Chapter 36: The Poor Man
CHAPTER XXXVI
"Who?" said a hoarse young man's voice in the room. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"I am a disciple sent down the mountain by Wangtian Pavilion to solve the matter of the mad wolf, and I know that Brother Li has seen the mad wolf, so there are a few things I want to ask," Bu Fan replied loudly.
"Poof... There was a noise from inside the house, and then the door opened.
The young man who opened the door looked no more than a young man, but his face was already haggard, and his beard and hair, which he had not taken care of for a long time, and his dirty clothes, made him go up like a beggar on the street.
The young man glanced at the three of Bufan, and then said lightly, "Come in."
Bu Fan just wanted to go inside, but Xiao Er next to him smiled and said, "Little brother, I won't go in, bring you here, even if my task is completed, it's too late to go back, maybe the boss lady will deduct my salary, and I will also point to it to ask for a daughter-in-law." ”
Bu Fan didn't stop it, and replied with a smile, "Then thank you Brother Wang, if you have time, you will bother Brother Wang." ”
Xiao Er waved his hand, and immediately turned around and left, still smiling, and said to himself, "One sentence of Brother Wang is bigger than the sky."
When I entered the gate, there was a small and chaotic yard, and a few pear trees in the yard looked like they hadn't been taken care of for a long time. In the middle of the courtyard, there was a small path leading to the inner room, and Bu Fan followed the young man in.
As soon as he walked into the room, the young man asked without looking back, "You said you are a disciple of Wangtian Pavilion?"
Bu Fan was slightly stunned, and then nodded and replied with a "hmm".
"Is there any evidence?"
Without waiting for Bufan to answer, Tao Jingjing next to her said impatiently, "If you love to believe it, you can believe it, if you don't believe it, you will pull it down, a few wolves can't handle it, and let your father die in the wolf's belly, but you are like a beggar, I think you have lived for so many years in vain."
The young man looked back and smiled miserably, "Who said it wasn't?"
Bu Fan glared at Tao Jingjing, who snorted, rolled his eyes and didn't speak again.
The young man pointed to a few small wooden stools that had fallen to the ground next to him, as if to give way to Bufan to sit down and speak.
Bu Fan was not pretentious, picked up two small wooden stools, handed them to Tao Jingjing, then sat down and looked inside the room.
First of all, a cabinet leaned against the wall, and the most conspicuous thing on the cabinet was naturally the spiritual position that had just been put up. Leaning against the wall next to the cupboard hung two curved bows and a barrel of wooden arrows, and most of the rest of the room had been knocked to the ground, and the dust on them must have been around for some time.
"Daddy, who's coming?" Suddenly, a childish voice came from the side room.
When the young man heard this, his right hand trembled without a trace, and then forced out a smile, "A little brother and a little sister are here to be guests at home."
As soon as the young man's voice fell, a four- or five-year-old girl with a sheep's tail in the side room jumped out of the side room, looked at Bu Fan and Tao Jingjing carefully with a pair of big eyes, and asked with some questions, "Who are you?"
Bu Fan saw that the young man shook his head, understood what he meant, and replied with a smile, "Brother and sister, I'm here to catch monsters." ”
"Youkai?" the little girl repeated, and then asked the young man with some confusion, "Daddy, what is a youkai?"
The corners of the young man's eyes trembled slightly, and then he held the little girl in his arms, and said lightly, "Bao'er, monsters are a very scary thing, Bao'er's grandfather and mother went to catch monsters, so I didn't go home for several days, and when I finished catching monsters, grandpa and my mother came back."
"Oh" The little girl nodded tenderly, and then with a happy face, she took out a piece of straw paper from her arms and spread it out in front of the young man's eyes, "Daddy, look, Bao'er can already write Bao'er's treasure characters, and she will be very happy when her mother comes back to see it."
Speaking of this, the man sniffed and hid the splash in the corner of his eye. Then he smiled and said, "Bao'er is so good, Bao'er will go back to the room first and learn the children's words, okay?" Daddy and his brothers and sisters still have something to say." ”
The "good" little girl broke free from the young man's arms and jumped back into the room.
Bu Fan just wanted to ask, but he didn't expect the young man to open his mouth first.
"When my father was bitten to death by a mad wolf, I was also present, and the crazy wolf was the first to take a fancy to me, but my father was directly in front of me, which allowed me to escape, I wanted to go down the mountain to find someone to help, but when I went back, my father was only left with a bloody skeleton, you know, the person who died should have been mine"
Bu Fan didn't interrupt and listened quietly.
"Since then, I have always wanted to go back to the foot of the mountain and kill those crazy wolves to avenge my father, but Bao'er's mother has been stopping me, and I am so angry that I can't take my anger out on her, so I drop everything in the house. Bao'er's mother couldn't stand it, so she left me and Bao'er alone the next day. I thought she would take Bao'er and I'd be alone to fight for my life with the mad wolf. However, he left Bao'er behind, she was only five years old, how could I bear to leave him, what if I died Bao'er?" said the young man, who coughed suddenly, and when he loosened his cuffs, blood could be faintly seen at the corners of his mouth.
"Is it just a crazy wolf?" asked Bu Fan.
The young man shook his head, "I only saw one before I went down the mountain, but my father has been hunting for thirty or forty years, and a wolf will not end up like that in a short time, so there must be more than one."
After hearing this, Bu Fan stood up and said, "Don't worry, we will go to slaughter wolves tonight." ”
After speaking, Bu Fan was just about to leave, but the young man immediately stood up and clenched his fists and said, "Can you take me, I must watch them die with my own eyes!"
Bu Fan looked back at the man with burning eyes in surprise, and then asked puzzledly, "You're gone, what should Bao'er do?"
"I put her at Aunt Wang's house next door for one night, she didn't recognize her life, it's fine"
Bu Fan thought for a while, then nodded and said, "Okay, it just so happens that you also know the way, but you can't act rashly if something happens." ”
The young man was overjoyed and nodded.
Seeing this, Bu Fan saw that it was still early and went back to the house, "It's still early, let's leave in the evening, you can also prepare"
Hearing this, the man removed the bow and quiver from the wall and walked into the side room.
"Bao'er, Daddy has something to tell you"
"Daddy, you're just in time, let's see if Bao'er's handwriting is good."
The man stroked the girl's head tenderly and said with a smile, "Bao'er writes so well, Bao'er is good, Daddy told you something." ”
The little girl nodded, "Daddy, you can say it."
"Daddy received a letter from my grandfather and my mother, saying that the monsters on the mountain were too strong, and I had to ask my father to send Zhang Bow, otherwise I would not be able to get home until late. Would you like to sleep at Aunt Wang's house tonight? ”
The girl was a little unhappy, but when she thought of her mother, she nodded slowly, "Then Daddy has to go home early."
"Dad must come back soon"
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Speaking of this, the young man picked up Bao'er, went out of the house, nodded to Bufan, and immediately went to Aunt Wang's house next door.
After a stick of incense, the man returned alone, took off the curved bow from his shoulder, held it tightly, and then nodded and said, "Let's go"
Bu Fan and Tao Jingjing glanced at each other and followed the young man.