wonder this is so!

Chen Xu couldn't help but be stunned for a long time, then remembered the heroic deeds of that guy cooking a whole frog. He was very glad that he was not a woman, otherwise he would have been unable to live his life after marrying him.

But despite this, Chen Xu was still very unhappy. A second-hand guy who couldn't even figure out the basic steps of cooking. Once his sister got married, would she still be able to eat enough?

What Chen Xu couldn't accept was that his sister was only seven years old, while Niu Dashi was almost fourteen years old, and his sister had to marry him at the age of thirteen. This was a very bad girl who had just entered junior high school in later generations.

When Chen Xu thought of such a young girl being tortured by another guy, he was immediately in a bad mood.

But then he opened his mouth and swallowed the rest of the words back.

Damn it will be six or seven years before it will be the turn to worry about this.

Who knows what it will look like in six or seven years? Maybe Dashi, a second-hand man, is dead, or maybe because of his appearance, the fate of all people will change. At that time, even if Xing'er wants to marry, she will have to grow to eighteen years old, otherwise she will be discounted by Niu Dashi's legs.

Although this era is dark, it is full of opportunities. According to historical records, it took only ten years after Qin Shihuang unified the six kingdoms. Then Hu Hai went to power to impose a huge uprising for peasants across the country. The nobles of the six kingdoms took advantage of the situation to restore the riots, and Xiang Yu, Liu Bang, the Chu-Han battle...

Therefore, it is definitely not enough to be a self-protected farmer in such a turbulent era. Not only did the officials of the Qin Empire come to collect taxes, grain, take out forced labor, roads, Great Wall, Mount Li, and the Mausoleum, and Afang Palace. What's more, there are chaos in the world. As the lowest class, the best bullying class, everyone wants to eat it. After three levies and five levies, the ending is that the land is deserted, the wife is separated and the family is destroyed.

When Chen Xu thought of the collapse of the Qin Empire, he naturally thought of two giants that were extremely awesome in Chinese history.

One is Xiang Yu, the king of Western Chu who is strong and powerful, and he seems to be thirty years old when he committed suicide at Gaixia more than ten years later. If we speculate based on the time we know, Xiang Yu has been born now, about the same age as himself, and perhaps even three or four years younger. Now he is a bad boy who is like himself who is still climbing trees, leasing birds and catching fish in the river, not like reading, but only likes to dance guns and sticks.
Chapter completed!