in2ebook Chapter 115 Keep your word
Chapter 115 Keep your word
She had made candles with beeswax several times before, but the material ran out. Except for lighting up at night when she was working, she was very frugal at other times, which has enabled her to persevere until now.
Tomorrow is the day she agreed to exchange things with Han Zhibai. She counted out half of the candles in advance, put them into a burlap bag and put it in the backpack.
With the new candles, I don’t have to worry about not having light at night in the short term.
I had been thinking of digging a foundation pit tonight, but then I changed the idea because I had to go out tomorrow.
Go to bed early and recharge your energy. After finishing the transaction with Han Zhibai tomorrow, she plans to get some tung oil fruits and soap beans. There are not many of these two things at home, so she will stock up some more while she still has some.
Go to bed early, wake up early.
When Xia Qingyue woke up in the morning, she was full of energy. She used the water in the bucket as a mirror. Unfortunately, water could not compare to a mirror, so she could not see her face clearly.
She feels that she looks much better recently.
At daybreak, she lit a fire, cooked porridge in the back stove, and washed a piece of cured horse meat and stewed it with dried loofah and gourd in the front stove.
I've been eating a little more pickled meat recently. After today, when I'm not so busy, I'll kill chickens, ducks, and rabbits and eat fresh meat.
There was a low fire in the stove, simmering slowly. With the help of the light, she entered the foundation pit and started digging.
I dug until dawn, got some warm water to wash my whole body, and sat down to eat breakfast comfortably.
The time was almost up, so she took the necessary things and went out.
I went to the dense forest a few days ago. Heihei knew the roads very well. I didn't encounter any problems along the way and arrived at the agreed place easily.
She thought she had arrived early enough, but when she was almost there, she saw Han Zhibai and Xiaobai standing under the tree waiting for her.
"You came so early. Have you been waiting for a long time?" She smiled apologetically.
"We've just arrived."
"Oh, I've made the candles, take a look." She took off the backpack and opened the sack.
Han Zhibai reached into the sack, twisted a candle between his fingers and looked at it carefully.
Unconsciously, Xia Qingyue's eyes fell on his hands. His bent fingers were slender, with neither thick nor protruding joints. They were more beautiful than a woman's hands and were simply flawless.
After looking for a few seconds, she looked away calmly. Staring at others is rude. Even if one loves beauty, it will cause trouble to others invisibly.
Han Zhibai turned around and took out a cloth bag filled with something from the large backpack behind him. He said simply, "Sodium sulfate."
"it is good."
The two exchanged things and put them in their own backpacks.
Xia Qingyue secretly weighed the Glauber's salt and found it was several kilograms in weight. She was secretly delighted that the problem of making fur with saltpeter had been solved.
The two men carried backpacks on their backs and accidentally met each other's eyes. When their eyes met, they were both stunned.
The atmosphere was a little awkward.
The two little ones, Black and White, ran to one side and started playing crazily, immersed in joy and happiness.
Staring at her bright eyes, Han Zhibai turned his head, his eyes wandered for a few moments, and then settled on the rotten leaves on the ground.
Xia Qingyue was still looking at him, her eyes passing over the side of his face, accidentally glancing at the other person's ear that was facing her and was red as blood.
She remembered that he might be socially anxious, so she smiled and said, "Well, I'm going to get some Chinese tallow tree fruit and soapberry, you can go do your thing."
Han Zhibai turned his head, a little surprised in his eyes, "Are you going alone?"
"And Heihei." She looked at Heihei and called out to it.
Hearing his owner calling, Heihei immediately ran towards her.
Han Zhibai lowered his eyes and glanced at Xia Qingyue out of the corner of his eye. His expression was a little conflicted and his lips were slightly pursed.
It must be said that her boldness was beyond his expectations.
"Han Zhibai, if there's nothing else, I'll leave first."
Seeing that she was about to leave, Han Zhibai, who had not yet made up his mind, took a step forward and said, "I'm going too. Yes, I just want to go over there to find wild vegetables."
After saying this, he couldn't help but be stunned by his own actions. He clearly hadn't thought it through yet, so why did his body take the lead?
He tilted his head, his usually calm black eyes revealing a hint of confusion.
"Oh? What a coincidence!" Xia Qingyue didn't expect this to happen. Traveling with others is safer than traveling alone, which is naturally the best thing to do.
She was thinking about this and didn't notice Han Zhibai's expression. "Then let's go get the soapberries first, so we don't have to run so far to pick the Chinese tallow trees and then carry them back."
"Okay." Han Zhibai, who couldn't figure it out, simply stopped thinking about it.
Now that the words have been spoken, he must keep his promise and do what he said.
On the way, Xia Qingyue looked around, wondering if she would meet the Li family.
Along the way, the two didn't talk much, unless they saw wild vegetables, she would point them out and teach him how to identify them.
Or she would see the two little ones playing happily, which would attract their attention and make her laugh. When she was in high spirits, she would join the two little ones and play with them.
He stood there, watching the scenes quietly, with a gentle smile on his lips.
Arriving at the soapberry tree, Han Zhibai found a long wooden stick and said to Xia Qingyue, "I'll go up and beat them. You take them aside first."
"it is good."
The man was strong and worked quickly, so it didn't take long for him to harvest a lot of soap beans.
After he finished beating them, Xia Qingyue came to pick them up. As she picked them up, she smiled and said, "There are so many, Han Zhibai, you can take some back."
Han Zhibai was squatting on the other side picking up the soap beans. He saw her smiling so happily and glanced at her sideways twice. He felt that what she was picking up was not soap beans, but money.
"I don't need soapberries for now, you can take them all."
Without even looking up, she said, "Okay, I don't want the wild vegetables, you can take them all back."
The two of them picked up the things quickly and filled up most of the backpack, weighing about 40 pounds.
Han Zhibai took off his backpack and put it on the ground. He calmly asked Xia Qingyue, who was about to carry the backpack with the soapberry, "Would you like to exchange it with mine temporarily? Mine is lighter."
"Is it okay?" For her, it was certainly a good thing to have someone to help share the burden.
Han Zhibai stretched out his arms, easily carried the soap tree on his back, and answered her question with his actions.
"Thank you, Han Zhibai."
"Thank you for letting me know a lot of wild vegetables and mountain products."
On the way back, Xia Qingyue still didn't meet the Li family. She wondered if they didn't come out today?
After walking for about an hour, we arrived under the tung tree.
As usual, Han Zhibai climbed up the tree to pick the fruits, and then the two of them picked them up together.
The fruits of the Chinese tallow tree are relatively small, so they were packed into sacks. We got two and a half sacks, weighing about 100 kilograms.
Xia Qingyue put two sacks of tung oil fruits into the backpack. The top bag was a little high, and she tied it up with a rope for fear that it would fall while walking.
"Are you going to take all these back?" Han Zhibai asked.
"Yes, come, give me a hand." Xia Qingyue squatted down and put her hands through the handles of the backpack.
Han Zhibai reacted quickly and lifted the backpack with one hand. He exerted force easily and the backpack was lifted up. All the blue veins on the back of his hand popped out.
The backpack was suspended in the air. Xia Qingyue stood up and stood firmly. The expected heavy feeling did not fall. She looked back in confusion, "What's wrong?"