When Baita City was still in chaos, Xiao Rui and the three of them had already come to the outside of Xiaojiaying Village, and more than twenty miles of land would not take an hour for the three of them. Xiao Rui stood at the entrance of the village, and he was also full of emotion in his heart, he grew up in the village since he was a child. Although I was bullied a lot, I still felt very kind. After a little identification, Xiao Rui took Xia Keming and Luo Hong to his door.

Pushing open the courtyard gate and entering the courtyard, Xiao Rui seemed to be back to his childhood. Immediately, Xiao Rui found another situation, that is, the yard was very clean, and it seemed that someone often cleaned it. Could it be that someone had moved in? I walked quickly to the door of the house and found that they were unlocked. I knocked on the door, but there was no movement inside.

Gently pushing open the door, Xiao Rui slowly walked into the house, first turned right, entered the east room to look, and then turned to the west room to look, there was no one. But the house is very clean, and it looks like someone cleans it a lot, but it doesn't look like someone lives here. "Hey, I said Xiaorui, didn't you say that there is no one in your house? Why do I feel like there is someone here!" Xia Keming followed up and stood in the east room and shouted.

Xiao Rui's heart moved, he had already thought of a possibility, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but show a smile: "Hehe, if you want to say that there are people, you can be regarded as someone, but he has never lived here." Luo Hong also followed: "Who is that?

Xiao Rui smiled: "You two don't guess, I'll take you to meet someone, you will know when you see it!" After speaking, he walked out of the house and walked directly out of the yard to the neighbor's house to the east.

Coming to the door of the neighbor's yard, Xiao Rui gently pushed open the courtyard door, entered the yard, stood at the door of the house and shouted, "Is Brother Xiao Tian at home?" Xiao Rui raised his voice and shouted again, but still no one answered.

Xiao Rui frowned slightly, and was about to shout again, when he suddenly found a head peeking out on the courtyard wall in the east. The man grabbed the courtyard wall with both hands, looked at Xiao Rui and asked, "Who are you, are you looking for Xiao Tian?" Xiao Rui took a closer look, and it turned out to be Xiao Tian's second uncle. Hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Second uncle, I'm Xiao Rui, don't you recognize me?"

Second Uncle Xiao immediately opened his eyes wide, looked at Xiao Rui carefully, and opened his mouth to say, "You, are you Xiao Rui?" As soon as he finished speaking, his head suddenly shook, and with an oops, the person disappeared.

Xiao Rui was startled, his body shook, and he had already jumped over the wall and came to the courtyard of Second Uncle Xiao's house. Looking at it again, I couldn't help but cry and laugh, it turned out that Second Uncle Xiao suddenly recognized Xiao Rui, and when he was excited, his feet shook, and the stone he was stepping on fell crookedly, and Second Uncle Xiao fell down.

Seeing that Second Uncle Xiao was fine, Xiao Rui also relieved himself and hurriedly stepped forward to help him up. But as soon as Second Uncle Xiao stood up, he suddenly looked back at the high wall behind him, and then looked back at Xiao Rui, with a trace of horror on his face. When Xiao Rui's hand held his, the expression on his face softened slightly.

Xiao Rui didn't explain, but just asked: "Second uncle, are you okay, did Brother Xiao Tian go hunting and haven't come back yet?" Your eldest brother Xiao Tian is going hunting. I haven't come back yet. Alas!"

Xiao Rui couldn't help but be stunned, and asked suspiciously: "Second Uncle, did something happen? Why are you sighing?" Second Uncle Xiao raised his eyes and looked at Xiao Rui, just about to speak, as if he remembered that the two of them were still standing in the courtyard, and hurriedly said: "Hey, look at my head, quickly, Xiao Rui, let's go into the house, let's talk about it when we enter the house!" After speaking, he pulled Xiao Rui and walked into the house.

Xiao Rui hurriedly said: "Second uncle, don't worry, I still have two friends, in Xiao Tian's courtyard!" After speaking, he said loudly: "Luo Hong, you two should come over too!" In fact, when Xiao Rui jumped over the wall, Luo Hong almost followed, but was dragged by Xia Keming. Because Xia Keming felt that there would be nothing wrong here, and Xiao Rui couldn't solve it. That's why I didn't follow. At this time, when he heard Xiao Rui calling the two of them over, he left Xiao Tian's house and entered the courtyard of Xiao's second uncle's house through the gate.

At this time, Aunt Xiao, who was in the house, also pushed the door and walked out, and was pleasantly surprised to see Xiao Rui also looking at her. said again and again: "I really didn't expect Xiao Rui to grow so strong in the past few years, but it's not like when he was a child!" Xiao Rui looked at the forced smiles on the faces of Xia Keming and Luo Hong, and glared at the two fiercely. Then gave them a brief introduction, and Second Uncle Xiao pulled Xiao Rui to let the three of them into the house.

Aunt Xiao quickly took out snacks such as dried meat and preserved fruits at home, and made a pot of tea, and then went out to buy food and prepare to entertain Xiao Rui and the others.

Xiao Rui and the others were all ready, and then he asked again: "Second uncle, you haven't finished talking just now, Brother Xiao Tian, they went hunting, why are you still sighing?"

Second Uncle Xiao sighed again before saying, "Alas, Xiaorui, you don't know." A few years ago, before your family moved away, there was no more prey on the back hill of our village, and many hunters were ready to change careers to do something else. But just after you left, less than half a year later, that is, around the Holy Heaven Festival, there were suddenly more beasts on the back mountain. ”

Luo Hong asked strangely: "Isn't it a good thing that there are more beasts, you can hunt more and sell more money!" Second Uncle Xiao looked at Luo Hong, and said with a wry smile: "What you little brother said is easy. If it's really like what you said, then the hunters of our Xiao family camp will make a lot of money. Alas, alas, there are many beasts, but many of them are fierce beasts, and we have never seen them before. Not to mention the hunters in the village, even the good hunters in the nearby villages did not dare to hunt those fierce beasts. ”

Second Uncle Xiao took a sip of water and continued: "Those fierce beasts occasionally enter the village to harm domestic animals, and even attack the villagers. There was no way, Xiao Tian and a few hunters with better skills formed a team and went up the mountain together, just to hunt those fierce beasts, afraid that they would enter the village and harm the people. But when they came back two days ago, not only did they not hunt the beast, but the eldest grandson of your third master's family in the east of the village was injured and was carried back. His life was saved, but he was missing a leg, saying that he was bitten by a fierce beast. ”

"Alas, I don't know what kind of evil this is for, how can such a fierce beast come here? Xiao Tian and they have been out since yesterday, and they should be back this afternoon. But I haven't seen anyone yet. Alas!"

Xiao Rui suddenly thought of something again, and asked hesitantly: "Second uncle, I went to Brother Xiao Tian's house just now and shouted a few times, why did everyone in the house agree, my aunt her?"

When Second Uncle Xiao heard this, he immediately understood what Xiao Rui meant, shook his head and said, "You are asking Xiao Tian about his mother, it has been gone for a long time, and it will be gone in a few days after the Holy Heaven Festival." By the way, Xiao Tian originally planned to say that he was going to look for you, but without any news from you, he never left. Now that you're back, Xiao Tian can go with you. ”

Second Uncle Xiao's eyes darkened again after speaking, Xiao Rui understood that Second Uncle Xiao was worried, as soon as Xiao Tian left, there was one less good hunter in the village, but he didn't say anything. I just asked about the situation in the village again, and after chatting for a while about what had happened in the past year or so, it was already dark.

Second Aunt Xiao was already busy in the kitchen, and soon a burst of meat fragrance wafted into Luo Hong's nose, looking at Luo Hong's greedy appearance, Xiao Rui's originally heavy heart eased slightly. I secretly decided in my heart that I would always do something for everyone when I came back this time.

After a while, Aunt Xiao set up a kang table on the kang, and then put a large basin on the table. The pot was full of red, shivering, soft and large pieces of animal meat, and there were also stewed a few dried vegetables from the wild vegetables picked in the mountains in the summer. Those dried vegetables have no moisture, and now they are stewed together with meat, and a lot of gravy is inhaled in the shriveled vegetable stems, and it is even more tender in the mouth!

Second Uncle Xiao took out a wooden barrel from a cabinet, and there was half a barrel of soju in it. Opening the lid of the barrel, Second Uncle Xiao sniffed the overflowing wine, squinted his eyes and said, "Don't look at our guy who holds wine, but our wine is good, and you people in the city can't drink it." This is made by Xiao Lao Liu in our village, and it is said that the wine primer made by his family has been brewing for hundreds of years, and the taste is very positive!" Xiao Rui couldn't help but sigh: In fact, many people's requirements are not very high, as long as they can meet his current needs, he will feel very happy!

Xiao Rui and the three of them were not polite, and asked Xiao Second Uncle and Second Aunt to sit inside, and the old couple pushed for a long time, but Xiao Rui said that he also grew up in the village, and he was also the younger generation of the two, so he naturally wanted to let the old man sit inside. So the old couple no longer shirked, and sat inside, Xiao Rui and the three of them surrounded the city outside in half a circle, sat around the kang table, and several people ate and drank.

Although Luo Hong's eating appearance has been discussed in many restaurants, in the eyes of the two old people, especially in the eyes of Aunt Xiao, it is a kind of recognition for them, and they feel that the more guests eat, the more they will not see the outside. So for the first time in such a long time, Luo Hong ate the most meat in the eyes of encouragement. Originally, she thought that there was only such a pot, but she didn't expect that when this pot was finished, Aunt Xiao actually went to the outer room and brought in another pot, and told her: "Child, eat as much as you want, after eating this pot, my aunt will serve it to you again, there are more in the pot!"

Luo Hong looked at Xia Keming and Xiao Rui with pride for the first time, and finished eating two large pots of beast meat! Even the half of the barrel of wine that Second Uncle Xiao seemed to have treasured for a long time was also drunk by several people. After being full of wine and food, Xiao Rui helped the second aunt clean up the dishes and chopsticks, and was about to sit down to drink water and chat after washing, when he suddenly heard a noisy sound from the courtyard next door. When Xiao Rui heard the sound coming from Xiao Tian's courtyard, he hurriedly signaled to Xia Keming and Luo Hong, said hello to Xiao Tian's second uncle, and went out to Xiao Tian's house.

As soon as he entered the courtyard gate, Xiao Rui heard someone in the house saying, "Go and call the doctor, you go and boil some water first, and you drag the quilt over to cover him first." Before the man's words fell, Xiao Rui saw a figure running out of the house, glanced at them, bypassed the three of them and went out, and then saw another person come out of the house and enter the firewood room, take the firewood and return to the house, as if it was about to boil water.

Xiao Rui knew that someone must have had an accident, so he hurriedly walked into the house, looked at the kang, and sure enough, there was a person lying on the kang. Although it was dark in the room now, and the man was covered with a quilt, his face was pale, and he had passed out, Xiao Rui still recognized it at a glance.

didn't bother to say hello to the others, as soon as he raised his legs, he stepped onto the kang, squatted down beside Xiao Tian, and slowly lifted the quilt, Xiao Rui saw that the clothes on Xiao Tian's left shoulder had been torn, and the left half of his body was full of blood. The wound inside was revealed where the clothes were torn, the wound was deep and large, and the flesh on the entire left shoulder was gone, revealing white stubble. At the broken muscle, there was also blood oozing. But fortunately, the bones didn't seem to be injured, it seemed that the muscles were torn and bleeding too much to cause him to be the way he is now.

Seeing the injury clearly, Xiao Rui was slightly calm, and he looked up and was about to speak, but saw Xia Keming stretching out his hand and handing over a jade bottle: "Hurry up and put it on him." After speaking, he took out another jade bottle, poured out a pill from it, and put it directly into Xiao Tian's mouth.

Xiao Rui didn't say much, immediately pulled out the cork, and poured the medicine inside directly onto the wound. As soon as the medicine surface fell on the wound, a small bubble immediately appeared, and it seemed that the sound of the clattering could still be heard, but the bleeding immediately stopped. Xiao Tian, who was in a coma, seemed to be stimulated by the power of the medicine, and actually twisted his body.

Xiao Rui looked up, reached out and dragged a palm of the sheet from the side of the kang, tore it into two pieces, slowly bandaged Xiao Tian's wound, and then tied his left hand to his body to prevent him from moving and pulling the wound.