Chapter 516 (1/2)
After a few days, Lu Xiaoxian and Manda get along well. She knows where Manda lives. Sometimes she will take bananas, rice and vegetables to visit, cook with them and play with Manda's little daughter.
Manda gradually took her as a friend and took good care of her. On that day, she asked Lu Xiaoxian to go with her to another place to change the label. There was a big lake. If you were lucky, you could catch fish or pick some fresh fruits for food.
Lu Xiaoxian was naturally happy to hear that. It was better to go to another place to have a look than to be trapped here. Maybe he could find a chance to escape.
Manda's little daughter went with her. She didn't even have shoes. She ran happily in the forest with a pair of bare feet. Lu Xiaoxian looked at her as if she had seen her own childhood. But she did not dare to run in the mountains with joy in the daytime. If she was seen by other children, she would bully her. At night, she could run all the way home from her grandmother's grave.
The place that Manda took her to is quite far away. Lu Xiaoxian silently remembers the extremely complicated forked path along the way. It took almost two hours to get to the destination. It was relatively open and sunny. Besides a small rubber forest, there were some fruit trees, most of which were mango and banana trees.
Lu Xiaoxian saw the big lake that Manda said. It was really big. The lake was sparkling, like a layer of broken gold.
Manda put delicious rice in a bamboo basket. Long branches were tied to the basket. One end was fixed on the bank, and the other end of the bamboo Lou was stretched into the lake.
Lu Xiaoxian saw this fishing method for the first time. It was very fresh. He asked Manda, ”is this OK?”
Manda nodded with a smile: ”come back to see when you're done. If you're lucky, you're not.”
She gave Lu Xiaoxian half of the label and asked her to stick it on the rubber tree. She took her little daughter to another forest to change the label.
When Manda left, Lu Xiaoxian took the label and went into the rubber forest. She was always conscientious and responsible. She covered the old one with the new label carefully, and each one was pasted properly. If you do more, you will be skilled. It doesn't take long for her to finish everything.
After finishing her work, she ran to the lake to see the bamboo basket, but there seemed to be no movement. So she walked around and looked around. At the other end of the lake, she saw a small bamboo shed with bamboo collapse in it, which was supposed to be used for the rest of passers-by. She went in and sat for a while, and the bamboo cave was a little hot. Although there was a breeze on the lake, the wind was also hot and could not make people feel comfortable.
Lu Xiaoxian then came out of the bamboo shed and walked to a small hillside. There were some small rubber trees here, which were well planned. She was shuttling through these small rubber trees. Suddenly, she found a man squatting under the tree, with his back to her and a hat on his head. It was difficult to tell whether it was a man or a woman?
Lu Xiaoxian was very happy to meet someone else in such a remote place. He strode to the front, probably to hear the sound. The man turned around, but he was an old man. He had a pair of kind eyes and a white beard. When he saw Lu Xiaoxian, he laughed, but he didn't stand up and asked in Chinese, ”what are you doing here?”
Lu Xiaoxian said, ”I work in the woods below, and when I'm done, I'll come up and walk. What are you doing, grandfather
A grandfather let the old man stupefied, he put the soil under the tree into the small bottle, and then stood up: ”I'm looking for good cultivation soil.”
”Is it for rubber trees?”
”Yes, to grow rubber trees.”
”I guess you're an old expert on rubber trees?”
”You're right. I've been studying rubber trees for decades.” The old man asked her with a smile, ”are you new here?”
”I've only been here a few days, and you're the third person I've ever met.”
The old man nodded, ”are you the forest keeper?”
”Grandfather, you can guess it right. I am the keeper of the woods,” Lu Xiaoxian was very happy to meet a person who could speak Chinese and was willing to chat with her. ”Do you live here, too? Do you live alone, too? Is your family in the rubber garden, too? It's too big in here. I always get lost. I don't know how to get out when I come in. Fortunately, Manda takes me with me. Her daughter is very cute and her son works in a food processing factory... ”
The old man listened to her with a smile, but Yu Guang looked her up and down.
Lu Xiaoxian said, but suddenly reached out and pulled the old man behind him. He flew up and kicked something off the ground. Then pick up a dead branch and stop it in front.
The old man had already seen clearly that there was a snake on the ground. His thumb was thick, his head was flat, and his tongue was sticking out. He was looking at them.
Lu Xiaoxian whispered to the old man, ”grandfather, I'll stop you. Go quickly.”
The old man was surprised: ”aren't you afraid?”
”No, there are snakes where I lived when I was a child. If I don't touch them carefully, I will drive them away with a stick.”
The snake kept shaking its head, as if to find the right opportunity to attack.