amaotonovel Chapter 194 Sad Farewell
Chapter 194 Sad Farewell
Xia Qingyue was eager to return home, so she headed straight for the tiankeng. Under the scorching sun, she was forced to stop to rest twice, and hid whenever she heard any noise someone was coming.
She ran to the vicinity of the tiankeng, and Heihei, who had been guarding the entrance with drooping eyelids and a listless look, suddenly opened her eyes wide, stood up, and growled twice towards the cave entrance.
The cave door opened and Xia Qingyue slipped in. Before she could see what was inside, a black shadow flashed before her eyes.
Heihei pounced over and raised his front paws to step on her chest.
"Oh oh oh!" Heihei opened his mouth and called out eagerly, his voice sounded like complaining and coquettishness, but more of it was excitement and happiness.
Xia Qingyue was almost fainted by the sudden step. She pulled up the black front foot with both hands, and the heavy pressure on her chest disappeared immediately.
She put down its front legs, squatted down, hugged its head, and stroked it again and again with her hands, "Heihei, I'm sorry, I'm back late!"
Heihei kept whimpering in her arms, raising his feet to pull her away, with tears streaming down his eyes.
The tears fell on the back of Xia Qingyue's hand, and when they touched her skin, it burned as if it was burned by fire, and the pain went deep into her heart.
After a long while, with her gentle comfort, Heihei's emotions gradually stabilized. He opened his mouth wide and looked at her with a bright smile.
"You must be starving. Come on, I'll cook something for you."
As soon as Xia Qingyue stood up and walked away, Heihei immediately followed closely behind her. She went to get eggs, scooped water from the water tank and poured it into the pot. She walked back and forth, and it followed her all the time.
Boil a few chicken and duck eggs in the pot, take them out and let them dry after they are cooked, then make a bowl of fried rice paste made of soybean powder and flour with hot water.
She put it at a suitable temperature and gave it to Heihei to eat. Heihei rolled up the batter with his tongue and started eating it in big mouthfuls. She squatted beside him and peeled chicken and duck eggs.
After seeing Heihei finish eating, she went to chop wild grass to feed the poultry.
After providing the poultry with enough grass and water and collecting the chicken and duck eggs, she stood in the poultry house looking at them, muttering to herself:
"There are a lot of poultry here. It's not realistic to bring them all over or kill them all. I'd better come back early in the morning every few days."
She turned around and went out, went back to her room and simply packed three sets of clothes. She would wear the pair of straw sandals she was already wearing, and would weave them later if they broke.
"You have to bring the black wooden plate so that it can play with Xiaobai!"
She wiped the wooden tray and the bow and arrow, put them away, and put them into the backpack with the packed luggage.
The backpack was the one she carried out yesterday morning, with about two hundred pagoda-shaped mosquito coils at the bottom. She got up and rummaged around in the bamboo cabinet, and found more than a dozen simple sachets sewn with linen and needle and thread.
Several of the sachets were sewn last year. They are not very beautiful, but they do not affect their use.
In July of this year, the weather started to get hot and mosquitoes appeared. She wanted to put some dried mint and dried mugwort into sachets to make mosquito repellent bags, and she sewed a few more sachets.
The few sachets made later were a little better and looked similar.
She found some dried mint and wormwood and filled all the sachets with them. She picked out the one she thought was the best and put it inside her clothes.
She planned to give mosquito coils and mosquito repellent packets to Han Zhibai and the Li family for them to use on the road.
After putting away all the things, Xia Qingyue picked up the shoulder pole and wooden bucket, and went to the pond to fetch water to water the vegetables under the scorching sun. She watered them all briefly, as she would have to wait a few days before coming back.
When everything was done, she entered the cave and closed the doors of each room, finally the cave door outside.
Standing there and looking at the wooden door that blended into the color of the mountain wall, she knew in her heart that she would have to come back soon, but she just couldn't bear to leave.
"Let's go, Heihei."
After walking a few steps, she felt uneasy and went back to check.
It's like when you've already left the house, closed the door and left, but you're worried whether you've closed the doors and windows properly, so you go back to check anxiously.
She and Han Zhibai agreed to meet at a place on the edge of the dense forest. When they hurried there, it was already noon.
When they arrived at the agreed location, Han Zhibai had not arrived yet. She took Heihei to hide in a cool dark place and waited for about half an hour until he showed up.
The two men didn't say much and rushed to the camp.
The people in the garrison had already had lunch at noon. The two men hurried over, but Li Benfu said there was no rush and asked them to eat first, which was still mushroom soup and a steamed bun with wild vegetables.
After eating and packing up, it’s time to say goodbye.
Every family member hugged the family member who was going on a trip reluctantly and said some heartfelt words to them.
Xia Qingyue suppressed her reluctance, blinked her sore eyes, and said to Han Zhibai with a smile: "Your own safety is the most important thing. Be careful on the road. We will wait for you at home until you come back!"
She had to hold back her tears. She couldn't cry. It would be uncomfortable if she cried. She had to let him go without worries.
Xiaobai seemed to have a premonition and kept raising his feet to pull at Han Zhibai's trouser legs, "Oh oh oh!"
Han Zhibai clenched his fists and tried his best to suppress his emotions. Even though he tried his best to hold back, the corners of his eyes were still stained red. Thousands of words finally converged into one sentence: "Don't worry, I'll be back soon!"
He bent down and crouched, raised his hand and gently stroked Xiaobai's head, "Stay beside her and be obedient."
"This is for you. It can repel mosquitoes." She handed the sachet over, lowered her eyes, and a light blush appeared on her face. "I sewed it. It doesn't look very good."
Han Zhibai stood up suddenly, stretched out his hands, and took it devoutly, as if it were a treasure, "Qingyue, I will carry it with me!"
"Oh, and there are also pagoda mosquito coils." She took out the mosquito coils and handed them to him.
After saying goodbye, under people's tearful gaze, the traveling team gradually walked away until they disappeared into the forest.
Although the team had gone far away, the sadness lingering in people's hearts fermented and amplified at this moment, and broke out completely, with whimpering cries coming one after another.
The Fang family's mother and daughter hugged each other and cried.
Chen Yuzhen was the only one left in the Li family. She stood alone in the crowd, looking thin. She silently raised her hand to wipe away the tears on her face. After that, a warm embrace came over her.
"Aunt, don't worry, they will be back in more than 20 days!" Xia Qingyue hugged Chen Yuzhen tightly, passing on their own warmth and strength to each other.
Xia Qingyue, who stayed at the garrison to accompany Chen Yuzhen for a while, did not stay long. She took the two children to the valley. The road was a bit far, and if they did not set off now, it would be dark by the time they reached the valley.