At night, Dumb woke up from his coma.

At this time, only the iron egg, who has nothing to do all day, guards the dumb, which is also what Sister Li requested.

Tie Dan'er saw Dumb wake up, and said curiously: "Dumb, Dumb, what happened to you during the day?"

Dumb shook his head slightly: "I don't know, I just feel like my head is going to explode, as if something is about to rush out." ”

"And then?" Iron Egg asked.

And then I just sat like that, and I felt very comfortable. ”

Dumb thought about it carefully, then pointed and replied.

"And who taught you this move? That's it..."

Tie Dan'er imitated Dumb's previous actions and wanted to show Dumb, but he couldn't lift his legs, and the scene was a little embarrassing for a while.

"Ahem... No one taught me, as if I knew it before... It's useless for you to learn, you don't have that thing in your body. ”

"What the hell?" said Iron Egg.

"Hmm... I don't know how to describe it, but you just don't. ”

Dumb lowered his head and thought about it, and then said firmly.

Hearing Dumb say this, Tie Dan'er scratched his head and was a little discouraged.

Life went on day after day, and life in the village was poor, but comfortable.

One day, Dumb learned a few songs from the children in the village, and when he was tired from work, he would sing two lines every day.

will travel far away, reluctant ;

Ear sniff on the child's side.

This last year and a half did not see,

Will travel far away, nagging.

Thousands of miles of township sound isolation in southern Xinjiang,

The wife is thrifty and the mother is diligent and the family is cooperative.

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You're going to be a little friend with no one to protect you in the future.

I want to carry a gun and a prancing horse to roam the rivers and lakes by myself,

Yourself become your own armor,

Growing up alone......

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Every day when I hear Dumb's crisp singing, Sister Li's family will feel that there is nothing more comfortable in the world than this.

It would be a beautiful thing to say that this life could go on like this.

It's a pity that time doesn't stand still, and a few years have passed in the blink of an eye.

Tie Dan'er is 12 years old, and Sister Li and Brother Zhang's faces have begun to have wrinkles, but only Dumb is still the same, and there is no trace of time on his face.

The villagers expressed their surprise that this baby did not grow at all.

"Brother Zhang, Sister-in-law Li, don't you think it's strange? This child has been in our village for more than three years, right? Why was he thirteen or fourteen years old when he came, after all these years, he still hasn't changed at all, he doesn't look like this when he looks young, and the iron eggs have changed a lot!"

Faced with the problems of the people in the village, the two of them had some vague thoughts, but they were not good at saying it to outsiders.

Fortunately, the people in the village thought that Dumb must be a child of a big family in the city and would be able to maintain it, so they didn't bother anymore.

Over the years, their country and its neighbors have been at war, so there is chaos outside, but in the last two years, their country has been defeated one after another, and bandits are rampant in the country, and the neighborhood of this village is no longer as peaceful as before.

After a long time, Brother Zhang's family gradually had other ideas.

One day, Lao Zhang and his mother-in-law, Sister Li, were talking on the kang, and the topic talked about Dumb.

"Wife, it's not a way for you to say that this dumb always lives in our house, it's not nameless. ”

Lao Zhang smoked the cigarette pouch and pot, and spat heavily.

Sister Li: "Then why don't you take him out for a walk tomorrow and see if you can find his family?"

Lao Zhang sighed and said, "Alas, that's the only way." ”

"Dad, mother, what if I can't find his family?

Tie Dan'er listened to it for a while, and coughed twice because of Lao Zhang's smoke smell, and couldn't help but say something.

"If you can't find him, you can recognize him as a son, this child is much smarter than Tie Dan'er. ”

Sister Li heard Tie Dan'er's words on a whim.

Lao Zhang also chimed in and said: "I think it's okay, if you can't find his family, you can recognize a godson, and marry him a daughter-in-law in the future." ”

But this time Tie Dan was unwilling: "Why am I not as good as Brother Dumb? I'm your own child, right?"

Sister Li couldn't help but raise her head and laugh when she saw Tie Dan'er being jealous.

At this time, Lao Zhang said tepidly: "But is this kid a little unkind? I can feel that he doesn't have much affection for our family." ”

Sister Li suddenly said: "It turns out that you are worried about this, but I don't think Dumb has any other problems except that he is a little stupid." ”

"Well, I hope so. Lao Zhang sighed again.

Early the next morning, Dumb got up early as usual and wrote and drew in the open space in the courtyard.

Sister Li walked over and said to Dumb, "Dumb, do you think our family is good? Do you like us?"

Dumb raised his head, was silent for a moment, and said a little stupidly: "Like?

As soon as she heard this, Sister Li didn't know what to say, Dumb was still squatting on the ground and thinking hard about what it meant to like, but the more he thought about it, the more uncomfortable his head became.

Lao Zhang, who had been hiding behind the door and eavesdropping, walked out and said, "Okay, wife, don't ask, I'm just casually talking, you look at the dumb look, how can you understand what liking is." ”

Sister Li's face was a little unbearable, so she had to smile dryly...

Although she didn't say anything, Sister Li understood a little bit in her heart.

On this day, Dumb's whole person was confused and out of state.

At night, Sister Li and the others were worried about Dumb, so they asked Tie Dan'er to sleep with Dumb.

Dumb was lying on his side in the bed, and his mouth was still muttering: "Like, dislike, what is like?"

Tie Dan'er listened to it next to him, a little helpless.

"Dumb brother, don't think about it if you don't understand, my mother just asked casually, don't take it too seriously. ”

Tie Dan'er touched Dumb with his arm, and then comforted him.

Seeing that Dumb didn't react, Tie Dan'er turned around, it didn't matter what he looked at, Dumb curled up, his hands were clutching his hair tightly, and his body trembled, like a chaff sieve.

"Dumb brother, what's wrong with you? Is your head hurting again? Haven't you been fine all the past few years?"

When Tie Dan'er saw Dumb like this, he knew that he had a headache again, but Dumb has rarely had such a situation in the past few years, and this sudden thing made him a little at a loss, so he had to call his father and mother to see what was going on.

At this time, after a few years, Dumb's headache occurred again, which made their family a little worried.

But fortunately, there was a similar situation before, and Dumb recovered quickly.

After a few more days, Sister Li and her husband discussed together: "Lao Zhang, otherwise, when we are done with the past few days, let's go outside to find Dumb's family." ”

Lao Zhang replied casually: "Well, you can." This kid is fine except for a little stay, and I don't know what happened in his family, so it's not a good thing. ”

Tie Dan'er leaned on the edge of the door frame with a hoe in his hand and asked, "Dad, where is Brother Dumb?"

Lao Zhang replied: "I went to chop wood early in the morning." ”

At this moment, there was a rush of shouting from outside, mixed with a terrible cry—

"Help!"

"The robbers have entered the village!"

Before Lao Zhang's family could react, the outside gate was kicked open by two robbers with knives.

"Squat down for me. ”

Seeing this, Tie Dan'er brandished his hoe and threatened the robbers not to approach.

But how could he compare to two robbers with strong bodies?

The two robbers looked at Tie Dan'er with a hoe in his hand, glanced at each other, and nodded secretly.

Immediately, the two separated from different directions and slashed at Tie Dan'er together.

In his hurry, Tie Dan'er only had time to block one person before he was slashed by another person's knife.

Lao Zhang saw Tie Dan'er falling, and he couldn't care so much, so he hurriedly ran over, wanting to save Tie Dan'er.

"Another one who is not afraid of death, damn it, kill him!"

One of the robbers cursed in his mouth.

Although Lao Zhang is physically strong, his two fists are invincible to his four hands, let alone two people with knives?

Lao Zhang looked at the knife inserted in his stomach, and his consciousness was gradually blurred.

"Iron Egg... Daddy, kid!"

Sister Li knelt on the ground, watching the two closest people die one after another, and suddenly she was overwhelmed with grief and fainted on the ground.

"Don't move, give me back!"

Most of the villagers in the village were gathered in the open space at the head of the village, squatting on the ground with their heads in their hands. Sister Li was also dragged by two people and thrown to everyone's side.

There were more than a dozen robbers with swords guarding the side, and a few of the children in the villagers were already crying in fright, and their parents covered their mouths to prevent them from crying.

One of them, bald, with a hideous scar on his face, and his appearance was not flattering, and this man was the leader of these robbers.

The leader-like man shouted for his men to surround the villagers, and ordered the other robbers to go from house to house and take everything of value or food with them.

After hearing the words of the robber leader, some of the villagers on the ground couldn't help but want to stop it, but they were beaten up by the robbers who were guarding nearby, and the villagers were quiet again.

"Your actions are all sharp for Lao Tzu, and the officers and soldiers will catch up later. The bald leader urged again.

In fact, the life of these robbers is not easy, in order to solve the war, the country has excluded a large number of troops to carry out encirclement and suppression operations, and these robbers are fleeing all the way.

He passed by here and saw that it was easier to start and the place was very remote, so he decided to do a vote and then hide.

After a while, seeing that he was about to finish the robbery, a subordinate beside him said respectfully: "Big brother, it's almost over, let's withdraw as soon as possible, and the officers and soldiers should chase after us." ”

The bald leader also felt that it was almost over, and when he was about to give orders, Sister Li, who had been unconscious before, woke up and immediately began to cry.

The bald leader was bored listening to it, so he wanted to solve Sister Li before leaving.

It's just that at this moment, a crisp singing voice suddenly came from the mountain road into the village-

will travel far away, reluctant ;

Ear sniff on the child's side.

This last year and a half did not see,

Will travel far away, nagging.

Thousands of miles of township sound isolation in southern Xinjiang,

The wife is thrifty and the mother is diligent and the family is cooperative.

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