The woman was wearing a burlap skirt that is common among poor people, with countless patches of various sizes on it. Her face looked haggard and exhausted. The girl was also sallow and skinny from hunger. She was wearing rags and her little feet were bare. She had been tired from walking all the way.

Dirty and black.

They walked closer and saw Lan Qiao and Li Jingshu clearly beside the bonfire. They looked disappointed. The middle-aged woman's eyes were red and she was almost in tears.

The girl tugged on the woman's sleeves, raised her childish face, and asked in a clear voice, "Mom, didn't you just say that daddy was here? Why didn't I see it?"

The middle-aged woman was speechless for a moment and glanced at Lan Qiao and the two of them for help.

Lan Qiao didn't know where the mother and daughter came from, so she didn't say anything for a while.

The girl said again, "Mom, didn't you say you would have something to eat when you found dad? I'm hungry?"

The middle-aged woman looked miserable and said to her daughter, "Come on, we'll find him soon."

Lan Qiao listened to the conversation between mother and daughter, took out a piece of dry biscuit from his lapel pocket and handed it over and said, "Eat some dry food, don't starve the child."

The woman looked hesitant, but the girl couldn't hide her longing look, staring straight at the cake in Lan Qiao's hand.

"We don't mean any harm." Li Jingshu saw that several people were motionless, so she took the initiative to take the cake from Lan Qiao's hand, squatted down, broke off a small piece, and stuffed it into the girl's hand.

"Thank you, sister." The girl didn't even bother to wash her hands and started eating hungrily.

"Eat slowly, don't choke." Li Jingshu smiled softly, broke off a small piece and put it into the girl's other hand, then handed the remaining cake to the woman and said, "You can eat some too.

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The woman took the cake and thanked her again, but she didn't eat it. She just looked at the girl beside her quietly.

Lan Qiao asked softly, "I heard you just said that you are here to see the child's father. I don't know what kind of person he is."

When the woman heard what Lan Qiao said, a glimmer of hope seemed to rise in her heart. She took Lan Qiao's hand and said, "We are from Yidu. He is a hunter in the mountains. Because hunting is dangerous, he never lets me go into the mountains with him."

This time he has been away for more than ten days, and I haven't seen him come back even if we don't have food at home. I had to take my daughter into the mountains to look for him. I saw smoke rising here just now, and thought it was my boss lighting a fire. Come here and take a look.

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Lan Qiao looked at the fire beside him and remembered the scene of blowing Li Jingshu's hair just now. He suddenly said, "So that's it. We stayed in a small cabin not far away last night, but we didn't see anyone else. Madam, do you want to go and see us?"

look"

Seeing the woman nodding, Lan Qiao led her to the small wooden house. As soon as she entered the house, she opened her eyes wide and said excitedly, "This is the place where my wife lived. This earthen pot is the one I bought from the market last year."

I bought it from the Internet.”

She was referring to the earthen pot that Lanqiao gave Li Jingshu to boil medicine last night.

"Have you seen him?" The woman grabbed Lan Qiao's clothes and said loudly, "His house is here, how can he not be here?"

Lan Qiao smiled bitterly and shook his head, "I have indeed never seen him."

The woman became even more anxious. She pulled Lan Qiao's body and said, "It's impossible. Think about it again."

"Madam, please let him go first." Li Jingshu also appeared at the door at this time and said calmly, "I may have seen the person you are looking for."

Li Jingshu took everyone to the hillside about thirty steps away from the wooden house. Among several piles of rocks, there was the skeleton of a middle-aged man.

The middle-aged woman only glanced at the skeletal figure and the torn cloth on her body, and immediately let out a wail, threw herself forward, and burst into tears.

Judging from the shape of the skeleton, the man had been dead for at least five days. Except for a little carrion, most of it was dense white bones. He should have died from a wild beast attack in the forest. The two big bears last night might have been the culprits.

Li Jingshu said sadly, "It rained heavily last night and we didn't pay attention. We thought it was an abandoned house. I only discovered it when I got up this morning."

Lan Qiao asked her in a low voice, "What are you doing back here this morning? How dangerous is it?"

Li Jingshu rolled her eyes at him, twitched the corners of her mouth, and said nothing.

Seeing that the woman was so sad, Lan Qiao took the initiative to dig a hole for her and bury her. He also took out a bed board and wrote on it, and used it as a tablet to insert on the grave.

Li Jingshu sighed softly and touched her money bag. She remembered that she had given all the money to Lan Qiao when she bought the deer antlers, so she leaned into Lan Qiao's ear and said, "Do you still have any money? Give them some, even if I ask for a loan."

your."

Lan Qiao took out two and three fifty-cent treasure bills and some scattered copper coins and handed them to the woman and said, "If something like this happens, we can't do anything else. Please give me this little money, Madam."

If you accept it, it will be regarded as the rent we paid for staying here last night. We have to go on a journey, so we can't spend more time with my wife."

The woman accepted the money with tears in her eyes, knelt down to the memorial tablet with the girl, kowtowed three times, moved her knees, turned to Lan Qiao and Li Jingshu, kowtowed to them again, and said sobbingly, "Although I am an ignorant village woman, I can't see it."

You have the Bodhisattva heart of the young master and the young lady. I wish you all the best in the future and may you have a son soon."

Lan Qiao saw that the woman mistakenly thought they were husband and wife, and was about to speak to clarify, but Li Jingshu tugged on his sleeve and signaled him with her eyes not to say any more.

After bidding farewell to the woman and girl, Lan Qiao and Li Jingshu headed back to Chiling Peak against the stream they came from. When they climbed to the top again and saw the blooming phoenix flowers again, a feeling of being separated from another world could not help but arise.

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Li Jingshu pointed to the south side of the Misty Mountain and said, "Sir, look, there is a smoke column over there."

Lan Qiao looked at the direction. It was the picnic spot Feng Yeling chose yesterday. He thought that Feng Yeling and Bai Xueyin couldn't find him anywhere, so he lit up fireworks to send a signal. He said at that time that he was going to hunt a deer.

They came back to make bacon, but it ended up being a whole day, so they must have been very anxious.

Thinking of this, he felt hot in his heart and said, "Go and have a look."

After saying that, he walked towards the mountain road to the south. After taking two steps, he looked back and saw Li Jingshu still standing where he was.

"Girl, what is this?" Lan Qiao asked puzzledly.

Li Jingshu turned slightly and said, "There is another path to the east to go down the mountain. I went up the mountain through this road."

Lan Qiao heard her farewell message and asked with some worry, "Have you recovered?"

"Don't worry, sir." Li Jingshu turned her face away and did not look at him. "Since I can climb Chiling Peak again with you, I can naturally go down alone without any problem."

Lan Qiao didn't understand why her attitude suddenly became cold, scratched her head and said, "But"

Li Jingshu raised her eyebrows and said, "Master, if you have any plans to go to Yueyang next, you might as well go to a restaurant called Dongting Yuxie to try the seasonal lake delicacies. I am familiar with the shopkeeper there, you ask him to settle the accounts."

From me, just treat it like I'm paying you back."

Lan Qiao originally thought that Li Jingshu would pay him back the money and how he could meet again after coming down the mountain. He did not expect that she would never have the chance to meet again if she said such words.

Seeing that Lan Qiao was silent, Li Jingshu snorted and said, "If he doesn't believe it, Young Master can describe to him the way my golden jade wings spread out. He has seen the real thing, so he will naturally know that Young Master is telling the truth."

Lan Qiao smiled bitterly and said, "Actually, that's not what I meant."

Li Jingshu interrupted him and said, "Young master, you don't need to say anything. If you say goodbye to me, this will not prevent you from meeting me again." After that, she walked up the mountain and slowly disappeared around the corner of the mountain road.

Lan Qiao savored her last words carefully, always feeling a sour feeling, and couldn't help but sigh.

During the day and night he spent with Li Jingshu, she was sometimes strong, sometimes helpless, sometimes playful, sometimes indifferent, sometimes knowledgeable, and sometimes considerate. This uncertain her was different from the noble and mysterious her eight years ago.

, which one is true and which one is false?
Chapter completed!