Chapter 172 Please Don’t Be Angry (Two Chapters in One, 4000 Words)
Early the next morning.
When Xiao Mo walked out of the room, he saw Jiang Xin coming out with a basin of water.
"Xiao Mo, wash up and eat."
Seeing Xiao Mo, Jiang Xin spoke.
She still looked as dirty as she did at night.
Originally, Xiao Mo asked her to take a shower and gave her his relatively clean clothes to wear, but she refused.
Seeing how nervous she was, Xiao Mo didn't force her.
After a quick wash, Jiang Xin brought out breakfast from the kitchen.
The two of them sat in the yard and ate breakfast together.
The breakfast was just simple porridge with a lot of grains and beans added in, and some pickles. But for two homeless children, it was good enough to have something to eat.
After breakfast, Jiang Xin cleaned up the dishes, looking very skilled.
Looking at Jiang Xin busying around, Xiao Mo couldn't help but think of the girl in the white dress.
I don’t know what Ruxue’s ending was in that story.
Although it was just a fictional story, Xiao Mo felt that he really couldn't let it go...
When Xiao Mo came to his senses, he found Jiang Xin sitting opposite him, looking at him curiously with her penetrating eyes.
"Why are you looking at me?" Xiao Mo asked with a smile.
"What are you thinking about?" Jiang Xin blinked.
"I thought of a girl."
Xiao Mo collected his thoughts and did not explain too much.
"By the way, you said you used to live with Sister A Zi, so where are your parents?"
Xiao Mo asked Jiang Xin, wanting to know what her life was like before.
Hearing Xiao Mo's question, Jiang Xin lowered her head and pinched the hem of her skirt with her hands: "My mother abandoned me. She doesn't want me anymore."
"Huh?" Xiao Mo was stunned.
Jiang Xin rubbed her hands and slowly said:
"When I was five years old, my mother took me on an escape. In the beginning, she took good care of me, but as time went on, I could sense that she was becoming increasingly impatient with me.
Finally, one day when I woke up, there was some dry food next to my head, but I could no longer find my mother.
"Then how did you meet your sister A Zi later?" Xiao Mo continued to ask.
"I walked in the mountains for several days and had run out of dry food. Just when I was starving, I met Sister A Zi."
Jiang Xin answered seriously.
"After hearing about my experience, Sister A Zi took me in. Besides me, Sister A Zi also adopted four other children.
Sister A Zi taught us how to read and write, how to grow vegetables and farm, and how to hunt.
And Sister A Zi also knows swordsmanship, and her swordsmanship is very powerful.
I'm just too stupid to learn it."
"Have you always lived in the mountains?" Xiao Mo wondered if this A Zi was a swordsman or a female knight.
"Hmm." Jiang Xin nodded. "Sister A Zi said that the world is too chaotic. We can only go down the mountain when we grow up and have some self-protection ability. Usually, only the older children go down the mountain with Sister A Zi to sell animal skins and herbs and exchange them for some things."
"So, did something happen to your sister A Zi?"
Xiao Mo touched his chin.
Listening to Jiang Xin’s description.
Her sister A Zi should be a nice person and it is unlikely that she would abandon her on her own initiative.
"I don't know either."
Jiang Xin shook her head.
"One day I went to the mountains to collect herbs, and when I came back everyone was gone.
I waited for two days and then kept searching in the mountains and forests.
I searched further and further until I ran out of food and starved for two days before I finally found this place."
After saying that, Jiang Xin raised her eyes and looked at Xiao Mo: "Thank you for giving me food."
"That's nothing. After all, we're all helpless, so we should take care of each other." Xiao Mo said half-jokingly, "But, Xin, if you keep looking like this, what if your sister A Zi doesn't want you anymore?"
"That's even better." A hint of joy flashed in Jiang Xin's eyes.
"Hmm?" Xiao Mo looked at Jiang Xin in confusion.
Jiang Xin lowered her head and spoke slowly, "Even though Sister A Zi doesn't want me, I will be sad.
But if that's the case, at least it means Sister A Zi and everyone else are safe.
As long as they are fine, it doesn't matter if they leave me behind."
As she spoke, Jiang Xin lowered her head, her long eyelashes trembling slightly. "And I'm really stupid. I can't do anything right. It's only right for Sister A Zi to abandon me. I've already caused Sister A Zi a lot of trouble..."
"..." Xiao Mo listened to Jiang Xin's words and didn't know what to say for a moment.
She said she was kind last night.
In fact, she is the truly kind person.
"Okay, let's go to town tomorrow and see if we can get some news about Sister A Zi. Come with me to go fishing today."
Xiao Mo stood up.
"Although I have some money, I can't use it right now. We have to rely on ourselves for food these days."
"Oh, okay, I'll go with you."
Jiang Xin nodded quickly and followed Xiao Mo's footsteps.
The two came to a small stream in the mountains, rolled up their trouser legs and started catching fish.
But catching fish is not an easy job, and usually, it is the third brother who does the fishing. The youngest, Xiao Mo, is usually responsible for cooking and helping the older brothers.
Jiang Xin also had no experience in fishing because she was the youngest in the group and her responsibilities were similar to Xiao Mo's.
So for an entire hour, Xiao Mo and Jiang Xin didn't catch a single fish.
In the middle of summer, Xiao Mo fished for an hour under the scorching sun but ended up catching nothing. This made him feel a little annoyed.
Just when Xiao Mo felt a little desperate.
Suddenly, a big catfish swam towards Xiao Mo. Xiao Mo was quick-eyed and quick-handed, and caught the big catfish!
"Axin! Fish basket!" Xiao Mo shouted happily to Jiang Xin.
“Here…here…”
Jiang Xin quickly picked up the fish basket and ran over to the stream with her white little feet.
Although Jiang Xin's face was covered in thick charcoal ash and her body was covered in mud, her feet were washed by the stream, revealing her truly fair skin.
Jiang Xin quickly opened the fish basket.
Xiao Mo put the big catfish in and his saliva couldn't help but flow down.
These days, Xiao Mo has been eating the food left by his elder brothers and has not eaten meat for a long time.
In Xiao Mo's mind, he had already imagined the tenderness of the fish.
"Let's go, let's go back." Xiao Mo said with satisfaction, "We'll have fish porridge tonight."
"Yeah." Jiang Xin also nodded happily.
But just as Jiang Xin was about to step ashore, he lost his balance and fell into the stream with a splash.
The fish basket was thrown open.
The big catfish thanked nature for its salvation and quickly escaped. Xiao Mo wanted to make amends, but it was too late.
The catfish disappeared in an instant, and Xiao Mo could only watch it go away...
"I'm...I'm sorry...Xiao Mo, I...I didn't mean it..."
Jiang Xin knew that she had done something wrong, her face turned pale, and her expression was full of guilt and self-blame.
Knowing that the fish porridge was gone, Xiao Mo swallowed and looked at Jiang Xin.
In Xiao Mo's eyes, it was impossible to say that there was no blame or anger.
I really want to eat meat, let alone fresh fish.
But now that things have come to this, what can we do?
What's the point of blaming her now that all the fish are gone?
"Forget it, forget it. The fish are gone, so what?" Xiao Mo waved his hand and turned back. "The sun is getting brighter. Let's go back first."
“Okay…Okay…”
Jiang Xin hurried ashore and followed Xiao Mo.
Jiang Xin raised her head several times and looked at Xiao Mo's profile, her expression becoming more and more guilty.
She didn't know whether Xiao Mo really didn't blame her.
If it were anyone else, Jiang Xin could easily read their thoughts.
But Xiao Mo is different.
To Jiang Xin, Xiao Mo's heart was like a thick layer of fog.
I can't see clearly at all.
After Jiang Xin and Xiao Mo picked some wild vegetables, they returned to the yard.
Xiao Mo sat on the stone bench, thinking about how to buy some meat.
Otherwise, I can't go without meat during this period of growth.
Even if he was just a small beggar, using gold to buy things, even if it was just small change, it was too outrageous and he would be easily targeted.
Just when Xiao Mo was thinking of a solution, Jiang Xin suddenly stood in front of Xiao Mo.
"What's wrong?" Xiao Mo asked puzzledly, looking at the girl in front of him.
"Xiao Mo, you... do you want to hit me a few times..." Jiang Xin held her little hands to her chest and looked at Xiao Mo timidly.
"What?" Xiao Mo was stunned. "Why would I hit you?"
"Because I lost that big fish." Jiang Xin lowered his head.
"I told you it's okay. You didn't mean it. I won't hit you." Xiao Mo said with a smile. He didn't expect that she was still thinking about this.
"If you don't hit me, you can scold me." Jiang Xin seemed a little stubborn. "That way I'll feel better. Besides, every time I do something wrong, my mother will calm down after she hits and scolds me."
"No need." Xiao Mo waved his hand. "I won't hit you or scold you. Don't think too much about it. Go cook. I'm starving."
“Oh…”
Hearing Xiao Mo say this, Jiang Xin lowered her head and walked towards the kitchen, but the little girl looked back at Xiao Mo every three steps.
Jiang Xin felt that Xiao Mo was really angry, but he just didn't say it out loud.
In the afternoon, Xiao Mo was still in a daze in the yard, thinking about how to deal with the dirty gold in his hands.
Jiang Xin looked at Xiao Mo from time to time.
The more Jiang Xin looked at him, the more she felt that Xiao Mo was still sulking.
Sister A Zi used to be like this when she was sulking.
Otherwise, why would Xiao Mo remain silent?
Not long after, night fell. After a simple dinner, Xiao Mo took a shower in the yard and went back to his room to sleep.
But late at night, Xiao Moye got up in a hurry and walked out of the yard, only to find that Jiang Xin's door was half-open.
Xiao Mo walked to her door in confusion, looked inside, and found that Jiang Xin was gone.
"Could it be that this girl ran away from home out of guilt because of a fish?"
Xiao Mo couldn't help but be shocked.
I waited for her for so long.
If this is gone, I don’t know when I can find it again.
Xiao Mo hurried out of the yard, hoping she hadn't run far.
"Ah Xin! Where are you?"
"Ah Xin, please come back. I really don't blame you!"
"Ah Xin... that fish has already swam back on its own. If you don't believe me, come out quickly and I'll take you to see..."
"Ah Xin..."
In the woods, Xiao Mo kept shouting.
But there was no response at all.
And just when Xiao Mo pushed aside the bushes and came to the stream again.
What caught Xiao Mo's eyes was a little girl with her sleeves and trouser legs rolled up and her little feet stepping into the stream.
The clean moonlight sprinkled on her body, giving her a faint halo.
The stream water wet her clothes, and the mud on her body was washed away in the stream, and the black carbon ash on her face was almost washed away.
Under the moonlight, a girl with fair skin and delicate features appeared in Xiao Mo's sight.
Xiao Mo felt that it was her "seven-hole exquisite heart" that was feeding her, making her look like a lady from a wealthy family.
Otherwise, how could someone who is exposed to the wind and sun all day long and has no food to eat be so fair and tender?
The water level of the stream was a little higher than during the day, and the water was not up to the little girl's thighs.
Although it is summer, the cold stream water late at night is still bone-chilling.
But the little girl didn't seem to care at all.
Her eyes were fixed on the stream, the moonlight reflected in her beautiful eyes, full of persistence.
Under the moonlight, the little girl rushed into the stream again and again, splashing waves of water.
From what Xiao Mo saw, the little girl had missed her target four times. Her clothes were all wet and stuck to her thin body.
Just as Xiao Mo walked forward to see what Jiang Xin was doing.
The little girl plunged into the stream again.
This time, when the little girl stood up, there was a fat catfish in her arms!
The big catfish kept wagging its tail, but the little girl held on tightly with all her might!
Finally, the little girl cleanly placed the catfish in the fish basket beside her and quickly covered it!
Only then did the little girl wipe the stream water off her forehead and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Ah Xin."
Xiao Mo shouted.
Hearing Xiao Mo's voice, Jiang Xin raised his head.
When the little girl saw Xiao Mo, her eyes suddenly lit up.
She first carefully placed the fish basket containing the catfish on the shore, then climbed up herself, holding the fish basket, and hurried to Xiao Mo.
"Xiao Mo, why aren't you sleeping? What are you doing by the stream?" Jiang Xin tilted her head in confusion.
"You said I didn't sleep, what about you? Why did you run to the mountains in the middle of the night?" Xiao Mo asked back.
"I'm catching fish." Jiang Xin said as a matter of course.
Then, Jiang Xin raised the fish basket containing catfish high up:
"Look, Xiao Mo, I caught that fish for you..."
"so……"
The girl's eyes are as bright as stars.
"Don't be angry, okay?"
(End of this chapter)
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