This year, the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month is the beginning of spring, and the temperature in the south has been warming up. By the end of the lunar month, the weather was clear for several days.

Pei Manning made mung bean cakes and red bean paste cakes and exchanged them with Mrs. Xu for a lot of Fuqiang flour. In addition, she used Fuqiang flour to make cakes and exchanged some flowers and plants for the children in the yard.

During the winter vacation, the children in the yard either gathered in the alley to play with spinning tops and marbles, or went to the river bank outside the west city to play on the reeds.

Pei Manning asked them to help her dig up some flowers and plants, no matter what they were, as long as they looked pretty or had thorns.

"Sister Pei, do you want this vine? It has so many thorns on it."

"Sister Pei, this little wild flower is blooming. It blooms all day long. It's so beautiful. Do you want one?"

"Sister Pei, I have never seen this grass before. I saw it on Xiaopo Mountain. Do you want it?"

"Sister Pei..."

Pei Manning was surrounded by a group of children, handing out desserts to them one by one: "Take them all, but after tomorrow, Sister Pei doesn't want any more. Sister Pei's family has run out of flour, so don't go digging for more."

She was afraid that these children would run to further places to dig, climb mountains or go down rivers, which might cause accidents.

The children in the yard were very disappointed because their source of snacks was going to run out.

"Okay, Sister Pei, if you want to plant flowers, tell us and we'll help you dig them."

"We'll talk about it when the time comes."

Pei Manning dug up some flowers and plants, planted some of them, and replaced some with plants from the Sumire world, especially the thorny vine flowers.

This thorny vine grows very quickly. It can cover a wall in two months, and large fist-sized flowers will bloom on it. Each vine has densely packed thorns, which are hard and sharp, and carry a slight toxin, which hurts a lot.

The flowering period is very long, and it is drought-resistant and water-resistant. As long as there is enough nutrition, it will keep blooming and withering, withering and blooming, and it will never fade.

Pei Manning planted a vine under the courtyard wall. When the vines grow taller, she will put them on the wall. The vines will continue to grow along the wall. In time, the whole wall inside and outside will become a thorny vine flower wall, which is beautiful and practical, and no one dares to climb the wall.

However, in the past two months, the thorny vine flower has not grown up yet and cannot play a role, so she still has to rely on her simple trap.

Pei Manning finished drawing the draft for the fourteenth episode of Doraemon: A Thousand Questions in the afternoon. When she was drawing the tenth episode, she felt a little hungry.

At first it was just a sudden inspiration, but now she realized that she herself didn't know much about it.

As for classics, poems, miscellaneous records, strange anecdotes, and travelogues, she might know a little more.

But when telling stories to children, where does rain come from? How is lightning formed? Why do fireflies glow...these are questions that she was curious about when she was young, and she can keep flipping through the books.

Pei Manning is a serious person. If she wants to paint, she can't be perfunctory. She must not only make the content vivid and interesting, but also realistic and accurate.

Pei Manning sighed, packed her things, wrapped herself in a thick scarf, and prepared to go to the Xinshu bookstore.

She had run out of money, Shanghai Fine Arts Publishing House hadn't replied yet, and without a visible source of income, she couldn't buy books anymore, so she could only read for free.

Use the key to lock the gate of the yard and walk to the entrance of the alley.

When I turned the corner, a bicycle came towards me.

"Bang!" The speed was so fast that she didn't have time to react. By the time Pei Manning came to her senses, she had been knocked to the ground by the car.

Pei Manning felt a sharp pain in her calves and wrists, and cold sweat broke out on her forehead.

Her calf was hit hard by the wheel, and her arm was unconsciously supported on the ground when she fell. She didn't know if her elbow was broken. Her palm rubbed against the ground, and her delicate skin was pierced by the sharp edges, and it was a bloody mess.

The cyclist fell to the ground and found that she was hit hard. He quickly picked up the bicycle, didn't ask a question, and rode away in a hurry.

Pei Manning couldn't move her legs. "Hey, you..."

Before she could finish her words, the man had already turned the corner on his bike and disappeared.

"Hey, this lady, are you okay?" A passerby nearby ran over to help her up, and as he did so, he said angrily, "What's wrong with this person? He knocked someone down and instead of helping them up, he just ran away!"

Pei Manning shook her head: "Thank you, don't help me yet, I can take a break by myself!"

She now doesn't know whether her elbow or leg is broken, so she dares not move rashly and can only try to move slowly.

The man couldn't help her anymore: "Comrade, how about I take you to the hospital? I think your hand looks badly injured."

Pei Manning took a long time to recover from the shock. She looked at her palm and saw blood all over the floor. Her skin was thin, and after being pierced by the head, she could almost see the pink and white flesh underneath. Her skin was torn and her flesh was torn.

"No, I can just go home and apply some medicine on myself."

"Your wound is so serious, you need to go to the hospital. Can you still stand up with your legs? Or I can help you?" The man looked very kind.

"Really, there's no need." Pei Manning tried it and found that her legs were still able to move, so they were probably not broken. She slowly stood up from the ground and said, "I can walk."

Li Jianrong looked at Pei Manning's bloody palm. Her originally flawless jade hand was somewhat shocking and his face looked a little unhappy. He asked someone to bump into Pei Manning intentionally, but he didn't ask anyone to bump her so hard!

They are really good at causing trouble but not at achieving anything!

"Don't worry about the medical expenses. I'll pay for it for you. Now go to the hospital to see your wounds." He blurted out.

Pei Manning paused, raised her head in surprise, and looked at the tall and thin man in a mountaineer suit. Medical expenses are not cheap nowadays, why is there someone so kind?

After taking a closer look, Pei Manning suddenly felt that this person looked familiar.

He has thick eyebrows, big eyes, high brow peaks, and a bit of fierce eyes, which makes him look like someone who is not easy to mess with. His facial features look like... who does he look like?