There's something wrong with this guy

Chapter 8 Shadows Beyond the Fence
Seeing their behavior, Xi Qiongdong naturally swallowed his question to Xi Huanyan and said helplessly, "Are you alright."

Xi Huanyan shook her head and glanced at the clear but fishless bottom, "Unfortunately, I was scared away."

She picked up the basket with the mushrooms and was about to leave. Xi Qiongdong thought she was going to find those people to settle the account, so he stopped her, "It's all from the same village, how can we not fight, forget it."

"By the way, this is what I just hunted. You can take it back and eat it with your mistress." Xi Qiongdong took out a dead rabbit from the bamboo basket around his waist.

Xi Huanyan lacked interest, "No need to be a vegetarian."

He put the rabbit back silently, and said slowly, "Huanyan, I know that Master passed away, you are very sad, but you still have to look forward to the future, laugh more, play with them more, and the matter will pass. already."

Xi Huanyan hummed casually.

"If you and your wife need help, you can come to me at any time. I will be a teacher for a day and a father for a lifetime. I will never shirk."

Xi Qiongdong enlightened her for a while, and tentatively said in a generous and gentle voice, "Huanyan, Master has passed away, why haven't I seen you cry, don't think about it, I'm just asking, I'm worried that you will hold back. It hurts in my heart.”

Haven't you cried?

Xi Huanyan recalled for a moment, she had never cried.

This realization made her a little dazed, but she quickly took a deep breath and said, "Born out of the world, dead in the ground, life is normal, why should I grieve for this, not to mention that my father always taught me to keep quiet when he was alive, To experience the true nature of nature, to return to the source of life, in order to understand the soul, if I collapse and cry, and wantonly vent my emotions, I will be different from a beast who only knows the original impulse.”

Xi Qiongdong didn't know what she was talking about, but it didn't prevent a trace of envy in his heart. Others only saw Xi Canggu and his wife dote on her very much, doting her so daringly, moving like a mad rabbit and crawling. Rivers under trees, chasing birds and beasts, all the things that children should not do are done.

But she didn't know that she got up earlier than their apprentices every day, read and read, played the qin and painted, practiced martial arts and boxing, and when she was quiet, she was more intimidating than the calm-faced elders.

They are all from the same village, why did she get such good upbringing.

Xi Qiongdong was also tired of dealing with her, stood up, and adjusted the bamboo basket around his waist, "Go home early, the strange demon has not been found yet, it is dangerous outside."

"Ah."

Xi Huanyan originally planned to go get another bird's egg, but thinking that she said she wanted to be a vegetarian, she gave up her plan and went home with a basket.

Not at home, she made her own, reluctantly cooked a mushroom soup. After eating, she took an ax and went back to Lingling Mountain again, comparing the records on the tree species all the way to the eye addiction.

When the sun was about to go down, she found a red-shirt forest at the border of Lingling Mountain and the bottom of Fengguo Cliff.

She picked one of the trees that was as thick as a bucket and [-] feet high, picked up the axe, and with all her strength, chopped it down in six or seven strokes, then put the axe away from her waist, and carried the whole cedar up.

Hurry up and hurry up, she finally returned to the cave before the sun disappeared, patted her little heart, and breathed a sigh of relief. Her parents said that the night in the mountains was very dangerous, fortunately, there was no need to walk at night.

Sitting at the entrance of the cave, the old lady Ooyan looked at the red cedar trees that took up the whole floor, and her face twitched slightly. What is the matter with this huge force?

Rarely did she not return to the hole, and quietly looked at Xi Huanyan.

Xi Huanyan was also used to her weirdness and said to her, "I want to build a house".

She took out the water bottle and took a sip, then took the axe and chopped off the branches of the redwood, and used them to build a triangular nest beside the cave. Saw it and make it into a small log like chopsticks for the old lady.

He also said that in the village, before the sun completely went down, there were no people on the roads in the village.

The wind was especially cool on this day, but it was a little sticky on the skin.

"Hua'er, before it's dark, wash your clothes first. Look at how dirty your clothes are, how did you get this?!"

"I met Xi Huanyan during the day and got into a fight." For the sake of face, the little girl called the unilateral abuse a fight, and proudly showed her mother the bruise on her back, "Look, don't look at me hurt. , she's not much better."

Little Hua Niang frowned, "Why did you guys fight?"

"I suddenly felt that that family was quite useless, especially Uncle Canggu, who is known as the Origin Master, and he didn't fall to his death." Xiaohua said indifferently, "Looking at the absence of Uncle Canggu, she still looks so high."

Xiaohuaniang took the cane beside the table and smoked her, "There is also a girl who is a martial artist, don't make trouble for me, go and wash the family's clothes now!"

"Why, isn't it my little brother's turn today?"

"I'll make you disobedient!" Seeing that a rattan was about to come down again, Xiaohua hurriedly carried a pile of dirty clothes and went out.

She tiptoed to fetch water from the tank outside the house, and angrily soaked her clothes and rubbed them.

Suddenly, there was a trace of icy wetness on her face, as if she had been licked by a tongue, and her back was chilled.

The little girl looked up in panic, the sky was already dark, and an orange light leaked from the room ten paces away. The voices of her father, mother and brother brought her some comfort. She looked up at the sky again and muttered. , "It's not raining."

The little girl lowered her head and rubbed her clothes, stopped, turned her head stiffly, and looked out the fence. There was a small field opposite her house, and a mountain in the distance. At this moment, the scene in her field of vision had dimmed.

In the shadows, she saw a short shadow standing in a clump of grass close to the fence, quietly.

Her voice was caught in her throat in an instant, she wanted to scream but was so frightened that she lost her voice. She stared at the shadow and watched as the shadow gradually bent down, turned into something the size of a cat and dog, and flew towards the field.

"what!!!"

"This girl, what are you yelling at!"

Xiaohua's parents ran out of the house in a hurry, holding her arm and exhorting.

"Weird, strange devil, strange devil!" Xiaohua's eyes were sluggish with fright, and instinctively burrowed into her father's arms. Xiaohua's father and mother were also heartbroken, looked around in a panic, and quickly shoved her away. Enter the house and lock the door.

"Don't talk nonsense, bah bah bah, spit out a few mouthfuls, and spit out these bad words!" Xiaohua Niang stomped her feet anxiously, pressing her head to the ground.

"Take it easy, Hua'er tells Dad, what did you see?"

Xiaohua avoided her mother's hand, leaned towards her father, and said intermittently what she saw.

The two adults were frowning, and they had no masters, so they checked the doors and windows again.

"Maybe it's a mistake." Xiaohuaniang seemed to have found the truth, and twisted Xiaohua's arm, "Did you want to be lazy and deliberately lie to us!"

"I do not have!"

"You blame the children for what they are doing. Fortunately, I didn't go to work today. Go to bed early. I'll guard the gate. I'll tell them when the patrol team passes by."

Xiaohua's father said something, and the family of four squeezed into a bed, but they didn't dare to blow out the oil lamp.

The next day, when the rooster crowing, Xiaohua Niang got up and looked at the dim sky outside the window, holding the dried oil lamp in distress and looking at it again and again, she turned around and pulled Xiaohua's arm that was exposed outside the thin quilt, "Get up soon, Go down and mow the grass with my mother."

With this pull, Xiaohua was pulled out of the quilt. In the dimness, she stared at Xiaohuaniang with a blank face and staring eyes.

Xiaohua Niang screamed in fright, and slapped her twice with a wave of her hand, "You damn girl, you are going to scare me to death in the early morning!"

But Xiaohua, who was beaten twice, still maintained this expression and did not move.

Xiao Hua Niang realized something was wrong, and took a closer look. Wherever the white face was, it turned blue!

(End of this chapter)