Daily Life in the Countryside After Being Reborn
Chapter 72 - 62: Something Strange Amid the Peach Blossoms

Chapter 72: Chapter 62: Something Strange Amid the Peach Blossoms

Xiao Xian was so annoyed that she turned her head and gave Li Ye a glare, then pulled her braid to the front, leaving Li Ye with just a view of her head.

Li Ye was about to reach out and pull at it again when he heard Master Shan Yin saying, "Which student can stand up and summarize for us what this text is about? Yezi, you usually respond the quickest, so you answer this."

Yezi wasn’t paying attention to the lesson at all and hurriedly looked at the blackboard, only to find that Shanyin’s tall figure obscured all the text. He couldn’t see the characters and had no idea what to say, so he hesitated for a long time without response.

Just as Xiao Xian was delighting in his misfortune, she smelled a pleasant fragrance and saw a cluster of pink peach blossoms on her braid, which she didn’t know when had been added.

After a moment of confusion, Xiao Xian realized that Yezi had been fiddling with her hair earlier, apparently to insert a budding peach blossom for her.

Women are naturally lovers of flowers, let alone Xiao Xian. She smiled, leaned on the desk, and whispered softly, "Chishui River..."

Her voice wasn’t loud but very clear; Yezi could hear it very well. With Xiao Xian’s hint, he would be able to handle Master Shan Yin’s question, but the clever Yezi, who was usually quick-witted, turned into a completely dumb mokugyo today, unable to speak a word.

Master Shan Yin noticed Xiao Xian’s little gesture and called her to answer. Xiao Xian crisply responded, making the kids from Han Clan feel proud while the boys from Miao Village murmured discontentedly. They dared not speak loudly for fear that Yezi would greet them with his fists after class.

"Xiao Xian answered very well. Yezi, you stay after school to fetch a few buckets of water and fill the water tank behind the Buddha hall before you are allowed to go home," Master Shan Yin didn’t make it hard anymore and repeated the text once, then class was dismissed.

Children gathered in groups, Yezi ignored the calls from the village children and silently walked up to Xiao Xian, "Zhu Xiaoxian, don’t be so smug. I just wasn’t careful today. If you really can, then compete with me again." It turned out that the competitive Li Ye took the performance in class as a contest, and the help he received from Xiao Xian felt like an insult to him.

As soon as he finished speaking, several Miao boys crowded around, and some older kids from Little Hai and Ge Village also joined, glaring at each other without yielding.

Xiao Xian’s braid still had the peach blossom attached, the black hair and pink color made her face appear blushingly beautiful.

"No good deed goes unpunished," Xiao Xian was also annoyed, and she pulled off the peach blossom and threw it on the ground.

Yezi’s face reddened even more, he gritted his teeth, "Zhu Xiaoxian, you’re a girl, we won’t compare fighting."

"Let’s compare courage, the one with the greater courage is the boss," suggested the kids from Miao family. They looked down on Han Clan students the most, thinking they were too timid and never fought back when bullied. They always moved in groups to and fro classes, avoiding trouble.

"Let’s compare then, who’s afraid?" A few Han Clan boys standing behind Xiao Xian also got stirred up, Little Hai also wiped his nose and tilted his head.

"Yezi, what shall we compare?" The boys from Miao Village all looked at Yezi. Yezi glanced at Zhu Xiaoxian, wondering why she wouldn’t just give up. In the past when he bullied her, just pulling her braid would make her run back home, but now she just stared with big eyes, refusing to concede.

Li Ye was really stuck now; he scratched his head, and a wicked idea came to him, "Let’s compare courage. Meet behind the temple after midnight. Whoever dares to stay the night behind the temple is the old big."

When the kids from Han Clan heard Li Ye’s proposal, not only them but even some teenage boys from Miao Village shrank back a few steps. Everyone looked towards the back of the temple with fearful eyes.

Children who lived near Black Mountain for a while knew the area behind the temple was a burial ground.

Before the liberation, the temple was abandoned due to lack of management, and dead bodies from the city were all brought there. Some unclaimed corpses were carelessly buried behind the temple. After the liberation, Miao people passing by at night would see ghostly white shadows and sometimes hear howling cries.

After Master Shanyin arrived, the ghostly happenings were somewhat suppressed, but still, no one dared to stay near the temple after the third watch at night. Yezi didn’t believe Xiao Xian, a green girl, would dare to accept the challenge.

"Xiao Xian, just forget it, that place is haunted," Little Hai intervened, pushing Xiao Xian slightly, and added, since it would be after midnight, if Grandpa found out he was involved, he would surely break his legs.

"Okay, at midnight. If others have the courage, you can also come along. Whoever doesn’t cry or make a fuss and lasts the night will be the boss." Xiao Xian wouldn’t let go of such an opportunity. Originally, she had lived alone under Yunteng Mountain in a grass house close to a haunted house, facing terrifying storms. What was there to fear?

Now it was Li Ye’s turn to feel troubled; he thought that his trump card would surely scare Xiao Xian into begging for mercy, but unexpectedly, she readily agreed.

In terms of difficulty, for Yezi to sneak out of his house at midnight was certainly harder than for Xiao Xian.

"Yezi, it’s up to you now," the children from Miao family backed out, and those from Han Clan were also shrinking back, leaving the challenge to Xiao Xian and Li Ye. Both groups of kids agreed that no matter what happened tonight, they wouldn’t tell the adults at home and then scattered like birds and beasts.

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