Chapter 188 Extra 2
Daily life of childhood sweethearts (2)
Now, Li Yue and Zhu Qingchen both fell ill.
The two children huddled in the quilt, pulling at the corners of the quilt, looking at the adults pitifully.
They didn't mean to be sick, sorry.
Li Yue's mother stood beside the bed, folded her hands, and looked at them helplessly.
"Li Yue, have I ever told you that you can't sleep with Chenchen recently?"
Li Yue said, "Yes, that's why I didn't sleep with Chenchen during the day yesterday, and I came to see him at night."
This is the limit of what Li Yue can endure!
He can't be separated from Zhu Qingqing for too long!
Li Yue's mother asked again: "Then how did you sneak in? Isn't your new room opposite? I sent so many people to guard you."
Li Yue replied: "The people guarding Chen Chen would change shifts at midnight, and I climbed in through the window while they were changing shifts."
I have had some special talents since I was a child.
Li Yue's mother took a deep breath, covered her forehead, and had a headache.
At this time, the doctor finished examining the two children and stood up: "Madam, it's nothing serious. Just keep warm and take some medicine for a few days and you'll be fine."
"Okay, thank you for your help." Li Yue's mother waved her hand and asked the doctor to go downstairs to boil the medicine. She stayed in the room and looked after the two children.
She sat down beside the bed, took off the handkerchief on Zhu Qingchen's forehead, replaced it with a new one, and tucked the quilt for Li Yue: "Are you happy now? You are sick together with Chenchen."
"It's OK." Li Yue said, "It would be even happier if I could play with Chenchen."
"Shut up, Chenchen can't play with you now. Do you think everyone is like you and still has the energy to play when they are sick?"
"That doesn't matter." Li Yue hugged Zhu Qingchen tightly, "As long as I can be with Zhu Qingqing, that's enough. I want to live and die with Zhu Qingqing!"
Zhu Qingchen was half asleep and wanted to correct him: "Li Yue, we are not living and dying together."
Li Yue hugged him tightly, not taking it to heart at all: "It's all the same."
Li Yue never knew how to use idioms since he was a child.
Li Yue's mother sighed helplessly, wondering who he took after to be so clingy.
Zhu Qingqing and Li Yue both fell ill, and their friends who played together would occasionally come to visit them.
But they couldn't go into the house, so they could only tiptoe and lie outside the window, put the snacks given to them on the windowsill, and talk through the window.
"Brother Yue, it was only Chenchen who was sick before, why are you sick now too?"
"Uh, this..."
Brother Yue is embarrassed to say it.
"I know. My mother said that it was because Brother Yue secretly ran into Chenchen's room and then fell ill. But Brother Yue's mother has already warned him that only a little fool would..."
Li Yue on the other side of the window said stubbornly: "This is called living and dying together! Zhu Qingqing and I will live and die together!"
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With the careful care of the adults, the two children gradually recovered.
It was still snowing outside when they fell ill.
By the time they were fully recovered and allowed to go out and play, the snow had all melted.
On this day, a group of children gathered under a tree, competing one by one to see who could climb the highest.
Li Yue rolled up his sleeves and climbed up: "Zhu Qingqing, please help me see where I climb to."
Zhu Qingchen, wearing a white rabbit hat and holding Li Yue's tiger-skin hat in his hand, stood under the tree, raised his head, and looked at him obediently.
As Li Yue climbed higher and higher, Zhu Qingchen couldn't help but hold his hat tightly, and his palms began to sweat.
Suddenly, there was a noise outside: "He's back! The boss is back from the fight!"
Zhu Qingchen subconsciously turned his head to look, and Li Yue who was hanging on the tree also turned his head.
The bandit who was delivering the message passed by them and saw a group of children craning their necks like a group of little white geese. He said again, "Why don't you go over and take a look? Your family members are back!"
The group of children seemed to come to their senses at that moment. They no longer wanted to see how high Li Yue could climb, and they ran down the mountain with their short legs.
"father!"
"elder brother!"
Zhu Qingchen was about to run, and after running two or three steps, he heard Li Yue's voice coming from the tree: "Zhu Qingqing, wait for me!"
Zhu Qingchen stopped and turned around.
Li Yue jumped down from the tree and took his hand.
The two of them ran down the mountain together.
As soon as a group of children ran to the gate of the bandit camp, they ran into a team returning from the battle.
The bandit group, which numbered several thousand people, now had decent armor and war horses, and stretched for a long distance along the mountain road.
Having just returned from a victorious battle, the group of people were beaming with joy and full of fighting spirit.
The one riding on horseback at the front of the team is, of course, the leader of the bandit camp.
The leader of the bandit camp was Li Yue's grandfather, a tall man with a dark face and a beard.
Following him was Li Yue's father.
Li Yue's father looked exactly like Li Yue's grandfather, with a dark face and a smaller beard.
Zhu Qingchen had always been afraid of them, thinking they would eat children, and was even worried that Li Yue would become like them when he grew up.
However, under the toy and snack offensive of Grandpa Li Yue and his father, Zhu Qingchen's fear of them only lasted for a short period of time during his childhood.
Behind them are Zhu Qingchen’s family.
His grandfather, father and mother all went out to fight together this time.
They are a branch of a noble family in the capital. Because they offended the emperor, the whole family was banished here.
Finally, after Grandpa Li Yue’s persistence, no, after his three visits to his thatched cottage, the family joined the bandit camp. He became the military advisor of the bandit camp and is now the second in command.
Zhu Qingchen's grandfather and father both looked like typical scholars, with thin build, sharp eyes, and goatees.
Zhu Qingchen's mother was also a lady from a civil servant family in the capital.
But now, they are all wearing armor, riding on horses, looking majestic.
There were several other leaders, all of them were dark-skinned and had beards.
Among them, the Zhu family members were so white and glowing that they looked like white flour buns.
At this time, Grandpa Li Yue saw a group of children.
He raised his hand and said, "Brother Yue, here! Here!"
Zhu Qingchen was almost knocked down by his voice, and Li Yue held him tightly.
"Li Yue, when your grandfather speaks, the whole mountain trembles."
"My grandfather said this is called heroism."
Grandpa Li Yue continued to exert his strength, his voice as loud as a bell: "Here they are! Hey, what are these two little fools whispering about? Come here quickly! Grandpa brought you some delicious food, and I have great news to tell you!"
Dizzy.
Zhu Qingchen's small body couldn't bear the loud noise.
Li Yue led him forward and called out "Grandpa", and Zhu Qingchen also followed suit and called out "Grandpa Li".
The tall man stretched out his hand, picked them up like chicks, and put them on the horse's back.
"Grandpa will take you to ride a big horse."
"Woo woo..." Zhu Qingchen kicked his short legs and looked at his grandfather for help.
Grandpa, help!
Grandpa Zhu held out his hand and said, "Master, please give the child to me. One horse is too crowded."
"Okay."
The next second, Grandpa Li handed Li Yue out without hesitation: "This is only for you."
Li Yue:?
"Grandpa! I'm Li Yue!"
Grandpa Li said, "I know, but I, Grandpa, prefer Chenchen."
Like Li Yue, everyone in the Li family likes the baby Chenchen.
Zhu Qingchen sat on the horse with tears in his eyes. As soon as Grandpa Li spoke, he felt as if the whole world was spinning and he was about to faint.
Grandpa Li took out a large plate of candy from the pocket of dry food he carried with him and handed it to him.
Zhu Qingchen's eyes lit up and he was no longer dizzy. He quietly reached out to touch the candy, then licked his fingers.
A little sweet.
So Zhu Qingchen moved forward again, ready to steal some.
Grandpa Li touched his little head and said, "This time we went to the grassland, they didn't have anything else, just beef, mutton, cow's milk and goat's milk, and this big box of milk candy, as big as a brick. Chenchen held it and ate it."
Zhu Qingchen held the candy in both hands and tried to take a bite.
Immediately afterwards, Grandpa Li took out a large piece of air-dried beef jerky and handed it to Li Yue.
"Brother Yue eats this, it is also a specialty of the grassland."
The two children were chewing on something, but they failed to chew it down and their baby teeth were almost falling out.
The group returned to the bandit camp and took a short rest.
The two families were talking in the main hall. Zhu Qingchen and Li Yue were sitting next to them, concentrating on eating and occasionally tasting what was in each other's hands.
Grandpa Li said, "We have defeated the prairie people this time. We will continue to move south and we won't have to worry about the prairie people cheating."
After briefly talking about the current situation, the two families who went out to fight asked about the situation of Zhu Qingchen and Li Yue.
Li Yue's mother finally found an opportunity to complain: "You don't know, taking care of two children is almost killing me!"
Zhu Qingchen and Li Yue put down the food in their hands and turned to look over here.
The adults are talking about them.
"The day you left, Chenchen couldn't bear to leave his mother and cried so hard that he was out of breath. I finally managed to coax him back to peace, but in the end -" Li Yue's mother clapped her hands, "Guess what happened?"
"After lunch, that bastard Li Yue took advantage of no one's attention and put their leftover lunch into his pocket, then sneaked out with me to look for you!"
"I led my men to search all three hills, fearing that they would be eaten by wolves."
"In the evening, the two came back in disgrace. I asked them if they knew they were wrong and whether they would dare to run around again. Do you know what they said?"
"They said that the dry food they prepared was not enough! They just came back to get some dry food! They have to set off again soon!"
Everyone burst into laughter.
Zhu Qingchen and Li Yue seemed to know that this was not a good thing. They shrank their necks and moved to the side silently.
Can't see them, can't see.
"That night, I stayed by their bed all night, fearing that they would run away again."
"The next day he felt better and stopped crying, so I asked Li Yue to take him out to play. But Li Yue, that brat, dragged a group of people to play some war game."
Grandpa Li nodded: "Yes, he is my grandson. He is extremely talented and will definitely be a god of war when he grows up."
"Dad, please shut up. What should we do first when we go to war? We need to prepare food and fodder first."
"So? They went to the kitchen to eat secretly?"
"That's not the case." Li Yue's mother paused, "He lay on the ground and took a big bite of the vegetables planted on the back hill. While Li Yue was eating, he encouraged Chenchen."
There was another round of laughter.
Li Yue's mother knew all about the bad behavior of the two children and looked like she could talk about it for three days and three nights.
Finally, she concluded: "Next time I will go to war too, I won't stay home!"
Grandpa Li said, "Don't be angry. I took a detour to Fengxiang City when I came back this time."
"What do you do there, old man?"
"I guess the two kids are almost six years old now. It's time for them to study and practice martial arts. I went to Fengxiang City to look for some teachers."
"You always want to send them to Fengxiang City to study?"
"How can that be possible?" Grandpa Li glared, "Of course we should tie the teacher up to the mountain... No, invite him to the mountain to teach. If that doesn't work, then we can just take down Fengxiang City."
Zhu Qingchen and Li Yue seemed to notice something and looked back.
It seems like something bad is about to happen.
Half a month later.
Zhu Qingchen and Li Yue were holding a fallen branch and playing a horse riding game with their friends.
Suddenly, a huge hand descended from the sky and grabbed them away. "The teacher has come up the mountain, you have to start studying!"
Zhu Qingchen and Li Yue kicked hard but were unable to break free and were dragged to the desk.
Entering the enlightenment stage.
In addition to the teachers that Grandpa Li captured and invited up from the mountain, when there was no fighting, Grandpa Zhu Qingchen and Grandpa Li Yue would also teach them.
Grandpa Zhu Qingchen taught me how to read and write, and Grandpa Li Yue taught me martial arts.
While Zhu Qingchen was studying seriously, Li Yue was dozing off beside him.
While Li Yue was doing horse stance, Zhu Qingchen was eating snacks beside him.
Grandpa Li Yue specially made two small wooden bows for them so that they could learn archery from a young age.
Zhu Qingchen would exercise occasionally, but his health was not good, so he had to rest after exercising for a while.
In front of the wooden target, Li Yue stood straight and pulled the wooden bow.
The arrow flew out with a "whoosh".
In the instant the arrow flies, time flies by.
Finally, the arrow hit the center of the tattered target.
With a "bang", the target was hit and flew away.
The thirteen-year-old Li Yue opened his eyes wide in disbelief, looked at his hands, and turned his head to look: "Zhu Qingqing, did you see it? I was born with supernatural powers..."
Zhu Qingchen, also thirteen years old, sat under the eaves, leaning against the pillar, pinching a large piece of snowflake crisp. He raised his head and opened his mouth: "Ah——"
Li Yue called out again: "Zhu Qingqing."
"What are you doing?" Zhu Qingqing had already stuffed a whole piece of snowflake crisps into her mouth, puffed up her cheeks, and chewed them. "It's delicious."
"Did you see I hit the target?"
“Yes.”
"Where did you see it? What did you see? You were clearly eating the whole time!"
"I saw you hit the target away." Zhu Qingchen pressed his lips with the fingers that had just pinched the snowflake crisps and repeated.
He is so perfunctory!
Li Yue took off his bow and arrow, threw it to Zhu Qingchen, and then sat down beside him.
Zhu Qingchen held the bow and arrow and continued eating.
Li Yue touched his arm, then opened his hands, which were a little dirty from having just touched the bow and arrow.
Zhu Qingchen understood and picked up a piece of snowflake crisp from the plate and stuffed it into his mouth.
Two people sat under the eaves.
Li Yue said, "Grandpa said that once I smash ten targets, I can go to the battlefield with him. This is the ninth one, and we only have one left." Zhu Qingchen turned to look at him and said, "I won't go. Fighting is too tiring."
Li Yue said: "Zhu Qingqing, you can be my military advisor. A military advisor will never get tired."
"No, the military advisor also wants to ride a horse. I don't want to ride a horse. I will wear out my legs if I ride a horse."
"I'll prepare a carriage for you, and you can go there in it."
"No, I feel dizzy riding in a carriage. I still want to stay in the village. The crops I organized to grow will be harvested soon. I won't go."
"I'll pull the cart for you myself and carry you on my back, okay?"
"What?"
Zhu Qingchen was shocked, and Li Yue looked a little embarrassed.
Well...he wants to stay with Zhu Qingqing.
Just at this moment, the peddler's voice was heard outside.
"Mr. Zhu, I brought the book you requested! And new writing brushes and ink!"
Zhu Qingchen immediately put Li Yue's words behind his mind and got up from the ground.
A few years ago, the bandits had captured Fengxiang City. They wanted to renovate the prefectural mansion in Fengxiang City and move down the mountain to live.
So they are still living in the bandit camp.
Living in the village is good in every way except that it is too far from the foot of the mountain. If Zhu Qingchen wants to buy something, he either goes with Li Yue or asks the peddler to bring it to him when he goes up the mountain.
A few days ago, Zhu Qingchen asked the peddler to bring him two new books to read, but he didn't expect him to come so early.
Zhu Qingchen rushed out following the voice: "I'm here!"
Li Yue stood up slowly, picked up the snacks he had not finished, put on his bow and arrow, and followed.
Thirteen-year-old Li Yue and Zhu Qingchen have grown a lot taller and already look like teenagers.
Zhu Qingchen was wearing a half-worn indigo dress and had his hair tied up high with a blue headband. The baby fat on his face was gradually fading, but his fair cheeks were still round and his eyes were also round.
Li Yue was taller than him, wearing a black suit with his sleeves rolled up, and followed behind.
As soon as the peddler arrived, everyone gathered around him to see his stuff.
Zhu Qingchen couldn't find a gap to get in, so he could only jump around outside: "I'm here, let me in!"
Li Yue stood behind him, supported his back, and with a gentle push, he pushed him into the crowd.
Zhu Qingchen came to the peddler as he wished. When the peddler saw it was him, he hurriedly handed him the book he wanted: "Mr. Zhu, here. There are also some new pens and inks. Would you like to take a look?" "Yes, yes, yes." After Zhu Qingchen read the two books, he carefully put them into his arms and took the ink sticks handed over by the peddler.
The ink stick is exquisite, with strange rocks and plum blossoms carved on it, and it has been overlaid with golden pigment, making it sparkle in the sun.
Zhu Qingchen fell in love with it at first sight and touched his sleeve: "How much?"
"Two books for this amount." The peddler held up five fingers, "plus this piece of ink, for this amount."
Five became ten.
Zhu Qingchen took out his purse from his sleeve, poured the copper coins into his palm and counted them.
It doesn’t seem to be enough.
Zhu Qingchen turned around, stood on tiptoe, and looked at Li Yue eagerly: "Li Yue, lend me some money. I will go to the mountainous area at the beginning of the month to write letters for others to make money."
Li Yue folded his hands, stood at the edge of the crowd, and nodded: "You can take it yourself. Isn't all my money with you?"
Zhu Qingchen smiled and took out another purse from his arms.
There was a lot of money in the purse. Although Li Yue could not go to the battlefield to fight, he often went hunting in the mountains and asked the peddler to take the prey outside to sell.
He has his own little treasury.
But he doesn't manage the money, the small treasury is managed by Zhu Qingchen.
In fact, if Zhu Qingchen used a little secretly, he wouldn't find out.
But this is not good.
Soon, everyone returned with their goods fully loaded, and the peddler looked as if he had been robbed.
Of course, this is a den of bandits, and the earliest activities they engaged in were robbery and looting.
Zhu Qingchen also came up to Li Yue with an armful of things and said, "I bought them. It cost you two hundred coins."
Li Yue nodded, and Zhu Qingchen asked again: "Aren't you leaving? Do you want to buy something too?"
"I ordered a few books." Li Yue looked at the peddler.
The peddler then remembered and opened the bottom compartment of his shoulder pole, took out two books wrapped in oil paper, and handed them to him: "Thank you for your patronage, Mr. Li."
Zhu Qingchen frowned: "You love reading? You love reading!"
He was extremely surprised and was about to shout: "Grandpa! Li Yue loves reading! Grandpa..."
Li Yue held the book in one hand and put his arm around his shoulders with the other, pressing him into his arms: "Zhu Qingqing, stop shouting."
Zhu Qingchen was puzzled: "This is a good thing, why can't I tell Grandpa?"
Li Yue peeled off a corner of the oil paper and showed the title of the book to Zhu Qingchen:
The Knight's Journey
"Legend of Jianghu Heroes"
"……"I see.
Zhu Qingchen raised his head, blinked his eyes, and looked at Li Yue seriously: "Is this the kind of book you read?"
"Zhu Qingqing, these books are really good." Li Yue said, "I'll lend you one. I promise you'll like it, too. Don't tell Grandpa."
"Hmm..." Zhu Qingchen shook his head, "I don't like reading. These are not serious books..."
At night, the candlelight flickers.
Zhu Qingchen and Li Yue finished their dinner early, washed up, and each of them curled up in bed with a chivalrous storybook, reading with great interest.
Seeing the emotional state of the knight who was seriously injured, Zhu Qingchen even sniffed and wiped his eyes with his sleeve.
Suddenly, the candle flame flickered.
Zhu Qingchen woke up from the storybook, looked back with red eyes.
Li Yue also took a look and supported the small table in front of the couch where the candles were placed: "This table is a little shaky after being used for a long time. Find something to cushion it."
"Oh." Zhu Qingchen put down the storybook and casually took out two serious books he had just bought in the afternoon and handed them to him, "Here you go."
Li Yue:?
“Isn’t this bad?”
"It's okay, hurry up."
"Okay." Li Yue used serious books to pad the table, and the two continued to read informal books.
Not long after, Li Yue's mother's voice was heard from outside again.
"Li Yue, Chenchen, would you two like some snacks? Why did you retreat to your room so early today? Chenchen, are you sick?"
The two were startled and quickly stuffed the books into the quilt.
Zhu Qingchen cleared his throat and responded, "Aunt, I'm teaching Li Yue, so we won't have snacks."
"Thank you for your hard work. I've put the snacks in the kitchen, just go get them if you want."
"good."
After a while, the figure in front of the door disappeared. The two men breathed a sigh of relief and took out the script again.
The two people watched with fascination.
Zhu Qingchen read quickly and finished one book very quickly. He gave it back to Li Yue and said, "Give me another one."
"Yeah." Li Yue touched the small table, picked up a book at random, and threw it to him without even looking at it.
Zhu Qingchen took the script and opened it.
But……
The content of this book seems to be somewhat different from the previous ones.
Li Yue said: "I told you that you like to read it, but you said it's not a serious book. It's obviously a serious book."
Zhu Qingchen didn't speak for a long time. Li Yue felt it was a little strange. He turned his head and saw that Zhu Qingchen's cheeks and nose were red.
Li Yue frowned and moved forward: "What's wrong? Zhu Qingqing, are you crying again?"
The next second, Li Yue was also stunned.
[It was late at night and the dew was heavy. The young master took off his shoes and socks, walked barefoot on the corridor, tiptoeing to meet his lover...]
Li Yue flipped the cover again.
Wow, "The Story of the Pretty Enemy's Affair in Academy"?
Zhu Qingchen looked up at him and said, "Li Yue, is this what you like to watch the most?"
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