This was the first time Gu Xiaoxiao felt relieved in the past three days, and when she saw Asu open her eyes, she almost jumped up from the ground and danced.

"Asu, you've finally woken up." Gu Xiaoxiao poked his head in front of Asu's eyes, grabbed Asu's hand with both hands, and the crying turned into a sparse cry before it lasted a few seconds.

"Woo, Aso...... Great, great...... You're alright! Scared me to death, really scared me to death! ”

Asu looked at the girl who was crying in front of her, a little dizzy and a little inexplicable, he hadn't done anything good to her, and the friendship between the two was still very shallow, even if Michelangelo was closer to her, it would not be an exaggeration to say that Michelangelo was closer to her, but why would this girl worry about herself like this? There was even a tendency to hold her head in pain - this reminded her of Maomao's once withered perilla because she was not well raised, crying for three days and three nights, these two people are very similar in a sense!

The cry was louder and louder, as if the waves were sweeping towards her, and just when Aso was about to faint again, someone finally couldn't look at it and reached out to help.

I saw a big hand of Alpha reaching out, easily grabbing the collar of the small windbreaker and lifting it aside.

"Hey! Ice Bunny, what are you doing? The vicious expression, the tears beautified her anger a little, at this moment she is like a child who can't steal food, Asu looked at it, and couldn't help but soften the corners of his mouth into an arc, thinking that this man's nickname has a new modifier, it seems that the relationship between this little couple has reached a higher level!

Afa sighed, he was really ashamed of the IQ of this "hedgehog", "Asu just woke up, do you want her to fall back again?" ”

"What's wrong with me? I'm just so happy! After rescuing her from the mine, she fell asleep for three days, and it took her to wake up with great difficulty, and do you know how worried I was about her? ”

Ah Fa felt a headache, and didn't want to bother to talk about the truth that those and hedgehogs are not the same world at all, so he took practical action directly, raised his left hand and stretched out to the endless small mouth that opened and closed, and wanted to cover it but was bitten by a bite, and he was defeated.

"You ......" the corners of Afa's mouth twitched, and then he realized that he was playing with fire and harming himself, because he underestimated this "hedgehog", or he forgot that the hedgehog is called a hedgehog because it has thorns! And the "hedgehog" in front of him, who was raising his eyebrows and smiling triumphantly and defiantly, is still a master who has been "devastated" for a long time by a certain "His Royal Highness the Prince", well, including himself.

didn't realize that although she was a hedgehog, she also had a criminal record, so naturally he couldn't complain about others.

"Loosen." Alpha invisibly "swished" and shot out a cold air.

"Woohoo." Xiaoxiao was about to say "don't", but because Xiaokou was still biting Afa's hand, and stubbornly refused to let go lightly, he created this weird sound.

Afa was almost out of breath, trying to threaten with his gaze, but Xiaoxiao was not a vegetarian, this Nizi simply closed her eyes, out of sight, but her mouth was firmly dead and refused to let go.

"Gu Xiaoxiao!"

Finally broke out, the little eyebrows and eyes crooked, and then let him go, and at the same time smiled...... This great demon king has become a silk flower.

Alpha looked at the eye-catching tooth marks and saliva on his fair left hand, and his eyes suddenly straightened.

"Look at you, who made you so ignorant of women's hearts......" "Hedgehog" combed the "thorns" on her chin, "I forgot to sleep and eat, and took care of my dear 'eldest sister' day and night, and finally she recovered under my careful care, naturally I want to be happy, but you broke this qiē stubbornly, isn't this outrageous and outrageous?" Xiaoxiao crossed her arms and shook her head, looking very unsightly, and at the same time showing a look of disappointment like a master who did not study well in his own students.

Even "death in anger" is not enough to describe Alpha's mood at the moment, and this woman can now confidently use this idiom that is strict and deviant to say such a long list of complaining words, Affaton was desolate.

He is sad about himself, he would actually fall in love with such a woman, no, a little girl, this is not a cold clothes!

Alpha, Alpha, your taste is really not ordinary!

However, think about it, if this little "hedgehog" is allowed to run rampant outside, it will definitely bring disaster to the country and the people!

I can't even point out if I actually did a big thing!

Asu laughed out loud when he watched it, which caused a certain ice-carved rabbit and a certain hedgehog to accept it.

"Xiaoxiao, Alpha, where are they?" Aso sat up and asked the first question he had when he woke up.

Xiaoxiao's heart tightened, although there was nothing wrong with this question, but it always sounded like the tone was intermittent, it was obvious that she was suppressing something and hiding something, she suddenly felt a little cramped, this mood was unreasonable, and she was confused for unknown reasons, "Luo Luo and Lili went to prepare food." ”

And Afa was as smart as he heard the intention in the moment he finished speaking, "He went to help save people." ”

After saying that, the two girls present were breathless.

One is the heartbeat of being perceived at a glance, and the other is the laughter after a sudden realization.

****

Michelangelo, who came back from outside, was also the same as Xiaoxiao after seeing Aso who woke up, running forward with open arms and tears, almost crying dad and calling mother, but was dodged by Aso in the next second, she didn't look at the old man behind him who was in close contact with the haystack, and his neat skills and disgusted look made Xiaoxiao worship to the point of drooling.

Luo Lili didn't have too many expressions, she still walked to Alpha's side and stopped, didn't complain or complain, just quietly didn't say a word.

Seeing that Asu's face was a lot ruddy, Xiaoxiao and Luo Luo compared the recent situation and told Asu in general.

****

The volunteer rescuers in this black township worked day and night for 12 days, so the coal mining work stopped, and since the coal could not be mined, there was no salary.

The little money left in the village was quickly used up, but Mrs. Dennis, who was the only bakery to run out, continued to bake bread on credit, but then all the money ran out and she had to close the door.

The coal mining company did not take out a single copper plate until the end of the twelfth day, when they notified the rescuers to stop the rescue and asked the people to go back to work.

"Damn, why should they be stingy to this point!" Xiaoxiao couldn't help but squirt saliva, Luo Luo on the side smiled bitterly and tried to comfort him to no avail, while Asu looked at Yiqiē with an expressionless face.

The village was so destitute that hunger gripped the village, and the miners went on strike.

As soon as Van Gogh's April salary arrived, he bought fifty francs of food to distribute to each family, but the whole village lived on it for only six days. Then they went out into the woods to gather berries, leaves, and grass, and men went out in search of living creatures, such as rabbits, gophers, snails, toads, lizards, cats and dogs, as long as they could quench the pains of hunger.

"Asu, what do you think?"

"Hunting."

"Hey...... It's dangerous! Xiao Xiao said this, but followed closely behind Aso.

"Fat women are afraid to touch those toads and lizards!" Michelangelo on the side deliberately revealed the short.

"I—I didn't!" Xiao Xiao Zhiwu seemed to be right, "I'm afraid of running into natural enemies!" "Suddenly, something happened again.

"Huh? Natural enemies? ”

"That's right! It's a bad bird and a rabbit! ”

Rollo was confused, and an angel next to him and a certain "prince" in his pocket sneezed in unison.

Xiaoxiao, a complete novice, has been following Asu, and after seeing the results at the end of the day, she is even more impressed with tears, serious to the pious posture, but the image of Aso in her heart is more and more powerful, she will write down her feelings - it turns out that when the 'big sister' is going to be able to hunt!

The villagers searched everywhere for food, and in the end, even these things were caught, Van Gogh had to write to ask for help, but there was no answer. The miners had no choice but to sit on their wives and children starving to death.

They asked Van Gogh to perform a requiem ceremony for the fifty-seven dead who died in the mine, those who had gone first. A hundred men, women, and children crowded into his hut, which had only one lamp, hanging from a broken rafter, and shimmering with a flickering light.

The little group took advantage of Alpha's ability to stand still in a vacant corner, she looked at Van Gogh, turned her head to look at Aso, and her heart became sour.

For many days, Van Gogh had not eaten anything but coffee, and since the accident, he had barely eaten solid foods such as bread, so he was too weak to stand up.

His eyes were like black holes pricked by two needles, his cheeks were sunken, the round cheekbones under his eyes were now clearly protruding, the dirty red beard on his face was tangled, and the rough sack cloth was wrapped around him in place of his original underwear.

He lay on the hay in the corner of the house, his head propped up on his elbows, and the lamp cast eerie, faltering shadows on the rough plank walls and on the hundred men who were suffering in silence.

He began to speak in a hoarse, fanatically excited voice, every word resounding in the silent room. The scrawny and emaciated people ravaged by hunger and frustration stared at him intently.

Xiaoxiao looked at Asu, I don't know why, since she woke up, her expression was monotonous, which made Xiaoxiao a little scared.

Suddenly, at this moment, there was a strange shouting outside the room, raised in anger and indignation, and the door opened with a clatter, and a child cried, "Here is Mr. Vincent, gentlemen." ”

Van Gogh stopped, and everyone turned their heads to the door with Xiaoxiao, and two well-dressed men walked in, and the oil lamp suddenly turned on. Catch a glimpse of the horrified look on the stranger's face.

"Welcome, Pastor Derk and Pastor Van den Brink." Van Gogh lay there and said, "We are holding a funeral for the fifty-six miners who were buried alive in the mine, maybe you would like to say something of comfort to the people here?" ”

This left the pastors speechless for a long time.

"Shocking! It's just astounding! Deke screamed as he slapped his bulging abdomen heavily.

"You'd think this was in the jungle of Africa!" Van den Brinkk said.

"God knows how many hurtful things he's done!"

Hearing this, I was a little shocked, what are these two guys talking nonsense......

However......

"It will take many years to lead these people to Christ!"

Deke crossed his hands on his big belly and shouted, "I told you not to appoint him." ”

"I know...... But Peterson ...... Who could have imagined! This guy is crazy! ”

"I suspect his nerves have always been abnormal, and I never trusted him."

Xiaoxiao gritted her teeth and was about to step forward, but she was grabbed by Afa's arm, and she threw a look at her angrily, "Don't stop me." ”

"You can't do anything."

Cruel to the point of desperation, but it is an irrefutable fact.

Xiao Xiao stopped his movements and glanced at Asu, still as usual.

The two priests spoke quickly in French, but the people did not understand a word, and Van Gogh did not understand the meaning of what they were saying, because he was weak and sick.

Dérk walked through the crowd with his belly puffed up, and said to Van Gogh quietly but very sternly: "Let these filthy dogs go home!" ”

Luo Lili on the side suddenly snorted coldly, "How can you be worthy of a dog......"

Hearing this, Luo Luo hooked the corners of his mouth and laughed silently, while Gu Xiaoxiao had a good impression of Luo Lili in an instant.

Ah Fa saw it in his eyes, and suddenly realized that it was quite easy for women to form an alliance and share the line.

"But what about funerals? We're not done yet......" Van Gogh questioned.

"The funeral doesn't matter. Let them go! ”

The miners slowly streamed out, and the two priests took the opportunity to turn their faces to Van Gogh, "What the hell did you do?" What do you mean by having a ceremony in such a dirty, cramped place? What kind of new kind of barbaric ritual have you pioneered? Don't you know what etiquette is? What is decent? …… You're not trying to disgrace our church, are you? ”

"Thankfully, Mr. Van Gogh," he said, "we have only given you a temporary appointment, and you may now consider that your appointment has been lifted, and that you will never again be appointed by us." I find your behavior disgusting and disgraceful. Your salary will stop and a new person will be sent to replace you. If I hadn't been lenient and thought you were completely insane, I would have ...... you."

"Hey, Mr. Van Gogh, don't you have anything to defend yourself?"

No, let alone speaking.

This time, even Xiaoxiao didn't make any more moves, because the two human-faced beast hearts in front of him were not worth it at all. "Let's go, Brother Dirk," Van den Brink said after a pause, "there's nothing we can do, he's hopeless." If we can't find a good hotel here, we'll have to drive back tonight. ”

Luo Luo walked straight to Asu's side and stood still, while Xiao Xiao didn't even bother to throw his eyes to the two so-called "well-dressed", just walked up to Luo Lili and grabbed her hand and shook it and shouted bad luck.

****

The next morning, the old miners came to Van Gogh and made it clear that they regarded Van Gogh as the only trustworthy person and wanted to seek answers from him. Van Gogh did not refuse, dragged his zombie-like body to the manager of the coal mining company, but the negotiation finally failed to solve the problem, ignored it and still occupied the high ground, he understood that the black country can only be the black country, this is its fate.

At the age of twenty-six, five failures have made him lose his courage, and Van Gogh's whole person seems to have begun to wither, cold, and die from withering, but he still has his brother Theo and the invisible Aso.

Theo sends him money to go back and earn a living, but he transfers the money to Mrs. Dennis as rent.

Anyone can see that he stayed in the Black Country, not because he liked it, but because he had nowhere to go.

He lost his faith, he lost himself, and then he lost even the only person who genuinely sympathized with him and understood him as he wished.

Theo abandoned his brother, and he was left alone.

Later, he numbed himself with reading, until he finished reading what he could read, and he suddenly had a correct understanding of himself.

Impatience or conscience, he was half-fed under the alternating supplies of his father and brother Theo.

At this lowest point in his life, he began to pick up a paintbrush for the first time. And his first painting was only because he was casually sitting on a rusty iron wheel outside the wall, and he happened to see an old miner come out of the door, with a black hat pressed against his eyebrows; Shoulders shrugged; With his hands in his pockets, his bony knees trembling, it gave him a fatal attraction for no reason.

In this way, the sorrow in my heart ignited a blue fire with a beep.

Rollo often looked at the paintings, and Van Gogh's anatomical concepts were all wrong, the proportions were incongruous, and his painting was ridiculously strange. But Rollo didn't laugh at him, he just insisted that the characters at the bottom of his pen were black countrymen, which no one could be mistaken.

The sun of the Black Country hung over the horizon dotted with pyramids, and the sun shone on a few puffy clouds, the edges of which were a beautiful silver-pink color.

He cherishes himself, but he has to admit that he needs financial help and the kind of objective kind of unrelenting judgment from outsiders.

One afternoon, when it was raining outside, he thought of the best candidate, and although he had only three francs in his pocket and could not afford to get on the train, he would not give up for such a trivial matter.

On foot, it is about eighty kilometers away. He had walked for an afternoon, an all-nighter, and most of the next day, but he still had thirty kilometers to go, and if it weren't for the worn out of his thin shoes, and the toes of one of them exposed, he would have walked all the way to the end. The coat that had been worn for many years was covered with dust, but because he didn't have a comb or a change of clothes, he had to use cold water to make a face.

He put cardstock in his shoes and hit the road early. The leather of the shoe clenched the toe began to grind against his foot, and soon the blood on his foot was dripping, the cardstock was worn out, and the soles of his feet were blistered, which then turned into blood blisters, and finally the blood blisters burst again.

He was hungry, thirsty, and tired, but exceedingly happy.

As he limped past the people, they all quickly avoided her, watching her walk with wide eyes and shaking their heads incessantly.

Xiaoxiao looked at Yiqiē from the side, and the pent-up mood for a long time instantly exploded, she hugged Asu, whimpered and rubbed her vocal cords, "Let's go back." ”R1152