Chapter 16 Take one step at a time Gu Chan laughed, "Why are you looking at me like that?" "My name is Ma Zheng and I'm ten years old. Brother Gu Chan, can you accept me as your little brother? I admire you so much." The little boy named Ma Zheng looked at Gu Chan with stars in his eyes. After saying that, he knelt down in front of Gu Chan and kowtowed to her. Gu Chan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and quickly reached out to help him up, saying earnestly, "No need to kneel, just call me big brother, and from now on you will be my little brother, follow me... er, follow me, and I guarantee you will have a good life in the future." "Thank you, brother. I'll go back now and see you tomorrow." "Okay, come with me tomorrow to find Zhao Erniu and learn hunting skills." Gu Chan reached out and touched Ma Zheng's little head, her face full of doting. In modern times, she has a good relationship with her younger brother, and the two have been fighting since they were young. Now she looks at Ma Zheng as if he were her younger brother when he was little. As an older sister, it is natural for her to dote on her younger brother. But this little guy Ma Zheng has never had his head touched so gently by anyone since he was a child. Looking at Gu Chan's fair and lovely face, his face instantly turned red and he said shyly, "Luckily you are a boy. If you were a little girl, I would have fallen in love with you."
"Get lost!" Gu Chan cursed angrily and quickly took her hand back. "Hahaha……" Ma Zheng ran out of the door laughing and disappeared in a flash. Gu Chan put her thoughts aside and walked up to Zhang Wanshan to comfort him, "Don't worry, Grandpa. I just went to ask Zhao Erniu to be my master. I have temporarily stabilized him. After that, we just need to concentrate on dealing with the county magistrate." "The county magistrate is not that easy to deal with. Where can we find three-day magical herbs?" Zhang Wanshan sighed with tears on his face. Gu Chan was silent, thinking secretly in her heart. There are only three stalks of the spiritual herb Bauhinia Blood Red Grass that she snatched from the big black bear left. That means she can last at least three times unless she finds other spiritual herbs to replace them. After delivering these three spiritual herbs, if you still can't find other spiritual herbs, you can only choose to run away. Of course, it would be best if we could find other spiritual herbs to send to you in time. In this way, she could keep the Bauhinia blood-red grass for future use. So now she still has time to learn hunting skills. After calming down for a while, Gu Chan said, "Grandpa, leave the matter of finding the spiritual herbs to me, you just need to focus on forging iron. Tomorrow you can carry your sword to the town to sell it, and buy some more food by the way." "What about you?" "I'm going to learn hunting from Zhao Erniu. I need to acquire the skills first so that I can move around the mountains with ease." Gu Chan clenched her fists, her face full of confidence. Zhang Wanshan saw this and immediately suppressed his pessimism. "Yeah, let's take it one step at a time. At worst, we can run away. If we can't run away, grandpa can take his life. Anyway, he is old and should have died a long time ago." "Okay, grandpa, don't be so pessimistic. Believe me, I'm not someone you can just bully." Zhang Wanshan smiled bitterly and nodded. After that, he finally pulled himself together and began to tidy up the shop. It was the middle of the night, in the inner room.
Gu Chan lay on the bed, staring at the two loaches in her hands and asked, "Can you tell how strong Zhao Erniu is?" [He only has level one physical skills, which makes him a beginner in physical skills training. You might even be stronger than him now.] Loach Baidu said. Loach Sogou added, "But then again, he was originally a hunter, so his hunting skills are definitely strong enough, so it is absolutely right for you to choose to learn this skill from him." Gu Chan breathed a sigh of relief. Many times, she was afraid that she would make a wrong choice and bring herself unnecessary trouble. But judging from the current situation, every step she took was still quite steady. At least Zhao Erniu and others no longer dared to look down on her, nor did they dare to easily bully her and Zhang Wanshan. Without dwelling on this issue, she said, "I will continue to practice physical training tonight. What do you think I should eat?" 【Why not start with the five elements. 】 [Yes, metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. You ate iron last night, which is considered as practicing the metal element. The next four elements should be wood.] The two loaches came up with a clever idea. Without even a second thought, Gu Chan reached out to pick up a piece of sawdust from the rotten wooden bed beneath her and pretended to stuff it into her mouth. Loach Baidu hurriedly stopped her, "What are you doing? Don't eat anything carelessly! Last time I found a piece of iron for you to eat just to test your cultivation method. Now that your cultivation method has been determined, you can't eat anything carelessly." "Then how should I eat?" "According to your current training situation, the stronger the food you eat, the stronger your physical ability will be. So if you want to eat wood, you have to find a piece of top-quality wood to eat. This way, your physical ability will be stronger.] Gu Chan threw away the piece of rotten sawdust in her hand, closed her eyes and went to sleep peacefully. Anyway, I have to learn hunting from Zhao Erniu starting tomorrow. It’s a good opportunity to go into the mountains and see if I can find some top-quality wood to eat. There’s no need to rush. When the two loaches saw that she was asleep, they also crawled into the quilt, lay on her chest and fell asleep. The next day, Zhang Wanshan got up early at dawn, carried a basket full of knives on his back and left for the town to sell them. Gu Chan saw her grandfather off, and after Ma Zheng came to find her, she put two steamed buns in her pocket and went out with her friends. When the two of them arrived at Zhao Erniu's house, the sun had not yet risen from the east. Zhao Erniu's ninth daughter-in-law, Li, was sitting in front of the earthen stove in the yard, making a fire and cooking. Unlike Zhang Wanshan's family who were extremely poor, Zhao Erniu was a local tyrant in the village and his family was well off. The couple could eat rice every meal. Gu Chan and the other person walked to Li's side, and smelling the aroma of rice wafting from the stove, they couldn't help swallowing their saliva. It was also at this time that Gu Chan noticed the actual situation of cooking in this poor little village. The earthen stove like the one in Zhao Erniu's house is made entirely of mud. There is a stove on each side, each with a large iron pot. The big iron pot on the left is usually used for cooking rice and frying vegetables, while the big iron pot on the right is usually used for cooking pig food. When cooking rice in the large iron pot on the left, the rice is first scooped out when it is half cooked, then half a pot of water is added, a wooden barrel-shaped steamer is placed in the pot, and the half-cooked rice is poured into the steamer and steamed. I can say without hesitation that the rice steamed in this kind of steamer tastes absolutely delicious, and it definitely tastes better than the rice cooked in modern electric rice cookers. Just smelling the aroma of rice steaming in the steamer, Gu Chan and Ma Zheng were drooling with greed.
Li looked at the two children and couldn't help but laugh, "Do you two want to eat rice?" "I want to." Ma Zheng blurted out first. Gu Chan rolled her eyes at him in annoyance. Li raised the corners of her lips, stared at Gu Chan with a sly look and said, "You can eat if you want, but you have to promise to do something for me." “……”Gu Chan! I'm afraid this woman has no good intentions! When Gu Chan thought about this, she immediately became cautious. (End of this chapter)