Zhang Xiaowu cut the boot leg into a small circle horizontally, then cut it into two small leather strips, handed it to Aji, and said: "This is made of cowhide, you can eat it, of course it doesn't taste very good, but it can really resist hunger."
"That's it." After saying that, he put it in his mouth and chewed it together. The cooked cowhide on the boots was hard and unpalatable, and it made his teeth hurt. But fortunately, there was something in his mouth, and with saliva, it became less so.
Thirsty.
When Aji saw Zhang Xiaowu eating the boots, he pursed his lips in surprise. He couldn't believe that this thing was edible. The shoes of the Fusang people were either made of wormwood or carved from wood, and the shoes of dignitaries were also made of wood.
, which are cloth shoes with wooden soles. Her father, who was Lieutenant General Zuo, only wore straw sandals with wooden soles.
Are shoes edible?
Aji looked at Zhang Xiaowu's shoes with confusion, and then realized that these shoes were different. They were not only exquisitely made, but also made of unusual materials. She asked Zhang Xiaowu about the material of his shoes, and Zhang Xiaowu gestured with the horns with his hands and imitated the cow's cry: "
Moo-moo-moo-"
Aji is still confused, what kind of animal is this? There are no cows in Meinong Country, so she has never seen a cow, let alone knows a cow. However, although she has never seen a cow, seeing him chewing his boots with pain, she still feels...
Put the cowhide strip in your mouth.
When she ate it, her nose tightened, and there was a faint smell of stinky feet, and of course she felt like she couldn't bite. This was the second time she had been hungry in her memory. The first time she had been hungry was ten years ago.
Ten years ago, Meinong was hit by a natural disaster. A heavy rainstorm lasted for three months. The whole family hid in the house and endured hunger after eating all the food. Her grandfather ignored the heavy rain in order to find seafood to eat.
She ran to the beach to catch fish and shrimps, but was washed away by the huge waves and never came back. Her biological mother also starved to death in that starvation.
On the day my mother died of starvation, her father buried his wife and took a servant to buy rice. Although he didn't buy the rice, he brought back some meat. Although the meat was very sour and fishy, everyone ate it like wolves and tigers.
The father said that he sold his servants to others. From then on, there were fewer and fewer servants in the family, but their family no longer lacked food.
Since the famine caused by the heavy rain, the family has never hired any servants, and no one is even willing to be a servant in her family. Although she was very young at the time, only six years old, with her cleverness, many years later
, she also knows what she is eating.
She was worried that Zhang Xiaowu would eat human flesh like her father, but at least judging from his current performance, he was more willing to find a way instead of eating her. Thinking of this, Aji took the cowhide strip and chewed it with difficulty.
It takes a long time to eat a piece of cowhide. Zhang Xiaowu cleaned both boots and did not chew a tenth of them, but the bits and pieces of cowhide entered his stomach, which still made him not so hungry. Aji continued
He came over and continued washing the boots. She washed them even cleaner, as if she was proving to him that she was a useful person.
The sunset and the stars appeared, and it was night again. The wind on the sea became colder. Zhang Xiaowu and Aji hid under the sail. The sail was very large, so they repeatedly folded the sail into three layers. The first layer was used for shelter.
In the sun, wind and rain, the second and third layers cover the body to keep warm.
In the following days, they encountered sea wind and heavy rain one after another, but it was not a heavy rain. The boat was blown away by the wind. They did not know how to control the boat, so they could only let the sea wind blow their boat away and the waves push their boat.
After a few days of this, Zhang Xiaowu's body began to lose weight rapidly, and Aji also became even thinner.
In the morning, Zhang Xiaowu opened his eyes. He was awakened by the cry. When he raised his head, he saw a seagull falling on the bow of the ship. He was shocked and pushed Aji. Aji also opened his eyes and saw the seagull and said in surprise.
:"land?"
"Yes, land." Zhang Xiaowu said, "But, food."
Aji nodded fiercely and watched Zhang Xiaowu tiptoe into the seagull. She didn't dare to make any sound, and the seagull didn't seem to be afraid of people. Zhang Xiaowu quickly took action and grabbed the seagull. He broke the seagull's neck in excitement and almost jumped.
He danced and said, "Finally we don't have to eat cowhide anymore." Aji also smiled happily.
Although the meat of seagulls is very hard and extremely unpalatable, it is still much more delicious than cowhide. The two of them ate up a seagull and smacked their lips as they savored its taste.
"Sure enough, happiness is a comparative degree. Only when there is contrast can people feel happy." Zhang Xiaowu said to Aji, "In the past, I didn't find delicacies delicious, but now I eat a raw seagull, and it is so delicious."
He continued: "You know what? My favorite thing to eat is thirteen-spice crayfish. I am from the north. I have never eaten crayfish, and I never thought that this thing can still be eaten. When I graduated from college
, my girlfriend said to me, you go to the south to find a job, I will find you after graduation. So I came to
In the south, I got a job as a civil servant based on my major, and I worked in that position for ten years. But in my second year of working, my first girlfriend fell in love with someone from the same grade because of a long-distance relationship.
When a boy finally got married after graduating from college, I gave them a gift."
He didn't care whether Aji understood it or not, it was as if he was venting his anger, or as if he had been holding it in for a long time - he had been holding these words for probably ten years. Since he traveled to this world, he has always kept his thoughts as a time traveler.
His identity was hidden, but now he was able to open up and talk to Aji who couldn't understand Chinese.
"Do you think I would put a newspaper in the red envelope as a prank? Of course I wouldn't do that. How boring would it be to ruin someone's wedding?" Zhang Xiaowu said with a smile to himself, "I just followed suit.
Yuan, my salary at that time was only 5,000 Yuan, but I had to repay the mortgage and prepare for the next
A girlfriend ordered food. Why did she mention the thirteen-flavored crayfish to her ex-girlfriend? It seems that the power of food is not very strong. Speaking of crayfish, I remember that an Anhui restaurant two hundred meters away from my unit made the best crayfish.
Well, the boss is from Lu'an and has always wanted to introduce his sister to me, hahaha..."
Zhang Xiaowu talked unscrupulously about his past, the past in another world, while Aji listened with his big eyes. Although he couldn't understand, in this small world with only two people, as long as someone spoke, even if
It's a language she doesn't understand, and she won't feel lonely.
For so many days, Zhang Xiaowu didn't talk much, which made her feel a little scared. Today, he talked more, which showed that he hated herself less. She couldn't bear to interrupt his speech, so she quietly acted like a qualified person.
Audience. Suddenly, she pointed into the distance and shouted: "Land, it's land!"
Zhang Xiaowu looked along her fingers, and was surprised to see a coast, not an island, but land, a land with a long coastline. They returned to the land.