"Why doesn't anyone seem to have come here looking for food?" Zhang Xiaoshan's face was filled with joy and questions at the same time.

Li Ping'an also grinned, "You don't look at how far we have gone, don't be stunned, hurry up, pick what you should pick, I will look for medicinal materials with Zhu Erbo." ”

Zhu Erlang is the youngest son of Dr. Zhu, one or two years older than Li Erlin, and he often went into the mountains to collect medicine before he escaped from the famine, but at that time, he hired a few hunters to go into the deep mountains, and he was looking for some medicinal materials that were not easy to see or were valuable.

The four of them spread out in pairs, but not far away, ensuring that they were in each other's field of vision.

Some common and easily recognizable medicinal materials Li Ping'an still knows, but it is not easy to find, and the number of finds is not many, although it looks like no one has come, but in fact, if you look closely, you can see the traces of someone coming.

It's just that there are still too few people who come here to find food, after all, Li Ping'an and they have all climbed to the second mountain, although these mountains are not too high, but for the homeless people who are so hungry that their chests are close to their backs and they are physically exhausted after walking for a day under the scorching sun, when there is no harvest on the first mountain, they will usually give up and continue to go up.

First, time does not allow, the mountain at night is too dangerous, and secondly, there is no extra physical strength, and it is even worse if you are tired halfway.

"Peace! Second Uncle Zhu! Ping An ......"

The sound of Zhang Dashan calling at the top of his throat came, Li Ping'an hurriedly turned his head to look, and after responding, he heard them shouting over, so he and Zhu Erlang walked to Zhang Dashan's side.

"What's the matter?"

"Look at these footprints, they are human, they are very fresh, obviously someone has been here just now, don't separate, be careful." Zhang Dashan pointed to a string of footprints on the ground and said.

Li Ping'an looked at it, it was indeed the case, and nodded, "It's not early, let's leave in a quarter of an hour." ”

It was so decided, Zhang Dashan and Zhang Xiaoshan seized the time to dig wild vegetables harder, Li Ping'an and Zhu Erlang glanced at the nearby medicinal materials, and also helped dig wild vegetables.

Now that I've found this place, there's no need to worry about collecting medicine, it's a big deal to stay one more day, and call more people tomorrow.

However, just as they were about to leave, a voice sounded, "Is it Brother Ping'an and Brother Xiaoshan?" ”

“？？？”

"Who!"

Li Ping'an and Zhang Xiaoshan immediately tensed their bodies, this barren mountain and wild mountains, suddenly a voice popped out and shouted their names, obviously the other party knew themselves, their faces quickly climbed up with visible panic, and they looked around vigilantly.

"It's me, Caoya!" As soon as he finished speaking, a figure slid down from a tree.

"Grass?"

Li Ping'an and Zhang Dashan Zhang Xiaoshan looked at the little girl with a familiar face in front of him in shock, and Zhang Xiaoshan was even more rude, "!" What a grass! ”

Then there is a series of questions, such as where have you been hiding for more than a year, why don't you go home to take a look or bring back a message, do you know that Peach Blossom and Zhao Di have been waiting for her, do you know how worried they are about her......

"Shut up!" Zhang Dashan couldn't stand it anymore, slapped Zhang Xiaoshan on the shoulder, stopped Zhang Xiaoshan simply and rudely, and then said to Caoya, "Are you alone, do you want to go back with us, Peach Blossom and Zhaodi are also at the bottom of the mountain." ”

"My eldest sister and younger sister are here?" Caoya's eyes lit up, and she could see that she really wanted to see Peach Blossom and Zhaodi, but soon showed a tangled look, and finally gritted her teeth and refused, "Forget it, I won't go to see them, I am relieved to know that they are still alive." There are a lot of people on my side, and I can't ignore them. ”

"No, is it so important that you are an eleven-year-old girl?" Li Ping'an was speechless, he couldn't ignore it, listen to this, what kind of team needs an eleven-year-old girl to say such a thing.

But then Caoya's answer directly silenced him, "Of course I'm important, they are all children I picked up along the way, I'm their boss, they have been abandoned by their relatives once, I can't abandon them!" ”

Zhang Dashan was also a little dumbfounded, "You don't have any adults?" ”

"There was originally a ......"

According to Caoya, after she left the village for several months, she was taken in by a Taoist priest, who lived in a Taoist temple on the mountain to escape the flood, and it was also the Taoist priest who took her to escape the famine, originally planned to go to the northwest, but on the way he heard that there was a plague, and the Taoist priest went to the epidemic area, gave all the belongings to Caoya and let her go south.

Thanks to those months of fugitive life, a little girl survived without danger along the way, and then met the first child abandoned by her family, a six- or seven-year-old girl, lying on the side of the road dying, Caoya was soft-hearted for a while and fed her some food, and the girl survived tenaciously.

Since then, she can always meet some children that others don't want, some men and some women, some are in good health and some are not in good health, Cao Ya thought that since she picked up one, she would not be worse than a few, anyway, they didn't know where to go, they could live if they could, and they would be pulled down if they couldn't live.

Walked here, their boy scouts also died a few people, now including the grass girl is left seven people, the homeless people are hungry and panicked, they are all eating people, their seven children are too easy to be coveted, and they dare not continue to go forward, so they went up the mountain to find a cave to hide, if they are lucky, they can live to the court for disaster relief, then they can live.

"We are all children that no one wants, we should have died a long time ago, we can earn a day if we live longer, and it is not a pity to die one day." When he said this, a big smile appeared on Caoya's thin slap face, which made Li Ping'an and them moved.

But soon, Zhang Xiaoshan gritted his teeth and said: "You can't control yourself, you still care about others!" Let's go, you go down the mountain with me, and when I see you and don't take you back, how do you tell me to explain to Peach Blossom? ”

Caoya took a few steps back, stared at Zhang Xiaoshan and said, "Brother Xiaoshan, I really can't ignore them, you should have never seen me, and don't tell my eldest sister and younger sister that you see me, I have no regrets if I can hear that they are all alive." Brother Xiaoshan, after you marry my eldest sister, you must treat my eldest sister well, she is too bitter, although I am not happy at home, but at least there is the eldest sister who cares and cares, but the eldest sister has no one to care about and love. ”

A thought rose from the bottom of Li Ping'an's heart, "Are you scared?" Afraid that because of your appearance, we will have a different view of Peach Blossom and Zhaodi, or even leave you alone? ”

Caoya was silent, this is indeed the problem she is most afraid of in her heart, she doesn't know if the people in the village know that she set the fire in her house last year, but she can't go back, I believe that people who are not stupid will doubt her.

As a human daughter, she set fire to her father and mother, which is undoubtedly a great rebellion, and the people in the village will definitely not tolerate her if they suspect her. Now that the eldest sister and the younger sister are also taken care of by Zhang Xiaoshan's family, she is worried that her appearance in front of the villagers will arouse their disgust, which will affect the eldest sister and the younger sister.

The eldest sister and the younger sister have no way to live with her.

Seeing Caoya's reaction, Li Ping'an knew that he had guessed correctly, so he pretended to be casual and said: "It's strange to say, when the government sent someone to ask, the people in the village said that it was an accidental fire. ”

The grass girl's eyes widened sharply, and her eyes flashed.