"Go out and walk a few steps to the right to see a well, you can get water from there, I just gave you a little bit, you two should deal with it first."

After the old woman finished speaking, she was going to hug Xiu'er on the bed.

"What do you call it?" Rose reached out and stopped.

The old woman rubbed her hands vigorously on her trouser legs and held Rose's hand, "My old man is Tang Wuzhu, I have no name, my ancestor's surname is Yang, and the village calls me Aunt Yang." ”

"Got it, thanks."

Aunt Yang smiled, picked up Xiu'er and walked out, "I still want to thank you!" I'll prepare a meal for you at night, old woman! ”

"Thank you." I waited for her to close the door before I let go of my hand on the holster.

It was already time to get sleepy in the afternoon, so I lay down on the cot outside and let Rose go to the inner room to rest, and when she passed by the table, she picked up a palm-sized ball from it, and played with it for a while, she put the 'ball' to her mouth and blew it, and she could even make a beautiful tune.

"Is that Xun?"

"Yes." Rose nodded, and entered the house with Xun.

I fell asleep with a refreshing sound, and it seemed that it was not too long, when suddenly I heard a knock on the door, and I immediately jumped up and jumped off the ground, covered my holster, and asked, "Who?" ”

"It's me!" The old woman's voice sounded outside, "I'm bringing you food." ”

"So early?"

Opening the door, the old woman was holding a wooden dinner plate, on which were placed two vegetarian dishes and four nests, "It's not early, it's not early, the sun should set in a while!" ”

I got out of the way and beckoned her in, and I looked at the sky outside, and it was really dark, and I had slept for more than a moment and a half.

The old man Tang Wuzhu also came over quickly, and he carried another plate, "Originally, we wanted to ask you to go to that house to eat, and save you some taste here, but we are afraid that my son will scare you, let's eat here!" ”

"It's all your family, you have the final say."

Rose came out of the room, and it looked like she wasn't sleeping like I did. The old woman had just put the dishes on the table, and when she saw her, she immediately went over to help her, and said kindly: "Come on, come on, girl, sit down, I heard that you are pregnant, but you have to be careful!" ”

"Come on, come on!" The old man beckoned the first one to sit at the table, took a bite of the dish and put it in his mouth, and said while chewing: "I'll give you something to eat first, don't let you feel that the food is not clean in this poor mountain!" ”

Rose and I were not polite, we sat down and started eating, Rose took two bites and suddenly remembered, and asked, "What about Xiu'er?" ”

"The children have eaten, let her stay with her father in the house, it's not in the way." The old woman said steadily, I thought to myself, no wonder the child would throw it, and said that if it was thrown there, it would be thrown there.

The old man's enthusiasm has never weakened, and let him try this and taste that, "It's all made by your old aunt, but there is no meat, you are polite, eat!" Eat! ”

I haven't had the opportunity to live in the country for many years, I was in a good mood to enjoy this vegetarian meal, there were two small plates of pickles that were delicious, more pleasing to my mouth than Korean-style kimchi, and the old man told me that there were many more in his cellar, and I could bring them at any time if I wanted to eat.

During the meal, we heard that the old woman had worked as a midwife in the past, and that they had delivered the children of several families in the village, and if we could get used to it, she said that she would definitely come to help when the roses were about to give birth.

I also thought about what to do if Rose was going to give birth to a child, and it was not convenient to go out to find a doctor these years, but this time I met this Aunt Yang, but God gave us the only way.

From that day on, even though Rose and I lived in this barren mountain shop village, although we occasionally communicated with other old men and women in the village, it was still the old couple who helped us the most, and I also helped them with some housework every day. After getting acquainted, we naturally have to change the name, the old man Tang Wuzhu asked us to call him the fifth uncle, and the old woman called him aunt.

Eating pickled vegetables and nests, drinking well water for boiling pots, Uncle Tang always likes to take me to the back of the village to see their vegetable patches, a large guillotine tied with wire on the fence can arouse my interest more, but he said that it is used to coax wild beasts, nothing can be moved casually, for fear of hurting people.

There is also an orchard farther away than the vegetable field, and Uncle Tang said that it is also the most marginal location of the village, and the whole barren mountain shop is so big.

The air in the barren mountain store is very pleasant, and I don't know how much better it is than the bad world outside, but living here has gradually restored my spirits.

In addition to working to carry water, I use a bucket full of water as a weight to find an old tree to box, or do push-ups and sit-ups on a steep slope, or other fancy movements, in short, I am constantly enhancing the strength of my body, I can't let myself be idle and ponder, my mental state can't even guarantee myself, fortunately, I fantasize that Shao Sichen has never happened again.

Rose finally had a place where she could raise her baby with peace of mind, and in the blink of an eye, it was the end of November, and her belly was also blowing up like a balloon.

During this period, I have seen Xiu'er a few times, but somehow she always has no energy, and she does not have the liveliness of a child at all, but thinking about what happened to her parents, I feel that this child is quite pitiful.

After my body and spirit were fully recovered, I began to try to get out of the mountains again, on the one hand, to check the condition of the giant stone egg formation, and to avoid the sudden attack of the barren mountain shop by the giant snake that might exist; On the other hand, it is necessary to find out the situation of Qingyang and Ye Tianming.

After many explorations, I found that most of the boulder eggs in the canyon at the entrance of the mountain area were destroyed by weasels or other creatures, and a limited number of them broke their shells, and the marks on the ground were also drilled into the mountains.

I also asked Fifth Uncle Tang about this matter, he hadn't seen a huge snake, but he knew that those boulder eggs were all placed there by the gods in the mountains to ward off demons from outside the mountains. I don't want to refute it, but what I see is that those broken eggs can't even protect themselves.

Di Yan once told me that there may be monsters in this mountain, and now Uncle Tang said that there are immortals in it, although I don't believe this, but sometimes I can't help but stare at Beihuang Mountain, which can be regarded as a kind of curiosity out of instinct, but I don't want to set foot in it.

In December 2017, I had been out several times in the past few months and returned safely, only then did I know that the news of Qingyang had spread all over the streets and alleys of cities across the province, and in the exchange with several friendly survivor teams, I learned that the war between Qingyang and Ye Tianming had officially started as early as mid to late November!

The fiercest battle between the two sides was in Duchang City, between Yutian and Qingyang, and because Li Guodong captured Ao Xiang's troops, it was heard that he opened a second battlefield against Qingyang in Shangjin City.

"Slaughter each other on this ruined land!"

When I look into the distance, I often encourage this war in this way, and at the same time I tell myself-

"In the enemy's strongest years, you must learn to endure!"