Adopt an old man

In a blink of an eye, Shanshi ate all the leaves brought by the stone. He said "hum hum" twice, indicating that he still wanted to eat. A drunk fruit that was picked on the way when I came, crushed vigorously to let the juice/liquid of the fruit sprinkle on the banana.

Shanshi was lying on the ground, squinting his eyes in enjoyment and eating the bananas slowly like a human being. The speed at which he finished eating was surprisingly consistent with the speed at which Shishi prepared the next banana soaked in drunken fruit. On a stone on the side, he didn't help, just watched quietly, as if the scene in front of him was a rare sight.

After the stone had fed all the bananas again, Shanshi ate all the residues of the drunken fruit that the stone had put on the clean stone.Satisfied, he hiccupped and rubbed his head against the waist of the stone.

At this time, Shan Shi seemed to have finally noticed that there was another person beside him, but he didn't show any frightened or surprised expression when he saw Mu Mu.

"Hey, the eight eyebrows are fine." Mu Mu joked with a smile. This wild boar is much more interesting than the stone. If it wasn't because he called it Mu Mu, he would have named the stone Mu Mu at that time. Thinking about it, he blurted out. It came out, but it was not called wood, but "mountain wood".

Seeing that the two stones looked at him suspiciously, he explained with a smile, "I am your eldest brother, and Bamei is your friend, and also my younger brother. From now on, I will call him Shanmu, the wood in the mountain, a pretty good name. "After that, he nodded.

"Brother Mumu, if Shanshi doesn't change his name, he will be called Shanshi."

"Huh~" Shanshi agreed, what kind of wood and stone in the mountains are just nonsense, the name doesn't mean that.

Mu Mu pointed to the rocks and said, "He just agrees with you? He can understand human speech."

Shi Shi rode on Shan Shi to scratch the fleas and lice in his neck. Hearing this, he nodded proudly, "I grew up with him, and I talk to him every day. Of course he can understand."

"Since childhood?" Wood is even more strange, is it true that there are no wonders in the world?Maybe I still know too little. In the early years, I went to a market in the plains with my father. People exchanged their surplus goods with others for what they lacked. There were also many novel and unseen animals traded in the market. Impressed myself.I thought that there was nothing in this village or even in this mountain area that I hadn't seen or didn't know, and I even saw and knew more than others, but I didn't see the teenage Bamei.

Shi Shi didn't speak, and concentrated on grabbing the fleas all over Shan Shi's body, but Shan Shi let out a "hum~", indicating that he knew him since he was a child, even before you knew him.

This seems to be something to be proud of, Shanshi "hum, hum, hum~!" began to sing, the tone fluctuated, high and low, fast and slow, until he reached the point of excitement , the body also trembled, and died down after being caught/caught by a stone and tied a simple knot in the ear.

Wood looked interesting, but was interrupted by Shi, a little disappointed, stretched his arms and put Shan Shi's ears down, "Shan Shi sings so well, why are you bullying him?"

The stone slid down from the back of the rock, disposed of the lice and fleas it had caught, and cleaned up the noisy and messy caves of the rock, "That sounds good? It's like a child with a toothache moaning/groaning without illness."

Mu Mu was quite speechless about this metaphor. What is a child with a toothache? After a while, he asked again, "You said you have known each other since you were very young. Isn't Shanshi already more than ten years old?"

"Well," Shito gritted his teeth at him, "It's an old pig, the meat must be terrible."

There was another silence, and Mu Mu said again, "Oh, I haven't seen such an old pig in so many years. Most of the pigs in the village are killed and eaten after one year of breeding. The wild boars that can be seen in the mountains on weekdays are only four. Five years old."

Shitou took up the conversation, "Pigs are lazy when they are old, and they will let their children go out to look for food, and they will stay in one place, so it is normal not to see them on weekdays. Most of them hide in the place where they have been living and do not go out. , I will come out to bask in the sun occasionally, but I won’t go far.”

After all the stones were cleaned up, the sky was completely dark, the rocks rubbed against the stones, looked up at the wood, gave a disgusted "hum" twice, turned around and went back to sleep on the grass mat that had been cleaned up by the stones.

Mu Mu spread his hands helplessly, patted Shi Shi on the shoulder, let's go, out of the cave entrance and Shi Shi made up the camouflage of the cave entrance, and the two chatted as they walked down the mountain, basically, Mu Mu asked and Shi Shi answered.

Mu Mu: "Why did he go to the village yesterday?"

Stone: "Because I treated him to cookies and wine."

Mu Mu: "Where did you get the wine?"

Stone: "I made it myself."

Wood: "You like it?"

Stone: "Yeah"

Mu Mu: "After the harvest season is over, you can work with Uncle Wen." After a while, he was puzzled, "But how did you learn how to make wine? Does your brew taste good?"

Stone: "random/groping, not good to drink"

"Oh~" Mu Mu opened his mouth wide and smiled exaggeratedly, "Shan Shi had diarrhea last night because he drank your wine." It's not a question, it's something that is almost certain, before Shi Shi could answer, he continued, "So You brought so much alcohol-stained food to him today."

Stone let out an expressionless "hmm".

Mu Mu laughed a few more times. The child who was groping for wine making on his own was full of anticipation for his friend to taste the fruit of his own brewing. As a result, his friend had diarrhea. This day, he had been nervous because of the "bandit". Now there is this joke, which can be regarded as relax.

On the next road, Mu Mu asked Shi Shi many interesting things about Shan Shi’s good wine, and Mu Mu laughed all the way to the edge of the mountain forest. When he went down the mountain, Mu Mu sighed, “What kind of bastard is this, he is clearly a drunkard. Any food stained with alcohol will not be spared. When we celebrate a good harvest in winter, adults will drink alcohol. I haven’t seen him come down the mountain to snatch it for so many years, haha.”

Shitou didn't answer, Bamei's nose is very sensitive, and Shanshi is even worse. Every year before the new year, he has to find a way to block Shanshi's nose or make him lose his sense of taste for a short time. Shan Shi's sense of smell has always used the method of blocking his nose, but Shan Shi doesn't cooperate, and every time it is extra laborious.

In a blink of an eye, I arrived at the foot of the mountain, Shitou didn't answer, and Wood no longer continued to entangle with the abnormal behavior of the alcoholic Shanshi. He reminded Shitou seriously, "Shitou, don't tell others about Shanshi. Everyone must be careful during the grain harvest season. Oolong affected everyone."

Seeing the stone nodding, he said, "Also, you should be more careful when you go up the mountain in the future. Try not to let everyone find the rock, which will easily cause unnecessary misunderstanding and trouble."

"I know," Shitou looked up at the wood, and said softly, "Brother, please, I will be more careful in the future, and I won't let Shanshi come to the village again."

Mu Mu touched/touched/his head and replied "OK".

After finishing the meal, she went back to the village chief's house for dinner. After the meal, Erniang still teased Shuisheng, and then Shitou. She pinched Shishi's ears with both hands and rubbed them. .”

"Didn't go to the vegetable field?" The village chief took some men in the village to set up defenses and alarm lines on the edge of the forest all afternoon, not knowing that the stone did not go to the vegetable field.

"Yes, I heard from Shuisheng that I have been working in the fields all afternoon." Erniang patted her hand holding the stone again, "Are you tired? Shuisheng said you were the last one to finish the work. I don’t come back until it’s dark.” There was some complaint and distress in the voice.

The work of this farmland is different from that of the vegetable field. It is hard and tiring and there is no shade to protect against the sun. All the men working in the field are equally assigned tasks, regardless of age.In this case, children under the age of 12 are generally not allowed to come. Once the body cannot bear it, it is easy to fall ill.

The village chief said seriously, "This is not good, you are too young to do the work of these men. Go back to the vegetable field tomorrow."

Shui Sheng continued to persuade, "Yes, you are only ten years old. When you are my age, even if you want to be in the vegetable field, we won't let you in."

Shitou clenched his mouth tightly, looked down at the little hand in Erniang's hand, and said nothing.

On weekdays, Mumu often takes care of him, and Shitou is willing to talk to him about some things, so he is more familiar with Shitou, knowing that his reaction is unwilling to agree, but he will not refute, so he can only be silent in a daze.Mu Mu hurriedly said for him, "Father, Shishi is also ten years old, and I have some concerns in my heart. If he wants to work in the field, then he can work in the field."

"It's outrageous!" The village head slapped the rough wooden platform in front of him, "If something happens when he gets sick, can you help him?"

He was so blocked by a sentence that he didn't know what to say. In fact, he couldn't speak more than a stone, otherwise he wouldn't let the stone stop him from time to time.

When Shitou came home, Mumu followed him, and when he reached the gate of the fence, Shitou asked him, "Brother Mumu, do you want to go in and sit down?"

Mu Mu pushed open the fence door and walked in, "Come and see the wine you make."

"Finished."

Mu Mu squinted his eyes, sat on the stone bed/, raised his head and asked him, "Drink it? Doesn't it cause diarrhea after drinking it? Why are you still drinking it?"

"Well, there's only one jar, that drum pot at your feet. I've used up all the rocks."

Mu Mu was speechless, and asked the question again, "Are you sure he is Bamei and not a drunkard?"

Shi Shi took out the drunken fruit that he kept in the house, washed it, and handed it to Wood. When he arrived, he said calmly, "Just get used to it!"

In the morning of the next day, the village chief took people to the edge of the forest to set up defenses to prevent the bandits from attacking from the mountain unknowingly.After the village chief went up the mountain, Shi Shi calmly followed the pheasant and the others to the farmland with the harvesting tools...