Outside Of Time

In addition to the necessities for survival, the scavenger's camp contains the most meat.

Since the restricted area is nearby, scavengers come every day, so edible meat is sold at many stalls in the camp.

So after hearing that Xu Qing wanted to eat a snake, Team Lei showed a happy smile on his wrinkled face.

He understood that the reason why the other party said eating snakes was because the words he said at the beginning were obviously already kept in mind by the child in front of him.

So he stopped Xu Qing from going out to buy meat.

"The group of people in the camp are all cunning. You don't know much about exotic animals in the restricted area. You are easy to be deceived. If there is a case of forced buying and selling, I should go." Lei Dui said and stood up.

Hearing the words "strong buy and strong sell", Xu Qing subconsciously touched her iron sign, and said seriously after thinking.

"They won't."

Lei Dui glanced at the iron sign, laughed dumbly, did not speak, and walked out of the yard.

Looking at Lei Dui's figure, Xu Qing thought for a while, went to the side room, carefully cleaned the pots and bowls inside, and wiped the table, and finally prepared three sets of tableware and placed them on it, watching the extra dishes. With that pair of tableware, Xu Qing suddenly understood something.

"That's a person who will never come." The words of Lei Dui appeared in his mind. In silence, he placed the third tableware next to Lei Dui's table and chopsticks.

So is the chair.

After doing this, Xu Qing turned around and looked at the courtyard outside the door. It was already dusk, the wind was a little cold, and there seemed to be some snowflakes inside.

In the season at the end of March, for the eastern part of Nanhuang Continent, although the earth is getting warmer and all things are recovering, the winter seems to be very unwilling, and occasionally snowflakes are scattered, trying to tell all things that it has not left.

At this moment, the snowflakes are swaying under the gray sky and being blown down by the wind.

It seems that it fell from the sky to the world, and at the same time as it spreads out the earth, it is rapidly melted by the ground temperature.

In the end, all you can see is the muddy ground.

No matter how noble you come from, no matter how clean you are, in this human world, you still have to mix with the silt and blend into it, regardless of each other.

I don't know if the wind contains the snow, making it more icy, or if the snow infects the wind and makes it colder.

At this moment, Xu Qing was a little cold when it was blowing across the ground, over the camp, and over the bamboo courtyard house.

Although he is a cultivator, the fear of cold accumulated over the years from deep in his memory still makes him uncomfortable in this cold.

Until in this cold wind, he saw a staggering figure, coming from a distance against the wind and snow, pushed open the door of the yard, the moment the figure was revealed, the voice broke through the wind and snow with laughter and entered.

"Child, you have a good time today. Let's see what I bought. This is a safflower snake. The meat of this snake is excellent. I will show you a good deal later."

Lei Dui carried a snake corpse, strode into the side room.

Noticing the cleanliness of the room, the placement of the tables and chairs, and the tableware, especially after seeing the two pairs side by side, Lei Dui showed a smile on his wrinkled face, and looked at Xu Qing deeply. at a glance.

"Want to learn to burn snakes?" Lei Dui said.

"Think." Xu Qing's eyes lit up. He was eager for all the knowledge he didn't know, especially the snakes that Thunder Team burned, which was delicious.

Team Lei smiled and greeted Xu Qing to his side, introducing and producing.

"This snake, according to reason, needs to be decapitated and the tail is removed, but those people don't know that the tail of the snake has to be removed because it has an excretory opening. It has a refreshing effect.”

When Team Lei talked about cooking, he was very happy.

Xu Qing was also listening very seriously, watching Lei Team clean the snake, peel it off to remove internal organs and other debris, and chop it up into pieces and set it aside.

"Child, you have to remember that whether the meat has an aftertaste in your mouth depends on the soup."

With that said, Lei Dui started to boil soup in a casserole, and put a lot of medicinal herbs in the soup, and he also threw the finished snake head into it.

After doing this, Xu Qing swallowed as the fragrance overflowed, Lei Dui looked at him, laughed, took out the cleaned pot and started stir-frying the snake meat.

In an instant, as the crackling sound reverberated, bursts of rich aroma rushed towards the face with heat waves, filling the entire partial room, and at the same time it also drifted out.

It seemed to dispel all the icy cold, making Xu Qing uncontrollable gurgling sounds in his stomach. Looking at the tumbling snake meat, his eyes became a little straight.

Soon, with Lei Team's firing, he put the stir-fried snake meat into the casserole, and as soon as the lid fell, he looked at Xu Qing.

"Have you learned it?"

Xu Qing stared at the casserole and nodded vigorously. He saw the whole process and thought it was not difficult.

Lei Dui smiled slightly, and when he left the side room and came back, he held two jugs in his hand, one tossed to Xu Qing and the other to himself. After taking a sip, he sighed in admiration.

"There is no shortage of meat in the camp, but this wine is a rarity."

Xu Qing picked up the jug and looked at the turbid liquid inside. He had never drunk alcohol.

As Thunder Team said, this is a rarity, not found in the slums, only the big men in the city can taste it.

But seeing Lei Dui's look of enjoyment after drinking, Xu Qing hesitantly put it to his mouth, and after taking a sip, his brows were slightly wrinkled, feeling that his mouth was full of pungency, but he swallowed it anyway.

A stream of heat emerged directly from his throat, flowed into his stomach along the esophagus, and exploded violently, spreading throughout his body, turning into a breath that poured into his mouth, causing him to open his mouth and spit out a mouthful of alcohol.

"It's not good." Xu Qing looked at Team Lei.

Team Lei laughed when he heard this, pointed at Xu Qing, and said with a smile.

"You are still too young to taste wine. When you grow up, you will definitely like it."

Lei Dui said that he was about to take the jug from Xu Qing, but Xu Qing escaped.

"I'll try it again." Xu Qing said seriously, and took another sip. Although her brows were still wrinkled, she also got used to the strange taste.

And not long after, under the goodwill of Lei Team for Xu Qing's drinking, the snake meat was healed.

When he put the casserole on the pot and opened the lid, the aroma diffused directly. Xu Qing's Adam's apple moved involuntarily and put down the jug. After Lei Dui first picked up a piece, Xu Qing immediately poked a piece with chopsticks and put it on the Swallow in mouth.

He still can't change the habit of gobbling down food when he eats.

In this way, in the wind and snow outside, the old and the young in the house were drinking wine and eating meat, and the warmth filled the air.

Looking at Xu Qing's awkward posture, holding chopsticks hard, Lei Dui's eyes revealed softness, and he murmured in his heart.

"It's a child after all, but it's a pity... living in this cruel world."

At this moment, the wind and snow were blowing outside, and because there was a gap in the structure of the house, it still got in and landed on Xu Qing. Although he was sweating from eating, he was still somewhat resistant to the cold wind. shrunk down.

This subtle action fell into Thunder Team's eyes, he was thoughtful and didn't say anything.

After a while, Xu Qing imitated Lei Dui and took another gulp of wine. After exhaling the smell of alcohol, he looked at the old man who had brought him out of the ruined city and placed him here, and suddenly spoke.

"Your injury..."

"It's okay, after so many years, it's okay to die so easily."

Xu Qing was silent. He wanted to ask Lei Team about the abolition of the foundation, but remembering the scene in the restricted area, he finally did not speak.

He ate this meal for a long time until Thunder Team emptied the jug in his hand, he stood up, his eyes were a little hazy, and he went back to the house.

Looking at his figure, Xu Qing clearly felt that there was a former momentum in Team Lei, which seemed to dissipate with the return of the restricted area this time.

Xu Qing was silent. After a while, he stood up, cleaned up the dining table, washed the pots and pans and put them away in a neat and orderly manner, and then returned to his house.

Sitting on the bed, he looked up at the wind and snow outside the window, shrank, and took out Captain Blood Shadow's leather bag that he had picked up in the penalty area.

Although there were no medicinal pills in it, there were a lot of spirit coins and a lot of sundries. Xu Qing checked it out.

In the end, he took out a black glove, which did not look like leather, but rather had a metallic feel.

After trying it, Xu Qing found that it was very resilient and had good protection, so he put it on and punched a few times, feeling it was not bad, so he took it off, closed his eyes, meditated, and began to breathe.

Silent all night.

At dawn, the snow was still falling, but it slowed down a lot. It was just a night of icy cold that made the snowflakes last for some time after they landed.

So when Xu Qing walked out of the house, he saw snow marks on the ground.

Xu Qing tightened his clothes, glanced at Lei Team's residence, and walked out of the yard. He felt that he should do something, such as buying some white pills for Lei Team.

So after walking out, Xu Qing stepped on the snow, and with the creaking sound, he walked towards the grocery store.

When passing by the tent of Master Bai's team, Xu Qing heard the sound of boys and girls reading books faintly coming from the tent. The sound made him pause and glanced enviously.

After taking it back for a while, Xu Qing silently turned her head and walked towards the grocery store.

As it approached, from a distance, Xu Qing saw the little girl outside the grocery store who was vigorously cleaning the snow marks. Her clothes were a little thin, her little hands were red from the cold, and there were bursts of mist from her mouth.

And after a few days of not seeing each other, the little girl seems to have adapted to the life in the camp. Although she is very tired, she cleans very carefully.

Even though the snow was still falling, she still cleaned it, but the scar on her face that ruined her face was a little obvious in the early morning sun.

When Xu Qing approached, the little girl noticed something. When she looked up and saw Xu Qing, her eyes lit up and a happy smile appeared on her face.

"Morning."

"Morning..." Xu Qing was a little uncomfortable with this kind of greeting, nodded and looked into the grocery store.

Maybe because it was just dawn, or maybe because of the weather, there was no one inside, and the store wasn't there either.

"What do you want to buy, I'll get it for you." The little girl said with a smile.

"Bai Dan." Xu Qing looked at the little girl.

Hearing this, the little girl put the broom in her hand against the wall next to her. After she walked into the store with Xu Qing, she ran to the counter to rummage. She quickly took out a few leather bags, opened them, looked at them, and put them back. ~www.novelmt.com~ After a while, she took out another one and handed it to Xu Qing.

"The owner stipulates that you can only sell five a day, so you can't sell more." The little girl was a little apologetic and looked at Xu Qing.

Xu Qing understood, took the leather bag and opened it, her eyes were slightly firm.

He noticed that the quality of the white pills in this leather bag was much better than what he had bought before. There were even three of them, and there was no blue color at all, and there was a faint medicinal fragrance.

Thinking of the little girl's previous actions, Xu Qing raised her head and looked over.

"It's nothing, it's within my authority." The little girl blinked and said with a smile.

Xu Qing gave the little girl a deep look.

"thanks."

"I don't need to thank you for this little thing. I also want to thank you. If it weren't for you, I'm afraid I wouldn't be alive now."

The little girl smiled brightly, and her eyes seemed to have light. After she said something, she seemed to think of something, and while sending Xu Qing out, she spoke in a low voice.

"I heard from the owner yesterday that during this time, many young people in the camp have disappeared in the restricted area, and looking at his expression, it seems that it is not caused by the danger of the restricted area itself, but more artificial... Take care of yourself."

There was concern in the little girl's eyes. This kind of eyes made Xu Qing a little uncomfortable. He took a few steps back, nodded, and thanked him and left.

Not far away, Xu Qing turned around and saw the figure of the little girl continuing to sweep the snow there, and the scars on her face under the sun.

He suddenly thought of what Thunder Team said, the temple complex in the restricted area has a kind of stone that can remove scars.

"If you have a chance, go find one for her." Xu Qing murmured in her heart, turning around and leaving.

The boy walked away, a snow trail walked out on the road, and the snowstorm was behind him... even bigger.