"Stop, don't run, you stinky boys, if I see you bullying Xiaorui again, I will pick your skin"

"Little stammer, I really didn't have a seed, I knew that hiding behind your sister would come and fight us. Several teenagers shouted back as they ran. Not far behind them stood the sister and brother, the elder sister's name was Xiao Hua, who was just fifteen years old, and the younger brother's name was Xiao Rui, who was only thirteen years old.

The sister and brother are dressed very plainly, and the elder sister is petite, and she can slightly see that she has just developed. The younger brother was even thinner, and his face was a little pale. But the two sisters and brothers have very good facial features, clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and they look very similar.

"Sister, let's... Let's go back, I won't play with them anymore, they... You won't bully me. ”

"Let's go, Xiaorui, don't be afraid, they will bully you in the future, my sister will clean them up"

"Sister, thank you. ”

"Xiaorui, what are you talking about, I'm your sister, what are you thanking for, let's go home and see what prey Dad hunted today. ”

"Well, it's time for Daddy to come back now."

As they spoke, they walked towards the west end of the village.

Xiaojiaying is a small village, with more than 100 families living in total. It was named because most of the people in the village were surnamed Xiao. Most of the men in the village made a living from hunting, and after slaughtering the prey, they left some of the meat for their families to eat, and most of the remaining meat and nitrated furs were sent to Baita City, 20 miles away, to sell to the rich or merchants.

The money you earn back buys some daily necessities such as rice, flour, oil, and salt. It's just barely enough. As a result of the long-term hunting, there are fewer and fewer prey in the nearby mountains, and there are fewer and fewer hunters in the village. In order to earn more money, many men went out and went to the city to find a way.

The women of the village spend their days at home cleaning up the house and taking care of the children. Due to the backward economic conditions of the village, the children could not afford to go to school, so they played around in the village every day, climbed trees and went to the house, and had nothing else to do except be naughty. But when the boy reached the age of twelve, he had to learn to hunt and practice archery with Sean, the old hunter of the village.

Because hunting is a tradition in the village, and Sean is recognized as the number one hunter in the village. Each child's family gives Sean a certain amount of money every month. One is to let the child learn the best hunting ability, and the other is to let the child no longer have nothing to do, always naughty and cause trouble.

Since hunting requires a good body, in addition to learning skills, children practice physical strength at most. So every boy is physically strong and develops relatively quickly. The children of the fourteenth and fifth five-year years will catch up with Chengren's height.

But Xiao Rui, who lives in the west of the village, is indeed a special case, he has been weak since he was a child, and his body is thinner than children of the same age. And the strength is also small, and it is difficult to breathe when you exercise a little more. So every time I play with my child, I am bullied, so I develop an introverted and cowardly surname, because I am always bullied, and I dare not argue, and I slowly become more and more difficult to speak, and it has become a stammer, and it is not good to speak.

So the children made fun of him even more. Due to Xiao Rui's poor health, his sister Xiao Hua took the initiative to take on the responsibility of becoming the future hunter of the family and went to study with Sean every day. Because the people in the village are fierce, no one thinks it is wrong for girls to learn to hunt.

Xiao Rui, on the other hand, spends more time at home, occasionally learning a few words from his father who came back from hunting. So for his peers, Xiao Rui is considered to have the highest level of education!

Xiao Hua is strict with himself, and he trains very hard, although he is petite, his attack skills are very powerful. The average boy can't compare to her. So every time Xiao Rui was bullied, it was his sister Xiao Hua who came to relieve him. It's the same again today.

"Mom, is Dad back?" shouted the siblings as soon as they entered the courtyard. The yard of their house is not large, with three bungalows on the front, a firewood shed on the east side, and two barns on the west side. In the middle of the main house is the kitchen, and the east and west rooms are bedrooms.

Usually, Xiao Rui lives on the east side with his father Xiao Haiqing and his mother Liu Fang, and his sister is older and lives on the west side. The siblings went into the courtyard and shouted twice, but they didn't hear an answer. Go into the kitchen and turn right into the East House. On the south side of the house is a window, and under the window is a fire. The kang is covered with straw mats.

As soon as they entered the house, the siblings noticed that they were different from the previous ones. Dad was lying on the kang. Usually, when my father comes back from hunting, he will deal with the prey first. But today I didn't see any prey. And Dad is still lying on the kang. Mom sat beside her father with a haggard look, and was wiping her body with a towel. And Dad's face was a little pale, his eyes were closed, and he was lying quietly on the kang.

"Dad!, what's wrong with you?"

"Mom, what's wrong with Dad?"

The siblings asked at the same time.

"Child, your father went up the mountain to hunt today, and in order to chase a green wolf, he accidentally fell off the mountain and broke his leg, and it was your eldest brother Xiao Tian who carried him back. ”

"Will Dad get better in the future?" asked Xiao Hua.

"Because after falling down, it took a long time to be discovered, and I am afraid that the broken place will not be able to recover, but in the future, I am afraid that I will not be able to go hunting. Liu Fang's eyes were red. "But don't worry, Mommy will take good care of you. ”

"Mom, I'll take care of my dad and brother with you. Xiao Hua hugged Xiao Rui, although there were tears in his eyes, he had a strong heart.

"Good boy, it's really grown up. You go out first, your father won't wake up yet, don't disturb him yet, I'll call you when he wakes up. Liu Fang patted Xiao Hua's shoulder and touched Xiao Rui's head again. Let the siblings come out.

When Xiao Hua came out, he took out the dirty clothes that Liu Fang had changed for Xiao Haiqing and went to the yard to wash the clothes. Xiao Rui had nothing to do by himself, and slowly walked to the firewood shed.

On the innermost side of the firewood shed, there is a shelf for putting sundries, the shelf is more than one meter high from the ground, and some tools for Xiao Haiqing to hunt in the mountains are placed on the shelf, and some hay is spread on the ground below, which looks like a small bird's nest.

It turned out that every time Xiao Rui was bullied, he didn't dare to tell his family when he went home, he knew that everyone in the family loved him very much, and he knew that he would be sad if he was bullied. He was physically weak, but his mind was very smart.

As a result of being bullied, he also learned to read words and feelings. Knowing that you are being bullied will only make your family sad. So he often sat alone under this shelf in the woodshed. Slowly calm down his aggrieved heart.

Every time he comforted himself, he knew that he was a burden at home, and because his body was too weak to go out hunting like other boys in the future, he would definitely become the laughing stock of the villagers. It will put pressure on his parents, so he doesn't want to let his parents see what he looks like after being bullied.

Xiao Rui entered the woodshed, sat on the licorice under the shelf as usual, held his knees with his hands, and rested his chin on his knees, thinking to himself: Dad is injured, and he will never be able to hunt again. In the future, the family will have to rely on my mother and sister. But I'm a man, and I'm going to do something for this family. I can't always let my mother and sister take care of me in the future, I have to take care of them!

Xiao Rui's heart has never been as firm as it is today, and he used to calm down his grievances. And today he feels like he's grown up.

Thinking to himself, he raised his head and looked at the shelf above his head, on the shelf hung a woodcutter, it was a rusty knife, the blade was not very long, only more than two feet, it was said to be a knife, but it was like a ruler, there was no arc, but the head part of the knife was slightly wider than the part near the handle, and there was a gauntlet on the handle.

This knife was picked up by Xiao Haiqing many years ago when he was hunting, and it is usually only used to go up the mountain and chop branches and rattans to open the way. And Xiao Rui was thinking at this time: I can't hunt now, but I can go to chop wood, and I can help my mother and sister a little bit.

Xiao Rui stood up while thinking, he took off the wood knife and took it in his hand, the knife was very light, he waved it lightly twice, feeling the chopping action. Seeing the rust on the knife, he didn't know if the knife was fast or not, and if it was sharp enough. So he slashed at the shelf's pillar, trying to see how deep he could go.

With a "click", the firewood knife slashed through the column and did not get stuck on the column. Xiao Rui hesitated, he obviously cut at the column, why didn't he cut it? He was hesitating, there was a bang, the shelf fell down, it turned out that he actually cut the column with a knife!

He was very surprised, his strength was so small, and this knife was so worn, how could he cut down a pine wood with a thick arm? As soon as he was stunned, the frame had already fallen, and Xiao Rui had no time to dodge, the upper end of the column smashed right on his forehead, and the blood flowed down at once.

Xiao Rui hurriedly covered his forehead with his hand, but the bleeding still couldn't stop. He didn't dare to call his mother and sister because his father had just been injured and he didn't want to cause any more trouble for them. Looking at the blood on his hands, I don't know if he was in a hurry or afraid, Xiao Rui fainted suddenly, fell to the ground, and the knife in his hand also fell.

The blood on his forehead flowed to the ground, and it happened to be the tip of the knife. A strange scene appeared, and a gray mist of light appeared on the tip of the knife, and the blood trails on the ground went directly to Xiao Rui's forehead.

And there seemed to be a suction force on the tip of the knife, and the blood that Xiao Rui flowed to the ground was instantly sucked into the tip of the knife, and at the same time, there was a faint layer of gray light mist on the knife body, only a thin layer, which was difficult to find without looking carefully.

The rust on the blade was alive at this time, and it actually swam on the blade, forming a variety of patterns. As the blood on the ground was sucked dry, the gray light mist disappeared, and the rust stopped moving, returning to its original appearance.

The most amazing thing is that Xiao Rui's forehead actually recovered, as if he was not injured.

It took a full hour for Xiao Rui to wake up, and the first thing he saw when he opened his eyes was this woodcutter. Looking at the knife in his eyes, Xiao Rui actually had a strange feeling in his heart, feeling that this knife was very kind, and there was an urge to immediately grasp the knife in his hand.

Xiao Rui slowly reached out and grabbed the handle of the knife. "Boom", Xiao Rui felt a crazy and violent thought instantly rush into his brain, and the blood in his body quickly boiled. He threw away the knife in fright, got up and ran out of the wood shed.

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