Chapter 48： "Bi Dong"

Chapter 48 “Bidong”

The bamboos had already been chopped. Seeing the little girl holding the smelly mushrooms and bending over to look for them, Huo Lang didn't leave in a hurry. He bent his long legs and sat on the bundled bamboos to wait.

Perhaps as Huo Lang said, no one here eats bamboo fungus, so there are a lot of bamboo fungus in the bamboo forest.

Some of the umbrellas were too old to be eaten, and some just poked their heads out of the soil and raised small bulges from the thick bamboo leaves on the ground. Si Ningning didn't know it at first, and accidentally trampled several clusters, which made her very distressed.

Seeing the bulges in the fallen leaves later, she knew to plow them with dead branches first. After several times, the harvest was really quite big.

There are so many to pick, how do you take them back?

Just when he was in trouble, there was a rustling sound behind him, and a small basket made of bamboo side branches rolled to his feet.

Si Ningning's eyes lit up and she turned around with a bright smile: "Thank you!"

Huo Lang lowered his head, stroking the hatchet in his hand with a big palm, without even looking at Si Ningning.

Si Ningning was not upset. He shook off the broken soil from the bottom of the bamboo shoots and put them one by one into the basket.

Although the basket is simple and not big, a few clusters of bamboo fungus are put in and it is just full.

Si Ningning stood up, in a good mood, with a slight smile on her lips, and turned to Huo Lang with raised eyebrows, "Are you going home?"

"Um."

The way back is more difficult to go uphill than downhill.

Horang asked Si Ningning to stand aside and wait. He used a hatchet to smash out several shallow steps like steps, and then gently raised his chin, gesturing for Si Ningning to go up first.

After Si Ningning went up, Huo Lang pushed a section of bamboo up from below, and then pulled another section up after going up the slope.

He put the bundles of bamboo on his shoulders and walked forward without saying a word.

This mountain road is quite spacious. Si Ningning trotted beside him. Out of curiosity about the new place, she kept chattering along the road:

“Comrade Huo Lang, do you often come to the mountains? There are bamboo fungi in the bamboo forest, but are there other fungi in other places?”

“Are there really tigers in the mountains over here? Comrade Holang?”

"Do you usually go up the mountain alone?" "Holangtong... uh -"

The man suddenly stopped and turned around. Si Ningning's heart trembled, and he stepped on a stone with his left foot. He staggered back a few steps until his back hit a big tree before he stabilized his body.

This scene is so similar...

This is not the end yet.

“You, what are you doing?”

Looking at the man approaching her, Si Ningning tilted her head back uncomfortably, leaning against the tree nervously.

Huo Lang stretched out his long legs and stepped on the tree trunk behind Si Ningning with a "click", creating a different kind of "dong".

His voice was cold and solemn: "Tiger is not the only danger on the mountain."

His eyebrows were emotionless, and his strong aura made Si Ningning unable to utter a complete sentence.

Huo Lang put his left hand to the side of Si Ningning's head and suddenly leaned forward.

"you you…"

A strong, hot and aggressive breath rushed into Si Ningning's face. Her eyes widened, and her mind went blank. Fear and nervousness were all forgotten in an instant. Her long eyelashes fluttered like butterfly wings and closed tightly. Eyes closed.

Horang's index finger and thumb accurately clamped the little flower snake hanging upside down on the tree trunk and spat out the message, and lowered his eyes to glance at the little girl with trembling long eyelashes.

Obviously I was scared, but I didn’t feel defensive at all when I came out with him.

The back half of the little flower snake was twisted and knotted, and it was quickly wrapped around the wrist. Huo Lang didn't even look at it. With a little force on his fingertips, the little flower snake's head flattened instantly. He retracted his hand and stood up.

I didn’t want to say more at first, fearing that the half-grown girl wouldn’t understand his hint, so I kept silent but added another sentence: “Don’t go into the mountains alone, let alone with a strange man.”

(End of this chapter)