After playing for a long time, Mu Mu complained that she was tired and wanted to go home. Li Ye took her little hand down the hillside and followed the mountain stream back to the way they came. He continued to carry Mumu along the way he came, and spent half an hour climbing back to his small home in the woods.
Before leaving the woods, Mu Mu jumped off Li Ye's back. She was thinking about the pastries and peanuts and melon seeds that Li Hongxiu brought yesterday. She had a new friend today and she wanted to share them with her.
The blue bird flapped its wings and flew into the wooden house. Gugu screamed and flew out again, standing on Mu Mu's shoulder, lowering his head and muttering to Mu Mu.
When Mu Mu heard this, she shouted loudly and ran towards the house. "Sister, you are back, Mumu misses you so much!"
Li Ye, who was walking behind, was stunned and thought, Li Hongxiu is back?
When he entered the room, he saw Li Hongxiu lying on a bamboo chair with her body tilted and eating melon seeds, staring at Li Ye hatefully.
Mu Mu didn't care about this. As soon as she entered the room, she hugged Li Hongxiu and kissed her hard on the face before saying, "Sister, if you don't listen to your husband, you won't be as good as Mu Mu."
After speaking, he waved to the outside and called: "Xiaoqing, come in, this is Sister Hongxiu."
Li Hongxiu was shocked, someone else was coming to the mountain?
The blue bird fluttered, flew into the wooden house and stood beside the table, looked at Li Hongxiu and cooed twice.
"Such a beautiful little bird, Mu Mu, where did you catch it? Can you give it to me?" Li Hongxiu said to Mu Mu while looking at Xiao Qing on the table.
"This Xiaoqing is not mine, I can't give it to you." Mu Mu ignored Li Hongxiu. Zigu took a few peanuts and melon seeds from the table, gently peeled them open and fed them to Xiaoqing.
"You see, you can eat it yourself." Mu Mu completed the task, grabbed a handful of peanuts on the table, moved a stool and sat next to Li Hongxiu, and began to eat.
Blue Bird, like Mu Mu, is not a creature of this world, so naturally it has never eaten anything.
After feeding Mumu, I realized that it was really delicious. She was not polite and stretched out her paws to take the food one by one into her mouth.
Li Ye reached for a piece of apricot blossom cake, put it in his mouth, and sat on the stool beside the table.
He added water to the kettle and a few charcoal to the stove. He wanted to light a fire to make tea.
"Mumu, where did you put the toon sprouts we picked today? Take them out and spread them out on the ground. I'll deal with them after I finish the tea and fry them for you to eat in the evening." Li Ye asked Mumu while boiling water.
He knew that Mu Mu's bracelet was a space device that could hold things. Every time he came back from outside to hunt prey or pick wild vegetables, it was Mu Mu who was responsible for bringing it back.
When Mu Mu, who was peeling peanuts, heard this, she stood up and walked to the corner of the wooden house. She shook her little hand gently, and piles of tender toon sprouts suddenly appeared on the floor.
Li Ye also came over to help, carefully spreading the sprouts to prevent them from being crushed and making them unpalatable.
Li Hongxiu stared at the large pile of leaves on the floor and couldn't help but ask: "Little guy, why are you picking these leaves? Are they medicinal herbs?"
Li Hongxiu in Fengyun City has never eaten this thing. This is what Mr. Li Ye taught him after he went up the mountain.
Li Ye and Mu Mu turned around and looked at Li Hongxiu with disdain. Mu Mu pouted and said: "Sister is so stupid, this is not medicine. This is a good thing that my brother and Xiao Qing picked back and want to fry it." Give Mumu something to eat."
Li Hongxiu thought, what is there to eat here? I've never experienced anything like this. Thinking that I didn't have to worry about it myself, I continued to lie on the bamboo chair with my eyes closed and meditate.
After Li Ye finished spreading the chun buds, he returned to the table and sat down, looking at the boiling water in the pot. Asked: "You went to the mountain this morning. Did you not find the way or..."
Li Hongxiu looked at Li Ye's look and knew what he wanted to say. She glared with a pair of phoenix eyes and said bitterly: "I'm unlucky. I climbed a lot of mountain roads. I didn't expect to encounter an avalanche. A large part of the mountain collapsed. I almost couldn’t even come back.”
Thinking about the scene at that time, Li Hongxiu is still scared. The scene of the ground breaking down that day was truly terrifying.
Mu Mu nodded and said: "The most terrifying thing on Tianshan Mountain is avalanche. Master and I have encountered it many times. Master said not to go up the mountain randomly in spring. It is easy to avalanche when the snow melts."
Li Ye was shocked. He had never heard of the avalanche. The husband thought that he would not run around, so he did not tell him.
Looking at the frightened Li Hongxiu, Li Ye asked in a low voice: "That Mr. Li, is the avalanche really scary?"
"Nonsense, a large mountain fell down. I have made a lot of breakthroughs in the past six months. In the past, I would have been buried there." Li Hongxiu rolled his eyes at Li Ye.
"No wonder my husband told me repeatedly that you are not allowed to go to the mountain to find him. It makes sense." Li Ye thought about his husband's expression before going up the mountain and looked at Li Hongxiu and said.
Li Hongxiu sighed quietly and said: "Forget it, this is fate. Your husband can't run away anyway. If I stay here for a few more days, if he doesn't come back, I will take Mumu down the mountain."
Mumu's ears perked up when she heard about going down the mountain.
The foot of the mountain was an unknown and novel world for her, and she was also looking forward to when Li Hongxiu would get tired of being on the mountain and take her down the mountain.
The water in the pot has been boiled. Li Ye poured water to warm the pot, wash the tea, and warm the cup. Then he looked at Mu Mu and said, "Mu Mu, do you want to pour Xiao Qing a cup too?"
Xiaoqing, who was eating melon seeds on the table, heard this and called Mumu twice.
Mu Mu, who was eating peanuts, was stunned. She looked at Li Ye with an old look and said, "Xiao Qing said she is thirsty, so of course she wants it too."
When Li Ye heard this, he thought it was strange that birds also wanted to drink tea. Without asking again, he carefully ironed four cups, placed them on the table, picked up the teapot, and poured hot tea into each cup.
"Xiao Qing, don't worry, it's hot, drink it later." Mu Mu thought about the stupidity she had made, fearing that Xiao Qing would be like her.
Li Hongxiu sat up at the edge of the table, picked up a cup of tea, blew a few breaths gently, and then placed it next to the blue bird.
He smiled and said, "Did you see it? Before drinking, blow a few breaths to let the heat start before drinking." Li Hongxiu taught Xiaoqing as a human being.
Xiao Qing gently pecked the back of Li Hongxiu's hand twice to express her gratitude, then lowered her head and reached into the cup.
What's funny is that Xiao Qing's expression at this moment is the same as Mu Mu's expression when she drank tea for the first time. After taking a sip of tea, she turned her head and spit all the tea in her mouth at Mu Mu who was sitting behind her. On the body. Then he flew into Mumu's arms and pecked Mumu with his mouth open.
Mu Mu touched Xiaoqing's feathers and laughed strangely, loudly saying: "You stupid Xiaoqing, you can't even enjoy the tea that your brother made himself."
While comforting Xiaoqing, he said with a smile: "This tea will naturally be bitter when you take the first sip. You will understand if you feel it again later. You are so stupid!"
After saying that, he put Xiaoqing on the table, picked up his cup of tea, blew lightly, and took a shallow sip.
He looked at Xiaoqing and said, "Did you see it? It's like this! How about it? Is there a sweet taste in your mouth now?"
Xiaoqing cooed twice and nodded towards Mumu, indicating that she understood.
Then she lowered her head and drank from the teacup in front of her.
Li Hongxiu and Li Ye also bent over with laughter while watching the conversation between one person and one bird.
Li Hongxiu was a little depressed at first, but with Mu Mu and Qingniao making trouble, she no longer had any worries.
Li Ye looked at the two of them and said, "What should I eat for dinner? I plan to stir-fry a plate of spring sprouts with dried meat and cook a pot of mushroom soup. How about making a simple pilaf rice?"
"If you want to eat fresh barbecue, you have to wait until you go up the mountain tomorrow to find it."
Li Hongxiu doesn't cook, so she eats whatever Li Ye does. Mu Mu tilted her head and thought for a while, and had no choice but to do this.
Who said there were no fresh beasts in the cave? So he nodded, stroked Xiaoqing's feathers and said, "You can be aggrieved tonight and eat the same food as us. If you want good food, you can go up the mountain to catch it tomorrow."
The blue bird cooed twice and continued to drink tea from the cup.
Li Ye gave a few cups, added some more tea, and took a few sips himself. He stood up, left the table, and went to prepare the meal for the evening.
Mu Mu looked at the tea in the cup and touched Xiaoqing's feathers and said: "I know you want to eat delicious food, but there is nothing delicious in our cave. You can work hard tomorrow and catch some delicious food." When the pheasants and hares come back, let me roast the meat for you."
Li Hongxiu looked at Xiaoqing, a little dazed, and said in disbelief: "Mumu, Xiaoqing is not an eagle, how can he catch pheasants and hares!?
Mu Mu looked at Li Hongxiu who was in a daze and said, "Sister, it's useless to tell you now. Anyway, wait and eat the good things Xiaoqing caught tomorrow."
Xiaoqing cooed twice, then jumped into Mumu's arms, closed her eyes, and imitated the way a human would go to sleep.
...
That night, Li Ye and Mu Mu drank half a glass of wine. Xiaoqing imitated Mu Mu and drank a glass of fruit wine. Li Hongxiu drank all the fruit wine in the open bamboo tube and drank another half glass of the glass he brought. Burn the knife.
With the support of Li Ye and Mu Mu, they helped her into the bed on the stone platform that she had made in the cave.
Li Ye was relatively awake tonight. He still remembered to boil hot water and wash Mumu's face and feet before letting her climb onto the stone platform to sleep.
I was looking at the faint moonlight on the stone wall, wondering if my husband had climbed to the top of the mountain, thinking about the two young ladies in the distance, looking at Mu Mu snoring, thinking about my parents at the bottom of the mountain, and ended up thinking about counting. Sheep all night.
...
Early the next morning, although Li Ye didn't sleep well, he was the first to get up. He looked at Mu Mu who was sleeping well, then looked up at Li Hongxiu who was sleeping soundly, and quietly touched the stone platform. Go towards the cave entrance.
I looked up at the sky and saw that it was not completely bright yet. It shouldn't be time yet.
Smelling the fragrance of flowers all over the mountain, I took off my shoes and walked into the wooden house.
However, when he entered the room, he was startled. On the recliner in the room, a girl about his own age was sleeping. Her black hair fell to the ground, covered with the animal skin that Mu Mu usually used, and there were green hair. The skirt was exposed, and a pair of small hands like snow and lotus roots were also exposed. His face was facing inside, and Li Ye couldn't see it.
I wondered whose child went up the mountain in the middle of the night, couldn't find a place to sleep, and ran into his own wooden house.
Just as she was thinking about cleaning up the mess on the table, she put it in a bucket and carried it outside the cave to clean it. Unexpectedly, the cup and the bowl accidentally hit each other, and the sound woke up the girl. She looked up and saw Li Ye cleaning up the table. , both of them screamed in surprise.
Looking at the delicate little face of a porcelain doll in front of him, Li Ye blushed and asked, "Who are you? Where is your adult? Why did you come to my house to sleep in the middle of the night?"
The little girl stared at Li Ye, then looked at her clothes carefully, without saying anything, she pulled the animal skin and stood up. He flashed in front of Li Ye and ran out of the house.
Li Ye chased him out, only to see the girl running into the cave without looking back...
