In mid-December, the first snow fell on Tubei Mountain.
Overnight the sky and the earth were covered with silver, and everything was covered with snow.
There are many thatched houses and thatched sheds at the foot of Tubei Mountain. Even so, there will still be another wave of people coming from other places every now and then.
"Matongpo, Hulugou, Hongtuya...people have moved here from all places, even from Tunan Mountain."
A brazier was set up in the Su family's hall, and the family sat in the house to roast themselves.
Su Da sighed frequently when talking about the newly arrived residents, "I heard that they all came here with the courage because they couldn't survive in their original places. The two families who came to Tu Nanshan came here to protect their wives and children from being robbed." , sell, the more than 50 people in Matongpo do not want to be forced to become tenant farmers..."
The firewood in the brazier was burning and beeping continuously. Su Er's fire pliers kept poking at the ashes left after the firewood burned out. "Most of them come here to avoid greater pain. Those people really regard us as someone who can protect them." You are such a talented person, I don’t dare to go out every day now, if I go out I have to be worshiped by others, this is a big deal.”
"It's a place where people eat people." Old woman Su said with a heavy face, "Those people who came here are more or less involved with Pier 12. Now everyone is gathering in Tubei Mountain, even if we haven't done anything , Pier 12 will also put the blame on us, thinking that we are going against them."
The family was pushed to the top like a duck on a shelf.
There is no need to be afraid.
There is no point in being afraid.
The family has experienced many things after staying here for a long time, and they can deal with them more calmly and rationally when encountering problems.
Today, the whole family gathered together and chatted about these things, which was more of a sigh.
While they can live in peace and quiet because of someone who protects them here, many, many people in other places are experiencing separation from their wives and children, life and death.
Their understanding of the Exiled Land is only a corner.
Finally, Old Man Su sighed, "I don't want to be too tired. We will live the same way we did before. Didn't Mr. Huo say that we don't have to worry about how many or who come to Tu Beishan?"
The family nodded.
It's still snowing outside.
The sound of reading aloud in the Huo family courtyard floated out through the snowflakes, and the voice was clear and childish.
"Gold comes from Lishui, jade comes from Kungang. The sword is called Juque, and the beads are called luminous."
"The fruit is precious, plum blossoms, and the vegetables are heavy, mustard and ginger. The sea is salty and the river is light, and the scales are hidden and the feathers are flying."
The four little children were shaking their heads around the brazier in the main hall of the Huo family, and could already recite a thousand-character essay.
Huo Ziheng was holding tea in one hand and a ruler in the other. When the ruler was shaken, the skin of the three boys tightened.
Only Xiao Tianbao is so stable that he cannot be shaken.
She had never been beaten by a ruler. Every time the master's ruler came, she would bounce it away.
After too many times, Master's ruler stopped paying attention to her.
After reciting it again, Huo Ziheng shouted to stop, "I'll stop here today and come back tomorrow."
The three little boys immediately cheered. get out of class was over, and the ruler crisis was over. "Master, let's go home!"
"Yes." Huo Ziheng nodded, and called to the little baby who was following behind his brothers, "Tianbao, please stay for a while and go for a walk outside with Master."
Tianbao stopped and pointed his little finger outside, "Master, it's snowing."
"There is an umbrella." He pulled out an oil-paper umbrella from behind the door and opened it. Huo Ziheng held the umbrella in one hand and Tianbao in the other, without picking her up, and walked into the snow, one big and one small.
After leaving the yard, we walked out along the road paved with a layer of snow foam.
Thatched houses and thatched shacks sit one next to another on both sides of the road. Residents who see the master and apprentice will pay homage to them devoutly from a distance.
The two of them didn't stop until they reached the intersection at the foot of the mountain. The little baby's red tiger-head shoes were already soaked in snow.
She stood in front of the man, raised her little face and waited quietly for the master's next instruction.
No matter why.
Huo Ziheng also looked down at her, his face equally calm and his eyes unwavering.
A small oil-paper umbrella could barely cover the figures, one large and one small. The unavoidable snowflakes around the umbrella lightly touched the sleeves and uppers of their shoes.
"Are you happy that those people bowed to you?" the man asked.
The little girl replied, "I don't know."
"They respect you and are not happy?"
"They're afraid of me."
Tianbao didn't know what respect was, but she could feel that the people who bowed to her were afraid of her.
"Because they need you."
"need me?"
"They hope to be protected by you and to stand up for them when someone bullies them."
Tianbao frowned, "I don't want to."
"Why?"
"None of my business."
Huo Ziheng pinched his eyebrows, chuckled again, and tapped the little boy's eyebrows with his index finger, "What did you learn from your poisonous grandpa?"
Wa'er tilted her head and shook his finger, "Master, are you coming back?"
"Return."
"Do you want me to protect them?"
"As you please."
He curled his lips and smiled silently.
Tu Beishan's momentum has been established. If anyone wants to take the lead, he hopes it will be Tianbao.
She has the qualifications, abilities, and connections.
A few years later, Tu Beishan will also be the overlord of the place of exile.
But whether it was necessary or not, he never thought of forcing Sweet Baby.
If she likes it, she does it.
If you don’t like it, don’t do it.
On the way back, the snow was still falling, and the people I met on the way still bowed to Tianbao from afar.
Tianbao didn't look too much. The person she wanted to protect was only in that small area.
As soon as the master and apprentice were halfway back, a figure flew over, and the bird's nest head staggered in the wind and snow, "Huo Ziheng, you piece of shit, you let Tianbao walk back alone with the snow on the ground?"
When the bird's head fell to the ground, Huo Ziheng kicked it first, and then he picked up the baby. He looked at her shoes that were soaked by the snow and cried out in distress, "Hey, hey, baby, if the person named Huo doesn't care, you don't care either? Your feet are so cold." It’s broken! If you just jump on his back, how can he throw you off? You are really stubborn, and you have learned the pedantry of literati! Be smarter from now on!"
Tianbao sighed quietly.
She couldn't even get a word in.
The old man rushed back to the Su family's small courtyard with the baby in his arms, screaming all the way. He squeezed a gap next to the brazier filled with people, lifted the baby's two little feet and put them on the fire to roast.
"Look, I said you couldn't see the baby without me! How long have I been out for? Tianbao was carried around in the snow! - What was I talking to you about earlier? Come on, come on. Let’s talk.”
Old woman Su took off her baby's shoes and socks and said helplessly, "There are exiled prisoners outside again."
"Oh, right." Du Buguo nodded. He went for a walk in the inner city today and wanted to pick up some good things to play with. When Mao looked at the corner of Magpie Tower, he heard the gossip, "The person who came this time said he was from the capital. Exiled, the family members of an extremely wealthy Beijing official. I didn’t find out what the specific crime was, but coming from the capital, the family is still a high-ranking official, and they must have brought a lot of good things!"
Su family, "..."
No, you always come back and talk about this gossip excitedly, and you have your eye on something that others don’t know about? ?
