"Strange brother? There's still a word 'weird' in it, which sounds weird. Ye Li said dissatisfied.

"You're a weird-looking person! It's not that I've seen some fancy weirdos before, and I've long been scared to death by you! It's cheap to call you 'weird brother', if it weren't for you to treat my grandma and brother, the ghost would be willing to call you 'weird brother'." You can do whatever I say, it's all a lie, it doesn't count!" Ati angrily slammed the chopsticks on the small wooden table.

Yeli was startled, and said in a panic: "Okay, good, good...... Xi'er don't be angry, Xi'er don't be angry...... It's called Blame Brother, it's called Blame Brother...... That's all right?"

Suddenly, seeing Yeli in fright and agreeing in a panic, Ati sneered, smiled very sweetly, picked up a small wooden spoon and scooped a spoonful of snail broth and put it in Yeli's rice bowl and said, "That's right, come...... Blame brother, let's eat quickly, we will go up the mountain to collect medicine early tomorrow morning. ”

"Go up the mountain to collect medicine?" The second monk of Yeli couldn't touch his head, and hurriedly cared, "Xi'er, you go up the mountain to collect medicine alone, aren't you afraid of meeting jackals, tigers and leopards?"

"Jackals, tigers and leopards?!There have been no jackals, tigers and leopards in the mountains near us for a long time, and they have long been killed by the hunters, and they have been driven away, and there are still wild boars and rabbits, and if I meet them, I would like to get them back to eat. ”

"Then Xi'er, why did you go up to the mountain to collect medicine?"

Although you are a strange brother to help my brother and aunt treat injuries, but the medicine of this formula is bought with money, and my family has long run out of money, and I can't afford to buy medicine, of course, I have to go up the mountain to pick it. ”

"Oh...... I see. Yeli was worried about not knowing how to start treating the two patients tomorrow, but unexpectedly, Ati proposed to go up the mountain to collect medicine, which immediately solved the problem for him.

But he still didn't know what specific herbal recipes should be taken, so he pretended to be old and serious and tentatively said: "Xi'er, this herb is not picked indiscriminately, you know what herbs should be picked?"

"Of course I do. Ati replied loudly, "When the doctor in the village saw that I was pitiful, he taught me many herbs, and gave me many pictures, and now I know the names and appearances of those herbs, and I can find them with my eyes closed, but ...... But there are many herbs that we don't have here, and we can't afford expensive medicines. ”

"It's okay, my brother also knows some herbs, and I'll go up the mountain with you tomorrow, and I can pick any recipe of herbs for storage." ”

Yeli didn't expect that Ati still had a herb identification map, and with the herb identification map, what else was there to worry about, that is, the phoenix liver, gentian, and Kunpeng's eyes, and he had to find a way to pick it up!

When Ati heard this, her heart burst into joy: "Really!

"Hmm. Yeli was also secretly happy.

Seeing that Yeli's words were gentle and considerate, and she was very pleasing to people, and she was not like the cottage boy who came to harass her under the pretext of sending herbs before, Ati was a little soft-hearted and said: "I know that you can't change your mouth for a while, but I get annoyed when I hear it." I'll give you one night to change your words, and from tomorrow onwards, you will only be allowed to call 'strange brother' in front of me, and you will not be allowed to call 'brother Li'." ”

"Okay, leave ...... No, no! Yes...... It's the blame brother...... Blame the brother for promising you. ”

"That's pretty much it. I'm not an unreasonable little girl, look at what you call 'Xi'er' as good as singing, I know that you must miss that 'Xi'er' in your heart, if you don't let you call out, you must be very uncomfortable in your heart. In this way, I will let you call 'Xi'er', anyway, you call yours, I will listen to me, so that the two of us will be evened out with each other. ”

After all, Ati is a girl's heart, with her own gentle, kind and delicate side, seeing that Yeli kept saying that she didn't forget the name "Xi'er", she secretly guessed that there must be another hidden secret, so she had a subtle sympathy (in fact, this subtle sympathy is from Zixi's soul), so she allowed Yeli to call her "Xi'er", but as she said, "Anyway, you call yours, I listen to mine", and she didn't take it to heart for a while.

Yeli was immediately flattered: "Thank you Xi'er, thank you Xi'er......"

"Don't thank you...... I have something to say. Ati shook the bamboo chopsticks and said.

"What's the matter? "Listen to the night away.

"After a while, when I'm taking a shower, you stand outside the fence and wait until I'm done bathing before you are allowed in. ”

"Okay. ”

"And - I have to tie you up first every night when you go to bed. ”

"This ...... Why is that?"

"Your scale is so weird that people are not worried, who knows if you will want to bully me while I am asleep, and my aunt and brother are both injured and lying in bed and can't move, who can help me when the time comes?!"

"Xi'er, how could my brother bully you?"

"No! I said I had to tie you up first. ”

"Good, good...... Blame the brother for agreeing to Xi'er. ”

"That's pretty much it! I'm done with what I need to say, hurry up and eat, go to bed early and get up early after eating. Ati was very satisfied with Yeli's performance, much better than the villains who harassed her before, so she scooped a spoonful of snail broth and put it in Yeli's bowl, in her eyes, this is hard-won meat!

Yeli looked at the bowl full of snail meat, picked one up with bamboo chopsticks and put it in his mouth, and ate it with taste, thinking to himself: This is a dish made for me by "Xi'er", I must try it well.

For a while, the two of them stopped talking, eating silently, occasionally scooping a spoonful of snail broth with a small wooden spoon.

The afterglow of the setting sun has long been obliquely shining on the distant mountain tops, and the light around the stilted cottages is gradually dimming, and the air of the wilderness is filled with a sense of warmth and tranquility, which is said to be a feeling of happiness.

Ati really said yes, and he counted very much.

When it was time to go to bed that night, she invited Yeli to the west room and arranged for him to sleep in the same room with Are. After laying the floor, he used a hemp rope to tie the night in a circle, and Alei's persuasion was to no avail.

Yeli obediently cut his hands and let Ati tie his arms.

After the tie-up was completed, Ati carefully checked it again, checked whether the tie was strong, and after making sure that the tie was strong, she went to the north house to sleep with her grandma with confidence.

Ati has a strong sense of self-protection, which is probably the nature of the subconscious cultivation of the living environment of ethnic minorities, but she doesn't know how a mere hemp rope can tie up the night away?

Soon after Ati returned to the North House and lay down, Yeli performed the Yuan Shen Detachment Method, drifted into the North House, landed beside her, and sat down quietly, watching her sleep.

Ati frowned from time to time, and her head ached faintly at night, and she didn't know what had happened so that "Xi'er" couldn't sleep well, but she must have some sad thoughts.

Several times, he slowly stretched out his hand, wanting to caress the familiar and beautiful face to comfort him, but he couldn't bear to disturb Ati's good sleep, so he slowly withdrew his hand.

At this moment, the night is boundless, and even if there are all kinds of thoughts and desires to talk about the night, they all turn into sitting silently alone.

The streamer passed quietly, and the dawn came in a flash.

The rooster in the distance had only crowed three or five times, and Ati sat up like a spring, frightened by the night, for fear of being discovered by her, and hurriedly drifted away.

After the right leg of Ah Lei was broken, the burden of the family fell on the shoulders of Ati, but every day when the rooster crowed, she reflexively got up and began a day of hard work, either going up the mountain to collect medicine, or working in the field, occasionally looking for some side jobs to earn money, such as picking snails yesterday, which is really very pitiful.

Yeli quietly returned to the West House to lie down, pretending to be asleep, and waited for Ati to wake up.

About half an hour had passed, and Ati had walked into the Westinghouse lightly, for fear of disturbing Are's sleep.

She quietly walked to Yeli's side, squatted down, and whispered while gently pushing, "Strange brother, get up...... We're going up the mountain to collect medicine. ”

Yeli pretended to wake up in a daze, struggled with his arms and said, "Strange brother is still tied, how can you get up, these two arms are so numb that you can't move." Xi'er, don't tie me up in the future, okay?"

"No, your two arms are so numb that you can't move, I'll untie them for you now, what's all the fuss about. You speak quietly, don't disturb my brother's sleep. Ati pushed Ye Li up and quickly untied the hemp rope for him.

Yeli looked out the window and said in a low voice: "Before dawn, you will go up the mountain to collect medicine?"

"The chickens have crowed three times, and it hasn't dawned yet? If you don't get up early and go out, you have to go home in the dark, and only my grandmother and brother are at home after we go up the mountain, I don't worry, I have to come back early to cook dinner." You get up quickly, go rinse your mouth and wash your face first, and then eat and go up the mountain to collect medicine. Ati whispered, and then hurried away lightly.

Yeli got up, moved his arms, and slowly walked out of the west side house.

However, I saw that the mountain tops in the east showed a faint morning light, and the sky near and west was still dark and gloomy, and the sparse stars flashed with misty eyes.

The village was silent, the morning breeze blew slightly, and the occasional rooster crow made Yeli know that a new day had begun.

The small half-burnt incense passed, and the two of them packed up.

Ati delivered the prepared lunch corn rice to her grandmother and brother's room, and then carried the pouch containing the corn rice on her shoulder, and the medicine basket with tea and bamboo tubes on her back, and gave Ye Li a "go" look.

The night centrifugal comprehended the spirit, and walked out of the pengmen first. Ati then stepped out, carefully locked the tent door, and beckoned to Yeli as he walked along the wilderness path toward the eastern hills.

Crossing the village path and crossing the ravine and wooden bridge, the mountain road became steeper and narrower, and the dawn became brighter and brighter.

Looking back, the mountains are undulating, the clouds and mist are ethereal, and the sky and the earth are vast.