"Ningxin?" said the woman in surprise, "Why did you come back at this time? Didn't you say that you would stay in the mountains for four or five days?" As she spoke, the woman took Luo Ningxin's hand and entered the house, and the boy crept behind Luo Ningxin and mixed in with him. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

When the woman saw this, her face turned pale, and she said, "Didn't your father tell you to walk until dawn?"

The boy said aggrievedly: "It was my aunt who asked me to come back to sleep...... My aunt said that if I don't sleep all night, I will delay tomorrow's private school......"

The woman said, "Your aunt is spoiling you." If you doze off in the private school tomorrow, you will be punished again when you come back, until you dare not sleep in the private school anymore!"

Luo Ning pursed his lips secretly in his heart, and said in his heart: This is too unreasonable!

At this time, the curtain of the door of the inner room was lifted, and a thin man with a broken right leg in clothes and crutches slowly walked out of the house, looking twenty-seven or eighteen years old, and his appearance was quite similar to Luo Ningxin.

Luo Ning hurriedly said: "Why did my brother come out, brother sit down!" said and stretched out his hand and pulled over a chair.

The woman helped the lean man to sit down. The thin man looked at Luo Ning and said with concern: "You come back at this time, is there something going on in the mountains?"

Luo Ningxin smiled: "It's okay." It's just that I met an injured person in the mountains, and she wanted to borrow my cabin to recuperate for a while. The man liked to be quiet and didn't want to be disturbed, so I came back overnight. ”

As he spoke, Luo Ningxin took out the silver hairpin embedded with five pearls from his arms and handed it to the woman: "Sister-in-law, this is a thank you gift from that person, it is just right for my sister-in-law to wear it!"

When the woman saw the hairpin, she was obviously taken aback, and then smiled and said: "Such a valuable hairpin! This is a gift from someone, what do you do for your sister-in-law! Ning Xin, sister-in-law knows that you are filial, but sister-in-law does not need this." And you've grown up, and you're about to get married, so it's better for you to keep such a valuable hairpin as a dowry!"

"Yes!" said the lean man, "such a hairpin is not easy to come by, and my brother can't buy you a bamboo basket even if he weaves it all his life." Keep it for yourself! With this hairpin, no matter who you marry in the future, you won't be angry!"

"If it's a dowry......," the boy suddenly interjected, "isn't my aunt going to take it to Uncle Tianzhuang's house!"

"Winter cold!" Luo Ningxin said with a flushed face.

The woman smiled and said, "Yes, yes! Your aunt is going to bring it to your Uncle Tianzhuang's house!"

"Sister-in-law!" Luo Ning said with a pause. After that, he shoved the hairpin into the woman's hand, and said, "Sister-in-law whether to keep it at the bottom of the box or exchange money to supplement the family, anyway, I don't care! I will give it to my sister-in-law!" Then he ran out of the main house with a red face and went to the Westinghouse where he lived.

Luo Ningxin went down the mountain overnight, almost didn't sleep all night, and got up late in the morning. When Luo Ningxin left the house, his brother Luo Yuzhu had already started doing handiwork in the yard. Looking at his brother who was concentrating on weaving the bamboo basket, Luo Ningxin sighed slightly.

I think my brother was also a first-class hunter in the village. He followed his father to hunt for many years, and he was physically strong, skilled in martial arts, and experienced.

At that time, my father and brother were the breadwinners of the family, and they hunted in the mountains for seven or eight months of the year, and every time they came home, they brought back a lot of prey. And the mother also lives in the world. My mother took her sister-in-law to do the housework at home every day, farming, cooking, weaving bamboo baskets, and teaching herself to read and write. Those days were really the happiest time in Luo Ningxin's life.

But when Luo Ningxin was nine years old, his brother was bitten on the leg by a Aoki jackal with fangs. If it hadn't been for the father who eventually killed the jackal, my brother probably wouldn't have been able to save his life at that time. Worried that the poison would spread throughout his body, his father cut off his brother's right leg in the mountains and forests, and then carried his brother back who had lost too much blood and was unconscious.

Naturally, his brother who had broken his leg could no longer go hunting, so he could only stay at home to do some farm work, learn his mother's crafts to weave bamboo baskets and bamboo stools, and supplement the family.

From that time on, Luo Ningxin began to replace his brother and follow his father's side. Together with her father, she lived in a wooden hut deep in the mountains for ten days, hunting pheasants, hares, and herbs, and selling them at the market.

Days like this didn't last long.

When Luo Ningxin was ten years old, her mother suddenly had a serious illness and died two months later. Without her closest mother, the young Luo Ningxin felt that she had lost her warmest protection all of a sudden, and suddenly felt a sense of insecurity about the impermanence of life. At this time, my brother and sister-in-law have been taking care of her meticulously, so that she can come out of her sadness and fear as soon as possible.

In Luo Ningxin's memory, his father was a strong, tough, and not easily weak person. "In life, there will be death. Your mother just left this world one step earlier and was reincarnated. You have to be strong!" was the most her father said to her during that time.

However, my brother often accompanied Luo Ningxin to talk, and used his skillful hands to make all kinds of gadgets to make her happy, and even my brother used a three-inch-long piece of wood to carve a full-body portrait of her mother and give it to her. This lifelike wood carving made Luo Ning love it and was always placed at the head of the bed.

The eldest brother is like a father, and the eldest sister-in-law is like a mother, which is the most profound experience for Luo Ning's heart during that period.

A year and a half ago, her father, who had always taught her natural selection and the law of the jungle, also passed away. In order to pick a precious herb that grew on the cliff, he stumbled and fell off the cliff and was besieged by two roe deer. Although his injuries were not very serious at the time, he returned home with a high fever that did not go away, and he also had old injuries all over his body. Seven days later, my father died.

Since then, Luo Ningxin has become the only pillar of the family who can go up to the mountains to hunt.

"Ning Xin, have you woken up?" Luo Yuzhu couldn't help but smile when he saw his sister stunned at him.

"Hmm. Luo Ningxin said, "Brother, I only brought back two prey and a few herbs yesterday, what can I do about this? Why do I feel a loss when I go to the market for these things? How many bamboo baskets have my brother made and how many wooden hairpins have you carved these days? Brother, the wooden hairpins you carved are good to buy at the market!"

Luo Yuzhu said: "Didn't you just go to the market a few days ago to sell a batch, and now your family doesn't have much savings." However, there are fewer things, so you can take them with you lightly, and you will have time to play for a while in the market. It doesn't matter, you can figure it out yourself, even if it's a few days of rest at home. ”

"Hmm......" Luo Ning said thoughtfully.