Adopt an old man

Spring is coming, and the leisure time in winter has once again become a thing of the past. When the busy spring comes, Shi Shi stepped into the ranks of young and middle-aged laborers in this village one step ahead, and was finally allowed to be equipped with hunting weapons and allowed to go to nearby villages alone. He went hunting in the mountains and forests, took part in guard duty, and handed in hunting income regularly. Because he was single but was raised by the village chief's family, Er Niang still left food for rocks and rocks every day.

But because of the mountains and stones, Shitou can be regarded as a family leader in the eyes of the villagers. In addition to regularly handing in the prescribed prey, he also hunts more prey that is not stipulated to honor the village head's family, which is counted as meals for him and Shanshi. .

For this reason, Shitou is often out of sight for a few days when he is busy outside. During the busy spring, bandits basically do not appear again, and it is normal for young adults to hunt and go away for three to five days.

On this day, Shitou had dinner at the village chief's house, took the dry food that Erniang brought him, and was about to leave the house in a hurry.

The village chief stopped him: "It's been a long time since I had a good chat, sit down and chat with the old man before leaving." Erniang knew that the village chief had something to say, so she went out wisely.

When Shitou heard the word "old man", his heart skipped a beat. Since the battle to protect the village last year ended, the village chief's presence in the whole village has become less and less. Even when he came to eat every day, he felt as if there was a Transparent people, fighting with Shuisheng has become less and less, occasionally making a joke to stand up, and the village chief will no longer knock on his chopsticks with a deadpan expression and serious words.

Stone sat down again, looked up at the village chief and waited for the village chief to speak.

The village chief also looked at the young man in front of him, and spoke after a while, "You have grown so big..."

The village head continued to mutter, "You were only this big when you were carried back by the wood," he said, slowly drawing a small shape with his hands, "The wood was not that big at that time, so hold you with both hands and hold it in your hands again." I don’t want to save anything else, I just left all my hunting bows and arrows in the woods.”

"At that time, I was also in my prime. I just chased away a gang of bandits with the villagers, endured the pain of losing my wife, and led the villagers to rebuild the village. Over the years, the village has become better and better. You have grown up day by day, and so have I. Old, old."

Stone opened his mouth, but did not speak.

The village head didn't seem to care. He lowered his head and looked at his leg. Last year when he was fighting with the bandit leader, his right leg was stabbed and his calf was broken. He couldn't stand up anymore and lost what he had as a village head Strong physique.

"When you grow up, Shan Shi is a proud assistant, let him help you well."

Stone finally opened his mouth, "Yes."

"Go," the village chief waved his hand, "Aren't you going to hunt, pay attention to safety on the road."

Shitou said goodbye to the village chief. After leaving the village chief’s house, he thought about it and didn’t go directly. He went back home and saw Mumu who was talking to Shanshi through the fence at the door of his house. After entering the house, Shan Shi turned his head to look at Shi Shi, and then entered the house, leaving Shi Shi with a wobbly ass, as if he was still angry.

As for why Shitou was angry, Shitou didn't know, maybe he was unconvinced when he got the bed sheet on the floor yesterday, or maybe he was angry because he didn't bring him a meal at noon today.

Shi Shi didn't care about his mess, and hung dry food on the high place of the outer wall to prevent Shan Shi from running out and stealing food.

"What did my father tell you?"

As soon as Shi Shi entered the room, Mu Mu hurriedly opened his mouth. He found that his father's emotional state was not right recently. Today he suddenly left Shi Shi to talk, and something was not quite right in his heart.

Shi Shi sat on the head of the bed, "I didn't say anything, I just recalled the past and told me to be careful when I went out."

Even though the wood is a bit woody, it is a candidate for the successor of the next village chief, and his ability and wisdom are all there.

Recalling the past, it’s not like he hasn’t heard people recalling the past. For people who seem to be in a hurry all year round, recalling the past seems to be a very luxurious thing. Once people start recalling the past , it seems... It seems that something big will happen...

A few days later, Shitou came back from the mountain in a mess, and saw Shanshi at the edge of the forest, and Shanshi was waiting for him.

Shi Shi put all the hunted and processed prey on the back of the rock, took a breath, and before he could say anything, he heard bustling voices from the village below the mountain, and people were cheering.

Shito looked down the mountain. It was the busy planting season, but no one was working in the field. The center of the village was very busy with people coming and going. Shanshi let out a "hum~", and Shito followed him down the mountain.

After going down the mountain, I realized that the bustling place in the village is the village chief's house, and Brother Mu got married...

Shi Shi and Shan Shi went home and put down their things. Seeing that the crowd was still dense, Shi Shi took a cloth to clean Shan Shi. Seeing that the people outside had dispersed, he took Shan Shi out.

Shanshi smelled the meat of many kinds of animals. Although there was also the smell of his favorite wine, but this mixed smell really made him feel uncomfortable. He stopped and twisted the folds forcefully. It became a pimple and didn't go away.

Shi Shi turned around and untied the cloth strips tied to the fence gate. Shan Shi stopped in the fence gate, stuck the door and could neither go in nor come out. Before losing his temper, he said lightly, "Come back and bring you wine."

Shan Shi suddenly let out an excited "Aw".

The one who married Mu Mu was Ali, a little girl from Uncle Wen’s family. She is the most beautiful and capable girl in the village. Now she and Mu Mu are wearing neat new clothes to accept the blessings of the village head and Er Niang. The elders of the family are all here, and the wooden couple drink one by one.

The stone feels a bit wrong. The food for wine making is only made after the food is distributed by each family, and some will be wasted during the wine making process. Therefore, grain wine is a relatively valuable thing in the village. The stone grows so big I have also participated in many wedding banquets, and there is no such step in any wedding banquet where there is such a big bowl of drinking water. When many elders take the wine from the wood and drink it, a lot of it will fall from the neck into the clothes, which is very wasteful. .

While Shi Shi was thinking, Mu Mu had already led the bride to enter all the elders present. At this time, the village head stood up from the chair with a wooden stick on one leg. Holding a bulging jar filled with wine, he filled the wine bowl in the village chief's hand, and some of it overflowed.

"Everyone, my son, Mu Mu, is getting married today. At the same time," the village chief paused, and more people gathered around him. Those elders seemed to know what the village chief was going to say, and the younger ones all opened their eyes in confusion. Looking at the village chief, Shitou suddenly remembered that the village chief recalled the past a few days ago. He said that he had been the village chief for less than a year, and the village ushered in a powerful and large-scale attack. He and the villagers fought hard, Relying on his youth and fearlessness, he drove away a group of bandits. Now ten years have passed, and it is actually necessary to rely on the help of wild animals to drive away the bandits...

The village chief fixed the wooden crutch with his injured leg, and the hand holding the wooden crutch was free to help the other hand hold the heavy bowl of wine. , gulped it down, "At the same time, from now on, Mu Mu will succeed the village head and manage the affairs of the whole village."

Shuisheng came over, didn't say a word, just stood silently behind Shitou, the village head sat down again, looked over the discussions in groups of three or five around, looked at Shitou and Shuisheng, Shitou understood what the village head meant, nodded.Shuisheng patted him on the shoulder, greeted his father, and walked away with the stone.

Shui Sheng: "Do you know what father's eyes mean?"

"I know." After Shi Shi finished speaking, both of them were silent for a while.

Mu Mu succeeds to the position of village head, I am afraid that some old people and elders in the village will not accept it, and Shui Sheng and Shi Shi are the right-hand men of the new village head, helping the new village head establish a good prestige, helping the new village head manage the village is the entrustment of the village head to them.

This was probably the only time these two people walked peacefully together on the road when they were so old. Shuisheng put away his usual hippie smile and talked a lot about the past of the village chief during the short walk. A soldier who is feared by bandits is now probably a bad old man in the eyes of bandits. This is not the most terrifying thing, the most terrible thing is that he himself said that he is an old man...

After saying goodbye to Shui Sheng, Shi Shi didn't go home immediately, but went to the entrance of the village alone, dug out a belly pot from under a tree at the entrance of the village, brought it home without wiping the mud or untying the rope, and threw the pot to the village. rocks.

Shanshi was holding the jar, unable to do anything, and was about to complain, but Shishi came and snatched the jar again, helped him carefully wipe off the mud on the jar, untied the rope, and thoughtfully poured Shanshi into a bowl, feeling that Shanshi had lost his breath. Shito squatted on the edge of the bowl, raised Shanshi's long ears to prevent them from falling into the bowl, and whispered all kinds of things he had encountered in the past few days. Take a cloth to clean the wine-stained nose on the rocks.

With a dull face and a slightly sad voice, in such an exhausted night, he confided to Shanshi what he had encountered, and Shanshi listened quietly, ignoring that he was still caught by the stone. Itchy ears.

Shitou talked for a long time, a lot, and at the end there was some vibrato in his voice, although he tried his best to suppress it, Shanshi could still hear it.

Shitou said that the village head may be numbered.