Sigh:

In the dream of the old home, the grass is miserable in the deserted courtyard.

Drinking or pecking are determined, and it is difficult to extinguish the letter due to the origin.

He was a young man and chic, and he had to make a living for the head of the family.

Don't say that floating life is all illusory, and love and hatred are stacked.

It is said that Shi Qiangsheng fled all the way, suffering unspeakably, he didn't dare to see people, he had nowhere to eat, and he had no choice but to do sneaky things.

He was not stealing money, but eating. So after a while, this Shi Johnson was dirty, and he was so thin that he changed.

At this time, even if someone sees him, they will only think that he is a flower child, and they will never recognize him as the former leader of the bandits in Crouching Tiger Mountain. However, where did Shi Qiangsheng dare to go out and let people recognize him?

Nearly two watches that night, Shi Qiangsheng climbed over a mountain and came to a small mountain village halfway up the mountain. The village is so small that there are only seven or eight households. Shi Qiangsheng was tired and hungry, so he wanted to go into the village to steal some food.

At this time, in this village, every house is lit up, and every household is bright, Shi Qiangsheng said secretly: I will sneak into the village first to see if there is a chance to get some food - it's just so strange, how can a few families in this small mountain village still light up the lights at this time?

When Shi Qiangsheng entered the village and quietly approached the house at the head of the village, he heard the sound of the squeak, so he went under the outdoor window and quietly looked in:

I saw a silhouette, who seemed to be in her twenties, holding a kitchen knife in her hand, chopping it on the cutting board, but the cutting board was empty.

Shi Qiangsheng was very surprised: "What is this for? Chopping the chopping board to play? Could it be that this woman is a master of making knives and practicing knife skills?"

So Shi Qiangsheng was going to go to another house to have a look, and when he quietly approached the other house to look, he saw that there was also a woman in this house, doing work under the lamp, and the knife was chopping on the cutting board, but it was chopping the stuffing. Although there wasn't much meat in that stuffing, it also seduced Shi Qiangsheng's mouth.

Shi Qiangsheng looked at it, and suddenly realized something in his heart, and when he turned back to the house at the head of the village to look, he saw that the woman had stopped chopping the anvil with a knife, but her shoulders shrugged and shrugged, and when she listened carefully, there was a low sobbing sound!

Shi Qiangsheng seemed to understand but didn't understand, shrank his body, and was about to retreat, but in a blink of an eye, he saw a pair of eyes glowing in the dark night, staring at himself!

When Shi Qiangsheng saw it at first glance, he couldn't help but be surprised, and he raised his foot and kicked it!

I only heard the barking of a "Wangwang" dog, and it turned out to be a dog!

Shi Qiangsheng said in his heart that it was not good, as soon as this dog barked, I had to run!

But after the dog barked, it stopped barking. Inside the room, it was the woman's voice that came: "Ah Sui, what are you barking at?"

Shi Qiangsheng knew that this voice was the woman who had chopped the empty anvil in the room before, and he thought that she was about to come out to check, so he quickly squatted down in the dark of the room, and was about to quietly move away.

I didn't want this black dog called Ah Sui by his master, but he actually wagged his tail and barked at Shi Qiangsheng again! It was as if he was reporting to his master: Dear master, there is a thief here.

This time, the hostess was alarmed, only to see her holding a kitchen knife in one hand and a lamp in the other, going out to look, and saying loudly: "Ah Sui, you bark like this, is there a thief?"

So I heard an old voice in the inner room say, "Yuyu, where is the thief?"

It seemed that with this voice, this jade jade became a little bold and took care of the lamp around. Shi Qiangsheng couldn't hide anymore, so he had to call "sister-in-law" first, and then stood up.

At this time, Na Ah Sui shook his tail as if he had caught the thief himself.

This Yuyu was also taken aback, and said sharply, "Who are you?"

After seeing Shi Qiangsheng's appearance called Huazi, this jade jade also understood: there is indeed a thief, but this thief is too undignified, more beggars than beggars!

The old voice in the room asked, "Yuyu, is there really a thief?" Without waiting for Yuyu to answer, the old voice said again: "Brother thief, my family is too poor, you go and steal it elsewhere!"

Yuyu said: "Grandma, it's nothing—it's just a begging." ”

"Oh! We come to beg for food in the middle of the night, and we don't have anything to eat. The old voice said this, and then it was silent.

Yuyu said to Shi Qiangsheng: "You heard what grandma said, right? ”

Shi Qiangsheng said in his heart, I can't spend the silver, as long as you give me a bite to eat, I will give you a silver ingot, which can be regarded as helping you to help the poor.

Thinking of this, Shi Qiangsheng said to Yuyu: "Sister-in-law, I'm so hungry that I can't walk, I just ask my sister-in-law to stutter, even if it's a piece of sweet potato!"

Yuyu said in a low voice, Shi Qiangsheng heard it clearly, and knew that she was talking about three words, "pitiful".

Somehow, after hearing these three words, Shi Qiangsheng only felt that his heart was warm for a while. Unexpectedly, the old voice in the back room spoke again: "Yuyu, are you going to give him food? ”

When Shi Qiangsheng heard this, he quickly took out a piece of silver and said, "Sister-in-law, if you can give me something to eat, this piece of silver is enough for two taels, and I will give it to you." ”

When she heard this, she said as if she had been humiliated, "You have money, but you are afraid that you will not have anything to eat?" ”

When Shi Qiangsheng heard this, he secretly praised "good ambition" in his heart, and said: "Sister-in-law, it's not that I humiliate your ambition with silver, but that I'm really hungry and can't walk." ”

So Yuyu said, "Come into the house." ”

When Shi Qiangsheng heard this, he knew that the meal had been settled, and he happily entered the house.

I saw that the jade jade took out half a bowl of boiled red that had been cooled, poured some white water, and handed over half a piece of raw sweet potato, and then said: "I will eat it - this is red, but it is the rations of my family." ”

Shi Qiangsheng ate the red sweet potato, and asked, "Sister-in-law, what kind of knife skill did you chop that empty cutting board before?"

Who knew that it was okay if he didn't ask this, as soon as he said this, he saw that this jade jade had red eyes, turned around, and was clearly crying silently.

The old voice in the room answered, and scolded hatefully: "Isn't it the damned robber on Crouching Tiger Mountain? My grandson has a total of four or five taels of silver to do some small business, and he doesn't want to pass by Crouching Tiger Mountain, and even his life is tied for this bit of silver!

When Shi Qiangsheng heard this, he was like thunder! At the same time, he thought in his heart: It seems that she is going to take revenge by practicing this sword skill.

It turns out that Shi Qiangsheng is a person, as I said earlier, he was born in a rich family and developed some shortcomings. In fact, he is essentially a man of temperament, and after listening to the words of the old man in the back room at this time, he can't help but feel ashamed, frightened, and confused!

I am ashamed that I am not the big leader of the bandits in Crouching Tiger Mountain, and now this is equivalent to people pointing at their noses and scolding, but I dare not say anything;

What is frightening is that people often say that women generally do not practice boxing and martial arts, but those who practice boxing and martial arts are often far better than men, and they can't be recognized by this person!

What is confusing is that this woman in her family is only in her twenties, and she doesn't look like a martial arts master with any advanced cultivation! Could it be that her cultivation is extremely high, and she is already in the realm of returning to the basics?

I listened to the old voice of the house there whimpering and said: "Yuyu should be strong, tomorrow is the Four Happiness Festival, everyone is chopping meat on the first night of the second watch, our Yuyu chopping the cutting board, is it not for fear of neighbor jokes?"

Only then did Shi Qiangsheng understand that tonight was the eve of the traditional Four Happiness Festival!

Speaking of this day, it is the third day of April in the second year of Kaiping of the Taiping Khanate, and tomorrow, in the first heaven of the Nine Heavens Magic Weapon Space, the people here will celebrate the Four Joys Festival.

Shi Qiangsheng ate other people's food, and he was full of shame, and he had the heart to take out twenty or thirty taels of silver to this jade jade at that time, and thought about it again, but he was afraid that people would be suspicious, and he would cause trouble for himself. So he took out five taels of silver and said,

"Sister-in-law, what happened to your family is so sad, the younger brother will give the five taels of silver to the sister-in-law. ”

Who knew that this jade jade, along with the old voice in the house, was resolutely unwilling!

Shi Qiangsheng secretly thought in his heart: "I must repay others, not to atone for my sins, but also to reduce my sins!"

That night, Shi Qiangsheng thanked the family with a thousand thanks and went up the mountain.

After dawn, Shi Qiangsheng touched in the bamboo forest, used the four-inch sharp knife he carried, selected a bamboo to cut down, cut a piece of bamboo, continued to wind it to make a bamboo bow, and made the rest into bamboo arrows, and looked for wild things all over the mountain.

In one day, Shi Qiangsheng hunted four rabbits, made a fire and barbecued one, ate half of it, and waited until it was dark, so he sent the three and a half rabbits to the Yuyu family.

Finally got dark, Shi Qiangsheng came to the village with three and a half rabbits, quietly touched them, and sent the rabbits to the door of Yuyu's house.

Unexpectedly, Shi Qiangsheng had just arrived, and he saw Na Ah shaking his head and tail to himself, and he also let out a low bark.

Yuyu was already alarmed, and when she came out to look, she was very surprised to see that it was the beggar from last night, and said, "Why are you here again!?"

Shi Qiangsheng said: "Sister-in-law, I ate your family's Huanhuan's rations for nothing last night, and I don't want to go—no, I beat three rabbits and sent them to you!"

Yuyu said: "Let's go! Hurry up! I'm a widow and a Taoist family, I can't ask for your rabbit!"

Shi Qiangsheng was embarrassed when he heard this, threw the rabbit to the ground, and turned to leave. Yuyu said: "Hey, you come back and take the rabbit away!"

Shi Qiangsheng left without turning his face.

Yuyu had no choice but to bring the rabbit to the house.

The old voice in the back room asked, "Yuyu, what was the movement just now?"

Yuyu said: "Grandma, the person who came to beg for food last night just brought three rabbits and sent them. ”

The old voice in the back room was silent, only coughing. Yuyu hurriedly entered the back room, and under the dim light, she gave the grandmother a beating on the back.

After a long time, the grandmother's cough stopped, and she said to Yuyu: "Yuyu, Xiao Qi is gone, there is no pillar at home, you take care of me, a patient, and you want to raise Huanhuan, this doll, it hurts you!"

Yuyu said: "Grandma, what are you doing here? Yuyu has a hard life, so she will live a hard life." ”

Grandma said: "Oh, this person who sent the rabbit is also grateful for his kindness, if he still comes tomorrow, Yuyu, grandma really hopes that you can leave him behind." ”

said that Shi Qiangsheng sent the rabbit back, but he actually had insomnia - nesting in the woods, counting a limited number of stars in the sky, but he couldn't count them and couldn't sleep. Speaking of which, Shi Qiangsheng has insomnia, which is really rare.

The next day, Shi Qiangsheng drilled in the mountains and forests for another day, shot three or two rabbits, and shot a few pheasants, and sent them to Yuyu's family after dark. On the way here, Shi Qiangsheng said secretly while walking:

"I'm here to reduce my sins! I'm here to reduce my sins!"

When he arrived at the head of the village, before he reached Yuyu's house, Na Ah Sui whimpered and barked, shook his head and tailed, and actually greeted him. Shi Qiangsheng reprimanded lightly: "Ah Sui! go!"

Where is this Ah Sui willing to go aside? He actually followed Shi Qiangsheng to his home. When he arrived at the door of the house, he barked lowly, and the jade in the house was really alarmed.

Yuyu raised the lamp and came out to see that it was indeed the person who sent the rabbit! Yuyu blushed and said, "You, hey, grandma told you to come into the house to talk." ”

Shi Qiangsheng said: "Sister-in-law, I shot three rabbits today, and I also shot two pheasants!"

The old voice in the back room said, "Yuyu, is that the person from last night here?"

Yuyu replied in a low voice, "Yes, grandma." ”

The old voice said, "Young man, come into the house and speak!"

Shi Qiangsheng entered the house, and the jade jade whispered behind him: "It's grandma, you call grandma!"

At this time, Shi Qiangsheng was very obedient, and called out obediently: "Grandma!" After calling, he followed Yuyu into the inner room, and in the dim light, I saw this grandmother, with a sickly face, very thin, and obviously bedridden for a long time.

Before Shi Qiangsheng could speak, he heard the grandmother say, "Young man, what is your name?"

When Shi Qiangsheng heard this, he was shocked, and said in his heart that as soon as my name was reported, it would cause trouble! So Shi Qiangsheng said: "Grandma, my name is Shi Xiaoqiang." ”

The grandmother said, "Xiaoqiang, where are you from, and how did you get here?"

When Shi Qiangsheng heard this, he couldn't help but make up a set of half-truths and half-truths back and forth: "Grandma, Xiaoqiang, my hometown is in Baomazhou, my hometown is in turmoil, my parents are also dead, and I fled all the way here."

- My family was still wealthy, and I was afraid of being laughed at when I begged, so I always went out at night to find the village people and find something to eat. ”

When the grandmother heard this, she sighed and said, "Child, it seems that you are also a hard-working person! My grandson Xiaoqi went early, and Yuyu is my granddaughter-in-law, but she is guarding my old woman at the top, and she is dragging a nursing baby below.

I think you have a good temperament, why don't you come to our house to spend the weather! ”

When Yuyu heard this, she was already blushing. However, she was considered to be a person from the past, but she didn't avoid it, just on the spot, just listening to what Shi Qiangsheng said.

When Shi Qiangsheng heard this, he was confused, and he couldn't help but turn his face to look at this jade, only to see that she was blushing and was next to her, but also looking at herself. Shi Qiangsheng's heart was hot, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Grandma, Xiaoqiang is willing." ”

So Shi Qiangsheng stayed in this Yuyu's house.

Later, his grandmother died of illness, Li Shijian pacified Hongzhou, Huangzhou, and Shi Qiangsheng thought about taking his wife and children back to his hometown in Baomazhou.