I wet the kudzu cloth and carefully brushed away the hair on the innocent forehead. He had been beaten by the big yellow fangs before, and his hair and coagulated flesh were all stuck to his skin, and now when I touched him, he jumped out in pain, and crouched there staring at me with guarded eyes.

"Hey, with your skills, if you hadn't stepped on the trap at the beginning, I'm afraid you would still be in the mountains and forests with the wolves! But don't worry, when you're ready, I can send you to the cliff mountain outside the city. I grabbed the chain that I had taken off tightly in my hand, and approached him with a gesture, "Don't be afraid, I just want to wash you clean and give you medicine." It won't hurt, and it won't hurt if you blow it. "When I was injured when I was a child, my mother would blow and help remove the gravel from my wound. This method also quieted Innocent, his eyes were devoid of the wildness just now, and he looked like a well-behaved puppy, allowing me to clean the wound on his forehead.

"Alright." I put Gebu aside, took out a bunch of keys given to me by Gongzili and shook them in front of Innocent's eyes, "Now I'm going to bathe you, if you are obedient, I'll open all the chains on your body." But you have to promise me that after you open it, you will not run again. ”

Innocence seemed to understand what I was saying, and nodded obediently.

That's great! As soon as I was pleased, I opened the chains on his hands, feet, and neck. In the end, he threw the chain far away. But when I turned around, I found that the person who had been squatting on the ground had already stood up. He was less than half a palm's hand away from me, and the hot breath from his mouth brushed against my scalp with the bloody smell of a beast. He was so well-behaved and docile, it seemed that he had never existed at all.

The atmosphere in the courtyard instantly cooled down, and the innocent and powerful aura made me feel as if I was a prey that could not move under his claws at this moment, and life and death were only between his thoughts.

I'm too underestimated, and this boy is far more dangerous than I thought. In him there is both human intelligence and beastly nature, and he easily convinces me that he is harmless, but he may break my neck in the next moment.

What to do? If you call for help now, the biggest possibility is not to be saved, but to harm Si'er.

Blame, remorse, and fear were all to no avail, and I forced myself to raise my head and look the boy in the eye. It was a pair of eyes full of fear, confusion, and pain.

Innocence looked at me, frowning as if he was making a difficult decision. Whatever his decision was, a small voice in my heart told me that this boy was not a beast, let alone a monster, and that he would not hurt me, as long as he could understand that he was a "human" like me.

Thinking of this, I tentatively touched the innocent hand with my hand, and although he was surprised, he did not resist. I boldly put his hand on my face and put my own hand on his face.

"You see here's the eye, here's the nose, here's the mouth......"

Under my guidance, he began to caress my eyes, nose, and mouth, like a child who has just arrived in the world.

His hands were covered in a thick layer of hard calluses, which inevitably brought a grinding pain as his fingertips ran over my skin. No matter how hard I am when I wander and beg, I am always protected by my mother. But at a young age, he had to compete with wild beasts for food in the mountains and forests in order to survive, and behind this unusual hard cocoon, I am afraid that there is a bloody and tearful past that I can't imagine.

"You see, you're just like me, aren't you? You're not a monster, you're a person. I took his hand off my face and pressed it gently against my chest, "Do you feel it?" It's a human heart, maybe beating a little faster than a wolf, but it's the same as yours, right? ”

Innocent raised his hand and touched his heartbeat, and looked at me with a look of surprise on his face.

"I didn't lie to you, did I? If you want, I will teach you to speak and write in the future, and then ask the general to let you stay and be a guard, okay? ”

He didn't understand what I was saying, but he smiled at the corners of his mouth and looked very happy, pulling my hair and pinching my ears.

"Okay, you're happy now, then obediently let me help you clean your wounds."

Innocent grabbed me by the hair and squatted on the ground, letting me rub and rush on him.

The washed innocent has a very delicate face, fawn-like eyes, a high and narrow nose bridge, chestnut eyelashes slightly curled in the sun, and with his slightly curly hair, he looks very cute.

"Si'er, come in!"

"It's coming—" Si'er ran in from outside the courtyard, and when she saw a refreshing innocence, her mouth was open enough to swallow an egg, "No, this kid looks good when it's cleaned!" Those people are blind to say he's a monster, right? In the middle of spring, let's take him to the mulberry forest by the Weishui, there will be many girls who want to have a spring festival with him. Si'er circled around the innocent and laughed like a thief.

"Well, there should be." I smiled and nodded.

Innocent looked confused, completely unaware of what we were talking about.

"Si'er, I'm going to go to the street now to buy some healing herbs. You arrange for him to be in the west room first, and then go to the kitchen to find something to eat, and I will come back later to bandage his wounds." ”

"Okay, then you go early and come back early."

"Got it."

"Woo-" I hadn't taken two steps before I was grabbed by Innocence.

Si'er glanced at me sympathetically: "Okay, okay, look at his eyes, this is treating you as a mother." I'll buy the herbs, and you can get him in the Westinghouse!" ”

Wuxian pretended to be a poor puppy, so I had to lead him into the West House, and set up the bed prepared for Si'er in the house a little bit, and arranged for him to sleep. But he didn't appreciate it, and kept holding my hand, and it didn't seem to be sleepy at all.

"Your energy is really good. But you can't keep pulling me like this, I'll have to see the general later. You get some sleep first, and when you wake up, I'll be back too. I gestured in the hope that he would understand, but he seemed to be sure that I would not be angry with him, and he looked like a scoundrel.

There was no way, I could only close his eyes with my hands, and then sang Qin Di's minor tune while patting him.

I have had fewer opportunities to go out over the years, and I can only remember a rough melody of this mountain tune, but I didn't expect that when a tune was hummed, he had already started snoring.

I gently withdrew my hand from Innocent's hand, covered him with the quilt, and turned to go to the study.