Luo Yan leaned lazily under the pear tree with a dog's tail in his mouth, waiting for Lu An with Ji Qingbai.
Lu An was ordered by his father to cut a basket of grass every day, so the two unemployed homeless people had to wait for someone under the pear tree on the corner of his house every day.
"Lu An said that a wild duck came to the green swamp east of the town. The three of us caught it today. We will have roast wild duck for dinner."
As he spoke, Ji Qingbai patted the canvas bag with a casual expression, "Fruit knife, lighter, cumin, salt, and chili powder, are you complete?"
Luo Yan's eyes were filled with stars, and her face was filled with anticipation.
She has never caught game outside, so this plan is so beautiful!
"Who will deal with the duck then?"
"Lu An, he's very good at his craftsmanship. He's an expert at killing chickens and fish. His knives are clean and neat, and his cooking skills are superb. You can just follow suit."
"Um!"
After half an hour, Lu An trotted over and each gave them a beautifully packaged dessert.
Ji Qingbai: "What is this?"
"Macarons, my brother brought them to me when he came back from college. They're delicious. I'll bring them to you to try."
"Is your brother home?"
"I just arrived today, so I was delayed for a while." Lu An looked at Luo Yan holding the macaron and suddenly asked: "By the way, Luo Yan, aren't you from the city? Are you eating?"
Have you eaten macarons many times? My brother said that there is a mousse cake that is also delicious. I am obedient and he will buy it for me next time he comes back. How delicious is the mousse cake? Is it better than ice cream? "
"I haven't eaten it either..." Luo Yan opened the wrapping paper and said in a low voice, "No one bought it for me. My uncle and aunt don't like me very much. I rarely have snacks."
Lu An scratched his head and wondered: "Why did you follow your uncle's house?"
"My mother works far away and leaves me at my uncle's house to raise me."
"Then...what kind of relative is Aunt Lu of yours?"
"I'm not a relative, she picked me up."
Lu An and Ji Qingbai paused for a moment. They only knew that she was a child brought back from the county by Aunt Lu. They did not ask about her life experience and thought she was a city child who lived a carefree life.
Luo Yan spoke these words quietly, her eyes looking at the beautiful macarons in her hands, very calm, not showing sadness or depression.
In fact, she had known it for a long time. She was not a fool. She knew that she had been abandoned when the sun went down in the county town and no one was around.
Aunt Lu kept it secret from her, so she pretended not to know.
Ji Qingbai picked a bougainvillea from the tree on the roadside and put it in Luo Yan's hand. "The bougainvillea is beautiful, isn't it? Let me tell you a more interesting thing. Soak it in a cup and rub it with water, and it will become special.
Beautiful purple color.”
Luo Yan's attention was successfully sucked away, "Hey, is it true?"
"Well, Lu An and I discovered it once. You can try picking a few flowers another day."
"OK."
The green swamps to the east have dense grass growth, and the knee-deep grass is a good place to hide wild ducks and birds.
Lu An scouted in the grass for a while, roughly determined the location of the duck, and asked Luo Yan to guard the pass. He and Ji Qingbai, one on the left and the other on the right, crawled in the grass.
When the wind blows, the wild grass turns into green waves and the blue waves sway slightly.
Luo Yan looked at the faint brown color exposed deep in the grass, her heart tightened, and she subconsciously held her breath.
Ji Qingbai was dressed in a delicate white T-shirt. His broken hair was pushed behind his ears by the wind. His eyes were fixed on the target. When he saw the duck's butt, he reached out and gestured to Lu An.
3,2,1······That’s it now!
The two of them rushed forward——
Lu An held down the duck's wings, and Ji Qingbai touched the duck's back. However, the duck's feathers were too slippery, and their actions startled the duck. It flapped its wings in panic and slipped away under their hands.
"Luo Yan, it's heading towards you, stop it!"
Lu An shouted excitedly and chased after him from behind.
Luo Yan looked at the wild duck flying toward him, raised his breath in his throat, and opened his hands to stop it.
Seeing an obstacle ahead, the wild duck took a detour in time, flapped its wings, turned sharply and ran towards the depths of the grass.
The duck meat that reached your mouth just ran away?
no!
Luo Yan rolled up his sleeves and stared straight at the dinner, chasing after his prey.
"Lu An, run in front of it and block it, we'll catch it!"
"Block to the right, block to the right! The space in front is too big and difficult to grasp!"
Lu An spread his legs and raced with the wild duck, his breath was unsteady from exhaustion, "It's too fast!"
He finally took a step ahead of the duck and got in front of the duck, suddenly changing its route. When the duck turned around and turned right, Ji Qingbai and Luo Yan saw the right opportunity and pounced forward——
Lu An, who followed closely behind, also rushed away——
The three of them fell to the ground covered in mud, and the wild ducks that escaped from the gap quacked for their lives.
"You can't let it run away. Drive it back quickly. I will definitely eat it today!"
The duck seemed to understand Lu An's words and ran away faster.
The three of them ran around for more than half a circle, but this time they couldn't even touch it. Finally, they watched it disappear into the lush green swamp.
The green swamp is already rich in water, and underneath the green grass is moist land. The team members were stained with water and mud, looking at each other and laughing.
"Qingbai's head is covered with grass, and his hair is a mess, like a little lunatic, hahaha——"
"Luo Yan is the worst. He is covered in mud, his face is stained, and his mouth can't be seen hahahahaha——"
Lu An almost lost his breath from laughing. The scene in front of him was so funny. Luo Yan didn't know how he fell. Half of his face was covered with yellow mud, and the area around his mouth was covered. He looked very funny.
When Ji Qingbai saw her, he also held his belly and smiled.
Luo Yan slowly spit out the mud in her mouth and wiped her mouth randomly with the back of her hand. Seeing that the two of them were laughing happily, she laughed along without losing temper.
However, Lu An was really laughing too wildly. With a hook of her left hand, she easily took off his shoes and threw them aside coolly.
"Lu An, why did your shoes escape? Go and pick them up quickly."
"So vindictive? I just gave you a macaron."
Lu An pouted, stood up, patted his clothes, and went to pick up his shoes.
After a while, his broken voice was heard, "Fuck, ah-"
They both looked over.
I saw him jumping and running back, "Snake, snake! There's a big black snake, run!"
!!!
With smiles still on their faces, the two people quickly stood up and ran back desperately, taking three steps at a time and then two steps at a time.
Lu An gave up his shoes and ran wildly in the wetland with one bare foot.
After reaching a safe area, the three of them lay exhausted on the ground to calm their racing hearts.
"Is that snake big?"
Lu An swallowed his saliva, "It's thick, long, and shiny black. He was spitting out snakes when he saw me. Damn, those vertical pupils stared at me so eerily, as if he was going to give me a bite in the next second."
Huh……"
He shivered, and his scalp went numb when he thought of that scene.
Luo Yan patted her chest with lingering fear and breathed a sigh of relief, "If the three of us had stayed there for a while longer, we might have been bitten by it. Fortunately, I threw your shoes over. I am really your savior."
"When I was bitten by that thing, I couldn't even think about it. It must be a poisonous snake."
"It's true that stealing a duck can only lose a shoe. It's a bad start but a bad start."