Chapter 43: The Loquat Tree

"You have five cents, rabbit meat is five cents a pound, and the two rabbits just now have at least six pounds, well, rabbits are worth a lot."

Seeing that he had calculated such a result in a serious manner, Liu Man'er was a little annoyed and said, "You just said that you only took my scoop of water to drink, what if you put me on the side of the road and let the tiger take it away?" Where are you going to find me in this scoop of water? ”

"Well, it's okay, there's a lot of water in the river, I'll just change it." Ye Yuan made a look of indifference.

"Drink, it turns out that this idea you hit, can I replace it casually in your heart?" Liu Man'er was a little angry, and there was a bit of seriousness in her jokes.

She swore that if Ye Yuan couldn't hear that she was angry and joked with her, she would turn around and leave.

Ye Yuan heard Liu Man'er's question, and replied casually: "Of course ......"

Liu Man'er was about to get up, and he continued: "...... No. ”

"Can you finish all at once?" Liu Man'er breathed a sigh of relief and did a good job.

"I'm all learning from you."

"When did I do this?"

"You do that all the time."

"You give you an example."

"I'll remind you next time you say that." Ye Yuan no longer argued with Liu Man'er about this issue, but stretched out his hand with a smile, flicked it on her forehead, and said with a smile: "What a stupid girl, don't ask me such a question next time, how do you compare with rabbits?" You're human, not a rabbit. ”

"yes, you have a point." Liu Man'er followed his example and nodded solemnly.

The two rested for a while, and then continued to walk up the mountain, without the restraint of Liu Man'er, along the way, Ye Yuan's pace was much faster, Liu Man'er had rested enough, but he was just able to keep up.

Because Ye Yuan was here, Liu Man'er's courage also increased, and she listened carefully along the way, but pointed out a lot of places to Ye Yuan and hit a lot of prey.

"Man'er, your ears are simply too sensitive, aren't they?" Ye Yuan was amazed at Liu Man'er's hearing.

"This ear of mine is a gift from heaven, and no one can envy it." Liu Man'er said quite proudly.

The two of them are a combination of two swords, one is responsible for finding the prey, and the other has no arrows, running and chasing the prey all the way, and they reached the top of the mountain in a while, and at the same time, Ye Yuan's body was also full of rabbits.

"Hey, how ugly you are." Liu Man'er said disgustedly, "Anyway, there are many green vines all over the mountains, so let's weave a back basket." ”

When I arrived at the top of the mountain, I could look at the opposite mountain from afar, and looking at the opposite mountain as if it was right in front of me, Liu Man'er was not so anxious.

"Okay, whatever you say is what you say." Ye Yuan is very doting on Liu Man'er.

The two of them began to pull the green vine and weave the back basket, Ye Yuan's speed was very fast, about half an hour, a decent back basket was also completed, and Liu Man'er was on the side, and a small basket was also completed.

It's just that this kind of back basket woven with rattan is not very durable, and after a long time, when the water of the green rattan dries, it can only be reduced to a match.

The baskets and baskets of the people here are generally made of bamboo, which is durable.

However, the requirement of using bamboo to make a basket requires a good knife worker to split the bamboo into thin pieces and draw it into thin strips, which ordinary people can't learn.

Compared with the bamboo basket, this kind of rattan basket is like a child's play, of course, it is good to occasionally respond to emergencies and use it to hold things.

However, Liu Man'er is quite satisfied, and she is also very satisfied with her results.

As the saying goes, it's easy to go up the mountain and difficult to go down, but after walking a lot today, Liu Man'er felt that her legs and stomach were trembling, but fortunately, Ye Yuan supported her.

"Why don't you come to catch the monkeys next time?" Ye Yuan looked at her playfully and said, "This deep mountain and wild forest is not so good, right?" ”

"This time it's mainly because we went the wrong way, otherwise we would have all gone home." Liu Man'er is still a little unwilling to admit defeat.

What are you kidding, she hasn't caught this monkey yet.

"Actually, the monkeys in this monkey mountain are not so easy to catch, and that mountain is a deep mountain and wild forest, there are really jackals, tigers and leopards!" Ye Yuan admonished.

"Okay, next time I'll never be here alone." Liu Man'er swore seriously, but what she didn't expect was that she would risk coming again in the future.

"Well, that's okay, so whether or not we can catch the monkey this time, we won't be here next time?" Although Ye Yuan asked again, he used an affirmative tone.

"Well, it's not coming!" Liu Man'er nodded heavily, "I'm just on a whim this time, hehe." ”

In fact, Liu Man'er was angry with Ye Yuan before, so she wanted to make money quickly in an instant, so that she could escape from this family, without looking at his face or his three wives and four concubines in the future.

Now, after telling him and reconciling as before, she doesn't have such a big desire to make money, after all, it's not easy to tame a monkey, and she doesn't have such a big kung fu now.

And if it wasn't for the urgent need for money, there were thousands of ways to make money, and she didn't have to choose this one.

For example, this way down the mountain, she was lucky to find a nest of rabbits, as the saying goes, the rabbit nest can be found by her, and she also caught a few rabbits alive, Liu Man'er felt that she was really lucky.

And seeing these rabbits, she has some new ways to make a fortune, that is, raising rabbits.

This rabbit grows fast, reproduces fast, rabbit meat is delicious, and rabbit skin can be sold, which is a very suitable thing.

Talking to Ye Yuan about her idea, Ye Yuan also agreed, and said, "Man'er, I think this rabbit is more reliable than monkeys." ”

In fact, until now, he still didn't approve of her raising monkeys, how smart and naughty this monkey was, he just listened to her and played with her.

Take her to see it, let her die this heart, it's okay.

Anyway, he didn't bring anything today, and he didn't shoot arrows, to see how she went to abduct the monkeys.

Although Ye Yuan led Liu Man'er to Monkey Mountain, he had already made up his mind in his heart and would not let Liu Man'er easily lead the monkey home.

After all, the people here think that this monkey is human, so generally speaking, no one eats monkey meat, this monkey is naughty, and can run and jump, this monkey is equivalent to raising an ancestor!

But if Liu Man'er can really kidnap a monkey, then he has nothing to say, just take it as providence.

The two walked all the way down the mountain, and the luck of the two of them was really good, and when they were halfway up the mountain, they found a few loquat trees.

The yellow-orange-orange loquat hangs on the tree, but it is very attractive, from eating lunch to now, it can be regarded as walking for a long, long time, Liu Man'er is also a little thirsty, at this moment, seeing these loquats, she can't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva.

"Ye Yuan, look, that's loquat!" She pulled Ye Yuan's clothes and looked very excited.

Ye Yuan wasn't sure, he had been pulled by Liu Man'er two steps closer to this fruit tree before he nodded: "Well, that's right, it's just that this loquat seems to be planted by someone else, right?" ”

"Ahh Liu Man'er was a little disappointed.

There are no crops, fruits, or vegetables that can be eaten, but no one else knows, is she the only one who knows?

She just wants to make a fortune silently, why is everything she can eat from someone else's? Even some wild fruits, the children of the village rushed ahead of her and picked them all.

She was reborn once, and it was a rebirth in another world, and there was no room for a golden finger or anything, so I found a special kind of food, so I made a small fortune!

Just one ear is sensitive, maybe it is still brought by the original owner, this skill makes her often help Ye Yuan as an executioner, Liu Man'er feels that if there is really karma, then she has really created a lot of killings in her life!

"I want to eat, can we secretly pick a few while no one is around?" Liu Man'er is really greedy.

She hadn't eaten fruit in a long, long time, and loquat was such a delicious thing that it was really drooling.

"Man'er!" Ye Yuan scolded her very unkindly, "Although there is no one, it is also planted by others, if everyone picks like you, then the hard work of others will not be in vain!" ”

"Okay, you're upright, I was wrong." Liu Man'er pouted.

Ye Yuan explained to her in a good way, "You can't take other people's things, whether it's someone or not, whether it's deep in the mountains or in the downtown area, if you think about the peanuts we planted, it's so far, if others take advantage of our absence, they all go to pull out a tree, then our family can't even collect the seed money." ”

"Oops, I know, I was wrong, I was wrong, I will never have this idea again." Liu Man'er hurriedly admitted her mistake again and again, she didn't expect that this man was still so upright.

In other words, she is not the kind of person who will steal other people's things, but this kind of thing is too tempting for fruit trees in the mountains, and sometimes she thinks that it is not a problem to pick two easily.

When the two of them said this, they didn't notice the sound of footsteps approaching behind them, until the man spoke, and Liu Man'er and the two noticed that there was someone behind them, so that an old man wearing a scarf, who was carrying a bundle of firewood on his back, saw Liu Man'er and the two turn around, he smiled at them kindly, and said:

"This little brother doesn't have to be so strict, it's like this in our village, it's rare to have passing travelers, it's not a matter to pick two to eat."

"Oh, yes, it's just that after all, you still have to get the consent of your master." Ye Yuan walked with this old man, and then said.

"Don't get in the way, I have a few loquat trees in it, you can just pick them with me." The old man said with a smile, "Your little brother is sincere, I like it." ”

Obviously, he listened to the conversation between Ye Yuan and Liu Man'er in his ears.

"The old man has won the award, but it is just the teaching of my mother since childhood." Ye Yuan handed the back basket on his body to Liu Man'er, and then helped the old man carry firewood.

Seeing Ye Yuan like this, the old man was a little embarrassed, and refused twice, and the last bundle of firewood was on Ye Yuan's back.

"It's really a good offspring." The old man looked at Ye Yuan and became more satisfied.

The three of them walked all the way down the mountain, Liu Man'er looked at the barren mountains and mountains, and remembered the bridge in the Journey to the West, could it be that this old man was a fairy or a monster?

With a smile, she followed Ye Yuan and walked down the mountain.