The girl looked indifferent: "Okay, if you are not afraid of death, just follow me." Turn around and leave quickly.

Qi Tan swayed and raised his legs. Lan Hui was stunned. He ran two steps to follow him and whispered: "Brother Wuming, should you be more cautious?"

Qi Tan said, "Little Shadow, you have too little experience in the world. Forget it, you don't understand if you say too much." He then sang to the girl's back, "Hey, can you avoid others when you go to your house? If others find us brothers, you will not be able to earn your only money."

The girl seemed to have not heard it, and continued to strode forward. The yellow dog followed the girl tightly, turning around and grimacing at them.

The village houses were getting closer and closer. When they walked to a bush of short trees, the girl suddenly turned around and plunged into the bush.

All kinds of evil legends of wilderness suddenly passed by Lan Hui's heart, Qi Tan waved at him and followed into the bushes.

Lan Hui hesitated for a moment, had to follow, and pierced the branches and leaves on his face, but found a thin path under his feet. He followed Qi Tan in front of him, and the yellow dog was running in the cracks of the tree.

After walking for a while, he walked out of the bushes and passed through a wasteland with weeds, the girl bent into a dilapidated fence hole. Qi Tan and Lan Hui followed him and saw a short wall in front of him, several short huts. The yellow dog stood beside the wall and began to yell at them again.

The girl stamped her feet: "Don't call the earth ball!" She pushed open the wooden fence between two low walls.

Another voice floated from the wall from afar: "Is there someone else outside?"

The body of a half woman in a coarse cloth dress poked out from the fence. When the woman saw Lan Hui and Qi Tan, she was stunned for a moment and walked out completely.

"Whose family belongs to these two children?"

Lan Hui saluted her: "Madam, I took the liberty to disturb her."

The woman took two more steps towards them. Her body was slightly hunched and thin, her eye sockets were slightly sunken, her sideburns were a little white, her cuffs were tied, and her clothes with patches were clean. Her eyes looked at Lan Hui were full of kindness.

"Oh, this is a young master. I can't afford to be a lady. Are you brothers? Where are your adults?"

The girl took off the basket on her shoulder: "Mom, these two little ghosts seem to have escaped from home. I just met them on the road. They used sticks to scare the earth balls and wanted to come with me again, so I brought them here."

Qi Tan said proudly: "Wu, don't talk nonsense. You have always been so self-righteous, and you are too lazy to explain to you." Then he hugged the older woman, "My brothers are just passing by here."

For the first time in his life, such a rural woman looked at her and gave her a greeting ceremony, which was the first time to create a world of enlightenment. Thinking about the past, this woman could not reach within ten feet of her if she wanted to kowtow to him. At this time, she raised her hand and felt aroused in her heart.

I am really a prodigal son in the world.

The woman wiped her hands on the apron and gave in to the side: "Two young men come in first to drink water."

Lan Hui couldn't help but look at Qi Tan, and Qi Tan smiled slightly: "Don't bother, we brothers are still on the way. We want to buy some water and dry food with you." A piece of silver was found in our sleeves, "I am a person from the world, and I don't have much money, I just want to give it to you."

The woman immediately smiled: "Young Master, we, the countryside, cannot prepare anything worth your money. Don't give the money to others easily outside, just put it away quickly. I'm cooking on the stove, come in first to drink some tea and eat it."

Qi Tan said, "No need, I'm really in a hurry to rush. You can get some water from the well, fill this water bag, and get a dozen boiled eggs. The extra money is just to reward you."

Lan Hui looked at Qi Tan secretly with agreement. It seemed that Lang Wuming also understood some rules in the world. He was recorded in the legend. He walked on the road. Even if he saw an old, weak, and a woman, he should not take it lightly. He must be careful of plotting. The water that was shot from the well and the boiled eggs with shells were the least likely to be poisoned.

The girl shouted: "More than a dozen boiled eggs? Where can we get so many eggs? Who would just cook for you? My family is not a tavern. I want to order vegetables and go back to the streets of the city. There is no need to buy a hundred taels of silver!"

The woman turned her head reproachfully: "Amaranth, don't be rude."

Qi Tan held his hands behind his back: "Two hundred taels, is there?"

The woman glared at the girl who wanted to retaliate, and turned to Qi Tan and said, "Young Master, the wells in our countryside are astringent, and they cannot eat raw water, and they will make your stomach cool. I cook porridge and some cakes on the stove. If you can't eat anything else, you can eat something else. If you want to eat boiled eggs, it will take some time to wash and cook. You can't just stand outside."

Lan Hui moved his legs, his legs were very woody and sore. He fell just now, but his knees and ankles were still a little painful. He looked at the woman cautiously, feeling that she was really not like a bad person, so he looked at Qi Tan again.

Qi Tan nodded: "Well." He waved his hand to Lan Hui and swaggered into the fence.

The woman ordered the girl to drive away the barking yellow dog and lead them into the house.

Lan Hui stepped into such a place for the first time, and couldn't help but look around curiously. When he entered the main hall, he stepped on the door and almost fell again. The woman quickly supported him: "Be good, be careful."

Lan Hui saluted with a righteous tribute: "Thank you, my wife."

The woman Yanran: "The young master is really like a little adult. Come here and sit here and tell my aunt, how old are you? You are not ten years old yet."

Lan Hui looked serious: "Thank you for giving me a seat, I will be ten years old next year."

Qi Tan coughed, and the woman smiled and touched Lan Hui's head: "Nine years old, okay, okay."

Lan Hui twisted his neck uncomfortably, and Qi Tan sat down on the big bench in the upper head. This main hall was as big as the carriage on the road he had been demoted on this road. It was low and dark, and the ground was bumpy under his feet, but it was cleaned up, and the tables, chairs, and benches were even more unique and interesting.

There was also a scent inside the house, which smelled a little choking, similar to the smell that Qi Tan smelled when he secretly went to the market and passed by Chenghuang Temple.

The woman took a hand towel, wiped the stains on Lan Hui's face, then gathered the hair that ran away for him, and looked at Qi Tan again: "This young man is not a few years older than your brother. Don't blame my aunt for talking too much, why do you two children run outside by themselves? How could the family be so anxious."

Qi Tan was serious: "We brothers walked around the world, but they had no parents or relatives."

The woman suddenly changed her expression: "Then how do you two children live? Can any relatives join us?"

Lan Hui's heart twitched slightly, remembered her father, and turned her eyes to avoid the woman's pity.

"Although I am not very experienced in Xiajianghu, I can still deal with it when I walk with Brother Lang."

The woman was surprised again: "Are you not brothers?"

Lan Hui was solemn: "My younger generation and Brother Lang are brothers of different surnames."

Qi Tan quickly snatched his words: "This little kid is not good at speaking. We are not born to the same mother. Oh, it is harder to take care of him, but we can still deal with it. We brothers' backgrounds and origins cannot be told to outsiders. I hope you don't ask me any more."

The girl Amaranth said outside the door and leaned in: "Mom, don't listen to these two boys talking nonsense, they are still orphans? They must be the young master who escaped from home!"

Qi Tan stood up and said, "Can you not have dried tea here? Then we..."

The woman hurriedly said, "Yes, yes, you can sit down first." She got up and took the girl to the kitchen, and soon brought a basin of hot rice soup.

"Eating white water is too harmful to the spleen and stomach. The water in our countryside is astringent. I am afraid that you will not be used to it. Before the porridge is ready, I will scoop some soup to drink it to quench your thirst and warm your stomach. The rice will be ready soon."

Lan Hui stood up and said, "Thank you."

The woman smiled and rubbed the top of his head: "So good. Yes, my aunt hasn't asked you what your name is yet."

Before Lan Hui could speak, Qi Tan snatched again: "His name is Wu Ying, my name is Wu Ming. Are you mother and daughter noble surname?"

The woman said, "My mother's surname is Huang, and her husband's surname is Cai. Just call me Aunt Cai. The one I brought you over is my daughter Amaranth. I have to do farm work on weekdays, but I didn't teach her the rules well. Don't blame me for the two young masters." She blew the bowl full of rice soup and put it in front of them. "It's a bit hot, drink it slowly with a spoon. Auntie will take some hot water and help you scrub it."

Lan Hui wrinkled her face: "Thank you Aunt Cai." He didn't want to eat the blown soup, but the turbid rice soup in the bowl smelled very fragrant.

Aunt Cai smiled and touched his head again, Qi Tan lowered his eyes and stirred the soup in the bowl with a porcelain spoon. When Cai Huang left the main hall, he immediately took out a silver stick from his sleeve, inserted it into the bowl, took it out and looked at it, nodding slightly: "Drink it. Xiaoyingzi, you are so inexperienced in the world."

Lan Hui said: "You are here."

Qi Tan raised his eyebrows: "No, I can tell at a glance that the village girl and daughter are ordinary country women. Even if you are 100% sure of everything, you still have to be careful. This is the way to walk around the world. You are too young, and when someone asked, you almost explained your true feelings. How can you do this?"

Lan Hui was so choked that she couldn't speak. After a while, she blushed and said, "I am the real one, the real one."

Qi Tan tsk, "I'm still stubborn if I don't know what I'm going to say, don't talk, just follow me."

Lan Hui choked again, picked up the bowl angrily, and took a big sip of the soup.

Qi Tan still stirred the spoon, and when Lan Hui was almost finished drinking a bowl, he started drinking slowly.

Lan Hui raised her eyes from the bowl: "Why do you have to wait until I drink it?"

Qi Tan raised his lips: "I'm afraid of being hot."

"He is afraid of death, and he is afraid that medicine will be applied inside, so I will try the poison!" The girl Amaranth strode into the house with a basin, put the basin on the stool, and glanced at the two of them back and forth.

"You are not brothers, aren't you? How could your brother treat your younger brother like this? Are you children from both families?"

Lan Hui hugged the bowl tightly and kept her mouth tightly. Qi Tan raised her eyebrows: "You guess."

Amaranth sneered and looked at Lan Hui: "Little devil, sister advises you to go home obediently and don't play with such people."

Lan Hui blinked and Qi Tan sneered: "There is no need for you, a long-tongued woman, to stir up trouble with me. I know who should I get along with, Xiaoying himself."

Amaranth said with her waist, "Then why are you afraid of me talking?"

Qi Tan said: "Noisy."

Amaranth was about to retort, and Cai Huang walked in with a cloth comb, scolded her a few words, and sent her to the kitchen to bring water to wash Lan Hui and Qi Tan.

Lan Hui's palm rubbed its skin when it fell down. Cai Huang held his hand and blew it, carefully clearing the wound for him, pounded some herbs and applied it to it, and then wrapped it with a clean veil.

"But remember to avoid food. Don't eat what you have recently, don't play with water, do you know?"

Lan Hui nodded. Cai Huang's hands were very rough, with calluses in his palms, and his behavior was not as delicate and gentle as the maids and the wet nurses. However, when the hands were holding a coarse cloth towel to wipe their faces and combing their hair, Lan Hui felt a hint of warmth in his heart. When Cai Huang blew the wound on him, he was not disgusted.

Cai Huang asked him to get up again, help him brush the dust on his body, and then shook his outer robe for Qi Tan. Lan Hui looked at her movements and suddenly had a thought-

What would it be if I had a mother too?

He then thought of his father, his heart twitched again, and he lowered his head.

Amaranth's voice floated in from outside the door again: "Mom, mom, the pancake is ready."

Cai Huang walked to the door with her robe in her arms: "Then wash all the eggs in the basket and cook them."

Qi Tan coughed lightly: "There is no need for eggs, we brothers can eat the same meal as you."

The fire of the oil lamp swayed, and the hot porridge and wild vegetable cakes were served on the table, and the steaming mist blurred the vision, adding a little warmth to the narrow house.

Cai Huang rolled up his sleeves to serve rice, Amaranth placed the bowls and chopsticks, Lan Hui approached the rough bowl, took a sip of millet porridge, and then took a bite of the cake that was smeared with sauce, and even the pores on the top of his head opened comfortably.

The porridge and cake made him feel extremely fragrant. The rising smoke made him feel like he was soaked in warm water and was in the clouds.

He looked at Qi Tan who was eating cakes on the opposite side of the table. Qi Tan seemed to be farther away from him, more blurry, and more...

He yawned, his eyelids gradually drooped and stuck.

Qi Tan was biting a bite of the cake, but saw Lan Hui holding the cake tilted towards the ground opposite. He was stunned and stood up suddenly, but he felt dizzy and his feet were unstable. He fell to the ground with a bang.
Chapter completed!