[Lu Hua] Beauty Fragrance

Chapter 40

On the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, the cold wind in the south of the Yangtze River was bitter, and the day was in the sky. It seemed that it was frozen by the cold wind, and there was no warmth at all.

At noon, Lu Xiaofeng and Hua Manlou were writing in the warm pavilion, the weather was too cold, Xi'er did not follow Hua Mansion.

The husband went to change clothes, Lu Xiaofeng hurriedly jumped to the side of Huamanlou, bit his ear and said: "Uncle Jiang was ordered by the military to go to the East China Sea last night."

Hua Manlou turned around and asked, "Then shall we still go to practice today?"

Lu Xiaofeng leaned on Huamanlou's chair and said, "I don't know either."

There were footsteps coming from outside the house, Lu Xiaofeng flinched, and then sat back firmly on the chair.

The old gentleman walked in from outside the house breathing the white mist. Seeing that the two students were still writing properly, he was quite relieved. He stroked his beard and sat down. After a while, the old gentleman rubbed his stomach and went out again.

Lu Xiaofeng jumped to Huamanlou's side again, looked outside and asked, "Mister, is this a stomachache?"

At noon, Huatan sent Huaping to inform the two young masters, and in the afternoon, the husband would continue to lead the study.

Lu Xiaofeng grabbed Huaping's neck. Although Huaping was a few years older and his stature was much taller than Lu Xiaofeng's, every time Lu Xiaofeng jumped up and hooked Huaping's neck, Huaping would bend down with a smile.

Lu Xiaofeng: "Why didn't Uncle Tan come and teach me and Qitong personally? I know that Uncle Tan's 'Jiaolong Chuhai' is very famous, and a black gold flowing cloud whip has few rivals."

Hua Ping said with a smile: "Father is going out to buy new year's goods this afternoon"

Lu Xiaofeng raised his eyebrows with a smile, and let go of Huaping.

Hua Manlou walked to Lu Xiaofeng's side, and stood side by side with Lu Xiaofeng, looking at Hua Ping's leaving back, Hua Manlou turned his head and raised his face and asked, "What do you want to do?"

Lu Xiaofeng: "I want to take you to catch rabbits"

Sure enough, Mr. Lu Xiaofeng collapsed due to diarrhea as Lu Xiaofeng expected. Lu Xiaofeng vowed to take Hua Manlou to study hard in the Nuan Pavilion, and slipped out of Hua Mansion in a blink of an eye.

Lu Xiaofeng took Huamanlou for a trot all the way, bought four cakes, two small vases of flower carvings, bought a few wood falcons from the carpenter Liu's family, took a piece of cloth from Wang's cloth shop, and exchanged it for a broken piece from Zhang's shop where he was fishing. Fishing nets, things are made into a small bag with steps and carried on the back.

Lu Xiaofeng stopped another ox cart going out of the city, and exchanged a bottle of Huadiao for the ox cart to take the two of them out of the city.

Lu Xiaofeng spread his red cloak on the straw loaded in the bullock cart, pulled Hua Manlou to lie on the straw, and covered the two of them with Hua Manlou's red cloak.

Lu Xiaofeng patted Hua Manlou's hand and said, "Sleep, Qitong, uncle will call us when we arrive."

Huamanlou had never slept on a bed made of straw before, and he found it surprisingly comfortable, but he didn't want to sleep at this moment, so he turned to look at Lu Xiaofeng and said, "Why are they willing to give you something?"

Lu Xiaofeng leaned on his right hand and smiled lightly: "Because they are my friends."

Hua ManLou: "Friend?"

Lu Xiaofeng: "That's right, Dad always said that when you go out, you rely on your friends, because when you are in trouble, your friends will come to help you, but you have to treat your friends sincerely, because only in this way, friendship will last forever"

Hua Manlou thought for a while, stretched out two small hands from the cloak, and asked with fingers: "How long is it?"

Lu Xiaofeng: "I don't know, it should be a long time, 100 years? 1000 years? No, no, people don't live that long."

Hua Manlou pulled Lu Xiaofeng's sleeve and asked, "Little Fenghuang, you have many friends, will you be my long-term friend?"

Lu Xiaofeng turned over, turned to Huamanlou, hugged Huamanlou with a smile and said, "Of course, Qitong is my best friend, we will always be together and never be separated."

When Hua Manlou heard this, his eyes turned into two little crescents, he stretched out his arms to hug Lu Xiaofeng back, and the two children just fell asleep in the haystack.

"Here we go, little ones"

Lu Xiaofeng pulled Hua Manlou and jumped out of the car, and gave another bottle of flower carvings to the driver, took out a small silver coin and handed it to the driver, "Uncle, you are waiting for us here, and you will pay after you take us home." give you silver"

The coachman was a middle-aged man in his 40s, with a short beard, and smiled happily while holding the money.

"Little ghosts, it will definitely snow tonight, so don't stay too long in the mountains"

"Know it!"

Lu Xiaofeng dragged Hua Manlou into the woods, they didn't go too far into the mountain, they stopped after running for about two quarters of an hour.

Lu Xiaofeng squatted on the ground looking for something, Hua Manlou didn't know, so he also squatted down and asked, "What are you looking for?"

Lu Xiaofeng: "Find the way"

Huamanlou: "Road?"

Lu Xiaofeng: "My father said that rabbits are very stupid. They can only walk one way back and forth, and they will step on one way after a long time. Last time Xi'er was sick, the doctor said he wanted to eat pheasants, and Uncle Jiang took me to catch it together. When I was a pheasant, I found a rabbit path here, why can’t I find it?”

Hua Manlou stood up when he heard the words, looked around, then found a flat and open place and squatted down to search carefully.

Hua Manlou: "Little Phoenix! Is this it?"

Lu Xiaofeng stood up and ran over, there was a thin trail in the middle of the shallow withered grass, the withered grass parted to the two sides, exposing the brownish yellow ground.

Lu Xiaofeng patted Hua Manlou's shoulder with a smile and said, "Qitong is really smart!"

Huamanlou smiled sheepishly, and saw that Lu Xiaofeng quickly untied the small bag he was carrying, took out a dagger from his pocket and began to cut the fishing net, and asked Huamanlou to pick up two branches.Lu Xiaofeng cut out a two-foot-square fishing net, fixed one corner of the net to the ground with a wooden falcon, inserted two branches on both sides of the path, and hung the net up, just to block the path where the rabbits go back and forth every day.

After setting the trap, Lu Xiaofeng took Hua Manlou to hide behind the big rock, watching the fishing net secretly.

Lu Xiaofeng explained to Huamanlou: "The color of this fishing net is not much different from that of the rocks and land, and it is difficult for a rabbit to spot it if it is blocked on the road. A rabbit will definitely struggle desperately when it crashes into the net every day, but we One horn has been fixed, it will only struggle and get tighter, when the time comes, we will go over and pick it up"

Hua Manlou looked at the fishing net not far away, his eyes were full of excitement, he had never seen these before, and no one taught him, he only knew today that there are such interesting things in this world.

The two children waited for more than an hour behind the big rock, but still no rabbit appeared.

Hua Manlou poked Lu Xiaofeng's arm, and asked softly, "It's about half an hour before You hour, can we still catch rabbits today?"

Lu Xiaofeng scratched his head, pursed his lips and said, "I don't know, let's wait another quarter of an hour, and we'll leave if there is no rabbit."

Hua Manlou smiled and said: "It's too cold today, the rabbit is sleeping at home like Xi'er"

Lu Xiaofeng also giggled when he thought of the little Xi'er who slept like a piglet.

Hua Manlou: "Why didn't you give money to the uncle who was driving the car when you came today, but why do you want to give him money later?"

Lu Xiaofeng: "Because he was going out of the city originally, and we just dropped by, so I gave him a bottle of flower carvings, but I asked him to take us home, and he will come here specially to take us back to the city, so we have to Give him silver and he will be willing"

Huamanlou looked at Lu Xiaofeng, his small face was wrinkled, obviously he didn't understand, he read a lot of books, but he didn't mention these things, the way of the world is obviously a bit too esoteric for Huamanlou who is only six years old.

Lu Xiaofeng looked at Hua Manlou thinking hard, rubbed Hua Manlou's face with a smile and said, "It's okay if you don't understand, I will take you out for a while in the future, and you will understand."

Hua Manlou nodded, but the next moment, Hua Manlou caught a glimpse of a gray shadow getting into the fishing net.

Huamanlou: "Yes, yes, there are rabbits!"

Lu Xiaofeng quickly turned around, ran over to have a look, and sure enough there was a fat gray rabbit struggling in the net.

Lu Xiaofeng drew out the dagger, and squatted down to cut the fixed corner of the fishing net, but before he could squat still, he felt Huamanlou eagerly patting his shoulder with one hand and pointing at the opposite side, his voice changed. :"what is that?"

Hearing this, Lu Xiaofeng raised his head, and three four-foot-tall wild wolves came over with fierce eyes. The wild wolves stared at Lu Xiaofeng and Hua Manlou baring their teeth, their saliva dripping down to the ground, their tails bowed low. Dragging on the ground, one seems to have started an ambush.

Seeing this, Lu Xiaofeng got up, pulled Huamanlou up and ran back, shouting as he ran, "It's a wolf! Run as fast as you can!"

The two children practiced lightness kung fu one after another, and the three wolves chased after them, but how high is the lightness kung fu for two children under ten years old?Soon Huamanlou was exhausted, and Lu Xiaofeng couldn't hold him back anymore.

Seeing the three wolves getting closer and closer, Lu Xiaofeng panicked in his heart, and one of them suddenly stopped and roared to the sky, Lu Xiaofeng was shocked, it was calling a pack of wolves!

Soon, Lu Xiaofeng and Hua Manlou noticed that wolves appeared continuously on the hillsides on both sides, until a big wolf with a tuft of white hair sitting on the boulder ahead completely blocked their way.

This big wolf has yellowish-brown fur all over its body, with a patch of white hair on its chest. It is very strong, and its physique is much taller than other wolves. It is sitting on a boulder at this time, its eyes are as sharp as a knife.

Guessing that this one was the wolf king his father had mentioned, the king of wolves, Lu Xiaofeng groaned inwardly, holding the dagger in his hand, he protected Hua Manlou and retreated step by step towards the big tree beside him.

Hua Manlou's lightness kung fu is still very weak, and he can only raise a height of four or five feet at a time, so Lu Xiaofeng said solemnly without looking back: "Step on my shoulders to climb the tree! Quick!"

Huamanlou's face was pale with fright, but he quickly climbed onto Lu Xiaofeng's shoulders. Lu Xiaofeng gritted his teeth and sent Huamanlou up to the tree fork on the first floor.The pack of wolves seemed to be irritated by Huamanlou's movement up the tree. The moment the wolf king stood up, more than 20 wild wolves gathered to attack. , the pack of wolves rushed to nothing, and started to jump up the tree again. Lu Xiaofeng quickly climbed up to the second tree branch, and then pulled Hua Manlou up.

Now the pack of wolves will definitely not be able to bite them.

Unfortunately, before Lu Xiaofeng started laughing, the sky began to snow.

Lu Xiaofeng didn't know the name of the tree they took refuge in now, but he could tell that it was a deciduous tree with a bare canopy, not even a single dead leaf.

Snowflakes fell directly on the faces and bodies of the two children, Lu Xiaofeng quickly took off his cloak and covered the two children's heads.

The cloak was covered with snow, under the trees were a group of hungry wolves staring at each other, and the sky was covered with catkin-like heavy snow.As the sky was getting darker, Huamanlou was shaking more and more violently, Lu Xiaofeng could only hug Huamanlou into his arms, took off his cloak and covered him, but Huamanlou was still shaking violently.

Lu Xiaofeng couldn't see the expression on Hua Manlou's face, he could only see pairs of green eyes under the tree, staring at the tree with green light.

Lu Xiaofeng: "Seven children? Seven children!"

Huamanlou couldn't respond anymore, Lu Xiaofeng shouted while shaking Huamanlou: "Qitong? Huamanlou! Huamanlou! Can't sleep, be obedient, wake up!"

Hua Manlou seemed to have regained consciousness in a daze, and murmured: "It's cold...so cold..."

Lu Xiaofeng was about to cry, so he hugged Huamanlou a little tighter, and kept talking in Huamanlou's ear: "Huamanlou, don't sleep, father said that people who are frozen cannot sleep. Can't wake up! You talk to me, let's talk, okay?"

Hua Manlou: "Alright...I'm sorry...Little Phoenix...I know that without me...you can definitely escape"

Lu Xiaofeng hugged Huamanlou, tears fell drop by drop, he choked up and said: "I shouldn't have brought you to the mountain without authorization, I'm sorry"

Hua Manlou: "I'm very happy... I've never caught a rabbit..."

While Huamanlou was talking, his voice started to get weaker and weaker again. Lu Xiaofeng quickly shook him again, wiping his tears while trying to smile: "Huamanlou, sir, he said that he will recite "Long Gan Xing" tomorrow, I don't remember Come on, can you help me with my revision? Come on, I will start first, the concubine will send out the first report, and the drama in front of Zhehuamen"

Hua Manlou murmured: "Lang came on a bamboo horse, and went around the bed to grow green plums. We live together in Changqian, and the two little ones have no suspicions. Fourteen is..."

Seeing that Huamanlou had passed out again, Lu Xiaofeng quickly shook Huamanlou again and said, "Huamanlou, what do you mean by the poem you recited? Can you tell me? Are we two childhood sweethearts, childhood sweethearts? That's what I said Isn't that right, will the sir hit my hand?"

Hua Manlou's voice was murmuring, and it became increasingly difficult to hear clearly. Lu Xiaofeng put his ear close to his mouth, and heard Hua Manlou say: "Sir, I will definitely hit you. We are both boys. We should be bamboo horses, bamboo horses, and the boss." pay……"

Lu Xiaofeng: "Huamanlou, what do you mean by the friendship between the chief and the director, can you tell me?"

But this time no matter how Lu Xiaofeng shook her, Hua Manlou didn't respond.

Lu Xiaofeng hugged Huamanlou tightly, covered Huamanlou's hands with his two small hands, and rubbed them while exhaling. He pressed his face to Huamanlou's, crying and calling Huamanlou's name, unfortunately Hua ManLou just ignored him.

Gradually, Lu Xiaofeng also felt that his expression was a little dazed, his body was already frozen from the cold, and now he couldn't even speak!

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I don’t know what’s wrong with the last chapter, I can’t unlock it, let’s post a side story first