frightfiction Chapter 216: One Thing
Chapter 216: One Thing
“My father and mother were originally two of the six disciples of a sect master, and they had developed feelings for each other since childhood.
Because of their extraordinary talents and the special guidance given by masters, they were plotted against by their fellow disciples and misunderstandings arose among them.
My father was heartbroken and walked away alone, and accidentally found the valley and the sea. My mother left the sect, changed her name, and lived an ordinary life. She became sick due to missing me and was bedridden.
After many twists and turns, the two met by chance ten years later. The misunderstandings were resolved, and they reunited. They both had the idea of living in seclusion, and they went to the mountains and seas to build their own secluded places.
The valley was the first place built, and it held many of their happy things, so when Dad returned to the valley, he finally became a little more sober, but whenever he missed Mom especially, he became depressed again.
A year passed like this. One night, my father suddenly became very sober. He woke me up and asked me to go back to Weihai with him overnight.
Han Zhibai looked sad, "That night, we didn't pack anything and hurried to Weihai. It would normally take more than a month to get there, but this time we arrived in 28 days.
On the night he arrived, he died. He insisted on staying by his mother's grave and passed away before daybreak..."
"I buried them together."
Xia Qingyue understood that the tomb was actually in Wei Hai.
"Then I stayed there for more than a year. I returned to the valley in the summer of the year before last. On the way back, I picked up the dying whitebait. It was very small at that time."
Han Zhibai left her arms, held her slender waist and made her sit down, and used both hands to massage her knees and calves with moderate force. After massaging for a while, he said, "Xiaobai was only this big at that time."
He stretched out his hands to measure the size of the puppy, which was about two months old.
"So, you were seventeen years old when you came back from Wei Hai the year before last. I was fifteen that year, so you are two years older than me." She had not yet traveled through time at that time, and the original owner was fifteen years old.
The next year she traveled through time when she was sixteen years old, and this year she is seventeen years old.
She counted on her fingers, "Also, Xiaobai is one year younger than Heihei. Heihei was born in the summer of the year before last."
Xiaobai and Heihei, who were playing nearby, heard the two calling their names, and ran over in a hurry to rub against them, transforming into crying monsters.
The dull and depressing atmosphere was broken and eased by the whimpering sounds.
The two of them stroked the dogs' soft fur, told them it was okay, and continued playing.
The two little ones went to the other side while playing and fighting.
"Wei Hai." Xia Qingyue stared into space and thought for a few seconds. "It will take more than a month to walk there. How about we go there in the spring next year?"
Han Zhibai was thinking the same thing, so he nodded and said, "It's peaceful outside now, and it will be much more convenient to go there."
"But it's a long journey. Do you remember the way?"
"There is a map, it's very detailed. I've walked it several times and I remember the general route."
"That's good. Just talk to my uncle and aunt before we leave next year."
After deciding this, they picked up their hoes and went to the vegetable garden to harvest the remaining mung beans. After that, they went on to harvest ginger, red pepper, pumpkin, loofah, cucumber and other vegetables.
More than an hour passed and it was almost the afternoon.
It took more than an hour to walk back to the valley. They were ready to go back. They carried the peanuts and mung beans back to the dark place in the sinkhole where they would not be exposed to rain. They also carried the ginger, red peppers and other crops, as well as some things she had collected at noon, out for Xiao Hei to carry.
At the hour of You, return to the valley.
It was dark enough to barely see anything. Xia Qingyue groped her way to the main room and lit the oil lamp. Han Zhibai was unloading things under the eaves.
She walked to the door and asked him, "I'm going to make dinner, noodle soup or noodles?"
It's cold at night, so it's suitable to have some hot soup to warm up the body.
He asked, "How about noodle soup?"
"Then I'll get some dried shrimp, egg and cabbage to make noodle soup."
The two of them were busy with their own things. She went to the kitchen to cook dinner, and he unloaded the things and sorted them out, then took Xiao Hei back to the pen to prepare food for the poultry.
She went to the kitchen, poured flour and added appropriate amount of salt water to make dough, covered it with a bowl and let it rise. At the same time, she went to prepare the ingredients. There was cabbage at home, so she washed it and cut it into three-finger-wide pieces.
Heat a little oil in the pan, add eggs and fry until cooked, add a little dried shrimp and dried mushrooms and stir-fry until fragrant, then scoop two scoops of hot water from the pot in the back stove and pour it into the iron pan.
Suddenly, there was a sizzling sound. The edge of the iron pot was very hot, and as soon as the hot water was poured in, dense bubbles appeared, and even some tiny water droplets jumped up.
Dried shrimps, eggs and dried mushrooms are all delicious. When boiled in hot water, their delicious flavor is released, the soup turns light yellow and is full of fragrance.
Seeing that the pot was almost boiling, she went to pull out the whole piece of firewood from the stove. There was burnt wood in the stove, bright red, with residual heat.
Wash and dry your hands, hold the dough with one hand, and pinch it into the size of a quail egg with the other hand. Press it with your thumb and index finger to flatten it when you pinch it, and then throw it into the pot. Turn the pot over from time to time while pinching it, to prevent the ones at the bottom from being cooked while the ones at the top are still raw.
She had made small dough balls before, and also the noodles she made today. She and Han Zhibai agreed that the latter was more delicious, smooth and chewy.
I pulled a piece of dough for a while, and after it was cooked, I scooped out two small ones to eat, added a little salt to the rest, and put it into two bowls, one large and one small, leaving a small bowl still in the pot.
A small bowl was enough for her. She blew on the warm and delicious soup and drank it down, which warmed up every part of her body.
Han Zhibai ate a little more, a big bowl, and also scooped up some from the pot.
After dinner, he washed the dishes and cleaned up.
Xia Qingyue took out the nest that was covered with fur where Hei Hei had spent the winter last year. It was clean, and she put a duck down quilt on it.
As soon as the new nest was made, the two little ones couldn't wait to run up to smell it. After smelling it for a while, they lay down together and prepared to sleep. She covered them with a duck down quilt.
After working all day and sweating a little, she went to the kitchen to boil water for a bath.
After taking a bath, she felt sleepy. It was cooler and it was better to sleep, so she went back to her room, lay down, and fell asleep wrapped in the duck down quilt she made last year.
Before taking a bath, Xia Qingyue said that she wanted to apply some Qizibai powder. When Han Zhibai had prepared it and came over to knock on the door, there was no response from the room. He opened the door and saw through the gap that she was fast asleep. He gently closed the door and left.
Xia Qingyue rested well that night and had no dreams.
I woke up at dawn the next day, feeling energetic, but because the quilt was too warm and it was cold outside, I stayed in bed for a while.
She got up, dressed, and walked to the main room to see how the two little ones were sleeping in their nest.
The down quilt covering them had fallen halfway and was twisted and distorted. She squatted down, lifted the quilt up and covered them. The fur under the quilt felt very warm.
The touching action woke up Xiaobai. It opened its eyes slightly and looked at her in a dazed and confused manner. However, it was too sleepy, so its eyelids drooped closed and it fell asleep again.
"You don't have to go to work or school, so just sleep if you want." She said softly, stood up, turned around, and faced the utility room diagonally to the side, intending to boil water for washing and cooking breakfast.
Unexpectedly, when I got closer, I saw a faint light coming from behind the open door of the utility room.