The four dismounted, led the horse to the grass and tied it to a tree.
Today is only the eighth day of the lunar new year, and most people are still celebrating the New Year at home, and businessmen are also celebrating the New Year, so there is no one on the official road at this time.
Man Bao took off her cloak and put it directly on the tree. She glanced into the forest and said, "Let's find some firewood."
Bai Shan nodded, and also took off his cloak and put it on the tree.
The two guards looked at each other, one followed them in, and the other stayed to watch the horse and things.
This is a wild forest, very messy inside, Bai Shan and Man Bao walked for a while, saw a lot of withered weeds on the ground, they first pulled some dry grass to light the fire.
It seems that people often stay in this forest, so there are not many dead branches on the book. They walked for a long time before seeing any dead branches.
Both of them did the work of breaking dead branches and collecting firewood, Bai Shan was taller than Man Bao, so he jumped up and broke the dead branches and threw them to her, Man Bao pulled some thatch and made a rope to put the firewood on it.
The guards who followed them in also stretched out their hands to pluck the dead branches.
Man Bao picked up the dead branches and followed Ke Ke's explanation to dig a hole under a big tree.
She slowly relaxed her movements, and after digging the hole, she subconsciously glanced at the guard first, and saw that he was facing away from her, and had already walked a distance to pull dead branches, so she took a branch and stretched it into the hole inside.
Bai Shancai tore off a dead branch and threw it on the ground, subconsciously went to find Man Bao, and saw her nervously and cautiously pulling it out with the dead branch.
Just as he was about to step forward, he saw her pulling out a coiled snake.
Bai Shan's body froze, and he couldn't help but stare at her with wide eyes.
Man Bao's body also froze, she swallowed, and stepped back cautiously, seeing that the snake had woken up, shaking her head and slowly getting up, her stick was still on the snake, she didn't even have time to look back The guards just let Keke put away the stick together.
Bai Shan was considering whether to call the guards to save his life, when he saw that the stick in Man Bao's hand disappeared together with the snake at the entrance of the cave.
His pupils shrank, and he took two steps subconsciously, just blocking the guard behind him.
The guards still turned their backs to them, but it seemed that they hadn't heard their movements for a long time, so they couldn't help but glance back.
I saw their young master was looking at Miss Man with his back turned to him, and Miss Man was squatting on the ground not knowing what she was doing.
He shook his head with a smile, and went back to breaking off his branches without disturbing them.
Bai Shan stared for a long time, making sure that the wooden stick and snake would not appear out of thin air again, turned his head and glanced at the guards, and then stepped forward and squatted beside Man Bao.
Man Bao was yelling "ahh..." with Keke until Keke ensured that the snake did not stay in the system space and was directly included in the encyclopedia. After the spatial dimension, Man Bao stopped "Ah..."
Bai Shan leaned in front of Man Bao and stared at her, "Your face is pale, since you are afraid, why do you want to provoke it?"
Man Bao asked in a low voice, "Did you see it all?"
Bai Shan nodded.
Man Bao let out a breath and said, "It's not what I want, it's what someone else wants."
"Uncle Zhou?"
Man Bao shook his head, "No, it's for someone else."
Bai Shan said: "The underworld is really strange. Isn't it popular to give gifts instead of paper money, but snakes?"
Man Bao: ...
Bai Shan has already found a reason on his own, "That's right, snakes are yin. Does eating snakes increase the power of ghosts?"
Man Bao: ...
"Then shall we find some snakes for Uncle Zhou?"
Man Bao was about to refuse, but Bai Shan said, "However, it's too dangerous for us to catch snakes by ourselves. We can ask someone to catch them. There should be people in the countryside who are good at catching snakes, right?"
Man Bao immediately said: "You are right, you can find someone."
Why can't she think of it for a while
"But if we buy a snake, will the family know?"
It's okay for Bai Shan to know about this matter, if other people know, they will definitely not be able to hide it from her parents, and Keke's existence cannot be told to others.
But if everyone thinks that the person who is with her is her own father...
Man Bao felt suffocated just thinking about it. Her parents would definitely go crazy if they found out, so this matter must be kept secret.
Bai Shan didn't think it was a problem, he patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, leave this matter to me."
The guard pulled a lot of dead branches, and when he turned around, he found that the young master and Miss Man were squatting with their heads very close to each other, whispering, so he couldn't help but shouted: "Master, Miss Man, do you think this is enough?" ?”
The two turned their heads to look together, nodded and said: "It's almost there, we have a lot of people, so let's talk a little more."
Then continue to get together and whisper.
The guard scratched his head, the old lady only said to keep close to the young master and Miss Man, to prevent them from being in danger, and not to let them go beyond the rules, but it shouldn't be considered a violation of the rules to get closer and whisper, right
He turned around hesitantly, and continued to break off the dead branches.
Bai Shan and Man Bao had already conspired, so they happily got up to arrange the firewood. At the same time, Man Bao found that her feet were numb due to nervousness and squatting for too long, and she almost fell on Bai Shan.
Bai Shan half hugged her, and after she slowed down for a while, he helped her walk back slowly.
Man Bao walked more than a dozen steps, and after the numbness passed, he and Bai Shan picked up all the firewood on the ground and tied it up.
The three finally dragged four bundles of firewood back.
The remaining guards quickly rolled up their sleeves to help.
The four built four fires, but they just set up firewood, and they haven't lighted the fire yet.
They waited for a long time but no one came, the guard looked up at the sun, estimated the time and said: "Master, how about I go and see?"
Bai Shan nodded, "Go."
The guard rode back to look for it, but he came back in less than a quarter of an hour, and the carriage was still far behind.
He reported loudly: "Master, the old lady and the others have arrived."
Bai Shan and Man Bao held hands and walked to the side of the road to wait, while the other guard turned to start a fire.
The convoy slowly came to the front, walked forward for a while and then stopped. The vehicle in the middle stopped in front of Bai Shan and the others.
Bai Shan went to help his grandmother and mother, while Man Bao went to help Mr. Zhuang.
Someone moved a few stools for Mrs. Liu and Mr. Zhuang to sit on, while the others could only squat or sit on the grass.
Wu Wulang also stopped the car, Santo Sanya and Sitou had no experience of traveling far, so they all listened to Wu Wulang and Man Bao, and took some food from the car, and the three families heated it up together and shared it .
Mrs. Liu took a reheated white steamed bun from Man Bao, took a bite and said to Mr. Zhuang with a smile: "It's also strange, all these steamed buns are made in the same way, but what her sister-in-law makes is better than other steamed buns." People do it more vigorously."
Mr. Zhuang nodded with a smile. This was the one thing he regretted the most when he let go of the school.
Man Bao smiled and said, "Grandmother Liu eats as much as she likes. My sister-in-law has cooked a lot for us."
Mrs. Liu nodded with a smile, glanced at the official road and said, "We should be in Mianzhou after walking for more than an hour. We will stay in Mianzhou tonight."