Author: Half Life of a Caterpillar

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Compared to the noise at the troupe, a house in a village to the north of the town was just the opposite. The dim moonlight penetrated into the house through the cracks in the windows, and the outline of the moonlight house was vaguely visible.

This is a simple one-bedroom earthen house. The farm tools next to the door are neatly leaning in the corner. A brand-new bamboo dragonfly is placed on a low square table by the wall. The small house is neatly tidied up.

Beyond the square table, on a bed made of bamboo, one could vaguely see two people, one large and one small, lying on it through the dim moonlight.

The younger one was sleeping in a wide open position, with the quilt on his body slipping a little, while the adult next to him was curled up slightly with his back to him.

This was the father and son that Li Mu met in the market during the day. At this time, the child was no longer as active and lively as during the day, and was sleeping soundly. Maybe he had dreamed of something that made him happy, with a faint smile on his lips.

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"Gu Gu Gu~"

The strange bird chirping sounded again, and the man in the room with his back to the child suddenly opened his eyes, the blood in his pupils flashed, his face suddenly became ferocious, the veins on his neck and forehead popped out, and his hands clenched tightly

He tightly grasped the edge of the bed, arched his body tightly, and clenched his teeth, as if he was enduring great pain.

"Well…"

Perhaps because he was afraid of disturbing the sleeping child next to him, the man suppressed the pain that was rising up again. He did not know how long it had passed over and over again, and the chirping of birds gradually disappeared. At this time, the man's body seemed to be fished out of the water.

His clothes were soaked with sweat, which showed how much pain the man had suffered before.

"Huh...huh..."

The tense body went limp as if deflated, and the man breathed heavily as if he was surviving a disaster. After a while, he carefully turned his head to look at the child sleeping next to him. He couldn't help but see that he hadn't woken up.

Breathe a sigh of relief.

With trembling hands, he put back the quilt that the child had kicked away, and carefully turned over and got out of bed. When he landed on the ground, his knees were so weak that he almost fell to the ground.

The door was gently opened, and then gently closed. Soon the sound of running water could be heard from outside. After a while, the man returned to the house refreshed and wiped away the sweat on the bamboo bed.

"well!"

The man reached out and touched the child's cheek. His eyes were filled with reluctance and love for the child. He couldn't help but sigh in a complicated mood.

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In the early morning, Li Mu came to the market again and returned to where he was setting up a stall with the man yesterday. He did not see the father and son.

"Uncle! Was anyone selling bamboo shoots buns here yesterday? Why didn't you come today?"

At that time, Li Mu noticed that the man looked familiar to the nearby stall owners. He was probably not the kind of person who occasionally came out to set up stalls. At this time, when there were the most people in the market, he did not come to sell goods, so he looked for him.

asked the neighboring stall owner.

The adjacent stall was an old man selling cut tobacco. The cut tobacco was neatly tied up and placed on the ground. The old man was holding a pipe and smoking it. When he saw Li Mu coming to ask questions, he took a look at him.

"Come to buy bamboo shoots?"

"Uh...yes, yes!"

Since the old man helped him find a good reason, Li Mu followed suit, which saved him a lot of trouble.

"Then if you wait a little longer, you might still be digging bamboo shoots on the mountain!"

The old man seemed to know the man's movements very well, and Li Mu also took advantage of the situation and sat on the steps nearby and chatted with the old man over and over again. Just by chatting, he figured out the man's identity.

Whenever he mentioned men, the old man couldn't help but sigh, which made Li Mu very curious. After questioning, he found out that the man's wife gave birth prematurely, and he bled away after leaving the child behind. The child was born with birth defects due to premature birth.

, the body is relatively weak.

The child's mother died prematurely, and the child who was waiting for feeding had no way to survive without breastfeeding. The man begged his grandfather and grandmother to beg for breast milk everywhere, so he could barely let the child survive. However, the child still suffered from the root of the disease, so he looked older than other children of the same age.

Looks even thinner.

It can be said that the hemp rope is cut at the smallest point, and bad luck only seeks out the poor. One year, the child became seriously ill and almost died. The man begged all the doctors in the town but nothing could be done. Later, people thought that the child was hopeless.

I asked him to be more open-minded and consider remarrying while he was young and having another child. The man silently packed his things, took the child and left the town.

It was almost half a year later. When everyone had already died of illness because of the child, the man came back. At the same time, the child who was sick and dying now came back with him alive and well.

Later, someone was curious about how the child was rescued and asked him about it, but the man kept it secret and only said that they met a miracle doctor after they went out.

The child is now so lively and active every day that those who knew the child was seriously ill at first thought it was all a dream.

"Hey, it's coming, it's coming!"

Suddenly, the old man saw the figure of a man carrying a child in a backpack and called to Li Mu. Li Mu looked in the direction he pointed and saw the man.

"Xiaobao's dad, this guy is here to buy bamboo shoots. You will have to wait for a long time!"

When the man walked to the stall, the old man pointed at Li Mu and said to him. At this time, the man also saw Li Mu and couldn't help but be startled.

Apparently he recognized him, he nodded to him, and after putting the child down, he put the backpack on the ground, opened the lid on it, and the bag full of bamboo shoots immediately caught the old man's attention.

"My dear, this is amazing! Why did you come so late today? It turns out you dug so much!"

"Haha, good luck today!"

Hearing this, the man smiled and said to the old man, then looked at Li Mu and asked.

"Guest, do you want to buy bamboo shoots?"

And Li Mu stared at the man closely when he appeared, because he found that when he met today, the man's twilight energy was heavier than before. If it was reflected in the palmistry before, then it can be seen in the man's face today.

arrive.

This strange phenomenon made Li Mu feel a little distracted. The man shouted several times but Li Mu didn't respond. Only when he felt his hand being pulled did Li Mu come back to his senses.

Looking down, I saw the child holding a green bamboo dragonfly in one hand and holding his finger with the other.

"I'm sorry, I was distracted for a moment because I was thinking of something. That's right, how do you sell these bamboo shoots?"

After apologizing to the man, Li Mu started to act like a tourist buying souvenirs. In order to find out why the man had such strange palm reading and facial features, Li Mu tried his best to get close to him.

"Brother, I'm dissatisfied with you saying that I have studied medicine for several years, but you don't look very good on your face. How about I take your pulse?"

Li Mu's sudden discovery of the straight ball made the man stunned for a moment, but then he reacted and shied away.

"Thank you, I won't bother you. Maybe I didn't sleep well last night!"

"It's okay, just take your pulse, it'll be quick!"

One was passionate and the other was afraid of causing trouble to others. The two grown men were trying to push back and forth. Li Mu quickly took the opportunity to grab the man's wrist. When Li Mu's hand grasped his wrist, the man's expression suddenly changed, but he still

Before he could react, Li Mu released his hand and said with a smile, cupping his fists at him.

"Brother, there is nothing wrong with your body!"
Chapter completed!