0p0 Chapter 178 A Visitor from the Hill
Chapter 178 A Visitor from the Hill
Late spring is a good season for digging bamboo shoots!
There is a small bamboo forest on the small hill behind the temple. There was a lot of fog last night and the bamboo forest was still covered with dew in the morning.
As soon as you step on it, your shoes and socks get wet, making you feel very uncomfortable. But when you see the densely growing bamboo shoots in front of you, this discomfort quickly disappears.
My second uncle and cousin still had to recuperate and couldn't come out, so my second aunt stayed in the temple to take care of them.
Lu Qingqing and Liang Pei came over with two girls!
Lu Yaoyao and Yu'er were running in the front, carrying baskets. This was the first time for the two girls to pick food by themselves, and they were so excited that they stomped their feet and jumped!
Lu Yaoyao bent down, and soon her hands were full of small bamboo shoots and threw them into the basket. She looked up at Mu Yuer and said:
"How about we make a bet to see who can pick more?"
"Okay." Mu Yuer happily accepted the bet, "Whoever loses will wash the dishes."
Mu Yuer felt guilty that she had been taken in by Lu Qingqing and the others without any merit, so she decided to do something in return.
So, Mu Yuer took on the job of washing dishes every day!
Seeing this, Lu Yaoyao also wanted to share the housework to reduce everyone's burden, so she followed Mu Yuer to do it.
In addition, they also know how to collect firewood, make fires, boil water, cook, etc. For example, yesterday when Land Rover was damaged and needed to make fire to boil tools and hot water, it was they who cooked it.
Children from poor families have to grow up early!
That's because there are no adults around, so these chores are left to children. My uncle and aunt don't want them to do these things.
But both girls have stubborn tempers, and once they make a decision, no one can persuade them.
Everyone saw that washing dishes and boiling water were not very hard work, so they just let her do it!
The two girls made a bet competition, and Lu Qingqing and Liang Pei felt like retreating to the other side to pick the fruits, for fear that they would be obstructed by one mistake, and then they would be very fierce and scold them.
The bamboo forest is not big, with about a hundred bamboos growing scattered around.
Although late spring is the time when bamboo shoots sprout the most, there are also many bamboos that stop sprouting early.
Fortunately, the small mound they picked was just in the tip-up state and was very tender!
Lu Qingqing held the basket in one hand and broke off the bamboo shoots as big as two chopsticks on the ground with the other hand. There was a crisp sound of "crackling", and a bamboo shoot with a unique fragrance lay quietly in her hand.
Lu Qingqing didn't have time to take a closer look, so she quickly put it in the basket and continued to pick the second one!
Liang Pei had never picked bamboo shoots before, and at first he didn't know where to pick them.
Looking up and seeing Lu Qingqing picking bamboo shoots like this, he quickly followed suit. After a while, the basket was filled with a few green bamboo shoots.
He came close to Lu Qingqing, looked at the two girls in front of him who were happily picking fruits, and joked with Lu Qingqing:
"How about we have a bamboo shoot picking competition?"
Lu Qingqing looked up at him, thinking him very childish, and said two words: "Boring!"
After picking the fruits here, Lu Qingqing went to the other side. Soon her basket was full, so she quickly changed to a backpack to carry them!
Afterwards, while Liang Pei was not paying attention, he quietly dug up a lot of small bamboos still covered with soil and put them into the space to plant them!
All the vegetables, fruits and melons in her space could be harvested. Lu Qingqing sneaked in to harvest them at night when everyone was asleep.
Then she planted new seedlings.
Now, each seedling has begun to sprout, and it won’t be long before we can harvest again.
After picking bamboo shoots for a while, Lu Qingqing felt that it was not good to eat only vegetarian food, so she quietly moved to a dense area and found that no one noticed her movements.
Lu Qingqing quickly grabbed a pheasant from the space. This was the one she caught on the mountain last time. It was difficult to take it out at that time, so she simply broke its neck and put it into the space for storage.
Now, the pheasant is still preserved in the same state as when it was just killed. It is still warm and weighs a full five kilograms, just right for nourishing my second uncle and cousin!
Lu Qingqing grabbed the pheasant in her hand and shouted in surprise: "Ah!"
But unexpectedly, as her scream was heard, a few ecstatic shouts were heard from the other steeper end of the hill.
The shouts were so loud that they completely drowned out Lu Qingqing's voice!
Lu Qingqing held the chicken in one hand and quickly walked out of the hidden place and looked towards Liang Pei. Liang Pei had already called the two maids to his side when the calls came.
He and Lu Qingqing looked at each other, also puzzled!
I heard the voice first, but didn't see the person coming!
At this moment, everyone smelled a foul odor that permeated the entire hill. The odor was like the smell of rotting flesh and corpses, and everyone took out their handkerchiefs to cover their mouths and noses!
At the same time, they felt that this smell was extremely familiar. The Undead Pools that attacked them before had this smell on them!
Could it be that they didn't go to Beijing and turned back to look for them?
Thinking of this, Lu Qingqing and Liang Pei quickly protected Lu Yaoyao and Mu Yuer and retreated!
When I retreated halfway, I saw black heads popping up one by one like bamboo shoots after a rain at the end where the screaming came from!
In just a blink of an eye, the small hill was filled with people!
This group of people included both men and women, young and old. Most of them had dishevelled hair and ragged clothes, as if they had just crawled out of a beggar's den!
No, beggars are cleaner than them and not as smelly!
It seems that they are also disaster victims who went to Chongzhou City, but they are the ones who are not doing so well!
As soon as they appeared, they rushed to pick the bamboo shoots on the ground, and no one noticed Lu Qingqing and others!
Lu Qingqing and Liang Pei exchanged glances, and while they were not paying attention, each of them took a maid and quietly left the hill!
At this moment, a person behind him was not as strong as the others and was pushed to the ground by them.
The man raised his head and was about to curse, but he saw Lu Qingqing and others leaving in a hurry!
Their clean clothes and the baskets they carried on their backs immediately attracted the men's attention. Their greedy eyes kept watching them until they were about to disappear at the end of the hill!
The man then slowly moved forward and followed!
He had good eyesight and noticed that there was a man carrying a sword, presumably someone who knew martial arts. He was afraid of being discovered, so he didn't dare to go forward!
The man was very careful along the way and knew how to hide himself. He followed Lu Qingqing and the others until he saw them walk into a temple and then stopped!
The man left quietly and came back only at night!
Shortly after the man left, the three people following him looked towards the temple and quickly got up and left!
Lu Qingqing and others who had returned to the temple knew nothing about all this!