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Chapter 21 How did her gentle, lovely and kind sister become like this?
"Especially when you work outside for a long time, you need to prepare some things at home to relieve the heat."

Zhou Shiruo was stunned for a moment, looked Zhou Shitang up and down, and said in disbelief: "Tangtang, you can do it, when did you know so much?"

Zhou Shitang straightened his back and said confidently, "I've always known a lot, but I didn't have room to show it before. Now that I'm here, it's time for me to show it."

"You are awesome." Zhou Shiruo smiled, "Then we have to climb to the other side of the hillside to pull out the root?"

Zhou Shitang: "How long did it take you to walk from there to here?"

Zhou Shiruo tilted his head and thought for a moment, then said uncertainly: "About an hour?"

"That must be longer than an hour." Zhou Shitang gave up, "Let's go home, sister. If you encounter this kind of fruit in the future, remember to pull it home."

Zhou Shiruo nodded, "No problem."

Zhou Yancheng glanced at the sky and said, "You can't go even if you want to. The sun is going down. We must go back quickly. It's more dangerous at night."

The two sisters nodded at the same time.

The three men continued walking.

Zhou Shitang: "Sister, do you know the way home?"

Zhou Shiruo: "I only know the road I have walked."

Zhou Shitang asked again: "Then do you think this is the way we go home?"

Zhou Shiruo looked back at the road behind him and suddenly became confused, "That's it. The roads ahead and behind are almost the same length. I don't know them. Don't you know each other? Otherwise, why would you come here?"

Zhou Shitang sighed, "Actually, I don't know you either. An uncle told me to go this way, so my father and I walked here. Since you appear here, I think this path must be correct."

She recounted what happened today again by the way, "We have gained a lot today, and we will be able to eat delicious meat when we go back."

"Wait a minute!" Zhou Shiruo was furious, "The pig you worked so hard to kill was just picked up by others? And then you had to exchange it with them for the medicinal materials you finally dug up? How many kilograms of pork did you get in exchange?"

Her hands were shaking with anger and she almost couldn't hold the peng firmly.

"Where is their home? Let's see if I don't scold them to death." Zhou Shiruo was furious, his face as big as his palm turned red instantly, and he gritted his teeth, wishing to tear the person into pieces.

Zhou Shitang was stunned.

How did her gentle, lovely and kind sister become like this?
Zhou Shitang walked up to Zhou Shiruo, stretched out a hand to hold her hand, and comforted her, "Sister, don't be angry. It was us who were a step too late."

"Things in the mountains are ownerless. Whoever picks it up first belongs to whoever picks it up first. If they pick it up first, we can't compete with them."

Zhou Shiruo gritted his teeth, "I also met a nasty woman today. I saw Peng Zhen, but I had nothing to pack and my clothes were too dirty."

"Then I remembered that I saw a banana tree on the road, so I went to pick some banana leaves. When I came back, I saw a woman standing in front of the banana tree. I went to pick it, but she scolded me."

"I'm so angry. I was obviously here before her, but she asked me to provide evidence. Where can I provide any evidence?"

"In the end, I competed with her on hand speed, and each of us grabbed half of the peng. It's best not to let me see her again, otherwise I will scold her every time I see her."

Zhou Shiruo was really angry when he talked about it.

First come, first served, do you understand?

Zhou Yancheng looked at the eldest daughter and said slowly: "Ruoruo, please change your mind and think about the problem. If you pick up a wild boar first and someone comes to you asking for a pig, will you give it to you?"

Zhou Shiruo thought about it based on what Zhou Shitang and Zhou Yancheng said, and finally said sadly, "It seems that whoever picks it up first belongs to him, but it's too frustrating."

"Hmph, I just don't like that woman." Zhou Shiruo turned away his head.

Zhou Yancheng said again: "There is a mixture of fish and dragons here, everyone is there. You must protect yourselves. Sometimes you have to endure something for the time being. You analyze the specific matters in detail." "I can't protect you like before. You guys." Zhou Yancheng felt that he had to explain the current situation clearly to the children and let them know that they were no longer qualified to be willful.

"In the past, when you got into trouble in the capital, I could tell you the truth."

"But it's different here. We are prisoners here, and anyone can kill us easily."

Zhou Shitang and Zhou Shiruo felt chilled when they heard this.

The two sisters looked at each other and saw sadness in each other's eyes.

They had known this fact for the past few months, but hearing these words from their most respected father made them feel really sad.

It’s sad that my father worked hard for half his life, only to be given up by the emperor.

I'm also sad about their current poor environment.

Zhou Shiruo nodded: "Dad, I understand."

Zhou Shitang also nodded, "Dad, I understand too."

Zhou Yancheng raised his hand, rubbed the heads of his two daughters respectively, and said warmly: "Let's go home."

He went ahead first.

The tall and straight back looks very safe.

His broad shoulders and thick back seemed to be able to carry the whole world on his shoulders.

However, Zhou Shiruo stared at his father's feet and frowned, "What's wrong with dad's feet?"

Zhou Yancheng's expression froze.

Zhou Shitang said, "Dad accidentally fell into a deep pit. Fortunately, I insisted on looking for the pig and found him. Otherwise, he would have stayed in the pit and couldn't get out."

Zhou Shiruo imagined the scene of his father falling into a deep pit, and somehow felt that he couldn't bear to look directly at it.

She shook her head and told herself not to think about it anymore.

A quarter of an hour later, Zhou Shitang saw a familiar figure and was surprised, "Su Huaili, is your home here?"

Su Huaili was sitting in the yard chopping firewood. There was a pile of chopped firewood at his feet. He was holding an ax in both hands, and the veins on the back of his hands were clearly visible.

A few drops of sweat appeared on his forehead, slid down his cheeks, soaked into his clothes, and disappeared.

When Leng Buding heard Zhou Shitang's voice, Su Huai saluted and turned his head. When he saw three people, he was stunned for a moment and said doubtfully: "Uncle Chu said to take the road on the left. My house is on the right. Are you taking the wrong road?" Already?"

Zhou Shitang silently turned to look at his father: Dad, didn't you say you remembered it correctly?

Zhou Yancheng met his daughter's eyes, looked away, and coughed lightly: "It seems that I have indeed remembered it wrong. Ah Huai, if we go straight forward, can we go back?"

It's too far to go back.

Su Huaili thought about it carefully. He was quite familiar with the location near his home. "If you take the path, you can't go back. You have to go up the mountain and walk to the other side of the mountain."

"It's getting dark soon. I don't recommend that you go into the mountains. It's more dangerous. After all, there are many traps in the mountains. It's easy to fall into them when it's dark."

Zhou Shitang: "..."

If they entered the mountain in broad daylight, two of them would fall into the trap. If they went into the mountain at night, they would probably be wiped out.

(End of this chapter)