MTL - The Sweet Little Fulang-Chapter 20

The doors and windows were open, and not long after noon, the sun was shining brightly from outside.

Shen Xuanqing slept in the West Room, and the East Room was where the old hunter used to live. He was used to living here and never changed it.

Because of the cold in the mountains, only one window was opened on the south wall, and the window faced the front yard. The large wooden bed in the room avoided the window and placed it on the west side, facing the door.

Lu Gu was lying on the innermost side. There was a narrow gap between the bed and the mud wall. Unlike the bottom of the mountain, Shen Xuanqing's room also had a well-designed bed tent. This is a bare bed. , is farther away.

The sun shines in from the window, it is bright, and you can see the dust floating in the beam.

It's different from standing to work. Once you lie down, you'll feel the coolness under the eaves again, but Lu Gu lay up straight and didn't move, let alone pull the quilt.

He was nervous, and Shen Xuanqing was also a little bit so, both of them were silent.

It was quiet in the mountains, but a few dog barks outside broke the silence. After going up the mountain, the three dogs were not tied, and they didn’t run around. They just ran and played nearby. When they were thirsty, they went to the river to drink water. Lying down in the place, Shen Xuanqing heard it and knew that it was all right, but just barked and stopped paying attention to the outside.

He noticed Lu Gu's stiffness, and remembered that when the two of them slept together at night, Lu Gu was the same. He was so cautious that he would not turn over even if he was asleep. What he looked like when he was sleeping, and what he looked like when he woke up, rarely will change.

Shen Xuanqing felt cold, sat up, pulled the quilt from the foot of the bed, and covered it with Lu Gu.

The new quilt was still in the sack. She was still young and childish, and her shyness had not faded away. Shen Xuanqing quietly looked down at the quilt. Fortunately, he had been exposed to the sun some time ago, and it was neither unpleasant nor dirty. Just let go.

"Get up early, don't do anything else today, it's okay to sleep for a while." After he lay down, he finally found the words.

Hearing his low and steady voice, Lu Gu gradually relaxed for some reason. At the end, he whispered, and his stiff body could finally relax.

It was not easy for anyone to catch the mountain road in the morning. After relaxing physically and mentally, Lu Gu closed his eyes and gradually became sleepy.

Shen Xuanqing also closed his eyes and fell asleep. After a while, when Lu Gu's breathing was steady, he opened his eyes again.

The soft hand on his back shoulder when rubbing the medicine made him feel dumbfounded until now.

Lu Gu slept next to him, his arm was not far from his arm, and he could touch that hand with a little movement.

The hands that were clasped together were hidden under the quilt, and no one could see them, not even those who were clasped their hands.

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This sleep lasted for more than half an hour. When Lu Gu woke up, his fatigue had subsided a lot, and his energy had returned.

In the afternoon, the sun reached diagonally above the west side, and before it went down, he boiled the water, splashed the medicinal boiling water that Shen Xuanqing had bought for repelling snakes and insects, and stirred it up with a wooden stick. Hot potion.

Shen Xuanqing found a few unused cloth strips for him and wrapped them around a wooden stick, so that they could smear them with the potion on the doors and windows. One layer was not enough. After a little drying, they had to be reapplied twice. Infiltrating into the wood, there is always a medicinal smell, which can prevent snakes, insects, rats and ants from crawling into the room and biting people.

These things in the mountains are not the same as those outside. They are somewhat poisonous. If they are fine during the day, they can be seen to be killed and taken out. At night, people can’t find it when they fall asleep. The pain is mild when bitten, and the swelling is hard for a few days. No, it's painful and itchy.

Not counting the firewood house, there are five rooms here, even the kitchen with the sundries. There are doors and windows, and the potion has melted a lot. Lu Gu simply painted it. After the bottom of the pot is left, the medicine is a flower. It was bought with money, but he was not willing to give it up, so he went to paint the door of the firewood room again.

Although there are no people in the firewood room and no food is allowed, but if there is something hiding in the firewood and hay, you have to worry about it, it is better to wipe it all up.

The courtyard door was wide open, and he was busy inside. Shen Xuanqing took a shovel outside and dug a narrow pit around the courtyard. The dirt pit was about as deep as a shovel head, and it was not too deep. He planned to bury the medicine in it. .

When he dug this circle and just sprinkled the ground medicine powder inside, Lu Gu was done.

Seeing that Shen Xuanqing leaned the medicine bag while walking and often spilled into the pit, he picked up the shovel on the ground, followed behind and started to fill the soil.

"No, it's up to you." Filling soil was considered a labor of strength, so Shen Xuanqing exchanged it with him.

Da Hui and the two small dogs watched them work, and they seemed to understand what Shen Xuanqing was doing at the back. The three dogs, you learned from me and I learned from you, all straddled the narrow pit, half playing and half helping. He used his claws to dig the soil he had dug to the bottom of the pit, and it looked like he was working hard.

This scene made Lu Gu's eyes have a clear and shallow smile. He used to smile less, and now it was quiet, but it disappeared in an instant.

Shen Xuanqing was filling up the soil, but because of the big ash and their actions, he couldn't help laughing a little bit, then he inadvertently raised his head to look at Lu Gu, and it was this look that made him see that smile.

There seemed to be a bang in his heart that the strings were broken, leaving him stunned in place, as if ripples appeared, stirring up a pond of spring water.

He was used to seeing Lu Gu's cowardly appearance. Shen Xuanqing had never seen this scene before. He couldn't tell what it was like. It felt like the wind was blowing through his hands, causing an itch in his heart, but he didn't know how to deal with it. He was terrified, and finally came back to his senses, only to know that Lu Gu was his husband, and luckily, he was his husband.

And when Lu Gu looked at him, he thought he was lazy and made a mistake, so he quickly lowered his head to sprinkle the medicine, and didn't dare to look at the dog again.

The medicine powder contains realgar, and other herbs for repelling snakes and insects, which can keep the long insects out of the courtyard. If Shen Xuanqing has only one person, it is enough to buy these, but when buying medicine, I want Lu Gu to come with him. Nothing is more tender than a rough man, and it is always right to have an extra precaution.

After pouring out four full packs of medicinal powder, the circle was completed. Shen Xuanqing was not as fast as him in filling the soil. After Lu Gu finished, he stepped on the filled soil, so that the empty soil could be firmly stepped on, and he was not afraid of rain. The powder was washed away by the rain.

After the two of them finished their work, the sun walked a little further west. Today, without doing anything else, Lu Gu went to the kitchen to cook.

When it comes to autumn, they usually eat rice soup when they wake up in the morning. The warm, soft white rice is warm and moist in the stomach. This morning, because of hunger, they did not cook and only cooked. This time they have time to cook rice soup.

There was not much water in the tank. Shen Xuanqing carried a wooden bucket and went to the river to fetch water. There was a low place more than a mile away from the house, that is, the Qingxi River flowing from a deeper place. It was very convenient to fetch water.

The white rice was placed in the pot, and Lu Gu put the cage on the top, put the steamed buns and four sliced ​​pumpkins, put a little fire on the bottom of the pot, and turned around to cut vegetables at the desk, busy all by himself.

Shen Xuanqing ran a few times and filled the waist-high water tank. At this time, the cauldron was steaming hot, and Lu Gu's vegetables were cut. He wiped his hands with his apron, crouched on the ground and added two more thin woods. Let the fire burn for a while longer.

Shen Xuanqing, who put down the wooden barrel, glanced at the chopping board. There was only one dish. It was the hanging gourd he picked from his third uncle's house yesterday. Green chili, I plan to fry it with chili.

Yesterday I ate stewed chicken, but it is very common to switch back to vegetarian food today. This is the case in the countryside. I eat meat occasionally.

But to Shen Xuanqing, he is a hunter, and he is not the same as a man who works in the crops. In the past, he was reluctant to eat meat in order to sell money on the mountain, so he could just dig some wild vegetables and cook them. Now Lu Gu When you come up with him, you have to be prepared for something meaty, even if you don't eat it all at once, you can cut shredded pork or sliced ​​meat when cooking to avoid suffering.

He's so tall here, it's hard for people to ignore him, but fortunately, Lu Gu has work to do, so he won't be standing there in embarrassment.

The pumpkin was steamed, and the steamed buns were hot. I took out the cage and saw that the rice soup was ready. It was so hot that it was hard to eat. Lu Gu scooped out the rice soup just in time for cooking.

Shen Xuanqing had nothing to do, but his eyesight was not bad. After he finished scooping, he poured a gourd of water into the pot.

Lu Gu washed it hastily, scooped it out, wiped the water in the pot with a cloth, and added some firewood to the bottom of the stove.

Seeing that there was only half of the oil left in the clay pot, Shen Xuanqing thought to himself that he would have to fill up the oil next time. There were only two of them. These were enough to eat for a while, so don't be in a hurry.

He was thinking again, if it's getting colder today, it would be delicious to cook a pot of lard for cooking. Now the wild boars are in the deep forest. If you are lucky, you can meet one. Buy some fatty meat back.

Lu Gu didn't know what he was thinking about, but his heart was calm when he saw that the vegetables were cooked and not sticking to the pot.

During the meal, Lu Gu also fished out a small bowl of pickles, steamed bread porridge, steamed pumpkin and stir-fried vegetables. A meal was enough to satisfy them both.

The two of them ate early today, and the sun was about to go down when Lu Gu finished cleaning up in the kitchen.

Shen Xuanqing did not intend to go out to see those traps. First, it was really tiring to pull the scooter to drive the mountain road, and secondly, it was selfish. Looking at Lu Gu, he couldn't help but want to get closer.

As for what he would do when he got close, he couldn't think of it himself. With a calm and handsome face with few expressions, his heart was actually tangled and tense. In the end, he couldn't think of a reason, so he had to give up.

"I'm going to open the net in the river, are you going?" Shen Xuanqing asked, and then added: "Also recognize the nearby road."

Lu Gu came out of the kitchen and was thinking about what to do. Hearing that, he nodded slightly and went out with him.

The river is not far away, and you can see it at a glance when you walk west of the discharge gate. There are two pepper trees planted on the west side of the courtyard wall. When these trees grow up, they will become like a barrier, and they will not be small if they are connected together.

It is early autumn, and after a while, the green peppercorns will turn red. Now that they are close, they can still smell a faint numbness.

"There are more than 30 miles inside, and then you will go to the deeper old forest. If you have nothing to do, don't go there. The old forest is dense, and it is difficult to get out without a dog. I don't usually go there, so don't go there."

Shen Xuanqing carried the net on his back, pointed to the north and warned Lu Gu, and finally said: "If there is an urgent matter and you want to go back, but you don't remember the way you came, you won't get lost if you follow the river, but some areas by the river are difficult. Go, and go around in the mountains for a while before flowing down."

"Well, I see." Lu Gu nodded seriously.

Big Hui and Thin Dog were eating in the courtyard. They smelled the blanched wheat bran and miscellaneous noodles mixed with leftover vegetable soup in the pot and turned their heads and were reluctant to eat it, but Shen Xuanqing went out. Obviously, he had no bones today, so he had to bow his head in resignation. Eat up.

Shen Xuanqing has never treated a dog badly. After all, if he wants to hunt with him, he must have good physical strength and raise the three of them to be smooth and smooth, but it is not every day that they are gnawed on the flesh and bones.

When he got off the net by the river, the three dogs who had finished eating ran over and circled around them.

He was frightened by the black dog before, but Lu Gu didn't dare to get close to it, but Da Hui was okay. When he went up the mountain, he followed him to protect his legs. He looked very loyal, and he even dared to touch Da Hui's head.

Shen Xuanqing tied the edge of the net to a big rock on the river bank, and when he came over early tomorrow morning, there might be fish caught.

The river was rushing and flowing, and the afterglow of the setting sun shone on the water surface, which was really beautiful.

The mountains are quiet, and sometimes there is a melodious or crisp bird song, and the long distance makes people forget the dust, as if in a paradise, far away from the entanglement of the world.