"Yes, wasting food will be punished by God, so for the sake of my sister, Qingyang, can you help her eat it?"
"Then... then I'll eat it."
Qingyang was actually very hungry. When he came out of the forest, he secretly ran to the river and drank a lot of water.
He originally planned to wash the wild vegetables and bring them back, but he came back after hearing from someone familiar that his grandma was dying.
Su Qiao hugged his shoulders and comforted, "Eat."
Qingyang picked up a date and was about to put it into his mouth when he saw his elder brother staring at him with heavy eyes. He quickly handed the dates out. "Brother, are you hungry too? These are for you. Qingyang doesn't have to work. One is enough."
Su Qiao turned to look at Zhao Jingting: "Are you hungry?"
"You've been hugging him for a long time." Zhao Jingting pursed his lips tightly, showing his displeasure.
Su Qiao: "..." So, you are staring at a child so closely not because you want to eat the dates in her hand, but because she hugged the child's shoulders?
Zhao Jingting thought she didn't understand, and repeated, "I said, you have hugged him for a long time."
"Men and women do not sit together at the same age for seven years. He is already seven years old."
Huh?
Su Qiao really forgot about this.
Zhao Jingting spotted Qingyang, who was a little scared, and thought for a moment, "Let Uncle Ya take care of him from now on."
"Uncle Ya, can you do that?" She was quite relieved to bring Uncle Ya, but Uncle Ya seemed to only want to follow Zhao Jingting.
Zhao Jingting thought she thought Uncle Ya was a grown man who didn't know how to speak, and was afraid that he wouldn't be able to take care of the child well.
"I was raised by Uncle Ya."
Su Qiao lowered his head and looked at Qingyang, who looked timidly. "Then let's do it. He will take it with him at night and follow us during the day."
Zhao Jingting said quickly, "We have to work during the day, so just follow us when eating, and follow Uncle Ya at other times."
"Okay then." Su Qiao was a little helpless.
Although this guy didn't show it on his face, he had obviously begun to care a little about the opposite sex who came to her.
Patting Little Qingyang on the shoulder, Su Qiao carefully warned, "Qingyang, Uncle Ya is very powerful in martial arts. He can protect you. You can follow him from now on, okay?"
"Don't worry, my sister won't ignore you. She will take you to play during meals and when she has free time."
Little Qingyang was a little scared at first, but when he heard that Uncle Ya was very powerful in martial arts, he immediately admired him.
"Okay, I'll listen to my sister."
Next, Zhao Jingting and Uncle Ya went to dig a hole in the forest together, buried the old man, and set up a simple tombstone for her. Qingyang kowtowed a few times, remembered the place, and took him back to his thatched house.
At noon that day, because of the wild boar that Zhao Jingting had brought back, there was finally some meat in the vegetable soup.
Because he was a great hero, the Su Qiao family even got a piece of fat and thin meat.
In the afternoon, they did not go out again, but carried water and chopped firewood, watching Qingyang by the way.
Little Qingyang lost his only relative and became extremely silent.
Su Qiao was worried that he would become autistic, so early the next morning, he simply took him to the depths of the forest to chop bamboo and collect herbs for hunting.
Of course, Zhao Jingting and Uncle Ya also went together.
Little Qingyang, who had never been to the depths of the forest, was slowly attracted by some new things.
Especially after Uncle Ya performed a deliberate performance, climbing up a big tree a few times and jumping onto a boulder half a man's height, he became very interested in practicing martial arts.
Uncle Ya also became interested and started training him on the horse stance and basic skills from the next morning.