pastoral fragrance

Chapter 14 Into the Woods
Qiu Lin brought a bowl of shepherd's purse with sauce to the main room, just in time to listen to Liu Shi's words verbatim.At this moment, she couldn't help but want to applaud Liu's loudly. This is the truth, you treat me better and I treat you better, but if you insult me ​​and deceive me, I will definitely not let you have a good life.Repaying grievances with kindness is a realm that can only be achieved by a saint, and she, Xu Qiulin, is not interested.

Mrs. Han was taken aback when she heard Mrs. Liu's words, and hesitated for a while, "But...they are after all... my family...brothers!" cold sweat.In Han's heart, these people are their relatives, not enemies. Every family has scriptures that are difficult to recite, since it is so necessary, is it necessary to distinguish it so clearly?
Liu Shi knew that Han Shi's inherent thinking could not be changed overnight, but with such a weak temperament, she might be bullied by those uncles who were gangsters and rascals in the future, so Liu Shi was sweating for Han Shi. "You have such a temperament. If you are too kind, you will only let others ride on your head to bully you. What kind of relationship do you want to talk about with these wolves, tigers and leopards? Why should they care if they don't care about you?"

Han felt that these words were too shocking to the world, and completely violated what her mother said to her when she married back then, she should respect the elders and love the younger ones, she should respect her elders if her uncle is an elder, and she should take care of her younger uncle if she is a junior.Is this wrong?Han's eyelids kept beating, and his heart was beating very fast.

"Mother, Auntie is right. If it weren't for Brother Shen Qing's words, Third Brother and I would never have been able to escape Uncle Niang's punishment. Why should we show weakness to someone like this who doesn't talk about family affection and morals with us?" Qiu Lin has seen many such scenes in his previous life, blindly forbearance will only make others feel that you are bullying, and will not win half sympathy.

Han Shi didn't take it seriously, and lowered his voice and said: "Go, go, you, a child, how can you know these things!" She didn't agree with Liu Shi's words. Disgusting others like a shrew and getting nothing for herself? "I know that my good sister won't blackmail me, but after all, they are brothers from Nanshan. They were raised by their parents. How awkward can it be? The Qi family in the village is arguing because of sister-in-law and aunt-in-law. The family relationship is broken up, but my sister-in-law hasn't come home for many years!
After touching the ashes on his nose, Qiulin shrugged and put down the vegetable bowl, touched his nose again, and sighed helplessly.It seems that on weekdays, my mother is gentle and kind, with an amiable face, but she is stubborn and strong in her heart.

If you want to change your mother's thinking, I'm afraid it won't be done overnight.It's all because of her small arms and small body, and her speech doesn't work like farting. Qiulin retreated to the stove room dejectedly, and suddenly found the big yellow dog squatting in the main room looking at her thoughtfully, the pair of eyes embedded in the fluff. Zhong Zhong's eyes were round and black, staring at thoughts that Qiu Lin couldn't understand.

Qiulin was startled, and quickly ran into the stove. She always felt that the eyes of the big yellow dog at home did not look like dogs. Those eyes were obviously the eyes that people only have when they are thinking. ...

"Little sister, what are you thinking? Your forehead is about to hit the stove!" Qiuyue was busy in the stove, seeing Qiulin was about to hit the stove, she quickly grabbed her, cursing and mercilessly .

oh!Only then did Qiulin realize that after the elder sister reminded her, her forehead would not hit the cold stove.

After breakfast, Qiuyue put the dirty clothes taken off by her parents and younger siblings on a wooden plate and walked to the river.Qiu Song led Qiu He to fish by the stream, while Qiu Lin took Ah Huang into the woods.

Qiulin and Qiuhe went around the forest once before. There are towering trees and wormwood half a person's height growing in the forest, and there is only a quiet path leading to the distance.Among the lush weeds, there are occasional Chinese medicinal materials such as plantain, pinellia, persimmon leaves, double-sided needles, and dodder. She even saw rare medicinal materials such as Smilax cocos and Chuanxiong.In the forest, there are many walnuts and peaches, and the attractive fragrance of raspberries, cranberries, and eggplants.Now is the season of maturity, and there are treasures everywhere in this forest.

Qiulin was timid and didn't dare to go into the woods alone. After all, that place was still a long way from the village. First, he was afraid of meeting those two cousins ​​on the way, and second, the villagers liked to be old. People's graves are built in the forest, and the forest is already lush with branches and leaves, covering the sky and the sun, plus the graves that are connected to each other. Isn't that a horror movie scene intentionally?Qiulin thought he didn't have the guts to follow the example of the heroine in a certain TV series and stay alone in the foggy forest graveyard, so he drank Ah Huang from the house.

One is because of meeting those two rogue cousins, Ah Huang can howl for a while, and the other is to give himself courage.Although Ah Huang is not alone, he is still a living creature, and dogs have always had sensitive noses and sharp eyes, which might be even better than bringing a person with them.

Xia Yan also lived in Xu's family for more than ten years, and basically faced Qiulin day and night, and he had touched all the little intestines in her belly long ago.But he didn't refuse to go to the woods with Qiulin.He saw a gleam of hope in the little six-year-old's eyes, and after thinking about what she did several times, his clever dog nose smelled something tricky.These days, Qiulin was rambling about ways to make money, and this time he went to the forest, he definitely couldn't do without these two words.

Qiulin, who was six years old, carried a small basket on his back. In the basket were a small hoe for digging soil and a sickle for scraping thorns and grass on the road. He also drank his own big yellow dog and took a shortcut like a little adult. go to the woods.

In the scorching summer, Qiu Lin's clothes were drenched with sweat after a while, and she ran very happily when she saw Ah Huang who was leading the way for her.Qiulin wiped the sweat from his forehead with a small hand, and continued to follow.Ah Huang seemed to know that he was going to the forest, and ran over there at random. After running for a while, he stopped and stood on a high place, staring at her with black and white eyes, with his mouth slightly open, panting.

When he reached the woods, Xia Yan simply stopped and turned to wait for Qiu Lin.Qiulin used a sickle to pass through the thorn forest and walked up to Ah Huang. "So cute!" Qiu Lin patted Ah Huang's head and two deaf ears with great affection, and praised without hesitation.

Unexpectedly, this kind of praise made the other party's face completely black, but there was nothing unusual about the rough-skinned and thick-skinned appearance, only those two round dog eyes showed anger, anger, and anger, but finally Attached to helplessness and peace.Qiulin never knew that a dog's eyes could contain so many emotions.

She was stunned for a while, and then she remembered her reason for coming, so she ignored Ah Huang and looked at Lin Zi by herself.

The forest was full of verdant greenery, and Zhizhi hid in the treetops and sang lively. The weeds as tall as a man swayed in the wind, and the red and purple fruits wafted a tantalizing aroma. The whole forest was full of vitality.

Qiulin put down the back basket, took out the small hoe inside, and started digging when he saw Smilax smilax. After removing the fibrous roots, he put it into the back basket, and continued to look for the next plant.

Xia Yan watched from the side, and found that the little girl only picked Smilax smilax to dig. This Smilax smilax is also called Guoshanlong, with smooth stems, no thorns, sweet and light in nature, it can detoxify, remove dampness and sharpen joints, and can cure syphilis. It is a good medicine blindly for the pain of muscles and bones, treating boils, carbuncles, and scrofula.There was a look of approval in Xia Yan's eyes, this girl is very knowledgeable.

This kind of soil tuckahoe can be used as medicine after being sliced ​​and dried. Their family accepts this kind of medicine. A pound of dry.

Qiulin probably dug two or three catties, and she couldn't bear the excess.She saw that the walnuts on the tree were valuable, but she didn't know how to climb trees, so it seemed that she had to ask her elder sister and second brother to bring her.So she picked some cranberries, raspberries, and sweet potatoes, and ate them along the way, as snacks.

When I was a child, Qiulin also ate these sweet and sour things in the countryside, but after going to the city, I seldom tasted these tastes again.With a light bite, the juicy and sweet feeling lingered on the tip of her tongue, making her unable to stop.

When I got home again, the elder sister had already finished washing the clothes and was drying the clothes in the yard at the moment. She looked at Qiu Lin and groaned, "You still know where you are when you come back. It's really worrying!" As Qiuyue said, her brows were already furrowed.In the past, only the third brother liked to run around by himself, why is it that even the younger sister has learned this virtue now?
Qiulin put down the basket, grabbed a raspberry and handed it to the elder sister, "Elder sister, eat it, it's sweet."

Qiuyue was so angry that she was willing to eat. After hearing Qiulin's words, she couldn't help raising her eyebrows, "Have you gone to the mountain?" Qiuyue stopped her hands and looked at Qiulin calmly, as if Qiulin dared to nod her head. She just jumped up and bit her.

Seeing the elder sister's appearance, Qiulin shuddered in fright, but still nodded.

Qiuyue was so angry that she was so angry that she threw the clothes in her hand into the wooden basin, put her hands on her hips and shouted loudly: "You girl, do you lack a string in your brain? How can you mess around in that place? If you encounter some big snakes and beasts Yes, can you beat it or run through it!" The forest is big, if you don't keep it clean, there will be such things haunting, if the little girl encounters it, will she still survive?

Qiulin was yelled at by Qiuyue so that her mind went blank, and she said with a sneer, "Sister, it's just a little gloomy in the woods, it's okay. Look, I'm fine, right?" How could it be as scary as the elder sister said? , the forest is so close to people, those beasts dare not come.

Qiuyue still looked unhappy, "You still talk back, isn't it, the forest is so dangerous, next time you go, see if I don't deal with you!" But her tone was much weaker than before.

Qiuyue looked into the basket, saw some roots and stalks, and frowned again, "What's in your basket?"

(End of this chapter)