Chapter 17 Meeting in the Mountains
It was such a misunderstanding. After listening to Lin Qi's intermittent narration, Ming Kangjian breathed a sigh of relief.
"It seems that not all the people in the Anliang Brigade are good people." Ma Guizhi sighed.
Mo Mingyang didn't care, "There are bad people everywhere."
"What should we do with that Luo Laizi? If that villager hadn't come, he would have taken away all the fish and shrimp along with the bucket. If we just let Luo Laizi go, wouldn't it make us educated youth seem easy to bully!" Zhao Yi became so angry when he mentioned this. If it weren't for that Luo Laizi, they would have had a big fish to eat tonight.
Lin Qi lowered her brows and concealed Xu Hexiao's name, saying only that he was an unknown villager.
"It's difficult for us to vent this anger." Ming Kangjian said helplessly.
Others were puzzled, "Why is it difficult to get out?"
Ming Kangjian pointed at Lin Qi's bucket and said, "She caught too many fish and shrimp. If it was only one or two kilograms, the brigade would not care, but if it was too much, there would be suspicion of stealing collective assets."
After these words were spoken, everyone present fell silent.
Ming Kangjian continued, "Regardless of whether she is stealing or not, she will definitely make people jealous. I'm afraid that there will be more people waiting for her than just Luo Laizi."
So many fish and shrimps, wouldn't it make people jealous? As educated youth, they couldn't help but be jealous, let alone the team members here. After all, that was their river.
"I can't vent my anger openly, what about secretly?" Jian Yi said with an ambiguous tone.
The four men looked at each other and saw each other's intentions.
"How do we play secretly?" Ma Guizhi was puzzled.
"Don't worry about it, you women. Just leave it to us men." Jian Tongyi stood up and grabbed the bucket. "I'll fetch some water. Lin Qi, you're allowed to take a bath at the educated youth camp tonight."
"I'll cook dinner." Ming Kangjian took the initiative to take over the dinner job.
Gan Tian thought for a moment and said, "Lin Qi, take off your clothes and I will sew them for you."
"Then I'll go hoe the land and quickly open up our own vegetable patch." Mo Mingyang said.
"I'll go too." Zhao Yi followed.
Ma Guizhi hesitated for a moment and said, "I'll help with the cooking."
Lin Qi: “….”
She was beaten once, but her treatment at the educated youth center got better?
On the other side, Xu Hexiao was cooking fish soup for his grandfather.
"What's wrong with your head?" asked Old Man Xu.
"Fight." Xu Hexiao didn't intend to hide it. He couldn't hide it anyway. He could just ask any villager and they would know. He and Luo Da had a fight, and everyone saw it.
"That Luo Da again?" Old Man Xu frowned. Seeing his grandson nod, he was very worried. He said in a pleading tone, "Let's avoid him from now on, okay?"
Xu Hexiao looked at his grandfather, and the breath that had gathered in his chest somehow dissipated. In order not to worry his grandfather, he decided to avoid him. "Okay, I'll stay away from him from now on."
Old Man Xu felt bad when he got a positive answer. His precious grandson was now like a rat crossing the street, and everyone avoided him like a snake or scorpion.
Old man Xu's eyes turned red.
Xu Hexiao looked at his grandfather's moist eyes and opened his mouth, but the pale words could not comfort him, so he simply closed his mouth.
silence!
In the narrow thatched hut, the only sounds were each other's breathing, the sound of burning firewood and the sound of boiling fish soup.
Both of them knew what the other was worried about, but they had no way to deal with it.
"Where did this fish come from? You were injured, why did you still go diving to catch fish!" Old Man Xu spoke in a serious tone, feeling both angry and sad for his grandson.
"Someone else gave it to me." Xu Hexiao's expression softened slightly when he thought of the little fool.
"Someone gave you fish?" Old Man Xu didn't believe it.
"That Lin Qi, the one who saved you when you fell down the slope last time." Xu Hexiao explained.
Old Man Xu seemed to be thinking about something. "She's a good kid. Next time you see her, point her out to me from a distance. I don't even know what she looks like."
Xu Hexiao wanted to say that you don't need to know what she looks like, but seeing his grandfather's expectant eyes, he swallowed the words that were about to come out of his mouth and hummed muffledly.
Lin Qi's body's recovery ability was extraordinary. When she woke up, her wounds were mostly healed, the swelling on her face had subsided, and her face had returned to its fair and tender appearance.
When Ma Guizhi and Gan Tian saw her like this in the morning, they were so shocked that they were speechless. After the shock, they felt a kind of gnashing of teeth and helpless envy and jealousy.
Lin Qi ignored their reactions and went out after breakfast.
Maybe it was because of the beating he received yesterday and the several times of overusing his supernatural powers, his body still felt a little sore this morning, but he could clearly feel that his limbs were moving much more smoothly.
Is this a blessing in disguise?
It seems that I still need to use it more and move it more!
Lin Qi was worried that Luo Laizi was still waiting for her, so she didn't plan to go fishing for fish and shrimp today.
"I can't go either. I have to go to the mountain with my brother and sister to pick up stones and cut thatch. My family plans to build a house in August. We will have the autumn harvest in September and everyone is busy and has no time." San Ya said.
"Stones, not enough yet?" Lin Qi didn't know how many stones were needed for a house, but she heard from San Ya that her family had been picking up stones for several months.
"Just a little bit left. Mainly cutting the thatch for building the roof." San Ya replied.
Most of the houses in Anliang Brigade have thatched roofs, and only a small number have blue tiles. Some of the house frames are made of stone, some are made of loess, and only a small number are made of blue bricks.
In fact, it is not just the Anliang Brigade, the nearby brigades are in a similar situation.
"Can I go?" Lin Qi asked.
"Sure." San Ya agreed without thinking, "But the mountain we are going to is relatively low, so there may not be any wild fruits. Wild fruits are found on the mountain behind, but you have to climb over the mountain, which is a long way to go. Few people go there, and everyone has to go to work, so they don't have time."
Lin Qi looked towards the top of the mountain. It was not very high and the way up the mountain was relatively flat. However, it would probably take quite a while to go up and down.
"I heard that there are deeper mountains on the other side of the mountain. A few years ago, when we were starving, we climbed over several hills and found a lot of wild fruits, pheasants, rabbits, squirrels, and even some large animals, such as wild boars, black bears, and even tigers." Sanya's tone was full of regret, "It's a pity that I was too young at that time, and no one took me there."
Lin Qi looked at San Ya and thought, you are still young now. You are obviously eight years old, but you look almost five or six years old.
"I'll point out a location for you. Just go to that area to find us this afternoon." San Ya said, telling Lin Qi the approximate direction of where they were cutting thatch. "Call us when you get there. Don't be afraid. There are almost no wild animals here except those flying in the sky and mice on the ground. If you can't find us, just go back the same way you came."
Lin Qi noted the location and hummed, "I know."
After handing in the pig grass and returning to the educated youth site for lunch, Lin Qi did not rest but went to the foot of the mountain again. However, this time, she went to another mountain, which was some distance away from where they usually cut pig grass.
These mountains are connected to each other, as if they are endless. San Ya only pointed to a rough place, and it is not easy to find it.
At this time, at the foot of a low mountain, San Ya helped to sort out the thatch cut by her brothers and sisters, and tied them up with vines. Every time she tied a bundle, she would look in the direction of the village.
"Don't people say she is stupid? How can a fool find her way here by herself?" Seeing that her sister was absent-minded, Daya couldn't help but speak out curiously.
"She's not stupid." San Ya was a little angry, "Sister, she is my friend."
Daya curled her lips, "I'm not the one who said she was stupid."
San Ya snorted, "I don't care what others say, but when she comes later, you can't call her stupid."
Daya still dotes on her sister, and seeing her sister angry, she could only respond, "Okay. I won't tell you."
The vegetation was lush, and Lin Qi's small figure was completely hidden. She followed the path trampled by people going up the mountain, and unknowingly, she went deeper and deeper.
When she found herself deep in the mountains, she realized that she had found the wrong place. She was probably on the other side of the mountain as San Ya had said.
The grass and trees here are taller and the humidity is heavier. The sound of birds singing is endless, and there are rustling sounds, I don't know if they are made by mice, pheasants or rabbits.
Wild animals are alert and agile. With Lin Qi's current skills, it is difficult to catch them. She doesn't expect to be able to catch these animals, but it's good enough to have wild fruits and vegetables.
Lin Qi chose to walk in places with a strong scent of grass and trees. Not long after, she came across a jujube tree that was full of jujube fruits, which were so heavy that they bent the branches.
The flesh of the jujube is juicy, seedless, high in sugar content and very sweet. It can be used to make jujube honey and jujube wine.
Lin Qi was not in a hurry to pick the jujubes, but placed her hands on the jujube tree and transferred her supernatural power to the trunk. The jujubes were very sweet, but with her supernatural power, the jujubes could become even sweeter and more fragrant.
As she input her supernatural powers, the green and yellow jujubes on the tree gradually darkened in color until they turned into a glossy reddish brown. Only then did Lin Qi stop inputting her supernatural powers.
Ready to pick.
But before picking, she had to weave a backpack, otherwise she would have nothing to carry the picked jujubes.
Lin Qi didn't have any weaving skills, but she had been carrying a backpack every day recently and had a general idea of the structure of the bamboo threads, so she just wove one based on the pattern.
The thin and flexible vines were controlled by Lin Qi to shuttle back and forth, turn over, and tie knots...
Half an hour later, a rough, unaesthetic, yet sturdy and durable "backpack" appeared. Lin Qi pressed the backpack hard and found it did not deform. She lifted it up and shone it against the sunlight, and found that the inside of the backpack was completely opaque and even more dense than the backpack she carried during the day.
Not bad. Lin Qi modestly gave herself a score.
The jujubes on a jujube tree weigh dozens of kilograms. After picking one, Lin Qi’s big backpack is full.
Lin Qi was not in a hurry to go out, but put the backpack under the tree, noted the location, and explored the surroundings with the jujube tree as the center. She explored for about half an hour, but found nothing except the birds jumping in the woods. Seeing that the sun was about to set, Lin Qi planned to go down the mountain first and come back tomorrow or when she had time.
Lin Qi returned to the jujube tree, picked up the backpack, and walked back along the way she came.
The mountain road was difficult to walk on, and Lin Qi, carrying seventy or eighty jujubes on her back, struggled forward in the mountains.
"Little fool."
Suddenly there was a sound from the tree.
Lin Qi looked up and saw Xu Hexiao nimbly flipping down from a high branch.
"It turned out to be you who caused me to have a false alarm." Xu Hexiao said.
Lin Qi was at a loss. Why were you so alarmed?
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