CHAPTER XXIII
As she spoke, the mountain girl actively climbed a big tree and quickly took out a handful of bird eggs.
He slipped down from the tree and looked at the hungry eyes of the little flower.
Shanmei said with a smile
"These, the eggs are not enough, you stay here. Wait for me. I'll be down in a minute, and there's something else. ”
After speaking, the mountain girl seemed to be walking on the ground, and climbed another big tree with a waist of several meters thick very quickly.
After a while, the mountain girl disappeared between the dense branches, and the little flower standing under the tree,
I didn't dare to blink and searched around, and I didn't see the mountain girl crawling there.
Just drank a cup of tea, and the mountain girl slipped down by herself. Xiaohua saw that the mountain girl was really full of loads. I took off my clothes early, holding a bag of large and small bird eggs.
The two of them happily walked to the water's edge, and the mountain girl washed some white rice in a very old bamboo basket.
He also packed the rice in a green bamboo tube and put it in the dry pyre he had prepared.
He quickly lit the fire with the flint he brought from home, and the cracked black wood immediately burned.
A puff of green smoke floated through the air.
Then hang up an iron pot. The mountain girl threw all the bird's eggs into it, poured it into the cool mountain spring water in the reservoir, and boiled it together.
The two children looked at the steaming iron pot and smelled the aroma of the boiled birds' eggs.
I heard the sound of "crackling, crackling" in the dry firewood pile.
Full of innocence and joy, they looked at each other and smiled.
Shanmei said with a smile
"Xiaohua, you can dance a rainbow dance for me in a while, okay.
I don't think you're beautiful, I just like to watch you dance.
Your waist is so fine, dancing that dance, it's really more beautiful than my second aunt dancing.
No, it's more beautiful than all the girls in the city, honestly.
Little flowers, it's really beautiful.
At one point, you were dancing yourself, not knowing.
I saw a big green peacock on that tree, watching you dance. Really, Little Flower! I kid you not. ”
was turned over by the heartfelt words of the mountain girl, Xiaohua was moved, and said a little shyly
"I didn't, I didn't believe what you said.
Actually, I'm really dancing, but I also know that everyone around me is watching me dance.
And the magpie, every time I danced, it croaked, croaked.
I knew that the magpie was informing everyone.
So, I jumped a little more seriously. Hee-hee, hee-hee, hee-hee. ”
The mountain girl pursed her lips and said loudly
"You are such a pure girl, and there are times when you are so cunning. Well, you know it all. ”
Xiaohua said with a smile
"I don't know it all, after all, I have to finish the dance moves seriously.
And, I've been thinking lately. I just want to do my own rainbow dance.
I wanted to change the dance moves, and some of the old ones were just not aesthetically pleasing. ”
Shan Mei lifted the pot down with both hands and hung it on the shelf, and carefully placed it on a flat ground.
While rummaging through the green bamboo tube in the burning firewood pile with a branch.
Soon, the mountain sister turned out the blackened green bamboo tubes one by one.
Packed in an old basket, set it aside and poured it with some cold water, and a puff of white smoke flew into the air.
Look at the work that should be done, Shanmei said with a smile
"These are too hot, I'll eat them later.
Dance, show me your new dance moves, and remember not to dance for others, just let me show it. ”
Xiaohua picked up a very slender willow branch and held it in her right hand. He picked up another thick branch.
The imitation was the colored silk she used, and soon Xiaohua began to raise her legs and kick them high into the air.
With a graceful turn, she danced lightly with the two branches. As soon as he raised his head, his black hair flew in the wind.
Then there was a beautiful stretch of her arms, the willow branch, which she danced and made in the air with a 'whoosh, whirl,' sound.
Xiaohua sprinted a few steps, suddenly jumped high, and stretched out her two legs. It's as healthy and beautiful as gymnastics.
The mountain girl shouted
"Okay, that's a good jump. Alas! There is no such colored silk. Otherwise, you'll be wielding it even more colorful. ”
Then the mountain sister said
"Xiaohua, you will definitely surpass everyone. Your dancing is powerful, not the kind of contrived and tedious dance posture. I like yours. Do you need a dance partner? ”
Xiaohua was silent for a long time, looked at Shanmei hesitantly, and didn't say anything.
Shanmei said anxiously
"Xiaohua, what do you think? It's not me. Let me see it, let me dance. Why don't you let me dig out the eggs? Xiaohua asked strangely
"And who is your dancing partner, and where is he?"
Xiaohua continued
"Go to Peacock Mountain, on the snowy peak. Complete the Rainbow Dance.
Actually, in fact, where is it so easy to jump a simple move by this reservoir!
Dance partners, it's even more difficult. It is not easy to live and die together, and climb the snow peak together.
Ay! It's hard to think about. ”
Shanmei picked out a bird egg and handed it to Xiaohua. Said happily
"Eat first, you've been dancing for a long time, aren't you hungry. Eat more, and there is also bamboo rice. ”
"Don't worry, wait for me to help you ask him.
As for Shangxue Peak, in his case, this is not a matter.
However, you and he are just dancing and doing the rainbow dance. You're my daughter-in-law. You can't be mistaken. ”
Xiaohua gulped down the eggs that had been peeled off and nodded vigorously. Don't care, don't speak. It's just the smell of eating in your mouth.
The two children were happily playing by the reservoir, giggling and laughing.
Shurakshasa really couldn't bear it anymore. He held back his anger. rushed into the bamboo building where Lai Kui's sister slept.
Just now, the old aunt in the neighbor's house. Run boldly. Begging to the Shurakshasa Path
"City Lord, I'm an old woman, and I'm not afraid of dying quickly.
I've never begged anyone in my life.
I beg you this morning, Lord of the Castle.
You're in charge of the ghost girl. Let her stop laughing. It's really a terrible panic, scared the child to death.
My doll, which is only a few months old, cries whenever she hears that scary movement.
And so on. My doll must be crying!
Castle Lord, you are in the habit of listening.
I can't afford it. This daylight is like a haunting, and after a while, there will be such a terrible movement, which is really unbearable!
Also, it's in the middle of the night, tell me what it is. Haunted, it's not, but why torture people like this
My children are scared to go out. You say that such days will pass? ”
When I opened the door in the morning, I was faced with the neighbor's house, a respected old lady.
Staggered up to himself, begging for himself.
This old lady is older than her own old grandmother, and coming out like this to beg for herself really makes Shurakshasa ashamed.
His heart was really tormented, not a taste. A few words of comfort to the old lady of the neighborhood, and send the old man back.
Shurakshasa thought about it impulsively, so he rushed to his mother's bamboo tower with a sickle in his hand.
He really wanted to be with the scoundrel mother and daughter.
The old grandmother saw at a glance that her son, who was in an emotional state, walked to the back of her room with a sickle in his hand.
I didn't care about my own appearance and ran out. Rush towards the Shurakshasa. hugged his son. yelled
"Shura, you are the head of the family. My home.
and all trust in you. You don't have to be impulsive.
Good no good. Grandma, please. Grandma, please.
Shura, calm down. Those nasty people. Blood is not worthy of staining your hands. ”
The old grandmother knelt pitifully in the corridor of the bamboo building and hugged the Shurakshasa. Dead or alive do not let go of the arm.