Some people say that the cycle of life and death in this mortal world is already predestined, ordinary people are unable to change their own fate, when calamity befalls them, they prefer to believe that they usually create a lot of karma, so that God has come to punish them.

That's what Ju Ping thinks.

Before the summer of this year, the seedlings in early spring are just right, green, and when the rape flowers bloom all over the mountains, they spread a golden carpet on the earth, and the strong aroma does not feel dizzy after smelling it for a long time.

When the bees fly and the butterflies dance, at this time, Ju Ping always likes to take his sister to the field to chase and play, pinch the head of a rape flower and put it in his mouth, sweet and silky, and his hands are stained with yellow pollen.

Annoying bees buzz around, sometimes accidentally provoke them, they will be stared at and stinged, and they will not let go when they run far away, as if they are stubborn to fight to the death with others. But even if it succeeds, it won't end well. Soon after the thorns of honey pierced the man's body, he was not far from death.

The small village where Juping lives is called Bali Village, and along with the surrounding areas, it has been farming for generations. It is a typical land of fish and rice, the terrain is flat, the soil is fertile and thick, and the grain produced every season will be favored by merchants and then sold to the capital Shaoliang to sell, which is a thing that the whole village is very proud of.

Bali Village is so big, except for the time when he went to the next village with his parents, Ju Ping has never seen it for a long time, at least he didn't experience it before he was sixteen.

Sister Ju An was born when Ju Ping was ten years old, and Ju Ping's mother was not in good health and was sick with old age. The doctor in the village didn't see it well, but he still insisted on prescribing a lot of medicine every time, and then Juping's mother felt like it was something going on when she ate it, just don't be bad or not. Ju Ping's father is called Ju Dawei, and he has more than a few brothers and sisters, and these elders Ju Ping likes and dislikes.

In addition to farming, Ju Ping's father will also make some clips on weekdays, catch some small animals and come back to beat tooth sacrifices to improve his life. After all, river fish is not available every day, and pork can only be eaten during the Chinese New Year.

These clips would not have been used when Ju Ping was still young, and Ju Dawei did not dare to let him use them, for fear that he would hurt himself. But as Ju Ping grew bigger and bigger, and was already a half-sized man, Ju Ping began to be able to touch these traps.

Originally, Ju Dawei didn't know how to do this, because of an accident, the family received an old hunter who often lived in the mountains and forests, and in order to thank the family for his hospitality, he taught some special skills to the family.

In this way, Judavi learned this skill, and it was very easy to catch hedgehogs, rabbits, roe deer, etc., but when it came to catching larger beasts, it was not very useful, and sometimes these clips would be broken by these beasts.

Ju Ping cherishes these traps very much, just as he cherishes each piece of fragrant roast rabbit meat.

On this day, Judavi was weaving baskets with his wife at home, not using bamboo, but with a very strong weed. The basket is sturdy and durable, and the surplus can be taken to someone else's house for some things.

He knew that Ju Ping would definitely be willing to lead his sister to the ridge of the field, and by the way, he would put those clips near his own field or something, and he would be able to harvest something tomorrow after a night, and it would be good if he was lucky to catch a rabbit or something.

The weather is not hot in the summer, when you go out will not feel uncomfortable, Ju Ping led his sister to the field to put the clip, his father gave him a basket that was braided, and put the clip inside, and after the clip was placed, he picked up some wild vegetables along the way and came back, and he could wrap dumplings and balls to eat.

Wild vegetables are fresh.

Ju Ping took his sister Ju An out with him before Ju Dawei also asked them to come back early, looking at the sky is a little cloudy, a moment of sunshine and a moment of cloudy clouds, there is always a feeling of dampness and stuffiness between breaths, and there is also a little irritability in my heart, and the animals in the chicken shed and duck shed in the yard are even more inexplicably restless.

Judavi guessed that it might rain heavily today, so it was better to let them go early and return early.

Ju Ping promised to be good, but whether he can be obedient or not is uncertain, after all, when he goes out of the house, he is like a little bird out of the cage, and he loves to slip around everywhere.

If Judavi was still alive, he would feel glad that Ju Ping didn't listen to him and came back earlier.

The village was flooded......

A big flood flooded Bali Village, no one knows where this water came from suddenly, and no one knows why it suddenly appeared, although there have been years when the river has risen for a few years, but it will not be like such an exaggerated overwhelming coming.

It happened exactly at noon.

When eating at home, it has always been later than other people's homes, and Ju Ping is having fun with his sister outside, so he is not in a hurry to go back. But when they noticed that the surroundings were starting to surge, they hurriedly ran to the higher places.

There is a lookout on the field of Bali Village, the stone is built up, a little flat for him to climb up, there is a long pole on it, the height of the lookout is more than twice as high as an ordinary house, this is still the village chief asked to build, every time there is something in the village, the village chief always likes to stand on it and talk.

It can be said that this observation deck is the highest place in the entire Bali Village.

I don't know if it's destiny, but it just so happens that Ju Ping and his sister are nearby.

When water came, the two of them panicked and wanted to run, but apparently their speed was obviously not as fast as the speed of the flood.

Ju Ping gritted his teeth and climbed onto the observation deck, and then pulled his sister up.

Thanks to the fact that the villagers who built this observation deck were all solid people, and the huge stones could not even be pushed by the fierce flood, like the shape of a large grave bag. Standing on the grave bag and giving orders is simply it.

However, it was the observation deck named after the village chief who looked like this tomb that saved the lives of Ju Ping and Ju An. The two of them stayed on it for two days and two nights, and when they were hungry, they fished for some filthy floodwater to drink, but they never thought of coming down from the observation deck in order to survive.

It wasn't until the speed and flow of the flood gradually became smaller that Ju Ping felt almost safe and they slowly came down from the observation deck.

But even so, the depth of the flood was high on his thigh, and he sat his eight-year-old sister on top of him, and the long pole on the observation deck had been pulled off by him to use as a cane.

They didn't choose to go anywhere else, and their first reaction was to go back to their own homes first. Even though they don't know what's going on at home anymore.

The house at home is also an old house, which has been lived in since the generation of my ancestors, and I don't know how many times it has been renovated and repaired, it is already quite fragile, but even if it is a good house, it can't help such a torrent.

The crops in the fields were swaying in the muddy flood, and many branches, branches, wood, and even stones were being pushed in the direction of the flood.

As far as the eye can see, there is a vast ocean, and the houses of different heights and distances in the past are gone, and this is what Ju Ping saw when he walked out of the field.

He continued to walk in the direction of home with his sister with his head in his head, but when he reached the location where he had determined that this was his home, he found that there was no trace of his home in the torrent.

Ju Pingbei couldn't help crying loudly, his sister Ju An didn't know what was going on, maybe she was scared, maybe she was hungry, or maybe she was crying because her brother was crying, so Ju An also cried.

The stay-at-home parents were washed away along with the house.

The beautiful rape fields are gone, the traps are gone, the animals are gone, the house is washed away, and Ju Ping's parents are gone. Except for his sister, Ju Ping felt that he had nothing.

I stayed at my home for a long time, until it was dusk and the sky was dark. With his sister with him, Ju Ping disappeared into the night and fled.

Ju Ping knew that this flood was a natural disaster, but if it wasn't for the fact that he usually killed too many evils, how could God come to collect them Bali Village? He stubbornly felt that his parents and the villagers had been deliberately taken away by God, and he escaped by opportunism.

If Ju Ping is left alone, he definitely doesn't want to live, but with his sister here, his sister is his only relative, he has to act like an older brother, he has to protect his sister.

Since then, on the way to escape, Ju Ping and Ju An have disguised themselves as inconspicuous people without the slightest sense of existence, blended into the crowd, and fled as soon as they found something wrong.

It is very normal for refugees to fight for food, and whenever Ju Ping sees adults fighting, he will silently flee to the front, and before anyone can catch up, he will quietly take a part of everything that can be eaten and stuff it into Ju An's mouth. No matter how sweet or bitter it is, she is forced to eat it, after all, it may be the most important thing.

In this way, the two of them sometimes followed the people on the main road, sometimes followed the people on the small road, and mostly accompanied women and the elderly, and immediately sneaked into other places and disappeared when the signs were wrong.

During the more than half a month of refugee, Ju Ping felt that the length of this half month was longer than his life in the previous ten years.

In the past half a month, he has already experienced what life is like when he is still young.

Finally, following the direction of the refugees, Ju Ping and Ju An entered the county seat of Guangchuan together.

The refugees on the road all said that they knew that they would be saved when they entered the county seat of Guangchuan, the county town was not flooded, there were many delicious foods in the county, soft beds in the county, and fragrant women in the county.

He didn't know what tricks were in the county, he only knew that he wanted to have a temporary place to stay with his sister, to be well fed and clothed. After leaving Bali Village, Ju Ping knew that what the village chief said about them being under the jurisdiction of Wei was true, they lived on the land of Wei, and the imperial court would care about their life and death.

Hearing the discussion of those adults, Ju Ping's heart was full of excitement.

But the excitement didn't last long......