Chapter 10: Human Tragedy
When he saw the demeanor of the sneak attacker clearly, King Li Chuang couldn't help twitching the corners of his mouth, and he couldn't help crying or laughing.
The attacker was a man in his forties, skinny, full of vegetables, dressed in shabby clothes and black, and he could not see his original color at all, and when he got up, he clearly felt that his right foot was still lame.
"Grandpa Hao, spare your life!" The sneak attack failed, and he was afraid that the hero would be held accountable, so the man kowtowed desperately, knocking his entire forehead red, but fortunately he was kneeling on the mud ground, otherwise his head would have broken and bleeding.
"Daddy!"
A thin and rugged girl ran out of the broken house where the man launched the sneak attack, shouting and crawling in front of the sneak attacker, blocking the man with her weak body, and staring at King Li Chuang tightly with a pair of eyes that were scary because of her emaciation, and her eyes full of fear revealed a resolute look.
"Ahem, ahem!" King Li Chuang didn't know what to say, touched his nose, coughed a few times in embarrassment, and then pretended to be fierce and teased, "Dare to plot behind your back, this is a good man, grandfather, you are bold enough!" “
King Li Chuang felt that he was not domineering enough, and he slammed into his nose again, "Hmm...."
"What kind of man are you bullying a madman!" may feel that King Li Chuang is not really terrible, the girl's eyes are still staring at King Li Chuang, and she boldly asks loudly, "What kind of ability is this!" “
"Crazy! You say he's crazy? King Li Chuang was stunned.
"Woo!" Big tears rolled down from the girl's big eyes, "I wasn't crazy before, I was crazy a few days ago, woo wow~~~~~~"
Before she could say a word, the girl's crying became louder and louder, probably thinking of something, her voice became more and more sad, and she simply began to cry in the back.
This conversation can't go on, seeing the sadness of the girl crying, King Li Chuang didn't know what to do.
"Alright, forget it!" King Li Chuang waved his hand, turned around and prepared to leave.
Seeing this, the man hurriedly knelt down to catch up, and kept kowtowing, "Ask Grandpa Haohan to be okay, give me something to eat!" ”
"Oh!" King Li Chuang turned around and said a little angrily, "You still have to eat, you're not crazy!" ”
Seeing this, the girl stopped crying, and hurriedly explained with a choked voice: "My father's madness will be good for a while, and he will be crazy for a while, even if it is good, it is not as good as before, woo~~"
As soon as she finished speaking, the corners of the girl's mouth flattened, and she seemed to be about to cry again.
"Slowly, slowly!" King Li Chuang felt that his head was a little big, and he pressed his hand to stop the girl from crying, and then looked at the man and said, "You are plotting that I am just for the food in my package?" ”
"Grandpa Hao, don't dare, don't dare!" When the man heard this, he was so frightened that he hurriedly kowtowed again.
"Come on, come on, I'm going to figure this out." King Li Chuang squatted down and stared at the girl.
The girl slowly stood up at this moment, helped the man to stand up too, limped towards the broken house, and said, "Good man, go to the house and drink saliva, I'll tell you." ”
"Just go, I'm afraid you won't make it!" King Li Chuang strode towards the house.
Before he entered the house, he smelled a foul smell, and King Li Chuang waved his hand while looking at the house.
The wall of the ashes, the ground of the ashes, the haystacks of the ashes, the people of the ashes.
This dilapidated house is really broken, the grass on the low roof is broken, the rain a few days ago, the ground is still wet, and there seems to be a gray woman lying on the grass pile in the corner of the wall.
"Hero, please drink water!" After the girl helped the man to the haystack and sat down, she took out a broken tile bowl from the house and held it in front of King Li Chuang with both hands.
King Li Chuang looked at the broken water, waved and said, "No need, now you can tell me!" ”
"Good man, here's the thing" Despite her sad expression, the girl didn't cry now, and her words were quite clear.
This place is called Xujialing, belongs to the lower Quyang County of Julu County, most of the people in the village are surnamed Xu, the ancestors in order to escape the famine, fled from Shanxi to Langya County, and fled all the way from Langya County to Li, so that they have a foothold.
The man is also surnamed Xu Zhengchang, a person who has been building and for three years, he used to be a scribe, in fact, this so-called scribe, that is, he knows a few words more than the surrounding farmers, and when he was two years old, it was about five years ago, because he had to pay taxes and went to the mountains to collect medicine, but he broke his right foot, and he had no money to treat it, and since then he has fallen ill and become lame.
The woman lying in the haystack and dying is the man's wife, surnamed Jia, a native of Guzang, Liangzhou, and the girl's mother.
The girl's name is Xu Yulin, and she is thirteen cardamom years old this year.
Originally, although the people on Xujialing lived in poverty, they could still survive with a little saving. However, last year, there was a great chaos in the Jizhou area, and the officers and soldiers fought like a tug-of-war with the Yellow Turbans, which affected the fish pond, and all the grain on the entire Xujialing was looted, and the people were almost dead.
There is no food, and it is winter again, and the living people on Xujialing have to pick up the bark and dig up the grass roots, and finally suffer until the spring.
Originally, Xu Yulin also had a younger brother, more than two years old, because Xu Zhengchang was born in the third year of Jianhe, that year was the year of Yichou, which belonged to the cow, so he gave the child a nickname called Xiaoniu, hoping that the child could grow strong like an oak calf.
However, a few days ago, Xu Zhengchang's family, who had been out of food for ten days, really had no choice, and the calf was hungry with only one breath left, Mrs. Jia was afraid that Xu Zhengchang was unwilling, so she fell asleep in the middle of the night, and secretly exchanged children with others as rations.
Early the next morning, Xu Zhengchang, who was hungry and had green eyes, woke up, saw that there was food, and didn't think much, picked it up and ate, and remembered the calf after eating a few bites, and hurriedly called the calf to get up and eat meat, and shouted for a long time without seeing the sound of the calf.
At that time, Xu Zhengchang was like crazy, he got up and ran to the neighbor's house, so what else could he do, the neighbor was also hungry, and when Xu Zhengchang ran, the calf had already entered the stomach.
Xu Zhengchang's eyes suddenly turned white, and he fell to the ground in a daze, Xu Yulin and Mrs. Jia took a lot of effort to carry Xu Zhengchang back.
Since then, Xu Zhengchang has been crazy, and sometimes shouts gloomily, "The little cow is playful, why don't you come back." “
Sometimes they will babble nonsense, "The yellow turban will not be extinguished, the yellow sky will not die", "The holy river is endless, the yellow turban will not be extinguished", etc., every time she shouted this, Mrs. Jia asked Xu Yulin to desperately cover Xu Zhengchang's mouth and drag it back.
Two days ago, just after Xu Zhengchang shouted for the third time to ask the calf to come back, Mrs. Jia was sad and fell down. Until now, there is only an outgas, no intake, and it looks like it is about to go down to take the calf.