Chapter 28 Lychee
"Lu's wife, you, what are you doing!?"
Lao Lizheng was visibly panicking, and he and the villagers behind him all rushed forward, but then stopped abruptly.
It seemed that he was afraid that Lu would do something stupid.
"I just ask the village head to show some mercy."
"You, you are making things difficult for me."
"Please help me, Lord Lizheng!"
As he was about to insert the scissors a little further, the headman quickly waved his hand.
"It's negotiable! Everything is negotiable!"
Only then did Lu slowly put down the scissors.
The atmosphere was silent for a moment.
The maid from the Lu family was so frightened by Lu's extreme and abnormal behavior that she choked up and hurried over to wipe the blood for her.
Xu Zhiqiu's suspicious eyes moved back and forth between Lu, Na Lizheng and the villagers, examining them uncertainly.
For a moment, the villagers' eyes were focused on the village head, waiting for his decision.
He looked conflicted, and from time to time he looked at Xu Zhiqiu, then at Lu, and couldn't help but sigh.
After a while,
"Seven days, seven more days at most!"
The village head slammed Guguai to the ground, and strengthened his tone.
"After that, this person can no longer stay in the village. This is my bottom line!"
After saying that, he stared at Lu with a sharp gaze, which clearly conveyed a meaning of "Don't force me".
Hearing this, I couldn't tell whether to agree or deny.
Anyway, Lu remained silent.
After a while,
Lao Lizheng and a group of villagers just left in disgrace.
After watching them leave, Mrs. Lu seemed to have lost all her strength. She was about to fall down, but was supported by the little maid.
"mother!"
"Mrs. Lu."
Xu Zhiqiu came to Lu and stared into her eyes.
"Seven days later, what day is that?"
The little girl also looked confused and asked her mother for help.
However, Mrs. Lu stroked her daughter's hair, looked at Xu Zhiqiu, suddenly smiled, shook her head but said nothing.
…………
The next few days were peaceful.
It was so quiet that only the faint smell of fireworks remained.
Xu Zhiqiu used monkey wine as an inducement and gave Lu some herbal medicine.
During this period, Lu originally refused, but Xu Zhiqiu seemed to have guessed something, so he rejected her instead.
After taking a few prescriptions of medicine, Mrs. Lu's complexion did improve.
As for his own injuries—the external ones had healed long ago, but the internal ones still needed a few more days of meditation to recuperate—they were not a cause for concern.
Because it is located on a branch of the Huqi Mountain spiritual vein, the entire Kaoshan Village has relatively rich spiritual energy.
Although it was a time of severe drought, the soil here was still more fertile than outside.
Thanks to this,
Thanks to Xu Zhiqiu's care for this period of time, the lychee tree in the yard actually grew fruit.
In just a few days, the round lychee fruits were already hanging all over the treetops.
Although most of them are still green, some of them high up in the tree canopy have already shown a hint of red.
Naturally, you can eat it.
In the afternoon, the sun was bright but not too hot.
Mrs. Lu and the little girl each brought a small stool and sat under the tree.
While enjoying the coolness in the shade of the tree, Lu peeled the lychees, revealing the tender white fruits, and fed them to her daughter one by one.
The little girl obviously likes eating very much, and her cheeks are stuffed with food.
After eating, he would spit out the seeds and return them to his mother.
"Zhi Qiu, you try it too." Lu handed it to Xu Zhi Qiu, but he didn't take it. He peeled one and put it in his mouth to chew.
"How is it? Is it delicious?"
Although it tastes mostly sour, it does have a subtle sweetness when chewed carefully.
He nodded,
“It’s delicious, but…”
Glancing at the girl Lu who was eating enthusiastically, Xu Zhiqiu said vaguely:
"It should have been given some time to mature so that it would have tasted right."
"How can there be so many seasonal and appropriate things?" Mrs. Lu smiled bitterly and caught another seed that her daughter spat out. "If you hadn't taken care of this tree, it wouldn't even sprout, let alone produce fruit."
Lu raised her eyes and looked straight at him.
Those eyes seemed to contain many things.
But Xu Zhiqiu didn't look closely, he clapped his hands and stood up.
"I heard you say before that in previous years you often dried the fruit pulp, crushed it with rock sugar, and mixed it with flour to make lychee cake?"
Mrs. Lu nodded and chuckled, "Yes, but making this pastry is very time-consuming. I don't have enough energy now, so I can't do it, unless you do it for me..."
There was a hint of apology and eagerness on his face.
"I'll do it for you..."
Xu Zhiqiu looked somewhat embarrassed:
"...After I make this pastry, does it still taste as good as before?"
…………
Perhaps it was an illusion. These days, Xu Zhiqiu got up early every day to fetch water from the village, and found that there were fewer villagers coming and going.
I don’t know whether he is lying at home or busy with something else.
In addition, there were a few more villagers who stayed around the Lu family's residence all day long.
As it gets dark, more and more people come.
Xu Zhiqiu knew that he was being monitored.
According to what the old village head said before, this so-called mountain god actually has the ability to send messages to villagers in their dreams.
After all, it is located in a spiritual vein. It has been worshipping the stars and absorbing spiritual energy for countless years, so it is not surprising that it has cultivated such magic.
The reason why it appeared in the villagers' dream to send itself away was probably due to the cautiousness that is unique to animals like it.
After all, in this Kaoshan Village, Xu Zhiqiu is the only one who can threaten it.
Compared with the risks of exterminating everyone, it prefers to keep things peaceful.
Judging from the fight at that time, the old mandrill could actually understand some human language.
Even the weapons held by those monkey cubs were mostly offered by the villagers.
It seems,
It is a group of beasts that is organized and has a program.
The so-called organization is naturally centered around the old mandrill, who uses the name of the mountain god to occupy the entire Daling Mountain.
As for the program, I am afraid there is only one -
"Exploiting the people!"
However, the real troublemaker is not the mountain god.
It is precisely those villagers who seem harmless, but are ignorant and cowardly.
Xu Zhiqiu woke up from meditation and looked out the window.
The Lu family's mother and son were sitting in front of the house, embracing the moonlight, talking about flowers and playing with shadows.
From time to time, the little girl's bell-like laughter and Lu's gentle scolding could be heard.
The mother and daughter had a very pleasant conversation.
"Xueqi, look at the stars in the sky. They are twinkling. It's Daddy saying hello to us."
"Xingxing? Didn't Daddy die?"
"Yes, everyone in this world will die, but good people will become stars after death. Whenever the night sky is cloudless and the stars are shining, it is the dead who are watching their living relatives."
"But... there are so many stars, how do I know which one is him?"
"Look at the brightest one in the north of the sky. That's it. Your father is a good man, so naturally he will be the biggest and brightest one."
"Then mother...will she also become a star?"
"Yes, one day, mother will become a star and watch over you in the sky."
Upon hearing this, Xu Zhiqiu also looked towards the northern sky.
Indeed, the great star is bright,
But there are few sources of light around it, so it is an isolated star.
(End of this chapter)
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