Early the next morning.

The air in the mountains and forests is full of the smell of dew, and there is the lingering sound of birdsong in my ears, so that I can't live up to the beautiful scenery of the early morning. The sleeping man finally got ready to move, and struggled to tear open his eyelids.

As soon as Chu Jiayin opened his eyes, he saw a snake at his feet, spitting out snake letters, as if he was looking at himself curiously. Chu Jiayin swallowed a mouthful of saliva violently, rubbed his eyes, and after making sure that he was not mistaken, he screamed and pounced on Chu Jingyan next to him: "Second brother, there is a snake!" There are snakes! ”

Chu Jingyan casually found a stick, picked up the snake, threw it into the grass on the side, and ignored it again.

"It's okay, this snake is not poisonous, you don't have to be afraid." Chu Jingyan pulled the person away from his body, got up and went to light the fire, "Let's go back in a while, I've been in this mountain forest for a long time, maybe I really encounter something that can eat and harm people." ”

"Well, let's go, of course we have to hurry up." Chu Jiayin was shocked, if she encountered something messy again in a while, she would definitely faint.

Snakes and rats, the first look at her makes her creepy and gives goosebumps all over her body. In her previous life, the eldest lady had a huge temper, and as long as the subordinates didn't pay attention to putting any rats and the like into the house, they would definitely be severely punished by Chu Jiayin.

Now my temper is better, but I still have to be afraid of these things.

Chu Jingyan glanced back at Chu Jiayin, who was shrunk into a ball, and said with a smile: "You really don't have to be so afraid, although those things often walk around in the mountains and forests, the place we are in now is not deserted." People are afraid of those things, and those things are also afraid of people, and they dare not come out easily. ”

"Really?" Chu Jiayin was skeptical, and finally chose to believe it, and it was not a way to be frightened all the time, if he didn't dare to go to the ground for a while, would it be difficult to hang on the second brother and let the second brother drag him away?

In that case, wouldn't she become a useless and dragging person back again, how bad is that? Chu Jiayin moved to Chu Jingyan a little awkwardly, looked left and right, and asked, "Second brother, let me help you." ”

"Will you make a fire?" Chu Jingyan compared the firewood in his hand, he hadn't seen it for two years, Chu Jiayin had changed a lot, and there were many things Chu Jingyan still didn't know. Maybe he thought Chu Jiayin wouldn't know what he would, Chu Jiayin really learned secretly in the past two years?

Chu Jiayin took the firewood in his hand and said confidently: "Yes, of course I will." Can you still make a fire? ”

She really didn't say this indiscriminately, she really specially consulted Feng Chenyue for advice, and failed more than ten times. At that time, Feng Chenyue also laughed at her and said that a three-year-old child could do better than her after learning two or three times.

Chu Jiayin was so angry that she didn't say a word to Feng Chenyue for three days, and in the end, she couldn't hold it back and took the initiative to admit defeat.

With her little bit of fur ability, fighting with characters like Feng Chenyue, not bowing her head and admitting cowardice is the fate of a loss, and it is better to recognize the reality earlier.

Pile up the firewood, spread some flammable leaves or something in the middle, Chu Jiayin blew the fire fold, and a little higher, the fire immediately started. There was a slight wind blowing at this time, but it was not enough to extinguish the fire, and Chu Jiayin's not very powerful fire was saved.

After a while, the fire was in full swing.

"Second brother, it's on fire." Chu Jiayin turned his head excitedly and said to Chu Jingyan.

Chu Jingyan finished the rest of the chicken, walked over, and started baking it like last night.

The two of them had breakfast and didn't follow the path they should have taken, Chu Jingyan took Chu Jiayin back and walked the way Chu Jiayin got lost before.

Chu Jiayin was puzzled: "Second brother, where are you taking me?" This road seems to be wrong, and it was because I took this road yesterday that I got lost and couldn't find you, and I couldn't join you. ”

"This road can actually go to South Vietnam." Chu Jingyan explained, "It's just that in comparison, the road will be more tortuous and farther. ”

In this way, Chu Jiayin remembered what the old man said about how long it would take to walk from his house to the territory of South Vietnam. She didn't know very well, but the old man said that he could go down the mountain.

"Second brother, Murong Gongzi should need you quite a bit now, isn't it good that you deliberately drag out the days and not go back earlier?" Chu Jiayin suddenly bent the corners of his mouth, revealing a bitter face, "Don't think that I made you like that, if he blames me, I can't afford it." ”

Chu Jingyan looked at Chu Jiayin fixedly for a while, and the corners of his mouth suddenly overflowed with a laughing smile, and then walked forward without saying a word, without answering Chu Jiayin for half a word.

Chu Jiayin hurriedly caught up with him and asked, "Second brother, you said a word, do you really plan to make me infamy?" ”

"It's really hard to bear the infamy, Yinyin." Chu Jingyan suddenly stopped, turned around and raised his hand, and knocked Chu Jiayin's head.

Instead, he continued: "Murong Han, he doesn't dare to blame me, and he has no evidence or any other charges to punish me. Naturally, I can't blame you, at most you will be angry for a few days and smash three or two things. Besides, at present, these people can't be solved by Brother Murong alone, but now I have his family's money, so I naturally have to help. ”

"Oh. Second brother, do you still know that you want to help, so you still have to continue to enjoy the mountains and rivers here? Chu Jiayin couldn't understand which play the second brother was singing.

Chu Jingyan replied: "I'm not doing this for Murong Han's good, lest he lose all his brains because I'm here." All day long, trying to solve problems with me. ”

Because Chu Jingyan's kung fu is not as low as Murong Han, Murong Han often hands over the affairs of the generals to Chu Jingyan to handle, and he has already panicked about his own duties.

"Oooh!" Chu Jiayin walked and walked to Chu Jingyan.

Passing by the old uncle's house where he had eaten, Chu Jiayin stopped for a moment, looking at whether there was anyone there. I saw that the old man was weeding in the field, and he had just disappeared into the grass, and this trip showed his figure because he stood up.

Chu Jiayin hurriedly waved his hand and greeted the old man: "Grandpa, I'm here again!" ”

"Huh? Have you found your brother? The old man pulled the cloth towel hanging around his neck to wipe his sweat, and talked to Chu Jiayin who was running towards him with a smile.

Chu Jiayin carried the hem of her skirt and trotted all the way, and when she passed by the vegetable patch, she was careful not to step on those vegetables. A few years ago, she must not even be able to distinguish between vegetables and grass in the vegetable field, thanks to Feng Chenyue, she thought of a bad idea to punish Chu Jiayin for being lazy for a while - Chu Jiayin was lazy once, so she went to water the insects in the vegetable field, and picked up dung!

Chu Jiayin didn't want to do it, Feng Chenyue had a more stimulating way, so Chu Jiayin had to agree. Later, although I still couldn't accept the manure, I finally separated the vegetables and grass in the vegetable field.

Chu Jingyan followed behind and walked over slowly.

"Grandpa, I'll help you weed." Chu Jiayin bent down and wanted to help.

The old man on the opposite side glanced at Chu Jingyan, was a little surprised, and said, "Your brother is a good-looking man, and at first glance, he is a material that doesn't need to work." But a scholar, is he an official? ”

Chu Jingyan said with a smile: "I'm ashamed, I haven't finished reading books for many years, and now I can only eat in the barracks." ”

"Yo, I'm still a military master, I can't see it, it's thin skin and tender meat. You're not our military master here in the northwest, are you? The military masters on our side are miserable, they are all tanned, and they can't eat anything on weekdays. ”

"It's thanks to pulling back my son who wanted to join the army back then, otherwise he would have to suffer from this, so it's better to farm!"

The old man babbled a lot of things, and finally couldn't help but sigh: "You military masters from other places are different, don't talk about fine skin and tender meat, when you look like this, you know that there is no shortage of good food and good dishes." ”

"Uncle, are you saying that the soldiers here in the northwest can't even afford to eat?" Chu Jingyan was a little surprised, and he was also eager to know the truth.

He and Murong Han had only speculated that there was a problem with the officials in the northwest before, but now even the army was disadvantaged? Batches of people and horses on Xiliang's side are like wolves and tigers, if the two sides really fight, the Northwest Border Protection City is estimated to be taken by Xiliang in less than half a day!

The old man wiped his sweat again and replied to him: "Isn't it?" Many of the people on our side have been sent to Xiliang to work as coolies. You don't think these lands are good, but on weekdays, you can't even feed the mouths of the people in the city. In order not to starve to death the people here, Lord Li, who is an official, can only send some people to Xiliang to live. Sometimes, I make a show over there, and I will send some food to my hometown. ”

"You're saying that the fields here can't be fed?" Chu Jingyan squatted down, found a small wooden stick and turned over the soil in front of him, looked at it carefully, and didn't think that this was a land that could not grow food.

"Uncle, do you know what those people who were sent to Xiliang were doing over there?" Chu Jingyan always felt that there was something strange about this.

The old man sighed and said, "What else can I do, of course, it's farming or something." Although it is next to us, we can grow food and send some to us from time to time, so that the people in the northwest of South Vietnam will not starve to death. ”

But the South Vietnamese people over there in Xiliang were obviously used as slaves.

Chu Jingyan asked again: "Uncle, can you grow food in this land?" ”

Hearing this, the old man hurriedly said mysteriously: "I'm secretly cultivating and farming on the mountains on the border between Xiliang and South Vietnam, don't go out and say it, my family has to rely on this to eat." ”

"That'...... Someone in the family was sent to Xiliang, who sent rice and vegetables to make a living? ”