Seeing their behavior, Xi Qiongdong naturally swallowed his question to Xi Huanyan, and said helplessly, "Are you okay?" ”

Xi Huanyan shook his head and glanced at the clear but fishless bottom of the water, "It's a pity that I was scared away." ”

She lifted the basket containing the mushrooms and was about to leave, Xi Qiongdong thought that she was going to settle accounts with those people, so he hurriedly stopped her, "It's all from the same village, how can you not make trouble, forget it." ”

"By the way, this is what I just hunted, you can take it back and eat it with my wife. Xi Qiongdong took out a dead rabbit from the bamboo basket around his waist.

Xi Huanyan was not interested, "No, be a vegetarian." ”

He silently put the rabbit back and said slowly, "Huan Yan, I know that Master has passed away, and you are very sad, but the days still have to look forward, smile more in the future, play with them more, and the matter will pass." ”

Xi Huanyan hummed casually.

"You and your sister have something to help, you can come to me at any time, you will be a teacher for one day and a father for life, I will never shirk. ”

Xi Qiongdong enlightened her for a while, and said tentatively in a generous and gentle voice, "Huan Yan, Master has passed away, why haven't I seen you cry, don't think about it, I'm just asking, I'm worried that you will feel uncomfortable in your heart." ”

Haven't you cried?

Xi Huanyan thought about it, she really hadn't cried.

This realization made her a little in a trance, but she quickly took a deep breath and said, "I was born and born, I died in the ground, my life is normal, why should I be sad about this, not to mention that my father often taught me to be quiet in the world, to observe the true nature of nature, and to return to the root of life, in order to reach the root of my soul, if I break down and cry, and wantonly vent my emotions, how different is it from a beast that only knows primitive impulses." ”

Xi Qiongdong didn't know what she was saying, but this did not prevent a trace of envy from rising in his heart, others only saw that Xi Canggu and his wife doted on her very much, spoiled her as bold as a fight, moved like a mad rabbit, climbed trees and went down to the river, chased birds and beasts, children should not do it, all of them were done.

But I don't know that she gets up earlier than their apprentices every day, reads and writes, plays the piano and paints, practices martial arts and boxing, and when she is quiet, she is more intimidating than those elders with a calm face.

It's all from the same village, why did she get such a good upbringing.

Xi Qiongdong was also tired of dealing with her, stood up, and adjusted the bamboo basket on his waist, "You go home early, the demon hasn't been found yet, and it's dangerous outside." ”

"Hmm. ”

Xi Huanyan originally planned to pick up another bird's egg, but thought that he had said that he wanted to be a vegetarian, so he stopped this plan and went home with the basket.

Gu Jianxuan was not at home, she did it herself, barely cooked a mushroom soup, and after eating, she took an axe and went back to Lingling Mountain again, all the way to the record on the tree species spectrum.

When the sun was about to set, she successfully found a red-shirt forest at the border between Lingling Mountain and the bottom of the wind-swept cliff.

She picked one of the bucket-thick trees and eight feet high, picked up the axe, carried it with great force, cut it down in six or seven strokes, and then pinned the axe to her waist and carried the whole fir tree.

Hurrying slowly, she finally returned to the cave before the sun disappeared, touched her little heart, and breathed a sigh of relief, her father and mother said that the night in the mountains was very dangerous, and it was good that there was no need to walk at night.

The old lady who was sitting at the entrance of the cave looked at the redwood trees that occupied a full floor, and her face twitched slightly, what is going on with this huge force?

It was rare that she didn't return to the cave, and looked at Xi Huanyan quietly.

Xi Huanyan was also used to her eccentricity, and said to her, "I want to build a house".

She took a sip of her own jug, and then took her axe and cut off all the branches of the sequoias, and used them to build a triangular nest beside the cave, and it was a little late at night, and she planned to sawn the trunk again to-morrow and make the little log like chopsticks for the old lady.

He also said that in the village, before the sun had completely set, there were no people on the roads in the village.

The wind was especially cool on this day, but it was a little sticky on the skin.

"Hua'er, while it's not all dark, wash your clothes first, look at how dirty your clothes are, how did you get this?!"

"I ...... During the day, he met Xi Huanyan and had a fight. For the sake of face, the little girl said that she was unilaterally abused as a fight, and proudly showed her mother the bruises on her back, "Look at me, don't look at my injury, she is not much better." ”

Xiaohuaniang frowned, "Why did you fight?"

"I suddenly felt that that family was quite useless, especially Uncle Canggu, who was known as the source master, and he didn't fall to his death. Xiaohua said nonchalantly, "Look at Uncle Canggu, what is she still angry about." ”

Xiaohua Niang took the rattan on the table and pumped her, "There is also a mother who is a martial artist, don't make trouble for me, now go and wash the family's clothes immediately!"

"Why, isn't it the turn of the little brother today?"

"Make you disobedient!" Seeing that a rattan was about to come down again, Xiaohua hurriedly hugged a bunch of dirty clothes and went out.

She tiptoed to fetch water from the tank outside the house, soaking her clothes in anger and rubbing them.

Suddenly, there was a cold wetness on her face, as if she had been licked by a tongue, and her back was cold.

The little girl looked up in panic, it was already dark, and an orange light leaked from the room ten paces away, and the voices of her father and brother brought her some comfort, and she looked up at the sky again, and muttered, "It's not raining." ”

The little girl looked down and rubbed her clothes, stopped, turned her head stiffly, and looked out of the fence, where opposite her house was a small field, and farther away was a mountain, and the scene in her field of vision had darkened.

In the shadows, she saw a short black figure standing in a bush of grass clinging to the fence, silently.

Her voice was choked in her throat for a moment, and she wanted to scream but was so frightened that she lost her voice, and she glared as she watched as the black shadow gradually bent down, transformed into something the size of a cat or dog, and rushed towards the field.

"Ah!!h

"This girl, what are you calling!"

Xiaohua's father and mother hurriedly ran out of the house, holding her arm and giving a lecture.

"Weird, strange demons, strange demons!" Xiaohua was so frightened that her eyes were dull, and she instinctively drilled into her father's arms, and Xiaohua's father and mother were also suddenly in her heart, and looked around in a panic, and quickly stuffed her into the house and tied the door.

"Don't talk nonsense, babaa, spit out a few mouthfuls, and spit out this bad word!" The little flower girl was so anxious that she stomped her foot and pressed her head to the ground.

"You tap, Hua'er tells Daddy, what do you see?"

Xiaohua dodged her mother's hand, leaned over to her father, and intermittently said what she saw.

The two adults frowned, and the six gods had no owner, so they checked the doors and windows again.

"Maybe it's a mistake. Xiaohua Niang seemed to have found the truth and twisted Xiaohua's arm, "Are you trying to be lazy and deliberately come to lie to us!"

"I didn't!"

"What are you blaming the children for, it's good that I didn't go to duty today, go to bed early, I'll guard the door, and I'll talk to the patrol when they pass by." ”

Xiaohua's father spoke, and the family of four squeezed into a bed, but they didn't dare to blow out the oil lamp.

On the second day, the rooster crowed, Xiaohuaniang got up and looked at the dim sky outside the window, looked at the burned oil lamp in distress, and turned around to pull Xiaohualu's arm outside the thin quilt, "Get up quickly, go to the ground and mow the grass with your mother." ”

This pull pulled Xiaohua out of the quilt entirely, and in the dimness, she had a white face, staring, and looked directly at Xiaohuaniang.

Xiaohuaniang screamed in fright, and hit her twice with a wave of her hand, "You dead girl, you will scare me to death early in the morning!"

But Xiaohua, who was beaten twice, still maintained this expression and didn't move.

Xiaohuaniang realized that something was wrong, and took a closer look, where was the face white, it was all blue!