Yin Jinan looked at the little baby and felt like he was dreaming.

"Where on earth did you come from?—Don't tell me you were in the mountains!"

"But, but I came from the mountain!"

Jiutian twisted her two little hands together in confusion. Her master asked her to help her second uncle, but something seemed to be wrong with her second uncle.

Not only did he look unintelligent, but he also didn't believe her.

"Well, let's change the subject. Your name is Jiutian?"

"Well, my name is Jiutian."

"What's your last name? Who are your parents? What do they do?"

"I don't know my last name, but my name is Jiutian. My parents seem to be gone, and my master never told me where they are."

Yin Jinan was very upset. What kind of irresponsible master was this? No one knew who the child's parents were. It just so happened that he was an orphan picked up for nothing.

(In the distant Yulong Daming Prefecture, the orphan’s parents sneezed twice!)

He said patiently again: "Then tell me, who am I?"

Jiutian said happily: "You are my second uncle."

"Why is it your second uncle? Not your eldest uncle or third uncle?"

"Master said you are my second uncle. How about you find my second uncle and I will call you third uncle?"

Yin Jinan thought frantically that when she recovered from her illness, she would beat her master up severely.

The two were talking in the house. Some people in the town had already heard about what had happened in the Cui family's old house in the past two days, and the townspeople were all looking inside with their heads tilted.

"I heard that the fool crawled out yesterday to ask for food. He looked like a skeleton."

"A little beggar came and insisted on staying here, and we starved together."

"Starving? Landlord Wang sent them a cart of food, and they also had food, clothes, and blankets to cover themselves with. How could they starve?"

"Landlord Wang actually gave something to a fool?"

……

Although Yin Jinan had led troops into battle and slept in the mud on the battlefield before, he had never experienced life in the countryside before.

The quietness of the countryside made the discussions outside the door seem to be amplified many times, and they could be heard clearly through the broken window.

She didn't even hide her jealousy over the truckload of stuff they got.

Yin Jinan used to be domineering and overbearing. Many people said bad things about him behind his back, but they only said them behind his back. Those who said them to his face were all subdued by him.

Now that people were openly pointing fingers at him in public, he felt disgusted and furious, but because he had just recovered from a serious illness (his leg wasn't healed yet), he had no idea what to do.

"Go and close the wooden door. It's too noisy."

"Okay!"

Jiutian jumped down from the small stool given by Landlord Wang, ran out of the door with his short legs, and closed the firewood door outside.

Just as she was closing the door, the town's street kid Wan San, Liu Dan and Wang Gengen were hanging around the door.

People in the town said that Landlord Wang sent a cart of food, snacks and quilts to the fool?

Hey, although this little kid is wearing a tattered Taoist robe, he is white and tender. He is so young, but he is as beautiful as a fairy. He can be sold to a prostitute's house...

"Hey, I heard that Landlord Wang sent you food and quilts?" Wan San said to Jiu Tian, ​​"Is it true?"

Jiutian thought he didn't look like a good guy. His second uncle just said that they might not be able to protect their food. Maybe gangsters came to steal it?

So Jiutian ignored him and slammed the wooden door shut.

Wan San stretched out one leg to block the door and said in a vulgar tone: "I am asking you a question. Are you dumb? Deaf?"

Jiu Tian shouted, "Take your legs away. I'm going to close the door."

"Answer me, did Landlord Wang send you food?"

"What does it have to do with you?"

"I'm hungry. How can you, a fool and a beggar, eat?"

Wan San was about to rush in while saying this.

Jiu Tian looked at him and said, "Pull your legs back and I will tell you clearly."

Wan San pulled his legs back: "Go ahead."

Liu Dan and Wang Gengen also followed suit: "Hurry up and tell me, hurry up and tell me."

Jiutian quickly closed the wooden door, and with a "swish" of his hands, he pasted a "talisman to prevent villains" on the door.

We hereby invite the five land gods, the generals of the family and the Three Officials to take charge and order all the evil spirits, wandering souls, and local ghosts... to be prohibited from entering.

After thinking for a while, he pinched his fingers and added a taboo symbol around the entire broken yard: uninvited people would be kept out, and anyone who tried to cross the taboo and enter the yard would be bounced three meters away.

After placing the talisman, Jiutian clapped his hands and walked back to the house with a confident step, without caring about anyone.

Wan San, Liu Dan and Wang Gengen were stunned.

They wanted to push the wooden gate, but for some reason they couldn't even get close to it. It seemed as if they encountered an invisible high wall under their feet that blocked them.

A bunch of street kids are working hard outside, but it's no use.

"You'd better never come out again!" Wan San and his gang left angrily.

This is a town, which is a large rural market. It is only different from the surrounding villages and towns in that it has an agricultural product trading market. Every household is engaged in farming, so if anything happens, the whole town will know about it immediately.

What happened in the Cui family's old house soon reached the ears of Cui Fude and others.

As night fell, the table was set for dinner in the Cui family’s yard.

Sweet potato rice soup, vegetable dough made by wrapping vegetable leaves with a little flour and steaming them.

There was more vegetable leaves than flour, so I couldn’t make pancakes out of them. I could only knead them into ball-shaped vegetable dumplings to satisfy my hunger.

Cui Fude, Cui Dalang and Cui Erlang, because they were male laborers, each got a vegetable and rice ball, while the women could only drink the thin soup.

Cui Fude's wife, Mrs. Bai, said, "Master, I heard today that Landlord Wang sent a cart of grain to that idiot. What do you think he wants to do?"

Cui Dalang's wife, Ou, hurriedly said, "Mother, Aunt Zhang from Zhang Zhuzi's family said that a little beggar came to the fool's house. The little beggar knew how to tell fortunes, and he was very accurate. Landlord Wang was on his last breath, and the little beggar looked at the feng shui of the Wang family, moved a few things, and saved Landlord Wang. Landlord Wang gave them a large cart of things."

Cui Erlang's wife, Xiao Bai, said: "Yes, mother, they say that the cart is full of fine rice and flour, which cannot be bought even if you have money. There are also quilts, all brand new. The snacks are all brought by the son of the county magistrate of Landlord Wang..."

After she finished speaking, she heard a "hissing" sound, and Cui Facai, the second son of Cui Dalang, drooled and then slurped it back.

Everyone was silent.

Mrs. Bai looked at Trefford and said tentatively, "Master, that fool, what does he know? Such good food, he would waste it if he ate it."

Ou also said: "Does he deserve to eat such good food? Only Daddy deserves to eat good food and good snacks. Only we rich people deserve to cover ourselves with such good quilts."

Cui Fugui, Cui Fude's eldest grandson, is a student that his family has tightened their belts to support. He is currently studying at Baiyun Academy in the county town and will take part in the academy examination next month.

As the family talked, they had all made up their minds that if they didn't grab the things of a fool, they would grab them. If they didn't grab them, someone else would.

Trefford ate half of his risotto and made up his mind.

"Are you sure there's only one little beggar over there?"

"Yes, everyone saw it. There was only a little kid about the height of his thigh."

"No other powerful people are coming?"

When the main branch of the Cui family sent the idiot here, they repeatedly reminded Cui Fude: "This man is a fool, but he has a good status. As long as he survives half a year, no one will care whether he lives or dies."

That is to say, this person has a noble status and should have taken over some benefits, but as long as no one comes to take over for half a year, the benefits will be taken away by others, and no one cares whether he lives or dies.

So Trefford abused him, beat him up, and no one came to look for him. He went from having one meal a day to having one meal every two days, and then one meal every three days...

Beat him to a cripple, tie him up in the old house, and leave him to fend for himself. Who would raise this fool who is not related to you by blood?

Now a beggar comes to help a fool!

Why would Landlord Wang be so kind to a fool? Even the rich don't have such a good quilt.

"Let's go and ask him to return it. If we don't take it, will the people in this town let it go?" Trefford said, "Besides, he was sent by our master and he still lives in our old house. It's only natural for us to take him back."

When the family heard what Trefford said, they all cheered.

Cui Facai didn't even wait for the bowls to be collected, and immediately threw down his own bowl and said, "Grandpa, I'll go get the quilt for my eldest brother."

Xiao Bai was so anxious that she poked Cui Erlang hard in the waist with her hand.

Cui Erlang immediately said, "Dad, we agreed that whoever gets it will own it. We can't let everyone take it and give it to my eldest brother. Fugui is studying, but Jinbao also wants to study."

His son Cui Jinbao quickly said, "Dad, I don't want to study. Please give the quilt to my elder brother."

Xiao Bai pinched him hard and said, "Why don't you go now? Why are you talking so much nonsense?"

When Ou saw what Xiao Bai was doing, he snorted and thought: Anyway, the father has the final say in this family. It's useless even if you snatch it away. In the end, my family will still be rich.

People were restless, who could still eat these rice and vegetables? They left their bowls and went to the old house to grab food and blankets.

Not a single one left, all gone.

In the old house.

Jiu Tian looked around and sighed. There was not even a light in the room.

She held her chin and thought for a while, then said to Yin Jinan, "Second Uncle, how do you usually spend your evenings?"

"do not know."

How else could he survive? He was chained and probably unconscious. I don’t know how he survived.

Thinking of this, he suddenly felt a headache again. He clearly saw a strange, beautiful, devilish boy in the picture.

I cried and screamed in fear in the dark, afraid of the dark, afraid of thunder, leg pain, hunger...

Countless times, whenever someone walked by on the road outside, he would shout loudly, but some people would sigh, some would laugh and say, "Is that fool tied here now?"

No one came to help him.

What exactly is going on?

Who is this person who keeps crying?

Was it him? Impossible!! Yin Jinan would die and feel pain, but he would never cry out in pain, fear, or even tears.

Besides, they don’t look alike.

He said to Jiu Tian, ​​"Tomorrow you find a way to contact your rich senior brother and leave!"

"Uncle, I won't leave."

"Look, I can't do anything. I can't take care of you, but I'm still relying on you to take care of me."

"It's okay, you're my second uncle." Jiutian took out the snacks from the box, spread them out on Yin Jinan's broken bed, and ate with him.

Yin Jinan couldn't eat and felt anxious.

Jiu Tian saw that he didn't eat, so he said, "Second Uncle, are you afraid of the dark? Can I invite the moon to you?"

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