311. Clay pot graves
"Since Brother Lin can accept Wang Xifeng and Xiao Yuzi at the same time, will he still consider a third person?" For example, what about him, Bai Qingxing couldn't help but ask, even though he knew that it was impossible, there was a villain in his heart who surrounded him and asked to find out.
Even though I already have the answer in my heart, I still can't help but come here to ask, I don't know what An's heart is.
Lin Chaoge didn't know why he came here to ask, but he still replied patiently: "No, accept both of them at the same time, I already feel guilty about the two of them, if it is a third person, I don't think I need to face them, but directly commit suicide, when the time comes, it is not the two of them who are sorry, but the three of them are ashamed, the love in everyone's heart is limited, no matter how it is impossible to level a bowl of water, the balance in my heart will always tilt a little to somewhere." ”
"What's more, I was originally happy with Wang Xifeng, and later got along with Xiao Yuzi, who was already disloyal and unjust to him, but I can tell the position of the two of them in my heart, one is sincere, and the other is the love born because of guilt, I can still tell which is right and which is not, do you think I will be a very greedy person, after all, I am still enjoying the blessings of Qi people at the same time." Lin Chaoge smiled bitterly, and the words that had been pent up in his heart for a long time were said for the first time, like a breath of depression coiled in his chest and finally spit out.
"Besides, my heart is very small, so small that I can only pretend to be one person, but now it is inappropriate to pretend to be two people greedily, if there is one person, I don't think I can do it, not to mention where in the world there will be a man who is willing to share a man's grotesque things with two other men, and please Brother Bai Don't ask me about this topic in the future, so as not to increase dislike."
"But..." Bai Qingxing wanted to say something, but was hurriedly interrupted by Lin Chaoge; "Brother Bai, I'm sleepy, let's sleep peacefully."
"Okay, it's late at night, go to sleep." After listening to her words, Bai Qingxing felt indescribable in his heart, angry, embarrassed, and too sad, but he was still angry.
Why could he accept both of them at the same time, why not just himself, and he did not understand where his untargeted anger and jealousy came from.
"Good night." Lin Chaoge quietly pulled the brocade quilt over his head, and his mind was mixed.
In the early morning of the second day, the rain had stopped, except for a few small raindrops on the lake, a group of five people continued on the road, green mountains and green waters, morning birds flying in the forest, today's breeze is not dry, the warm sun is oblique, and a little cool breeze blows from time to time, they officially went out of the border of Zhengyang and went to the Great Zhou Dynasty.
"Do you think we can rush back to Chang'an in early July?" From the scenery of the yellow sand to the green and verdant, rolling mountains and rivers, Lin Chaoge was very happy in his heart, if it was better if there were two or three annoying words from time to time.
"Listen to the heavens."
While passing through a remote mountain village, Lin Chaoge and his party, who were about to rest at the foot of the mountain, saw a son dressed in patched clothes personally sending his 60-year-old mother into a turtle-shaped tomb, with stone bricks and mud bricks of different sizes scattered on the side, and a pair of wooden chopsticks stuck in a blue and white bowl next to it.
The skinny old man obviously still had red and swollen eyes on his face, and the same was true of the son who sent people in next to him, all of whom were ragged, and the sewing and seams were mended for three years, and he couldn't see a complete piece of good cloth at all, and even the color was so pulp that he couldn't see the original color.
Everyone was horrified in their hearts, too much was monstrous anger, how much madness does a child have to send his parents who are still alive to the grave, that act is simply like a beast.
"What are you doing?" Cha Ge, who was anxious and hot-hearted, was the first to see this situation, and immediately drove over to drive it away.
knocked the thin and short man to the ground, and picked up the old man who didn't know if he had already accepted his fate or his heart was like dead water.
Lin Chaoge, who was riding on a horse, looked at the mouth of the cave that was built on the hillside not far away, large enough to accommodate one person, and shaped like a tomb, and fell into deep thought.
There are many similar peach-shaped tombs scattered around, most of which are built with blue bricks, and some are built with stones. 'When a man reaches sixty, he is buried alive if he does not die'. It is said that it is the legendary "Huajia Tomb", also called "Clay Pot Tomb" and "Kiln Pot Tomb".
On the other side, Cha Ge tightened the collar of his clothes so that his feet were off the ground, and stared at him viciously; "What are you doing". The gripper's hand straightened up, he couldn't have imagined that someone would be so mad.
"She is the mother who gave birth to you and raised you, you are simply a beast, unworthy of being a child." Burst into red eyes and roared angrily.
"Adults spare their lives, there is really no way for the small family to do this, otherwise how could I send my mother in alive, and I am not a beast." The emaciated young man had long been frightened and wept bitterly, and the old man who lived in the tomb also wept, and his voice was hoarse and unpleasant.
"My lord, we are also so poor that our family can't open the pot and can't get by, and all this is brought up by me, everything has nothing to do with my son, if you want to beat me, don't beat my son." Knowing that his son was going to send him to the grave with his own hands, when his son had an accident, the first thing he thought about was not relief but uncomfortable, even more uncomfortable than he suffered all this.
Holding Cha Ge's thighs and crying heartbreakingly, it was even more tragic than being sent to the grave.
The most pitiful thing is the hearts of parents in the world.
"Okay, then explain what this is." Cha Ge clenched his teeth, and every word seemed to be squeezed out of his teeth.
The young man who had been violently and rudely thrown on the ground and the old man who was already living in the grave looked at each other.
Only then did he speak.
It was only then that they learned about the ugly custom of 'clay pot graves'.
It turned out that in their remote and backward village, if the children and grandchildren of the family did not have extra financial resources, they would place their parents who had reached the age of 60 in a pre-built clay pot grave outside the village or in the middle of the mountainside, deliver food once a day and add a brick, and after 365 days, the window of the tomb would be blocked, and then the old man would be buried, which can be said to be a cruel and inhumane way of burying the old man alive.
If the family is really difficult and has to send the old man to the clay pot grave, and he is a filial son, he will deliberately make the bricks in half, so that the cover of the bricks is half cut and half cut off, and the old man can survive for a relatively longer time, but for each other, it is a psychological contemplation.
In the prehistoric tribes, men and women weaved and were self-sufficient, but the old man meant that there was no labor, which meant that the family needed to prepare food for one more person, and the children of the old man already had their own children. In ancient times, it was important to pay attention to having more children and more blessings, don't look at just adding an extra piece of food for the elderly, which will also become a burden on children, especially in the case of low food production and wars in a certain year, the old people who do not have any labor force are completely redundant and burdensome for their children.
In ancient times, for various reasons, people's life expectancy was far less than now, the average life expectancy of men and women in the pre-Qin period was only more than thirty years, although later this number gradually increased, in the sixties has been considered very old, this is often the labor force they have often lost, which also makes many families poor children make unfilial decisions, some people will send their parents who are over sixty years old into the cave to achieve the large size, every day to deliver food, send a meal to seal a brick at the exit, over time the hole is also blocked, These old people will starve to death in the cave.
Lay a brick for each meal until the tomb is completely sealed, and the old man in the tomb can only wait to die in the dark and narrow tomb, and every time the next meal is a step closer to death, this kind of tomb is not inferior to burying the living in the tomb.
According to the records of Zunyi Fuzhi, this custom has been passed down since ancient times, and it has been repeatedly banned, and it can be seen everywhere on the mountain, and every time it rains heavily, this kind of tomb will be exposed to the ground.
During the Tang Dynasty, the transportation between China and foreign countries was developed, and a country in the Western Regions paid tribute to the emperor with an extra-large gourd. But the envoy gave the emperor a problem: it is not allowed to destroy the gourd, please tell me how many seeds are in the gourd? One day, the filial son of the family chatted with his father at the mouth of the "clay pot grave", and told the old man about the gourd. When Dad heard this, he said confidently: "It's very simple, 'Xihu Erzi', there are two seeds in it, you go and unveil the emperor's list." When the son unveiled the emperor's list, the foreign envoy was shocked, and it was indeed two grains when he opened it. The emperor asked him, "How do you know that there are only two seeds in such a big gourd?" He said that it was the answer that his father told him in the "crockpot grave". After hearing this, the emperor was greatly moved, it seems that the old man is still useful, so he issued an edict to abolish the burial custom of "clay pot tomb".
Lin Chaoge had only seen it in the wild history before, and he couldn't imagine that it really existed, and the wild history was as bizarre and cruel as what he saw with his own eyes.
Or even anger.
Even if the family is poor, an old man's rations can still be afforded, not to mention that in recent years, the wind and rain have been smooth, and the princes of various countries have long been war-free, as long as the good people who have registered for naturalization will be distributed by the government according to the population and labor force of the family, and even if they have no money to buy all kinds of crops, they can go to the yamen to register and receive them, and only need to hand over five-tenths of the harvest to the local yamen in that year.
It is completely more than enough to raise an old man with an elderly sixtieth birthday, and there is even wealth.
Lin Chaoge really couldn't imagine that such a wolf-hearted person could be a son of man, more of an old man who was sent to the grave by his own son to die, but spoke for him at the first time when his son was in danger.
Is it because the parents are not clear or they are too doting.