The weather in April is warm and cold, and the kapok trees in the mountains have already drilled tender small flower buds.

In the morning light and the small mountain village shrouded in cooking smoke, there was a bang.

"Tofu, bean juice is here!" shouted the middle-aged man driving the elk cart......

After a short time, people who came out of each thatched hut gathered on the martial arts training ground in the village and greeted each other.

"Brother Li, there's something new happening outside, you haven't been here for more than half a month!"

A burly man in a fur hat walked over and said to the man driving the elk cart.

"Haha, Brother Lanyun, the water of the frozen river in the spring has risen, and the Jinsha Bridge has been flooded, no, it has subsided a little, so I will hurry over!"

The middle-aged man's surname is Li, and his single name is Zhi.

He replied with a hearty smile, but his hand was not idle, and he skillfully divided the tofu into finger-to-finger square pieces, filled it with a gourd and handed it over.

"Take it, let's have a drink in a while, I still have something to ask you!"

Lan Yun is the patriarch here, he looks like he is about thirty, with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, and he looks very handsome.

Hearing his words, he hurriedly said, "What's the matter, why are you still polite to me?"

"I'll say in a while, I'll divide the things and tofu that the big guy asked me to bring, you go back first, let my brother and sister cook two good dishes, I can bring good wine!"

After Li Zhi finished speaking, he blinked his eyes and signaled to Lan Yun.

"Okay, then I'll go back first!"

Lan Yun understood that Lao Li was really something, and waved his hand and shouted: "Anning, Anguo, go home with Dad!"

Hearing the shout, a half-year-old child gulped down the bean juice in the scoop, wiped his mouth, and turned to pick up a little fat man on the stone platform.

"Dad, let's see who gets home first?"

The half-grown boy's nickname is An Ning, and at first glance it looks like a small version of Lan Yun, carrying his younger brother Lan Anguo.

An Ning has not yet grown hair, there are fine Qi bangs on his head, and a pair of big eyes are shining on his little face with red lips and white teeth.

"Haha, okay, so I will increase the difficulty with tofu, you come to perform the "Caple" style that your father taught you a few days ago, I see how much you have understood. Lan Yun said with a doting face.

After hearing this, An Ning stood still, and turned his hands up to support his younger brother's buttocks.

Silently reciting the mantra: "Qi rushes into the Golden Gate, the spring breathes through the valley, the five places bear the light and the jade, and the big bell shines according to the repetition of the gods"

"Anguo, hug my brother's neck, let's fly~"

With his feet exerting his strength, he stretched out his arms to make a bird-like shape, and ran forward at a fast speed......

Quietly looking at the two sons who were far away, Lan Yun muttered to himself with relief and sadness.

"Ning Er is already seven years old this year, and her talent is high, if it weren't for this ghost place, she should have gone to the sect to cultivate a long time ago!"

With the tofu in the gourd scoop, he was a little depressed.

The clenched fists rattled like they had nowhere to vent, then sighed and swept towards the hut's home.

Kapok Village is a village surrounded by mountains on three sides, with a small population, just a few families.

The only exit is to go south out of the valley, and you can only see the Jinsha Bridge after walking more than ten miles.

Jinsha River comes down from Qixia Mountain, because the water quality is clear, the yellow agate stone at the bottom of the river reflects the sunlight, sparkling, so people call him Jinsha River.

The peaks and mountains stretch for thousands of miles, the sand ring is full of water, the Tibetan wind gathers qi, and the mountains with water look like a feng shui treasure cave here.

But how was Kapok Village built here?

The sun had risen, and the elk's neck bell was ringing far and near.

"Chirp, tweet......"

Li Zhi unloaded the car and tied the elk to the big tree in front of the house.

He bent down to look through a basket in the car, then carefully picked up and walked towards the hut.

The thatched hut is not big, with two rooms in the east and west.

At this time, the four members of the Lan family came out of the house to greet each other and saw Li Zhi holding a basket.

Lan Yun hurriedly said: "Come on, how much wine have you brought?"

"The wine and the things you asked me to bring are all in the car, Anning will go and get them, let's go into the house and talk!" Li Zhi replied with a serious face.

"Well, don't stand, Brother Li, come into the house, let's go into the house and talk. ”

It was Lan Yun's wife Qin Pei who spoke.

She wore a green linen apron around her waist and a black headscarf.

There is tiredness between the delicate eyebrows and eyes, giving people a gentle and virtuous feeling, and at first glance she is a good wife and mother.

Before and after entering the house, Li Zhi opened the felt cloth covered with the basket, and when he saw a fat doll in the basket, Lan Yun laughed.

"I said Brother Li, I am happy to see you for half a month, congratulations!"

"Be quiet, don't scare the child!"

Qin Pei glanced at her husband.

"Brother, you don't know that I, a lonely person, have such a great blessing to be a father. ”

Li Zhi sighed after speaking.

"In the morning, when I crossed the bridge, it was not yet dawn. ”

"I heard the cry of a child, and I wondered if it was a demon beast that was bewitching me?"

"But as soon as I sobbed in my ears, I couldn't help but go around to the river to see!"

"I saw such a child lying on the riverbed, slick and undressed!"

"I was distressed for a while, so I picked her up!"

After Li Zhi finished speaking word by word, several people looked at the child carefully.

Qin Pei's fingers flipped and pinched, and then pointed on the child's eyebrows, closing his eyes and sensing ......

"It's a girl, not a demon beast in the mountains, I can't feel the demon energy in her. ”

After listening to Qin Pei's words, Li Zhi continued: "Yes, I have also investigated, but I didn't sense the demonic energy!"

"But in this radius of 100 miles, except for your Kapok Village, there is no one left. ”

"How can you have a lady waiting to give birth!"

An Ning ran in from outside the door at this time, put down the animal skin wine bag and a bag of things in his hand, and lay down on the basket to watch.

"Ah, how come there is a fat doll, Uncle Li, is this your child?"

His questioning interrupted the three adults' thoughts.

"Anyway, it's a child. Brother Li, what are you going to do?"

As a mother, Qin Pei began to feel distressed when she looked at the slippery dolls in the basket.

"It's really pitiful, she's asleep, she hasn't eaten yet, has she?"

"I put feta cheese in bean juice along the way, fed some of it, and then slept without crying or making a fuss. Li Zhi touched An Ning's head and replied to Qin Pei.

Lan Yun took off his fur hat and grabbed his hair hard.

"Brother Li, what you want to tell me is to let us raise this child, right?"

"Well, Brother Lan, you also know that I don't have anyone close to me, and I have to come to your village regularly, and I can't take her with me!"

Li Zhi looked at the child in the basket and sighed.

At this time, Qin Pei had already reached out and took the child out of the basket, dragged a leather blanket, and wrapped it.

"Brother Li, we understand that it is indeed inconvenient for you to have military affairs alone!"

"This child looks like he is only 100 days old, and I don't know if he was deliberately abandoned or really lost. ”

"Anyway, don't worry, you won't starve her with a bite of food!"

Life in the mountains was poor, with men hunting and women doing household chores and simple food.

Hearing what Mrs. said, Lan Yun also continued: "Okay, the child is being raised by us for the time being, if her parents come to find her, we will also do a good deed!"

"Brother Li, you can go in and out of this mountain, and you can also inquire in the town and county, whose family has lost the child. ”

"Uh-huh!" Li Zhi nodded.

Shallot mixed with tofu is a rare delicacy on the table in this mountain, and it is all animal meat on weekdays, which makes the family's breakfast very happy.

The two men drank wine and chatted about what had happened outside the mountain recently.

What Li Zhi saw and heard was the main source of information for this closed small mountain village!

Sometimes they sigh, sometimes they laugh....

The children of poor families are in charge of the family early, and An Ning is a very sensible child.

He blew the rice cereal to cool, fed his younger brother Anguo one bite at a time, and saw that he was full before picking up the animal meat in the wooden basin and gnawing it.

Vegetables are a luxury in this season, and tofu is something that every household can improve their diet.

An Ning took a bite and then stopped eating, leaving it for his father and uncle to drink.

Two large pieces of meat went down to his stomach, and he picked up the boiled water that his mother had dried, and drank it "Goodong, Goodong".

"Dad, Uncle Li, I've eaten well, you eat slowly. "I said politely, picked up my brother and went to the Westinghouse.

Lifting the curtain and walking in, he saw his mother feeding the fat doll on the wooden bed and drinking rice cereal.

"Mother, will I have another sister in the future?" An Ning asked with a smile.

"Well, my mother's Ning'er is the most well-behaved and will take care of her younger siblings, isn't it?" Qin Pei touched his eldest son's head and kissed it.

"That is, I am now in the consummation realm of the Qi refining period, and my father said that after I break through to the foundation building period, he will take me to Qixia Mountain to hunt."

An Ning's little face flushed with excitement, and she continued with her chest straight: "I want to work hard to cultivate, take care of it, protect my younger brothers and sisters, and grow up quickly so that my father and mother can enjoy happiness!"

Three-year-old Anguo couldn't speak yet, pointing at the fat doll babbling, as if to say, "I also want to protect my sister!"

Qin Pei's eyes were full of smiles, looking at this and that lovingly.

"Lan Anling, An Ling, you will be your mother's little Ling'er in the future, okay?"

"Ling'er, I am your eldest brother, Anguo is your second brother, and you will be our sister in the future!"

An Ning looked at the pink and tender fat doll and said, and then took out a red bead from his arms and put it in his mother's hand.

"Mother, this is what I picked up when I went to the Phoenix Mausoleum with my father a few days ago, isn't it beautiful to give Ling'er a welcome gift. ”

Qin Pei looked at the beads in his hand and looked at them like treasures: "It's so beautiful, Ling'er must like this gift!"

As she spoke, she found a freshly embroidered purse, put the beads in it, and put it on Xiao Ling'er's neck.

"Mother, I'm done, I'm looking at my sister, you go eat!"

An Ning went to bed, and the little hands patted the child rhythmically.

"Okay, I'll eat it later. ”

added a mouthful, which made the mountain people who were not rich really stressed.

Qin Pei thought in his heart that the vacant land behind the house could be cultivated, and Brother Li would bring some vegetable seeds to plant.

Raise more five-color chickens, eggs can supplement nutrition for children.

I have to raise two more elks, and Ling'er is still young and needs to drink milk.....