The river is wide and wide, and the undercurrent in the center is surging, and it initiates a temper, which will make people on both sides of the strait frightened; When it's in a good mood, it's also grateful...

Yu Xiaoyu, who had been soaking in the river for two days, finally woke up, and he was horrified to find that he was still tied to a large wooden box, and the rope that originally tied his body floated to his neck, and his head rose and fell with the water surface, choking several mouthfuls of river water. This seemingly small river wave has become an accomplice to the rope, and the rope that has been soaked in the water for a long time is heavier every time it rises and falls with the waves, and he has no strength to tear it off.

In a haze, a hand grabbed his weak shoulder, and lifted it up naked, Yu Xiaoyu rolled his eyelids with the only remaining consciousness, and fainted.

In two days, he had been floating nearly 100 nautical miles along the river, and in the lower reaches of the river, at the confluence of the branches, a fishing boy rescued him, his name was Pepper.

The big wooden box touched the small fishing boat... It should be said that it was a simple bamboo raft, and it almost broke the bamboo raft apart, and Pepper, who was pulling the net, was startled. He was very surprised, and only reacted when he saw the little head that sank slightly to the bottom of the river.

Pepper took Yu Xiaoyu back and placed her in the dilapidated temple where she lived, taking care of it wholeheartedly.

Yu Xiaoyu was thin and out of shape because of severe malnutrition, and the bones wrapped in them could only be called skin, a thin layer, and even on the buttocks, he couldn't pinch decent meat, let alone other parts of his body.

After that, whenever Yu Xiaoyu was scared, he would pestering pepper to talk about this experience. Every time he can fall asleep quickly, but must be in Pepper's arms...

When he sleeps, his hands will unconsciously clench the pepper, and he will not let go of the flesh on his arm or waist...

Pepper didn't say anything about the rest, and after saving him, for a long time at first, he was like a wounded little beast and cowered in the corner of the ruined temple. Every time Pepper approached, it caused him to resist violently and roar. Pepper cried, he cried for the first time since leaving the mountain, his heart was stinged, and he trembled unconsciously every time he remembered it. He couldn't imagine what kind of ordeal this skinny child had endured to become what he was now.

Pepper squatted in front of him again and again, trying to hold the hand of this little guy who had suffered psychological trauma, and swore to him with tears that he would definitely help him, help him find the cause of his injury, and find everyone who made him hurt...

Probably sensing the emotions of the big brother in front of him, Yu Xiaoyu slowly quieted down, carefully stretched out his thin fingers, touched his big hand, and immediately retracted it. Pepper smiled, took the little guy in her arms, and gently rubbed his back. Yu Xiaoyu tried to break free, but he didn't succeed, he sensitively sensed a strange feeling that he had never felt before, his tense nerves gradually relaxed, trying to cling to this hard arm that gave him a sense of security...

Since having this peculiar feeling, Yu Xiaoyu is no longer curled up in the corner, and he has begun to have a strong psychological dependence on pepper. Whether it was eating or sleeping, he had to hold the pepper, or lie on his back, and if he couldn't, he would make sure that he didn't leave his field of vision.

Every day Pepper lit a fire for him and cooked food. The third grandfather said that people must eat meat and salt every day to have strength, especially children...

That's what he did, hares, pheasants, perch, thick noodles, salt...

He did everything he could to get it, and several times he almost fell off a cliff...

With adequate nutrition, Yu Xiaoyu's physical functions began to recover slowly, and he slowly became a little human, his sunken eye sockets, cheeks, shriveled stomach and other parts gradually began to bulge, and his complexion was not yellow and green, and he only had a little energy after a few months...

One day at noon, Pepper came back from outside with two pheasants. Yu Xiaoyu called her brother happily and ran over to hug his arm. It was the first complete word Pepper had heard him utter in a year, and he had thought for a moment that the boy might well be mute.

Pepper is delighted, very happy. Yu Xiaoyu, who picked up and ran, turned around twice, and while he was happy, he suddenly realized a problem, since he is not dumb, he can't know what his name is, otherwise how to call it? He was raised in a daze for more than a year and didn't know what his name was, and it was insulting to spread it.

So, Pepper touched his little head and asked:

"Brother overlooked one thing, you didn't answer me before, um... Let Lao Tzu think that you can't speak, it's been so long, tell me what to call you in the future? ”

Yu Xiaoyu didn't understand much, and looked at him with puzzled eyes as if asking.

"Well, it's you--let me--what are you calling you?" Pepper pointed at him, then at himself and patiently explained.

"Blame... Monster... Small... Monster... Well, small... Bastard..."Yu Xiaoyu replied with a grin.

"Damn! Who took it for you? Who called you that?! Pepper said angrily.

Yu Xiaoyu slowly let go of the arm that was holding him tightly and stepped back. Pepper stopped, squatted in front of him and said softly:

"In the future, whoever dares to call you a monster or a little bastard again, you will kill him for Lao Tzu! It doesn't matter who he is! ”

After Pepper finished speaking, he tied the two legs, and the pheasant that was not dead was still at Xiaoyu's feet,

"Kill it!"

Yu Xiaoyu didn't dare, he stared at the pepper and slowly retreated...

Pepper is angry, but not angry at Xiaoyu, he is angry at what happened to the little guy.

Some things are not in a hurry, the third grandfather said, the quiet person is not reckless... Don't act rashly...

"Come back, I'll give you a name?" Pepper held back her anger and smiled and beckoned.

The thought of the name made Pepper's head suddenly grow. He's a child, what can I do, take a male or female name, which one is more appropriate, and when he grows up, will this kid turn his face with himself because of his name?

Pepper didn't know that his name was three old men, and it took half a month to work hard. In the end, because of the stewed wild boar, the second old man didn't know where to pull a handful of wild pepper leaves, the meat was cooked and turned over the pot, and the pepper leaves combined with the meat aroma exuded a strange fragrance. The old man asked him, and if he couldn't say it, he knew that this leaf had been used in stewing meat in his hometown village, and promised that it was not poisonous. The third old man went to the pot to fish, wanting to see what it was, the unboiled oval pointed leaves turned brown, approached his nose and sniffed it carefully, and finally the third old man and the big old man looked at each other and patted their thighs, "Pepper!" ”

If Pepper knew that his name came from like this, I don't know if she would drop the pot and eat a skewer...

Yu Xiaoyu snuggled in his arms, stared at him with his face up for a long time, and when he didn't get a response, he simply went to pinch the flesh skin on his waist to play.

“... Uh..' Tianxingjian, the gentleman is self-improving, the terrain is kun, and the gentleman is virtuous...' is called Tianjian? No, Houde? No, it's too ugly...'Tianhuo is the same person, the gentleman argues with the clan, the fire is great, the gentleman exposes the evil and promotes the good, and the heaven rests his life'... This, this can't work, it can't be louder than my name! Pepper had fine beads of sweat on her forehead.

"A gentleman is upright, he stands heaven and earth, unites all things, is gentle and virtuous, respects the beauty of virtue, and is inward... Virtue? No, the big grandfather's words; Uh, Xianshu? No, the words of the third grandfather; Besides, the name is too 'flavorful'... Eh, the writer has its own rhyme, long and cool indefinitely... Books are cool? Hey, this is good... Unisex! "Pepper fought alone that day, chirping and crooked for a long time, and finally made a decision.

"Hey, stinky boy, don't pinch it, Lao Tzu gave you a name like me that can light up the night sky!" Pepper hugged Shuliang's shoulder and said excitedly:

"From now on! You call the book ~ cool! The book of Hanshu, the coolness of the sunrise... Books are cool! What do you think? ”

"Su ...... Mother......"

"Hey, it's Su Liang, not Su Niang!" After saying that, I realized that it was not right: "You stinky boy"

"It's Su Liang!" Xiao Shuliang repeated seriously.

"No, yes, it's a book"

"It's Su Liang!"

"Sue, no, book ~ cool!"

"Scholar!"

"Where the hell are you from?" Pepper scolded angrily.

"It's a good one~ a person!"

"Don't learn from Lao Tzu to speak!"

"Don't learn the old straight teachings!"

………

They left the dilapidated temple where they had lived for more than a year, and led the little book to northern Yunnan with a broken bag of pepper on their backs. Along the way, he was teaching Liang to speak, this little guy's accent is so charming, it is more awkward than the third grandfather's speech... Well, suddenly I miss them a little ...

He had to find a safe place to live for the time being, and he was only familiar with the mountains of Yunnan in the Nuoda Empire... Therefore, he could only avoid the war-torn border of southern Yunnan in order to find a stockade in northern Yunnan.

On this day, they climbed over a mountain, bypassed a large stream, and when they were almost at the foot of the mountain, they met a black-faced hunter with a blue cloth wrapped in flowers.

Ah Wang took them to his clan and told them about their encounter in the mountains, and the oldest man in the village, staring at their strange clothes, asked in a non-standard Chinese dialect:

"Shouting (Han) ~ Ren (people)?"

"Han... Koreans? What Koreans, Koreans? Which Korea! Western Zhou's? Sengoku's? Da Ming's? Ay~! Didn't the third grandfather say that Korea had been wiped out a long time ago? This old man is so knowledgeable. Pepper clouded, scratching his hips, thinking.

Pepper, who suddenly came to her senses, replied in the languages of several ethnic minorities in southern Yunnan:

"Clansmen... Clansmen..."

The old man, who understood one of the languages, looked incredulous... I was stunned, and I smoked a big pipe, not knowing what I was thinking.

“ We a

e family！ family！ you

ow?” Seeing that they couldn't understand it, Pepper simply said all the language they would use. This dog-day-even popped out of English.

Isn't that embarrassing...

The men, women, and children gathered around widened their eyes, and they were even more surprised, what kind of messy bird language this was...