Cinderella Innocent and Boss Charming - Chapter 513

Chapter 513 Killer Bees

Lu Xiaoxian got up early the next day, just washed up, Manda came, as soon as he entered the door, looking around, like an old dog, sniffing the east and west, when she saw the basket of hay and the banana, her eyes had a short stay. Lu Xiaoxian is very eye-catching, hurriedly broke one to her, Manda is not polite, peeled the skin and eat.

Manda’s English was not good, but she could barely communicate. She brought over a tablet to teach Lu Xiao Xian to recognize the various common diseases of rubber trees. The most common is white/powdery mildew, there will be white powder on the leaves, forming white/powdery mildew spots, the leaves will be necrotic and fall off, causing the branches to wither back, delaying the rubber cutting period, affecting the latex yield, and the seeds are lost…. The harm is extremely serious.

There is also anthracnose, pockmark disease, ulcer disease on the trunk, dead skin disease … and so on. These things sound boring at first, but Lu Xiaoxian is not impatient at all and listens very carefully.

Mandar said while carefully observing Lu Xiaoxian, and she didn’t know how much she had listened, but the woman’s focused appearance satisfied her.

When Mandala stopped to rest, Lu Xiaoxian went to the kitchen and scooped a ladle of water over to her, there is not even a cup here, thirsty can only use a ladle to drink water, Mandala took over, drank half a ladle in one gulp, and was about to splash the rest away, Lu Xiaoxian gave a sigh of relief, and took it over, and drank it herself.

Manda gave her a look of mild surprise, but didn’t say anything, rested for a moment, and moved on.

The morning then flew by with Manda’s explanation.

At noon, Manda is ready to go back, and Lu Xiaoxian asks her to stay and eat with her, but Manda tells her that the food here is served per person, so if she stays, Lu Xiaoxian won’t have enough food.

Lu Xiaoxian smiled and said it’s okay, Mandar taught her so much knowledge, it’s considered a teacher, she should have to treat the teacher to a meal, this is the most basic courtesy.

Manda hesitated and agreed.

Probably because of the shortness of the mouth of the eaters, the attitude of Manda during the meal was a little better, and answered Lu Xiaoxian’s questions selectively, such as why no one cut the rubber trees in front of the door? It’s because these trees are now in a rest period, have to be two months after the new skin grows out, the leaves are old, before you can cut the rubber again, during this period, there is only Lu Xiaoxian alone guarding this place, taking care of these trees.

Lu Xiaoxian again gestured to describe the kind of red fruit he saw and asked if she could eat it.

Manda said it was a kind of jammy fruit that could be eaten or put in a dish with it, and was slightly sour in flavor.

To Lu Xiaoxian, this was undoubtedly good news, and she smiled so much that the corners of her mouth turned up. Mandar seemed to be infected by her, and there was actually a hint of laughter in her eyes as well.

Manda finished her meal and left, and Lu Xiaoxian shoved the handful of bananas at her and sent her another section before returning to the hut.

She didn’t ask where Manda lived. Figured it shouldn’t be far, since she’d come on foot and arrived early, and one of the dozen or so forks in the road must have led to Manda’s place.

She also didn’t ask how long she would stay here. At least two months, right? After two months, when the rubber cutting started here and there were more people, Lin Peizhi should have moved her away.

The life in the forest is very hard, but for Lu Xiaoxian, she only feels free, like returning to the days of the hours of living alone, no TV, no contact with the outside world, every day is just by himself, cooking and washing, walking around to see, feel too quiet, then sing loudly, and occasionally there will be a small bird stopping at the window to look curiously toward the house.

On the third morning, when Mandar came over, she removed the locks from the windows and opened them all the way, and although she didn’t say anything, Lu Xiaoxian could tell that she meant well. Because once the windows were open, the unpleasant odor in the house faded a lot.

By noon Lu Xiaoxian stayed for lunch again, but Mandar refused, taking only the banana Lu Xiaoxian had slipped her.

On the fourth and final day of Mandar’s visit, Lu Xiaoxian picked a handful of wildflowers in the forest and gave them to her, Mandar was a little surprised and a glint flashed in her dry eyes, she sniffed the wildflowers and nodded her head towards Lu Xiaoxian to show her gratitude.

Today she is going to teach Lu Xiao Xian to cut the rubber, with a narrow curved knife, along the tree, cut a shallow slit, white latex at once came out, along the knife slowly down, flowed to the trunk of the tree fixed in a small bowl.

Look not difficult, but do it is not easy, Lu Xiaoxian is a novice, cut a few times, either shallow or deep, Mandar does not mind her stupid, quite patient teaching.

Lu Xiaoxian suddenly saw a small thumb cap large bee was about to land on Manda’s head, busy with a hand wave, want to drive it away, did not expect that the bee actually rushed towards her, Manda saw the face changed, rushed back to the house, lit a brown incense-like things out.

Lu Xiaoxian was being chased by the bee all over the forest, she ran so fast that the bee, although vicious, could not help her for a while, but it was in hot pursuit, and as long as it saw an opening, it would sting her hard.

Manda rushed over and waved the incense at the bee, and the rich aroma filled the forest, and the bee ran away at once without a view.

Lu Xiaoxian crossed her arms and gasped, “That, what is that, so, so fierce!”

Manda is a look of shock, and looked around, before pulling Lu Xiaoxian back to the house, told her, that is the legendary killer bees, sting a bite, people will be nerve paralyzed, if more stings, will be killed, every year there are killer bees stung to death of the rubber workers. Every year there are rubber workers who are stung to death by killer bees. Fortunately, the killer bees have natural enemies, and they are afraid of a big flower called magenta, the smell of which will make them suffocate, so people use magenta to make incense, and when they see the killer bees, they light the incense to drive them away.

Manda suddenly bowed deeply towards Lu Xiaoxian, this is considered a very grand salute in Ao Lai, Lu Xiaoxian was startled and hurriedly dodged, she knew that Manda was thanking her for what happened just now, but it was just a show of hands, and besides, she didn’t know at all that it was a very vicious killer bee, and she really couldn’t afford to accept such a big salute.

After this little episode, Mandar treated Lu Xiaoxian a little better and even chatted with her.

When Lu Xiaoxian first saw Manda, she thought she was an old woman over 60 years of age, and only after this conversation did she realize that Manda was only 40 years old and in her prime, only working in the open air for many years, and appeared to be old. Her family is very poor, her husband is a rubber cutter, the eldest son in the food processing plant work, the youngest daughter followed her around, living together in another guard rubber forest huts.

The youngest daughter was only four years old, and could not work, and had no provisions, and Manda could only give her a share of her own meals; so when Lu Xiaoxian first invited her to dinner, knowing that it was not good, she had the cheek to stay, because she could save her share for her daughter’s food.

As for why you can only build a fire once a day, it is to minimize the incidence of fires; the forest is full of trees and the weather is dry, which makes it the most prone to fires, so the number of fires is minimized.

Manda also told her that the leaves and seeds of the rubber tree are poisonous, so don’t touch them if you can, and that although there aren’t any wild beasts in the forest, there are snakes, and most of them are poisonous, and that she wants Lu Xiaoxian to lock the doors and windows when she sleeps at night lest the snakes run into the house.

Manda had been working in this rubber forest for twenty years and had taught many women new to the profession, and every time she spoke of it, a look of fear came over the women’s faces, as if it were a terrible thing to live here.

The only exception was Lu Xiaoxian, who was very white, had a refined demeanor, spoke well, always smiled, and looked like a superior person. Manda thought that she should be more afraid of this kind of harsh environment, but no, Lu Xiaoxian just listened very attentively, and then calmly accepted it all.

Lu Xiaoxian also mentioned her family to her, saying that her father loved her very much, her mother was very serene, her brother was handsome and capable, and that she had to call home every week to report that she was safe and sound, but when she got here, she didn’t have a cell phone, so there was no way for her to report that she was safe and sound this week, and her family would definitely be worried.

Manda gave her a look, not much of a reaction. It was only when she was about to leave that she fished out an old cell phone from her body and handed it to her, “It’s okay to report that you’re safe, but you can’t say anything else.”

Lu Xiaoxian was secretly happy in her heart, knowing that she had guessed correctly that Mandar would help her. She called Lu Dingxian, saying that she had recently arrived at a place with beautiful scenery but bad signal, so she might not be able to call him on time, and asked him not to worry.

Every time Lu Dingxian receives a phone call, he always urges her to do this and that, and tells her to come back quickly. Lu Xiaoxian didn’t dare to say too much, and hung up after a few perfunctory sentences.

With the family settled, a big thing accomplished, she had the next week to figure out how to escape. Of course it probably wouldn’t take a week for Kaiser Blue to find her.

Lu Xiaoxian had been convinced that Lan Kaize would come to her, but this time she thought wrong.

On the day Lan Kaize arrived in Qingzhou, Lie called him and said that Lu Xiaoxian had been gotten away by Lin Peizhi.

He asked why.

Lie says that the things Lu Xiaoxian stole were found in the room, so he was kicked out.

Lan Kaiser hung up with an oh-so-sweet sound. After hanging up the phone he was a bit confused, he didn’t understand why Lie would tell him when a maid made a mistake and was kicked out? What did it have to do with him?

The memory was confusing, he sat dumbfounded for half a day before remembering who Lu Xiaoxian was? It was the woman with big clear eyes, he liked her, was infatuated with her, and treated her well, but she wasn’t satisfied and actually stole from her mother’s room, that’s why she was kicked out, right?

He thought about it, picked up his cell phone and called Lin Peizhi, asking his mother not to make things too difficult for Lu Xiaoxian, after all, she was the woman he liked. Lin Peizhi said she did not make things difficult for her, just unclean hands and feet, can no longer stay at home, so sent out.

He knew that Lin Peizhi had always been harsh on servants with unclean hands and feet, and not making things difficult for Lu Xiaoxian was already very good, so with this result, Lan Kaize was quite satisfied.

But the next day, Lan Kaili called him again, with a tone of the sky is going to collapse, yelling straight on the other end of the phone, asking him to go back quickly, saying that Lu Xiaoxian had disappeared, and that he didn’t know where Lin Peizhi had gotten her?

Lan Kai Ze reprimanded him twice, saying that it was normal for servants who stole to be thrown out. What was the young master of the hall doing making a fuss over such a thing?

Lanceli was simply shocked and slammed the phone down after cursing at him for being an asshole.

He really didn’t understand how two days without a home could be so drastically different.