The next morning, Xiaoruo was awakened by the sound of something falling to the ground in the next room.
The three siblings are still sleeping in the original room of Xiao's parents. Next door is the place where Xiao Niao and Xiao Zhao originally slept. The boy was placed there yesterday.
Xiaoruo gently pulled out her arms, which were tightly hugged on her left and right, from her siblings' arms, and pulled the thin quilt over the two cubs, tucking them tightly to prevent the cold wind from pouring in and freezing them, and then let go
Walk out of the house with light steps.
When she walked around the bookshelf on the ceiling, she saw the young man huddled in the corner, his eyes staring at her warily, his lips pursed tightly, his hands clenched in front of his chest like a fist, and he looked ready to attack at any time, but his slightly trembling arms gave it away.
He was just bluffing.
Xiao Ruo lowered her voice and gently comforted her: "My name is Xiao Ruo. I saw you injured and unconscious on the mountain yesterday, so I brought you back. This is my home. What is your name?"
When the girl's voice was deliberately soft, it was more like a ripple under the bridge, spreading softly and infiltrating the boy's highly tense nerves.
"Ah...um..." After not speaking for so long, the boy's voice was so hoarse that he couldn't even give a complete answer, and could only utter meaningless syllables intermittently.
Seeing this, Xiaoruo quickly poured a glass of water and handed it over to the young man to moisten his throat.
Seeing that he still frowned even after drinking the water, and still made hoarse sounds when he opened his mouth several times, Xiaoruo told him to stop talking and just nodded and shook his head to answer her question.
"Are you from around here?"
Shake his head.
"Do you remember where your home is?"
The young man frowned and thought for a long time, then shook his head.
"Then do you remember your name?"
Still shaking his head.
"Where did you get injured? Did you meet a bad guy?"
First he nodded, then shook his head.
"You mean you can't remember clearly?"
nod.
After a simple inquiry, Xiao Ruo roughly determined that the boy was probably suffering from memory confusion or even memory loss caused by a head injury. When he thought that the hole he dug might have caused the boy to fall on his head, Xiao Ruo felt guilty for a while.
"Then, if I send you to the government and let the officials find your family for you, would you be willing?"
He shook his head crazily. Although the boy had lost his memory, he instinctively knew the danger.
Seeing the young man suddenly getting excited and showing such resistance, Xiaoruo could only give another suggestion. "How about you stay at my house first and recover from your injuries, and then decide whether to stay or stay after you regain your memory."
The young man's eyes lit up, and the wariness and nervousness in his eyes were gone.
For some reason, the girl in front of him, although she looked pretty and weak, gave him a strong sense of security, making him want to trust her completely, get close and cuddle up.
"Ah, ah um!" He nodded heavily, loosened his fist on his chest, and placed it on his left calf. The boy trembled and whimpered a few times to express pain.
Xiao Ruo stood, and the boy curled up and sat. She was slightly taller than the boy. At this time, she was stared at by a pair of wet eyes. The boy opened his eyes roundly, and the puppy dog eye attack hit Xiao Ruo instantly.
Heart.
It really looks like an aggrieved puppy, whining and waiting for its owner to pet its head and praise it for being such a good dog.
Her hands moved according to her heart, and when Xiaoruo came back to her senses, she was already rubbing the boy's head. Feeling the touch of the fluffy hair in her hands, she was a little embarrassed and a little happy.
This baby's hair feels like dog hair, soft and fluffy, and if you look closely, it has a bit of natural curls, which makes Xiaoruo, a furry lover, completely unable to stop.
"The bone in your leg should be broken or cracked. I'll take you to the doctor at dawn and give you some medicine to relax your muscles and activate your blood circulation." Xiao Ruo kept talking and stroking her hair while making arrangements.
"If you don't want to go to the government, we have to create a reasonable identity for you so that you won't arouse suspicion."
The boy refused to resist being stroked on the head, and even narrowed his eyes with an expression of enjoyment, more like a large dog.
Xiaoruo wanted to laugh, and simply said: "I can't remember your original name, so I'll give you a name. Since you are staying in my house temporarily, you can just use the word "Gou", which means temporary. Just say it to others.
You are my third cousin, and you came to look for my parents, but you were injured when you met a bandit on the road."
The young man fully accepted Xiao Ruo's arrangement and nodded with complete trust.
Xiao Ruo smiled slyly: "Since we are relatives, you can follow my family name, then call me Xiaogou, Xiaogou, puff, puppy, Xiugou hahahahaha..." Before he could finish his words, Xiaoruo was cursed by his own
It was so funny that I laughed out loud.
The young man did not feel the slightest irritation at the teasing words in Xiao Ruo's words. He looked at Xiao Ruo and bent over with a smile, and felt as if a bright light illuminated him, warm and brilliant.
Xiao Ruo's loud laughter woke up Xiao Niao Xiao Zhao in the next room. The two children rubbed their hazy eyes and followed the sound out of the room. They saw their eldest sister laughing and bending over to cover her belly. The little brother who was unconscious yesterday had also woken up.
.
"Sister...what's wrong..." the voice of the little girl who had just woken up was soft.
Xiaoruo stopped laughing when she saw that her younger siblings were awake. She half-lifted and half-carried the young man from the cold ground to the bed where he could sit, and then he also carried the two little ones who were only wearing footwear onto the bed, so that they could spend less time in the early morning.
Feet are cold.
"Niaoxiao Zhaozhao, this little brother will live with us from now on." Xiaoruo hugged the two soft bean sprouts, her small body was soft and warm, and felt great. "He is ours.
The grandson of the aunt of the second son of the seventh uncle’s cousin’s family is called Xiao... Phew, his name is Xiaoxun, and you will call him Brother Xiaoxun from now on."
The name Xiaogou was just a joke she used to tease the boy. The name she had to use every day should be more serious. Although country people have the habit of calling Ergou Tiedan by cheap names to make a living. Xiao Ruo looked at the boy's heroic face and said,
I still can't imagine someone calling him a puppy with such a face. In the end, I chose the character Xun which is not much different from the strokes of the character Gou.
The young man had no objection to Xiao Ruo temporarily changing his name. Xiao Gou and Xiao Xun made no difference to him.
He looked at Xiao Niao and Xiao Zhao, who were lying in Xiao Ruo's arms, and felt a trace of indescribable sadness in his heart, as if he was a little envious and a little jealous.
Xiaoniao Xiaozhao, who was confused by the eldest sister's relatives, didn't understand. Yesterday, she said that her elder sister picked it up on the Western Mountain. How could she become her brother today? But if her elder sister said so, it would definitely not be the case.
There was a mistake, maybe it was my sister who realized that this was their relative.
In the hearts of the two people who are sister-controlled, their sister can go to the five oceans to catch turtles or go up to the nine heavens to catch the moon. What her sister said is the truth, so they both opened their mouths and shouted: "Hello, Brother Xiaoxun."
Xiaoxun also nodded in agreement. He also had no problem with having two more younger siblings. Xiaoruo's younger siblings should naturally be his younger siblings.
The four of them huddled on the bed and talked for a while. Most of the time, Xiao Ruo was talking, arranging the details of Xiao Xun's origins and sorting out the logic, so that the villagers could more quickly accept the sudden appearance of new faces in the Xiao family, and the other three.
People nodded while listening, trying hard to absorb the storyline compiled by Xiaoruo, trying to make everyone believe that Xiaoxun was their Xiao family.
After finishing the story, it was daybreak. After the four newly formed Xiao family members had breakfast, Xiao Ruo went out to find out how to get to the pharmacy in the county town, while Xiao Niao and Xiao Zhao did the cleaning work they could.
Xiao Xun also wanted to help, but Xiao Ruo forced him to stay in bed to recuperate. After all, Xiao Xun made today's breakfast.
Xiaoruo originally wanted to use flour batter for breakfast. There were still two pancakes that Xiaoxiao baked last night. She tore them all and threw them into the flour batter to cook until soft. What she served was four bowls of white, gray and sticky cakes.
of porridge.
Xiao Xun looked at the thing in front of him in silence, and he didn't know whether it was called porridge or batter. He raised his hand to stop the three siblings who were about to eat. He really couldn't bear to watch Xiao Ruo just eat this.
He limped and plucked a few finger-thick carrots from the vegetable patch, distributed the Xiaoruo to his younger siblings and his three boiled eggs, cracked them into slices, added a little lard to stir-fry until fragrant, and soaked glutinous rice.
Then steam and cook together. When the aroma comes out, sprinkle in a handful of green onions, stir evenly and you will have a pot of stewed rice with full color, flavor and aroma.
Xiaoxiao Xiaozhao has never eaten such a hot and fragrant meal since her parents passed away. The three siblings are not good at cooking, so the food they cook can only be regarded as filling. Occasionally, Aunt Zhang feels sorry for them and sends them meals to beat her teeth.
Due to the long journey, it was not as hot when it was delivered to Xiao's house, so the taste was naturally not as good as the freshly cooked food.
Unexpectedly, the dog he picked up had such good skills. Xiao Ruo and his siblings ate the hot and fragrant stewed rice and sighed, this dog is really edible.
The amount of stewed rice was not much, just enough for Xiaoruo and the two little bean sprouts to have a bowl each, while Xiaoxun had four bowls of flour paste and ate it all without even frowning, without wasting any of it.