Chapter 13 How to make a living
The center of the basin is a field, the north gate is a towering mountain, and the south is Jindong City. Naturally, the location of this rural area is under this mountain range.
It takes about two minutes to walk from the village to the middle of the field, and it takes about half an hour to reach the other end.
In addition, because of the connection with the outside world, some people in the village have moved to Jindong City to work and study in recent years, and a few strong, smart and beautiful children have gone.
Therefore, although the hour has passed now, the three of Zixinxi still haven't encountered half a figure in this field, but the spiritual perception already knows that a few people are coming to them in groups.
Coarse linen clothes, wearing their own straw-woven sunhats, several people holding hoes and sickles in their hands, and carrying water bottles, tools for sprinkling medicine and a small bucket cart on their backs.
Those people had just come out, and they were talking and laughing.
Zi Xinxi frowned at the good-looking moth, and the one pushing the bucket cart was a thin girl with a hunched body, and the tattered clothes with big skin and boast covered the girl neatly, and ordinary people couldn't tell whether she was a man or a woman, old or young.
"Let's go, let's go, Adjutant Tang is here to collect rent again. β
The men suddenly turned around and returned in a panic.
The girl was still pushing the cart and standing still.
Those people didn't care about her, and threw the farm tools in their hands into the bucket cart.
The girl didn't say anything, and pushed the bucket cart slowly towards the village. The villagers were no longer visible to her.
Zi Xinxi's brows were still furrowed, and when she saw the smile on the corner of the girl's mouth, Zi Xinxi was stunned, and her heart became curious again.
"Xiaobai, teacher, let's go. β
The three of them went out to look into the countryside.
On the other hand, Mo Lianxi pushed the bucket cart and staggered towards the countryside, with no joy or sorrow in his heart, but the corners of his mouth were hooked up with a mocking smile.
The country roads are overgrown with weeping willows, trickling water, and beside a small river sit small huts, the richest of which are brick houses, so quiet that you can hear the needles falling to the ground.
"General Tang, that ghost girl is here. β
There is a square in the village, where all the people in the village gather, and some people have sharp eyes to look at Mo Lianxi, who is slowly pushing the bucket cart, and shout.
"Don't make a fuss. β
The village chief snorted coldly to express his dissatisfaction, and the old village chief was also obviously dissatisfied with Mo Lianxi's slowness at this time, but he only calmly took the lead to get out of the way.
The villagers gathered around one person, Li Mu's adjutant, Tang Zhuwen.
Mo Lian knew this person in the past.
Ignoring the dissatisfaction of the village chief and others with themselves, they each pushed the bucket cart aside, clapped their hands and drank cold water from the well on the side, before walking towards Tang Zhuwen.
Although she is thin, she is full of uninhibited and chic.
Tang Zhuwen's face was gloomy, and the village chief and others on the side were already trembling.
The Son of Heaven was angry and ambushed millions of corpses, and the princes were angry and blood splattered thousands of miles.
Although Tang Zhuwen is not the Son of Heaven or a prince, if he gets angry on the spot, the entire village will be destroyed.
The Son of Heaven is angry and has to obey the people, but in this remote mountain village, it is harmless to exterminate a village, so no one dares to say a bad word if he is exterminated by a small lie.
Besides, this Tang Zhuwen is extremely forbearing, and his joy and anger are not revealed. has outstanding ability, but he is depressed under the former general Mo Xiao, and he is even more cruel in the long run.
After Mo Xiao's death, he defected to Li Mu's subordinates to do things, and he was even more ruthless, cruel and bloody, and once exterminated more than 300 border thieves with the power of one person. Blood stained his eyes red, and he became famous overnight, a devil who came out of hell. Li Mu's current celebrity, that is what their common people dare to provoke.
In the past, Mo Pian was not like this in the past, but now this bold attitude, if it angers Tang Zhuwen, will it not affect them.
"Dead girl, aren't you leaving tomorrow? Why don't you come to see General Tang, if you say a few good words to the general, maybe you can get a tael of silver on the road..."
The village chief hurriedly ran to Mo Lianxi's side, lowered his voice and admonished, but in fact threatened her.
to drive her out of the village.
Mo Lianxi was silent, and when he saw the fear and coldness in the village chief's eyes, he sneered.
"Heh......"
The small square was thundering, they glanced at Mo Lianxi, who didn't know whether he was alive or dead, and then looked at Tang Zhuwen in horror, their faces turned pale, and they were immediately shrouded in the breath of death.
Because Tang Zhuwen actually laughed.
Mo Lianxi looked at it coldly, and his little face with a big palm was disdainful.
Her eyes were bright.
Tang Zhuwen smiled more cruelly, and the atmosphere became more tense.
The corners of Mo Lianxi's lips moved slightly, and she saw her sister-in-law, who was not used to seeing her in the past, rushed over, her eyes were bloodshot, and she was terrified, and she grabbed her hand frantically and scolded: "You dead girl, what do you mean, don't look like a dead father and a dead mother, and don't rely on your father to be a general, it's already a thing of the past, who else do you show it." β
His hand was pinched painfully, but Mo Lianxi looked at the panting aunt unconsciously, smiled, and didn't say anything.
The village chief hurriedly pulled away the aunt and pleaded with Tang Zhuwen: "General Tang forgives the sin, the cheap maid is stupid and doesn't know how to be polite, since Miss Mo has been present, please call the shots." β
Tang Zhuwen raised his hand to signal, and the two soldiers beside him had already walked towards the village chief. The village chief was shocked, and the person in his hand was pulled down, and suddenly there was a scream of pain.
directly stunned the village chief.
"Hehe, General Ben didn't kill her, this timid person is still the head of a village. Wake him up. β
His men hurriedly complied.
Everyone panicked, but Tang Zhuwen walked towards Mo Lianxi.
The hearts of the people were put down.
"You know I'm here to find you. At the beginning, your father handed over his power to the emperor to protect the safety of this place for ten years, and now it has been ten years, and it is time for you to have a home and can't go back, so go back to the Mo family with me. β
Tang Zhuwen approached Mo Lianxi and spoke coldly.
Mo Lianxi shook his head and said calmly: "He has taken me out of the Mo family, I have been here for ten years, and I will no longer be a member of the Mo family from now on, why do you want to go back?"
Tang Zhuwen also shook his head, stared at Mo Lianxi's watery face, and said: "You haven't been out of the countryside for ten years, do you want to protect yourself or protect this place?" You have the blood of the Mo family on your body, as long as you live, half of the Mo family's family business will be yours." β
Mo Lianxi was unmoved: "That's why you took me back?"
"Do you know what's behind this statue?"
Tang Zhuwen walked to the tattered figure behind him, and asked Mo Lianxi interestingly.
Mo Pixi didn't answer, his expression was meaningless and sneered.
The secret of the sky is no more than a new sprout under the loess, which will blossom and bear fruit that day, and will return to the loess.
Mo Lianxi was still unmoved.
Tang Zhuwen was not annoyed by her coldness, and said to himself: "There is a treasure book in the state that predicts the past and the future, and it is absolutely forbidden by the state to be a celestial object, but your father is arrogant when he sees one of them, and wants to build a country of great harmony, which is the land of homesickness, but he does not know the cycle of heaven, and finally loses his temper and ends up depressed in this ten miles of land." β
Mo Lianxi still said flatly: "What do you want to say?"
Tang Zhuwen walked towards Mo Lianxi, and did not shy away from others, saying: "Under the cycle of cause and effect, people are born, old, sick and die, and young children have no power to bind chickens. Since ancient times, emperors respected men and women, the frontier was turbulent and the people mourned, and the three dynasties were united to one for the people. Now we have to collect everything we lack, what do you think I'm talking about?"
Mo Lianxi sneered: "So what. β
Tang Zhuwen saw that Mo Lianxi was still indifferent, and suddenly laughed.
"The daughter of the Mo family, but that's it!"
After Tang Zhuwen finished speaking, he ordered someone to lift the statue and left Wangxiang with his subordinates.
He didn't take Mo Lianxi.
Mo Lianxi turned around and walked out of the small square.
Mo Lianxi walked out of the square and walked out of the village, and the woman's face was indifferent from beginning to end.
She didn't know why Tang Zhuwen would let her go, maybe she wouldn't care if she knew.
Tang Zhuwen's arrival has heralded that her seventeen years of peaceful life will be completely shattered.
Why did you come to her at this time? Just as Tang Zhuwen wanted to express.
Today is the day she left Wangxiang, why she chose to leave at this time, she didn't want to think deeply.
But when she looked at the three of her with a smile outside the village, Mo Lianxi smiled dumbly, they came to look for her, but the feeling was different.
As she thought, the little girl jumped up and down towards her like an elf, with an innocent smile on the corner of the girl's mouth, and sincerity and self in her eyes.
The people inside were tattered, sloppy and wasteful, but the girl's eyes were bright, and a faint and stubborn light shone in the little girl's eyes that were getting closer and closer.
The tip of Mo Lianxi's nose was slightly sour.
It was the prettiest little girl she had ever seen.
"Big sister, let's go together, my name is Zixinxi, his name is Xiaobai, and the old man is my teacher Ignorance. Seeing that Mo Lianxi was low, Zi Xinxi walked up to Mo Lianxi, looked up at her, and smiled sweeter than usual.
Mo Lianxi didn't speak, his distant eyes looked at Zi Xinxi, and his eyes were still unfazed. But Zi Xinxi knew that she would definitely give her an answer, because Mo Lianxi's eyes were already focused on her.
"My name is Mo Lianxi. β
For a long time, when Bai Chiyun couldn't bear it anymore, he heard Mo Lianxi say lightly.
This surname... Bai Chiyun frowned, just as he thought, he saw Zi Xinxi jumping up excitedly, his little face was so red and so cute, he frowned happily, and said happily: "Big sister, it's so fateful, you are also surnamed Mo, and my eldest brother is too!"
Mo Lianxi nodded and didn't say much.
Zi Xinxi was instantly deflated and frowned.
She found that Mo Lianxi was really cold, different from Mo Mufan's indifference, but there was no love.
Where is the big sister who laughed sarcastically just now? At this time, Zi Xinxi was puzzled.
But Zi Xinxi didn't think about it for the next second, took Mo Lianxi's hand, touched her stomach and said aggrievedly: "Big sister, I'm hungry, take me to your place to eat, okay?"
You don't have to laugh sarcastically all the time, do you?
Mo Lianxi nodded without hesitation.
Zi Xinxi laughed, pulled the reluctant Bai Chiyun, and the three of them walked together to a damp woodland not far from the countryside under the guidance of Mo Lianxi.
She moved in a few years ago. On that day, it was her father's death day, and the whole village went, and she even made a lot of nonsense, sneering at the Datong society that looked at the countryside and Mo Xiao's foolish dreams.
"Yoro is arrogant. β
This sneer made her ostracized by everyone.
The ten-year covenant is a talisman that Mo Xiao has obtained through the achievements of her ancestors in the three dynasties, and it is time for her not to be kicked out of the village for a year, and she is ready to leave.
Passing through the overgrown path that could not be called a road, I came across a small hut and a translucent lake.
The hut was fenced around and was clearly not safe.
The water is not clear, the lake is full of silt, and it is a branch of the lower reaches of the river, so it is clear that this is the place where the people of Wangcun discharge their sewage and garbage.
Bai Chiyun frowned in disgust.
Zi Xinxi asked suspiciously: "Why does the big sister want to live here, don't you have any money? Aren't the Mo family everyone, how can they let you live here." β
Mo Lianxi's footsteps leading the way paused slightly and continued to lead the way, and he frowned and said, "Did you hear the conversation?"
Because this was impossible, the three of Zixinxi were not present at that time, unless the three little girls were people in the martial arts, and they were peerless masters in the martial arts.
Zi Xinxi nodded: "Yes, those people are so stupid, why are they carrying a statue carved in stone, and there is nothing else." β
Mo Lianxi pondered and stopped.
Behind him, the three of Zixinxi were naturally not leaving.
There was already a fence in front of the hut, and the lake was blocked behind the hut.
"Sister, didn't you ask me just now?" Bai Chiyun saw that Mo Lianxi didn't speak again, so he accosted Zi Xinxi, wanting to divert Zi Xinxi's attention.
But Zi Xinxi glanced at him, and suddenly exclaimed: "Xiaobai, didn't you say you don't know, do you dare to lie to your sister? Isn't there nothing in it?"
Bai Chiyun nodded dumbly. Just ordinary carved stones.
He couldn't argue.
"There's nothing in there?" the two of them glared at Mo Lianxi and suddenly asked.
There are no words and no drawings.
Zi Xinxi nodded naturally, and Bai Chiyun nodded.
Mo Lianxi looked at the old man who had been silent. Foolish smiled and nodded. Mo Lianxi got the answer, nodded, and said, "You go to the house first, and I'll go get some game." β
There are no fish in the lake, and wild vegetables do not grow here.
There was a pair of bows and arrows hanging on the fence, and with the bow and arrows in his hand, Mo Lianxi's thin body was nimble and quickly walked towards the forest.
"Let's go, let's go in and wait for her. β
Foolish smiled, and took the lead into the hut first. Zi Xinxi hesitated and entered the house, followed by Bai Chiyun.
The house was messy and dirty, and it was in tatters from the wind and rain. The cot was neat, and the futon lay aside to reveal the planks, which were polished and polished, and there were no chairs in them.
This should be the place to sit.
Zi Xinxi was puzzled, how could the chair be a bed?
The bed is not big or small, and the clean place exposed is enough for the three of them, and they sit down, where will they sit after a while?
"Sister, where are we sitting?"
The four corners were filled with armor skulls, and the small space was barely enough for three people to enter.
"Sit on the floor. β
Zi Xinxi suddenly thought of this idiom, turned around and looked at Bai Chiyun and Yuzhi interestingly.
With such a flash of inspiration, Bai Chiyun was simply dumbfounded, and being able to come in was already his greatest limit.
"Sister, don't, the ground is too dirty. Bai Chiyun said dumbly.
Dust accumulates here all year round, if he hadn't used his aura to protect his sister, Bai Chiyun would definitely not be able to get off his feet.
Zi Xinxi patted Bai Chiyun on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Xiaobai, listen to my sister, you are used to living a good life, you have to learn to face different environments, it is the survival of the fittest." β
"Did Mo Mufan tell you?"
"No, it's Brother Rong Yun. Don't interrupt, come on, come on, Xiaobai, I'll sit here for you at my feet. Zi Xinxi said as he pulled Bai Chiyun past and retreated to Yu Zhi's side.
"Really...... Sit on the ground. β
Zi Xinxi nodded, and his eyebrows were silent.
"Well, sister, can I tell me what I think?"
"Yes. β
Bai Chiyun straightened his voice, and the white clothes Shengxue turned to Yuzhi with a pair of dark eyes, and said, "Sister, do you see if this is the case."
"Words" is the teacher of students, "action" is the model of students, words and deeds teach, move with feelings, know with reason, and can be a model for teachers.
And those who are teachers must be consistent in their words and deeds, and they must be exemplary and take the lead in setting an example. In addition, the teacher is the senior we have to respect, so let the teacher sit first, hehe, let's ask the teacher to sit on the ground first. β
is so endless, moving with affection, knowing with reason, so that the foolish immediately blows his beard and stares.
Bai Chiyun is really a good student.
Zi Xinxi blinked and looked at Foolishness.
"Those who are upright do not give orders, and those who are not righteous, even if they do not obey orders." Yuzhi smiled.
The front and back are contrasting, but the spearhead is clearly pointing at Bai Chiyun.
Bai Chiyun smiled and said: "Teacher, teach it by things and talk about virtue, teach first, teacher please." β
Yu Zhi still smiled and said: "The son of the master of all worlds is also feasible for the world to enter the mud;
Bai Chiyun was disdainful, and was about to go back, when Mo Pixi's voice suddenly came from outside the door.
"I borrowed two chairs. β
Ignorance and Bai Chiyun suddenly fell silent. Zi Xinxi smiled lightly, and Mo Lianxi had already entered the house.
She was really weak, and the space would have been more crowded, but because Mo Lianxi came in, she felt a little wider. Maybe she's really too thin.
Mo Lianxi put down his chair and walked out of the house again. Outside the door was an old water tank, and next to it lay a few dead and bleeding game, a pigeon, a hare, and a chicken.
Zi Xinxi frowned, and finally walked towards Mo Lianxi, who was cleaning the game.
"Big sister, I'll help you. β
Mo Lianxi didn't speak. didn't refuse, Zi Xinxi squatted beside Mo Lianxi, lifted the remaining dead hare, took out a knife, and silently pulled off the hare's skin on the side.
Bai Chiyun pushed open the door and looked at Zi Xinxi, but he was silent for a moment, and looked at Zi Xinxi in a daze.
It was a knife given to Zixinxi by Mo Mufan, and Mo Mufan also gave him one on his birthday.
His sister...... Skinning a hare with this knife.
Why did his sister do this?
Bai Chiyun suddenly looked at Mo Lianxi's thin and small back, and obvious killing intent immediately appeared in his eyes, and the little Zhengtai's face was covered with a layer of gloom.
Zi Xinxi looked at Bai Chiyun dumbly, but Mo Lianxi was still unmoved.
The cold light in his eyes was revealed, and when he raised his hand, he was about to split it with one palm.
Mo Lianxi still cleaned up the game, as if the outside world had nothing to do with her, even if it was her own life or death.
Zi Xinxi was stunned for a moment, and he knew that he had already taken Bai Chiyun's hand. Foolish shook his head and said, "Boy, do you know that your palm will make your sister fall into endless self-blame, is that what you want to see?"
Bai Chiyun's killing intent was difficult to eliminate, but he subconsciously wanted to withdraw his hand. Foolish immediately said:
"And that's what your sister wants to do that herself, so don't you want to know why your sister did it?"
Bai Chiyun looked at Zi Xinxi, and when he saw her nodding, he withdrew his hand, looked at Yu Zhi and snorted coldly: "Old man, I believe you." After speaking, Mu Ne walked into the house.
Zi Xinxi breathed a sigh of relief.
"They're so nice to you. β
Mo Lianxi said suddenly.
"But they often quarrel and quarrel, and sometimes they make me speechless, right?" Zi Xinxi said in disgust.
Mo Lianxi shook her head, because she didn't understand.
Although the little girl disliked it, Mo Lianxi couldn't see the disgust on her face, and Mo Lianxi was puzzled, maybe it was not good for the little girl, but it was unattainable for her Mo Lianxi.
"Isn't my sister upset?"
"Nope. β
There was nothing upset about her, and she was the same when she was a child.
"Is that sister happy now?"
"A little. β
Without hesitation, Mo said in the past.
Zi Xinxi laughed: "Hehe, then go back to the center of the Quartet with us." β
"Good. β
Mo Lianxi nodded subconsciously. The game was cleaned one by one, and carefully sorted out repeatedly before looking at Zixinxi.
"Let's go inside, I'll do it myself. β
Before the words fell, Mo Lianxi went to the stove on the side, Zi Xinxi glanced at her, smiled brighter, and turned to comfort the angry Bai Chiyun.
No, Mo Lianxi has already brought all the game.
Roast pigeon, roast hare, golden and translucent color, tender meat, yellow stewed chicken, vegetable soup and chicken soup mix, exude an attractive and fragrant taste, make people appetite.
Zi Xinxi and Mo Lianxi sat on the bed, Bai Chiyun and Yuzhi sat on the chairs, although they had just met, but a few people sat down around like this, but they had no intention of peacekeeping.
"Happy birthday. β
There was only water in the bowl, but Yuzhi drank leisurely, looking at Mo Lianxi, who was slightly surprised, Yuzhi didn't explain anything, just looked at her with a smile.
"Happy birthday, big sister. β
Zi Xinxi naturally did not lag behind, and also looked at Mo Lianxi with a smile and sent his blessings.
Mo Lianxi had come back to his senses and looked at Zi Xinxi and Foolishness slightly, his eyes flashed slightly with a hint of remembrance, but he returned to the same state in a flash, revealing a sincere smile: "Thank you." β
Bai Chiyun was silent, looking out of place, but he also felt that something was wrong, and his expression was even more arrogant, Zhengtai's little face was as cold as ice, and he handed the bowl to Zi Xinxi from time to time and added vegetables to him.
Ignorance is not about oneself, and it hangs high. Secretly laughing If Mo Mufan was here, Bai Chiyun would definitely not dare to be so blatant and ask Zi Xinxi to add vegetables to him.
After the meal, Mo Lianxi wanted to stay here for the last day, and Zi Xinxi naturally agreed.
Boredom always goes by too slowly.
Bai Chiyun looked at the sky from time to time, thinking of Mo Mufan and them, although they were all going to snatch Zixinxi away, but he could at least gag on the side, but at this time, looking at Mo Lianxi and Zixinxi who were not moving at all, Bai Chiyun felt that time was too slow for the first time.
Zixinxi ignored him.
If you don't leave today, you can only wait.
At night, in the dead of night, there were occasionally one or two night owl wails, dispelling the endless darkness for the hazy moonlight tonight, Bai Chiyun suddenly jumped up and landed on the roof, and his black eyes looked at the forest not far away, and finally brought a trace of fun.
When the night was quiet, Zi Xinxi had not yet fallen asleep, she stood outside the house, a knife floating in front of her, and carefully looked at the blade of the knife in a shallow layer of light.
"Knots. β
I only heard the little girl's whisper, and the surroundings suddenly changed. With the knife as the center, the surroundings suddenly cooled down, and the area began to grow, radiating through the position of Bai Chiyun on the roof.
"Click..."
Not far away, there was a sudden sound of broken branches in the forest, and ...... The sound of heavy breathing.
Bai Chiyun's little face had long been hidden in the darkness. His eyes looked at Zi Xinxi and the knife intently, only to see the originally calm knife suddenly buzzing, and a black and shiny shadow rushed into the blade of the knife, and at this time, the knife light was great, illuminating the darkness.
So it was, it was the spirit of the hare.
Bai Chiyun jumped down, and said with a smile on his little face: "Sister, did you succeed? It's time to go to bed." β
Zi Xinxi nodded and shook her head again.
"What's wrong?"
"The fusion is successful, but I don't know if the big sister can use it. β
Bai Chiyun was shocked: "Sister, you want to give you this knife to someone else?"
"Can't you?" asked Zi Xinxi suspiciously.
"That's the knife Mo Mufan gave to my sister!" Bai Chiyun retorted. The little face was bulging, and the little face that was as cold as ice was slightly red, so cute.
Zi Xinxi said incredulously: "Didn't the big brother give it to you? I said Xiaobai, you don't miss big brother, right? It wasβthat's it!"
Burst......
What does it mean to lift a stone and shoot yourself in the foot?
Bai Chiyun's little face was an inexplicable void of heart, and he quickly turned his head to look at the forest who was about to move, and said calmly: "Sister, these people are so annoying, let's go play." β