Chapter 123 She blushed
There were not only big stones in this two-acre land, but also countless small stones that were about the size of fingers. The larger stones were picked up by hand, and these small stones were sifted by Lin Qi using a sieve made of vines. She sifted these stones at nine o'clock in the evening when there was no one around.
When the children came the next day, they found that the pebbles in the field had disappeared, and the winding path from Lin Qi's house to the village road had become a gravel road about two meters wide. The stones were tightly pressed, as if they had been beaten hard, and were surprisingly smooth.
"Lin Qi, didn't you get enough rest last night?" Luo Wei regretted that he went home too early and didn't stay to help Lin Qi.
"I took a break. I went to bed at 11 o'clock." Lin Qi replied. Seeing Luo Wei looking at the gravel road, she explained, "It took only one hour to pave this road."
To be exact, it took an hour to screen the gravel and pave the road.
"An hour? Then I'll stay with you tonight." Lowe said.
Lin Qi did not comment.
However, before it got dark this afternoon, the stones on the ground were cleared away, and Lowe had no chance to stay.
"I'm going to the mountains to hunt tonight. Come over tomorrow morning and I'll share the prey with you." Lin Qi said. These children helped her move stones for two days, and she planned to give them the prey as a reward.
When the children heard that there was prey, they jumped up with joy.
"Lin Qi, do your best tonight!"
"Lin Qi, are you going to hunt wolves or wild boars?"
"Lin Qi, there are no wolves or wild boars, but mice are fine."
“........”
Lin Qi said she would go in the evening, but she actually set out the next day and caught fifty rabbits in the mountains. When she returned home, Xu Hexiao had just cooked breakfast.
Seeing her carrying four large cages, he raised an eyebrow, "Are the rabbits alive?"
Lin Qi frowned slightly, "There are a few small children, and I'm afraid the bloody rabbit will scare them."
Xu Hexiao nodded. "Let's have breakfast first. We will tie the rabbit tightly with straw ropes later. When the children come, we will give the rabbit to them."
The children came much earlier than Lin Qi expected. She hadn't had a good breakfast yet, and these children were already calling for help outside the yard.
Xu Hexiao stood up and said, "Take your time to eat. I'll go and invite the children in."
Lin Qi looked at his back, took a sip of hot soy milk, and squinted her eyes comfortably.
At the gate, seeing that it was Xu Hexiao who opened the door, Luo Wei looked at him with scrutiny, "Why are you at Lin Qi's house?"
Xu Hexiao glanced at Luo Wei calmly and ignored his question. Instead, he said to them, "Come in. Line up and each person can get a rabbit."
"rabbit--"
The children cheered, with only the rabbit in their eyes and hearts, and instantly forgot why Xu Hexiao appeared here.
The cages of rabbits were placed in the yard, and the children saw them not long after they came in. More than 40 children immediately surrounded the cages, chattering with their little mouths, and all kinds of surprised sounds filled the whole house, making it seem lively and joyful.
Lin Qi put down her bowl and chopsticks, went to the warehouse and took out a cloth bag of dried fruits and persimmon cakes.
"Have you had breakfast?" Lin Qi asked.
As soon as they heard her voice, the children immediately shut their mouths and shook their heads.
"You haven't eaten yet~" Lin Qi said regretfully in a long voice, "I didn't prepare breakfast for you. But there are dried fruits and persimmon cakes. If you want to eat, go wash your hands first."
"Yes, yes, yes!" Lowe shouted.
A group of children lined up to wash their hands and then lined up to receive dried fruits and persimmon cakes.
There were not many children, so Lin Qi was very generous in distributing the food, giving each child two large handfuls, stuffing all the children's pockets full. If their pockets were full, they would use their clothes pockets to carry the food.
Lin Qi was distributing dried fruits to the children, while Xu Hexiao was tying up a rabbit with straw ropes. He tied up all four legs of the rabbit so that even if the children accidentally dropped the rabbit, it would not be able to escape.
More than forty children returned from Lin Qi's house early in the morning with dried fruits and rabbits.
The newly opened two acres of land were also surrounded by stones, and a two or three meter high wall blocked the view from outside.
Lin Qi sowed soybeans on the field that day. She operated the whole process with her supernatural powers, and Xu Hexiao had no chance to help.
After spreading the soybeans on the ground, Lin Qi and Xu Hexiao carried the peanuts to the oil press. They wanted to fry the oil first, as the brigade had not yet started distributing food.
These peanuts were grown by Lin Qi in the yard. Apart from those left for the team, Lin Qi still had twenty-one bags left. She planned to use all of them to extract oil.
Having fried oil once last year, Lin Qi and Xu Hexiao were very skilled and adept at it this time.
When a strong aroma wafted from the oil room, the members of the Anliang Brigade couldn't help but take a deep breath.
"Do you think Lin Qi will give us peanut cakes again this year?"
Peanut residue cake refers to the residue left after the fat is pressed out of the fried and steamed peanut cake.
There is a small amount of fat in the peanut residue cake, which is very fragrant. It can be eaten by people or fed to livestock. In Anliang Brigade, peanut residue cake is a favorite snack for children. It is fragrant and crispy, and is especially delicious when hot. Thoughtful mothers will add some flour to the peanut residue to make peanut residue biscuits. Peanut residue biscuits are not much different from the biscuits sold in the supply and marketing cooperative.
At first, there were only Lin Qi and Xu Hexiao pressing the oil, but soon, more and more people came to help. Lin Qi said no, but these people were too enthusiastic and could not be driven away.
"No reward." Lin Qi said lightly.
"No need to pay for lending a hand," Jian Yitong said.
"I just want to get closer and smell the oil. It smells so good." Mo Mingyang swallowed his saliva.
"Is it okay for me to sneak some peanut cakes?" Zhao Yi asked shamelessly.
"Lin Qi didn't say anything, so she must have agreed. Eat it." Luo Cheng said as he stuffed a handful of food into his mouth first, chewing it with a crunching sound.
Lin Qi: “….”
In the end, Lin Qi didn't pay much, she just distributed all the peanut cakes.
On the night after she returned from pressing oil, Lin Qi's menstrual period came. She was 18 years old, but her menstrual period came late.
Although she has already reached level five in supernatural powers, she never thought that one day she would roll around in bed due to menstrual pain.
Her physical fitness is obviously far superior to that of ordinary people, so why does she still feel pain when her period comes?
Lin Qi couldn't figure it out. She gritted her teeth and endured it for most of the night, and fell asleep only when it was dawn.
The next morning, Xu Hexiao practiced boxing and boiled some hot water, but there was still no movement in Lin Qi's room.
"What's going on?" If Xu Hexiao hadn't heard breathing sounds in the room, he would have thought that Lin Qi was not at home.
Xu Hexiao did not hesitate, he pushed open the door and walked towards the bed. Even when he reached the bed, Lin Qi still did not wake up.
Sleeping so deeply?
Xu Hexiao frowned, and the next second, he smelled a faint smell of blood and saw a pair of bloodstained pants on a chair nearby.
Xu Hexiao grew up with his grandfather, without any women around him. But he read a lot of books in the past two years, and read a variety of books, including ancient books and relatively new books in recent decades, so he was not completely ignorant of girls' menstrual periods.
He recalled the three years he had spent with Lin Qi, especially the past two years. He prepared and washed all her clothes, and he seemed to have never noticed her menstrual period.
So it's the first time?
Xu Hexiao knew that it was abnormal for a girl to have her first menstrual period at the age of 18, so he could only wait for Lin Qi to wake up and then ask about her situation.
Xu Hexiao waited until noon.
"You look very pale." Xu Hexiao said worriedly.
Lin Qi huddled in the quilt, motionless, "It feels so bad~"
Xu Hexiao's expression changed, "Where do you feel uncomfortable?"
"I feel uncomfortable all over." Lin Qi just stood up and suddenly felt a spring surging from her body. She froze.
"What happened?" Xu Hexiao's heart was in his throat. He stared at Lin Qi nervously and held his breath.
"My pants are dirty again." Lin Qi said, blushing, "Maybe the quilt is dirty too."
Xu Hexiao heaved a sigh of relief when he heard that. "It's okay. I'll wash it in a while. I'll bring you a basin of hot water."
Xu Hexiao not only brought hot water, but also put a towel in the hot water. He also brought Lin Qi's clothes and pants.
"I'll go get my blanket. You change into clean clothes first."
Xu Hexiao closed the door, and the footsteps became farther and farther away, but the heat on Lin Qi's face did not subside at all.
Lin Qi had just changed her clothes when Xu Hexiao came back with a quilt. He brought back not only a cover but also a mattress pad.
Seeing Lin Qi's red ears, he curled his lips and said, "The food is warm in the steamer, go eat first. I'll clean up the room."
Lin Qi walked out of the room with her limbs stiff. When she thought of Xu Hexiao having to face the blood-stained bed, she wished she could find a hole in the ground to crawl into.
However, what she didn't know was that Xu Hexiao felt nothing but heartache when he looked at the bloodstains on the bed.
"It seems I have to find a way to replenish her blood." Xu Hexiao murmured.
When Lin Qi had eaten her fill, the bed had been replaced with a new quilt and mattress pad, and Lin Qi's dirty pants had been taken away. Xu Hexiao let Lin Qi lie on the bed and brought her a brazier.
"The weather is not that cold yet. Having a brazier will make you sweat." Lin Qi said.
"Aren't you cold?" Xu Hexiao asked. Fearing that she didn't understand the menstrual period, he reminded her, "You can't touch cold water or drink cold drinks these days. In short, no part of your body can be cold."
"It's not cold. Apart from the pain at the beginning, I don't feel anything now." Lin Qi said. It was excruciating pain at the beginning, but now apart from being tired, she doesn't feel any discomfort anywhere.
"But you're not in good spirits." He had only seen her so weak a few times.
"I guess it's due to excessive blood loss." Lin Qi said, her face flushed again, "The things my mother prepared for me may not be enough--"
When she spoke later, her voice became almost inaudible.
Xu Hexiao loved her shy look. He said calmly, "I'll buy it for you."
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