1 Qingqing Zijin, leisurely my heart

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The autumn breeze swept down from the sky, through the mountains and forests, and swept past a bamboo hut standing alone.

Mo Ming, who was standing on the entrance, shuddered.

It's only autumn, is it so cold?

The sky was overcast and it looked like it was going to rain from time to time.

So he went to the backyard and put away the clothes that were drying.

No one occupies the land in the mountains. It is said that it is a backyard, but it is nothing more than a small open space enclosed by a bamboo fence.

Combine a few pieces of linen clothes that you are wearing, with ...... A few small linen clothes were put away.

Why is there such a small size that looks like a child's clothes?

Mo Ming was in a daze with a stack of clothes.

It all started half a year ago.

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The people in the mountains are much more honest and simple than outside.

Although he didn't interact with the villagers too much on weekdays, everyone was still sad for the old man's departure for a while.

But life goes on.

Cutting bamboo is not a very difficult physical work for Mo Ming, at least compared to an old man in his seventies and eighties, he obviously has stronger physical strength.

Several tips for cutting bamboo have been talked about before the old man's death, and the most important thing is not the posture of cutting bamboo, but the grasp of the growth trend of the entire bamboo forest in the mountains and forests.

On the bright side, only the old man was cutting bamboo alone in this mountain forest, and after his death, Mo Ming took over the work.

Even so, the work of cutting bamboo cannot be carried out every day, otherwise the bamboo in the mountains and forests will be cut down sooner or later.

What kind of thick bamboo is suitable for cutting, and what kind of bamboo is suitable for weaving bamboo tools, these are the things that really take time and experience to master.

The children in the village are not yet old enough to read, and it will take some time for Mo Ming to adapt to this strange and somewhat familiar world.

He speaks Japanese, and is even quite accomplished because of his work. Although he had not studied the history of ancient Japan much, the world in front of him was different from the ancient Japan he knew.

And the biggest difference is that it is said that there are many demons and monsters in this world.

This is a fact that is difficult for materialists to accept at the first time. But if you really want to pursue it, you should probably ask yourself why you are here, and what is the history of modern Europe that you remember as a hundred years ago.

But for a while, I couldn't verify it, and I don't know if the papermaking technique had ever arrived in Japan, so it wouldn't be nice if Heijo Kyori couldn't buy paper.

Ask the villagers about the monsters, and most of them have never seen them.

The villagers didn't have the same curiosity as Mo Ming, and most said that it was normal not to see youkai because most of the people who saw them had been killed.

Only the two hunters in the village told Mo Ming that they should beware of the robbers who plundered everywhere more than the monsters.

The robbers, mostly made up of deserters and displaced civilians who had been defeated in the war, did not leave a single survivor where they passed.

The reason why he talked so much to Mo Ming was that Orion's meaning was obvious, that is, he wanted to pull him into the gang.

As far as Orion is concerned, there are not many young people in the village, and some of them have left the village to find a job in the city. The peaceful mountain village has not been attacked by robbers, but if it happens once, everyone will have no tomorrow.

Mo Mingjun, who was greedy for life and afraid of death, did not agree to take up arms for a group of villagers who did not know each other, but he said that he could do his part.

So, under the surprised gaze of the hunters, Mo Ming used the various ropes, sticks, stones and other resources collected by the villagers to set traps in various checkpoints in the nearby mountains and forests.

There are naturally many hunters with ordinary traps such as grass hooks, but the various traps he saw from this young man's hands are undoubtedly more lethal and hidden.

In order to avoid accidentally injuring the villagers, the location of the trap was told to the village chief and the old medicine farmer who had been collecting medicine in the mountains for many years. In the end, Mo Ming's move was widely praised by everyone, and until this moment, the arrival of this young man was completely accepted by this small village that had no quarrel with the world.

Although the shrewdness and skill he showed in setting the traps made the hunters more interested in developing him into their peers, Mo Ming finally did not give up his main business of cutting bamboo and weaving baskets.

If you want to say why, of course, it's because it's easy, and it's not dangerous.

Two months later, when Mo Ming had just adapted to this comfortable life, the cherry blossoms were in full bloom.

The unnamed village is surrounded by large farmlands and bamboo forests on the hills, but in the center of the village, there is a cherry tree that has survived many years and is still alive today.

Mo Ming sometimes comes to the village to see the cherry blossoms.

According to the villagers, this cherry blossom tree is inhabited by a god.

Of course, Mo Ming didn't believe this. But after all, he has experienced so many unexplained things, and he can't help but wonder, if there is a god, can he tell him the meaning of his existence?

Of course, Sakura can't speak, and can't tell him the answer.

If in that other world, he was engulfed by the rolling torrent of so-called history and involuntarily stirred up waves, then where should he go now?

Placing the meaning of his own existence on others, the spring silkworm turned into ashes and tears, he is not the character who will do this kind of thing, those experiences have long been seriously deviated from his three views.

President Mo, who has advocated self-adherence to the extreme, felt a spiritual emptiness that could not be relieved when he regained his youth after a hundred years of asceticism.

"Cherry blossom tree, cherry blossom tree, if you are really a god, then listen to my prayers and give me a beautiful wife. ”

One day, the layman Mo Mingxu came to the tree while wandering and made an unbearable wish, and of course, the cherry blossom tree remained silent as always.

In the evening of the same day, when the evening was approaching, Mo Ming, who was sitting in front of the court with nothing to do, saw a white light in the sky fall into the depths of the bamboo forest that he was all too familiar with.

When it was dark, Mo Ming rarely went to the mountains.

But at this time, for some reason, his legs naturally moved towards the bamboo forest.

That white light doesn't look like a shooting star, what the hell is it?

Eventually, in the hollow of a young bamboo that had been cut down during the day, he discovered ......

A three-headed figure.

Well, maybe it's time to correct it, in terms of the size that can be held in the palm of your hand, it's more appropriate to say it's a key pendant.

The little man in the strange costume closed his eyes and shimmered from himself.

Mo Ming picked it up and sniffed it with her nose, and she could smell a fragrance.

Holding it in front of his eyes and looking closely, he found that the belly of the little man dressed as a girl rose and fell slightly, as if he was alive, and seemed to be sleeping.

Mo Ming immediately thought of the monster that the villagers said, this villain is obviously not a human being, so the possibility of being a monster is very high.

But...... Don't look at President Mo like this, he is actually very girly...... No, it's very compassionate.

In the mountains and fields before the summer solstice, the night is still a little infiltrating.

If you put this harmless monster here, will you get sick at night? Although this is not something you should worry about, you can't help but think about it for a while.

After a while, the villain in his hand was still asleep. Mo Ming finally didn't put it back, but carefully and tiptoed back the bamboo house.

Back at home, he lightly placed the villain on the table and lit the candles in the house.

When he picked it up again and was about to study it carefully, the villain suddenly stretched. He opened his eyes and met Mo Ming's eyes.

Suddenly, a violent struggle began.

Straightened up and jumped into the air from Mo Ming's hand. Seeing that it was about to fall to the ground, Mo Ming hurriedly caught it, and the villain struggled to jump up again, and before Mo Ming could catch it, his body suddenly became larger, and when he fell into Mo Ming's arms, he became a crying baby.

This series of changes caught him by surprise.

Holding the crying baby in her arms, Mo Ming fell into a stunned dilemma.

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2 Poor Dad, Rich Dad

The hard days began that day.

Of course, this is a bit hypocritical. Although Mo Ming wants a wife instead of a cheap daughter, it is a spiritual sustenance after all.

This girl's origin is a little suspicious, and Mo Ming didn't dare to tell the people in the village at first. If it is found to be a youkai, you may have to stone yourself and your children to death by the villagers.

The first few days were hard.

You can't leave your baby alone in a bamboo hut to chop firewood and hunt, but if you stay at home and take care of your child, you won't have a financial resource.

What made Mo Ming stunned was that after barely surviving on her meager savings in the first two weeks, the little girl had grown up a lot, and she had become more than three years old, and she could slowly learn to walk.

This discovery made Mo Ming bittersweet.

The good news is that if the little girl can grow up quickly and become sensible, then he doesn't have to go out to cut bamboo in a panic every day and then rush home quickly. The worry is that fortunately I didn't tell the villagers about the child at first, otherwise I would have been killed as a monster if I was discovered.

Then the teaching of reading and writing surprised Mo Ming even more.

Although she has always been confident and even conceited about her IQ, Mo Ming does not consider herself an excellent teacher.

And when the little girl is faced with the fifty tones and katakana she taught, she can remember it only by teaching it once, and she can already write it crookedly by holding a branch twice.

It's just too smart, and even the greatest genius in the human race can't do it to the point.

Sometimes Mo Ming thinks that this is more convincing than that she taught herself, but that she reminded her to let the little girl "recall" this knowledge again.

All in all, it took less than a month for Mo Ming to retrieve this monster girl from the mountains and until she was able to talk to herself.

After only teaching once, when she heard the little girl call her father with crisp and smooth pronunciation, Mo Ming couldn't help but be moved to tears.

Hundreds of years of meaningless time have passed in a gray vision, and the past has become better.

The monster girl born from the bamboo, Kaguya, Mo Ming has called this child since then.

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When summer comes, Kaguya has already become a slim girl.

Mo Ming's focus has shifted from teaching reading and literacy to teaching self-defense techniques for young girls.

Most of the women of this era have to learn the three from the four virtues that have crossed from the east, and even the aristocratic women even have to pull out their eyebrows and dye their teeth, of course Mo Ming will not agree with these perverted practices, Xiao Huiye's moral course naturally cannot be pulled down, but a hundred years of people, the teaching of morality can not be done overnight, before that, this girl can survive.

At the beginning, after Mo Ming compared her own half-hung martial arts to the little girl, it was no problem to let the little girl practice accordingly.

But then, during the first actual combat drill, Mo Ming was directly beaten down by the little girl.

The girl's movements are surprisingly fast, whether it is a body or a shot, it is difficult to catch with the naked eye.

Mo Ming, who had eaten a big mess, got up under Xiao Huiye's grinning expression, walked to the kitchen in silence to cook, and never paid attention to physical skills again.

As for morality, Mo Ming doesn't plan to teach any messy things, and the girl is not an unassertive person, so it may be the most appropriate thing to let her nature grow naturally.

Until one day.

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In the evening, Mo Ming routinely knocked on Xiao Huiye's door.

"Are you done eating? I'm going to wash the dishes. ”

The girl has a habit of never eating with Mo Ming, but bringing food into the room. At first, Mo Ming was very dissatisfied with this, but Xiao Huiye insisted again and again, and Mo Ming accepted it as a certain habit of a monster.

Until today, Mo Ming, who knocked on the door and didn't get a response, happened to find that the deadbolt was not plugged in, pushed the door in, and saw the action of pouring the food on the plate from the bamboo window to the outside.

The girl turned her head in a panic, and her frightened gaze met Mo Ming's eyes.

Mo Ming exited the house in silence, walked around from the entrance to the bamboo window of the girl's room, and saw a dilapidated clay pot that was placed there on weekdays.

When you walk by, you can see that it is full of moldy but intact rice balls and other food.

Behind him, there is the figure of a panting girl who chased after her in a panic.

Mo Ming turned around and looked at the nervous girl.

It suddenly occurred to me that this girl was not originally human, so was it ......

"You...... Don't you eat these foods?"

The girl's eyes wandered, as if she was thinking about how to answer, but in the end, she seemed to be annoyed by Mo Ming's silent gaze, and finally replied: "No, no way! How can these dirty things be eaten! It's too unpalatable!"

So, Mo Ming completely calmed down.

Xiao Hui swallowed his saliva.

Although the time spent together is not short, the girl has never seen the father in front of her go crazy.

At this moment, she clearly felt that the person she had always relied on was indeed angry.

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Out of some fear, Xiao Huiye ran out of the bamboo house.

She didn't dare to look back at Mo Ming's expression, but the people behind her remained silent and watched her leave.

He didn't open his mouth to save himself.

The little girl felt extremely aggrieved.

She couldn't explain something to Mo Ming. But whether it is exquisite and delicious food or a palatial residence, it has become a certain habit in her bones.

Just as humans cannot understand the blame they receive for breathing air, so too can the girl understand the blame she receives.

Well, in fact, before the other party's words of reproach were spoken, the girl had already run away.

This is also because the girl knows that she can't stand that kind of reprimand.

She felt fear.

I don't actually have to eat every day.

If only I had told him about it earlier.

But it didn't.

The greedy maiden cares for the affection of the world, and she wants to get the care she wants.

So, even though she knew that the food was a treasure that the young man had worked so hard to accumulate, she finally accepted it as his love for herself.

Then, the so-called treasure itself is discarded.

The girl's heart is discerning between right and wrong.

But she had neither the courage to admit her mistake nor the courage to admit the consequences.

So she ran away.

Instead of going down the mountain, he ran towards the bamboo forest.

has always been warned by Mo Ming not to go out, and this is the first time she has run away from home.

Why don't you go to the villagers for help?

She knew very well that asking for help from humans had a better chance of surviving than going to the mountains and forests.

Although the girl is young, her thinking is very clear.

However, due to some unspeakable state of mind, this option was erased from the beginning.

She knew that if she did that, the bond between herself and her father would be broken.

That wasn't something she could live with.

But now...... How do you spend the night in the mountains and forests?

I ...... again Why do you have to suffer from this?

Looking at the mountains and forests shrouded in darkness after dusk, the faint sound of beast chirping in the distance made Kaguya fall into fear.

After the sun went down, the temperature in the mountains and forests dropped suddenly, and the coarse linen clothes she wore on her body could not completely protect herself from the cold, and a gust of cold wind made her shiver slightly.

The cold wind hit, and the grass on the edge of the bamboo forest swayed slightly.

The girl turned her head in surprise......

But I didn't find that person as I wished.

And it didn't ...... Chase after me......

The look of hope in his eyes eventually dissipated.

Also, to do that, you must be hated. This kind of insatiable greed is really not a willful thing, and it is of course not to be forgiven.

The girl, who felt the cold, squatted on the ground and shrunk into a ball.

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Of course, Mo Ming came out on his hind feet.

But it was only far away, and it didn't appear for the first time. Because he thinks that maybe Kaguya should be alone and reflect on what he has done.

From the eye contact with her, it can be seen that she is actually very scared about the waste of food.

Then it's easy to say, as long as you have a repentant attitude, there is nothing that cannot be forgiven.

After all, it's a child's prerogative to make mistakes.

I was going to leave the little girl alone to reflect on the idea.

Maybe the little girl is the reincarnation of a god who doesn't eat fireworks in the world, or maybe it's the reincarnation of a ghost who specializes in eating something more bizarre and weird, but since she was adopted by herself in this life, she shouldn't waste food.

In any case, wasting food is the original sin in Mo Ming's eyes.

Kaguya stopped after walking into the bamboo forest.

stood in place for a while, as if hesitating, and as if in a daze. After a while, he squatted down.

Seeing her squatting in the bamboo forest and curled up in a ball, Mo Ming's determination just now was shaken fiercely.

Well, you should have caught up as soon as possible, after all, you don't have enough experience in teaching children, and you still did it wrong......

God forbid, I hope it doesn't leave any shadow on Kaguya.

After all, it is a child's privilege to make mistakes, although they grow up quickly, but after all, they are still a child, and it is natural that they will be willful...... I had to preach it later.

He stepped forward in three steps and two steps, took off his coarse cloth coat and draped it over the girl.

Without speaking, he squatted in front of her around the girl, picked up the crook of his leg and carried Xiao Kaguya on his back.

As he spoke, he walked back.

"What are you running around, it's very cold at night in the mountains, and sometimes there are wolves, and there are many traps, it's very dangerous......"

There was no response from his back.

"What's that...... Well, money has been tight lately, and I can't afford oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, so I can only eat some coarse food first......"

The girl on her back seemed to grasp Mo Ming's neck.

"After that, I'll find a way to do some other odd jobs to earn some extra money, don't look at me like this, in fact, I will do a lot of haute cuisine ......"

After thinking about it, I was afraid of the girl's glass heart, so I really had to appease it first, and then find an opportunity to talk about it later.

I was thinking about what to say to lighten the atmosphere, when I suddenly felt a little cold around my neck.

"I'm sorry ......"

There was a small voice like a mosquito in my ears.

The girl's weight is very light, but Mo Ming's physical strength itself is also very average, and it took a lot of strength to carry her all the way from the bamboo forest.

I can finally see the candlelight of the bamboo hut in front of me.

Hearing the voice of the girl on her back in her ears, Mo Ming laughed, and also replied in a low voice: "It's okay, forgive you." ”

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Since that day, Kaguya no longer eats alone in the room, but comes to the front of the hall to eat together at every meal.

This made Mo Ming very satisfied.

But then something strange happened.

One day, when I went to cut the bamboo, I found a gap in the middle of the bamboo.

Go back and ask Xiao Huiye, the innocent expression of unknown reason doesn't seem like he is lying, but in any case, this kind of thing can't be said everywhere, the so-called people die for money, and if they are known by others, they will inevitably cause trouble.

After all, it was a windfall, and the first time was of course to go to Pingchengjing and buy a lot of delicious food for Xiao Huiye to improve the food.

Then, I guess I can consider taking the children in the village who are willing to study to Heijojing to see the situation.

When the growth of her body was not as obvious as it had been at first, Kaguya was finally allowed to wander around the village in her spare time.

Mo Ming's sudden extra beautiful daughter made the village envious, and Kaguya's own leadership temperament made her quickly become the child king of the village, which is a later story.

Since running away from home that day, Kaguya's words have obviously increased.

At the dinner table and in his spare time, he would always quarrel with Mo Ming from time to time, and sometimes he was even speechless when he said it, and he always secretly took pleasure in it.

Could it be that Kaguya felt that he couldn't play a good boy anymore, so he began to show his true nature?

Mo Ming couldn't help but have a headache.

Education is really not for you...... However, the so-called poor and rich daughters can also be referred to moderately.

As long as it's not too arrogant, it's generally acceptable.

was crowned by Mo Ming with a moderate arrogance and gentleness, and spent the summer and autumn of the first year with a small glowing night.

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Chapter Two: Together in a Foreign Land as a Stranger