coobybook Chapter 102 Stupid Chapter
Chapter 102 Stupid Chapter
When the mother leopard saw her stronger cub approaching, she leaped over and spat out all the cloth in her mouth.
Shen Xiaoye moved quickly and grabbed the red cloth strip that was scattered in the grass. He saw nothing but dried blood stains on it.
However, the gauze that the little black cat retrieved from the bushes was in the shape of a triangular bandana. It silently transmitted, "This is not what the leopard mother used."
"I know." After helping Leopard Mother check her wound last night and finding out if it had healed, she took the gauze back.
It probably carried this piece with it because it felt familiar with it.
After handling so many pieces of fabric and looking closely at the texture, the triangle scarf is definitely made from the Suining cloth she sold.
The people who can use this kind of gauze are definitely the soldiers taught by my uncle and Lu Guan.
Only from these people can we get more detailed information.
Shen Xiaoye grabbed the triangular scarf, squatted in front of the leopard mother who was protecting her cub, and growled at Taoist Qingxi, "Where did you pick it up?"
"Meow meow meow..." The little black cat is a qualified translator.
The mother leopard pushed it open, still vigilantly observing her Taoist priest Qingxi.
Shen Xiaoye did not try to hide it. There are people in the world who can communicate with animals. She turned her head and said, "Master, please allow us to communicate alone."
Rustling, Taoist Qingxi retreated naturally, and this time he no longer stared at the leopard mother, but looked at the little black cat.
The cat glanced back at him, then looked away, turned around and swung its long unicorn tail towards him.
Next, Taoist Qingxi clearly saw it and the leopard mother chanting and communicating with each other, and it kept turning its head and meowing at Shen Xiaoye.
Just as he was watching with great interest, the conversation on the other side came to an abrupt halt as the mother leopard bent her body and stared to the left.
After a while, a young man carrying roe deer and hares on his shoulders walked out from the swaying branches in front of the left.
The little leopard growled first. Carnivores have a natural desire for fresh blood, not to mention delicious roe deer meat. Old man Shen Shanyou would take it into the mountains to hunt for it every few days, which had already made it greedy.
"Xiao Ye?" Zhuzi saw that she was right next to the big leopard's claws, and without saying a word, he dropped his prey and drew his bow to help her.
Shen Xiaoye quickly held down the little leopard that wanted to run over and bite the wild animal, "Brother Zhuzi, they are friends."
“???” Zhuzi stood there frozen with question marks on his face. He had learned hunting from his father but he had never seen a human and a leopard being friends.
Zhuzi didn't visit Gengger as often as Zhuangzhuang did, so he didn't know that her family had a leopard. When the villagers were dyeing cloth, the little leopard was locked in the room and no one had seen it.
Seeing the leopards gradually calm down under Shen Xiaoye's hands, he slowly put away his bow and arrow, but his other hand was still on the hatchet behind his waist: "Xiaoye, it's too dangerous."
“It’s okay, it won’t hurt anyone, and it will even help my family deliver prey.
Brother Zhuzi, can you send a message to my grandpa and ask him to come to the foot of the mountain?" Shen Xiaoye still wanted to talk about going to the border area. With the things brought by Leopard Mother, it would be easier to persuade grandpa.
She almost impulsively took the leopard mother home, but when she saw that Zhuzi, half of the hunters, was so scared, she gave up the idea.
Zhuzi wanted to say something to persuade her to go home, but he didn't expect there to be another movement on the side. When he raised the hatchet, Taoist Qingxi said, "I'm here, it's okay."
"This is Taoist Qingxi, Taoist Hengxi's senior brother." Shen Xiaoye introduced.
Zhuzi took a deep breath, then put away his knife, picked up the prey and left.
He heard the little leopard's childish roar behind him. Xiao Ye was saying something like "I'll hunt a goat for you when I have time."
Shen Xiaoye continued to communicate information through the little black cat. She couldn't help but become more and more worried. The leopard mother actually ran into the depths of the mountains on the left side of Linghe River. Seeing more and more wounded people being retreated, she retreated to the border.
When they arrived at their own slope, grandpa was already waiting there. As soon as he saw her, he said, "Xiaoye, the mother leopard is here to pick up the cub. There are too many things to do at home to take care of it, so it's better to let it go."
The four-month-old leopard cub is already able to follow its mother on short hunting trips.
The little leopard didn't understand what he said, so it flew to his feet and kept pretending to go into the mountains to hunt again.
"Grandpa, look, this is the gauze that my uncle and his family used. Mother Leopard brought it back from the border town." Shen Xiaoye handed it to him and said, "I think..."
"Don't even think about it. Just stay at home. When your grandma feels better in a couple of days, I'll go find her." How could the old man not know what she was up to?
Shen Xiaoye said, "How can you do it alone? If I accompany you, you can also use the kitten and the leopard mother's sense of smell to find the possible location of the two uncles."
"I can take them too." The old man bent down and picked up the little black cat.
But this guy jumped away and hid behind Shen Xiaoye. The angry old man pointed at it and said, "You have no conscience."
What made him even more angry was that the mother leopard walked behind Shen Xiaoye and called the little cub over while the little black cat was meowing.
He was the only one around the old man all of a sudden. He felt isolated.
At this time, Taoist Qingxi spoke again: "Mr. Shen, I think Miss Ye can go, and she has asked my temple to go to the border together. When we set out, the temple will send someone to accompany her."
"She doesn't have the final say." Having already sacrificed his two sons, the old man won't sacrifice his granddaughter as well.
He was afraid that he would fall in love if he continued talking, so he turned around and walked away quickly, ignoring Xiao Ye's calls from behind.
Taoist Qingxi said "May you be blessed with infinite happiness" and then swung his whisk, picked up the unsuspecting little black cat and left.
The cat meowed, but couldn't break free from his restraints. When his eyes turned to Shen Xiaoye, she was whispering something to the leopard mother and didn't look at him.
The little black cat meowed softly and gave up struggling. In just a moment, Shen Xiaoye caught up with the little leopard cub in his arms and naturally rescued it from the Taoist priest's hands.
Qingxi: "Will your grandpa agree?"
Shen Xiaoye frowned slightly when he heard this: "Why does the Taoist priest seem more urgent than me?"
"How miserable tens of thousands of civilians are." Taoist Qingxi met her suspicious gaze, paused for a few breaths and continued:
"When you are very still, you want to move. I haven't been out of the frontier for many years, and I will never see many of my old friends again."
Shen Xiaoye did not comment. When passing by her own bean field, she pinched open a bean pod and sighed. She had to find someone to harvest them. She first chose Uncle He's family, which had many male children who were almost adults.
She paid enough wages, so of course the boys in the He family were willing to do the harvest for her tomorrow, including two acres of sorghum, which they would also be responsible for harvesting and drying.
Only after she had arranged her work in the fields did she have time to be alone. The pieces of printed cloth in the room could no longer make her happy.
She spread out a lot of paper on the kang and drew, trying her best to draw the frontier fortress she saw today at Mr. Pan's place.
However, the result was contrary to her wishes. Even with a good memory, she could only draw some abstract dots and lines and was completely unable to outline anything more detailed.
"Xiao Ye." Aunt Lin from the Lin family knocked on the door.
"Hey." Shen Xiaoye jumped up reflexively, rubbed his face with both hands, put away his worried look and opened the door.
Aunt Lin came in and whispered something in her ear, and Shen Xiaoye suddenly became angry.
She came out in a hurry and entered her aunt's room in the blink of an eye. She heard Taozi's grandmother still saying: "... Changshou's bloody deeds are not good... This matter cannot be disbelieved. You happened to be close to him that day, and you might have been hit by the blood evil..."
"Grandma Xia, it just rained. Doesn't your wound itch or hurt?" Shen Xiaoye first took away the pillow behind his aunt-in-law and helped her lie down as she was impatiently listening.
He turned around and forcefully helped Xia up, then said:
"Xiao Taozi called you everywhere just now, but you didn't even respond."
"Xiao Ye, I'm hard of hearing and didn't hear you. Look at this, all the cloth your fifth uncle took last time is here. It's the busy farming season, and he can't go to the market, so leaving it at home is gathering dust." Ever since Xia's daughter-in-law got pregnant again and she asked someone to check the baby and found out it was a boy, she spoke a little brighter than before.
Shen Xiaoye flipped the cloth a few times and said, "Put it here. I'll settle the bill when Uncle Qian Wu comes over later."
Xia: "Just give it to me."
"No, there's still the contract. You should go home and see if Aunt Tang wants to eat anything. She's been eating too much lately and can't stand being hungry." In fact, Shen Xiaoye hadn't seen Aunt Tang for a long time. A few days ago, she was shocked to see that she had gained a lot of weight.
Xia wanted to get the money: "But..."
"You forgot that Uncle Qian Wu still owes me money for the first batch of cloth. After the accounts are settled, he may have to give me some more money.
Go home, Taozi can't find you and is crying." Shen Xiaoye almost dragged her out of the house and called a doctor to take her pulse.
With Doctor Ge and the Taoist priests in the courtyard, Xia couldn't continue to get involved.
Shen Xiaoye stood by the gate, holding her waist, trying to calm down. Lin's cousin patted her on the shoulder and said, "You are just too kind. You let them sell all the cloth.
If she hadn't come to return it today, I wouldn't have remembered seeing her buy a large bag of madder in Lingshan. Don't be angry, don't be angry."
"I'm not angry because she might try to dye cloth with madder herself. This skill passed down by our ancestors belongs to whoever figures it out.
What made me angry was that she talked nonsense in front of my aunt, saying that a magical monkey was smashed to death at the foot of Lingshan Mountain, bringing blood and bad luck to the family.
Can you tell a pregnant woman that? I'll close the door when I see her coming. "She also said that her uncle was licking blood on the tip of his knife. She finally knew why the old Hang family was like fighting cocks every time they faced the Xia family.
Lin pulled her to the courtyard and turned around, but she heard Li Zi's voice: "Sister Xiaoye, did my grandma bring the cloth over just now?"
"Well, Uncle Wu can come and settle the bill when he's free." There was inevitably a hint of coldness in Shen Xiaoye's voice.
Li Zi had already run from the corner to the door: "What she did doesn't count. My mother called me over from the field to stop her.
My grandma was possessed by a devil and boiled some herbs on the cloth, which turned the color of the cloth darker and lighter. This made my mother very angry, but she said that the medicine was not enough.
I didn't see her at first glance, and she came to withdraw the cloth again to get money to buy more herbs. She must have been confused by Old Hang's chopping. "
She said apologetically, "Sister Xiaoye, I didn't tell her about dyeing the cloth. I'll move the cloth away." When she helped to rinse the cloth, her younger sister who knew nothing often followed her and told her everything she saw.
"Don't be impatient. Let's talk it over with her first. She's an elderly woman after all." Shen Xiaoye tugged at the corner of her aunt's clothes.
Lin's cousin immediately pulled her in and said, "Xiao Ye, if you have anything to say, we can talk later. Hurry up and put away those safflower cakes and don't let your sister-in-law touch them."
"Hey, Li Zi, I have to go get busy first." Shen Xiaoye walked quickly.
Li Zi's words were choked in her throat, and she went home in shame and anger to argue with her grandmother.
On this side, Lin's cousin asked, "Is it true that we don't need to worry about them?"
"No need. You know how tiring it is to make this thing. It relies on small profits but quick turnover, so the money is very tight." Shen Xiaoye was not worried at all. She had thousands of pieces of cloth in her room and was still looking for buyers.
Unexpectedly, the buyer was right in my home.
Doctor Ge was about to leave at the hour of You. "Your aunt's pulse has stabilized. Let's see if she can get better after taking the medicine for three days.
Acupuncture is a feasible emergency measure to preserve the fetus. Daily dietary supplements are also a good option. I have already prescribed a list of medicated foods for you.
Hengxi is here tonight, so I won’t disturb you.”
"Thank you for your trouble. I will hire a car to take you back."
"No, no, my medicine boy and carriage can't take me home.
Besides, the blue cloth in your house is very good, can you give me fifty pieces to take away?"
"Of course."
Shen Xiaoye never expected that there would be such a business, so she gave it to the old doctor at a very favorable price.
Unexpectedly, the next morning, Jirentang sent someone to buy fifty horses.
Shen Xiaoye was a little confused: "Does the old doctor need so much cloth?"
"He would send a batch of winter clothes to the orphans and widows in the orphanage at the end of autumn and the beginning of winter every year." Taoist Master Hengxi knew the reason.
While talking, he did not forget to punch back at Shen Xiaoye's side kick, and knocked him down in just two or three rounds. "You can't do this. If you meet a real kung fu master, your life will be in danger."
"She is a girl and her inherent strength is weaker, so we should equip her with a weapon that suits her." Qingxi suggested, and the two brothers immediately discussed what weapon would be suitable for Shen Xiaoye.
Huang, who saw all this through the window, couldn't help but sigh.
The old man standing in the yard said to his granddaughter with a serious face: "You really want to go."
"If news comes back tomorrow that my uncles are safe, I won't go." Shen Xiaoye's words ended the possibility of further conversation.
She did not go home for a whole day, and asked Taoist Qingxi to go into the city with her to select horses and prepare medicines that might be needed for the long journey.
That's the benefit of having money to spend freely.
After another day, grandma's condition gradually improved. Although her pronunciation was not fluent, she could finally speak.
After Shen Xiaoye told her her thoughts, the old lady grabbed her with her movable hand and said, "Bring them back."
The old man came in and heard it, and drove the person out of the room, saying to Lin: "You are stupid, why is a child like her joining in the fun?"
"Not stupid...if there's no news, she will go secretly." Grandma Lin knows the children best, and Xiao Ye prepared everything that needed to be prepared.
He even spent half a day learning how to ride a horse. Now, the sound of horse hooves could be heard outside the yard again.
But Lin guessed wrong. It was not Shen Xiaoye who was riding a horse, but Shi Cun who was riding a horse to deliver the latest news.
"General Lu's troops successfully retreated to Kaipingwei for rest and recuperation. The letter said that he led his personal guards and auxiliary troops to cover the entire journey, and he brought back a large number of civilians alive." No one knows how this guy did it.
Shen Xiaoye asked a stupid question excitedly: "Minfu, is there anyone from Linghe County?"
"Is my father in there?" Shen Cungeng asked even more stupidly.
Shicun shook his head. Seeing the two men's expressions dimmed instantly, he hurriedly explained, "There are civilians from all over the place. We can't get a detailed list right now."
Shen Xiaoye nodded and asked again: "Where is my fourth uncle? Did any of the heavy cavalry successfully break through and head south?"