The cherry blossoms bloom and disperse, and the rain that has just fallen recently washes away the muddy animal path, and the white clouds are rising high and the branches and leaves are colored.

"It's dawn"

The words that trembled and forcibly came out of his throat were like feathered insects riding into the wind, leaving an extremely uncomfortable feeling of flapping wings in his ears.

Jiang Yuan couldn't help but hold his breath cautiously, and he realized that this voice was not his own.

Immediately, a delicate girl walked out of her body, more like she had just been imprisoned with her than she had just walked out.

What caught my eye was a girl with disheveled hair and a dark purple textile cloth.

Jiang Yuanshen's pores all over his body were open, oozing uncomfortable sweat.

I've never seen this girl myself.

Just when Jiang Yuanshen was about to stretch out his hand to pat the girl's shoulder, he found that his hand passed directly through her body.

The sudden state of affairs made Jiang Yuanshen's face suddenly turn frightened.

In a blink of an eye, the two of them were no longer on the top of Najiu Mountain, but at the foot of the mountain.

He lifted his gaze—

There is a charcoal kiln in front of you, and workers have built a sloping landslide on the hillside and fixed small wooden planks to roll down the wood cut from the mountain.

"Here."

Jiang Yuan looked around carefully, and the clothes of these people did not look like modern times, but were very characteristic of the Edogawa period.

Even the nearby houses are one-story wooden houses in a row of rows, and there are no high-rise buildings in sight.

Inside the charcoal kiln, there are layers of felled wood, and sturdy and emaciated men are everywhere, and straw sandals make a "squeaking" sound when they trample on the muddy and dark earth.

"The adults of Niigata don't trade charcoal for food anymore!" Someone suddenly shouted in the wetland.

This sentence suddenly exploded in the venue, and the expressions of many men were stunned at that moment, and their mouths opened wide like idiots, and then they fell to their knees and cried loudly.

Amid the wails of men, the girl trotted into the charcoal kiln.

Jiang Yuanshen couldn't move, and the whole person seemed to be nailed to death around the girl by several invisible nails.

She stepped on the dirty black earth and came to a thin boy.

"Brother, this is some hawthorn I found in the mountains."

The girl took out the hand that had been in her pocket, and the hawthorn was already so tightly grasped by her that it soaked the juice, and soaked the hands with green.

But the boy grimaced, and took hold of her little hand and said:

"Ji Xiang, we're finished, there is the sea on all sides, we can't escape, and Niigata won't send a ship over."

"No, it's okay, we can go to the mountains and dig vegetables." The girl who was called Ji Xiang said, "Brother, you can also go fishing at the beach, can't you?" ”

"Zhiniao Island is no longer saved, where is there enough for everyone to eat on a mountain, and I can't catch fish, I'm sorry for you and my mother."

In just a few words, Jiang Yuanshen suddenly realized, combined with everyone's clothing, he instantly understood which timeline of Zhiniao Island he was in at this time.

The Tenmei famine period of the Edo period.

Frost and volcanic eruptions caused widespread food harvests, and in the "ice and fire" disaster, the shogunate preferred to support the operation of the city rather than a small island.

When the famine came, the island's food and resources were instantly plundered and fell into a desperate situation.

The sky overhead is a clear freehand, and the white clouds chopped by the light are shining and flowing with the wind.

But people's mood is far worse than the weather, and the people on Zhitori Island are all wailing.

Jiang Yuan looked at everyone's eyes with a sympathetic look, not understanding why he saw such a scene.

At this moment, a pair of big hands poked in from the corner of his eye, and suddenly hugged Ji Xiang's waist tightly, and he was directly picked up.

"Ah——!h

Ji Xiang's face changed greatly, fluttering his legs, and his hands kept slapping his thick arms, so that the hawthorn that had been looking for all night fell to the ground scattered, and was gradually dyed dark by the turbid soil.

The man who looked extremely young had a tense face, a determined gaze under his raised eyebrows, and his chapped mouth kept moving:

"Hanawa Kizu, your sister is already twelve years old, that should be fine, but, it's all dead anyway, let me get your sister before I die, I've never touched a woman in my life, even if I beg you."

As he said this, one hand easily hugged Hanawa Kika, and the other hand was quickly unbuttoning his pants, trying to solve it on the spot.

Hanawa Kizu's face suddenly changed, and he gritted his teeth and grabbed his arm, his eyes dark and shining.

"Hey! Let me go! Let it go! ”

The man's earthy gray complexion was now covered with a ruddy color, and he would never regret that he would have violated the prettiest girl on the island before he died.

Jiang Yuanshen had never seen such a scene of violence against a girl in public, even if he wanted to reach out to stop it, he couldn't touch it in the slightest.

Hanawa Kitsu suddenly opened his mouth wide and bit down the man's arm.

"Ah!!h

The man hurriedly threw out the flower wheel Kijin in pain, and his emaciated body was immediately beaten out by force.

"Hey——! Be careful! ”

Suddenly, there was a shout nearby, and Hanawa Kizu's back slammed into the pile of logs.

The pile of logs suddenly toppled over, and in a deafening sound, it slid mercilessly as if the entire figure covering the boy's body.

The huge log struck a thin shard, squeezing and cracking Hanawakizu's form.

Gradually, the piercing blood came into view, and Hanawa Kizu looked like a sofa cut by a blade, revealing the filling inside.

"Let go of me! Elder brother! ”

Like a cat, Norika Hanawa grabbed the man's face roughly.

The man was also stunned, and suddenly lost his strength, and the girl in his arms was freed, and he ran away in a panic.

Like sliced carrots, like red sauce flowing from a cracked salad bowl, staining the table with a red stain.

In the girl's throbbing cry, Jiang Yuanshen seemed to be watching what was happening in the other world from beginning to end, just staring blankly at this scene.

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"Gong Division, we might as well dedicate Ji Xiang of the Hanawa family to God, her father died early, her mother was seriously ill and couldn't live long, her brother also died yesterday, she is not a girl, it is better to let her make a blessing for our Zhitori Island and pass on our wishes to God."

"Why does it have to be Hanawa's? Isn't it okay with your family? ”

"Our child is biological, but we can't bear it, not to mention that the child of the Hanawa family may not be biological, where are her parents so beautiful as her?"

"Yes, besides, the gods must prefer a beautiful child like Ji Xiang."

"Gong Si, if you don't choose a 'human pillar' to suppress the wrath of the gods, then the famine will definitely continue, and all the villagers will starve to death at that time."

"So how?"

"Our wishes are all pinned on her

Then he took out her heart and showed it to the gods. ”

(End of chapter)