Both beggars

At night, the faint light of the candles shines on Ye Xiaocao and Hua Xi, causing the two to cast their reflections on the wall, one lying down and the other sitting.

Ye Xiaocao has been thinking about how to live in the future. It shouldn't be like this to visit every small town. Sooner or later, the two of them will run out of money. After that, what should they do?

Perhaps because of being too tired, Huaxi slept soundly next to Ye Xiaocao, Ye Xiaocao looked at her, her sleeping face was beautiful, her long eyelashes cast a shadow, she was as quiet as Ye Xiaocao when she was a child The sleeping beauty in the fairy tale she had read, she couldn't help but bent down, pecked lightly on her cheek, then lay down beside her, and gradually fell asleep.

The light of the candles enveloped them, giving them a warm orange-yellow layer.

Maybe they were lucky enough to find a ruined temple here, so the two of them came in and lived there.

It was dusk at that time, and the ruined temple was at least fairly bright, but Ye Xiaocao knew that at night, it was impossible to see clearly, not to mention, if they closed the temple door, the moonlight would not be able to shine in.

There were candles on the table, but it was useless without tools to light the fire. Ye Xiaocao could only randomly find two logs of different thicknesses on the ground, and imitated the ancients to drill wood to make fire. Hitting for a while, still unsuccessful.

Seeing that the sky was about to darken, Ye Xiaocao became anxious, and threw the stone far away, and kicked the wood that was placed at his feet viciously.

"What the hell!" Ye Xiaocao cursed, and sat down on the cold ground.

Seeing her like this, Huaxi quickly comforted her, "Don't be discouraged, Xiaocao, otherwise we can search on the ground, and maybe we can find something similar to a fire book."

"Okay." Ye Xiaocao felt powerless, she wasted a lot of time, and ended up with nothing.

"Get up quickly, the ground is cold, if you want to sleep later, you can sleep on the straw." Huaxi helped Ye Xiaocao up, and patted the dust on her pants.

Next, Ye Xiaocao walked around the table where the tribute should have been placed five times, but still found nothing.Hua Xi, on the other hand, gently pushed aside the straw on the ground, and found it much more carefully than Ye Xiaocao.

"Xiaocao, I found it!"

Ye Xiaocao was thinking that it would be fine if she couldn't find it, but Hua Xi suddenly called out, and she immediately came to her side and asked her if she found the fire booklet.

"Yeah! I didn't expect such good luck, I really found it!" Huaxi looked happy, and put the fire folder in Ye Xiaocao's hand.

Ye Xiaocao held Huozhezi in front of her eyes and observed carefully.

How to use this?

She tentatively blew on the fire pocket, and suddenly lit up.

Huaxi was more excited than Ye Xiaocao, she brought a candle, and after Ye Xiaocao lit it, she put the candle on the table.

The flickering candlelight could barely illuminate the dilapidated temple.Ye Xiaocao and Huaxi sat outside the temple, hugging their knees and leaning close together.

There are no people on the street at night, only the crescent moon hangs on the branches, and the moonlight falls all over the place, and there is an occasional breeze.Gradually, Ye Xiaocao felt that Huaxi next to her seemed to be trembling, thinking that she must be cold, so she reached out and hugged her tightly, her eyes showed concern, but due to the light, It didn't look real, "Huaxi, let's go in, it's time to rest."

Huaxi nodded in her arms, Ye Xiaocao smiled slightly, helped her up, entered the temple, closed the door, and blocked the two worlds outside the temple and inside the temple.

When she woke up, the candle on the table was burnt out and turned into ashes, Ye Xiaocao went to open the door, at this time it was already bright, the light came in directly, Ye Xiaocao couldn't open her eyes for a while.

They carried their burdens on their backs and started on the road again.

After walking for a short time, they stopped by a clear stream and washed their faces.The shadows of the two of them were reflected in the creek, and Ye Xiaocao pointed at Hua Xi's shadow in the stream and praised her for her beauty, Hua Xi shyly covered her face.

Leaving Linyi Town, Ye Xiaocao and Huaxi came to this small town called "Mudu".

As for how he knew it, of course, he just randomly asked a sister who looked good to talk to on the street.

"The name of this town is Jing, De, and Zhen," just now Huaxi asked Ye Xiaocao how to pronounce the three words on the sign, Ye Xiaocao pointed to the words on it, and told her word by word.

"Then Xiaocao, tell me, which 'quiet' and which 'de' is this?"

"Quiet'jing', moral's'de'." Ye Xiaocao patiently explained to Huaxi.

After hearing Ye Xiaocao finished reading, Huaxi sighed, her small nose wrinkled, in Ye Xiaocao's eyes, she was really cute, but also made people feel distressed, so she hugged her quickly and asked her what's wrong.

Huaxi seemed to be speaking in a complaining tone, and she felt aggrieved when she heard it, and she said: "Mr. Ye taught you to read but not me. Now we are playing around, what are you carrying with you?" I don’t understand, don’t you think it’s a burden?”

Ye Xiaocao pinched her nose, suppressed a smile and said: "Huaxi, what are you thinking in your little head! If I think you are a burden, I won't take you out! Besides Yes, there is an old saying that is very good, it is called "a woman who has no talent is virtuous", and an illiterate girl like you is the most virtuous!"

Huaxi laughed softly, and then asked: "But Xiaocao, you are also a woman, why do you know how to read, so you lose your virtue?"

Ye Xiaocao really wanted to say "what's going on in our reality", but thanks to her closing her mouth in time, she didn't say the words that Huaxi couldn't possibly understand.

"I'm illiterate, how can the two of us get along? Don't you think I need to tell you the name of the town?" After Ye Xiaocao finished speaking, she thought it was wrong, so she added, "Hua Xi, we What is the relationship between the two, as long as you have virtue, I will also have virtue."

Huaxi blushed and lowered her head.

People passed by from time to time, they casually glanced at the two of them, and then left again.The people in this small town don't seem very busy!

Through Huaxi's words, Ye Xiaocao understood something, that is, Ye Xiaocao could read a few words even though she was a beggar, fortunately she could, otherwise it would be troublesome for her to explain that she could read .

She was aware of this question when she was in Linyi Town before, but she kept it in her heart and didn't ask it. Now that she understands it, it's no wonder that Huaxi didn't have any doubts about her.

The reason why Jingde Town is called the "wood capital" is precisely because the wood here is the best in the city. People in other towns who want to buy wood furniture for their homes will come here to get wood.

Ye Xiaocao and Hua Xi held each other's hands and walked slowly down the street.

After a night's rest, coupled with Chen Jing's excellent Jinchuang medicine, their injuries, which were not very serious, are now much better.

"Xiaocao... Do you like your feelings for me?" Huaxi suddenly stopped, turned to look at Ye Xiaocao, and asked this sentence extremely seriously.

Ye Xiaocao was stunned for a moment, and then the corners of her mouth curled up slightly. She let go of Huaxi's hand, touched her face lightly, and replied with the same seriousness: "I don't like it."

Upon hearing this, Huaxi's originally expectant eyes suddenly dimmed, and then replaced by sadness and loss. She felt something stuck in her throat, forcing her to be speechless, and she lowered her head.

Ye Xiaocao felt sorry for Huaxi, and knew that she shouldn't be joking like this, so she cupped her face in both hands, "Huaxi, listen to me,"

Ye Xiaocao looked at Huaxi with the most sincere eyes, and said in the most firm tone: "Huaxi, I don't like you because I love you, fool, how can I let you be sad, you are so sad. The bitter melon face is not good-looking at all, come on, give your little grass a smile!"

Hua Xi smiled, her cheeks blushing unnaturally.Ye Xiaocao knew that she was shy.

"Huaxi, I promise you that I will never make fun of you again. Let's go. Just now, the sister said that the most famous thing here is wood. I'm a little curious. Can we go and have a look?"

From Ye Xiaocao's point of view, every small town seems to be very similar, the same straight street, the same people coming and going, the same rows of trees, blowing their branches and leaves in the breeze.

"Well, what you say is what it is."

Huaxi has always been submissive, so that she was often bullied by others in the past, but now that she has Ye Xiaocao, she will definitely protect her in everything.Besides, Ye Xiaocao expressed that she was very happy that she listened to her like this. Of course, she also hoped that Huaxi could have her own ideas and put forward her own opinions on some things.

Ye Xiaocao and Huaxi walked all the way, but they didn't find anything special.Ye Xiaocao doesn't understand wood, but it's true that she saw a few people walking with wood on the street more than once.

"Okay, Huaxi, I'm not interested, there's nothing interesting here." Ye Xiaocao shook her head in disappointment.

It's really helpless, isn't it a good trip to the mountains and rivers?There is no mountain, but there is water, but there is really nothing interesting.

Ye Xiaocao and Huaxi found a place to sit down at random, it was a huge tree, it must have a long history.There were several stone benches under the tree, and the two of them sat under the stone benches, preparing to rest for a while.

Although there are people coming and going, it's not a big deal for passers-by to look at them, but Ye Xiaocao always feels that there are two eyes staring at them.

I looked around for a while, but found nothing, nothing more than ordinary people walking on the street, and I couldn't see anyone who harbored ill intentions towards them.

Seeing something strange about Ye Xiaocao, Hua Xi followed her gaze, but also found nothing, but now, she was confused and looked at Ye Xiaocao puzzled.

Ye Xiaocao shook her head and said it's okay, since she saw that Hua Xi didn't notice anything, it's useless to say it by herself, it will cause her panic instead, so it's better not to say it.

They didn't notice that there was a pair of eagle eyes staring at them closely in the distance, murderous intent appeared in the eyes, but what the eagle eyes didn't notice was that behind him, there was another pair of eyes staring at him, those eyes were like stars. Clear and clean.

The author has something to say: I am poor in words, my vocabulary is not enough, I am making bricks by myself...