Chapter 4: Cannibalism

Following Zhao Gou'er, he walked out of Lixu Road, and a village appeared in front of him. The village is not large, there are about twenty or thirty houses, most of them are adobe walls, thatched roofs, dilapidated, occasionally one or two brick houses, although they do not catch up with the standard of poor households in the rural areas of later generations, but they are already standing out from the crowd.

When the villagers saw outsiders, they went out to take a look if they were curious, but there were very few such people, and more people had numb eyes and no reaction to his arrival, and their empty eyes seemed to have lost interest in Yiqiē. Maybe they think that the monk appeared in the village at this time and came to make a fortune, this year, I can't live until tomorrow, how can I have more food and food with you! Even Wu Wei felt it, there were a few eyes looking at him in the shadows that seemed to be a little ill-intentioned, he clenched the short knife in his hand, straightened his chest, and his tall body looked majestic in the sun, and suddenly he felt those few eyes shrink back.

Zhao Gou'er's home is not far from the entrance of the village and is the most common thatched house in the village. The door frame was low, only about one meter and six, and the dog was not tall, so I saw him shouting happily: "Mother, I'm back." After speaking, he pulled Wu Wei and got into it first.

Wu Wei hesitated, lowered his head, and followed Zhao Gou'er into the door. I saw that the furnishings in the house were dilapidated, emitting a mixed smell of musty smell and traditional Chinese medicine, and a middle-aged couple sat and lay down, all of them were the same as the villagers they saw, their faces were gray and skinny. The woman reclined on the bed, holding in her arms a toddler who appeared to be only about two years old, with a head surprisingly large compared to her body, her skin as gray as death, and a handful of bones thin. The middle-aged man sat on a wooden pestle at the head of the bed, holding a notched coarse porcelain bowl, as if he was trying to persuade the woman, who was just crying. Seeing Wu Wei coming in, both of them were taken aback.

Zhao Gou'er hurriedly said: "Dad, mother, this is Brother Wu, he is a good person." Then he lowered his voice and said, "Brother Wu gave me a lot of food and water!" As he spoke, he took out the food in his arms one by one and put it on the table.

The two of them were stunned to see the abundance of food on the table, and the dog father hurriedly got up and closed the hut door tightly. turned around and pulled up the dog, knelt down and kowtowed to Wu Wei together, and the dog mother also struggled to get up. Wu Wei hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop the dog's mother, and waved his hand to the dog's father and son, learning to do it on TV: "Some small things, why do you need to be like this." After all, he couldn't resist the dog's father, and the father and son kowtowed several times on the ground.

The two kowtowed, stood up, and the dog's father respectfully invited Wu Wei to sit down, in fact, it was the wooden pestle just now, which was also one of the few pieces of furniture in the house, and Zhang Luo wanted to serve tea to Wu Wei. Wu Wei hurriedly said: "No need to be polite, uncle, please sit down, I first came to your land, there are still things unclear, and I hope to give advice." He was now desperate to find out what was going on.

Suddenly, I heard the dog say: "Hey, where is the big girl, why don't you see the big girl?" I saw the dog's father twist his head to the side and say nothing, and the dog's mother began to cry again.

Hearing this, Wu Wei stood up suddenly and said, "What's the matter?" The dog cried, "The big girl is my sister...... My family couldn't pay the rent, so the leper Li who killed her that day dragged her to ......"

The dog's father muttered, "Your mother has been sick for so long, and everything in the house is exhausted...... From the first month of the year to the end of August, there was no rain, the fields were confiscated, the levies were not spared, and several families in the village were already dead...... If it doesn't rain again, our family will be the same sooner or later...... The eldest girl left with Li Lezi, that was her life, it was better than starving to death with us......" The more she spoke, the lower her voice became, and finally she choked up.

The plight of the peasants here is so miserable! Wu Wei's impression of the end of the Ming Dynasty is still stuck in film and television dramas or textbooks, and he knows that the Ming Dynasty perished because the peasants couldn't survive and rebelled, but he didn't know that the real history was so tragic. Instantly, Wu Wei felt that the hairs on his neck stood up.

"How long has the big girl been gone?" Wu Wei said in a deep voice. The dog mother stopped crying, looked at him hesitantly, and said, "Go to the north avenue of the village, you walked for half an hour before you came back......"

"Let's go! Go save people! Wu Wei picked up his backpack, pulled up the dog and walked out the door, the dog jumped three feet high, "Okay!" Wait a minute. As he spoke, he took out a rusty firewood knife out of nowhere, and followed Wu Wei to rush out of the door. The dog's father didn't hold the placket of the dog's clothes, and when they chased them out, the two of them had gone far away. The dog's father muttered, "How good is this, how good is this......"

The dog was familiar with the road, and he and Wu Wei chased the two to the road. After chasing him for about 4 or 5 miles, he saw a straw hut on the side of the road from a distance, and there seemed to be people inside, and he faintly heard screams and pleading. Wu Wei did not hesitate, grasped the black steel knife of Yingjisha, bullied forward, roared, and kicked the hidden grass door open, only to see that the scene in the grass shed was tearful.

There was a fire burning in the middle of the hut, and a clay jar with notched edges was erected on a few stones, and the water in the clay jar had begun to bubble.

Six skinny men formed a circle, and in the middle was a thin little girl with a whole body tied to the ground, with yellow hair and about seven or eight years old. A man was about to stick a sharp knife into the girl's throat, and one man held a broken bowl to the girl's neck, ready to catch the blood, while the others held the girl down so that she could not struggle.

The grass gate was kicked away, everyone was shocked, and they all looked at the door, and when they saw Wu Zhao and the others, they were all stunned, and the man with the knife also stopped. I only heard the dog's anxious voice: "Big girl, brother is here to save you, you make a sound!" When the girl heard the voice, she struggled even harder, and cried: "Brother save me, the bad guys want to eat me!"

Wu Wei threw the backpack on the ground, pointed at the man with the knife at the head with a short knife, and shouted: "You are so bold, you dare to eat people!" Aren't you afraid of the government killing your head? ”

Everyone glanced at each other, still with a numb expression on their faces, and the man with the knife at the head said suddenly: "If you don't eat her, will you eat you?" Without this piece of fresh meat, everyone can't get by today, and it doesn't matter if he kills his head or not. When the official came, Lao Tzu even ate with him. ”

He said, "Since you two are here, just wait for a while, the water has boiled, and you can get out of the pot immediately." Wait a minute, and get a piece of the pie. After saying that, everyone laughed, but they didn't have any strength in their bodies, and the laughter quietly stopped after a few clicks.

Wu Wei was furious and said: "The same kind of cannibalism, ** don't do it." You just want to eat, you don't have to kill, I'll give you food, can you let this girl go? ”

The dog felt that it was wrong, and it was too late to be reminded, so he hurriedly pulled Wu Wei to retreat to the gate of the grass shed.

When the person at the head heard Wu Wei say this, his eyes were full of greed, and he slowly stood up, and the other five people also got up and surrounded Zhao and Wu, and the dog hurriedly pulled Wu Wei out of the door, and the two of them withdrew a few feet away before standing still. I saw that the men did not chase after them, and the men led by them opened Wu Wei's backpack and shook everything inside to the ground. Wu Wei saw that the painting was also shaken out, and he was very anxious, if this painting was damaged, he would never be able to go back. hurriedly took two steps closer and said, "All this food will be given to you, and you will let the girl go." The backpack and the painting were returned to me. ”

Unexpectedly, the leader saw that the things in the backpack were extraordinary, and he suspected that he was the son of a big family in the city, and secretly thought to himself, if he let the two go, he was afraid that there would be trouble, so he immediately became murderous, gave the other two a look, stood up, snorted, and said: "That's natural." While slowly walking towards Wu Wei. Wu Wei hurriedly said: "Don't come over again, release the girl quickly." When the man heard this, he suddenly burst out and swung his knife at Wu Wei, and the other two also left and right, wanting to outflank Wu Wei back and forth. The other three would also be happy and quickly approach the dog.

Wu Wei has only been less than two hours since he crossed from modern society to this chaotic era at the end of the Ming Dynasty, although he has also made some preparations, such as a black steel short knife for self-defense, and a Kevlar level 5 stab-proof vest purchased online on Taobao, but he would never have thought that he would encounter such a dangerous situation, so he hurriedly retreated and raised the knife in his right hand to resist. I only heard a muffled sound of "poof", the two knives intersected, such as defeat, the sharp knife in the man's hand was cut off by the waist, and the short knife of Ingisha was extremely sharp, and the remaining momentum was undiminished, and it was inserted into the man's chest, until it reached the handle.

The shape changed abruptly, to the surprise of both parties, and the man muttered, "It's actually ...... ......Before he finished speaking, his body collapsed to the ground, and he died. Seeing that the person at the head was not Wu Weiyi's enemy, the other five people were shocked, turned around and fled into the grass hut, one of them used a broken bowl stubble against the throat of the big girl, and hissed: "The good man outside, do you still want this girl's life?" ”

Wu Wei inadvertently killed someone just now, and his heart was pounding, only to hear the dog rushing over and shouting: "Don't hurt my sister!" The girl burst into tears. Wu Wei approached the door of the grass hut, did not go in, and said in a deep voice: "Let the girl go, I will let you go." ”

The man with the bowl of stubble in his hand said: "Those who eat must be half of us, otherwise they will generally die, so let this girl accompany us." It turned out that although they were invincible, they did not flee far away, because they were reluctant to give up the food on the ground, which was unexpected by Wu Wei. This food is worth nothing to these people, but it is not worth it to them. Wu Wei nodded and said, "Okay, you let the people go, just take half of the things on the ground, and leave the backpack and paintings." ”

Everyone looked at each other, all of them were happy, Xu didn't expect it to be so easy, usually for a half of the nest of dough cake have to take their lives to fight, Wu Wei has a lot of food in the backpack, even if only half of it, five people divide it, each person gets quite a lot, everyone in their hearts will be Wu Wei identified as either rich or expensive, the person who is the leader is unlucky, and he is kicked to the iron plate.

I heard the man just now say in a trembling voice: "You have to lie to us?" Wu Wei said proudly: "A gentleman's word, the horse is difficult to chase!" Everyone understands this sentence. One of them took off his filthy rags, and came down to pick up the food on the ground and put it on his back, but he kept his word, and stopped after taking only half of it, and tied it into a package and carried it on his back.

The man who took the broken bowl helped the big girl to stand up, and the bowl stubble was still against the big girl's neck, and he held the big girl together with another person. Everyone got out of the grass hut, grabbed the big girl and slowly retreated, and when they were ten feet away from Wu Wei and the others, the man pushed the big girl forward violently, and the five people turned around and fled, but they were weak and didn't run fast, if Wu Wei caught up at this time, at least a few could be cut down.

Wu Wei didn't chase after them, seeing them leave, the dog had already rushed forward, helped the eldest girl, untied the rope on her body, and the brother and sister hugged their heads and cried. Wu Wei saw that the surroundings were quite desolate, and he was worried that those people would call for helpers and go and return, so he hurriedly packed his backpack and urged the two of them to go on the road. I understand these few moments, I just killed a person by mistake and scared everyone away, it is really Amitabha, Bodhisattva bless, next time there may not be such good luck, or go back to Zhaojia Village first, I think those wicked people dare not chase the village.