I was a hunter in ancient times

Zhou Du took the bones, walked back to the courtyard, and found the bean bag that had been slumped on the ground listlessly after returning from the mountain.

Sure enough, when something was put in front of it, it would not eat it.

Knowing the reason, Zhou Du was not in a hurry, he found a piece of snow-white rabbit skin from the house, kneaded it into a white ball and threw it in front of it.

Then, an arrow landed precisely on the lump of rabbit fur that had been kneaded into a ball.

Bean Bao, who was lying motionless on the ground, saw the arrow pass through Bai Tuanzi, immediately stood up anxiously from the ground, and yelled nervously at Zhou Du: "Aw!

Zhou Du tapped the food on the ground with his toes, and told it in the most straightforward way: If you don't eat, you will kill the person you like.

After Doubao realized it, his whole body paused for a moment, then he rushed to the food at Zhoudu's feet and devoured all the bones.

After eating, he sat obediently in front of Zhou Du, looking at him pitifully with a pair of blue eyes.

Zhou Du was only trying to intimidate it. Seeing that it was willing to eat, he put away the rabbit fur and arrows on the ground.

When Zhou Du was doing this, Doubao followed him closely, as if afraid of him going up the mountain to hunt.

Zhou Du secretly thought it was funny, and he started thinking about it before anyone could catch him.I kicked it twice to signal it not to block the way, put the bow and arrow back into the warehouse, packed it up, and had no intention of going up the mountain again.

Seeing this, Doubao was completely relieved, and found a new place to lie on the ground, and the whole wolf continued to lie motionless on the ground as an object.

As long as it was willing to eat, and there was no need to go on a hunger strike to die, Zhou Du didn't care much about it, and let it lie paralyzed on the ground.

Perhaps it was the news that Shen Mu was about to return to Beijing to get married that stimulated Shen Xi. For the next few days, he either forgot to put salt in the dishes he cooked, or put too much salt, and he was often in a daze.

Zhou Du watched silently, but this matter was related to Qin Yi and Shen Mu. Although he and Shen Xi had become a family, there were some things that were not easy to interfere too much.

After all, Shen Mu single-handedly brought up Shen Xi, not father and son, but also as close as father and son. Now that half of the father is about to get married, it is normal for him to feel uncomfortable and lose his temper.

The person who tied the bell has to be untied, and the knot in Shen Xi's heart has to be untied by Shen Mu himself.

A table of people ate food that didn't taste right for several days in silence, Shen Mu finally couldn't help asking softly: "Xiaoxi, do you not want your uncle to get married?"

After Shen Mu finished speaking, everyone at the table looked at Shen Xi.

Shen Xi replied blankly: "Ah?"

Shen Mu put down the bowls and chopsticks, weighed the pros and cons, and said slowly: "If you don't want uncle to get married, then let's give up on this marriage. It's fine for me and Ping An to be like this now."

Hearing this, Qin Yi's heart skipped a beat, and he ate a plate of green vegetables with too much vinegar, not feeling sour at all.

Shen Xi immediately denied after hearing Shen Mu's words: "I don't want you to get married, little uncle, why do you think so?"

As he spoke, he looked around and saw everyone staring at him, bit his lip, and asked again: "You don't think I don't want my little uncle to get married, do you?"

Zhou Du nodded lightly, recently there was nothing else going on at home except Shen Mu's matter was a big one, and even Dou Bao began to eat under his coercion and lure, and the flesh on his body was slowly replenished.

He couldn't think of anything other than Shen Mu's marriage that could disturb his mind.

"No," Shen Xi withdrew his gaze, and calmly ate the rice in his bowl, "You guys think too much, little uncle and aunt Ping'an are deeply in love, and getting married is the best thing, why would I disagree? Not only do I want to bless you, but I also want to drink your wedding wine."

Shen Mu frowned: "Then why have you..."

Before the question was finished, Qin Yi who was on the side was soured by the vinegar on the vegetable plate, and hissed with toothache.

Shen Mu had no choice but to stop asking Shen Xi, turned around and looked at Qin Yi: "How are you?"

Qin Yi spat out the dish that was so sour in his mouth, shook his head and said, "It's okay."

After finishing speaking, he looked at Shen Xi and confirmed again: "You really have no objection to my marriage with Mu Mu?"

Shen Xi nodded affirmatively and said, "No objection."

Qin Yi relaxed nervously: "If you don't object, Mumu and I have made a decision like this. In the future, just say what you have to do, and my uncle can do it for you."

"Well," Shen Xi answered, finished the rice in the bowl in two or three bites, didn't notice anything wrong with today's dishes, put down the bowl, saw no one was eating on the table, and asked, "Are you still eating?" , If you don’t eat, I’ll close the table.”

The dishes on the table were either sour or salty. Except for Shen Xi, no one took a bite. It's not that they didn't want to eat it, but they couldn't eat it at all. It was harder to swallow than eating dry steamed buns. Hearing what he said, Li Yu quickly shook his head Said: "Don't eat, don't eat."

Shen Xi didn't ask him why he didn't eat more. After clearing the table, he went back to the kitchen to clean it.

Li Yu looked at Shen Xi's back, and muttered: "It's still weird."

Zhou Du raised his eyebrows, and felt something was wrong in his heart, if Shen Xi was depressed because of Shen Mu's matter, why would he still be depressed now that Shen Mu had made it clear.

It seems that the knot has not been opened.

Zhou Du pondered for a while, then said lightly: "I'll go back and talk to him."

Shen Mu still blamed herself a bit: "If Xiaoxi really doesn't want to, then don't force it, I'm fine."

Qin Yi held his hand, gave him affirmation, and said, "It's not enough for the little ghost to worry about us. It's fine if he doesn't want to refuse directly. There must be something else. Let Zhou Du go back and have a good time with him." Talk to each other, if there is anything, just talk about it."

Li Yu also followed closely and said: "Master, don't worry, Xiaoxi has always loved you the most, and will not let you be with Mistress, there must be something else."

Shen Mu frowned and said: "But he has never been like this before. Even if there was something unhappy in the past, it will be fine soon. Now this is the first few days. If he doesn't say anything, how can we help him solve it?"

Li Yu turned his eyes around the table, and finally landed on Zhou Du: "Let Zhou Du try the beauty trick, Xiaoxi likes him the most, and he must have said everything when he used this trick."

Li Yu's courage is getting bigger and bigger now, and he dares to say anything.

Zhou Du didn't bother with him, got up and went back to his home.

Seeing him leave, Li Yu took the opportunity to ask, "What are you doing?"

Zhou Du straightened his sleeves: "Go back and get ready."

As for what to prepare, Zhou Du did not say.

Li Yu automatically assumed that he took his own opinion and went back to prepare a beauty trick, so he tactfully didn't ask any more questions.

Zhou Du didn't do anything when he got home, he just tidied up the house and took out the money box where he put the money.

After Shen Xi finished his work in the kitchen, when he returned to the room, even Zhou Du was counting the money with the money box, he was stunned, and asked softly, "Why are you counting the money all of a sudden?"

Hearing Shen Xi's voice, Zhou Du raised his head and patted the empty space beside the bed: "Come and sit."

Shen Xi walked over and sat down, watching Zhou Du count the money in the money box in puzzlement.

After Zhou Du counted the money, he pushed the money box in front of Shen Xi, and said to him one by one: "I got 200 taels from the bandit suppression before, and I spent 100 taels to take your betrothal gift. It took another 60 taels, I had 60 taels left, and a total of 100 taels, all of which are here."

Shen Xi listened quietly, nodding his head from time to time, but still didn't understand why Zhou Du told him about money.

Zhou Du hadn't seen him listening to him so obediently and silently for several days. His heart itched slightly, and he stretched out his hand and hugged him on his lap, hugged him, and said like a child, "You don't like it." Shall I go hunting in the mountains..."

Before the words were finished, Shen Xi rushed to talk: "It's not that I don't like it, but I'm afraid that you will be in danger. The mountain is so big, if you get lost that day, I can't even find you."

The only way to make him feel at ease is for him to go with him, but with him around, he is just a drag on Zhou Du, and he can't have the best of both worlds.

"Okay, okay," Zhou Du didn't insist, "Whether it's dangerous or other things, I listen to what you say, so these days, I have a plan to save money."

Shen Xi asked: "What are you saving money for?"

Zhou Du let go of his arms, drew in front of him, and said slowly: "You also know that, except for my archery skills, I am so-so in everything else, and I can't do business well. If I don't hunt, What can I feed you with?"

Shen Xi pursed her lips: "I don't need you to support me, I can support myself, and I can also support you and Dou Bao by the way."

"Well, my little husband is very good, he can do everything," Zhou Du continued without arguing with him, "but I can't do nothing, I originally planned to save more money and spend money in the town. Or buy more houses and shops in the county and rent them out, so that even if I don’t hunt, I can still make money at home.”

Shen Xi Wurun's eyes rolled: "This method is good, it suits you very well."

Zhou Du also felt that a person like him who knows nothing is suitable for waiting to collect rent: "I originally planned to take you to the town for a few days to see if there is a suitable shop. Buying it first is better than putting money on it." Rusting well at home."

Shen Xi nodded: "It's good, I'm free, I can go anytime."

Zhou Du smiled wryly, and held him down: "Hey, have you forgotten that Uncle is getting married? If we use the money to buy a shop, what will we do with the cost of traveling to the capital? And we are now married. Now, I have to prepare a decent gift for my uncle."

Shen Xi patted his head, and realized later: "That's right, I almost forgot about it. In addition to the 500 taels I gave to Meng Sui to open the store, I still have 60 taels left, and we only have 160 taels when we add them together." Two, is that enough?"

Shen Xi privately felt that it was not enough, his younger uncle was willing to give [-]% of the dry shares of the sea freight as a dowry for him when he got married, although he didn't ask for it, but he took it.

Now it's the little uncle's turn to get married, and the person who married him is a man of gold and silver. The little money they have in their hands is not enough to put someone's teeth between them. What kind of decent gift can they buy? ?

"Is it enough? I'll figure out a way." What Zhou Du really wanted to say was not this, and he said, "My dear boy, you also know that I'm not a talkative person. Let me tell you, in exchange, can you also tell me what is in your heart."

Shen Xi just wanted to ask you what can be done, when he heard Zhou Du's words behind him, his heart skipped a beat, and he panicked: "I'm fine?"

Zhou Du didn't force him, and asked again: "Really?"

Shen Xi shook his head and said: "Really not."

"Okay," Shen Xi said, and Zhou Du believed it. He kissed Shen Xi's hair: "Since there is nothing in your heart, then be happy."

Shen Xi panicked even more: "I'm not unhappy."

"Well," Zhou Du followed him, "You are not unhappy, you just cook with sugar as salt, soy sauce as vinegar, chili and cumin mixed with stir-fried vegetables."

Shen Xi looked confused: "Is there?"

Zhou Du lowered his eyes to look at him: "Don't you think so?"

Shen Xi has been living in a muddle these past few days, and can't remember many things, let alone what dishes he cooked and what seasonings he left out.

"Little confused," Zhou Du saw that he didn't remember these things himself, and he didn't intend to go into details with him, so he patted his head and coaxed, "It's fine if you don't remember, everything will be fine after you sleep."

"Okay." Shen Xi said while hugging Zhoudu's neck, "I want to hug you to sleep, the kind that hugs you tightly."

Zhou Du removed the money box on the bed, and rolled onto the bed with Shen Xi who was hugging him and didn't let go: "Didn't I hug you that night?"

Shen Xi nodded: "That's right."

Zhou Du didn't see Shen Xi worrying about gains and losses again, and fell asleep contentedly with his arms around him.

She slept well in the first half of the night, but in the second half of the night, Shen Xi was awakened by nightmares and physical pain.

The biggest oil lamp in the room was still burning, and the weak wick was beating in the darkness, trying its best to block the erosion of darkness.

Shen Xi let go of Zhou Du's arm, and looked at his trembling right hand with the help of the weak light. The five fingertips were throbbing painfully, jumping and jumping as if someone was pulling his fingers.

He slowly groped down from the bed, loosened the ribbon on his wrist, and the piercing pain suddenly rushed in densely, and the pain made him break out in cold sweat.

Not daring to relax any more, he tied the ribbon back and pulled it even tighter, only then did the pain that made him breathless relax.

He breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the cold sweat that overflowed from the pain on his forehead.

He couldn't fall asleep at all, so he didn't sleep at all, put on his clothes, held the oil lamp and walked out of the room lightly, and went to the kitchen next door.

Lighting the oil lamp in the kitchen, looking at the leftover dishes from last night, remembering what Zhou Du said to him, he tasted it with chopsticks.

"Bah, what does it taste like?" He vomited it all up after just one bite, it was too unpalatable.

No wonder Zhou Du would say that he was unhappy, he was too obvious.

Shen Xi bit her lip, threw away all the leftovers, and decided to make a new table of delicious meals.

He took out the vegetables from the vegetable basket, took out the kitchen knife with his left hand, and was about to cut the vegetables.

His right fingertips were throbbing slightly again, he thought for a while, and angrily changed the knife to his right hand, and the hand holding the knife trembled even more.

Shen Xi's face was pale, and he hit his right hand with his left hand: "What's so trembling, I have raised you for more than ten years, and now you can't even hold a knife steadily?"

The right hand didn't answer him, it just trembled more violently, obviously shaking.

"You don't take a knife, I want you to take a knife." Shen Xi also became stubborn at this moment, and became angry with himself, clenched the handle of the knife, pushed the vegetables on the chopping board, and began to cut tremblingly.

Every time he cut, his hands trembled more violently, accompanied by piercing pain. Before he could cut a vegetable, his whole body was drenched in sweat.

The color of her lips turned white from the pain, and she couldn't even lift her hands, let alone holding a knife.

He was in so much pain that he could only get a moment's relief by throwing away the kitchen knife in his hand and curling up on the floor with his whole body arched.

Lying on the wooden floor, he looked at the shiny kitchen knife he threw on the floor, and at his trembling right hand, silently blushing.

Is there really no hope at all?

The little uncle said that if you take good care of him, you can recover after raising him for more than ten years.

He has been wearing the ribbon to fix his veins for ten years, no matter how inconvenient or uncomfortable, he has never taken it off.

Over the past decade or so, I tried not to use my right hand as much as possible, and replaced everything with my left hand.

In order to use his left hand more flexibly, he learned to use his left hand to thread needles and thread, and to learn carpentry with his left hand. He endured all kinds of hardships, just so that his right hand could recover one day, so that he would not feel too unfamiliar.

Over the past ten years, he has only used his right hand once, but it still doesn't work?

Shen Xi closed his eyes, lying on the floor, tears flowed silently from the corners of his eyes, desperate and helpless, so what is the point of his suffering for more than ten years.

The dream was broken ten years ago.

It is he who has been silent in the beautiful dream he has woven and has not woken up.

After Zhou Du and Shen Xi said something that night, Shen Xi has indeed recovered a bit, and his cooking skills have recovered, and he is no longer in a trance, talking and laughing from time to time, as if really It's like nothing happened.

Only Zhou Du, the person next to the pillow, noticed something was wrong. Shen Xi seemed to sleep less and dream more, often waking up in the middle of the night, and waking up in the morning to see no one.

Asked him, he smiled and said nothing, just getting up at night and getting up early.

Having no other choice, Zhou Du had no choice but to ask Shen Mu for some tranquilizing incense to light in the room, hoping that he could sleep better.

It's a pity that it still didn't work. The pillow was still cold when I woke up the next morning, and I didn't know how long I had been away.

Zhou Du got up, rubbed his drowsy hairy forehead, looked at the Anshen incense in the corner, and raised his eyebrows silently.

He lit three incense sticks in total, and even the bean buns fell into a deep sleep. How did Shen Xi wake up from the hypnosis of this incense?

Not right, so wrong.

If Zhou Du was only suspicious before, now Zhou Du is very sure that Shen Xi must have something to hide from him.

Zhou Du got up, he was not in a hurry to go hunting in the mountains, he wanted to find a chance to ask Shen Xi.

Before anyone asked, a messenger came outside the door, bringing them Meng Sui's letter.

It was stacked thickly, thicker than a book, and the two thought that there was something important inside, so they didn't rush to open it.

After the day's work was over and the family had dinner, Zhou Du and Shen Xi opened the thick envelope in their room.

As a result, there was nothing in it except the letter.

Shen Xi looked at the papers one by one, and the room couldn't help muttering: "He is too good at talking, look at who he meets every day, and how much money he spends on what vegetables he buys. After reading this letter from him, I’m afraid it will be dawn.”

Zhou Du smiled and pinched his ear: "I said you found him, the callus on this ear will be healed, you can't even hide the letter."

Shen Xi read the letters one by one, picked out the useful information, and filtered out the useless information directly. Although he hated his effort, he couldn't help but said: "But that's good, at least he doesn't He will lie to us, and remember every expense clearly, and we can rest assured that the store will be handed over to him."

Zhou Du tapped on the letter paper with his fingertips: "This is what a smart person does. He knows what you want. Cooperating with this kind of person usually has two consequences. The first one is win-win, and the second one loses you." , depends on how he chooses."

After reading all the letter papers, Shen Xi summed up a few lines: The store has been prepared, and now it is waiting for your seasoning input.

He packed up all the letter papers and asked Zhou Du, "Then do you think he is the former or the latter?"

"At the moment, it's the former." Qin Yi stood behind Shen Xi, who wouldn't dare to bully Shen Xi even if Meng Sui had ten guts.

Shen Xi nodded, his eyes were a little dark: "That's enough, who can say clearly what will happen in the future, maybe what you think will be good will never be good, maybe what you think is bad will not always be bad."

Zhou Du was slightly puzzled: "Why did you become so serious all of a sudden?"

Shen Xi poked Zhou Du with his elbow: "How can I, I'm not talking about business matters, I must be more serious, I can't be joking like a child anymore, I don't have any momentum."

Zhou Du stared into his eyes: "Really?"

Shen Xi was flustered by Zhou Du's look, so he poured himself a cup of tea, suppressed his shock, and said affirmatively: "Yeah, it's not a business matter, what else can it be."

Zhou Du withdrew his gaze, smiled lightly and said, "It's nothing, it's just that you're suddenly so sensible, and you're not used to it."

Shen Xi stood up and asked persistently: "When did I become ignorant?"

"No," facing his questioning, Zhou Du had no choice but to deny, "I said something wrong."

Shen Xi was satisfied: "It's more or less the same."

After a busy day and reading letters in the middle of the night, Shen Xi couldn't help dozing off, climbed onto the bed, pulled off the quilt, closed his eyes and urged: "Sleep, sleep."

Zhou Du hugged him, put his chin on the top of his head, and responded softly: "En."

Just like a few days ago, every day in the first half of the night, I slept well, but in the second half of the night, Shen Xi who was sleeping began to have nightmares.

In the dream, he returned to that dark cellar again, and there were always endless quarrels in his ears, and every word and every sentence seemed to be pierced at the tip of his heart.

"You will never try to learn the inheritance of our Shen family, you greedy and shameless villain."

"Right now father-in-law and mother-in-law are gone, if you don't pass on the inheritance to me, who can help you support the Shen family, relying on Shen Mu, he messes up the kitchen as soon as he cooks, a person who is like a disaster, father-in-law and mother-in-law want him to If you have a skill, you can only send your neighbor to study medicine, how can you pass it on to the Shen family?"

"Or, do you want to hand over the inheritance of the Shen family to our son who lives in the cellar?"

"That's enough, stop talking. I won't give it to you father and son. What's left in his body is your blood. It's also greedy and mercenary. It's not a good thing."

"But, Chao Chao, there is no one else besides me, the great apprentice of the Shen family, who can help you inherit the Shen family. If you don't give the recipe to me, who can you give it to?"

"There will be someone, there will be someone, there will be someone, even if I spread the recipe to the outside world, I won't give you such a wolf-hearted thing."

The dream was full of man and woman arguing wildly, and Shen Xi was trapped in a nightmare, trembling all over and unable to get out.

The darkness seemed to swallow him up forever. He couldn't find a way out, and he couldn't see a ray of light. Only by curling up his whole body could he stop those fears.

I don't know how long I've been in despair, but the dark sky above my head suddenly brightened up, and a childish boy appeared in the dazzlingly bright sky, and he said like a god: "Xiaoxi, uncle is here to pick you up, come out!" .”

Just as he was crawling step by step towards the light, the ferocious male and female voices came again: "Even if you take him away, you can't give him the inheritance of the Shen family."

"Why not?"

"Just because you are not qualified!"

"Joke, I am the No. 16 son of the Shen family. I am not qualified. Who in the world is qualified!"

"Xiaoxi, kneel down and kowtow to me. From now on, you have your uncle's surname, and you will be the No. 17 descendant of the Shen family."

His head knocked down, and a gigantic foot also fell off.

The sound of bones breaking and unbearable pain came from his right hand, and he only heard a heartless voice: "Now I am not qualified."

The pain in the dream seemed to be dragged into reality, the nightmare and the pain woke Shen Xi up suddenly, he was about to get up to wipe his sweat, but he met a pair of deep and moist black eyes.

In an instant, his whole body froze.

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