farmer's little girl

Chapter 130 The Extra Story: Delayed Happiness 1
When the carriage could no longer go, Zhou Jin put Lu Jiaoxing and Shanzi down.

He didn't talk to Lu Jiaoxing, but just patted Shanzi on the shoulder, said to take good care of her, and drove away in the carriage.

In front of the vast mountains and rugged mountain roads, Lu Jiaoxing took a deep breath, held her daughter's hand tightly, and went to look at the mountain.

Shanzi scratched his head, put down the burden in his hand, and stretched out his big hand: "The road is difficult, let me hug our daughter."

Lu Jiaoxing was actually worried that he would be able to hold his daughter well, but for some reason, she chose to hand her daughter over.

Xiao Tiantian, who just had a full moon, was lying in a big red swaddle, sleeping very peacefully.At this time, she couldn't feel the fear and anxiety in her mother's heart, she just left her mother's arms, she seemed a little unable to adapt, struggled a bit, and fell asleep again.

Obviously, Shanzi has never held a baby before. He has big hands and thick arms, but he can't do anything with a baby boy.He was flustered and at a loss, which really made people worry that he would drop the child.Lu Jiaoxing stepped forward to help him adjust his posture, and said softly: "Let her head lie in your arms, support her back with your arms, and support her lower back with this hand."

Finally finding the right posture, Shan Zi smiled shyly, "You know a lot." He looked at Lu Jiao Xing with shining eyes, as if amazed.

Lu Jiaoxing couldn't help being a little embarrassed, she lowered her head slightly, "My mother taught me this, in fact, the more I hug, the more I learn."

Shan Zi nodded, "In the future, I will hug our daughter more often."

He looked at the sky, hugged the baby in one hand, lifted the bag at his feet with the other, put it on his back, and said to Lu Jiaoxing: "It's getting late, let's go quickly, I hope we can finish it before dark." Get there."

Lu Jiaoxing carried another small burden on her back and followed him on the way into the mountain.

The mountain road was rugged and difficult to walk, and Lu Jiaoxing was exhausted, so Shanzi could only slow down his pace to wait for her.

In fact, Lu Jiaoxing couldn't hold on anymore, it was Shanzi's words of striving to arrive before dark that inspired her to take her own steps with difficulty.

The sun has set, and the sunset glow covers the entire mountain forest, and there are still vast mountains in sight.Lu Jiaoxing was a little anxious, but also a little scared, and was about to ask why she hadn't arrived yet, but she saw Shanzi happily leading her into a forest.

Pointing to the wooden house on one of the trees, he said: "It will be dark soon, and there are many wild animals in the mountains at night. Let's stay here for one night and go on the road tomorrow."

The wooden house is built on a big tree surrounded by several people, covered by thick branches, if Shanzi hadn't pointed it out to her, Lu Jiaoxing really wouldn't have noticed it.Just when Tiantian started crying again, she nodded without thinking about what to say.

Lu Jiaoxing doesn't know how to climb trees, Shanzi really racked his brains on how to go up, and in the end he held Lu Jiaoxing's waist with one hand, Lu Jiaoxing held Tiantian, and he climbed the tree with the other hand. Take the mother and daughter up.

Fortunately, he has nothing, but he has great strength, otherwise it would be really difficult.

Tiantian was hungry, she was out of breath from crying, Lu Jiaoxing didn't care to see what was going on in the wooden house, so she found a place to sit down, and opened her clothes with her back to feed Tiantian.

During this period, Shanzi went down and carried all the things that Lu Jiaoxing brought up, and put them on the small table in front of the door. Lu Jiaoxing also finished feeding Tiantian, and then he raised his eyes to look at the small wooden house built on the tree.

Needless to say, this cabin is beautifully built.

The wooden house is just built in the center of the branch of the main branch, about three meters square, and there is a small platform in front of the door, the area is not large, two meters square, just enough for people to settle down or put some things.

The wooden house is made up of tree trunks, with dark brown dry bark still visible on the surrounding walls, but the ground is planed evenly, which looks fairly neat.There is a huge stone at the corner of the house, with a concave in the middle, and a small iron pot on it, which looks like a place for cooking.

It stands to reason that a house built on a tree should be unstable, but I didn't expect to walk back and forth in the wooden house twice, and I didn't feel any wobble at all.

Lu Jiaoxing couldn't help expressing her admiration, Shanzi blushed and scratched his head, "I built this place. It's not easy for us mountain people to come out. If we slow down, we will live in the wild. The beasts in the mountains There are many, accidents are easy, but they don’t know how to climb trees, and there is such a place where they can sleep peacefully at night.”

Lu Jiaoxing was even more surprised, and Shanzi took advantage of the opportunity to tell her about some things in the mountains.

"Sometimes I can't go home for a few days for hunting, so there are several places like this in this big mountain, but those are built by some old hunters, and I learned from them to build this place." He said Said, while going to the place where the firewood was placed in the corner of the house, he took some firewood and lit the fire on the big rock. After the fire was lit, he went to a simple wooden cabinet next to him and took a cloth bag out.

The workmanship of the small wooden cabinet is very rough, it looks like it was put together randomly, but it can hold things.

Shanzi poured out a small handful of sorghum rice from his pocket, put it into the pot, took out a bamboo tube from the cabinet, and poured some water into the pot.Fearing that Lu Jiaoxing would think the water was not clean, he hastily explained: "I installed this water when I came out of the mountain, and it was clean."

He also said: "It's not easy for people in the mountains to make a living. There are often times when the dry food is exhausted, so some water and food will be placed in temporary shelters like this for everyone's emergency. However, after eating the food here, you must remember it afterwards. Come to make up, so as not to miss the next time someone comes."

Lu Jiaoxing blinked, and said: "Then is it possible that someone ate the food here, but deliberately didn't make up for it?"

Shan Zi looked at her with that very surprised look: "This kind of thing will not happen. We are all from the mountains, and there are often various accidents in the mountains. If everyone is like this, one day I will really When encountering difficulties, it is not intentional to harm oneself, no one will do such a thing that hurts others and does not benefit oneself, because no one knows whether bad luck will come to oneself."

Lu Jiaoxing was speechless, she didn't know what to say for a while.

It was also because she was jealous of a gentleman's belly with a villain's heart, no wonder her mother said that the people in the mountains are honest, and they are honest, not as cunning as the people outside.

Shanzi said again: "I'm afraid you don't know that when you people outside the mountains are at home, it's the time when we mountain people come out for activities. It's snowing in winter and it's cold. At this time, the fur of wild animals is the best, so everyone will Come out to hunt at this time, so you can peel off the skin and exchange it for money and food next year..."

While the two were talking, the porridge was already cooked, Shan Zi took out some steamed buns from the bag, roasted them on the fire, and then handed them to Lu Jiaoxing.

"It's simpler, and there are no dishes. I'm afraid you won't be used to it." Shanzi looked a little embarrassed, as if he was very ashamed that he couldn't give his wife a good meal.

Lu Jiaoxing bit the crunchy steamed bun and whispered, "It's nothing, I'll get used to it."

You also have to get used to it.

On the way to dinner, the sky outside quickly turned dark, this was the first time that Lu Jiaoxing faced the darkness so quickly, almost in the blink of an eye, it was dark.

"Don't be afraid, I'll light the lamp."

In the darkness, Shanzi took out an oil lamp out of nowhere and lit it.

The wick is small, so it can only illuminate a radius of about two meters. Tiantian sleeps on the floor beside Lu Jiaoxing's legs, looking at the young face opposite her, feeling relieved for a while.

Shanzi said that there are many beasts at night on the mountain, but Lu Jiaoxing just forgot it, but it was really at night that she could feel how many beasts there are.

The howling of wolves, and the cry of unknown beasts, suddenly approaching and then far away, made people feel nervous that the beast was coming, but when they listened carefully, it seemed that the beast had not come.

Tian Tian was in her sleep, and was frightened to cry by howling wolves, howling loudly, but couldn't be coaxed.Lu Jiaoxing was sweating profusely from anxiety, but her body couldn't stop shaking.

Shan Zi was so anxious that he circled around the two of them, listening to the outside with his ears up, suddenly he cursed these animals in a low voice, and said to Lu Jiao Xing, "I'll go outside to make a fire, don't be afraid."

Shanzi carried a bundle of firewood from the house, and then sank into the darkness.

In the wooden house, Lu Jiaoxing tightly hugged her howling daughter in her arms, full of uneasiness.

Is that a wolf?It seems to be really a wolf.Daxi Village does not rely on mountains, and Lu Jiaoxing has never seen a wolf, only heard about it.

The howling wolf was getting closer, and just when Lu Jiaoxing was about to collapse, Shanzi ran in from the outside.

"Don't be afraid, they are all afraid of fire. I built a fire under the tree, and they dare not come over." Only then did Lu Jiaoxing know that Shan Zi went down the tree just to make a fire so that the wild animals would not dare to come. come over.

How dare he?Isn't he afraid of being eaten by wild animals?
"Is it like this every night?" She asked with a hint of tears.

Shanzi looked at Tiantian who was still crying with some embarrassment, and shook his head.

Only then did Lu Jiaoxing realize that the pack of wolves outside was caused by her daughter's crying.She blamed herself in her heart, and hurriedly stood up and walked back and forth to coax her daughter, but she couldn't coax her daughter no matter how hard she tried, she had no choice but to sacrifice the magic weapon to stop the sweet crying.

Looking at her daughter's squirming mouth, she turned her back and said guiltily: "It's all my fault, I was so scared that I forgot to coax her not to cry."

"It's nothing, you don't understand this. Don't be afraid, wild animals are afraid of fire. In fact, we live in trees, and wild animals can't get up. I'm afraid they will keep howling and scare you and the child. Later They dispersed by themselves. Since my daughter is asleep, you should sleep too, and I will keep watch."

"You still sleep, you have to hurry tomorrow."

There are so many wild animals in the mountains, Lu Jiaoxing no longer has the peace of traveling in the daytime, but is full of worries.She doesn't have the confidence to come from a beast, she can deal with it herself, but she needs to keep him up.

"Sleep!" Shan Zi insisted.

Helpless, Lu Jiaoxing put her daughter down on the floor and lay down beside her again.

Looking at the figure who was sitting facing out with his back to her, Lu Jiaoxing's tightly closed eye sockets gradually became moist.

Her choice doesn't seem to be wrong, this is a good man.

Lu Jiaoxing didn't know when she fell asleep.

When she woke up again, she found that the daughter beside her was gone. She was startled and wanted to shout, but she heard her daughter's laughter.

She raised her eyes and saw Shanzi sitting on the ground beside him, stretching out a thick finger to tease her daughter. His face was full of surprised smiles, which made her stunned immediately.

"Are you awake?" Shan Zi quickly withdrew his hand like a kid who ate candy, with a worried expression on his face. "I saw that she woke up, so I played with her for a while because I was afraid of disturbing your sleep."

Lu Jiaoxing sat up, stretched out her hand to smooth her hair, "Thank you."

"Thank you, I've made the porridge. You can eat it quickly. After eating, we'll set off. We'll be home almost in the afternoon."

Family?
yes, home.

(End of this chapter)