"The demons have appeared, this old lady still refuses to move back to the village, she is really confused, you should be careful, if you want to go down the mountain, send a message in advance, I will let someone pick you up." ”

Xi told Lan Xu that he was angry with Mrs. Swearing, and yesterday she mentioned that Mrs. Swear Yan still had some respect, but today she is full of resentment.

Xi Huanyan wisely did not participate in the discord between the elders, and only responded well.

Xi Xulan turned over the past about how Mrs. Suyan treated her father, and almost said that her mother was looking for her guilt.

The mountain road is rugged and very boring, Xi Huanyan took the words of the old clan as a reliever, and waited until the old man stopped talking halfway up the mountainside, and it didn't take long for the grass and trees to become sparse, and a path led straight to a flat floor, connecting to the cave on the mountain wall.

In the shadow of the entrance of the cave sat a scrawny old man, just with a side face, it gave people a sense of meanness and gloom, and if you didn't look carefully, you would think that there was a vicious wolf squatting in the last years.

Xi Xulan didn't come closer, and shouted from a distance of one or two feet, "Aunt Oath, I brought the people." ”

She didn't get a response, she touched her face in embarrassment, said a few words to Xi Huanyan, and hurried down the mountain.

Xi Huanyan was also a little embarrassed, but she still strode to the edge of the cave and bowed, "Junior Xi Huanyan has seen the wife." ”

Immediately after that, she felt a scrutinizing gaze, sharp, complex, and heavy, overwhelming.

But Xi Huanyan didn't feel malice, and his heart immediately let go of most of it, as long as there was no danger, a bad attitude or anything, it didn't matter.

The gaze was quickly retracted, and the old lady did not say anything, but carved the object in her hand.

It was an oval wooden egg, with only two notches on it, but Xi Huanyan seemed to see an eagle with flapping wings!

She was captured in an instant, and the feeling was so magical that it was indescribable. She felt that she could do nothing and watch the old lady carve for a day!

Xi Huanyan did drag her cheeks to watch the old lady carve for a day, and when it was about to darken, the old lady packed up her things and entered the cave without looking back.

The cave was narrow and dark, and she turned a corner and was nowhere to be seen.

Xi Huanyan felt that he didn't get the approval of the master's family, so he didn't want to follow up rashly, so he took out the candlestick from the baggage, lit the fire, and began to sharpen the cube wooden strips he brought, planning to grind out an elliptical first, and then learn the old lady's technique to carve.

She had a wonderful dream that night, when a mighty eagle flew over her head, and the wind of her wings lifted her hair, and it was cool for a while.

When she opened her eyes, she saw the old lady staring at her with compassion, and she was so frightened that she fell off the bench.

Two rough words came out of the old lady's throat, "Hehe." ”

Following her eyes, Xi Huanyan saw the ugly eagle in his hand, and said aggrievedly, "My father didn't teach me handicrafts, and you didn't teach me, it's good that I can figure out the shape myself." ”

The old lady's gaze faded, and she looked at her with a slightly thoughtful look, and turned back to the cave.

Xi Huanyan put away her work, took out a cake and nibbled on it, and suddenly regretted lending the black dog to her mother to catch the alien demon, otherwise it could help her catch a pheasant back.

Halfway through eating, the old lady came out again, and threw something on the ground in front of her, she glanced at the page with pictures and words, and her heart was excited, and she handed the bread out of her hand, "Does the lady eat?"

The old lady glanced at her, put her hands behind her back, and went into the cave without looking back.

Xi Huanyan took the cake in his mouth, wiped his hands, picked up the book, and looked at it carefully, this book records the origin, use, and identification methods of various trees, and there are more than 10,000 kinds of trees in the catalog, some of which are marked, look at the remarks at the back, they all grow near the village.

She endured her eagerness to try, turned the first page again, memorized it carefully, and when she was thirsty and hungry, she picked some wild fruits nearby and drank some mountain spring water.

On the seventh day, she breathed a sigh of relief, curled the corners of her mouth, recited more than 200,000 words to the cave, and finally shouted, "Wife, I'll go to the field to investigate, don't worry about me!"

Xi Huanyan couldn't wait to drill into the woods.

Even if her father didn't teach her, she was familiar with a lot of knowledge related to wood and ore after a long time, but after all, it was the first time she had come into contact with such a systematic introduction, and she couldn't wait to touch every kind of plant and tree to get to know her again.

Suddenly, the wind cracked through the leaves, and something hit her head.

She paused, looked back in the direction of the cave, and then looked at the ground, which was a log the thickness of polished chopsticks, which she picked up and identified for a while, it should be made of red shirt wood.

Is this asking her to find this material?

Xi Huanyan knew where the redshirt tree grew, and when she went to find the redshirt tree later, she could record the tree species she encountered along the way, but now she had to find some hot dishes to eat.

Lingling Mountain is actually behind her house, and she used to dig wild vegetables near the foot of the mountain to pick up mushrooms, and occasionally set some traps, and if she was lucky, she could catch a hare pheasant.

These days there is enough rain and high temperature, she walked a few steps and saw a clump of pine lactitake mushrooms growing under a few pine trees, she did not be greedy, picked some and put them in a basket made of temporary tree rattan, sped up the footsteps, and waited until she reached the familiar foot of the mountain, and then walked towards a few places with many mushrooms and wild vegetables in her memory.

There was a sudden sound of laughter in the forest, and across some trees, she saw several older children digging wild vegetables on the ground with their children, and there was smoke not far away, which was a sentry set up by the patrol team.

She glanced at it, and saw that there was no mother, so she went in the other direction, not to fight with them for a piece of wild vegetables on the ground.

After picking up a basket of mushrooms one after another, Xi Huanyan came to a small stream, pinched a pebble and stood there, quietly observing the swimming fish in the clear water.

After a while, there was a chaotic sound of footsteps behind her, and she thought it was the same villager she had just met who had come to dig wild vegetables, and she didn't look back.

Suddenly, several stones fell on her, one of which hit the shoulder blade, and the pain made her feel so angry that she turned around and asked, "What are you doing?"

There weren't many children in the village, and even if she didn't play with them often, she wasn't a stranger, and one of the braided girls was from the house next door to her.

She was thrown stones for no reason, but as if frightened, the people who threw them huddled together, took several steps back, and then dispersed.

Although Xi Huanyan is a cute and simple baby in front of her mother, her actual temper is not very good, how can she allow herself to be so angry.

She leaned down and grabbed a handful of fine stones, raised her hand, and the stones seemed to have eyes, and they roared through the air and knocked seven or eight children to the ground, screaming in pain.

"What do you do!"

The young man who trotted over shouted, helped up a few children, and the children knew him, this was the grandson of the patriarch and Xi Canggu's apprentice, and he quickly dispersed with a weak heart.