Sunset, under the majestic Chengyi Gate.

The smell of blood permeated the wind and sand everywhere.

A family of three, each of whom carries large and small burdens, and is full of dust. Looking at the traffic in front of him, the voices were boiling, and a relieved smile appeared under the thick tiredness.

In the midst of wars, disasters and fires, people who fled fled into this ancient city, which was relatively safe at that time.

"It's finally here! A man in his thirties sat on the ground and said, with a goatee and a slightly black and slender face, wrinkles like knives, and the vicissitudes of life.

This was a day of war and chaos, corpses were everywhere, Japanese devils burned, killed, plundered, raped and plundered, and did all kinds of evil. Bandits and horse thieves occupy the mountains as kings, bully men and women, and harm the people. The government of the Republic of China is corrupt and incompetent, and it is even more difficult for the country to make a fortune! The common people are miserable, and it is a great fortune in misfortune to be alive!

Qiusheng fled with his family, hiding in a cave during the day, and only dared to come out at night. I have endured all the hardships of sleeping in the open air, and I have come here for more than 500 miles from my hometown with trepidation along the way, and I have been stunned for a month and a half.

"Qiusheng, it's so lively here. The woman behind her sat on the ground and rubbed her painful little feet and said, her dusty face couldn't hide Jasper's youth.

"Hmm. Qiusheng responded, and hurried cautiously for several days, trekking through mountains and rivers, for fear that his family would suffer a catastrophe, and Qiusheng finally relaxed at this time, exhausted and unable to appreciate the prosperity in front of him.

"Kun'er, come to my mother's place and unload your burden. The woman said the child a few steps behind her.

The woman let the child sit in her arms, gently stroked the child's back with her hand, and the child rested her head on the mother's shoulder, and after a while fell asleep.

Qiusheng sat opposite the two of them, the corners of his mouth were tightly pursed, looking at his haggard wife and tired young son, gray and gray-faced, thinking that no matter how much he suffered and how much he suffered, he would let his mother live in these years of cannibalism!

The women of the old society all wrapped their feet, and when they were a few years old, they were forced to wrap them in white cloth into small, sharp three-inch golden lotuses.

The hard-working Jimei, whose biological parents' hometown was affected, took her to escape the famine. Far away, his father died of illness on the road, and spent all their coils, and his mother couldn't survive with her, so he sold her to a family.

Since Jimei arrived at her new home, she has not had a good day, doing farm work, chopping wood and boiling water, washing and cooking, this is the old society of male superiority and inferiority of women, so that the young Jimei understands that she is born to suffer.

Seeing the days passing, Jimei has slowly grown up, and it seems that the eyes of her adoptive parents are not as cold as in the past.

Who would have thought that when she was fifteen years old, her adoptive parents still sold her to Qiusheng as a little daughter-in-law, it is really impermanent!

One morning, Jimei was peeling corn in the backyard of his house, and his adoptive mother asked him to meet a man, and as soon as he entered the house, he saw a man sitting on the edge of the kang with a walking stick on the side of the kang.

The man sat on the edge of the kang, wearing a melon-skin hat, a dark blue robe, a pair of coarse cloth shoes, a goatee, a wrinkled face, and a cigarette in his mouth.

Looking at the appearance of the adoptive parents and feeling the atmosphere in this house, I vaguely felt that this person was the person her adoptive mother said she was looking for a while ago.

Thinking that he was only fifteen years old, why did he find an old man for himself, he was suddenly aggrieved, and his eyes turned red.

Jimei thought about her father, who loved her the most and died early, and her mother-in-law who ruthlessly sold herself, why was her life so bitter!

When he was full of sadness, "Qiusheng, this girl will be given to you." Jimei's adoptive father sat behind the kang and said to Qiusheng, "Jimei, you go pack a few clothes and go with Qiusheng!" and turned to Jimei again.

The adoptive father's words interrupted Jimei's thoughts, thinking that she was going to leave the home where she had lived for ten years, and she was reluctant.

looked at his adoptive parents, but saw that his adoptive mother was greedily biting the six silver dollars on the kang table one by one, with a satisfied look on her face.

"Go!" said the adoptive father, smoking a dry tobacco pouch without raising his head and waving his hand at Jimei.

"Jimei, I won't be hungry for you in the future, let's go!" Qiusheng said.

Jimei looked at Qiusheng's eyes with something warm, and suddenly felt that this old man was not so old.

Hmm, then went to the cabinet to pack a few clothes, and walked out of the house under the fence with Qiusheng one after another.

In the old society, everyone's fate is not up to them, and everyone's heart is only to live!

Jimei is lonely and miserable, living a life without a father and mother, and is no exception!

It is said that Jimei carried a bag and a few clothes in it, and followed Qiusheng out of the home that made her feel cold.

In the dark blue baggage, in fact, there is only a gown made of rags from the family a few years ago and a pair of old shoes worn by her adoptive mother, and the inner pocket of the gown contains more than a dozen copper plates that Jimei has accumulated in the past ten years, these are all she had when she left home!

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Then again, this extremely tired family of three sat in the open space under the Chengyi Gate and rested for a long time.

"Mother, I'm hungry!" the young child muttered as he woke up hungry, rubbing his eyes.

"Kun'er, good girl! Let your father bring you a baked cake to eat. Jimei gently patted the child's little brain melon with her hand and said comfortingly.

"Qiusheng, do you still have baked cakes, the child is hungry!" Jimei said with some concern.

The world is not good, a few days ago, I finally asked for a few baked cakes from a well-meaning person's house, and I don't know if I have finished eating.

"Yes, yes!" Qiusheng said loudly while taking out half of the baked cake from his arms, seeing that there was some ash on the baked cake, he wiped it off with his hand and handed it to his son.

The child took half of the cake and ate it.

Grunt......

Grunt......

The child turned his head and listened curiously to what it was. Just saw my father swallowing saliva, and my mother also looked at the half of the baked cake in his hand.

Don't look at this child is only six years old, but I know in my heart that my father and mother are not willing to eat anything along the way, so they give all the food they begged for.

"Daddy, mother, let's eat together!" The child held the baked cake in one hand and pulled his father's sleeve with the other.

"Kun'er, my mother is not hungry, you eat!"

"Daddy is not hungry, you eat!" Qiusheng and Jimei said almost at the same time.

It's really pitiful for the hearts of parents all over the world, these two have not eaten for almost three days.

The only people who love themselves in the world are their own parents! I would rather suffer all the hardships in this world than protect my children throughout their lives.

"Daddy, my mother doesn't eat it, and I don't eat it either!" Xiao Kun'er pouted and puffed out her cheeks.

The little guy is very smart, he knows that his father and mother have doted on her since she was a child, as long as she is angry. Daddy will go along with him right away. But he is not the kind of child who is fooling around, and he already knows the hardships of sinister parents in this world at a young age!

"Good, good, good!"

"Dad also took a bite, but after eating, you have to recite the ancient poems that Dad taught you a few days ago. "Say it. The three of them bit the half of the baked cake together, and Qiusheng also learned the roar of the tiger while biting the baked cake, which made the child and Jimei giggle.

After eating the baked cakes, the sensible Xiao Kun'er learned from the old gentleman in the private school in front of his father and shook his head and memorized the ancient poems.

The country is broken by mountains and rivers,

The city is deep in spring grass and trees.

Feeling the flowers splash tears,

Hate the birds.

Beacon fire for three months,

The letter to the family is worth 10,000 dollars.

whitehead scratching is shorter,

It's overwhelming.

Jimei looked at her well-behaved child, which resembled her husband's immature little face. Thinking about all these years of being home with the Fall Generation. Qiusheng pampered himself and his children and cared for him so far. The warm current in my heart passed, and my thoughts were full of thoughts, recalling the day she and Qiusheng met.

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Memories of sending Mei.

In late autumn, a gust of wind blows. Qiusheng shuddered, hesitated slightly, and immediately turned back to look at the little girl walking behind her.

Jimei's thin body was wearing a brown single gown, the sleeves were still a little short, revealing her white wrists, she was so cold that she pulled the sleeves with both hands, her nose was also red from the cold, and a pair of big eyes looked at her suspiciously.

He walked over and took off his robe to put it on for Jimei. "I'm not cold, I don't wear it!" said Jimei stubbornly.

"Jimei, look at this day, the wind is blowing like a knife, look at your little face is as cold as a little monkey's buttocks. Qiusheng said kindly and humorously, looking at Jimei's gradually loosening expression, his tone became heavier and continued: "I'm distressed, put it on!"

put on the long robe for Jimei, Jimei accepted it, did not refuse, Qiusheng smiled happily: "Go!

"What are you doing in the city?" asked Jimei.

"You'll find out when you go. After Qiusheng finished answering, he walked forward silently, but looked back at her happily from time to time.

Jimei, who has been suffering since she was five years old, feels that her body is gradually warming, and her heart has gradually changed in her heart, which she does not understand very well, and it is true that she feels that she has something to rely on.

The two of them walked quickly, and the county town was not far away, and before they could eat, they came to the market in the county town.

The year when Jimei and Akisheng met, there were no Japanese devils

In the past, it was a few years after the change of dynasty and the change of dynasty.

Along the street are small sellers, Jimei is very happy to see this Linglang full of eyes. On both sides of the street are all kinds of paving. There were a lot of people on the street, and she was a little timid, and hurriedly pulled Qiusheng's sleeve. The two of them saw a ready-to-wear store in front of them, with a vermilion lacquer and burnt gold sign hanging on the front of the store, which was very imposing.

Qiusheng pulled Jimei and was about to go inside, Jimei shrunk back, after all, she hadn't been to the ready-to-wear store, Qiusheng smiled slightly, and couldn't help but pull her and strode in.

Jimei had never bought ready-to-wear clothes at all, and she looked so beautiful

There is a pricey wooden hat next to the ready-to-wear, and the mouth is wide open. Qiusheng chose a few ready-to-wear clothes for her, and bought her a silver ring in a nearby baffle. This silver ring is engraved with two pigeons playing in the water, which also represents that each other is the only reliance on each other in this life!

Back to the present, Qiusheng's family rested for a while, although they arrived at the place, they had no relatives.

Unexpectedly......

As the so-called demons are in charge, the world is impermanent

It was getting dark, and it was the turn of the sun and the moon. Suddenly lightning and thunder roared, the sky was covered with dark clouds, and the rain poured down! At this time, Qiusheng's family was hungry, drenched in heavy rain, and was embarrassed.

"Jimei, look! there's a place to stay ahead!" Qiusheng pointed ahead and said.

The two women, who were hurrying with their heads down, looked up in the direction of Qiusheng's finger. Not far away, there is a ruined Taoist temple, and the houses where the Taoist priests live around have all collapsed and are dilapidated.

Despite this, it is also blessed by God, and it can be regarded as a shelter from the wind and rain. The three of them hurried over. Qiusheng's family didn't know that this dilapidated Taoist temple had a great origin.

According to legend, this Taoist temple began in the Sui and Tang dynasties, dedicated to the Taoist pure Yangzi Lu Dongbin, built by the mountain, the scenery is quiet, the pavilions and pavilions, the stream is surrounded, it is better than the fairyland on earth.

At a time when the people were struggling to make a living, and there was no rain for several months, the earth was dry, and the yellow sand was dry, and tens of millions of people died from drought. Hundreds of thousands of people prayed to the statue of Lu Zu, and Lu Zu descended from the sky to appear here, with "a fan of the wind." than the house back to the heart, greedy and ruthless, and soft and good" profound

Taoism educates the foolish people, stops wars, and calms people's hearts. The Jade Emperor sent down the law of heaven and earth to disturb the natural rise and fall of all things, destroying the dojo of Lu Zu here, and the Taoist priests fled one after another, and this place has been deserted.

The three of them walked into the main hall of the Taoist temple, the statues in the hall had long been destroyed, several ancient stone tablets were scattered and fell to the ground, covered with mud, and there were only a few broken tiles on the walls around them.

Qiu Sheng took off his soaked coat and put it on the bench in the main hall. Jimei cleaned up a dry open space in the main hall, opened the baggage, took out the sheets, and laid them out. I was about to call the child to come and rest, but suddenly I found that the child was gone, and I heard the child's footsteps and turned my head to look.

At this time, Kun'er slowly walked to the side of the hall. "Kun'er, don't run around! Sent by Mei

Hearing her mother's shout, Kun'er didn't know what kind of evil she had fallen into, so she turned around and smiled at her mother and disappeared. Qiusheng heard his wife's exclamation, and hurriedly ran towards the side of the hall, and found that there was a side door in the main hall, and it was dark inside the side door.

"Jimei, don't go over! I'll take a look!" Qiusheng persuaded.

Qiusheng hurriedly took off the red wax in the hall and lit it with a fire, and found that there was a small backyard in the hall, and there was a towering ancient tree in the courtyard, but Kun'er didn't know where to go.

Qiusheng searched everywhere and carefully searched the backyard, in addition to this ancient tree, where is Kun'er's figure?

"Did you find Kun'er?" Jimei asked anxiously.

"There's a big tree here, Kun'er is gone!" Qiu Sheng hurriedly replied.

Jimei anxiously ran to Qiusheng's side and approached the ancient tree, watching the towering ancient tree towering into the clouds, broken dry bark, and dozens of branches growing from the roots, intertwined and disorderly growth, almost occupying the entire backyard, strange everywhere.

"Qiusheng, it's rare that this tree is a monster? Jimei said in fear as she took a step back, and sat on the ground again and cried bitterly.

"Don't be afraid, I'll find the child!" Qiusheng hugged his wife's shoulders and comforted, but he couldn't do anything, and he was sad for a while, annoyed that he didn't look at the child. Qiusheng looked at his wife who couldn't cry, and kept chanting the child's name in his mouth, thinking about this chaotic world like a demon, his family was hungry and cold,

There is no tile to cover his body, and now that the child is gone, he is angry and resentful to the extreme

"I'm going to burn you old tree!! Also my kids !!" Qiusheng shouted with tears streaming down his face, picking up a dead wood branch and lighting it, looking like he was about to vent all his anger on this towering ancient tree.