After a year, the mountains and rivers of Qingqiu are still the same, the trees are beautiful, and the peaks and peaks are ups and downs, but the mood of the people is completely different from when they left.

After entering the familiar forest path, Li Fei simply jumped off the stone sword, although he was carrying a heavy burden on his back, all of which were the necessary items they had added to Lugong Town, but when he got home, even his steps became brisk, step by step on the familiar dirt road that she had walked countless times, the familiar smell of the mountains and forests, the smell of the wind, the home where she had lived for ten years.

"You see, I used to come to this forest all the time. Li Fei happily dragged Lei Xiuyuan to introduce him to interesting stories when he was a child, "You can dig a kind of wild mountain mushroom under the roots of the tree, and fry it with bamboo shoots in oil, which is delicious." ”

Lei Xiuyuan looked around, the demonic energy that was originally vaguely felt was all gone at this moment, this is an absolute barren mountain range, looking at the growth of trees and roads, you can find it, I am afraid that very few people come to the entire Qingqiu, but here and now, the smell of the wind is rarely clean, presumably because of the evil beads on her wrist.

He turned around and suddenly saw that Li Fei had dug up a lot of mountain mushrooms in his arms, and couldn't help but wonder: "What are you digging them for?"

There was a rare indulgence and happiness on her face, and her eyes narrowed: "Go back to my house, I will invite you to eat and taste my craftsmanship." But I can only grieve you to eat vegetarian with me for a few days, and I don't know how to make meat. ”

It seems that when she returned to Qingqiu, her whole person was relaxed, which was very different from when she was in the academy. Lei Xiuyuan smiled and took the dirty mountain mushrooms with mud in her arms: "If there is anything delicious, don't be stingy, just get it." ”

For Li Fei, this is the first time to bring friends to play at home, which is novel and exciting, and naturally he wants to greatly fulfill the friendship of the landlord. Fortunately, there are a lot of wild vegetable mushrooms in the mountains, and after a while, I picked a handful of them, and walked along the forest path that was already overgrown with weeds, and then entered the narrow passage between the cliffs.

The cliffs on both sides are as high as clouds, the rock walls are as sharp and treacherous as knives, and the narrow passages are full of white bones.

Li Fei walked for a while, and suddenly showed a look of expectation and nervousness on her face, she ran a few steps without saying a word, looked up, but saw that the hemp rope tied to the protruding stone when she left a year ago was still there, and she didn't even move the position, she reached out and took it off, the bell on the hemp rope had already rusted to death, and the hemp rope was also like a defeat, and it broke when she rubbed it.

It seems that no one has returned.

Li Fei didn't know whether he was lost or uncomfortable, so he paused for a moment and said in a low voice: "Look, in the past, Master and I used this hemp rope to climb up and down. ”

Lei Xiuyuan raised his head and looked at it, only to feel that this cliff was extremely dangerous, if he didn't rely on the power of the Tengyun Imperial Sword, he really couldn't imagine how to climb it with manpower alone.

He saw that Li Fei's face was full of loss that he couldn't hide, presumably because the master had not returned, so he whispered: "Isn't it to fulfill the friendship of the landlord? I am dying of hunger, how can you, the proprietor, starve to death the guests?"

Li Fei sneered and laughed, and threw the stone sword out: "Let's go, the hemp rope is rotten and can't be used, let's fly up."

The simple courtyard in the forest has not changed at all, there is a fence outside the courtyard, three wooden houses in the courtyard, and a few thin fields used to be planted with radishes and sweet potatoes, and then before Li Fei left, they were all dug up, and now there are only weeds in the fields.

Li Fei pushed open the firewood door of her house, and a bunch of ash fell on the eaves, and she smiled embarrassedly: "Uh, I haven't come back for too long, it's so dirty." You put your things down first, walk around, and I'll clean up. ”

Lei Xiuyuan pressed her head and pushed her out: "I'll come, you cook for me." ”

Will he clean up? Don't throw dirty things under the bed like Master, even if it's cleaned! Li Fei chased him into the house, and when he saw him take off his coat and fold up his sleeves, he picked up a broom and began to sweep it familiarly, and when he was halfway through the sweep, he turned his head and stared at her: "If I don't cook again, I'll go." ”

Li Fei hurriedly went out to fetch water, he didn't come back for a year, the water tank was dirty, the earth well was also flooded with dust and weeds, and he cleaned it up for a long time, so he burned the fire to wash rice and cook and cut vegetables, the small kitchen was steaming, the rice was fragrant, and the smoke of the long-lost cooking stove rose, she suddenly had the illusion that she had never left Qingqiu, and she was nostalgic and sad.

Lei Xiuyuan is here, it's great, if she were alone, she would definitely cry at this time.

There were washed sheets and sheets in the yard, and the quilt that had been dusty for a year was also taken out by Lei Xiuyuan to bask in the sun, this child was really unexpectedly capable. After a while, he suddenly turned over a yellowed book and said, "The books in your master's house are interesting. ”

"What book?" Li Fei leaned over to take a look, but saw the words "Overseas Anecdotes" written on the cover, and couldn't help but wonder: "Where did you find it?"

When he was tidying up the house, he found a box under his bed, and opened it to look at it. He tapped his chin out the door, and sure enough, there was an open and tattered wooden box on the ground, and most of the books in it were yellow and moldy, and he had put them on the stones to dry.

"I looked at it, and it was all about overseas rumors. Lei Xiuyuan smiled, "Your master is an interesting old man, and few people believe in overseas affairs." ”

Li Fei was also a little puzzled, she had never heard the master mention these things, she knew that there were books in the master's house, but most of them were things that taught her to read and write when she was a child, when did there be a box of books under the bed?

She picked up a copy casually and flipped through it, and sure enough, most of the rumors in it were some overseas rumors, and there were overseas foreigners in the East and the South, all black, and there were snakes in their hands, which looked completely unbelievable. It's strange that after being with Master for so many years, she actually just learned about these books, and where has he been hiding them? Could it be that he turned them out and put them under the bed when he was leaving?

"If you can't figure it out, don't think about it yet. Lei Xiuyuan pressed her head and pushed her into the kitchen again, "The rice seems to be burning, and I smell the mush." ”

Li Fei hurriedly brought out the rice pot, because she saw that Lei Xiuyuan was always pointing fingers at him, she pushed him out unhappily: "You go out and play by yourself." ”

I haven't cooked for a year, and I'm a little handy, but fortunately, three dishes and one soup are still out, Li Fei brought the food to the table in the big house, and Lei Xiuyuan was already sitting next to him reading a book and waiting. She filled him with a bowl of rice, first sandwiched a chopstick, bamboo shoots, and mountain mushrooms in his bowl, and smiled: "Come, please eat." ”

He took a bite of bamboo shoots, raised his eyebrows slightly, and did not speak.

The first time Li Fei cooked for someone other than Master, he couldn't help but be full of anticipation: "How does it taste?"

However, it is estimated that Lei Xiuyuan will not say anything good, and it is more difficult to hear a compliment from this child's mouth than to praise her by Riyan.

Who knew that he actually nodded, smiled slightly, and his voice was very gentle: "Well, it's delicious." ”

Li Fei couldn't help but be happy, and sandwiched a bowl full of sharp dishes for him: "Then eat more!

He gave her a pair of chopsticks, and said lightly: "You have to eat more, you're so short." ”

She was a little annoyed: "I'm still growing my body!

"That doesn't change the fact that you're short now. Another chopstick mushroom was placed in her bowl.

Okay, it's really not comparable to him, everyone has started to get taller this year, the most exaggerated is Ye Ye, all of them have reached Hu Jiaping's shoulders, Lei Xiuyuan has also grown a lot taller, he used to be about the same height as Baili Gelin, and now he is a head taller than himself, but he still looks thinner than Ye Ye and Ji Tongzhou, but the taste of weak and slender girls in the past is gone.

This meal, Lei Xiuyuan swept all the dishes very face-savingly, and even the soup was not missed, and after the meal, they cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks together, and the two who were full of food sat in the small courtyard full of sunshine with their backs to the bluestone blocks and flipped through the books in the wooden box.

Lei Xiuyuan read it for a long time, and each of the books in the box told various anecdotes from overseas, including long-standing legends collected by the people, and very exaggerated fabrications. Overseas has always been an unknown mystery, and few people will believe that it really exists, so why did Li Fei's master collect this?

"Li Fei, didn't your master tell you about overseas?" he asked in a low voice, but after waiting for a while, he did not see her answer, and when he turned his head, he saw that she was leaning on the stone and falling asleep.

When you are full, you sleep, like a pig.

Although it was the height of summer, but the wind in the mountains and forests was still cool, he took off his coat and put it on her, lowered his head and continued to read the books, although these books were mostly apocryphal, but they were also more interesting than the boring immortal magic things in the library tower of the academy, and he was very fascinated by it.

The wind passed, and the faint fragrance diffused, and Lei Xiuyuan's attention suddenly could no longer focus on the book.

He turned his head to look at Jiang Lifei beside him, she was sleeping deeply, the fine fluff on her face was reflected by the sun like a layer of gold edge, and her lips were still so innocently curled. His coat was covered on her, looking very wide, and at this glance, Jiang Lifei, who was usually stubborn and refused to bow his head, rarely had a delicate and weak taste.

She has changed so much that if she hadn't seen it every day, she would have thought she was a stranger. Fortunately, it's still that Jiang Lifei inside.

The small courtyard of the mountains and forests at two o'clock in the afternoon, intertwined with the sound of the wind, the rustle of leaves, and the sound of Li Fei's breathing, is obviously a deserted place, but it is unexpectedly reassuring. This is her home, where she has lived for ten years.

Lei Xiuyuan stared at the bluegrass on her pink Luo skirt, the wind blew her skirt fluttering, she was probably dreaming of eating, smacked her lips, hummed twice meaninglessly, and suddenly turned over, and the long braids fell behind her back, thick and black, oily and slippery.

He was a little funny, novel and a little mischievous, reaching out to hold the tip of her braid, and slowly playing with it between his fingers, his hair was soft and slippery, and it was numb and itchy to rub against the palm.

It's quiet, relaxing, like a dream.