The two men tentatively walked towards the house, and they saw that the door was not closed, as if it was hidden. Sister Fu shouted:

"Anyone? Can we come in? ”

Silence, the silence that answered her was the silence of nothingness. There was no movement in the house.

Mi Bao lowered his voice and said to Fuzi: "There may be no one inside, otherwise there is such a big movement outside, why can't you come out and take a look?" ”

Sister Fu agreed with Mi Bao's analysis, so she took two steps to the door of the house, and reached out to push the heavy wooden door hard.

The wooden door creaked open and the hazy moonlight poured in like water. Mi Bao and Sister Fu looked into the house, Sister Fu screamed, turned around and lay on Mi Bao's body, and grabbed Mi Bao's arm tightly. Mi Po almost cried out, but the experience beyond his peers seemed to have made him mature prematurely, and at this time he was still able to stand steadily, and adjust his breathing vigorously, controlling his "pounding" heart, and looking inside: they were facing a birch square table, and at the back of the square table sat a person upright, with his head slightly bowed, his face completely hidden in the dark shadow, and he could not see his facial features clearly, but he could be seen with his hands on the table, and there was a double-barreled shotgun on the table, and the black muzzle was facing the two of them.

"Don't, don't shoot!" Mibo said in as smooth a voice as possible, "We're not bad people!" ”

The person across the table was still sitting upright, silently motionless.

In the distance, one or two nightbird cries could be heard, which seemed ethereal and distant. The room was hazy, as if in a dream, the moonlight froze and time stood still.

After a while, Sister Fu slowly turned around, eased her mind, looked around, and vaguely saw the outline of an oil lamp on the table, she dared to grope under the base of the oil lamp, and sure enough, she touched a small square purse made of animal skin, the peasant girl is the most familiar with this kind of thing, they have lit cigarette pouches for their parents since they were young, and they cook on the fire.

Sister Fu skillfully opened the cover of the fire sickle purse, groped to take out the flint and velvet, and hit the flint with the fire sickle "pop, pop", the shiny little star burst out, Mi Bao quickly leaned over and blew it up with his mouth, the velvet was ignited, Sister Fu pinched the velvet, and gently blew it on the twist of the oil lamp, the flame jumped up suddenly, and the size of the soybean changed like a bud, and opened like a peach blossom, and the yellow rippling light diffused, The utensils in the room and the immovable person on the other side of the table gradually appeared clearly in front of Mi Bao and Sister Fu, and the two were stunned again.

There sat an old man with a white beard, with deep-set eyes, withered skin, shaped like a skeleton, with large hands like dead roots still resting on the trigger of a shotgun, and his clothes and table top covered with a thick layer of dust, apparently an old hunter who lived alone, and had been dead for many days.

Fukuko and Mi Po shed tears.

Mi Bao wiped a handful of tears and said, "It must be a fairy, my mother is right, he really lives in the innermost part of the mountain." It's a pity that we worked so hard to find him, but he left! ”

Sister Fu didn't refute Mi Bao this time, she held Mi Bao's hand and said, "It must be, the old man must be a fairy." ”

The sun lifted the veil of morning mist to reveal a flushed face, casting strands of gold threads over the towering peaks, on the dense forests, and on the grass-housed courtyards surrounded by mountains and forests.

A new grave was built next to the courtyard, and the words "Resting Place of the Gods" were engraved with a knife on the tombstone made of birch boards in front of the tomb, and there was a smaller grave next to it, and a small wooden board was also erected in front of it, on which was engraved "The Resting Place of the Sacred Dog".

This is really a magical courtyard, not as simple as the usual dwellings of hunters in the mountains, it is surrounded by hard oak sticks to form a fence wall more than one person high, because the wall is crawling with spring flowers and honeysuckle vines, so from a distance it does not look like a fence courtyard wall, but like a green and fluffy gentle hillside. The spring flowers on the "slope" have bloomed and there are only a few stars left, but the honeysuckle has begun to bloom luxuriantly, and the refreshing fragrance is scattered all over the mountains and fields with the wind, accompanied by birdsong and flowing water, which is really like a fairyland.

The sun shines on all the corners of the courtyard, and the gate leads to the house on a stone-paved path, and on both sides of the road is a smooth, soft earth, and some potato shoots are bursting vigorously to receive the blessings of the warm light, and the dew drops on the fluffy leaves are shining.

Mi Bao and Sister Fu were very grateful to the departed "fairy grandfather", because the yellow, orange and orange bud rice sticks and air-dried roe de meat hanging on the beams and walls saved the lives of the two of them, and the warm and dry thatched hut gave them a shelter from the wind and rain.

Satisfied, Mibo took off his shirt and bathed himself in the white sunshine, which seemed to him to have never had such good sunshine in Valley Floor. He silently said to his mother in his heart, I found it, I finally found it. He ran from the yard to the outside of the yard, from the house to the outside of the house, fetched buckets of mountain spring water, watered the seedlings in the yard, washed the stone road and the steps paved with stone slabs, Sister Fu sat on the threshold with a pompom puppy and looked at it with a smile and bent her eyes. The two discussed for a long time, and named the puppy "Da Zhuangzi", which pinned their hopes on it to be simple and not simple, that is, to let it grow into a big dog that can guard the house and be loyal to the owner like his mother.

It was another sunny morning, the sun was still shining warmly, the sky was blue overhead, and the white clouds were under your feet. Sister Fu used the mountain spring water brought by Mi Bao to clean the dusty utensils and their mud-stained quilts, while Mi Bao sat on the side and wiped the double-barreled shotguns left by what they called "Grandpa Fairy".

Sister Fu got up and took off her wide blue cloth shirt, the white close-fitting gown showed a bulging belly and tall breasts, she rolled up her sleeves, lifted the wooden bucket full of clear spring water, and fell down from her head with a "bang", in the bright sunlight, her snow-white skin shone with dazzling light, like a snow sculpture of a person.

She suddenly burst into tears and said to Mi Bao, who was looking at her blankly, "I don't know if I can wash my body clean in this life." ”

Mi Bao said: "Why not, Sister Fu is the whitest and cleanest person I have ever met." ”

Looking at the plump and mellow Sister Fu, Mi Bao suddenly remembered that Tao Jinbao was sitting on the windowsill of the school and read smoothly: Sister is wonderful, and the two are warped, and she wants to go up and touch it, and her heart is a little beating. He couldn't help but blurt out, Sister Fu listened, laughed with tears in her eyes, and said, "The children of the family, they won't learn well before they grow up!" ”

Mi Bao blushed and said, "Sister Fu, this child came out to call you mother, right?" ”

Fuzi said: "This still needs to be asked, I was originally her mother!" ”

Mi Bao said, "Then let him call me Daddy?" ”

Fuzi's face also turned red, and she said with a smile while chasing Mi Bao: "Stinky boy, the more you talk about it, the more outrageous it becomes, see that I don't swell your mouth!" ”

Mi Bao escaped, and Sister Fu chased two steps forward, and a sharp abdominal pain made her bend over with her stomach in her arms. Seeing this, Mi Bao hurriedly turned around and came back to support her, and asked in a panic: "Sister, what's wrong, it's not that I'm angry with you, right?" ”

Sister Fu's face turned pale, she looked at Mi Bao who was in a hurry, barely squeezed out a smile, pointed to her stomach and said, "Silly brother, it's not you, it's this unlucky child who is coming out!" ”

"Really!" Mi Bao asked a little excitedly, "Didn't you say that there are still two months, why do you have to come out now?" ”

Mi Bao remembered that when he was in Valley Town, whoever wanted to give birth to a child in the family invited an old lady who specially delivered the baby, and he also had to ask several tall and strong women like the third mother to help, and now how can he be alone in this unpopulated place? Thinking like this, Mipo's excitement was suppressed by the fear of not knowing what to do.

Sister Fu's pain seemed to be lighter, she saw Mi Bao's thoughts, took a breath and said, "Maybe it's too tiring to climb the mountain these days, and now it's stretching again, and this little thing can't stay in it." Baozi, you help my sister in, I'll change my wet clothes, lie down for a while, maybe it'll be fine! ”

Mi Bao helped Sister Fu into the house and lay down on the kang. There was only a straw kang mat on the earthen kang, and the futon was taken off by the two and taken to the yard to be cleaned, and at this time it was still dripping water in the sun slope, and it was blown by the wind.

Sister Fu was half-sitting, leaning on the kang circumference, and had already found her own dry and loose clothes to change into, ** white gown and fur blue pants were thrown aside, Da Zhuangzi was sniffing with his plush little head down, stretching out his little pink tongue to lick here and there, Mi Bao walked over and picked it up, it seemed to feel uncomfortable to hug, four little claws kicked around, opened the mouth that had just come out of the little white teeth and bit Mi Bao's fingers.

Sister Fu looked at it and laughed, she stretched out her hands and said, "Bring it to me and hold it, see that you can't even hold a puppy!" ”

"Then don't let me practice at this time, and when the child comes out, I will also hold it!" Seeing that Sister Fu's face had regained a faint flush, Mi Bao began to joke with her mischievously.

Sister Fu changed into the water-red muslin trousers that her mother gave her to prepare for getting married, and she had never put it on, but today she somehow picked this dress to wear, her belly was too big, and the clothes naturally couldn't be tied, so she only buttoned the collar and the top two buttons, and put the placket on the bulging abdomen. A bright color brightens up the old hut.

Mi Bao looked at her and said, "Sister Fu, you are so beautiful." ”

Sister Fu stroked her stomach with her hand and said, "The first time he saw me, he can't be too cold as a mother." ”