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Yizhou Road in the west of the Great Song Dynasty is known as the Sichuan Basin.

The wide and long Minjiang River like a jade belt runs through the north and south of the western Sichuan Plain. "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" says: "Minsan River, the first big river, out of Wenshan." From the pre-Qin period to the present dynasty, people regarded it as the source of the Yangtze River. Therefore, although the Min River flows southward, it is still called by many literati - the great river goes east.

At this time, it is the peach blossom flood season, and the river water rushes down from the lofty mountains and mountains at the junction of Sichuan and Gansu, and it seems that there is a danger of rushing thousands of miles and rushing in all directions at any time. However, with Dujiangyan, the fierce and wild river water magically turns into a bubbling clear stream, nourishing the land in the middle of the river. Since then, the land of Bashu, which was characterized by drought and flood, has become a country of abundance where people are affected by floods and droughts, and they do not know hunger.

Therefore, some people say that the most reliable project in China is not the Great Wall, but Dujiangyan. After the birth of a thousand years, the Han people have lost the protection of the Great Wall, but the people of central Sichuan still enjoy the blessing of Dujiangyan, there are thousands of miles of fertile fields, mountains, forests, bamboos and trees, vegetables and fruits, there are rice, fish and shrimp, everywhere there is the joy of the people, and there is no worry about the fierce year, all from its blessings.

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In March, I went south to Chengdu for one hundred and eighty miles outside Qingshen County. A mountain, a ridge, the ravine is deep, the smoke and clouds are around, all the green bamboo is all over, and the green is stacked and green. The spring breeze blows, the green waves rise and fall, thousands of bamboos become waves, Luo Yan changes, and the weather is thousands, so that the audience forgets the humiliation and fascination, and floats like a fairy.

The well-known Shiwan Village is located in the bamboo forest all over the mountains, surrounded by green mountains, and there is a big lake in the east of the village, and the lake water is as clear as a mirror all year round.

Abundant bamboo, wood and water sources have made Shiwan Village have the conditions to burn bamboo charcoal. The Great Song Dynasty used charcoal in the north, that is, coal, and charcoal in the south, while Shu used more bamboo charcoal, which was burned with local giant bamboo, which was flammable, smokeless and durable, and was deeply loved by the residents in the city.

There are charcoal kilns scattered around the lake, which shows that the people here have lived up to the blessings of nature. In fact, the bamboo charcoal burned in this village is the top in the whole Zhuhai, not only in the county seat, in Meizhou City, but even Chengdu merchants come to purchase, naturally rich.

In such a paradise that seems to have nothing to do with sorrow, there is a faint low cry......

Searching carefully, the sound came from the largest kiln on the east side of the lake. It was the time of the lunch break, and the kiln was quiet, and the sound could be heard from a shack in the northwest corner.

This small arched shack, surrounded by bamboo rows and roofed with straw mats, is in disrepair, can only accommodate the body, does not shelter from the wind and rain, and forms a sharp contrast with the whitewashed and tiled buildings in the village.

Through the hidden door, you can see that there is no other furnishings except a bamboo board that serves as a bed, and of course there is no houseware. A skinny boy was lying on a bamboo plank, covered with a thin sheet, his eyes closed and his face pale.

There were two boys, one older and one young, kneeling on the edge of the couch. The big one looked about the same as the lying one, clutching his hand tightly. The little one is only three or four years old, and he only knows how to lie there crying, and while crying, he repeatedly said in the official dialect with Shu Yin: "Third brother wake up, Xiaoliu won't eat cooking cakes......"

He couldn't stop crying, and the other boy's heart was cut like a knife, and tears rolled in his eyes, and he used all his strength to grasp the hand, as if he were afraid that the lying man would disappear.

It didn't matter, and a faint cry of pain was heard, and the eyes of the two children widened.

After waiting for a while, the one on the bed finally slowly opened his eyes, and after Hitomi slowly focused, he looked at the two children and couldn't help laughing. Although he was weak and weak, he was still overjoyed: "Who is so unconcerned, thinking that he is the Bull Demon King, and he makes the child into a child, cough cough, red child?" ”

His accent was weird, and he spoke vaguely, the two children didn't understand, but they didn't care, the little one pounced on him, hugged his neck and rubbed and said: "Third brother, are you ......awake?" The big one no longer looked bitter and hateful, and laughed while wiping his tears, and said angrily: "Third brother, you scared us to death." ”

The one who was lying down, although he also listened hard, but the sentence was simple and could be understood, and he widened his eyes and said, "You...... What do you call me? As he spoke, he slowly raised his hand and separated the child who was rubbing on his cheeks and said, "Little friend, you should use a handkerchief to wipe your nose, not your uncle's face......"

Before he finished speaking, he was stunned for a moment, because with this gesture, he saw a wrist like a reed stick. Frightened, he looked down his wrist, his wrist connected to his forearm, his forearm to his big arm, and then his body......

Hell, what kind of arm is this that an adult should have, could it be that he was eaten into a skeleton by a water ghost after falling into the water? The terrifying feeling spread all over his body, he reached out and touched his chin, smooth as an egg, and then down, there was no Adam's apple, and further down, the bird was hairless...... At this moment, the whole person was completely stunned.

The two children were also stupid, watching him lie there and touch himself as if he was possessed, and they didn't dare to gasp. Then he saw that he was struggling to get up, and the older child hurried over to help him. After all, he was young, and he didn't know what to say, so he looked at him in a daze.

"Don't look at it yourself, where there is a mirror, I will look at it too." He looked at this honest child with a bare head and a short pigtail on each side of his head, but he felt quite kind.

"Third brother does he have to ask for a bronze mirror?" The child even guessed, and when he saw him nodding, he said gloomily: "The eldest lady will definitely not give it......"

"Okay, okay......" He stopped talking to the little kid, and slowly lay back and said, "Find your adult, it's the big lady......"

"Is it going to be?" The boy hesitated, obviously a little frightened by the big lady.

He doesn't ask for it now, this kid speaks well, it seems that people have such an accent. So I quickly calmed down...... The current situation is too weird, until you figure out the situation, it's better not to make a noise: "Forget it, let me be quiet for a while." ”

The two children obediently closed their mouths, squatted on the edge of the couch honestly, and gave him peace.

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Quieting down, he began to sort out his thoughts...... I was exercising in the morning by the river, but I didn't know that a van fell into the water out of control, and I didn't know which tendon was wrong at that time, so I jumped off without thinking about it. I also forgot to save a few people, anyway, in the end, I was exhausted, choked on water, sank, and then fell unconscious.

Why did you wake up and go from 'three' to a pre-adolescent hairy child? What's going on? It doesn't make sense at all! The more he thought about it, the more he had a headache, and the pain became worse and worse, as if it was about to crack! When the pain was extreme, there was a bang, and the skull seemed to really crack, and some memories that obviously did not belong to him poured in from all directions like a tide, and it was dark in front of him, and he fainted again.

When he woke up again, it was already dark, and it was dark in the shack, but he didn't care, because the darkness was just enough to hide the horror on his face...... In his mind, there was a memory of an ancient ten-year-old child.

In my memory, the child's surname is Chen, he has a father but no mother, and four brothers...... The two in front of him are his two younger brothers, the eldest is called Gorou, and the younger one is called Rokuro. The reason why it sounds a little messy is because in this era, uncles and brothers are ranked together. His father has two brothers, and the two have a total of six sons, from the oldest to the youngest.

His name is San Lang, and he has a biological eldest brother, Chen Erlang, who began to study in the county seat last year. As for the child's father, the second eldest of the Chen family, he was a scholar, and it was the year of Dabi, so he traveled around in the same year, leaving the child and his two younger brothers at home......

Obviously, this shack is not Chen Laoer's home, Chen Laoer's family is in the village and has a very spacious house. To be precise, it is the common home of Boss Chen and Elder Chen, although the brothers have both married and had children, and they have lost their concubines over the years, but they have not separated.

The Chen family made a fortune by burning bamboo charcoal, and has the largest charcoal burning field in Shiwan Village, although it is not very rich, but the family has a pair of rough maids, and there are more than a dozen hired workers in the factory, which is already the first in Shiwan Village.

But how did Chen Laoer's three children end up living in a shack in a charcoal burning field?

The ten-year-old child was simple-minded, and he only knew that as soon as his father left, their brother and his brother were driven here by the eldest mother. The older Saburo and Goro still have to work every day...... Charcoal burning requires a lot of water, and there was originally a waterwheel in the field, but it broke down in the spring, and the eldest mother did not find anyone to repair it, so she asked his brothers to draw water together, and they had to carry enough water every day to give them dinner.

The ten-year-old child, even if he tried to feed milk, could not provide water, but fortunately, the hired workers saw that the brothers were pitiful, so they took the time to help, and the three brothers could have food.

Even if someone helps, even if only one-third of each truckload of water is filled, it is still an overload of labor for two children about ten years old. Since the waterwheel broke down for more than a month now, the brothers have been coming over like this, no wonder Chen Wulang has a bitter hatred on his face......

But today, the eldest lady was unusual, and she didn't look back when she arrived at the scene, but supervised the work all morning. This was a bitter pain for the brothers, who began to draw and carry water in the morning, and worked for nearly two hours, all of them dizzy, and their hands and feet were weak. As a result, when he drew water for the last time, Saburo, who was weaker than his younger brother, fell into the water as soon as his feet were weak...... That was the child's last memory.

Why did everyone fall into the water, but they turned out to be very alive? Is it now that I am him, or is he me, or is he having me, and I am having him? This made him confused, and he probably couldn't figure it out for a hundred years.

He was an optimistic person after all, and decided to pretend to be this kid for the time being until he couldn't find a way, so as not to be thought of as a monster......