Dabao's original intention was to help a group of little cousins. In his opinion, practicing calligraphy was of little significance. It was not impossible for him to imitate a few pages for her.

But seeing that the little girl insisted on not letting him help, he gave up the idea of ​​writing for her: "Okay, you write slowly, anyway, there are still two days to finish it. Originally, my brother, Ergou and the others made an appointment to go to the mountain tomorrow

Shooting Birds, I also want to help you finish writing the big characters and take you with me."

When he heard about going up the mountain to hunt birds, Qin Xiaoxiao's eyes lit up: "When are you going?"

Dabao smiled and said: "We will go after breakfast. If we can catch sparrows and doves, we will have barbecue on the mountain at noon..."

The more Qin Xiaoxiao listened, the more excited she became. She wished she could immediately agree to go with her elder brother. But when she thought that half of her homework was still unfinished, she instantly turned into a frost-beaten eggplant.

Dabao was secretly amused and rubbed his little cousin's head again. The next moment his eyes fell on the two pages of large characters, and a "perfect" idea came to his mind.

Qin Xiaoxiao knew that she would not be able to finish her homework before breakfast tomorrow, but she still wanted to work hard so that she could follow her brothers to the mountains to play. So she concentrated on writing, unaware that Dabao was doing the same thing as her.

The little girl kept writing until the sun went down before she put down her pen. She looked at the thick pages on the table and scratched her head in confusion: "Have you already written so much?"

Dabao snickered and put them away without waiting for her to take a closer look. He helped her put them in the book box: "Brother has counted them for you. There are fifteen pages in total. You can just write another fifteen pages tomorrow."

According to Xu Ze's request, he wrote thirty words on one page, which meant that Qin Xiaoxiao filled thirty pages.

"No, I didn't write so much. Big brother, let me count." Qin Xiaoxiao knew how slow she was at writing. She could only write six pages in an hour. She didn't believe that she could write enough in an hour and a half.

I got fifteen cards, so I have to count them myself before I can rest assured.

"Okay, okay, let me count for you." Dabao had no choice but to take out the fifteen pages of paper and counted them one by one in front of her. It was indeed fifteen.

"Wow, it's really fifteen pages, great!" Qin Xiaoxiao didn't think much, thinking that her writing speed had become faster, and she was very happy: "I will write five more pages after dinner, like this

Tomorrow morning I can go up to the mountains to play with my big brother, and I will write the remaining ten pages when I come back in the afternoon."

"That's a good idea. Then you should write it down tonight. My brother will definitely take you to play in the mountains tomorrow." Dabao agreed immediately. Seeing his sister's smile, he felt that he was really smart.

After the meal, Qin Xiaoxiao put down the bowl and chopsticks and prepared to continue writing. However, the brightness of an oil lamp was limited. Qin Shan and Lin Qiuniang were afraid that she would burn out her eyes and refused to let her write.

Qin Xiaoxiao refused to wash up and rest, insisting on writing five pages before going to bed. The couple couldn't resist her, so they had to move the dining table into the room. In addition to lighting an extra oil lamp, they also took out the Night Pearl for lighting.

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Qin Xiaoxiao didn't take a break at noon. She just finished writing three pages before dozing off. If it weren't for the support of going to the mountains to play tomorrow, she would have put down her pen and paper and nestled in bed to dream about Duke Zhou.

Every time when she couldn't hold on any longer, she would put down her pen and walk around the yard a few times. After regaining her energy, she would sit down and write again. At least she finished five pages of paper, and her handwriting was almost the same as what she had written during the day, without any sloppiness at all.

It was Xu Ze who was very strict and could not tolerate any sloppiness in the little girl, so he allowed her to put away all her sloppiness in just half a month. After all, if she failed to meet Xu Ze's requirements, she would get slapped on the palm of her hand.

Qin Shan and Lin Qiuniang did not go to bed first. They stayed with the little girl to finish writing the five pages of paper, then put away the night pearl and blew out the oil lamp and went to bed to rest.

After breakfast the next day, Qin Xiaoxiao and the others were taken to the mountain by Dabao Ergou and others to hunt birds.

Qin Xiaoxiao hadn't gone up the mountain for a while. When she saw the wild chrysanthemums no longer blooming on both sides of the road, she vaguely remembered something about picking wild chrysanthemums last year.

It was just that a year had passed and she was not sure whether the scenes that flashed in her mind had really happened, so she couldn't help but ask Dabao if Dahuang had been stung by a bee.

"Don't mention this silly dog. That time it was stung by bees and turned into a pig's head. It almost died from the stings." Dabao was frightened when he mentioned this incident and rubbed Dahuang's dog's head again and again.

Dahuang was not happy. He barked and broke away from Dabao's clutches. He spread his legs and ran up the mountain quickly with Dahei. He followed with a jumping jump, and from time to time he used the horns of the big sheep to push Dahuang's butt. Every time, Dahuang hit Dahuang.

Tighten the tail.

Seeing that Qin Xiaoxiao didn't call Dahuang back, Ergou joked: "Your rhubarb is so powerful. Not only did the bees sting me, but I also brought one back to sting your cousin Xiuxiu's face."

Already."

"Cousin Xiuxiu..." Qin Xiaoxiao has not forgotten Zhao Xiuxiu, but she has not heard anyone mention her for a long time, and she has not thought of this person for a long time.

"What are you doing to bring her up!" Dabao glared at Ergou angrily. For his family, the word "Zhao Xiuxiu" was a taboo, and no one wanted to mention such a person.

Ergou came over and hung on him, and said with a smile: "It's okay to mention it. Everyone in the village knows that Zhao Xiuxiu ran away with someone. At that time, my mother said that she had no conscience. Your family

After working so hard to raise her, she recognized someone else as her godmother and even disappeared without a trace. Maybe her godfather coaxed her into selling her."

Dabao became irritable and pushed Ergou away. Just as he was about to say something, a person suddenly jumped out from the oblique ground and threw Ergou to the ground.

The sudden change shocked everyone, and Dabao subconsciously protected his younger brothers and sisters behind him.

When he saw that Ergou was being pinned down by a crazy woman with disheveled hair and disheveled clothes, he quickly rushed to save her: "You crazy woman, get out of here!"

The crazy woman seemed not to have heard Dabao's words. She strangled Ergou's neck with her dry bark-like hands and shouted fiercely: "Zhao Xiuxiu, where is this little bitch Zhao Xiuxiu? Is it you?"

Hidden her?"

Ergou rolled his eyes after being pinched, and tried desperately to break the crazy woman's hand: "Uh, uh, let's go, go away!"

"Quickly tell me, where is the little bitch? Where is the little bitch!" No matter how hard the two dogs scratched her and how hard Dabao pushed her, the crazy woman remained motionless like a tower and kept asking about Zhao Xiuxiu's whereabouts.

"What are you doing standing around stupidly? Come and help!" Seeing that Ergou was about to be strangled to death by the crazy woman, Dabao hurriedly called to his stunned companions to come over and help.

"Oh!" Several children quickly stepped forward and pulled the crazy woman hard.

"Second, second brother, who is she? It's so scary!" Qin Xiaoxiao was so frightened that she hugged Erbao's arm tightly.

"She is cousin Xiuxiu's grandmother. I don't know how she became like this." The crazy woman's face was so dirty that Erbao finally recognized her as Mrs. Hu who had gone crazy once in the first month, but he didn't know that she had already gone crazy.

He's so crazy that he comes out and hurts people in broad daylight.

Xueya, who had been staying in the village, knew a little bit, and looked sympathetic and disgusted: "In the past six months, she has suffered from several mad illnesses, each time more serious than the last. Later, she couldn't hear anyone mention Zhao Xiuxiu. As soon as she heard this

A name can hurt someone."

This is not the first time Hu has hurt someone. A while ago, she bit a little daughter-in-law. The little daughter-in-law and her family made trouble to the Feng family, and they made the Feng family pay a sum of money before they stopped. A little while ago, she bit a three-year-old daughter-in-law.

The child was so frightened that the Feng family locked up Mrs. Hu and did not release her until she regained some consciousness.

Who would have thought that today she hid in the bushes and heard Ergou mention Zhao Xiuxiu's name, which made her go crazy and jump out to pinch someone again.

Dabao and the others finally rescued Ergou from Mrs. Hu's hands after a lot of effort, while Mrs. Hu lay on the ground crying: "God damn broom star, you are harming people, you are

You are harming people, I will kill you, I will kill you——"

"Let's go, get out of here quickly, don't let her get involved!" A group of people were in shock and did not dare to approach the Hu family. However, Dabao was still calm and after saying hello, he took Qin Xiaoxiao and others and continued walking up the mountain.

The others followed quickly, but Ergou, whose neck hurt from being pinched, was so angry that he rushed up and kicked Mr. Hu several times: "His grandma, let you pinch me, let you pinch me!"

Dabao, who hadn't gone far yet, frowned and urged impatiently: "How can you compete with a madman? Do you still want to shoot birds?"

Ergou also felt bored, spat at Mr. Hu, turned around and ran towards Dabao: "Come on, come on, I'll save my energy to shoot a few more birds."

Mrs. Hu lay on the ground crying, still cursing Zhao Xiuxiu, as if Zhao Xiuxiu was not her granddaughter, but the enemy who dug up her ancestral grave. If you really care about it, you can't tell who is whose enemy.

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As a group of people walked up the mountain, they gradually stopped hearing Hu's cries. After encountering this kind of thing, everyone was in a bad mood. There was a child who happened to be a neighbor of the Feng family. Over the past six months, something happened to the Feng family.

He also knew everything about the situation, and he told a lot of things that the Qin family brothers and sisters didn't know.

It turned out that after Mrs. Hu was diagnosed with madness by the doctor in the city, Feng An and Mrs. Zhu saw that Mrs. Hu could still be saved, so they spent money to buy some medicine for Hu. After all, Mrs. Hu would still work in the fields if she was conscious.

When his condition worsens and he cannot work, he still has to be watched. This is a heavy burden for the Feng family.

Who would have thought that before Hu's condition had completely stabilized, the news that Hu Laolian was sentenced to jail until death reached Hu's ears. Suffering such a major stimulus, Hu's condition worsened, and she went crazy every now and then.

Last time, the Feng family and their neighbors were in trouble.

Mrs. Zhu felt that Mrs. Hu would not recover, so she did not want to waste money on giving her medicine, so she forced Feng An to stop taking Mrs. Hu's medicine. She also often scolded Zhao Xiuxiu in front of Mrs. Hu. She was the one responsible for the bad luck in the first place.

He was brought to the Feng family, causing the Feng family to suffer misfortune year after year.

To say who was the biggest scapegoat in the Feng family's hearts, it was undoubtedly Qin Xiaoxiao. But at that time, the news of the talented scholar at Qinhe High School spread back to the village, and the Zhu family did not dare to scold the Qin family's treasure, so she had to scold the other person.

A broom star who had harmed them.

I don’t know if this is the reason, but whenever Mrs. Hu gets sick, she will sit at the gate and scold Zhao Xiuxiu. In the end, she will go everywhere to find Xiuxiu, hoping to kill her in order to get rid of the Feng family’s bad luck.

Zhao Xiuxiu has disappeared for more than half a year, and her traces in the hearts of the villagers are getting weaker and weaker. On weekdays, few people mention her, and they only mention her a few words when the Qin family's affairs are mentioned.

Ergou was also unlucky today. He didn't expect the sick Hu to appear here, so his casual words almost brought disaster to himself.

After hearing the reason why Mrs. Hu became like this, Dabao told his younger brothers and sisters: "In the future, you should be careful when you go out. If you see Mrs. Hu, stay away from her."

This mother-in-law hates her family. When she is not crazy, she comes to the house and makes trouble but does not get any advantage. Who knows if she will pretend to be crazy when she is sober and deliberately harm her brothers and sisters.

"Yeah, I understand." Qin Xiaoxiao nodded several times. They were also frightened by the crazy Mrs. Hu, and they would hide far away without Dabao's reminder.

It didn't take long for the group to reach the mountain. Dabao and the others took out their slingshots one after another and looked for sparrows and doves in the woods. Anyway, they would shoot whatever they saw. There was always some luck in hunting birds.

At this time of year, most birds are busy building nests for the winter. As long as you find the right place with good accuracy, it is not difficult to catch the birds.

Qin Xiaoxiao helped them pick up stones of suitable sizes on the spot, but they didn't dare to follow them too close, lest the noise they made would scare the birds away.

With Qin Xiaoxiao here, Dabao and the others were naturally lucky. As soon as they went up the mountain, they encountered four or five groups of wild pigeons, and even several pheasants jumped out from their feet. They hurriedly chased after the birds, half of them

At the end of the day, twelve pigeons and eight turtle doves were shot.

The biggest harvest was Rhubarb. With the help of Dahei, the dog actually caught two pheasants and a hare. However, after having a daughter-in-law, the dog also changed and rarely brought back its prey.

Qin family.

This time Dabao wanted Dahuang's hare, but Dahuang refused to give it to him. It wasn't until Dabao brought out a pigeon and a turtledove to trade with him that he put down the hare, took the pigeon and turtledove in his mouth, and happily went to Dahei to claim credit.

There were twelve people present. It was impossible to fill their stomachs with these things, but it was no problem to get half full. Before going up the mountain, they never imagined that they would gain so much. Each person could get a pigeon or turtle dove.

Very satisfied.

A group of half-grown children excitedly found a waterhole with their prey. They gathered firewood and made a fire beside the waterhole. They took out the salt they stole from home and ate barbecue beside the waterhole.

After the meat was roasted, Qin Xiaoxiao, who didn't put much effort into it, was given a pigeon and a rabbit leg. In terms of taste, these roasted meats were far less fragrant than those cooked by the adults at home, but she ate them as happily as the others.

A group of people washed their hands and faces by the pool, rested for a while, and then went down the mountain along the way they came. When they reached the place where they had been entangled with Hu, there was no trace of Hu.
Chapter completed!