◎Checkmate (two more in one)◎

Li Zhi nodded: "Every time I go to the pork store to buy meat, he will send me some pigs into the water."

Pei Ming: "…"

He fell silent. For a while, it was Brother Rong who didn't know whether he was better than Li Tan in the yard next door.

"I'm done eating." Li Zhi stood up, poured the rest of the noodles into the dog bowl, patted the big yellow dog's head, and turned to look at him: "I'm going to wash the dishes, do you want to go into the house to rest? ?"

Pei Ming didn't answer her, and walked into the house on crutches.

Li Zhi's house is not big, and the house is very simple, except for the bed and a table, there is nothing else.

She packed up the dishes and took a quilt from Li Hua's house: "I sleep on the ground."

Pei Ming still didn't speak.

Seeing her lighting the candles, spreading the hay on the ground to keep cool, and spreading the thick quilt with patches on the hay, he pursed his lips.

Two days ago, she walked into the house feeling dark, and he thought her family was so poor that they didn't even have candles.

It turned out that there were candles, but they were reluctant to use them.

After Li Zhi packed up, he made him a bowl of tea with hot water: "I put the tea at the head of the bed, I can reach it if I am thirsty at night."

He remained silent, his eyes lowered without a word.

After a hard day's work, she was a little sleepy, and after setting up his affairs, she got into the cold bed.

Li Zhi is afraid of cold, so she dislikes winter the most. Although it is early spring, the night is still cold, and it takes a long time to warm the bed.

It took a long time for her to fall asleep, and the cold bedding gradually caught her body temperature and became warm.

Pei Ming sat on the stool, looking at the scattered tea leaves floating up from the bowl, slightly absent-minded.

He wants to drink tea, but she said last time that she didn't have tea at home, so she went to the city, and today she has tea at home.

Was this tea specially bought for him?

He was so poor that his family couldn't even open the pot, so he still used that insignificant low-level spirit stone to buy him tea?

Pei Ming stretched out his hand, and lightly tapped the edge of the bowl with his fair and slender fingers, his fingertips exerted a little force, holding the worn-out porcelain bowl, and took a sip of the tea in the bowl.

The taste is light and bitter.

The tea shop selling tea lied to her, this is not last year's tea.

Perhaps it was the old tea leaves that had been stored in the warehouse in the past few years. In addition, due to improper storage, the tea leaves were damp and dried in the sun, and the taste of the tea leaves was unpalatable.

This kind of tea is not tea at all in his eyes, it is similar to the soil on the ground.

However, Pei Ming lowered his eyes and drank the tea in the porcelain bowl in one gulp.

The next morning, Li Zhi woke up on the bed.

She rubbed her eyes, and in a daze, she seemed to hear someone calling her name outside the yard.

The voice was very familiar, it seemed to be Aunt Liu's voice.

Aunt Liu's name flashed in Li Zhi's mind, and she immediately woke up. She remembered the incident when Li Tan was bitten by a dog yesterday, and hurriedly got out of bed, put on cloth shoes and ran out.

She hurriedly removed the latch, and was about to apologize when she saw Aunt Liu looking slightly embarrassed: "Li Zhi, Li Tan was bitten by a wild dog on the way home yesterday. Do you have any medicines at home?"

Li Zhi was stunned for a moment.

Wild dog? Wasn't it bitten by the big yellow dog in her yard?

Could it be that Li Tan was afraid that Aunt Liu would be angry, so he lied and said that he was bitten by a wild dog on the road?

Thinking like this, she couldn't help feeling a little guilty, and said quickly, "Yes, I'll get it now."

Li Zhi trotted to Li Hua's room. He practiced swords all the year round, not only in the Sword Sect, but also at home day and night.

It is inevitable that there will be bruises and injuries on the body, and some wound medicines are also prepared at home in case of emergency.

After sending Aunt Liu away, she remembered that Pei Ming was not in the yard.

Li Zhi shouted twice, and when he saw that he was not there, he didn't think much about it. He just thought that his body was almost recovered, so he left by himself.

She has been busy with other things these days, but she has left her sword practice behind.

At this point, she felt at ease, so she took the wooden sword and practiced the Chunsheng Hua Xu swordsmanship that Li Hua taught her in the yard.

This set of swordsmanship can be practiced without spiritual power. She has already reached the fifth level, but she did not tell Li Hua about this.

If Li Hua knew that she was talented in sword repairing, she would definitely find a way to buy her the Essence Washing Pill for foundation building.

A washing marrow pill requires a high-level spirit stone, that is, a thousand low-level spirit stones, which is not a small amount.

When Pei Ming came back, he saw Li Zhi who was dancing a sword in the yard. She was clearly holding a wooden sword in her hand, but she was wielding a continuous appearance.

Pei Ling ding dong around her waist, her robes fluttered, and the sword body swept the floor with frost.

He stood at the door, his eyes following the tip of her sword, with a hint of imperceptible appreciation in his eyes.

It wasn't until she finished practicing a whole set of swordsmanship that Pei Ming walked into the yard with a cane.

Li Zhi, who was adjusting his breathing originally, heard the sound, turned his head, and after seeing who was coming, he couldn't help but startled: "Big brother, where have you been?"

Pei Ming put down the basket that was slung between his arms and placed it on the wooden table in the yard: "In the city."

Inside the basket was a whole basket of fresh pork, which seemed to have just been slaughtered in the morning, and the texture of the meat was still oozing blood.

Li Zhi looked at the pork in the basket, slightly dumbfounded.

He didn't seem to see her sluggish expression, and took out the rice grain he bought in the city in the early morning from the storage ring: "To cook."

She stared at the pork for a while, and then reacted after a half beat: "Thank you... thank you."

Li Zhi stammered in his speech, and looked at his eyes with sincerity, but Pei Ming felt a little uncomfortable: "I went to the city to buy tea, but I just bought these incidentally."

She nodded: "I'll cook, I'll cut two taels of meat for lunch, and give half a catty to Aunt Liu. The rest will be made into cured meat, and I'll keep it to eat slowly."

She planned the distribution of the pork in a meticulous way, but he didn't care how she ate it, he just responded perfunctorily.

When Pei Ming was cooking in Li Zhi, he took out the tea set and tea leaves from the storage ring and placed them on the dilapidated wooden table.

Li Zhi put the firewood burning under the stove, and when he looked up, he saw Pei Ming outside the firewood room.

He sat on the short bench, but it did not affect his noble and elegant bearing in the slightest.

She remembered Li Tan's drooling appearance yesterday, and when she saw him cooking tea, he was sitting in the white mist, like an immortal.

If this is the tea ceremony, even if she doesn't understand it, it will be pleasing to the eyes.

Li Zhi kept watching him and saw that the rice was ready. She used two taels of pork to fry two side dishes, one with minced sour beans, and one with peppers, and then put two bowls of fragrant rice from the grate.

She took the hot meal and put it on the table where he was making tea, and placed two pairs of chopsticks: "It's time to eat."

Pei Ming has long been fasted and doesn't need to eat, but he doesn't want her to misunderstand anything, lest she be sentimental and think that he bought pork for her on purpose.

He picked up his chopsticks and ate slowly.

Li Zhi thought that he was really good-looking. His long silver hair was like a cold moon hanging in the sky, and it was shining brightly and dazzlingly in the sun, making people feel warm.

While eating, she asked, "Big brother, when you went to the city, did you see the wildflowers on the back mountain?"

The back mountain is a cliff, which is a must to enter the city.

But then there was a plague, and most of the people in the village left. Li Hua was worried that she would enter the city from the back mountain by herself. It took more than two years to open up another path to enter the city.

Every early spring, unknown wildflowers bloom in the back mountain, and spring flowers are everywhere, brilliant and beautiful.

She wanted to go see the flowers, but Li Hua was too busy, they often got together less often, they finally came back once, and they had to leave after a long time.

"Did not notice."

Pei Ming didn't lie. He regained some consciousness in his legs, but he had the spiritual power to walk with the sword, so there was no need to walk over by himself.

He was flying so fast that he would not notice whether there were any wildflowers underneath.

Li Zhi was a little disappointed, but said nothing.

Seeing that she didn't speak anymore, Pei Ming slowly raised his black eyes and glanced at her lightly: "Ask what this is for."

"In more than a month, it will be my eighth birthday. If it blooms, I can go to the back mountain with my brother to see it."

She still remembered what Song Dingding said, whether it was true or not, she wanted to see the wildflowers in the back mountain with her own eyes before Li Hua left.

Pei Ming became silent when he heard the answer.

If she wants to go to the cliff in the back mountain, then he can fulfill her dying wish and take her to the back mountain to see it.

But she wanted to go with her brother, so she had to tell her brother about it herself.

After Li Zhi had eaten, he cut half a catty of meat and sent it to Aunt Liu next door. After returning, he marinated the pork and hung it up. The sky was getting dark.

Before it was completely dark, she took out the fabric that Li Hua had torn, and sewed the new clothes for him stitch by stitch.

Pei Ming meditated beside her to heal her injuries. The two did not interfere with each other, but they got along very harmoniously.

After two days, Li Zhi brought new clothes that had been sewn overtime and prepared to take them to the city to send to Li Hua.

It's just that Pei Ming insisted on following, which made her a little embarrassed.

There was no ups and downs in his tone: "I just happened to be going to the city and I'll take you on a ride."

Li Zhi hesitated: "But when you get to the city, you have to keep your distance from me."

She often goes to the city to set up a stall, most people know her, and those people's words are ugly enough.

If they saw that there was a young man beside her, they were afraid that they would talk nonsense again. At that time, he would also be implicated and insulted because of her.

Pei Ming followed her, originally to prevent Tianjun from taking her away, but now listening to her say that, it seems that he is disgusted with his lame leg.

He had no expression, as if he didn't care what she said at all, and nodded slightly.

Li Zhi said that he went to the city and kept a distance from her, but Pei Ming kept a distance from her as soon as he went out.

The 'take you a ride' in his mouth also became to follow her from a distance.

She felt that he seemed angry, but she didn't know why he was angry, she only felt that there was a low pressure behind her.

Li Zhi still entered the city from the small road, because Li Hua had warned her not to let her get close to the cliff in the back mountain.

She wanted to deliver the finished clothes before dark, but worried that Pei Ming, who was behind her, would have inconvenient legs and feet, and would not be able to keep up with her pace.

Simply walk for a while, stop for a while.

The six-wire spider toxin in Pei Ming's body has almost disappeared, and he can walk without crutches under his arm now.

He brought a cane, just to let Li Zhi relax his vigilance-because he was going to do it tonight.

Seeing that Li Zhi deliberately slowed down and wanted to wait for him, Pei Ming's lip line loosened slightly.

Why bother with her, she's just a dying person.

If you continue to walk slowly like this, you will not be able to reach the city until it is dark.

Pei Ming took the blade and flew forward. When passing by her, he reached out and grabbed her back collar and lifted her to the sword.

The sudden sense of weightlessness made Li Zhi cry out in surprise. The cold wind whizzing past quickly receded from the auricle, and she subconsciously grasped his arm.

When Li Zhi reacted, they had already stopped at the city gate.

She looked dazed for a while, her legs and feet were slightly weak, she supported his arm, and cautiously jumped off the sword.

There was a curfew in the city at night, Li Zhi thanked him and trotted into the city, heading straight for the Little Sword Sect where Li Hua was.

According to the agreement, Pei Ming followed her from a distance and kept a distance from her.

Until she entered Jianzong, he stopped.

"Hey, did you see it, that woman is Li Hua's sister."

Pei Ming leaned against the eaves outside Jianzong, and vaguely heard the voice from the courtyard of the sect.

Even though the voice was low, he could still hear it clearly.

The man inside was obviously talking about Li Zhi.

He didn't care too much, and turned his head to look at the crowded street.

"I know, I heard that their brothers and sisters are wild species born in the outer room. Now his sister makes money by selling herself and supports Li Hua."

"Bah! This Li Hua has a very high self-esteem, and wants to represent our sect to participate in the sword sect competition in the Xiu Xian world. With such a family background, it is a joke to have a younger sister who goes out to sell laughter at a young age!"

"Hey, hey! His sister is out, stop talking."

With a sneering voice and a faint smile, it came from the yard.

Pei Ming's drooping eyelashes trembled twice.

He heard Li Zhi greet them, and then walked out with brisk steps.

Li Zhi didn't stay in the Sword Sect, because Li Hua was not in the sect, so she put the new clothes and shoes in Li Hua's room.

She saw Pei Ming when she went out, and was about to talk to him when Yu Guang swept over to the stall on the street, raised her arm, stiffened slightly, and put it back again.

Pei Ming had a panoramic view of her subtle movements, and after thinking about what those people said in the yard just now, he finally understood.

She didn't ask him to follow her, not because he was inconvenient to walk, but because he would be talked about.

He has been following her these days, watching her wear the soles of her shoes day and night, so as to earn a meager spiritual stone to subsidize her family.

When he just woke up from the firewood room, he gave her dozens of high-level spiritual stones, but she didn't want any of them, how could she be such a dirty woman as they said.

Li Zhi looked at him and signaled with his eyes that he should leave.

Pei Ming lowered his head, wondering what he was thinking about. After a long time, he slowly raised his black eyes: "Wait for me at the city gate."

Seeing him say this, she thought he had something to do, nodded to him lightly, and sped up to leave the Sword Sect.

Passing by the tea house, Li Zhi saw the seal hanging on the tea house and couldn't help but stop.

She just bought tea here a few days ago. The business of the tea house was good at that time, why is it closed now?

She walked to the pastry shop next door and asked the shopkeeper, only to see the shopkeeper shaking his head and sighing: "Who knows what happened, the tea house caught fire two days ago, and all the tea leaves were burnt."

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