Shrouding the Sky: The Empress Against the Immortals

Chapter 8
Children's playfulness is always accompanied by casualness and nonsense.

He was elated a moment ago, and quiet again in the next moment. Ling Song calmly switched between mischievous and good-natured babies, easily at his fingertips.

Before dark, she followed her elder brother Ling Su to the house of the gray-haired Grandpa GUI and borrowed some dry thatch.

Used to repair roof leaks.

The fences and firewood gates in the outside yard can be ignored later, but the roof cannot be delayed.

Otherwise, if the weather changes tonight, the two of them might become drowned chickens in their sleep.

……

Night falls.

Traveling and cleaning the house counted as a busy day.

Both Ling Song and Ling Su felt physically and mentally exhausted.

The flickering flames of the candles light up the hall.

After simply drinking some porridge to fill his stomach, Ling Song soaked his feet with his elder brother, ready to wash and go to bed.

The feet of the siblings were squeezed together in a small wooden basin, and as the water temperature slowly dropped, Ling Song, who had already dozed off, suddenly became interested again.The tender little feet deliberately stepped on the water, and played a game of "you step on me, I step on you" with Ling Su in the wooden basin.

There was a crackling noise, and the footwashing water was splashed everywhere by the two people.

The two who had a great time didn't stop until the water temperature became completely cold.

"Don't play like this next time, look at you, the trouser legs are all soaked." Ling Song lifted his feet so that Ling Su could dry her off, but her brother scolded her for the drenched trouser legs.

The tone is not harsh.

As if knowing that his elder brother would not be really angry, Ling Song grinned and nodded with a smile.

"Got it, brother!"

The crisp little milk sound is cute and lovely.

But it always gives people an illusion, as if she still hasn't said half a sentence:

Dare next time!

"Little naughty!" Ling Su couldn't help pinching her Xiaoyao's nose with her hands, her face full of doting.

"Hee hee... that brother is so naughty!" the little girl snapped back.

Ling Su suddenly felt angry and funny.

However, there seemed to be nothing to do with this girl, so he simply ignored her and got up to pour water.

Seeing this, Ling Song put on his shoes and went out with the candle on the table.

She was going to relieve himself.

"Don't go too far, it's on the side of the road." Ling Su reminded.

He knew that Ling Song had the habit of cleaning his hands before going to bed, but the toilet at home hadn't been repaired yet, so he had to deal with it on the side of the road tonight.

Anyway, it was night, so there was no need to worry about being bumped into.

……

Not long after, the lights in the thatched cottage dimmed quietly.

The watery moonlight shrouded the entire small mountain village, and the night fireflies danced among the weeds on the roadside, like stars twinkling and mottled.

The sound of insects, accompanied by the occasional chirping of cuckoos from the distant mountains and forests, plays a unique lullaby for people who are about to fall asleep.

This night, the autumn moon hangs high.

This is the first day Ling Song and his elder brother spent in Baishan Village.

……

In the next few days, Ling Song and his elder brother leveled the small courtyard in front of the old house, re-inserted the fence, erected the firewood gate, and dug a new latrine at the back of the house on the east side.

After a lot of tossing, it finally looks like a home.

At the same time, everyone in the village knew that Ling Su had returned, and brought back a younger sister.

For Ling Song's arrival, the villagers did not show any hostility, but they were not very enthusiastic either.

Mostly it's an attitude of nothing to do with oneself.

……

After tidying up the residence, what lies before Ling Song and his elder brother is how to survive.

Ling Song has just turned four years old, and he is in the four-legged gold-swallowing beast stage.

As for Ling Su, she was only ten years old.

Although he was born with a lot of strength, not inferior to an adult man, but when his parents died of illness two years ago, they didn't teach him how to farm.

What's more, the few acres of mountain land at home have long been abandoned.

The only way is to rely on the mountain to eat the mountain.

Hunting, picking some mushrooms and herbs at the same time, and then regularly taking them to Qushui City to sell.

Animal skins can be sold to fur merchants in the city, and things like mushrooms and herbs can be sold to restaurants and pharmacies.

After making up his mind, Ling Su found the old man surnamed Gui in the village, made a bamboo bow under the old man's guidance, and carried the bow into the mountain like this.

"Brother, you have to be careful, I'll wait for you at home." Ling Song watched his elder brother go out, his voice was full of tears.

Half worry, half reluctance.

Grandpa GUI said that it is dangerous to go into the mountains.

In the mountains, there are not only ferocious tigers with hanging eyes and white foreheads, whose roar can be heard in the whole forest, but also jackals and wild boars.

If you are unlucky and encounter those good monsters, it will be even more ominous.

Ling Song really wanted to go with his brother, but he knew that he couldn't help if he went, so he could only obediently wait at home, so as not to cause trouble for his brother.

"Ninny, stay at home obediently, and wait for my brother to catch a rabbit and come back to play with you!" At the intersection of entering the mountain, the young man turned his head and waved to Ling Song, his handsome and resolute face was full of confidence.

After that, Ling Song spent the whole day in fear.

When other children in the village came to play together, she was absent-minded, and she would glance at the entrance of the village from time to time.

It wasn't until dusk when he saw the young man with a bow on his back carrying two golden pheasants that Ling Song finally had a smile on his face.

"elder brother!"

She left behind her little friend who was playing hide-and-seek, and quickly ran towards Ling Su.

"Ninny, look, what I caught!"

Ling Su lifted the bright-feathered golden pheasant in his hand, and proudly showed Ling Song what he had harvested today.

However, Ling Song stared at his clothes scratched by thorns, and the blue and purple bloodstains on his face.

Obviously, as a fledgling little hunter, Ling Su was able to catch such two golden pheasants, far from being as easy as it seemed, and even a little embarrassed.

"Brother, you're bleeding. My daughter doesn't want a little rabbit anymore. I only have one meal in the future, and I don't want my brother to go hunting." Ling Song raised his head and hugged his brother's wrist, the eyelashes on his small face trembled slightly, and the crystal tears were about to roll Falling.

"Brother is a man, how can there be a man who doesn't bleed?" Ling Su said with a smile.

"But, my daughter doesn't want to see my brother get hurt." Ling Song whispered with her mouth pursed.

Ling Su half knelt down, gently stroked away the tears from the corners of the little girl's eyes with her thumb, and said comfortingly: "Don't worry, my brother is very serious, this little flesh injury, just sleep and it will be fine.

Brother went hunting for the first time today and came back with a full load, so my daughter should be happy.

Let's go back first, let's eat stewed chicken tonight! "

The young man took Ling Song to go home.

"Ninny, are you going home?" asked one of the little girls who played hide-and-seek with Ling Song before.

"Well, I'm going home, goodbye sister Xiaoxuan!" Ling Song waved to his little friend.

Because he was worried about his elder brother all day long, among the group of friends who played together, Ling Song only remembered this little girl named Xiaoxuan.

When going home from the village entrance, you have to pass by the house of the old man surnamed Gui.

The siblings greeted the old man across the fence, and Ling Su handed one of the golden pheasants to the old man as a reward for teaching him how to make a bamboo bow.

The old man was not polite, but he also told Ling Su that if he didn't understand anything in the future, feel free to ask him.

Ling Song understood that the old man was helping his brother, so before leaving, he said to the old man obediently: "Grandpa GUI, thank you for helping us!"

"Help for what? I just want to eat more golden pheasants in the future." The old man snorted, turned around and got into the house, leaving the brothers and sisters with a head.

This made Ling Song unexpected, and he was stunned on the spot.

So grandpa GUI didn't want to help them?
The innocent and beautiful world view in the little girl's heart was severely impacted.

This bad old man is a bit bad!

(End of this chapter)