Late at night, in a small mountain village at the foot of Montenegro in the northwest of Rui, every household has fallen asleep, and the small mountain village under the bright starry sky is quiet, and only the subtle sound of some insects chirping can be heard.

At Uncle Zhang's house in the east of the village, the family ate early and went to bed early, and was sleeping in a daze, when Aunt Zhang suddenly pushed Uncle Zhang.

"Daddy, did you hear anything?" asked Aunt Zhang in a low voice.

"My mother-in-law's house is a lot of things, how can there be a sound in the middle of the night?" Uncle Zhang, who was tired from doing farm work for a day, slept Zhengxiang, and said in a daze after being pushed awake.

"No, listen carefully, how do I think there is... Is there a cry?" said Aunt Zhang with a cold shiver.

"It seems like there is. Uncle Zhang listened carefully, opened his eyes and said vigilantly. "Child, mother, you look at the two little ones carefully, I'll go out and have a look. Uncle Zhang said and got up in his clothes, folded the fire, lit the candle and went out to investigate.

Walking in the dark courtyard by the light of the fluorescent candlelight, he heard a clearer and clearer cry in his ears, and Uncle Zhang, who has always been bold, was also a little creepy, he followed the cry all the way forward, walked to the gate of the courtyard and opened the small firewood door, and saw a baby crying in swaddling clothes next to a large pile of wood in front of the firewood and straw stack. Uncle Zhang glanced at it by the candlelight, and saw that the baby had handsome facial features and a well-behaved face, and he was indescribably likable, so Uncle Zhang subconsciously held it in his arms and patted it.

After patting it for a while, the baby gradually stopped crying and fell asleep quietly, Uncle Zhang came back to his senses and looked left and right in front of the small courtyard. Uncle Zhang's house is located in the middle of the village, neither in the east nor in the west, and it is not close to the main road, this baby was obviously sent here on purpose, who sent it, and why was it only sent here? Uncle Zhang muttered in his heart.

Thinking about it and thinking about it, Uncle Zhang took the baby back to the house first, and Aunt Zhang was startled when she saw Uncle Zhang carrying back a child. "Where did this kid come from?" asked Aunt Zhang worriedly.

"I don't know, I was crying on a pile of wood when I went out, and it looks like someone deliberately put it in front of our house. Uncle Zhang whispered.

"Is it a girl or a boy?" Aunt Zhang looked at the baby's face by candlelight, and couldn't see it for a while.

"How can I take care of this, don't you come back first without looking for a hurry. Uncle Zhang snorted.

"I'll see. Aunt Zhang gently took the child, carefully unwrapped the swaddling clothes and looked at it, "Oh, it's a kid." She looked at it, looked up at Uncle Zhang with a smile.

"What about the kid, this child is not clear, who dares to raise it with confidence? Let's wait until tomorrow and send it to the village chief's house to see what to do." Uncle Zhang said uneasily.

"Our eldest and second girls are both girls, this kid... Otherwise, let's talk to the village chief about the situation and raise him as our own son." Aunt Zhang was anxious for her son, and she didn't let go of the child while she held it.

"Don't say it, the person who came to deliver the child may know about our family's situation and know that you have just given birth to milk, so he put this child at our door. In this way, it should be an acquaintance, at least someone who knows the situation in our village, who will it be?" Uncle Zhang said with a deep groan.

"Don't think about it, let's talk about it tomorrow!" Aunt Zhang put the baby next to her second girl, looking left and right, left and right.

"Okay, don't look at it, go to sleep quickly, and sleep a little while the girl is not making trouble. Uncle Zhang blew out the candles and began to sleep.

Early the next morning, Uncle Zhang went to the village chief's house with the child in his arms and told him about the situation at night. The village chief said, "Haven't you two been looking forward to having a kid, isn't this a godsend boy, how can you push it out?"

"The origin of this child is too strange, who dares to raise it with confidence? If it is easy to say that it is easy to raise it clearly, if it is a child with a great background, it will be difficult to say that the biological father and mother will come to the door in the future, and if it is not good, it will fly into trouble, saying that we have abducted their child. Uncle Zhang looked at the child's face and said uneasily.

"Your worries are also reasonable, but the child is a surname anyway, and since it is placed at the door of your house, it can be regarded as a fate with you, you two will raise it first, and the blind dates in the village will also help a little, and then look at the situation when the child is raised, if no one claims it, I will continue the incense for your family, what do you think?" the village chief thought for a while and said.

"Okay, then let's do it!" Uncle Zhang had no other way but to do this first.

Time flies, under the careful feeding of Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang, and with the help of the kind villagers, the child quickly grew up, because he suddenly appeared next to a pile of wood, so everyone named him wood. Rural people don't pay much attention to the name, anyway, they catch what is called, what fat dun dog egg bench and so on are many strange names, and the name wood is also regarded as following the local customs.

Mu Tou grew up smoothly all the way, learned to speak and walk early, and when he was four years old, he was able to help Uncle Zhang's family and some villagers' families do farm work. Because of the child's strange background, Uncle Zhang made it clear to him early on that he was an orphan and suddenly appeared in this small mountain village, and he did not hide it and tell nothing. Mu often asks who his biological parents are, and no one can answer this question.

Uncle Zhang's family is very good to wood, wood most of the time is in Uncle Zhang's house to live in Uncle Zhang's house to eat, because of the well-behaved and smart birth, some other families in the village also like to call wood on the house to eat or live in this house for a few days and that family for a few days, but most of the care still comes from Uncle Zhang's family.

Uncle Zhang's family has two daughters, the eldest daughter is a teenager, for the wood is a big sister, the second daughter and the second girl were born in the same year as the wood, and I can't tell who is older and who is small, the two of them stay with the wood all year round, and sometimes there are behaviors such as fighting for food, but most of the time it is still relatively harmonious, the big girl often holds the second girl and takes the wood to play everywhere, sometimes the wood is tired and will change it, hold the wood and let the second girl walk, the three of them are also like sisters and brothers.

However, Mu Tou is an orphan in the end, and there will still be some other children in the village who like to bully him, and at this time Mu will be very brave, and when he encounters a bully, whether it is a big child or a child about the same age as himself, he will dare to fight and never give up until the end. Some of the children in the countryside are afraid of things, and they dare not bully the wood anymore, but some of them are very stabbed, and they gather a group of people to carry the arms and legs of the wood to the black mountain, sometimes throw it directly into the ravine, sometimes tie it to the tree and say that it is to starve the wood to death or feed the wolf, but the wood can come back inexplicably every time, although the head is broken and the blood flow is still indomitable, and he has to find those who have harmed him one after another before returning to Uncle Zhang's house. After going back, Uncle Zhang, Aunt Zhang, asked about the situation, and immediately went to the house of those boys who bullied the wood, and the eldest girl and the second girl stayed at home, carefully wiping the wounds of the wood, and coaxing the wood.

Uncle Zhang's house has several rooms, as the children in the family grow up, usually Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang live in one, the eldest girl and the second girl live in one, and the wood lives in one. However, the more he got older, the more he disliked living at home, and he often went outside the village or lived in the trees at the entrance of the village.

"Child, do you think it's not good to live at home, why do you always run outside to live?" Uncle Zhang asked Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang puzzled.

"No, the home is very good, mainly because my ears are a little good, and I often hear some movements at night, so I want to live outside. Wood said.

Aunt Zhang's face turned red suddenly, they lived between husband and wife, and it was inevitable that there would be some movement. Uncle Zhang was also a little embarrassed, but it was not a problem to let Mu live in the wilderness every day, so the surname Suo discussed with the villagers in the village, and built a log cabin for Mu at the entrance of the village, so that Mu Tou usually lived in the wooden house, so Mu Tou had his own small house, and usually finished eating in this house and went to sleep in his own cabin at night.

After the wooden house was repaired, not only did the wood sleep in it, but the eldest girl and the second girl also liked the quietness there, and sometimes they wanted to go there to sleep, but Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang resolutely did not allow it, the wood and the second girl were children of several years, but the eldest girl was a teenage girl, in case of any accident, their family could not raise their heads in the village, so this kind of request was strictly forbidden. The eldest girl and the second girl have to sometimes take advantage of the lunch break to sleep in the cabin and feel the coolness and tranquility of the cabin. Compared with the second girl, Mu prefers to sleep with the eldest girl, because the eldest girl's chest is soft and the face is very comfortable to paste, while the second girl is a few years old The child is thin and small, and the nose hurts when he touches it inadvertently. In the long run, Erniu doesn't like to play with wood very much, but likes to play with other children in the village.

Time passed in a hurry, and Wood soon grew up to be six years old in this small mountain village.

In fact, the people in the village don't know when the wood was born, when it will be six years old, but the child is generally three months will turn over and six months will sit ** month will climb, Uncle Zhang Aunt Zhang according to these behavioral characteristics of the wood, inferred that the wood should be born in the first month, so this year the New Year just passed, the wood ushered in his six years old, but also ushered in a big turning point in life.