Chapter 33: Surprise
"It's all ...... Big brother, did you hit it? ”
In the small courtyard of the homecoming under the cover of night, Guili stood at the door with a lantern, and looked at Guichen standing at the door with Yingbaoyue on his back but still wearing six pheasants.
"Uh...... This ......"
Guichen carried the person on his back and stood outside the threshold without saying a word to his sister.
"To tell you the truth, brother," Gui Li looked at him with complicated eyes, "I didn't expect you to really catch game." ”
Guili looked back at a small pile of taro leaves in the corner of the courtyard, "I knew I wouldn't be picking up these things in the afternoon." ”
Sister......
You really trust me......
Although he was despised by his own sister, Guichen looked at the leaves that were abandoned by farmers in the corner and picked up by his sister, who was supposed to be the daughter of the family, and had mixed feelings in his heart.
"Brother, you don't have to blame yourself," although he usually doesn't have a good face for his brother, at least Guili won't go against him at this time, "You have more important things to do, and didn't you come back from hunting so much game this time." ”
"No......" Looking at Gui Li's relieved eyes, Gui Chen's mouth became even more bitter, "I didn't hit it." ”
"Isn't it?" Guichen opened his mouth in amazement, his eyebrows raised, and then he looked at the girl on his back in disbelief, "It can't be...... She, right? ”
"It's ...... this" Guichen's brows were furrowed, what should he say?
Guichen tilted his head slightly, looking at the girl who was lying quietly on his back as if this conversation had nothing to do with him, and his heart was groaning.
If he tells the truth, someone has to believe it?
"These pheasants are ......" Guichen furrowed his eyebrows, "someone sent them." ”
"Sent?" Gui Li was stunned for a moment, and then looked at his brother like a fool.
"Brother, are you kidding me? Still haven't woken up? ”
Not to mention this village, this is a hundred miles away, as long as the people in the villages within the sphere of influence of Sima Fu, let alone send things, which one is not avoiding them?
"It's not for me," Guichen sighed and tilted his head, "It's for her." ”
"She?" Guili was even more shocked, "Someone who knows her? ”
"I don't know," Guichen's head hurts, "it's not human." ”
Guili's eyes widened.
……
……
It's about an hour ago.
"There should be enough radishes to eat," Guichen carried Yinghuyue on his back, looking at the medicine basket that was stuffed full, although only radishes still felt very sorry for his family, he also knew that it was wishful thinking to still want game.
"Wild meat is impossible," he said, turning his head to the girl on his back, "let's go back early, in case we encounter a beast ......."
His unfinished words froze in his throat.
Because through the girl's slender shoulders, a pair of green eyes suddenly lit up in the forest not far away!
"Leopard ......"
His gasps and screams were blocked in his throat the next moment, because just as his heart was pounding, two cold fingers suddenly pressed against his lips.
"It's fine."
Ying Baoyue suddenly looked at him and spoke softly.
"It's not murderous."
It's okay? Does this woman never know to be afraid?
"Don't move, don't speak."
The girl lying on his back didn't look back, but as if she knew what was going on behind her, Guichen turned her head stiffly, standing motionless, her heart almost beating out of her throat.
I don't know how long it took for Guichen to hear the sound of Yingyue hugging the moon in the sky.
"It's gone."
Let's go?
Guichen sweated his back and turned his head tremblingly, those blue eyes had disappeared. Just when he sighed that they were really fateful, he only heard the girl sigh and speak, "Thank you, it's a little too much." ”
Too much?
What is too much?
Guichen turned around and looked at where the blue eyes had been, only to find that there were a bunch of things on the ground.
It was only in the moonlight that he saw that it was actually a pile of pheasants.
"It can't finish eating it for us," said the maiden on the shoulder, patting him on the shoulder.
"Let's leave ten turnips for him, too."
The pheasant pile on the ground turned into ten shiny turnips, and Guichen walked down the mountain with the pheasant and the girl on his back, feeling as if he was dreaming.
……
……
"That's it." Guichen looked at his sister and explained.
"Brother, you didn't wake up last night, did you?" Guili looked at him and spoke expressionlessly.
Well, he knew it would be like this.
Guichen took a deep breath, didn't want to speak, and stepped into the house in silence, and at this moment, from behind Gui Li, there was a panicked cry from Muhammad.
"Chen'er, Miss Yue, you're back...... How did it come to this? ”
Muhammad came out of the kitchen with an apron on, and looked at the wounded and dirty boy in front of him.
Sure enough, only the mother could see her son injured.
"I encountered a little accident," Guichen naturally couldn't tell the trap, "I'm nothing, it's just that Mingyue ......"
"I fell while pulling turnips." The girl on her back finally raised her head and said.
The soles of Guichen's feet slipped.
Can she make it up a little more fake?
"Really?" Mu looked suspiciously at his son and the girl on his back.
"Well," Ying Baoyue gently tapped Guichen's shoulder, "So it's no big deal, Guichen thank you, let me down." ”
In Gui Li's unkind gaze, Gui Chen said to Ying Baoyue with some hesitation, "Your hand ......"
Her hand had been removed from his shoulder......
If he didn't let go, Guichen had a hunch that she would push his hand away next.
Guichen turned around, and a second before Ying Huyue came down by himself, he quickly put the girl on his back on the steps.
"Thank you." Ying Baoyue sat on the steps and smiled, Guichen looked away uncomfortably, but touched the eyes of his mother next to him, and the young man quickly untied the pheasant on his body and walked to the kitchen with the radish in his arms.
"Alright, I'm dying of hunger, let's cook."
Mu came back to his senses and walked to the kitchen, "I'll come, you go next door and borrow a kitchen knife." ”
However, the next moment, the hem of her skirt was pulled.
"I'll help you, ma'am,"
Mu turned around, only to find that the girl behind him had already risen from the steps.
"What can you do?" Guili frowned and looked at Ying Baoyue, "Don't come to make trouble." ”
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……
"She's probably not here to make trouble."
A quarter of an hour later, in the corner of the kitchen, the Gui brothers and sisters, who were standing empty-handed, silently looked at the scene in front of them, and Guichen spoke, "You misunderstood her again." ”
"Don't talk about me, it's not you who almost dropped the bowl just after seeing her enter the kitchen." Return to the stiff opening.
Was he scared for some other reason, Guichen stared at the wrist of the girl not far away.
It's just that he really didn't expect this scene in front of him.