Chapter 4: Imagination under the Night Sky
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The old man who led the team looked at the sky that was getting dark, looked up and said, "Okay, let's stay here, everyone will get up tomorrow and hurry." ”
The refugees who had stopped walking began to stop, and the people, dressed in rags, with their faces covered in dirt and yellow hair, began to walk around, looking for the big trees, and then began to peel off the bark.
Some of them lay on the ground, dug up the weeds on the ground, and began to eat the grass roots.
Xiao Chuan looked at this scene a little blankly, and there was an indescribable feeling in his heart, the setting sun set off this group of people eating grass roots and tree bark.
They were dressed in rags, torn and dirty, dirtier than the beggars they had seen on the road, with yellow hair on their heads, dust on their faces, and eating grass roots and bark.
Xiao Chuan suddenly thought, why the butcher who raised the butcher's knife towards this nation can lay down this land, why the people here will revolt, obviously in the face of this foreign invasion, they will revolt, don't they love their country, but after seeing this group of people eating grass roots and bark, Xiao Chuan figured out that the Ming Dynasty has been terminally ill, years of disasters, abnormal weather, as well as party disputes in the imperial court, abnormal taxes, these reasons are the group of people in front of them who eat grass roots and bark.
Chen Xiangyi glanced at Xiaochuan next to him, looked at his sluggish expression, smiled helplessly, and said, "It's all this troubled world, it's all this natural and man-made disaster." ”
"Hey, brother, it's not as good as in the past, it's good to have bark and grass roots to eat, let's just take a look" After Wang Youcai finished speaking, he found a tree and began to buckle the bark.
"Let's go eat grass root bark too" Xiao Chuan's tone softened a little, did he also want to eat grass root bark? If you eat this, you can eat enough, but when you can't replenish your energy at all, you will definitely not survive in Shandong if you eat this.
and Chen Xiangyi came to the bottom of a big tree, looking at this stout uncle, and the smell of nature on the tree, which made him a little comfortable.
I remembered a paper I read in my last life, which said that in fact, tree bark is edible and nutritious, but it is unpalatable. Forget it, I'm a refugee anyway, and my life matters.
Next to her, Chen Xiangyi skillfully opened a piece of bark, brushed the dry part on it, and put it in her mouth to chew.
Xiao Chuan also put it in his mouth, and an indescribable bitter taste came, bitter and difficult to chew, Xiao Chuan scolded those corrupt officials who embezzled disaster relief food and wages 10,000 times at the moment, and said: ", it's this group of corrupt officials who kill a thousand knives, damn, if they don't embezzle, I won't use it here to gnaw on the bark." ”
"Luo Luo" heard Xiao Chuan scolding like this, Chen Xiangyi laughed, her heart was a lot easier, and said: "Seeing that your hands are so thin, there is not a single calloon, maybe your family is one of these officials." ”
"Go, no, if I were an official, I would still come to gnaw on this bark?" Xiao Chuan glanced at her, continued to eat the bark, and said with some curiosity: "Sister Xiangyi, you must have been the wife of a big family in the past."
"I" Chen Xiangyi said with a hint of nostalgia in her eyes: "I used to be just an ordinary peasant young woman, but then there was a famine, my husband's family starved to death, and I also came out to flee." ”
Oh, the young peasant woman, looking at her white and tender hands, Xiao Chuan didn't believe that she was a peasant young woman, but she didn't want to say, and Xiao Chuan didn't want to ask.
Xiao Chuan noticed the pair of brothers, the younger brother kept coughing, as if he had some internal injuries in his body, but the elder brother was helping the younger brother to pick up the grass roots, Xiao Chuan looked at them a little strangely, why did this younger brother look like he was injured?
"Let's go to sleep when you're full of food and drink, Xiaochuan," Wang Youcai pushed Xiaochuan down and smiled, and after speaking, he found a big tree under himself and began to sleep.
The refugees finished eating the bark of the grass roots and began to fall asleep on the ground.
Under a bright moon was a group of people who fell to the ground and began to sleep.
Xiaochuan just wanted to talk to Wang Youcai and ask him about some things in the Ming Dynasty, but he didn't think that this guy was already asleep, and he was snoring.
Chen Xiangyi found a bigger poplar tree, and sat down slowly with some difficulty, Xiao Chuan hurriedly walked over and held her arm, her body that looked a little plump was the lightness of the wind field, and Xiao Chuan was not very difficult to help up.
"Thank you" Chen Xiangyi leaned against the big tree and wiped the mud off her face, her face full of mud looked very scary in the moonlight.
Xiao Chuan also leaned against the poplar tree, looking at Chen Xiangyi on the side, Xiao Chuan was looking at a face that looked full of mud, looking at her facial features, Xiao Chuan could judge from her facial features in the sludge, as well as the snow-white neck, that this face covered with sludge must be a face that captivates the country and the city.
"Why Xiaochuan, do you think I'm ugly and scary?" Chen Xiangyi laughed at herself a little, her big eyes looking at the stars in the sky with a hint of confusion.
"No, you have a face covered in mud that can fool others but you can't fool me, you must be a big beauty." Ogawa said confidently.
"What if it's a beauty, I don't know what the disaster is, the slave family would rather be born with the posture of a willow, if that happens, there won't be so many disasters" Chen Xiangyi seemed to remember something bad in the past, a trace of sadness flowed out of her eyes, and her legs were also puffed up.
Looking at Chen Xiangyi's sad appearance, she must have recalled some bad memories of the past, Xiaochuan patted her shoulder and said, "It's okay, the past has passed, isn't it, and there will be the future."
"Hey, Childe, you and I are already refugees, whether we can survive or not, how can we come in the future" Chen Xiangyi's eyes were full of sadness, looking at the stars in the sky, her face was full of bitterness, and said: "Even if you can escape this catastrophe, what if you get to a safe place, a slave woman is an ominous person, how to live"
"It's okay sister, you can follow me in the future" Xiaochuan looked at her sad and complaining appearance, remembering that she saved herself, and she would help her in the future, and said, "Sister in the future, you follow me, I will support you"
"Childe is a scholar, how can you be with a woman like me" Chen Xiangyi had a trace of inferiority in her eyes, and she hugged herself with her slender arms, looking a little helpless.
Xiao Chuan hugged her tightly and said, "What do you call a woman like you, you are the kindest and most beautiful woman I have ever seen, Xiangyi"
"Then let the slave family be a slave maid for you, you can't abandon the slave family" A trace of joy appeared in Chen Xiangyi's eyes, feeling Xiaochuan's embrace.
"What slave, you are my family, friend" Xiao Chuan was a little angry, for this kind of ancient feudal woman, this kind of inferiority complex thought, Xiao Chuan was a little helpless, and said: "You are a family member." ”
"No, the slave family will be very content to be your slave in the future" Chen Xiangyi snuggled in Xiaochuan's arms.
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The first heroine Chen Xiangyi appeared, hehe, do you want to know her mysterious background? If you want Pig's Feet to accept her, then vote.
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