Li Yue was busy working in the vegetable garden behind her house as usual, weeding, loosening the soil, watering, and finally carrying a basket of fresh vegetables to her aunt's house in the village.

There seemed to be something happy going on in this house. Before Li Yue entered, she could hear the laughter and laughter inside, which was quite lively. But... everything came to an abrupt end after she crossed the threshold and appeared in front of everyone.

The uncle glanced at her and entered the room without saying a word.

The eldest son snorted coldly, picked up the hoe, and went out without saying hello.

"aunt……"

Li Yue called out to the woman who was left behind.

The aunt smiled, but her expression was a little forced. She glanced at the vegetable basket in Li Yue's hand, and then went to the side room to get a small sack of sweet potato.

Li Yue stood there without saying a word, as if she had become accustomed to it.

After the two exchanged food, Li Yue nodded, turned and left. Before going out, the aunt behind him hesitated for a moment, but finally said: "Come back later...at night."

"Um."

Li Yue agreed softly and then left.

Zhuhe Village is a small mountain village with a river to the west and a bamboo forest to the east.

In the past, in addition to their own farming, the villagers would go to work in the mines in Stone City in the north. With this income, the villagers' life was not poor. But after that incident, everything changed.

When Li Yue went home, she saw some idle men under the haystacks beside the village road.

The two parties looked at each other, several men looked unkind, and a short man even cursed and shouted bad luck. It was not until a bald man kicked the short man that he restrained himself angrily.

Li Yue lowered her head and quickened her pace.

The short man looked at Li Yue's retreating back and said with some dissatisfaction: "Second brother, why are you protecting this broom star? She doesn't deserve to be in our village."

"Am I protecting her?"

The bald man glared at the dwarf and said in a deep voice: "I don't want to see you talking like a woman? If this girl commits a crime, the village elders will nod to punish her. If there is no justifiable reason, bully her orphaned old woman? The village still has the dignity of the village.

Otherwise, we still hope that our daughter will marry into a good family."

The short man was a little dissatisfied? "Hey... Second brother, just say it is."

…

Li Yue pushed open the firewood door and walked into her yard. When she looked up, she saw a hunchbacked old woman in the yard, leaning on a long fork and dragging a wooden barrel containing grain, moving with trembling steps.

"Why is grandma out? Come in and take a rest."

"The sun has risen, and I want to dry out the food," the old woman said.

"It would be nice if Yue'er comes? Come into the house quickly."

The girl took the long fork, helped her grandma into the house, told the old man to have a good rest, and then returned to the courtyard. Just as she was about to spread out the mat in the sun, a fat aunt happened to pass by outside the low wall of the small courtyard...

Li Yue still wanted to say hello? But the woman rolled her eyes and spat hard.

"Pooh!"

Li Yue pursed her lips and her eyes were a little dark.

After a while...

Li Yue was spreading the food when a stone was suddenly thrown in from outside the courtyard and almost hit her. She was startled and wanted to look at the door, but she heard the sound of children playing outside the door and more stones were thrown.

Coming in, Little Crescent Moon reacted quickly. She quickly raised the dustpan on the side to her head and squatted on the spot to defend herself.

only……

There was no sound of stones falling, but instead there were cries outside the courtyard.

"Wow, ah, ah, it hurts..."

"Run quickly, the crazy woman is embarrassing you with a stone!"

Li Yue slowly put down the dustpan and looked around with confusion on her face.

At this time, grandma's voice came from the back room: "What's going on outside?"

"Nothing, something knocked over."

Grandma was deaf and couldn't hear clearly from a distance. Li Yue said something casually and then wanted to go into the house to comfort the old man. As soon as she turned around, she suddenly thought of something and said suddenly:

"I see you, come out quickly."

As soon as the words fell, the weeds on the side wall of the courtyard swayed, and the silver-haired boy stood up stupidly.

"Ah, I was discovered."

"..." Qingqi, who was squatting under the wall, put his palm on his forehead. He was obviously convinced. At this moment, there was no need to hide. He jumped over and jumped into the yard with his white scales.

When Li Yue saw the two of them, her eyes brightened at first, but then she frowned. She quickly stepped forward, grabbed their arms, and pulled them to a hidden place in the corner. Then she whispered eagerly: "Why are you here?"

!Did you do it just now?”

Xiao Bailin looked at Qingqi silently.

The latter readily admitted it and said with an unhappy face: "Who let them bully you?"

"Then you can't hurt anyone."

"Huh? Why are you talking to others and why do I still come to you?"

Li Yue stared at the green-haired boy, pinched his waist with both hands, and put on a preaching face, "I'm not talking to others. Just because you stop others from hurting others doesn't mean you can hurt others. You yourself still ask Xiao Bailin to be a good demon every day.

Besides...you usually wouldn't hurt a pheasant, so why did you attack someone today, eh?"

Qingqi knew he was in the wrong, and originally wanted to ask those naughty boys why they were acting like this, but now he just turned his face away and stopped talking.

There was a moment of silence in the field. Xiao Bailin looked at Qingqi, then at Li Yue, and then took out a small flower from his arms. Before he handed it out, Li Yue took the initiative to take it away.

"Okay, go back quickly and don't let anyone see you." The girl said.

"oh……"

Xiao Bailin and Qingqi were about to leave, but before they had taken a few steps, Li Yue behind them saw that the two young men were really aggrieved and couldn't bear it, so she said again: "Wait a minute!"

The green thorns and white scales turned back together.

"Why are you here?" Li Yue wrinkled her nose, looking like she wanted to get angry but could only hold back.

Qingqi was still in a mood, so naturally he didn't say anything.

Bai Lin said: "Birthday gift."

Li Yue blinked, and thought about everyone's agreement to celebrate their birthday together. Her heart warmed slightly, and she relaxed her sullen mood. Her hands changed from pinching her waist to putting the backs of her hands on her waist, then slid behind her, and then shook her body.

.

"Just wait."

The girl turned and left, but soon came back and stuffed two big potatoes into the hands of the two teenagers.

"Here, gift, go back and bake it."

Qingqi looked at the sweet potato in his hand and couldn't help but said: "That's it..."

"What? If you don't like it, just give it back to me."

Li Yue reached out and grabbed it.

Qingqi quickly stuffed the sweet potatoes into his sleeves and said harshly, "My gift is ten thousand times better than this. When the time comes, don't feel ashamed."

"puff……"

Perhaps because he thought Qingqiu's logic of giving gifts to others to embarrass them was too funny, Li Yue felt happy, covered her mouth, and laughed out loud.

"Okay, okay, can you bake sweet potatoes?"

Mr. Qing was unhappy when he heard this, "Although you are better at cooking, you can't look down on me, sir. I'm just a sweet potato. I, I..."

They are all baked for me by others...

Thinking of his old friend, Qingqi suddenly felt sad and the corners of his eyes drooped.

After that, Li Yue looked at Xiao Bailin, took out the nameless wild flower from her sleeve, put it in front of her nose and smelled it, her eyes narrowed into small crescents.

"Thank you for the flowers, I like them very much."

Xiao Bailin smiled back, and then followed Qingqi who left in despair.

"Sweet potato, I can."

Qingqi was stunned for a moment when he heard this, then he looked at Bai Lin quietly, pursed his lips, and looked like he was about to cry.

Li Yue sent the two people to the back door and repeatedly told them to avoid the villagers and return to the lake and valley area quickly. Then she stood under the door, watching the two people's backs disappear into the nearby woods, and murmured to herself: "See you tomorrow."

After that, she went back to the house with some reluctance.

However, in the corner where no one was paying attention, a figure flashed past.

…

Boom!

The sky and the earth flashed white.
To be continued...