Chapter 10 Less than the roots

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The sound of the children's noise faded away, and the roots rose from the ground.

It's not that these guys pushed him to the ground, but he threw himself on the ground, although these guys are bad, but not bad enough to hit him, probably still a little bit of old love, just grabbed a little bit of something and ran away.

Xiaogen understood that it should be put in the usual, and if it was not breadfruit but something else in his bamboo basket, these guys laughed at him for two sentences at most and let him go, but this time it was breadfruit, which was too attractive to the children.

Looking back at the guys, who seemed to have really left, he pulled out two yellow breadfruits from under his clothes.

It's a little scratched, but it's still edible.

He sniffed with his mouth flat, but did not cry, carefully put the last two fruits back into the bamboo basket, then wiped his eyes with his clothes, and continued to run home.

When he approached the door, he tried to wipe away the unpleasantness on his face, and showed a distorted smile to the neighbor's little black dog, which frightened the little black dog to run away with black hair standing up and running away.

Scratching his head, he laughed a few more times until he felt that he didn't look so sad anymore before pushing open the door and running into the house.

He's a big kid and can't always worry his mom...... He remembered that his father had told him that before......

"Mom, I'm back!" He shouted loudly, and when he saw his mother who was busy in the kitchen, he immediately ran over "happily", then put the small bamboo basket in front of his mother, and said loudly: "Today I picked two breadfruits from Mrs. Bell!" ”

Dressed in coarse linen clothes, holding a large soup spoon in her hand, and having the same amber eyes as Xiaogen, a woman who was about thirty years old and almost forty years old turned around and saw Xiaogen's dirty appearance, her nose suddenly soured, and she almost burst into tears.

Lesser than the root may have thought he was well hidden, but what could hide from a mother's eyes?

But Mesal still held back, she was a strong mother, although her husband's death had hit her hard, but she knew that the more times like this, the stronger she had to be, because there was still a small root behind her, if she only cared about sadness, what would happen to this child?

"Did William bully you again?" She asked, touching her little head.

Xiao Gen hurriedly patted the ash off his body: "No, I fell on the way back!" ”

"My little root, mom will go and change a shadow wolf tooth for you another day......" Messal took the little one into her arms, and suddenly thought of her dead husband, and immediately felt the urge to cry again, but still bit her lip and didn't make a sound.

"Don't!" Xiaogen pulled his head out of his mother's arms and said loudly, his expression unusually firm.

"Why?" Messal rubbed her eyes and asked in a slightly nasal voice, her husband had been sacrificed, and she now only hoped that Xiaogen could be happy every day—truly happy.

"That's not the shadow wolf that Dad hunted, I don't want it!" Xiaogen pouted, and his stubborn appearance made Messar lose her mind for a moment, but then she became sad again.

After his father's death, the child seemed to have grown up a lot overnight, and the maturity was distressing.

"By the way, Mom, I heard that there are some special guests coming to town today, is that true?" Seeing a sad look on her mother's face, Xiao Gen hurriedly changed the topic.

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The gravel-paved path turns a corner on the hillside and leads to a nearby orchard.

There are no weeds on the ground.

The simple wooden fence is surrounded by a large circle outside, which is very high, in addition to preventing those greedy little animals, but also to prevent those little devils in the town.

The tall wooden door was pushed open, and a small bamboo basket was squeezed out of the crack in the door.

The two feet stepped out first, then the small bamboo basket on the back was sideways, and finally the two hands were quickly withdrawn.

Bang!

Losing its strength support, the wooden door slammed shut.

"Thank you, Mrs. Bell!" Smaller than the root leaned on the door frame and shouted inside.

Through the gap in the wooden door, a woman with a headscarf on her head, dressed in a cloth dress, and a little thick waist and arms could be seen smiling and waving her hand.

He shook his hand vigorously at the crack in the door, and then looked again, and when he was sure that Mrs. Bell saw it, he jumped off the door frame and walked down the hill along the gravel road.

The bamboo basket contains a kind of fruit called breadfruit by the children of Blackstone, which is yellow and has a rough surface, although the nutritional value is not high, but because the taste is very similar to freshly baked bread, it is very popular with the children of Blackstone.

Many families in need sometimes eat this fruit for dinner.

Carrying the bamboo basket that was smaller than a root was his and his mother's dinner today, a total of six freshly ripe breadfruits.

Although his family is not in a difficult situation and does not need breadfruit as relief food, it is his birthday, and Mrs. Bell, who has been close to his family since his father joined Bell's team, has made it difficult for him to pick six breadfruits as a reward for his successful growth to the age of six.

Yes, he was six years old, with black hair, amber eyes like his mother, and a figure that seemed to have been inherited from his father, and he wasn't strong compared to the other kids in town.

But it's not thin anymore.

Straddling onto a relatively large stone slab, Xiao Gen stopped, bent his arm and puffed up the muscles he might have grown, thinking about the posture that his father had taught him before, punched the air, showed a mouthful of white teeth and smiled, and continued to run across the stone slab.

There weren't many weeds around, and large areas of land had been opened up into fields and orchards, through which small figures with bamboo baskets on their backs flew through them, and soon approached Blackstone Town.

The sky was not as bright as it was at noon, and the black roofs at the foot of the mountain appeared in the field of vision, and white smoke had already drifted from the few chimneys, slowly drifting towards the sky.

It's dinner time.

He stopped and measured the length of the smoke with his fingers, and continued to run.

The winding gravel road stretches all the way into the town, and after passing the iron gate in the town, it becomes a large and smooth stone road, where many forks of the road divide and lead to different places.

After saying hello to the old hunter who was said to have been the former squad leader many years ago, and saying hello to the big yellow dog who lived at the door of the Wende family who lived on the edge of the town, he took a breath and chose the nearest road to his home, humming a strange tune that was sometimes low and sometimes high.

But he soon ran into trouble.

A tall, muscular figure that looked a full circle larger than him suddenly burst out from behind the house, blocking his way.

"Look who's coming! It's a deception! "I want to talk about "Infinite Crazy Amusement Park" with more like-minded people, and pay attention to "Youyue Literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~