Little Lingling looked at her grandmother's empty bowl of porridge, kicked her legs forward, slid down from the wooden stake, and picked up several pieces of porridge from her own bowl for her grandmother.
"Grandma, you can eat too. There's plenty in my bowl, enough. We'll have plenty of meat to eat in the future, so don't worry."
No one else thought much about it, but Zhao understood what Xiao Lingling said. She felt relieved but also distressed.
It is because of their incompetence that a child has to worry about food and drink.
But in front of so many people, she couldn't say much. She could only smile and praise Xiao Lingling a few words.
Water was available today, so after dinner, everyone burned some wood ash and washed the dishes several times. Although we usually do this to save water, we are not as thorough as this.
After cleaning the pot, they began to boil water and prepare to wash up one by one. In order to make it convenient for them to go back and forth, the two brothers Lin Feng specially set up a few more small fires and placed them in a circle around their camp and washing area.
The weather is still a bit cold now, so in order to prevent the children from catching a cold, boil water for them to wash first.
As the youngest child, Xiao Lingling was of course the first to go. Fang Cui went outside with a large wooden basin, a coarse cloth towel and an adult's cotton jacket.
Hot water and cold water are stored in two buckets respectively, and she just needs to mix them according to the water temperature.
Little Lingling is a koi fish and is very fond of water. She is always the most excited when someone tells her she wants to take a bath. She can't wait to let her mother strip her naked and sit in the basin with adjusted water temperature.
"Wow, so comfortable~~~"
Fang Cui knew that her daughter liked to take a bath, so she just smiled.
"Although it's comfortable, it's cold, so you can't take a long shower. Be good, come and wash your belly first. Then tilt your head and let your mother wash your hair."
Xiao Lingling is still very well-behaved. In fact, she doesn't have much hair on her head. Her hair grows very slowly and is thin and soft, just a thin layer. Once wet with water, a large area of scalp is exposed, making her look like a little bald head.
Fang Cui rubbed her hair gently several times. Because she had little hair, she only needed a little soap to wash it clean.
I didn't dare rub her body hard. Little Bell's skin was very tender and white. If I used a little force, it would turn red, which was heartbreaking to see. So I could only rinse it gently and rub it again with the palm of my hand.
"Hahaha, Mommy, it's so itchy, don't rub it, don't rub it~~"
As she spoke, Xiao Lingling's small body curled up into a ball like a twisted dough stick, and the splashing water soaked Fang Cui's clothes.
"How can you take a bath without rubbing? You have itchy spots all over your body, it's really annoying. Come on, bear with it for a while, mommy will be fine soon. Otherwise, if you wait any longer, the water will get cold and you will catch a cold!"
Xiao Lingling laughed so hard that tears came out. It wasn’t that she didn’t want to wash, it was just that it was really itchy. She didn’t know why she was like this, but she just couldn’t control it.
When she was exhausted after wringing her hair for a long time, she finally finished the bath.
Fang wiped her with a cloth, wrapped her in cotton clothes, and carried her into the tent.
This tent was made by Lin Yue and his two brothers. Actually, it can't be called a tent. It's just a shed made of wood. The outside is wrapped with oil paper, and then some hay is spread on the top. It's not warm, but it can barely keep out the wind.
There was a fire lit inside, and the floor of the innermost sleeping area was covered with hay, oil paper and bedding, which was quite soft.
After taking a bath, little Lingling was stuffed into the quilt and immediately came alive again. She chatted non-stop with her brothers until late at night when she slowly began to feel sleepy.
But she had just fallen asleep when a scream woke her up again. She thought to herself: It's so hard for children to have a good sleep.
Although she thought so, she still sat up from the quilt, which scared her elder and second brothers beside her.
Before anyone could say anything, several people from the Zhao family who were preparing to rest nearby rushed out.
The person who screamed was Li Yue. The children and parents-in-law had finished bathing, and it was her turn to take a shower. But when she came out of the shower, she saw some movement outside the woods out of the corner of her eye. She looked up and was almost scared to death.
"Boss! Boss! There's a beast! There's a beast!"
As she spoke, she rushed behind Lin Yue who was warming himself by the fire, and nervously pointed at the pairs of glowing eyes in the woods.
Lin Yue and Lin Feng stood up immediately. Fortunately, they always kept the long swords they had picked up at hand when they rested every night, and they came in handy at this time.
When Lin Changshu and Zhao came out and saw this, their hearts pounded and they were immediately worried. "Old woman, don't come out. You and the second son's wife go in and look after the children. Don't scare them. We're here outside!"
Zhao was a little hesitant, but she was worried that the children would be scared. "Okay, be careful. We have a fire here. Logically, they shouldn't dare to come over."
Lin Changshu was not so optimistic. Thinking of the corpses they had encountered before, his heart trembled. "Okay, I get it. Go in quickly!"
Zhao and Fang turned back to the tent and stopped several grandchildren who were eager to go out.
Xiao Lingling also looked a little nervous. Just as she was about to ask something, a wolf howl was heard and Zhao's hand holding her tightened.
Oh no! There are wolves.
She knew best what it meant to encounter a pack of wolves, and now she could only hope that the fires could successfully scare the wolves away.
Little Lingling's calm little hands calculated a few times, and she finally calmed down, knowing that she would be out of danger today. In fact, she wanted to go out and help, after all, she had her own identity, but she was afraid that her grandmother would not agree.
Forget it, let's see the situation first. If it's really dangerous, she still has to go out.
Lin Yue and his companions outside were actually very panicked, but they had to appear calm. Each of them held a torch in their hands and looked at the wolves around them vigilantly.
The wolf pack today was not small, and it was very likely that the corpses encountered before were their work, so everyone did not dare to be careless. They stood back to back in a circle, observing the movements of the wolf pack.
Perhaps it was really because of the fire, the wolves surrounded them but just looked at them vigilantly, with no intention of rushing up.
But they also understood that the wolves were waiting for the fires to go out, which was only a matter of time. After all, they had only done it for the convenience of taking a bath, and had not added much firewood, so there was not much left now.
At most, it would take another stick of incense for the fires to burn out.
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