Summary of the previous chapter: Ma Xiaoquan had no choice but to go to the appointment, and went to the back hill of Zijia Manor with Bei Mingxue for an outing. Bei Mingxue suggested playing hide and seek...
"What, hide and seek?" Ma Xiaoquan shook his head, "Don't mention it, Miss Beiming, the mountain behind this place is huge. If you hide in a place that I don't know, I won't be able to find you even if I turn the mountain over.
Already."
"Oh, then what are we playing?"
Ma Xiaoquan raised his eyebrows, covering his stomach and said: "Miss Beiming, are you hungry? How about we get some game and have a barbecue?"
Bei Mingxue looked at Ma Xiaoquan alertly: "Ma Xiaoquan, what are you going to do? I won't allow you to kill at will."
Ma Xiaoquan slapped his head and said, "How about you and I hunt for wild rabbits, roe deer and other things? I'll eat some mountain fruits and so on, and you eat them?"
Bei Mingxue couldn't refute for a while, so she had no choice but to agree to Ma Xiaoquan.
Ma Xiaoquan chuckled and dropped a dozen branches.
"What are you going to do?"
Ma Xiaoquan raised his head and said: "Make a simple wooden basket to hold our trophies."
"oh"
...
Zijia Back Mountain can be said to be "rich in products". Although spring has just begun, many edible wild fruits can already be found in the mountains.
"Wow" Bei Mingxue clapped her little hands and looked at Ma Xiaoquan with admiring eyes.
Ma Xiaoquan nodded proudly and said: "Miss Beiming, I, Ma Xiaoquan, are not bragging. Although I have never been to the back mountain, I can basically figure out what fruits can and cannot be eaten on the back mountain."
"Ma Xiaoquan, you are bragging!" Bei Mingxue said with a smile, but there was admiration in her eyes.
"Tsk, tsk, I'm not bragging." Ma Xiaoquan turned his hand, and there was a silver hairpin in the palm of his hand.
"This is..." Bei Mingxue was stunned for a moment and reached out to touch the top of her head. Only then did she realize that the silver hairpin on her head had disappeared.
"Ma Xiaoquan, you hate me." Bei Mingxue stretched out her hand to hit him.
Ma Xiaoquan ducked slightly and said with a smile: "Miss Beiming, you should thank yourself. If it weren't for the silver hairpin on your head, we wouldn't even know if there was any poison in these wild fruits."
Bei Mingxue took back her jade hand and said with a smile: "But...when did you take away the silver hairpin from my head?"
Ma Xiaoquan chuckled: "The secret... must not be revealed, hehe, okay, your wild fruits are ready, I am going to hunt some game."
Bei Mingxue said: "I'll go too!"
Ma Xiaoquan frowned: "No, this mountain road is not easy to walk on. Just wait for me here."
"Ma Xiaoquan, but you don't know martial arts."
"Playing game is not a martial arts contest, so why do you need martial arts?" Ma Xiaoquan asked Bei Mingxue with a smile.
Bei Mingxue's pretty face turned red: "I hate...then you...then go back quickly, I'll wait for you here!"
Ma Xiaoquan nodded and thought to Bei Mingxue, just wait, I will get two hares back later, hehe...
Without Bei Mingxue following him, Ma Xiaoquan showed off his skills in the back mountains and soon captured a hare and a pheasant.
I looked up at the sky and saw that it was almost noon.
"Okay, that's enough, let's go back to find Bei Mingxue..." Ma Xiaoquan murmured as he weighed the hare and pheasant in his hand.
Returning to the previous place, Ma Xiaoquan shouted happily: "Miss Beiming...Miss Beiming..."
After calling several times and getting no answer, Ma Xiaoquan put down the prey in his hands and looked around.
"It's strange, where are the people?" Ma Xiaoquan took a few steps forward and suddenly found a few scattered wild fruits.
"Oops." Ma Xiaoquan's heart tightened and he secretly thought it was bad. He quickly stepped forward, knelt down and picked up a wild fruit.
This wild fruit still has teeth marks on it and looks very fresh.
Ma Xiaoquan looked closer and looked carefully, estimated the time, and murmured: "If I guessed correctly, it will be at least half an hour, okay."
The teeth marks on the wild fruit were not large, so Ma Xiaoquan concluded that Bei Mingxue had only nibbled on it a few times.
After looking around, Ma Xiaoquan nodded and said to himself: "Judging from the environment at the scene, there seems to be no trace of a fight. Well, with Bei Mingxue's martial arts, ordinary people can't deal with her...
..Unless..." At this point, Ma Xiaoquan was suddenly startled. He looked up and found a mark on a tree five steps away from him.
When I stepped forward and took a closer look, I saw that someone had grabbed it with hands.
Ma Xiaoquan stretched out his right hand and made a gesture on the traced tree bark, nodded and said: "The hand is bigger than mine, but it didn't fight, but it left scratch marks? What does this mean?"
Ma Xiaoquan dragged his chin and thought for a moment, then said: "With Bei Mingxue's skills, it may be a bit difficult to meet such a master, but... Judging from the traces at the scene, it seems that there was no fight.
And there are no hasty footprints... Hmm."
...
Little did Ma Xiaoquan know that while he was dragging his chin to think, in a cave not far from him, an old man was happily nibbling wild fruits in his hand.
Beside the old man, Bei Mingxue puffed out her mouth with a look of reluctance.
"Grandpa, you came suddenly, why don't you let me have a good outing?"
The old man chuckled: "Why, my sweet granddaughter from Beiming's family wants to get married. Ouch, ouch, she is really not a good girl. What good is Ma Xiaoquan?"
"Grandpa hates it"
The old man shook his head: "My dear granddaughter, grandpa is actually helping you. Think about it, are you not curious at all about what we talked about that day?"
Bei Mingxue said: "How could you not be curious? But that Ma Xiaoquan doesn't look like the first generation head of the Ma family."
"That's not certain." The old man chuckled and said, "Grandpa deliberately left traces on a tree just now. If that guy is interested, he will definitely see it."
Bei Mingxue curled her lips: "So what if I saw it?"
The old man smashed the bar and said: "This is different. If it is the real first generation head of the Ma family, he will definitely be able to see some clues. But if it is a fake... humph..."
Bei Mingxue felt a little tangled in her heart. She hoped that Ma Xiaoquan could see the traces left by her grandfather, but then she didn't want Ma Xiaoquan to see it.
At this moment, Ma Xiaoquan's shouts came from not far away.
Bei Mingxue was happy. Just as she was about to walk out of the cave, the old man stretched out his hand to pull her back.
"Grandpa" Bei Mingxue looked at the old man unhappily.
"My dear granddaughter, be obedient. Just this once, help grandpa try. If nothing happens this time, grandpa promises not to disturb you again. Not only will he not disturb you, grandpa promises you that if anyone dares to bully that brat in the future,
Grandpa personally came forward to settle things for him!"