Chapter 4 Family Sacrifices

With the last touch of moonlight on the edge of the sky, Gu Anran and Gu Wan went to the back mountain to worship their mother, the mountain is desolate, and the tomb also looks simple, but in such a troubled world, they can not bury their bones in the suburbs, and there is a thin coffin, which is already lucky, if it weren't for the kindness of the people in the village, who are willing to brave the wind and snow to go into the mountains to cut down trees and help them make a coffin, they really don't know what to do!

Gu Anran respectfully knelt down and kowtowed to incense, lit the paper money, and sighed: "Wanniang, let's thank Sister-in-law Wang and Grandpa Guo." ”

Gu Wan nodded and said silently: "In this life, my daughter will work hard to protect the eldest brother and sister-in-law, honor her uncle, and revitalize the Liu and Gu families...... Let my father and mother be blind. ”

The food contained in the carved lacquer food box was still a little hot, and Gu Wan took it out and placed it in front of her mother's tomb - fried buns with mustard greens and pork, red bean cake, onion mille-feuille meatloaf, mapo tofu, chicken stewed mushrooms, braised mutton, and a roast goose leg......

All the food is served in ceramic pots, and the portions are not large, but the variety is varied.

Gu Anran was also startled when she saw Gu Wan tossing so much food, smelling the aroma, for fear that her sister-in-law would consume all the food stored at home...... But Gu Wan insisted, in her life, she didn't want to wronged her mother, her mother has always loved food, and she worshipped in the previous life, and she couldn't offer anything, this time, she must do her best.

Nowadays, the diet of the Feng Dynasty is very simple, and the way to cook is only stew, boiled, and stewed, fried, fried, and fried are all legends, and the seasoning is even less.

The goose feathers and heavy snow fell, Gu Anran helped Gu Wan, silently staring at the simple grave on the mountain, Gu Wan looked at the simple cemetery of her mother, and the appearance of her mother in her mind was already blurred, and she only recalled it by chance, and there was still a trace of warmth in her heart.

Suddenly, there was a burst of kicking and stamping, and slightly messy footsteps sounded, Gu Anran's heart tightened, one hand protected Gu Wan, and the other hand touched a dagger resting on his waist.

It was actually a group of people who helped the old and the young flee. The number of people was not too much, only about twenty, and there were six or seven adult men, and the rest were all old and weak women, pushing carts, carrying burdens, staggering, and walking very slowly.

Gu Anran saw that their faces were fine, even if there were two little girls with braids, four or five years old who drooled when they saw the offerings placed in front of the tomb, they didn't say anything to ask for them, and their hearts were relieved, these are probably kind people, although they have fled, they still have some food to eat, and they will not end up in despair......

"Mother, I'm hungry." A little girl lay in her mother's arms, biting her fingers and staring at the food in front of the tombstone drooling. Her mother seemed to sigh and took a small piece of the nest from the cloth bag in the car for her daughter to hold and nibble on......

Gu Wan's heart was sour, she was used to seeing people in troubled times leaving their hometowns in her previous life, and most of the time, she could also ignore them, but as long as she had spare strength, she still wanted to stretch out her hand, "Auntie, my little sister is still young, the wind and snow are very strong, and I have suffered from wind and cold, I brought some rice porridge, it is better than hot, let the child drink a little, it is good for the body......"

As she spoke, Gu Wan took out a sea bowl from the food box, took out the water bladder firmly wrapped in skin, and poured out the milky white, thick rice porridge with green onion and ginger slices, and the sound of swallowing was everywhere, and the little girl nestled in her mother's arms, salivating.

"Drink." Gu Wan couldn't help but hand the bowl to the little girl's arms, saying that it was a little girl, in fact, she was four or five years old, only one or two years younger than Gu Wan.

This time, the little girl couldn't hold back anymore and began to swallow in big gulps, but in a moment, a big bowl of porridge entered her stomach, and a touch of blood appeared on the little girl's face, her mother sighed and smiled at Gu Wan: "The little lady is a kind-hearted person, and kind-hearted people will be rewarded......"

Seeing this mother, staring at her daughter with a gaze full of pity, Gu Wan sighed in her heart, handed over the water bladder entirely, and forcibly stuffed it into the other party's hand: "Auntie, I have added a lot of cold-warding herbs to this porridge, the road ahead is difficult, and drinking some can also prevent illness." ”

The leader in front of him was a middle-aged man in a gray leather jacket, looking back at Gu Wan's actions, his eyes also vaguely showed gratitude, but he did not stay, just thanked him softly, and continued to hobble forward with the fleeing villagers.

Gu Anran stepped forward, hugged his sister, looked at the victims who were gradually moving away, babbled lightly, and said in a low voice: "Although this group of people looks down, mostly old and weak, they are not as numb as the victims I have seen before......

Gu Wan's face also showed a little joy, sure enough, no matter how hard and difficult the world is, there are still many people who persevere and work hard to live.

The two siblings said these two words, and there was a situation ahead.

When the group of victims passed by a mountain trail not far away, a young man riding a thin yellow horse came in front of them, and the two sides happened to 'meet on a narrow road'.

Gu Wan looked over and saw that the young man was only about fifteen or sixteen years old, tall and thin, with a white face, very delicate, with a smile in his eyes, a cloak made of white fox fur, a crystal clear pearl around his waist, and a pair of deerskin riding boots on his feet, with good materials and exquisite workmanship, although he was half-new and not old, it could also be seen that this young man had a good family background, perhaps, he was still a child of a family.

The victims were suddenly a little flustered, because the mountain road was narrow, the snow on both sides was deep, and they brought a lot of things, so they couldn't make way at all, and the leader was an honest man, who didn't seem to want to cause trouble, and looked at the oncoming teenager and was a little cramped.

The young man didn't care at all, Lang laughed, lowered his head and patted his horse: "Old man, let's avoid it and let the family go first." ”

The horse seemed to be able to understand human speech, and he lifted his hooves very dissatisfied, and the young man patted the horse's head with a smile: "Okay, okay, I'll give you a good daughter red drink in the evening." ”

Hearing this, the earth yellow horse reluctantly kicked and moved to the ravine next to him, trampling on the snow splashing, and did not forget to shake his body, so that the young man on the horse swayed for a long time, and almost fell headlong......

Gu Wan smiled unconsciously, this master and the horse are very interesting!

She suddenly felt that her rebirth was still quite valuable, at least, something was already changing, the last time she accompanied her eldest brother to sweep her mother's grave, because she was young and ignorant, crying endlessly, and her eldest brother was tired of tossing, and she missed the time, so naturally she never saw such interesting people and horses.

Gu Anran obviously thought it was very interesting, and waited until one person, one horse, and the group of disaster victims were far away, before packing up his things and taking his sister down the mountain.