"No daddy, no daddy, no daddy......"

A group of ragged children gathered around shouting and laughing, and occasionally spat and roll their eyes at the children in the middle.

The child in the middle sat down on the ground, covered in mud, his hair unkempt, and his dirty little face full of anger and tears, and he slammed up from the ground, shouted and broke through the wall of people who were laughing at him, and ran in the direction of his home.

Not far away, smoke was rising from a thatched hut, and a woman was cooking, and although she was dressed in a coarse linen dress without rouge and gouache, she could not hide her natural beauty.

"Zhan'er, you're back, come and wash your hands and get ready to eat." The woman said gently, her beautiful eyes revealing the vicissitudes of life.

The child ignored the woman's call, ran straight into the house, and lay on the bed and sobbed secretly.

The woman followed in, sat on the edge of the bed, gently patted the child's back, and did not speak, but her eyes were full of pity and helplessness, and endless memories and sadness came to her heart.

coincided with the war, six years ago, the husband left himself and the men of the same village who were pregnant with Liujia to enlist in the army and became a soldier of the Great Qin, but now Zhan'er is six years old, and some of the men in the same village died in battle, and some returned to the village to resume farming......

Poor Zhan'er has never seen his biological father since he was born, let alone experienced what fatherly love is. He lived the life of an orphan and a widow with his war children, and naturally the ridicule and bullying of the people around him were indispensable......

The child sat up suddenly, and his little stained face, which had been washed away by tears, stubbornly raised, and his big red and swollen eyes stared at the woman, only to hear him ask in a childish voice, "Mother, why don't I have a father?" ”

The woman lovingly wiped away the tears from the child's cheeks and whispered, "Silly child, who said you don't have a father?" You have a father, your father's name is Wu Laosan, and he is an amazing hero! At this time, the woman comforts the child in this way.

"I don't believe it!" The child said angrily: "If my father is a big hero, then why doesn't he come to protect us?" But let us be bullied? ”

Tears also appeared in the woman's eyes, she stroked the child's unkempt bun, and said, "Zhan'er, your father is doing a great thing outside, and he will naturally come back when he is done, and no one will dare to bully us anymore when the time comes......"

Seeing that his mother couldn't cry, the child became sensible, only to see him raise his hand to wipe away the tears on the woman's face, and said childishly: "Mother, Zhan'er believes that Dad will come back soon, let's go to dinner......"

The sunset on the horizon is like a fire, and the birds are calling to fly back to their nests, and the quiet night gradually envelops the whole world.

This is a small mountain village located near the border of Qin and Zhao, because it is on the side of the Qin State, and many people in the village are surnamed Wu and called Wu Jiaao, due to the war for many years, the people in the village are thin, fortunately, the Qin State has changed the law of the Shang Dynasty, and the abandoned well field is opened to Qianmo, and the military merit system is implemented, and each family can basically get a few acres of thin fields, and can barely survive.

The child's name is Wu Zhan, this name was set as early as when he was not born, Wu Zhan is homophonic without war, I hope that there will be no more war in the world, and people can live a good life.

Looking at the sleeping child, the woman could no longer control her emotions, and tears of longing and grievance flowed wantonly on her beautiful face like beads of broken thread.

On the second day, after breakfast, Wu Zhan ran to other children to play like no one, and near noon, an unkempt man suddenly stumbled into the entrance of the village, only to see that he was tall, full of beard, about thirty years old, dressed as a traveling merchant, carrying a tattered bag on his back, and there was faint blood oozing out under the dark kudzu clothes.

The children of the village, who had never seen anyone before, shouted and ran towards their homes when they saw him with a fierce face.

Wu Zhan is the same, adults often instill in them that there are bad people who catch children, and now when they see such a strange person, how do they look like the legendary "bad guys".

Without running a hundred steps, Wu Zhan turned back sharply and found that the "bad guy" was following closely behind him, walking towards his thatched house.

"Mom!"

Wu Zhan screamed, only to feel a cold sweat on his back, and then ran towards home at full speed, muttering in his heart as he ran: Why doesn't this "bad guy" chase others but himself?

Seeing that Chaimen was in sight, and his mother's busy figure was already in front of him, Wu Zhan's complexion finally eased slightly, but soon he was in trouble again: this "bad guy" was clearly here to arrest him, if he introduced him into the house, wouldn't it make his mother and relatives also in danger?

No, you can't let him hurt his mother!

Wu Zhan made up his mind, so he didn't stop, and suddenly turned to the right-hand direction and ran.

After running out for a few dozen steps, Wu Zhan was worried that the "bad guy" didn't follow him, but instead stopped and looked behind him, but saw that the "bad guy" didn't know when, he actually fell in the middle of the road, motionless, as if he had fallen asleep.

Curiosity overcame fear, Wu Zhan couldn't help but turn back and rub towards the "bad guy" step by step, and when he got closer, he found that the man's eyes were closed, his unkempt black hair mixed with grass clippings and whiskers twisted together, and there was no trace of life on his pale face, if it weren't for the slight undulation of his chest, his appearance would be no different from that of a dead man.

Just when Wu Zhan stopped to watch, the mother who was originally busy in the yard finally discovered the abnormality here, hurriedly put down the work at hand and ran out, pulled Wu Zhan, who was standing still, and took him into his arms, and he looked at the man who fell to the ground in fear, but this look made her whole person unconscious like a lightning strike.

"The Third ......"

The mother exclaimed, hurriedly let go of Wu Zhan, rushed forward, and brushed away the unkempt hair of the man who fell to the ground, and when she carefully identified it, she couldn't help but be surprised and happy, and cried: "It's really you...... Whining...... It's really you...... Third...... You're finally back......"

"Zhan'er, hurry, help your father back to the house......"

Wu Zhan looked at the strange man lying flat on the bed, from between his combed eyebrows, Wu Zhan found a similar feeling to himself, thick eyebrows, straight nose bridge, angular cheeks, this person's appearance is not handsome, but full of masculinity.

This man is my legendary father? My mother said he was a great hero, but why was he hurt so badly......

Just as Wu Zhan was contemplating, his mother walked in with a bowl of steaming decoction, and when she saw her son looking at his father on the bed in a daze, she couldn't help but have a sour nose, and said: "Zhan'er, the village chief said that your father just worked hard for days and lost too much blood, and he will be fine if he drinks the medicine and takes care of himself, you don't have to worry." ”

Wu Zhan turned to meet his mother's gaze and said suspiciously: "Mother, you said that my father is a great hero, I want to know where my father has gone all these years?" What did you do? ”

"Silly boy, when your father wakes up, you can just ask him if he doesn't do it yourself." The mother gently scraped Wu Zhan's nose and said with a forced smile.

"Oh, my dad is back, I'm not without a daddy anymore!" Wu Zhan cheered and ran out of the house, he was going to find the people who had laughed at him for being "no father", and tell them that his father was back.

Looking at her son's distant back, the mother shook her head and sighed softly, then sat down on the edge of the bed again, gently raised her husband's head, and fed the decoction in the bowl into his mouth one by one......

Two days later, the man finally woke up, and it was his wife and children who came into view, and the man stared for a moment, and then his originally enthusiastic eyes became empty again.

"Zhan'er, hurry, call Dad!" The mother said excitedly, but her eyes were full of tears.

"Daddy......" Wu Zhan called timidly, and hid in his mother's arms.

I saw that the man slowly closed his eyes, and only opened them again after a while, but a hot tear slipped out of the corner of his eye.

"You've suffered all these years!" The man stared at his wife, said the same thing in a hoarse voice, closed his lips again, and said nothing, and his eyes were empty again.

"It's good to come back, it's good to come back!" The mother stroked Wu Zhan's bun with one hand, covered her mouth with the other and sobbed silently.

Although the man in front of him was weird and not enthusiastic about himself, Wu Zhan was still very happy, because from now on, no one would laugh at him for not having a baby.

After a month, the man was already able to get out of bed and walk around alone, but in the past month, he almost didn't say a word, and he seemed to turn a blind eye to his wife who took care of him every day and his son who was alive in front of him, which made Wu Zhan's young heart very hard.

On this day, the man dressed neatly, took out a yellow gold ingot from his tattered bag and handed it to Wu Zhanniang, saying, "You take this money." He walked out of the house alone, noncommittally.

Wu Zhanniang looked at the yellow and heavy gold in her palm, and couldn't help but fall into deep thought, this money is enough for her family to live well for ten years, it seems that her husband has indeed done a lot of things outside these years.

"Look at me, the child's father has finally returned, and I haven't celebrated him properly......" After talking to herself, Wu Zhanniang hurriedly and carefully put away the gold, and took out a few copper coins and walked towards the village.

In the evening, a table of sumptuous wine and food was placed on the stone table in the courtyard, Wu Zhan and his mother waited for the man to come back to eat, looking at the oily chicken on the table, smelling the fragrant mutton, Wu Zhan swallowed vigorously.

Finally, the tall figure of the man walked into the courtyard door, and Wu Zhan and his mother hurriedly got up to greet each other.

"Master, you're finally back......"

"Dad, come on, my mother has prepared a table of sumptuous wine and food for you, I haven't eaten it since I was so old......"

The man's weak footsteps stagnated for a moment, so he went straight to the table, picked up the jar of wine, and turned around and walked towards the house, saying as he went: "Eat, I'm not hungry!" ”

Looking at the man's disappearing back, Wu Zhanniang was very helpless, so she had to lead Wu Zhan to sit at the table, the child always had to eat......

In the days that followed, the man shut himself up in his room all day, just drinking from altar to altar, as if everything had nothing to do with him except wine, and when he finally sobered up, he disappeared, and he didn't know where to go and what to do.

Wu Zhan's original expectation turned into disappointment, didn't his mother say that his father was a big hero? I didn't expect him to be just a drunkard with no sense of responsibility! It's just that Wu Zhan buried this deep in his heart and didn't say it to anyone.