"It's back! Three days ago, I made a bet with the Niu He family that I was going to go up the mountain to fight the tiger's foreigner, and she, she came back alive! ”

In the fields at the foot of the mountain, the farmer who was working left what he was doing, shouted all the way, and ran to the village.

As he said, Luo Shi, who hadn't eaten or slept for three days, finally squatted to guard the prey-the tiger, don't think about it, but these 100 or dozens of catties of wild boar cubs are enough for her to deal with the ruffian named Niu He.

A ragged jacket stained with blood, both hers and boars.

Catching this beast wasted her strength, digging pits in the soil, cutting bamboo thorns to make traps, and dragging it out of the deep mountains and old forests at the risk of her life, not for herself, but for a baby called Douzi.

Here is Daqing Mountain, about a mile to the south, is a village, called Niujia Village.

A while ago, there was a big flood in the south, thousands of refugees gave up their families and abandoned their jobs, and their families poured into Tongzhou City, and the imperial court in order to appease this people, they built mud embryo thatched houses in several villages outside Tongzhou City, and settled them according to the household registration.

This Niu He is a native of Niujia Village, and he looks down on the refugees who have settled down from outside, but he is jealous of other people's resettlement of new houses, and he sees that Douzi is an orphan child, so he has a bad heart:

Coaxed and said that he would adopt a pocket for him to eat and wear, and when he occupied someone's house, he was vicious, and he was not given food at the lightest, and he was beaten and scolded at the worst, and he was driven out of the house one day, and happened to be bumped into by Luo Shi, who lived next door.

After asking the reason, she led the pocket to the door to ask for an explanation, took the cow and said:

"The child has entered my family's family tree, if you want to let him go, ten taels of silver, you either don't go to the kiln to sell a bud price, or don't go to the deep mountains and old forests for a few days to catch a tiger and wild boar to sell."

Immediately made a gambling contract, asked the blacksmith Uncle Zhang to borrow a knife, carried the hoe and went up the mountain, there was no news for three days, everyone thought she was dead inside.

When she dragged the boar carcass and moved it to the front yard of Niu He's house step by step, the people who watched the excitement had already gathered around.

"Niu He, put the pocket and return the house to him!"

Loosening the vine that bound the wild boar, Luo Shi looked at his shoulder, the flesh was rolling, the blood clots were scabbed, and a little blood oozed from time to time.

"Girl, it's your fate, you have a lot of life to come back after going into the mountains like this! I have already picked it up, ten taels of silver and you can take it away, this wild boar is only a hundred catties, how much can it be worth? ”

Niu He was dressed in a coarse cloth and short, his trouser legs were flirting, and he seemed to have just returned from the field, he looked at the boar, and thought about how to send this girl away, and then occupy the pig.

"You think too much, you don't want to ask you to buy a child, it's to give you the expenses of eating and drinking at home for the past two months, and you are not his father, why sell him?"

"Why isn't it my son who is in my family tree? Besides, he has no father or mother alone, lives in such a big house, and there is no field in the village, and he doesn't know how to cook, and sooner or later he will starve to death. ”

Hearing this, some of the onlookers made fun of them and said loudly: "Family tree? Don't tease Niu He, you are literate, do you know what your grandfather's name is? Haha"

"! Lao Tzu said that he is a son, he is, this wild boar is not worth ten taels, Lao Tzu does not sell" Niu He played a scoundrel, waving his hand to drive people away, while shouting to disperse, while dragging the wild boar home.

"Eh, you're not kind, the girl went into the mountains alone to fight such a big wild boar and came back, what you said before was all eaten by dogs?"

"It's ......"

There are also people who watch the drama who are unhappy, and most of the people who speak out are refugees who have settled down like Luo Shi, and the real natives of Niujia Village still look like they don't care about themselves.

"Pocket, come here"

Luo Xi beckoned to the black and thin little boy hiding by the pigsty, he hadn't seen him for three days, he was even thinner, with a swarthy face, only his eyes were active, and he still had a little immature expectation.

I saw that he was barefoot, the instep of his feet was cracked, the mud was mixed with blood clots, and his ragged clothes were dirty and could not be seen.

She put her arm on his shoulder, bent down and said, "Douzi, what is your surname, where you live, what is your father's name, and the name you signed on the Yamen register at that time, do you remember all of this?" ”

Douzi looked at her with trust in his eyes, and he nodded.

"Okay, then you report it out loud and tell these uncles and aunts to listen, and in the future, tell the village chief to listen to it, if it doesn't work, let's go to the yamen, the bloodline clan surname is something that the king of heaven and Lao Tzu can't change, who can believe it?" Rass straightened his small body.

Because of the people behind him, so that Douzi was very down-to-earth, he didn't recognize this father at all, and he wanted to escape in his dreams, he said loudly to Niu He, his voice was immature, but very resolute:

"My surname is Li, my father's name is Li Tie, my home is in Baoji Village, Jinzhou Prefecture, the flood washed away my house, my parents died, this person lied to my house, beat me and kicked me, and didn't give me food, he is not my father!"

As soon as his words fell, there was a lot of discussion around him, and the accusations gradually increased.

"Ushiga! You're so dizzy! ”

An old voice came out of the crowd, and I saw the old bull head in Li Zheng smoking a big cigarette bubble while coming out of the crowd, and said with a cold face:

"Since the official master asked them to settle down in our Niujia Village and take root, they will be a family in the future, you bully these two dolls so much, the old face of the Niu family makes you lose everything!"

Niu He didn't take care of it, he was speechless by a dead girl at first, but now he saw that he had alarmed Li Zheng again, and his heart began to panic, he turned his head and said to Luo Shi:

"You're amazing! I don't want this son, I'll take the wild boar, but I can't return this house! ”

"This house is a resettlement house for the imperial court disaster relief, and it is also the name of the pocket, what kind of face plate do you have, with this big shameless word pasted?" Radix does not let an inch.

"This house was originally just an embryonic thatched house, just a big open house, I paid for the stone brick wall, and built a pigsty and chicken shed! If you want me back, how will the money be calculated? ”

"It's just the money you abused for the money."

"It's light to fart by eating a lamp grass, it's impossible, I'm not stupid, who does this loss-making business."

"Alright! Don't fight! ”

The old bull head knocked on Niu He's head with a cigarette stick, signaled him to shut up, and turned around to talk to Luo Shi, he smiled:

"This thing is Niu He's wrong, only everyone is a farmer, how much money can be saved in a lifetime, in order to build such a brick house, he is also separated to marry a daughter-in-law, less house, according to my opinion, the house is for him, ask him to pay something to compensate for the pocket"

Luo Shi heard it, this old bull head looks fair and selfless, but in fact, he also favors the family surnamed Niu.

Although she is not satisfied with this verdict, she now has no money and no power, and she is under the eaves, so she can't help but bow her head, is it possible to really go to the yamen of the city?

Not to mention the red envelopes of those little ghosts, she can't come up with a child, and she doesn't have the money to go back and forth to Fucheng.

Seeing that Luo Shi was no longer fighting, the old Niu Tou nodded, and said in his heart that this girl was a person who knew how to advance and retreat, and could give him face to listen to him, so he begged Niu He a little harder:

"Give him the fat vegetable field on the side of your house, and give him some japonica rice and Erluo noodles."

Niu He was reluctant, but he thought that he had finally saved this house, how could he say that he had earned it, if such a house was built on the ground, how much would it cost to get this daughter-in-law?

Humming and nodding his head.

Taking advantage of Niu He's efforts to go back to get grain and rice, Luo Shi said to Douzi:

"From now on, you are going to live with me, I am also a refugee, my family is poor and white, and I haven't even settled the next meal of rice, are you willing?"

Knowing that he was free, he also got a vegetable patch and some rice noodles, and his eyes were full of happiness.

At his age, he doesn't know how to care about what to gain or lose, he only knows that he can follow this sister in the future, he doesn't have to be beaten, he doesn't have to sleep in the pigsty, even if he is hungry, he is very willing.

Nodding, he pulled her sleeve and said softly, "Sister, you bleed"

Seeing that he was well-behaved, Luo Shi's heart was sour and warm, she touched his head and smiled: "It's okay, just go back and wash, be hungry, when you get something, I'll go back and cook for you to eat." ”

The hood grinned, and suddenly as if he remembered something, he turned his head and ran towards the pigsty, took out a burden from the mud pile with his bare hands, ran back with his little short legs in his arms, and held it above his head and handed it to her.

Luo Shi took the dirty and torn coarse cloth burden, as if he had inherited his trust and dependence with all his heart.

Whether in modern times or here, she is unacquainted, alone and accustomed to living independently, to be strong in the face of hardship, and now she needs to take care of her pocket, which has to be said to be a difficult problem.

But looking at his dark eyes, his own shadow imprinted, his little black face, full of joy, her heart softened, and she vowed that no matter how long she stayed in this world, she would do her best to take care of him to grow up and not be bullied by others.

When Niu He brought the rice grain, she had seen everything - the whole bag of bran husks that were too rough to feed the pigs, and half a bag of white noodles to the end, it was impossible to make such poor noodles and eat them, at most a few coarse cakes.

He slammed the door, so she wasn't going to be polite.

cut off half of the wild boar's leg, leaving Niu He to scold her mother in the same place, she took care of herself and left!