In March, the soft breeze blows. The meadow at the foot of the mountain is already hazy and green. The spring light is just right, and among the trees at the foot of the mountain, a small figure walks in the distance.

It was a five- or six-year-old child, born with a tiger's brain. A pair of star-like eyes blinked flexibly, and the fleshy little face was flushed like an apple because of excitement, and because he was in a hurry, his little mouth was still panting slightly. The weather was still a little cold in early spring, and he was wrapped in a small blue-green jacket, a ball of flesh, just like a vigorous seedling in early spring.

"Xiaobai, slow down, I won't be able to catch up with you!" The child trotted a few steps, and the tender children's voice seemed to be able to pinch out the water.

A few steps in front of the child, a small white furball jumped up and down in front of him. Hearing the child's voice, he turned his head obediently.

It was a little fox with snow-white fur, a petite body, and a small head no bigger than a child's palm. The two jet-black eyes narrowed slightly, and a fluffy tail was cocked up vigorously, which made people want to hold it in their arms and stroke it.

The child's name is Tang Zhuoyi. Why did he walk alone on the wild road of the barren mountains?

This started two days ago.

There is a small stream outside Lijia Village, and children in the neighborhood like to play nearby. Xiao Yier also ran from her home halfway up the mountain from time to time to play with her friends.

On this day, Xiao Ran'er was touching the stones with her friends, but she heard Xiao Bai's squeaky cry for help. Looking at the past, well, it's Li Daniu bullying Xiaobai again. This Li Da Niu's father is the Li butcher in the village, he has great strength and is also fierce, and everyone is afraid of him. Li Daniu often bullied people with his father, and everyone avoided him.

We are upright, and the little ones who take chivalry and righteousness as their own responsibility are angry. Xiaobai is his best friend, and he was rescued by his mother from the hunter and given to him. Protect it yourself. This Li Daniu usually bullies his friends with his size, don't you know that Xiaobai and these friends are covered by themselves?

"Li Daniu, why are you bullying Xiaobai!" Xiao Bai broke away from Li Daniu's hand and took a few steps onto Xiao Ran'er's shoulder. Only a small head was exposed, and he bared his teeth at Li Daniu.

Xiao Yi'er puffed up her chest, and her cheeks bulged out with anger.

"This is my territory, I can do whatever I want!" Li Daniu lowered his head to Xiao Yi'er, who was a head shorter than himself, looked at his little face like a red apple, suddenly blushed a little, and said in a whisper, "If you beg me, I can let it go." ”

Xiao Yi'er didn't follow, and said angrily: "Xiaoxi belongs to everyone, why has it become your territory!" ”

"Just by the hardness of my fists, what I say is mine is mine!"

"It's not!"

"That's it!"

"It's not!"

Seeing that the villain on the other side didn't listen to him, he was still against himself everywhere. Li Daniu was anxious, but he was reluctant to do it. Xiao Yier is the most beautiful little person in ten miles and eight towns. I must be my daughter-in-law in the future.

What, you say he's a boy and can't be a daughter-in-law? Liar, he is so good-looking, he must be dressed up in something, it is said in the play, it must be true!

With such an unspeakable cautious thought, Li Daniu stretched out his hand and wanted to pull Xiao Yi'er to his side, but before he could touch anyone, Xiao Yi'er broke out into an earth-shattering cry.

"Li Daniu, you little rabbit cub, how do you bully Xiao Yi'er!" A thunderous sound sounded in his ears, and Aunt Li stood behind him at some point, and Li Daniu's ears were instantly raised.

"Oh, mother, let it go!" What Li Daniu is most afraid of is his mother's ear-lifting magic skill, and the tears of pain are about to come out, "I didn't bully him!" ”

"Auntie, the bull bullies people!" As soon as she saw Aunt Li coming, the children around her began to complain.

Xiao Yi'er didn't complain, just covered her eyes with her chubby hand, and said with a sob: "Auntie, I'm fine, Da Niu didn't mean it." ”

"Look at how sensible Ran'er is." The more Xiao Yi'er is like this, the more distressed Aunt Li is, and keeps reprimanding Li Daniu, "How many times have I told you, Xiao Yi'er's family is the benefactor of our family, if it weren't for Yi'er Niang, your brother and sister-in-law would have died in the hands of the bandits." You unconscious bastard, look at your father and won't beat you when you come home! ”

Li Daniu turned around with difficulty, but saw Xiao Yi'er open her little fat hand and wink at him slyly between her fingers, how could there be a little tear in her eyes, full of pride.

Li Da Niu immediately knew that he had been tricked. Breaking free from his mother's hand, he didn't care about pity and cherishing jade, thinking about the scolding words he heard from Wang Lezi, he found the most vicious sentence and scolded: "You liar, you have a mother to raise you without a father, you are a child without a father!" ”

"Oops, dead boy!" Aunt Li suddenly panicked and said, "Xiao Yi'er, don't listen to his nonsense, I'll go home and beat him!" ”

Aunt Li chattered while pulling Li Daniu's ears home.

Xiao Yi'er was stunned for a moment, and suddenly lost interest in playing. Regardless of the retention of his friends, he went home with his head bowed with his head in his arms.

*

On the forest path, with a few twists and turns, an elegant small courtyard appeared in front of you.

"Uncle Shen!" Seeing the man in green shirt standing at the gate of the courtyard from a distance, Tang Zhuoran cheered and rushed into Shen Boling's arms.

"Yi'er has grown taller again." Shen Boling picked him up and shook him, "It's also heavy, Uncle Shen can't hold it anymore." ”

"Uncle Shen, Yi'er misses you. You've been there for a long time this time! Xiao Yi'er pouted and leaned on Shen Boling's shoulder to rub.

Xiaobai also squatted at Shen Boling's feet and squeaked.

Shen Boling's heart instantly turned into a pool of water. coaxed softly: "Something happened in my uncle's sect, so I had to leave, and my uncle misses you too." Why are Yi'er's eyes red, who bullied you, uncle avenged you! ”

"Li Da Niu bullied Xiaobai, I couldn't beat it, but I asked my friends to secretly call Aunt Li." Xiao Yi'er's triumphant report; "Mother said, this is called building a bridge in the open and digging another hole in the dark."

"That's called 'Ming Xiu Plank Road Darkness Chen Cang'." Shen Boling rubbed his little head with a smile and a smile. "Now that you're out of the air, why aren't you happy?"

“·······” The little head raised again and again, and finally just shook it. "Yi'er is fine, is Uncle Shen hungry? Aunt Qin said that she would make delicious glutinous rice cakes today, and then she would go and get them for you. ”

"Uncle Shen is not hungry, I'm afraid someone's little belly is hungry." Shen Boling smiled and nodded the tip of his nose.

Xiao Yi'er rubbed her little belly embarrassedly, got out of Shen Boling's arms and ran to the kitchen.

Shen Boling looked at his cheerful back and couldn't help but sigh. That little child has grown so big in a blink of an eye. is young, but from time to time he reveals a different temperament from other children. Intelligent, courageous, and kind that doesn't admit it, but really touches people's hearts. Just like that person.

Thinking of the shadow of being loved by the god of time, he not only shook his head with a wry smile. It's not that I haven't thought about giving up, but where my heart goes, even if it's just waiting silently behind my back, it's like a glutton.

Turning her back on her family's caring eyes, Xiao Ran'er was deeply depressed.

Regarding Daddy's question, it's not that there were no doubts. Why do other people's families have fathers and mothers, but their own families have never seen their fathers?

I've asked my dad about it before. But everyone's reaction was different, which made Xiao Yier deeply confused.

asked his mother, his mother hugged him, and only said that Yi'er has a father, but he has very important things to do, and he can't go home for the time being. After that, he was speechless for a while. The mother hugged him tightly, tightly, he couldn't see his mother's expression, but he suddenly felt a little sad.

Asked Uncle Shen, Uncle Shen's voice was a little gnashing, he said, Yi'er has a father, he is a ······ It's a ······ Alas, in short, he must love Xiao Yi'er very much, but there are some things that he can't see through.

Can't see through what? Xiao Yi'er doesn't understand, probably because she can't come back.

asked Aunt Qin, and Aunt Qin said that Xiao Yi'er has a father, who is wise and martial, like a god. It's just that for many reasons, I can't live with Xiao Yier.

So, Xiao Yier had an epiphany.

The same is true for children, and there are fathers.

Daddy loves Xiao Yi'er very much, but there are very important things - like the "centipede" (official business) that Uncle Shen has to deal with every once in a while - Daddy can't come back.

I haven't thought of it yet.

What is so important? By the way, my little friend Doudou's father is always not at home, Doudou said that her father went to the city to work, in order to earn a lot of money to buy Doudou delicious and fun. Daddy loves himself so much, he must want to buy himself a lot of good things. So did Daddy also work in the city? Because I want to make a lot of money, I haven't had time to come back.

Absolutely! Xiao Yi'er deeply felt that she was the truth.

So, our smart and brave Xiao Ran'er set a great goal for himself: to go into the city and find his father!

*

Where is the city?

Tilted his head in confusion, just in time to see Xiaobai learning from his own appearance, and tilting his little head in a daze.

By the way, my mother said that Xiaobai bought it from a hunter in the city, and Xiaobai must know the way into the city!

So, early in the morning, the smart little Yier pretended to go to play with her friends, wrapped her little short jacket, carried a small backpack, and set off happily.

"Xiaobai!" Xiao Yi'er issued instructions majestically. "I'm a general now, and I ordered you to be a pioneer and lead the way for me!"

Xiaobai tilted his head in confusion, his little eyes like black beans slid and turned, and he jumped out along a mountain road as if he understood. So, Xiao Yier's battle to find his father began.

The sun is rising. The warm sunlight poured through the branches that had just sprouted and poured on Xiao Yi'er's slightly sweaty forehead.

Xiao Yi'er couldn't walk anymore. He sat on a stone by the side of the road, holding his chin and gasping for air.

Xiao Bai looked back at it, bounced back, and squeezed into Xiao Yi'er's arms into a nest.

Xiao Yi'er gently stroked its fluffy body and asked, "Xiaobai, how long do you have to go?" I've never traveled this far. You say, will Daddy be waiting for me in the city? ”

Xiaobai rubbed his chubby hand with his back, sleepy comfortably.

Suddenly, Xiao Bai's eyes widened in vigilance, straightened up, and bared his teeth in front of him in warning.

Xiao Yi'er felt in danger. As soon as he looked up, a strange animal appeared not far away. It looks a lot like Li Daniu's big dog, Dumb. But Dumb is honest and cute, and Xiao Ran'er keenly feels the ill-intentioned creature opposite.

If her mother is around, she will tell Xiao Yi'er. This is an old and isolated lone wolf. Desperate to come out to forage for food during the day. You look at his green eyes, which look terrible, but they are also the weakness that he urgently needs to hide. See the mother's movements, and then use the simplest and smoothest movements to give the lone wolf a fatal blow.

If Shen Boling was by his side, he would say to Xiao Yi'er with a smile, oh, the weather is so good, the flowers over there are really beautiful, Xiao Yi'er went over to pick one for his uncle. Then when Xiao Yi'er came back, she found that there was nothing in front of her except the smiling Uncle Shen, as if everything was just an illusion.