Chapter 78 I don't want her to get wet in the rain
Lin Qi rushed all the way, even faster than the strong wind, and arrived at the planting area in just five minutes.
The plants in the planting area were blown all over the place. Lin Qi had no time to check on the animals, so she used branches and vines to build dozens of "houses" on the spot. These houses were scattered in various corners of the planting area, with the largest ones covering five or six square meters and the smallest ones covering only one or two square meters.
After the houses were built, Lin Qi also produced a lot of fruits and vegetables, and sent them into the houses, so that the animals hiding in the houses could have food to eat without having to come out.
The wild boars and wild goats were large in size and numerous in number. Lin Qi saw them at a glance. At this time, they were hiding under a large rock in the leeward direction.
There are also quite a few pheasants. They nest in the grass. When the grass and trees sway in the wind, you can see their shadows and hear their cackling sounds.
The hares were underground, and not a single one was to be seen at this time.
There were also two musk deer standing in the peanut field, seemingly unaffected.
As for other animals that Lin Qi couldn't recognize, as long as they were not carnivorous, Lin Qi would ignore them.
The wind blew all night and heavy rain fell in the early morning.
The temperature in the cave dropped suddenly. Fortunately, the rabbit fur mattress under Lin Qi was warm enough. Although the temperature in the cave was low, it was still within the tolerable range.
She continued to sleep for another two hours, but thinking of her agreement with Xu Hexiao to go back at noon, she did not stay in bed any longer.
Fortunately, we usually have the habit of storing firewood in the cave, so we don’t have to worry about having no firewood even if it rains outside.
The rain was still heavy, so Lin Qi planned to have breakfast and wait and see what happened. If the rain was still heavy, she would have to go back in the rain.
Breakfast was yam porridge and boiled eggs. Taking advantage of the fact that there was no one else in the cave, Lin Qi directly produced a small pile of yams on the spot, and also produced a lot of sweet potatoes, taro and earth heads. These things were durable, and now that the weather was cold, there was no problem storing them for a month.
Lin Qi planned to bring more yams, taro, potatoes and sweet potatoes, as well as more vegetables and meat when she went back at noon.
After breakfast, Lin Qi came to the entrance of the cave. She seemed to be looking at the rain outside the cave, but in fact she was promoting the growth of crops, fruits and vegetables in the planting area.
This time, she estimated that she would not be back here for two or three days, so she had to prepare more food for the animals here.
When the induction was over, there were more than a dozen bundles of vegetables and a small pile of various melons at Lin Qi's feet. The vegetables and various fruits were picked and transported back by the vines she controlled. In addition, the vines also brought her two fat gray rabbits and two big roosters.
She can have no worries about food without leaving her house.
The rain kept falling, the sky was dark, and it was impossible to tell the time. Lin Qi put vegetables, fruits, pheasants and rabbits into the backpack and was hesitating whether to go out in the rain, when a green figure suddenly appeared in the rain.
"Why are you here!" Lin Qi exclaimed.
Xu Hexiao rushed into the cave entrance and said, "I was afraid that you would go back in the rain, so I came here."
Lin Qi was stunned. Her chest felt like it was blocked by cotton, soft and warm. For a moment, she didn't know what to say. She just managed to say, "Go change your clothes quickly."
Xu Hexiao was shivering from the cold, his lips turned purple, and he sneezed one after another.
Lin Qi took out her dry towel and gave it to him, and quickly found the clothes he left here, "Hurry up and wipe yourself, change your clothes, and hide under the quilt. I'll go make you some ginger soup."
The fire was still burning, so Lin Qi added a few sticks of firewood to the fire, then added two bowls of water to the clay pot and put the pot on the fire. Then she washed the ginger, smashed it, chopped it into paste, and put it into the clay pot.
A-choo——
Xu Hexiao sneezed again.
"Have you changed your clothes?" Lin Qi asked.
"Okay." Xu Hexiao's voice was buzzing.
Hearing this, Lin Qi turned around and saw Xu Hexiao wrapped in a quilt, with half-dry hair hanging on his head, and his eyes were red, just like the little wild rabbit she raised.
It looks so pitiful.
I really want to rub his head and bully him.
"You can't keep your hair wet like this." Lin Qi pondered. After hesitating for two seconds, she went to find a clean thin coat and said, "Come closer. I'll help you dry your hair."
Xu Hexiao glanced at the coat in her hand, did not refuse, and sat over wrapped in the quilt.
"Don't go into the mountains next time it rains." Lin Qi gently wiped his hair.
"It was too windy last night. I was worried about you." She had to go to the mountains despite the strong wind. He barely slept all night. He fell into a daze in the second half of the night and soon heard the sound of rain.
Finally, in the morning, he cooked breakfast for his grandfather, told him everything, and ran to the mountain. Along the way, the rain was so heavy that he couldn't open his eyes, and he couldn't remember how many times he fell. It wasn't until he saw her standing at the entrance of the cave safely that his heart, which had been suspended in the air, finally settled down.
"There is nothing in the mountains that can threaten me, don't worry." Lin Qi comforted him, "Next time you encounter this kind of situation, just wait for me obediently. It takes you two or three hours to get into the mountains, but it only takes me less than ten minutes. You see, you will be exposed to the rain for several hours, but I only need to be exposed to the rain for a few minutes, so if I go out, things will be easier."
"But I can't bear to let you get wet in the rain, even for ten minutes." Xu Hexiao said frankly. Having been wet in the rain before, he knew how cold the rain was. When the cold wind blew, his body would be frozen.
Lin Qi never thought that one day someone would be willing to stand in the icy rain for three hours rather than let her suffer the cold for ten minutes.
The boy's passionate, sincere, and straightforward emotions struck Lin Qi's heart. A tingling sensation spread throughout her body, and her heart began to beat irregularly.
A-choo——
Xu Hexiao sneezed again.
Lin Qi came back to her senses. "The ginger soup should be ready. I'll bring it to you. Do you want a spoonful of jujube honey?"
Xu Hexiao licked his lips and said, "Two spoonfuls."
After drinking the ginger soup, Xu Hexiao felt his stomach warmer and began to feel drowsy.
"Are you still cold? Do you want to move the fire here?" Lin Qi was a little worried when she saw that his face was still pale.
"It's not cold. Once your stomach is warm, your body will soon warm up as well." Xu Hexiao comforted her.
Lin Qi hummed, "Do you want to sleep first, or eat something first?"
"Go to sleep first." Xu Hexiao's eyes were almost closed.
"What do you want to eat when you wake up?" Lin Qi continued to ask.
"Dry-pot rabbit, add more chili." After Xu Hexiao said this, he closed his eyes and fell asleep in a second.
Lin Qi tucked him in and got up to kill the rabbit.
Xu Hexiao did not sleep well this time. He started dreaming as soon as he fell asleep. He dreamed of his childhood, his parents, his uncles, his aunts, and his great-aunt. He dreamed of their happy family. He also dreamed of a large group of people rushing into their house, smashing, burning, and looting.
He dreamed that someone broke into their home in the middle of the night and climbed down their well, saying that there were gold, silver and jewelry hidden in the well. He saw someone snatching at the wellhead, gold fell into the well, and someone went down the well to fish it out, one after another, but in the end, no one came up.
Later, they filled the well with stones.
Many years later, he still didn't understand who hid the gold in the bucket in the well. It must be a fool who hid the gold in such a conspicuous place.
But then one day, when he mentioned this to his grandfather, his grandfather just sneered.
The dream kept changing. In the dream, he and his grandfather lived in the cowshed for two or three years. He dreamed that someone often hid around the cowshed and listened to him and his grandfather talking. He dreamed that their things were often stolen, including clothes, quilts, dishes, and even toothbrushes.
The intermittent dreams kept jumping and moving forward from his childhood until Lin Qi appeared. The gray and cold dreams suddenly became warm and the colors became bright.
"Xu Hexiao, get up and drink some water!"
Hearing the voice that was engraved in his bones, the dream disappeared and Xu Hexiao suddenly opened his eyes.
"You're sweating." Lin Qi handed him a cup of hot water. "Drink the water, wipe off the sweat, and then come to the fire to eat. The dry pot rabbit meat is ready."
Xu Hexiao took the water and drank it in a few gulps. "How long have I slept?"
"It should be quite long. The dry-pot rabbit meat has already been stewed till soft." Lin Qi went to get him a pair of clean cloth shoes and muttered, "These cloth shoes are too thin. You can't just wear them in winter."
"It's okay. I've done this in previous years." It was just that my toes were red, swollen and itchy from the cold, and I couldn't sleep all night.
"No, it's too cold. After we get out, I'll ask Brother Tan to buy a pair of leather shoes for each of the three of us. If you're worried about being discovered, then put two pairs of torn socks over your leather shoes to cover them up." Lin Qi said.
Xu Hexiao thought about it and thought that this method might really work. So he did not refuse.
"One pair of leather shoes is not enough, how about buying two pairs?" She is not short of money now, so there is no need to treat herself badly in terms of food and clothing.
"If you want to buy it, Brother Tan may not have it in stock." Xu Hexiao reminded.
"We're also short of leather shoes." Lin Qi was a little disappointed. She rolled her eyes and said, "We don't lack furs. How about we learn to make them ourselves?"
"Okay." Xu Hexiao also thought this was a good idea.
"It's raining today and we can't go anywhere. Let's study making shoes after dinner." Lin Qi was eager to try.
Xu Hexiao shook his head, his eyes as gentle as water.
Xu Hexiao and Lin Qi worked on it for about two hours, but they didn't make any shoes. Instead, they made three furry vests out of rabbit skin.
"Rabbit skin is a little soft and not strong enough to make shoes. But you can sew rabbit fur inside the shoes. Your feet will feel soft and warm stepping on the long rabbit fur." Lin Qi said.
"Pig skin can be used to make shoes. Wild boar skin is rougher and thicker than domestic pig skin, so it will be better if used to make shoes." Xu Hexiao said.
Lin Qi's eyes lit up, "Let's try it with a wild boar tomorrow."
Xu Hexiao laughed, "It's raining, how can we catch them? Even if we can catch them, are you going to kill a pig for a pair of shoes?"
"Why not?" Lin Qi asked back, "It's already the end of November, and in two days it will be December, and the Chinese New Year will be here soon. If we kill the wild boar now and smoke the meat, it will be just right to eat during the Chinese New Year."
Xu Hexiao thought so too. "Okay, let's kill the wild boar tomorrow. Brother Tan wants to buy some meat from you, pheasants, rabbits, and wild boars. He probably wants to make some money before the New Year."
"Okay." Lin Qi agreed. "There are a lot of male wild boars in the herd in the planting area. They are too noisy. We can kill two or three and leave one or two."
Xu Hexiao: “…”
Why are wild boars always the ones that get hurt?
When it got dark, Lin Qi began to yawn and tears came out.
"Let's go to bed. I didn't sleep much last night and I feel sleepy." Lin Qi said as she walked towards the bed.
Xu Hexiao was as stiff as a log, unable to move his feet. His throat was dry, "There is only one quilt."
"Then let's just cover together." Lin Qi said naturally. She got on the bed first and crawled to the inside of the bed. This time it was a normal sleeping position, no longer you sleeping at the head of the bed and I sleeping at the foot of the bed.
After she lay down and covered herself with the quilt, Xu Hexiao came over. His nervousness made him want to speak, "Your clothes and pants are too short."
"This is the clothes I wore last year. My mother probably didn't expect that I would grow taller." The original owner hardly grew taller during the years of natural disasters. Instead, he became thinner and thinner.
"Winter clothes are made a little looser. Although they are shorter, they are still the right size. You can add some suturing to the sleeves and trouser legs. When the rain stops, I will go to Brother Tan to ask for cotton and cloth to help you suturing the sleeves and trouser legs."
"Okay. What about your own winter clothes?"
"Yes, but it's too short. I was afraid it would get wet in the rain and get damaged, so I didn't wear it."
"Clothes that get damaged by rain are already damaged, right?"
“........”
"Buy one for Grandpa and yourself."
"good."
"The quilt is only 1.5 meters wide. Come closer."
"Um."
At this moment, the two of them put their arms against each other, their legs against each other, and their warmth was transmitted to each other's bodies.
"Go to sleep." Lin Qi said, yawned, closed her eyes, and after a while, her breathing became steady.
Xu Hexiao just stared, trying to ignore the heat coming from his body, but to no avail. In the quiet cave, he could hear his breathing becoming more and more rapid, and his heart was about to jump out of his chest!
His originally cold body was getting hotter and hotter in the warm quilt, and the biggest heat source was Lin Qi next to him. As he pressed against her, heat was constantly transferred from her body into his, making his body warm as well.
Very comfortable!
Slowly, Xu Hexiao's body relaxed bit by bit, and his eyes drooped slowly as if they were tired. He finally felt sleepy.
As his consciousness gradually faded away, he felt a little reluctant. He didn't want to fall asleep like this.
But it was of no avail, he finally fell asleep.
A dreamless night.
Xu Hexiao hadn't slept so comfortably in a long time.
He opened his eyes dazedly, and there was no trace of Lin Qi on the bed. However, the bed next to him was still warm, which showed that the person sleeping there had just woken up not long ago.
"Xu Hexiao, come here."
Lin Qi's voice came from the cave entrance. Xu Hexiao raised his eyebrows. Did she know that he was awake?
Xu Hexiao got out of bed, put on his shoes and walked out of the cave. After walking about ten meters away, he saw the girl standing at the entrance of the cave with a conflicted look on her face facing the wild boar.
"Do you think we should burn the boar hair with fire or scald it with boiling water?"
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