Chapter 144: Father and Son Enter the City
"One dozen, one ...... One, that, that...... Dakara ......" the soldier groaned, saying something that Jin Ying couldn't understand.
Jin Ying looked at him and guessed his age, he was still very young for humans: "Eighteen, maybe only fifteen or sixteen years old. ”
"Mother......" The little soldier spat out a word that Jin Ying could barely understand.
"Mom...... Mother ......" Jin Ying looked at the thing he was holding in his hand, it was an embroidery he had taken out of his pocket, and kept calling his mother in his mouth, his voice getting weaker and weaker, and finally stopped breathing.
Jin Hotaru built his grave next to the grave of the soldier who had told him that "the rice will be harvested".
Some things go on once they start, and the golden fireflies now carefully avoid those graves every day as they hoe, pull weeds, and water their crops.
Some of them were buried in the graves and were killed by shells while protecting their comrades on the battlefield; Some people don't want to be captives and shoot themselves; Some were deserters on the battlefield and were shot dead by their comrades; There are also people who have left their homes and wanted to flee to a peaceful place, but they froze to death and starved to death halfway through.
He buried them here one by one, wondering if all his fields would become graves.
"Grab one. ”
"I'm a little older, and I can barely make do with it. ”
"Go, go, grab it and go back. ”
Suddenly, several people appeared, and they held down Jin Ying together, dragged him away.
"What are you doing here?" asked Jin Hotaru as she struggled.
"If you are told to go, you will go, don't talk so much nonsense. ”
"I'm farming. ”
"Farming? hahaha, you don't have to plant in the future. ”
"Ping Pong. ”
"Ah......h
Jin Hotaru knocked them all unconscious with one punch.
"Hotaru, what are they going to do?"
"It's like 'catching a strong man'. ”
"What is 'catching a strong man'?"
"I don't really understand, it may be that human beings have killed too many people in the past few years, and they need more people to go to the battlefield, so they are arresting men everywhere......"
"It was originally to make food for me, but I'm tired of eating people who have died in the past few years. Yan'er wiped her mouth and flew out to find something she hadn't eaten tired of.
Jin Hotaru continued to sit there, deep in thought, why do humans fight? So many people have lost their lives because of the war, not only did they not stop the war, but they also threw more people into it, why?
In the mountains and forests, even the strong know that to avoid war, it is something that must be understood in order to survive, but it seems that humans do not think so.
Humans, it's hard to figure out what they're thinking, can I be more human......
Later, the number of battles gradually decreased, and although from time to time someone forcibly came to arrest the strong man to enlist in the army, Jin Ying became an old man in his seventies, so no one came to harass him.
Since then, he has continued to cultivate his land quietly, harvesting his crops quietly, and his farming skills are getting better and better.
"Take these and sell them, keep these for yourself to eat," after distributing this year's harvest, he suddenly started to froze, "Yan'er, do you think I'm a bit like a human?"
Yan'er saw him squatting on the ground again, concentrating on dividing a large pile of greens, knowing that it was time to eat these things again, and just wanted to sneak away, but when he asked so, he flew back again.
It looked him up and down, shook its head, and said, "No." ”
Jin Ying all year round, only knows that he is buried in his one-third of an acre, and his understanding of human beings is not as good as that of Yan'er flying around, since Yan'er has said so, then he will continue to farm and be his farmer.
He only knew to plant his land well, and when the people around him loudly announced the end of the war and the creation of a new country, there was still no golden firefly to his peaceful days.
Hotaru has more patience than anyone else, so he sows and reaps year after year, and always believes that if he has a few more years, he will definitely be more human-like.
"Down with ......" The group held their heads high, raised their fists in anger, pulled banners, and shouted in unison as they passed over the land of the golden firefly.
"Cutting ...... I don't know how many years later, another group of people swaggered and passionately, kept raising their fists, pulling banners, and shouting in unison over the land of the golden fireflies.
A few years after the "Great Refining ......", another group of people shouted happily and passed over the land of the golden firefly.
I don't remember how many years passed, a young man sat on the top of the golden firefly, he was a student from the city, and said that it was because of what "up the mountain and down the ......" and "accepted...... "Re-education" came to the village and was arranged to live in Jin Hotaru's house.
Jin Ying heard the student's mouth keep muttering, "Where are you going?"
Jin Ying couldn't understand what he was saying, she didn't know what the people around her were doing, and she didn't know what the world was tossing.
That night, however, the young student committed suicide by throwing himself into the river, and when he was fished out of the river, he was left unattended by the river, his eyes wide open, and his mouth slightly open.
After a long time, he still didn't come to deal with the student's funeral, so Jin Hotaru had to bury him in his own crop field.
On the night of the burial of that student, Jin Hotaru looked at the high and low graves in his field in the moonlight, looked at them for a long time, pondered for a long time, and then he asked Yan'er: "Yan'er, what do you think of human beings?"
"Average, not very tasty. Yan'er, who had just eaten a full meal, smacked her lips.
"I've found that humans are really hard to figure out. Hotaru frowned, remembering everyone he had met.
"Maybe I'll never be human......" Maybe in his heart he began to feel that he didn't want to be a human anymore.
"No, I think you're more human than you used to be. Yan'er said half-asleep.
"Where, where is it?" Jin Ying's spirits perked.
"I don't know, it's like it anyway, maybe you have more ideas than before. Yan'er rolled over, and soon began to snore loudly.
Is it because she has a lot of different emotions?
This time he wondered: what the hell is a human being...... Do I really want to be a creature like a human......
"Brother, you still listen to my advice, what's the use of guarding these few acres of land? You can't earn a lot of money a year? Now everyone has gone to the city to make a lot of money, as long as you go for a year and a half, you can be sure that you have a house and a daughter-in-law who is married, and you will definitely not regret it." ”
"What you said is light, the people in the city are very good, there is money for us to earn?
"You don't understand this, the people in the city have money, and there are people who do the rough work that moves around, and after a year, how can they make more money than facing the loess with their backs to the sky, right? Who is still here to die and farm the land these years!"
"Who is still farming here these days!" Jin Ying had been listening to their conversation, and he had forgotten it after hearing it on the back of a duck as usual, but the last sentence hit him hard.
Jin Ying was surprised to find that the land around her had become less and less since then, and it had become a residential area, a factory, and a tourist area......
It is no wonder that there are fewer and fewer people working in agriculture, and this time, the peasants left en masse, not to escape the war, but to a place called "city".
"Humans don't farm anymore...... so what should I do?"
"Humans, they're all busy making money. Yan'er took the opportunity to show off her knowledge.
"Money?" Jin Hotaru had saved some money, which he had sold his harvested crops in exchange, and he had never known what the money was for, so he stuffed it all into a jar.
"The farmers who farmed the land went to the big cities to earn money. Yan'er continued to tell him.
"Go to the big city...... Earn. ”
"Yes, Hotaru, let's go to the big city, right? I've been living here for decades, and I'm tired of living here," Yan'er revealed its true purpose, "The youkai I caught yesterday said that there are a lot of youkai in the big city." ”
"Yokai also live in big cities...... "He barely saw any yokai in this place for so long, and for some reason, he suddenly recalled the days when he spent time with youkai in the mountains and forests.
"Zou Xiao......" Jin Ying thought to herself, even if he didn't have Zou Zhen to guide him and tell him what to do, he could ask other monsters for advice.
Besides, those youkai who live among humans should be just like him, in order to achieve positive results......
Seven days later, the streets of Yokokai City.
Jin Hotaru sat on the high street lamp and looked at the endless stream of people, he had never seen so many people before.
"Yan'er, what should I do in this city?" When he entered the big city, he realized that he couldn't farm here, so he also brought a hoe that had been used for decades with him.
"Hotaru, you do that!" Yan'er said excitedly, pointing to the Ferris wheel in the playground.
Three days later, reports of a serious accident on the Ferris wheel of an amusement park in Henghai City appeared in major newspapers and magazines across the country, and in the news, Jin Hotaru and Yan'er left the city in a hurry.
In Anyang City, Yan'er looked thoughtfully at the university class: "Hotaru, you go and do that." ”
Two days later, the news of a student beating a teacher and maiming her spreads across the campus, and Jin Hotaru and Yan'er embark on a journey out of the city again.
In Xingning City, Yan'er looked at the heroic traffic policeman and shouted excitedly: "Firefly, hurry, you go and do this!"
In less than a day, the news of a series of catastrophic traffic accidents in Xing'an City appeared in major media, Jin Ying and Yan'er......
In Lidan City, Jin Hotaru felt frustrated again.
Yan'er had been watching those cars come and go boredly, dizzy to see, and it suddenly had a flash of inspiration: "Hotaru, you drive me away!"
"Drive ......"
"Yes, drive!"
"Let's drive......"