Xu Qing checked out his reflection on the gleaming floor of the water dazedly. There may be a picture of an emaciated and ragged face with a purple mole between the eyebrows – the image of gers on this world. The mole was faintly seen on the face densely coated with pimples.

That’s proper, he’s now not the unique Xu Qing however the one from a contemporary, post-apocalyptic world who has the identical identify as this physique. He has been on this world for 5 days. He was each completely satisfied and afraid throughout this time. He was completely satisfied as a result of he was reborn and have an opportunity to stay once more. He was afraid as a result of he would have nowhere to go when the unique Xu Qing returns. So, he has been residing these previous few days feeling frightened. When he first received right here, he couldn’t assist however really feel a bit foolish. It appears that evidently he now actually has a brand new life.

He was an orphan within the earlier world. He simply graduated from school and was planning to discover a job, wrestle in society, and provides again to the orphanage when the apocalyptic arrived abruptly with zombies roaming rampantly. He labored onerous to return to the orphanage later, but it surely was to no fruition. The orphanage was completely destroyed. As a way to survive and discover his former accomplice, he joined a group. By probability, he woke up his spatial means and gained a sure place within the group; he was now not a ineffective member. Whereas gathering provides, Xu Qing and his teammates separated sadly. He misplaced his approach, ran right into a hoard of zombies, and the remaining is historical past.

Coincidentally, the unique Xu Qing was additionally an orphan.  His dad and mom died a couple of years in the past.  He didn’t have every other kinfolk. Xu Qing felt aid; he now not has to face the potential for being uncovered. Then again, he has a toothache when he appeared on the forest of pimples on his face, the rationale he’s known as the ugliest ger within the village. 

They known as the unique Xu Qing “the ugly one.” So, when his dad and mom constructed this home, they selected the foot of the mountain to distance themselves from the remainder of the village. The home is about ten minutes from the sting of the village. It’s the solely home within the space.

Aside from some recollections of his dad and mom, the unique Xu Qing’s reminiscence was poor, and he had solely hazy recollections of the individuals within the village and nearly no data of the surface world. The unique Xu Qing additionally had an inferiority complicated because of years of being known as ugly, so he by no means went out and had no buddies. He had by no means performed with different kids or gone to the market; his life was utterly closed off. 

He was very pitiful.  Xu Qing touched the purple bumps on his face.  Even supposing this physique was stricken by pimples like these, Xu Qing believed he had gotten an excellent deal. Then again, he felt sophisticated when he appeared on the purple mole between his eyebrows mirrored on the water’s floor.  Based on the reminiscence of the unique Xu Qing, his father was a robust man and his mom was a ger with a purple mole between the eyebrows.  Aside from the physique being weaker than that of a person, gers may give beginning.  There have been solely two genders on this world – males and gers – with none girls.

Though Xu Qing favored males, giving beginning or no matter was one thing actually unacceptable for him.  Xu Qing stood up, patted his worn-out cyan coloured garment, rotated, and walked again in the direction of the clay home on the foot of the mountain, not removed from the river.  When he received residence, he appeared again on the river within the distance.  The river flowed from the again mountain behind the home within the north to the village within the south.  The village was known as Xingfu village.  There have been greater than 50 households within the village, besides his.  Xingfu village was positioned between Jixiang village and Anle village.  The gers and the boys within the village principally married these from the three villages.

He, who had skilled the top of the world, felt the long-lost happiness and luxury from watXu Qing the emerald inexperienced surroundings and the smoke rising from the distant village.  Xu Qing rotated and appeared on the thatch-roofed four-room home.  The partitions have been largely made from mud; the home was surrounded by an adult-height wall made from each mud and stone.  Though it was expensive, father Xu constructed this towering wall for the protection of the household and likewise to stop the livestock from being eaten by the wild animals because the home was on the backside of the mountain. 

Xu Qing entered the courtyard and closed the gate.  He would by no means depart the door open when he was residence.  It was a behavior from residing in harmful instances.  The courtyard was fairly massive; there have been huge, empty areas each in back and front of the home.  The trail from the gate to the primary home was paved with stones collected from the river by father Xu.  They weren’t solely helpful for stopping slippage when moist but additionally very ornamental.  It was mom Xu’s request.  It appears the Xu dad and mom have been fairly affectionate.

There’s a effectively on the left facet of the yard by the kitchen, and a small storage room within the nook.  A door linked the kitchen to the primary room.  On the suitable facet of the primary room is the doorway to the 2 bedrooms – one was Xu Qing’s and the opposite was of father and mom Xu – stacked beneath the eaves behind the home.

For somebody from the trendy world, this home, he would have felt it was cramped, ugly, and tacky, however in Xingfu village, a lot of the dwellings are made from thatch.  Solely the village head Lizheng and some different households had mud homes.  Father Xu was a hunter.  The Xu household had three acres of paddy fields and 4 acres of vegetable farmland.  Father Xu normally offered sport meat, and the household often received to eat meat as effectively, which was higher than many villagers who may not often afford to eat meat in a 12 months.  Sadly, a couple of years in the past, mom Xu felt ailing and died abruptly.  Father Xu adopted his spouse not lengthy later.  There was solely fifteen-year-old Xu Qing left.  Now the unique physique was twenty, which was thought-about outdated for marriage on this world. 

Xu Qing didn’t understand how he got here right here, and the unique physique had no reminiscence of why he disappeared.  Nevertheless, after these few days residing in worry, he lastly relaxed.  It doesn’t matter what, it was good to be alive.

Historic individuals stated that with mountain within the again and water within the entrance, it was an absolute feng shui treasure.  Xu Qing took a bucket of water from the effectively, walked briskly to the kitchen, rolled up his sleeves, and cleaned the pots skillfully.  5 days have been sufficient time for him to rapidly get used to those home equipment.  Though there was no electrical energy and lighter, so long as he was alive and had contemporary air to breathe, he was already very happy.

After cleansing the pot, Xu Qing poured the water in, and coated it with the picket lid.  He then scooped a bowl of rice from the utility room and washed them.  It was complete rice grains with the hulls, however nonetheless good and shouldn’t be wasted.  Though the rice left by the unique physique was very completely different from that of the trendy world, it may nonetheless fill the abdomen.  Throughout the finish of instances, there have been individuals who would eat all the things.

Xu Qing walked to the range, rubbed the flints for a couple of instances.  When there was a spark, he put it beneath the range together with the firewood.  After a short time, the hearth began.  Then he added a couple of extra items of dry wooden.  Xu Qing took a sickle and went to the small area behind the home to seize some inexperienced greens and garlic sprouts.  After digging a couple of items of tender ginger, he went again to the effectively and cleaned them.  

The cash used on this world can also be the identical gold, silver, and copper as in historic China.  The change ratio was 1:10:1000, and a penny is value a greenback.  The Xu dad and mom left 30 silver taels to the unique physique.  Up to now few years, along with paying taxes and spending some extra to purchase vegetable seeds, the unique physique nonetheless had 25 silver taels left.  A family with a household of three may get by with solely 5 silver taels a 12 months in the event that they spend sparingly.  Though the cash left appeared substantial for others, it was nonetheless not that a lot to do issues Xu Qing had in thoughts.  He was nonetheless grateful that the unique physique didn’t prefer to exit, in any other case these 25 taels would have been gone already.

After washing the greens, Xu Qing went again to the kitchen, eliminated the picket lid, poured the grains into the boiling water, and put the lid again on.  He then opened the cabinet subsequent to the range and took out the frozen pork stomach he introduced out from the area this morning.  He rinsed it with water a couple of instances to defrost the meat and set it apart.  Subsequent, Xu Qing picked up the greens, plucked the leaves from the stem, and lower the garlic sprouts.  Whereas ready for the rice to prepare dinner, he squatted in entrance of the range and added extra firewood.

Xu Qing felt compelled to enter his area after fascinated about it.  So, he closed his eyes and when he opened them once more, he noticed a blue sky with white clouds.  His spatial means had risen to stage 4 earlier than he left.  In his area, he had a five-acre plot of land the place residing creatures may exist, and the area may maintain meals contemporary. There was a spring effectively in the course of the land.  Though the spring water couldn’t deliver again the lifeless, it may strengthen the physique.  As of now, there was no produce rising on the land; simply the provides that the group gathered have been scattered about: a bag of rice and a few 2 hundred catties (T/N: 1 catty is the same as 0.5 kilogram) of frozen pork.  There was once extra, however when the brand new feminine spatial means celebrity joined the group, the captain requested him to maneuver a lot of the issues from his area to hers, leaving solely rice and pork, but it surely was higher than nothing.

Xu Qing walked to a black field and positioned his 25 taels inside.  In any case, it was not secure to depart the cash at residence or on his physique.  When he went again outdoors, the rice was prepared.  He eliminated the pot from the range and changed it with a clear pan.  He then lower the pork stomach into completely different slices – skinny and thick –, set the skinny slices apart, and put the thick slices into the pan.  When the meat started to show golden brown, he put the garlic sprouts and ginger in along with the remainder of the meat, seasoned with salt, stirred with a picket ladle, and added some water.  He tossed the greens into the boiling water and scooped them up after they have been achieved.

He may lastly have a meal in peace.  Trying on the white rice and golden pork stomach with contemporary greens on the picket desk, Xu Qing was stuffed with accomplishment.  He likes cooking.  He enjoys making scrumptious and aromatic meals.  If the villagers noticed him, they’d undoubtedly scold him, “How may it not be aromatic with a lot oil and meat? What a prodigal!”

After a satisfying meal, Xu Qing cleaned up the kitchen.  He then proceeded to the utility room, grabbed a shovel, and walked to the entrance yard, the place he would plant greens in two plots.  It will be a waste to not develop something on such a giant area He excavated the bottom and planted the seeds that the unique physique bought.  It was nearly spring, the perfect season for cultivating and rising greens. He deliberate to go to the market the following day to purchase seasonings and extra seeds. He additionally supposed to get a few piglets and chickens. Folks residing on base needed to produce and rear livestock in the course of the apocalypse, so he was no stranger to those duties.  Considering that what he grows would all be his, Xu Qing was stuffed with enthusiasm.