Chapter 6: The Death of Both Parents
The county soldiers arrived three days later—if the Goguryeo people insisted on not retreating, it is estimated that the county town would be slaughtered seven or eight times in the past few days—and then Shi Gongzi planned to follow the county soldiers back to the county to govern Korea. Before leaving, he called Ah Fei and said to him: "You have saved the life of so-and-so, and so-and-so will never forget it—but archery skills still need to be honed." ”
Ah Fei blushed and made a reason for himself: "This ...... It's that the bow is too soft, and the arrows are not well maintained......"
In fact, the day after the Goguryeo people retreated, the old king next door pulled him and planned to return to Qian'ao, but Ah Fei was afraid that there were Yikou's rangers outside the city on the one hand, and it was too dangerous to leave the city now, and on the other hand, there was also hope for what happened.
After listening to the argument at the moment, Shi Gongzi smiled indifferently - he has now returned to the image of the calm and calm Pianpian Jiagongzi when he first met, and he is no longer the embarrassed appearance when he planned to run away from the south gate in the dark sky - pointing to the old bow that Ah Fei refused to leave for a moment: "It's a pity that there is no good bow in the county, so I will give this bow to you for the time being. ”
Don't! Ah Fei shouted in his heart, do you think you can send me away with a broken bow? And this is not your own property, how stingy you have to be to come up with this poisonous plan of borrowing flowers to offer Buddha!
But fortunately, Shi Gongzi still has a later word: "I don't have much money around him, but if I have a promise, I will not break my promise." Leave a few words, if you have time, come to North Korea and ask for my payment. ”
As he spoke, he wanted to write pen and ink and a piece of bamboo, and write down a neat column of Han Li: "Beihai Clan's Reward for Yimin A Fei......"
Ah Fei watched him write from the side, and then suddenly realized that Shi Gongzi was not surnamed Shi...... No, it's not Shi Gongzi at all, but it should be the son of the clan, saying that this surname is rare enough, and it also marks his hometown Qingzhou Beihai County in front of the name, it seems that this family has some origins. It stands to reason that the amount of remuneration should be written later, Ah Fei kept shouting in his heart: "Ten thousand taels of gold!" Ten thousand taels of gold! Wrong...... In this kind of remote place, even if the head snake doesn't have so much money, it's still a hundred taels of gold, and I can barely admit that I have suffered a loss if there are a hundred taels. ”
Who would have thought that the next prince would write: "...... The reward for the people is one hundred and fifty dollars, and this is the basis. ”
I'll go! I only gave one hundred and fifty dollars, and there are still zeros! It turns out that your little life is only worth more than a hundred big sons! How stingy you must be! Ah Fei almost pounced on it, snatched the bamboo piece and opened a chrysanthemum for his son.
Of course, he didn't have the guts, and to be honest, for a low-level ** like him who may not be able to see a penny all year round, one hundred and fifty yuan is already a huge fortune. Although Ah Fei didn't know the price situation in this place at this time, he estimated that at least it would be enough for their family of three to eat a whole year's full chaff.
Later, he left the county seat with this piece of bamboo, and the old Wang next door followed behind, and kept asking how much the prince had paid, but the "one hundred and fifty yuan" had just been exported, and the eyes of the old Wang were wrong, and the waist was bent, and the hand unconsciously ran to a stone on the side of the road.
Ah Fei was going to go home to say hello and go out of the mountains to North Korea, no matter how much he didn't look at the hundred and fifty yuan, for him at this time, let him drill the crotch of his pants he was reluctant (kěn) strong (dìng) to do it. And he began to think that if he lived in that poor ravine for the rest of his life, he would definitely suffocate if he did not starve to death, and as this new body gradually grew, he would need to solve physical problems......
You should go back and ask your father, how did he deceive a woman with relatively sound limbs in his super low-level conditions?
Therefore, he considered whether to take this opportunity to set up a magnetism with his son, and simply go to his house as a slave. Although theoretically speaking, the peasants are free men, and the slaves have no personal freedom, but when the stomach is still full, the devil expects any freedom.
However, when he returned home, he saw a chilling scene - the so-called home only had three earthen walls, and one side was sheltered from the wind and rain with bundles of firewood......
Ah Fei's eyes widened, and he rushed into the house quickly, and then he saw that Yiren's parents were all lying in a pool of blood that had already congealed, and both of them had a long wound on their backs, and the skin and flesh rolled up, so hideous and terrifying that they were like demonic blood mouths that were being devoured by people!
Ah Fei looked at the scene in front of him in a daze, and stood there in a daze, feeling that the blood in his body had become cold, and even frozen. In fact, he had only lived with the couple for a winter, and many of the memories of the body's past remained in his consciousness, but the emotions had not been left with the death of the original owner, which meant that he had no family relationship with them. And whether it is a father or a mother, they usually speak very little, and they have never had any emotional communication with their theoretical son, this short winter, for Ah Fei, the couple is probably just similar to the existence of the landlord.
However, after all, a whole winter has been experienced, and in a person's life, a winter is so short, but when it is experienced, it seems so long. What's more, whether in the previous life or this life, this is the first time that Ah Fei has faced death so closely, and it is this kind of tragic death......
In the previous life, his parents died very early, and he was just a child, and he could not retain a rational enough understanding of death in his heart, and then the death of his friends and girlfriends—for him who had reawakened in another era, or rather was born. For this reason, it is difficult to reunite with the birth and separation, he spent a whole winter to do psychological construction, and when this pathos finally gradually sank into his heart with the passage of time, he just experienced the death of this life.
He stared at the two stiffened corpses tightly, and not only his limbs, but even his neck, eyelids, and pupils seemed to be frozen in the same way, trying to look away, but he couldn't. At that moment, everything in heaven and earth seemed to cease to exist, and it seemed that all hunger, cold, and pain no longer existed, and never existed. My mind went blank......
I don't know how long it took to say that the old Wang next door suddenly heard the extremely sad cry of the old man next door, he was crying for his old dog.
This should be the sin done by the Goguryeo soldiers who invaded Lelang County, not only killed people, but also searched the only little bit of grain that the two families had, and roasted and ate the old dog of the old Wang's family next door, and even the dog skin was taken away, leaving only some bones covered with tooth marks.
Later, Ah Fei comforted Lao Wang and said that the old dog was eaten before he saw it, and the broken bones all over the ground may be the wolverine hunted by the Goguryeo people themselves, as for the old dog, the Goguryeo people saw that it was good at hunting, so they took it by the hand. Of course, even he didn't believe this, but Lao Wang didn't refute it, but just asked him: "What is a wolverine?" ”
In the end, Ah Fei hastily dug a pit and buried the couple who were theoretically his parents. After the extreme shock, he recovered much faster than the old king next door who had lost his old dog, and if he was not actually him, but the original owner of this body, he must have been a completely cold-blooded, ruthless guy who even despised himself.
As he moved the two stiff corpses, he just felt like he was carrying his own corpses; When he moved the body into the pit, he only felt that he was lying in the grave of his own rudiment; When he filled the pit, he just felt like he was throwing dust on his face......
War, chaos, death, this is the era he has crossed into, this is the almost inevitable fate he will face, can't all this be changed? Will it end up befalling the same fate? So they still have him to bury, and who will bury themselves? Will it become a wolf, a crow, or even just a food for ants, and then it will be born silently, and then it will rot silently......
The grave was filled, Ah Fei removed the shovel of the wooden raise, erected it on the grave, and then picked up the stone knife to engrave a few words, but he didn't know what to engrave - he didn't know the names of his parents, usually they simply called each other "you". In the end, he had to engrave the words "test" and "妣" in Song style with difficulty.
Lao Wang observed his actions in surprise: "You, how can you write?" ”
"Do you know each other?"
"No, I don't know...... I can't read. ”
"So it's not a word," Fei let out a long sigh, "it's just a symbol." ”
"What's the symbol?"
The next day, Ah Fei took a bag of wild vegetables and wild fruits and embarked on an unexpected journey to North Korea. This road is undoubtedly full of hardships and dangers, but fortunately he has an old bow by his side, and ordinary thieves would not dare to come to cause trouble rashly. Of course, it was because they couldn't see the quail feather arrows he hid in his baggage, otherwise they would not have been polite to this half-grown child.
He returned to the county seat first, and went to the family's warehouse to inquire about the news, and there were a few half-familiar faces in the warehouse that were protecting the son of the Xun clan who planned to run away from the south gate that night, knowing that he had saved the life of the young master, and he was polite to him. Sure enough, Shixun had already returned to Korea, but it was likely that he did not enter the city, but stayed in the family village north of Lieshui.
The so-called Lisusu is a large river that flows outside the northern wall of Joseon City, and according to the memory of Ah Fei's other life, next to Pyongyang, it must be the Taedong River.
From the county seat to the family Zhuangyuan, the distance is actually not too far, less than a hundred miles, Ah Fei spent a whole day, that evening, finally entered the scope of the Zhuangyuan. It was a complex of several acres of buildings, surrounded by wooden hedges on earthen walls, and with crudely arrowheads erected in the corners. He hadn't been able to find the entrance yet, when he suddenly heard a wild bark in his ears, and saw a group of fierce dogs pounce out of nowhere, viciously choking his throat!