Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Ghost of the Shadows

Mingyue teased Mingyang while chopping wild vegetables with a kitchen knife, preparing to feed the two hens, the courtyard door was gently pushed open, Yin Cai's face flashed through the crack in the door, and beckoned to Mingyue who raised his eyes.

Mingyue threw away the wild vegetable crumbs in her hand and walked towards Yin Cai.

Seeing the joy on Yin Cai's face, Mingyue also smiled and said, "Uncle, have the fences been cut?" After I have fed the chickens, I will go up the hill with you to build a hedge, rub more rope, and cut some thorny grass and wrap it in it, so that the naughty children will not go inside. ”

Yin Cai was still smiling, his honest face was like a peach blossom blooming in spring, "Mingyue, your grandmother is not angry, and my brother-in-law will let you go to the county for his birthday in a few days." ”

Mingyue rolled her eyes, thinking it was a good thing? Isn't it that Zhai's conscience found out and let the unpopular Sanfang go to his aunt's house? As for the joy to be like this? She is not the original Yin Mingyue.

Zhai's eldest daughter, Yin Xian, married a small merchant back then, surnamed Zhou, this little merchant is diligent, sweet mouth, and has a lively brain, and finally ran a real estate in the town a few years ago, bought a shop, and opened a larger grocery store.

Having his own shop and house in the county is something that people in the village dare not dream of, so Zhou Sui has become a "rich and noble person" who is highly regarded by the Yin family.

Wearing silk and satin, with gold and silver jewelry, as life gets better and better, Yin Xian becomes more and more arrogant, every time he goes home to pick his nose and eyes, he dislikes the dirty and messy countryside in and out of his words, and dislikes his mother's bitter and poor family, and his eyes are all owed to see people.

In the past, when Yin You was alive, because of his ability, he was seen by Yin Xian, as soon as Yin You reported the news of his death, the third room could no longer be in front of the Zhou family, in front of Yin Xian, Mingyue's family, and Zhang Asi, Li Asan and other passers-by in the village, stranger B, were no different, and they all covered their noses when they met.

The original owner, Yin Mingyue, dreamed of going to Zhou's house in the county, and when she saw her cousin Zhou Susu's eyes, she was so jealous that she turned green, and she rubbed Zhai's several times, crying and shouting that she wanted to go to Zhou's house, wanting to "see and see" wealth, but Zhai didn't agree; When Yin Xian went home to save his relatives, he also begged to stay for a few days, but Yin Xian didn't even talk, making Yin Mingyue so big and faceless.

This time she made an exception to invite, but Mingyue didn't think it was a good thing, she didn't want to marry some fool or nerd in exchange for the interests of the Zhou family, right?

Mingyue's expression was dazed, and she looked like she wanted to refuse, so Yin Cai hurriedly changed the topic and said, "Mingyue, let's go, uncle will take you to see the fence, you will be happy." ”

Sure enough, Mingyue's eyes lit up, and he was about to go up the mountain with the basket on his back, Mingyang loved to stick to the current Mingyue, and the little adult put the mixed noodles and bamboo tube filled with water that he didn't have time to eat in the morning in the small basket, and the person had already run in front.

When she was about to reach the foot of the mountain, Mingyue felt a fierce breeze sweeping through the forest, and couldn't help but feel a spirit, secretly feeling that there was some danger coming, and then looked at it, and there was still a shadow.

Isn't it the black-haired monster Cheng Yue who ran from the forest in the north of the village to the forest in the south of the village to do activities? No, the figure was visibly thinner than Cheng, and there was a faint hint of hostility.

Mingyue shook her head, shook off the cranky thoughts in her heart, and asked Yin Cai: "Uncle, have you heard that on the mountains near our village, there have been fierce beasts such as man-bears and mandrills, which can walk directly?" ”

Yin Cai shook his head, pointed to the cultivated land in the third room at the foot of the mountain, and said, "I haven't heard of it, Brother Han always goes up the mountain to hunt, you ask him if he knows." ”

Around the ground, there was a large stretch of fence tents, more than a man high, and the middle was tied with a thick rope, so that it was impossible for a naughty child to carry the tent into it.

At the end of the earth, the Han father and son were sweating like rain, carrying out the last exercise and going to the chaimen.

It's just less than two days of effort, there is such a big project, and the quality is excellent, which is completely beyond Mingyue's imagination.

Mingyue quickly ran to the Han family and his son, touched the door of the two fences, and couldn't hide her happy expression, "Uncle Han, how do you know that I want to build a fence, did my uncle tell you?" You guys are so powerful, it won't be two days and two nights, sleepless, right? ”

Han Xing scratched his head embarrassedly, his face was red with shame, just like helping Sanfang build a wheat straw shed, as long as he was not seen by the villagers, he always wanted to help Mingyue do things, and he would never complain when he was tired and bitter.

When he went up the mountain that day, Han Xing saw Yin Cai cutting branches and piling them in the ground, so he knew what was going on, and called his father Han Lin, and the three men formed a team unconditionally to do this "useless" job in their opinion.

Not only that, pushing open the fence door, there is also a simple thatched shed built according to the mountain stone, which is less than five square meters, which is the kind that shelters from the rain and cold.

This is an unexpectedly perfect harvest, because only the surface of the "salt stone" is smooth and round, Han's father and son naturally built a shed based on this stone, in order to avoid cold, the wooden lattice bed is two feet above the ground, and the open space five meters wide below, Mingyue can directly uncover the wooden strips of the bed board on it, digging down like a vole, completely hiding people's eyes and ears.

Mingyue really wanted to give these three men a big hug, this is simply it

It's perfect.

Mingyue was about to praise the three of them, only to hear Mingyang outside the fence cry "ah".

Mingyue's heart stopped beating, and she flew quickly to the foot of the mountain.

When he just went up the mountain, Mingyang didn't dare to be interested in the fence tent, so he took a small straw rope to catch grasshoppers and put them on, and when he saw that there were wild vegetables, he picked up the basket and dug wild vegetables, and gradually left the four of Mingyue.

The four of them chatted about the fence tent and chatted energetically, but they didn't pay attention to Mingyang, who was getting farther and farther away, Mingyang screamed, and the four of them realized it later, and rushed to the foot of the mountain like a desperate person, and ran to Mingyang, and saw that the little girl was unharmed, so they breathed a sigh of relief.

Mingyue pulled Mingyang with a sigh of relief, saw the toes from the tips of her hair, and saw that there was nothing abnormal, so she breathed a sigh of relief: "Dead girl, what are you calling, scared me to death, what are you doing so far away from us?" What to do in case of danger? ”

Mingyang straightened his eyes, his fingers trembled and pointed at the back basket, his eyes were red, and he said infinitely aggrieved: "Eldest sister, the nest in the basket is gone, the bamboo tube is gone, and the wild vegetables inside are moving, as if there is something, so scary." ”

Han Xing stretched out the sickle that cut the branches of the tree, and flicked the wild vegetables on the basket to the corners, and a snake head with a red body and red eyes appeared, and the long tongue core was stretched out, extremely disgusting, and his eyes were staring at Han Xing viciously.

Mingyue's heart couldn't help but get her throat and eyes, and she felt uneasy and felt like it was invading her whole body again: "The poisonous snake can eat the head of the nest, but it is impossible to swallow the bamboo tube, it must be taken away by an animal with long hands, the bamboo tube is not valuable, you can get it as soon as you cut the bamboo, so it can't be a person." Uncle Han, you have been hunting for many years, and you have never heard of our standing beasts such as bears or mandrills, the dangerous kind. ”

Han Xing's face changed abruptly, he grabbed Mingyue's shoulders with both hands, and his hands trembled with nervousness: "Mingyue, could it be, could it be that the black-haired monster ran to the southern foothills, so insidiously released poisonous snakes and harmed Mingyang?" ”

Mingyue saw that she couldn't ask what she wanted, so she had to do it, and once again affirmed the uneasy feeling in her heart in the past few days, a ghost-like thing hiding in the shadows, waiting for an opportunity to move on herself, and a fatal blow at any time, just let her rack her brains, and she didn't come up with what this dangerous guy was.

There is only one thing she can be sure of, this guy who is around in the shadows is definitely not a joke, this snake is clearly trying to poison Mingyang in one fell swoop, fortunately Mingyang's eyes are treacherous, seeing that the wild vegetables are moving, if you don't pay attention, reach out to touch it, now I am afraid that only a cold corpse is left.

Mingyue's eyes were cold, and she said to Han Xing: "Brother Xingzi, kill the snake, cut off the snake's teeth, cut out the snake gall, I will keep it useful." ”

Bitten by this snake, its own snake gall can detoxify this poison, and there is poisonous saliva left on the snake's teeth, Mingyue wants to return the body of others with her own way, and in the future, she will definitely let the thing that doesn't know anything die under this poison.

Several people went home in a sad mood.

For the rest of the day, he lived in a shallow way, confined celebrities and Mingyang to making clothes and shoes at home.

To make shoes, you need to play "pimple silk" to make uppers, the so-called "pimple silk", is to use white flour and paste, smeared on a piece of old cloth, several pieces of cloth overlapped and glued together, and finally formed a hard cloth, after drying as hard as cardboard, even cut a few foot plate shapes, overlapped into half an inch thick, with an awl into the sole, light and neat, the upper of the spring and autumn is also made with it, and in winter it is flocculated in a layer of cotton.

Mingyue obviously found something that she was interested in, this most primitive way of making shoes was the first time she had seen it, and the batter was still made of noodles borrowed from the Mandarin Duck's family, full of noodle fragrance.

Mingyang sniffed tightly, and happily looked at Liu's subordinates with flowers, holding the soles of their shoes.

Mingyue inserted her fingers, dipped a finger in the batter, and wiped it directly on the corner of Mingyang's mouth, Mingyang licked it with his tongue embarrassedly, smacking his lips and laughing more than flowers: "Sister, the day after tomorrow, let's go to my aunt's house, will we eat white gnocchi soup?" Cousin Susu said that her least favorite thing to eat was white gnocchi soup, but Cousin Zhengren said that he loved it the most, and he didn't know if it was delicious or not. ”

Mingyue's heart was sour, she just thought it was funny, and used white batter to paint Mingyang's face as a little flower cat, but she didn't expect the little guy to mistakenly think that she let her taste the taste of white noodle soup, and what she said was so sad.

Mingyue smiled and drew two more faces on Mingyang's face, doting on the little guy's withered yellow hair, and said with a smile: "How do you know if you don't try it yourself?" ”

Mingyue secretly decided that when she came back from Zhou's house in the county seat, no matter what dangers greeted her in the woods, she would also take the risk to take a look, and she would definitely find a salt mine before winter, so that Mingyang would not only eat delicious pimple soup before the New Year, but also eat white rice dumplings.

Mingyue nodded, feeling that her heart had never been so strong.