Chapter 244: Chapter 244

Chopping wood seems a bit easier.

He focused on cutting the finer branches.

So, Li Lixing happily grabbed the axe and rushed outside the yard to chop wood.

Around Mu Yuanxiu’s yard, there were no scrub trees at all; Mu Yuanxiu had cut them all, leaving not even stumps. The grass had been cleared so thoroughly that you couldn’t even see a sprout.

For about half a mile around, the ground was clean; one would have to walk over a mile to find scrub trees to chop.

Where the scrub trees grew, the weeds grew profusely.

Li Lixing had only swung his axe twice, hadn’t even managed to chop a branch, before he was unfortunately met with a snake.

A snake the thickness of candles, green-blue, flicking its tongue leisurely while watching him, coiling its body around the branches right in front of him.

Frightened, he threw away the axe and sprinted back.

He’s done with the chore of chopping wood.

He requested to split wood.

Mu Yuanxiu looked at him indifferently, "This is what you asked for, so there’s no changing that."

Li Lixing held back tears of fright, "As I said, a man of dignity keeps his word."

Mu Yuanxiu felt like laughing.

Just a little rascal!

Besides chopping wood, Mu Yuanxiu also took him into the woods to hunt, something Li Lixing enjoyed.

Hunting was basically playing.

But once they went into the woods, he almost cried again.

Because it was summer, and every few steps he would see various kinds of insects big and small.

Black and furry, green and spinning silk, black-headed with maroon bodies.

Thick ones, thin ones, long ones, short ones.

Li Lixing was so scared he almost wet his pants.

But Mu Yuanxiu said, "Weren’t you looking to eat game? The thicker the forest, the more game is hidden, like wild rabbits, wild chickens, hmm, that leopard hides somewhere in the woods."

"I...I don’t want to eat anymore, it’s hot, I just want to eat wild vegetables." Li Lixing would rather go hungry than be terrified by insects.

Mu Yuanxiu raised an eyebrow and said, "Oh? Eat the wild vegetables we had for lunch?"

"Just those two kinds." Even though they were hard to stomach, they were still edible.

"There’s no more lotus roots, only bitter greens left," Mu Yuanxiu said.

Li Lixing gasped, "No more white vegetables? Why not?"

"That’s lotus roots, have to be harvested from deep ponds, this is a mountain, where can you find that? Those lotus roots were sent by the villagers; if you want to eat them, go borrow some from the village, I’m not going, I owe the villagers money, if I enter, they’ll demand repayment." Mu Yuanxiu headed back.

There’s no debt, but he was serious about scaring the kid.

Li Lixing sighed inwardly, "Fine, let’s eat those bitter greens then."

Then, the two headed back home.

Pei Shenyan, living at the Li Family’s place, brought along daily necessities and a bed frame from home, living quite comfortably.

Li Lixing, however, was different.

He slept on the cool bed in Mu Yuanxiu’s yard, without a mosquito net, on the densely wooded mountain, the mosquitoes were plenty enough to carry him away.

The buzzing sound was loud enough to deafen one’s ears.

Li Lixing’s skin was particularly attractive to mosquito bites.

Just as it got dark, he had already been bitten on the face and the back of his hands, resulting in over a dozen lumps.

Unable to withstand the torment of mosquitoes, Li Lixing ran to knock on the door of the main house.

But Mu Yuanxiu slept deeply; despite Li Lixing nearly breaking the door down, Mu Yuanxiu didn’t wake up.

In the bedroom, Mu Yuanxiu wasn’t asleep, he glanced toward the main house door, turned over, and closed his eyes to sleep.

The mosquitoes didn’t bite him, because he had a mosquito net.

Li Lixing couldn’t wake Mu Yuanxiu, returned dejectedly to the cool bed.

He couldn’t sleep, shooing mosquitoes all night.

By dawn the next day, Li Lixing couldn’t resist the sleepiness anymore and fell asleep drowsily.

Mu Yuanxiu opened the door, saw him sleeping, didn’t wake him, and went about his own business.

Li Lixing slept past mid-morning, only waking up when the sun was shining down on him.

Looking at the back of his hands, he was horrified, they were entirely covered with mosquito welts.

His face itched terribly too.

Li Lixing wanted to cry.

He scratched at the itch a few times, then headed down the mountain.

He didn’t want to stay at Mu Yuanxiu’s place, he wanted to go to the Li Family.

But reality was always so harsh, Li Yuzhu opened the door at the Li Family, smiling at him, "Oh, what a shame, there’s no room left here."

Li Lixing’s face turned awkward, "How is that possible? Wasn’t there space to sleep yesterday? Isn’t Li Xing’an’s empty room vacant?"

"Unluckily, yesterday afternoon my father’s student arrived, wanted to stay for a few days, he and his little servant occupied that room, he even brought a bed frame, so there’s no room left inside." Li Yuzhu said with a slight smile.

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