Gu Ying, the three hard-working children, felt self-pity for a long time, and only then stopped their sad tears under the temptation of the little fat man's food, and the three decided not to grieve alone at home, it was better to go out to the street for a while, maybe they could relieve the depression in their hearts.

Today's town is much more lively than in the past, and many people who don't usually see each other have also gone out of their homes, doing business, chatting, and hurrying, and the town seems to be more prosperous than before.

Xiao Guozi walked to the door of Taibaiju, only to see that the entire exterior wall of Taibaiju Tavern was black, and the shopkeeper stretched his face, looking at the workers who were reinforcing and decorating them busy, begging them to speed up and open as soon as possible, so as to make up for the losses of these days as much as possible.

The widow Wang who sells wontons is still smiling, greeting the guests from the south to the north, as if all of them are her relatives, and the shopkeeper of the prosperous rice store is still the same as if she is underwhelmed, but in the eyes of Xiao Guozi, these people seem to be different from usual today, as for what is different, Xiao Guozi really can't say.

The little fat man bought three hemp balls at a stall of fried hemp balls, wrapped them in paper, and gave one to Xiuxiu and Xiao Guozi, this thing looks very big, but in fact, it is empty inside, and there are not many in one bite.

The three of them held the straight side of the food, walked and walked, saw the side of the road actually came a monkey, the monkey was holding a small flag and shaking and walking, a large group of people around, the old man playing the monkey struck the gong hard, saw that the people were almost there, he made a gesture to everyone, said some scenes, and then drove the little monkey to perform, the cute little monkey did all kinds of shapes, sometimes played a grimace, made the children laugh.

The three children were elated, but looking at it, Xiuxiu's mouth was deflated, her eyes were full of moisture, and she pulled the little fat man and the little pot away, the little pot was puzzled, and hurriedly asked why, Xiuxiu said, that little monkey is so pitiful, the whole body is dirty, such a hard performance, the bad old man also used a whip to whip the little monkey, indicating that the little monkey's life is not good at all, she can't stand it in her heart, and she doesn't want to watch it anymore.

In fact, Xiao Guozi was quite conflicted in his heart, he also felt that the monkey was pitiful, but he wanted to watch the monkey's performance, after all, this is not something that can be seen often, since Xiuxiu didn't want to watch it, he could only go forward step by step with the little fat man.

"Wow, what a beautiful feather, big brother, I like that feather." Xiuxiu's eyes suddenly lit up, separated the crowd, and walked to a stall.

There are two people standing in front of this stall, one is about fifty years old, Orion is dressed, the person is not very strong, and even a little thin, but it feels very vigorous, it seems to be a crouching leopard, every muscle in the body is full of elasticity, and there is a little boy of six or seven years old standing beside him, the little boy has a tiger head, big eyes, black skin, and a toy-like wooden bow on his back, and several one-and-a-half-foot-long bamboo arrows are inserted in the leather bag around his waist.

There was a pile of things in front of them, there were three or four hares, two pheasants, and a black wild boar of about 100 catties.

The boar had long since died, and the hare lay quietly on the ground, but the two pheasants were alive, probably caught with a net, and were squatting on the ground with their eyes closed.

It was the two pheasants that Xiuxiu saw at a glance. Probably all women are not immune to beautiful things, even if she is only a little girl of five or six years old.

Xiuxiu couldn't walk when she saw the pheasant's tail, the pheasant had colorful feathers, its beak was yellow, its eyes were black, but its head was red, its neck was white, the feathers on its body were like beautiful shells, and the most beautiful thing was its tail, which was about two and a half feet long, with black and yellow lines, and seemed to shine with golden light against the sun.

Xiuxiu remembers that when his father took him to the theater to watch the play, he often saw those beautiful women with such feathers on their heads, and when they sang, they shook their heads from time to time, and the feathers dangled on their heads, which was incredibly beautiful.

Xiuxiu squatted down and tried to touch the pheasant's tail with her hand, but the pheasant seemed to be scared, clucked, flapped its wings, and tried to stay away from Xiuxiu, but because the rope was tied to her feet, she couldn't get away, and after a few efforts, she had to stop in despair.

"Big brother, I want this tail, can you buy it for me?" Xiuxiu begged at the little fat man.

"Why do you always call me Big Brother?" The little fat man asked curiously.

"Because my father asked me to call Brother Guozi Big Brother, you are his eldest brother, aren't you the eldest brother?" Xiuxiu replied seriously.

"Uh, I think you should call me Brother Cao, call him Brother Guozi, otherwise I always feel like you're stammering." The little fat man thought for a moment and replied.

"Oh, okay then, Brother Cao, I want this pheasant's tail, can you buy it for me?" Xiuxiu begged.

The little fat man couldn't resist Xiuxiu's invitation, so he asked the hunter how the pheasant was sold, and if he could just buy the pheasant's tail and not the chicken.

Orion looked at the children and replied with a smile: "This pheasant is 20 big coins a piece, and the tail and the chicken are together, and they are not sold in small quantities." ”

The little fat man said to Xiuxiu: "You only like the tail of a pheasant, but people don't sell it, you have to buy a chicken if you want to buy it, why buy this chicken back?" Why don't you buy it, okay? ”

"No, I want it, I want it." Xiuxiu's tears flowed down as soon as she said that, like pear blossoms with rain, and she was extremely pitiful.

"Grandpa, I want to give this cocktail to this beautiful sister, okay?" Suddenly, the little hunter said to the old man.

The old Orion was stunned for a moment, glanced at the little Orion, and was not angry, but smiled: "Heh, Buzang, tell me, why do you want to send a cocktail to your little sister?" ”

Little Orion seemed to blush a little, pulled the old Orion down, and then whispered something in the Old Orion's ear, and the Old Orion laughed, slapped his face with his hand, and then said to the three children, "My grandson likes you, and says that he will give you this cocktail." ”

"Oh......" the three children jumped together for joy.

The old hunter squatted down and carefully removed the tail from the pheasant, long, soft, swaying in the wind, Xiuxiu was so happy that she held it in her arms like a baby, and no one could move.

The little pot remembered that his mother had told him that he could not accept the gifts of others in vain, so he took out a crystal stone from his pocket and handed it to the little hunter, this stone was picked up when he was begging, when he passed by a stream, the stone was white and smooth, there was a circle of beautiful patterns on it, pinched in his hand, warm, the small pot has been kept with him, at this time, in order to thank the little hunter, he was reluctant to take it out, because he really had nothing else to take except this.

The little fat man laughed innocently twice, lowered his head and took out the melon he had just given to the little pot from his schoolbag, stuffed it into the hand of the little hunter, and said, "Come and don't be rude, you give me a pheasant tail, I give you a melon, and we will be good friends in the future." ”

The little hunter was very happy with a melon in one hand and a stone in the other, and nodded vigorously: "Yes, we are good friends." ”

Old Orion had a smile on his face, and it could be seen that he was very fond of this grandson, and he was happy when he saw his grandson happy. He said to his grandson: "Buzang, you go to play with your good friends, I'll wait for you here, don't come back too late, okay?" ”

"Okay." The little hunter jumped up at once, carefully put the stone in his hand into his grandfather's coat, took off his bow and arrows, asked him to put them away, and then jumped away with the three children with the melon in his hand.

Through inquiry, the child's surname is Wu, his name is Buzang, his grandfather's name is Wu Shihuai, the whole family is Orion, Buzang's father died when he was young, and his mother later remarried others, leaving their ancestors and grandchildren to depend on each other, live in the mountains, and make a living by hunting.

Although life is hard, but there are a lot of fun things in the mountains, Wu Buzang followed his grandfather to hunt since he was a child, learned a lot of hunting skills, if he hunted more prey, they would transport the prey to the town to sell, in exchange for some rice, flour, salt and oil to go back, a few days ago they happened to hit a half-sized wild boar, and they carried it to the town, but they did not expect to meet three good friends such as Xiaoguozi.

The four children exchanged names, and immediately became good friends who talked about everything, they bought a skewer of grilled fish for a while, and then the four of them, you and I ate one bite at a time, and ran to the river outside the town for a while, and a few people picked a few lotus pods from the small pot, and a few people sat by the river, giggling while eating lotus seeds, and they also happily caught the hide and seek, and had a lot of fun.

When it was almost dark, Buzo was going back to find his grandfather, and everyone else had to go home, although everyone was very tired, but they were very excited, and they felt that the time of the day passed so fast, and the days were so happy, how much they wished that there would be such a life every day.

Buzang reluctantly said to the three of them: "I have a very happy day, but I am going back now, grandpa must wait for me to wait, I have to go back to the mountains, will we meet again in the future?" ”

"Of course it will, we are good friends, good friends will definitely meet, in the future, when you come to town, you will come to the academy to find me, and we will play together." The small pot said to Buzo.

"Yes, we're good friends, and we have to play together a lot." Little Fat Man and Xiuxiu also said.

The four of them nodded vigorously together, then reluctantly parted and went back separately.

The four of them thought that the time for reuniting again would be very fast, and they thought that life would always be full of happiness, but they didn't expect that their reunion would be full of bitterness, tears, and life and death.