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It was getting dark.

Li Bai, who was lying on the bed, felt that the food tonight seemed to be quite good, in addition to a large steamed cake with rough workmanship, there was also a large wooden bowl of the rich bone broth with meat pieces.

It was the most authentic mountain delicacies, except that the seasoning might be a little bit worse, Li Bai couldn't find anything too big wrong with himself.

And this is the benefit of the Orion family in the mountains, although the life is relatively hard, but for the silent but diligent Lin Dalang, in addition to the fur and some valuable parts that need to be exchanged for money and grain, there is always some water or leftovers left, and those things that are not easy to sell or cannot be sold have naturally become the materials for him to improve the food for his family.

Anyway, even Li Bai, the second generation from a thousand years later, has nothing to be picky about Uncle Lin's food, especially after he has seen the more unsightly food of some people in the village?

But the only thing that made Li Bai a little criticized was: at night, after getting dark and eating and drinking, there was no entertainment, and he and the little girl Lin Qingmei were directly driven back to the room to rest by that Uncle Lin, and they were not given the opportunity to go out to the wild at all, even if he said that he wanted to practice his sword for a while in the open space in front of his house or go to the river to get some water and take a bath!

The rough man who is not good at words on the outside, but has a ghostly temperament is undoubtedly very protective of calves, for him who is afraid that there will be some mountain spirits and wild monsters at night to snatch away his baby daughter or 'half-son' Li Bai, going out at night is an absolutely not allowed option, even if it is himself.

'It is not safe outside at night, so rest quickly.' ’

'I'll talk about it later!' ’

This is what Lin Dalang said when he told the two of them not to frolic and go to bed early, basically Li Bai has lived in this small village for nearly two months, and the other party has said this every day, and even his tone has not changed.

“……”

Therefore, after being driven back to the room every night, before sleepiness hits and goes to sleep, thinking about life and various problems has become Li Bai's daily routine.

Today, of course, was no exception, and he was silently staring at the roof above that was bound and nailed tightly by planks and thatch, with his arms on his arms.

He's thinking......

Think about the strange and strange problems you encounter when practicing swords on weekdays, such as your plan in this world, the progress of sword practice, how many years it will take to practice to the extent that you can protect yourself in this world, and the kind of thing called 'sword qi' that you accidentally discovered, the kind of thing that flows like a gossamer in your body, but you can't figure out the doorway and how to use it, etc.?

Anyway, all kinds of things and secrets that can't be told to outsiders, Li Bai has become accustomed to thinking about them every night when the night is not deep but people are very quiet, and find the key to the problem and the solution, and then practice them the next day.

'Hey~♡'

'Brother Li Bai, what are you thinking? ’

Suddenly, a small faint voice came from the bed a few steps away, and when Li Bai turned his head, he found a faint silhouette sitting up in the curtain woven with twine, that is, the mosquito net.

And that person is undoubtedly Lin Dalang's daughter, his Li Bai's nemesis sister Lin Qingmei!

“……”

That's right, Li Bai and the little girl Lin Qingmei do live in the same room now.

Although the etiquette of the Tang Dynasty was relatively loose and open, it was indeed a bit shocking for a man to live in the boudoir of a little girl, but there was no way, where did there be so many curves and curves in a hard-working Orion family like this?

After all, Lin Dalang's family only has a small hall and two small houses, and one of them has long collapsed and been transformed into a small kitchen with a stove, and the remaining one bedroom and one living room are naturally occupied by Li Bai and Lin Qingmei, and Lin Dalang is directly covered in the hall.

Therefore, if Li Bai didn't want to go to the grass pile and firewood pile in the kitchen, there would not be many options left for him.

Besides, Li Bai is still a child now, and Lin Qingmei is obviously too, so this kind of thing is not too important, besides, Uncle Lin also said that after a while, he will call the carpenter Lin San Uncle in the village to build one or two new houses next to him, and then Li Bai and Lin Qingmei, who are older, can have one room for each person, and they don't need to be crowded together like now.

But that was later, and although Li Bai was now able to share the same room with his sister Qingmei, he couldn't sleep in the same bed with the other party, but built a very simple bunk with wooden planks next to him, and it was the kind that didn't even have a mosquito net.

Because, buying a mosquito net also costs money, for Li Bai, a person who suddenly appeared out of the plan, life was already a little embarrassing, and there was no land to cultivate, and there was naturally no good way to settle it in a short period of time, so he had to make do with it so casually for the time being.

"I didn't think about anything, you go to sleep!"

Seeing that the little man in the mosquito net still had no intention of lying down, Li Bai, who found that his silence could not stop the other party from getting to the bottom of it, had to sigh secretly and persuade.

Now that Uncle Lin is still in the hall outside, if they talk louder, they will definitely be discovered, and then they will inevitably be reprimanded.

"Boom~♡"

"Brother Li Bai, I can't sleep now, or ...... Can you teach me to read for a while? ”

The little girl Lin Qingmei obviously couldn't sleep for the time being, so she came to pester Li Bai.

"Don't you, do you?"

"This big night, Uncle Lin is sleeping, what are you reading?"

Li Bai was a little unhappy.

Because, recently, when the relationship between the two brothers and sisters is getting better and better, and they are getting more and more familiar, the other party has become more and more pestering, often pestering him to tell stories without sleeping in the middle of the night, first "Journey to the West", and then "Romance of the Gods", and finally forced him to have no choice, and after sacrificing the big killer of "Strange Tales from Liaozhai", the other party finally stopped for two or three days.

So, if he could, he really didn't want the other party to develop some bad habits, especially the kind that would pester him every night!

“！！”

"Do you teach?"

However, with Li Bai's words, the little man in the mosquito net sat up directly on his knees, obviously very dissatisfied with his answer?

"Don't teach!"

"If you dare to come over, I will dare to call someone, just right, let your father know that you crazy girl often beats me in different ways, see if he doesn't clean you up!"

Relying on the fact that Uncle Lin lived in the hall outside, Li Bai was very spineless and lifted the only backer who could make the other party afraid.

Because Li Bai is a scholar, he can read and write, and his usual conversation is more like a little adult who has seen the world, so Lin Dalang is very sure that Li Bai is likely to be from a big family, but he accidentally fell into the river and floated to Changgan Village, so the other party has always been very precious and takes good care of him Li Bai!

Of course, if he didn't know that the other party was still 'selling' him for a good price or raising him as a 'half-child', he Li Bai would definitely be grateful to him.

"You ......"

As soon as Li Bai's words came out, the little girl kneeling on the bed opposite instantly choked with anger, obviously not having a good way to Li Bai's lazy attitude.

‘……’

“……”

The room soon became quiet, the little girl kneeling in the mosquito net did not continue to speak, and Li Bai, who was covering the bed outside, did not talk, and the two sides confronted each other silently.

However, when Li Bai felt that the other party was angry for a while at most, and then had to lie down and sleep again, unexpectedly, the little figure in the mosquito net suddenly spoke:

"Brother Li Bai~♡"

"If you don't teach...... People will go to tell their father tomorrow, saying that you often sneak into other people's beds in the middle of the night to sleep, and you always bully other people......"

The sweet and greasy voice sounded slowly, but it scared Li Bai's long hair, which he had thought about cutting short countless times, almost stood up.

“！！”

"Y-You're crazy? How can that kind of thing be said nonsense? It was just too cold that day, so we just went over to warm up, and you didn't object to it then?! ”

To be honest, Li Bai was really a little scared.

Although he may not be beaten to death by Uncle Lin or anything if this kind of thing is said, after all, his body is only eight years old, and Lin Qingmei's eight years old is still a virtual age, and he is powerless to do some things, and the little girl is even more ignorant, even if he says it, others will not believe it, at most, it is just that Uncle Lin will set him a baby kiss on the spot and force him to admit this family business?

However, the thought of having to settle something with a smaller little Lori when he was only eight years old always made him feel uncomfortable, a little weird and goosebumps.

The conscience of heaven and earth, he Li Bai has never thought anything wrong about the little girl Lin Qingmei, who often beats herself at every turn and often rides on her neck, even if she has, his little Ding Ding, who has not grown all his hair, will not support it, he just treats the other party as his own sister to get along.

Besides......

Isn't it normal for two seven or eight-year-old boys and girls to sleep together? Anyway, Li Bai thinks that it is normal, there is nothing unusual at all, the reason why he is nervous is just that he is afraid that some rigid and old dogmas and concepts of people in this era will have some bad consequences for him.

"No matter!"

"Just say whether you teach or not!"

The shadow in the darkness was so angry that she leaned directly from the mosquito net towards the edge of the bed, as if she wanted to get closer to Li Bai's bed in order to make her words more threatening?

"I ......"

"Can't I teach?"

"Grandma, say it! What do you want to learn this big night? ”

Li Bai was helpless, in this unfamiliar world, and even in the world where he was unacquainted, he met such a little girl whose force value was much stronger than his own boy, and he himself was also desperate, what else could he do except compromise and pretend to be his grandson?

"Hee~♡"

"Then Brother Li Bai, what will you teach?"

“……”

"I can do anything!"

“！！”

"That person will learn ♡ everything!"

The little girl said very angrily, and poked her face out of the bed heavily protected by mosquito nets in the darkness, and smiled silently at Li Bai.

Although he didn't see it clearly, Li Bai could guess it anyway, the other party must have laughed, and he was still very proud and cunning?

"Then teach you to read a passage of "Thousand Words"......"

"Listen, I'll read it now, and you will follow me later, remember to whisper: Heaven and earth are yellow, and the universe is desolate. The sun and the moon are shining, and the sun and moon are shining. The cold comes and the summer comes, and the autumn harvest and the winter hide ......"

Helpless, Li Bai, who found that he couldn't control the other party, had no choice but to read the thousand-character text in a whisper.

At this time, there seemed to be some movement and footsteps in the outer hall of the dilapidated house in the direction of their room, but soon, the movement outside slowly calmed down.

Obviously, Uncle Lin outside had heard them frolicking inside, but it may be that the other party found out that it was him Li Bai who was studying, and Lin Qingmei's voice also read softly, the other party hesitated for a while and finally didn't come in to interfere.

Perhaps, in that Lin Dalang's opinion, reading at night should be a very sacred thing, right?

"Heaven and earth are yellow, and the universe is desolate?"

"That's great!"

"It sounds so interesting, and it feels very smooth to read, Brother Li Bai, what is this article called?"

Lin Qingmei felt that the article that Li Bai taught her now was much more interesting than the Arabic numerals, arithmetic problems and writing exercises that Li Bai taught her in the previous days.

"It's called Thousand Characters, and it's made up of 1,000 Chinese characters."

Li Bai didn't think about hiding it, so he said it generously.

"A thousand words, a thousand words?"

"But Brother Li Bai, you don't seem to have read as many words as a thousand words just now......"

After learning a little bit of arithmetic, and pinching her fingers and toes in the mosquito net and counting silently, the little girl quickly came to a conclusion, that is: The paragraph that Brother Li Bai read just now did not have a thousand words at all, only fifty-six words!

"It's too long to finish reading, I'm going to learn this paragraph first tonight, I'm a little sleepy......"

Originally, Li Bai was not sleepy, but when he thought of teaching this curious little girl like a baby, he was one head and two big, so he just wanted to go to bed quickly, and then look forward to tomorrow's rooster crowing early, and the morning sun rising earlier?

"No way!"

"You must finish tonight, or people will not be able to sleep!"

After being aroused by the desire to learn, the little girl was obviously a little reluctant, and if it weren't for the fact that it was night, she would have rushed towards Li Bai a long time ago.

"Still don't want it, right? Uncle Lin, who is too loud and easy to make noises outside, has just woken up once. ”

At this time, Li Bai heard the thunderous snoring sound outside again, he was a little reluctant to toss, and he also wanted to sleep a little.

"Hmmm......"

"Or, Brother Li Bai, you come to the mosquito net and read it to others gently?"

After a pause, Lin Qingmei didn't seem to want to quarrel with her father outside again, so she proposed.

"Don't!"

Li Bai didn't want to go in and sleep in the same bed with the other party again, even if he was still a child, but after all, it was always not good to do that in this era.

"Not really coming?"

"Not coming!"

"Brother Li Bai~♡"

"I'm sleepy......"

"Brother Li Bai!!"

“……”

"Humph! You, can't you get in? ”

Finally, after seeing that the soft grinding and hard bubbles had no effect, the little girl Lin Qingmei snorted directly, and then said viciously in that extremely threatening tone.

In the past, once she spoke in this tone, it proved that she was ready to use 'force', so it was better for someone to know each other?

“！！”

"Don't!!"

"I ...... I'm in! Can't I go in and read it to you?! ”

Li Bai, who felt that no one might be able to sleep tonight if he didn't finish reading the thousand-character text, thought about it, and found that Uncle Li's snoring in the hall outside the room was still like thunder, so he had no choice but to crawl out of his animal skin quilt, and then tiptoed into the little girl's thief's smug smile, and helplessly touched the other party's warm little quilt.

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