Chen Xing scraped the moss on the wood with his fingernails and put it in his tattered pocket, wild vegetables and wild fruits are also good things in the mountains, it is not her turn to be an orphan, she has already been picked up by adults, but no one wants the moss and tender leaves, carefully washed and baked, barely edible.

If you are lucky enough to meet snakes, insects, rats and ants and the like, it will be great, you can calm your stomach, the big black ants with thick little fingers taste the best, eat raw one bite at a time, crispy, the main thing is that the big black ants are a nest by nest, dig into the ant nest can eat all-you-can-eat.

Chen Xing is fifteen years old this year, and he heard that the fourteen-year-old orphan girl will be picked up by a bachelor on the mountain to be a daughter-in-law, and someone will raise her to feed her stomach in the future. However, Chen Xing is too tall, a full 1.75 meters, and he is like a monster in this era.

People are tall and thin, like bamboo poles, with their backs bent, their faces are dirty all day long, and their fingernails are full of sludge.

So fifteen-year-old Chen Xing had no one to want, and she didn't care, she turned around all day long, and she didn't know how to survive.

Chen Xing's name was given by herself, because in addition to the sun and moon in the sky, there are only stars left, only at night can quietly emerge, and the moon must be far away, Chen Xing feels that he is like a star, faint, but it can shine, no matter how faint, it is also light.

Listen to the old man in the cottage said that her mother was the maid of a lady who was taken captive on the mountain more than ten years ago, and no one dared to move, but the maid was ruined by a bandit, and gave birth to her.

There was more than one thief who ruined the maidservant, and the father did not know anyone, and finally an old woman who was about to lose her teeth adopted her, until she was five years old, when the old woman died, and she became an orphan.

There are more than a dozen orphans like her, all of them are women, because boys will be adopted by some people, and when they grow up, they will become bandits, and continue to go down the mountain to rob people, food, and things, and continue to create tragedies.

And girls like them, who look very good, will be adopted, adopted as child daughters-in-law or something, and even have special hobbies. And those who look ugly or weird can only fend for themselves.

It is difficult for most orphan girls to survive to adulthood, and Chen Xing is the oldest, who once tried to leave the cottage, but the mountain was full of villages, and they all shouted that she was arrested and brought to justice.

In the end, he couldn't go anywhere, so Chen Xing could only return to the cottage and continue to live the life of fending for himself until last night.

Chen Xing actually didn't care what happened, it was nothing more than a group of bandits replacing another group of bandits, such a thing had happened several times in her life, and her attitude towards these orphan girls would not change.

The only difference is that this time the leader of the 'bandits' turned out to be a woman, holding a mechanism that can shoot arrows in her hand, and she can shoot the bravest bandits by pulling the trigger, which is too powerful, Li Xing wants a mechanism like that.

Now, what grievance meeting is being held under the slope, and those people come to the stage one by one to tell how hard they are, excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes, corrupt officials and corrupt officials, local tyrants and inferior gentry, bad weather, etc., Li Xing has no sense of substitution.

Then inexplicably, she and all the orphan girls in the cottage were called out and locked up in this big house, some young orphan girls were nervous, but Chen Xing didn't care, no matter what the new 'bandits' thought, the worst was to kill them all, there was nothing to be afraid of.

In the past, some people proposed to kill these orphan girls to save food, but after some discussion, it was found that these orphan girls did not consume food, and wild fruits, wild vegetables, snakes, insects, snakes and ants were their staple food. It is said that those who survive like weeds like this, and those who can survive are very hard.

So, there's nothing to be afraid of, it's a big deal to die, and there's nothing fun in this world.

The door of the house creaked open, and the 'female leader' of the 'new bandits' walked in with a steaming bucket, followed by a ashamed and annoyed Li Xiu'er, holding a basket in her arms.

Everyone's eyes were instantly attracted by the steaming bucket, because the smell of saliva accelerated secretion wafted from it, was that food?

Chen Xing also instinctively looked at the wooden barrel, and sure enough, what he saw was a bucket of porridge with oil flowers and meat residue chives, the oily porridge noodles made people have a great appetite at a glance, and Chen Xing felt that his stomach was about to scream.

Unlike modern people, the ancients had an instinctive love for greasy things because of the lack of fat, and pure lean meat was not good meat for them, and the fat with three fingers was the best.

But when she saw the oil on it, Chen Xing was discouraged, so much porridge with oil and water would not be given to them, during the New Year's holidays or when she met a well-wisher, she still drank the gruel that could show people's faces a few times, but it was not much, because kind-hearted people couldn't live on this mountain.

Whoever gives something today will gather around his house tomorrow, and if he doesn't harden his heart and drive people out, he will wait to be eaten.

Forced to endure the gluttony and twisted her head, suddenly her eyes lit up, she saw a grasshopper squatting in the corner, this is a very good source of protein, of course, Chen Xing doesn't know what protein is, only knows that this thing is very fragrant and delicious when baked.

Quietly touched the past, pounced on the grasshopper, and when she was about to put it in her pocket, a rough hand held her hand, which shocked her heart: Someone wants to rob me of the grasshopper!

However, a gentle voice sounded behind her: "There is porridge to drink, don't eat that messy thing." ”

Chen Xing was on guard in his heart, and was pulled to the porridge bucket by Liu Jun, took a bowl full of meat porridge in a daze, took a pair of chopsticks in a daze, and followed Liu Jun's instructions to the side in a daze, but she didn't dare to drink the porridge, because she doubted that she was dreaming, this bowl of porridge was really for her?

Until she heard a sparse noise, she turned her head to see that it was the younger ones among the orphan girls, their thoughts were not as complicated as Chen Xing's, and their vigilance was not strong, and the delicious meat porridge was placed in front of them, even if it was poison, they would drink it.

Chen Xing didn't feel that there was poison in the porridge, she just didn't believe that the bowl of porridge in front of her was real.

Everyone received their own bowl of porridge, and the fast ones had already drunk it, and they were looking at Liu Jun with anticipation and eyes.

Liu Jun smiled, trying to make himself look kinder, so as not to scare the children: "You have been hungry for too long, you can't drink too much at once, you will have indigestion ......." ”

Hearing that there was no second bowl, everyone's faces showed a look of loss, and even a hint of despair, because for them, 'not drinking too much' means that there is no more, and it may be a long, long time before they can have this kind of luck again.

If you are hungry all the time, it will be fine, but now you have a feeling of fullness, and then there is no more, and the feeling of loss will come more intensely......

Sensing everyone's subtle emotional changes, Liu Jun hurriedly said: "There is still at night, if you don't have indigestion, I will feed you at night." ”

The orphan girls cheered in a low voice, staring at each other with big bright eyes, unable to believe what they had heard.

Among everyone, Liu Jun saw Chen Xing, who had been holding the bowl and was silent.

"Why don't you drink porridge? Not hungry? Still don't like it? Liu Jun walked up to Chen Xing and asked softly.

"I ...... Can I really drink it? Chen Xing asked timidly, with a hint of trembling in her voice that she couldn't control.

"Of course you can, of course you can drink, this bowl is for you, everyone has drunk it, it's okay." Liu Jun's mood is indescribably uncomfortable, what kind of ordeal did he go through that would make a little girl dare not even drink the porridge in her hand?

"When I was a child, my mother-in-law gave me a meat bun, and when I ate it, my mother-in-law was beaten to death." Chen Xing muttered, then picked up the bowl and drank it fiercely, his eyes were not sluggish, but as fierce as a wolf cub, as if he was thinking, even if he would be beaten to death, this bowl of porridge would have to be drunk.

Liu Jun felt uncomfortable and relieved, she could live such a big orphan girl in the cottage, she really had a big heart, although her experience was very miserable and her psychology was somewhat problematic, but at least it was not the kind that needed psychological counseling.

As for misery, women in this era, who is not miserable .......