"Chen Qi, are you alright?" Carlo carefully opened the door curtain, and waited until the two hugging people finally separated before walking in and asking.
After A Yao was handed over to A Li to take care of him, A Li had already told him that Chen Qi was fine now, but he lay on the bed several times and couldn't fall asleep. After thinking about it again and again, I still greeted A Li, and then went out to look for Chen Qi. I didn't expect to hear A Ze's affectionate confession as soon as I walked to the door.
Carlo stood outside the door with gloomy eyes. His eldest brother has been a dull gourd-like character since he was a child. He doesn't like talking or communicating. Before when no one moved out to live alone, even under the same roof, if I teased him with ten words, he might not always reply. I was distressed more than once, and because I really felt that he could not integrate into the tribe, I finally had to agree to his request to move out.
Seeing Aze who will finally take the initiative to appeal now, Carlo is actually very happy deep in his heart. If his father saw it, he would probably become very relieved.
Chen Qi's arrival not only changed Aze, but also these orcs living together now. He changed their living environment, changed their food, changed their clothes, and changed their way of getting along. If it weren't for Chen Qi, I'm afraid he would have gone to the lion wolf tribe now, and his brother Aze Then he would still be wandering alone in the wilderness year after year, day after day, as before. Occasionally, he might go to the lion wolf tribe to see himself, but he would definitely not be as close to himself as he is now.
Therefore, Chen Qi can't have an accident. Carlo's eyes became firm, and he couldn't bear to lose the family affection he finally got back.
Seeing Carlo's poking his head, Chen Qi let go of Aze in a little embarrassment. I'm afraid the other party has heard a lot about what happened just now, otherwise the other party should have rushed in based on what he knew about Carlo. How could it be like this now? They all asked aloud, still standing by the door, hesitating whether to come in or wait.
Chen inspired Carlo to come in, and then replied: "It's just a common cold, it's nothing serious, it'll be fine after a night of sleep."
Carlo walked to the bed suspiciously, stretched out his hand to touch Chen Qi's forehead, and found that it was not as hot as yesterday, so he was relieved.
Chen Qi turned his head and said to A Ze distressedly: "You watched me all night, are you tired? Do you want to go to sleep for a while?"
A Ze shook his head, "I'm not tired." What if he fell asleep and Chen Qi got up again
Chen Qi had no choice but to compromise, "Then you should go eat something, right? Didn't I have dinner after I fell asleep last night?" Thinking of this, Chen Qi looked at the haggard black face on A Ze's face. The eye circles felt even more distressed, and he patted the back of Aze's hand, "Carol is watching me here, I made the potato stew last night for a long time, you go and heat it up and eat some, now the rest There are not many potatoes left, it would be a pity to waste them."
Hearing that it was his favorite delicious potato stew, Carlo's stomach grumbled at the right time. He was also worried all night last night, and completely forgot about the need to eat, "Brother, go quickly Warm up the potato stew, I'm about to starve to death. Also, remember to send some to Ake later, he hasn't come back to eat since last night. There are also Uncle Li and Uncle Azhang, Uncle Azhang probably He is already asleep, you just need to warm him by the fire, he will eat when he wakes up. By the way, Chen Qi, how much potato stew did you cook last night? Is it enough for so many people? Do you want it? Shall I make some more?"
Seeing Carlo sweeping away the haze just now, and turning back into the usual chattering snack, Chen Qi shook his head helplessly, "It's enough for you to eat, no need to cook anymore." We planned to have dinner together last night, so Chen Qi stewed two large plates, but later he got sick so he didn't eat it. Now that the illness is just right, his mouth is bland, and he doesn't want to eat meat.
Aze walked to the fire. Fortunately, Chen Qi had already taken the two plates of potato stew from the fire last night. Otherwise, with the hectic situation last night, no one cared whether it was still cooking on the fire. If I cook things like this for a whole night, I'm afraid that these two big plates of food will really be wasted.
The pottery dish for stewed meat was placed relatively close to the fire. After a night of warming by the fire, all the fat in the cured meat was stewed out. There were not many potatoes in it, and it was not enough to absorb the excess fat. , the whole plate of stewed meat has become too greasy right now. The stewed meat is still hot, so naturally there is no need to reheat it, but this big plate of greasy food will be disgusted by everyone if you don't eat two bites.
Aze was silent, and went to find half a cabbage in the storage room. There were a lot of cabbages in the forest before, and Aze picked almost half the house’s quantity back, and now there are still many piled up in his house. This kind of thing is a bit different from the cabbage that Chen Qi knew. Potatoes and sweet potatoes are so delicate that they will be damaged by freezing if the temperature is too low. Cabbage is not afraid of being damaged by freezing. Even if you go to the forest now, you should be able to find a lot of them if you just dig under the snow, so you don’t have to worry about eating them. up.
Aze washed and shredded the cabbage, then scooped the potato stew into another clean pottery dish, mixed it with the cabbage and stir-fried it together, the cabbage can absorb a lot of fat, but it made the potato stew look better from the outside Much more delicious.
It turned out that the fat stewed in the pottery dish was cut into a plate of dragon meat, and then stir-fried with cabbage. After finishing all the dishes, Aze divided out a few portions and packed them, and first went to give them to the beasts who were still hungry. People send food.
Carlo voluntarily and consciously went to get a pottery bowl, filled a big bowl and sat back beside Chen Qi's bed, eating so much that the corners of Chen Qi's eyes twitched.
"Do you want to eat?" Seeing Chen Qi staring at him, Carlo asked as he shook his ceramic bowl, which was almost overflowing.
Chen Qi shook his head, he just finished a big bowl of meat porridge, and now he is not hungry at all.
With Chen Qi's illness, he completely took up his clothes, stretched out his hands to eat, and opened his mouth. As long as he lay on the bed and looked at A Ze, he would come over and ask him if he needed anything. When he was hungry, A Ze would feed him porridge and drink Ze gave him water, even if he wanted to take a bath, A Ze didn't let him do it himself. Chen Qi felt that he was not just suffering from a common cold and fever, but suffering from some kind of ailment that limited his mobility.
Now Aze only goes to guard the fence for a while at night, and spends most of the time by Chen Qi's side.
Ah Jing didn't know if he was frightened before, but during this period of time, he brought all the little wolf cubs back, and he had to cling to Chen Qi when he ate and slept, and he would hold his sleeves tightly when Chen Qi wanted to get out of bed and walk around. Looking at him with big round eyes, Chen Qi felt soft-hearted, and finally had no choice but to lie back on the bed obediently.
If this kind of life was in the original world, Chen Qi would have laughed, but here, with no electricity or mobile phone, lying with eyes open all day is simply a torture.
When Aze went to guard the fence, he would ask others to accompany Chen Qi. At the moment, it was Carlo who was serving him perilla soup. Carlo let the soup cool down a bit before passing it to Chen Qi. He kept admonishing: "Be careful, it's still a little hot."
Chen Qi rolled his eyes speechlessly. The feeling that everyone treats him as a seriously ill patient really makes him tired. It's useless to explain that he has recovered a long time ago. Everyone should look at him or look at him.
Seeing that Chen Qi obediently finished the perilla soup, Carlo felt relieved, took the bowl back and couldn't help but look a little gloomy. Seeing that Chen Qi's expression was no different from usual, he couldn't help sighing in a low voice, He murmured: "It would be great if I could meet you sooner." In this way, maybe he won't lose his father so early. But when my father left, his brother was not yet an adult. I was afraid that if we met too early, his brother might miss Chen Qi. Thinking of this, Carlo looked away again.
His father now has two fathers by his side, he might be so happy.
Chen Qi laughed, "It's not too late to meet you now."
"Yes, it's not too late to meet now." Carlo put the pottery bowl away, and was about to pick up the half-made animal skin boots to continue making. These animal skin boots were for Ah Yao, and the style was Chen Qihua They were short and round ones for him, and Chen Qi also taught him to use wooden buttons as eyes and sew them into the shape of a little tiger, which is very cute. Ah Jing was envious when he saw it, and later Ali helped him make a similar pair, and now Ah Jing refuses to take it off every day.
"Carol, can I get up and walk for a while?" Chen Qi asked tentatively when he saw Carlo started to work. He had been lying on the bed for two full days, his bones ached, and now he just wanted to move around. bone.
Ah Jing has been sitting at the table practicing calligraphy. Today Chen Qi taught him a Tang poem. He is copying it, but his ears are raised high, and he is always paying attention to Chen Qi's movements. Now he heard Chen Qi saying that he was going to get up. She put down her pen, took off her shoes and climbed onto the kang bed, tightly hugging Chen Qi's hand to prevent him from getting off.
"No." Carlo didn't even think about it, and he refused without even raising his head. In the past two days alone, he heard Chen Qi's request to get out of bed countless times, but such a thing as illness can't be done. So casual? Although it seems to be fine now, what should I do if I don't pay attention and fall ill again? It might not be possible to get the protection of the beast god next time.
That's right, this time Chen Qi Neng recovered so quickly, everyone didn't attribute all the reasons to Chen Qi's body's good recovery ability or the good effect of those bowls of perilla soup. The orcs all worship the Beast God, and they think that Chen Qi must have received the protection of the Beast God to recover so quickly. After all, Chen Qi knows too many things, and even Aze doesn't know where his tribe is, and Azhang even I wondered if Chen Qi might be someone sent by the Beast God to help them.
Hearing the expected answer, Chen Qi sighed, "I really just have a common cold, and I'll be fine after a good night's sleep. What are you guys worried about?"
Carlo put down the needle and thread in his hand, looked up at Chen Qi seriously, "Perhaps it is a very common thing to be sick in your tribe, but here, our bodies are not as good as the females, and we are not as good as the females. If you are sick, you will die." Carlos paused, "I don't think my brother told you, our father, it is in this winter that you suddenly have a fever like you, In the end, he had a fever for several days, and told us that he would be fine after a night of sleep, but he never woke up after falling asleep that day."
Chen Qi was stunned for a moment, he really didn't know about this kind of thing, he couldn't help feeling warm, no wonder these people felt as if they were facing a formidable enemy when they saw that they were sick, they all acted like this because they cared about themselves , then lie on the bed for a few more days to make them feel at ease. Thinking of this, Chen Qi didn't ask to get out of bed for activities in the next few days.
Of course, it is impossible for him to keep his eyes open and stare at the ceiling in a daze. The final result of the negotiation is that he can lie on the bed to recuperate, but he has to do something. Aze couldn't hold back him, so he agreed. But it can only be done when someone is watching, he is now afraid that Chen Qi will accidentally make some kind of moth to make himself sick again.
Chen Qi wanted to make some playable entertainment props before, but now he was idle on the bed, thinking for a long time, and finally decided to make a set of Go.
Chen Qi is actually not very good at Go. His teacher played a game of guide chess with him in college, which made him think that he was good at Go. In the end, he officially played a game with other people. He was eaten to death, and in the end he lost all games before reaching the middle game.
It is obviously a very unscientific thing for Chen Qilai, who can't do life-and-death chess well, to teach these orcs who don't even know what Go is, but it is a very unscientific thing to play Go, and even children can play it well There is a game of chess, backgammon.
The way to play backgammon is very simple. If you connect five pieces of the same color horizontally and vertically, you win. It is a perfect game for teaching these orcs to play.
Chen Qixian asked Aze to help make a square chessboard prototype. Since there was no scale here, he estimated the approximate length and used a piece of wood as a ruler to draw nineteen horizontal and vertical lines. Although he did not plan to use this chessboard to play Go , but Chen Qi still pointed out the Tianyuan and Xing on the chessboard. Now all that's left is the pawns.
The chess pieces were carved out of wood by Chen Qincheng one by one. There was no way, he was too boring, and there were not so many stones suitable for making chess pieces here, so he patiently carved them out slowly. There were 181 black stones and 180 white characters. After three days of engraving, this is still the result of only engraving a rough shape and the size of each chess piece is different.
Well, it's not a professional level, it's fine if you can play it, no.
There is no white dyed fruit in their family. Chen Qi only dyed the 181 sunspots and dried them, and he can't wait for you to use them. Everyone else knew that Chen Qi had made a chess board that he had never seen before. Now that he heard that he was going to start playing chess, he couldn't wait to run over to watch. Even Carlo threw A Yao to Ake to watch him run away. coming.
"Does this count as winning?" Chen Qi explained the rules of playing backgammon and demonstrated it again, Carlo still half-understood and asked.
"Why don't we take a look at the next game, you will understand after the actual battle." Chen Qi put the chess pieces back into the wooden chess box, one of the chess pieces was still the original color of the wood, Chen Qi always felt that it was not black and white No matter how you look at it, the chess pieces are not pleasing to the eye. After summer, you must look for white dyed fruits, and you have to make a real pair of Go.
While teaching Carlo how to cut off the opponent's path, Chen Qi repeated to him the main points to pay attention to in backgammon.
"Hey, does this count as winning?" Carlo asked in surprise as he looked at the five sunspots connected horizontally.
Chen Qi nodded, because he wanted to teach Carlo, so he released a little water, told the opponent how to cut off the path of the chess piece, and let the opponent win.
Carlo excitedly looked left and right at the few chess pieces on the chessboard, and was satisfied no matter how he looked. When he saw that Chen Qi was about to put away the chess pieces, he quickly stopped him and said, "Chen Qi, why did you put away the chess pieces?"
Chen Qi rolled his eyes, "How can we proceed to the next game if we don't put it away?"
"Oh, let's move on then."
Ali, who was watching from the sidelines, was eager to see, "Chen Qi, you can teach me later."
Chen Qi taught them all day long before they had an introductory understanding of backgammon. Most of the orcs did manual labor, and they were not very good at this kind of two-dimensional way of thinking. There are many, but everything must be explained to them in detail before they can understand, it is really tiring.
Fortunately, I didn't teach them Go, otherwise it would be strange if I didn't disturb myself with my half-baked level.
"I won." After the teaching, Chen Qi decided to formally play a game with Carlo. After only a few rounds, the five pieces belonging to him on the diagonal line were connected into a line.
"How did you win?" Carlo looked left and right and still couldn't see where he lost.
Ah Jing gave him a disdainful look, stretched out his small hand and counted the five connected chess pieces, "Here, if one, two, three, four, five, five are connected together, you lose."
Maybe it's because the child's thinking has not yet been finalized, Ah Jing's ability to accept is much better than those adults, Chen Qi pinched his chubby little face appreciatively, "It's so smart, let's play the next game Bar."
Ah Jing frowned, and nodded vigorously.
Dissatisfied, Carlo picked up the last chess piece and placed it between the five connected pieces, "The one just now doesn't count, I'm going to play here."
Chen Qi looked at him with a smile, stretched out his index finger and shook, "Today I want to teach you a new word, no regrets. After a while, you will copy these four words hundreds of times to understand its meaning. Bar."