Chapter 4: Happiness
Ruyi was brought to a completely new environment, where people are very easy to wear, there is a kind of spicy slippery pain after the upper body, simple legging pants, such an outfit is very easy to put on and take off for Ruyi.
The rest is the lodging, where everyone lives together, and they can eat, chat, and sleep together in the evening, also in a large thatched hut, and only the person in charge will have a solitary thatched hut.
They are like the backyard of a large family, sweeping, doing laundry, cooking, and doing all the work of serving.
The people here are simple, happy, Ruyi likes them very much, and is especially good with one of the girls of her age, her name is Peony, her parents are from the sweeping department, but her father has never been back since he came ashore two years ago, and her mother used to be a maid in the front hall, and later she was assigned to the kitchen to do chores.
Peony especially longed for the days outside, she didn't know what it was like on the shore, she wanted to go to her father, and always asked Aunt Mei to chase around with a broom, Peony was not worried about being beaten at all, but she always told Aunt Mei about her demands.
Ruyi always sits and watches with a smile, everything here is so warm. Ruyi is responsible for the cleaning of the beach, every morning, like everyone, to work in their respective posts, in fact, her job is very simple, almost nothing a day, is to pick up discarded things, this garbage only occasionally appears, resulting in her daily work becomes, to help all kinds of marine creatures go home, she is happy to do this, this is not a small sand crab trying to crawl into the deep forest, Ruyi hurriedly stepped forward, grabbed both sides of the shell with his thumb and forefinger,
"It's you again, why don't you stay in your sand nest and run into the woods again and again."
"Let's go, go back with me" Ruyi put it back on the sand again, and the crab quickly pulled away the sand with his hands and feet, drilled down, and finally showed a pair of eyes that were far away to see.
Ruyi smiled happily, and started to walk around the beach, Ruyi is very satisfied with such days, as before, are around a beach, but she is now a group of people, every day when I go back, you can see men, women and children sitting in a place to eat, drink, play and make trouble, everyone has no heart, very happy to accompany each other.
Until one day, Ruyi was still wandering around the beach, and Peony suddenly came running and stumbled.
"Come with me, Ah Gong can't do it" There is an older Ah Gong in the sweeping department, who is usually responsible for drying, some very light work, and the deadline is approaching, so the peony is called Ruyi, and the big guys have to let Ah Gong see the last.
Running back together, there were many people in a small grass hut, even the person who had seen her before, he stood up, looked at everyone, and walked out silently.
It is customary here that before a person dies, he should look at each person as much as possible, remember their faces, and return to this place to reunite with his relatives after reincarnation.
Ruyi heard someone whispering in front of her
"If you can get the divine leaf in the mountain, maybe Ah Gong can be saved"
"That's a place that Tianji Pavilion won't let you go."
"Hey, we are dying like a lamp going out, why can the people of Tianji Pavilion continue their lives" Everyone sighed and chattered for a while, and walked out of the room after everyone in Ah Gong finished reading it.
Tonight everyone is not interested in talking and laughing, the whole dinner is spent in a cloud of sorrow, everyone is uncomfortable, this time may reflect the inequality of the class, as if the superior people have medicine to eat, can cure the disease, and the inferior people can only wait for death.
Ruyi took Peony and walked back to their Chase Shop, passing by the wheat field, and found that several people were sneaking around, so Ruyi and Peony followed, and heard them say
"The pharmacist said, Ah Gong has a few days to live, I must go and pick the divine leaves," the other said
"You haven't even seen the hair of the god leaf, how do you know which one is?"
"That's it, Tianji Pavilion never shows us anything."
"Then I'm going to try it too, won't you? If you don't go, give me cover, my work can't be done by no one."
"Then I'll go too, let's go to the big cow to help us keep an eye on the work, anyway, we are the most inferior servants, and there are no big people in normal times, and I don't know the big guys, and he doesn't know me."
"Then I'll go too." In the end, the four of them discussed, set a time, and went to clean up the aftermath. Peony look at Ruyi, Ruyi also look at peony.
Ruyi said
"You are not allowed to go, how dangerous it is, and you don't know anything",
"Let's not go with them, let's follow them to see, I want to see what that Shenye is."
"If you want to go, I'm not going, I don't remember anything, I won't know anything, I'm not going"
"Hmph, don't pull it down, I'll decide, I can't go out to sea, and I won't be allowed to see what Shenye looks like, it's dead."
"Peony, don't go, in case it's dangerous, let's go, go back to sleep." Ruyi pulled the peony and walked back slowly.