Yu Qingmei protected Sister Rou behind her and asked in a cold voice:

"Brother Xian, who are these two?"

Li Xixian smiled:

"Sister, don't panic, these two Mr. Chu are here for business in Xiangyun Town. They were going to send an urgent letter to the prefectural magistrate.

It's just that they were in too much of a hurry to get there, and they missed the lodging, so they planned to camp in this mountain.

They saw the light of the fire and came to find it. ”

Both of them carried weapons and wore short clothes and narrow sleeves that were convenient for movement, and they were either high-rollers or people in the army.

But the excuse they gave Li Xixian turned out to be going to Xiangyun Town on business?

Yu Qingmei looked at the two men suspiciously.

They don't have the kind of marketplace atmosphere that is common in public people. However, it does not have the simplicity of ordinary villagers, or the bookish atmosphere of readers.

The one holding the burden seems to be the one who has the final say among the two.

This person's face is very outstanding, and he belongs to the kind of dignified and majestic national character face that is respected by the world. The eyebrows are thick, the eyes are like stars, the nose is straight and the mouth is square, and the face is quite a bit of the wind and frost color of running around for days.

I just don't know why, my face is a little pale and haggard.

Is it injured or too tired?

Seeing the two little girls looking at him suspiciously, his eyes shot at Yu Qingmei like electricity, and he actually saw Yu Qingmei suddenly. She felt a strong aura in her face.

This man, with this all-round style, definitely doesn't look like a petty official who runs errands and delivers official documents.

The one holding the big knife, with a dark complexion, but a baby face, looks very young, roughly estimated to be only sixteen or seventeen years old.

The baby-faced young man blushed a little embarrassedly when he noticed Yu Qingmei's gaze, and then raised his eyes to look at the older man who was full of evil spirits.

It seems to ask something with his eyes.

Seeing that the man did not object, Babyface put the big knife in his hand to his side, stood up, and saluted Yu Qingmei and Li Yunrou:

"Don't blame the two little ladies, a certain belly is really hungry, can you give this hare to a certain one?"

Yu Qingmei and Li Yunrou glanced at each other, the two of them understood each other's thoughts very tacitly, and both nodded at the young man, and said:

"Lang Jun is polite. We don't need much of that. At this time, it is inconvenient to salute, so don't blame it. ”

With that, he handed the hare in his hand to the young man.

The young man said "Don't dare, don't dare", took the hare with both hands, and then took out a silver ingot from his sleeve pocket and handed it to Yu Qingmei:

"It's just a mundane thing, it's not a tribute to talk about gratitude."

Yu Qingmei smiled and excused herself:

"It's just a hare, why should Lang Jun be polite?"

……

The two sides were polite back and forth for a long time, and Yu Qingmei and the three of them gave the baby-faced young man a hare, six wild eggs, and a handful of wild vegetables, and then sat down peacefully, ready to roast rabbit meat to fill his stomach.

When they were about to pick up the hares, they discovered a fatal problem:

Patronizing in search of food, they have no water!

You can eat wild fruits with a handkerchief, or simply wipe them on the placket of your clothes, but washing vegetables and picking hares are not something that can be done by the placket!

At the end of the day, they had only a thin breakfast, a few small snacks and candied fruit (from the sleeve pockets of green plums), and two handfuls of half-ripe wild cherries......

When I concentrated on finding a place to live and looking for food, I didn't feel it.

Now that the shelter and food were in place, the thirst suddenly became intense, and no matter how hard they tried, they could not ignore it.

As if seeing their predicament, the young man took the initiative to say:

"When I came here, I found a water source nearby......

In the middle of his words, he suddenly paused, turned his head to confirm with the older man, then stood up and walked out of the cave: "I don't understand, I'd better go!" ”

The baby-faced young man came out of the cave, and Yu Qingmei and the others found that he was a little limping when he walked.

I don't know if I was too tired, or if I twisted my foot in the mountains and forests.

……

The baby-faced young man fetched the water and came back, and Li Yunrou showed off her skills, but in a moment, she picked up the rabbits, strung them on willow branches, and put them on the fire to barbecue.

She also buried the few remaining wild eggs in the ash heap under the fire, and waited until they were cooked before eating.

When the aroma of roast rabbit meat flickered up, Yu Qingmei took the willow branch wearing the rabbit very naturally.

She turned the rabbit in one hand and her short knife in the other, and whenever she cooked a part, she slice off a part of the meat, put it on the washed leaves, and then handed it to Li Yunrou and Li Xixian.

At first, they wanted to make soup out of wild vegetables.

Later, I really couldn't find anything suitable for the pot, so I had to wash all the wild vegetables and eat them raw with roast rabbit meat.

Wild onion and small garlic with grilled meat are still very good.

Purslane and plantain don't taste very good, and Yu Qingmei has never eaten them. She was a little surprised when she knew that these two things could be eaten.

……

The three tired children, after eating and drinking enough, soon fell asleep.

Although they were determined to sit by the campfire all night.

Although they don't trust strangers in the same cave as them.

Although they were worried that lying in the cave would be easy to get cold and damp, they were afraid of the wind and cold.

But children of their age are not prone to insomnia.

I've been running around the mountains for so long now, and the fatigue has surpassed everything.

The three of them leaned against each other, Yu Qingmei was at the very edge, Li Yunrou was in the middle, and Li Xixian was closest to the two strangers.

Seeing that the three children were really asleep, Yu Qingmei couldn't even hold the short knife in her hand, Li Xixian even snored, and the baby-faced young man and the older man who was full of anger whispered:

"Uncle Xuan, it's time to change the dressing for your wound."

"There's no hurry."

"This place is really a little shabby, but it should be changed, and it still needs to be changed! Your wound is so deep and bleeding so much! If you don't change the dressing in time, if you have a fever, you will be in trouble! ”

"There's no hurry."

"Uncle Xuan! How can you not take care of yourself like that? You ......"

Seeing that the baby-faced young man was so anxious, the man with a bad body actually smiled:

"Mingze, you help me up first. This man has three urgencies, you know? ”

said the words with a smile, and the evil spirit on the older man seemed to be restrained by him, and it actually gave people a gentle and elegant feeling.

The baby-faced young man blushed again.

He patted his head in annoyance: "My nephew is really stupid as a pig!" ”

Hurriedly bypassing the fire, he walked over to the man, helped him to his feet slowly, and walked deeper into the cave.