The little man on the apex

The footsteps of the two bandits were far away, Yan Heyi stood silently at the door for a while, until the sound of horseshoes was far away, and then let out a long breath.

Just now, she had been holding the two stone blocks in her hand, with so much strength, Yan Heyi's fingers were a little stiff, and when she put the thing lightly on the ground, her whole forearm began to tremble uncontrollably.

Yuan Xi hid in the dark cabinet inside the bed, could vaguely hear the voices outside, but did not dare to make a sound, covered his mouth with both hands, and opened his eyes roundly.

Hearing the sound of the officials shouting outside, Yan Heyi took out the key and unlocked the door, slowly pushed the latch open, and opened it a little.

The whole alley was silent, and the flames and shouts in the distance made it even more frightening. He turned around and closed the door, walked out of the alley, and crossed the small bridge. It means that the officers and soldiers have already gone to catch up.

Most of the bandits were caught last time, and there was a wave of bandits who were not found in the mountains. This time they came out to provoke the government, so in addition to robbing property, they also hurt people.

After asking a yamen servant, knowing that most of the villagers found so far were only slightly injured and nothing serious, Yan Heyi turned around and ran back home.

"Yuan Xi, it's all right." Yan Heyi spoke softly to Yuan Xi while lifting the bed board, "Don't be afraid, it's all right."

The door of the dark cabinet was not easy to open, Yan Heyi took an awl casually, pried the cabinet open a crack, and then reached in and pulled the cabinet open.

As soon as the cabinet door was opened, Yuan Xi stood up and hugged Yan Heyi's neck. Yan Heyi tightly wrapped his arms around his shoulders, feeling something warm gradually sticking to his neck.

The two remained silent like this, quietly listening to each other's breathing.

"Little crying bag, it's okay." Yan Heyi wiped the tears on Yuanxi's face, carried him out of the dark cabinet, picked up the quilt on the bed stool, wrapped it tightly around him, and then The bed board was lifted up and restored to its original shape.

Yuan Xi obediently clutched the side of the quilt, and waited for Yan Heyi to make the bed, before wrapping his arms around his waist from behind, "Brother, I didn't cry when the bandits came just now, I cried when I saw you happy of."

"Are you afraid just now?" Yan Heyi turned around and hugged him, gently pinched his cheeks, which were still soft, and the warm touch at this moment made him completely recover from his nervousness.

It turned out that being able to hold this person every day, seeing him, hearing his voice, and smelling his body was a satisfaction worth giving up everything.

"I'm afraid," Yuan Xi answered him honestly, "I'm afraid that bandits will come in and hurt my brother..."

He paused, and then said: "I'm afraid that my brother will not be able to beat them, and be..."

"Okay, okay, okay," Yan Heyi stroked his long hair on his shoulders, "It's all over."

"Well," Yuan Xi raised her small face and stared at Yan Heyi seriously, "I just thought, if my brother...then I will rush out and try my best to avenge my brother, then hug my brother, You walk that Huangquan road together."

"Bah, bah, bah!" Yan Heyi knocked hard on the edge of the bed three times, "What revenge? What Huangquan Road? It's all nonsense!"

Yuan Xi bit his lip, and grinned at Yan Heyi, just like him, knocked hard on the edge of the bed three times, and spat three times in succession.

Yan Heyi stretched out her finger and poked Yuan Xi's temple, "I hid you in the bed cabinet because I was afraid that you would be discovered by bandits? If something really happened to me, I would feel that I could protect you." It's worth it, if you rushed out foolishly, for nothing...then what's the point of what I did?"

"Besides, you have thin arms and legs, what are you fighting for?"

As Yan Heyi spoke, she felt a little angry in her heart, "If you are really like this, then you have failed me. On the way to Huangquan, I will definitely avoid you, and I will never..."

He finally couldn't bear to say the next words. Seeing that he was angry, Yuanxi limply leaned on him again, "But, if I listened to your words and survived and died, then you might I've already conceived, and my husband is married, where can I find you?"

"You're talking nonsense again," Yan Heyi was so angry that he sneered, "I'm waiting for you, will it work?"

"But at that time, I became a wrinkled little old man, and you were still so handsome, we..."

Yan Heyi turned her head and kissed this nonsense mouth, so Yuan Xi didn't say anything more messy.

"Didn't that Taoist say that that day?" Yan Heyi held Yuanxi's hand and stroked his slender joints back and forth, "We have been married for 70 years, and we can still be together in the next life. Why are you so worried? Son?"

He rubbed Yuanxi's stomach again, "I saved you, and let you eat so many good things from me for nothing, you have to spend your whole life paying it back, don't think about letting it go."

Yuan Xi gave a soft "um", "Brother, light the candles, I can't see your face clearly."

"Okay," Yan Heyi picked up Yuan Xi's buttocks, and by the light of the fire outside, found the fire folder that fell on the ground, bent down to pick it up, and lit a candle.

The room was lit up again, and only then did I see Tuanzi hiding behind the door, baring his teeth fiercely outside.

When the bandits came to knock on the door just now, Tuanzi didn't make a sound, but stood quietly in front of Yan Heyi, ready to rush towards the bandits who broke in at any time.

"Tuanzi, come here." Yan Heyi called softly, and Tuanzi turned his head to take a look hesitantly, then jumped over like flying, rubbing and jumping around the two people.

Yuan Xi went over to check the money box on the table, opened it and counted it, then carefully pressed the lock and put it into the bedside cabinet.

"Yuanxi, go to bed and sleep for a while." Yan Heyi wrapped Yuanxi with the jacket, "Someone in the village was injured, I'll go out to help, bandits won't come, don't be afraid."

"Is someone injured?" Yuan Xi looked worried, "Then I'll go with my brother, I can bandage it, it's very useful."

Yan Heyi couldn't resist him, so she dressed him up, wrapped herself tightly, and went out together.

Yuan Xi wanted to go to Zhao Jing's house to look for Zhou Ziyu first, when he passed by Zhou Ziyu's house, he and Zhao Jing were also coming from the front, Yuan Xi hurried over, hugged him, and looked at each other, seeing that neither was injured , I was relieved.

Zhou Ziyu's family is in the middle of the village. It is regarded as a wealthy household in the village. The gate is higher than other houses, so it has become the most coveted target of bandits. Auntie was at the door of the house, bending over to pack the clothes that were ripped out of the closet by bandits.

The eldest brother and sister-in-law were not there, and Zhou Ziyu was also at Zhao Jing's house at that time. There were only elderly Aunt Zhou and Uncle Zhou at home, and they hid away tremblingly. When there was a bandit incident, Aunt Zhou carefully buried all the big silver and valuable jewelry at home under the tree in the backyard, so that they were not searched.

Seeing Zhou Ziyu coming, Aunt Zhou rushed over and hugged him, looked him up and down, and kept wiping away her tears with her sleeve.

At this time, snowflakes suddenly fell in the sky, and the ink-stained sky became vivid. Aunt Zhou hurriedly led people into the house, and asked Uncle Zhou to boil some hot water in the kitchen.

Seeing that everyone was fine, Aunt Zhou didn't feel sorry for the belongings that were taken away by bandits. The ginger in the kitchen was thrown away. Fortunately, the honey jar was not broken, so she made warm bowls for them all. honey water, and urged them to drink it to warm their bodies.

According to Zhao Jing, when he came, he saw a few yamen servants surrounding Gouwa's house, it seemed that someone was injured, so he didn't linger too much, the four of them drank a bowl of honey water each, and went over to help together.

The one who was injured was Gouwa's father, who said that when the bandits rushed into the house, Gouwa's parents were sound asleep.

Gouwa in the next room heard his mother's cry, grabbed a big shovel from the yard and rushed in. Several bandits picked him up and said they wanted to arrest him and join them. Gouwa's father went up to snatch him. He was stabbed in the shoulder by bandits.

Fortunately, the officers and soldiers came, and when they heard the long whistle from the bandit leader, the bandits didn't dare to pester them any longer, so they let them go.

When Yuanxi and the others went, Gouwa was guarding the door of the house with a big shovel, snowflakes fell all over his head, he was wearing a jacket, but he was only wearing thin obscene clothes inside, and a yamen servant was beside him to persuade him He, he remained motionless.

It wasn't until he looked up and saw Yuan Xi that the hostility in Gouwa's eyes subsided a little, and he was still holding the shovel handle tightly in his hand.

Yan Heyi had studied a lot of medical skills, and was more careful than those yamen servants, so she went into the house to treat Gouwa's father's wounds, while Zhou Ziyu and Zhao Jing helped clean up the mess in the house.

Yuan Xi squatted down in front of Gou Wa, gently rubbed his head, and pulled him into his arms.

Gouwa's body seemed to be frozen, his hands were still shaking, and the snowflakes penetrated into his thin obscene clothes, melting silently.

After being hugged by Yuan Xi for a while, Gou Wa softened a little, put down the big shovel in his hand, and nestled in Yuan Xi's arms in a daze.

Yuan Xi carried Gou Wa into the house with all his strength, and when he crossed the threshold, he covered his eyes with his sleeve, preventing him from seeing the bloodstains on the ground at the door.

He put a thick quilt on Gou Wa, and sat with him at the table for a while, Gou Wa suddenly raised his eyes, and smiled stiffly at Yuan Xi, "Boss, I slapped the bandit with a shovel." His head, he was slapped so loudly by me."

"Really?" Yuan Xi pinched Gouwa's frozen red nose, "Your appearance just now is exactly the same as the general in the script."

Gou Wa especially liked listening to Yuan Xi's speech books, especially those about the generals on the battlefield.

Gou Wa's mother brought two bowls of hot water for Gou Wa and Yuan Xi to warm up. After Gou Wa drank some water, his body gradually stopped shaking.

A few people passed by the gate of the courtyard noisily, surrounded by the old doctor in the village, looking very anxious.

Zhao Jing ran over and asked, saying that something happened to Niu Er.

As soon as Yan Heyi treated Gouwa's father's wound, she also went to help. Yuan Xi comforted Gouwa, and Zhao Jing and the others also chased after him.

Niu Er lived close to the village entrance, far away from several people's homes, so he hurried and took a long time to enter the yard.

The yard was in the same mess, the old doctor took out a few silver needles from the medicine box, and by the light of the candle Yan Heyi brought over, he tremblingly pricked the needles for Niu Er on the bed.

Niu Er seemed to have been hit on the head by a heavy object, but there was no bleeding wound. He was just unconscious and unable to wake up. The old doctor was not sure, and was sweating profusely.

Yuan Xi pinched his fingertips and watched quietly by the side, then suddenly looked around, and asked everyone in surprise, "Where's Brother Sheng?"