Chapter 2：Not My Time to Die

Suddenly, I felt like I was in the cloud. It was soft all around and the injury didn't hurt much. This is the heaven. My mother told me before that good people won't go to hell to suffer.

As I was thirsty and I felt something on my lips, then the water flowed into my throat. I sucked greedily, and the water felt much better. I slowly opened my eyes, and then I saw a bloody pig head staring at me.

Without making any sound, I fainted again.

When I woke up, I looked carefully at it and found out I was in a carriage, surrounded by little mountain of pork. I lay on the top of the pork. The pig head almost frightened me to death was moved to my feet. Then a big face moved to my face and smiled at me," I thought you could not wake up."

Then a voice said, "I knew this little guy couldn't die. He was as strong as a calf."

I looked hard at the last speaker. A fat body was leading the horse in front. The face was half bigger than the one I just saw. Two squeezed flat small eyes looked at me with a smile and said, "haven't I ever seen such a fat one?"

The fat woman then said, "my mother-in-law's family name is Zhu. Just call me aunt Zhu."（In Chinese, "Zhu" has the same pronunciation with "pig"）

I thought, aunt pig, aunt Zhu, when another person spoke, "my name is Zheng Xiong, Xiong is the meaning of hero."

I looked at him blindly and asked, "which hero is that?"

Aunt Zhu laughed like a bell and then asked, "are you illiterate or angry with him? The most proud thing in his life is his name. All right, you can lie down. It's hard to deal with the wound on your body. "

I smiled apologetically at Zheng Xiong and went to sleep again.

After waking up this time, I felt much better. I didn't know when I got out of the carriage and lay in a tent. My clothes were changed to clean. Just when I was asked to move out of bed, Zheng Xiong came in. I quickly smiled at him and said, "Zheng hero, thank you for saving my life. I must kowtow to you."

The man picked me up like a chicken and pushed me back to bed. Then he said, "Later. Now heal the wound first, and then tell me. Don't go down the ground. If you need anything, just shout. There are people here to help you. Aunt Zhu said let me ask you what you want to eat. She will cook it later and asked someone to send it here."

My tears suddenly burst out.

Zheng Xiong looked and scolded, "little coward. Why are you crying? Hold it back quickly. I can't see a man crying. If I cry again, I'll fucking carry you outside and throw you into the cesspit."

I stopped crying and smiled at him. Zheng Xiong said with a smile, "now it's like a man, but you have to practice how to laugh. Your smile is worse than crying. I'll give you a bowl of noodles later. When the injury is better, I'll give you something else to eat. Gotta go."

Then Zheng Xiong turned and walked to the door. I hurriedly asked, "where I am I?"

Zheng Xiong said without looking back, "the barracks."

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After eating a large bowl of noodles, my spirit came up, and so did the spirit of sinking years in my stomach. With a strong sense of convenience, I shouted at the door, "I want to shit."

Immediately, someone came in with a toilet in his hand as soon as the curtain was picked, but I was surprised to find that it was a big girl of about 20. Now I looked at the girl foolishly.

The woman was not stupid. She put down the bucket and said to me, "untie your pants and I'll help you sit on it."

"I can do it. It's okay." I said timidly, slowly got out of bed, slowly untied my trouser belts with both hands, and begged the woman desperately with both eyes.

The woman frowned and picked me up with one hand. With the other hand, she pulled my pants and put me on the toilet. She said, "fastidious little boy. Call me when you're done."

After my quick convenience, I wiped it with the toilet, put on my pants, went back to bed and shouted at the door, "I'm done."

The woman came in and looked at me. She picked up the toilet and said, "call me the name in the future. My name is San Pang."

A month later, my body became stronger and the injury on my leg was almost cured.

I learned from others that when I was going to be killed that day, they just arrived and saved me. The other thieves were killed by Zheng Xiong.

At that time, they also went to chase the Gaoli soldiers, but they saw the bodies of Gaoli soldiers constantly appearing, and a child with a sneaky face chased after the soldiers in a murderous manner, so they decided to watch what would I do and helped me at the last second.

Now I can move. I work for Aunt Zhu in the kitchen all day and go back to the injured account to sleep at night. This barracks is not big, there are only 300 soldiers.

The barracks are under strict control. Soldiers can't leave the barracks without permission, but I'm different. I often run out and pick a lot of fruit for them.The days passed slowly,and I getting along with everyone more and more well.

One morning , when I was having food with a big bowl in my arms, Zheng Xiong came up to me, put a few pieces of silver at the table and said, "we're leaving today. Take this money and go home. I'm afraid we won't see you in the future. Take care of yourself boy."

He said that and gone,leaving me holding my bowl. Looking at the money, I felt so bad in my heart.

After quickly finishing the food in the bowl, I grabbed the silver and ran to the biggest tent in the middle of barracks. When I got to the tent, I copied the usual actions when others paid in,stood with my hands crossed and shouted, "reporting to the general, Yan Jiulang is hoping to see you."

The guard in front of the tent smiled at me and turned to enter the tent. After a while, he came out and said to me, "go in, the general knows you're coming."