He slowly raised his hand and pinched his face fiercely.

"Well, it really hurts," he was sure he wasn't dreaming. He pinched his ear again to make his mind clearer.

"Oh my God, what's wrong with me?" His eyes were bitter, his nose was sore, and countless memories of the past came flooding back to him.

He is an orphan, a scourge that even he dislikes.

There were only two things in his body, a small inconspicuous stone and an old, yellowish sheepskin.

His hometown, at the foot of Xuefeng Mountain in Central and Southern Province, belongs to the northern foothills of the Nanling Mountains, on the eastern edge of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, and is the watershed between the Yuan River and Zishui.

Xuefeng Mountain was called Meishan in ancient times, it was called Chu Mountain before, and Chu Mountain was called Huiji Mountain before; Before Huiji Mountain, it was called Kunlun Mountain together with Wuling Mountain, and it was a place where great men came out in large numbers. The famous Battle of Snow Peak Mountain once took place there.

Xuefeng Mountain runs from southwest to northeast, and the southern section of the mountain is high; The northern section is broad and gentle, and the main peak is Subaoding. On the southeast side of the summit of Subao, there are two small rivers.

Between two small rivers, there is a small village called Ssangyong Village. Ssangyong Village is a seemingly ordinary place, and he was born there.

According to his grandmother, at dusk on the day he was born, the wind was fierce, lightning and thunder, and rain showers; The dogs in the village, like ghosts, barked like crazy.

The midwife in the village was very nervous, and her hand holding the scissors kept shaking, but she couldn't get her hands down. His grandmother had no choice but to take his mother to the only hospital in town.

Unfortunately, all the obstetricians and gynecologists in the hospital went to the old mountains to fight the flood and save people. His mother had to find her own tools and gave birth to him by caesarean section.

His mother died in the hospital because of blood loss. Strangely, on the same night, a fire broke out in the morgue of the hospital for some reason.

For unknown reasons, the hospital sent all the bodies for cremation. In desperation, his grandmother had to take him back to the village, and the two depended on each other.

Unfortunate things followed, when his grandmother went to the mountain to bury the urn, because of excessive grief, she fell down the mountain and broke her left leg.

In order to save money, his grandmother did not go to the hospital to see a doctor, but dragged a stump back home and continued to take care of him.

His grandmother was left permanently disabled, and since then, she has been able to walk on one right leg.

He has been very sensible since he was a child, and he always said to his grandmother in a milky voice, "Grandma, I will raise you in the future." ”

When Grandma listens, she smiles happily.

His grandmother did not forget to tell him not to forget his mother, because her mother was not easy.

His name was given for him by his mother, and it sounded like a very strange name, called Houtu. Because his father's surname was Hou, he was called Hou Houtu.

As a result, when he made a birth registration in the town, the staff wrote his name as Houtu, which is the surname Houmingtu.

By the time he was about half a year old, he was able to speak.

At that time, there was an old gentleman in the village who could tell fortunes, and he said to his grandmother; He didn't live to be four, and if he could live past four, he would have lived to be sixteen. After the age of sixteen, he had to resign himself to fate.

At the age of two, he was able to run around the village.

There was a garbage collection station in the village, and he often picked up some rags and sold them for money to help his grandmother supplement the family.

When he was three years old, his grandmother began to teach him to read and write, and he could recite poems and quotations by heart.

Seeing him study seriously, his grandmother was very relieved, and often recited his father's name. What made him strange was that he didn't have pictures of his father and mother in his house.

When he was four years old, a begging beggar came to his house, with a dirty face and shaggy hair, and he couldn't see his face and eyes clearly.

When the beggar saw him, he liked him so much that he forcibly wanted to hug him. He was very well-behaved, took the initiative to hug the beggar and said, "I can't give you food, give you a hug"

The beggar was touched and went away with tears in his eyes.

Soon, his grandmother had health problems. She knew she was dying. Before she died, she broke everyone away and called him to the bedside alone.

When he was young, he had a premonition that something was wrong. Grandma asked him to open a cupboard at the end of the bed and move a small box out of it. Inside the small box was an old, yellowish sheepskin with a small plain stone wrapped in it.

His grandmother told him that the sheepskin had been left to him by his mother herself, and that the little stone had been born with him. Before his mother died, he repeatedly told his grandmother not to get rid of the two things.

He didn't seem to understand, blinked his cute eyes, and nodded cutely. Then, under the watchful eye of his grandmother, he sewed small stones and old sheepskins into his clothes.

"Child, what a good one," said his grandmother, who closed her eyes serenely and left him forever. The grandmother who loved him the most was gone, and he cried very sadly.

The next day, the town sent someone to guide the village chief and his neighbors and help him bury his grandmother.

Since then, he has been an orphan.

He was dazed, no crying, no tears. He became very silent and did not like to talk. Slowly, many people in the village secretly called him "Disaster Star".

The garment he wore on his body was never taken off or washed. Later, because it was very smelly, everyone couldn't stand it, and no one wanted to come to his house to help him.

The village chief had no choice but to find the town and send him to the town's orphanage.

When he left home, he only took with him two novels he had picked up from rags, one called "The Way Returns to Zero" and the other called "Dragon Walking Universe".

In the orphanage in the town, he is still withdrawn, does not like to play with his friends, and is becoming more and more alone.

The stinking shabby clothes were laid under the mattress in the dormitory. The teacher at the orphanage had no choice but to shake his head.

One day, Wu Xiaohe's friend in the same dormitory wanted to play with him, so he hid his stinking and shabby clothes.

When he returned to his bedroom, he couldn't find the garment and immediately broke down. He suspected that it had something to do with Wu Xiaohe and fought with him.

When Wu Xiaohe fell, he deliberately knocked over the candle on the table and accidentally lit the entire bedroom. If it weren't for the orphanage's teachers who found out and called the police in time, the entire orphanage might have been burned down.

Afterwards, he was reprimanded by the teacher at the orphanage. Later, in the stinking ditch, the teacher helped him find the dress and threatened to burn it.

He went insane, snatched his clothes, and ran out of the orphanage. Sadly, he ran to the back hill to find his grandmother's grave.

Soon he lost his bearings.