After preparing the food, Hu Xiaocao started cleaning again. After she finished packing everything, it was already dawn. She took the enamel cup and the backpack and was ready to set off.
"Mom, I'm going out. There's porridge on the stove. Remember to eat it later."
The woman nodded and warned gently: "Be careful yourself and don't run into the mountains in the future. It's too dangerous for a child like you to go into the mountains."
"I'm not afraid. The mountain god is protecting me."
Hu Xiaocao muttered something, but her voice was too soft and the woman didn't hear her clearly.
The day seemed very long, but Hu Xiaocao had so many things to do, like a top that had been spinning non-stop since he opened his eyes.
After cutting the pigweed as usual and finishing everything else, Hu Xiaocao picked a lot of wild fruits and walked towards the mountain road. On the way, he met a few villagers returning from working in the fields.
"Little girl, where are you going so happily?"
Hu Xiaocao jumped up and replied, "I'm going to pay homage to Grandpa Mountain God."
Looking at Hu Xiaocao's walking back, the other villagers looked at each other in confusion, "Mountain God, where did the mountain god come from? How can this little girl believe this?"
Several people talked about it but didn't take it to heart.
Hu Xiaocao came to the place where he met the mountain god last night.
It's a pity that we didn't see the mountain god. Everything here returned to normal, ordinary, as if what happened yesterday was Hu Xiaocao's hallucination.
But she knew that it was not an illusion. The mountain god was real, and so was the moon. Even the evening primrose was something she found with the blessing of the mountain god.
After thinking for a moment, Hu Xiaocao suddenly clapped his hands, "It must be Grandpa Mountain God who is sleeping."
She put the wild fruits she picked on the ground, bowed devoutly, and kowtowed a few times before leaving.
As the days go by. Every once in a while, Hu Xiaocao would worship like this, but he never saw the mountain god every time.
Hu Xiaocao is not discouraged. Sooner or later, Grandpa Mountain God will definitely be moved by her sincerity and be willing to see her!
Although she didn't go often, she was bumped into several times. Hu Xiaocao's worship of the mountain god was also known to other villagers.
Originally the woman was worried and didn't want her to go into the mountains, but she couldn't stand Hu Xiaocao's insistence. In addition, she was going into the mountains during the day and wouldn't stay too long, so the woman could only reluctantly agree.
He just told Hu Xiaocao to stay on the outside and not go inside, as he would easily encounter wild animals.
On this day, Hu Xiaocao finished the worship as usual and did not leave. Instead, he fell into thinking, "Why is the mountain god grandpa still unwilling to come out? Is it because I am not sincere enough? It seems that the mountain god grandpa is allowed to bless my mother!"
Hu Xiaocao remembered the temples he had seen in the town when he followed his mother to the market.
"The gods are all worshiped in the temple, and there are all kinds of delicious cakes and fruits."
Hu Xiaocao looked at the small wild fruits placed on the ground, showing a somewhat guilty look. In comparison, she looked really shabby.
No wonder Grandpa Mountain God didn't appear again. He must have thought he was being fooled.
How can we pray to the mountain god Grandpa to bless our mother?
Hu Xiaocao's eyes rolled, and a bright light flashed. She patted her head suddenly, as if she had thought of a good idea, "Yes!"
She ran down the mountain without noticing the snake's tail flashing behind her.
The sound of thin ropes was not obvious, like the movement of snake scales across the grass.
Ye Qin looked at Hu Xiaocao's running figure, "I asked why wild fruits keep appearing here recently. It turns out it was this girl who did it. Is she worshiping me as a mountain god?"
Because he needed to visualize the moon in the second stage of his cultivation, he rarely appeared during the day, but recently he discovered that there were fresh wild fruits here every once in a while.
Ye Qin couldn't help but be a little curious, so he came over to take a look, but he never expected to accidentally bump into the scene where Hu Xiaocao was worshiping him.
"It seems like this girl really thinks of me as a mountain god."
Hu Xiaocao on the other side didn't know that the mountain god grandpa he longed for had appeared.
At the foot of the mountain, she picked up the leftover bricks from other people's work, mixed mud with straw, and built them brick by brick.
A villager passed by and looked at Hu Xiaocao's serious look. He couldn't help but joked: "Xiaocao, are you playing in the mud here?"
Hu Xiaocao's small body squatted on the ground, immersed in his masonry work, without raising his head, and retorted seriously: "No, I am building a house for Grandpa Mountain God."
When the other villagers heard this, they couldn't help laughing.
But I never thought that Hu Xiaocao would actually build it with a serious look. A small temple less than half a meter tall was formed. It had no other faults except being simple.
Hu Xiaocao scratched his head, looked at the small temple in front of him, and muttered: "It feels like something is missing. What is it?"
Her eyes lit up, "How can there be no mountain god in the mountain temple?"
Hu Xiaocao squeezed another ball of mud from the side, and soon a long and thin creature appeared on his hand, looking like an earthworm.
She placed it in the temple with great care and piety, as if it was the mountain god himself.
A small mountain temple was thus formed.
The mountain god is in charge, and wild fruits serve as tribute.
Although the sparrow is small, it has all the internal organs.
Then, Hu Xiaocao knelt respectfully in front of the small temple, kowtowed three times, and muttered something in his mouth, as if praying. After a long time, he got up.
When the villagers saw it, they couldn't help but joked: "Xiaocao, didn't you say this is a mountain temple? Why is there an earthworm in it?"
Hu Xiaocao chopped his feet angrily, almost crying, "What earthworm! That's a snake! It's the omnipotent mountain god Grandpa!"
The villagers rubbed their noses. Although they couldn't understand the relationship between the mountain god and the snake, they were embarrassed to continue teasing Hu Xiaocao when they saw that he was about to cry.
He had no choice but to respond, "Yes, yes, this is Grandpa Mountain God."
Hu Xiaocao didn't take what the villagers just said to heart, but was afraid that they would offend the mountain god, so he kowtowed a few times piously.
"Grandpa Mountain God, don't listen to the nonsense of those people just now. What I did is very lifelike. Don't dislike it. When Xiaocao makes a lot of money in the future, I will build you a big house and a golden body."
After doing all this, Hu Xiaocao left with satisfaction.
When evening came, Ye Qin appeared, looking thoughtfully at the small mountain temple in front of him, and couldn't help but fall into silence.
"Are you sure you're not slandering me?"
What came into view was a twisted group of unknown creatures.
Hovering in the temple, calling him an earthworm is still a compliment. If he really looks like this, he will make himself cry ugly.
Ye Qin took a glance and saw three dogtail grasses floating in the wind in front of the temple. It was obvious that Hu Xiaocao did not get the incense, so he could only pull out a few grasses to serve as temporary supplies.
It seems like that's the case just barely. Of course, there are many things in it that we can't go into details.
Although everything looks very simple and simple, it is Hu Xiaocao's intention and she created it with her own hands.
"Little girl, she's quite interesting."
Ye Qin shook his head, did not stay here any longer, and then continued back to his cave.
It's not that he is indifferent, it's just that he can't do anything about this kind of thing. This girl hopes that her mother will get better as soon as possible, but Ye Qin doesn't know how to treat illnesses and save people.
He is still just a snake. He has not yet reached the stage of turning things around, and he has not yet learned how to make alchemy, so he can only do nothing about this kind of thing now.
