forest developer

Chapter 19 Meeting the Cuckoo
Ling Zikai walked over slowly, bent down to pick up the barbecue thrown away by the other party, patted the dirt on it with his hands, stuffed it into his mouth, chewed, and said vaguely: "Well, It smells so good!"

Under the firelight, Ling Zikai's hair was covered with leaf fragments, his delicate face was covered with mud and dust, and his forehead was scratched several times by thorns, with blood oozing faintly.There was a sparkle in the eye sockets.Swallowing the barbecue in his mouth, he pretended to be relaxed and asked:

"Can I have another piece?"

Du Juan stared blankly at Ling Zikai, biting his lower lip tightly, without saying a word.After a long time, the two lines burst into tears, threw away the dagger in their hands, screamed "ah" from their throats, and rushed towards Ling Zikai.

Ling Zikai didn't dodge, and let her hug him tightly.

Maybe it was because I had encountered too much fear and loneliness, danger and loneliness in the jungle for more than a month; or I had suppressed too much pain, sadness, anger, and helplessness in my heart. I couldn't help crying loudly.

The warm and plump body threw herself into his arms with the fragrance of a girl, which made Ling Zikai's heart flutter.He stroked her trembling shoulders with his hands, not knowing how to comfort her, and said abruptly: "If you feel that crying is not good, you can just bite me!"

As soon as the words finished, there was a sharp pain in his shoulder. Ling Zikai took a breath and grinned, "You are a dog! You really bit me."

Du Juan broke into laughter when he heard the words, let go of Ling Zikai's body, and said with some embarrassment: "I'm sorry, I was too excited just now!"

"Don't say I'm sorry, it's a wonderful enjoyment to be hugged by a beautiful woman!"

Du Juan blushed and scolded, "Don't talk nonsense, I'm your sister!"

Ling Zikai wanted to say something, but he swallowed the words, sniffled and said, "What's the smell? It stinks!"

"Ouch, my roast pheasant!"

Du Juan yelled, turned and ran to the campfire.I saw that the roasted poultry on the fire was smoking like charcoal.

Du Juan hurriedly took the pheasant down, put it on a piece of birch bark and beat it non-stop, and shouted: "It's all your fault, if you don't come sooner or later, why wait until the mountain is about to be roasted?" Appeared, a good roast chicken has become like this, how to eat it. This is the pheasant that I took a lot of effort to catch!"

What Du Juan said sounded like complaints, but the expression on his brows was incomparably joyful, not even the slightest bit angry.

Ling Zikai saw that although the skin of the pheasant was roasted black, but when the burnt skin was peeled off, the tender meat exposed inside was full of fragrance, so he quickly reached out and snatched it, tore off a chicken leg, and gnawed on it with the burnt skin just eat.

"Slow down, don't burn your tongue! Remove the burnt outside before eating."

Seeing that he had eaten the chicken leg in a few clicks, Du Juan handed over the other chicken leg that had been scorched.

Ling Zikai wasn't too polite, he just took it and ate it.I don't know whether it's because I'm hungry or the pheasant is delicious. Ling Zikai just thinks that this is the first time in his life that he has eaten such tender meat. Even better!"

Du Juan said with a smile: "When I get back to the sea of ​​clouds, I'll roast you an authentic five-disease chicken, I'm sure you'll die of hunger!"

Ling Zikai's eyes lit up, and he asked curiously, "What is five rare chicken?"

"Keep it a secret from you first!"

Du Juan gave Ling Zikai a mischievous look.

I haven't seen her for more than a month. Du Juan has lost a lot of weight, her eye sockets are sunken, her cheeks are protruding, and her complexion is a bit dark.The only thing that has not changed is the pair of eyes, which are still so clear.

"are you OK!"

After swallowing the last piece of meat, Ling Zikai burped and asked.

Du Juan nodded, looked at Ling Zikai and asked, "Why are you here?"

Ling Zikai said: "I received a call from the mayor of Wu Dashan, saying that you have been digging ginseng seedlings in the mountains for more than a month and there is no news. I was afraid that something might happen to you, so I came to take a look."

Du Juan looked at Ling Zikai silently, and said in a low voice, "Do you care about me?"

Ling Zikai was silent for a while, and said: "I know that you came to the mountains to dig ginseng seedlings to earn more money and pay off my father's debts. As the old saying goes, father's debts should be repaid! This was originally my responsibility, but now you A girl has come to bear, do you think I can not come!"

There was a different charm in Du Juan's gaze, and he said, "Have you decided?"

Ling Zikai nodded and said, "Before I came to Yunhai, I resigned!"

Seeing that Du Juan didn't show anything special when he heard the words, he couldn't help but wonder: "Why don't you feel a little surprised!"

Du Juan glanced at him and said, "Is it strange? I told you last time when I sent you away from the sea of ​​clouds, you will definitely come back. Because you are the guardian of the mountain, your life has already merged with this thousand-mile mountain. We're together, and we can never let go! It's just that I didn't expect you to come back so soon. It's all right now, and I can relax in the future!"

Ling Zikai said hastily: "Don't expect me to run the forest farm! Let me tell you, I'm just here to help you pay off the debts owed by my father. You still need to inherit the forest farm."

Du Juan rolled his eyes at him and said, "Why, are you worried that I will suspect that you are here to fight for property?"

Then he mocked and said: "So, should you write me a deed of sale, which states that Ling Zikai will pay off the debts for his father, and is willing to sell his life to Du Juan as a slave!"

Seeing Ling Zikai's embarrassment and bewilderment at what he said, he burst out laughing: "Okay, my silly brother, no matter who the forest farm belongs to in the future, I will not leave. I'm just kidding you!"

After speaking, he changed the subject and asked, "By the way, how did you find this place?"

"I found some traces of you in the mountain stream, so I searched all the way."

"Ah!" Du Juan exclaimed after hearing the words: "You came in following those trails, didn't you encounter anything?"

"What's wrong? Is there something wrong?"

"I left that on purpose. If you follow the trail, you will arrive at a cave with a nest of bears! Originally, I wanted to use it to deal with the members of the White Tiger Gang, but unexpectedly, you bumped into it." up."

Ling Zikai was dumbfounded when he heard the words. He didn't expect that it was also a trap set by Du Juan.

"Haven't you met Xiong Bozi?" Du Juan asked curiously.

"I did, and I even had a fight with a black bear."

"Can you beat Xiong Bozi?"

"You don't believe it?" Seeing Du Juan's eyes widen in disbelief, Ling Zikai finally found a little confidence in his heart, and he was not afraid of blowing the cowhide, and said proudly: "You don't even think about who I am! As a guardian, here Who am I afraid of in the mountains!"

"Ok!"

Du Juan did not refute the words, but nodded with a pious expression: "The inheritance of the ancestor gods is supreme and omnipotent! I shouldn't doubt you!"

Ling Zikai was a little depressed, his feelings were in the eyes of others, and he was just a substitute!

"I heard that you robbed a treasure from the White Tiger Gang, that's why they are chasing you so hard?"

Du Juan asked in amazement: "What baby?"

Ling Zikai recounted what Han Tai said.

Du Juan was confused when he heard this, and said: "I'm still wondering why the people from the White Tiger Gang are staring at me! It turns out that there is such a saying. No wonder I found someone following me after I entered the mountain. At first I also I didn't know that they were members of the White Tiger Gang. I thought they were shameless people who wanted to bully me, a weak woman, so I played hide-and-seek with them in the woods, trying to get rid of them. Who knew that there would be more and more of them, Seeing that they were about to be surrounded, they had no choice but to run into Tiaohujian, and they probably wouldn't dare to chase in for a while!"

Then he asked in bewilderment: "Where did I get any treasure from me? Why did they want to frame me?"

"Did you have any problems with the members of the White Tiger Gang before?"

Du Juan was silent for a while, shook his head, and said, "Probably not!"

Ling Zikai also felt that something was a little strange, but he couldn't figure out the key point, so he said:
"Is this Tiaohujian really scary? No matter how I feel, there is no danger!"

"That's because you just came in, and you haven't really understood its true face! There are many ferocious beasts hidden in it, you have seen the bear, and there are also wild boars, leopards, pythons, and it is said that there are Siberian tigers What! Also, beware of a kind of black bee, although they look small, they appear in swarms, and they are poisonous, and if they are stung, they will cause fever and dizziness."

After a pause, Du Juan said in a serious tone: "Actually, these beasts are not terrible. After all, people now have guns in their hands, and even the most powerful animals are no match for bullets. What is really scary is that these beasts everywhere in this mountain stream The drifting white mist, because they are poisonous!"

"What?" Ling Zikai was taken aback and asked, "You mean this white mist is poisonous?"

Du Juan nodded and said, "That's right! In other words, the white mist is miasma! People will be poisoned if they stay in it for a long time."

"Then how long can you stay inside without being poisoned?" Ling Zikai asked stammeringly.

"Generally speaking, as long as you enter the mountain stream and breathe in the mist, you are already poisoned."

"Then, have we been poisoned?" Ling Zikai asked eagerly, his face turning pale.

Du Juan looked at Ling Zikai and nodded, and said curiously: "It should be! Didn't you know that the miasma here is poisonous before you came in?"

Ling Zikai almost scolded Su Guoer's eighteen generations of ancestors in his heart.At that time, Su Guoer only told himself not to come in, but he didn't even tell himself such an important thing as the miasma was poisonous.I'm only 24 years old this year, and I haven't even touched a woman's body, I'm afraid it's over!

Du Juan looked at Ling Zikai, whose face was blue and white, and the weather was uncertain, and said calmly: "In order to come in to find me, you risked your own life. Do you regret it now?"

(End of this chapter)