Wu Xiu looked at the room and said with a smile: "When you got married, I didn't come back, you definitely don't know me." My name is Wu Xiu, and I am also from Tianshui Wai, and I grew up with Vientiane when I was a child. ”

Only then did the Yao woman think of something, "I heard Vientiane talk about it, and he also said that you will definitely come during this time." With that, he prepared to serve tea and pour water.

Fang Xiaowen stood in the main room for a while, looked at Wu Xiu a few times, and then went back to the room. Wu Xiu unloaded the animal skins from the horse, and then dried them one by one on the bamboo poles in front of the house, and the Yao woman asked Chen Sidao, "That's the beast you fought on the road." ”

Chen Sidao nodded and pointed at Wu Xiu, "He killed one by one." ”

Wu Xiu finished his work and said with a smile: "Vientiane daughter-in-law, these animal skins will be given to you." ”

The Yao woman laughed, "My name is Alan, and Brother Wu can call me Alan." ”

In the evening, everyone gathers for dinner.

Fang Xiaowen finally spoke, "You, it's okay." ”

Wu Xiu took a sip of local rice wine, "I'm fine." ”

Fang Xiaowen eats and sleeps quite well now, most of the food in Yaozhai is mainly meat-based, plus Alan is famous for his hospitality and virtuousness, he suddenly changed his tricks, and he didn't see him for a few days, Fang Xiaowen seemed to have gained a few pounds. Fang Xiaowen lowered her head and said in a low voice, "I hurt you." ”

Wu Xiu put down his rice bowl, "You really don't have to think so much, things are over, people have to look forward." Since I saved you, I can't leave you alone, besides, if you really want to care, it will be after your child is born, I will not stop you wherever you want to go when the time comes. ”

Fang Xiaowen raised her head suddenly, the pear blossoms brought rain, and looked at Wu Xiu pitifully and helplessly, "You and I don't know each other, don't you feel wronged?"

Wu Xiu didn't look at her, but glanced at Chen Sidao, and said softly: "I was really a little aggrieved at first, but now I won't." I've been a soldier, I've killed a lot of people, and I'm not a good man, but the moment I woke up from a coma for seven days, I suddenly felt that it was worth it, and it was a very meaningful thing. Before, I was a person who spared my life and took life and death very lightly, but now it is different, I love life, I love all life. ”

Fang Xiaowen cried slightly, "Then have you thought about it, what will happen next time they come again, can you still resist it?"

Wu Xiu spread out his hands, "This is the purpose of me and you coming to Yaozhai, living here, we are all safe." No matter how bad it is, let's run away and wander the world. ”

Fang Xiaowen stared at Wu Xiu, and when she looked at it, she burst into laughter, but when the laughter stopped, she cried even louder.

While crying, she looked at Wu Xiu, and her heart ached and grieved inexplicably, and then she fell into an endless struggle. She got up silently, turned around and went to the room, and got into the bed.

Alan got up to comfort Fang Xiaowen.

Chen Sidao had eaten his fill and went to the door to box.

At the dinner table, Wu Xiu drank silently alone.

Two days later, in the evening, Vientiane returned, and he could not take all the meat and hides he had obtained, so he had to go home and call his daughter-in-law for help. Before he could enter the house, he saw a man dressed in black standing in front of his house looking left and right, and he shouted loudly, and the man turned his head.

Wu Xiu smiled, since he was a child, the black and thin Vientiane is still black and thin, but his face has more perseverance and vicissitudes, dressed as a hunter, showing bravery and fearlessness, full of aura, really not like the most naughty little kid since childhood, the girl of Yaozhai has a soft spot for brave men, maybe the days of the escape, the little Vientiane was sharpened into a man who stood up to the sky, but he still couldn't hide that he was not majestic, I really couldn't figure out how such a beautiful girl as Alan was willing to marry him.

"Little Vientiane!" Wu Xiu shouted.

Vientiane was slightly stunned, then he also opened his eyes and shouted loudly, "Brother Da Zheng!" He ran in front of Wu Xiu and hammered Wu Xiu's chest, "When did you come?"

"I've been here for a few days, and I've been waiting for you to go home, how about it, is there more prey this time?" Wu Xiu looked down at Vientiane.

Vientiane didn't answer the question, with a provocative look, and asked, "I heard that you are a martial artist now?

Wu Xiu took a breath and looked at the past with a lame method of observing the tide, Vientiane Qi and blood were extremely prosperous, and the operation of the acupoints was extremely stable and orderly, although he couldn't see the geometry of the opening of the acupoints, but the majestic aura exuded from his body was enough to explain everything. Wu Xiu nodded and said, "What's the matter, Alan isn't willing to marry you because you kid has a few tricks, right?"

Vientiane proudly patted his elbow muscles, like a small piece of steel, "Let's try another day." Let's go, help me get something, let's eat barbecue and drink a lot of wine at night!"

Vientiane divided a tiger skin and a number of other animal skins, and he said that this tiger skin was not for sale, and he was going to make a winter leather jacket for Alain. Wu Xiu carried the meat, which was more than 200 catties, and Vientiane carried the animal skin, and said in frustration: "There are not so many prey in the mountains over the years, and it seems that they have all gone to the forest." This time, we also took the risk to go deeper, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to fight so much. ”

Wu Xiu also said: "When we came, we encountered a group of wild beasts on the road, and the leader seemed to be a little sane. ”

Vientiane said: "This is not unusual, there have been a few big guys over the years, belonging to that kind of half-demon beasts, they have almost divided up all the beasts, deliberately bypassing the scope of our hunting, and besieging the lone person who entered the mountain with a group of small beasts all day long." ”

Wu Xiu pointed to a huge tiger skin on Vientiane's back, "It's not easy to deal with this guy, right?"

Vientiane spat at the mouth, "The five of us couldn't shoot through its skin with arrows, so we could only fight in close combat, and we injured two people, but neither of them could die, so the tiger meat was divided between the two of them." ”

After arriving home, the two cleaned up, Vientiane said that the meat would be roasted at night, and after cutting a few large pieces, the rest would be handed over to Alan for processing, and the weather was hot, and the meat should generally be smoked and sprinkled with salt, and put it in a cool cellar, which could be kept until winter. Wu Xiu and Vientiane started to light a fire in the courtyard outside the door.

The house was full of wine and meat, and Fang Xiaowen also rarely went out to enjoy the moonlight in the courtyard with everyone.

After another two days, Fang Xiaowen's stomach began to hurt with foremen.

The old midwife in Yaozhai only held a pair of scissors, and slowly arrived at Vientiane's house with her hands behind her back, and the cutting made a clicking sound as she walked, and Wu Xiu couldn't help but worry about Fang Xiaowen. Vientiane said: "Don't worry, Grandma Tang has been delivering babies since she was fifteen years old, and almost all the people in Yaozhai are delivered by her." ”

After asking for two basins of hot water and calling Alain for help, the old woman closed the door with a bang. Then I only heard Fang Xiaowen's crying, and I didn't know if it was scared or hurt by the old woman. In short, Wu Xiu began to feel uneasy.

Vientiane smiled and said: "This woman is so good-looking, just marry her, and lose a fat son for nothing, what a good thing." ”

Wu Xiu ignored him, and drank one cup after another.

After tossing for an hour, still crying of children, the old woman opened the door, pointed at Wu Xiu, who was looking at her with wide eyes, and said in the Yao dialect, "You, go find a stick!"

Wu Xiu didn't understand, looked at Vientiane, and Vientiane said, "Let you go find a stick." ”

"What are you looking for a stick?" Wu Xiu asked in surprise.

Vientiane shook his head, and got up and went to the door to bring a bamboo stick to the old woman's bloodstained hands.

What is this for? Could it be that Fang Xiaowen is disobedient and has to be beaten? How can there be such a delivery for people, this is too exaggerated! Wu Xiu pretended to be calm, but the back of his palms were sweaty.

Another hour passed, and a piercing cry pierced the silent night, like a ray of hope in the darkness. Wu Xiu stood up suddenly, looked at Vientiane's helpless face, and sat down quietly. Then he laughed to himself.

There is no hope that a new life cannot give, just as there is no bump in the road that cannot be overcome.

Everything is worth it. Everything was perfect.

Even if the child does not belong to him, he has at least paid and struggled for this new life.

After a while, the old woman who delivered the baby came out of the room, and after two hours of hard work, the old woman looked visibly tired. She pointed at Wu Xiu and said, "It's a male baby, your woman has a difficult birth, without me, I'm afraid the child can't be saved!"

Wu Xiu got up embarrassed and wanted to say something, but was preempted by Vientiane and said: "Grandma Tang, I don't understand what you said about my brother, I will send you happy meat tomorrow, you can go home and rest." ”

The old woman muttered a few words, wiped her hands, took her scissors, and clicked away with her hands behind her back.

Wu Xiu was confused, Vientiane translated the old woman's words, and Wu Xiu said: "Vientiane, you have to tell Alain, it will be troublesome for her to take care of her during this time, and I will not be idle, next time you hunt, I will also go and hunt more prey for you." ”

Vientiane said, "Mother-in-law, mother-in-law, like a girl." But I can't decide how long I can stay, and only what the patriarch and the high priest say counts. ”

Wu Xiu also already knew the situation, "I'll go see the patriarch and the high priest another day to see if I can be accommodating, and if I need to do something, I will never shirk." ”

Vientiane sighed, he had personally experienced the difficulties as an outsider, and he had endured all kinds of tests for Alain, which could be said to be tortured in all kinds of ways, and finally survived. Alan was expelled from the family for him, and became the last Yao person with no ancestors and no protection from the Yao God, and her glorious bloodline, which was the envy of the entire Yao village, was regarded as a joke by many people and has been watched for so many years. He and Alain have been married for so many years, why don't they have children? It is because they can't have children, and before leaving home, Alain's patriarch father said that if a child is born, the high priest will take it and sacrifice it. There is a breath in his heart, but two fists are hard to beat four hands, and it is impossible to solve it with fists, even if it is solved with fists, it is in vain, because there are too many people in Yao Village who can easily kill him.

Alan wrapped the baby in animal skin, walked out of the door, and handed it to the two big men, who were going to take care of Fang Xiaowen, who was still unconscious.

Vientiane hugged the wrinkled baby and said in disgust: "This is too ugly!"

Wu Xiu gently stroked the baby's cheek with his fingers, and the baby looked at Wu Xiu, dancing with his hands, not knowing whether he was hungry or frightened by Wu Xiu, he immediately cried, Wu Xiu smiled: "What do you know, the child is born like this, and it will be fine when the moon is full." ”

Alain, sweating profusely, came out to pick up the baby, saying that the baby was hungry and needed to be fed.

Vientiane watched Alain go back and forth, busy as if he had given birth to a son, he couldn't help but feel a little sad, he sighed: "Alain likes children very much, she doesn't say it, but I can see it in her eyes." It's a pity that I'm not a Yao person, and we can't have our own children even if we are together. If you can, let this child be our godson. ”

Wu Xiu patted Vientiane on the shoulder, "I have also heard of some regulations in Yaozhai, why don't you and Alan go and go to a place where no one knows to live?"

Vientiane sighed again: "I said, Alan is unwilling, she said that her soul is here, and she must die in Yaozhai." I couldn't resist her, and I was afraid that she would be sad, so I owed her a lot, so I didn't speak. ”

"Have a drink?" Wu Xiu asked.

So the two big men, each with their own sorrows, drank one cup after another.

The next morning, Fang Xiaowen woke up from weakness, looked at the baby sleeping peacefully next to her, was stunned, and then cried loudly. The cry woke up Wu Xiu, Wu Xiu wanted to enter the room, but stopped again, just hesitated outside the room and said, "Congratulations! You can rest assured now, take good care of yourself, don't worry about anything else." ”

Fang Xiaowen stopped crying, and said softly after a long time: "Give the child a name, without you, the child can't live." ”

Wu Xiu held one hand in one hand and put it on his abdomen, for a reason: "I can't read, I don't know how to take, so you can follow your wishes." By the way, if you want to eat something, just let Alain make it for you, your body needs to be replenished, otherwise the child will starve. ”

The room fell silent, Wu Xiu had no choice but to say no more, and when he turned to leave, Fang Xiaowen said loudly: "Nian'en!

Wu Xiu stopped, silently chanted 'Nian'en, Nian'en' twice, and then said, "Okay." ”

In the next few days, Wu Xiu and Vientiane discussed the matter of the next hunting, Chen Sidao followed Wu Xiu's instructions to practice every day, and Alain's task was to serve Fang Xiaowen. The newborn child is nothing more than eating, and then, pee, and fart, not his own child, but the virtuous and kind Alan does not dislike it.

On this day, because there were more diapers on the bamboo poles at the door of Vientiane's house, they had to take the animal skins to the flat ground below the valley to dry, and the two were busy walking a tall man with his hands on his sleeves, Vientiane knew him, and reminded: "This is Alain's brother, Anukan, the next patriarch, probably coming to you."

Wu Xiu stood up and clenched his fists.

Anugan still put his hands on his sleeves, looked straight at Wu Xiu, and asked straight to the point, "How long are you going to stay?"

Wu Xiu put down his hands, "At least wait until the child is full moon." ”

Anukan looked at Vientiane, who had been busy, with disdain, "A word of caution, don't think of this place as your home." Then he looked at Wu Xiu, "Do business with us, welcome, but don't think of Yaozhai as your shelter." ”

Under the fence, Wu Xiu had no choice but to swallow his anger, "I will explain this matter to the patriarch and the high priest, if the enemy comes to the door, it will definitely not affect Yaozhai." ”

Anugan lowered his hands, "You'd better leave within a month." ”

Anukan was gone.

Wu Xiu looked at the back of Anukan leaving, then turned around to work, and also planned the next step.

After all, it's not his hometown, and he has to leave after all.