Thinking of this, I was a little confused. Maybe only my father can tell me the answer.

"You're a half-breed too, aren't you?" Little Mushroom suddenly asked me, and I smiled, "Yes, my father is Chinese and my mother is British." ”

Little Mushroom asked, "Where is China?" ”

I knew that Little Mushroom must not have gone to school, so I told her: "China is a very ancient country in the northern hemisphere, and the Han people there wear Hanfu, write Chinese characters, and speak Chinese, and many customs are different from those in Australia. ”

"Do they sweat a lot?"

I couldn't help but laugh, "No. Han and Khan are not the same word. ”

"All read Khan, why are they two words?"

I found that I really couldn't communicate with Little Mushroom about cultural things, she didn't know these things at all, but seeing her curiosity, I had to say patiently: "Chinese characters are different from English, each character is like a painting, such as mouth, the original Chinese character is a mouth, and then it became a horizontal and vertical square word." ”

Little Mushroom exclaimed, "I know square words, and my mother once said that the old patriarchs of the Gurui and Pallava tribes knew many square words. Old Wick of our Wick tribe also knows square words, and he also taught my mother, and my mother also taught me, isn't the mouth you are talking about a square? ”

I smiled, thinking that the scripts of these tribes were also the original hieroglyphs, but many of them have not been handed down. For the Australian aborigines, who have lived alone on this continent for tens of thousands of years, there is neither war nor foreign exchange, and they have lived by fishing and hunting for generations, and they have not even developed agriculture, let alone pondering writing.

Little Mushroom was very excited, "Brother Bug, you can teach me square words!" Suddenly, I felt that it was inappropriate, after all, I need to recuperate now, "Forget it, you rest for a while, and I'll let you out." ”

I was very dizzy and drowsy, and I couldn't disappoint the little mushroom, so I took out the book Uncle Du gave me from my arms, "This is a Chinese book, you read it first, I'll sleep first." Remember, let me know as soon as there's any movement outside. And don't try to touch the rifle next to me, it's dangerous. ”

Little Mushroom was happy, and she ran over to take the medical book, and I doubted that she could hear what I was saying, and I couldn't help but smile bitterly.

I wanted to fall asleep as quickly as possible, but the vertigo in my head made me toss and turn.

Little Mushroom brought some food and brought it to my mouth, "Brother Bug, you can eat something first." ”

I felt that my eyes were heavy, and it seemed that it was difficult to lift my eyelids, but I opened my mouth and ate it in a daze, and I didn't taste what the little mushroom gave me.

Not long after, I fell asleep groggily.

In my sleep, I saw Piyu again, and she rode with me to hunt in the moor, and we hunted a lot of game, and I roasted her meat, and she ate it very well.

At this time, the smoke and dust were billowing up, but it was Luna and Wood who arrived with a team of soldiers, and Wood yelled: "Little bastard, you like Luna, why are you with Piyu again." With that, he arrested us.

Wood forced me to join the army, I boarded a ship with a large group of mercenaries and went to the Mediterranean, and when I arrived, I realized that we were going to kill all the Ottomans, and we forced our way down and had a fierce battle with the Ottomans, and I was wounded in the battle, and the Ottomans seized me and brought me to their commander, and when I looked up, the commander was Hamid.

Hamid smiled when he saw me and ordered the soldiers to kill me, and suddenly Piyu stood up, and she wanted to exchange her life for a life, and Hamid actually agreed. In this way, Piyu was taken to the center of the street, and I discovered that the executioner turned out to be Chaoguang.

His face was covered with blood, and he said to me viciously, "You stoned me to death, and today I will stone Piyu to death." With that, he held up a stone the size of a football and threw it at Piyu.

I was held down by the soldiers, and no matter how hard I struggled, I could only shout: "Piyu! ”

When I opened my eyes, I found that I was still lying in the cave, and it turned out to be a dream of Nanke.

I was sweating all over my body and my heart was pounding.

There was a campfire next to me, and the smoke of this little cave was choking, but it also provided me with warmth.

When I looked out of the cave, the morning light was shining outside, and I slept all night.

Little Mushroom got up early and was looking at the book with relish.

I said to myself, "How could I have slept for so long and not even wake up last night?" ”

Little Mushroom looked at me with a smile while holding the book: "No, I saw that you couldn't sleep yesterday, so I fed you a piece of mushroom to eat, and you slept soundly." ”

As he spoke, he shook a piece of mushroom in front of me, and I looked at the mushroom, which was a bright orange color with a few white granular scales. The more I looked at it, the more frightened I became, and my true soul almost went out of my body: "Little mushroom, you give me this mushroom?" ”

"yes, that's how you can get a good rest."

I couldn't cry or laugh, "Little mushroom, don't you know that this mushroom is called poisonous fly umbrella, is it poisonous?" After eating it, you will have hallucinations, sweating, fever, salivation, tears, chills, or confusion, and your bug brother will become a dead bug! ”

"I'll just give you a little bit, don't make a fuss. You flipped over and fell over there yesterday, and I couldn't read. Little Mushroom said stubbornly.

I looked at the little mushroom blankly, thinking that the idea of the indigenous people is different from normal humans, in order to be quiet, they actually feed poisonous mushrooms to others, and I only ate a little bit at a loss, otherwise I am afraid that I will be the first person in the world to be poisoned because of the too big movement of turning over.

However, the night's sleep also made my mind very clear, and I seemed to feel like I was alive again, but I was a little hungry.

I looked at the little mushroom and asked, "Do you know the words in the book?" ”

Little Mushroom's face turned red, "Some have seen it, but most of them haven't seen it, I guess it's only the old Wick in our clan who can know me, and I can't." ”

"And you've been watching it for so long?"

"There are many paintings in the book, and I have seen all these flowers and plants. Brother Bug, is this a book that teaches people about plants? ”

"No, this is a medical book, and the Chinese have found that some flowers, roots, and even bone ores can cure diseases, so they have summed up a lot of prescriptions." My book is just for teaching people how to identify Chinese herbs. ”

"Then tell me what these herbs can cure, okay?"

I looked at the little mushroom, thinking that even if I had half the interest and seriousness of the little mushroom when I was in school, it was good, my father often said that he wanted to train me to be a learned talent, but then he said less and less, about to see that I was not a talent to show the material, full of thoughts is to run out to hunt, he was very disappointed, since then he rarely cared about me, so I had more fun.

Seeing that I didn't speak, Little Mushroom was a little embarrassed, "Brother Bug, is it that the content of these books can't be passed on." ”

I shook my head: "If you want to know, I'll tell you later." Little Mushroom Daxi: "Great." ”

I thought about the situation outside and asked, "I've slept for so long, how is it outside, and there has been no movement all night?" ”

Little Mushroom said, "Yesterday evening, many people came down from the mountain, but they didn't go up the mountain at night. ”

I secretly screamed that it was not good, wasn't it surrounded? Immediately got up, took the gun and walked out.

The little mushroom also followed me out, and we lay on the top of the hill and looked down. Looking down the mountain in the early morning light.

A number of soldiers had gathered at the foot of the mountain, and as I expected, the Australian soldiers had come to the bottom of the hill last night and surrounded the hill, and were now massing, and it seemed that they were going up the hill to capture me, the Assassin.

This mountain is not like the main peak of Big Wolf Mountain, it is a solitary peak, and there is no cave directly under the mountain that I can slip away without noticing.

I sighed and said to Little Mushroom, "Little Mushroom, you should go down the mountain as soon as possible with the basket on your back." ”

Little Mushroom was happy, completely unaware of the seriousness of the problem, "Are we going down the mountain?" ”

"No, it's you who go down the mountain. I can't be with you. ”

"Why?" The mushroom then understood, "They're here to get you." ”

I nodded and admitted, "They don't know you, and when you go down the mountain and they ask about me, you just say you didn't see it, I don't think they will embarrass you as a little girl who goes up the mountain to pick mushrooms." ”

Little Mushroom pouted, "Brother Bug, if you don't leave, I won't leave either." ”

This girl is full of attachment to me after a day and a night with me, in fact, I don't bring her any sense of security at all, we are more like two little birds who rely on each other for warmth in the wind and rain.

"Be obedient, if you are caught by them, we will all die, and you can live one if you go down by yourself. After you go down the mountain, you go to the Kyushu vegetable garden in Wenzhe Town, and tell the people there, they say that I got into trouble and ran away, I play outside every day, and often don't go back, they are used to it, and if they know that I am dead, they will be sad. I don't want that. ”

Little Mushroom shed tears, "Brother Bug, I don't want you to die." Let's get rid of these people. ”

I smiled bitterly, "What a stupid thing to say, even if I am a god of marksmanship, I can't drive away so many soldiers." You'd better get down the mountain as soon as possible, they'll find you with me, and you're in danger. ”

Little Mushroom cried and just said, "Brother Bug, if you don't go, I won't go." I've grown so big, you're the first to protect me, and if you die, I don't want to live anymore. ”

I looked at the poor little girl with some sourness in my nose. I remembered that when the old stonemason was in danger, he said, "There is no sorrow in life, and there is no pain in death", yes, only those who have suffered in the world can look down on life and death.

I slapped my hand on the stone, "Okay, little mushroom, we will be brother and sister from now on, and we will worship the heavens here today." ”

"What do you mean by bowing?"

Little Mushroom's question made me laugh, she was an Aboriginal Australian girl and certainly didn't understand what swearing was.

I patiently explained: "Two strangers depend on each other because of blessings and misfortunes, and they are like brothers and sisters, and they have become a family since then, sharing blessings and hardships. Worship is a kind of ritual, after the worship, we are brothers and sisters with different surnames, and we become a family. ”

Little Mushroom looked at me and said timidly, "Brother Worm, do I need to sleep with you after swearing and give you a baby?" ”

I almost spit out a mouthful of old blood, "Little mushroom, where do you want to go, we are swearing, not getting married, and after swearing, we are brothers and sisters, not two people." ”

Little Mushroom blinked and said faintly, "Oh, I see." ”

"After swearing, I will be your brother, you are my sister, I will be responsible for protecting you in the future, and no one can bully you. Just follow me. ”

I knelt there, holding my right hand to the heavens as an oath, and the little mushroom knelt beside me in the same way as I did.

I said loudly: "The sky is above, the earth is below, I, the Shen worm, ......."

The little mushroom also said: "The sky is above, the earth is below, I-little mushroom ......"

I said, "Today, I will worship here and become brothers and sisters with different surnames, and from now on, I will share blessings and hardships, and I will not seek to be born on the same day and month of the same year, but to die on the same day and month of the same year." Then look at the little mushroom.

Little Mushroom shook his head, and I asked, "What's wrong, the oath is too long, don't you remember it?" ”

"No, Brother Bug, there is something wrong with your oath, you are five years older than me, if we die on the same day, the same month, and the same year, won't I live five years less than you?"

I regret that I have sworn with the little mushroom, my own whim, the proud oath was actually questioned by her, the Chinese say so.

I blackened my face and said, "Then you say, how should this oath be changed?" ”

Little Mushroom said: "Today we are here to worship, become brothers and sisters with different surnames, from then on, we will share blessings and difficulties, until we become gray-haired husbands and old women, and we can also have delicious food to eat together, and have fun to play together." ”

I laughed, "Little mushroom, you're right, what life and death are bad, let's do this as a pair of happy brothers and sisters, there are delicious things to eat together, and there are fun things to play together." ”

The little mushroom was also happy, and there were tears in her eyes, so I helped her wipe away the tears and said, "Look at you are excited, why are you still crying." ”

Little Mushroom cried and said, "Brother Bug, are those soldiers going to kill us?" ”

I am also full of desolation, and I have just said that I will not talk about life and death, but we will immediately face the problem of life and death.

I must not let those soldiers catch me alive, or even let them recognize me as Shen Worm, or my father, Anne, and my friends, including the craftsmen, will all suffer.

I was thinking about how I would die, and it would be better to have a pack of wild boars or coyotes and eat me as a snack, and not even a single bone residue remained.

But although the mountains and trees are dense on this Wollongong, there are few wild beasts, these beasts, usually don't look for you, you all send them to my gun, now your chance to take revenge has come, I will be willing to sit and wait for any one, but at this moment I can't even see a hair.

It seems that the best thing to do is to cremate myself, and when the wind blows, there will be nothing left, and this will not work, I can't sit in the matchmaker by myself, and then see that my head or legs are not burned clean, and then run out to pick up some branches, right? Luckily, there are little mushrooms, and she has to help me at critical moments.

I looked at the little mushroom and smiled, and the little mushroom saw that I was smiling ugly, and asked, "Brother Bug, what are you laughing at?" ”

"Now that you're my sister, so, my brother has something to ask of you."

Little Mushroom stepped back in fright, "Brother Bug, what are you going to do?" ”

"I'll pick up some firewood and grass for a while, and then cremate myself to ashes, and then you can add more firewood when there is a place that has not been burned."