16. Jun Farmer (1)
Until he was dying, Xu Jinyi was always held in the palm of Zhao Chengli's hand, and the two spent a hundred years with each other.
Seeing Zhao Chengli close his eyes first, Xu Jinyi held his shriveled hand and kissed his face full of wrinkles and age spots. "It's still so handsome."
Then, Xu Jinyi lay close to Zhao Chengli's arms, put his arm on his waist, and submitted the game points without hesitation, waiting for the soul to leave this world.
A tear slowly fell from the corner of the eye of the body on the bed, flowing along the wrinkled lines to the ear that was close to Zhao Chengli's cheek.
In this other world, with the support of Jinhui and Zhao, Xu's father was promoted from Nanshi Shunlì to Su Province, and even stayed in the central government for a few years.
Xu Jinyi, who lives in place of the original owner, as the founder of Jinhui, can be called a well-known entrepreneur in the country, and it is the goal that countless young people are striving for. The legendary love between him and Zhao Chengli for decades has been praised and envied by hundreds of millions of Chinese people, and even regarded as the "love of the century" by them.
Xu Jinyi lived a happy and glorious life in place of the original owner, and the score displayed by the game system was very high, which was more than enough to enter the next world.
When Xu Jinyi woke up again, he was half-crouching behind a small mound.
Probably because the original owner had been squatting for too long, and his legs were extremely sore, Xu Jinyi wanted to stand up and move his muscles and bones, but inadvertently caught a glimpse of a yellow shadow in front of him, and his eyes widened in amazement.
That's a tiger! A hungry tiger!
The stomach was shriveled, the hair was not shiny at all, the four fangs of the upper and lower fangs stood in front of the mouth, and the long tongue licked and curled like a fan as it lowered its head, and the green light shone as it drank water, staring fiercely at the river.
No, it wasn't a river at all, it was just a five-meter-square puddle of dirty water, and the □□ riverbed was dry and cracked into irregular blocks, and the pieces of charred soil rolled upwards and edges.
Great drought!
Xu Jinyi didn't dare to move at all, his eyes were fixed on the tiger, but his head was spinning rapidly.
The riverbed is more than ten meters wide and stretches out into the distance, and it is obvious that this river is also a small scale during the flood season, and it is not a problem to support a few villages. However, it was a great drought at this time, and the source of the creek had obviously dried up, and it was precisely because of the slight depression in the terrain that this small puddle of water would be saved.
During the great drought, food and drinking water are scarce not only for humans, but also for animals.
Obviously, this evil tiger is hungry and thirsty, but if it makes the slightest noise and is spotted by it, there is less than a 1 in 10,000 chance of escaping from its mouth!
Xu Jinyi is like this, the more dangerous the environment, the calmer his mind is, such as the internal and external troubles of the Xu family in the real world, such as the current tiger.
Only one word, wait!
Xu Jinyi kept half-squatting, although his legs were trembling slightly, his breathing was still thin and long, and his brain was still clear and calm.
Suddenly, as if he had been fully drunk, the hungry tiger's stubby and powerful limbs leaped vigorously, and his whole body rose into the air, and in a moment he jumped from the puddle to the shore.
The small mound in front of him was only half a meter high, and there was a cluster of shrubs growing on it, but this shrub only had a few rare yellow leaves, and Xu Jinyi did not move at all, only staring at the hungry tiger along a gap between the leaves.
The Hungry Tiger gradually walked this way.
Xu Jinyi's breathing rate is getting lighter and lighter.
Twenty meters, ten meters, getting closer......
Almost less than five meters away from Xu Jinyi, the tiger's magnificent body passed him sideways step by step.
Xu Jinyi still half-crouched in place like a sculpture, staring at the yellow body with black stripes with only a glimmer of light out of the corner of his eye.
Finally, even the corner of his eye couldn't find the figure of the hungry tiger, Xu Jinyi squatted for another quarter of an hour before slowly turning his head.
There is only a mountain forest with few leaves in sight.
Xu Jinyi blinked and exhaled softly.
It is not suitable to stay here for a long time, but at this time, his two legs have been completely numb, Xu Jinyi can't care about any manners, he slowly stood up with his two hands on the ground, gently lifted his two legs, and when his consciousness finally recovered, he followed the memory of the original owner to find the mountain road, and walked lightly towards the village on the other side of the mountain.
On the two towering giant trees not far away, there were a few voices faintly.
"This villager ......"
"Master, my subordinates have been in the army for many years, and there are countless soldiers who have personally slashed and killed ten people and hundreds of people, but if you are hungry and hungry in the front, there are less than ten people who are calm and calm."
"Master, this is the time to employ people, this person has outstanding courage, if he has a pure temperament, he can be useful."
After a while, the first majestic voice sounded, "Go, follow him." ”
When he finally arrived at the foot of the mountain, Xu Jinyi was not happy and worried, just now in that high place, there were not a few leaves on the trees, and the bushes at the foot of the mountain were even stripped of their bark, which looked really shocking! Xu Jinyi turned from the mountain road to the dirt road, finding the plot of this world as he walked, and looked through it carefully in combination with the memory of the original owner.
Most of the dozens of families in the village are surnamed Li, and this village is called Lijia Village. The original owner is also surnamed Li and named Li Tianci.
This Li Tianci is a widower.
Li Tianci grew up to the age of seventeen, obeyed the orders of his parents, married a Liu woman in a neighboring village, and the following year, Liu gave birth to a daughter and died due to dystocia, leaving a daughter to be fed and her husband who had not yet reached the crown to depend on each other.
Fortunately, Li Tianci also has a mother, Li's mother took pity on her granddaughter, so she took her granddaughter to her house to raise, Li Tianci and Li's father were busy with farm work, and they got a few taels of silver a year, and they could also maintain the family.
However, this year's drought easily destroyed this relatively happy family.
Since the beginning of spring, there has been little rainfall, and the people have planted crops with buckets of water. However, from spring to summer, the weather became drier and drier, and the village could not water the crops but thirsty itself with only a few wells.
Before the villagers could finish their struggle, a locust plague suddenly came, and the crops in the fields were gnawed clean.
By this time, the grain of previous years was almost gone, but this year's crops were only straw, and the villagers had no hope, kneeling in their fields and wailing.
But this is still not the end of suffering.
It didn't take long for the plague to break out, and nine out of ten deaths.
Li's father and mother were not in that plague.
Fortunately, Li Tianci and his daughter Li Yueru survived.
When Li's father was a child, he experienced a great drought and almost lost his life to that drought, and since then, whenever the weather is dry, he will prepare more food. At the beginning of spring this year, he had the foresight to exchange the family's small amount of money for two carts of grain, secretly dug a cellar in the house with his son, and hid the two carts of grain in the cellar.
Coupled with what was harvested last year, and the frugal ones are eaten until now, there are still more than half of the carts of brown rice and flour left at home, adding up to about three or four hundred catties, enough for Li Tianci and his daughter to eat for a year.
But although there is food at home, the two of them can only eat a little porridge every day, not to mention chicken, fish, meat and eggs at this age, and they can't even find a piece of rotten vegetable leaves.
The daughter is Li Tianci's first child, and it is also the only bloodline left to him by his deceased wife, and Li Tianci regards it as a treasure. But because of this drought year, my daughter is not yet two years old, and her little face is thin and sallow, and she does not have the white and fat appearance of a child.
Li Tianci was distressed, and planned to hunt a rabbit and pheasant at the foot of the mountain, and boil a bowl of broth for his daughter to drink. Therefore, after waiting for his daughter to sleep at noon today, Li Tianci locked the door and entered the mountain alone.
As soon as the locusts passed, the land was thousands of miles away, and the animals also suffered from it, and what hares and pheasants were there at the foot of the mountain? Li Tianci walked into the mountains while looking for hares, and when he saw basil and the like, he also pulled it out and planned to finish making vegetable porridge for his daughter.
Suddenly, there was really a living thing moving among the messy branches, and Li Tianci was refreshed, and he hurriedly looked forward lightly.
It was a gray hare, although it was not big, but it could get a pound of meat if it was skinned.
Li Tianci's eyes lit up, he couldn't pounce, the more frustrated he became, the more courageous he became, and he unknowingly chased the hare into the deep mountains.
Then I met the hungry tiger.
In the plot, Li Tianci hid behind the mound, and the hungry tiger drank the water and walked to the depths of the mountains and forests from that road. Although Li Tianci was frightened, he knew not to make a sound, he held his breath and waited for the hungry tiger to leave, but his stomach, which had been feeding his hunger with gruel for a long time, suddenly "cooed" twice at this time, which attracted the attention of the hungry tiger.
Li Tianci couldn't escape, he was filled with a hungry tiger, and he died without a body. Before he was bitten off his neck by the hungry tiger, he only had time to shout "Yueru".
Because of his strong concern for his daughter, Li Tianci's soul was able to stay in the world and accompany his daughter for a long time.
But what did he see?
He saw his cousin, the most orthodox elder after his daughter lost her father, who sold her daughter to a wealthy family surnamed Jiang in the same village for a few catties of grain, and became his son's child daughter-in-law.
He saw his daughter and the rich man's son Jiang Minshan grow up, and agreed to wait for Jiang Minshan to get married on an auspicious day after the imperial examination.
He saw his daughter waiting in the Jiang family, waiting for not only Jiang Minshan, who won the top prize, but also Jiang Minshan's wife in the capital, Zheng Yanran, the county lord of Yanran, who was the daughter of King An.
He saw that Jiang Minshan coveted his daughter's beauty, but he didn't dare to offend the county lord, so he asked his daughter to return to Beijing with Jiang Minshan and his wife as servants. That Zheng Yanran knew that her daughter didn't want to have anything to do with Jiang Minshan anymore, but because she was jealous of her daughter's appearance, she tortured her in every way!
He saw that his daughter was not yet twenty years old, and she was tortured like an old woman.
He saw his daughter being forcibly poured a glass of poisoned wine when she was sick......
Every time Li Tianci stretched out his arms and protected his daughter with his body, the evil hands of those people penetrated his soul again and again, and finally fell on his daughter.
Finally, the daughter closed her eyes and was casually wrapped in a worn-out straw mat and thrown into a mass grave.
The cold body of his daughter was casually wrapped in a shabby straw mat, and the slender and black legs of the two days were exposed outside the straw mat, Li Tianci was grief-stricken, he wanted to put his daughter in the ground, but his trembling hands could not touch his daughter.
Li Tianci's soul continued to wander in this world, and he gradually discovered that Zheng Yanran's mother was Sun Peirou's slut, and it was precisely because of her bewitchment behind Zheng Yanran's back that her daughter was brutally killed.
If there is an afterlife, he must accompany his daughter, shelter her from the wind and rain, and escort her daughter. In addition, those who have bullied his daughter in this life, cousins Li Shen, Sun Peirou, Zheng Yanran, Jiang Minshan...... He won't let any of them go!
After reading the plot and memories, Xu Jinyi was silent for a long time, but the pace of going home was much faster.
In the real world, he had spent half a month in the mountains and met several fierce beasts. It was also because of his experience that when he avoided the hungry tiger, he carefully inhaled his abdomen, lest he make the slightest sound to alarm the hungry tiger.
Unexpectedly, the original owner lost his life because of this. Leaving an orphan girl, looking up to people, and being insulted in every way.
The dim scenes in his memory were too depressing, and Xu Jinyi couldn't help but sympathize with the poor little girl.
"I will avenge you, and I will take care of my daughter for you." Xu Jinyi looked at the dilapidated courtyard in front of him and swore secretly.