Chapter 227 Commitments On the shore of a lake in the forest, a tent.
In front of the tent was a pot made of stones, with a clay pot on top and a faint smoke wafting from below.
It is surrounded by dense woods, and the humidity in the forest is heavy, and the air is fresh with the fragrance of grass and trees.
On the ground against a rock sat an eight-foot man, and opposite sat a thin but very delicate little girl, each holding a pottery bowl in her hand.
"Alas," Qingji sighed softly.
The bean leaves boiled rice bran, the taste, the texture, Qing Ji stretched his neck like a duck, trying to eat, but he still felt that his throat was hot, and the taste was so difficult to swallow.
But this is the best ration that Brother Shi can come up with, and Qingji has to pretend that nothing happens, for fear of hurting the heart of this enthusiastic host and the little girl in front of him who has a lot of self-esteem.
"Alas" Miss Xiaoguang was also sighing, eating a bite of food, glancing at Qingji, and then frowning with slender eyebrows and sighing like a little adult.
The sighs of the two of them came and went, and finally, Qingji couldn't help it: "Hey, little girl, you're such an old person, what's the trouble, why do you keep sighing" "Alas, can I not worry about it, my family eats too little, you grow so big, you can eat it, that little corn, it was supposed to be three days' rations, but you can eat it, I am worried, what can I do?"
Qingji: "" Xiaoguang glanced at him, and suddenly smiled: "Okay, okay, don't worry about this, anyway, Daddy will send you back in the next day or two, otherwise you will eat all the food in my house." ” Qingji said apologetically: "I'm really sorry for this, when I go back, I will definitely send someone to send a generous gift money as a reward." ” Xiaoguang glanced at him and snorted, "You have a conscience."
She looked left and right, rolled her smart eyes, and whispered, "Hey, I'll get you something delicious in a while." ” "What's delicious?"
Xiaoguang smiled mysteriously: "You'll know in a while, but you have to promise to keep it a secret for me, and don't tell my father." ” Qingji was amused by her serious appearance: "Hehe, okay, do you want to pull the hook" "What is a pull hook?"
"Uh, nothing, a common saying, haha" Xiaoguang glanced at him suspiciously, lowered his head to pick up the rice, glanced up at him with his eyes, swallowed a mouthful of rice, and then snorted: "Bad uncle, it must not be a good thing." ” Qingji said innocently: "Unfounded, do I look like a bad person?"
"Do bad people write bad words on their faces" Xiaoguang grinned, and then quickly closed his mouth.
She is in the process of changing her teeth, and she is very ashamed of her current scattered teeth.
Jiangnan women are precocious, thirteen or fourteen years old children abound, although this little girl is still six or seven years away, but those little girls who marry women are not much older than her, said to be in constant contact, she now knows Aimei.
Brother Shi was originally from Yue and was lame in the war, so he returned to his hometown to become a fisherman.
Since it borders Wu Yue, he also married a woman from the Wu Kingdom.
Because this is the border area between the two countries, the people of the two countries live together, and they are often in the midst of war, so the conditions are very difficult, Brother Shi wanted to move to live near Zhuji a few years ago, where it is relatively rich, and the fish can be sold at a better price.
However, his wife fell seriously ill at this time, and the matter was delayed.
Brother Shi himself was very honest and kind, and at that time, people rarely had the concept of the country, the country, that is something that only the countrymen and nobles valued, as long as the country savages have a ruler who is more sympathetic to the people's feelings, they will not care if his surname is Ji or his surname.
Since Qingji was saved by him, he can't do anything to hand over people to receive rewards.
In addition, Qingji promised him many benefits, and he had promised to send Qingji back to Wu in the next two days.
In the past two days, he went into the city with some of the possessions he had saved, and his wife stayed with relatives in the city for the convenience of medical treatment.
When the things in the near future are arranged, he will send his daughter into the city as well, and then send Qingji away.
Because the village was very small, he was worried that the living people in the family would be known, so Brother Shi sent him to this forest where few people came, and let his daughter take care of his daily life and food.
After eating, Xiaoguang girl put a pottery bowl and pottery bowl in a bamboo basket, squatted by the lake to wash up, and then walked back briskly, put the household goods into the tent first, and then said to Qingji: "I'll help you to rest in the tent." ” "Well, you didn't mean you wanted to get something good."
Xiaoguang glanced at him playfully, and snorted: "Tell you, can you help and rest, when dinner comes, I will definitely get some delicious food." ” Qingji smiled, this little girl is only so old, what can she do, hunting is definitely not good, it is estimated that she has to climb the tree to pick some delicious wild fruits.
Compared with beans and leaves, the delicacy of the fruit is much more delicious, and it is finally a piece of the little girl's heart, and Qingji is not broken, just waiting for her to give herself a surprise.
Qingji returned to the tent and lay on the grass mat, chatted with Xiaoguang, told her some interesting stories, the little girl held her chin, sat next to him and listened with relish, chatted for a while, tiredness welled up, Qingji gradually fell asleep.
"Hey" Xiaoguang called him softly, Qingji let out a slight snoring sound, Xiaoguang smiled, and tiptoed out.
"Xiaoguang", Qingji woke up and called, but she didn't answer.
In the past few days, I have been on bed rest, waking up from time to time, and I have slept a lot.
It's just that excessive blood loss often causes fatigue, and it is not very sleepy, and it wakes up quickly.
He exhaled and sat up slowly.
The forest is lonely, the wind blows and the birds chirp, but there is no small light.
"Xiaoguang" Qingji called again, and suddenly became nervous in his heart, although this place is not very far from Zhuangzi, there should be no large beasts, but she is a child "Xiaoguang, Xiaoguang" Qingji shouted urgently, but still no one answered, as a last resort, Qingji had to hold a wooden staff like a dragon, endure the pain, hook his back, and look for it in the forest: "Small" He didn't say a word, and suddenly there was a "bang" on the calm lake, Qingji flashed his eyes, only to see a mermaid jumping out of the water, drawing an arc on the water surface, and then re-entering the water, Qingji could only see the moment she entered the water, her small body was glowing with water, and there was a kind of crystal clear texture.
Qingji stood by the lake, the lake water was green and faint and clear, like a piece of warm jade, and the sun sprinkled on the surface of the lake, flooding with a layer of blurred halo.
Suddenly, he clearly saw the Little Mermaid swimming underwater.
In the clear blue water, the small body was extremely nimble, and it swam quickly towards the shore.
Since the person was only about a foot under the water, and swam at an extremely fast speed, a slight scratch appeared on the calm silk water surface where she walked.
It's beautiful, a pristine, natural beauty.
The gentle wind, the whispering of the trees, the calm water, the girls underwater, the long hair fluttering lightly in the water, and even the natural and beautiful ripples constitute a beautiful picture of the combination of movement and stillness.
Such a beautiful beauty, even if she is a beautiful and touching Chengren woman, will never make people have a trace of silver evil thoughts, it is a pure, full of life and vitality of beauty.
However, when she was about to emerge from the water, Qingji finally woke up from this forgotten fairyland, and he hurriedly turned around and tried to flee back to the tent, but the pain of the wound stopped him.
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In a hurry, Qingji looked hard at the woods behind the tent, and shouted: "Xiaoguang, where are you?"
"Wow" There was a clear sound of water splashing behind him, and Qing Ji didn't look back, and continued to shout: "Xiaoguang, it's dangerous in the forest, where are you going?"
After speaking, he walked towards the forest step by step with a staggering step.
Behind her, the little girl stared at a pair of round eyes in surprise, covered her mouth with one hand, and grabbed a fish with the other, her fingers clasped in the fish's gills, and her body was half standing in the water.
There was still a deep lake under her feet, but her two little feet were just swinging slightly, and her body above her navel stood smoothly on the water, without shaking her shoulders.
Qingji looked like an "old dragon clock" and gradually shook into the jungle.
Seeing his figure disappear, Xiaoguang breathed a long sigh of relief, and only then did she realize that she was naked, and she panicked, she hurriedly dived underwater, and in a hurry, she actually choked on a mouthful of lake water Qingji came back, Xiaoguang had already dressed and was busy at the tent, the clay pot was set on the stove, there was a fire below, and there was a large pottery bowl next to it, which contained a few silver and shiny fish that had been slaughtered and washed, and some emerald green wild vegetables.
Seeing Qingji come back, Xiaoguang smiled at him, after the first bath, her face was flushed, and her big black grape-like eyes were bright, faintly proud, like a child who fought for praise from adults.
Qingji naturally understood what she meant by getting him some delicious food at night, so he pretended to be confused and said: "Xiaoguang, where have you been, there may be some beasts in this forest, I am worried, where did this fish come from, your father is back" Qingji looked around exaggeratedly, and Xiaoguang laughed out loud: "Don't look for it, my father didn't come back, I caught it." ” "You" Qingji knew that the more she didn't believe it, the more proud and happy she would be, and although the little girl was not very old, but that body was not something that anyone could see, she was ashamed, and she cooperated very hard, he sank his face, and reprimanded with a righteous face: "You are so young, you can shake the boat, you can shake the net, you can shake the net, who stole someone's fish, send it back quickly, I don't eat such fish." ” "Gegege" Xiaoguang held his stomach, leaned back and smiled with laughter, and said happily: "This fish is really caught by me with my bare hands, you see, my hair is still wet."
My surname Shui, no one in the village can compare, and my kung fu of fishing is the first in the village. ” "Really, it's so powerful" Qingji "exclaimed", praised her, praised the little girl's heart, and when she became happy, her face was as red as a peach blossom.
After being happy for a long time, she suddenly remembered something and said, "Oh, you promised me that you wouldn't tell my father." ” "Well, you can touch fish, very powerful, why are you afraid that your father will know?"
"No", Xiaoguang pouted: "Daddy said, girls can't learn these things to climb trees and go into the water, and said that sometimes there will be dragons in the water, which is very dangerous, and they won't let me go into the water, and I learned this swimming kung fu from him, don't tell him, otherwise Daddy will beat me up." ” The dragon she said was a crocodile, there were indeed many crocodiles in the rivers in the south of the Yangtze River at that time, and the children had some skills, but in the eyes of their parents, they were not worth mentioning, but their naughtiness and ignorance of the interests made the parents angry, so they punished them.
Qingji understood what she was afraid of, so she nodded again and again in agreement, and Xiaoguang said happily: "If it weren't for your greed, eating is like taking medicine, I wouldn't have gone into the water to touch the fish, hehe, you go back to the tent to rest, and stew the fish soup for a while, so that you can eat enough." ” The thick fish soup exudes aroma, Qingji blew the hot air, sniffed the fragrance deeply, and continued to pat himself on the back and said: "Xiaoguang's craftsmanship is good, this fish soup stew tastes very beautiful, just with Xiaoguang's craftsmanship, in the future, I will definitely marry a good man with ability." ” Xiaoguang took a sip of the soup with a smile, and just wanted to speak, when he suddenly frowned two curved willow eyebrows and gently covered his chest.
"What's wrong?"
Qingji hurriedly put down the fish soup and walked over: "Did you accidentally swallow the fish bone?"
Xiaoguang frowned and shook her head slightly, the expression on her face was slightly painful, and after a while, she let out a long breath and said, "It's okay, it's been like this since I was sensible."
My mother said that when I was young, she happened to be sick and had no milk to feed me, so she chewed the porridge and fed me since she was a child, and when she grew up, she ate such rough rice bran, which hurt her heart and spleen, and it was okay, and the pain passed after a while. ” A string in Qingji's heart was suddenly plucked, and he slowly squatted down, staring deeply at the little girl in front of him, who was only six or seven years old, but was already very sensible.
"Look, I'm really fine, you're not a doctor, look at it and it won't hurt, your injury, I'm afraid it hurts more than mine."
Hikari laughed with a stutter.
"Little girl" Qingji scratched the tip of her little nose affectionately, and said deeply: "Don't worry, as long as your uncle leaves here alive, you don't have to eat rice bran again for the rest of your life." ” "It's strange" The little girl gave him a blank look: "How much money can you give my family, my mother's treatment is very expensive, you can support me for a lifetime" Qingji smiled and said: "There are many people in my uncle's family, don't talk about raising you, even your whole family, I can take good care of it, I promise, you will not have such a hard time in the future, forever" To be continued: