Chapter 65 Xiao Baoya is dreaming again
After the two men buried the tiger and returned, Nan Xuan filled two large bamboo tubes with spiritual spring water for Baoya and the others.
After everything was cleaned up, Jingzhen came out with Baoya, whose face was covered with flowers.
Yun Chenglu and Nan Xuan laughed for a while, asked Bao Ya to wash her face, and then Nan Xuan sent Jing Zhen to take the two of them back.
Finally, Yun Chenglu carried the bamboo tube, tiger bones and a big bag of snacks, Jingzhen held Baoya, and the lonely king followed them happily.
The crimson setting sun cast its afterglow, shrouding the small houses with green tiles and white walls in Feishui Village in a soft halo.
When he reached the foot of the mountain, Jingzhen stopped.
"Brother Jing, see you next time!" Baoya waved her little hand and said goodbye to Jingzhen.
Jing Zhen watched Yun Chenglu walking away holding Bao Ya's hand, and suddenly called out to her, "Wait!"
Baoya stopped and turned around: "What's the matter?"
Jingzhen trotted over, took out two emerald green bamboo whistles from his arms, and handed one to Baoya.
"Next time you want to come find me on the mountain, just play this. I'll do the same for you."
Baoya took the bamboo whistle and blew it to her lips. The sound was clear and distant.
"Okay," she nodded, "I'm leaving now!"
"Um."
Jingzhen responded and watched Baoya and Yun Chenglu's figures gradually go away and finally disappear into a small dot.
The lonely king beside him seemed dissatisfied, and kept rubbing his thigh with his mouth, making a low "wu" sound.
Jingzhen bent his fingers and tapped it on the head: "You can't do that. If I use you as a sound whistle, it will scare the villagers."
The lonely king glared at Jingzhen with his pair of green eyes, but there was nothing he could do, so he followed him back to Tiger Tooth Mountain.
When Baoya and Yun Chenglu returned home, smoke was rising from the kitchen and cooking had already begun.
Seeing that the two of them returned with bags full of things, Zhao Zhilan quickly let the two little kids into the house.
"You two, every time you go there you take something so old from the master. Isn't that good?"
Zhao Zhilan looked worried. Her family didn't have anything good to give as a gift. Apart from tofu, there was nothing else that was worth giving away. But tofu was not worth much.
Baoya smiled at Zhao Zhilan and said, "It's okay, grandma. My second brother and I will go again next time and bring some homemade tofu to Brother Nan and Brother Xiaojing. They love it!"
Zhao Zhilan touched her little head and said, "Okay, let me see what you brought back this time."
Yun Chenglu put down the two bamboo tubes and tiger bones he was holding and handed the bag of snacks to Zhao Zhilan.
"Grandma, the master gave us two buckets of spiritual spring water, saying that using the spiritual spring water will help the clams produce pearls faster."
"Oh, and these snacks, he also asked us to bring back for you to eat."
But Zhao Zhilan's eyes were fixed on the huge, fresh bone on the ground. The bone was bright red and tied with a straw rope. It was obviously fresh.
"What is this?" she asked.
Grandma's eyes were sharp as a sliver. Baoya sat on the edge of the kang, swinging her legs. "It's a tiger bone, Grandma! We got a tiger!"
"Shh!" Zhao Zhilan quickly raised her finger in a silent gesture. "It's almost impossible to find any living wild animals on Tiger Tooth Mountain these days. Please don't let anyone hear us."
Baoya nodded, not quite understanding what he meant.
Zhao Zhilan looked at the large, lonely bone on the ground and felt strange again: "Why is there only one bone?"
Baoya explained, "Because we buried it. It was willing to sacrifice its life for my mother's medical treatment. We would feel bad if we ate it again."
This explanation made Zhao Zhilan laugh and cry, but Baoya was right. The tiger used its own bones to save people, which was a good deed, so it was better to bury it.
She smiled and nodded: "Well, our Baoya did the right thing."
The three generations of grandparents and grandchildren chatted in the east room for a while, and then Zhao Zhilan went out to do something, leaving Baoya and the others to play by themselves.
Baoya, Yun Chenglu, Yunhua and Yunyue changed the water in the big river clams, fed the clams some soy milk, and put the basin where the clams were raised in the east wing where Baoya and the others lived.
At dinner time in the evening, the whole family sat around in the main room, drinking cornmeal porridge and eating cabbage and tofu pancakes, when they heard about the Chen family.
It is said that Chen Xiaojuan ran away again this morning and has not come back yet.
Chen Chengcai was supposed to go back to the private school today, but he didn't leave, as if he was competing with Chen Xiaojuan.
Baoya ate the porridge in her bowl, gulped it down, and looked up at Zhao Zhilan: "Grandma, is it because of us?"
Zhao Zhilan shook her head. "It's none of our business. They have bad intentions and always come to our house to cause trouble. Let them do whatever they want. We should just live our own lives peacefully."
Baoya looked at the kind eyes on her grandmother's face and nodded as if she understood.
But Zhao Zhilan knew that it was most likely that the two siblings of the Chen family were trying to trick each other. Chen Xiaojuan was hiding at home, and when she saw that the situation was not going well, she ran away early.
Chen Chengcai was badly cheated by her and was unwilling to leave like this. He was probably going to wait for Chen Xiaojuan to come back at home.
After running a long circle in the mountains with Yun Chenglu during the day, Baoya felt sleepy not long after dinner.
I washed my feet early and climbed onto the kang to sleep.
Maybe it was because she was tired from playing during the day, but she slept very soundly that night.
Then, Baoya started dreaming again.
She hadn't had a dream for a long time since the strange dream she had at Chen's house last time.
But this time, I didn’t dream of the big garden filled with fairy air, but a strange big thing.
This thing looks like a mouse, but has the head of a rabbit, the body of an elk, a big, fluffy tail, and long chestnut-brown fur.
Baoya stared at it curiously for a while, and then the strange thing made a sound like a wolf howling.
Baoya was startled and turned around and ran back.
But after she ran a few steps, she found that it was pitch black all around and she couldn't run out at all. Moreover, the strange thing didn't catch up with her, but was still squatting there, shaking its big tail.
Baoya was no longer so scared. She took a deep breath and walked back step by step.
He stared at the strange thing and asked, "What are you?"
The strange thing howled again and continued to wag its tail.
Baoya frowned, looked at its strange appearance, and began to recall the pictures in "Classic of Mountains and Seas".
After a moment, her big watery eyes suddenly lit up!
"Its appearance is like a rat, but with the head of a rabbit and the body of a deer. Its sound is like that of a deer dog. It flies with its tail, and is therefore called the ear rat."
"You're an ear mouse!" she exclaimed happily.
As soon as he finished speaking, the eared mouse howled again, then turned around on the spot, and his body suddenly emitted a dazzling golden light.
Baoya stared at it without blinking.
The golden light on the ear mouse dissipated, and it raised its paw, as if it wanted to give Baoya something.
Baoya hesitated for a moment and walked over with small steps.
The mouse then stretched out its claws and placed a small object in Baoya's palm.
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