For half a month, Bai Gu and the others had almost no rest and were always on their way. In half a month, a few people not only left the boundary of Huorong City, but also walked out of the boundary of Dingxian City, which borders Huorong City, and ran all the way east.
At this time, the place where several people settled was a small village called Shitiangou.
The village is not big, with only about a hundred households, and they all rely on a bit of thin farmland to survive. If there is a severe drought or heavy rain and a year's harvest is destroyed, the family will be hungry for a whole year.
It is truly dependent on the sky.
So Bai Gu and the others stopped here at noon, asked for a few bowls of water, chatted with some old people in the village for a while, and then prepared to set off again.
People's lives are already not easy, so don't add more trouble to others.
Especially Bai Gu, he has experienced a life of one meal and no next meal. He can empathize with the villagers of Shitiangou very much.
Coupled with his ridiculous appetite, don't lighten the burden on other people's rice vats. They don't need it.
When Bai Gu said goodbye to several old people, he secretly stuffed a few broken pieces of silver into their pockets.
Wang Xizhou saw this scene in his eyes. Although he said nothing, he felt somewhat relieved in his heart.
Xiaobai's heart is still kind.
Bai Gu and others got on the carriage, and when the driver was about to whip his horse, a slightly tired voice came and called out to Bai Gu and others.
"Guys, please wait a moment!"
Wang Xizhou lifted the car curtains and looked out.
It was a slightly older middle-aged man, supporting an old man and walking towards the carriage. There was also a little girl about seven or eight years old walking in front of them and already standing beside the carriage.
The voice just now should have been that of the middle-aged man.
Wang Xizhou and Bai Gu looked at each other and got out of the car together.
With flower evil.
Bai Xiaoxiao didn't get out of the car and was still asleep in the car.
Wang Xizhou took a few steps forward to meet the old man and the middle-aged man, "Uncle, is there anything else you haven't finished talking about?"
The old man broke away from his son's rough hands and wiped his body with a pair of dull and thin old hands. Only then did the old man dare to put his hand on Wang Xizhou's outstretched hand, "Mr. Wang, I, I have something. I want to ask you for something."
"Abo, if you can help, Xizhou will do his best."
The old man pointed a finger at the little girl who had walked beside him, "This is my granddaughter, the youngest of my family. The harvest in the house has not been very good in the past few years, and several of the children have starved to death. I really can’t keep it anymore. I feel sorry for the doll, and I don’t want her to starve to death like her brothers and sisters. So Mr. Wang, I want to ask you to take this doll with you, either as a maid or as an animal. , just give her a bite of food, I just want her to live."
Wang Xizhou looked embarrassed.
The old man's wrinkled face became even more wrinkled, "Mr. Wang, my youngest has a small appetite and can't eat much food. Just give her one meal a day. Just treat her like raising a little chicken. I beg you." Please, give the doll a way to survive!"
As he said this, the old man was about to kneel down to Wang Xizhou.
Wang Xizhou quickly supported the old man and said, "Uncle, I can't help it. This is really impossible. Xizhou can't bear it."
The old man burst into tears and his voice trembled, "Mr. Wang...I..."
Wang Xizhou raised his hand to interrupt the old man's words, with an apologetic look on his face, "Uncle, it's not that Xizhou is unwilling. If Xizhou's trip was a one-man trip, then he would definitely accept your youngest without a word. But the leader of this trip is not Xizhou. It’s not good for Xizhou to make decisions without permission.”
"this……"
"Don't worry, Xizhou will try his best to facilitate this matter." Wang Xizhou gently patted the back of the old man's hand, telling him not to worry too much. Then Wang Xizhou looked at Bai Gu and asked softly: "Xiao Bai, what do you think about this matter?"
The old man followed Wang Xizhou's line of sight and found that the so-called leader was a young man, not much taller than his granddaughter. A sense of absurdity suddenly arose in his heart.
Although the old man and the middle-aged man didn't believe it, looking at Wang Xizhou's attitude, this tall... young man in front of him? Child? He should be the leader in Wang Xizhou's mouth.
You have to believe it even if you don’t believe it.
Bai Gu glanced at the little girl standing next to the old man, with her head lowered and her small hands constantly twisting the corners of her clothes. He felt that his throat was so sore that it was difficult to swallow even a sip of saliva.
Bai Gu's heart was complicated.
But this brief moment of silence made the old man and the middle-aged man's hearts sink, thinking that Bai Gu was unwilling to take in their youngest.
The middle-aged man immediately knelt down to Bai Gu. He ignored the gravel and soil on the ground and kowtowed to Bai Gu several times. He broke his forehead and ignored him. His face was embarrassed, but his eyes were full of hope. and begged, "Little brother, I beg you, please take in the youngest of my family out of kindness. She is still young, and several of her brothers and sisters have already starved to death. Our family cannot starve another baby to death, otherwise everyone will Broken. Please, I beg you!"
The middle-aged man, a farmer who always faces the loess and back to the sky, although he is dark and thin, is also full of tendons. Faced with the difficult life of relying on the sky, this man who had never said a word of hardship shed tears at this moment. Douda's tears mixed with the blood on his face and fell to the ground. It was his shattered self-esteem and the way of survival he had paved for his children.
As a parent, what can't you do for your children?
Bai Gu licked his dry lips and reached out to hold the middle-aged man's shoulders, stopping him from continuing to kowtow. "Uncle, stop kowtowing and get up."
The middle-aged man grabbed Bai Gu's hand with his backhand, and his tone was full of pleading, "Little brother, please, my baby is very good and obedient, and will not talk nonsense or cause trouble! She is very strong and very She is diligent and able to work. She has no problem being a maid. She also has a small appetite. Just give her one meal a day and you won’t suffer. Please, give her a way to survive. My whole family will thank you. of!"
"Uncle, get up first, and we'll talk about this later. Otherwise, I'll leave."
Hearing this, the middle-aged man quickly got up, fearing that if he moved too slowly, the other party would no longer want his youngest son, and his life would be ruined.
Then he would never forgive himself even if he really died.
Bai Gu looked at the little girl who still had her head lowered and asked, "What's her name?"
The middle-aged man's eyes lit up. Is there hope?
"My whole family is not well-educated, and the baby is small and doesn't have a big name. I usually call her the youngest." The middle-aged man was a little embarrassed.
"Uncle, what's your last name?"
"Dad, what is our last name?"
"Have you forgotten our family name? Who are you to be the head of the family!" The old man scolded the middle-aged man, then looked at Bai Gu, "Little brother, my family name is Du, Mu Tu Du."
Bai Gu nodded, "Brother Wang, can you give me a name?"
Wang Xizhou felt a little confused, "Name?"
Bai Gu snorted.
The old man and the middle-aged man roughly guessed what Bai Gu was thinking, and they all looked at Wang Xizhou with anticipation written all over their weather-beaten faces.
Wang Xizhou later realized that he roughly knew Bai Gu's plan. After thinking for a moment, he said, "Xizhou won't overstep my bounds. You can choose the name, Xiaobai, and Xizhou will help modify it."
Bai Gu was also not polite and immediately replied: "Let's call her Du Xinluo, the heart of the soul, the dill of the green radish."
Wang Xizhou's mind raced, and he soon came up with a better idea, "Xizhou's suggestion is to call her Du Qin, Qin with the fragrant winter snow, how about it?"
"It's a good name." Bai Gu thought for a while, walked up to the little girl, put his hands on his knees, and bent down slightly, "Little sister, which one do you want out of the two names? It's a free gift."
The little girl raised her head, first looked at her grandfather and father, and after getting approval from them, she dared to look at Bai Gu timidly, and whispered: "I, I can't read."
"It's okay, just listen. Which name do you think sounds good?" Bai Gu showed a smile.
Because Bai Gu had suffered from malnutrition for a long time, his skin color and face were both pathologically sallow and white. Moreover, Bai Gu's appearance is also very ordinary, and his personality is also surly and fickle. He is standing in a backlit place, and now he smiles like this, but he feels a bit sinister.
The little girl was frightened and took two steps back, but she still suppressed the fear in her heart and said in a small, trembling voice: "Du... Du Xinluo, I... I think this sounds good."
Bai Gu was a little helpless by the little girl's reaction.
Do you look that ugly?
It can scare others.
But the little girl chose her own name, and Bai Gu was still very happy.
Bai Gu smiled at Wang Xizhou, "Brother Wang, is it okay to teach one more child?"
Wang Xizhou smiled and said, "It's an honor."
Bai Gu straightened up and looked at the old man and the middle-aged man, "Don't worry, I will take good care of Xinluo like I take care of my own sister. I may not always have money, but as long as I have something to eat, Xinluo You won’t be hungry.”
The old man had tears in his eyes and was choked with tears.
The middle-aged man sniffed, knelt down with a plop, and kowtowed to Bai Gu and Wang Xizhou several times, causing his newly bleeding forehead to crack even more and make more blood flow. "Thank you two, thank you two." Bit!"
Wang Xizhou helped the middle-aged man up, and touched the middle-aged man's forehead with his hand, which glowed with white light. The latter's forehead was immediately intact. If it weren't for the wet blood on the middle-aged man's face, it would have been impossible to tell that the middle-aged man had just knocked his head open.
When the old man and the middle-aged man saw this scene, they couldn't help but froze on the spot.
Wang Xizhou stretched out his hand and showed a warm smile, "Xinluo, say goodbye to grandpa and dad, we are leaving."
Although the little girl is young, she also knows that her elders knelt down and cried just now to beg the two people in front of them for something.
It is to reduce the burden on the family and to find a way to survive for myself.
I have to be obedient and not cause any trouble to my grandfather and father.
The little girl sniffed, tears welling up in her eyes. She tried to hold back the tears, but she was too choked to speak. She had to stretch out her hand and wave as a farewell to her family.
Wang Xizhou held the little girl's hand, said goodbye to the old man and the middle-aged man, and then slowly walked towards the carriage.
After the carriage went away, the two people standing there woke up from a dream and shouted, "These guys are all gods! The youngest will not die!"
"As long as the youngest has a way to survive, that's fine as long as he has a way to survive!"
