Chapter 579: Cinderella?
An old farmer who farmed the land looked at Yan Hanshui and them: "You are from outside? ”
"Well.... We also entered here by accident, and we didn't expect there to be a village here. Yan Hanshui nodded kindly at a few people.
The old farmer smiled, and then said to the people on the side: "We're here, I'm afraid that no one has come in for more than ten years." In the ravine, long forgotten. ”
Another middle-aged man nodded: "Yes, uncle." However, it seems that we haven't been out for a long time, and I remember that the last time the eldest son of the village chief's family went out was five years ago. It is said that there is a war going on outside again, and life is not easy. ”
"What about you? Two female dolls? How's it going out there now? The old farmer looked at Yan Hanshui and them, and then asked.
Yan Hanshui told me about the current Mongol attack on the Song Dynasty, to be honest, the people in this village don't know what Mongolia is called..... Although I go out once in a while, it's basically a completely closed mountain village.
After learning that the corpses that had been slaughtered outside were strewn all over the field, the old farmer and the middle-aged man both showed sympathetic expressions. Then they were glad that they hadn't planned to go out at all.
The young middle-aged man came to the side of Yan Hanshui and them: "What about you? Did you flee in? ”
Yan Hanshui shook his head: "I'm here to find something, have you ever heard of the dragon bone?" "Yan Hanshui didn't hide it, in fact, there was no need to hide it at all. If the middle-aged man knew and was nervous, he would have felt the tussel on the side.
But the middle-aged man was obviously puzzled for a moment, and then looked at the old farmer: "Uncle, have you heard of any dragon bones?" ”
"Keel? What's that? No.... I haven't heard of it in more than 60 years of living here. But you can take them to ask the old man in the village who is teaching, and the old man should be the most learned person in the village. ”
"Little four, then you can go down with them to have a look. It's ......not easy for the two girls to climb the mountain," the old farmer said to the middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man nodded, although they were now in the sowing season, but they didn't care about one or two people because of the large number of people in the village. The village is very peaceful, which makes Yan Hanshui feel very comfortable.
Yan Hanshui arched his hand at the middle-aged man: "Uncle, then I'll trouble you." ”
"It's easy to say, it's easy to say...."This middle-aged man looks like he works a lot, has a lot of muscles, and obviously has the strength to do it.
A few people walked down from a flat area on the hillside, meeting many curious people on the way. The village has been closed off for too long, and there is no contact with the outside at all.
It's half an hour's walk down the hill and you'll soon come to some houses made of wooden structures. There is a village chief in this village, but the village chief is basically a respected old man, and generally speaking, it does not have much effect on mediating the conflicts of various families.
Now the village chief is drinking tea with an old man who teaches in the mouth of that old farmer, well.... Both of them were about seventy years old, so it was no wonder that the old farmer called him an old man.
Yan Hanshui met two people, and then the other party also asked about the situation outside. Yan Hanshui replied truthfully, and the two of them were a little sad when they heard it. The one who taught was here decades ago to escape the war, and when he was young, the village chief always went out to trade things that could not be bought in the village.
Hearing that almost no one was slaughtered by the Mongols in Jiangjin Town outside, the two old men also sighed. Then the village chief asked Yan Hanshui about their intentions, and Yan Hanshui said about the search for such a thing as a dragon bone.
The later teacher did not seem to have heard of this. On the contrary, the village chief seemed to have thought of something, but perhaps because his memory was too long, he couldn't remember it clearly. "Wait..... the village chief walked slowly to the house, and Yan Hanshui and Tu Yu glanced at each other, feeling hopeful.
The village chief found a book, and then said to Yan Hanshui: "Little doll, when I was your age, I did hear a legend. It should be the legend of my parents' life, I thought it was interesting back then, and I recorded it. ”
"I'm not from this village, I'm about the same as a teacher, and I was a poor family in Shu back then. Later, because he offended an official at home, he was forced to flee and came here. So I'm also literate, and when I was a kid, I heard adults tell stories, and I was curious to record some of them. The old man smiled and took out a book he had sewn himself.
This thing is similar to a diary, and at first glance it is the record of the village chief for many years. The above content is also a bit simple, mainly when the village chief wrote this thing, it should have been still young. There are about a few hundred words, but they can understand it when they read it.
It was in this village that there was once a little girl named Ye Quan. Ye Quan is smart and smart, but due to her mother's early death, her parents also signed to marry a stepmother. This stepmother treats Ye Limit very badly, and scolds and beats this girl named Ye Limit every day. Especially after the stepmother gave birth to another girl, she intensified the beating of Ye Liang for several years.
Ye Liang also has no friends, because her stepmother is too strong, and basically no one dares to provoke her in this village. The stepmother tortured Ye Liang so that she had to go to the deep pool below the waterfall in the village valley to dive. You must know that it takes almost a few miles to get to that waterhole here, and Ye Yuan can only be forced to obey if he is weak.
Once, Ye was confined to a waterhole and found a small golden carp. The little fish was very close to Ye Yuan, and Ye Yuan was very happy, and brought it from the waterhole and raised it to a pond at the back of his house. Goldfish are also very psychic, and only when the leaves are limited to the surface, will they come out of the water.
After Ye Quan's stepmother knew about this, she secretly put on Ye Quan's clothes and tricked the goldfish out when Ye Liang went to fetch water. I caught the goldfish and made a dish to eat with my daughter. After eating, the fish bones were thrown not far from the dung pit and buried.
After Ye Liang went back, he couldn't find the goldfish, and he cried to death. But at this time, a god appeared in front of Ye Yuan. The man said to Ye Quan: "Don't be sad, although the goldfish was eaten by your stepmother, the fish bones are still there." Just near the dung pit not far from your house, you take out the fish bone, you can make a wish for whatever you want, and the fish bone will help you make your wish come true. ”
Soon, Ye limited the gold and silver to eat and wear. But she still feels lonely, even if she has money and food, she has to hide from her stepmother to enjoy it. Until one day, it is said that a prince of the Western Regions entered Xishu to do business, and held a banquet not far away.
At that time, the village was not so closed. There seemed to be a big road leading to the outside, so many people in the village went to the banquet. And Ye Liang was left in the village by her stepmother.
The story is somewhat similar to the story of Cinderella, Ye Liang went to the banquet in golden shoes, but was discovered by his stepmother. When Ye Quan was leaving, he accidentally threw away one of his shoes. But in the end, like many fairy tales, the prince found Ye Yuan and left the village.
And this village, after a dragon turned over, lost the road to the outside link and was closed forever. As for the fishbone..... The village chief didn't know, so he was probably released back into the waterhole by Ye Quan.