Chapter 1057: The Age of Famine and Farming (1)
When July woke up, she only felt that her eyelids were extremely heavy, although her consciousness had slowly cleared up a lot, but she couldn't squeeze out the slightest strength to open her eyes, she only felt a burst of chills all over her body, and with July's experience, she knew that she must be having a fever, and the fever was still very serious.
"Xiaoyue, Xiaoyue, wake up quickly, my mother boiled medicine for you, you get up quickly and take the medicine, and the illness will be cured!"
Suddenly, a woman's voice rang out from July's side, and then a pair of warm hands touched July's face, and then hugged July's body.
"Mother, how is my sister?" another boy's worried voice sounded from July's side, the voice sounded very immature, it should not be very old.
"Alas, it's still burning! It's been burning all night, what if your head burns out if you go on like this! No way, I'll ask your father to send the last bit of food at home to the pharmacy to change the medicine, and you should be fine after taking this medicine!" the woman said with a sigh.
The boy didn't speak, although he was still young, but he knew what it meant that there was no food at home, but the sister was still the most important thing anyway.
July listened to the sound of talking in a daze, and then someone quickly pried her mouth open, and then a bitter medicine poured in, the medicine was neither cold nor hot, July tried to swallow the medicine, try not to let the medicine spill a little, you must know that these medicines are exchanged for the lives of a family!
July is now in the 34th year of Wanxi of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and July is located in a village in the northwest of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and July is now the youngest daughter of a private school in the village, and the little girl is six years old this year, named Qi Yue'er.
In the thirty-fourth year of Wanxi, there was a great drought in the northwest, and the entire twelve cities and sixty-nine towns in the northwest had no harvest.
In the spring of the 35th year of Wanxi, the imperial court provided disaster relief, but the silver boat team for disaster relief encountered wind and waves in the canal and turned into the Yangtze River. And because of the layers of exploitation of the grain of the imperial court, when it is sent to the northwest, there is only one-twelfth left, which is like a drop in the bucket, and it will not play a role at all.
In the summer of the thirty-fifth year of Wanxi, the twelve cities in the northwest, the cities and cities starved to death countless people, and what is even more terrible is that there will be a plague after the great drought, and the entire northwest is shrouded in the shadow of death.
That year, the Qi family, which was still wealthy, also fled with the homeless, Qi Yue'er's mother died while fleeing the famine, and the eldest brother never came back after leaving alone in order to find some food for his younger brothers and sisters, and when Qi Yue'er's father took Qi Yue'er to look for it, he only found one of her eldest brother's feet, Qi Yue'er was still young at that time, and he didn't understand what it meant, but her father was crying, because he knew that people had already begun to eat people at that time.
Qi Yue'er's father worked hard to bring Qi Yue'er and her second brother to the capital alive, and Qi Yue'er's father was also favored by the prince because of his outstanding talent, so he entered the prince's mansion and became a staff member, and since then, Qi Yue'er has become everyone's lady, and her life has been better.
Qi Yue'er's father took pity on his daughter for losing her mother at a young age, and suffered a lot, so she was particularly spoiled by Qi Yue'er, for fear that she would be angry with her stepmother, Qi Yue'er's father didn't even remarry, and he was a father and a mother to pull the child up.
Ten years have passed, Qi Yue'er has also become a slim girl, and Qi Yue'er's father and brother have also been admitted to the Jinshi in these years.
Both father and son entered the court as officials, and with the rise of his father and brother, Qi Yue'er also rose, and many families came to Qi's family to propose marriage, wanting to hire Qi Yue'er home as a wife.
But this Qi Yue'er didn't want to be a wife, but she had to be the concubine of the third prince of the dynasty.
Qi Yue'er met the third prince during a trip, because the third prince found Qi Yue'er's handkerchief, so the two met.
After a few sweet words, Qi Yue'er has a deep love for the three princes, she wants to die or live to enter the Three Princes' Mansion, and even force each other to die, Qi Yue'er's father has always felt sorry for this daughter, where can he watch his daughter die like this, and finally Qi Yue'er's father had no choice but to grit his teeth and agree.
Qi Yue'er didn't know what kind of disaster she would bring to her father and brother by doing this, you must know that the battle for the heir was hot at this time, and the fight between the crown prince and the third prince was even more life-and-death. Qi Yue'er's father was born in the prince's staff, and at this time, he was promoted by the prince all the way to the position of the second-rank master, he is the prince's henchman, and he has been labeled as the prince's mansion all his life, and now the only daughter has entered the backyard of the third prince, the prince doesn't think it's because of any love, the only feeling in his heart is that Qi Yue'er's father betrayed him.
The prince tried his best to suppress Qi Yue'er's father and brother, and the third prince was happy to see the prince's party start infighting, although he showed his closeness to Qi Yue'er's father from time to time, but he did not help Qi Yue'er's father at all, and finally Qi Yue'er's father and second brother were not only dismissed, but also sent to the army, and finally died on the border.
Qi Yue'er's maiden family has fallen, which means that she has no use value, and the third prince didn't do anything to her, because he no longer remembered this insignificant little chess piece.
The unfavored concubines in the backyard are not even as good as a subordinate, Qi Yue'er was slowly tortured to death, and in the days and nights before her death, she did not hate herself for a day, if possible, she hoped that she could die instead of her family, she hoped that she could make up for the sins she had committed, and she hoped that the crown prince and the third prince who had harmed her family would all be punished.
July finally drank up the bowl of medicine, and at the same time received the plot, July didn't know what to say about this Qi Yue'er, but no matter what, she finally used the price of her soul to make up for her mistakes, which can be regarded as making up for it.
July was put down after drinking the medicine, and then Qi Yue'er's mother Ruan Shi covered the quilt for July again, and she didn't leave, repeatedly putting a cloth soaked in cold water on July's forehead, trying to make July's fever go down a little faster.
This body was so weak that July couldn't even do anything, and fell asleep again after drinking the medicine. I don't know how long I slept, but when she woke up, July felt better, she slowly opened her eyes, and the light that came in from the window made her frown slightly, and only after she got used to the light did she see the situation in the house clearly.
The house is made of loess, and although there are two small windows that let in light, it is still difficult to see clearly inside the house.