Chapter 35 Exposed?
"Is it just a composition?" Xu Hexiao murmured, "But in this world, composition is what everyone cares about most. If the composition is not good, then you are a sinner. They said that my blood is black, dirty, and smelly. They also said that my grandfather and I need to be reformed. But my grandfather and I have worked day and night for so many years, and we haven't been reformed yet? When will this day end?"
Perhaps it was because the night was too dark, Xu Hexiao revealed his vulnerability, his confusion, and his helplessness to Lin Qi for the first time.
Lin Qi was silent. She didn't know. In the end times, being alive was lucky. As for the rest, who had the mind and time to think about it?
"The world will never remain unchanged." Lin Qi said.
"Yes, it won't stay the same forever." Xu Hexiao smiled, suppressed the complicated emotions in his chest, and stood up. "What do you want to show me? Let's go."
The rescue was still going on, and no one noticed that Lin Qi and Xu Hexiao had left. They had no flashlights or torches, but both of them were people who often walked in the mountains, and it was not difficult for them to identify the direction under the moonlight and starlight.
Lin Qi walked in front, and Xu Hexiao followed her. At first, Xu Hexiao was worried that she would be tripped by grass and stones and cut by plants while leading the way. But after walking for a while, she was still steady and did not even encounter thorns or spikes.
Maybe she's just lucky, Xu Hexiao thought to himself.
"Is this direction a cave?" Xu Hexiao was surprised. Are they going to a cave so late?
Lin Qi hummed and was about to say something when her expression suddenly changed and she turned her head sharply to look behind her.
At the same time, a black shadow jumped out from the bushes, targeting Xu Hexiao behind Lin Qi.
Xu Hexiao was a step slower than Lin Qi. When he realized there was something, it was already in front of him. He could even smell the fishy smell from the other person's mouth.
Those were a pair of green eyes.
Is it a wolf?
Xu Hexiao widened his eyes. He couldn't dodge at such a close distance.
Just when he thought he was doomed, the giant wolf that pounced in front of him suddenly let out a terrible howl and fell straight to the ground.
Xu Hexiao lowered his head and saw the thin Lin Qi pressing on the giant wolf. He pulled out the dagger with quick movements and cut the giant wolf's neck quickly and fiercely.
With a "puff", blood gushed out, and Lin Qi was the first to be splashed all over. Xu Hexiao was not spared either, his clothes were stained, and a few drops even fell on his face. He blinked, "Lin Qi, am I dreaming?"
This wolf was very big, even bigger than the two that she and the people at the educated youth site encountered a few days ago. Lin Qi estimated that it weighed about two hundred kilograms.
This body type is really rare!
"This should be the Wolf King." Lin Qi said, guessing that the other party was the Wolf King, so she didn't care about anything else and directly used all her strength to attack.
Xu Hexiao also squatted down, but his attention was not on the wolf. He looked directly into Lin Qi's eyes, "That was the wolf's powerful attack, and you blocked it. How did you do it?"
Lin Qi pushed his face away and said, "Little boy, don't ask questions that you shouldn't ask."
"Are you a hermit?" Xu Hexiao whispered.
Lin Qi shook her head, "No."
Xu Hexiao seemed not to have heard Lin Qi's denial and continued to ask, "Are you from an ancient martial arts family? Do you know martial arts?"
Lin Qi: "........I am exhausted, give me a hand."
Xu Hexiao showed disappointment on his face. He said "oh" and pulled Lin Qi up with both hands. Seeing that Lin Qi couldn't stand steadily, he supported her shoulders and asked with concern, "Are you okay?"
"Not good." His supernatural power was used up, not a single bit left. "How do I get this wolf back?"
Xu Hexiao gritted his teeth and said, "I'll carry it back."
Lin Qi was still leading the way, and behind her was Xu Hexiao, who was carrying a wolf corpse weighing more than 100 kilograms.
"There's a slope ahead, so let's roll." Lin Qi suggested.
"No - don't -" Xu Hexiao refused with difficulty. This was the Wolf King, and he was reluctant to damage the wolf skin.
Lin Qi didn't force it, since she wasn't the one doing the hard work anyway.
The two walked and stopped for about two hours before they successfully arrived at the cave.
As soon as he arrived at the cave, Xu Hexiao collapsed on the ground, and only his eyeballs could move. In contrast, Lin Qi had accumulated some strength.
She made a fire in the dark and there was light in the cave.
Thinking that Xu Hexiao had not eaten dinner, she lit a fire, washed rice in a clay pot, and put it on the fire to cook. She also cut some bacon and peeled some yams.
"Make some smoked pork and yam steamed rice?" Lin Qi asked.
Xu Hexiao snorted twice as a response.
After finishing all this, Lin Qi walked towards the pool of water. She was covered in blood and needed to wash herself.
Fortunately, she left a set of clothes here last time. Although it has not been washed yet, it is definitely cleaner than the one she is wearing.
Lin Qi washed it carefully. When she was clean, Xu Hexiao at the entrance of the cave was still motionless. She walked over and found that he had fallen asleep.
Lin Qi raised her eyebrows and simply changed her clothes beside the bed. After changing her clothes, she put the cut yam and smoked meat into a clay pot.
After doing all this, she walked towards Xu Hexiao again.
"Wake up." Lin Qi pushed Xu Hexiao.
Xu Hexiao opened his eyes dazedly, and was about to close them again. Lin Qi was somewhat helpless, "Get up, eat something and then go back to sleep."
Lin Qi pulled him up and helped him walk into the cave. Only then did Xu Hexiao notice the changes in the cave. He stared at the bed with wide eyes, stunned.
"I just made it today." Lin Qi said.
"You made it?" Xu Hexiao looked at the thick frame. How could she do it by herself with such heavy wood?
Lin Qi nodded and looked at Xu Hexiao's dazed expression. She couldn't tell his emotions. Did he like it or not?
Xu Hexiao stood up and walked to the bed. Just as he was about to reach out to touch it, he thought of his hands covered in blood and withdrew his hand, "I'll go take a shower first."
Xu Hexiao scrubbed the clothes very carefully. The blood-stained clothes could not be washed clean, so he simply took them off and threw them aside, then walked over wearing only a pair of underwear.
The temperature in the mountains is low at night, and even lower in the caves.
Lin Qi looked at the bed sheet drying on the side, tore it off, threw it to Xu Hexiao, and wrapped herself in it.
Xu Hexiao took it and wrapped it around himself, "Did you buy this too?"
"Yeah. I also bought you shoes." Lin Qi pointed to two pairs of army green Liberation shoes beside the bed.
Xu Hexiao also looked under the bed. Since the beginning of spring, he had been wearing straw sandals, and sometimes he didn't even wear shoes. He hadn't seen such brand new shoes for a long time.
His nose felt sour and his eyes turned red. "Thank you."
"You're welcome. Want to try it?" Lin Qi asked.
Xu Hexiao hummed, and he carefully sat on the bed with his feet off the ground. When he found Lin Qi looking at his feet, he shrank uncomfortably, "I have washed them, they are clean, but the color is black."
"I know." Seeing his uncomfortable look, Lin Qi sighed, "There is a wound, didn't you notice it?"
"It's just a stab wound. It's okay." Xu Hexiao said, turning around to look at the big bed, and carefully stroking the fine and smooth vines with his hands, "Your craftsmanship is really good."
"Average." Lin Qi was realistic. She didn't know how to weave patterns, so this bed board couldn't be called exquisite. It could only be considered sturdy, durable, smooth and delicate.
"It has a kind of primitive and simple beauty." Xu Hexiao said sincerely, "I like it very much."
Hearing him say that he liked her, Lin Qi's lips curled up, thinking that all her efforts were worth it.
After drying his feet, Xu Hexiao began to try on shoes. The shoes were slightly larger than his feet, but Xu Hexiao didn't mind. Instead, he thought they were just right. "My feet grow very fast. They will be bigger enough for me to wear next year. Can I give a pair to grandpa?"
"Of course, if I give it to you, it's yours." Lin Qi said.
"Thank you." No matter how many times he said thank you, it was not enough to express his gratitude to her, but there was nothing he could do except thank her.
"You're welcome. It's just something that happens to me." Lin Qi said. She took the clay pot off the fire and filled a bowl for herself and Xu Hexiao respectively. "Come and eat."
Lin Qi had dinner in the evening, but she had consumed too much tonight and was already hungry. Xu Hexiao had not eaten dinner, and his stomach ached with hunger, but he had been forcing himself to endure it.
At this time, I smelled the aroma of meat and yam, swallowed my saliva hard, and didn't care about anything else, and started eating with big mouthfuls.
The cave was silent, with only the sound of gentle chewing.
Lin Qi added rice twice, and Xu Hexiao added rice five times. Lin Qi suspected that if there was still rice in the earthenware jar, Xu Hexiao would probably add it for the sixth time.
After eating, Xu Hexiao took the initiative to take over the task of washing the dishes, while Lin Qi lay on the bed and closed her eyes.
She had originally planned to take a short nap, but she was too tired tonight, and as soon as she closed her eyes, she fell into a deep sleep. When Xu Hexiao came over after washing the dishes, she was unaware and even snored.
The bed was about 1.8 meters wide and 2 meters long. Lin Qi slept sideways at one end of the bed, leaving most of the space free.
Xu Hexiao stared at Lin Qi for a few seconds, then looked at the empty space. Between sleeping and not sleeping, he chose the latter. He first added a few large pieces of firewood to the fire, making sure that the fire could burn until morning and the temperature in the cave would not be too low. Then he returned to the bed and carefully lay down at the other end of the bed.
One is at the head and the other is at the tail, with a distance of more than one meter between them.
Xu Hexiao listened to the soft snoring coming from the bedside and fell asleep after a while.
Lin Qi had a dreamless night. When she woke up, Xu Hexiao was no longer in the cave.
The fire was still burning, and water was boiling in a clay pot on top of it. The water was boiling and was emitting hot steam.
Lin Qi got off the bed, walked to the fire, took the clay pot off the fire, poured out half of the water, and put the clay pot back on the fire.
Then she walked to the bed, where there was a larger clay pot filled with food, including flour, sorghum, and corn.
Lin Qi took six corn kernels and used her supernatural power to create six corn trees. Perhaps due to the supernatural power, each corn tree had two corns.
Lin Qi stopped inducing labor before the corn got old.
She planned to cook boiled corn for breakfast.
Lin Qi broke off the corn, peeled it, and put it into the earthenware jar. The big-bellied earthenware jar was full with nine corns, and the remaining three were thrown directly into the fire by Lin Qi.
The grilled corn was good too.
Xu Hexiao woke up early in the morning and went home. He changed his clothes, asked his grandfather to ask for leave for him, and then hurried to the cave.
As soon as he arrived at the cave, he smelled the aroma of boiled corn.
He hadn't smelled this fragrance for a long time, and thought there was something wrong with his sense of smell. Until he walked into the cave, saw the green corn leaves, and saw the panic that flashed across Lin Qi's face.
"The corn in the brigade has already turned yellow. Where did these come from?"
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