The tenth day of the sixth month.

My mother died.

She was poisoned.

That day, Zhao Chujiu got up early as usual, she nibbled on the steamed buns in the pot overnight, and then carried the bamboo basket and went up the mountain to pick wild fruits and vegetables slowly. By the time she returned at noon, her mother had fallen to the ground and died.

Stepping into the house, there was a strange fishy smell wafting through the air.

Chu Jiu looked at his mother's black lips in a panic, and trembled and probed her pulse, without a trace of movement.

She sat in a daze until late at night, and her tears had dried up, and she came to her senses: her mother is really dead!

As the night passed, the roosters in captivity outside the house began to crow tirelessly, heralding the arrival of a new day.

Zhao Chujiu found his mother's favorite apricot-colored dress and wanted to change it for her mother and bury her, but when she was about to touch the belt, she found that her mother's abdomen was tied with a silver needle engraved with an apricot flower pattern.

This is the source of the mother's poisoning - a poisonous needle!

Chu Jiu carefully pulled out the poison needle, took out a pot of rice wine to wash away the residual toxins on the needle, and then wrapped it in a white square handkerchief. She sighed, puzzled, who had poisoned her mother?

Suddenly, Chu Jiu had a flash of inspiration, could it be the pile of dowry left by his mother?

Chu Jiu remembered what his mother had done when she was young, could it be that the people who had offended her mother before came to seek revenge?

Mother, mother! Who have you offended?

Who is the owner of this silver needle?

One question after another came to Chu Jiu's mind.

June 11.

Today's weather is quite cool, but the ninth day of the new year who is digging the grave with a shovel is still hot and sweaty.

After several hardships, Chu Jiu finally buried his mother and erected a wooden tombstone for her.

The flames in front of the grave burned carelessly, and after a while, Chu Jiu held a bunch of his mother's favorite things and put them into the fire. She folded her hands, bowed, and whispered in her mouth: "Mother, you know your daughter's ability, just three-legged cat kung fu, and you don't know who harmed you, you must bless your daughter in the spirit of heaven to be safe." ”

Chu Jiu knew that if his mother was alive, he would definitely take him to hide far away, and he didn't want to take revenge blindly on his useless self, and finally ended up with her. She sighed, if she had the ability, she would definitely find the truth to help her mother avenge her, but she was so uncompromising.

June 13.

Another quiet day.

Chu Jiu has trembled since the burial of her mother, for fear that the enemy who killed her mother before will come to the door, so she does not dare to light the lamp at night and dare not sleep on the bed.

In fact, in the past few days, she has also thought about whether to go down the mountain, but she has lived in the mountains since she was a child, and the farthest place she has been to is the town below the mountain, and she doesn't know where to go.

The food that could be eaten in the house had been eaten, and Chu Jiu touched his empty stomach and decided to go up the mountain to find food.

For some reason, the woods were a little quieter than usual today, but Chu Jiu didn't notice it, because she was sweating from the sun all the way up the mountain, and now she just wanted to find a stream to wash her face.

Finding a familiar stream, Chu Jiu immediately rolled up his sleeves and slapped his face with the cold stream.

Comfortable! Chu Jiu thought in his heart.

Looking at the small fish swimming in the stream, Chu Jiu swallowed her saliva, she hadn't eaten meat for a long time. So she took off her shoes and socks and went into the water, trying to catch a few fish with her bare hands to eat. But after several setbacks, she still found nothing, she raised her hand to wipe the sweat on her forehead, and then put her hands on her waist and sighed.

Suddenly, a black belt floated down the river and floated to Chu Jiu, who picked up the belt and wondered: How can there be a man's belt here?

Chu Jiu raised his head and looked around, and sure enough, a man floated on the water and floated from upstream. She didn't think much about it, stepped forward a few steps in the water, and when she saw the man buried face down in the water, she immediately helped him turn over and wanted him to breathe normally.

Chu Jiu pushed hard, and the man immediately coughed up a mouthful of water the moment he got his breath, but he was still unconscious.

Just when Chu Jiu breathed a sigh of relief and looked at it calmly, she was stunned, what a handsome man!

Although the man at this time was a little embarrassed, it didn't affect his handsome and peerless appearance at all.

The man coughed again, and the sound of his cough pulled Chu Jiu back to reality, and she shook her senses, pulled the man by the collar, and dragged him to the shore with great difficulty.

Chu Jiu sat directly next to the man and said to himself, "Who are you?" How did it end up here? But no one could answer her question.

At this time, Chu Jiu's stomach growled, she hugged her stomach in embarrassment, she looked at the man, and suddenly had an idea.

She took off the man's wet coat and ran into the water, where she crouched quietly and stared at the small fish that came and went in the stream. In an instant, she used the clothes in her hands as a fishing net and scooped up the fish that wanted to swim away from her crotch.

Chu Jiu ignored the fish's struggle, wrapped the coat in his hand, and immediately ran ashore. She was overjoyed, but after a long time she became distressed, she should have been able to go home and stew the fish when she caught it, but suddenly this man appeared, and she couldn't take the fish with one hand and drag the man back with the other.

After a long time, Chu Jiu decided to pick up some firewood on the shore to grill fish.

After the firewood was raised, the fish was roasted for a long time, and the ninth day of the first month tore open the burnt fish skin, blew the hot and cold fish, and happily ate the first bite of meat in the past few days, this happiness actually made her forget that there was still a man lying next to her.

"Water...... Water ......," the man said in a daze.

Chu Jiu licked his fingers sticking to the fish, reluctantly put down the leftover grilled fish in his hand, and walked to the man.

She shook the man, "Hey, are you awake?" But the man's eyes were still closed, and he just muttered about water. In desperation, she picked up the stream with both hands, ran back quickly, and poured the remaining water into the man's slightly open mouth.

The man got nectar in his sleep to quench his thirst, and slowly he became more and more greedy, he wanted more, so he grabbed Chu Jiu's hand.

Chu Jiu panicked and broke free from the man's grasp of her hand, her cheeks were slightly red, no man had ever been so close to her. In a panic, she shoved the man violently.

As soon as the man rolled, he woke up completely, he looked around, and moved his hands and feet vigorously, mobilizing his internal force. Fortunately, the power is still there. The man rejoiced in his heart.

"Are you alright?"

The man turned his head when he heard the sound, only to see a petite girl standing there helplessly, her clothes were simple, her eyes were simple and nervous, when he saw her pair of white and tender little feet, the earlobes were hot in an instant, and then he turned his face away, and said calmly: "It's okay!" ”

He looked down at his soaked clothes, as if no one was lucky, but in a moment's effort, the clothes on his body became dry.

Chu Jiu on the side was stunned when she saw this scene, because she didn't expect that a person's martial arts could be used to dry clothes.

"Girl, don't know what to call it?" The man's voice was low magnetic and sexy, like a voice from outside the sky hitting Chu Jiu's heart word by word.

"Girl?"

Chu Jiu came back to his senses and said tremblingly, "Chu Jiu, my name is Zhao Chujiu......"

"The surname is Zhao, ah....."

A trace of strangeness flashed in the man's eyes, and the corners of his lips hooked slightly, "In the twilight snow......