kingnovel Chapter 470 Occupying Other People's Ruined Temple
Chapter 470 Occupying Other People's Ruined Temple
After finally reaching the top of the mountain, we found that there was indeed a temple, but it was a dilapidated one. The temple door was covered with cobwebs and dust, and the red walls were mottled. I pushed it gently and the door opened with a creaking sound.
Zhou Guo walked in. Although this temple was located outside Chengding Prefecture, it was not very big.
As soon as you enter the courtyard, you will see the main temple. The temple is empty, with nothing in it except a stone Buddha statue in the middle of the hall. The east and west corridors lead to the backyard.
She walked around the temple and found nothing.
The group found a place to sit in the temple. They would be spending the night in the temple, so they had to clean up the place.
Zhou Su found a broken broom from somewhere and started sweeping from inside to outside, sweeping out the dust, grass clippings and dirt.
Zhou Cheng and his friend found some firewood from the kitchen at the back and started a fire.
Seeing that Zhou Suli, a little kid of a few years old, didn't take a break, the teenagers naturally felt embarrassed to take a break too, so they rolled up their sleeves and started working.
Zhou Guo walked around, then went out with his sword on his back. He walked around the hill twice but didn't find any suspicious people. He shot two pheasants and caught four fat rabbits by digging a hole.
I happily carried all these things back to the temple. We had the food for tonight. No one could stand eating dry food all the time.
The group was overjoyed to see her go out for a while and then bring back so many prey. With so many people around them, they had to rely on luck to catch prey, which usually happened less than twice a month.
The young men looked at the pheasants and rabbits with their eyes shining and their mouths watering. Finally, they had meat to eat.
The second son, Hu Zi, came over quickly and took the prey from her hand, "Let me do it, I'll take care of it. There is a well over there in the kitchen."
He turned towards the temple and said, "Hey, two people, come with me."
As they spoke, two people came out, and the three of them excitedly went to the backyard carrying the prey.
The remaining people worked even harder when they saw that they would have meat to eat in the evening. They didn't expect that they could have meat to eat even if they had free meals. The boss must be really powerful as he could get so much prey with just one effort.
Zhou Guo fetched water from the backyard, placed a large clay pot on the fire, boiled water in it, then turned around and picked up a dozen pine mushrooms that looked a little less attractive from the carriage, scraped them clean with a bamboo knife, cut them into slices, and threw two or three slices in.
He looked around, told Zhou Su to keep an eye on the fire, and went out again.
After wandering around the hillside for half an hour, I finally found some wild onions. I picked a large bag of wild vegetables, went back to the temple and asked someone to wash them, and threw the onions into the pot.
Chop all the pheasants and rabbits into pieces, put them into a ceramic pot that already has a strong aroma, cover it with a lid and stew.
Halfway through the stew, everyone had finished their work, the temple had been cleaned up, and the cattle and horses had been fed with grass. Everyone gathered together, staring at the fragrant, bubbling pot of meat in front of them, drooling uncontrollably. Their whole body and mind were focused on the pot of meat, and they could no longer think of anything else.
Zhou Guo took out the salt bottle, threw some salt in, simmered it for about a quarter of an hour, and then added the remaining mushroom slices.
This will make the fragrance stronger.
Hu Zi couldn't help but say: "How can it be so fragrant? We have made this before and it was also fragrant, but it didn't seem to be as fragrant as this!"
"Brother, we don't have salt or meat, so it's definitely not as delicious as this."
Even Zhou Su was swallowing his saliva, staring at the pot eagerly.
The two Zhou Cheng brothers also said that although the family is living a better life now, they still only eat meat during festivals and busy farming seasons. How could they afford to eat meat at other times? Isn't that a waste of money?
Looking at this pot full of meat, I am happy from the bottom of my heart. With such a big pot, I can eat a lot of meat.
After another half an hour, Zhou Guo took out his chopsticks and poked it. It moved. He put the tip of the chopstick to his mouth and tasted it. It tasted salty. He nodded and said, "It's done. Let's eat."
"Ow!"
"Eat, eat!"
"Hurry, hurry, bring the dry food over."
Everyone shouted as if they had been pardoned. Some took chopsticks, some carried dry food, and then they all looked at Zhou Guo.
Seeing this, the Zhou Cheng brothers had no choice but to look at her.
Zhou Guo said: "When you are out and about, there are not so many rules. Let's eat!"
As soon as everyone received the order, they stretched their chopsticks into the pot, reaching for the meat they had set their eyes on a long time ago. Even if their favorite piece was snatched away by someone else, they would not get angry, but just switch for another piece, since there was so much good meat in the pot anyway.
Zhou Guo held a pancake and looked at Zhou Sulu who was standing beside him. He saw that although Zhou Sulu was small, he could take care of himself. He took out the meat from the pancake, caught it with the pancake, blew on it, and ate with his eyes squinting. He ate quickly and efficiently.
She didn't care and started eating her own food, picking up the mushroom slices. The mushroom slices were much more delicious than the meat at this time. Everyone only picked up the meat and didn't even look at the mushroom slices.
Zhou Guo sighed and ate happily.
At the end of the meal, there was no more meat in the pot, so she threw all the washed wild vegetables into the pot and ate them directly after they were cooked.
The soup at this time is the essence, with the fragrance of pine mushrooms and the essence of meat. The wild vegetables are rolled in it. You can just pick it up and eat it. It is much more delicious than what you usually eat.
Hu Zi and his group were eating with soup dripping from their mouths. "The meat is so delicious. I didn't expect that adding wild vegetables to the soup would make even the unpalatable wild vegetables taste good."
At this time, the sun has completely set, and there is only a last ray of afterglow left in the sky. In less than a quarter of an hour, it will be dark.
Just at this moment, the temple door suddenly opened, and seven or eight people in ragged clothes and dishevelled faces came in from outside. It was unclear whether they were beggars or refugees. When they saw so many people eating in the temple, they were stunned, swallowed their saliva, and stared at the greedy light coming out of the pot, but seeing so many people, they did not dare to move.
The Zhou Cheng brothers frowned.
Several people whispered, "This, this is our home."
Everyone was stunned. They didn't expect that they had occupied someone else's house. When they saw no one inside, they thought it was ownerless.
Zhou Guo said, "I'm sorry, we have to stay here tonight and leave tomorrow."
After saying that, he motioned to Hu Zi to get a steamed bun for each of them, "We still have some unfinished dry food here, if you don't mind, have some."
There really wasn't much dry food left in the basket, and they wouldn't have anything to eat until tomorrow morning, so they had to go into the city to eat.
A few people took the dry food handed over by Hu Zi and started eating it in big mouthfuls. They didn't even look at them while eating and went straight to the backyard.
Seeing that the person had left, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
In the afterglow, they dipped the remaining soup in steamed buns and ate half of it, and they divided the remaining half among themselves by holding the pot.
The last ray of sunlight in the sky fell and the sky became completely dark.
After everyone had eaten and drunk their fill and had cleaned up, they were all ready to go to sleep. After being busy for a whole day and night, they were already feeling sleepy. Now they could fall asleep as soon as they closed their eyes.
At this moment, voices were heard outside the mountain gate, and the rough voices sounded like those of several strong men.
This scared away all the sleepyheads immediately.