This mountain forest is fairly quiet. It just so happens that this place is in a leeward valley, and the big trees with luxuriant leaves cover everything that should be covered. Although it is a bit cold at night, it is not unbearable.
Lu Xiaoshu curled up into a ball, and spent the whole night in a half-asleep, half-awake daze. Either the insects in the forest were alarmed by the small animals passing by, or the strange neighbor on the tree was startled from time to time. Phew, I can't annoy Lu Xiaoshu enough, I really want to get him under a tree and beat him up.
Finally, the sky finally dawned.
"I'm freezing to death!" The boy fell to the ground at some point, and was curled up against the tree stump with his arms crossed, his teeth chattering.
Lu Xiaoshu was angry and funny when he saw it, and said, "When did you come down? You can't start a fire if you freeze to death. I think you're too lazy to die!"
"I—" the young man wanted to say, "I don't know how to make a fire." When he saw Lu Xiaoshu's contemptuous gaze, he felt angry and turned his head away without saying a word.
"You've got a temper!" Lu Xiaoshu yelled in his heart, it's unlucky, if she knew this forest was so quiet, she shouldn't have shown kindness yesterday but drove this idiot away!
Lu Xiaoshu said: "I don't know how to make a fire, so I always collect firewood, right? This is not enough to burn, you go to the forest to gather some back! By the way, you can move around, it will be warmer than sitting like this."
Lu Xiaoshu secretly rolled his eyes, thinking that you are still arrogant and not talking about it? If you don't tell me, don't I know that you can't make fire at all? Look at your hands, they are white and tender, they are not working hands...
The young man felt that he roasted other people's fire for nothing, and that he should do something after eating other people's roasted yams for nothing last night. Hearing this, he got up obediently and went to collect firewood in the woods.
Lu Xiaoshu quickly started the fire, and the raging flames jumped and radiated warm light. Sitting by the fire, her whole body gradually warmed up, and the pores that were a little stiff from the cold also gradually stretched.
She took a few deep breaths, and when she felt warm from inside to outside, she went to the stream to wash her face and rinse her mouth.
Unexpectedly, there are usually no fish in this stream. In the early morning, the fish that came out to look for food at night had not yet retreated to the cave, and there were actually quite a few fish that were the size of two or three fingers swimming around.
These fish are not afraid of people. Seeing her churning the water and stirring the stream, instead of rushing away, they approached curiously, swimming back and forth under her nose.
Lu Xiaoshu's eyes lit up, and he murmured happily: "Yu'er, Yu'er, you all asked for this, you can't blame me..."
She was quick and accurate, and in a short while, she caught more than a dozen alive and kicking fish and threw them on the grass. After checking that they were almost done, she broke off a sharp bamboo branch and cleaned the fish neatly, and then skewered them one by one. Well, it's in two strings.
A bunch of straight-looking ones, and those that look fatter are of course for myself, and the other bunch of not-so-good ones are for that idiot.
After finishing breakfast, Lu Xiaoshu was in a very happy mood, and walked back briskly, humming a song all the way.
It's a pity that when she got to the fire, she couldn't laugh anymore, and her good mood was gone.
What kind of firewood is the firewood picked up by this idiot, and he doesn't know how to pick it out. They are all wet and wet with dew, and this guy specially picks big roots to save trouble!
I guess I'm afraid of the cold, so I can't wait to add all the firewood to the fire after picking it up, so that the fire can't breathe! As a result, not to mention the burning, the previous fire was completely extinguished, with thick black smoke rising.
The idiot was so anxious that he coughed to avoid the thick smoke and fanned his hands against the fire desperately, how could it be of any use!
A sentence popped into Lu Xiaoshu's mind: Don't be afraid of opponents like gods, but teammates like pigs...
"Let me come, take it!" Lu Xiaoshu stuffed two skewers of fish into the idiot's hands, and he didn't even have the desire to scold him.
She rolled up her sleeves and stepped forward, removed all the firewood she had piled up, emptied her head, set up the firewood, lay on the ground, squinted her eyes and puffed her cheeks into the fire and blew, the fire soon Burned up again. Only then did Lu Xiaoshu add two or three sticks of firewood that he had picked up, which was almost dry, and pointed to the side: "There is a small stream over there."
After finishing speaking, he took the fish skewer from his hand again.
The boy was a little embarrassed, he said "oh" cautiously, and turned to go to the creek.
After a while he came back after cleaning and saw a bunch of raw fish stuck on the ground next to him. He knew that Lu Xiaoshu had left it for him. He got up and baked without saying a word.
Lu Xiaoshu took a look at his movements, and thought to himself that he was probably a son of a rich family, and this technique was quite particular! I don't know why it's here...
The fish in his hand was roasted, so Lu Xiaoshu didn't think about it anymore, and pulled out the yam that was buried last night and was already hot after some roasting, and threw two pieces to the boy, and he ate it with gusto up.
The young man glanced at her, bit his lip and remained silent.
After a while, his fish was cooked, and the two of them ate their own in silence.
"I'm leaving!" Lu Xiaoshu didn't forget Zhou Shizhi, Xue Heng and others who might appear at any time. You must know that they have been wandering for so many years, and they must have experience in finding people. If they are caught Then there was no chance to escape.
"When you leave later, remember to put out the fire and bury the fire with rocks and soil. Otherwise, if the wind blows the ashes back to life, it will be troublesome if a mountain fire occurs!" After Lu Xiaoshu finished explaining, he lifted his foot To leave, there is a feeling of relief in my heart.
"You...you wait! I, I'll go with you..." The young man also stood up, although the words were a little awkward, he articulated his words clearly.
"Are you kidding me!" Lu Xiaoshu said bluntly, "You don't know where I'm going, why are you following me?"
The boy hurriedly said: "It doesn't matter where you go, anyway, get out of here first. I... lost my way..."
Seeing him looking at her beggingly, Lu Xiaoshu suddenly felt a sense of irony, she was speechless, shrugging her shoulders reluctantly: "Okay...you can follow if you like! But I'll make it right first, after this Pian Linzi, let's break up!"
As soon as Lu Xiaoshu said that, he felt a little awkward. With him, there is no talk of breaking up, right? It can be seen that he doesn't seem to have such a rich imagination to think elsewhere, so he doesn't bother to explain.
The young man was overjoyed, nodded hurriedly and said: "Okay, okay! Let's talk when we get out of this forest!"
"It's not talking again, it's breaking up!" Lu Xiaoshu reminded him again, pointing to the fire on the ground and said: "Put the fire out! There is a big rock over there, you go and move it over and put it on top! Then put the soil next to it Get some to cover."
The boy hesitantly said "Oh", it sounded a bit reluctant, but now that he is in a subordinate position of relying on others, he still understands the meaning of the words "people are under the roof", and finally he didn't say anything to refute, the old man Honestly, he did what Lu Xiaoshu said.
Lu Xiaoshu saw that he was clumsy, so he found a dry place and sat down, closed his eyes and waited for him to finish, not even bothering to glance at him.
When she opened her eyes, the boy was still using a stick to throw dirt onto the fire, Lu Xiaoshu sighed again in his heart: "It's really stupid!" Shaking his head, he continued to wait.
It was impossible for her to get up and help.
"Okay!" The boy finally let out a long sigh of relief, clapped his hands and walked over, and said with a smile, "We can hurry!"
"You still have the nerve to say it!" Lu Xiaoshu gave him a white look, "Next time, move faster!" He said and walked in front.
The boy pouted angrily and followed behind her, thinking what next time? After you get out of this forest, the ghost will continue to follow you! Young Master, I am not your slave...
Going further, it didn't take long to get out of the forest and saw the farmland. Lu Xiaoshu regained his energy and turned around to tell the tired young man to walk faster.
The boy said weakly: "Where are you rushing to go? After all, the road here is easier to walk, can't you walk slowly and take a rest?"
"If you want to rest yourself, I have to go!" Lu Xiaoshu said angrily, "Didn't you see? There are farmlands here, which means that there should be a village not far away! Let's find a family to go in and rest for a while." Well, I can still drink hot tea, eat hot food, and drink the wind here!"
"Really!" The boy's eyes lit up when he heard that there was food and drink, and he couldn't help but become more energetic, and hurriedly quickened his pace to keep up.
"What a lazy and greedy guy!" Lu Xiaoshu thought to himself, didn't answer him, but quickened his pace.
The young man didn't dare to ask any more, and hurriedly followed with his aching legs and feet.
After walking for more than two quarters of an hour, the eyes of the two of them lit up, and they saw a small mountain village in front of them.
"There is a family! There is a family!" The boy cheered as his eyes lit up.
Lu Xiaoshu glanced at him and said, "What's there to be happy about? Let's go, let's go into the village and find a kind family to eat!"
"Hey, good!" The young man happily agreed.
Lu Xiaoshu's footsteps suddenly hesitated, and he hesitated.
"Why don't you leave?" the boy asked strangely.
How could Lu Xiaoshu tell him that I was afraid that someone would come here after looking for my whereabouts, so he simply sat down and said, "I'm tired and want to rest for a while! You go first and find a suitable person to pick me up."
"Ah!" The boy opened his eyes wide in surprise, pointed to his nose and stammered, "You, you said let me go and find the right one?"
"Ah, what?" Lu Xiaoshu asked back, "Is it not possible? If you hadn't met me, maybe you would have come here all night. You have come here, so you can't do something for me?"
The young man was at a loss for words, bowed his head for a moment and said embarrassingly: "But I, I don't know how to find a suitable family..."
"..." Lu Xiaoshu lost his temper a long time ago after walking with him, and said patiently after hearing the words: "Go to the village, look around carefully, find the home of the kind-hearted old man, ask politely, Said that we are passing by, can we go in and have a rest and ask for hot water... "
The young man nodded his head and said "Oh", and couldn't help but worry again: "Then, will he agree? What if he refuses? Or, if he wants money... I don't have any money..."