After nightfall, a dog barking can be heard in the mountains from time to time.

"There are wild dogs. Shen Jiumei frowned, "It seems that you must build a fire." Qiu Bao, don't walk around in the cave, I'll go out and pick up some firewood. "She's wounded, and sooner or later a foraging wild dog will come to her smelling blood. Build a fire to keep the wild dogs out of the hole.

Unexpectedly, Shen Qiubao held her down: "Ninth sister, don't move." I'm going to collect firewood. ”

It was already completely dark outside. I don't know what kind of danger lurks. Where is Shen Jiumei?

"You're still young,......" Shen Jiumei struggled to get up.

"Ninth sister, I will collect firewood. Also, I won't go far, just pick up a little at the door and come back. Shen Qiubao stubbornly interrupted her, "You have a strong smell of blood on your body, and going out will attract wild dogs." ”

He was telling the truth. Shen Jiumei couldn't refute it, so she had to advise: "Don't go far." Just pick up a little near the entrance of the cave. If there are wild dogs, be sure to shout at me. ”

"Hmm. Shen Qiubao responded and plunged into the dark night.

He was actually very afraid of the night. The children in the mountains were repeatedly told that at night, wild animals in the mountains were infested and dangerous.

However, at this moment, the eldest sister was pushed down the mountain and rolled all over her body in blood. Fortunately, the eldest sister is solid, and now, those large and small blood cuts have almost stopped the bleeding. However, without herbs, they only stopped the bleeding. As long as the eldest sister moves, they will definitely bleed again.

My father and mother said that human blood is very precious. Bleeding can hurt the spirit.

He didn't want his eldest sister to bleed again and hurt his vitality again. So, he was the only one who came out to collect firewood. Even if it was dark outside, far away, there were wild dogs barking one after another.

The heart is almost in the mouth. Shen Qiubao tried his best to suppress the fear in his heart, and his eyes widened and searched around.

It's a dark night. The night was like the bottom of a pitch-black pot, and it was in the sky. There was no moonlight, and there was not a hint of starlight.

All around is a deep shade of black, overlapping and overlapping. The mountain breeze blew in gusts, and they made a rustling sound.

Down the hillside, the wild dogs barked more than before.

It's so cold! A cold air creeps up my back. Immediately, goosebumps all over the body erupted. Shen Qiubao clasped his hands to his chest and shivered vigorously.

"Firewood! I want to collect firewood! The ninth sister is waiting for me to pick up firewood and go back!" He gritted his teeth and said to himself, "I am a man! I am not afraid of the dark!"

I repeated this several times, and the fear in my heart seemed to decrease a lot.

Shen Qiubao took a deep breath. The cold air rushed into his nose, and he felt his brain clear in an instant.

During this time, he learned a lot of skills from his eldest sister, and he also knew that he should always pay attention to the surrounding situation in the mountains. So, as he went up the mountain, he noticed that on the lower right side of the cave was a forest of miscellaneous trees.

The forest was very dense, and you could see the ground covered with thick leaves outside.

You're sure to be able to pick up a lot of firewood in there!

Having made up his mind, he hurried over.

Good luck. As soon as he entered the woods, he kicked a large dead branch.

He bent down and touched it, the dry branches were as thick as his wrists. Picking one up, holding it in his hand, he couldn't help grinning: Good guy!

That's it!

It's darker in the woods than outside. He couldn't see the dead branch in his hand at all, so he could only try to drag it.

Heavy!

However, gritting your teeth, you can still drag it!

So, Shen Qiubao dragged the dead branch and walked back.

At this time, the barking of the wild dogs down the hillside was closer. Shen Qiubao listened carefully, and was horrified to find that they seemed to be going up the mountain!

Ah, the wild dogs smell it?

He was so frightened that he hit a spirit. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a horizontal force came out, and the dead branch in his hand actually ran away.

Because it was too dark to see the road, he tripped over rocks and grass roots under his feet several times.

The knees and the palms of the two hands must have been scratched, and they were hot.

However, the barking of the wild dogs was noticeably more and more excited. Every time he tripped and fell, he got up as fast as he could, gritted his teeth and dragged the dead branches, and continued to run back.

Bumping and bumping, finally, the cave is in front of you.

At this moment, in front, a fist-sized fire suddenly appeared.

"Qiu Bao, is that you?" it was Shen Jiumei who heard his footsteps, lit a dead branch, and came out to greet him.

"Ninth sister, it's me!" Shen Qiubao opened his mouth, tears flowing out.

At this moment, he realized that his two knees and two palms were so painful.

"Ah, Qiu Bao, why did you drag such a big branch back?" the two brothers worked together to drag the branch to the entrance of the cave—the branch was too big to be dragged into the hole. Well, in fact, the cave is too small, if you drag it into the cave, the sister and brother will have no place to lie tonight, so they can only sit dry; It was in the way of the door, just in time to stop the wild dogs.

Soon, a fire broke out in the cave.

It didn't take long for the dingoes to find the cave where they were hiding.

Because of the presence of the fire, they did not dare to approach, but they were outside the cave, a dozen steps away, and roared sharply into the hole.

At night, such cries are really creepy.

"Don't be afraid!" Shen Jiumei gently hugged Shen Qiubao.

"I'm not afraid. Shen Qiubao leaned proudly into her arms, and couldn't help but brag, "I'm a man! I went out to collect firewood just now, and I wasn't afraid." ”

"Yes, our Qiu Bao is a man, and he is not afraid of anything!" Shen Jiumei touched his head and laughed from the bottom of her heart. After a pause, she asked coldly, "Qiu Bao, do you know why your name is Qiu Bao?"

Shen Qiubao hehe: "I know." My grandmother told me a long time ago that she had chosen my name. Because I was born in autumn, I am the eldest baby in the family, so I am called Qiubao. ”

"Then, do you know why I'm called Ninth Sister?"

"This ......," Shen Qiubao frowned, "I asked grandma, but grandma said that your name was taken by her father, and she didn't know." ”

Shen Jiumei lowered her eyes and looked at him: "You didn't ask Dad?"

"Asked. Shen Qiubao was truthful, "Dad said, when I named you, I thought of this name and thought it sounded good, so I called it so." However, my father said, I am young, so I can only call you Ninth Sister. Speaking of this, he snorted dissatisfiedly, "Brother Shizi, they all laugh at me, obviously there is only one eldest sister, but they want to brag and call the ninth sister, making me feel like I have nine sisters." "The names of female dolls in the mountains are much more casual than those of male dolls. Therefore, he did not ask any more questions.

"Daddy lied to you. Shen Jiumei giggled, "My name also has a saying." ”

"Really?" Shen Qiubao sat up curiously, raised his little face, and pleaded with sparkling eyes, "Ninth sister, tell me quickly!"

"Okay. I'm going to tell you about it later anyway. Shen Jiumei cleared her throat and said carefully.

It turned out that their mother had been pregnant with two children. However, both times she was conceived shortly ago, and she had a miscarriage.

Dad and Mom's bodies are obviously very good. Especially the mother, the grandmother took a fancy to the mother's appearance of being a good child, so she asked the matchmaker to ask for a kiss.

At this time, an experienced old man in the village came out to point out: it may be that there is a problem with the eight characters.

Generally speaking, when a man marries a woman, the first thing is to be combined. Because of the combination of eight characters, I have to go to the town to hire a fortune teller, and I spend a lot of money. People in the mountains live a tight life, and most of them save this step. Grandma tried to save money back then, and she didn't give her father and mother a lot.

After listening to the old man's words, the more she thought about it, the more she felt that this was the case.

So, as soon as her mother came out of the little moon, she took her father and mother to the town to join the eight characters.

Under the introduction of my aunt and grandmother, they invited the most famous Zhou Banxian in the town.

As a result, there was really something wrong with Dad's eight characters. Zhou Banxian said that there should be nine girls and one man in his father's life, and the first eight daughters in front of him were all debt seekers in their previous lives, destined to be short-lived and unable to stay.

When grandma and father and mother heard this, they were all frightened.

Fortunately, my aunt and grandmother were also present, and hurriedly handed over a dime of broken silver and asked, "Half Immortal, is there a way to crack it?" I hope that Half Immortal will help me and think of a way." ”

Zhou Banxian accepted the money, rolled his blind eyes with only the whites of his eyes and thought for a long time, and sighed: "You can only use the trick of hiding from the sky and crossing the sea!" That is, the father and mother adopted a daughter and named her Ninth Sister. In this way, Heaven thought that the couple had paid off the debts of their previous lives.

"As soon as the debts of the previous life are settled, Heaven will naturally give your son to your family. Zhou Banxian tapped the table with his knuckles, and admonished seriously, "However, you must hide it to death." Before the ninth sister is ten years old, she can't divulge a single bit. Rather, the old debt is not paid, and it is in debt to the new. Heaven will come down and take back your sons. ”

Zhou Banxian's name is there. Grandma was naturally convinced. So, as soon as everyone summed up, the next day, my father went back to Niutouao alone, while my grandmother and mother stayed at my aunt's house to help. After my father returned to the village, he let out the wind: my mother was pregnant again, but the fetus was not good. The Lang in the town is skilled in medicine and can protect the fetus.

During this period, my aunt and grandmother have been helping to keep an eye out for a suitable female abandoned baby - the world thinks that men are inferior to women. In the town, it is not uncommon to give birth to a daughter and throw it away secretly. So, it's not easy to adopt a son, it's really easy to adopt a daughter.

And the biological father of the ninth sister did even better. As soon as she was born, her biological father didn't even wrap a rag, so he carried it directly under the only stone hole bridge in the town and threw it in broad daylight. After throwing it, the man also spat out a mouthful of thick phlegm at the baby viciously: "Throw you here for 10,000 people to step on." Let's see which girl dares to be reincarnated in my house in the future!"

The stone bridge was full of gravel. The baby was so crying that it attracted many onlookers.

That day, my grandmother happened to have crossed the bridge. Hearing the cry of the baby girl, she was very strong, so she moved in her heart and spent ten big money to buy a small girl called Hanako to squeeze under the bridge and take the baby girl away.

"In this way, I became Shen Jiumei. My father told me these things when I was 10 years old. My dad also told me who my birth parents were. They have been living in the town. The second time I went to town with my father, he took me to the front of their house. But I didn't want to see them at all. Shen Jiumei smiled, "I only like my father, Qiu Bao...... And grandma. ”

Although grandma has always been very partial to Qiu Bao, after knowing her life experience, she doesn't care at all. Because she was not grandgranddaughter of her grandmother in the first place, and more importantly, if she hadn't made her grandmother's move that day, she would definitely not have survived.