Ji Qingyue was woken up early in the morning by the movement outside. The first thing he did when he opened his eyes and woke up was to observe Zao Miao!

To his surprise, the jujube seedlings jumped a few centimeters taller overnight.

What a terrifying growth rate!

Yesterday's buds were only two knuckles high, with only two young leaves at the top. Overnight, the jujube buds have grown to the height of a palm, with several new leaves growing!

only……

The buds seemed not as fresh and energetic as yesterday, and were wilting early in the morning.

Is this a lack of water?

After Ji Qingyue determined that the jujube seedlings were growing at an alarming rate, he immediately carried out his transplant plan. The pit reserved behind the thatched cottage was prepared for these jujube sprouts.

If they continue to grow at this rate in the future, Ji Qingyue believes that it won't be long before he has a jujube forest!

He carefully used wooden branches to pry up the jujube seedlings that had not taken off the jujube cores together with the soil. He dug out more soil to protect the roots of the jujube seedlings, rolled them into a mud ball, set them aside, and then used the same method. Dig out the remaining jujube seedlings and cover their roots with soil.

After making sure that all the jujube seedlings were dug out, Ji Qingyue carried the jujube seedlings to the stream. He chose a place with shallow water and gentle water flow. He used stones to form a circle in the water and placed the jujube seedlings. Put the mud ball together with the roots into the water.

There is no good water container at the moment, so I can only soak it like this first, and wait until the jujube seedlings absorb enough water before transplanting it into the ground.

Now it’s time to continue what we left unfinished last night – drilling wood to make fire!

Last night until the sun went down into the night, Ji Qingyue was unable to successfully wipe out the sparks. Before going to bed, he tossed and turned and kept summarizing the reasons.

Summarizing and summarizing, he couldn't figure out the reason, so in the end he could only continue to practice.

He took out the remaining backing board and fire stick. After drilling for a long time yesterday, the backing board had left a charred hole.

Ji Qingyue chose a piece of dry pine bark, placed it on the pad, stepped on the bark and the pad to fix it, and quickly rubbed the fire stick with his hands.

Ji Qingyue was already very proficient in this process, and soon, gray smoke came out of the hole.

It was the same last night. Every time at this time, Ji Qingyue used more force. When he saw the flying sparks, he let go and looked. In the blink of an eye, the sparks were extinguished.

Ji Qing was less anxious this time and did not let go. Instead, he bent closer and blew slowly while speeding up the rotation. He saw that the smoke coming out of the drill hole was getting thicker and thicker, and he could vaguely see it when he blew. The scarlet light stopped to protect the sparks on the pad, blowing gently to prevent them from extinguishing immediately.

The hard work paid off, and Mars finally came out!

He quickly poured the drilled sparks into the prepared pile of dry pine needles mixed with pine bark fiber, and blew into the ignition material while holding it.

Finally, the flames suddenly burst into flames.

Ji Qing was unable to dodge in time, and the flames burned his forehead, and then a smell of burnt protein wafted up.

With no time to deal with the fire-scorched hair, Ji Qingyue hurriedly transferred the fire to another large pile of pine needles, and then slowly piled dry firewood on the pile of pine needles.

The fiery red light reflected on his face. Ji Qingyue looked at the flames and then at the rough palms of his hands, and immediately decided not to let the fire go out.

The jumping flames miraculously gave him a sense of inner peace and a new hope.

The flame is indeed inspiring.

With the fire, Ji Qing gradually wanted more things, such as pots, pans, and stoves. It was always bad to drink raw water, and it was better to drink boiled water to feel more at ease.

After thinking about it, Li Silang's voice came from outside: "Immortal!" Besides Li Silang, there was also a babbling child.

"Shiro?"

"It's me, immortal. Have you had breakfast? My sister-in-law is making pancakes in the kitchen. How about I go get two for you?"

Ji Qingyue smiled: "No, don't you remember being spanked? You have to listen to your father! Huh? There is another child?"

"Well, this is Tuanlang, my eldest brother's child! Tuanlang, call Immortal!" Li Silang, who was not as tall as the study table, was holding his nephew. The nephew didn't know what was going on, and he clung to Li Silang. Voice. Li Silang did not force him. He looked at the painting for a while and then asked: "Immortal, since you are in the painting, why can't I see you?"

"I don't know either. It's not just that you can't see me, I can't see you either."

Li Silang seemed to have something to say: "Then... why do immortals live in paintings?"

Ji Qingyue was very confused about whether to confess to Li Silang. These days, his admiration for Li Silang far outweighed his guilt. After all, Li Silang was only a five-year-old child. He had done well enough so far and did not do anything to him as promised. Tell your family.

"Shiro, I want to confess something to you and apologize to you. I was afraid of being deceived and looked down on your age, so I lied to you."

Li Silang stared with big eyes, looking like he couldn't believe it: "What?"

"Actually, I'm not an immortal, I'm just an ordinary person living in a painting. I deceived you two biscuits because I was really hungry. I thought it would be fine to ask you for two biscuits. I didn't know why these two biscuits were I feel really sorry that Hu Bing caused you to be beaten, but I have nothing to repay, so I can only confess to you and ask for your forgiveness."

When Li Silang heard what happened behind him, he breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "What else did I do for a reason? Dad beat me so hard not just because of the Hu Bing. I have already accepted the punishment for the Hu Bing. It's fine now. Dad My brothers and I are just afraid that I will be deceived by bad people. Immortal, you are not a bad person, right?"

Ji Qingyue was both moved and helpless. This kid Li Silang was so good that people couldn't help but want to tease him: "How do you know I'm not a bad person?"

Li Silang choked and asked weakly: "Then Immortal, are you a bad person?"

Ji Qing could no longer entertain such a cute child.

"Of course not. If I were a bad person, you would have been deceived by me so much that you would lose your pants. You believe me, and I believe you. I was moved by your sincerity, so I dared to confess to you." Ji Qingyue rarely talks about these feelings. Because Li Silang really kept his promise, he dared to be honest with him.

"Okay, go and sit down quickly, hold Tuan Lang in your arms, and I'll tell you the content behind 'Shang Sir'."

"Yes, Immortal." Li Silang hugged Tuan Lang and climbed onto the chair. He also prepared a futon and sat in a chair with his little nephew. After finishing it, he told Tuan Lang like a young adult: "My uncle is going to study." , Tuanlang, don’t make any noise, sister-in-law and your jujube must be eaten in small bites, do you understand?”

After the child nodded, Li Silang recited it loudly.

In the kitchen opposite, Xu Qing was about to knead dough. She kept moving her hands, adding water and salt to the flour. When she heard the sound coming from the study, she couldn't help but smile proudly.

After Li Silang finished memorizing, Ji Qingyue slowly explained, and assisted by interspersing a few short stories about Saint Kong to broaden the children's ideas.

The most classic is a short classical Chinese essay "Two Children Debating the Sun" that he learned when he was a child.

"One son said: 'I think when the sun begins to rise, people are closer, but when the sun is at midday, people are far away.'

One son said: "I think the sun is far away at the beginning of the day, but it is close at the middle of the day." '

One son said: "At the beginning of the day, it is as big as the hood of a car, and at the middle of the day, it is like a pan. Isn't this why the far ones are small and the near ones are big?" '

One son said: "It's cool in Cangcang at the beginning of the day, and it's like a soup in the middle of the day. Isn't it hot for those who are near and cool for those who are far away?" '

Shiro, what do you think? "

Li Silang was stunned. He had never heard of this allusion and had never thought about this problem. Now that I know this story, and think carefully about what I see in my daily life, these two people are right! "I think they're both right."

"I think what they said is wrong, what should I do?"

Li Silang was puzzled: "What's wrong?"

"When I first learned this article, my teacher didn't tell me the reason. It was only when I grew up and suddenly thought of investigating the reason that I found out. It's very complicated. I'm afraid you can't understand it now." Ji Qingyue suddenly He regretted talking about this article. If Li Silang pestered him to ask the end, he would have to start from "The earth is actually round" to explain, so he quickly made up for it: "Now I will also learn from my teacher, and I won't do it for the time being." How about you explain the reasons and wait until you feel that what they said is wrong, then come and ask me for advice?"

It was rare for Li Silang to be so entangled. He scratched his temples and said, "Okay then..."

"What I'm telling you about this article is the same as what my teacher taught me. I also hope that you will pay more attention to your studies. You can't pretend to understand. You must remember that there is no end to learning and always be open-minded."

After Li Silang understood Ji Qingyue's intention, he put Tuan Lang on the chair, jumped down from the chair, and bowed towards the painting: "Thank you, immortal, for your guidance!"

"I have finished speaking the entire chapter of 'Your Excellency' today, do you understand?"

"Shiro understands!"

The teaching time was over, but Tuan Lang had not finished chewing the dates in his pocket. He spit out the date cores obediently. Li Silang had no time to play with him, so he neither cried nor made trouble, and sat on the chair by himself to play.

"Immortal, you haven't said yet why you live in the painting!"

Speaking of this, Ji Qingyue was more confused than Li Silang: "I don't understand why I came to this painting. There is nothing to eat in the painting. I only asked you for two biscuits as a last resort."

When Li Silang heard that Ji Qingyue was going to starve, he hurriedly asked: "What should I do? I don't want the immortal to starve to death!"

Immortal, starve to death, these two words don’t sound good together. Ji Qingyue cursed: If I were a real god, would I still care if I starved to death...

"Now we must not ask you to take the food from home without permission. In this case, it seems that only business is left. But you are still young and cannot buy things alone. I wonder if you can ask someone to buy something for me?"

Li Silang thought for a while, "It's winter now, and wild beasts often come down the mountain. My mother and brother don't allow me to go out alone."

"Your mother-in-law is right."

Li Silang asked: "If you ask someone to buy something, what do you want to buy, Immortal?"

"I want to buy some seeds, no matter what kind of seeds." It was too difficult for him to ask a child to help him buy daily necessities.

"Well..." Li Silang racked his brains to think of countermeasures. He didn't want Ji Qingyue to starve to death, and he didn't want to lie to his family anymore, so he could only try to find outsiders. "I remember that after the autumn harvest, the salesman would go to the village to collect goods and sell some things at the same time. I will go and ask about it then."

"Okay, thank you Shiro!" Since we need children to help us buy things, money... is another problem! He doesn’t have the currency of this era! Ji Qingyue has never been so embarrassed: "Silang... there is a problem... I don't have any money..."

"I have it! Grandma and grandma are so generous with their rewards, I haven't spent a penny!"

"It's good that I borrowed it from you! Now on my body..." Ji Qingyue touched his body and found only the jade Guanyin hanging around his neck. There is a saying in his hometown that "men wear Guanyin and women wear Buddha". "A person must be honest. If you work hard for me, I should repay you. Now that I can't get out, I will give you something as compensation. Come over."

Li Silang walked over in confusion, stretched out his hand in front of the painting, and then there was something in his hand. "This is?"

Even though he had never come into contact with a real jade pendant before, he had seen jade bracelets worn by some women in the county, as well as jade ornaments worn on the waists of the rich men in the Third Brother's School. Now this jade pendant given by the immortal , it must be valuable.

"Immortal! This must be very valuable! I can't have it!" Li Silang quickly moved his hand closer to the screen, but he couldn't put the thing in his hand like before.

"Shiro, take it, I owe you a lot, otherwise... I won't talk to you again."

Li Silang was indeed frightened and quickly accepted it: "Then...then I will put it away. I put it in the purse in the suitcase. My mother and the others all know that I hide the money there and will not turn it over at will." .”

Ji Qingyue solemnly thanked him again: "In this case, thank you Shiro!"

From that day on, Li Silang took Tuan Lang to the study every day to study and chat with Ji Qingyue. The rest of the time, he and Tuan Lang sat at the door of the courtyard with more than ten pennies in their pockets, waiting for news about the salesman.

The day to go to autumn school was getting closer and closer, and he was getting more and more anxious.

Why hasn't the salesman arrived yet...?

Li Silang waited until sunset again that day, but still didn't wait for the salesman to arrive. His sister-in-law had already prepared the meal, and he was waiting for his second brother and sister to come back. When he was about to take the group man back to help his sister-in-law set the dining table, he suddenly saw a crowd of children swarming at the foot of the mountain in the distance. black spots.

Li Silang pulled Tuan Lang to stand up and stared carefully at the ant-like black figures.

In the distance of the flat farmland is the western mountain range of Lancang Mountain. At the foot of the mountain, a large group of people gathered together and moved quickly towards this side.

Those people seemed to be carrying someone, and they were shouting something while trotting.

When the voice came closer, Li Silang finally heard clearly what he was shouting!

It’s related to his second brother! !

Li Silang watched nervously as those people got closer and closer.

"... Xianglang... just hold on..."

In the crowded crowd, Li Silang couldn't see his second brother, but their words made him panic: "Second brother..."

Li Silang recognized that some of them were people who went up the mountain to hunt pigs.

"Lijiasilang, your brother is injured, get out of the way quickly, let's help Xianglang into the house!"

Li Erlang was carried over by someone.

Now Li Silang could see clearly, and tears welled up in his eyes: "Wow!! Second brother!! Sister-in-law! Second brother, he is injured!" Li Silang took Tuan Lang and called his sister-in-law at the gate of the yard.

Xu Qing had just prepared dinner and was waiting for Li Erlang and the others to come back. Before the table was set, she heard Li Silang yelling and hurriedly ran out. Li Erlang was carried into the yard with his whole left leg wrapped in a layer of Gauze, it looks like the wound is very long.

Li Jinniang fell behind the crowd, her face pale with anxiety, her hair disheveled, and her little eyes red, as if she had cried.

Those people carried Li Erlang into the room.

Xu Qing pulled her frightened sister-in-law and hurriedly went in to see Li Erlang: "What's wrong with Erlang? Didn't he go to open up wasteland?"

Li Jinniang sobbed softly: "Second brother, he was gored by a wild boar..."

The pig hunter looked apologetic: "Sister-in-law of the Li family, it's all our carelessness. Today I went hunting wild boars in the mountain and I have already caught two, and the last one. It was my carelessness that angered the sow who was guarding her cubs. Thinking that the wild boar suddenly jumped up and knocked a few of us over, the wild boar broke through the siege and rushed down the mountain. We happened to run into Xiang Lang who had returned. Thanks to his help, we successfully hunted the wild boar."

"That pig weighs three to four hundred kilograms. It has a sharp mouth and fangs. It is so ugly. It almost hurt the elderly and children at the foot of the mountain when it ran rampant."

"It was also in danger just now. Now is the time to return home from work. There are many people on the field road. If Xianglang hadn't stopped the wild boar, other innocent people would have been hurt."

I am very scared just thinking about it.

Li Erlang was awake, but had no chance to speak. He endured the pain and said, "Sister-in-law, I was just scratched by that beast's fangs. The wound looks a bit serious, but it's not a problem. It will be fine tomorrow!"

Seeing Li Jinniang pouting and shaking her head, she knew that Li Erlang was pretending to be relaxed.

"After all, we were careless. I'm really sorry."

"When hunting pigs, we brought golden sore medicine. The bleeding stopped immediately and the wounds were properly bandaged. If Xiang Lang goes to the village to see the doctor, we will pay for all the medicine he should apply and drink. When the pig is killed, we will share it. Quan should thank Xianglang for his bravery today."

Li Erlang said that the wound had been bandaged and there was no need to see the doctor.

They were embarrassed to stay any longer and disturb Li Erlang's rest, so they said some words of comfort and then took their leave.

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