"I know. Gu Hong was captured just a few days after I married him. Everyone in the village said I was a disaster, that I was bringing bad luck to your Gu family, and they slandered me a lot. I understand that you treat me badly and have complaints against me. But you should also think about this. In this world where people eat each other, if we can't stick together, what future do we have?"
"Even so, you can't commit yourself to someone just for a bag of corn."
Hearing this, Ana Shen felt like vomiting in her heart.
This is such a huge injustice!
The original owner was seven months pregnant. Even a mentally retarded person wouldn't do such a thing!
"I was deceived."
Shen Ningsi glanced at the approaching brothers Gu Xiuwen and Gu Xiuwu, and found that they were both injured. He sighed and said, "Our family is out of food, so we have to find something to eat. It was also because I was naive and simple-minded that I foolishly fell for it. I believed what that guy said and mistakenly thought that the bag in his bag was really corn, so I followed him."
Thinking of this, she was still frightened.
That guy was truly a beast who would do anything for food. If Gu Xiuwu hadn't appeared, she and the child in her belly would have become food for that beast!
"I trust you."
As the boss, Gu Xiuwen spoke in a deep voice.
Gu Xiuwu misunderstood, but he wasn't stupid. Who would waste food with a pregnant woman these days?
He looked at the extremely embarrassed Shen Ningsi, then looked at the twins lying beside her, and his expression eased slightly.
"Is this my little...father's flesh and blood?"
Because they were born prematurely, the two children looked very weak. At this moment, they were curled up in the linen cloth. Although the wrinkles were not good-looking, they made everyone's heart warm. These were the children they helped deliver together!
Looking at the cautious look of the two brothers, Shen Ningsi took the initiative to say: “You three should give them a name.”
"I want to take it too?"
Gu Xiuwu's eyes widened in disbelief. In the dim light of the firewood, the child's eyes looked as if they were filled with stars.
Gu Xiuwen hadn't expected that they would treat Shen Ningsi like an enemy. He had never expected such treatment. He looked at the twins, moved aside, invisibly blocking the mountain breeze, and said calmly: "You are the mother of the baby, so you should choose."
Gu Xiuwu was stunned and lowered his head in frustration. Yes, with Daddy away, it was the stepmother who should make the decision.
Shen Ningsi smiled and said, "Since I am the child's mother, just listen to me. If it weren't for you today, these two children would have died."
The three children felt a tightness in their hearts and were filled with fear.
Yun'er tremblingly grabbed Shen Ningsi's sleeve and said fearfully: "Mom, my brother and sister are fine, nothing will happen."
“Yeah.” Shen Ningsi stroked Yun’er’s head.
The child was young and didn't have that many thoughts. She stared at the child in front of her and thought for a long time, then asked in a low voice: "Mom, Yun'er wants her brothers and sisters to be safe and sound. Can you call her An'an?"
"sure!"
Gu Xiuwu got anxious when he heard this and said, "I want my brother and sister to be healthy. Can we call them Kang Kang?"
"sure."
Shen Ningsi narrowed his eyes and looked at Gu Xiuwen.
Gu Xiuwen felt a little awkward, but he couldn't help but feel happy. After thinking for a moment, he said, "The males of my generation are named Xiu, so my younger brother should have the character Xiu. As for my younger sister, An An is indeed a good name."
"Then it's settled. Your brother's name is Gu Xiukang, and your sister's name is Gu Anan. From now on, the five of you brothers and sisters must support each other and advance and retreat together."
"Um!"
"Um!"
"Um!"
Under the firelight at night, the three children gathered around Shen Ningsi. The four of them stared at the newborn Kang Kang and An An without blinking, showing infinite tenderness.
Until a voice broke their silence.
"You bastard, how dare you tie me up? Let me go!"
Shen Ningsi shuddered and then remembered that there was another person.
She leaned against the rock, her face dark and thin as she looked at the man trapped like a pig.
"You've cheated and killed quite a few people with this trick, right?"
"You stinky bitch, you dare to play a trick on me! If you know what's good for you, let me go! I'm from the Black Cloud Village!"
Black Cloud Village?
Ana Shen raised an eyebrow and said, sorry, I haven’t heard of it.
However, the expression on the face of brother Gu Xiuwen standing by looked very ugly.
Shen Ningsi said calmly: "If you say so, then so? Why should I believe you?"
"I have a wooden badge that allows me to enter and exit the Black Cloud Village." This was an identity he was proud of, and the man was quite proud of it.
Gu Xiuwu hurried forward and searched around, and indeed, he found a wooden plaque with the words "Black Cloud" faintly written on it.
Several people looked at each other.
The man thought he had frightened them and laughed wildly, "You vile creatures, let me go!"
"What do you think?" Shen Ningsi asked.
“Can’t let go!”
Gu Xiuwen said in a deep voice, "The Black Cloud Village is full of bandits. Even the government can't do anything about them. If we let them go, we'd be letting a tiger go back into the mountains."
"Yes, I killed him!"
Gu Xiuwu nodded, his eyes full of ruthlessness, but the hand holding the knife was shaking.
"Killing someone means paying with your life." Shen Ningsi shook her head. She didn't want these children to be responsible for someone's death at such a young age. She said, "Since he's a bandit from Black Cloud Village, he must be on the government's wanted list. How about handing him over to the government?"
"right!"
Several people's eyes lit up.
Gu Xiuwen looked at Shen Ningsi in surprise and said, "The grain that the government had previously transported was partially robbed by the Black Cloud Village. They are anxious to capture the bandits of the Black Cloud Village. If we send him over now, maybe the government can give us a bag of grain."
Food? If the government is really willing to give us food, that would be great!
When they heard that there was food, smiles appeared on everyone's faces.
He did what he said. After Gu Xiuwen supported Shen Ningsi, who had just given birth, back home, he took Gu Xiuwu with him to hand over the bandits from Heiyun Village to the government.
The next morning, before Gu Xiuwen and his brother came back, they heard loud shouting and cursing outside.
"Gu family, get out of here right now! You shameless bastards, actually wanting those two little bastards to steal our water? You're completely devoid of conscience!"
"If you can't get some water today, you'll be dead. We'll all be in this together!"
"It's a famine year now. It hasn't rained for over a year. How can we find some water? How dare you come up with such an idea..."
"Wow~"
"Woo woo woo woo~"
Suddenly, there were several faint cries of babies in the yard. The man holding the stick outside was a little surprised and asked, "Did you hear the sound of babies crying?"
"I heard it. It sounded like a newborn baby."
"This...could it be that the woman from the Gu family gave birth?"
“…”
For a moment, the outside fell into silence, and everyone had different thoughts.
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