Since the thirteenth year of Jian'an, there has been a great drought for three years, and the whole country has no harvest, and hunger is everywhere. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info The Son of Heaven listened to the national teacher and killed 100,000 people in the south of the Tianshan Mountains to sacrifice to the heavens, begged for rain, and changed the name of the country to Ningde.

Three years later, the drought continued, the rivers dried up, there was no grass, the eyes were full of desolation, and it was difficult to find people for thousands of miles.

The Son of Heaven worshiped the national teacher again, and after the national teacher's divination, he suggested that the Son of Heaven sacrifice 300,000 people west of Qiongbei Lake, and the Son of Heaven listened to the letter, causing Qiongbei Lake to be filled with blood and water.

God has not changed anything, but people must believe in God, because if the Son of Heaven believes, the people must believe, whether right or wrong.

God represents everything, so this world is full of gods.

The world is already chaotic, and the world is in chaos.

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Ningde four years, Yong'an Town, Baizhang high platform.

Hundreds of zhang and thousands of steps, white marble masonry, there is a square platform.

The country has a national teacher, the town has a heavenly teacher, and the village has a divine servant, leading the world to worship the gods and pray for peace.

The people of Yong'an Town, young and old, knelt down under the high platform, silent, begging for rain reverently. On the high platform, Zhang Tianshi, who was dressed in a Taoist robe, was holding a peachwood sword and doing it. It takes a whole day to do it, and people have to kneel for a whole day, and they are not even allowed to eat and drink water. Anyone who does not come is considered blasphemous, exposed to the streets for three days, or exposed to the sun to death. Under such a scorching sun, people kept fainting to the ground......

For three years, people spent half of their time kneeling, but in these three years, no one has dared to stand up against it. Most of them are numb, they will only go against the grain and swallow their anger, and a few people are not numb but have no courage to resist, and three years ago one person stood up against it, and the whole village was slaughtered. Since then, there has been no opposition.

In order to sacrifice the gold and silver to the sky, the tombs in Yong'an Town were stolen, and the white bones were scattered in the wilderness.

Stone didn't go to bow down, he was tired of kneeling under the high platform all day, he couldn't do anything, he was just wasting his time in vain, and he never believed in God. Whether a child goes to bow down or not is not a big problem, unless you have a grudge against someone else, and someone else will deliberately look for trouble unless they kill your whole family.

Stone hadn't been on his knees for a long time, and he had more important things to do, or he wouldn't be able to live.

In such an era, living has become a luxury.

But the desire to live is rooted in man's bones from the moment he is born.

The desolate village has not many people's voices, and it is as quiet as a cemetery. Shi came to find Erya at the scheduled time, Erya is the daughter of Uncle Youliang next door, Stone's playmate since childhood, and the sister he agrees with in his heart. The two of them have to go to Changqing Mountain to find water, and only by finding water can they continue to live.

Shi was only eight years old, and Er Ya was even younger, only six years old, but the bodies of the two of them were completely out of line with their age, thin and dark, like two dead branches of an old tree, as if the wind would blow with the wind, and then break in the air. It is man's strong desire to live that allows such a body to accommodate life.

After half an hour of stop-and-go, the stone took Erya to a hole the size of a rabbit, and it was a loss that they were so thin that they could drill into the past, and ordinary people couldn't get into this hole even if they found it.

After a long time in the cracks of the rocks, the cave suddenly opened up, and the big hole was even the size of the village. As soon as they entered the hole, they separated and fell on the ground and groped for themselves. No one would have thought that in the era when the deep wells were all dried up, there would be water under such a barren mountain, and if people knew that there was water here, they would definitely bulldoze the evergreen mountains.

"Brother Shi!" the second girl shouted in a hoarse voice.

The stone hurriedly ran over, because he ran too fast, he tripped several times in the middle, he asked as he ran, "What's the matter, Erya, is it hurt?"

"There's water!"

The stone suddenly rushed to Erya, and immediately saw a small puddle the size of a fist, and said happily: "Erya, drink quickly!"

Erya licked her chapped lips and said, "Brother Shi, you drink first." ”

"Drink it. ”

Erya's lips were already chapped, and she immediately plunged into the small puddle, and drank like a cow, not even daring to take a breath halfway, and almost choked to death. When Erya finished drinking, the water in the small puddle had bottomed out, and Erya cried all of a sudden and said, "Brother Shi, I drank all the water." ”

The stone hurriedly said, "Don't cry, don't cry, cry again, the water you just drank cried again, and it was drunk in vain." ”

Hearing this, Erya swallowed hard the thought of crying.

The stone immediately lay down beside the puddle, drank it carefully, and finally licked the whole puddle carefully, not missing a drop of water. They have survived until now because of the water in this cave.

Shi and Erya never took water home to their parents, not because they were not filial, but because once the matter of water was discovered by others, it would definitely be robbed, and they would definitely find a cave with water in Changqing Mountain, not only would they not get a drop of water at that time, but they might even be convicted of hiding water. They drank water here and went home and then stopped drinking water, which is the same as bringing water home.

"Brother Shi, there's a small puddle here!" Erya exclaimed. Usually, there is only one small puddle at most in the whole cave, but more often there is none, but today there are two, and two puddles mean that they can both drink to their full, and it has always been their dream to be able to drink water to their heart's content.

"What are you doing in a daze, drink quickly, Erya!"

Erya swallowed her saliva and said, "I want to bring it back to my father, do you think it's okay, Brother Shi?"

"Why, didn't your family receive holy water?"

"I don't have anything of value in my house. ”

All the water is strictly controlled, and those who cannot come up with something of value to sacrifice to the heavens will not have a drop of water, and can only die of thirst. And there are not a few people like Erya's family who can't afford to pay money, and most of them died at home and no one knows.

"Is the second uncle sick? I haven't seen him for several days. Stone asked with a frown.

Erya lowered her head and said "um".

"Why didn't you say it earlier?"

"What's the use of talking about it earlier? That's how my mother died. Erya began to cry as she spoke.

"Don't cry, Erya, bring this water back. ”

"But my father said that he couldn't bring water back, and it would be over if someone else found out. ”

"Let's go back quickly, the adults who went to worship the heavens at this time should not have come back, and no one will find out. ”

"But, Brother Shi, you have no water to drink!"

"Didn't I drink it? I'm full. ”

Erya had no choice but to nod in conviction.

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Erya and Shi cautiously returned to the village, but fortunately there was no one in the village, and Erya successfully returned home with water.

As soon as Uncle Youliang got home, Erya took out the water and said, "Dad, water." ”

"Erya, how did you get the water back? Didn't you say that you were not allowed to take the water back?!Did you be seen by others on the way back?How can you get the water back!" Uncle Youliang looked at his daughter who had been carrying the water, no longer reprimanded, sighed, touched Erya's head and said, "You drink it, Dad is not thirsty." ”

"Dad, drink quickly. Erya kept holding the sink of water.

"Erya......" Uncle Youliang obviously wanted to continue, but he was already coughing, and he couldn't stop coughing until he coughed up blood, and Erya's mother died of this disease.

"Daddy—" Erya cried after only one cry. Erya was afraid, afraid that her father would die like her mother.

"Dead black girl, you come out!" As soon as I heard it, Blackface was roaring outside, and the only people who had the strength to roar loudly were Blackface. Blackface's father is the god servant of the village, so the water tank in his house is always full, and even the only remaining rats in the village are in his house.

Blackface relied on his father to be a servant of the gods, and at the age of ten, he had already learned to be domineering and point fingers at everything, but the adults in the village did not dare to disobey the child's words, so they could only try to be obedient.

Some people have a desire for power since childhood, and for them, the process of controlling others is a kind of enjoyment.

Before Erya could stop crying, Blackface had already barged in with a group of children.

"Water?!" After seeing the big stone in Erya's hand, Blackface immediately asked in surprise, "Where did you get the water from your house?"

The eyes of the group of children behind Blackface immediately became bright, and they all stared at the water in Erya's hand like hungry wolves. These children are still alive because they obey Blackface's words, and those disobedient children have died of thirst, and now only Stone and Erya are still alive in the village, and Blackface naturally does not allow such a thing to happen, so he keeps bullying Erya.

"Blackface! Get out of here! Erya is not something you can bully if you want to. Uncle Youliang stood up with difficulty against the wall. Uncle Youliang would never have thought that a child would be so terrible, and now the way of the world has really changed.

"Uncle Liang, I only call you Uncle when I respect you, if I don't respect you, you are a sick dog. Blackface said with a sneer, a child's sneer was really chilling.

"Blackface boy, how old are you?"

"Do you care?"

"I can't care if it's not in my house, but it's in my house, and it's reasonable for you to break your leg if you go wild in my house. Uncle Youliang picked up the firewood knife on the stove.

The black face stretched his neck, stared at Uncle Youliang and said, "I'm afraid of you?

Uncle Youliang sneered, raised his knife, and was about to slash it down, but suddenly coughed violently, and directly spurted out a large mouthful of blood.

"Dad!" Erya quickly put down the stone trough containing water, and cried and stepped forward to support his father.

"Hmph, a sick dog also wanted to break my leg, and your family didn't pay sacrifices and still wanted to drink water, so you snatched the water from Erya's hand!" said the black face loudly, and the children behind the black face immediately became excited.

"Erya, pour the water! Even if you pour it, you won't give it to these dog mongrels!"

"Daddy. "Erya only cares about crying, and can't do anything at all.

Uncle Youliang saw that Erya was just crying, and stretched out his foot and kicked over the stone trough containing water.

"Okay, there is food, you don't want to drink water without taking sacrifices, it must be water conjured by witchcraft, and your second girl must also be a demon!

"You dare!" shouted Uncle Youliang.

At this time, the stone heard the voice of the second house and ran over.

"Black face?!" Shi immediately understood what was going on after seeing the black face, usually the black face bullied the second girl, but this time he actually found the door.

When they saw the stone coming, they did not dare to go forward. Although Shi is only eight years old, he fights hard, and no one in the village dares to mess with him, which is why Blackface only dares to bully Erya.

"Uncle Youliang, what's wrong with you?" the stone pushed the person away and quickly helped Uncle Youliang up.

"Brother Stone. Erya only cared about crying, and couldn't even speak clearly.

"Stone, don't meddle in your business, or I'll beat you together. The black face said viciously, he was angry when he saw the stone, there are so many people today, it is just a good opportunity to beat the stone and the second girl together.

Shi stared at the black face and asked, "You beat Erya and Uncle Youliang?"

"Not only do you have food and Erya, but I also want to beat you together, give me up, beat me to death, and I will give whoever has the heaviest hand three bowls of water!" Blackface shouted.

Before Blackface could finish speaking, the stone immediately took the firewood knife from Uncle Youliang's hand, and slashed it on Blackface's leg without saying a word.

Blackface couldn't imagine that the stone would immediately slash him, and his face immediately turned pale when he looked at the blood flowing from his leg. Before he could cry, his legs lost his strength to support him, and Blackface immediately collapsed to the ground. All the children were frightened by the bubbling blood, and even Uncle Youliang was startled by the stone's actions. Who would have thought that a child who was only eight years old would suddenly jump up and cut someone?

"Get out!"

A trembling cry finally came out of Blackface's throat, and he was so frightened that he couldn't move at all. The others looked at the stone holding the knife, stunned for a moment, and immediately dragged the black face out with all hands and feet, and the blood on the black face's leg made a very striking mark on the ground.

"Uncle Youliang, how are you?" the stone hurriedly asked.

"Stone, go home and tell your father and mother about this!" Uncle Youliang said breathlessly.

"Uncle Youliang, I'll help you to lie down on the kang first. ”

"Stone, listen to me, black-faced and his father and mother are not a good thing, when they see that their son is injured by you, he will definitely come to you, you quickly tell your father and mother, let your father and mother have ideas. ”

"Uncle Youliang, don't worry, I'm not afraid. ”

"Go back quickly, I'm fine, here's Erya to take care of me. ”

After the stone returned home, he hesitated for a moment and said, "Dad, I cut off my black face." ”

"What's going on?"

"The black face went to Erya's house to bully Erya, and Uncle Liang vomited blood in anger, so I cut off my black face. ”

"Is it heavy to cut?"

"It's not heavy, it's just that the skin is broken and the bones are not hurt, I have a number. "Don't look at the stone is only eight years old, he has been hunting with his father since he can walk, and his grasp of the power of the knife is far beyond the average person.

Stone Daddy began to smoke, the cigarette was the tobacco residue of the year before last mixed with the weeds in the wilderness, and there was a choking smoke, which was such a cigarette that he was reluctant to smoke often. The pot of cigarettes was quickly smoked, and Father Shi shouted, "Mother, take out all the steamed buns in our family." ”

"What's wrong?" asked Shi Niang.

"Hurry up. Father Shi shouted, turned his head to the stone and said, "Stone, you take the dry food and Erya into the cave of Changqing Mountain to hide, and come back when you finish eating the dry food." ”

"I'm not hiding. ”

"Don't listen to your father?"

The stone snorted.

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Five days later, Shi returned home with Erya from Changqingshan's cave.

"Dad, mother, I'm back. The stone shouted before he could enter the door.

"Is the stone back?" Shi Niang hurriedly ran out, and Shi Dad followed and walked out, saying, "Where is Erya?"

"Home. ”

"Bring Erya to our house. ”

"What's wrong, Dad?"

"You've got food, uncle, he's dead. ”

The stone froze in place.

Uncle Liang took all the responsibility for this matter alone, and the children present were all scared and stupid, and they couldn't say why. The black-faced father tied Uncle Youliang and the stone father to the stone pillar for three days on the grounds of not handing over the sacrifices, and Uncle Youliang couldn't support it for just one day and died tragically on the stone pillar.

And Uncle Youliang's tragic death will not end, in the final analysis, it is still a black face chopped by stones.

(The previous writing is not very good, if you feel uncomfortable, you can skip to chapter 39 and start reading...... ）