I don't know what happened to Xiaoyu, Shi Zi'er went home and got a sickle and went up the mountain with Situ Yuan like no one.

Mi'er was sulking with a pout, always leaving him alone at home. I was bored and scooped up water and mud, and played by myself.

The weather was exceptionally clear, with a hint of cloud floating in the sky. Most of Jizhou is a plain area, and although there are mountains, there are small hills that are not very high.

The small cloth bag tied around Situ Ming's waist has already contained a lot of wild fruits, including wild sour dates and wild grapes. At this time, I was carefully picking dates from the cut jujube branches, but I didn't expect to pick them in a hurry and my fingers were stabbed. She groaned and hurriedly retracted her hand.

Shi Zi'er was busy cutting down another relatively dwarf jujube tree, and when she heard Situ Ming's cry, she hurriedly grabbed her hand and checked it and said:

"Have you been stung by a stinging caterpillar?"

"No, I accidentally pricked my finger with a thorn in the branch."

Situ Ming sucked her index finger with some blood beads with her mouth, and asked curiously what the stone stinging caterpillar was.

"We have a local word here called stinging, and it likes to climb on jujube trees or acacia trees. If you don't pay attention to it, your skin will become swollen, itchy and numb, which can be uncomfortable. Be careful when you pick dates, it's good at camouflaging itself and can't find it if you don't look closely. Shi Zi'er replied.

"Thinking about it, this spiny caterpillar is guarding these dates, and it is not easy for everything in the world to survive. Just like these jujube trees, even if you have thorns all over your body, even if you are on a cliff, you still can't escape the fate of being robbed of fruits and cutting off your roots. ”

Situ Cheng said with emotion.

"You're talking those crazy things again, don't worry, this tree is strong. If you cut down its stem today, it won't take a few days for new branches and stems to grow, and besides, the jujube that was blown off by the wind will take root, and I don't know how many saplings will grow in the future. ”

Shi Zi'er sometimes couldn't understand some of Situ Ming's words, and always felt that she had a brain disease.

I really don't understand how my parents inexplicably took in such a goddaughter.

"These thorns are almost cut, let's put them here first, and I'll take you to find the big and sweet dates."

Shi Zi'er said, walking along a sheep's intestine path to a cliff.

In the distance, there was a lush cypress tree growing on the edge of the cliff, and the tree bore polygonal fruits, which resembled a weapon called a meteor hammer.

When I got closer, I looked down and found a stout wild date palm growing next to the cypress tree, and all the fruits on the tree were already red. Each one is the size of a thumb, and the clusters are fruitful.

Shi Zi'er hooked a few with a sickle and showed them to Situ Cheng to taste, the fruit was indeed unusual, it was not sour at all, the taste was sweet, the flesh was full and the core was very small.

"The dates on this tree are so delicious, but it's a pity that they are not easy to pick."

Situ said with pity.

"Don't worry, look at me!"

Shi Zi'er stuck the sickle on the back of his waistband, and dragged the cypress branch down neatly.

"Never, it's too dangerous!" Situ Cheng didn't come to dissuade him.

The cliff is about thirty-four feet above the ground, and if you fall down, your life will be lost.

"Shizi'er, Shizi'er, come up!"

Situ stomped her feet anxiously, and she couldn't see the figure when she looked down, only seeing that the branches of the two trees were trembling.

She was so anxious that she couldn't hear anyone answering the random shouts of stones, small stones, and small stones. Suddenly, there was a thud below, and the click of a broken branch.

Situ Cheng thought that this was bad, and her frightened face cried out, blaming herself while crying. Why is he so much older than him, why is he nonsense. He is going to have an accident, how can she be worthy of the Shi couple who have a life-saving grace to take him in.

When he was annoyed, he saw the stone climb up with a branch of a cypress tree, with a smile on his face.

Situ Cheng turned from sadness to anger, stepped forward and slapped him. yelled: "You don't want to die? I'm scared to death, why don't you keep up when I shout? ”

Shi Zi'er had never seen Situ Cheng angry, and she was a little scared at first glance.

"Sister, don't be angry, it's not that I mean to scare my sister. It's really a bit dangerous down there, and I have to pick dates while I have to be careful to step on the branches of the tree with my breath. It was so dangerous just now, the broken branch scared my soul away, how could I have time to go back to my sister's words. ”

He usually doesn't call Situ Cheng by her name, but only calls her hey, that, Xiao Nizi and the like. Even after saying this, several sisters were said, and Situ Cheng was not good at having another attack.

She still deliberately stiffened her face and said, "Phew! Who is your sister, is there such a brother who does not listen to his sister? ”

"yes, yes, I'm confused. I'm taller than you just by looking at my head, you're definitely smaller than me, how old are you? ”

He didn't want to recognize this little girl of unknown origin as his sister, otherwise there would be another person who would take care of him.

"I'm twelve, how old are you?"

Situ Zhen really didn't know how old her current body was, she was killed when she was eighteen years old in her previous life. If you say that you are eighteen years old and no one believes it, you will talk nonsense.

"I'm also twelve, I was born in the moon, what about you?" Shi Zier said.

Situ Cheng secretly thought to herself, since she was the same age as him, why should she be older than him, so that he would obey me in the future. Remembering that the day of his rebirth was the fifteenth day of the seventh month, he said that he was born in the seventh month.

Shi Zi'er asked in disbelief: "Really?" Are you sure? ”

Situ Cheng nodded again and again, waiting for this naughty and naughty little monkey to call her sister.

Shi Zi'er laughed and said, "Let's just say that you are younger than me, I just remembered that I was born in the spring." If you don't believe me, go back and ask my mother. ”

He succeeded in his plan, and his face was full of smugness.

Situ Cheng scolded in her heart: "Stinky boy, sooner or later you will obey me." ”

Shi Zi'er poured all the jujubes out of his pocket and showed them to Situ Ming, with a satisfied face.

"Look at me, this flying cliff is also amazing." As soon as he got through the danger, he got carried away.

Situ Cheng praised a few perfunctory words, and the two of them collected the fruit and tied the cut thorns with straw ropes. One person dragged a bundle, and one did not have a ride while talking about the sky and going down the mountain.

There were many other fruit trees growing on the mountain, and Shi Zi'er walked all the way to introduce them to Situ Ming.

"There are walnut trees growing in this patch, apple and pear trees in the distance, and persimmon trees in front of me."

I saw that the tree was born in the low ground on the left side of the path, and the leafy canopy was full of persimmon fruits like red lanterns, and the trunk was thick, and the whole tree grew low.

Shizier saw that a persimmon had fallen from under the tree, so he jumped into the ground from the side of the road to pick it up. In fact, the persimmon tree is not high, according to his naughty and playful temperament, he can go up and pick a few without much effort, how can he pick up the fruit that is almost broken.

Originally, several nearby villages belonged to the local Cheng'an Hou's fiefdoms, and when the fruits or crops grown on this land were ripe, they had to pay miscellaneous taxes to the government and the imperial court, and they also had to pay homage to the Cheng'an Hou's mansion.

Therefore, on the surface, the old farmers have gained a lot, but in fact, in the end, there is not much left after a year of hard work, barely enough for the family to eat.

Shi Zi'er picked up the persimmon, looked at it and was quite satisfied, thinking that there was still more than half of it to eat.

Situ Cheng thought that he would climb a tree to pick it, but it turned out to be surprising to her.

Out of nowhere, seven or eight children of their age came out, and suddenly surrounded the stones in the middle.

The kid in the lead, wearing an azure forging gown, walked up to Shi Zi'er with a high spirit, slammed Shi Zi'er's hand with a wooden stick in his hand, and said menacingly:

"The little cub raised by the son of a bitch, is he tired of being crooked, stealing things and stealing things to the master's head."