Qianxiang Baimei

Chapter 52
After a year, the mountains and rivers of Qingqiu are still the same, with lush trees and lush mountains, but people's mood is completely different from when they left.

After entering the familiar forest path, Li Fei simply jumped off the stone sword. Although he was carrying a heavy burden on his back, which were all the necessities they bought in Lugong Town, he even walked briskly when he returned home. Now, walking step by step on the familiar dirt road that she has walked countless times, the familiar smell of mountains and forests, the smell of wind, the home she has lived in for ten years.

"Look, I used to come to this forest quite often." Li Fei excitedly dragged Lei Xiuyuan to tell him a funny story about his childhood, "You can dig a kind of wild mushroom under the roots of the tree, and fry it with bamboo shoots in oil. , it’s delicious.”

Lei Xiuyuan looked around, and the evil spirit that he felt vaguely disappeared at this moment. This is an absolute barren mountain. You can see the growth of trees and roads. I am afraid that there are very few people in the whole Qingqiu. However, at this time and this place, the smell of the wind is rare and clean, presumably because of the evil spirit beads on her wrist.

He turned his head, and suddenly saw Li Fei dug a lot of mushrooms in his bosom, he couldn't help wondering: "What are you digging them for?"

There was a rare indulgence on her face, her eyes were narrowed into slits: "Go back to my house, cook it for you, and try my craftsmanship. But I can only wrong you and me to eat vegetarian food for a few days, I won't Make meat."

It seems that when she returned to Qingqiu, she was relaxed, which was very different from when she was in the academy.Lei Xiuyuan smiled, and took the dirty mushrooms with mud in her arms: "If there is anything delicious, don't be stingy, just get it."

For Li Fei, this is the first time to bring friends to play at home. It is novel and exciting, so naturally he wants to show his friendship as a landlord.Fortunately, there are a lot of wild vegetables and fungi in the mountains, and I picked a handful in a short while, walked along the forest path that was already overgrown with weeds, and entered the narrow path between the cliffs.

The cliffs on both sides are as high as clouds, and the rock walls are as sharp and sinister as knives. There are bones everywhere in the narrow passage. At a glance, there are more human bones. They must be mortals who tried to climb the dangerous peak but unfortunately stumbled and fell.

Li Fei walked for a while, and suddenly there was a look of anticipation and nervousness on her face. She ran a few steps without saying a word, looked up, and saw the hemp that was tied to the protruding stone when she left a year ago. The rope was still there, and it hadn't even been moved. When I reached out to take it off, the bell on the hemp rope had long since rusted to death, and the hemp rope was like rotten cotton, and it broke when rubbed.

Apparently, no one came back.

Li Fei didn't know whether it was loss or pain in his heart, he paused for a moment, and said in a low voice: "Look, in the past, Master and I used this hemp rope to climb up and down."

Lei Xiuyuan raised his head and gazed into the distance. He felt that this cliff was extremely dangerous. If he didn't rely on the power of Tengyun Yujian, he couldn't imagine how to climb it with human power alone.

Seeing that Li Fei's face was filled with unconcealable disappointment, presumably because the master didn't come back, he said in a low voice: "Don't you want to do the landlord's favor? I'm about to starve to death. How can you, my master, be hungry?" dead guest?"

Li Fei laughed and threw the stone sword: "Let's go, the hemp rope is rotten and can't be used, let's fly up.

The simple small courtyard in the forest has not changed at all, there is a fence around the courtyard, three wooden houses inside the courtyard, and several thin fields where radishes and sweet potatoes used to be planted, but before Li Fei left, he dug them all up, and now there are only weeds in the fields.

Li Fei pushed open the firewood door of her house, and a bunch of dust fell from the eaves of the door. She smiled awkwardly: "Uh, I haven't been back for a long time, it's so dirty. Put your things down first, and go around, I'll clean them up. "

Lei Xiuyuan pressed her head and pushed her out: "I'll come, you cook for me."

Will he clean up?Don't just throw the dirty things under the bed like Master, it's clean!Li Fei chased him into the house, saw that he took off his coat and rolled up his sleeves, picked up the broom and started to sweep familiarly, halfway through, he turned to stare at her: "If I don't cook anymore, I'm leaving."

Li Fei hurried out to fetch water, but he didn't come back for a year, the water tank was filthy, and the earthen well was flooded with dust and weeds. After cleaning it for a long time, he lit the fire to wash rice, cook and chop vegetables. The small kitchen was steaming, The aroma of the meal overflowed, and the long-lost cooking smoke curled up. She suddenly had the illusion that she had never left Qingqiu, and she was nostalgic and sad at the same time.

It's great that Lei Xiuyuan is here, if she were alone, she would definitely cry at this time.

The washed sheets and quilts were drying in the yard, and the quilt that had been dusty for a year was also taken out by Lei Xiuyuan to bask in the sun. This child is really unexpectedly capable.After a while, he suddenly came over with a yellowed book, and said: "The book in your master's room is interesting."

"What book?" Li Fei leaned over to take a look, but saw the five characters "Overseas Anecdotes" written on the cover, and wondered: "Where did you find it?"

"When I was cleaning the house, I found a box under his bed, so I opened it." He clicked his chin outside the door, and sure enough, there was an open wooden box on the ground. Most of the books inside were yellow and moldy, and they were all covered by him. Put it on the stone to dry.

"I checked, and they are all about overseas rumors." Lei Xiuyuan smiled, "Your master is an interesting old man, and few people believe overseas stories."

overseas?Li Fei was also a little puzzled. She had never heard the master mention these things. She knew that there were books in the master's room, but most of them were things that taught her to read and write when she was a child. Since when was there a box of books under the bed?
She randomly picked up a book and flipped through it, and it turned out that most of the stories in it were overseas rumors. There were overseas aliens in the East China Sea, their bodies were pitch-black, and they held snakes in their hands, which seemed completely unbelievable. Strange.It's strange, after being with Master for so many years, she actually just found out about these books, where has he been hiding them all this time?Could it be that it was turned out and placed under the bed before leaving?

"Don't think about it if you can't figure it out." Lei Xiuyuan pressed her head again and pushed her into the kitchen, "The rice seems to be burnt, I can smell the smell."

what!Really burnt!Li Fei hurriedly brought out the rice cooker, seeing Lei Xiuyuan always pointing fingers at the side, she pushed him out annoyedly: "Go out and play by yourself."

I haven't cooked for a year, so I'm a little raw, but fortunately, three dishes and one soup are still ready, Li Fei brings the food to the table in the big house, Lei Xiuyuan has long been sitting beside him, reading a book and waiting.She filled a bowl full of rice for him, put a chopstick of bamboo shoots and mushrooms in his bowl, and smiled: "Come, please eat."

He took a bite of the bamboo shoots, his brows slightly raised, but he didn't speak.

It was the first time for Li Fei to cook for someone other than Master, and he couldn't help but be full of anticipation: "How does it taste?"

However, it is estimated that Lei Xiuyuan will not say anything good, and it is more difficult to hear a compliment from this child than to ask Riyan to praise her.

Who would have thought that he would actually nod his head and smile slightly, with a very gentle voice: "Well, it's delicious."

Li Fei couldn't help being amused, and brought him a bowl full of top-notch dishes: "Then eat more! Get stronger!"

He held a chopstick of wild rice stem for her, and said lightly: "You should eat more, you are so short."

She was a little annoyed: "I'm still growing! I'll be taller in the future!"

"That can't change the fact that you are short now." Another chopsticks of mushrooms was placed in her bowl.

Well, I really can’t compare with him. This year everyone started to grow taller. The most exaggerated one is Ye Ye, who has reached Hu Jiaping’s shoulders. Lei Xiuyuan has also grown a lot taller. He used to be about the same height as Baili Gelin , now he is a head taller than himself, but compared to Ye Ye, Ji Tongzhou and the others, he still looks thinner, but the girlish and slender taste before is gone.

For this meal, Lei Xiuyuan cleaned up all the dishes in a face-saving manner, not even missing the soup. After the meal, they cleaned up the bowls and chopsticks together, and the two sat down in the sunny small yard with their backs against the bluestones Flip through the books in the wooden box.

Lei Xiuyuan looked at it for a long time. Every book in the box tells various anecdotes from overseas. There are long-standing legends collected by folks, and there are also very exaggerated fabrications.Overseas is always an unknown mystery. Few people would believe that it really exists. Why did Li Fei's master collect these?Pure interest?

"Li Fei, didn't your master tell you about the overseas affairs?" He asked in a low voice, but after waiting for a while, she didn't answer, and when he turned his head, he saw that she was leaning on the rock and fell asleep.

Sleep when you are full, like a pig.

Although it was midsummer, the wind in the mountains and forests was still cool. He took off his coat and put it on her, lowered his head and continued to read the books. Although these books were mostly fabricated by legends, they were better than the boring fairy arts and profound arts in the library tower of the academy. Interesting, he was fascinated by it.

As the wind passed by, a faint strange fragrance permeated the air, Lei Xiuyuan suddenly couldn't concentrate on the book anymore.

He turned his head and looked at Jiang Lifei beside him, she was in a deep sleep, the fine fluff on her face was reflected by the sun as if it had been gilded, and her lips were still pouting innocently.His coat covered her body, making it look very loose. Looking at it this way, Jiang Lifei, who was usually stubborn and never bowed his head, seemed a little delicate and weak.

She had changed so much that if she hadn't seen it every day, she would have thought she was a stranger.Fortunately, he was still that Jiang Lifei inside.

At two quarters in the afternoon, the small courtyard in the mountains and forests was intertwined with the sound of wind, rustling leaves, and the sound of Li Fei's breathing. It was obviously a deserted place, but it was unexpectedly reassuring.This is her home, where she has lived for ten years.

Lei Xiuyuan stared at the bluegrass on her pink skirt, the wind blew her skirt up and down, she was probably dreaming of eating, she smacked her lips, hummed twice, suddenly turned over, The long twisted braids fell behind, thick and black, glossy and slippery.

He was a little funny, with a novelty and mischievous attitude, reached out to hold her braid, and slowly played with it between his fingers. The hair was soft and slippery, and it was numb and itchy when he rubbed it in his palm.

It's so quiet, so leisurely, like a dream.

　The second update~ Writing Xiaoleizi is really a big challenge in life.
　　
　
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