In the afternoon, the sun is shining, but the mountain trails are still chilly. Looking up at the sky, the bright sunlight sprinkled on the small windows of the carriage and horses, leaving a trace of warmth.

Along the way to the capital of the Southern Wei Dynasty, it can be described as mundane, even the noisy wildflowers on the side of the road feel that they are living noisy, with the gossip and gossip of passing travelers, and they are very noisy. It's been four years since I was away from the world, and I'm a little shameful about the noise.

While he was thinking wildly, the carriage stopped, and the coachman turned to the back and said, "This young lady, the beggars and homeless people in front of me are blocking the road, let's stop for a while, let's rest in this teahouse." ”

I opened the curtain and looked out, and was surprised to see that next to the small tea pavilion passing by, there were many ragged people in the woods crowded in the grass under the trees, all of them with yellow faces and thin muscles, and their faces were full of sadness.

This small tea pavilion is full of people, lively, I have always hugged my arms and not too big, I wrapped some cotton clothes on my body, and hurriedly squeezed into the crowd.

"It's been blocked for so long, this group of people, when are you going to get out of the way!" On the side, there were complaints.

"Uncle, I'm in a hurry!"

"This group of people is really, living so cheaply, it's better to die early and be born sooner......"

"Look at them like that, tsk, I don't know if there's any plague or something."

I hurriedly called for a stop and jumped out of the car.

"Who? What's wrong? I stepped forward and asked with a salivating face, but many people didn't bother me when they saw that I was a woman.

I asked the driver who was rushing behind me, "What's going on?" ”

The coachman said, "You don't know this young lady." There was a drought in the frontier of the Southern Wei Dynasty, so dry that there was no water to drink, and many people starved to death on the way to escape. These are the refugees who have escaped, they cannot enter the city, they are all crowded outside, they are starving to death, they are beaten to death, and there are not a few children and women who are dragged away and sold to brothels. ”

"Is there only a drought in the frontier? I don't think the grass grows along the way, isn't it lush? ”

"This is the capital, at the foot of the Son of Heaven, I heard that the government in that place is exploited at all levels, and there is not much money and food in the hands of the displaced people. These homeless people do not flee to Beijing, they can only wait for death when they go back. It seems that he quarreled with these snake beggars for land, and there are really a lot of such things, so you can only be surprised. ”

Suddenly, I saw a child wiping tears behind the arguing old man, and the hungry child was a yellow-skinned, pale face, visible frontal bone, whose hands and feet twitched from time to time and was obviously frail.

I'll go over and take a look.

"Yo, good boy, why is this kid so pitiful."

As soon as the child saw that I was walking over and intending to be him, she hurriedly hid back, and an old woman next to her pulled her, looked at me and said a little anxiously: "Suddenly I got sick, the government didn't let us enter the city, there was nothing to eat and no money to hire a doctor, how could we not be like this, it doesn't matter if we old people die, but these babies are suffering!" ”

I reached for the child's forehead. It's called a non-hot, like a freshly boiled kettle gurgling.

The coachman followed me, and when he saw that I had touched the child, he hurriedly shouted, "Miss! What are you doing here, if you get any disease, you don't care, you know that you have a good heart, but you can't control so many homeless people. Forget it. ”

I checked up and down for a while, my clothes were ragged, I didn't even have to eat, how could I afford to hire a doctor, and the famine in the book was even more like eating human flesh, I took the child's hand and asked, "Little friend, is there no doctor willing to come?" ”

"No, they all hate us for being dirty."

"What did you eat?"

The old woman smiled bitterly: "I have eaten everything I can dig, and the owner of the tea stall just now kindly rewarded us with a few bowls of tea, we don't care, it's a pity that these dolls are gone." ”

I took out a little bit of broken silver from my coat pocket, and said to the lady: "Sister-in-law, people now think about themselves, don't blame them, take this little guy to ask for a doctor, the money is not much, but for the sake of money, someone in this neighboring village doctor will definitely be able to take care of him." ”

An old man next to him shook his head and added, "Girl, you don't know anything." Those people, who live near the capital, are so arrogant that even the beggars bully us, let alone the villagers. ”

I put the broken silver into the old lady's hand, and the little boy still looked at me with frightened eyes, and when I took out the money, I thought that he had been sold by someone, and looked even more uneasy, and the old woman patted him on the shoulder, and whispered a few words, and then settled down.

I sighed: "As the saying goes, money can make ghosts grind, you can try it, so you can save one and count one." ”

This tea stall is also my most idle, rich and idle to take care of things, everyone else is a look at the excitement is not a big deal, even if there are occasional people passing by to help them, they will be disgusted by other people and say false.

Could it be that after four years of not seeing, the four surrounding countries have become like this? On the road, is the so-called prosperous era of the Southern Wei Dynasty that the coachman boasted of like this?

Drought-stricken displaced people, officials**, class oppression, people are struggling to make a living?

I heard the old woman feel sad for a while, so I called the coachman, and prepared to go to some silver for him to buy some stones to bring to these homeless people on the way back, but there was a commotion behind me: "You little rabbit cub, take care of Lao Tzu's idle business!" ”

Our side suddenly turned around, a little child looked like a homeless person, and was picked up by the ears of a person who looked five big and three thick, the key was that the child was holding my big cloth bag of "all belongings" in his hand.

"You let go of me! Let it go! ”

The child bit the strong man's other hand, and he hurriedly let go of the pain.

The child ran towards me, perhaps because of the excessive fright, and clung to my cloth baggage.

As he ran, he yelled, "This kind sister, he's going to steal your bag." ”

I suddenly remembered that the coachman and I were so busy meddling that we had neglected that my money was still in the carriage, and that it was really thanks to the little child.

"His uncle's!" The man, rubbing his wrists, "What the hell, little rabbit." ”

I suddenly became angry, and put one hand on my waist, "You give it back to my second uncle!" It's strange that I don't call the second uncle, is my aunt's burden something you want to steal? You are still bullying such a small person there, I am really kind to bully, I can't care if you bully the homeless, but you bully me, my aunt and grandmother are really angry! That's you! If my mother doesn't throw you in prison for a few years, I'm not a woman! ”

The people near the tea stalls around me, because of my noise, gathered more and more, I raised my eyes to see two officials passing by, stood up with my waist and shouted: "Hey! Those two big brothers! There are people here who bully the weak, rob people of their money and kill them, you don't care! ”

"You! … Bah... What fucking bad luck! ”

The strong man saw that the official was about to come, so he hurriedly spat and ran away.

The coachman applauded a few times and was surprised for a while, and said that he couldn't see that I, a girl with a crepe style, could be so experienced in scolding people.

Who am I, in that valley, no one gossips and scolds chickens, ducks, geese and birds for four years.

I looked like the older child, still stunned, and when the old woman reminded me of it, he hurried to hand over my baggage.

I took out a few ingots of silver and asked the coachman to bring them some food on the way back, and the coachman nodded apologetically because he had not taken care of my things before, and said that he could do it later.

The old woman was moved: "Miss, you have a very good heart. ”

I asked the child, with a kind face: "Little friend, my sister asked you, why do you want to help me?" ”

"I ...... Grandma's ...... I"

Seeing that I was angry with the man just now, his little hand twisted his tattered clothes, and said in a panic.

"Okay, for a cute child like you, I'm not fierce, sister." I touched his soft head and smiled.

"Hmm." His round eyes lit up and he nodded, "I'm not afraid of my sister." ”

"Okay, you wait for me." I saw a small vendor of sugar gourds resting at a tea stall not far away, and hurriedly beckoned him to come over, "Come on two sugar gourds!" ”

"Ah......h The child ran over and took the hand of the other child, and stood there with tears in his eyes.

"It was so dangerous just now!" Thinking of the chaos he caused just now, I am still a little frightened, and I don't know what will happen if the official doesn't pass by.

The child's ears were swollen, "Because my sister saved my brother!" My mother said that good people must be rewarded! ”

I was so excited that I took out a piece of clothing from my pocket and gave it to him, and I saw the little boy's hands tremble.

The old man who had quarreled with the beggar at the beginning suddenly shouted: "It's really a good person who has a good reward!" The girl "threw herself at my feet."

I hurriedly helped her up, "Uncle, don't do this, you can't do this!" I can't stand the fact that others carry out his second uncle. It's just a gesture, I can't afford you like this. ”

I said goodbye to the group of homeless people, I took a sip of tea, and the coachman and I prepared to hurry, I must arrive at the capital to stay in the hotel this evening. After walking for a while, I swept inadvertently, and the little boy who was a little older was running with my carriage.

I hurriedly called out to the driver: "Stop!" ”

The little child came up panting, holding a bag of things in his hand.

Hurriedly chased after me and handed me the things in his hand, and said, "Sister, this is what my grandfather gave me." ”

When I looked at it, I was stunned, stinky tofu ......

"Look, sister, you don't have any snacks on the road, you can eat this." The little boy held the bag in front of me, his eyes dark and shining. "Just a brother gave it to me."

With a hint of gratitude, a hint of embarrassment, and a hint of astonishment, I reached out, took my pocket, and pinched another piece of stinky tofu and handed it to his mouth, "You can also take a bite." ”

The little boy was slightly stunned, but he still opened his mouth, and swallowed the stinky tofu I handed over, nodded timidly and said, "It's delicious." ”

I looked at him, touched his head, and said seriously: "Child, suffering is only temporary, you have to remember that the poorest is nothing more than begging for food, and if you don't die, you will eventually come out."

His big eyes lit up slightly, and he looked at me with a very happy expression.

"Thank you, sister, you want to have a safe journey~"

As the carriage drove away, I heard him take two steps after him, waving his hand behind him and shouting, "See you later!" ”

Life is like a horse, or the most simple when I was a child.

Because of the delay in this matter, I hurried all the way and walked slowly, and when I walked to the north archway of Jing'an City, it was already evening......

Outside the curtain of carriages and horses, the sunset is slanting in the west, and the scenery is very beautiful. I lifted the curtain and looked up, and the gold-lacquered vermilion plaque above it read the words "Yongding Gate" in large letters.

This will be a new beginning of my life, facing the little remnant sun revealed, I folded my hands and silently made a wish in my heart: "I hope that in the future, you and I can work from 9 to 5, and be able to wander the world in peace." ”

Good night, Chu Ge.