Chapter 1 The Girl Who Collects Firewood
"Archie! Today, remember to pick up the branches and yams and come back, your teacher said that she will be home in three days. ”
The girl who was feeding the chickens in the outer yard poked the eyes of the chicken's buttocks: "Eat quickly!" ”
A certain little red rooster howled and broke free and jumped away.
The girl turned around and shouted into the back room, "Huh-"
"Shiniang has been gone for two months, and I finally remember to come back."
Taking care of himself, Lin Archie clapped his hands and wiped off the residue on his hands on his outer skirt.
The master stroked his beard and pointed at her with a smile: "You! Don't be afraid of her all the time. ”
Lin Aqi pouted: "I'm not afraid!" ”
said it, but in his heart, he couldn't help but think of Shi Niang's harsh eyes, and the hand holding the hat trembled slightly.
The master lay down on the bamboo chair leisurely, and said in a lazy tone: "There is something different in the stream and forest today, you have to be careful." ”
"Oh." Lin Aqi responded, comfortably carrying the bamboo basket on his back.
Master, who has always liked to make jokes.
Yesterday, I mentioned that Zhang Dongtou's family gave birth to a baby, but this morning, the village chief came to the news that Zhang Dongtou's pigs gave birth.
The previous child said that the girl of the Zhao family met a murderer on the road, but in fact, her brother fell into the river and broke his foot.
Tell her to be careful of the creek forest today.
Hmph, Lin Archie didn't care, and deliberately carried the bamboo basket and walked over there.
She wanted to see if this old man, who claimed to be the spirit of everything, was not as spiritual as he said.
The girl's white figure faded away.
Lin Shaxiang's eyes gradually narrowed.
Let's just let her go through it herself.
Lin Aqi was only two years old when he was picked up by the master, and the master and the master only had one daughter, and the daughter fell off the cliff in her early years, and there is no trace of her so far.
The master took pity on her and took her home to be raised as a girl.
Shi Niang doesn't like her as much as Master, and she is very strict with her on weekdays.
Fortunately, Shiniang likes to travel, and visits the mountains, rivers, seas and rivers from time to time, giving her a lot of space to be at ease.
Shi Niang likes to use Cong Yam to make tea, this time into the mountain, in addition to picking up firewood, she also has to pick enough Cong Yam for Shi Niang.
"Master told me not to rely on the stream, but I listened to the words as a fart, if you want to ask me why I am bullying, I have to pick up firewood first."
Lin Aqi giggled: "I'm really a genius at poetry!" ”
The children of the same generation in the village, large and small, count her Lin Aqi as the best at collecting firewood.
This firewood collection is to pay attention to the right time, place and people, and all of them are indispensable.
Lin Aqi has been guided by his master since he was a child, and he has developed a set of experiences for collecting firewood.
People don't want to go out on a rainy day, so she just takes advantage of the light rain to wear a hat and run into the forest.
When the rain stopped and other children came to pick it up, she had already bundled up the firewood on the good road and took it away, and the poor worms had to go into the rough road to pick and choose.
Master also put wooden wheels on her bamboo basket, so that it was much easier for her to collect firewood and go home than other children.
Lin Aqi looked at the sky, the sun was slanting westward, and the clouds were yellow.
A strange smell gradually wafted in.
Raising his arm to wipe the sweat on his forehead, Lin Archie continued to move forward.
One step, before the other foot could catch up, she panicked!
She, collecting firewood for many years, for the first time in her life, actually!
stepped on cow dung!?
The first time was to hurriedly cover his mouth and look left and right.
Fortunately, no one saw her.
At least that won't bury her reputation as the first person to collect firewood.
The so-called one wrong step is one wrong step.
Lin Aqi looked at the cow dung under his right foot and fell into deep thought.
So much?
How can we hide the fact that the girl who is collecting firewood has stepped on cow dung?
To the left, I met the little brother of Zhao Jiawei, and to the right, I was ridiculed by the little sister with a numb face of the Zhu family.
The stench of cow dung muddled the operation of her wisdom little brain.
That's it.
I'll go to the stream and wash my shoes.
Just as he was about to move on, he realized that there was a large piece of cow dung in front of him......
And the place where he stepped on revealed a small smear of white, and he picked up the lump of cow dung with a branch, which was vaguely recognizable, and it was a hand!
The hand trembled slightly, there was still a person under the cow dung!
For the first time, Lin felt that his good luck seemed to be smoked by cow dung.
"Master, Master! Blame me for being too young to take words as. What is regret? Only sigh at the smoke of cow dung. ”
Lin Aqi silently raised her foot and rubbed it on the wooden pier next to her, there was still a little bit of the sole, this filth seemed to be in love with her sole, and she refused to come down.
These shoes are the new ones that the master asked someone to bring back to her a month ago, and the little girl in the city is looking at them!
Before, her old shoes were broken and the soles were replaced, and she didn't have time to show off to the numb-faced little sister of the Zhu family, so she was killed.
"It's really annoying to me!"
The white finger was still moving slightly, struggling desperately, trying to get Lin Archie's attention.
"Got it, got it!" Lin Aqi put down the bamboo basket, "Aren't you just letting me save you!" ”
The finger finally stopped moving.
I wonder who will be under the cow dung? Actually suffered such a catastrophe!
Could it be that dozens of cows are attacking him, and the big guys are pooping on his head, right?
Poor boy.
Lin Aqi covered his mouth and closed his mouth to observe: "Buried so tightly by cow dung, you are really the number one god in the world!" ”
The hand clenched and clenched into a fist.
Lin Archie's posture of picking up firewood was changed to picking dung.
"I said you have such a beautiful hand, it can't be a little girl, right?"
The owner of the hand seemed to have lost his strength and no longer bothered her.
Lin Aqi found a thick branch and struggled to pull the cow dung chop apart.
Sweep left and right, and jump sideways repeatedly.
After a while, she felt something blocking the use of the stick, and she often couldn't dig up the cow dung when it reached that piece.
Repeatedly, a plank was revealed.
Lin Archie's eyes widened: "What is this?" ”
I saw that the man's hand was straightened, and the rest of his body was covered by the plank from his elbow, and the small plank above his head was lifted to reveal a strangely shaped peach-colored rune paper.
Lin Aqi subconsciously picked up the wooden stick, randomly picked up the rune paper on the man's face, and looked at the angry brown eyes.
He was also wearing a silver mask, cold and fierce.
Lin Aqi was so frightened by him that he took two steps back.
"You, who are you? Why is it plotted here? ”
He didn't speak, and Lin Aqi frowned: "Can't you speak?" ”
The man simply closed his eyes.
His hand was stretched straight above his head, and he looked like he was injured and couldn't move.
Lin Archie sighed: "This girl is a good person to the end!" I see that you are a poor little mute, save your life today, and hope that you will not be killed by cattle in the depths of this stream and forest again in the future. ”
Lying on the ground: You've just been killed by a cow!
Lin Aqi is not stupid, the drawing method of the rune paper looks weird at first glance, and it is definitely not a righteous and yang talisman.
Eighty percent of the cow dung was brought from the family of the first two cattle farmers at the back of the village, and it was scattered on wooden planks in disguise as fertilization.
In fact, it is to trap the person in front of him.
The so-called pretending to be a pig can eat a tiger, she will be a fool today, so that this person thinks she is simple-hearted.
lest he fall into the fate of saving him in the coming day, but being killed by him.
The story of the farmer and the snake was told to her in the past.
"Are you coming out?"
Lin Archie was a little tired and sat on the ground to watch him.
This person's eyebrows were cold, Rao was still some distance away from him, and he could also sense the murderous indifference in him.
The man in white opened his eyes and looked at her, and for a moment, Lin Archie felt uncomfortable anywhere.
"Don't look at me like that, I'm just tired and want to take a break."
Yunqi silently closed his eyes again, this girl was not sincere enough to save him.
Sure enough, in the next second, the firewood girl approached him: "However, if you can promise me a benefit, I will immediately lift the plank to save you, how about it?" ”
Lin Aqi pulled a few green leaves and wiped the cow dung residue on the wooden board.
knocked on it, and the scoundrel was proud again: "Ouch, it seems to be quite heavy." ”
Hum.
Ignorant stupid woman!
She didn't know her identity yet, if she saw him one day, I don't know if she would dare to ask him for benefits so presumptuously today?