"Brother, after the holiday, will Chengdao and Chengqian not come again for a month?" Qi Niang asked Li Xiu with her pitiful big eyes open.

"Yes, the weather is too hot now. Even if there are ice cubes cooling down, it is still not suitable for study. Some extracurricular activities cannot be carried out, so I can only wait until the weather is cooler before class." Li Xiu saw Qi Niang's pitiful look and thought she didn't want to have a holiday, so he comforted her.

"That's great, then I can take Xiao Ya to the princess's place to play!" Qi Niang suddenly screamed excitedly when she heard this, and the pitiful expression on her face disappeared without a trace. Then she jumped and ran to find Xiao Ya, the daughter of the female guard Jiujie. Since she came here, she has become Qi Niang's best playmate. However, since Qi Niang started learning things with Li Xiu, she has not even had time to play with Xiao Ya.

Seeing Qi Niang's inconsistent performance, Li Xiu was stunned for a moment before realizing that he was fooled by this little girl. He couldn't help but feel angry and funny at the moment. Qi Niang was not very concerned about studying, and holidays would only make her happy, which was something she should have thought of just now.

Qi Niang wanted to take Xiao Ya to Princess Pingyang to play, so naturally a fat sister arranged for someone to send them. In addition, Liu'er would also take care of her, and with Princess Pingyang there, Li Xiu didn't have to worry at all. Moreover, after Qi Niang left, he was the only one left at home, so he no longer had to worry about a few children surrounding him and asking "why".

"Uh~, this feeling is really good!" Li Xiu stretched his waist and said to himself. He didn't have to teach a few more children to study, nor did he have to arrange courses for them. This feeling of being completely idle is so missing.

However, he was idle and could not always sit and stare in a daze like this. Li Xiu had to find something for himself to spend time. So soon he thought of something he hadn't done for a long time. He went to the room to pick up his fishing rod and asked Yuechan to prepare a pot of iced sour plum soup. Then he left home leisurely with a food box on his face.

After arriving at the yellow canal, Li Xiu found a tree with his back against the trees and sat down. Then he threw the fish hook into the water. He sat there while cooling while waiting for the fish to take the hook. When he was hot, he poured a cup of sour plum soup to drink. When he was tired, he lay on the grass for a while. Suddenly the fish float in the water swayed rapidly. Li Xiu hurriedly lifted the fishing rod, and a carp with a palm wide had already taken the hook. There was fish soup to drink tonight.

After the carp was lifted up, Li Xiu picked it off and threw it into the fish basket, and then hung it on the bait to continue fishing. However, at this moment, Li Xiu suddenly heard something moving in the woods behind him.

At first, Li Xiu thought it was a little animal, so he didn't care. But after a while, he heard the sound behind him seemed to be the sound of human footsteps, and there was also a small song humming by a woman, which made Li Xiu feel very surprised. He turned his head to look, but in the woods, a girl was picking wild vegetables with a bamboo basket in her hand humming an unknown song.

Looking at the girl in the woods, Li Xiu didn't care at first, thinking she was an ordinary girl from a nearby village, so he continued to turn his head to fish, but soon he suddenly thought of something again. He turned his head to look again, and then whispered to himself: "No wonder, she doesn't look like an ordinary farm girl, she should be a maid from someone else's house. However, besides me and the princess's house, there are probably only the little maid brought by the wardrobe."

In fact, the girl in the woods is the maid's maid next to Niang Yi. She picks some wild vegetables nearby every morning and can find some mushrooms when she is lucky, which can be considered to be a improvement in her life. However, after eating wild vegetables for many days, what she wants most now is meat, but now there is no income at home. Niang Yi is working hard to do embroidery work every day, hoping to finish it early and sell it at a good price. When they get an income, their situation should be better.

Although there are many wild vegetables in summer, most of them are elders, and some of them are no longer edible. So if you want to find suitable wild vegetables, you have to search everywhere every day. Yesterday, she found that the wild vegetables in the woods by the river were relatively tender, and she picked a large basket in a short while, so she came early today.

Not only are there wild vegetables in the woods, but occasionally some wild fruits. The powder is from a poor family. Before entering Pei's mansion, she also climbed trees like a wild boy and went down the river to fish. So when she encountered edible wild fruits, she would also put on her skirt and climb up the tree, pick some fruits and take them back.

Li Xiu sat under the tree by the river, with thick trees blocking it behind her, so Faner didn't see him for the time being. After picking wild vegetables, she happened to see an apricot tree not far ahead, with yellowed apricots growing on the tree, which also made Faner feel the saliva of mouth and tongue. She hummed a small song and ran over, rolled up her sleeves and climbed up the tree.

The apricot tree is not tall, but it is very thick. The apricots on it are big and dense. The powder first picked an apricot and wiped it on the clothes, then stuffed it into her mouth and took a bite. It turned out that although the apricot is not very sweet, it tastes good, especially with a slight sour taste, which makes people very appetizing. This made the powder happy and picked up the skirt.

Li Xiu didn't expect that this little maid was so naughty and was very skilled in climbing trees and picking fruits. However, he didn't bother her, for fear of being scared to fall from the tree again. In fact, Li Xiu didn't want to have any interaction with the lady in the air, so he hoped that the little girl wouldn't see her at all, and would leave as soon as possible after picking the apricots.

But things went against my wishes. Fan'er was about to get off the tree and accidentally swept across the vicinity. As a result, he immediately saw Li Xiu sitting by the river from a high place. Especially when he saw that Li Xiu was still a young man, Fan'er was also shocked. As a result, his feet slipped and he fell off the tree.

Fan Er screamed, and then "bang" fell under the tree, which scared Li Xiu, who was fishing in front of him, and hurriedly threw down the fishing rod to check it out. As a result, Fan Er was standing up while rubbing her butt, and apricots rolled all over the ground.

"How is it? Are you injured?" Li Xiu asked with concern. After all, the other party was a child, and it would be troublesome if he fell and injured.

"No... it's okay!" Fan'er couldn't help but feel very shy when she saw the young man in front of her, especially the other party's bright eyes. She looked at her even more embarrassedly and lowered her head and rubbed the corners of her clothes at a loss.

Seeing that this little girl was not big and was so shy, Li Xiu couldn't help but feel a little funny. He bent down and helped her pick up the apricot on the ground and handed it to her and said, "It's good that I'm not injured. Don't be so rash again in the future!"

After saying that, Li Xiu smiled at Fan'er, and then turned around and continued to go back to fish. Seeing him leaving, Fan'er couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. He put the apricot in the basket and prepared to leave, but at this moment, he suddenly saw Li Xiu lifting the fishing rod and fishing a grass carp that was about to grow by foot.

Looking at the big grass carp struggling on the water, the neat scales flashed with light under the sunlight, but the pink felt a lot of saliva suddenly gushing out of her mouth. For her, who had not eaten meat for a long time, this grass carp was a bowl of delicious fish soup.

Li Xiu was also very happy to catch such a big grass carp and sighed that he had good luck today. Maybe he could catch a lot of them next. However, after he hung the fish hook on the bait and threw it into the water again, he found that the little girl had not left, but squatted not far away and stared at his fish basket.

"Little girl, why haven't you gone back yet?" Fishing is a quiet activity, unlike a performance that requires people to watch. In fact, if someone is watching from the side when fishing, it will make people feel uncomfortable and their hearts can't calm down. So Li Xiu wanted to speak out and drive the little girl away.

"That..." Fan'er seemed a little embarrassed at this time, and finally plucked up the courage to speak, "I want to ask, do you sell your fish?"

"Selling fish?" Li Xiu couldn't help but turn his head and look at the other party when he heard this. Then he thought of Yue Chan's story about the hardships of the master and servant of the Yi Niang, which made him smile and said, "It's nothing to sell it to you, but do you have money?"

"I...I don't have money." Fan'er felt even more embarrassed when she said this, but in the end she mustered up the courage again, "But I can exchange things for you."

"Oh? Then what are you going to exchange for me?" Li Xiu couldn't help but be very interested in this persistent little girl. He could not help but stay away from her when her master was in trouble. This little girl was also a kind and kind person. It was nothing to give her a fish, but Li Xiu wanted to tease her.

"I... how about I exchange this basket of wild vegetables with you?" Fan Er mentioned the basket to Li Xiu and said that the wild vegetables in the basket were carefully selected by her and were very tender. In fact, in spring and summer, Li Xiu often ate wild vegetables, especially when the fresh vegetables were not yet on the market, even the nobles could only eat some wild vegetables.

"These wild vegetables are everywhere, and I can pick them myself." Li Xiu deliberately made things difficult for Fan'er.

"Then I can go up the tree to help you pick some apricots, right?" Fan'er said without being discouraged when she heard this.

"Haha, this apricot tree is so short, I can reach it with my hand. How can you help me pick it?" Li Xiu smiled again when he heard this. He was two more taller than the powder, and he could reach it with just picking apricots. In fact, before the powder came, he picked apricots and tasted them. He found that it was a little sour and didn't eat too much.

Seeing that the other party didn't want wild vegetables and apricots, Fan'er was also a little anxious. She looked around and found that she really had nothing to exchange with the other party, which made her feel a little discouraged. However, at this moment, her eyes suddenly lit up and she shouted to Li Xiu excitedly: "Wait a minute, I'll go get the things to exchange with you!" (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!