Traveling through farming with the system, I cooked delicious food in ancient times

In the center of the village, a big banyan tree has lush branches and roots hanging from the branches. Some of them penetrate directly into the ground to form a new tree, while some of the roots are loose and flutter in the wind.

The weather is nice today, and the banyan tree doesn't look scary. The base of the tree has been cleaned very clean, and a few burnt incense sticks are still stuck in the soil in front of the tree.

"Grandma Shui, are you there?" The old man shouted towards the banyan tree. When no one responded, he shouted twice more.

"Brother Mu, forget it, let's go back, we have to rush to the north." Mao Xi was not interested in the goddess.

The goddesses in her impression were all old magic sticks who pretended to be gods and played tricks, and they were not trustworthy.

To Mao Xi's surprise, Mu Zhiyuan remained motionless.

"Ah Shui, wait a minute. I heard that there is an old woman here who is very accurate in fortune telling. She should be the old woman called Shui Grandma."

Mao Xi was stunned, why did Brother Mu want to come here to tell fortunes?

I was awakened by the sound outside the house, and an old woman's reply came from the house: "I'm here, why are you looking for me in broad daylight, I still have to take a nap."

I saw an old woman, neatly dressed in gray-blue cloth, with a dark blue scarf tied on her head.

"Grandma Shui, these two young men came to the village today and helped me find some food. They said they wanted to visit you."

"You stinky old man, you are not at home to take care of your old lady, but you are helping others. Come in."

Granny Shui led everyone into the house.

A white porcelain Guanyin is enshrined in the lobby of the house. The house is kept extremely clean, just like an ordinary house.

Only the yellow cloth on the altar table and the eight diagrams drawn on it make people infer that the owner of the house is a person who is well versed in numerology.

Granny Shui poured the water, glanced at Shui Xi, and blurted out, Girl, you are not from here.

Mao Xi was startled at first, thinking how could this old woman know that she was the one who had traveled through time, so she smiled and said, "Old woman, we are from Lingnan."

The mother-in-law smiled and asked again: "Who are you to tell fortunes? Do you believe what I, an old woman from a deserted village, say?"

Mu Zhiyuan bowed his hands and said, "Grandma Shui, we were passing by here and wanted to ask you something."

"What's the matter? Tell me while I, an old woman, can still remember it in my mind."

"What caused the famine and plague in the past few years? Why did the entire village seem dead?"

Only then did Ma Xi realize that Mu Zhiyuan actually cared about the village.

"Actually, I'm going to say that there's something wrong with the food I'm eating. Do you believe me?"

"Food?!" Mao Xi asked in surprise, "Could it be that the water source or livestock in the village is contaminated?"

"Pollution? You girl are talking strangely. It's a water source problem, but it's not livestock."

Mao Xi immediately thought of the causes of epidemic diseases before time travel, many of which were transmitted from wild animals.

"Grandma Shui, could it be that she ate water infected by wild animals and caused the whole village to become infected with the disease?"

Granny Shui nodded and sighed.

The old man added from the side: "The two young people, Granny Shui's son, daughter-in-law and grandson all died of the epidemic during the plague."

"I also searched all over the mountains and finally discovered the source of the epidemic. Unfortunately, it was too late. Everyone died and walked away. Only a few old men and women were left guarding this deserted village."

"Mother-in-law, what's the reason?" Shu Xi and Mu Zhiyuan asked.

"The water source in the village is a live spring in the mountain, which gathers into a river and flows through the whole village. There is a fruit tree next to the mouth of the live spring, and many fruit bats gather on the tree. I saw signs of someone starting a fire beside the live spring, and there are Some of the fruit bat skeletons that had been eaten must have been eaten by gluttonous villagers who went up the mountain, caught the fruit bats and roasted them. The fruit bats cursed and brought the disease to the whole village."

When Grandma Shui said this, Mian Xi probably understood something.

Wild animals should not be eaten casually. The virus from fruit bats has been transmitted to humans. In ancient times, there was no vaccine, and the disease was almost incurable.

"Later, I burned incense beside that tree and worshiped for seventy-seven forty-nine days. After all the fruit bats flew away, I set off a fire and burned all the fruit trees."

Mao Xi was a little puzzled as to how the old woman escaped the plague: "Grandma Shui, how did you escape the plague? Aren't all your family members sick?"

Could it be that this goddess can really tell fortunes and cure diseases?

"The mute woman and I all eat well water. As soon as the epidemic spreads, we won't let our family members drink water from outside. But I, the old woman, must have a hard life and won't die."

As Grandma Shui talked, she remembered the tragic situation of her grandson who was sick, coughed and vomited blood, and she couldn't help but cry in sorrow.

She took out a small cloth bag from the table, opened it, took out some herbs inside, sprinkled it into her cup, and drank.

As soon as the hot water is soaked, the smell of herbs comes out.

Mao Xi glanced at Grandma Shui's cup and saw honeysuckle and forsythia.

"Mother-in-law, do you usually use this herbal medicine to make water to drink?" Mao Xi asked doubtfully.

"We villagers can't afford tea, so we go to the mountains to pick some flowers and herbs and drink it. It tastes bad. Do you want it?"

Mao Xi shook his head and waved his hands. Maybe the old woman accidentally avoided the epidemic because she often drank this Chinese herbal water.

Grandma Shui drank honeysuckle tea and continued to ask: "Young people, what else do you want to ask me, this old woman?"

Mu Zhiyuan took a bag of roasted steamed buns and a nut roasted naan from his arms and handed them to the old goddess.

"Grandma Shui, I'll give you all the food I have on me. I want to ask you to tell your fortune."

Grandma Shui accepted the food, thinking that this young man knew how to be filial, and she also knew that money was of no use to her.

She smelled the baked steamed buns and nut naan cakes, and couldn't help but praise: "These steamed buns and cakes are so delicious. Is this girl's craftsmanship? What do you want to ask for?"

Mu Zhiyuan: "Seeking fate!"

Mao Xi: "Ask for money!"

The two of them answered at the same time. Mao Xi felt a little shy and quickly added: "I want to ask my mother-in-law whether my food shop can make a lot of money in the future?"

"This is not simple. I will calculate it for you two. Let's look at fate first."

After saying that, she brought Mu Zhiyuan and Mao Xi to her Bagua table, grabbed their right hands, and put them on the table.

Grandma Shui put her hand on the Bagua diagram and turned it counterclockwise, then closed her eyes and started reciting.

When the three of them opened their eyes again, Granny Shui, Shui Xi, and Mu Zhiyuan seemed to have entered another space, the courtyard of a private house.

But no one in the courtyard could see them.

Granny Shui said to Mu Zhiyuan: "Little brother, don't you want to see your fate? This is your fate in the previous life. It seems that you are destined to meet."

Mao Xi and Mu Zhiyuan looked to the side of the yard. A man and a woman, no, it should be a pair of heroes, were competing in martial arts with each other in the yard.

Taking a closer look, the man had the face of Mu Zhiyuan, and the woman, except that she was taller than Miao Xi, was clearly Miao Xi.