I was a hunter in ancient times

Chapter 92 Nightmare

   Zhou Du took the bones, walked back to the courtyard, and found the bean bag that had been slumped on the ground listlessly after returning from the mountain.

Sure enough, when something was put in front of it, it would not eat it.

Knowing the reason, Zhou Du was not in a hurry, he found a piece of snow-white rabbit skin from the house, kneaded it into a white ball and threw it in front of it.

Then, an arrow landed precisely on the lump of rabbit fur that had been kneaded into a ball.

Bean Bao, who was lying motionless on the ground, saw the arrow passing through Bai Tuanzi, immediately stood up anxiously from the ground, and yelled nervously at Zhou Du: "Oh!

Zhou Du tapped his toe The food on the ground, told it in the most straightforward way: If you don't eat, you will kill the person you like.

After Doubao realized it, his whole body paused, and then he rushed to Zhoudu's feet At the food place, he devoured all the bones.

After eating, he sat obediently in front of Zhou Du, looking at him pitifully with a pair of blue eyes.

Zhou Du was just threatening it, see It was willing to eat, so it put away the rabbit fur and arrows on the ground.

When Zhou Du was doing these, Doubao followed him closely, as if afraid of him going up the mountain to hunt.

Zhou Du secretly thought it was funny, Before anyone caught up with him, he started thinking about it. He kicked it twice to signal it not to block the way, put the bow and arrow back in the warehouse, packed it up, and had no intention of going up the mountain again.

Seeing this, Doubao was completely relieved and looked for it again. Lying on the ground, the whole wolf was paralyzed on the ground and continued to be motionless as an object.

As long as it was willing to eat and didn't have to go on a hunger strike to die, Zhou Du didn't care much about it, and let it lie on the ground.

Perhaps it was the news that Shen Mu was about to return to Beijing to get married that stimulated Shen Xi. For the next few days, he either forgot to put salt in the dishes he cooked, or put too much salt, and he was often in a daze.

Zhou Du watched silently, but this matter was related to Qin Yi and Shen Mu. Although he and Shen Xi had become a family, there were some things that were not easy to interfere too much.

After all, Shen Mu single-handedly brought up Shen Xi, not father and son, but also as close as father and son. Now that half of the father is about to get married, it is normal for him to feel uncomfortable and lose his temper.

The person who tied the bell has to be untied, and the knot in Shen Xi's heart has to be untied by Shen Mu himself.

A table of people ate food that didn't taste right for several days in silence, Shen Mu finally couldn't help asking softly: "Xiaoxi, do you not want your uncle to get married?"

After Shen Mu finished speaking, the table was full Qi looked at Shen Xi.

Shen Xi replied in a daze: "Ah?"

Shen Mu put down the bowl and chopsticks, weighed the pros and cons, and said slowly: "If you don't want your uncle to get married, then let's let this marriage go. It's fine for me and Ping An to be like this now. Hearing this ,

Qin Yi felt a sudden sting in his heart, and he ate a plate of green vegetables with too much vinegar, not feeling sour at all.

After hearing what Shen Mu said, Shen Xi immediately denied it: "I don't want you to get married, little uncle, why do you think so?"

He looked around, saw everyone staring at him, bit his lip, and asked Said: "You don't think I don't want my little uncle to get married, do you?"

Zhou Du nodded lightly. Recently, apart from the important matter of Shen Mu, there is nothing else in the family. Then he started to eat, and the flesh on his body slowly replenished.

He couldn't think of anything other than Shen Mu's marriage that could disturb his mind.

"No," Shen Xi withdrew his gaze, and calmly ate the rice in his bowl, "You guys think too much, little uncle and aunt Ping'an are deeply in love, and getting married is the best thing, why would I disagree? Not only do I want to bless you all, but I also want to drink your wedding wine."

Shen Mu frowned: "Then why have you these few days..." Before

he could finish asking, Qin Yi on the side was overwhelmed by the vinegar on the vegetable plate It was so sour that he hissed with toothache.

Shen Mu had no choice but to stop asking Shen Xi, turned around and looked at Qin Yi: "What's the matter with you?"

Qin Yi spat out the sour food in his mouth, shook his head and said, "It's okay."

After speaking, he looked at Shen Xi and confirmed again Said: "You really have no objection to my marriage with Mumu?"

Shen Xi nodded affirmatively: "No objection."

Qin Yi relaxed nervously: "If you have no objection, Mumu and I will settle like this." Get off, just say what you have in the future, and my aunt can do it for you."

"Yes," Shen Xi answered, and finished the rice in the bowl in two or three bites, without noticing it at all. Finding something wrong with today's dishes, I put down the bowl and saw that no one was eating at the table, and asked, "Are you still eating? If you don't eat, I'll leave the table.

" The others didn't take a bite, not because they didn't want to eat it, but because they couldn't eat it at all. It was harder to swallow than gnawing on dry steamed buns. Hearing his words, Li Yu quickly shook his head and said, "I won't eat it, I won't eat it."

Shen Xi I didn't ask him why he didn't eat more. After clearing the table, I went back to the kitchen to clean it.

Li Yu looked at Shen Xi's back, and muttered: "It's still weird."

Zhou Du raised his eyebrows, and felt something was wrong in his heart. If Shen Xi was depressed because of Shen Mu's matter, then now Shen Mu Make it clear, why is he still bored.

It seems that the knot has not been opened.

Zhou Du pondered for a while, then said lightly: "I'll go back and talk to him."

Shen Mu still blamed himself a bit: "If Xiaoxi really doesn't want to, don't force it, I'm fine."

Qin Yi held his hand hand, gave him affirmation and said: "Our matter is not enough to make the little ghost worry like this. If he is not willing to refuse directly, it must be something else. Let Zhou Du go back and have a good talk with him. What's the matter? Just let it go."

Li Yu also followed up and said: "Master, don't worry, Xiaoxi has always loved you the most, and will not stop you from being with the teacher. There must be something else. thing."

Shen Mu frowned and said: "But he has never been like this before, even if there was something unhappy in the past, it will be fine soon, now this is the first few days, if he doesn't say it, how can we help him solve it?"

Li Yu turned his eyes around the table, and finally landed on Zhou Du: "Let Zhou Du try the beauty trick, Xiaoxi likes him the most, and he must have said everything when he used this trick."

Li Yu Yu is getting bolder now and dares to say anything.

Zhou Du didn't bother with him, got up and went back to his home.

Seeing him leave, Li Yu took the opportunity to ask, "Why are you going?"

Zhou Du straightened his sleeves: "Go back and get ready."

As for what to prepare, Zhou Du didn't say.

Li Yu automatically assumed that he took his own opinion and went back to prepare a beauty trick, so he tactfully didn't ask any more questions.

Zhou Du didn't do anything when he got home, he just tidied up the house and took out the money box where he put the money.

After Shen Xi finished his work in the kitchen, when he returned to the room, even Zhou Du was counting the money with the money box, he was stunned, and asked softly, "Why are you counting the money all of a sudden?"

Hearing Shen Xi's voice, Zhou Du raised his head Come on, pat the spare place beside the bed: "Come and sit."

Shen Xi walked over and sat down, watching Zhou Du count the money in the money box in puzzlement.

After Zhou Du counted the money, he pushed the money box in front of Shen Xi, and said to him one by one: "I got two hundred taels from the bandit suppression before, and I spent one hundred taels to take your betrothal gift, and I have zero taels left over." Totally spent another sixty taels, I had sixty taels left, and a total of one hundred taels, all here."

Shen Xi listened quietly, nodded from time to time, still didn't understand what Zhou Du told him about the money what to do.

Zhou Du hadn't seen him listening to him so obediently and silently for several days. His heart itched slightly, and he stretched out his hand and hugged him on his lap, hugged him, and said like a child, "You don't like it." Shall I go up to the mountain to hunt..."

Before he finished speaking, Shen Xi rushed to say: "It's not that I don't like it, but I'm afraid that you will be in danger. The mountain is so big. If you get lost that day, I can't even find it. It's up to you." The

only way to make him feel at ease is for him to go with him, but with him around, he is just a drag on Zhou Du, and he can't have the best of both worlds.

"Okay, okay," Zhou Du didn't insist, "Whether it's dangerous or other things, I listen to what you say, so these days, I have a plan to save money."

Shen Xi Ask: "What do you save money for?"

Zhou Du let go of his arms, drew in front of him, and said slowly: "You also know that except for my slightly better archery skills, I can do everything else so-so. The business is not going to work, if I don't hunt, how can I support you?"

Shen Xi pursed his lips: "I don't need you to support me, I can support myself, and I can support you and the bean bag by the way."

"Well, my little husband is very good, he can do everything," Zhou Du didn't follow He argued, and continued, "But I can't just do nothing. I originally planned to save more money and buy more houses and shops in towns or county towns to rent out, so that I can live without hunting. There is income."

Shenxi Wurun's eyes rolled: "This method is good, it suits you very much."

Zhou Du also felt that a person like him who knows nothing is suitable for waiting for rent collection: "I originally planned to pay rent in the next few days. I will take you to the town to see if there is a suitable shop, and buy it first, it is better than leaving the silver at home to rust."

Shen Xi nodded: "Very good, I am free anytime, anytime You can go."

Zhou Du smiled wryly, and held him down: "Hey, have you forgotten that Uncle is getting married? If we use the money to buy a shop, what will we do with the expenses on the way to the capital? And now that we are married, we have to prepare a decent gift for uncle."

Shen Xi patted his head, and realized later: "That's right, I almost forgot about it. In addition to the five hundred taels I gave Meng Sui to open the shop, there is still sixty taels left, and the two of us together are only one hundred and sixty taels, is it enough?"

Shen Xi privately felt that it was not enough, but his younger uncle was willing to take it out when he got married. Shipping 10% of the dry stock to him as a dowry, although he didn't ask for it, but he accepted it.

Now it's the little uncle's turn to get married, and the person who is marrying him is a man of gold and silver. The little money they have in their hands is not enough to put someone's teeth between them. What kind of decent gift can they buy? ?

"Is it enough? I'll figure out a way." What Zhou Du really wanted to say was not this, and he said, "My dear boy, you also know that I'm not a talkative person. Let me tell you, in exchange, can you also tell me what is in your heart."

Shen Xi was just about to ask what you can do, when he heard Zhou Du's words behind him, his heart skipped a beat, and he panicked: "I'm fine?"

Zhou Du didn't force him, and asked again: "Really?"

Shen Xi Shaking his head, he said, "No."

"Okay," Shen Xi said, and Zhou Du believed it. He kissed Shen Xi's hair and said, "Since there is nothing in your

heart, please be happy." Shen Xi panicked Even worse: "I'm not unhappy."

"Well," Zhou Du followed him, "You're not unhappy, you just cook with sugar as salt, soy sauce as vinegar, chili and cumin mixed with stir-fried vegetables "

Shen Xi looked puzzled: "Is there?"

Zhou Du lowered his eyes and looked at him: "Do you think there is no?"

Shen Xi has been living in a daze for the past few days, and can't remember many things, let alone remember that he was fired. What dishes, what seasonings to let go.

"Little confused," Zhou Du saw that he didn't remember these things himself, and he didn't intend to go into details with him, so he patted his head and coaxed, "It's fine if you don't remember, everything will be fine after you sleep."

"Okay." Shen Xi said, putting his arms around Zhoudu's neck, "I want to hug you to sleep, the kind that hugs you tightly."

Zhou Du removed the money box on the bed, and took him with his arms around him. Shen Xi rolled on the bed: "Didn't I give you a hug that night?"

Shen Xi nodded: "That's right."

Zhou Du didn't see Shen Xi worrying about gains and losses again, and fell asleep contentedly hugging him.

She slept well in the first half of the night, but in the second half of the night, Shen Xi was awakened by nightmares and physical pain.

The biggest oil lamp in the room was still burning, and the weak wick was beating in the darkness, trying its best to block the erosion of darkness.

Shen Xi let go of Zhou Du's arm, and looked at his trembling right hand with the help of the weak light. The five fingertips were throbbing painfully, jumping and jumping as if someone was pulling his fingers.

He slowly groped down from the bed, loosened the ribbon on his wrist, and the piercing pain suddenly rushed in densely, and the pain made him break out in cold sweat.

Not daring to relax any more, he tied the ribbon back and pulled it even tighter, only then did the pain that made him breathless relax.

He breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the cold sweat that overflowed from the pain on his forehead.

He couldn't fall asleep at all, so he didn't sleep at all, put on his clothes, held the oil lamp and walked out of the room lightly, and went to the kitchen next door.

Lighting the oil lamp in the kitchen, looking at the leftover dishes from last night, remembering what Zhou Du said to him, he tasted it with chopsticks.

"Bah, what does it taste like?" He vomited it all up after just one bite, it was too unpalatable.

No wonder Zhou Du would say that he was unhappy, he was too obvious.

Shen Xi bit her lip, threw away all the leftovers, and decided to make a new table of delicious meals.

He took out the vegetables from the vegetable basket, took out the kitchen knife with his left hand, and was about to cut the vegetables.

His right fingertips were throbbing slightly again, he thought for a while, and angrily changed the knife to his right hand, and the hand holding the knife trembled even more.

Shen Xi's face was pale, and he hit his right hand with his left hand: "What's so trembling, I have raised you for more than ten years, and now you can't even hold a knife steadily?" The

right hand didn't answer him, but the shaking became more severe, Visibly shaking.

"You don't take a knife, I want you to take a knife." Shen Xi also became stubborn at this moment, and became angry with himself, clenched the handle of the knife, pushed the vegetables on the chopping board, and began to cut tremblingly.

Every time he cut, his hands trembled more violently, accompanied by piercing pain. Before he could cut a vegetable, his whole body was drenched in sweat.

The color of her lips turned white from the pain, and she couldn't even lift her hands, let alone holding a knife.

He was in so much pain that he could only get a moment's relief by throwing away the kitchen knife in his hand and curling up on the floor with his whole body arched.

Lying on the wooden floor, he looked at the shiny kitchen knife he threw on the floor, and at his trembling right hand, silently blushing.

Is there really no hope at all?

The little uncle said that if you take good care of him, you can recover after raising him for more than ten years.

He has been wearing the ribbon to fix his veins for ten years, no matter how inconvenient or uncomfortable, he has never taken it off.

Over the past decade or so, I tried not to use my right hand as much as possible, and replaced everything with my left hand.

In order to use his left hand more flexibly, he learned to use his left hand to thread needles and thread, and to learn carpentry with his left hand. He endured all kinds of hardships, just so that his right hand could recover one day, so that he would not feel too unfamiliar.

Over the past ten years, he has only used his right hand once, but it still doesn't work?

Shen Xi closed his eyes, lying on the floor, tears flowed silently from the corners of his eyes, desperate and helpless, so what is the point of his suffering for more than ten years.

The dream was broken ten years ago.

It is he who has been silent in the beautiful dream he has woven and has not woken up.

After Zhou Du and Shen Xi said something that night, Shen Xi has indeed recovered a bit, and his cooking skills have recovered, and he is no longer in a trance, talking and laughing from time to time, as if really It's like nothing happened.

Only Zhou Du, the person next to the pillow, noticed something was wrong. Shen Xi seemed to sleep less and dream more, often waking up in the middle of the night, and waking up in the morning to see no one.

Asked him, he smiled and said nothing, just getting up at night and getting up early.

Having no other choice, Zhou Du had no choice but to ask Shen Mu for some tranquilizing incense to light in the room, hoping that he could sleep better.

It's a pity that it still didn't work. The pillow was still cold when I woke up the next morning, and I didn't know how long I had been away.

Zhou Du got up, rubbed his drowsy hairy forehead, looked at the Anshen incense in the corner, and raised his eyebrows silently.

He lit three incense sticks in total, and even the bean buns fell into a deep sleep. How did Shen Xi wake up from the hypnosis of this incense?

Something is wrong, something is wrong.

If Zhou Du was only suspicious before, now Zhou Du is very sure that Shen Xi must have something to hide from him.

Zhou Du got up, he was not in a hurry to go hunting in the mountains, he wanted to find a chance to ask Shen Xi.

Before anyone asked, a messenger came outside the door, bringing them Meng Sui's letter.

It was stacked thickly, thicker than a book, and the two thought that there was something important inside, so they didn't rush to open it.

After the day's work was over and the family had dinner, Zhou Du and Shen Xi opened the thick envelope in their room.

As a result, there was nothing in it except the letter.

Shen Xi looked at the papers one by one, and the room couldn't help muttering: "He is too good at talking, look at who he meets every day, and how much money he spends on what vegetables he buys. After reading his letter, I'm afraid it will be dawn."

Zhou Du smiled and pinched his ear: "I said you found him, the calluses on your ears will heal, even the letter I ca n't hide."

Shen Xi read the letters one by one, picked out the useful information, and filtered out the useless information directly. Although he disliked his effort, he couldn't help but said: "But this is also good , at least he won't lie to us, he remembers every expense clearly, and we don't worry if the store is entrusted to him."

Zhou Du tapped the letter paper with his fingertips: "This is what a smart person does, he knows What do you want, cooperation with this kind of person usually has two consequences, the first win-win, the second loses you, it depends on how he chooses."

After reading all the letter papers, Shen Xi summed up a few lines: The store has been prepared and is now waiting for your seasoning input.

He packed up all the letter papers, and asked Zhou Du: "Then do you think he is the former or the latter?"

"At present, it is the former." Standing behind Shen Xi was Qin Yi, who would not have dared even to Meng Sui. Hang Shenxi.

Shen Xi nodded, his eyes were a little dark: "That's enough, who can say clearly about the future, maybe the things you think will be good will never be good, and maybe the things you think are bad will not always be bad."

Zhou Du was a little puzzled: "Why did you become so serious all of a sudden?"

Shen Xi poked Zhou Du with his elbow, "How could I ? He was laughing and joking like a child, without any momentum."

Zhou Du stared into his eyes: "Really?"

Shen Xi was flustered by Zhou Du's look, so he poured himself a cup of tea, subdued his shock, and said affirmatively: "Yeah, it's not a business matter, what else could it be."

Zhou Du looked back, chuckled and said: "It's nothing, it's just that you're suddenly so sensible, and you're not used to it."

Shen Xi stood up and asked persistently, "When did I become ignorant?"

"No," Zhou Du had no choice but to deny his questioning, "I said something wrong."

Shen Xi was satisfied: "It's not bad."

After a busy day and reading letters in the middle of the night, Shen Xi couldn't help dozing off now, climbed into bed, pulled the quilt, and closed the bed. Eyes urged: "Sleep, sleep."

Zhou Du hugged him, put his chin on the top of his head, and responded softly: "En."

Just like the previous few days, I slept well in the first half of the night every day. In the middle of the night, Shen Xi who was sleeping began to have nightmares.

In the dream, he returned to that dark cellar again, and there were always endless quarrels in his ears, and every word and every sentence seemed to be pierced at the tip of his heart.

"You will never try to learn the inheritance of our Shen family, you greedy and shameless villain."

"Now that your father-in-law and mother-in-law are gone, if you don't pass on the inheritance to me, who can help you support the Shen family? Mu, he messes up the kitchen as soon as he cooks, he is like a disaster, his father-in-law and his mother-in-law have to send him to study medicine next door in order to let him have a skill, how can he inherit the Shen family?"

"Or, do you want to make the Shen family Pass the inheritance to the one who lives in the cellar, our son?"

"That's enough, don't talk about it, I will not give it to either of you father and son, what is left in his body is your blood, just as greedy and mercenary, Not a good thing."

"But, Chao Chao, there is no one else besides me, the great disciple of the Shen family, who can help you inherit the Shen family. If you don't give the recipe to me, who can you give it to?"

"There will be someone, there will be someone, there will be Someone's, even if I pass the recipe to the outside, I won't give you such a wolf-hearted thing." The

dream was filled with crazy arguments between men and women, and Shen Xi was trapped in a nightmare, trembling all over. Not coming.

The darkness seemed to swallow him up forever. He couldn't find a way out, and he couldn't see a ray of light. Only by curling up his whole body could he stop those fears.

I don't know how long I've been in despair, but the dark sky above my head suddenly brightened up, and a childish boy appeared in the dazzlingly bright sky, and he said like a god: "Xiaoxi, uncle is here to pick you up, come out!" ."

Just as he was crawling step by step towards the light, the ferocious male and female voices came again: "Even if you take him away, you can't give him the inheritance of the Shen family."

"Why not? "

Just because you are not qualified!" " Joke

, I am the sixteenth generation son of the Shen family. I am not qualified. Who in the world is qualified!"

You will be the successor after the seventeenth generation."

He kowtowed his head, and a gigantic foot also fell off.

The sound of broken bones and unbearable pain came from his right hand, and he only heard a ruthless voice: "Now I'm not qualified."

The pain in the dream seemed to be pulled into reality, and the nightmare and pain suddenly woke up Shen Xi. Just as she was about to get up to wipe off her sweat, she met a pair of deep, moistened black eyes.

In an instant, his whole body froze.