Lan Yue opened her eyes from the darkness, the tree house was quiet, only the faint moonlight penetrated through the gap in the window, and the days when you could see the starry sky outside the window from the tree house were not a few days, the first two days had just started autumn, and the sky had begun to become a little cold, and in a few days they would have to seal the window of the tree house with cotton cloth to prepare for winter.

Xiao Ling hugged her little bear and slept soundly next to her, and her brother and a few of them slept on the other side of the tree house, and they also looked very sleepy, Lan Yue carefully got up, did not wake up Xiao Ling, pushed open the wooden door and walked out.

Although she was already very careful, she still made a little noise when she pushed open the wooden door, Lan Yue glanced back, the room was still very quiet, and no one seemed to be woken up, she breathed a sigh of relief, and climbed the trunk of the big tree and sat on the treetops.

Because of the season, the leaves of the big tree have almost fallen off, and you can see the stars in the sky through the bare branches of the tree from the trunk, and the three moons emit a faint light and stop in the sky around an invisible point.

A cool breeze blew, bringing down a few dead leaves, which also made Lan Yue feel a little more comfortable, after staying in the corn field for so long and running so far today, Lan Yue had already felt slimy on her body, and she would have been much more comfortable if she could have taken a bath, but Lan Yue also knew that it was impossible.

Their bathing method has always been very simple, generally go to the river and use river water to solve the problem, but now it is not realistic to go to the river to bathe at night in this season, and it costs a lot of money to see a doctor if you don't catch a cold. As for hot baths, it is too much luxury for them to take out the coal and charcoal they have stored for the winter and boil the bath water now, especially in recent days because of the conflict with the "Evil Dragon Society", they have not made much money in Dongcheng District.

Although the conflict with the thugs of the "Evil Dragon Society" is a conflict, in fact, every time they meet the thugs of the "Evil Dragon Club", a few of them can only escape, and they have no capital to fight with those thugs at all.

I won't talk about it with Xiaoling, it's just a burden to fight. As for the elder brother, although he seems to be fighting very well, he is only fighting very well, and it will definitely not work if he really fights with those little gangsters. Since coming out of the town, Lan Yue has found that he has become dizzy and bloody, and the dizziness is very serious, as long as he sees blood, and even smells blood, his face turns pale, sweats profusely, and when it is serious, he will lie on the side of the road and vomit non-stop.

As for Shigego, it's even more exaggerated, although he doesn't faint blood, but he is afraid of another thing, which is a knife, after coming out of the town, he never touches things like daggers and kitchen knives, and even those sharp things he will deliberately keep his distance. Although those weapons rarely appear when fighting with those thugs, he himself is actually relatively thin, and when he fights, he can only barely say that he will not drag his feet like himself and Xiaoling.

As for the fat man, although he is really not dizzy, and he looks very big, but as he said, he is a flexible fat man, and his ability to escape is superb, but he is really not enough to see in terms of fighting.

After all, it was almost late autumn, and it was inevitable that she would feel a little cold after sitting on the trunk for a long time, Lan Yue couldn't help but sneeze, and suddenly she felt a pair of hands put the blanket on her body, and then she saw Xinghe sitting next to her.

"Brother?"

"Be careful, if you catch a cold, you can't afford to buy medicine?" Xinghe said half-jokingly.

"Hmm. Lan Yue answered, and then pulled some of the blankets on her body.

"Can't sleep?" Xinghe asked, touching her head.

Lan Yue nodded, leaning on Xinghe's body, and at the same time parting half of the blanket on his body.

"Missed them?"

"Little?" the two looked at each other, then turned their gaze to the stars in the sky.

After a long time, Xinghe opened his mouth first, "Can you find a time to go back to the town to have a look?"

Lan Yue was stunned for a moment, then looked up at him, making sure he wasn't joking, but she still shook her head, "No, the boats in Jiangcheng have started to decrease in the past few days, and we haven't scraped together enough money to survive the winter." ”

Xinghe also sighed, "Yes, after all, it's about to enter the dry period." ”

This is not good news, Jiangcheng is not a big city, the city is not much special except for the gladiatorial competition is more famous, the main economic pillar of the city is the port in the city, Jiangcheng is the last port city before the Gong River flows into the Elf River, and it is not far from the Black Mountain Mining Area, the ore in the Black Mountain Mining Area is usually transported by small boats from the tributaries of the Gong River to Jiangcheng and then transferred to the Elf River, at the same time, as a riverside area, the grain production in the surrounding area of Jiangcheng is quite reasonable, and there is a lot of surplus in the case of guaranteeing itself, and those grains and some local specialties in the surrounding areas will also be loaded in Jiangcheng and then transported to the Elf River。

But as the Gong River enters the dry season, because of the drop in the water level, large ships will not be able to come and go, and the mining work in the Black Mountain mining area will stop after entering the winter, when the port of Jiangcheng will be closed for a period of time, until the water level is restored next year, during this time, the foreign population of Jiangcheng will be greatly reduced, and Dongcheng District will also fall into a short period of depression, and they will have no goal to start, and at the same time, because of the closure of the port, the work of the wharf will naturally be gone, and because of the winter, they will no longer be able to go to the corn fields in the suburbs to steal corn。

The only time that Jiangcheng will be more lively in the whole winter is the three- or four-day winter competition held in the Colosseum around the New Year, it is indeed a good time to make money, but it is obviously unrealistic to want to pin all winter on it, there are many places to use money throughout the winter, not only in terms of food, but also in terms of sufficient amount of coal for heating, especially in the past two years, the black-hearted merchants in the city have raised the price of coal again and again.

So in the past, they needed to prepare for the winter before it completely entered the winter, but this year, due to the obstruction of the thugs of the "Evil Dragon Society", they only saved a few hundred dan, which was not enough to buy enough coal for the winter, let alone spend the winter without starving.

Faced with such a reality, Lan Yue really couldn't think of where else they could find time to go to the ruins of the town.

"Speaking of which, it's Xiaoling's birthday soon. Xinghe suddenly spoke.

"yes, it seems like it's been a few days. Lan Yue immediately sat up and touched her head in some pain, "What should I give her?"

They celebrate Ling's birthday every year on July 14th, in fact, Ling's birthday is not this day, Lan Yue is not very clear, because Ling herself does not remember when her own birthday is, the reason why she chose this date is entirely because Lan Yue found this date behind the cloth bear that Ling has been holding, and Ling herself has no objection to them picking this day for their birthday in the past two years,

"Ahem......"

Lan Yue was startled, and when she turned around, she saw the fat man dragging and yawning Shigego didn't know when she stood behind her and her brother, but Xiao Ling didn't follow, Lan Yue breathed a sigh of relief, and then saw the fat man say with a sullen face, "Let's discuss this kind of thing and inform us as well." ”

"Uh......, I thought you were already asleep. Lan Yue felt a little embarrassed.

"I was asleep, but when I turned over, I found that someone was gone. The fat man said in a strange way, looking very angry about being left behind.

"Fat man, you are enough, if you want to discuss together, sit down, don't stand at the door and make trouble, be careful to wake up Xiaoling. Xinghe didn't mean anything embarrassed, and taught him unceremoniously.

The fat man suddenly wilted, and dragged the half-asleep and half-awake Shigego to sit on the trunk of the tree.

"So what do you think should be given to Xiaoling for her birthday?" Out of comfort that she didn't have the two of them together, Lan Yue decided to ask the two of them for their opinions first.

"Hey, fat man, you dragged me up for this. Shigego rubbed his eyes and stood up and walked towards the treehouse, "Wouldn't it be nice to ask her what she wants for this kind of thing?" Xiaoling~......." The fat man dragged him and covered her mouth before he could completely call out.

The three of them stared at the door of the tree house for a long time, and only after confirming that Ling was not awakened did the fat man let go of his hand, at this time Chonggo's face had been suffocated purple, and as soon as the fat man let go of his hand, he lay on the trunk of the tree and gasped for breath, and it took a long time to recover, "Fatty, are you trying to suffocate me?" Shigego looked at the fat man with an unkind expression.

"Who makes yourself stupid. The fat man glanced at him, "It's obvious that hiding here to discuss is to give Xiaoling a surprise, what would she call it a surprise if she herself knew." ”

The corners of Shigego's eyes twitched slightly, he pursed his lips and muttered, "It's really troublesome." ”

Lan Yue looked at these two living treasures helplessly, and whispered, "Are you two here to discuss or make trouble?" ”

The fat man and Chongwu smiled wryly, and settled down, the fat man pulled his hair and thought for a while, and asked, "Why don't we have a hat for Song Xiaoling?"

"Didn't I just give her a hat?" Shigego glanced at the fat man.

"The broken straw hat that came from the scarecrow of Old Balbo's house, this kind of thing is only given by you. The fat man looked at Shigego with a sneer, and the latter's face turned the color of soy liver, and he whispered, "Fat man, you!" and was about to pounce on the fat man and punch him a few times.

At this moment, Xinghe suddenly coughed twice, attracting everyone's attention, he pressed his chin and asked softly, "Or, give her a bear." ”

"Little bear?" Jugo and Fatty, who were pinching each other's necks, stopped their movements and looked at Xinghe suspiciously.

"I see that her original one has been used for so long, it seems to be a little broken. ”

Lan Yue rubbed her little head, indeed, from the time she came out of the town to the present, Xiao Ling has been taking her little bear, inseparable, their life in Jiangcheng is not a good day, that little bear has accompanied Xiao Ling to survive in such an environment for so long, naturally it looks a little miserable, there are many places that have taken off the line, and it seems to be a good decision to give Xiao Ling a new little bear.

Lan Yue glanced at Shigego and the fat man, and the two of them didn't seem to have any opinions, but the fat man was silent for a while, and then asked, "How much is a little bear." ”

Lan Yue tilted her head and thought for a while, and said, "If it's a ragdoll bear as big as Ling, it should be about a few dozen Dan, but we don't have much money left, so everyone has to work hard recently." ”

"The last batch of ore before winter should arrive in two days. Shigego thought for a moment and said.

The fat man pouted, "What about the last batch, it's not like we can get money if we want to work hard, the group of people from the 'Evil Dragon Society' ......"

"Okay, don't be discouraged. Xinghe interrupted him, "There will always be a way." At the same time, he stretched out his right hand, and Lan Yue and the other two also stretched out their hands and put them on the spot, "For Xiaoling's birthday gift." ”

"Also for our winter rations. The fat man added, but everyone just gave him a blank look, because although it was a little out of place, what he said was not wrong.

"Come on, everyone!"

"What are you guys doing?" Xiao Ling suddenly pushed open the door of the tree house, dragged the little bear with one hand, rubbed her eyes with the other, and stood at the door of the tree house with a yawn.

The four of them were all stiff, and hurriedly retracted their hands, and after a moment of silence, Xinghe opened his mouth first, "We are looking at the stars." ”

"Yes, yes, we're looking at the stars. Lan Yue hurriedly agreed.

"Yes, yes, fatty, the moon is quite round this morning. ”

"Yes, yes, last night's breakfast was very good. ”

............

In an instant, Lan Yue had the urge to shoot these two second-class goods to death, but Xiao Ling seemed to be still half-asleep and half-awake, and she didn't understand what these two idiots said at all, so she closed the door and went back.

The four of them breathed a sigh of relief, and Arazuki glared at the fat man and Shigego, but they slipped back into the tree house without giving her a chance to reprimand.

"Let's go to bed early, too. Xinghe patted her on the shoulder.

"Hmm. Lan Yue nodded, and followed him back to the treehouse.

Well, we'll be able to turn in enough money before winter, she secretly cheered herself up in her heart.

PS: Ling's birthday is coming, but my birthday is today, ╮(╯▽╰)╭, 19 years old