Gui Feng looked at Chi Yuyao who looked silly and not very smart.

I was thinking in my heart: If I bring this little girl over there, will she be scared to the point of peeing her pants?

Chi Yuyao looked at the way Gui Feng looked at him and felt a little angry.

Like a puffed-up puffer fish, he sat on a stool and added firewood to the bottom of the pot.

Gui Feng found Chi Yuyao's expression somewhat amusing.

He got angry after just two sentences. What will happen next?

That would be heaven-shattering.

Since there were only two of them eating at home, Guifeng cooked two dishes.

Both dishes were meat dishes.

After dinner, Guifeng went to his tool shed to get an axe and a rope, ready to go up the mountain.

"Stay at home, I'm going up the mountain."

Chi Yuyao squinted her eyes and asked curiously, "Brother, what are you doing up the mountain?"

It seems that there is nothing missing at home.

And Goff said that we would set off for the border military camp in a few days.

What are you doing going up the mountain?

Gui Feng: "Go up the mountain and chop some firewood. After we leave, your brother will be alone at home. There won't be enough firewood to keep you cool in winter."

Chi Yuyao originally wanted to say that there was firewood at home, and the firewood room was almost full. When her brother passed the examination to become a judge, he would go to the capital to take part in the imperial examination.

If everything goes well next year, I will go directly to Beijing to take the exam at the end of the year.

What are you doing with all that firewood?

Maybe the two brothers have a good relationship.

Chi Yuyao patted her chest and assured, "Don't worry, brother, I won't run around. I'll just stay at home and practice calligraphy."

Guifeng: "Remember to take care of those bugs you raised."

Chi Yuyao: "Okay."

This sound is a bit forced.

A few days ago, her master told her that she could now try raising crickets.

Let him get familiar with this from an early age.

The next day, Guifeng carried her up the mountain to look for suitable insects to raise.

Found several spiders and scorpions.

Those spiders are colorful and look very poisonous.

Put it in a clay jar coated with a special potion and let her raise it.

Guifeng did not go into the mountain, but chopped some firewood outside the mountain.

After tying it up, I was ready to carry it down the mountain.

I saw a dead tree not far away.

I walked over and patted the dead wood. It was pretty solid, not the kind that was light and brittle.

He carried the tied firewood on his back, pulled the dead wood in one hand and carried the axe in the other hand as he went down the mountain.

On the way down the mountain, I met a few villagers who were also going up the mountain to chop firewood.

An old lady looked at Guifeng's strength, and then looked at her husband, who was panting heavily even though he was holding a bundle of firewood.

For the first time, I realized how huge the gap between people can be.

Look at that boy carrying such a big bundle of firewood, more than three times as much as his man, and he is holding such a big tree in his hands.

My face isn't red and my heart isn't beating fast.

"Why are you so bad?"

Hanzi "???" Wasn't he fine just now? Why are you suddenly angry now? I don't think I have done anything wrong recently.

When Guifeng came back, the sun was almost setting.

The sky was dotted with large patches of purple and orange sunset glow.

Looks gorgeous and beautiful.

Guifeng pushed open the door and came in.

The kitchen is candlelit.

He placed the dead wood in his hand in the yard.

The axe is stuck in the dead wood.

He took the firewood off his back and piled it on the ground.

He picked up the towel on the rope and patted the leaves and dust off his body: "What is Yaoyao doing in the kitchen?"

"I'm cooking. Brother, I've heated up the steamed buns and cut the peppers. I'll stir-fry the vegetables and then we can eat."

At the beginning, he would stop Chi Yuyao from cooking.

Chi Yuyao is so small and short.

You have to stand on a stool to cook.

What if you fall accidentally, or if you don’t stand steadily while cooking and fall directly into the pot?

But later on, seeing that Chi Yuyao could cook and the food tasted good and her movements were very skillful, I just let her do it.

At the same time, my disgust towards the Chi family deepened.

A five or six-year-old child like Chi Yuyao would at most add firewood to other families' homes.

Chi Yuyao not only knows how to light a fire, but she can also cook, wash dishes, and do many other things.

It can be seen that her life in the Chi family was not easy.

Guifeng fetched a basin of water and simply wiped his body.

I still have to chop wood in the evening, so I don't want to change my clothes yet.

After cleaning up, I went into the kitchen.

He picked up Chi Yuyao who was standing on the bench preparing to cook and put her on the ground: "I'll cook, you take the seasoned cucumber out, and we'll eat later."

Chi Yuyao obediently went to serve the dishes: "Okay, brother."

Guifeng picked up the bowl, stirred the chili and egg liquid in the bowl, tested it with the back of his hand, and saw that the oil temperature was about right.

Pour the chili egg in the bowl into the pot and start stir-frying.

"Yaoyao, go wash your hands and pick up some pickled garlic from the pickled garlic pot. Bring the things you need to take with you in the next two days, including the insects you raised."

Chi Yuyao obediently washed her hands, wiped the water off her hands, took the plate, squatted on the ground, opened the lid of the pot and picked up the pickled garlic.

"Brother, can you please take some pickled garlic with you when we leave?"

Guifeng: “Okay.”

Chi Yuyao: "Brother is so nice."

After dinner, Gui Feng didn't ask Chi Yuyao to wash the dishes. He washed them himself and let Chi Yuyao go to bed.

How can children grow if they don’t sleep well?

It would be bad if it grows into a dwarf.

Chi Yuyao wanted to refute that she was not short and fat, she was still young and could still grow taller.

But Guifeng didn't give her the chance at all. He carried her like a chick and put her in the room: "Go to sleep and shut your mouth."

Chi Yuyao: “…” Although I know you are very strong, could you please not carry me like a chicken every time? Can’t we just communicate properly when we have something to say?

After washing the dishes, Guifeng went shirtless to chop wood in the yard.

When exerting force, the blue veins on the arms bulge slightly.

Sweat slid down his cheeks, along his chest and into the clothes tied around his waist and abdomen.

The moonlight is very bright at night.

You can see it without lighting an oil lamp.

Chi Yuyao lay on the windowsill, looking at Guifeng who was chopping wood in the yard, her eyes slightly warm.

This brother-in-law is really thoughtful. My brother is so lucky.

If only she could grow up quickly so she could help Goff chop wood.

With his small body, he would probably fall to the ground from exhaustion before he could even swing the axe twice.

Guifeng took more than half an hour to chop all the firewood.

Arrange the chopped firewood and put it in the woodshed.

He glanced at the firewood in the woodshed and felt that he would need to chop more firewood in the next few days.

His young husband is delicate and frail, and it would be bad for him to be frozen in winter.

Tomorrow morning I will go to town and buy some rice and flour to keep at home.

When you get back from school, your husband will have something to cook.

Guifeng went to the bedroom to get some clothes and went to the small room to take a shower.

After taking a shower, wash the clothes you took off and hang them in the yard.

Go back to the room and count the silver.

He put the banknotes and silver he was going to take together.

He originally wanted to leave only one hundred taels of silver for Chi An.

But on second thought, I feel it is too little.

Another three hundred taels were added.

Every exam is very time-consuming, and it costs money to buy pens, ink, paper, inkstone, and clothes.

If I go to Beijing to take the exam, it will cost me a huge amount of money.

Prices in Beijing are high, so you have to pay more.