(11) Vegetables

After a few days of falling, the snow finally stopped.

Everywhere is paved with white. On the cliffs, on the treetops, and on the eaves of the huts, there are strings of ice ridges, high and low, like wind chimes that will jingle when the wind blows, which is very beautiful.

Yunmengze is not considered to be in the north, and it has snowed intermittently for a few days, and it is not waist-high. The floor is covered with a layer as thick as a carpet, and if you go out, you can step on two lines of obvious footprints if you go out one foot deep and one foot shallow.

Ah Mo was now staring at the two lines of footprints at the door, worried all morning.

Jinghua went out.

On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, Xuanhua scolded both her and Jinghua severely, and after seeing that both of them were much more honest, she asked her for the route to Devil's Island, so she set off to pick up Miaoyuan in person, leaving their pair of disabled young people at home.

So, the two of them began to live on their own with some grain left by the large army and the game left by Xuanhua's hunting.

There's nothing wrong with eating like this, Ah Mo thinks.

Stir-fry bacon, gnaw a rabbit head, and add a bun and the like, she and Xuanhua have always eaten like this before. As long as there are chili peppers, you can eat every meal happily. Of course, it's better to have wine. The cooking wine used for cooking has already been secretly drunk by them.

Jinghua has always had a very poor appetite, he basically drinks two sips of porridge every day, and when the situation is bad, it is common for the grain of rice not to eat, and of course he never cares about what other people eat.

But since he was scolded by his eldest brother, he seems to have changed his mind and began to worry about the trivial matters of firewood, rice, oil and salt. Sometimes I would prop myself up to the stove room and sit next to Ah Mo to watch her stir-fry.

So, here's the trouble.

After watching her cook twice, Jinghua began to shake her head and said, "Momo, you can't do this." You are growing your body, you can't always eat meat, you have to eat vegetables. ”

Ah Mo was stunned.

First, she felt that she had passed the golden period of development, and everything that should have grown well, could it be that this gentleman thought that she was not good enough?

Second, why do you have to eat vegetables? Since I was a child in Xihai, I only ate shrimp meat, crab meat, mussel meat, and fish meat...... Of course, occasionally I will eat a little cold kelp shreds and the like, which is not constipation, and does not have acne, isn't it good?

Third, now in the cold winter of the moon, Mr. Guangdongzui, you said lightly, where do you tell me to get vegetables?

She glared at him and saluted him without thinking.

The first two are fine, and Ah Mo regrets saying the third one very much. Because Jinghua smiled that night and didn't say anything. But this morning, when Ah Mo woke up, she realized that something was wrong.

Mr. Light Mouth not only moved his mouth, but also walked out with his legs!

He left a note on the table, saying that he would go out to look for vegetables and tell her to wait at home.

Now Ah Mo was frightened, she hurried under the bed to look for shoes, and wanted to wear them and go out to look for him - but she didn't find shoes and socks!

Mr. Guangdongzui is also very prescient.

Where she usually puts her shoes and socks, she found a note that read, "Momo, I have hidden your shoes." Don't come out for me, I'll be back soon. ”

Ah Mo looked up to the sky and wailed.

She vowed to buy a hundred pairs of shoes at home in the future! to prepare a big room in which nothing would be put and shoes would be put in it! chunky heels, ankle-length, pointed, open-toed, and fur-...... All kinds, everything!

Look at how many pairs you can hide Xuanyuan Jinghua!

But now, she could only stare at the two lines of footprints in the doorway.

He's been out for a long time.

After Jinghua fell ill, Ah Mo rarely slept again, but when she woke up in the morning, he was gone. And now, the sun is almost noon, and he still hasn't returned.

Her eyebrows grew deeper and deeper.

How could she not be worried? Jokes are jokes, but she knows better than anyone what kind of situation Jinghua is in now. It's just a mouthful, she didn't even dare to take him on the road to Devil's Island for medical treatment, not to mention that in such a cold day, he ran out alone!

The house was filled with spells and charcoal, and it was always warm, but Ah Mo felt that the more he sitted, the colder it became.

She began to imagine that Jinghua fell down alone in the forest and couldn't get up, or that she suddenly fainted while walking, or that she encountered some fierce tiger or poisonous snake that came out and bit him......

She knew that she was thinking nonsense, she scared herself, he was a dragon after all, how could an ordinary poisonous snake and insect python hurt him? But she had no choice, before she saw him, she just couldn't control herself!

The longer she waited, the more her mind was filled with these stupid images:

Jinghua lay in the snow and was dying......

Jinghua rolled off the cliff and broke his head and bled ......

She even wondered if Jinghua was already outside the door by now, and he was two steps away, but he—had exhausted the last of his strength! and had to collapse weakly at the door of his house......

And the most infuriating thing is that in these bloody pictures of her own brain, he actually has two inexplicable vegetables in his hands!!

Oh my God! She's going to be by herself!

But, but, she's really dying, okay?

She screamed and crumpled her hair into a pile of weeds, trying to throw these bad thoughts out of her head. She took a deep breath and said to herself seriously:

"Ahmo, listen, you are called delusional, only a stupid and unconfident woman can do this! You must stop immediately! You can't let it humiliate your IQ again!"

"Okay!" she replied herself, "I'm certainly not a stupid woman! I won't think about it anymore! I want action! action! yes, I want action!"

She shouted and really got into action.

No shoes...... No shoes......

Hmph, does it really trap a genius like me without shoes?

Without hesitation, she pulled a random blanket from the bed, which was innumerable anyway. She cut off two pieces of one foot square with a dagger, placed her foot in the middle, wrapped it tightly around it, and tied it tightly at the ankle with a rope.

There was still excess hair on her ankles that turned out, and she smiled when she saw it, and now her two feet were like two small siu mai.

The shoes made of the blanket were loose, soft, and hairy, and they were so comfortable that they wrapped around her injured feet, and each foot felt like stepping on a pile of cotton.

Ah Moli tried to walk a few steps, and was so happy that he wondered why he hadn't thought of making such shoes earlier! These shoes are not only comfortable to wear on the inside, but also because they are real animal skins on the outside, and they are not afraid of snow penetration. I really have to make a few more pairs when I go back, for myself, for Jinghua, and for Big Brother and Sister Yuan!

She walked faster than she thought, and while she was still thinking about this, the people had already rushed into the courtyard. It was really cold outside, so she stomped her foot, opened the courtyard door and rushed out.

In the snowy white ground, Jinghua's two lines of footprints are still very clear. But, but why?

Ah Mo's heart shrank suddenly-after the footprints left the yard, they only lasted a few steps, and then they were gone!

Could it be that he just walked out of here, and he ......

Ah Mo felt that the blood in his whole body was about to clot!

She circled back and forth where the footprints had disappeared in a dejected state, finding nothing, and was panting to look further.

There was a sudden pause in her steps.

Because at the farthest end of her line of sight, she noticed a small gray dot slowly approaching her.

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The dots move quite fast.

The hope that Ah Mo had just floated sank again—it couldn't be Jinghua, he couldn't go that fast!

The little gray dot came so fast that before she could sigh, her eyes widened again, turned to surprise, and she waved her hand and shouted, "Derpy!"

The only surviving baby elephant grew up a lot more in a few months, running steadily and fast, and it was in front of me in an instant!

And the guy who rode on Derpy—

Ah Mo was anxiously shouting his name all the way just now, but now that the person is in front of him, he can't even speak, the smile is still hanging on the corner of his lips, but the tears fall first.

However, Jinghua got down from Derpy, slowly approached her, coughed lightly and laughed twice: "What's the matter, my little princess, you have only been separated for half a day, so you want me to cry?"

Ah Mo glared at him fiercely, didn't say a word, turned around and walked towards the house.

She hugged her knees and sat down on the bed with a puff. After a while, Jinghua carried a bag and walked in with difficulty against the wall.

"Angry?"

"Humph!"

"Worried about me?"

"It's weird!"

Jinghua smiled faintly, he put his loot on the table from the bag, and said as if he didn't mind: "Momo, come and see, who said that there are no vegetables in winter? I found a lot! There are turnips, potatoes, cabbage...... And I don't know what they're called...... Oh, and I dug up a lot of wild mushrooms, all of which grow on the mountain wall......"

Ah Mo finally followed his words and glanced at the table, maybe he couldn't hold it, he didn't bring much, but the variety was very rich. She didn't know where he found them, and looking at his clean appearance, it didn't look like he had climbed over mountains and mountains, and walked off the walls.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel sad, now he shouldn't have this ability.

But her heart ached only for a moment, and she could not quench the fire in her belly for the sake of these stupid vegetables! Stupid potatoes and turnips! made her worry for a long time!

Did he know what it was like for her to sit here all morning, staring at those two lines of footprints?

Does he know what it's like to keep replaying all kinds of terrible and bloody plots in her mind?

"Xuanyuan Jinghua, you ......" she finally couldn't help but want to scold angrily.

"I'm just ......" he coughed lightly twice and smiled, "I want to make myself, it's a little useful." ”

He sat down beside her and said softly, "I want to make myself a little useful and not always let you take care of me." ”