Chapter 5: An Unexpected Surprise Liu Binghai looked up at the dark entrance of the cave...
Liu Binghai looked up at the dark cave entrance.
It was already dark outside. In this impoverished village of the olden days, with neither streetlights nor flashlights, the sky was bleak and terrifying once it got dark. But under the crescent moon high in the sky, the head loomed in the cave entrance, swaying back and forth, and the outline of a face gradually took shape.
Is a man.
Liu Binghai took a closer look and could only roughly determine the gender, but he had no idea of the appearance or age.
Before she could speak, the man took the initiative to speak.
"Who is it?"
The voice is quite clean, and sounds like that of a young person.
Liu Binghai said: "I am Zhang Qin."
After saying this, the head at the entrance of the cave paused and remained silent for a long time.
Liu Binghai guessed that as soon as she heard that she was Zhang Qin, she wanted to leave immediately.
But the man just paused, as if he was having a difficult psychological struggle, and then asked again: "Why are you underground?"
It takes a lot of courage to care about an owl.
Liu Binghai said, "I don't know who dug the pit, but I fell into it."
Then I subconsciously thought, you dare to dig a hole for me, when I get out...
I stopped halfway through the thought, as the system's cunning words about "negative emotions increase discouragement value" echoed in my ears again.
Liu Binghai looked at the head above and asked, "Who are you?"
The man did not answer, but looked at the depth of the pit and turned away.
Before leaving, he said, "Wait a minute, I'll find a rope to pull you up."
"Hey, hey, hey!" Liu Binghai shouted.
I didn’t say I was going up… she thought silently.
It’s not that she has to sleep here for three days, but she has never seen this person before.
Although the light was frighteningly dark, she was still certain that the original owner had never seen this person before.
Because she had no memory of what happened afterwards, she didn't know whether this man was good or bad, whether accepting his help was right or wrong, or whether it was a blessing or a curse.
She has already been deducted one point, and if she is deducted two more points, she will have to go back home.
She was a little hesitant and analyzed it with a cold face, but she couldn't figure it out.
The man came back, holding a long hemp rope in his right hand and a torch in his left.
With the help of the torch light, Liu Binghai could see clearly that this was a young man in his twenties with a neat bowl-cut haircut.
The hairstyle is very cute, but the face is very mature and inconsistent with it.
"Next!" He threw the hemp rope down.
Liu Binghai hesitated and swayed, not knowing whether he should take it or not.
The man said, "Come on! I'll pull you up!"
What is this silly woman doing in a daze?
Zhang Mu also looked at his sister, as if he wanted to ask, "Aren't we going up?"
He kept his lips half open and half closed for a long time, but in the end he didn't ask the question.
Liu Binghai looked at the man carefully again, wondering how the original owner did it in the original plot...
I don’t know if the original owner has seen this bowl-cut hairstyle in the original plot.
He doesn't look like a bad guy. Although he has a silly bowl cut, he has a decent face. But...
Well, many criminals still have decent faces, for example...
The original owner’s father.
He was a man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and he looked upright, but he still went astray.
Liu Binghai was still hesitating, and the man was getting a little impatient. "I say, are you going to come up or not? Why does the smell underground smell so good?"
At this time, Zhang Mu also pulled her with his little hand.
Liu Binghai gritted his teeth and thought to himself, the original owner was such a heartless person. Since he was so heartless, he would be heartless whether he went up or not. Sometimes, for a poor person, there is no correct answer in life, and any choice he makes is wrong.
So she made up her mind, picked up the rope and stuffed it into Zhang Mu's hand, "Xiao Mu, you go first, I'll support you from below."
Zhang Mu went up first, followed by the drifting ice sea.
Seeing that she was almost at the cave entrance, her right foot slipped and she almost fell in again. Fortunately, she reacted quickly and grabbed the arm of the guy with the pot-cover head and pushed hard, and he flew out.
He used too much force and it flew directly onto the pot-covered man.
Two people stacking up.
After all, the guy with the pot cut was a country boy. When he smelled the scent on Liu Binghai, he frowned and his heart beat a little wildly.
Liu Binghai climbed up from him, dusted off the dirt, and looked at the sky around him.
The guy with the jar cut thought she would say sorry.
But she said, "It smells really good."
......
It smells so good. It smells so good.
After getting rid of the smell of horse shit, she felt that the air up there was indeed much better.
The man pulled up two people in a row, which was a bit difficult. He sat cross-legged on the ground and looked at the brother and sister for a long time.
He panted and said, "My name is Liu Hai, from the neighboring Xiaotao Village."
He came here to visit relatives, but unexpectedly he picked up two babies from a pit in the middle of the night.
Liu Binghai smiled faintly.
Haha, no wonder he has such bangs, it turns out his name suits him.
"Hello, I'm Zhang Qin. I live nearby. Thank you for today. I'll come visit you someday to express my gratitude when I have the chance."
Liu Binghai spoke politely.
Liu Hai looked at her carefully.
He had heard of her, but had never seen her. A few days ago, he heard that she attempted suicide at home because of a turtle, and this matter had even spread to their Xiaotao Village.
I didn't expect to meet him here by chance today. He doesn't seem as bitter and vengeful as the legend says. He seems quite normal.
Liu Hai: "No need, it's just a small matter, there's nothing to thank me for."
Liu Binghai smiled. Although he didn't know whether it was right or wrong to get to know him, he still had to show proper courtesy since he was rescued by someone. After all, the cunning system's big eyes were watching him hungrily from above.
So he said, "I'm sorry for the trouble you've made. Your clothes are dirty. Why don't you come to my house and have some water before you leave?"
Liu Hai brushed off the dirt on his body. As a grown man, a little dirt was nothing. However, he was really thirsty, so he did not refuse.
"good."
The three of them returned to Zhang Qin's house together.
It was late at night. Grandma Zhang would have gone to bed by now, but she was sitting in the room with an oil lamp lit, not even lying down.
Seeing Zhang Qin and Zhang Mu coming back, the old lady rushed over and shouted at the top of her voice, "You're back so late, where have you been going crazy again?"
He still had the same stern tone as before, not much kinder than before.
The old lady was also very angry. After what Zhang Qin did today, she still felt a little touched by the child. In the evening, she specially left half a steamed bun for each of them and forced it out of her son's mouth.
They can't even think about such a good thing on normal days!
She was so good that she didn't come back until midnight after going out. The steamed buns were already hard! Reheating the steamed buns wasted not only firewood but also water. What a waste of money.
Besides, what kind of girl would go out in the middle of the night? If others knew about it, they would definitely say that she didn’t know how to raise a child, and would speak ill of her. How would she get married in the future?
We finally got her engaged to the Mo family, and we were already worried every day that they would break off the engagement, and yet this girl is still so unimproving.
What if the engagement is broken off and she can’t get married in the future, won’t she have to rely on her for the rest of her life?
Her parents didn't care about her in the first place, and she's already this old, how long can she keep eating? She really has no idea!
Thinking of this, the soft feeling that the old lady had previously felt was instantly thrown out of her mind, and she was left with a belly full of anger.
Looking at Zhang Qin and Zhang Mu covered in mud, they were even more devastated.
"Oh my god, where have you two been? What kind of trouble have you gotten into? Give me some more!"
This girl must have gotten into a fight with someone again because of someone else's bad words!
"I've already told you, don't pay attention to what others say! What's the point of paying attention? You keep arguing with each other all day long. If your clothes are torn, why don't you sew them? It won't waste needles, thread, or cloth!"
The old lady felt sorry for these rare items in her home.
Liu Binghai was troubled by her voice. Although the old lady was old, she had a strong voice.
The guy with the pot cut was somewhat impressed by the old lady's ability to teach people. No wonder everyone said that the granddaughter of the Zhang family had a bad temper. If he were in his place, he wouldn't have a good temper either.
Looking at Liu Binghai who was listening to the scolding in silence, he suddenly felt a little angry.
Is this woman mute? She doesn’t even know how to talk back?
"The two of them fell into a pit." Liu Hai continued.
The old lady then realized that there was someone standing next to her and asked unhappily, "Who are you?"
"I'm Liu Hai from Xiaotao Village."
When grandma heard the name, her mouth opened wide. "Oh, is that Liu Hai, the one who is very capable and can grow so many rare things in his own fields?"
Liu Hai thought the old lady's way of speaking was quite interesting, sometimes gloomy and sometimes sunny, just like a Transformer.
"Grandma, it's not as exaggerated as you say."
The old lady had a very good impression of Liu Hai.
I heard a few days ago that a man named Liu Hai came to Xiaotao Village. No one knew where he came from or where he was going. In short, he was a magical creature who could grow many rare things in the fields that no one else had ever seen.
The tomatoes that other people eat are as big as rocks, but the tomatoes he grows are as small as a thumb and have an amazing fragrance."
Why are you here with your granddaughter today?
"What are you doing..." the old lady was a little confused.
Liu Hai said, "Somehow, the two of them fell into a pit underground, and I just happened to meet them halfway."
The old lady looked at Zhang Qin, who was covered in mud, and finally understood what was going on.
It turned out that he had met with disaster. It must have been done by some heartless person in the village.
She felt that she was a little too impatient just now, but she was used to scolding, and Zhang Qin was used to hearing it, so she didn't feel guilty about it.
So he said to Zhang Qin, "I know you haven't been feeling well these past few days, so I specially saved some steamed buns for you and your sister today. Look, they're cold now."
After saying that, he picked up the steamed bun on the table, which was as hard as a brick.
Zhang Qin went over to take a look at the steamed bun. It was indeed hard, and she suddenly felt a little pain in her flesh. After all, it was not easy to have a steamed bun in such a poor place at that time.
Her stomach was growling with hunger, and when she saw the steamed bun, her flesh ached even more than the old lady's, and she couldn't help but say, "It's all hard..."
The old lady said: "Yes, it's all hard!"
What a pity... Liu Binghai touched the big hard steamed bun and suddenly felt so distressed that he wanted to cry.
Why would I fall into the mud pit? Otherwise I could have a bite of fresh and hot steamed bun.
The original owner hadn't eaten anything proper for several days, and now she felt her stomach was empty and she was starving.
So I felt a sharp pain in my flesh, pinching the steamed bun with a distressed look on my face and muttering to myself, "I'm sorry..."
My eyes are red.
This sorry was a true expression of her feelings. She was really heartbroken. She could find another handsome man, but she could not live without food.
Liu Binghai's two thin eyebrows were slightly wrinkled, and she held up a steamed bun as if to apologize. Anyone who saw her would feel that she looked pitiful.
Seeing her sincere repentance, the old lady lost her temper immediately. She took the steamed bun that was held in the air and said, "Come on, don't apologize. It's just a steamed bun... Well, are you okay? Where did you fall?"
Liu Binghai then remembered her swollen tailbone, which was probably already blue, but this little pain was nothing to her.
"I'm fine, grandma. I'm sorry for keeping you waiting for so long today."
This statement is both sincere and deliberate.
It is true that I feel sorry for the steamed bun, but this old lady who is following the donkey's lead still has to follow its lead.
Then her eyes turned red again, and she said to the old lady like a pitiful little girl, "It's all because of us two careless people that we got into trouble again. I don't know who dug a big hole on the road we have to take to go home, and filled it with shit."
The old lady glared, "Still stuffed with shit?"
Liu Binghai nodded, narrowed his eyes, and said in a more serious tone: "Now the clothes are dirty and smelly, and I have to waste the water at home to wash them. I'm sorry, grandma..."
This village is so poor that even the water in the well is scarce, and all the water we use for drinking and daily use is in short supply.
She saw the old lady's face turn from pain to anger, and finally she slammed the steamed bun onto the plate and said, "Hmph, you dare to bully my wife Zhang's child? That won't do. Whoever did this, I'll take your clothes to his house to wash! Even if it's useless, I'll waste his water!"
Liu Binghai knew that the old lady cared more about the water in her home.
Now that the old lady has come forward, she doesn’t have to find the real murderer or take revenge on her own.
Sleeping in a big pit without worries can save you from suffering.
Not bad, not bad...
If she can just hold on for another three days she will be able to...haha.
The thought of this made her mood brighten up a bit, but she still suppressed her joy and said lightly: "Grandma, is there any water at home? Pour some water for Liu Hai to drink."
The old lady was lost in thought, and before she could say anything, she saw Liu Hai immediately wave his hand and said, "No, I'll drink it when I get home."
He also realized the situation. The family was really poor and even lacked water. How could he stay at someone else's house to drink water?
That would be so unsympathetic.
Liu Binghai was very persistent. He turned around and poured a small cup of water from the kettle and handed it to Liu Hai. "How can that be? Even if our family is poor, we can still afford this. You saved Xiaomu and me, so how can I let you go back thirsty? It's not too much, but it's enough. Drink it."
Liu Hai looked closely at the little face in front of him.
Rumor has it that the Zhang family in Tianmu Village has a girl who is an unwanted poor child. Her life is miserable and her temperament is miserable too. She always has a bitter face when she meets anyone.
He put the cup to his mouth and looked at the icy sea again.
He was indeed thirsty, and he drank the cup clean as soon as it was handed to him.
After drinking, he returned the cup to Liu Binghai: "Thank you."
Liu Binghai smiled again, "I should be the one thanking you."
After he finished speaking, he paused, looked at the sky, then looked at the old lady and said, "Grandma, it's already midnight and the road is difficult to walk at night. How about letting him stay overnight and go back early tomorrow morning?"
She knew there was a small warehouse in the corner of the yard.
The old lady said in embarrassment, "But we don't have any spare rooms at home, and we can't let them sleep in that small storeroom."
There are only two rooms in the Zhang family yard. Usually, the old lady's youngest son lives in one room, and Zhang Qin, Zhang Mu and the old lady live in another room.
Originally, Zhang Qin meant that her younger brother should live with his uncle since he was older, but the old lady refused to agree, saying that the house was for her son to get married and no one else could live there. Otherwise, without even a separate room, who would be willing to marry into the family?
So I just pulled a curtain in the middle of the big house to create a small space for my younger brother.
Liu Binghai thought about it for a moment and said with a smile, "That's not possible. How about this? You stay in the small partition where Xiaomu usually lives. Xiaomu and Liu Hai will squeeze into the big bed. I'll go to the warehouse."
"What?" Zhang Mu screamed. The warehouse was in a terrible state, with leaks on all sides. There was a chicken inside, which was kept to lay eggs for Xiaobo to nourish his body.
Liu Binghai touched his brother's head and said, "Stop yelling. Let's just leave it at that. Grandma, you can make the beds for Xiaomu and Liu Hai."
After saying this, Liu Binghai went to pick up his quilt and went to the warehouse.
It wasn't that she was acting "sensible" in front of the old lady against her will. Liu Hai had saved her, and she still knew the basics of how to behave. She was sincere in letting him stay overnight.
However, she also has a selfish motive.
I really can't sleep with an old lady I just met for a day...
In her own world, she had never slept with anyone else. She felt really uncomfortable when an old lady suddenly appeared and several people had to squeeze into one room.
I would rather live in a warehouse, at least it’s quiet, it’s better than being uncomfortable.
So, she went out with the quilt in her arms, almost in great joy.
Before the old lady could say anything, she saw her granddaughter walking away alone with the quilt in her arms.
Looking at the child's back as he left alone, her anger had long since disappeared, and she also forgot about the hardened steamed bun. She couldn't help but sigh.
For a moment, a mixed feeling surged in my heart, which was hard to explain, and I always felt a little uncomfortable.
This kid is also pitiful, alas...
Sighing, she said to Liu Hai, "Then I'll have to ask you to squeeze in with Xiao Mu."
Liu Binghai came out of the warehouse and breathed a sigh of relief.
Finally solved the problem of "independent housing"...
But she didn't know that there was a chicken living in the warehouse.
When she opened the warehouse door, she saw a huge cockscomb and was instantly startled.
This is a chicken that stays up late. It doesn't sleep in the middle of the night. It is looking at itself with a majestic comb on its head.
Damn... "Who are you?" Liu Binghai said.
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