Chapter 4: Talented
"Forgive me for saying something I shouldn't say, your child looks like this, and no one wants to feed it. Sister-in-law Zhang saw that Shangguan Hong was not giving up, and said with a sigh.
Shangguan Hong smiled bitterly, tears rolling in his eyes. Truth-telling is often the most sincere and the most hurtful.
Sister-in-law Zhang said a fact that Shangguan Hong did not want to admit and could not refute: his child was so ugly that no one wanted to feed him.
Shangguan Hong sighed, not knowing what to do.
"If you look at it, whoever has a goat can feed it with goat's milk. Sister-in-law Zhang thought for a moment and said to Shangguan Hong.
"That's right. Shangguan Hong wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes like a child, and immediately laughed.
With this idea, Shangguan Hong's heart also brightened, and after sending Sister-in-law Zhang back, he immediately went to a nearby house to buy dairy sheep.
The child's eating problem was solved, and Shangguan Hong also began to arrange his wife's funeral.
Finally buried his wife, Shangguan Hong held the child in his arms, stood in front of the grave, and wept silently.
"Xiaojuan, don't worry, I will definitely take care of our children. Shangguan Hong swore to his wife at the grave.
This snow has been falling for a full week, and there is no pedestrian place outside the house, and the snow is already half a person's height.
In the next time, Shangguan Hong didn't go out, he had prepared a lot of food as early as before winter, originally thinking that it was to make up for Xiaojuan's body, but Xiaojuan was really gone.
Every time he thinks of this, Shangguan Hong will be sad, but the reality tells him that he has to live a good life, after all, Shangguan Feixue still needs his care.
Shangguan Hong has been staying at home for half a year, and at this time, his son Shangguan Feixue has already crawled everywhere.
Seeing that there was not much food at home, Shangguan Hong had no choice but to take his children up the mountain to hunt. Because of the child, Shangguan Hong could not shoot the prey, so he could only put down the trap and make traps to catch the prey, and he did not get much in a day. If Shangguan Hong found that there was a better prey he caught, he would sell it at the bazaar to fill his son with some new clothes.
In this way, Shangguan Hong took his son and lived a stable life in poverty day by day.
In the blink of an eye, winter went to spring, several cold and summer strokes passed, and this year, Shangguan Feixue was 8 years old.
Shangguan Feixue's happiest thing every day is to go hunting in the mountains with his father, perhaps because he has been hunting with his father since he was a child, he has a special ability, that is, he can learn the sounds of various animals vividly, relying on this ability, he can scare birds so that they dare not spread their wings, can scare ordinary beasts into the trap that they dare not open, and can also introduce nearby beasts into the trap set up.
In fact, in Shangguan Feixue's heart, what he wants most is to play with children of the same age, but they don't seem to like him, always saying that he is an ominous person, saying that he is a lonely star who killed his mother as soon as he was born.
Shangguan Feixue used to ask his father what the Heavenly Evil Lone Star was and where his mother had gone, and his father would always tell him that there was no Heavenly Evil Lone Star at all, and that his mother had gone far away, a place that would not be known until Feixue grew up.
Later, when Shangguan Feixue asked more times, his father would point to a lonely star in the sky and tell him that the star was his mother. But Feixue didn't understand why his mother went to the top, why she only watched him at night, and disappeared as soon as it was dawn.
On this day, Shangguan Feixue ran to the door of his house and played on the ground with a wooden knife that his father had sharpened for him. Two children from the neighborhood came over.
"Hey, ugly boy, your knife is very good-looking, can you play with it for me?" asked the younger kid Shangguan Feixue.
"Okay. Shangguan Feixue hurriedly agreed and handed over the knife.
Finally, a child took the initiative to talk to him, which made Shangguan Feixue look very happy, as for others calling him an ugly boy, or some ominous person, or some kind of Heavenly Evil Lone Star, he didn't mind at all, because he was used to it for a long time.
"Ah, ugly boy. The older child asked Shangguan Feixue, "I heard that the sound you learned can scare animals, is it true?"
"yes. Shangguan Feixue nodded solemnly and said.
"I don't believe all the bragging?" said the older child, pouting.
"It's true. Shangguan Feixue swore to the older children.
"But my dad said that the voices of those beasts should not be learned, otherwise, it will be easy to get into trouble. Shangguan Feixue continued.
"If you don't learn, forget it. Give the stuff back to him, we don't play with him anymore, and one day you know to brag. The older child pouted and said angrily to the younger child.
"Okay. The younger child reluctantly returned the small wooden knife to Shangguan Feixue, and Radha said with a face: "Bragging, we're leaving, and we'll never play with you again." ”
"Hey, don't go. I'll learn it to you, it's not okay!" Shangguan Feixue was afraid that the two children would leave, so he hurriedly said.
"But how can I prove that I have learned like this?" Shangguan Feixue asked the two children.
"There's a donkey in Uncle Zhang's house over there, so you can learn to bark as a tiger. If it's afraid, we believe it. The older child said to Shangguan Feixue.
"Oh well. Shangguan Feixue agreed, and at the same time handed the small wooden knife to the younger child, and said, "This, you can play first." ”
The younger children smiled and took the knife and played with it.
"Let's go. The older child said to Shangguan Feixue and the younger child, and the three children came to the door of the family surnamed Zhang together.
The foal of the Zhang family was tied to a small tree outside the door at this time, eating grass.
"Now, you bark at this foal. The older child said to Shangguan Feixue.
"Stay away, and don't frighten you. Shangguan Feixue reminded the two children and said.
"Got it, you can learn. The older grade didn't believe that Shangguan Feixue could scare the horse at all, so he said casually.
The first-year child looked at the foal, and did not look at the younger child who was playing with the small wooden knife wholeheartedly, and Shangguan Feixue did not pay special attention to the younger child.
"Roar~Roar~" Shangguan Feixue began to learn the tiger roar.
His cry made the legs of the two children tremble, and the foal heard the tiger's roar, and immediately screamed loudly and kicked its hooves, and in a few moments, the foal broke free from the reins and ran in the direction of the younger child.
At this time, several families who heard the sound of the tiger's roar ran out with sticks and machetes.
Everyone didn't see the tiger, but they only saw the frightened and chaotic appearance of the Zhang family's foal.