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Dressed in two-color linen clothes with yellow and blue, his hair is wrapped in blue linen, his body is thin and his face is yellow, although his clothes are old but they are also clean and tidy, the overall style looks the same as Zhang Moyuan, presumably this is Zhang Moyuan's mother.

When she saw her, she was stunned for a moment, and then called Zhang Moyuan away: "Yuan'er, you come with me." ”

Zhang Moyuan's face sank, and the two of them entered the house one after the other, although they closed the door and left me in the fence courtyard, but the woman outside the door could hear their conversation clearly, don't forget, she is a spiritual creature.

An animal demon with mediocre qualifications can only transform after practicing for a thousand years, and it will take 300 years for a talent like a black bear monster to be talented, and she is a thousand-year-old begonia.

It has been 800 years since the birth of spiritual consciousness, and the five senses of hearing and smell are naturally different from ordinary people.

Mother Zhang inside the door had a solemn face, and she asked, "Yuan'er, where did you bring the woman back from?" ”

Zhang Moyuan: "I picked it up on the mountain, and I brought her back when I looked at it." ”

Mother Zhang: "Yuan'er, this woman doesn't look like an ordinary woman's daughter, let's not see if we can afford it under our current conditions, but you and Qinghuan ...... You can't ......."

I was probably too tired last night, Zhang Moyuan supported the corner of the table with his right hand, and his left hand was on the back of his waist and slightly arched his back to interrupt Zhang's mother: "Mother, I have my own arrangements for this matter, this girl's brain is not very good, and people are also wooden, it is not safe to let her go out alone, let's settle him down for the time being, if someone comes to look for her after a while, we can also ask for some money, if no one comes to look for her, then sell her for some food, so that our life can be better, she will definitely be able to sell it for a good price." ”

Zhang's mother paused for a long time and didn't speak, obviously shocked by Zhang Moyuan's words.

Poor and treacherous.

Maybe it's because of the long life of poverty, and she didn't expect her son to have such thoughts, but what better way can she do if she can't eat? Zhang's mother spoke: "Yuan'er, your father left early, leaving us orphans and widows to live in this world, if your father is alive and will never be able to do this kind of trafficking of other people's children, this lack of virtue is the life of our mother, and now that you have grown up, you have your own ideas for everything!" It's useless for my mother......" Zhang's mother cried as she spoke: "The world is unfair, why do we have to suffer so much~"

Zhang Moyuan stopped talking......

The woman outside the door hugged the dead branches and leaves in her arms and said without doubt, selling? Where to sell?

The woman put down the dead branches and leaves in her hand, and looked at the dilapidated fenced courtyard in front of her, the middle of the road was paved with strange shapes, stones of different sizes, the stones here are not as sharp as the stones on the mountain, the stones on the mountain will hurt people, there are edges and corners, and the stones here have been trampled on for many years, and the stones have been polished bright and transparent.

The woman looked at the dead grass seedlings on both sides of the gravel road, raised her feet and brought up a burst of dust, and now Cangxi Village is really a barren and barren land.

Zhang Moyuan arranged for the woman to go to the second floor, and he told her that she would rest here during this time.

The furnishings of this room are very simple, in the center of the room is a wooden round table for three people, next to the round table are two wooden round stools, it is so old, when you sit down, you babble, you always feel that it will fall apart when you touch it.

Behind the round table is a screen behind which is a bed for resting, and on the carved wooden window to the south of the bed is a bouquet of small wild flowers that cannot be named.

The woman sat lazily on the stool, propped her arms on the table, supported her cheeks with her hands, put her right hand on her lap and fiddled with the threads scattered on her clothes, and leisurely shook her toes...... The bronze mirror is placed at the junction between the screen and the corner of the wall.

After the bronze mirror was sent, Zhang Moyuan had never been in the women's room, she sat on the windowsill and found that Zhang Moyuan was carrying a sack out of the door, and she didn't know where he was going, and she didn't know if he was tired or not, and whether he needed to rest......

The woman turned around and returned to the screen to play with the red sandalwood comb hanging on the bronze mirror, the palm was generally large, the workmanship was of poor quality, the comb teeth were of different lengths, and they were broken a few feet.

The screen is spliced with bamboo pieces, strung up with hemp rope one by one, and the bamboo pieces that have fallen off the skin are matched with the hemp rope with hair, but it has a unique charm.

The woman turned her head to look at the bronze mirror, and in an instant, she was so frightened that she took more than three steps back, she looked at herself in the bronze mirror blankly, with ice muscles and jade bones, picturesque eyebrows, bright eyes, peach cheeks with a smile, red lips and white teeth.

Stretching out his hand to touch the beautiful face in the bronze mirror, the messy hair can't hide this remarkable demeanor.

She's going to be able to sell it for a good price

He kind of understood Zhang Moyuan......

The woman looked at the bronze mirror with a gloomy expression like Zhang Moyuan......

But in addition to being funny, it's still funny......

The sun rises and dawns, and the sky is getting white.

The woman stood in front of the window and jumped up on her tiptoes, flew out of the wooden window, spun gracefully in the air, and in a moment stood on the roof of the house.

The woman sits cross-legged facing the east, drawing the aura of heaven and earth into her body, practicing the essence of the sun, and integrating herself with heaven and earth. In this process, the surrounding aura is combined with the woman, slowly flowing into the body, extending to the whole body along the spiritual vein acupuncture points in the woman's body, and finally integrating into the dantian for her own use.

This is the ability of all spiritual creatures in the world to learn from themselves, but the aura here is too thin, and it is very different from before.

I closed my eyes and used my spiritual sense to perceive the surrounding environment, and I heard a crackling sound of firewood crackling in my ears, and it was Zhang's mother downstairs who was burning the fire.

Due to the transformation of the new form, the self-awareness is not comprehensive enough, and I don't know what else I can do except fly high enough and fast......

So the woman's hands were spread to her waist, and she slammed her palm into the sky with three silent sounds, only to hear a gust of wind whistling around

And her hair snapped against her face with the recoil of luck......

Hiss ~ It hurts...... With this palm, she only used thirty percent of her strength.

Immediately afterwards, as the smell of corpses on her clothes became stronger and stronger, she admitted that she wore such clothes after listening to Zhang Moyuan's words......

She regretted it, and her intestines were blue......

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Zhang's mother brought her a plate of black things, she lifted the cloth and sat opposite the wooden table, Zhang's mother said that this was the baked Guanyin soil.

In the days when there is no government to release grain, you will rely on Guanyin soil to continue your life, child, you will eat something, and I have nothing better to entertain you.

Before hearing Zhang's mother's footsteps approaching, the woman had returned to the house quietly.

Zhang's mother's name is Qin Wanxin

Qin Wanxin looked at the woman in front of her very strangely, she was not arrogant or impatient, she was very well-behaved.

She opened her mouth and said, "I am Zhang Moyuan's mother, you can call me Aunt Qin, where do you live, how many people are in the family?" ”

The woman was originally a begonia incarnation, born on the top of the sky, the family did not, but came to the world, there must be a name and surname, the woman replied, "My name is Begonia, and the family fled to this, accidentally encountered robbers during the journey, then separated from the family, now the life and death of the family is uncertain, I don't know how to be a good time, I met Zhang Gongzi on the mountain, Begonia is grateful to Zhang Gongzi for saving his life, so I am willing to follow Zhang Gongzi, do cattle and horses, in order to repay the grace of saving life, and hope that Aunt Qin will not dislike me!" With that, Haitang got up and bowed slightly to Aunt Qin.

These words were glimpsed in the fragments of the souls of those who had died.

Aunt Qin saw that this woman was very pitiful, and her appearance was also docile and well-behaved, and she had no daughter under her knees, it would be good if she could pick up a big girl for nothing, thinking of this, she couldn't help but move her heart for a while.

Aunt Qin said, "Girl, get up quickly, you listen to Aunt Qin tell you, it's not that Aunt Qin wants to drive you away, it's just that you have seen the conditions of my family, it is common to eat the last meal and not the next meal, if you don't feel hard, you can stay here for a few days, and it will not be too late for him to find your family and leave the child." Qin Wanxin patted Begonia's hand and comforted.

Qin Wanxin then chatted with Haitang about many novel things in Cangxi Village.

According to Aunt Qin,

Cangxi Village was originally full of spiritual energy, green mountains and beautiful waters, and it was a good place to raise people.

Legend has it that this place is guarded by the land god Mud Dragon King, and the Mud Dragon King's ability to call the wind and rain through the sky is not a problem.

Cangxi County is blessed by the mud dragon king, although the wind and rain are smooth, and the people are safe.

Haitang couldn't help but think about the story told by Aunt Qin, so she naturally inherited a lot of rain and dew from the mud dragon king.

Begonias have not been struck by thunder, have not been burned by mountain fires, and even the place where she grows is tricky and weird, with steep cliffs,

Even if a woodcutter wanted to chop her to make firewood, she was helpless, and she avoided natural disasters and man-made disasters.

In fact, to be precise, it was not a five-year drought, but four years, what happened in that first year?

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According to Qin Wanxin, the head ......

Five years ago, a villager was farming, and while farming, he accidentally shoveled and killed a yellow eel that was as long as a flat shoulder and as wide as an adult man's arm.

It is said that the appearance of the yellow eel is different from the yellow eel that you usually see, the black and green markings of the yellow eel are evenly distributed all over the body, and the red dripping mark on the top of the head is curled up when the villager accidentally shovels it to death, very much like a snake?

At that time, the villager was very frightened.

But although it is said to be a miss, the villagers who are hungry for profit are eager to take credit.

I heard that Zhu Yuanwai of Yuanwai Mansion likes to eat rare birds and beasts, so he gave this yellow eel with his head and body to Zhu Yuanwai, a famous local rich man.

Zhu Yuanwai has eaten all the delicacies of the mountains and seas, and the delicacies of the palace, and he has lived for most of his life to see such rare game, and he is naturally happy to see it for the first time.

The villager exchanged the eel for half a year's food.

After tasting the sweetness, the surrounding villagers began to follow suit, hunting and killing yellow eels everywhere, and even secretly opened the embankment to introduce river water to build their own river ponds despite the dissuasion of the officials.

In the pond, there are countless raw meats,

Eventually, the hard work paid off, and many villagers caught a yellow eel the size of a three-year-old child.

They unanimously sent the yellow eel to the Zhu Yuanwai Mansion.

Among them, there are some villagers who can speak well, and coax Na Zhu Yuanwai to be overjoyed, and when he is full of wine and food, he will marry a disobedient concubine in the house to the villager.

To say that this Zhu Yuan is very rich, but he is extremely stingy, treats people harshly, has a group of wives and concubines, and the most important thing around him is the women who are scavenging and buying and selling.

Aunt Qin leaned close to Haitang's ear and whispered to her, "This official outside Zhu Yuan was bought, and some people in his clan are officials in the capital, and even the mountain bandits and grass cowards have to buy him a little face!" ”

Haitang couldn't help but be surprised, "Where is the king's law?" ”

Aunt Qin: "The royal law is set for us and other ordinary people, and it is the common people who are constrained, human life is like a mustard, the world is like this, what can you and I do." ”

Pick up again,

The villager who got the beauty is called Li Laosan, who has no father and no mother, and there are only two brothers who have never married a wife.

That Li Laosan also became a domestic slave outside the house in Zhu Yuanwai's mansion.

The concubine who gave Li Laosan was petite and exquisite, about twenty years old, and it was a pity to marry a single man who was nearly 30 years old, that Li Laosan had sharp beaked monkey gills, short and thin, and liked to gamble, he lived for most of his life to marry his daughter-in-law, and naturally he was grateful to Zhu Yuanwai.

Begonia" is really a flower stuck in cow dung! ”

Aunt Qin said

Later, the concubine gave birth to a son the following year.

Unexpectedly, this child was born just over 100 days ago, and then drowned in a pond built by Li Laosan himself.

And that day was the 100th birthday banquet for Li Laosan's children.

Immediately afterwards, Li Laosan's two elder brothers died of illness in the same year, and Li Laosan's wife hanged herself at home because she could not accept the pain of losing her child.

Begonia "has a thin life since ancient times!" ”

At this time, Aunt Qin paused, as if she thought of something,

She said, "Who says it's not, this Li Laosan's wife went crazy in less than three months, Li Laosan drank too much and lost money, and when he returned home, he would beat her to vent, and it was inevitable that there would be problems after a long time." ”

Haitang said angrily, "Such a man, no wonder he only got his wife in the middle of the year." ”

Aunt Qin: "You don't know this, it's even more excessive, it's still to come, this is not the main reason why the concubine is crazy,

I heard people nearby say that I often see Li Laosan's two brothers looking for Li Laosan at night, and they go in the middle of the night.

It spread in the village that this concubine not only had to serve Li Laosan, but even Li Laosan's two elder brothers had to serve together, and after a long time, she was driven crazy. ”

Haitang was completely furious when he heard this: "What a beast! , pigs and dogs are not as good! ”

This world is so dark and the world is not ancient, because it is for his daughter, is he destined to be slaughtered like a mustard?

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In the following year, the plague raged, the crops could not be planted, and the villagers began to die one after another.

And that's just the beginning......

Four years ago, a monk who was more than half a hundred years old in Taoist robes traveled here, and he calculated that the feng shui of this place was broken and the filthy gas was deposited, and it was an ominous place.

Although there is a mountain behind it, there is no water on the face, and the mountains and rivers cannot meet, and the connection between the mountains and rivers is cut off by countless ditches underground.

The mountain at the entrance of the village should have been a scene of prosperity in Tibet, but now, such a location will make it difficult for the vitality to gather, and it will inevitably be more auspicious and less auspicious, and it will be full of life.

No one paid attention to this uninvited guest, who had never met before, but just regarded him as a charlatan who was swaggering and deceiving, and hurried away with some dry food.

Later, not only Cangxi Village, but also Qilin Town next door also died one after another without warning......

It was always dark,

The clouds were thick and black, as if they were about to be pressed down, and from time to time there were deafening thunder and blinding lightning. Then, in less than a moment, it began to rain heavily, and it was so fierce that it lasted for three months.

After March, there was a drought.

Haitang stared at Qin Wanxin, who was talking with relish, with innocent eyes, and Qin Wanxin chatted with Haitang's parents for a long time.

In the end, perhaps a little tired, she wiped the spit from the corner of her mouth with the handkerchief she carried with her.

She shook her head and said, "I don't know if this is a man-made disaster or a natural disaster, this drought has not improved in the slightest until now, I and other villagers raised a lot of money from Mianqing to invite a warlock to ask for rain for us, but no warlock can ask for rain." ”

Aunt Qin: "Child, you can eat something, there is nothing better to entertain you." After saying that, Aunt Qin left.

Before leaving, she motioned to Begonia to eat something, and brought her a change of clothes, she asked Begonia to take off the clothes on her body, the smell was too strong.

Haitang stopped Qin Wanxin, who was about to leave, and asked, "What about Gongzi Zhang?" ”

Aunt Qin: "Ah Yuan, he gets up early every few days and goes to the mountains thirty miles away to fetch water, which is the only water source that has not dried up in the past five years, this time it is sixty miles back and forth, and it is almost dusk when he steps into the house!"

As for Ah Yuan, he was a sensible child, and his father died on the battlefield when he was ten years old, and he didn't even leave us with a corpse......"

Qin Wanxin thought for a moment and then said, "Ah Yuan, he is very smart, he brought back much more water and food than others, and no matter how hard and tired he is, he never says a word. In order to keep our mother and daughter from going hungry, when it was their turn to release grain, they went to Zhu Yuanwai's house in Qilin Town, five miles away, and waited for the government to release grain.

At night, he went into the mountains to look for edible wild vegetable bark, and he did this every day for several years, without a day of rest......

That's the meat that fell from my body, how can I not feel sorry for him, I always took Yuan'er's hand and said to him, son, don't work so hard, my mother can't eat much, the food you are looking for is enough for us to live, my mother only hopes that you can be safe! If you have an accident, how can you be worthy of your dead father!

Although Ah Yuan promised me, he still wouldn't listen to me, and Yuan'er would always say sensibly: Mother, Ah Yuan is not bitter, Ah Yuan is more afraid of your bitterness. ”

Aunt Qin looked into the distance with red eyes, there seemed to be endless tears in her eyes, my hands were on my thighs and I pinched the corners of my sleeves and looked at her without knowing what to do......

Aunt Qin continued: "What about Yuan'er, he has a childhood sweetheart named Shen Qinghuan, who lives in Qilin Town, Yuan'er has studied in a private school in Qilin Town since he was a child, and he has known Shen Qinghuan since he was a child, but Shen Qinghuan's father is addicted to alcohol and does not want to make progress...... I shouldn't have said that.

Ay!

Since the drought, he has been clamoring to sell Shen Qinghuan in order to support Shen Qinghuan's younger brother, Shen Qinghuan was not yet fourteen years old at that time, two years younger than my Yuan'er, Yuan'er couldn't bear it, so he often helped the Shen family, and went to see Shen Qinghuan every once in a while by sending food and grain, for fear that the Shen family would sell Qinghuan, so the Shen family didn't mention it, but it was just bitter Shen Qinghuan and my Yuan'er! ”

Haitang only felt tired, and it was really too tired to accompany Zhang Moyuan for half a night last night, and he couldn't resist it as a fairy......

But she couldn't bear to interrupt Aunt Qin, just when she pinched the corners of her sleeves and didn't know what to do, the motionless corpse of the mass grave on the top of the sky flashed through her mind......

Aunt Qin was taken aback by Begonia, and then asked Begonia to go to rest, and when she saw that Begonia ignored her, she turned around and left.

Listening to Aunt Qin's footsteps walking away, Haitang returned to the bed.

She could finally rest.

When Begonia took shape, she sucked a lot of soul fragments of dead people, and she lay on the bed, sorting out these soul fragments, and fell asleep unconsciously......

I don't know how long I slept, and in a trance Begonia had a dream......

The begonias in the dream came to a lake with excellent scenery, and the lake was lined with willows, and the lake was as flat as a mirror......

In the distance, a man and a woman stood on a covered bridge.

Haitang leaned down, bent her knees with her legs, supported herself on the ground with one hand, and looked at the reflection in the water on the covered bridge, and couldn't help but feel a sour feeling in her heart.

The sky was full and clear, like a night lamp hanging in the sky, round and bright, and the night covered the two with a layer of silver sand, which was particularly eye-catching, and the hazy and faint light was emitted......

Begonia unconsciously stretched out his hand, and his fingertips tapped the surface of the lake, and suddenly the lake surface rippled, and bursts of sparkling ripples slowly spread outward.

And the figures of the two people also swayed with the ripples, but they didn't disperse no matter how they shook......

And the begonia has faced the bright moon and slowly sank into the water......

Instinctively, she stretched out her hands to grab something, but only scratched the phantom of the two of them......

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Zhang Moyuan was carrying a sack containing game picked up from the mountains, so he didn't have to think much about Zhang Moyuan to send grain to Shen Qinghuan's family......

To be continued......