Chapter 2 Getting Lost in the Mountains
In the fourth year of Yuanhe, there was a great drought in Fengcheng in Jingguo, and this drought was three years, and the people were not able to make a living, and they were all over the wilderness.
In March of the sixth year of Yuanhe, the neighboring Wei State took advantage of the chaos to invade, and the war in various parts of the Jing State continued to be urgent.
By June, the situation of Jing was already in danger, and in desperation, Jing sent an envoy Sima Hong to deliver a peace agreement to Wei:
Jing is willing to cut off the Huailing Mountains in the southwest and the two places in the east and Suzhou and Vietnam as the conditions. Every year, a large number of tributes such as gold, horses, silk silk, and tea are offered to Wei, and at the same time, Princess Zhaoyi of Jing State sent an envoy to Wei and her relatives. . . and so on the condition of a series of land reparations, which put an end to the war between the two countries.
The following month, the epidemic broke out in Fengcheng, Jingguo, and quickly spread to all parts of the country.
In such an eventful autumn, the natural and man-made disasters in Jing Country have happened one after another, which has made all the officials in the DPRK anxious and exhausted.
In the end, although Jing Guo found the source of the epidemic in Fengcheng in time and issued a series of effective treatment measures, so that the epidemic gradually improved, the plague still killed and injured thousands of poor people in Jing State.
The successive disasters were already the last straw that was about to crush the heads of the people of Jingguo.
The people saw that this day was so difficult and painful, and some rumors inevitably came out of the folk, which roughly means: The current emperor of Jing State was very immoral when he was a prince in his early years, and after he forced the palace to kill his father and seize the throne, he imprisoned a group of brothers and sisters, and killed a large number of old ministers and generals of the previous dynasty.
The Qilin Village where Siyu's family is located is remote, and it is two or three days away from the nearest other towns, so the people of Qilin Village don't know what the outside world is like.
The people in Qilin Village are also worried, and the official yamen in the nearby town has already come to the village to arrest a strong man, saying that he went to some border pass to join the army to fight, and the doors of every household are closed for fear that their children will be arrested.
Brother Si Lin was young and barely escaped, but Si Yu's father was forcibly arrested by the officers and soldiers.
A-Niang cried very badly, but the whole family had no way at all, that was the first time Siyu felt powerless, she thought, from now on, she must take good care of the rest of the family.
Daddy is gone, and now only Siyu and their mother and son are left, and the living conditions are getting worse and worse.
Seeing that the family's food storage is getting smaller and smaller, A-Niang is worried but doesn't say it, and several times Siyu saw her secretly wiping her tears in the room alone.
So Siyu made up his mind and wanted to go to the nearby mountains alone and find something to eat and come back.
Siyu has never been on the mountain on weekdays, but I remember that my father used to go to the mountain to chop wood and hunt.
When he was five years old, Siyu's father also hunted a rabbit in the mountains and wanted to bring it back to make his little daughter happy. The rabbit was covered in white fur and looked very cute with red eyes, but Siyu instinctively didn't particularly like this weak little animal.
Brother Silin liked the rabbit very much, and was busy taking care of it all day long, and always feeding the rabbit with a smirk on his face.
At that time, Siyu was standing beside her little brother, and it was very interesting to watch him toss back and forth like this.
So the rabbit, which was originally small, was finally fed into a ball with the efforts of her brother Silin, and she felt that the meat was fat and delicious when she looked at it.
In this way, Daddy thought about when to slaughter it and make it into a tender and delicious appetizer.
When Silin found out, he couldn't bear to let his rabbit be killed like this, and secretly let it go.
Siyu had expected that her little brother would be reluctant to give up the fat rabbit, so she waited for when he would do this, and then she was very righteous to cover the matter for her brother, and Daddy didn't say much about her.
For this reason, after that, Siyu also saw that her little brother would always be sad alone from time to time, and miss his fat rabbit to the moon, Siyu said that she really couldn't understand this.
The mountain near Kirin Village is a nameless mountain, and it is not necessarily true to say that it is a mountain, just because it is just a small mound with some height, but this mound is connected to several other large mountains, and the local people also count it as a mountain.
At this time, Siyu had secretly left the house and embarked on the road up the mountain alone. When she went up the mountain, she looked for some wild fruits and wild vegetables that Daddy had brought back to them on weekdays, but perhaps because of the famine year, the flowers, fruits and wild vegetables on this mountain were also extremely barren. So Siyu wanted to make this trip in vain, and gradually, she went deeper.
At that time, it was dusk, the sun was setting and the sun was slanting, and the mountain breeze was slightly cool, and when it was blown by this cold wind, Siyu suddenly remembered that she had been on the mountain for a long time, and she suddenly came back to her senses and thought: Not good!
Siyu found that he had walked very deep unconsciously.
Thinking that A-Niang couldn't find her everywhere, she must be in a hurry, so she turned her head and wanted to go back.
When Siyu used to play in the village, he felt that his direction was not very good, and it was easy to distinguish between left and right, but he didn't care about it at the time.
At this time, when she turned around, Siyu really felt that her ability to distinguish the direction should be extremely bad.
Why did she turn left and right when she came up, and now at first glance, Siyu has completely lost half of her impression.
At this time, the sky was getting later and later, and Siyu listened to the sad wind in the mountains like a whimper, and the leaves that blew made a burst of "squeeze" sounds, which was very infiltrating. From time to time, one or two roars of unknown beasts came from the depths of the empty and deep mountain forest, and Si Yu's heart became uneasy. In addition, at this time, she really couldn't remember the tragic situation of whether the direction she came from was left or right, and she was annoyed in her heart, and she really wanted to cry without tears!
The night has completely darkened, Siyu keeps walking forward between the mountain roads, she is young but has always been calm, at this time she felt for the first time that she was panicked and scared, her forehead was a cold sweat ripples, Siyu's heart hung in the air, she was afraid that some strange and ferocious beasts would suddenly come out of the mountains and forests under the darkness.
"Hello, little doll~" At this moment, under Siyu's surprise, someone behind her suddenly spoke, which scared Siyu hard.
Siyu hurriedly turned her head and turned around, and saw two strangely dressed and good-looking men standing behind her.