Chapter 42: The Meaning of Life
When he was seventeen years old, the old blind man who depended on him died, and the people in the village were no longer willing to take him in, so he had no choice but to leave his hometown, planning to go to a far away place to join the rebel army who resisted the slaughter of the city, at that time, the virus had just broken out from the big city, and it had not yet spread to the remote villages and towns, but the nightmarish news had already come, and it was rumored that as long as the place infected with the virus, the whole town would be slaughtered, so the towns in each place were closed to their own passes, and no outsiders were allowed to enter.
Hiding outside for a long time, he never found the rebels, and since he was a child, he decided to find a temple to shave his ordination, thinking that although the monastery was hard and poor, there was always a way to eat mixed rice.
After going up the mountain, the remnants found that the mountain was not a temple at all, but a bandit den where outsiders fell into the grass, and the remnants relied on the abduction method learned from the old blind man, and won all the swords, guns, swords, halberds, axes, hooks and forks by means of scoundrels, and also mixed up a little fame in the bandits' den.
Since then, the remnants began to learn to make swords, and the remnants who had never used swords integrated the crutches taught to him by the old blind man with their own talents, and even formed a kind of swordsmanship routines with strange moves, at that time they were all in the middle of the wilderness, except for swords and clubs, guns and ammunition were very rare, and even if there were, there was no high cost and ammunition supply, and there was no use in that kind of place.
At the end of the year, an army passed under the mountain, and the temple on the mountain was robbed.
For several months, the remnants of Tibet have relied on planting some vegetables and fruits in the temple to survive, but I didn't expect a wild monk to run down in the deep mountains and broke into the temple, the remnants ignored him, after driving him away, the next day there was a group of wild monks with long hair and meat, these monks were originally in the temple, they were forcibly occupied by the temple and rushed to the deep mountains, there was no way but to beat some beasts and wild fruits to satisfy hunger, by chance one day I saw the bandits scattered, and ran down the mountain in groups, and the remnants were caught by them, and they beat them indiscriminately.
The wild monks are accustomed to eating meat on the mountain, and they do not have the intention of abstaining from killing and compassion, and they want to tie the remnants to an ancient tree and burn them to death.
At that moment, the remnants of life who never knew the meaning of life finally understood that to live is to live......
The sky was changing, the clouds were overcast, and the sky was raining heavily, extinguishing the fire, and this rain continued for dozens of days, and the abbot had no choice but to temporarily imprison the remnants, and escaped from the scorching fire, and the remnants of the life were saved, but they lost their legs.
In the Tibetan scripture tower, the remnants of the wall while thinking about themselves, while observing the scriptures on the stone wall, it only took dozens of days to understand the mystery on the wall, after thinking about it, the remnants felt that they might not be able to die, the sky was clear, and the monks were going to plan to dispose of the remnants, but the thousand-year-old tree that had dried up for an unknown amount of time suddenly sprouted, and the old abbot was also shocked and sighed for the providence.
The monks spared the remnants and expelled him from the monastery, and the remnants who lost his legs lived a life of exile until he met a girl.
Lost the remnants of the legs of the collection everywhere begging for a living, for a few days he has relied on a piece of pine cake to live, this day passing by a deep house compound, squatting in front of the door of the stone beast, the eaves are high, at a glance is a rich family, the remnants knocked on the door to ask for food, knocked for a long time, just when the remnants thought that the rich family was a miser, the door was gently pulled open.
A little girl with a hungry face and sunken cheeks waved her hand and said, "I don't have anything at home, and everything has been taken to pay off debts." ”
Remnant looked up, the little girl was wearing a pure white dress, the skirt fluttered and exuded a faint fragrance, Remnant looked at the street, old and young, women and children running together, everyone knew that this place was about to be slaughtered, Remnant asked: "Why don't you leave this chaos?" ”
The little girl leaned against the door frame and said, "I am the only one left in this whole family, and everything that can be sold has been sold, and only this big mansion is left and no one wants it." ”
The remnant looked up, the plaque was written with the words 'Splendid Famous Castle', and no one wanted the expensive ancient house in this panicked year, so the remnant probed in and said, "Can you let me go in and have a look?" ”
The little girl looked at it from top to bottom and said, "I don't look like a bad person, come in." ”
The remnants barely managed to keep up with the little girl's steps, and walked through the grassy courtyard into the house, where they found that there was not even a table or chair, only a large box that looked like a dowry, and a few smashed pits under the corners of the box.
Remnant asked, "What about the people in your family?" ”
"They all died, my father was doing business outside, he was infected with the virus, he didn't come to the house, I heard that he died outside, my mother maintained the family for several years, and when the plague virus spread here, my family calculated my family, and ran away with the money, and my mother was seriously ill because of this, and died not long ago." After chatting for a long time, the remnants learned about this from the little girl, who had little on her face and more on her back, more tired.
"Most of the people in this city have fled, and you don't have anything to eat left at home?" How do you get by living? ”
The little girl pointed to the sour fruit tree in the courtyard and said, "There are some fruits on the tree, but I have eaten them, so I can only smash some kernels and eat them, and there are still five or six seeds left in the box. ”
Remnant opened the heavy big box, there were really five or six fruit cores left in it, there was a pain in his abdomen, Remnant was also hungry, took out a stack of tin foil wrapped in half a piece of pine cake from his pocket, and said: "That's it, I can't eat you for nothing, I'll exchange this for you." ”
The little girl was suspicious, timidly took the tin foil, took a bite carefully, licked her lips, and said, "You are so stupid, exchange such a delicious thing with me." ”
Remnant smiled and said, "I'm tired of eating good things outside, so I want to taste your sour fruit pit." ”
The little girl swallowed it in two or three bites, and said, "I thought you were going to regret it." ”
The remnant smashed open the core with the corner of the box and said, "Why did you leave only this one chest?" Earlier, when the people in the city had not left, this box could be exchanged for a lot of pastries. ”
The little girl tugged at the corner of her skirt and said, "This box originally contained this dress, which is the most solemn and oldest thing in my family, and it can't be sold, but this is what my father said, when my mother was seriously ill, I asked me to give this dress to a person, and she said that this dress can make me live a worry-free life in the future, but after that person came to our house, he wanted to take the skirt, but I didn't give it to him, because my father said that no one could give it." ”