Seeing this, Lei Jin wanted to smile, but when he thought that one day this soft little guy would disappear in a place he didn't know, his heart was complicated. Even though he left, he still couldn't see him. , but at least it is enough to know that he is living a healthy life under the love of his parents and brothers. It may be a bit hypocritical, but it is Lei Jin's most real thought at the moment.
After watching Mingya, Lei Jin didn't really want to go home, so he walked around the temple with Xiya. It has been more than half a year since he came to this world. As for the building, the whole temple is made of huge long strips of bluestone, a bit like a pyramid, with a wide base and gradually decreasing upwards, but the top is not pointed, but has a flat square platform. The building itself also has On each of the four sides, there are several floors of steps soaring upwards.
"Can I go up there and have a look?" Lei Jin asked. Basically, there are always various taboos in religious buildings like temples. Although he doesn't believe it, he doesn't want to offend.
"Of course, except for the temple where people are not allowed to enter easily, there are no restrictions in other places." It's just a hundred or so steps, can Lei Jin bear it with his current body
"Let's go up and have a look." He remembered that before he went to the jungle, Roger once vaguely mentioned that he should go to the temple to have a look. Although he still didn't understand what Roger was trying to say, he believed that Roger Jie must have his intentions, just taking advantage of today's opportunity, he simply went to the top to find out.
The two chose the south side to climb up the steps. The slope was steep and the steps were very narrow. Lei Jin tried to step up with one foot, but one-third of his feet were hanging in the air. It was okay when going up, people are always habitual Leaning forward, but getting down is not easy. Lei Jin climbed a bit hard, but it was not a big problem. Xi Ya didn't dare to speak, for fear of distracting him. Lei Jin was a little bored, and while climbing, he subconsciously counted the steps , when you climb to the upper platform, it is exactly ninety-one floors, and there is another level of steps on the upper platform, and there is a round disc-like thing in the middle, with a long and thin needle pierced through the middle. I've seen this thing in front of a science academy building, but I don't know what it is, let alone what it does.
"What is this?" He didn't go to school much at first, so he had nothing to hide. Fortunately, he was a daoist and didn't have any education requirements.
Xi Ya glanced at him and said, "This is a sundial, which is used to measure time. Before there were no corona and hourglass, people in the tribe judged the time by looking at the sun and stars." Lei Jin was very interested around the sundial Spinning around, I couldn't help but added another sentence, saying: "Ah, this is what you did. People in your world know it."
"I don't know, how do you look at this?" Lei Jin said indifferently, there are many scales on the surface of the grinding disc, there are twelve large divisions, and too many small divisions, he is too lazy to count.
"Look at the shadow of the pointer." Xi Ya pointed and explained to him carefully.
"It's almost two o'clock now?" Lei Jin saw that the pointer was almost on the seventh mark. In fact, it is not difficult to open it, just like a clock. The clock moves the pointer, and the sundial moves the shadow of the pointer.
There are some simple patterns on the small platform under the sundial, carved with thick lines, very similar to those on the stone pillars behind the temple, surrounding a circle of light, surrounded by irregularly inlaid nine stones, no, it should be said to be eight Because the third one seems to have been picked off, leaving only a small hole, and there is a very strange symbol between the third and fourth stones, which Lei Jin can't understand and doesn't intend to Waste your brain cells.
"Where was the black stone I gave you when you were in the Tiger Clan?" Lei Jin stared at the small hole thoughtfully, then raised his head and asked Xi Ya.
"Here." Xi Ya untied it from her neck. This was the only thing Lei Jin gave him, and he kept it close to his body.
Lei Jin stretched out his hand to take it, and pressed the small stone on the small concave hole. It was about the same size, but he just couldn't get in. Could it be that he thought wrong? Lei Jin fell into a brief thought.
Seeing Lei Jin's behavior, Xi Ya felt inexplicably uneasy, so she interrupted him and said, "There's nothing to see up there, the wind is so strong, let's go down."
"Well, that's fine." Lei Jin stood up.
The temple is on a high terrain, with a very wide view, neat houses, wide streets at your feet, and dense forests in the tribe. The entire leopard tribe is hidden in a yellowish leaf, and the autumn is getting stronger.
Going up from the south and coming down from the east, Lei Jin counted carefully, and it was still ninety-one floors. Calculated in this way, the surrounding area plus the top floor is exactly three hundred and sixty-five floors, the number of days in a year, this is Is it a coincidence
Coming down from the temple, Lei Jin sneezed several times along the way. Xi Ya guessed that he had caught a cold from the wind, so she told Lei Jin to go back and lie down.
But Lei Jin didn't take it seriously at all, at most it was just a small cold, how could he be so delicate and expensive
When they got home, Roger and the others had already returned, An Luo was washing clothes, and there were already a lot of them on the clothesline in the yard, and Anson was chopping something with a knife in the kitchen.
"Where did it go?" Roger was holding a wooden stick in his hand, and he was patting the blanket hanging on the wall just now, when he saw Lei Jin and Xi Ya enter the door, he stopped and asked.
When Xiya replied that he went to the top of the temple, Roger looked at Lei Jin with a slight change in his eyes, but in the end he didn't say to continue on this question.
"Didn't you say you wanted to eat meatballs a few days ago? Anson is chopping meatballs, and you can eat them tonight. Do you want to eat anything else?"
Lei Jin also feels that his taste is a bit strange recently, he craves this for a while and wants to eat that for a while, as if he has never eaten in eight lifetimes, and he is always hungry, he is too embarrassed to open his mouth, because he was really greedy for a few days ago I was so greedy that I mentioned that sentence, but Roger remembered it in my heart.
"That's enough, I'll do it." These people definitely wouldn't do it, but fortunately, their cooking skills are not bad, at least they won't starve to death.
"Go back to the room and sleep for a while, tell me the method, and I'll do it." Xi Ya was still thinking about Lei Jin's cold just now.
"It's not good for you for the first time, I'll do it." Lei Jin has already rolled up his sleeves.
It happened that Anson also said that the minced meat was ready.
Before entering the kitchen, Lei Jin pulled a few green onions from the small vegetable garden in the yard, and Roger also came in to help.
"It's already September, and the weather is slowly cooling down. Go out and dress warmer. When Mo Ya comes back, she will definitely bring some good materials. You can make two more thick clothes." Roger According to what Lei Jin said, he scooped a large spoonful of flour out of the noodle tank and put it aside for later use.
"Roger, you are more and more like an old mother now." I can't get used to it. Ever since I knew that Roger was Xi Ya and the others' "mother", and Xi Ya and the others had this kind of relationship with him, he felt It's extremely awkward, Luo Jie is such a "loving mother", he must be the first to collapse, so what is the relationship between this
"I don't mind if you call me Dad like Xi Ya and the others." Roger said this sentence without changing his expression.
"Don't scare me, Roger, I have a bad heart." Lei Jin widened his eyes and firmly refused. It's a joke, although he doesn't know who his father is in this life, but it can't be Roger who looks about the same age as him.
Luo Jie smiled, looked at Lei Jin fixedly, and asked, "Do you have to go?"
"It's natural." Ignoring the little bit of reluctance in his heart, there is really nothing to hesitate, Lei Jin peeled the onion in his hand and said: "By the way, the picture you gave me last time was lost when it fell into the water." , can you draw another one for me?"
Roger paused for a long time before saying, "As long as you decide to use it, I will give it to you."
"Thank you in advance." Lei Jin gestured with the green onion in his hand.
Lei Jin removed the leaves, leaving only the white of the scallions, chopped them, and added salt, eggs, and flour to the meat, mixed them well, and put them in a clean stoneware pot.
"Taste the taste first, and you can make it at night."
"By the way, where are the rice, peanuts and corn I brought back last time?" Lei Jin didn't see any in the kitchen.
"It's all kept in the cellar. Do you want to eat it? I'll go get some out."
"Farewell, I'm just asking. It's not much anymore, and I need to save some for next year's seeds. I can save some." Although he really wanted to eat them all, he had to look far away. The realm of thought has improved again.
"Aren't you going to leave?" The implication was that he didn't care what to do here.
"Yeah, but on this day, you have to live well." You have to stick to it every day, so those sad days just survived like this.
Roger said thoughtfully, "It's fine if you don't regret it."
"Roger, you see I can't do anything here." Lei Jin said in a rare and serious way, which is one of the reasons why he had to leave. In this world, he is almost useless, and then said: "Sometimes, I think God chose the wrong person, maybe he should airdrop someone who can do everything, can tinker with anything, can flex his muscles, make some achievements, maybe even change the world, as for me , forget it.” It was like this for the first twenty-eight years, and it is impossible to make rapid progress and become a genius later on.
Roger snorted lightly and said, "I never believe that the course of history can be changed because of one person. Do you think everyone here is a fool without their own brains?"
Lei Jin wanted to say something, but the sudden pain in his stomach made him groan.
Roger quickly helped him sit down and asked, "What's the matter? You are."
"Maybe I ate something bad. I suddenly had a severe stomach pain just now, as if I was kicked." I probably didn't eat anything special today.
Roger's complexion changed slightly. The small charcoal stove in the kitchen has been warming hot water every day. There are two pregnant women in the family, so he has to be prepared all the time. He poured a cup for Lei Jin and said, "Drink some hot water first. .”
Lei Jin drank a cup of hot water and sat in the yard for a while, feeling much better.
Roger rubbed his waist and asked, "Have you ever had this pain before?"
"That's not true." Lei Jin held a bamboo cup, and the water carried the fragrance of bamboo.
Roger was hesitant, it was almost four months, this should be the baby's first fetal movement, and he was greeting his father, but Lei Jin didn't know anything, should I tell him, after all, Lei Jin's Children, he has the right to decide whether to have children or not.
It gets dark quickly this season, just after five o'clock, and the sky began to darken. Mingya came back from the temple and flirted with Lei Jin for a while, until Lei Jin said that he wanted to make meatballs for him. Let go.
Lei Jin dug out the marinated minced meat from the jar and made it into fist-sized pieces. Thinking about the large family and big appetite, he made a total of twenty or so. In the pot, add green onions, salt and a little honey, add a lid and keep it simmering. It would be nice if there is a little soy sauce.
Taking advantage of this time, Lei Jin put some lard in the cauldron, heated it up, added chopped shallots, sautéed until fragrant, poured the washed wild vegetables in, and stir-fried until the wild vegetables were slightly transparent, nothing to worry about For the seasoning, add some salt before it comes out of the pan.
The fire at the bottom of the pot has not been extinguished yet, Lei Jin found flour in the kitchen, added some minced green onion and salt, reconciled, and made a pot of noodle soup.
Naturally, these meals were not enough, and Xi Ya helped cook the pot of meat again.
Now that it is cold, everyone eats in the house. The lion's head is served together with a small pottery pot. When the lid is opened, the tangy aroma floats out with the white heat. Xiya is busy sharing it among everyone's bowls. One, bite down, the meat is very soft, with a mellow soup, and the mouth is fragrant. Even Berg, who had no interest in meat, even said it was delicious, and the last bit of soup went into Mingya's stomach.
In the evening, Lei Jin showed signs of a fever, but Xi Ya didn't dare to give him medicine at this time, hoping that Ren Ren could get over it. Both of them didn't sleep well, Lei Jin was uncomfortable, and Xi Ya was worried, so they were in such a daze. It was probably just after midnight when they heard a scream from Berg's room...