There was a faint echo outside, and she wondered, isn't it winter in the north, how could there be such green trees, let alone wild flowers and weeds everywhere, could she have come to the south?

But it doesn't look like it, it looks like a primeval forest, the air is warm and humid, and it can be called a paradise.

Just as he was thinking about it, a crisp children's voice came from far and near:

"Someone, someone, here!"

She was stunned for a moment, followed the sound, and a rush of footsteps came closer and closer, and a little girl gradually appeared in her sight, wearing two pigtails, wearing a small red cloth coat, gray trousers, and was running towards the wooden house.

She was a little stunned, who was this kid? She wouldn't really come to a place like the one in "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring" written by Tao Yuanming, right?

The little girl ran all the way, panting and standing under the hut, looking up at her, laughing happily, and saying aloud:

"Sister, are you awake? You wait, I'll come! ”

Immediately after, I heard the sound of little feet stepping on the wooden staircase...... After a while, the little girl ran up with a bamboo basket.

"Sister, grandma said you would wake up today, you really woke up."

She said as she ran up to her, and then raised the bamboo basket high above her head, and showed her like a treasure, the bamboo basket might be a little heavy, and she looked a little struggling.

"Here, sister, this is the meal that grandma prepared for you, you can eat it quickly."

Lin Ling'er was afraid that she would be tired, so she quickly took the bamboo basket, touched her head, and then squatted down.

"Baby, sù sister, what's your name? How old are you this year? ”

"My name is Stone and I'm six years old."

"Stones?"

Lin Ling'er was a little surprised, she looked like a girl, why did she choose a boy's name?

"You're a girl?"

This is an affirmative interrogative sentence.

"Well, yes. I knew what my sister was trying to ask, why I was a girl and had a boy's name. ”

Stone said matter-of-factly.

Lin Ling'er thought it was interesting and nodded:

"Well, you're smart."

The stone raised his chin, his appearance was proud and cute, and people couldn't help laughing, but Lin Ling'er tried his best to hold back.

"My grandmother said that a boy's name is good for support."

Is that why?

It's no wonder that this saying is still circulating in the modern countryside, let alone now?

She smiled and said:

"Well, the stone is a good name, and it sounds like you must be a very strong child."

"Of course."

Not only does the stone have a boy-like name, but even his behavior is somewhat boyish.

She took the stone hand and sat down at the table, put the bamboo basket on the wooden table, lifted the white cloth on it, and saw the food contained in the bamboo basket, which was a bowl of white rice, a bowl of braised pork and a plate of stir-fried vegetables.

The aroma came to her nose, her stomach suddenly growled, the stone covered her mouth and smiled, and Lin Ling'er couldn't help laughing.

Stone helped her take out the food and said:

"Sister, you must be hungry, right? You've slept for three days and three nights, and if you don't get up to eat, I'm afraid you'll starve to death! ”

She slept for three days and three nights?

Ever since she woke up, strange things seemed to come one after another, and since Stone lived here, she should be familiar with this place, right?

"Stone, can you tell Sister Sù, what kind of place is this? How did I get here? ”

She clearly remembered that she was exiled to the Great Snow Mountain, on the Great Snow Mountain, Nangong Jue's people and Mu Yu's people fought together, Nangong Jue killed Mu Tu, and wanted to take her away, but she fainted unhappily......

Stone's eyes rolled and thought and thought, but in the end he only gave her four words:

"I don't know."

After speaking, she ran downstairs without giving Lin Ling'er a chance to speak.

Lin Ling'er looked at her thin little back, and couldn't help but fall down, although she didn't freeze to death or starve to death in the snowy mountains, although she came out of the snowy mountains, but the reality made her confused, she didn't know where she was, how she got here, could this be Nangong's means of imprisoning her?

She really didn't know whether she should be happy or sad, the food was to her taste, but she was uneasy and couldn't swallow it.

Shi just mentioned grandma, yes, it is impossible for such a young child to live alone, right? Maybe she could ask her grandma.

Just thinking about it, there was another sound of footsteps on the stairs, different from the footsteps of the stone, this time the footsteps were slow and heavy, she stood up and walked towards the staircase, I really didn't dare to think who the person who came up would be, could it be Nangong Jue?

As the footsteps approached, my heart was raised, but the person who came up was not Nangong Jue, but an old woman.

The old woman smiled kindly, and when she saw Lin Ling'er standing there stunned, she hurriedly walked over and took her hand, and greeted warmly:

"Girl, don't stand here, come and sit down, you just woke up, your body is weak, don't suffer from the cold."

Lin Ling'er was pulled by her to sit down at the table, and the old woman looked at the food on the table and said with a smile,

"This little stone is just anxious, I saw you wake up and brought the food, I didn't have time to heat it up, girl, you bear with it first, I'll give you a hot one, and it will be fine right away."

As she spoke, the old woman put the food back into the bamboo basket, picked it up and was about to leave, but Lin Ling'er grabbed the corner of her clothes.

"Old woman, where is this? Why am I here? ”

A pair of big eyes are watery, clear and pure, and lovable.

The old woman looked at her, patted her hand gently, showed a trace of pity on her kind face, and said:

"Girl, don't worry, I'll give you a hot meal, and we'll talk while eating in a while."

After that, he gave Lin Ling'er a reassuring smile, and went downstairs with a bamboo basket.

This old woman gives people an inexplicable sense of security, and her granddaughter Xiaoshi, she doesn't look like a bad person, if she is a bad person, I'm afraid she won't take care of her who has slept here for three days and three nights, maybe she has already been sold for rice and eaten.

Thinking like this, she no longer struggled, she got up and observed the room upstairs, there was no furniture, just some daily utensils, the area of the room was not small, very spacious, and very comfortable.

There is a large platform connected to a door, and it should not be an exaggeration to call it a "balcony", but this balcony is very large, and you can have a party and an open-air barbecue on it, but it should be difficult to prevent fire from this pure wooden structure.

Coming back from the balcony and thinking about it, she went down the narrow stairs downstairs, the area downstairs was about the same size as the upstairs, the furnishings were simple, there was a large bed, probably where the grandparents and grandchildren stayed.

A voice came from outside the door, and she followed it out, and saw a small kitchen, where the old woman was helping her to heat her meal, and the little stone was crouched on the side drawing something on the ground with burnt charcoal.

Her feet touched the earth again, and it felt so unreal, she looked up at the towering trees, and the sunlight scattered through the gaps in the leaves, creating a quiet, mysterious space.

The little stone spotted her and threw the charcoal and ran towards her.

"Sister, why did you come down? Grandma said that you are weak and need to rest more. ”

She withdrew her gaze, looked at the little stone with a smile, and said:

"My sister is fine, I want to come down and walk around. What were you just drawing? ”

She looked over to the floor of the kitchenette.

Stone grinned:

"I'm drawing butterflies, you see there are a lot of butterflies here, are they beautiful?"

She pointed to the butterflies fluttering among the wildflowers, which were indeed beautiful, they were of different colors, and they were so beautiful that they were unrealistically beautiful.

Merely...... This scene suddenly made her heart tighten, once Mu Jiuxiao took her to the Muqing Valley in order to verify her embroidery skills, where there is also such a scenery, towering ancient trees, flying butterflies, a qiē here suddenly became familiar, is it ......

No, it's impossible, Mu Jiuxiao exiled her, how could he bring her to the Pastoral Valley?

Besides, there must be more than one paradise in the world like the Valley of Pastoral Feelings, she told herself not to think about it, and she didn't want to go around and return to the original point.

"Sister, what are you looking at?"

The stone shook her hand and followed her gaze to see that it was nothing special, so he asked puzzledly.

She came back to her senses, but her face was a little bad.

"I'm looking at butterflies, it's so beautiful."

She coaxed her,

"Let's go, let's go see if the butterfly you drew is beautiful."

As she spoke, she picked up the stone and walked to the kitchen, but the stone held her back.

"Don't look at it, don't look at it, the butterflies I drew are not good-looking, why don't my sister draw me a beautiful butterfly?"

The stone man is a big ghost, and he thinks that he can't draw well, so he wants to see if Lin Ling'er is the same, if she doesn't draw well, she will be much more balanced.

Lin Ling'er saw her ghost eyes, touched her head and said:

"Okay, then you bring the charcoal and I'll draw one for you."

"Good!"

The stone happily answered and ran to the kitchenette to get charcoal, and the old woman looked at the two of them but smiled and did not speak.

Lin Ling'er took the blackened charcoal, thought about it, and drew it on the stone slab on the ground.

With his little chin in his hands, Stone watched her paint very seriously, and when he saw her work, he sat down on the ground and smiled.

"What's wrong? Is my butterfly so funny? ”

She asked with a deliberate frown.

The stone laughed enough, covered his mouth and whispered:

"Sister, you are so ugly, uglier than me...... Haha......"

Lin Ling'er also sat on the ground like her, and smiled, of course she knew that she was ugly, and she was not very good at drawing, but this time she deliberately painted ugly, because only in this way can the painting of the stone be highlighted, children need confidence, as long as they have confidence, she will be able to do anything.

"Okay, don't laugh, come, my sister will teach you to draw a fun thing."

She took the little hand that had passed the stone and held the charcoal, and then she held the little hand of the stone and drew on the ground, muttering as she drawn:

"An old man, I owe us both Liuliu, I said three days to pay it back, he said four days to pay it back, fuck you off, I said three days to pay it back, that is, three days to pay it back!"

When he had finished speaking, and the painting was finished, the image of an old man's head appeared on the stone slab, and the stone's eyes widened in surprise, and then he giggled.

"It's so fun, sister, teach me ......"

"Okay, okay, stone, stop pestering my sister, let my sister eat first."

At this time, the old woman came out of the small kitchen with food and entered the wooden house downstairs and beckoned Lin Ling'er over.

"Let's go, let's eat with my sister."

Lin Ling'er got up and led the stone to the house, in fact, eating is secondary, playing with the stone for a while does not mean that she has forgotten her situation, she needs to know what happened after she fainted.