Don't look at Ji Yu's thin little body, he is not ambiguous at all when he does his work, his thin shoulders carry a pyre higher than his own, against the high sun, sweating like rain, running back and forth between the village and the woods.

When everyone learned that they were helping the village chief to work, they all whispered behind their backs: some said that the village chief saw him pitiful and adopted him; some said that the child was finally sensible and no longer idle; and some wondered if the child had broken his head in the mountains.

There are dozens of families in the village, and they all know each other when they look up and down, and they don't have much pastime on weekdays, and Ji Yu's sudden change has naturally become a topic of conversation among the people in the village after dinner.

The village chief saw it in his eyes, his eyes were full of relief, and he knew that the reason why this child worked so hard was because he had suffered too much in the past, and compared to the life of two or three days without a grain of rice, the current days were simply heaven.

Because the village has never been in contact with the outside world, it has always lived a self-sufficient life, and the material resources are relatively scarce.

Every day when eating, the village chief will let Ji Yu come to his home, but after all, his daughter-in-law and Ji Yu are not very good at each other, and every time she looks at the jade pendant around Ji Yu's neck, she is angry, but this is her man's decision after all, and the village chief's daughter-in-law did not dare to say more, so every time she eats, she has to keep a straight face, and her nose is also humming again and again.

Although Ji Yu is a child, he can still see that the village chief's daughter-in-law hates him, but now he can eat three big steamed buns at every meal, his heart is happy, and his mouth is naturally a lot sweeter.

This aunt didn't hold a child in her thirties, although she hated Ji Yu on her face, but she actually liked to hear him call herself like this, and over time, her face became less ugly than before, one day when Ji Yu offered to help her wash her clothes, she also made an exception with a hen in the backyard to make a braised chicken nugget, and Ji Yu and the village chief moved their fingers, and they were addicted.

The village chief watched his daughter-in-law and Ji Yu gradually get along and become more and more happy, and during these days, many neighbors in the village have different opinions on this former little thief, the little troublemaker, and now what they see is a lively and cheerful young man, although he is still a little naughty, but it is much more pleasing to the eye than before.

In fact, if it weren't for survival, who would want to do that kind of thing of stealing chickens and dogs, if Ji Yu was a poor child who was precarious and starving more than eating, then now he seems to really have his own childhood, his own warmth, and his own home.

In addition to the adults in the village who have changed their views on Ji Yu, even children are no exception, who used to bully Ji Yu, the two big fat sons of Uncle Wang's family at the entrance of the village, now seem to be willing to play with Ji Yu, maybe children are like this, they will unconsciously get closer to their peers who are better than themselves, and even when they are lazy in the field, Dad will reprimand: "Look at Ji Yu, I used to not even be able to eat enough, but now I am more diligent than the two of you combined, I really raised you so fat for nothing." ”

Time passes slowly like the small river at the head of the village, summer has become a story, autumn has become a landscape, Ji Yu, who has finished a day's farming, saw that the time was still early, and the sun had not completely set, so he invited the two big fat sons of Uncle Wang's family to come to the woods behind the village to play together.

The two big fat boys, the elder brother was called Wang Dazhuang and the younger brother was called Wang Erzhuang, and the three of them shook the fruit trees in the woods, which were not very thick, and when the ripe fruits on the trees fell to the ground, they used a hemp bag to pack them all.

Da Zhuang carried this sack of loot, and when he was about to go back, Ji Yu said: "Da Zhuang, you and Er Zhuang go back first, I still have to go to the tree to pick some beautiful fruits, and I will go to see my father and mother tomorrow." ”

Da Zhuang patted the sack on his shoulder: "Isn't there enough here?

Ji Yu shook his head: "These are almost smashed on the ground, I have to go up to the tree to pick some beautiful ones, you and Erzhuang's figures can't help me much." ”

Da Zhuang and Erzhuang touched their bulging stomachs at the same time, thinking about it: "The sun is about to set, we won't accompany you, tonight our family stewed fatty meat, we will go back first." ”

Ji Yu waved his hand when he heard this, and muttered in his mouth: "Go, go, go." And he went deeper into the woods.

He took advantage of the sunset to look up at the fruit trees above his head, and when he saw a few good red fruits hanging from a larger tree, he climbed to the top of the tree with his hands and feet, took out the sack in his pocket, picked out a few of the most beautiful wild fruits, and put them in it.

"That's not enough, I'll look for it. Seeing that Ji Yu's bag was more and more, the sunset on the horizon was getting darker and darker, and by the time Ji Yu finished loading the last fruit, the forest had been shrouded in darkness, and the sky had lost the last trace of light.

"Such a big bag of fruits, when I go back, I can send some to the village chief and the eldest mother. After that, Ji Yu walked to the village with the bag.

But before he had taken two steps, a strong wind suddenly blew in the woods, making the trees rustle. Because there is a cliff behind the woods, there is often wind in the forest, although this gust of wind is stronger than ever, but Ji Yu doesn't particularly care.

"Is it going to rain in two days? Then I'll have to add some hay to the roof, or I'll leak like last time, and I won't be able to sleep well at night." ”

I remembered that it was time to strengthen the small hut that the village chief had built for him, so that when the wind blew, even the roof would be blown away.

But the strong wind seemed unusual, just after the first gust of wind stopped for a while, the second gust of wind howled, the wind was especially strong, the wind pushed forward like a giant palm, Ji Yu was a little careless, and was blown by the wind A hungry dog grabbed food, fell to the ground, and the fruit in his arms was scattered on the ground.

"Phew, is this the Wind God Lord coming, such a strong wind. ”

I saw Ji Yu spit out the mud in his mouth and complained: "This is a heavy rain, it seems that you can't just add hay, you have to stack a few pieces of wood to be stable." ”

He patted the ashes on his body, suddenly remembered the jade pendant on his chest, hurriedly took it out, leaned on the hazy moonlight, and saw that the jade pendant was still intact, so he breathed a sigh of relief, picked up the fruits scattered around him from the ground, and while thinking about the matter of repairing the small thatched hut tomorrow, he hummed the little song taught to him by the village chief, and slowly walked back.

In the forest, the lonely shadow of the drooping boy walked forward, and in the sky, a bright moon gradually turned crimson.