On the morning of the second day of the month, the sun shines on the floor through the half-opened curtains, and the crackling sound of the firewood burning in the fire resounds from the silent space from time to time. Reminiscing about the scene of last night, he reached out his hand to hug the person next to him to continue tenderly, but it was empty.
Chen Qi opened his eyes, blinked, blinked again, what's the matter? Bridal chamber wedding candles The next morning the wife disappeared
The room was still as it was yesterday, the leftover food was still placed on the low table by the fire, the suit that he threw on the ground yesterday was neatly placed at the end of the bed, Chen Qi's drowsiness was completely awake I got up, and before I could put on my clothes, I wandered around the room, but I didn't find Aze at all.
Chen Qi couldn't help but rubbed his forehead, didn't he work hard enough yesterday? Where can Aze go early in the morning without hunting
Chen Qi put on the original warm animal skin clothes, opened the door and found that Carlo was running back in a hurry holding a big pottery plate of clean snow. Ake has always been responsible for melting snow water, how did it become Carlo today
There is a place circled in the yard that is specially used to store the snow that needs to be used to melt snow water. The ground is paved with clean stone slabs to separate it from the soil. When water is needed, it will be taken there. The snow there is almost one meter thick. Yes, enough for them to use until the next snowfall. Chen Qizheng wanted to ask Carlo if he saw Aze, but before he could say anything, Carlo had already entered the room, and closed the door behind him.
Chen Qi: "..."
Chen Qi followed Carlo and opened the door to enter the house. The structure of Carlo's house was very similar to Aze's previous house, with a very low ceiling. Chen Qi could touch the top of the ceiling by raising his hand. Unlike Chen Qi's house, Carlo's house The animal skin curtain at the door is behind the wooden door. Chen Qi opened the thick animal skin curtain and found that apart from A Ze, A Zhang and A Li were also in the room, and even A Jing and the little wolf cub were sitting obediently by the fire.
"Why did you gather here so early in the morning?" Chen Qi was full of doubts.
Carlo, who was putting the pottery dish into the fire, raised his head when he heard the question, and smiled at Chen Qi, proudly saying: "Chen Qi, I'm a father now."
"What?" Chen Qi, who had just entered the door, staggered in fright and almost fell down. Aze, who was standing beside him, quickly pulled him. It was only then that Chen Qi realized that Ake had been sitting on the kang bed, holding a ball of white fluffy animal skin in his arms, which seemed to be wrapped with something.
Aze pursed his lips and smiled, "Ake gave birth to a little girl last night."
Chen Qi was so surprised that he half-opened his mouth. The females don’t wear as many animal fur coats as he does in winter. He has never noticed how obviously Ake’s belly is swollen. He watched him climb up and down two days ago. Tidying up the fence, why did he give birth after a nap? Is it that easy to have a baby
Chen Qi took a few steps forward to look into Ake's arms, Ake had a rare tenderness on his face, and moved the animal skin in his arms to Chen Qi, so that the other party could see the child inside.
The newborn child's face was flushed, the skin on the face was wrinkled, the hair on the head was sparse, and the small mouth smacked from time to time. This was the first time Chen Qi saw such a small child.
"He looks really ugly." Ah Jing, who was holding the little wolf cub, muttered softly.
How could Carlo, who had just turned into a father, allow himself to hear the words that he disliked his son, and knocked A Jing on the head directly, "You were uglier when you were just born."
Ah Jing curled her lips and was too lazy to refute him, so she hugged the little wolf cub and sat a little farther away, stroking the little wolf cub's beautiful white hair with her small hands, and silently complained that the little wolf cub was not as good-looking as his little wolf.
"Want to hug?" Seeing Chen Qi staring at the child, Ake asked tentatively.
Chen Qi hurriedly took a step back, waved his hands and shook his head and said, "No need." Are you kidding me, what if such a small child knocks on him accidentally.
Ake saw that Chen Qi was unwilling and did not force it. At this time, Ali had already opened a milk fruit and handed it to Ake, "Let's feed the little girl some milk fruit first."
Seeing that Ake planned to feed the opened milk fruit directly to the child, Chen Qi couldn't help asking: "Can he bear to eat milk fruit directly in such a cold day? Doesn't need to be heated?"
Ake stopped what he was doing, and looked at Chen Qi with some doubts. The orcs had never tried heating milk and fruit for children to eat.
"Uh, can't children drink heated milk and fruit?" Seeing that everyone else was looking at him, Chen Qi was a little puzzled.
"No, it's drinkable." Ake handed the opened milk fruit to Chen Qi, "Can you warm it up for me?"
Chen Qi took it over, found a clean earthenware bowl and poured the milk fruit into it. A milk fruit was only about half the size of the bowl, so Carlo hurriedly moved to Chen Qi's side to study. After all, the milk fruit was picked before winter, but the weather was too cold for fear that the children’s stomachs would not adapt, and he was afraid that bacteria would be stained if it was not well preserved before. Chen Qi boiled the milk fruit first and then let it cool until it felt When the temperature was right, I handed it to Ake.
Carlo felt strange about Chen Qi's way of heating the food first and then cooling it down. Isn't this superfluous? Chen Qi briefly explained the reason to him. Although Carlo still didn't understand it very well, he knew that it would be better for his son to eat the milk fruit after heating it, so he planned to follow Chen Qi's method in the future.
Carlo's family has children. After all, his kitchen and bedroom are in the same space. Chen Qi was worried that the oily smoke from cooking here would infect the children, so he suggested that he could go to his house for dinner during this time, and Carlo naturally agreed. At noon, Carlo directly grilled a large piece of dragon meat to nourish Ake's body, but was stopped by Chen Qi, "How can you give him barbecue immediately after the baby is born?"
Carlo held the barbecue with a blank expression on his face, "If you don't eat barbecue, what would you eat?" He saw that the orcs in the tribe used to eat barbecue directly after giving birth. Well, it's better to say that they used to have nothing but stew and barbecue. For food, it is thanks to Chen Qi that he can cook so many different kinds of food now, so in terms of food, Carlo almost obeyed what Chen Qi said 100%.
Chen Qi thought for a while, "Let me do it, and you watch."
"it is good."
Chen Qi opened a sweet-smelling rice berry and poured it into a pottery plate, then went to the wooden box with meat outside the door and took a piece of pig kidney, which was the viscera of a warthog hunted by Aze before winter, and put it on a boil Thaw it in hot water, stir fry it casually in the pot, then put it into rice berries and boil it together. The pig kidney was salted before, so Chen Qi didn’t add any more salt. The rice porridge is almost cooked. So I added a little crushed wild ginger and a little wild onion to enhance the flavor.
Chen Qi wrapped the pottery plate directly with animal skins, covered it with a wooden pot lid, handed the pottery plate to Carlo, and told him to warm it by the fire when he got home, and Ake would pack it for him if he wanted to eat. eat.
As a result, when Carlo handed Ake a bowl of rice porridge, even though there was pig kidney in it, Ake still couldn't help frowning, "I want to eat meat."
"Chen Qi said that you should not eat barbecue after giving birth, just wait a few days." Carlo coaxed.
Ake's head was full of black lines. If he could walk now, he really wanted to rush to Chen Qi and tell him that he was fine. Is there any beast who doesn't eat meat after giving birth? However, some people really feel uncomfortable for a long time after giving birth, and I don’t know if it has anything to do with eating. Ake looked at Carlo who was holding the baby carefully, sighed secretly, and stirred the rice porridge with a wooden spoon. I ate it with a big mouthful. Well, the taste is a bit bland, but the texture is not bad.
At this time, Chen Qi was checking the food at home to see what was suitable for making confinement meals for Ake to replenish his body. He used to hear that confinement was very important, and if he didn't make it right, there would be sequelae, even if Ake Ke is a big man, but he has just given birth to a child anyway, so he should also be in confinement.
Seeing Chen Qi staring at the pickled birds in the storage room in a daze, Aze walked over, "What's wrong?"
"I'm wondering if it's not suitable for pregnant women to eat pickled food." Chen Qi rested his chin and thought in distress. He never thought that he would have a child, so naturally he would not pay attention to what people in confinement should eat thing. Although I know that chicken soup is good for the body, but these birds are marinated, I don't know if the soup is still effective.
"We still have a lot of dolphin dragon meat and antelope meat." Aze reminded.
"I know, but these meats have been frozen for a while, and I was wondering if there are some fresher and more nutritious things." Speaking of this, Chen Qi paused, "Aze, has the Chishui River frozen over? gone?"
Aze nodded in doubt. The locust dragon group was able to cross the Chishui River because the Chishui River had been frozen for a long time.
Chen Qi clapped his hands, "Let's go fishing."
"Fishing?" Can fish be eaten? Thinking of those legendary stories about eating fish and being starved to death, Aze hurriedly stopped him: "Chen Qi, let's not eat fish, we can't eat fish, we already have enough food, if you want fresh food I will You can go to the forest and look for it."
Seeing Aze's panicked look, Chen Qi patted him on the shoulder reassuringly, "It's okay, don't worry, when will the food I make be inedible?"
Although what Chen Qi said was true, Aze was still very worried, after all, fish is something that has been told from generation to generation that it should never be eaten.
Naturally, wanting to go to Chishui River to catch fish is not a matter of setting out immediately after a thought arises. It is already past noon, and it gets dark quickly in winter, and Chishui River is still some distance away. The things are ready, and I will go to investigate how to catch them tomorrow.
Seeing that Aze was still full of disapproval, Chen Qi couldn't help but put his arms around his waist, "Why did you leave me and run away alone this morning?" When talking about what happened in the morning, Chen Qi was full of reproach.
"I heard the cries of a child next door, and guessed that Ake may have given birth. After all, his due date is in the next few days, so it passed first." Speaking of what happened in the morning, Aze naturally thought of what happened last night, He couldn't help but get hot on his face, he even temporarily forgot what Chen Qi said just now that he was going to catch fish.
"Then why didn't you wake me up?"
"I see you are very tired, so..." A Ze's voice became lower and lower, his face was so red that he was about to bleed, why didn't he think that Chen Qi was a person who likes to ask questions? And how would he answer this kind of thing
"Tired?" Chen Qi raised his voice at the end, and his hand had already slipped in from A Ze's fur coat. Because of the wedding, A Ze had already put away the fur. At this time, the animal skin was smooth and felt good to the touch. . "Then Aze, do you want to try to see if I'm really tired? Huh?"
Hearing Chen Qi's tone, Aze naturally knew what the other party meant, "It's still daytime." Isn't this kind of thing supposed to be done at night
"It's okay, I locked the door when Carlo left just now." How could the person who had just started eating meat see his significant other's face of shyness and refusal, how could he bear it, and Aze was usually indifferent in front of others The expression, Chen Qihe had seen the other party's face flushed after a few words from him, his throat couldn't help moving, and he half-coaxed the other party to walk to the place where he fought last night.
Somebody's hand has already begun to remove those obstructive wooden buttons on the animal fur coat little by little, and the crackling sound of the burning firewood in the fire has long been covered.
Even during the day, there is nothing that cannot be done.
Being turned into a red wave lasted from the afternoon to the next morning.