The eyes in this forest have been almost picked by Su Su, and a few days ago they also found a secret passage that was extremely hidden and artificially excavated, and Su expected that it must be the passage to the Li clan.

It's just that I'm worried about my mother, and I want to wait until I find her before we go in together. As a result, several days have passed, and he feels that no matter how big the forest is, he has already walked all over it, but he still hasn't found his mother.

After calming down and thinking about it carefully, he thought that the sudden disappearance of his mother's relatives was definitely closely related to the people who set up the scene behind the scenes.

Since he can't find his mother in this forest, he will go directly to the clan to find out the person behind the scenes, and when the time comes, he must beat him so hard that he doesn't even know his father and mother, and let him consciously release his mother.

Qing Yi heard his plan and immediately shook his head and said that it was inappropriate: "How can this be done? It is too dangerous to leave the princess alone in this forest." Otherwise, the subordinates and Qingsan will stay and continue to look for the princess, and the little master, you will take Yin and Xiaosan and them in first. When we find the princess, we will follow the secret path to catch up with you as soon as possible. ”

Li Su looked at the boundless woods in front of him, shook his head and said: "There is no need to waste any more time, we have walked through this forest these days and have not seen the figure of my mother, obviously my mother is not here at all." ”

Yin on the side looked at him in surprise, and when he saw Lisu looking at him in a flash, he immediately looked away. He has always felt that the little master is different from all of them, and maybe the little master, the master, and the princess are also different.

Judging from these days, if the array in this forest was not for the presence of the little master, they would only be blind.

What does it mean that a child who is not yet four years old knows more than any of them adults? a prodigy, a freak, or a demon? He doesn't want to think about it anymore.

In the blink of an eye, a new day came, and Su Qingmo opened her eyes and went out to exercise according to her previous habits.

For the first few days she was just exercising in front of the door, and now she has expanded her exercise facility to the foot of the hill in front of the house and the whole mountain behind the house.

Now Li Qing saw her get up and ran out to the back mountain, and he no longer stopped her.

After these days of getting along, he already knew that this girl had the habit of exercising every day. also knew that her martial arts were not ordinarily powerful, so he no longer worried about what danger she would encounter.

After opening his eyes and being silent for a while, he sat up from his wooden bed and prepared to get up.

After washing up in the kitchen, I began to prepare breakfast for two.

Breakfast is very simple, put the leftover rice from last night in the pot and add water to cook it into rice porridge, take a few green and red chili peppers, chop them, put a little salt, and then pour in a few drops of rice vinegar and mix them, put the bowl on the wooden table and let it marinate for a while, and when Su Qingmo comes back for breakfast, it is just time to drink rice porridge, which is very appetizing.

After observing during this time, he also somewhat figured out her taste, and liked these spicy and stimulating tastes very much.

remembered the embarrassing appearance when she drank rice porridge with his roughly pickled chili peppers for the first time, and drank all the porridge she had stewed for two people in one breath, which made Li Qing can't help but show a smile on the corner of her mouth every time she thinks about it.

When he had done this, he went to the door again, took an axe, went to the door of the house where the firewood was stacked, and began to crack firewood.

Su Qingmo's morning exercise time can be long or short, sometimes when she comes back, the sun rises in mid-air, and she sees Li Qing still waiting for her to have breakfast together. She would tell him not to wait for her for breakfast in the future, and let him use it himself. However, Li Qing responded in person, but he still waited patiently and hungry for her to come back and use it together.

"Ah Qing is in Thunderwood. Li Daniu's daughter-in-law was braving the morning fog that had not completely dissipated, and appeared in front of Li Qing's wooden house with a small bamboo basket on her arm.

Li Qing stopped when she heard the thunderbolt's movements, turned around and saw that she was blushing and panting with a thick neck, she knew that she was tired, so she hurriedly went into the kitchen and took a bamboo chair and put it in front of her, asked her to sit down, and said: "Sister-in-law is here, but there is something wrong with it, next time if there is something at home that you need my help with, you can directly ask the big baby to come up to find me, the morning fog is cold, and the mountain road is not easy to walk, you don't have to come here in person." ”

Seeing this, Li Daniu's family hurriedly waved his hand: "Young boy, don't be busy, there is still a lot of work in the field, I have to go back soon, where do I have time to sit." That's the case, my yellow flowers and twist flowers have just laid eggs in the past two days, so I will take a few eggs and bring them to you, you can give Miss Su stewed egg custard at noon, that fragrant and nutritious, Miss Su will definitely like it at that time. Li Daniu's family laughed as they removed the cloth covering the bamboo basket, revealing six eggs and a plucked pheasant, as well as a pile of bright red peppers.

"The corn is almost ripe, and there are a lot of things in the field that spoil the corn, and your big brother Niu set up a few traps in the corn field last morning, but who knew that two pheasants were caught in the trap last night. I packed them up overnight and sent one over, so you can make it for Miss Su at noon. After speaking, he glanced at Li Qing again and admonished: "Young boy, my sister-in-law knows that you can't eat meat while you are still in filial piety, but you can't deliberately make it unpalatable because of this." Otherwise, my sister-in-law won't depend on you. ”

“...... Sister-in-law, how can it be, don't you believe me and me......" Li Qing felt very aggrieved, and her face was a little stiff. Sister-in-law is really, is his Li Qing's character so unbelievable?

He had never been harsh on Su Qingmo's food, knowing that she liked to eat game, he even took out all kinds of game meat that he had caught some time ago that had been marinated and made it for her to eat, which was the old book he was going to keep until the end of the year to exchange money for money at the market to buy New Year's goods.

Li Daniu patted him on the shoulder and said, "I know you won't be like this, and my sister-in-law is just talking casually." Don't take it to heart. Don't worry, when you are filial next year, your sister-in-law will definitely cook you your favorite meal. ”

"......" looked at her serious face, the expression on Li Qing's face became even more bitter, didn't she still believe in herself?

But in the face of the serious and kind face in front of him, he could only nod with a bitter face. Turned around and went into the kitchen to get a bamboo basket and came out, and picked up the contents of her basket and put it in her own basket.

Li Daniu's family also helped pick it up, and then said: "I heard that Miss Su likes to eat spicy flavors, if your family's peppers are gone, go down the mountain to pick them in your sister-in-law's field." There are no other rare things in my sister-in-law's field, just this pepper, it must be enough. ”

Li Qing answered.

raised her hand and took out the pheasant she picked up into the bamboo basket and said, "Sister-in-law, take this pheasant, you take it back and let Brother Da Niu take it to the market and sell it, and then go to the pharmacy to grab some tonic medicine and come back to replenish the body of the second baby." The second baby has suffered a crime, and his body will definitely suffer, but now is the time for him to grow his body, and he can grow stronger after taking some tonics. ”

Li Da Niu's family hurriedly blocked his movements: "No, no, your big brother Niu said that it is better for me to make him something delicious at home." Don't I still have a pheasant at home, and I'm going to stew it when I go back, and simmer it for a few hours, and by noon, the baby will definitely be able to eat it. ”

"That'...... Then I'll give you some money, and I will buy your ......" Li's village is full of poor households, and no one's family is rich. Usually, if you get a pheasant or hare at home, you have to take it to the market to exchange money, take it back to your home and save it well, so that when someone in the family has a disease, you don't have the money to ask Lang Zhong to see.

"Qing boy!" Li Da Niu's voice suddenly raised his face, only to see her face excited, her eyes glared at Li Qing, and mocked: "Qing boy, but you look down on your big bull brother? I haven't read any books with your big cow brother, but there is a sentence that we have heard and understood in our hearts." That dripping grace deserves to be reciprocated, not to mention that Miss Su also saved the life of my second child, although our family is poor and lacks money, but we also want to do our best to repay Miss Su, young boy, do you even have to stop us from asking for such a thing? You are looking down on me and your big bull brother. As he spoke, his eyes turned red.

Li Qing saw that she seemed to be crying, so she was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly wanted to comfort her, but she didn't know how to do it. Finally, he set his eyes on the pheasant he was holding in his hand, hurriedly threw it into his bamboo basket, and said, "Sister-in-law, don't cry, I'll take it, I'll take the pheasant." Oh, don't cry, if Brother Niu knows that I made you cry, you have to chase me and beat me. ”

Li Daniu's family laughed out loud when he was provoked by his later words, looked at him and asked, "Then you won't say anything like that in the future?"

Li Qing hurriedly waved his hand: "Don't say it, definitely don't say it." ”

Li Daniu's family nodded with satisfaction, looked up at the sky and said, "It's not too early, there are many things at home, so I'll go home first." ”

"The mountain road is not easy to walk, so I'll send my sister-in-law down the mountain. Li Qing said immediately.

Li Daniu's family waved his hand and refused while walking: "No, no, you are busy with you, I am such a big person, I can still wrestle." ”

"Oh, sister-in-law, you should walk slowly. ”

"Got it, go back quickly. ”

Li Qing finally gave her a while, and when she came back, she saw Su Qingmo carrying a wooden basin with clothes and preparing to go to the back of the house, obviously preparing to wash clothes. Remembering what his sister-in-law had just said, he walked a few steps to her and said a little shyly, "I'll help you wash it." ”

Su Qingmo looked at his serious appearance steadily, blinked and blinked, and saw that he had no intention of retreating, and after thinking about it, he said: "If you really want to help me do something, then, after breakfast, you can go down the mountain for me to run an errand." ”

"Huh?" Li Qing didn't react a little. The day before yesterday, he always went down the mountain to see the second baby and asked her if she was going, but she never wanted to go down the mountain. Today, she said that he would help him go down the mountain, and she was ......

"Don't forget if you don't want to. ”

"Yes, I do. ”

"......" Seeing his eager face, Su Qingmo's forehead sweated. How did she feel that she was not asking him to do something for her, but like she was proposing to him?

Su Qingmo hurriedly shook her head and scolded secretly: "Bah, bah! What are you thinking about in this brain?"

Su Qingmo washed the clothes quickly, and it didn't take long for her to come to the front of the house with a wooden basin to dry her clothes.

And Li Qing also put the axe of the thunderbolt at this time and went into the kitchen to get busy.

When Su Qingmo finished drying her clothes and entered the kitchen, two bowls of steaming rice porridge had already been filled on the wooden table, and there was also a bowl of crushed chili peppers marinated in salt and vinegar in the middle of the wooden table, which made Su Qingmo's eyes light up and she only felt a great increase in appetite.

After breakfast, Su Qingmo returned to the room, took a ginseng that was at least two finger sizes and brought fresh soil in an inconspicuous corner, walked it to Li Qing, and handed it to him.

"Please take this ginseng and give it to your big cow brother's house, isn't their family going to stew pheasants at noon, you let your sister-in-law take a knife and cut a few slices and put it in and stew it with the chicken." ”

Li Qing looked at her with some surprise: "You...... Did you hear that?"

"Hurry up and take it, in a while their chickens will be cooked, and you will still be walking on the mountain road. ”

Li Qing looked at the ginseng in her hand, didn't take it, and said hesitantly: "This ginseng in your hand is not only very big, but also has a complete root, or you should keep it and take it to the market to exchange for silver." In the past, he also dug up ginseng and sold it in the market, so he had some understanding of the market value of ginseng.

Su Qingmo looked at the entanglement on his face and felt funny, and directly stuffed the ginseng into his hand and said: "The reason why I dug this ginseng back was originally intended to be given to you, and you don't have to feel pressure, even if I live in your house." Well, now this ginseng belongs to you, if you want to take it to the market for silver, you can dispose of it, in short, it has nothing to do with me now. Then he turned around and went into the house.

Li Qing looked at the ginseng in his hand, chased her into the house and said, "This is the ginseng you dug up, and it should be up to you to decide what to do with it." As for the cost of living you are talking about...... The food you eat these days is not something I paid for, so there is no such thing as living expenses. ”

Su Qingmo looked at him with a smile on his face when he heard this: "Then according to what you mean, as long as you didn't spend money to buy it back, I don't have to hand over a penny to you?"

Facing her smiling face, Li Qing's face was slightly red, but he still looked at her and replied, "We...... We are friends, and there is no need to be so polite between friends. Besides, you saved the second baby that day, then you are the benefactor of our Lijia Village. You also saw it when the mother of the second baby came over before, the eggs, pheasants and some chili peppers in the bamboo basket were specially sent by the sister-in-law for you to eat. Just to thank you for saving the second baby last time, you don't have to give a gift back. ”

Su Qingmo glared at him: "Why not?" I'm a person who knows how to be polite. She gave me something, and I gave her a ginseng in return, isn't this just a gift exchange? Wouldn't it be rude for me not to send my expression back?"

"No, it's not, I mean to say that my sister-in-law gave you something to thank you for saving your life for the second child. If you send a ginseng to their family, they will probably send it back to you when they receive it. But Brother Niu's family is more difficult, and it is estimated that ......"

When Su Qingmo heard this, she understood what Li Qing meant. It turned out that he said so much because he was worried that if he sent this ginseng over, not only could not reduce the burden on Li Daniu's family, but would also increase their burden. Just because if this ginseng is sold in the pharmacy in the bazaar, I am afraid that it will be worth a lot of money, so Li Daniu's family must find something of equal value with this ginseng and give it back to themselves?

Alas...... Su Qingmo couldn't have imagined that it would be so difficult for her to give a gift these days.

That's it, for the sake of Li Daniu's family, which is still simple and kind, it is better for her to go down the mountain and run by herself. It's just that she can't just go.

After thinking about it, he instructed Li Qing: "You take this ginseng and wash it first, and then cut them into slices and put them away." I'll go into the mountains now, you wait at home, and I'll be back in about half an hour. ”

"Oh. Li Qing didn't know what happened to her entering the mountain, but he had always obeyed Su Qingmo's instructions to him. Seeing that she had taken a bamboo basket into the mountain, he took the ginseng to the back of the house to deal with it.

Su Qingmo came back in less than half an hour, and when she came back, the bamboo basket she was carrying in her hand was filled with some medicinal herbs. Li Qing hurriedly put down the axe and took the bamboo basket in her hand: "I'm tired, I boiled the boiled water you like to drink and put it on the kitchen table to cool, you can go into the house and drink it." ”

Like this kind of heat, the villagers all drink raw water directly, and Li Qing is naturally no exception. However, since Su Qingmo lived in his house, he followed Su Qingmo's instructions to boil a pot of boiling water every day and put it aside to cool, and drink this cold boiled water when he was thirsty.

Su Qingmo listened to his words, and felt a little funny in her heart. What is the boiled water she likes to drink, she just doesn't like to drink raw water.

"It's all herbs, please take it to the back room and wash it for me. ”

"Oh, good. ”

Half an hour later, Su Qingmo followed Li Qing down the mountain and came to Li Daniu's house at the entrance of Lijia Village at the foot of the mountain.

Li Daniu is now the only person in the family who can be regarded as a legitimate laborer. His father had starved to death in the famine of the early years, and he had no other siblings, and now the family was a simple family, with only two sons and his old mother left except for the husband and wife.

At this time, it was still early for lunch, and there was only a fifty-year-old mother in Li Daniu's family who almost drowned a while ago, and now Li Daniu forcibly asked to stay at home and rest every day The second baby is guarding the house.

The second child, who was bored playing with stones in her yard, saw someone coming, her eyes lit up first, and when she saw Su Qingmo behind Li Qing, her eyes were covered with a layer of fear.

threw the small stone he was holding on to the ground and was about to run into the house, but Li Qing, who had long hands and feet, grabbed the back collar and lifted it up.

Li Qingban raised his face and lectured him: "Second baby, when you see a guest at home, you don't come forward to salute and say hello, where are you going to run?"

The second baby struggled a few times, but did not break free, so she also gave up, looked at Su Qingmo with a white face and stammered: "She, she, she ......"

Li Qing couldn't see his attitude, raised his other hand and patted him directly on the head: "What is she? How can your life-saving benefactor be so rude when she sees you? How did your father and mother teach you usually?"

The second baby was in pain, and the fear of Su Qingmo in his heart made him cry directly: "Woo wow, wow......"

As soon as she heard the second baby in the front yard crying, she threw down the unwashed clothes in her hand and hurriedly ran out, shouting: "Second baby, why are you crying?

After hearing this, Li Qing hurriedly said: "Auntie, I just slapped him casually, I didn't make a heavy hand, don't worry." ”

"Ouch, it turned out to be a young boy. Seeing that it was Li Qing, Aunt Li smiled, raised her eyes to look at the second baby who was still crying, the anxiety and worry on her original face were all gone, the old face full of wrinkles was boarded, and her eyes glared at the second baby: "Second baby, what are you crying about? You are naughty and disobedient, your Uncle Qing can't beat you anymore?"

"Grandmother...... Woo wow, wow...... "The second baby cried even more sadly when she heard it.

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Today is the winter solstice, well, I wish you all a happy holiday.

Well, Yuanzi rice is eaten, because Yuanzi's family doesn't seem to have this custom.