In the mornings these days, Ruoyu gets up very early, carries a small basket on her back and closes the door to pick prunella vulgaris.
In fact, Wang Niqian was asked to do it by the gang, but he always felt that he was living under someone else's roof. No matter what reason he was brought to this mountain, he didn't want to be idle and did his best to do something.
The ears of mature Prunella vulgaris are brownish red. It is not really a dead grass as the name suggests. There are small purple flowers growing on the sides. It is not ugly. It has the effect of clearing fire and improving eyesight. I heard that someone injured their eyes recently and offered a high price.
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I obviously got up very early, but there were still many children in the gang who were picking herbs who got up earlier than me.
Ruoyu got along very well with those children, and would greet her warmly when they met. However, when those children looked at her today, they just covered their mouths and smiled, covering their mouths with their hands. They didn’t know what they were talking about.
As soon as they got closer, they immediately dispersed.
There was a little girl with two buns who was very familiar to me. She said a few words to the other children around her, held something in her hand, and boldly walked towards her.
The little girl looked at Ruoyu with a smile, blinked and said, "I'm going to give you something as a gift to my sister. Please stretch out your hand and close your eyes."
Children here who are younger than me all call them sister, which is very cordial.
After hearing this, Ruoyu spread her hands and closed her eyes, guessing what they were going to give her in such a mysterious way.
Something fell from my hand and spread lightly on my hand, a little bit broken.
What I remembered next was the sound of the little girl running away, and her happily shouting: "Sister, you can open your eyes now."
I didn't expect that what I put in my hand was a handful of peanuts mixed with lotus seeds.
Seeing Ruoyu's slightly surprised expression in the distance, she laughed loudly and noisily.
Although there is no malicious intent at all, these peanuts and lotus seeds...
I haven't heard from Wang Niqian recently that these two foods can also be used as medicine.
The little girl, who was wearing two buns, wanted to shout again, but she saw Wang Yitian walking over at some point.
He probably saw what Ruoyu was holding, and his expression changed. It seemed that he always liked to blush when he met her.
The little girls whispered a few words, hovered between Ruoyu and Wang Yitian with ambiguous expressions, held hands, sang a song, and ran away happily.
Only he and Wang Yitian were left, quietly, with one or two birdsong in the distance.
Ruoyu just looked at the peanuts in her hand, staring intently, and finally her hand shook suddenly
Those little boys looked so ambiguous just now, but Wang Yitian still looks unnatural now...
I heard that both peanuts and lotus seeds have the meaning of giving birth to children early.
Trying to calm down, Ruoyu looked at Wang Yitian calmly and asked, "What do you want from me?"
It seemed that she didn't expect that Ruoyu, who was smiling at the little girls just now, would have such an attitude towards herself.
My slightly excited heart seemed to have been poured a ladle of cold water on me. It calmed down and my lips pursed into a thin line without saying anything.
Ruoyu was holding peanuts in her hands, rubbing them while saying, "I heard that peanuts have the meaning of giving birth to a child early?"
Wang Yitian froze, but nodded awkwardly, his skin that had just returned to wheat color turned red again, and said: "The gang leader said that you are not married, so why not settle down in the gang?"
And Ruoyu poured out her hands, poured the peanuts and lotus seeds in her hands on the ground, and said to Wang Yitian: "With whom?"
Wang Yitian was still stiff, his tongue was not very flexible and he was about to speak, but the words had not yet come out.
I don’t know what I was thinking, but I awkwardly tried to untie the jade pendant around my waist. My hands were shaking a little, and I couldn’t untie it. I waved my hands forward and got very close, as if I wanted to hug the weak body in front of me.
But he saw a sword flying down and stuck on the ground between Ruoyu and Wang Yitian!