"!!!"
The hairs on Tan Yushi's back fell down and his whole body froze.
His fingers were clenched into fists and hung at his sides, with veins bulging on the back of his hands.
It took almost all of his strength to control himself and not reflexively attack the person in front of him at that moment.
The middle-aged man didn't know why, but he appeared behind Tan Yushi.
But Tan Yushi didn't even notice it, and didn't even hear his footsteps.
Until I turned around and faced such an enlarged face.
The middle-aged man's face was obviously expressionless, but it looked inexplicably gloomy.
At that moment, Tan Yushi felt an extremely dangerous cold murderous intention from his body.
Tan Yushi's eyes turned slightly to the side and caught a glimpse of the middle-aged man's hands behind his back.
The thing in his hand was not completely blocked by his body, and reflected a bit of cold light under the sunlight.
It's a knife!
Tan Yushi only felt that the man in front of him seemed to be violent at any time and stabbed him fiercely with the knife in his hand.
"What are you doing?"
The middle-aged man asked again, his eyes fixed on Tan Yushi.
His eyes were widened, and his white eyeballs were protruding, almost falling out of their sockets.
The middle-aged man almost spoke every word, and every word seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth.
At this time, Tan Yushi realized very clearly that if he could not give a suitable answer, he would definitely not be let go by this middle-aged man.
But what should he say?
Tan Yushi's mind was racing rapidly, but the atmosphere was so tense for a moment that he couldn't think of any reason.
At a time when the situation is extremely anxious.
Suddenly, Wang Qing's voice came from the gate of the tiled house.
"Hey, uncle, what are you doing?"
As soon as Wang Qing walked out of the living room, he saw a middle-aged man holding a cold kitchen knife with one hand behind his back, approaching Tan Yushi, not knowing what he was talking about.
Wang Qing glanced at Tan Yushi again, saw the yellow mud house behind him, and immediately hurried towards Tan Yushi.
"Ouch, it turns out the toilet is here!"
Wang Qing held the edge of his pants with one hand, anxious to hold back his urine.
"Brother Tan, come out and use the toilet too! Are you ready? Let me go quickly."
Tan Yushi was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously said quickly: "Ah, yes, I came to use the toilet, but I haven't gone up yet. It's too dark inside, I can't see clearly."
Wang Qing couldn't hold it in any longer. Although he knew the first-come, first-served rule, he was in a hurry to urinate right now.
"If you don't want to go, let me go first. I'm very anxious!"
As Wang Qing spoke, he pushed away Tan Yushi and walked into the dark yellow mud house.
Before Wang Qing could enter, the middle-aged man had already stepped in front of the Huangni House, stopping Wang Qing.
"It's not a toilet inside," the middle-aged man said.
"Ah?" Wang Qing looked confused and anxious. He couldn't help but tighten his legs and half curled up. "Where is the toilet? I'm so anxious."
The middle-aged man said, "I'll let Xiaosong take you there." He raised his voice and shouted, "Xiaosong——"
The little boy came over with the ball in his arms, looked at the middle-aged man timidly, and shouted: "Uncle Third."
The middle-aged man said to the little boy: "Take Ms. Wang and this guest to the toilet and choose a clean one."
When Wang Qing heard the middle-aged man's special instructions to the little boy, he pressed a little more iron.
In fact, the people in this village are pretty good, at least they are honest and attentive.
Knowing that she might not be used to the dry toilets in the countryside, he specifically asked her to find a cleaner one.
Xiaosong obediently led Wang Qing and Tan Yushi to the dry toilet in the village.
The toilets were two simple rooms. A large pit was dug on the ground to hold excrement, and two wooden boards were set up on both sides for people to step on.
But it's quite clean.
There are no nasty snakes, insects, rats, or ants to be seen, and there isn't much of a strong smell of feces.
Wang Qing was so anxious that he opened the toilet door and got in without looking carefully.
Tan Yushi didn't have time to say a word to her, and his outstretched hand stagnated in mid-air.
Xiaosong looked at the toilet door that was closed by Wang Qing, and then at Tan Yushi.
"Brother, don't you go to the toilet?"
Being stared at by Xiaosong's black and white eyes, Tan Yushi felt a chill.
Yes, Wang Qing used "going to the toilet" as an excuse to help him deal with the middle-aged man.
He had to go to this toilet to believe what Wang Qing said.
Otherwise, when Xiaosong went back, he told the middle-aged man that he had not gone to the toilet at all. Wouldn't everything be exposed?
Tan Yushi got into the empty toilet next to him.
Soon, both of them solved their physical needs and came out of the toilet.
After going to the toilet, Wang Qing was finally freed from the feeling of urgency to urinate, and felt much more relaxed.
After coming out of the toilet, she picked up the water ladle next to the toilet and poured a ladle of water into the clean bucket filled with water to wash her hands.
While washing his hands, Wang Qing started talking to Xiao Song.
"So your name is Xiaosong. I forgot to ask your name before."
Xiaosong held the ball and said nothing, just nodded.
Wang Qing asked again curiously: "I heard you just called him third uncle. Are you related to each other? Where are your parents?"
Xiaosong pursed his lips. He looked dull, with no expression on his face. There was no sign of depression or sadness at all.
"My parents are gone a long time ago. I was raised by three uncles and three aunts." Xiaosong said.
"oh."
Wang Qing's compassion moved again.
Before, she thought it was pitiful for this child to play ball alone.
She also wondered if he was a left-behind child, but she didn't expect the truth to be more cruel than she guessed.
Xiaosong lowered his head, hugged the ball, and continued: "The village chief said that every household must raise a dog, so that dogs can support us."
Xiaosong lowered his voice: "But the village chief's dog was old and died within a few days after coming back from outside the village. So we need to raise a new one."
"Dad said that the village chief is a good man and he did this for the sake of the whole village. Dad went to help the village chief."
"My mother said that we need a dog at home, so she wanted a dog to feed us. She said that my uncle and aunt would take good care of me."
Wang Qing could understand the words at first, but was confused after hearing them.
It's probably because the education level in this village is not good. This kid's words and sentences are weird.
Maybe you want to say "act like a cow or a horse"?
I remembered it wrong, so I remembered it as "being a dog".
Presumably, this child's parents went out to work to make a living for the family, so they had to leave him in the village as a left-behind child to be raised by his uncle and aunt.
