Chapter 9: The Uninvited Guest
After listening to Gibb's story, Jiang Hua comforted the little girl softly. He didn't know what to say to comfort Gibb, so he could only tell the little girls not to think nonsense, their father must still be alive, but there was some special reason why he couldn't come back. Listening to Jiang Hua's words, Gibb became happy. She trusted this big brother very much, inexplicably trusted, and only felt that what he said was right, which made her regain hope. Seeing that Gibb was happy again, Jiang Hua secretly wiped a handful of sweat, "I know that these words are used to comfort people, and I am not sure whether they are true or false, but I still have to deceive the little girl!" However, maybe he has read too many novels, he always thinks that Gibb's father has a story. Suppressing the thought, not wanting to continue the topic to make Gibb sad. Jiang Hua pointed to the man who was still holding a bow and aiming at the scarecrow in the training ground and said to Gibb, "Tell me about him!"
Gibb looked in the direction Jiang Hua was pointing. Seeing that Jiang Hua was referring to Batu, Jibu's face was filled with a proud smile, and his words were full of admiration, "You said Uncle Batu! He is a hero of the clan!"
As soon as Gibb finished speaking, suddenly there was a noise from the entrance of the village. Several villagers gathered around a young man in the direction of the training ground, the man was very familiar, as if he had also come to the house where he lived with the patriarch that night. He seemed to be carrying something on his back, and his steps were heavy. Jiang Hua was a little curious, so he looked at it twice, "It seems to be a person!" When the crowd passed by, Jiang Hua saw more clearly, it was indeed a person, a little fat, lying motionless on the man's back, his two arms hanging weakly on the young man's chest, shaking regularly as the man walked.
"Uncle Batu~" Batu, who heard the movement, had already put down the bow in his hand and was walking quickly towards the crowd.
"What's going on, Ussan!" Batu asked the young man.
The young man, whom Batu called Usan, crouched down, laid the man on his back flat on the ground with the help of the villagers, and was about to speak when he swallowed his words back into his stomach with a loud shout. "Usan!" Batu was furious and reprimanded loudly, "What did I say to you two days ago, huh? Have you forgotten it so quickly? Didn't my words work?" Usan saw Batu's anger, and immediately fell silent, lowered his head to look at the person lying on the ground, and then turned his head to look at the crowd.
"Are you dumb?" shouted Batuu.
Ussan's eyes were fixed on the crowd, and an angry expression crossed his face. Suddenly, he looked up at Batuu, his eyes becoming determined. "I didn't forget!"
"Didn't forget?" said Batuu, gesturing at the man on the ground, "So what's going on? Did I say don't touch strangers, and even if you can't avoid them, don't bring them back." How do you do that? Huh?"
Hearing Batu's words, Usang slowly stood up, looked at Batu and said, "I didn't do anything wrong, this person is the same as us, he may be a villager from another village." He pointed at Jiang Hua outside the crowd with his hand, and his voice gradually increased, "The real strangers have been rescued, what's wrong with me saving a fellow clansman!" The surrounding villagers also looked at Jiang Hua, and they all showed expressions of understanding.
Jiang Hua was a little stunned when he saw Wu Sang pointing at him, "Why did you have anything to do with me again?" "What real stranger? What did he mean by what he said?" Jiang Hua's mind was confused.
Hearing Usan's argument, Batu fell silent. At that time, he was strongly opposed to bringing Jiang Hua back to the village, but his favorite niece Jib was very insistent, and even his sister-in-law begged him. He loved Gibb and respected his sister-in-law more, so he agreed as soon as his heart softened. Although I regretted it afterwards, I brought everyone back to the village, so I can't drive them away for no reason. Today, when he saw that his people had brought back another stranger, his pent-up anger exploded. Gibb and his sister-in-law are not easy to reprimand, but Usan, you are a reserve member of the hunting team that trains with me every day, and you don't even listen to me. But Usan's rhetoric made him hesitate. His niece and sister-in-law want to save people, and they are saving foreigners, and they haven't stopped them, and now that someone else has saved a fellow clansman, what qualifications do they have to make irresponsible remarks?" "Forget it, pay more attention, it should be fine." Batu comforted himself in his heart. "That foreigner has to let him leave as soon as possible! I always feel that this thing is a little weird, I don't usually see a stranger, and I come two when I come?!"
Batu turned his head and glanced over Jiang Hua and stopped at Jibu, "Jibu, go and call your mother over!"
"Well, got it!" Gibb replied, and ran quickly towards home. Jiang Hua saw that Gibb had left and was about to go back. It was awkward to stand here alone, although no one around him was staring at him, but the eyes that secretly swept over him from time to time made him a little uneasy.
"The one surnamed Jiang, you wait a minute!" Batu saw that Jiang Hua was about to leave and shouted at him. Jiang Hua was stunned, "The surname is Jiang, this is calling me." Turning around, Jiang Hua looked at Batu puzzled, and his tone was a little cold, "Is there something wrong?" Batu didn't care about Jiang Hua's tone, and said with a somewhat commanding tone: "This person lives in your house tonight, you go back and clean up." ”
Jiang Hua didn't squeak, and sighed secretly in his heart, "There is only one bed in my room, it's okay for two children to sleep together, let two adults sleep, isn't this a bully who changes the law!"
"What, what's wrong?" Batuu raised his voice.
"Forget it, people are under the eaves~" Jiang Hua was a little helpless.
"Got it!"
With a simple reply, Jiang Hua turned to leave.
"Let them be in the same room, so that I can watch them. Batu looked at Jiang Hua's back, and a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth.
Jiang Hua, who was depressed, was thinking about how to sleep at night while walking, and he didn't pay attention to bumping into something at the corner of a house. With the pain in his chest and a "oops", Jiang Hua came back to his senses, and only then did he realize that he had knocked down a young woman, Jibu was squatting on the ground to pat the soil on her clothes, and there were several small cloth bags scattered around the woman that seemed to be made of coarse cloth. Jiang Hua hurriedly stepped forward to help, but the young woman's face was slightly red, and she dodged Jiang Hua's outstretched hand and stood up by herself. Jiang Hua was a little embarrassed and apologized repeatedly. The young woman smiled, as if to signal that she was okay, and then bent down to pick up the small cloth bags scattered on the ground. Jiang Hua moved faster, he quickly picked up a few cloth bags, blew the floating soil on them, and held them in both hands and handed them to the young woman. Ji Bu next to him opened a larger cloth pocket and said to Jiang Hua with a smile: "Big brother, just put it in here." Jiang Hua put the small cloth bag into the big cloth bag, touched Jibu's head, and said with a smile, "What are you doing here?" Uncle Batu asked his mother to save the person who was carried back by Brother Wusan. ”
"Gibb, let's go!" the young woman said softly as she took the bag from Gibb's hand.
"Let's go first, big brother!" Jibu took the young woman's hand and waved it to Jiang Hua.
"Hmm. ”
Jiang Hua looked at the backs of the two of them, and responded a little sluggishly. "Those small bags just now should be filled with herbs!" Jiang Hua saw through the untied mouth that there were some grass roots and tree bark and the like when he picked up the cloth bag on the ground, and when he put the small bag in the big cloth bag, the cloth bag exuded a faint smell of Chinese medicine. "It must be herbs, and the taste is not much different from the Chinese medicine I have drunk. That woman should be Gibb's mother, although they met briefly that day, but I just woke up at that time and didn't look very closely, and I haven't seen it in the past two days, so I didn't recognize it. ”
"Gibb's mother is very beautiful! Female doctor!Angel in white!" Jiang Hua exclaimed. Suddenly, a woman's figure appeared in Jiang Hua's mind. "I don't know how she's doing now, I came to this place to save her, and sadly I didn't even see what she looked like at the time. It should be a beautiful woman too!" Jiang Hua smiled self-deprecatingly. "God is still quite fair, I came here to save a woman, and he arranged for two women to save me here. It's called the causal cycle. ”