Wu Datou sank into deep memories.
That day, he had played in the village until very late before returning home.
The villagers said his father had been beaten to death by the local bully in the next village, and his mother had been abducted by the same thug.
At that time, the young half-grown Wu Datou, armed with a shovel, went to fight the bully to the death.
He hadn't expected to be beaten and sent right back.
People are accustomed to trimming their sails to the wind.
The bully boasted in the village that anyone who interfered with Wu Datou was making an enemy of him.
From that day on, everyone Wu Datou met could step on him.
The Wu family avoided him like the plague.
They outright threw his father's body into the wilderness.
The young Wu Datou himself carried a hemp sack to bury his father in a small grove.
Before he met A'niu, Wu Datou never dared to visit and pay his respects openly.
It was only after A'niu appeared.
That people began to treat him like a human being.