(1st update)

Bai Qi sat up cross-legged on the thatched bed, looked at her with a serious face, and said: "I have told you many times, I am not your father..."

Bai Qi once borrowed a bronze mirror from an elderly woman in the village. His face had indeed darkened a lot due to the wind and sun, but he was not old enough to have such a big daughter.

They once suspected that Arnold was relying on him and wanted to recognize him as their father life or death.

In the past, he didn't mind being called Arnold. When he arrived at the Ostrich Squadron, he would take her out and put her in a good place, which was considered a kind act.

Arnold had no memory. Seeing how fierce Bai Qi was, he thought he was going to show off his cards and leave her, and tears welled up in his eyes.

Bai Qi held his forehead with a headache. He was not raising a daughter, but an ancestor.

Bai Qi squatted on his knees and came forward, hurriedly wiping her tears, but she seemed to be made of water, and even the facial juice on her face was wiped away. After he wiped it, her original fair and beautiful face was revealed.

Bai Qi sighed helplessly: "Arnold, can you please stop crying?"

Arnold pursed his red lips and kicked him: "You are cruel to me..."

Bai Qi: "It's my fault."

Arnold finally stopped crying, stepped forward eagerly, and asked cautiously: "Will you leave me alone?"

She still remembered the wound on the back of her head when she first woke up. In this desert, if Bai Qi abandoned her, she would definitely have no way to survive.

Bai Qi looked at the woman in front of him who had lost her memory and was like a piece of blank paper. Her thoughts could be read at a glance.

She is using the clumsiest way to try to survive.

Bai Qi's gaze fell on the nervousness in her eyes. Under her expectant gaze, he said seriously: "I will take you out and arrange a place for you so that you will have no worries for the rest of your life." The last sentence was a

There is no decision to begin with.

He thought that he probably wanted to repay the kindness he received from his previous life.

Arnold was sure that he was not lying to him. He finally smiled and stopped stubbornly calling him dad. Instead, he asked curiously: "Can you tell me your name?"

Bai Qi hesitated for a moment, then said sincerely: "My name is Bai Qi, white Bai, Qi from the merging of mountain branches. You should be younger than me. You can just call me brother on weekdays."

Looking at the young man's sincere expression, Arnold felt that none of the gentlemen in the village could be as good-looking as him.

Arnold was sallow and skinny, but she dressed neatly every day, especially when she smiled, she was as pure as ice and snow melting. Many men in the village were secretly looking at her.

Arnold learned weaving from her grandmother. When she was half-cooked, her grandmother not only gave her a meal, but also gave her a few dry biscuits so that she could take them back to her brother.

When Arnold returned with the cake in his hands, Bai Qi had already returned from the fields and was using an earthen pot to boil water for her to take a shower.

"Brother..." Arnold walked up to the earthen pot and leaned towards it with his big eyes. His soft voice seemed to have a hook. Even if Bai Qi didn't raise his head to see anyone, he could still imagine the shy smile on her face.

Bai Qi made a deliberate move, but just said nothing and did not raise his head to look at her.

Arnold bit his lower lip, his voice became even lower, and he said in a pinched tone: "Brother, are you hungry?"

After getting up in the morning, Arnold and Bai Qi would go out separately. One would go to the fields to help people in need in the village with farming, in exchange for a meal of food and clothing, plus some dry food. The other would go to the village to learn weaving from grandma, which was also an exchange.

Just a meal of food and clothing.

As for what they ate during that meal, in this village, apart from dry biscuits and occasionally a little milk, the best thing is eggs. Bai Qi killed the chicken and gave it to Arnold without hesitation.

It will never happen. Livestock are rare for poor people. Unless the mother-in-law is giving birth, no one would be willing to eat them.

Bai Qi was born tall and tall, much taller than the most powerful husband in the village. He could barely fill his stomach with a few cakes, and at night he would be so hungry that he drank water.

It's just a chicken borrowed from the village. After the eggs are laid, the chicken's debt must be repaid. Apart from the usual meat for Arnold, he can't eat anything.

Hearing Arnold's words at this time, he couldn't help but look up at her, saw the dry biscuits she was holding, and frowned: "You didn't eat lunch?"

Arnold knew that he had misunderstood, and said quickly: "My grandma asked me to bring it back to my brother."

Bai Qi's face looked better now. When he saw her standing beside the earthen pot, he frowned and asked her to enter the house.

It was still early at this time, the temperature had not yet dropped, and it was hot in the house. Arnold took a lame wooden stool and sat outside the thatched house with dry biscuits, watching Bai Qi boil water.

The sunset was shining red on her face, and the girl was sitting in a well-behaved and well-mannered posture. She would look at him casually, and she would show shy eyes. It was not the shyness of love between men and women, but the shyness of girls in their youth.

Bai Qi looked away, poured the water from the earthen pot into a bucket with a wooden ladle, mixed it with cold water, and then put it in for her to take a shower.

When Arnold came in, he put the dry biscuit in his hand, opened the door and went in to take a shower.

Bai Qi took the dry biscuits and did not eat them immediately. While she was taking a bath, he went to the intersection again. Although he could not stay there all the time, he still persisted and was unwilling to give up hope.

He also greeted the village chief and told him to let him know if a camel caravan passed by.

When Bai Qi came back, Arnold had already taken a shower and took the basin to wash clothes.

Bai Qi went to fetch water and came back. He also took a cold shower. When he saw that she had not come back, he closed the wooden door and went out to look for someone.

Tielimu Village covers a large area, comparable to the size of the capital of the Yan Dynasty, but only a few thousand people live there. Because it is in the desert, their lives are very backward. The village is built around an oasis, relying on

Rich in groundwater resources, residents here develop local animal husbandry.

Local residents can survive on these livestock, and there are vast grasslands and some natural Populus euphratica forests around them. This is also the main reason why local livestock can develop to the present. It can be said that this is not a desert at all, but the desert has become

With their natural barrier, they cannot be found by outsiders.

Bai Qi was about to go to the lake ahead to look for someone, but when passing through the dirt road in the Populus euphratica forest, he met Arnold who was about to go back.

She was blocked by a tall and powerful man.

The tall and mighty man was unexpectedly shy in front of her, holding a garland in his hand. Flowers are rare in the desert, but they are not absent, they are just extremely rare. It can be seen that the person who made this garland put a lot of thought into it.

Bai Qi subconsciously walked behind the tree stump on the side, hiding himself in the dark, but listening to the movement in front of him with his ears raised.

The man must have been accustomed to the local language, and he was gesticulating when he expressed his feelings to Arnold, but his eyes were astonishingly bright, and the muscles on his body contained a burst of strength, making it clear at a glance that he was a male animal seeking mate.
Chapter completed!