Chapter 3 Gathering Partners

The next day the boy woke up, and the strong man called Dogan yesterday had already lit a fire and grilled meat skewers on it, and there was a wave of people around him.

"Is the donkey awake?" the strong man saw that the boy was awake, turned his head and greeted him.

When the boy got up, he found that the people gathered around the dog were some life and death enemies who were wandering nearby, and he had conflicts or grievances.

Especially that fat man, who snatched his own vole yesterday.

The strong man walked over with a meteor, hugged the young man, and said to everyone: "This is my little brother, donkey egg, I hope everyone can get along peacefully in the future, turn hostility into friendship, no matter what contradictions there were before, don't mention it again, everyone is a good brother, a good friend, a good partner, okay?"

The boy shook off his arm and went out to find a place to pee.

Goudan was very happy, because when he went out to look for food today, he found a child of his former neighbor, and what was even more valuable was that the child still recognized him, so he brought the child back, and brought back several other stray children in the vicinity.

The dog is happy, but the donkey is not.

"Aren't you leaving?" asked the young donkey as he walked up to the strong man and asked the dog.

"Let's go, get you all settled and go. ”

"We don't need you to settle in. ”

The strong man didn't answer, took a grilled meat skewer, sprinkled some salt and something like that, and handed it to the young man. The young man took it angrily, although he was not very happy, but after eating, he found that the meat skewers could be so delicious, so he ate a few more without principle.

At noon, the strong man and the dog gathered the children together, and looked at the children, and was very happy at first, like a general looking at his soldiers, but his eyes turned wet and red when he looked at them.

In front of the strong man Dog Dan stood seven teenagers of different sizes and heights, the young donkey Dan stood in the middle of the completely uncharacteristic, as the only child who wandered over, was bullied by local children all the year round, so he looked thin and small, the only one in this group of people thinner than him was the somewhat lame child.

The strong man straightened the children's clothes one by one, and said to everyone: "In the future, I will be everyone's master, from today I will teach you all the skills I have learned, I hope you can study seriously and master a craft for a living." ”

"Donkey Dan, you will be a senior brother in the future. ”

The young man squatted behind the crowd and ignored him, but the strong man didn't care, and pointed to his fellow countryman.

"Xiao Yi, you will be the second senior brother in the future. ”

"Okay. Xiao Yi happily agreed. Then out of nowhere, a pile of broken copper and iron was released, and they were sent one by one: "Give everyone a little greeting gift." ”

"You, that fat man, you are the third senior brother, and the thin and tall one is the fourth senior brother. ”

"Why did I become the fourth junior brother?"

"Less nonsense!" the strong man pointed to another young man with a red mole on his face: "Your fifth junior brother." ”

The red mole boy blushed and covered up the mole, and the strong man patted him on the shoulder again.

"You, Sixth Senior Sister, the strong man pointed to the only girl in this group of teenagers. ”

"Yes," the girl replied shyly.

"Then you will be the seventh junior brother. "There was one last lame teenager left.

"Can I be the sixth child?" asked the lame young man timidly.

"No, do you think this is worshipping? This is apprenticeship, whatever the master says, you will be brothers in the future, whether I am here or not, you must respect and love each other, support each other, you know?"

"Got it!" Xiao Yi cooperated very face-savingly.

The others also babbled, and the young donkey sat behind the pile, fiddling with a sign given by Xiao Yi, and did not blend in at all, as if this matter had nothing to do with him at all.

The lame boy saw that the donkey egg brother was fiddling with a metal card, sat down beside the donkey egg, and said mysteriously: "A broken brand, he can give you good things? I have a treasure here, which will shine." As he spoke, he took out a pebble-like black thing from his bosom, like iron but not iron, like stone but not stone. I took the donkey egg and touched it in the palm of my hand, checked it, looked at the sky, threw it back at the little cripple, ignored him, and continued to play with my own cards.

"Really, definitely baby, I've seen it glow. The lame boy said to the donkey in a little anxious.

"What baby?" the fat man leaned over with his head out.

"Nothing. The lame boy put away the "pebbles" and propped himself up, and was about to walk towards the strong man and the dog.

"From now on, everyone will be brothers, please forgive me if there was anything wrong with the past. The fat man sat in the place where the lame boy had just done, and said to the donkey in a tone imitating the rivers and lakes.

Donkey Dan threw the sign into the fat man's arms, ignored him and got up and left.

Damn, all these years, I have been bullying me every day, and if you want to say it, it's so easy. Donkey Dan thought so, but didn't say it.

The strong man and the dog were assigned a place, and he pulled everyone to find a stone, he wanted to build a shed for these children first, at least to protect them from the wind and rain.

The girl and the lame boy didn't carry stones with them, the girl was a girl, and the lame boy's legs were inconvenient, and they were arranged by the strong man to go to the trap and catch the fish. The two of them are in charge of the big guy's dinner.

"Say, how do I feel like I'm in a dream?"

The lame boy follows the girl and wants to strike up a conversation with her.

The girl looked back at him, "What are you dreaming about?"

"It's not a dream, it's all like a dream. The lame boy corrected her.

The girl walking in front paused: "Do you believe him?"

"Who, Master, is there anything you can't believe?"

"Don't you think it's a little inexplicable, why would he help us?"

"Didn't you notice that donkey egg? Master actually helped him, but he was too embarrassed to say it blatantly, so he brought us along. The lame boy replied with an inscrutable expression.

"Anyway, I've heard that there are children who specialize in child trafficking, so it's better to be careful. ”

"With his body, if you want to kidnap us, you have to go to such a lot of trouble? Just pick up them one by one and leave, you think too much. The lame boy patted his chest and said to the girl: "Don't worry, no matter what happens in the future, the senior brother will protect you!"

"Flim Flam!" the girl walked to the front with a blade of grass.

Although the girl and the lame boy both live in the same place, they usually only occasionally take pictures, and rarely have close contact. It's a problem for her to survive herself, how can she still have the heart to "walk the streets and alleys", not to mention that she has to take care of her younger brother, the teenager with a red mole on his face. Today, it was also because the strong man held his brother hostage, so she was forced to follow him in desperation. However, the fat man usually took good care of their sister and brother, often sent some food, and did not ask their sister and brother for anything in return.

The lame boy and the girl came to the river, and the boy watched the girl put the straw basket into the water, and asked the girl curiously.

"Is that red-faced boy really your brother?"

"Hmm. ”

"What are you two going to call after that?"

"I don't know. ”

"Master is really, and he didn't ask in advance. The lame boy went into the water and helped the girl to build a dam to lure the fish into the basket.

After an afternoon here, the shed was almost built, only the roof of the shed did not know how to do it, so they peeled off the bark and laid it on it temporarily.

The strong man looked at his masterpiece with great satisfaction, and beckoned everyone to go below to experience it.

When people are unlucky, bad things happen one after another, but when people are lucky, good things are one after another, and the lame boy is also full of harvest, and it is quite happy to be able to catch mandarin fish on this kind of day, and the children feel that the good days are coming.

The lame boy dragged the broken leg and ran back with a salmon in his hand: "Master, Master, there is fish to eat at night." ”

The girl carried the fish basket behind her, and followed step by step, and saw that her brother was pasting mud on the wall, and she was so engrossed that she didn't even notice that her sister was coming back, so the girl smiled heartily, and hurriedly unloaded the fish basket and ran over to wipe her brother's sweat.

"Sister~" The red mole boy grinned and coquettishly at the girl after discovering the girl.

"Sister, it's called Senior Sister, I don't care what you do elsewhere, I have to call Senior Sister here. The strong man corrected them while building the stove.

The girl bowed her head slightly to him and walked away.

At night, a bonfire was lit, and strong men and several teenagers sat around the bonfire and introduced their life experiences.

Needless to say, he didn't know where he came from.

When the second senior brother Xiao Yi was a child, his father killed his sick cow, but both the beef and his father were taken away by the old man at the time, and his mother took him to cry out all day long, and kept shouting that the old man was killed by the new officer and did not call his father back. Then they went home, because the new officer brought the new lord said that if they shouted the injustice of the previous dynasty, they would be killed as a rebel. Although he and his mother came back, but the name of the chaotic party has been following them hauntingly, and within a few days they came here a group of soldiers, taking people everywhere, saying that they want to arrest the chaotic party, when passing by their house, the officer headed by asked his mother if she had seen the chaotic party, looking at this group of red-eyed murderers, his mother trembled and couldn't speak, and the officer who took the lead said: If you don't report it, you will be regarded as collaborating with the enemy. As soon as the horse's belly came forward, she swept her mother off the horse. His mother didn't speak or struggle when she was taken away, she just looked at Xiao Yi quietly, Xiao Yi didn't know if she was frightened, and she quietly watched his mother being taken away by the gang, until the team of sergeants walked not far away, and a lowly soldier shot their house on fire, and he looked at the house that sank in the fire and cried. Although the house collapsed, there was still a corner left to shelter from the wind and rain, Xiao Yi lived alone in it at first, and then the fat man and the thin tall man came, and Xiao Yi's only house was also occupied. He wandered all day long in the mountains and forests, like a donkey's egg.

The third senior brother fat man and the fourth senior brother are thin and tall together, the fat man's name is Jia Fang, his father is a businessman, and the thin and tall man is called Wanli, he is the fat man Jia Fang's father bought and grew up with him since he was a child, and the relationship between the two has been very good since childhood. Jia Fang's family was very rich when it was in its heyday, with gold, silver, jewelry, agate and jade, but the times were turbulent, Jia Fang's father was like a marmot, and a little treasure was buried everywhere, and a lot of treasures were hidden over the years. His father died in the greed for money, as a rich man, Jia Fang's father also sponsored their local relatively large armed forces for self-protection, sponsoring this thing is the same as betting on treasure, if you don't cheat, you never know what will happen to the sponsored forces, but his father didn't look away, bet right, the power he invested in is growing stronger and stronger, and more and more people are coming together, so the military salary has been lacking, and it has been stretched. Then the head of that force talked to Jia Fang's father, moved with affection, and understood it with reason. Although Jia Fang's father also understood it, he just wanted to buy shares at the beginning, and he didn't think about controlling it. Scrooge's rationality eventually harmed Jia Fang's father. Within a few days, his house was besieged, and the leading officer showed them a notice to the effect that the investigation found that Jia Fang and his father had been secretly funding other forces. Then Jia Fang's family was confiscated, his family was imprisoned, and Jia Fang was driven out by his father to verify the treasure buried in the mountains at home, so he and Wanli escaped. Brother Gongzi didn't bring any money out of the house, so he dug up some treasures and went to other towns to sell, but after the money was exchanged, he was robbed before he went far, and the place where the treasure was buried was also dug up, but fortunately, his father buried more places at that time, and it was not a bone break. Since then, Jia Fang and Wan Li have been wandering, because the two of them used to live in fine clothes and food, they grew taller than other stray children, and often grabbed food from other children, so the two of them became bullies among the stray children in the neighborhood, black and white impermanence.

The fifth junior brother and the sixth junior sister are brother and sister, as I said before, the elder sister is called Bai Lan, and the younger brother is called Bai Bu. The experience of the two of them is much more bizarre, their parents are gods and goddesses, do you really don't know, anyway, in this troubled world, people have to have a craft that can make them live, and their family is like a gypsy wandering around, going everywhere. The only difference is that their family does not have a caravan, nor does they have any possessions, and they rely on eight legs to go everywhere. Everywhere they went, they would go to the richest family in the area to give divination to others, because the younger brother had a red mole on his face, and his father would tell them everywhere that it was an auspicious fortune, a mark left by an immortal. When divining the hexagram, he asked Bai Bu to say a word or a word casually, and then his father deduced from the word or sentence that Bai Bu said, and measured the good luck. Their family has traveled a lot of roads, calculated a lot of hexagrams, there are fulfillments and unfulfilled, and those who have not fulfilled will receive a lot of money from others, and his father who has not fulfilled said that some of the people present that day are insincere, which leads to inaccurate hexagrams, so it also happens from time to time that people beat them out. The most amazing thing is that one day, her father suddenly stopped leaving halfway, as if receiving some message, asking them to walk alone in one direction for seven days and seven nights without looking back, her father and her mother watched their sister and brother leave, and the sister and brother did so, walked for seven days and seven nights, and came to this place. After more than two years here, the siblings have depended on each other, and their original livelihood is naturally unusable, because the street children around them either have no money, or they don't believe in this set at all, and there is nothing that makes them think that it will be more miserable than their current life. Eventually, the siblings melted into the homeless children, and their parents had not seen each other since that day of separation.

Finally, the seventh junior brother, the lame boy, when the lame boy was born, I don't know if it was the midwife's reason or some other reason, he dislocated his thigh, and he was not found and picked up by a barefoot doctor until he was five or six years old, but because of too long, his original bones have adapted to the state of dislocation, so now not only the leg is long and short, but it is easy to throw the leg back again if he doesn't pay attention when he walks, but at least he no longer needs a brace when he walks, and he has been sick for a long time。 Compared to before, he is very satisfied. He is also a local, his home is not far away, when the war burned to this place, the rest of the family in the village fled, his own legs and feet were inconvenient, so he did not follow, his parents asked him to take care of the family, and the family would live in it when he came back, but until the house collapsed, he did not see his family come back, because of the inconvenience of his legs and feet, his own survival was particularly difficult, usually he couldn't take care of it, and he didn't have time to worry about his family, but in the dead of night, or in those days when he really couldn't survive, he would still think about his family and secretly shed tears。 The more helpless he is, the more lonely he feels, so now that he has a "family", there is always a blood in his heart, and he feels at ease with everyone. I forgot to mention that the lame boy had an unnamed name: San'er. He is the third in line, so the neighbors in the family call him that. That's what everyone called him from now on.