Chapter Seventy-Three: The Story of Snowflakes (3)
Things have developed beyond anyone's imagination.
The kindness of the Snow Maiden fuels people's greed.
After this fight, gangs were formed among the villagers, and every day there would be endless quarrels and robbing. Although everyone's days are still full of food and clothing, there is no longer the happiness at the beginning.
In autumn, the weather is getting colder and colder.
A little girl who went up the mountain to collect medicine sat lonely in the middle of the mountain and cried. It was getting dark, and she was still there alone and refused to go home.
"Little girl, why are you crying here alone?" the little girl looked up, and a gentle and beautiful big sister stood in front of her.
The little girl sobbed and said to her, "I don't want to go home, when I come home, it's just noise and fighting." My mother was sick and no one cared for me, so I went up to the mountains alone to collect medicine, but I couldn't find the medicine I needed. I can't go home and face my mother, what should I do......"
"What's wrong with your mother?" asked the little girl gently and worriedly.
"Wind Chill ......"
"It's okay, don't be afraid. I have a pill here, you can take it back and give it to your mother, and make sure that your mother's illness will be cured tomorrow. ”
The little girl took the white pill in disbelief, put it on her body, wiped away her tears, and smiled on her face: "Thank you, big sister." ”
"Is your home in the village in front? I'll send you back, it's getting dark, you're alone, I'm not at ease. ”
"Thank you, sister. The little girl happily agreed, and the kind big sister accompanied the lonely little girl to the village down the hill.
It was getting dark, and in the distance, the dim lights of the village were particularly clear on this late autumn night. The wind rustled the dry leaves on the ground. The little girl was a little frightened, she looked up at the loving face of the beautiful sister beside her, plucked up her courage, and went on.
Her home is not far away.
"Little sister, why didn't your family come out to help your mother collect medicine, and let you go up the mountain alone, how dangerous is it?"
"Sister, you don't know, in my family, there is no one to help. ”
"This ...... Where's your father?"
He ...... Alas......"
The little girl's grandfather, who was seriously injured in the battle for supplies last winter, lay in bed for more than ten days, and finally left them and died.
This incident was a big blow to the family. Her father, in order to get justice for her grandfather, has been arguing with the other party for a long time, but he can't get a result. My father drank day and night, went out early and returned late drunk, and he couldn't see anyone at all.
My mother had been sick for two days, and if she didn't take medicine, it would only get worse, so she had to go up the mountain to collect medicine. After looking for a whole day, I couldn't find a cure for wind and cold, but fortunately I met my kind sister.
The kind sister listened to the little girl's story, but began to wonder in her heart, what the hell is going on? What is it that will make the whole village participate in it, and be so reckless. The egg hurts
She asked the little girl carefully, hoping to help the people in the village after understanding clearly. After all, this village, she has always been concerned.
The little girl told her sister everything she could remember.
Seven years ago, when the little girl was five years old, the family was very poor, until flour fell in the sky......
This kind big sister listened to the little girl's story, tears rolled in her eyes, and her heart was also bleeding.
She's none other than the Snow Maiden.
Originally, this time she wanted to come to see people's happy and happy lives, transform into ordinary people, pretend to pass by the village, and feel people's happiness. Who knows, but it has become like this.
Her kindness, after several years of change, brought such consequences to her heartache.
She sent the little girl to the door and said goodbye to her. A person walked back to the mountain, stood on a high place, and looked down on this village that should have been peaceful and happy, because of her, people's greed was released like never before. It is heartbreaking to make this originally happy family so fragmented and heartbroken.
The Snow Maiden began to reflect on herself, and soon, it was a cold winter, should she continue to provide abundant food for the people? If she did, it would only make people's greedy hearts even more greedy. However, if they don't give it, how will they survive the winter? How can the villagers, who have become accustomed to reaching out and begging, survive the cold winter on their own without food from the Snow Maiden......
The Snow Maiden thought about it all night in the cold wind of late autumn.
The next day, she came again to the house of the little girl she had met yesterday. Her mother's illness, under the influence of the Snow Maiden's elixir, had begun to improve.
The little girl was alone in the kitchen, helping her mother cook porridge.
She saw her kind sister standing at the gate of the courtyard, and hurried over happily, wanting to invite her sister to have breakfast together. Snow Maiden refused, and she only asked the little girl one question.
"Sister, sister asks you. Although you can live a prosperous life now, your family is not happy. If you had to choose, would you be willing to go back to the happy days you used to have?"
The little girl lowered her head and thought about it very seriously: "Sister, if I go back to the past, my grandfather can live, my father will no longer drink, the villagers will no longer make noise, and I and other children can play happily." Even if the food and clothing are not as good as they are now, as long as I am well fed and clothed, I am willing to give up my wealth. ”
Snow Girl nodded, and she smiled...... Gently touching the girl's hair, I already have the answer in my heart.
She said to the little girl, let her tell everyone that from this winter, the Snow Maiden will no longer provide so much food to the villagers, and every year, it will be reduced, this year there will be no sugar, next year there will be no rice, and another year, there will be no salt...... And then there was nothing. A total of three years of transition time allowed the villagers to prepare in advance. Think about what self-reliance you have to rely on in the future.
The little girl listened to the Snow Girl's words and nodded incessantly, although she didn't understand what these words meant, but, for her, this kind big sister who saved her mother must be a good person. What a good man says, must be right.
Finally, Snow Girl tells the little girl that her name is Snow Girl.
The little girl waited for the Snow Maiden to leave, fed her mother porridge, and went to the bazaar to find her father, and told him what the Snow Maiden's sister had said. The little girl had no choice but to go back to the village alone and tell the Snow Girl's words from house to house. It's a pity that no one believed her.
Later, the little girl didn't care about this, she believed. So, together with her mother, she prepared the seeds to be planted next spring.
Soon, the winter north wind began to blow, and the first heavy snow finally came.