The denseness of the Gujiawa mountain forest is incomparable to the semi-bald hills of the east and south hills of Lijia Village, but if it is compared with the west mountain where Yun Ying only sees the tip of the iceberg, it looks much more popular, at least after entering here, it doesn't feel very gloomy.

The weather in February and March is warmer, all kinds of flowers on the mountain are blooming beautifully, Qiao'er led Yunying and did not go to the mountain, just turned around in a small col next to it, and was lucky to find a few yam seedlings, and hurriedly took a sharpened bamboo piece with him and dug it up attentively. Children in the mountains carry this tool with them, so that they can take home what they see.

Yun Ying found that Qiao'er was very "erudite", and she could talk about the things in the mountains, according to her, there were many things that only the people in Gujiawa knew, and the people in the rest of Baijiaji didn't know or saw at all.

After running around with Qiao'er, Yun Ying gained a lot of knowledge, but there was a question buried deep in her heart: Qiao'er talked about how people outside the Baijiaji were on strong guard, if they weren't the people brought back by Gu Banniang, it is estimated that Qiao'er would not say so much.

When she slept on the big kang at Gu Sanniang's house at night, Yun Ying finally knew the answer.

Asahi Prefecture, where Baijiaji is located, was originally the territory of the current neighboring country Mochizuki several decades ago, but when the war broke out twenty years ago, a young and promising general from the Tengyun Dynasty occupied Asahi County and the border cities further north, and established a strong defense project in the border city to prevent the people of the Mochizuki Kingdom from taking a step beyond the thunder pond. For this reason, the general was named "General of Zhenbei" and has been stationed at the border pass.

And the people of the Mochizuki country who originally lived in these two counties couldn't return to the Mochizuki country, and they couldn't really integrate into the Tengyun Dynasty, in order to avoid disaster, they scattered to various remote villages, although the Gu family was small, but the twenty or so families here were all real original Mochizuki people, so what they knew was not so willing to be passed on.

If it weren't for Qiao'er's young age and Yunying's adult soul cheating, Qiao'er wouldn't have told her what Tsubaki Bud was and what a lacquer tree that looked almost the same as Tsubaki Ya.

Before falling asleep, Yun Ying somehow thought that some people in Lijia Village had kang heads at home, and some people used Guangmu, which was probably the reason.

Gu Sanniang and Gu Banniang didn't know that the conversation between the two sisters was heard by a pseudo-child again, and they whispered all night.

Breakfast was eaten at Gu Sanniang's house, her man is a merchant who walks the streets, he is not at home these days, there is no father-in-law and mother-in-law above, and his life is not bad; Gu Banniang wanted to leave, she just stuffed a hen that was holding a nest and a basket of eggs, after all, Gu Banniang helped her family a lot when she was not married, and the two families were far apart, and I don't know when Gu Banniang will be able to return to her parents' house in the future.

Gu Dalang's family entertained dinner yesterday, and there was no one to see this morning, Gu Banniang was used to it, and urged Qiao Mutou and the three children to leave in a depressed mood.

When I arrived at the entrance of the village, I found that Gu Wulang was waiting in place, with three fresh nail marks on his face.

"Banniang, it's not good for you to walk down the aisle with your three children, and the fifth brother will give you a ride." With that, the tall man reached out and picked up Yuangen and Man'er and put them in the huge basket behind him, and strode down the mountain.

Gu Banniang glanced behind her, and just saw Gu Wu's daughter-in-law splashing a scoop of water with a dark and calm face, and her eyes seemed to be sending the plague god. sighed secretly, how could she ever want to go back to this mother's house. Let's go and be poor, let's be poor, as long as Yun Ying and the three can really help.

Still by the creek where she was resting, Yun Ying was anxious to find a place to carry people and solve her physiological problems, and when she got up, she unexpectedly saw a few green leaves with small white flowers blooming on them.

Chili pepper!

Yun Ying recognized at a glance that this was the chili pepper that her grandmother's family had planted every spring in her previous life, but there were no people in this creek for ten miles, who would grow a few chili peppers here?

She has never seen this thing in Lijia Village, and she has never heard anyone talk about it, the so-called braised rabbit meat that she ate at Gu's house yesterday was just burned with soy sauce, and she was only happy to see the smell of meat.

Thinking of this, a peculiar thought suddenly flashed in Yun Ying's mind: Could it be that this person from Tengyun Dynasty doesn't know this condiment of chili pepper at all!

It's no wonder that Yun Ying has traveled over the past month to realize this, it is really because the life in Lijia Village was too barren before, and the seasonings on the stove were all picked up by the Li family as a treasure, and after the separation, in addition to half a jar of soy sauce sent by the Yang family, there was only a small packet of coarse salt, where was there that leisure to ponder the condiments. Besides, Yun Ying was nervous and slow to react in some things in her previous life, and she didn't have that kind of comprehensive consideration after crossing into a child.

Using the bamboo chips sent by Qiao'er, a total of eight pepper seedlings were prying, wrapped in a large leaf, when Yun Ying returned to the resting place, Gu Wulang had already gone back to Gu Jiawa, Gu Banniang was bowing her head and wiping her tears, and Qiao Mutou was at a loss on the side, and could only say the three words "stop crying"; Tone and Man'er pouted by the stream to see the small fry swimming in the water.

"Sixth sister, why have you been there for so long?" Yuangen first spotted Yun Ying's return, dropped the branch in his hand and ran over.

Gu Banniang blew her nose heavily when she heard the sound, but when she looked up, she saw the little white flower in Yun Ying's hand, and couldn't help but exclaim, "Yun Ying, where did you find the red poison fruit seedlings?" Quickly throw it on the ground and trample it to death. ”

Yun Ying was surprised by the name of the chili pepper here, "Red Poison Fruit", but the more she did this, the more unwilling she was to let go, but held it in front of her like a jewel: "I want to plant it." ”

"You don't know if you're a child, it's not something that can only be poisoned when you eat it. Don't look at the red poison fruit blooming, it's very good-looking, and when the fruit bears, you will know that it will not end well; In the past, Gu Jiawa had a lot of this thing, and my father's generation didn't know how much effort it took to get rid of it all. Gu Banniang couldn't care about crying, and insisted on letting Yun Ying throw the chili seedlings.

"I love flowers, they look so good when they bloom. When it doesn't take me, can I lose it again? Yun Ying really couldn't explain it, so she had to take out the stubbornness and willfulness that belonged to a nine-year-old child to be stubborn.

"You ......" Gu Banniang didn't care much about Yun Ying, anyway, it wasn't for her to touch this red poisonous fruit, she waved her hand and said happily: "Forget it, whatever you want." ”

Qiao Mutou never spoke, but looked at Yun Ying's eyes full of disapproval. Yun Ying was happy just after getting a good thing, where was the leisure to take into account the feelings of the two of them, and the energy to eat chili peppers was greater than anything else, and when she went on the road again, she could only see her spirits all the way.

The second time he set foot in the town, Yun Ying found that it was simply not what it used to be, every street was crowded with men and women, old and young dressed in homespun and linen clothes, and the noisy cries and bargaining in his ears were simply two different things from yesterday's desertion.

Every step was hard, and as a last resort, Gu Banniang had no choice but to tighten the back basket containing the hen and eggs, put the leaves of the chili pepper in Yun Ying's hand into the empty basket next to her, grabbed two coins and put them in Yun Ying's hand, and whispered in her ear: "You take Yuangen and Man'er along the street over there, turn right after seeing the intersection, and wait for me and your father in the woods outside the town." ”

If Yun Ying was too frightened to move, the current Yun Ying didn't have that scruples, and she wished she could be separated from Gu Banniang and take a good look at this ancient customs, and immediately took over the task and took a younger brother and sister in one hand and walked to the middle of the word "well" where there are relatively few people.