Chapter 16: Nothing to gain and nothing to lose

Uh, little girl, are you from there? ”

Kihwan tried to speak in a soft voice and pointed in the direction of the main island of Guikuni.

"So what?" Xiao Jie was very stubborn, "You are not the sea god's subordinates, you are strangers!" ”

"Hmm...... For you guys, sort of. Qi Huan thought for a moment, "We want to go to your hometown." But why are you guys coming out? ”

Xiao Ju, who was hiding behind the girl, spoke, his tone timid.

"Go, go and serve the sea god......"

"Don't tell them!" Xiao Jie said loudly, "The people outside are all bad people!" The messengers of Lord Poseidon have told me that you hateful creatures want to steal the Poseidon treasure! ”

Bai Ya raised his knife, and his tone was quite unkind.

"Is there any mistake, if it wasn't for my brother to save you, you have already gone to the sea to feed the fish, okay? Don't be ignorant, you don't expect that broken wooden board to take you thousands of miles away, do you? ”

"He's so fierce......" Xiaoju muttered to her sister.

"Liar!" Xiao Jie shouted, "The divine envoy said, as long as we keep floating here, within a day, Lord Poseidon will come to pick us up!" ”

"Poseidon doesn't know that black and white impermanence may come." Qi Huan sighed, "The direction of the tide here is not fixed, and the east, west, north and south can be described as wanton. One moment it was calm, the next it was stormy. If you're lucky, you'll be taken to an uninhabited island before the accident, and if you're unlucky, you'll be buried in the belly of a fish. ”

"Shut up! None of the foreigner's words can be trusted! ”

"Okay, okay, you're all right."

Qi Huan didn't bother to bother with these two little ghosts. As a result, the two children ran back to the raft and dragged it back. The other three didn't stop it, after all, no matter how hard they tried, they would be pushed back by the rising tide. In a few moments, they were soaking wet, disheveled, and looking miserable.

Bai Ya came over with some dry firewood, threw it on the ground and piled it up casually. He slashed the two blades hard at the firewood, and the sparks exploded, and the firewood immediately burned. They have been relying on this method to make a fire for the past few days, which has always been something that Qi Huan and Jun Aoyan can't understand. It is not easy to drill wood for fire, or flint for fire, but why is this little spark in Bai Ya's hand so flammable? Probably it can only be explained in terms of spiritual power.

Bai Ya clearly came to watch the play, and this would actually grill fish on the beach. Qi Huan and Jun Aoyan sat next to them, a little ...... Amazed. But soon, they also watched the play with Bai Ya. They spent the next two days weaving a grid with the bark of a particular tree on the island. The bark is soft, very flexible, and non-flammable. Weaving it into a grid on which you can put food is much more convenient than holding it with your hands. It is easy to dig up large shellfish and snails here, and in the morning Qihuan caught a seabird, which was packed and placed on it to roast. Sprinkled with salt, the ingredients quickly roasted with the sound of water, and the aroma of meat permeated the entire coast, lingering for a long time, making the two children turn back frequently.

When the sun sets, the area is illuminated by firelight. The gentle rays of the sun fell on the smoking food, coating it with a faint layer of warmth, and it looked more appetizing.

"To be honest, I heard them spitting too." Qi Huan whispered, "Aren't we too kind?" ”

Bai Ya didn't speak, nor did he look at the two children. But Xiaojie and Xiaoju obviously have opinions, but they can't say it, they can only look here. Jun Aoyan seems to have understood something. When a few clams were roasted and fragrant, she beckoned to the two children and shouted:

"Hungry? If you're hungry, let's eat together. ”

"Who eats your stuff ......"

Although they muttered quietly, the effect had been achieved. Human beings are always honest in the face of instinct, especially such an undetermined child. Since the legend of the sea god sounds like a god, they all think it is true, and they can be more honest in front of the food, right? However, there is an element of gambling in doing so, after all, some older teenagers and young people already have their own judgment and have a blind and undoubted passion for it, and maybe they can really do something beyond common sense for the so-called faith.

"I've been living a good life for as long as I can remember." While eating, Bai Ya suddenly talked more, "My father never takes me on an ordinary path and does ordinary things." Of course, this is something that I didn't realize until I was a certain age. Once, my dad and I sat on the wall and shared a freshly baked goose. The goose was huge, and I was able to eat it. There were a lot of children gathered under the wall, and wild dogs barking at the wall. The bones that my father threw were rushed up and snatched by wild dogs, and the children were so angry that they beat the dogs, but the dogs never let go. I couldn't eat it anymore, so I threw the bones with the meat on it, and the kids fought. I lost some one after another, and there were many smaller ones than me who robbed them, and there were people my age. It felt like ...... Sprinkle chopped wild vegetables and feed them to the chickens, which is a feeling of black and black. ”

Jun Aoyan looked at him with a very strange look, somewhat resentful. It is not difficult to understand that life on the march is not always abundant in supplies, and it is not easy to fill the stomach. Qi Huan's tone is also a little subtle:

"Your childhood education...... That's a problem. ”

"I don't think it's appropriate." Jun Aoyan said bluntly, "We are poor to a certain time, and we refuse to let go of anything at the root of the tree, and we are no better off than the refugees in the war." Once, I ate rice bran mixed with grass roots for a few days, and I had gastrointestinal problems, vomiting and diarrhea. The doctor said it wouldn't work without oil and water, but there was nothing in that place. Eventually, someone caught a lean mouse-stealing rat and stewed it, and I finally came back to life. ”

"You're actually eating rats."

"Then what else to eat?!"

Jun Aoyan suddenly became angry, and it was difficult for her to understand how this "rich kid" style of consumption appeared on Bai Ya. It's hard to say whether the money is clean or not, most of it is burned, killed and looted. If she hadn't been shielded by Qi Huan, she would have already spoken out about her doubts - it was unnecessary, it would cause worthless trouble in the middle of nowhere.

"Tsk, I haven't lived that kind of life since I was born. My dad asked me what he thought about all this that day. To be honest, I had no thoughts, no feelings. ”

"You're weird, then." Qi Huan smiled reluctantly, "Some people will secretly congratulate themselves on their rich life, and some people will have a sense of distress of replacement; Some people will sympathize with these poor people, and some people will only take it as a joke or be disgusted. Don't you feel it? Didn't feel it at all? ”

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Maybe it's not really a lack of feelings. Bai Ya's expression was a little complicated, "At that time, I was in a wonderful mood, but it was not obvious. I was probably too young to understand that feeling. On this side of the wall are poor children with gray faces and ragged clothes, and on the other side of the wall, in the carved beams and painted buildings, there are rich young masters and young ladies living in them. They are well-fed, and a meal during the festival can make people here worry about food and clothing all year round. When I thought about it, I had a ...... Now it seems that it should probably be called something of disconnection. It's broken, it's veryβ€”we've walked a lot of places since then, and it's felt that way. The rivers and lakes are fragmented and never complete. But holding these fragments all together, is the complete rivers and lakes. ”

"Do you think the rivers and lakes are fair?" Qi Huan asked him suddenly.

"It's always been fair."

"It's not fair."

Jun Aoyan's opinion was once again at odds with Bai Ya. But Bai Ya didn't refute her, but bored and picked up the stick and turned the grilled fish over. Then he asked meaningfully:

"What's an unfair law?"

"Some people don't have to worry about food and clothing, and some people lack food and clothing. The children of rich families have so many meals that they don't bother to take them for alms, and the flower cloth has to be selected in turn, and there is never a shortage of corpses that starve to death and freeze to death on the remote streets. There are people who are high up in the sky, who talk about it on paper, and soldiers who live and die for absurd reasons, for unnecessary purposes, for inexplicable orders. Those dignitaries and dignitaries did a lot of work even if they survived, and the tribute was enough to feed many poor people, while the commoners and poor people could not even take out a decent straw mat at home after they died. Some people pursue male and female love, pursue immortality, and more people just want to fill their stomachs. And they did nothing wrong, but they had to bear the consequences that they didn't have to have. Do you still have to say that this is fair? ”

Jun Aoyan didn't talk much, but this time he was in a hurry. She hadn't gotten rid of that depression yet, and her emotions were already out of control. Bai Ya was not in a hurry, but suddenly with force in his hand, he pierced the wooden stick through the ripe fish.

"Then I ask you, where does the rich man's money come from?"

"Deprived from the poor."

"Is it difficult to rob it? I'm afraid that one or two of them will be arrested and put in prison like my father. It is true that their money ultimately comes from another group of people, but on what basis? Whether it's a trick or a trick, it's all a kind of wisdom. Of course, it is not excluded that the squire bullies fish and meat people, we can count them slowly. But if you think about it, the wealth spent by those young masters and young ladies was accumulated by their fathers and worked hard. Someone can teach filial piety, teach talents, and make some contributions to the court or the common people. If someone fails to teach his children well, and his family property is ruined, that is retribution. In these years, it is difficult for the poor to get ahead, but it is not impossible to marry people, work, study, practice martial arts, and cultivate the Tao...... Whatever you choose is the way. It's about the poor vision, and I can't think about it so much, but there are many talented people in the rivers and lakes, and there is no shortage of people who work hard from the bottom. I'll say it again: the rivers and lakes are always fair. Your vision is too narrow, and you can only see the present. Looking at the past and the future, no one has ever been able to say for sure. ”

Xiao Jie and Xiao Ju came over at some point, they were a little cold, and they wanted to rub a fire. Bai Ya stood up, walked up to them, and condescendingly stretched out the grilled fish.

"It's always fair...... As long as you are willing to say and do, you are willing to change. ”

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