Chapter 3: Lost Soul

"Child, child, don't be afraid. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Aunt Wu held a bowl of gruel, said to the child nested in the corner with a kind face, and slowly leaned forward with her hand and handed the gruel over. The child still looked frightened, but he didn't know if Aunt Wu really didn't look like a bad person, or if she understood, and a pair of small hands tentatively took the gruel. Smell it, the taste is familiar; I took a sip carefully, and my eyes lit up. Just listen to a "coo" swallow, and there is only an empty bowl left.

"It's good to be able to eat." Lao Zhang glanced through the window outside the house, picked up a pen and wrote down two flavors of medicine on the paper. Blowing dry the ink, shaking it, holding it in his arms, and said to Uncle Wu on the side: "I don't understand this disease, but it will not be wrong to take some tonic medicine to make up for it, maybe it will be good to sleep and get a good night?" ”

Uncle Wu was speechless, his eyebrows tightened, and he couldn't stop sighing, which provoked Lao Zhang to say: "What do you want to do so much, whatever, it's a life." The great monks all said that saving people's lives is better than building a seventh-level floating slaughter, let's accumulate virtue. You don't care where he came from, I'll go to Lao Liu early tomorrow to inquire about it soon. ”

"Hey...... But...... That's it, it's up to you. Uncle Wu wanted to say something, but he didn't say it. Lao Zhang didn't know this, but he heard Uncle Wu answer, but he just listened to it. Packed up his things, walked to his house with his back hand, and after a while, Zhang Xiaole sent the medicine.

Uncle Wu squatted at the door of his house, and he didn't know what he was thinking with a sad face. After a long time, I only felt my legs tingle, and then I came back to my senses. stood up and moved, pushed the door into the house, and saw Aunt Wu coming out of the back room, and shouted at herself.

The old couple walked into the kitchen lightly, and the porridge in the pot was already a little cold. But it just so happens that the cooler in the summer is better. With the small pickles, the old couple drank the remaining small half pot of porridge, although they were not full, they were not hungry after all.

Aunt Wu brushed the pots and pans, took them off, and sat down on the medicine pot. Before leaving, Lao Zhang instructed that this medicine had to be given to the child for two days, and now he started frying, and the time was just right. Uncle Wu is not good at this kind of meticulous work, but it is not good to go into the back room to rest, and it is always bad to quarrel with the child again. After being silent for a while, he remembered something, hurriedly went out, and came back in a few breaths, only to have a strange-looking black package in his hand.

"Master, why did you bring this thing?" Aunt Wu was still a little puzzled at first, but when she saw this package, she understood a little. While looking at the fire in the stove, he said, "I fiddled with it for a long time yesterday, and I didn't see you open it, so don't you give up today?" ”

"Now people are confused, and they don't say a word, they can't understand. What's wrong with this bag, it's also the child.,If you open it, maybe there's something in it that can prove your identity.。 Uncle Wu didn't raise his head, his voice was very low, and he didn't know whether he was perfunctory or talking to himself.

I studied this bag for a long time yesterday, and although I didn't find the trick, I also had some eyebrows. The bag is not big, three feet square, I don't know what the material is, it looks rough, but it is slippery to the touch, and it is very soft. There are two buttons on the bag, which are very delicate, and the sound of opening and closing is very crisp. Unfastened and there is a pocket that fits snugly around the body, shallow and with nothing in it. There is a very strange thing along the mouth of the bag, which seems to be iron but not iron, like copper and not copper, like teeth and gnawed to death, and I don't know what it is. Yesterday, I didn't pull it away after a lot of effort, but Uncle Wu didn't dare to pull it anymore. It's not that I can't really get this bag, after all, it's not Uncle Wu's thing, and it's not good to break it.

There are two net pockets on both sides of the bag, and there is nothing in them. It's just that there are two small iron rings hanging on one side, but there are no on the other. Uncle Wu tentatively tugged on the small iron ring, but there was no response, and he tugged again, still like this. I couldn't help but be a little deflated, sighing in my mouth, but my hand was subconsciously pulling.

"Squeak......" Uncle Wu was startled and almost threw his bag to the ground. This action was inevitably a little bigger, and it only scared Aunt Wu on the side. Aunt Wu was about to complain a few words, but she saw Uncle Wu pulling the strange thing on the bag with the iron ring, and she didn't look at the stove fire at the moment, and leaned over to look inside the bag.

Uncle Wu's movements were very light, and he slowly pulled the iron ring to the other side. I looked inside, but I didn't recognize anything. The old couple was very curious, and carefully took out the contents one by one and put them on the stove. A thin black box with a smooth surface that reflects a human figure; A small round box, with a shiny chain tied to it, listened to it, and there was a ticking sound from inside; A box with no discernible material, black on one side and white on the other, with a line attached to it, which fell off when the thread was pulled by hand, but could not be put on it; A copper box, very small and heavy, after opening it, there is a line inside, and there is a round thing, I don't know what to do; A red thing with a lot of strange things on both sides, which can be broken out, but can't be understood. In addition to these, there are two identical white cartons with many rolled-up strips of paper inside. And then there is a small navy blue box, this Uncle Wu understands it, it is no different from the usual box for putting things. opened it, but the contents caused the old couple to exclaim.

"Oh my God, this ...... This...... What an object! Aunt Wu stared at the contents of the navy blue box, and was surprised and didn't know what to say. Uncle Wu had never seen such delicate things, but he knew that they were valuable, so he immediately closed the box, took the opportunity to put the things on the stove back into the package carefully, and instructed while putting them back: "Old woman, these things can't be said!" ”

"Of course, of course." Aunt Wu came back to her senses when she heard the sound and agreed again and again. fell to the ground and lived for such a long time, it seems that this kind of thing actually doesn't need to be said by Uncle Wu. It's just that the contents of the navy blue box are really amazing, and they just calm down while they speak.

Uncle Wu gently put the bag into the back room, and crept out again, barely making a sound. I looked at the sky, but I couldn't stay at home anymore, so I took advantage of the fact that it was still early to go into the mountains to go around, so that I could get some mountain delicacies and wild vegetables to fight for tooth sacrifices. The child's face is still white, and it is good to boil some soup to replenish his body.

In the afternoon, Uncle Wu finally came back. Rhubarb rushed into the yard first, Uncle Wu ignored it, put the firewood knife and rope on his waist in the yard, but carried the bamboo basket on his back directly to the back kitchen. This trip into the mountains has a lot of harvest, a rabbit and two pheasants. The pheasant is used to make soup, and the rabbit is also easy to make, so it is good to roast it on the fire.

Aunt Wu got these things, and Uncle Wu, who was fine, took the black bag in his hand and went out of the house directly. When he returned, he saw the boy descending from the ground, and now he was sitting on a stone in the courtyard and teasing rhubarb. Rhubarb is also well-behaved, putting his head under the child's palm, squinting his eyes, and a tail can't stop shaking, very well-behaved. Although the child's eyes were still dumbfounded, there was a hint of a smile at the corner of his mouth, and his right hand subconsciously stroked the top of Rhubarb's head, and he had to grab it from time to time, causing Rhubarb to lie on the ground, Bai Huahua's belly was facing the sky, and a tongue was hanging outside, without the ferocity of catching rabbits in the mountains.

Uncle Wu walked over, ignored the rhubarb who was still flattering on the ground, and sat down opposite the child. The boy raised his head when he heard the sound, and his right hand was unconsciously retracted. Uncle Wu sighed when he saw this, handed the black bag in his hand forward, and said, "This should be your thing, let's see, maybe I think of something." ”

Through a trace of struggle in his eyes, the child seemed to be a little excited, tremblingly took the black bag, opened it with a familiar car, and hurriedly swept the contents through. Suddenly, his brow furrowed, and he reached out and took out the thin black box. As if struggling, he put it back. I searched again, but I took out a white cardboard box and the heavy copper box.

He put the bag aside, opened the box and took out two rolls of paper, and handed one to Uncle Wu. Uncle Wu was a little unconscious, but he also took it and followed the child's example and held the yellowed side of the rolling paper to his mouth. The kid didn't look at Uncle Wu, he opened the copper box by himself, and with his thumb on the round wheel, he saw a flame rising, and Uncle Wu was stunned immediately.

Slightly bowing his head and putting the other end of the paper on the fire, the child inhaled slightly, slowly exhaled a puff of smoke, and brought the copper box that was still on fire to Uncle Wu. Uncle Wu forcibly suppressed the panic in his heart, and stepped forward in a similar way, but he only felt a fire rushing directly into his lungs from his throat and eyes, and he coughed immediately when he was panting. The child smiled lightly, a pair of eyes seemed to be bent into two crescents, and his body naturally leaned back, holding a roll of paper in one hand and playing with a copper box in the other, with an indescribably comfortable expression.

Uncle Wu seems to have countless questions in his heart: Why does this copper box emit fire? Why is this paper roll so choking? Why are tigers and cranes blessed when you are in the mountains, and why are there hundreds of birds and beasts when you leave? But when it came to his lips, these countless questions turned into a simple sentence: "Child, are you better?" ”

"It's okay, it's just a headache." The child's brows furrowed inadvertently, "It seems that there are some things that I can't remember clearly, but it's okay, maybe it's post-traumatic sequelae, maybe it's okay to smoke a cigarette slowly." ”

"Post-traumatic sequelae?" Uncle Wu muttered, then looked at the roll paper in his hand that he had only taken a puff of, and asked uncertainly, "Is this ...... Smoke? ”

"Yes, smoke." The kid smiled slightly, said and took a puff, and then naughtily spit out two round smoke rings, which made Uncle Wu stunned again, "This is actually not a good thing, but I have been smoking for many years, and I am addicted to it in the morning." ”

"Oh......" Uncle Wu didn't know what to say, but the kid asked as if he had seen something funny, "Uncle, don't tell me you haven't smoked." At your age, you shouldn't be able to, hehe......"

Uncle Wu's eyes were dull, and he really didn't know what to say. This thing is indeed the first time to smoke, and it chokes people, and I don't know why this kid is enjoying it. I tried to take another sip, but before I could swallow it, I coughed it up again. When the kid saw it, he seemed to understand that Uncle Wu's words were not a joke, and said casually: "Okay, don't smoke it if you haven't smoked it, just pinch it off." At your age, smoking something is really not good for your body. ”

"Yes." Hearing this, Uncle Wu put down the cigarette and threw it aside. The boy shook his head slightly, stood up with a cigarette in his mouth, and took two steps to extinguish the cigarette that was still burning on the ground. As he walked back, his eyes suddenly widened, staring at his hands tightly. I didn't care about the cigarette that was still burning in my hand, and my hands kept pulling on my body, as if I was crazy.

Uncle Wu was startled by the child's actions, immediately stood up, snatched the cigarette and threw it aside, and then hugged the body that seemed to be a sheep's epilepsy, and shouted: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, it's okay, it's okay......"

An old man and a young man made such a big noise in the courtyard, which had already alarmed Aunt Wu, who was cleaning up pheasants and hares in the kitchen. hurriedly walked out, and saw Uncle Wu hugging the child, and immediately asked, "What's wrong, what's wrong?" ”

Fortunately, at this time, the child calmed down, and Uncle Wu replied while touching the child's hair: "Somehow, Xu was about the cigarette just now, and suddenly went crazy, talking nonsense." ”

When Aunt Wu heard this, she hurriedly snatched the child from Uncle Wu's arms, raised her eyes and looked at the pair of eyes full of fear and confusion, and hurriedly asked softly: "What's wrong, tell Auntie, it's okay......"

The child muttered, Aunt Wu didn't hear it in a hurry, but fortunately she heard it the second time, but it was "how can this be". Aunt Wu and Uncle Wu had no children under their knees, and the appearance of the child at this time aroused the pity in their hearts. Aunt Wu sat on the stone with the child in her arms, put the child on her lap, and gently patted the back with her hand to soothe the child's emotions. It took a long time for me to ease up a bit. gave Uncle Wu a look, Uncle Wu secretly understood, walked out of the yard silently, and walked in the direction of Lao Zhang's house, but Aunt Wu still coaxed the child and asked in a low voice: "Child, it's okay, tell Auntie, what is your name, where is home?" ”

When the child heard this, he was immediately stunned, his eyes were full of confusion, and after a long time he said, "I...... Who am I...... This...... Good...... It seems like...... Be...... Protect...... Wei Xuan. ”

"Wei Xuan? What a nice name. Aunt Wu coaxed.

"Yes...... My name is Wei Xuan. ”

"And where is your home?"

"Home?" Wei Xuan's eyes were still confused, and he subconsciously looked at the quaint and simple house, and then looked at Aunt Wu, who was holding him, and Uncle Wu, Lao Zhang, and Zhang Xiaole, who had just arrived, and asked, "What time is it?" ”

"Look at you, child, why do you ask where your home is? At present, His Majesty has just ascended the throne, and the year name has not been changed, so it is the ninth year of Wude, and the next year is the first year of Zhenguan. ”

"Wude? Zhenguan! When Wei Xuan heard this, he struggled out of Aunt Wu's arms, and his tone was full of disbelief. Aunt Wu was startled by this sudden sound, and she didn't come back to her senses for a while. But Lao Zhang reacted and whispered to Uncle Wu on the side: "Old Wu, I can see it this time." This is the disease of lost souls. ”