Last night, I finished reading all the events about the Black Duck River in 1929 in this note, and I didn't get up until nearly ten o'clock in the morning, and just got out of the tent, poured the water in the hot water bottle into the basin and prepared to wash, Jiang Lianyang came with a meal.

"Immortal Luo, let's eat!"

"How do you know I'm up, and I'm coming?"

"I've come to see you a few times, but you haven't gotten up, the food has been hot several times, eat it while it's hot." Jiang Lianyang said.

"I'm really embarrassed to work hard for you to deliver food every day, in fact, I can do a little bit myself."

It suddenly occurred to me that I still had twenty taels of silver in my bag, and I was only immersed in studying the notes these days, and I didn't go around, but first, because this mountain and river village was poor and remote, and there was really nothing to visit, and second, because in such an era, I was really not in the mood to eat, drink, and have fun.

Especially in this winter, it is estimated that more than half of the tenants in the village can not eat, last night before going to bed I heard a movement outside, and thought it was some animal, but quietly opened the tent to see, found that someone was rummaging in the shack, should be looking for food, so there was no alarm.

After I got out of the tent just now, I looked into the shack and found that the half sack of white rice that had been placed in the shack yesterday was gone.

Although I am not a compassionate person, in this era, in the face of endless and great suffering, my heart will also feel pain.

"It's okay, you don't have a pot here, I'll send you some every day, it's not troublesome, we live close."

"In this village, at this time, does every family have something to eat?"

"Oh, that's not there, only the rich and landlord's families don't lack food, eat three meals a day, and the rest of the tenants must have more than half of the food at home not enough to eat."

In fact, the rich households mentioned by Jiang Lianyang are just poor peasants who have two acres of land and farm their own land to eat, that is, poor peasants who can barely starve to death.

"What should I do if I don't have enough food to eat? Have you ever starved to death? ”

"If you don't have enough to eat, you will borrow it from the landlord, and if you can't borrow it, you will wait to starve to death, and several people will starve to death every year. But generally after the autumn harvest, those who know that the food is not enough for the winter, will find a way in advance, dig the rat hole to find food, dig wild vegetables to dry and save up, take some rabbits and roe deer to the rich family's house to exchange some food, and save food all winter, the family puts a handful of rice to cook a pot of soup every day, and lives by drinking soup, and survives the winter, and people are hungry to the bones...... Fortunately, Luo Shenxian instructed me to dig the hole of the gray master at that time, otherwise our family would have run out of food by now......"

Jiang Lianyang babbled, I washed up and opened the big bowl he brought.

"Yo, eat dumplings today?"

It's really hard to imagine that this food will appear in the bowl that Jiang Lianyang brought over.

"Hehe, yes, it's a new year today, eat dumplings, sauerkraut filling, and add meat foam to this bowl for you."

"Didn't you eat meat with it?"

"No, how much meat you put in it, this is to honor you."

"Don't do this in the future, I eat yours every day, and I have to eat a small pot, I feel ashamed...... By the way, I said last time, when I have money, I will give you two acres of land, this is for you. ”

I said and gave Jiang Lianyang a silver bar I brought.

"Huh? This ......" Jiang Lianyang stared at the silver bar in my hand, and refused to reach out to take it.

"If it's not enough, I'll bring some more for you to make up for when I go back, I still have one left, I need to do something."

Jiang Lianyang's dumplings taste really good, maybe I haven't eaten anything good for a long time, compressed biscuits, instant noodles and Jiang Lianyang's brown rice or porridge every day, stir-fried pickles, although my mind is not on eating and drinking, but I still think it's good to eat a good meal occasionally.

Why does Jiang Lianyang only bring me one meal a day? Because in order to save food, their family only eats one meal a day on days when they don't do any work.

"Oh, this can't be helped, it can't be helped, last time in the gray master's cave, I took out a lot of grain and a little silver, I always wanted to ask you, how do you share those things with you?"

I finally took my eyes off the dumplings and looked at Jiang Lianyang, who was standing in front of me at a loss: in his forties, with a frosty face, wearing cotton clothes and pants with patches on his body, cracked cuts on his hands, standing there always looking like he had nowhere to put his hands and feet, and he felt cowardly towards everyone.

He made a windfall by being a tenant all year round without three meals—and I knew from that note that he had made a great fortune from the cave, when in fact he did not know that I knew about it, and yet he was still thinking about what to do with me.

I pretended to think seriously for a while, and then asked:

"How much grain did the gray master bring out of his cave?"

"Sixty pounds of grain, four pieces of ocean, and those rabbits."

Well? This is too different from what is recorded in the notes, but the notes were written by later people, maybe Jiang Lianyang's descendants bragged about it.

"I want to think about it."

He stood by and waited, looking at me more respectfully.

I thought that he would feel better if I had to act serious, so I pretended to ask for it and said:

"Don't divide it, you can also take the ten taels of silver, add me a boiled egg every day."

"Eggs are only a few dollars, two pennies a piece." Jiang Lianyang Road.

"In our place, one tael of silver can only buy twenty eggs, and eggs are very expensive things, so don't shirk it, take it."

"In your heaven, is it so difficult for the gods to eat eggs?"

"Poof......

I almost choked to death on dumplings, coughed violently for a long time, barely calmed down, and adjusted a very serious expression and said:

"Yes, it's not easy for us to eat eggs...... By the way, you just said that at this time of year, most of the tenants have nothing to eat? ”

"Hmm."

Jiang Lianyang finally took the ten taels of silver and held it tightly in his hand.

"Are you familiar with all these tenants?"

"Why are you not familiar, they are all very cooked, there are a few families with a good relationship, I took a few catties of bud rice from home the day before yesterday, and secretly put them at the door of a few houses, and it is estimated that I am about to finish eating."

"Why do you want to keep it secret?"

"If others know that my family is suddenly rich, if someone falsely accuses me of stealing, I will be led by Li Zheng to smash my family."

I see. I originally wanted to ask Jiang Lianyang to send some money and grain to each tenant family, or learn from the ancients to give porridge or something, but it seems that I can't do it with great fanfare.

I wanted to buy rice to help these tenants discuss with Jiang Lianyang the meaning of the winter, and he immediately said that he secretly sent a few catties to each family at night, and then estimated that he would send it again when he was almost finished.

After Jiang Lianyang left, I packed up and went out with the silver, and first walked around the street a few times, probably because it was the New Year, and the weather was too cold, so there were no people.

The people on the street were staring at me all the time, and I thought I might have been too eye-catching in this era: long navy blue down jackets, jeans, leather shoes up to my knees.

And this era is still the era when there will be a person wearing a long shirt on the street from time to time.

But it doesn't matter, tunics and suits have become popular in this era, so let them think of me as a progressive student from a big city.

I went into a grain store, probably inquired about the price of grain, and had a number in my heart, and then bought 100 catties of cornmeal, flour, and millet, and asked the store to send them to the tenant Jiang Lianyang's house, and the store was stunned and looked at me in disbelief.

"Oh, I have a relationship with Jiang Lianyang's family, and I see that he is having a hard time, so I will help him."

The shopkeeper believed it, and hurriedly found a small cart to load the grain into the car, and called someone to push it to Jiang Lianyang's house together.

Subsequently, I bought another 200 catties of meat at the butcher shop and sent it to Jiang Lianyang's house. Anyway, the Chinese New Year is over, and the tenants also eat dumplings.

After doing this, I went to the Black Duck River again.

The Black Duck River is about three or four miles away from Shanhe Village, and it is not far to walk.

The Black Duck River is about ten meters wide, the river is all frozen at this time, and there are weeds on both sides that are more than half a person high, not far from the Black Duck River, there are about forty or fifty trees, which should be the place where the child named Pei Xiaopei had an accident.

In the summer, when the ice in the river melts, the grass grows again, and the fruit trees over there are shady, and this place seems to be a place of shade.

I was standing on the shore in a daze, when suddenly I saw a red shadow flashing in the fruit grove, looking like a child.

Well? In this era, it seems that it is the first time to see such a brightly dressed person.

I took a few steps closer to the woods to see whose child it was, but the shadow was gone, and I stood beside the woods, and suddenly I felt that the forest was a little strange, and that there seemed to be a little fog in the woods in the winter, and as I got closer, the fog grew thicker and thicker.

It seems that there is really a ghost in this who wants to catch me as a stand-in?

I smiled inwardly and walked towards the woods.

Too many things have happened to me in the past few years, and it's not once or twice that I've seen something unreasonable with my own eyes, but then I found that none of these things hurt me.

"Ahh

"Woo-woo-ah-woo-woo-"

"Please, sir, don't kill me, don't kill me, please, sir......"

Suddenly, deep in the fog ahead, I walked briskly forward with the screams, cries, and pleadings of children.

After walking a few steps, I found that in the thick fog, several children were lying on the ground, and several other bodies were suspended in mid-air, and then suddenly and quickly landed, as if an invisible person was grabbing these children and throwing them to the ground.

Screams and cries rang out, and then, abruptly, there was silence all around, except for the growing fog and the intermittent cries of children in their ears.

The children did not fall from the fruit tree, but were killed by someone, and the scene just now should be the scene of the ghosts of these children repeating the moment of death.

At this moment, I felt a chill coming from the black discus in my arms, and I took it out, and saw that the dark red smoke on it was even thicker, and in the mist in this forest, there seemed to be wisps of dark red mist peeling out of it and sinking into the black discus in my hand.

It seems that my previous guess was correct, this black discus really likes to absorb these resentments, blood, dark and negative energy.

After a long time, there was no longer a dark red mist in the surrounding fog and submerged into the black discus, and then, I found that a dark red stripe appeared on the discus in my hand.

When did this stripe appear?

I thought about it for a long time and couldn't figure it out, and it wasn't too early to see the sky, so I went back.

Because the place where I live is close to the outside of the village, as soon as I approached the village, I saw Jiang Lianyang standing at my door from a distance, saw me, and quickly turned around and went home, and when I walked to the door, he had already come over with a basin:

"Immortal Luo, let's eat!"