Ah Jing nodded his head, "Chen Qi said that it takes several people to play together, so hurry over there."
Although Ake seemed to be asleep, he was actually alert all the time. He opened his eyes slightly when he heard A Jing's words, and said to Carlo, "Ah Yao will leave it to me." , go and play."
Carlo leaned down and kissed his forehead, "Then you can sleep with him for a while."
Ake nodded, moved A Yao to his side, and then closed his eyes again and fell asleep.
After Ah Jing conveyed the news, he couldn't wait to go back first, and Ali simply packed up his things before going out with Carlo.
When they came to Chen Qi's house, they found that Azhang, who had returned from changing posts with Aze, was actually helping Chen Qi move the table.
"You guys are here, move that box of potatoes to the other side and put it away." Azhang pointed to the big wooden box next to the desk and said to the few people who came in.
Chen Qi and A Zhang worked together to move the study desk to a corner. The hall of his house is relatively large and the height is sufficient. After removing the surrounding things, a large space was vacated. Chen Qi measured the distance , Confirm that the size is enough to accommodate the swing of the rope before clapping your hands with satisfaction.
Seeing that several people had come, Chen Qixian explained to them how to play rope skipping. Ali's legs and feet were inconvenient, so Chen Qi taught him how to jump on one foot.
After the verbal explanation, it was time to start the demonstration. Ali and Carlo held one end of the rope, and Chen Qi asked them to swing in one direction at the same time. After the swing frequency of the rope stabilized, Chen Qi bowed slightly and jumped into it. in the rope.
Well, you can't ask a person who hasn't done many people's rope skipping for nearly twenty years to suddenly become a master of rope skipping. Chen Qi tripped and stopped the rope after jumping a few times. He coughed lightly, pretending to be nonchalant and profound, "Do you understand? Just like I did just now, as long as you don't get caught by the rope, you can keep jumping. If you stop, you have to change and continue."
Azhang, who has been listening carefully to the explanation, is a little eager to try at the moment. He can't play backgammon just like Ali, but this so-called skipping rope is simply a measure for a female like them with excellent athletic ability and quick reflexes. Hearing that Chen Qi said that he would change people to continue after being tripped and stopped, he hurriedly stepped forward, "Chen Qi, let me try."
Chen Qi nodded and stepped aside, "Okay, try it first, and I'll tell you if there's anything you don't understand."
The two people who were throwing the rope continued to shake the rope at the same time. Azhang's eyes were fixed on the trajectory of the rope, and when the rope touched the ground, he jumped into the rope the moment he was thrown back.
Azhang is relatively tall, and he needs to squat halfway to avoid being tripped by the rope. His body flexibly jumps up and down with the frequency of the rope, which is much better than Chen Qike.
Rope skipping is an activity Chen Qi is used to seeing children or some petite girls get together to play together, but now a few grown tall men are huddled in the corner of the room playing skipping rope with excited faces, watching from the side No matter how he looked at it, Chen Qi felt that this scene was really indescribably weird and inconsistent.
Azhang jumped fifty or sixty times in a row before he was tripped by the rope. Carlo, who had been shaking the rope as a coolie, couldn't bear it long ago. Seeing that Azhang finally stopped, he quickly stuffed the rope into Azhang's hand, "Down It's my turn."
"When is it my turn?" A Jing, who was about to play, was preempted by Carlo, and raised his head to ask Chen Qi beside him as if asking for help.
Seeing the anxiety in Ah Jing's eyes, Chen Qi was a little amused, "It will be your turn when Carlo finishes jumping." Ah Jing was too short and Chen Qi didn't let him participate in the people who shook the rope, but just skipping rope didn't hinder him. of.
Hearing this, Ah Jing glared at Carlo angrily, but in exchange Carlo made a grimace.
Chen Qi looked speechlessly at Carlo who jumped into the rope triumphantly. This guy is already a father. Is it necessary to argue with a child
I have to say that there is a reason why Carlo's physique is better than Chen Qi's. His flexible movements and clumsiness when playing backgammon are completely like two people. The frequency of the rope shaking was not high. Chen Qi roughly estimated in his heart that Carlo jumped for at least 20 minutes in his first trial jump, but there was no sign of stopping at all, and he didn't know where he came from. Physical strength, even Ali who was shaking the rope began to feel sore hands.
"Why haven't you finished dancing yet?" Ah Jing was dissatisfied. Even Ah Zhang hadn't danced for that long. How could Carlo, who would definitely lose to him in backgammon within fifty rounds, be so good.
Carlo jumped a few more times, and stopped when he felt that he was almost done. The long-term exercise made him a little breathless.
Chen Qi took the rope from Ali, who was already rubbing his wrists because his hands were sore from shaking, "Let me shake it next, you go and rest first."
Ali nodded, handed the rope to Chen Qi, and sat on the futon by the fire to watch some people play. Carlo poured a bowl of warm bone soup, Gululu drank it in one gulp, wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, and said to Ali next to him, "Uncle Ali, this skipping rope is fun, much more fun than that backgammon .”
Ali smiled, didn't he find rope skipping fun because he couldn't win backgammon? Of course Ali would not expose Carlo's little thought.
Chen Qi waved to A Jing, "A Jing, it's up to you to play next."
Ah Jing ran over happily. The rope began to shake, and Ah Jing also bowed slightly like A Zhang, and jumped in after the shaking frequency stabilized.
Ah Jing's stature is too small, and the rope Chen Qi weaved is suitable for adults to play with. As soon as Ah Jing jumped in, he felt that he had to jump extremely hard every time to avoid the rope, and looked at the thick rope every time. Chen Qi looked a little startled when Ah Jing turned over, and was about to speak to tell Ah Zhang to stop, only to hear a crisp "pop", Chen Qi quickly looked closely, and found that Ah Jing made the last move Tiao jumped and tilted his body, the rope was drawn directly to his little face, and a bright red mark appeared on his face.
Chen Qi quickly threw away the rope and walked over, knelt down to check the wound on A Jing's face, the rope was too thick, and the scar almost covered half of his face, Chen Qi asked worriedly: "A Jing, how are you? Does it hurt? "
Ah Jing had been in pain for a long time with tears in his eyes, but when he heard Chen Qi's question, he still pursed his lips and shook his head, "It doesn't hurt."
Chen Qi touched his little head with heartache, and said to the others: "Let's stop here today."
Females are often injured when hunting, and now they are only pulled by the rope. After the pain at the beginning, Ah Jing has long since ignored it. Ah Zhang and the others heard that Ah Jing said nothing was wrong and didn't take it too seriously, like At Ah Jing's age, he had to learn to hunt for food by himself, and the more serious injuries could be healed within two days by tying them with animal skins. Now Ah Jing was just pulled by the rope. Although the bright red scars look serious, for a female with strong self-healing ability, this injury is about the same degree as being bitten by a bug twice. It may not take a day of red marks will subside.
Chen Qi said that they didn't want to play, so everyone packed up their things. A Li poured a plate of warm water to wash the scars on A Jing's face. Chen Qi smashed a handful of willow leaves to relieve inflammation and pain. A wound that doesn't bleed is useless, Chen Qi applied Liu Yemo and tied it up with a bandage.
After all, the injury was on the face, and if a bandage was to be tied, the whole head would have to be tied up. After the incident, Ah Jing was almost turned into a little mummy by Chen Qi, so funny.
"I'm really fine. The injury doesn't hurt anymore, and it will be healed after a night of sleep." Ah Jing was very resistant to this look, so he didn't talk about being uncomfortable. Standing beside him, he laughed so hard that he couldn't straighten up when he saw his look. What happened to Carlo
"No, it can't be removed until you recover. If it leaves scars and disfigures you will cry later."
Ah Jing pursed his lips and stopped talking, and ran to the kang bed to seek comfort from the little wolf cub.
In the days that followed, Chen Qi didn’t dare to let Ah Jing participate in the rope skipping. He made a smaller rope for Ah Jing and taught him how to play rope skipping alone. After all, everyone has something to do every day, so naturally we can’t They got together to play, so many people started to feel new about rope skipping. After a few days, they all started playing solo. Ah Jing saw that other people stopped playing, so naturally he didn't want to join.
Chen Qi had to do push-ups every morning and evening. At first he could only do about twenty push-ups at most, but he couldn't get up anymore. After a few days of persistence, he could do about fifty or sixty push-ups now.
Chen Qi made a funnel, because there is no way to make a transparent glass funnel here, and you can’t tell the time if you can’t see the inside of the funnel, so Chen Qi made the funnel in half, put a pottery plate underneath it, and the funnel It was filled with washed river sand, and Chen Qi estimated that it would take about half an hour for all the sand to leak out. Every time he skips rope, he pours all the sand in the clay pan into the funnel, and when all the sand is drained, his exercise for today is complete.
Almost a month has gone by like this, and through Chen Qi's hard work, his previously limp muscles have finally become a lot tougher now, and he even feels like he has developed two abdominal muscles. Although it is only faintly visible, Chen Qi has already Very satisfied.
Now other people will no longer restrict his range of activities. At noon when the sun is the warmest, Chen Qi will take a walk with Aze in the yard to digest food after dinner. After several snowfalls, the snow in the yard has piled up to his knees again. High, now there is no need to pile snow on the city wall anymore, just clear the snow on the runway and the stone road every time it snows.
Chen Qi held A Ze's hand and walked slowly along the runway, the surrounding was very quiet, there was almost no other noise except the breathing of the people around him, the sun was shining on his body warmly, Chen Qi tilted his head and kissed A Ze's lips After a while, at this moment, he had a feeling of tranquility.
Walking along the yard twice, there is no other scenery to see except a flat snow, and the surrounding is blocked by a tall wall. Chen Qi stopped, looked at the snow in the garden and pondered for a while, and asked for a long time as if he wanted to ask the people around him for advice: "Ah Ze, why don't we make snowmen from the snow in the yard?"
"Okay." Regarding Chen Qi's request, as long as it does not endanger Chen Qi's health, Aze will agree to it regardless of whether he can fulfill it. Of course, until now, Chen Qi has not Asked what he couldn't do.
Activities such as building a snowman are of course fun when there are many people. At Chen Qi's suggestion, everyone ran to the yard to see how the snowman was going to be built.
After more than two months, A Yao has now learned to turn over by himself, and occasionally he would stare at his limbs and move forward for a certain distance. Chen Qi has never raised a child, so he doesn't know that the growth rate of this orc child is comparable to that of a human child. Is it faster than that
At this moment, Ake also came out holding A Yao who had already put on small clothes. A Yao had instinctively transformed into sparse hair due to the cold, and was tightly wrapped in animal skins. Like a little beast.
"It's so cold outside, is it okay for you to take him out?" Chen Qi asked worriedly.
Ake smiled, "It's okay, don't look at A Yao's young age, he is much stronger than you."
"..." Didn't he accidentally get sick once? Could it be that the image of myself as a sick child has been fixed in other people's minds
Chen Qi feels that he has the potential to be a teacher recently, and these orcs living together have all turned into his students. No, even things like building a snowman have to be demonstrated by Chen Qi. understand.
"What's the use of piling up such things?" Azhang, who was guarding the fence, couldn't help jumping down curiously when he saw the people gathered in the yard. After listening to Chen Qi's explanation, he became even more puzzled.
"Of course it's for watching." Chen Qi picked up the rolled ball and put it on the body of the already piled snowman, then turned around and told Aze: "Aze, help me get some branches. "
Using tree branches to make snowman's hands, eyes and mouth, Chen Qi stood a little further away and held his chin to look at it, feeling that something was missing. After thinking about it, I went back to the house and found a wooden stick, dyed it with red dyed fruit, took it outside before it dried, and inserted it into the snowman’s nose. The red color was very conspicuous on the white snowman. The snowman, which has no distinctive features, suddenly comes alive.
"Is this enough?" Although it snows here all the year round, Chen Qi, the orc who uses snow to play with, is the first one. Everyone who didn't know anything about making snowmen before saw this strange thing that was newly piled up. expression.
Chen Qi tore a worn-out brown animal skin into strips, took one and wrapped it around the snowman's neck, clapped his hands, and nodded with satisfaction, "Well, that's good, you can pile them up like this .”
So after that day, all sorts of weird-looking things were erected in the calm white yard. Fortunately, there was no light at night, otherwise it would be scary to see it accidentally.
"Carol, what are you stacking?"
"Ake."
Chen Qi looked at Ake, the snowman who had collapsed half of his body, and was silent, "Why did you pile up a pair of feet for him?"
Carlo looked at him strangely, "Didn't you just pile up what you let me see? Ake has feet, of course I want to pile up a pair of feet." Then Carlo frowned in distress, "But these feet are old. It's broken, what should I do?"
Chen Qi didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm, so he suggested: "Why don't you look like Ake sitting? This way your feet won't collapse because you can't bear the weight of your body."
Carlo patted his forehead, and suddenly realized: "Why didn't I think of it, Chen Qi, you are so smart."
After hearing Chen Qi's words, A Ze next to him silently pushed away the half-collapsed snowman just after he piled it up, and replaced it with a sitting snowman image. If the sitting posture is carefully distinguished, there is clearly a bit of Chen Qi's shadow.
After Chen Qi built two snowmen, he lost interest. He left behind a bunch of orcs who were making strange things and went back to the house. In the house, Ali was practicing calligraphy, and all the cocoons had been woven by him and Carlo when they were free. It's over, now his house has a pile of cloth more than one meter high.
"Why did you come back so soon? Didn't you continue to build that snowman?" A Li was a little surprised when he saw Chen Qi who pushed the door in. He got up and poured him a bowl of ginger syrup. Now he boils a plate of ginger at home every day. Sugar water, no matter who comes back from staying outside for too long, he must drink a bowl to drive away the cold.
Chen Qi finished drinking the ginger syrup, put down the bowl, and then replied: "The soy beans soaked in the morning should be almost ready, I'll cook something delicious for you when I come back."
Ali understood, and nodded, "Then let me help you."
In fact, Ali also went out to watch Chen Qi and the others make snowmen just now, but he is much older than Chen Qi and the others. This kind of activity seems new, but it really does not arouse too much interest for him. Words feel more interesting.
Chen Qi took out the stone mill that he had made a few days ago. This stone mill is not big, and it is slightly wider than the pottery bowl they are using now. Chen Qi pondered over the design of the stone mill for a long time and drew many renderings It was finally made, and it took almost a month from the start of production to the test of the effect.
There are only half a bowl of soybeans, which are the ones that A Jing brought over before, because the quantity is not large, and he is reluctant to use them, so they have been kept until now. Now that the stone mill is ready, Chen Qi soaked all the soybeans in water, planning to make soy milk.
In fact, if conditions permit, Chen Qi would like to make tofu, but he couldn't find gypsum to coagulate the soy milk, so he gave up.
Chen Qi put the softened soybeans into the top opening of the stone mill, added a little water into it, and then slowly turned the handle of the stone mill, the white liquid began to flow out between the upper and lower stones, and then Flow along the interface into the pottery dish that holds the connection.
The half-bowl of soybeans was filled with a lot of water, and it was enough to grind a large pot of soy milk. Chen Qi put the pot of raw soy milk on the wooden shelf next to the fire and boiled it, then found a piece of clean The cloth filtered the boiled soymilk twice to get milky white soymilk that can be drunk in a large ceramic dish.
Smelling the familiar aroma of beans, Chen Qi added sugar from half a bamboo tube, then put it on the fire to melt the sugar for a while before taking it off.
Naturally, the filtered bean dregs could not be wasted. Chen Qi hadn't eaten a staple food for a long time. He asked Ali to cut a large plate of diced meat, then add it to the bean dregs and stir-fry together. When it was almost cooked, he added some chopped shallots and salt to taste, and then put it on the plate.
Ali cooked the rest of the food, a large plate of stew without potatoes, and two large bowls of steamed meatloaf mixed with pickled cabbage and mashed. These pickled cabbages were pickled by Chen Qi when the winter just started. At that time, he was worried that the cabbage would not be able to be stored for a long time, so he pickled a lot. Unexpectedly, this stuff is not afraid of freezing at all, and he did not continue to pickle when he picked it back. After a few months, these pickled cabbages are fully flavored and ready to use.
After the dinner was ready, Chen Qi went out and called everyone to come back for dinner. To his surprise, A Ze could also play happily. In Chen Qi's impression, A Ze was dispensable to many things. , nothing that he is particularly interested in doing, most of the time he will classify things into wants and don'ts rather than likes or dislikes.
Chen Qi stretched out his hand to remove the snow that was stained on A Ze's clothes. A Ze's eyebrows and eyes seemed a little reluctant to part with the sudden suspension of the snowman activity. There seemed to be a little childishness on that mature and handsome face. Speaking of it, A Ze Ze is a few years younger than himself, and it's just that he usually behaves so tough that people ignore his age.
Chen Qi's heart softened, "After you finish eating later, you can pile up again."
"Um."
After taking a sip of sweet and smooth soy milk, the familiar taste seemed to instantly pull Chen Qi back to the breakfast he had bought on the way to work in countless mornings.
"Chen Qi, why is this cabbage sour?" Ali asked strangely after taking a bite of the steamed meat patty. He thought the taste of the cabbage was strange when he was chopping the meat before, and he thought it was just because it was marinated for too long. , I didn't expect it to taste sour.
"Of course, this is sauerkraut." Chen Qi took a bite out of a large piece of meatloaf, and it tasted pretty good.
The others were already used to the novel food that Chen Qi made out of nowhere, and now they only wanted to fill their stomachs quickly and continue to build snowmen in the yard, but they were not interested in understanding what these foods were made of.
Today is the first day of the month, and the moonlight is very bright. Relying on their good eyesight, the females did not go back to sleep until midnight, watching the messy and strange-shaped things in the yard look ghostly under the moonlight. Chen Qi couldn't help shivering, he quickly closed the door and lay down on the bed with his daughter-in-law in his arms, before falling asleep, he was still thinking whether his idea was wrong
After wanting to exercise and falling ill, and wanting to teach them to skip rope but hurting Ah Jing, Chen Qi now always puts a deep question mark on his idea of wanting to reproduce the things in this world here.
The second day's post-dinner walk gave Chen Qi a lot of freshness because there were more snowmen in the yard. Today Aze was going to be on guard, and the task of walking with Chen Qi was handed over to A Jing and the little wolf cub.
After a day and night of hard work, the orcs finally temporarily lost interest in making snowmen. Of course, Chen Qi guessed that it had something to do with the fact that the snow in the yard was basically used up.
The little wolf cub has grown a lot in the past few months, and his current size is almost the same as that of a one-month-old puppy. He happily ran in front of Chen Qi and A Jing, and after a while he jumped into the pile of snowmen and rolled around. After a while, he bared his teeth and growled at a snowdrift that he couldn't see what was piled up.
Chen Qi looked amused, it seemed that not only did he despise these snowmen, but even the little wolf cubs.
"Chen Qi, I made this one." Ah Jing tugged at Chen Qi's sleeve, and with his little finger pointed to two big snowmen, a small snowman and a smaller snowman not far away.
Although I couldn't see any familiar appearance of these snowmen, Chen Qi guessed that the two big snowmen were probably him and A Ze, and the rest were A Jing and himself. Little wolf cub.
"It's a great pile." Chen Qi patted A Jing's head and praised, A Jing smiled so much that his eyebrows and eyes were bent.
"Little wolf, what are you doing?" Chen Qi found that the little wolf cub had been howling in front of a snowdrift for too long, and couldn't help but feel a little strange. Just as he was about to walk over, he found that the snowdrift seemed to move.
Chen Qi blinked his eyes, could the snowman survive
When he was teasing in his heart, the little wolf cub suddenly turned around and ran towards Chen Qi's direction, screaming louder and louder while running, and then Chen Qi saw that the snowdrift really moved, and rolled to the side , limbs stretched out, revealing brown claws.
A dark hole more than one meter long was exposed where the snowdrift used to be. A pair of greedy and gloomy eyes stared at Chen Qi closely in the hole. Chen Qi seemed to be able to hear the sound of swallowing saliva.