"How about you sleep a little longer?"

"I am serious!"

"You've been serious many times."

"It's different this time, because it's really better to run away now...forget it, I'm too lazy to tell you."

When Miao Si talked about the last part, it seemed as if he was leaning into the three-quarter-full rice vat, and his voice had a hollow echo.

Huang Xuan paused while washing rice and looked back.

On the fifth watch of the day, it was the darkest time outside. There was only one candle lit on the stove in the kitchen, and the dim light dimly illuminated the dirt floor between the two of them.

A palm-sized little girl in Confucian dress sat on the edge of the rice vat, her feet dangling under her Confucian dress. The golden bowl she held in her hand was not filled with ink as before, but was filled with rice.

When Huang Xuan turned around, she happened to see her picking up a uncooked rice grain in her little hand, putting it in her mouth and biting it hard.

"Can it be eaten?" Huang Xuan asked curiously.

Miao Siba tried to swallow it with her mouth, but in the end... she gave up, and all the rice grains in the bowl were poured back into the rice vat. She covered her cheeks that were crying from pain, and grimaced, with two pieces hanging down from the edge of the vat.

The short legs no longer swing.

Huang Xuan did not show a disappointed expression, lowered her head and continued to wash rice diligently, while whispering softly:

"I was joking before. Don't force it. Just do it. There are always more solutions than difficulties."

After a pause, she asked again:

"Did something happen to you tonight? Why are you a little abnormal? How could you be unhappy after eating so much ink?"

Miao Si's brows knitted together, as hard to untie as a tangled knot, and sighed: "Why are there so many troubles in the world?"

Huang Xuan thought for a moment, then with a straight face she replied seriously:

"Then you should eat less. When people are hungry, they usually only have one worry, but once they are full, they will have countless worries. So many worries are only sustained by eating."

Wonderful thought: "..."

It makes so much sense.

The little girl in Confucian attire sitting on the rice vat was speechless, silently turning her head to look at the back of the little girl in red coat, who seemed to be carefree in washing rice.

"Xiaoxuan, do you have any dreams?"

"have."

"What."

"I would be very happy if I could have a big house, my own big house, and get up and clean it every day."

"Then what?"

"Then I will bring you all here to live together and have fun together."

"What happens next?"

"And then..." She lowered her head to wash the dishes: "And then I haven't dreamed about it yet. I'll tell you when I dream about it."

"If you have no future, it would be better for me to run away for half your life, while you cry bitterly."

"Didn't you say before that it's dangerous outside and it's easy to encounter bad guys who want to kidnap you?"

"That's right, but now it seems that even if you hide here carefully, something will still come to your door... By the way, that bull-nosed guy who comes to you a lot recently, you should be careful and have less contact with him."

"Master Lu, why?"

"The person I hate Niubi the most is Fu Lusanshan. He also wants to kidnap you to go up the mountain. Bah, the little girl won't let you go. I'm so ashamed."

"Master Lu doesn't look like a bad person, but I won't be deceived either..."

After chatting for a while, Miaosi was speechless for a long time, and then suddenly said:

"Xiaoxuan, you are right, I really shouldn't go out to eat secretly. This is the stupidest thing I did tonight."

"It's okay. It's all over. Just don't do it again in the future."

Hearing Huang Xuan's comforting voice, I stopped thinking about what to say.

Huang Xuan suddenly turned around: "By the way, there is good news."

"What good news?"

"Dad has received a salary increase, and I heard from him that he will be able to get a newly built shantytown house in the future. The rent will be cheaper. In the future, we will have more money, and we will be more comfortable when we move into a new house. You don't have to

I huddle in the closet all day long, afraid of being discovered by my father and other residents..."

Huang Xuan spoke in a somewhat happy tone, with expectations for the future in her tone.

Miao Si listened silently for a while, then raised her head and asked softly:

"But I have a big appetite and even choose good ink to eat. What if the money is still not enough to buy ink?"

Huang Xuan answered seriously: "Then think of other ways to make more money. Anyway, we are hard-working and will never die of hunger. The big deal... I will work in the ink studio for a while, or go to other places where there is no shortage of ink to pick up some."

When Mo comes back, he will always find a way."

Miao Si's eyes were moved, but immediately, she seemed to remember something, her face turned pale, and she hurriedly advised:

"Xiao Xuan, don't blindly believe in bad people and work in some brothel and singing house. Be careful of deception. Those brothel singing and singing houses are not a good place. Even if you do odd jobs, you can easily get close to blackmailers. In that kind of environment, under a subtle influence, you can attract people.

A good family goes into the water."

The little girl jumped up and walked around the edge of the rice vat, waving the snow-white whisk in her hand. From time to time she turned her head to look at the clear and bright eyes of the little girl in the red coat. She lowered her voice and whispered:

"You have a talent that is rare in a century, mainly because of these eyes, which have the ability to penetrate illusions. It is thanks to them that you were able to find me in the first place. It is also the beginning of our relationship. There are many things about this eye. It is found in the classics of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism.

There are corresponding titles in all... In short, the path you can take is very wide, and you are an excellent embryo. You can go through all three schools, not to mention other paths, so don't ruin your future, remember this."

Huang Xuan didn't quite understand this, but she could hear the seriousness in Miao Si's words, so she nodded a little silly: "Oh."

Miao Si stopped talking, looked at her quietly for a while, and then asked:

"Xiaoxuan, why are you always so kind to me, even when you rescued me back home..."

Huang Xuan thought for a while and answered casually:

"There is no reason, well, just like the noble man who helped me, did he have time to think about what he should ask for? Probably not. He just thought about it and did it. It was that simple. There is no need to ask why."

Miao Si was silent for a while, then suddenly nodded heavily:

"Okay, got it."

"Is it because I'm hungry again and my worries are gone?"

The little girl in Confucian attire stopped answering, waved her fist in the air in front of her, and said to herself: "The smartest, bar none!"

"What's smartest?"

Huang Xuan turned around in confusion, but the figure of the little nunguan was no longer visible on the rice vat, and she didn't know where she had gone.

"What happened tonight? It's strange..."
Chapter completed!