Chapter 15 Milk Candy for Mahogany
The old man didn't dare to approach the door again, the burning feeling just now was too terrible, he didn't dare to try again, for fear that he would accidentally try himself, what if it was gone? As long as the dead girl is okay, he calmed down and lingered for a while before turning away.
At 5:50 the next morning, before dawn, Zhou Xiaoliu woke up on time, she got dressed, moved a small stool and faced the east again, the things taught by the old man naturally could not be practiced anymore, but she was awake anyway, she simply looked at the rising sun, imagining that she was holding a pen in her hand, and gestured in the void with every turn of the rune in her mind.
Maybe she drew a lot yesterday afternoon, and today she actually drew a complete rune at one time, but complete does not mean perfect, she has never learned soft pen calligraphy before, and the lines drawn when she really put pen to paper must be uneven in thickness, and she will have to practice more when she goes to Jin Hong.
Zhou Xiaoliu kept gesturing like this, and every time she completed a rune, a purple qi rushed towards her in the east, hiding in her own sea of consciousness, and she was no longer surprised. And the white tiger was also sitting and cultivating with its limbs intertwined in her sea of knowledge, and there was a faint white phantom behind it that was slightly larger than its body, as if it could become one size bigger with a "bang" if it was refined again.
Zhou Xiaoliu only glanced at the white tiger and then concentrated on the gesture again, I don't know how long it took, her eyes suddenly turned dark, terrible! Could it be that the purple qi is inhaled too much, and the void is not replenished?
"What are you talking about again? I'm washing my face and eating, and I won't come over after calling you a few times......" Zhou's mother wiped a few handfuls of Zhou Xiaoliu with the big towel common to the women in the family, and hurriedly went to serve porridge to the children.
Zhou Xiaoliu exhaled lightly, it turned out that he didn't want to faint, the lethality of this damp towel is really not to be underestimated, no wonder the Qing Dynasty had a covering punishment.
After eating porridge, Zhou Xiaoliu went to Uncle Qingsong's house to find Jin Hong. As soon as he entered the door, he asked Jin Hong, who was full of smiles, for a pen and paper, Jin Hong pointed to the table and motioned to Zhou Xiaoliu to see that he was ready early in the morning.
Zhou Xiaoliu smiled, sat down and picked up the pen and began to draw. Jin Hong has always been by her side to watch her carry the pen. After painting for nearly two hours, Zhou Xiaoliu stopped rubbing his sore shoulders and arms, turned his head and asked Jin Hong, "Do you still have toffee?"
"What?" Jin Hong was still immersed in the feeling of purple qi lingering, he could see that every time Zhou Xiaoliu drew a rune, a faint purple qi flashed out, and these purple qi first came to his side and slowly circled around, and then drilled into Zhou Xiaoliu's forehead. Jin Hong felt more and more comfortable on his body, and Zhou Xiaoliu suddenly asked if there was any sugar, but he couldn't react for a while.
"Do you still have toffee, give me some, I'll be useful." Zhou Xiaoliu looked at the table clock as he spoke, at nine forty o'clock. The third aunt's mother's house is in Taowu, her brother is a carpenter, and in the morning, I heard the third aunt say that she was going back to her parents' house today, and the time should be almost up.
"I'll go out for a while......" After taking the candy handed over by Jin Hong, Zhou Xiaoliu ran to the entrance of the village. After waiting for about ten minutes, her third aunt took a son and a daughter who were not energetic and walked towards her. Zhou Xiaoliu knew at a glance that her cousin and cousin didn't eat breakfast, and the third aunt was always like this, and when she was about to be a guest at someone else's house, she asked her children to skip the previous meal and go to someone else's house on an empty stomach to eat, but she didn't expect that she didn't even let go of her mother's house.
Zhou Xiaoliu stepped forward and paused as if he was reciting a book: "Third aunt, you want to go back to Taowu... That Jin Hong heard that there were many peach trees in Taowu, so he was eager to see them... He also said that he would sawn peach wood to make a sword... But Wenyuan's cousin said that he was sick and couldn't go... Let me ask you, can you bring him some pieces of mahogany leftovers from his uncle's carpentry... This is the candy he asked me to give you, the kind of ...... my sister-in-law ate yesterday" After Zhou Xiaoliu finished speaking, he smiled innocently: "I don't remember it, that's all for it." ”
The third aunt took the candy in Zhou Xiaoliu's hand, opened it and looked at it, sure enough, it was a high-end product from the city, the wrapping paper on the candy was very good-looking, she carried it again, it was quite a lot, this has to be about two catties, not to mention a few pieces of leftovers for small toys, it is worth it for her to drag back a piece of peach tree trunk.
So she said to Zhou Xiaoliu with a smile: "Xiaoliu has really grown, he is worthy of eating things from this Beijing, he can remember such long words, go back and tell the young master of the Jin family, I will pick a few good pieces for him, except for peach wood, there are other woods, next time he asks for it, he will come and tell the third aunt, remember?"
Zhou Xiaoliu nodded, worthy of being the third aunt, this transaction has not been completed yet, and she is already thinking about the next time.
The third aunt led her children with a happy face and continued to set off, her son and daughter were walking and making noise about eating candy, she opened the bag, counted a few pieces, tied the mouth of the bag, and said: "Eat first on the road, and then grab a handful for you at the door of your grandmother's house, and it will melt away after putting it in your pocket for a long time." ”
When Zhou Xiaoliu returned to Uncle Qingsong's house, he saw Jin Hong leaning against the door, looking at the intersection with anticipation in his eyes, and suddenly had a strange sense of familiarity.
She couldn't help but blush, how could she daydream in broad daylight? Although she didn't have this feeling of being needed and expected in her two lives, she was just a child, so why did she think in this direction, sinful and sinful!
Zhou Xiaoliu entered the room, and Jin Hong followed her like a little tail, and he didn't speak, just looked at her with a smile. Zhou Xiaoliu picked up the pen and wanted to continue drawing talismans, but she couldn't concentrate at this time, she simply put down the pen, looked at Jin Hong who was sitting next to her, and said, "I heard Brother Wen Yuan say that you will return to Beijing in a few days?"
Jin Hong lowered his head and said softly, last night Zhou Wenyuan said that he received a call from his father, saying that he would leave home in three days. He didn't prepare for parting overnight, but he didn't expect Zhou Xiaoliu to hear about it. He wanted to tell his dad that he had a new friend, and a magical friend, and he didn't want to go back for a while, but he had always been a well-behaved and obedient child, and he didn't know how to say it.
Zhou Xiaoliu saw that Jin Hong looked like he was going to cry or not, thinking that he was going to separate, and he felt a little sad. Although they have known each other for a few days, when the child blocked her behind and said to Zhou's mother, "Auntie, you can't scold her", when he handed him roast duck legs, when he pointed to her like a snack box, she took him as a friend.
But he was going home, to his parents, who loved him and protected him, and she could only do her best to draw the talisman well, hoping that she could help a little. Baihu said that if she didn't cultivate, she could only live to be thirty years old, and she hoped that Jin Hong and herself could live a long time......
Zhou Xiaoliu endured the sourness of her nose and raised her head, but she couldn't shed tears in front of this child, and after a while, she said to Jin Hong with a smile: "After eating so many delicious things from you, I thought about making a gift for you with my own hands, you have to promise me, don't dislike it, and you have to take it with you." ”