Chapter 12 Beginning in a Mountain Village
To the north of the Thousand Peaks and Ten Thousand Mountains is the middle region, and the normal climate of the middle region is hot and rainy in summer and cold and rainy in winter.
Yuanyang Chengnan, Jinniu Town Market, Hongxing Village, East Village, Lijia.
Li Xiao was in a coma, his mind was full of dragon lizards, cliffs, and huge apes, and he ran through the forest, trying to get away from these dangers, and he could jump up and run before he landed. The gravitational pull on the surface of the moon is one-sixth of that of the earth's surface, so is the gravitational force on the surface of this new space-time not great? Li Xiao anxiously ran, jumped, and used the inertia of running in the air to float.
"Hey, wake up, why aren't you awake?" Li Xiao was anxious to hear someone wake him up, and suddenly opened his eyes, and after adjusting to the light, he saw a thin girl with crooked eyebrows, shaking his shoulders vigorously.
Li Xiao wanted to sit up, but he didn't have any strength in his body. He felt like he was sleeping on a very hard bed, the mattress used to make the bed under his back was rough, and the quilt covering his stomach was thin. The light inside the house was a little dim, and through the window, Li Xiao could see the light outside.
At this time, the little girl found that Li Xiao had opened her eyes, so she said, "It's been a day's sleep, you finally woke up, I'll call my mother." With that, he pushed the door open and went out.
Soon, a middle-aged woman in old clothes followed the little girl and walked in, smiling and probing Li Xiao's forehead. The mouth said: "I came back to life!"
Li Xiao was still very weak, and asked weakly, "Where am I?" Thank you for saving me. ”
"Huh...... You're welcome. My son was eaten by a monster. You're going to be my son from now on, right?"
"What? What did you say?"
The middle-aged woman said, "What, you don't want to be my son?"
"Do I have parents at home?"
The middle-aged woman hurriedly said, "Do you still have a home, where is your home?"
"Xianyin City, Jianghe Province!"
The middle-aged woman lowered her head and pondered for a while, then said, "I haven't heard of it!"
Li Xiao hurriedly said: "Jianghe Province, haven't you heard of it?"
"Haven't heard of it. ”
Li Xiao panicked for a while, and said in his heart: I am still in Daxuanguo. "Alas, Auntie, did you know that there is a country called China?"
"China? My man said that the ice field is the northern country, and the southern country is the southern country,...... The country of Lefang is the eastern country, and the Seven Domains of Daxuan are China. ”
"There is only one China in the world, and Taiwan and the mainland both belong to one China. ”
The middle-aged woman said with a strange expression: "I don't know what you're talking about." There is only one China. ”
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What's going on? How did I get here? Where is the old man with the goatee?
A quarter of an hour later, Li Xiao slowly calmed down from the initial panic. From the words of the middle-aged woman, Li Xiao knew that he was still in a new time and space, and this was still the "Great Xuanguo". The place where he lived was a small mountain village called "Hongxing Village", the little girl with crooked eyebrows was called "Eryatou", and the middle-aged woman called herself "Aunt Li" by others.
Li Xiao's surname is Li, Aunt Li is also surnamed Li, and there are many people with the surname Li, which is not a coincidence. Li Xiao remembers that in the 21st century, there are more than 7 billion people in the world, and there are more than 100 million people with the surname Li. Aunt Li carried Li Xiao off the mountain, and she had never seen the dragon lizard and the dragon lizard owner. Li Xiao didn't know what happened after the dragon lizard carried him out of the Echo Valley.
Aunt Li probed Li Xiao's forehead with her hand and said, "My son, what's wrong with you?"
Li smiled: "I'm hungry!"
Aunt Li frowned and said, "Child, in order to save you, you have eaten the only cornmeal left in the house." Our family has ......"
"Wait a minute, what do you say?"
"I said we don't have anything to eat. ”
"Not that. ”
"Huh?"
"You just said cornmeal?"
"yes!"
"There was cornmeal in ancient times?"
"What generation?"
Li Xiao thought in his heart: No, there was only corn planting in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties in China. In a history class at school, the teacher said that after the opening of the new shipping routes, European colonists invaded the American continent, and corn was introduced from the American continent to Europe, and then from Europe to China. Teachers don't lie.
"Boy, you're stupidly hungry. I'll go to the river to find food, and you take care of your brother, second girl. ”
Li Xiao turned a deaf ear and continued to think, no, now there is corn, so if it is not the late Ming Dynasty, it must be the Qing Dynasty. But why did Aunt Li say that this is Daxuan?
Li Xiao just came back to his senses and saw that Aunt Li had already left, and there was only the second girl in front of the bed, the second girl was eleven or twelve years old, although she was thin and thin, but she was delicate and light, although she was unkempt, but her eyebrows were distinct. The light that came in from the open door was reflected on the eyebrows of the second girl, and the eyebrows went from the top of the eyes to the back of the tail, so long and so beautiful. It is said that most women with willow eyebrows are gentle and beautiful women who are extremely kind and soft-hearted, but there are not many women with this type of eyebrow shape.
Seeing Li Xiao looking at her without blinking, the second girl panicked, and her black, smart eyes looked at her fingers that were stirring together in a panic, and said angrily: "Hey, what are you looking at?"
"Huh...... Your eyebrows are so pretty!" Li Xiao smirked.
"Ah?......" The little girl already knew how to be shy, and she stayed for a while before she smiled at Li again: "Hey, where are you from? Why is your hair so short?"
"This ......"
"Your old clothes were so strange! Look, my brother's clothes fit just right. ”
Li Xiao looked at the shabby clothes with bare arms and calves on his body, felt ridiculous, and said in his heart: This kind of clothes is strange, and the strange clothes are "woody"?
The second girl continued: "That...... What's your name?"
"Tell me first, what's your name?"
"I'll ask first, you say first. ”
"My name is Li Xiao. Jokes of laughter. ”
"Lee laughed? ”
"What's your name?"
"My name is Eryatou. ”
"I ask your name. ”
"My mother calls me Eryatou, my brother calls me Eryatou, and the aunts and aunts next door all call me Eryatou. ”
"Oh, your dad, what's your dad's last name?"
"My dad? I don't know. ”
"Huh!?"
"Huh...... When my mother said that when I was a little doll, my father went to fight in the Northern Regions and never came back. ”
"Aren't you sad?"
"Don't be sad, the children in the village don't have fathers, only the children of the rich people's families in the Jinniu Town market have fathers. ”
"Huh!?why?"
"Fighting. ”
"Oh. Eighteen-year-old young men and women are obliged to join the army to defend their families and country. ”
"Originally, in another year, my brother would also go to war. But he's dead!" the second girl said as she spoke, her nose soured, and her tears were like droplets.
Li Xiao felt a little sad in his heart.
The second girl said: "Last night, the moon was round and white, we were sleeping, we heard the sound of plopping on the door, my mother just lit the candlestick, a strange big dog broke the door, the big dog is thin and long, with green eyes, white fangs, and a choking smoke from its mouth, it knocked my mother to the ground with a paw, my mother lay on the ground, screaming in fright; I sat on the bed, already frightened. Or my brother was brave, he took the stick he had been preparing, stood in front of my mother and me, and shouted loudly, "Youkai, get out, get out", and he hit the stick on the head of the big dog, and the big dog got angry, and he sneered and let out a long fart, and discharged a lot of unpleasant black smoke, which was so thick that even the candlestick could not shine through. The smoke was poisonous, and my mother and I were poisoned. When we woke up, it was just dawn and my brother was gone, so my mother took me everywhere to look for my brother. I searched for a few days and couldn't find it. Since this incident, my mother has been a little stupid. I went out to find my brother every day, and I carried you back yesterday when it was dark. The second girl is young, but she speaks in an orderly manner, and her feelings of losing her brother are vented to Li Xiao through language.
"Actually, before my brother died, my neighbor Aunt Yang's son who was two years older than me, and the third son of the Xia family in the west of the village were also captured and eaten by the big dog. Later, the adults found out that as long as there was a boy of fourteen or fifteen years old, the big dog would break down the door of the house on the night of the full moon, and then take the boy away and eat it. This is the case in many nearby villages. ”
After Li Xiao heard this, he was shocked in his heart, and was about to ask in detail, but when he saw the second girl's tears welling up, he hurriedly said words of comfort.
When Li Xiaozheng was saying, "If you haven't found the body, you may still be alive", Aunt Li came back from outside, with a little cornmeal in the palm of her left hand and three or four wild vegetables in her right hand, and said vaguely: "My son, the neighbors have nothing to eat." I begged the village chief for a long time to find this food, and if I waited until tomorrow, I wouldn't have even that. I'll make you soup. ”
Li Xiao saw that the wild vegetables in Aunt Li's hand were gray cabbage, and sighed in his heart, "Am I going to eat wild vegetables?" Gray cabbage is a delicious food, anti-anemia and calcium supplementation, blanch in boiling water for a while, and then rinse with water, can be fried, can be cold. I remember the scallion putty gray vegetables made by my mother before, it was really delicious!"
Thinking of eating, Li Xiao suddenly fainted from hunger. caused Aunt Li and the second girl to scream and be busy.
Not long after, Aunt Li brought a bowl of soup, woke up Li Xiao, and delivered the soup to Li Xiao. Li Xiao drank it all, choked and coughed a few times, this gray cabbage was too unpalatable.
Li Xiao drank the soup, but his stomach was still hungry, and he found that he was so weak that he couldn't get out of bed. Li Xiao understood that he needed to regain his strength. But what can Aunt Li's family eat?
Seeing that Aunt Li and the second girl only had a few mouthfuls of clear water soup in their bowls, Li Xiao felt a burst of sadness in his heart. He secretly swore in his heart that he must give Aunt Li and the second girl enough food. The grace of a drop of water should be reciprocated by a spring.
When he slept at night, Li Xiao had a dream that he could fly all night.