"Mother! Mother! I'm hungry! A little boy of about three years old was lying in his mother's arms and muttered quietly.

"Xiaobao, you sleep for a while, and we'll have something to eat when Daddy comes back." The mother, who was only in her twenties and looked to be in her thirties, stroked the child's face with her boring hand and said to the child.

In her twenties, she was just a child in Xu Ang's previous era, but here she is a mother, and she must fulfill her responsibilities as a mother, she has not eaten for several days, and her face is haggard, but this is not important, the important thing is the child who is now lying in his arms, she has been anxiously waiting for her husband to come back, hoping that when her husband comes back, he will bring medicine that can cure the child's illness and bring food that can fill his stomach.

The little boy looked at his mother and blinked, "Wait for Daddy to come back." He closed his eyes and continued to rest, and his breathing seemed to be even. The mother on the side saw that the child's face was a little ruddy, and she also breathed a sigh of relief.

"Peng!" At this time, there was the sound of the door opening in the hall. The child's mother hurriedly went over to take a look, and it turned out that the child's father had returned home.

"Xianggong! Did you bring any medicine? Xiaobao hasn't eaten for a day! The woman hurriedly said to her husband who entered the door

"There's no medicine, that's all there is to eat." He said helplessly to his wife.

The wife took the bag from her husband's hand, which contained about a pound of rice, and immediately understood in her heart that this was the ration for a family of three for ten days, shook her head, and said

"I'm going to cook, you look at Xiaobao."

He nodded, and walked over to the bedside to look after the sleeping child.

He really has no choice, by this time, all the relatives who can borrow have already been borrowed, plus he has no rich relatives, even if he has, no one dares to lend food to others now, no one knows how long the famine will last, save others or save himself? At least everyone will weigh it in their hearts.

Although the imperial court has disaster relief, but when it comes to his family, a family of three only has one pound of rice for ten days, how can this not make him feel desperate? But now the only way he can do is these relief from the imperial court. He was even very grateful in his heart, if it weren't for the imperial court, his family would have starved to death, and it was a gift from the imperial court to live until now, and he had not made any contribution to the emperor, but when the catastrophe came, it was the emperor who was distributing food and helping himself.

He has also heard a lot of rumors, some people say that everyone in the court can have eight catties of rice per month, and they are all greedy for ink by the hateful corrupt officials!

As for these words, he didn't believe it when he heard it before, as an ordinary person, the biggest official he usually saw was the lieutenant chief, and when he received food today, the lieutenant chief was dressed the same as us, not at all as gorgeous as Huang Yuanwai. If you are corrupt, where will you wear clothes with patches? These people! It must be made up, if the grain issued by the emperor is embezzled, it is a matter of cutting off the head, it must be made up.

And now he seems to believe that what others say is true, and life has become more and more difficult in the past six months, although the food distributed by the imperial court every month has not decreased, and now it is impossible to borrow food, and it is no longer possible to live with less than three catties of food per month, and now there is a lack of food and medicine, and the child is also sick.

Half a year ago, someone had secretly sent a message back from other places, saying that there were special disaster relief places in the south and SD that had not been affected by the disaster, and all the victims of the disaster could eat eighty percent of the food in the past. It's just that these are some gossip, I don't know where there is such a place? If you leave your place without permission and there is no guide, it will be dangerous to be caught, so let's wait and see.

"Hungry!" The child lying on the bed woke up at this time and muttered again

"Xiaobao, don't worry, my mother is cooking, just wait." He stepped forward and said to the child

"Daddy hug." When he saw that it was his father, the child was overjoyed. There was some redness on the pale face.

"Okay! Daddy hug! He took the quilt covering the child and carefully picked up Xiaobao. Looking at the boneless child leaning on his arms, he blamed himself so much that he wanted to kill himself. While teasing Xiaobao, he told him a story.

Xiaobao is only three years old, he learned to speak a year ago, and now he is not speaking very well because of the drought! Because of this damn drought! Three-year-old Xiaobao is now only fifteen pounds! Only bones can be seen all over the body, and when the famine passes, I will definitely give Xiaobao the best thing to eat! Maybe I can buy Xiaobao a lot of rock sugar gourds!

"Water! Daddy, I want to drink water. After a while, Xiaobao said to him.

"Okay! Wait a minute, Dad, I'll pour you water. ”

"Wait a minute, Daddy will tell me a story." Seeing his father go to pour water for himself, Xiaobao told him again

When he returned to the bedroom with a bowl of water, picked up Xiaobao and prepared to feed him water, he found that Xiaobao had fallen asleep again, and couldn't help but smile again, picked up Xiaobao and put the bowl of water on Xiaobao's mouth and quietly fed him water to drink, the water did not enter his throat, but just flowed down Xiaobao's lips, he was a little panicked, he reached out and put his finger on Xiaobao's nose, and then the whole person froze.

……

"Xianggong! When the porridge was cooked, I put a little more wild vegetables for us to eat. His wife came in with a bowl and said to him

"Don't hold Xiaobao to tell stories, give it to me, I'll feed him!" Seeing where the husband kept telling the story with the child in his arms, the wife stepped forward to take the child. Walking up to him, she saw her husband's face full of tears while holding the child

"Little Treasure !!" A poignant sound pierced the silent village.

……

Xiaobao left this world, and a month later, his wife became ill and lacked food and clothing, and finally left this world. He buried his wife and Xiaobao together, from sunrise to sunset, he couldn't shed a single tear, just sat in front of the grave like that, as if he should always be here. It seems that it should always be here in the future. It wasn't until two days later that he was rescued by an old monk passing by.

He was twenty years old this year and had already experienced two worlds. From then on, he studied literacy with his master in the temple and specialized in Buddhism, and he thought that he would never have any worries in his life, and he would no longer have any contact with the world, but one day, he met a blonde and blue-eyed Fanbang man.

At first, he wanted to let the people of Fanbang take refuge in my Buddha, but what he didn't expect was that these people were also foreign preachers, and in the end! Neither of them convinced anyone, and his world changed from then on! The world that had passed away with Xiaobao and his wife resurfaced in the dream again, and appeared again and again. Let him understand that he did not die with his children and wife when he was twenty years old!

It turns out that he is no different from the emperor! The prince and general Xiangning have a kind of sentence that is not just a sentence of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, in a distant country, it is not only the emperor who is carried by Fengtian, but all the people of this country!

After months of thinking about sleeping and forgetting to eat, he finally realized! From this moment on, Qingzhong Ancient Temple can no longer accommodate his heart, and from this moment on, he will embark on a journey that no one has walked! Maybe that's what he's doing! Because the Buddha also once said - if I don't go to hell, who will go to hell?

Today, twenty-three years have passed! Twenty-three years is enough time for a baby to become a father, enough for a father to become a grandfather. And when these twenty-three years have passed, the young man who lost his son and wife has become the world-famous and wanted by the imperial court - Li Yi.