In the twenty-sixth year of Tianxi, it was only the end of July, and the morning was already so cold that he had to wear a jacket, Li Xiaonuan hugged his shoulder tightly with his free hand, and trotted into the Jizo Hall in the north of the Gospel Temple.

There was silence and gloom in the Jizo Temple, Li Xiaonuan entered the main hall, knelt on the old futon in front of the Jizo Bodhisattva statue, kowtowed respectfully, stood up, held his toes, walked through the Jizo Hall, and walked to the west side hall behind.

The door of the west side hall was half-hidden, Li Xiaonuan stood at the door, swallowed his saliva, stretched out his hand to push the door open, and walked towards the two black lacquered coffins in the southernmost place with his head down.

Different from the other coffins in the hall, in front of the two black lacquered coffins side by side, there was a broken table with a brick to cushion one leg, Li Xiaonuan walked to the table, put down the broken bamboo plaque in his hand, took off the bamboo basket on his back, rubbed his two hands on his clothes, lifted the half of the linen cloth covered on the table, respectfully held up a small piece of silk cloth with words written on the linen, and hung it on the broken pen stand on the table.

There are two names written on the silk cloth: Li Qingshan and Li Lianshi, and there is a faint small warm character between the two names with heavy ink.

Li Xiaonuan hung up the silk cloth, took out an old purse from the bamboo basket on his knees, and then took out two still warm black nests from the purse, put the purse on the table, put the nest head, and took out a small stoneware bottle, took off the stopper and put it on the table, took half a step back, straightened out the coarse linen and fur mourning clothes on his body, pulled the decay piece on his chest, bowed twice to the silk piece, and prayed in a low voice for a while.

After praying, Li Xiaonuan stepped forward to plug the pottery bottle, carefully put it back into the bamboo basket, put away the nest head, carried the bamboo basket, picked up the bamboo plaque, and ran out of the west hall briskly, and ran to the back mountain.

In the black lacquered coffin, it is the biological parents of her body, a family of three sold their family property to Beijing to catch the exam, the plague that swept from Qinfeng Road in the spring took the lives of a family of three, well, it should be a family of two and a half, Li Xiaonuan sighed, bit the head of the black nest, Li Xiaonuan is half.

Whether she wants it or not, she always occupies other people's bodies, and she always has to fulfill this obligation as a child for Li Xiaonuan.

However, is there any way to send this family of two and a half back to their hometown and settle in peace? Xiali Town is eight or nine hundred miles away from here, if it is ......

Alas, in this world now, these eight or nine hundred miles have to rely on two feet to walk, and you have to drag those two coffins, it is really difficult to go to the sky! Li Xiaonuan sighed heavily, forget it, let's talk about this matter when she grows up, let's think about today's tooth sacrifice first, Li Xiaonuan subconsciously shook his head, shook off the obligation to take a head every morning, bit the head of the nest quickly with a small bite, and ran towards the back mountain with light steps.

The mountain behind Shigeng Mountain is lush and vibrant.

Li Xiaonuan walked along a mountain stream in the depression of the back mountain, all the way to the mountain, several places where the water flow was gentle, no fish were seen, Li Xiaonuan had to continue to walk along the creek to the mountain, walked for almost an hour, only to find a place that is slightly larger, there are more rocks in the water, Li Xiaonuan stopped, such a place is the most easy to gather fish, here is the first time to come, maybe you can catch a few, maybe you can catch a big fish!

Big fish! Li Xiaonuan swallowed his saliva, took off the bamboo basket on his back, put it behind a big bluestone, bent down, took out a broken cymbal and a bamboo chopstick from the bamboo basket, looked around to find a good position, carefully erected the cymbals obliquely with stones, and then inserted the bamboo chopsticks into the hole in the middle of the cymbals, straightened up, and looked proudly.

Li Xiaonuan took off his shoes with the big stone next to him, carefully rolled up his trouser legs, picked up the tattered half-half bamboo plaque, sighed and screamed, gritted his teeth and stepped into the stream, bent over, held the broken bamboo plaque with both hands, and stared at the water intently.

A few small fish swam leisurely from behind the stones, Li Xiaonuan quietly sank the bamboo plaque into the water, held his breath, and slowly approached the pitiful small fish with the bamboo plaque, and suddenly lifted the bamboo plaque violently, and lifted the small fish out of the water.

Li Xiaonuan happily jumped ashore, picked up three small fish about an inch long from the bamboo plaque and carefully put them into the bamboo basket, and happily jumped back into the stream.

For most of the next half an hour, the happy Li Xiaonuan carefully rummaged through every stone in the stream, except for a few green shrimps, and did not find a single fish! His feet and calves were soaked in the cold mountain stream, and Li Xiaonuan was so cold that he kept shivering.

Li Xiaonuan jumped ashore with a bamboo plaque, trembling to find a stone with the most sunlight, climbed up and put his legs close to the stone that had been heated by the sun to keep warm.

After basking for a while, Li Xiaonuan came to her senses, lay on the stone, looked at her sundial, there were nearly two hours, she walked back for almost an hour, there was only one hour, Li Xiaonuan sighed in her heart, climbed down the stone, carried the bamboo basket, and looked sadly at the poor three small fish and four green shrimps in the bamboo basket.

Li Xiaonuan took out a small fish and put it in the palm of his hand, looked at it carefully, and swallowed his saliva again, a small fish of this size, washed and fried in clear oil, crispy is the most delicious, but if it is soaked in bad brine and seasoned, then it will ...... Li Xiaonuan swallowed heavily, where was the last time you ate such a delicacy? Jiangsu and Zhejiang? Tan?

Li Xiaonuan sighed leisurely and threw the fish back into the bamboo basket, what are you doing now thinking about these useless things? The small fish that Mama Wei slowly grilled over a simmer is the delicious fish that can be eaten in your mouth now!

It's better to hurry up and catch fish.

Li Xiaonuan jumped off the stone, carried a bamboo plaque, and went barefoot, looking for fish or shrimp that were only the size of a grain of rice.

After walking for a while, Li Xiaonuan jumped to the opposite side of the creek and carefully found it.

Nothing!

Li Xiaonuan hung her head in disappointment and leaned against the big stone, threw down the bamboo plaque, bent down to pick up a small stone and threw it into the stream, muttering hatefully:

"He's a cat!"

Threw a few more stones, vented, Li Xiaonuan drooped his shoulders sadly, slowly put away the sundial, and threw it into the bamboo basket, forget it, let's go back to the temple quickly, the things in the temple must not be delayed!

Runan Wangfu is going to do things in the temple today, Li Xiaonuan swallowed his saliva heavily, the dim sum of Runan Wangfu, she only ate it once, in May, Wei Mama went to the capital to sell embroidery, and happened to meet Runan Wangfu to send Shou Tao, lined up for more than an hour to receive a grain, and brought it back to her, Shou Tao was small There were not a few bites, she ate half of it, and the other half was stuffed into Wei Mama's mouth.

What does that taste like...... Li Xiaonuan's saliva was full again, well, if you can get a few more dim sum today, you will have everything.

Li Xiaonuan put on her shoes, put on the bamboo basket on her back and prepared to go back, out of the corner of her eye, she saw a long black shadow swimming in the stream, Li Xiaonuan's heart suddenly rose to her throat, and her excited fingers trembled slightly to take off the bamboo basket, and ran to the stream with the bamboo plaque.

It's not fish that swim leisurely in the stream, it's ...... Yellow eel!

Li Xiaonuan was so disgusted that she took half a step back, this supreme delicacy was as disgusting as a snake before it was put on the plate, making people feel numb to the point of scalp!

Forget it, forget it, Li Xiaonuan grabbed the bamboo plaque tightly with both hands, but he was reluctant to turn around, such a big one, red stewed eel section, fried eel silk, stewed eel tube, casserole eel soup...... Li Xiaonuan stared at the stupid eel tightly, gritted his teeth, shook off his shoes, pulled up his trouser legs indiscriminately, carefully stepped into the stream with the bamboo plaque, slowly sank the bamboo plaque into the water little by little, approached the eel with bated breath, lifted the bamboo plaque violently, and lifted the eel to the shore with all his might.

The eel writhed desperately between the large and small stones, escaping, Li Xiaonuan threw the bamboo plaque, ran to the shore, picked up a big stone, and smashed it hard according to the eel's head, the eel's head was smashed to the point of blood and flesh, and the body writhed desperately.

Li Xiaonuan dodged back, panting against a big stone, staring closely at the dying and struggling eel, until it was dead and no longer moving, so he found a branch from the bushes next to him, took out the sundial and clay bottle in the bamboo basket, put down the bamboo basket, and endured the nausea and pushed the eel into the bamboo basket.

Li Xiaonuan breathed a long sigh of relief, put on her shoes, packed up her things, pulled a few handfuls of leaves on the eel, put the sundial and clay bottle in it, carried the bamboo basket, and walked down the mountain with a smile on her face.

In the small courtyard behind the Gospel Temple, among the three thatched houses, the westernmost one has collapsed in half, and the east one is still intact.

Li Xiaonuan lifted the bamboo fence, entered the yard, carefully put the bamboo basket into the small water tank at the door of the east house, covered the mouth of the cylinder with a bamboo plaque, and then pressed it with a stone, took a few steps back, looked at it with satisfaction, turned around and went into the house to change clothes, the clothes on his body were stained with eel blood, in case people saw it, he had to count Mama Wei.

Li Xiaonuan took off the coarse linen filial piety clothes on his body, thought about it, and picked out a white coarse cloth blouse and an indigo coarse cloth pants from a few clothes at the bedside.

Li Xiaonuan changed her clothes, took a huge purse from the bedside and stuffed it into her arms, went out to look at the sun shadow, trotted to the back corner door of the gospel temple, pushed the door hard, and squeezed in through the gap between the door and the door frame.

There was no one in the backyard of the Gospel Temple, and Li Xiaonuan ran quickly to the Guanyin Hall along the corner of the wall.

Arrived at the back door of the Guanyin Palace, Li Xiaonuan carefully hid in the corner, listening attentively to the movement in the temple, at this time, the people in the temple should be in the three major halls, there will be no one here, Li Xiaonuan cautiously crouched in the corner, listened carefully for a while, then pursed his lips and smiled, and entered the Guanyin Hall lightly.