The morning light was faint, and the col where the chickens and dogs barked was still shrouded in a thin layer of mist, Yaoguang, who was dressed in gray and white cloth, carried the basket on his back, pushed open the creaky wooden door, and walked towards the mountain in the distance.

"Big girl, big girl!"

Suddenly, a deliberately suppressed shout rang out from behind him.

Yaoguang turned around and looked at the woman running towards him.

The woman was in her thirties, slender in stature, and although she had excellent facial features, she had large pores, a dull yellow complexion, and a blue cloth scarf that was popular in the village on her head, and a gray cloth skirt that had been washed white.

"Mother, what's wrong?" Yao Guang asked in a low voice when he saw that someone had run to him.

The woman stuffed half a fist-sized nest head into Yaoguang's hand, glanced at her daughter like dust, and said, "Eat on the road." ”

Yaoguang was stunned for a moment by this abnormal behavior, did not refuse, nodded, and turned to leave.

She was really hungry, she didn't have much to eat at home, and she didn't know how her mother saved this half of the nest in her hand.

Yaoguang woke up a month ago. At that time, she opened her eyes, thinking that she was once again reborn in the world that had broken her, but when she looked around, she found herself lying on the big kang of an extremely simple adobe house, and the quilt on her body emitted a musty smell that had not been washed for a long time under the baking of body temperature.

The sky was bright, and the sound of roosters crowing one after another, the six or seven-year-old girl lying on her side, and her small body, which had suddenly become short and thin, all told Yaoguang that this was not Yan City, and it was not the world she was familiar with.

At that moment, she was a little excited, knowing that she had finally gotten rid of the nightmare and was reborn into another world, no matter how poor she looked at the moment, it was also a new life, a new beginning!

Yaoguang felt that he was finally able to open his heart and laugh wildly.

Before she could open her mouth, however, she heard the broken wooden door being pushed open from the outside, and then a thin figure walked in, urging her to get up quickly, and go up the hill to collect wild vegetables with a basket on her back.

So, from that moment on, she slowly received the memory of the original owner and knew that this place was called Dashan Village.

Dashan Village, as the name suggests, is surrounded by mountains, and the adjacent small mountain village can only be seen by crossing three mountains, while the nearest county seat, if you just walk on a pair of feet, it will take more than half a month to walk back and forth.

The village has a population of more than 100 households, and in addition to a large piece of cultivated land dug up by their ancestors in the mountain col, the people here also have to go up the mountain to hunt to supplement their rations.

And Yaoguang himself, called Daya here, is the daughter of the butcher Yao Dazhuang and his wife Su Niang, who is thirteen years old this year.

On top of her, there were originally two older brothers, the eldest brother Yaozhu, if he was still alive, he would be seventeen years old. Last year, he was arrested to fill the army, and in May this year, the village chief sent five copper coins, Su Niang cried in the house for a day and a night, and was later beaten by the Yao butcher, so she closed her voice, what should you do.

The second brother Yao Bolt was picked up by Su Niang on the way when she went back to her mother's small mountain village ten years ago. If it weren't for the fact that he could make a lot of energy, he could be regarded as a laborer, and he would have been driven away by the Yao butcher. However, Yao Xuan was born restless, stayed at home until he was fourteen years old, and felt that he could do a great job, so he ran away, and has not been heard from so far.

The rest, in addition to Yaoguang, also has a seven-year-old sister Erya and a three-year-old brother Yaosheng.

There are many people in the family, and they all rely on Yao butchers to kill pigs and cattle to make a living, and Su Niang is not in good health, so she can only do some housework and plant crops in the field, which is not possible.

A few years ago, it was okay, and the days were not very rich, but in the whole village, it can be regarded as a well-off family.

However, since last year, the area has been hit by a once-in-a-century drought, the harvest is gone, and the pigs, cows, chickens and sheep are gone, and the days have become unprecedentedly difficult.

Yao Dazhuang is a patriarchal master, the eldest son died, the adopted son ran away, and now the only thing worthy of his comfort is that the three-year-old Yao Sheng is still alive and healthy.

However, the family could eat less and less, so Yao Dazhuang began to think about how to reduce rations, save resources, and let his son survive this disaster year, so as to smoothly continue the Yao family's incense.

The second girl is still young, only seven years old, and she can raise it if she makes do, but the eldest girl, who is already thirteen years old, has become a burden in Yao Dazhuang's eyes.

In the past, the eldest girl, because her father didn't want to see her, was usually a handyman in the house, did everything, and had to bear everything.

However, this expectation of self-determination and transparency did not last long, and in the drought for more than a year, Yao Dazhuang looked at her more and more often, and the thoughts in his eyes became more and more.

When Yaoguang occupied this body, he knew the cause and effect, and for the sake of safety, he had been hiding like a quail and thinking about his next step.

However, it was so exhausting that finally, something happened the other night.

She came in the middle of the night, and had just taken the ashes from the stove house, and when she passed by the main house, she overheard Su Niang crying in the house.

Su Niang loves to cry, which is already a well-known problem in the whole village. And this problem, except for Yao Dazhuang's fist, there is nothing that can be cured.

At that time, Yaoguang listened to Su Niang's crying, and didn't think there was anything unusual, and was about to go back to the house, but he heard Su Niang crying and talking about her.

So, she secretly listened to the corner and knew that Yao Dazhuang planned to sell herself.

Yaoguang was a little astringent.

In his previous life, he was an orphan, and although he had biological parents in this life, he was still not loved.

While gnawing on the dry and hard nest head, she generally climbed the familiar mountain road, and sighed when she thought that Su Niang was the only person in the world who had ever given her warmth.

So what, Su Niang can't make any changes to her fate except crying.

She didn't plan to cry in front of the cowardly Su Niang or the big-shouldered Yao Dazhuang, and she didn't have the guts to run away from home.

The thirteen-year-old girl has no power to restrain the chicken, let alone a stunt, no matter what she thinks, she has no ability to survive alone.

I heard that Aunt Zhao will come to the village today.

Yao Dazhuang should be determined to exchange himself for money, otherwise Su Niang would not have been in the morning, and he would have stuffed himself with a nest.

Before, she went up the mountain hungry.

However, Yaoguang thought about it carefully, and perhaps, the appearance of Aunt Zhao would bring her an opportunity.

After walking for about an hour, Yaoguang wiped the sweat from his forehead and stopped at a three-way intersection.

In fact, at this time, there were no wild vegetables and fruits to pick up on the mountain. The sun was rising, and Yaoguang's chapped lips were in dire need of some cool water. She turned left and headed for the path with the densest number of dead leaves.

After another hour of trekking, she finally came to a shallow stream.

"Ah, big girl, why are you here now?" asked a girl with dark skin and a freckled face, standing five or six meters away, pulling her throat.

Someone had already come before her.

Two women and a man, about the same age as her, except for those who said hello, the other man and a woman also stood up and waved at Yaoguang.

Yaoguang walked over, put down the basket, took two sips of the stream water, and finally made her thirsty throat no longer so uncomfortable, she wiped the water droplets on her mouth with the back of her hand, and said to the girl, "It's a little slow." ”

Meizi, that is, the girl, nodded and said, "Then you can drink two more sips, and it will be gone later." ”

That's right. Yaoguang also stopped talking, and it was a little bit to drink more.

The creek was discovered by her accident. In fact, it can't be called a stream, the total length is only more than ten meters, only in the morning out of the surface, the sun rises in the sky, and then disappears, there is no trace of green nourished by moisture, some are just dry dead wood that can no longer be dried.

When Yaoguang found it, he didn't tell outsiders that Meizi was a friend of the eldest girl, and when they met on the road, they found that she had signs of dehydration, so Yaoguang told her the secret.

And the other two are twins, Meizi's cousins.

Regarding the spread of secrets, Yaoguang did not express an opinion. After all, this water is not hers, and if it can benefit a few more people, let's have a few more people.

However, after such a long time, I haven't seen any more people. She wanted to take a kettle from home to hold some water and carry it back, but unfortunately she didn't have much strength, and she couldn't solve much of a problem if she took it back.

"Big girl, Aunt Zhao is coming to the village today, have you heard?" Meizi saw that everyone had drunk enough water, so she picked up the water and began to wash her face.

"Well, I heard. ”

Aunt Zhao is a well-known person, who regularly collects new goods everywhere, and her customers are all kinds of people.

Yaoguang also picked up a handful of water to wash his face, and the cold stream water flowed through his cheeks, so that the hot body also got a trace of calm.

She didn't know what dynasty it was, but judging by the way the people in the village dressed and talked, it was very likely that it was still in a feudal society with low productivity, strict hierarchy, and conservative thinking.

When it came to Aunt Zhao, Yaoguang tried his best to recall it, but did not find any relevant information from the memory of the original owner.

It seems that their family is in contact with Aunt Zhao for the first time.

However, Meizi also happened to mention it, maybe she knew better.

She took the initiative to talk about her parents' plans, hoping to hear more from Meizi's mouth.

Meizi was surprised when she first heard it, but she quickly accepted the fact that the little sister was about to leave, and couldn't help but comfort:

"Big girl, it's okay, I heard my mother say, Aunt Zhao is very capable, if you are taken by her, maybe you will be sold to the official family as a slave, that is a good errand, it is better than starving in the village. ”

The big girl is not loved by Yao Dazhuang, and Meizi also knows it. Of course, in the same place, the preference for sons is the same. Meizi is luckier than the eldest girl, and her mother is a hard one, so the girl's life is relatively better.

Yaoguang smiled, not very moved, although she went out, she could see a wider world, but who knew where that Aunt Zhao would sell her?

Reborn in another world, she didn't find her own way out, but she couldn't degenerate to the point of selling her skin or being servile.

"Aunt Zhao, what kind of person is you?" Yao Guang couldn't help asking.

"Hurry up, hurry up, the water is almost gone!" the twins squatted on the other side to wash their hair, screaming in frustration as the water level dropped.

Mei Zi's father helps in Lizheng's house, and he has more knowledge than ordinary villagers, and Mei Zi is obviously more news among his peers.

Yaoguang asked her this, and she was very happy, what could be more pleasant than to show off her knowledge?

This sense of self-aggrandizement suddenly made her think hard about her own experience, as if two years ago, her uncle sold her cousin to Aunt Zhao.

"Aunt Zhao is very picky, saying that she is specially selecting slaves for the officials, as long as they are beautiful and lovely, fat, black, and body odor are not wanted. Do you still remember my cousin?"

Seeing Yaoguang nodded, she continued: "At that time, Aunt Zhao didn't take a fancy to my cousin, saying that she couldn't get rid of it, and it was not easy to sell, if it wasn't for my father to mutter a few words to her, the uncle would probably sell my cousin to an old widower in a small mountain village." ”

Meizi couldn't help but smile proudly, "Fortunately, my dad helped." My uncle is still thanking my father. ”

Yaoguang wanted to ask where her cousin was sold, but after thinking about it, she probably didn't know.

Yaoguang was a little bored, when he saw Aunt Zhao, did he show his true face, or did he deliberately make himself ugly?

She once saw her appearance through the water in the bucket, and it was no surprise that she was eight or nine points similar to her in her previous life. It's just more immature.

Hey, forget it, she doesn't want to do so much, she has gone through so much, she doesn't believe that she is a life to be slaughtered.

Soon, the descending stream gradually thinned until it disappeared. And the trough soaked in the stream, under the baking of the sun, slowly turns into a barren sand ditch.

Yaoguang got up from the ground and beckoned everyone: "Let's go, we should go and find something to eat." ”

So they took their baskets on their backs and carried their sickles, and they dug the bark of the trees, and the wild fruits of the wild fruits.

The sun gradually rose, and after a morning of shuttling through the mountains, Yaoguang began to walk back with a half-basket of wild fruits and bark on his back, and his three companions.

Suddenly, a sound of Suo Suo caught everyone's attention.

"Oh my God, what's that sound?" Meizi grabbed Yaoguang's arm and looked around nervously.

In fact, since the great drought, this mountain has long been devoid of wild things. Therefore, these half-grown boys and girls will be bold and unscrupulous in the mountains and forests.

Yaoguang didn't know what the sound was coming from, but faintly looked at a place not far away where the grass was shaking slightly.

From time to time, there was also a cry of "whoa, whoa, whoa".

The twins, who don't like to talk much, also gathered tightly around Yaoguang and Meizi at this time, and it seemed that it would be much safer for everyone to squeeze together.

"What should I do?" Meizi's voice trembled.

Yaoguang is no better. Although I know that there are no beasts in this mountain for a long time, what if, what if another one escapes from nowhere?

"Boom...... Whew!"

Suddenly, a roar came, and the grass shook even more.

"Run!" Yaoguang suddenly felt a huge threat approaching, whispered, and ran out of the mountain first.

Meizi and the twins were also mobilized, and they used their strength to feed, chasing Yaoguang closely.

"Whew! Ge Laozi, there is a dirt pit here for Mao! There is also a clamp for Mao?

In the grass, the thunder beast lay on its stomach in a two-meter-deep dirt pit, speechless and asked the sky.