A stupid dog suddenly came out, which caught Tang Tang and the others a little off guard, and even the old captain smiled.

"Don't be afraid, this dog doesn't bite, it comes out of the mountains by itself. Just screaming fiercely, in fact, is not scary at all. ”

The old captain said this, and saw that the dog did bark triumphantly, but there was no follow-up action, but a pair of big bright eyes, staring at them burningly.

Tang Tang suddenly moved in his heart, feeling that it was inexplicably familiar, so he asked suspiciously, "It came out of the mountains?" Wild dogs? ”

The old captain shook his head with a smile, took out a cigarette stick and lit a pinch of tobacco leaves, took a deep breath, and said, "No, when I saw it in the mountains, it was always excluded by the wild dogs." ”

Hearing this, Tang Tang couldn't help but be a little surprised.

The old captain then smiled: "Looking at its breed, it is somewhat similar to the old dog in the village before. ”

This sentence made Tang Tang's heart flutter in an instant. She looked at the old captain in disbelief, but she had already had this idea in her heart.

Looking at its stumbling fur, its bright eyes, and its powerful posture, little by little let her see the shadow of the old dog.

She squatted down suddenly, startled the dog opposite, and swooped back with her tail between her legs, looking at her hesitantly.

Tang Tang said softly: "Are you Lao Sha's child?" ”

"(⊙o⊙) What?" The stupid dog looked at her in embarrassment, and said a little ignorantly: "I haven't seen my father, but he is from this village, and I came back to conquer the mountains!" ”

It looks silly, but it has great ambition, and its roar is particularly determined.

Tang Tang's face couldn't help but smile.

She smiled at the old village chief and said, "I think it really looks like the child of an old dog, but I didn't expect such a coincidence to hear from it again after many years." ”

It is true that the old dog is no longer there, but it is still a great comfort to them.

The old captain also smiled and nodded, only Xu Changlin lost his memory, so he didn't know what they were talking about.

He was not a man of many words, his heavy gaze swept over the stupid dog, and he was immediately startled to run away with his tail in his arms, and he slipped away in three steps and two steps, and disappeared without a trace.

Tang Tang: "......"

Xu Changlin coughed lightly and said, "Let's go." ”

They returned to the village not only to visit relatives and friends, but also to meet their elders again and determine the relationship between the two.

But other things happened frequently, interrupting their footsteps again and again.

When Xu Changlin and Tang Tang followed the old captain home, they happened to see their little grandson holding something and not letting go, and his face was full of smiles.

Tang Tang was curious about what it was, but he didn't expect the old captain to suddenly become angry, rushed over and snatched it down, and by the way, hit the little grandson's head hard with his backhand.

The old captain said angrily: "How many times have you said it, this is something that people give Tang Tang, it's not something you have nothing to tease every day!" ”

The little grandson touched the head that was hurt, and dared to be angry and aggrieved: "Master, don't just beat me, I started to take care of it every day, and it took a lot of effort." ”

He stared at the cage in the old captain's hand, and his eyes were unwilling to stagger it, obviously very attentive.

The old captain glared at him fiercely, turned his head and took the cage out and handed it to Tang Tang, explaining: "This is what Xiaozhu left when he returned to the village before, indicating that he wanted to give it to you, and we have been keeping it for you, and now it can be transferred to you." ”

As he spoke, he stretched out the things in his hand and waited for Tang Tang to take them.

Tang Tang was really surprised for a moment, looked at the starling in the birdcage, looked at each other for a while, and then recognized each other.

"Is this Uncle Rong's starling?"

"Are you Tang Tang? Ouch, how did you get old like this! ”

As soon as he heard the starling's complaint, Tang Tang immediately felt his heart for a moment, quite speechless, and suddenly diluted the joy of reunion after a long absence.

She glanced back at it with a helpless smile, took the bird cage with her fists, and said to the old captain quietly: "Don't worry, just leave it to me, and make sure it is obedient." ”

Starling was stunned, and tried to flutter his wings to scurry around the cage, screaming uneasily, "Help! Little pillar, you have no conscience, come and save me! ”

It snorted and snorted, and no one paid attention to it, and the old captain still smiled and handed it over with confidence, making it lament that the people were not ancient, and the world was declining.

On the contrary, it is the little grandson who usually looks down on it the most, and has been looking at it hopefully, which makes it feel quite uncomfortable.

The starling's round little eyes turned several times, and when he finally made up his mind and was about to compromise and ask him for help, Tang Tang quickly stood up, said hello and took it farther and farther.

Starling: "......"

"Help, I don't want to die yet, no one will save me!" It's a pity that it shouted out of its throat, and its gurgling voice was still not heard, so it could only go farther and farther under Tang Tang's hostage, looking at the old captain's little grandson from afar, and the end of the world was close in an instant.

Starling was lamenting that his fate was in trouble, but he didn't expect to be carried in front of him by Tang Tang after a while.

It fluttered its wings in a panic, and its big eyes looked at her left and right, trying to shrink its presence. "Goo-"

Tang Tang couldn't help but smile and said to it, "Didn't the little pillar leave you just to see me?" What did he want to convey? ”

She asked seriously, but after the starling glanced at her, he said in an old-fashioned manner: "Xiaozhu has a message, do you want to listen to it?" ”

It kept signaling Tang Tang with its eyes, and secretly said that it had to pay some benefit fees before it could speak, obviously planning to be extremely refined.

Tang Tang was helpless, smiled and took some food, scattered them in front of it one by one, and then the starling pecked one bite at a time with satisfaction.

After it had eaten and drunk enough, it slowly spoke, "Xiaozhu has had a good life over the years, and I have always wanted to come back to see you after hearing about you, but I didn't expect you to be gone." ”

Starling said it concisely, but Tang Tang heard the unusual meaning.

She thought for a while, and suddenly asked, "Where has Xiao Zhu been all these years, does he know a person named Poplar?" ”

I think that at the beginning, she still remembered the acquaintance of poplar and Xiaozhuzi vividly, and she couldn't forget it for a long time, so she raised this question immediately.

Starling glanced at her and said strangely, "How do you know Poplar?" The relationship between the little pillar and the poplar tree is good! ”

One day, Tang Tang made up her mind, and it was really in line with her guess.

She raised the corners of her mouth and smiled, "What does he want?" ”

She asked bluntly, but the starling seemed to be offended for a moment, and replied angrily: "Xiaozhu's conditions are good now, and there is nothing missing!" Originally, when I went back to the village to see, I also thought of the friendship of the people in the village who took care of him at the beginning, but I didn't expect you to be so ignorant and question his intentions! ”

Tang Tang laughed lightly, and did not refute its sudden anger, but explained clearly: "Of course I believe in Xiaozhu, but Yang Shu is a person with deep thoughts, and I am worried that he has other plans to get acquainted with Xiaozhu." ”

After all, the lessons of the past have to make people vigilant.

The starling didn't know the reason, he was confused, so he was so anxious that he paced around twice, and suddenly fluttered his wings and said, "This, you can see the little pillar and talk about it." ”

Of course, Tang Tang had no objections, but he was quite suspicious that Xiao Zhuzi deliberately left the starling here, as if Xiao Zhuzi was sure that he would definitely come back early in the morning.

She pondered the situation carefully, without the slightest hurry, she and Xu Changlin went to visit relatives and friends all day long, and the slow and leisurely rhythm made the starling so anxious that he was angry and smoky all day long, and he couldn't wait to pull her directly to Xiaozhu's side.

It wasn't until late this month, at its urging, that she sent a telegram to Little Pillar.

After a few days, Xiaozhu hurried to Niujiatun. He has grown from a little doll of five or six years old to a big boy like a young man, and he can still vaguely see his former appearance between his eyebrows and eyes, which makes people not feel rusty.

But this temperament is completely out of the previous shame and cowardice, and has become very cheerful, as soon as they met, they pounced on Tang Tang and gave her a big hug.

This made Xu Changlin, who was standing aside, couldn't help frowning, and stretched out his hand to break the two away.

Xiao Zhuzi: "Brother Xu......"

He glanced at Xu Changlin depressedly, but he couldn't stop the big smile on his face, obviously he still had some impressions of the eldest brother who went to the county seat to rescue him from his aunt.

"You still haven't changed, it's the same as what I remember."

He said warmly and cheerfully, but Xu Changlin's face was silent, he glanced back at him lightly, and did not answer. To him, who had lost his memory, Xiao Zhu was nothing more than an unremembered stranger.

Obviously, Xiao Zhuzi also noticed this, and was a little surprised by his attitude, and his heart was worried, and he didn't know what to say.

Instead, Tang Tang took the initiative to open his mouth and said: "It's been so much

years, how did you get it back? ”

Xiao Zhuzi smiled, "Actually, I have long wanted to reunite with you, but when I left here, I was still young, and I was not impressed, I only vaguely remember that there was a big locust tree planted at home, and it took a long time to get there in a carriage here, but I can't remember the specific location and name." It just so happened that a friend of mine also went to the countryside to stay in the village, and when I talked about the situation in the village a few days ago, I wondered if this was the place where I left that year. So, I took the initiative to find it. ”

Xiao Zhuzi said with great interest, calling him lucky, his face was full of vivid emotion and happiness, which couldn't help but make Tang Tang's heart move slightly.

She smiled and asked, "That friend of yours, but Poplar?" ”

As soon as these words came out, the faces of the surrounding onlookers suddenly changed, and even the old captain put away his relaxed smile, stared at him with a serious face and asked, "Poplar?" Is it the poplar tree that lived in the village? ”

Seeing the expressions of the people around him, Xiao Zhuzi was a little confused, and subconsciously nodded in response: "Yes, it's him." ”

As soon as his words landed, he saw that the people around him put away the smiles on their faces and looked at each other a few times, their eyes were inexplicably complicated. Xiao Zhu was even more puzzled, "What's going on?" Could it be that Poplar made some mistake in the village? ”

It's no wonder that he guessed so much, but the demeanor of the people around him changed too quickly, and there was no smile at all, which made people can't help but guess the worst.

Without waiting for the people around him to answer, Xiao Zhuzi hurriedly argued: "Is there a misunderstanding?" I have known Yang Shu for many years, and I know him best as a person, and I will never make mistakes on purpose! ”

But such an endorsement and guarantee did not make the villagers feel the slightest relaxation.

In those years, many people in the village who went up to the mountain to rescue were deeply remembered, and they were quite disdainful of the behavior of poplars and outsiders colluding to obtain treasures in the village.

Now that this person is mentioned again, how can he have a good face?

Everyone's faces were a little solemn, and Xu Changlin's heart moved slightly when he saw it. He has a good relationship with poplars, and it can even be said that he met poplars as soon as he came out of the mountains.

At this time, combined with the attitude of the people in the village, it is a little strange to think about it.

He held Tang Tang's arm and pulled her out of the crowd, staring at her with staring blankly, "What happened?" I want to know as it is. ”