Chapter 11: Silent Guard

"Ahh Picking up the bronze mirror treasured in the wooden box, he was shocked when he saw it, and couldn't help but let out an exclamation.

However, the screams that should have shook the world became silent. Liu touched his throat in panic and screamed hard, but still couldn't make a single sound.

What's going on? She just slept for a while, and when she woke up, her face turned into a pig's head and she couldn't even speak. Liu vigorously pushed the man next to him who was sleeping like a dead pig, pointing to his gaping mouth, his small eyes full of anxiety and fear.

Gu Qiao, who was tired from going up the mountain yesterday, was shaken awake and glanced out the window. Seeing that it was just dawning outside, he turned over impatiently, turned his back to Liu and closed his eyes again.

However, in Liu's unrelenting shaking, where could he sleep. Gu Qiao got up and yelled unhappily: "You mother-in-law, why did you wake me up so early?" You don't have to get up so early to go up the mountain, can't you let me sleep peacefully? ”

Looking at Liu's bruised and swollen face like a pig's head, he screamed "whooping", kicked the other party off the kang, and shouted: "Where did the monster come from!" ”

Liu fell on his back, and his fat ass smashed to the ground with a loud noise. She screamed in pain, but when she opened her mouth, it was still lonely!

Gu Qiao rubbed his eyes and finally recognized Liu. A trace of disgust flashed in his eyes, and he reluctantly got off the kang, and with all his strength, he helped his mother-in-law back to the kang, and said complainingly: "You went to steal people's chickens in the middle of the night?" How did you get beaten like this? ”

Liu tried a few more times, but he still couldn't make a sound, and he was so anxious that he sweated out. She pointed to her throat and mouth-shaped, "I can't speak!" I'm dumb!! ”

It was easy for Gu Qiao to discern what she was trying to express, and she frowned and said, "Why are you suddenly dumb?" You didn't eat in the mountains yesterday, did you? I haven't heard that there are wild fruits in the mountains that can poison people! ”

Liu shook his head desperately, so anxious that tears flowed all over his face.

Gu Qiao saw the two pieces of eye feces on his mother-in-law's eyes, coupled with the swollen big cake face, and couldn't bear to look away. If it wasn't for the surnamed Miao, how could he be so poor, nested in this poor countryside, and his second marriage was reduced to marrying such a vulgar and ugly woman?

The difficult life has wiped out all his feelings for his ex-wife Miao, and he is extremely unkind to his two children, especially Gu Yeer's stinky girl!!

"You wait, I'll invite Dr. Wu to show you!" Gu Qiao got dressed, pushed open the door and walked out slowly. didn't even give Gu Ye, who was busy in the kitchen, a look.

Wu Angelica, the only doctor in the village, after coming to Gu's house for a while, shook his head and said, "Strange, there is not the slightest abnormality in the pulse, and there is no redness and swelling in the throat...... How can you be speechless? ”

Liu stared anxiously: Who is the doctor? You ask the old lady, who does the old lady ask?

Although Gu Qiao thought that the Liu family was making trouble on weekdays, he didn't want his mother-in-law to become dumb, so he asked with concern: "Doctor Wu, do you see my mother-in-law's illness, is there a way to cure it?" ”

The past events made Wu Angelica take warning, and for the difficult lesions he had not been exposed to, he was no longer as reckless as he was when he was young. Hearing this, he shook his head and said, "Forgive me for being lonely and unheard, I have never seen such a disease. I think you should go to the town and find the doctor in Jimintang! ”

As he spoke, he shook his head, picked up the medicine box and turned to leave.

Liu and Gu Qiao glanced at each other, and they could see anxiety and worry in each other's eyes.

Gu Qiao thought for a while and said, "Now is the best time to pick up mountain goods. If we miss it, we'll have to tighten our belts next year. In my opinion...... You just can't speak, and it doesn't affect your work, and after this time, if your throat is not good, go to the town to see the doctor. Do you think it's okay? ”

Liu struggled for a long time before nodding helplessly. Husband and wife, you look at me, I look at you, and they are all wondering what is going on with the wound on Liu's face and throat.

"It's time to eat!" When Gu Ye's voice sounded in the courtyard. Liu Shi got down from the kang, and the slight pain in her ankle reminded her of what the dead girl said yesterday!

There is a god three feet above her head, could it be that her fall yesterday was a warning given to her by the gods, and today she became dumb, and it was her punishment for disrespect to the gods? Thinking of this, she suddenly shuddered, folded her hands, and bowed to the gods of the four directions.

Gu Qiao saw her chattering appearance, and the impatience in his heart was even stronger, so he didn't bother to care about her anymore, and went straight out of the house and sat down next to a stone in the courtyard that was used as a table.

Breakfast is the same old thing, coarse grain cakes, corn porridge, and a plate of pickles. remembered that more than ten years ago, he ate and drank in Yancheng without worry, and he still had a salary of two taels of silver per month. In contrast, what kind of life are you living now! He has had enough of this hard life, when will he be a head!

Today, the whole family had to go up to the mountain to dig wild vegetables and pick up mountain goods, so they made more cakes as dry food and kept them for noon to satisfy their hunger. At breakfast, the family was very surprised to see Liu's swollen and deformed face. Gu Ye's disguised surprise was just right, but it did not arouse everyone's suspicions.

If you want to change the usual, the children's inquiring eyes have long been exchanged for Liu's annoyed and angry scolding. But today, until everyone went out to the mountain, it was calm.

For this, Gu Ming was surprised. The brother and sister walked at the end, and he lowered his voice and said to Gu Ye: "Today, the old witch has changed sex, and she is not looking for trouble!" ”

Gu Ye smiled and said, "Maybe the injury on the face is too serious, and it hurts when you speak, so it stopped, right?" ”

"Sister, what did you say that mother-in-law did to lack morality, and our father was willing to use such a ruthless hand to beat people like that?" Overnight, the face was swollen like that, and it was inevitable that people would suspect that the couple had a conflict.

Gu Ye raised her eyebrows and smiled happily: "Is there less of a lack of virtue in her work?" According to me, it is better to beat it up a little harder to relieve my anger. Gu Ming nodded in agreement.

When the brother and sister arrived at the pine forest where the pine tower was beaten yesterday, they did not see their friends. Maybe they came early.

handed over the task of finding medicine to Ling Jiechen, who was quietly following the two brothers and sisters at this time. I watched the little girl cheerfully pick up the pine tower, and let out a joyful cheer when she found the ripe berries. After crossing, this girl's temperament is much more lively. In her previous life, she always had a serious and dull face in front of her, but she was extremely sullen in private.

"Brother, let's dig more traps in the mountains, if we're lucky, we can eat a meal of meat every few days!"

On the mountains near the village, the reserve of small game is still quite abundant, and Zhang Orion, who is proficient in hunting in the village, has a harvest every time he enters the mountain, which makes the people in the village envious. Gu Ye thinks that his skills in catching prey are no worse than anyone else's. However, you have to find a reasonable and suitable source for your prey, right?

Gu Ming also dug a few traps to catch prey in the mountains, but rarely gained anything. However, he was reluctant to disappoint his sister, so he nodded and said, "Okay!" I'll go back and get the pickaxe, and we'll dig a few more pits in a hidden place. ”

Most of the people in the mountains are relatively simple and honest, and even if the villagers pass by, few people will take the prey in the traps dug by others. In their opinion, taking it is not their own, and it is no different from stealing. Stealing chickens and dogs is to be despised and expelled by the whole village.

However, it is not absolute. Wu Angelica's mother-in-law once did such a thing, and she was arrested. Aunt Wu's reputation is also extremely stinky in the village. If it weren't for her man's ability to use medical skills, he would have been driven out of Qingshan Village by the whole village a long time ago.

The siblings dug two traps nearby and covered them with weeds as a camouflage. In order to prevent others from falling in, signs were carved into the surrounding trees. When the rest of the village saw the mark, they would take a detour.

Gu Ye planned, when the back basket was full, and when her brother went down the mountain to send Songta, she went around the mountain, and when she hit the prey, she threw it into the trap, pretending that the prey fell into it by itself. Well, that's it, perfect!

Ling Juechen, who had been following her, had a faint smile on her lips, like flowers blooming, like fireworks falling, like a dream like a fairy. His long and tall figure disappeared in the mountains and forests, and when he reappeared, there was a struggling pheasant in his hand.

"The little girl's body is too weak, it's time to drink more chicken soup to make up for it!" Ling Juechen looked at the back of the thin man who was as thin as a firewood stick not far away, and a trace of distress flashed in his handsome eyes. He came to the shoddy trap and knocked the pheasant unconscious and threw it in. With such a shallow trap, pheasants can easily fly out. It's so unprofessional!

"Gu Ming, there seems to be movement in your trap!" Today, only Li Hao came to pick pine nuts, and the other friends all went to pull wild vegetables.

Li Hao knew about the Gu Ming brothers and sisters digging traps. People come and go here, wild things rarely appear, and he has no hope in his heart for these two traps. But when he passed by one of the traps again, he found that the grass on it seemed to have been touched by something, revealing the trap's mouth.

Gu Ming, who was holding a bamboo pole to hit the pine tower, lost the bamboo pole and ran over when he heard the words. Gu Ye also followed curiously. At this time, the pheasant in the trap had just woken up and was fluttering in it dizzily. Gu Ming pounced in surprise, picked up a stick casually, and knocked the prey unconscious again. (Pheasant: Why is it always me who gets hurt!) )

Gu Ye pretended to have a happy expression on his face, but he was very surprised in his heart: his plan hadn't been implemented yet, and there was no trace of prey in the vicinity, where did this stupid pheasant come from? However, she quickly put the doubts in her mind into her mind, and discussed with her brother with great interest how to eat the pheasant.

"Let's boil the soup and drink it! Chicken soup raises people, and the doctor said that you have a weak stomach and can't eat big meat. Gu Ming rejected her sister's proposal to roast pheasants.

Li Hao smirked: "I'll go get a crockpot and salt!" "Last time, there were many people, and one person only got two or three pieces of chicken, and I couldn't enjoy it. There are only three of them today, enough for everyone to have a full meal!

Li Hao touched the light of the Gu sisters, and ate two meals of chicken in a row, and at this time he already regarded his good buddy Gu Ming as closer than his own brother. And patted his chest and promised that Gu Ming's sister was his sister, and he would cover her!