The First Great Ancestor of the Five Dynasties

Chapter 61 The giant boy
The back house of Jiedu Mansion is a remote single courtyard.

Zhu Xiu passed by here when he was wandering in the mansion, and saw that the gate of the courtyard was locked with an iron chain as thick as a forearm, and the courtyard was quiet, so he thought it was just an abandoned courtyard with no one inhabited.

Unexpectedly, Shi Kuangwei would bring him here today.

"Your son lives here?"

Standing in front of the courtyard, Zhu Xiu looked surprised.

Lao Shi nodded bitterly.

Looking carefully, the courtyard door was unlocked today. The door was ajar, and there were faint voices inside, like Shi Lingyan's.

Zhu Xiu turned around and looked around, seeing the difference in this independent courtyard.

The two courtyard doors are nailed together with two thick wooden boards, and the door panels are full of iron nails.

The courtyard wall is much taller than other walls in the mansion. The walls are all made of a mixture of bricks, earth and stones, and are almost twice as thick as ordinary courtyard walls.

The entire single courtyard looks more like a prison.

"Let's go~"

Shi Kuangwei sighed and pushed open the heavy door.

The winter wind blew and whirled in the courtyard, making a whining sound.

The snow was blown up by the bitter cold wind, and large flakes of snow covered the whole body like white cotton wool.

The patio is empty and spacious, and the side rooms on both sides have been demolished, leaving only a main room in the front.

In the courtyard, there is a tall sycamore tree hugged by two people. Its bare branches are covered with ice edges.

Under the tree, Shi Lingyan, wearing a thick winter coat and a felt hat, stood there handsomely, his face showing a bit of anxiety.

There was a small mountain-like figure next to him, with his big head lowered and his eyes staring unblinkingly at the mud and snow.

"Old Shi, didn't you brag before that your son is tall and powerful? I think he is not taller than me. He is chubby and cute. However, a child's body cannot only grow horizontally."

Zhu Xiu followed Lao Shi and joked casually.

Shi Kuangwei curled his lips and said nothing.

When he got closer, Zhu Xiu's smiling face suddenly froze, and her mouth gradually opened.

It was a man wearing only a thin, sleeveless burlap jacket in the cold winter and snowy weather. His long, messy lion's mane hair hung loosely on his shoulders.

His arms were muscular, his upper arms were almost as thick as Zhu Xiu's waist, and his broad back was like a wall.

Zhu Xiu lowered her eyes to look at his legs and swallowed hard.

It turns out he was squatting
Zhu Xiu was shocked. A person squatting on the ground was almost as tall as him, and his body width was wider than the two of them plus one?
"Dad! Brother, he has been squatting here all morning and refuses to go back to the house no matter how hard he tries to persuade him!"

Shi Lingyan complained angrily, his face turned red from the cold.

Shi Xiangwen's body was covered with snowflakes, his long disheveled hair was twisted into strips of ice, and he looked like a large snowman. The snow at his feet was piled up to his ankles.

Shi Kuangwei smiled bitterly, and just as he was about to reach out to brush off the falling snow on his son, Shi Xiangwen suddenly muttered: "Don't move!"

"Big brother won't let us touch him." Shi Lingyan complained with a pout.

Shi Kuangwei hesitated for a moment, but finally retracted his hand, smiled bitterly at Zhu Xiu and shook his head.

Zhu Xiu looked carefully and found that Shi Xiangwen's appearance was very similar to that of Lao Shi. He had grown a lush beard at a young age, with a leopard head and eyes. His face alone was more fierce and majestic than Lao Shi's, but he didn't have the wrinkles on his black face. There are many old people.

Now Zhu Xiu was convinced that Shi Xiangwen was indeed Lao Shi's son.

"This is my son Xiang Wen."

Shi Kuangwei sighed: "My father said before he died that there will be a day when the world will be reduced to war and culture. His old man will never see it again. He hopes that his grandchildren can live in a stable world, so he named his unborn grandson. Xiang Wen."

"When I gave birth to him, I was following the order of Emperor Mingzong to march into Qinzhou and fight fiercely with Meng Zhixiang. At that time, Weizhou was still under the control of Zhangyi Army, and his mother stayed in Longxi. She never thought that the Tubo people would take the opportunity to send troops to invade and besiege Longxi. Three days later, The city was broken, and everyone on the mountain tried their best to protect the two of them from escaping from the city.
My wife was shot through the heart by an arrow. Before she died, she ordered her bodyguards to perform a caesarean section to take out the child. Wen'er was less than a month old when he was born. His brothers in Tashandu took him to escape. He only managed to survive by drinking goat milk and blood. The journey was bumpy and injured. The brain is now 17 years old, but the mind is not as good as that of a child."

Lao Shi wiped the corners of his eyes and grinned: "Fortunately, although Wen'er is a bit silly, his body is extremely strong. He is truly the number one fierce general in our Zhangyi Army!"

Shi Kuangwei caressed Shi Xiangwen's big head lovingly, and patted away the gravel, mud and snow mixed in his messy hair.

Shi Xiangwen pushed his hand away and muttered without raising his head: "Don't move! Come out soon!"

Shi Lingyan pouted dissatisfiedly: "Brother is not a fool!"

Old Shi smiled and said: "Yes, Wen'er is not stupid, it's just that he hasn't grown up yet."

Zhu Xiu sighed. No wonder Lao Shi never mentioned his wife and children. It turned out that there was such a bitter past.

"Now you know why Wen'er has been holding the title of deputy commander of the Yanei capital, but can't command the troops and manage affairs!"

Zhu Xiu nodded silently.

Glancing at Shi Lingyan secretly, Zhu Xiu whispered: "Miss Yan'er."

Skuangwei said softly: "Yan'er is not my own. Her father was brother Tashandu who delivered Wen'er by caesarean section for my wife! Later, he died at the hands of Tubo people on the way.

He is a member of our historian family and has been working for historians for generations. His surname has been changed to Shi since his grandfather's generation.Soon after Yan'er was born, her mother fell ill, and from then on I raised Yan'er by my side. In my eyes, she is my biological daughter."

Zhu Xiu sighed, Lao Shi's family had a really rough past.

Looking at Shi Lingyan's appearance, she had no idea about her life experience, and Lao Shi had no intention of telling her.

No matter how it is, this person has passed away and the living is like this. Living in the present is the most important thing.

Zhu Xiu squatted in front of Shi Xiangwen, looked down at the mud and snow, and found that there was nothing.

"What are you looking at?"

Zhu Xiu asked, three times in a row, before Shi Xiangwen looked at him, carefully stretched out a finger, and pointed at a slightly raised mound in front of his toes. He pushed aside the snow around the mound, revealing a A hole in the soil the size of a fingernail.

It turned out to be an ant nest, and Zhu Xiu burst into laughter. "Are you waiting for the ants to crawl out?"

Shi Xiangwen's huge body trembled, and snowflakes fell from his body. He raised his huge head, looked at Zhu Xiu with gleaming eyes, and nodded his head: "Yes!"

"You also like to look at ants?" Shi Xiangwen muttered in a low voice, as if he was afraid that his loud voice would scare the little ants.

Zhu Xiu looked at those wide, pure and clear eyes and saw her own reflection in them.

"I like to watch ants, watching them busy looking for food, working tirelessly to move food that is bigger and heavier than their own bodies, watching them exploring the world in groups, and building their own nests with clear division of labor."

Zhu Xiu said with a smile.

Shi Xiangwen's childlike and clear eyes blinked, and his smiling face gradually appeared. It was obviously a rough face, but it revealed a strong childishness.

"Dad! Brother, he smiled!?"

Shi Lingyan was extremely surprised, "Except for dad and me, this is the first time that my eldest brother has smiled at anyone else!"

Shi Converse grinned like a fool, with tears rolling in his eyes.

Zhu Xiudao: "But you can't see ants in winter."

Shi Xiangwen blinked: "Why?"

Pointing to the small mound, Zhu Xiu explained: "This is the entrance of the ant's nest, although it is only a little bit big, there is a cave inside, there are many passages and caves, and thousands of ants live in it.

Ant colonies hoard a large amount of food in their nests. In winter, when the weather is cold outside, they no longer go out to forage and hide in caves.

Ants will also invite their little friends to their homes to spend the winter together, like scale insects and aphids. These little bugs secrete honeydew, which is like syrup. It’s sweet and ants like to eat it.”

Shi Xiangwen's clear eyes were unblinking, and he was extremely fascinated. Zhu Xiu's words seemed to open the door to a new world for him, leading him deep into the ant nest.

"You are so awesome! You know what the little ant is doing in the hole!" Shi Xiangwen looked up with admiration.

Shi Lingyan was also fascinated by what he heard. He wanted to interrupt several times to ask questions, but he couldn't find a chance and he stamped his feet anxiously.

Old Shimo stroked his beard and smiled lovingly with a dark face.

Sure enough, the decision to bring Zhu Xiu to see Wen'er was correct.

Only two guys who are full of weird things can get along with each other.

"So, if you wait here, you won't see the ants coming out of the cave. They can stay warm and survive by hiding in the cave, but they will freeze to death when they crawl out."

Shi Xiangwen was a little nervous. He fiddled with the soil awkwardly with his thick fingers and covered the ant hole again.

"Yes, that's it. Mud and snow can help keep underground caves warm. You're so smart!"

Zhu Xiu gave a thumbs up with a smile.

Shi Xiangwen grinned innocently.

"But when can I see them?"

"In spring, when the weather warms up and the food in the cave is gone, they will crawl out of the cave to look for food and start their busy life of the year. However, it is possible that the ants will move, or there may be a new nest of ants nesting nearby. "

"Oh, then I'll wait until spring to see them again. Little ants, little ants, I hope you don't leave. If you leave, I won't have any friends."

Shi Xiangwen put his hands together and bowed to his forehead, mumbling something.

Zhu Xiu smiled and said: "The ant is gone, I can be your friend."

Shi Xiangwen was stunned and asked in confusion: "Are you willing to be friends with me? Are you not afraid of me?"

"You are a good person, why should I be afraid of you?"

Shi Xiangwen rubbed his big palms vigorously and muttered: "I am too strong and will hurt people."

Zhu Xiu glanced at Shi Kuangwei and asked curiously: "How big is it?"

"like this."

As he spoke, Shi Xiangwen reached his hands under Zhu Xiu's armpits. Before he could react, his feet suddenly hung in the air, and his whole body was lifted up in a high posture!
Shi Xiangwen stood up, and snow chunks fell from his body. Lao Shi pulled Shi Lingyan away.

"Wow~~ah~~Put me down! Quick!~"

Zhu Xiu screamed in fright and beat Shi Xiangwen's iron-like arms hard.

Zhu Xiu could not accept a person weighing [-] or [-] kilograms being lifted to a height of two meters, which was the lowest visual inspection.

"Oh"

Shi Xiangwen obeyed obediently, and when he loosened his grip, Zhu Xiu fell to the ground with a plop, and sat down in a pile of mud and snow.

"Hehe~ Are you okay?" Shi Lingyan helped him up, leaning forward and back with a smile.

Zhu Xiu rubbed his sore buttocks, raised his head, swallowed, and looked a little pale.

The light above his head was blocked by a dark shadow, and a huge young man with a beard smiled at him with a simple and honest smile.

This guy must be at least two meters tall
Now Zhu Xiu understood why the walls of this single courtyard had to be heightened.

Standing in front of Shi Xiangwen, he felt like he was seeing an NBA super center.

Shi Xiangwen looked at him uneasily and whispered: "Are you still willing to be friends with me?"

Zhu Xiu took a deep breath and tapped her sore neck: "Yes! But let me declare in advance that you are not allowed to touch me without my consent in the future."

Shi Xiangwen's eyes lit up, and before Zhu Xiu could finish speaking, he stretched out his arms and clamped him whole, strode into the main room, and said with a naive laugh:

"I'll take you to see the moths I raise. You are all my friends."

"Ah~~ let go of me, bastard! Old Shi, help me~"

(End of this chapter)