Lan Congxiao

Qiu Zhu finally carved the words on the wooden sign and reinserted it in front of the grave. The boy squatted in front of him and watched carefully, "Ge Luo, so this is Uncle's name."

"Didn't he accept you as an apprentice?" Qiu Zhu finally spoke, the boy seemed to feel it suddenly, and it took him a while to answer, "I live here, uncle said I was pitiful so he wanted to take care of me."

"What are your plans for the future?" Qiu Zhu walked around the tomb and picked off some weeds.

The boy's eyes were full of bewilderment, "I don't know."

Looking at the boy, Qiu Zhu guessed in his heart that he might be a disaster victim, or that he happened to be rescued by his master while wandering here, "You haven't said your name yet."

"Xunfei." The boy took a branch and wrote two large characters on the ground. Qiu Zhu took a look and thought it was ridiculous, "You still say your last name."

Xun Fei shook his head, "I have a name but no surname, so I'm called Xun Fei. People who know me call me Xun Fei."

It was the first time Qiuzhu heard that someone had a name but no surname. She thought that Xun Fei was making fun of him, but she never said seriously, "I have been called this name since I was born, and I am not lying."

"Okay, I'll call you Xun Fei." Qiu Zhu is exactly 15 years old this year, but Xun Fei is only ten years old. The two met in front of the master's tomb. Xun Fei talked about many things that he didn't know in the past six months.

Only then did Qiu Zhu know that Master had rescued Xun Fei from the pack of wolves. When he rescued him, his body was covered in blood, and the smell of blood stimulated the pack of wolves. He killed several of them before he was able to escape with the child. From then on, Xun Fei stayed in the small building and took care of the master's daily life until the master passed away.

"Uncle is drinking medicine every day. He said that Qiuzhu left it for him, but the medicine after that didn't work. Sometimes he vomited blood. He was very sick and the doctor couldn't help. I want to find you, but I don't know you. Where is it?" Xun Fei was led back by Qiu Zhu, talking to himself along the way, as if he wanted to tell Qiu Zhu all these things in order to complete his mission.

"Uncle said that every spring you would bring him peach blossom stuffing, and the ones you brought must be the most fragrant. I knew you were back when I saw the peach blossom stuffing."

"But... suddenly one day, Uncle sat by the window in a daze for a whole day. He stopped taking medicine that day, and kept saying, 'Qiu Zhu is too late to come back...' Within a few days, he fell asleep died."

"How do you live here alone?" Qiu Zhu opened his mouth slowly until Xun Fei became quiet. The individual continues to walk in the bamboo forest.

"I'll go to Xiaolin Village at the foot of the mountain to help them with work." Hearing what he said, Qiu Zhu realized that Xun Fei's index finger had thin wounds, and thinking about the first time we met, he was carrying a heavy burden. Bamboo baskets, you know what you're doing.

"It's getting late, let's go back." Qiu Zhu looked at the sky outside the bamboo forest. It was dusk now, and the birds in the bamboo forest began to fly back.

Sometimes Xun Fei looked up at him, sometimes he hesitated to speak, Qiu Zhu said softly, "Speak up if you have something to say."

"Aren't you sad? Uncle passed away, so you haven't met him." Xun Fei has only heard of his uncle's apprentice Qiu Zhu in such a long time, but he has never met him. He thought that Qiu Zhu saw his uncle's grave , would definitely cry to the point of breaking his heart, but he never thought that he would be so indifferent and never shed a single tear.

"Master treats me like a son, and I treat Master like a father." When we met for the first time, Xun Fei was very puzzled, but Qiu Zhu looked indifferent, not overly sad, and what people saw was silence.

"Haven't you dug the bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest?" Qiuzhu pointed to the bamboo not far away, and could vaguely see the pointed heads of the bamboo shoots. Bamboo shoots will always be dug up by master, every year there is no one. I counted this year, but no one went to dig it up, maybe there is something about master, but it just happened so suddenly that I never thought of it."

"So you knew it when you entered the door?" Xun Fei saw a bamboo forest with many bamboo shoots, and Qiu Zhu was delicate, and he knew the sky had changed just by looking at it.

"Master has been poisoned for many years, and the time is almost up. I have already prepared in my heart, but it was too sudden...By the way, did Master not arrange your whereabouts before leaving?" Qiu Zhu was very angry. It's strange, the master is thoughtful and thoughtful, and he has always been safe in everything he does all his life. How could he leave such a big child without leaving a single word.

"I don't have a home anymore. I don't know where else I can go except here." Xun Fei sat on the steps in front of Xiaozhu, resting his chin and thinking hard. Marry her daughter when she grows up, I don't want it."

Qiu Zhu didn't leave immediately, but stayed in the master's study all day long. The master's collection of books was left in this small building. Xun Fei didn't know what he was reading. When he was bored, he was in the vegetable field behind. Kill time.

Hearing a bird song, Qiu Zhu put down the book in her hand, walked to the window, opened the window and saw a small figure busy in the small vegetable field.

"Xun Fei." With a soft call, Xun Fei heard the reputation, Qiu Zhu came out of the study, and stood by the field, "There is no need to take care of it, you will live here soon."

"Qiu Zhu, are you hungry?" When Mr. Ge was here, Xun Fei took care of three meals a day. Xun Fei was young, but his cooking skills were very good. When he saw Qiu Zhu, he would unconsciously regard him as Mr. Zuoge, "Aunt Zhang gave me some dishes, I'll make them for you."

"it is good."

Seeing that Xun Fei turned around and ran into the kitchen with the vegetables in the bamboo basket, Qiu Zhu followed in from behind, and found that the kitchen was also cleaned and the water tank was full of water.

"It can be seen that you took good care of Master in the past." When Xun Fei was still in the future, Master did not have such a comfortable environment, and he always came to clean up.

"He took me in, of course I have to take care of him."

Xun Fei is good at cooking, but Qiu Zhu has never seen meat dishes in his dishes. Every dish is vegetarian. He is fine, but the people next to him can't bear it.

"You child, the hare I sent, where did you get it?"

Holding the rice bowl, Xun Fei looked up from the bowl, "I let go."

"Why did you let Lin Qi go and call the rabbit?" Qiu Zhu couldn't help feeling puzzled, seeing that Xun Fei seemed to realize something, put down the bowls and chopsticks, lowered his head, feeling quite guilty, "Hold me and let it go if it's still alive and kicking." Forgot, you were caught and eaten."

Looking at Xun Fei's appearance, Qiu Zhu seemed to think that it was only right and proper not to eat meat.

Lin Qi quit, put down his chopsticks, and complained to the boy, he caught fish, he caught rabbits, and the last thing he ate was stir-fried vegetables.

"Xun Fei cooks with good intentions, and you are still very unhappy. Not killing is also a virtue, why bother to chatter like this, after a while, is there any meat you can't eat?" Qiu Zhu softly scolded, Lin Qi always Treat this child like everyone else, but Xun Fei is only ten years old.

With wide eyes, Xun Feiti carefully observed the two people across from him, and sat silently at the table.