Siheyuan: Relieve stress and relieve worries

Chapter 883 Jie Cheng Jian Gong
Kuva has been very busy recently. He has renovated Dashan's home, which is now his own home.

He made furniture for daily use, an eight-immortal table and chairs, and also made several cabinets with this unique red pine wood, one for Grandpa's room, one for Dashan's room, and one for his room. When Grandpa Li saw the cabinets in the kitchen, he shook his head and asked Kuwa, "Isn't it a bit of a waste?"

Kuwa didn't care about those things. He built a vegetable garden behind the house. Dashan would work in the garden when he had nothing to do. Kuwa would never get tired of going to the mountains with him to identify various vegetables and wild delicacies.

Kuva kept asking Grandpa Li if there were any pigs. Grandpa Li was confused and finally forced Kuva to draw a pig. Grandpa Li looked at it with disgust and said, "There is a swamp downstream of the river full of these things. Everyone says they are dirty."

Kuva's eyes lit up and she asked, "Grandpa, do you believe me? This thing is good. It's full of treasures."

Grandpa Li was skeptical and asked, "Really?"

"It's absolutely true," said Kournikova.

"I'll take you to kill a few tomorrow." Grandpa Li said firmly.

During this period, Grandpa Li was very happy and felt that he had made a great fortune by adopting this grandson. The home had changed a lot, the food had become more diverse and tastier, and even the people in the village said that the Li family was very lucky.

Kuwa had heard about it too, but didn't care. Recently, the villagers have been collecting wood ears and mushrooms, drying them and storing them. This thing has been tried and tested, and it is very good to eat and also easy to store.

In fact, the villagers are full of regrets. They have been guarding here for so many years, but have not eaten so many edible things and have been hungry every year.

The next day, Grandpa Li found the village chief and told him about Kuva's plan. The village chief was skeptical, but looking at Kuva's performance in recent times, he chose to believe him once. He gathered the villagers and assigned tasks to everyone. It was the same for everyone, but it was just to beat two so-called pigs, which was nothing.

After the pigs were beaten back, Kova and her three brothers began their performance, setting up four large iron pots.

Killing pigs is Kuwa's job. He has to separate the various internal organs and parts of pork.

After noon, we started to make lard, which was what Kuva had been looking forward to for a long time. For such a long time, she had to use rabbit oil, which had no taste.

After boiling the lard, a pile of oil residue came out. Outside, a group of village children were drooling at the smell.

Kuva instructed Dashan to distribute the oil residue to the children. The children scrambled for it, eating it while shouting "Delicious! So delicious!".

Then Kuva prepared to stew the pork. The lack of sugar was a problem, but there was no other way, so he used various spices instead. When the aroma of pork filled the air in the village square, the villagers could no longer sit still, and they picked up their own tools and rushed straight to the village square.

After the whole pig feast was over, every household was discussing how to deal with the pigs downstream of the river.

Kuwa and Grandpa Li were in front of the house, setting up a small table with pig ears and pig hearts that Kuwa had prepared. The two of them were drinking tea and chatting, while Dashan had eaten so much that he lay in bed and could not get up.

Grandpa Li said, "Kuwa, you are a capable person, but it is a waste of your talent to be with us."

"Don't say that, Grandpa. You saved me. I just wanted you and everyone to have something delicious." Kuva took a sip of the bitter tea.

"Do you still remember what happened in the past?" Grandpa Li asked with concern.

Kuva hesitated for a moment and said, "I don't know if it counts as remembering it. Do we have martial arts here?"

Grandpa Li was stunned, looked at Kuva, and said meaningfully: "It seems that you remember something. This is a place to learn martial arts, but no one comes here, so there is no introduction. If you want to learn, you have to climb over the Red Bull Mountain."

"Is it far, Grandpa?" asked Kuva.

Grandpa Li said with a sad face: "The father of the three brothers was selected and sent to Red Bull Town. He hasn't come back for ten years. There is no news at all." Kuva's heart tightened, and she quickly said: "I'm sorry, Grandpa, for bringing up sad things."

Grandpa Li smiled and said, "It's okay. It seems that you are not from here. I will tell you about this today so that you can be prepared."

Grandpa Li recalled and said, "I was a Wu person when I was a child. My ancestors have been here for generations. I heard my ancestors say that it is in the middle of the entire continent. Why do we say the entire continent? It means that this continent is surrounded by sea on all sides, and it is boundless. Those who left never came back. All that came back were the wreckage of the ship and the bodies of people."

Grandpa Li drank a sip of bitter tea and said, "There are six countries on the continent. Of course, the Wu Kingdom where we are now is the poorest. There are also Wei, Zhao, Shen, Chen, and Yan. Wei is in the middle, and the others are around. Among our countries, Wei is the most respected. It is said that only there is a way out of this continent."

What Kuva thought of was the teleportation array. Since they couldn't get out of the sea, the only way to get out of the middle was the teleportation array.

Grandpa Li saw Kuwa was stunned for a moment, then he stopped talking, and waited for Kuwa to look over and continued, "Every year, the other five countries will recruit students for the five academies, recruiting the best disciples to study in the academy, and then select the top 100 to send to Wei. After competing with the 100 students from Wei, the top 100 will be qualified to go to another place. Where that place is, no one knows, only the King of Wei knows."

Kuva then asked: "Have their fathers been chosen as well?"

"Yes, that was the last trial here. After that, the Wu Kingdom forgot about this mountain village." Grandpa Li was sad.

Kuva didn't know how to comfort him, but said, "Grandpa, don't worry. With us, I will turn this place into a paradise and make it richer than the State of Wei."

Grandpa Li touched his head, smiled with relief, and said, "I believe you."

Before dawn the next day, the village chief Wu Dayong came over. Grandpa Li introduced him to him and told him privately that this was Li Dayong, and that later on he could only use the surname Guo to become the village chief.

Kuwa also warmly received the village chief and told him the key points of pig farming. Wu Dayong benefited a lot from it and went to gather the villagers in a hurry.

Kuva and the three boys had been exploring Red Bull Mountain. Before the winter solstice, they found sugarcane and bean pods. Kuva then carried out a comprehensive transplant. The three boys and more children carried out a large-scale labor under the temptation of sugar.

Dashan’s house has changed now, with newly planted plants in front of and behind the house.

Kuva also built a brick kiln a little further away, which will be used after the winter, but now a fire has been started to warm the kiln.

The house of the Oyama family has not changed, but the furniture in the house has been redone by Kuva.

The village chief would visit his house whenever he had nothing to do. There was no choice but for Kuwa to make another set. During this time, he took Xiao Gatou as his apprentice and taught Xiao Gatou the woodworking skills patiently and meticulously. Xiao Gatou was very smart and could learn some things quickly.

A month later, Xiao Gatou's woodworking workshop opened for business and business was booming. Although he was just exchanging items, Xiao Gatou enjoyed it.

Before winter, every household built a kang, which they learned from Old Li's family. There were two large stoves outside, which made cooking convenient. Every household stored a lot of dried goods, and cabbage was also stored in the cellar.

Everyone was at ease and looking forward to the first New Year's Day, when they could slaughter the pig.

At this time, Kuwa was studying firecrackers. Kuwa knew about the carbon, dinitre and trisulfur. He wanted to come up with some new tricks to give the villagers and Dashan a surprise, especially Dashan.

When the first heavy snow came in January, Kova took out the soybean oil she made from peas and the sugar she squeezed from sugarcane.

The most important thing is that Dashan found a pile of sorghum rice deep in the Red Bull Mountain. There is no doubt that he must make wine from it.

(End of this chapter)