Chapter 2: Before the Holy Religion
The stupid girl went into the backyard with a sigh, turned left and counted the second room, the door was not closed, only a blue curtain, the stupid girl opened the curtain and went in, and saw that on the left side of the room was a large cabinet against the wall, with a rectangular table with a pot of water and several used cups, and a large shop on the right, and a few people sitting on the bunk.
As soon as she came in, several people on the shop turned their heads to look at her, two girls sat on the side of the door hand in hand, three boys sat on the side of the window, the five children were all seven or eight years old, wearing the same cotton clothes, the pillows and mattresses on the bed were the same blue as the door curtains, several people stared at each other and did not speak, the stupid girl thought about it, and walked inside and sat on the ground against the cabinet.
Touching the flat bluestone slabs on the ground, the stupid girl sighed a little, it turned out that the big families used bluestone slabs to pave the floor, which was much cleaner than the mud floor at home.
After a while, the little girl sitting by the door couldn't help herself, and shouted to the stupid girl, "Hey, why are you sitting on the ground?"
The stupid girl honestly replied, "It will get dirty." "This futon looks very difficult to wash, unlike my own two rags, just rub it casually.
The little girl choked, thought about it, and said, "It's almost time for lunch, and there will be a hot bath after lunch, and someone will send you new clothes in a while." β
"Is it the same as you?" asked the stupid girl.
"Yes, it's the same. β
When the little girl had answered, there was silence in the room again, and the stupid girl felt strange and asked them, "Why don't you speak?" β
The other little girl had been holding back for a long time, and hurriedly replied: "They are boys, men and women are seven years old, how can they talk to boys." β
Silly didn't understand, but she knew she wasn't even seven years old, "Then I'm four years old, can I talk to boys?"
Before the little girl could reply, she heard a sneer, and a slightly older boy stood up by the window, "Of course, you can say as much as you want, she herself said a lot yesterday!"
As soon as the boy spoke, the other two younger boys chimed in, and after a long time the stupid girl understood what was going on, the older boy was called Niu Wa, nine years old, and the other two boys were called Xiaoshu and Ah Yu, both of whom were seven years old, and the girl who asked her at the beginning was called Cai'er, seven years old, and said that the little girl who was seven years old and the girl was called Luo Xiuxiu, eight years old.
Niu Wa and Luo Xiuxiu both came yesterday, the other three came the day before yesterday, and they have been living for two days, and the contradiction between them was only this morning, and when it comes to the cabinet that the stupid girl leaned on, the cabinet is two open doors, there are three layers of six grids, you can put personal things, the bottom layer and the middle layer are okay, but the top layer is not reachable, the three children came the day before yesterday, with the bottom three grids, Niu Wa and Luo Xiuxiu came yesterday, one of the two is bound to use a higher level of grid, yesterday was okay, they all came empty-handed, there is nothing on their bodies, there is no need to fight for the cabinet, this morning two sets of clothes and daily necessities were sent, it caused problemsγ
Neither of them wanted to use the cabinet on the top floor, so they argued, and Niu Wa won the battle, so Luo Xiuxiu was so angry that she didn't talk to him all morning.
Niu Wa jumped out of bed, opened the cabinet and laboriously moved her things to the top floor, and said to the stupid girl: "You are so short, you look much smaller than us, this layer of cabinets is for you, how old are you, what is your name?"
"She just said that she was four years old, didn't you hear?" Luo Xiuxiu said indignantly, Niu Wa looked back at Luo Xiuxiu helplessly, "I use the top cabinet like you, why are you still angry?"
"My name is Silly and I'm four years old. The stupid girl took advantage of this time to answer him.
"Stupid girl, your name is really strange!" Luo Xiuxiu smiled.
The stupid girl didn't think her name was ugly, and the girls in the village were like this, but after listening to Luo Xiuxiu's name, she also began to feel that her name was really a little ugly.
"It's true that your name is better, Luo Xiuxiu, which show is it?"
"Xiuwai Huizhong, Zhong Lingyuxiu's show! It's good!" Luo Xiuxiu said a little proudly, Niu Wa interrupted her, "Okay, the names of the children in our village are like this, how can it compare to your cultured people in the city!"
"Her father is the showman in town, taught her to recognize a lot of words, and has been showing us for a day! Niu Wa said to the stupid girl.
The eldest brother's master is Xiucai, she once secretly followed the eldest brother to attend classes, and has seen it many times, the old Xiucai moved a face, and hit the eldest brother's palm with a ring ruler every day, and a year's restraint costs one or two silver, I really don't understand why my father and mother spend so much money to send the eldest brother to be beaten.
But Xiucai is so profitable, why does Xiuxiu still come here? The stupid girl asked out in confusion, and Xiuxiu pulled down her face as soon as she heard it, "My father was seriously ill last year, and he spent all the family's money and was not cured, and my mother remarried, so she sent me to the Holy Sect." β
As a few people were talking, they suddenly heard a few strange voices like broken gongs that had not drunk water for several days, "Eat!
"It's time to eat!" A few children happily jumped out of bed and ran out of the room, the stupid girl was the last to come out, although she didn't eat in the morning, but she didn't feel hungry, and she was interested in looking at the surrounding environment, there were four rooms in this row, counting the stupid girl from the left, they were the second, and a few children also ran out of the first room, all of them were about the same age as Xiuxiu, and there was no one in the two rooms on the right.
Niu Wa saw that she stopped there and didn't leave, so she came over and pulled her along, "I asked the grandma in the kitchen yesterday, when our four rooms are full, we can go to the Holy Sect, it will be full in almost half a month, and we will have to live for a few more days." β
"Oh. The stupid girl sighed, followed the cow baby through the corridor, and arrived at a lobby room, where there were two rectangular tables, but only the left table was occupied, and the right table would be used when the other two rooms were occupied.
There is a big pot of pickled radish on the table, a large pot of coarse grains, a bowl of corn porridge per person, and the stupid girl picks up a nest and gnaws it slowly, which is much better than what is eaten at home.
After eating, Silly followed the other children to put the bowls and chopsticks in the basin and went back to the room, "Don't you need to wash the dishes?" asked Silly.
"No, there are miscellaneous servants in the backyard, and we are disciples of the sect, as long as we exercise our bodies, practice martial arts well, and serve the Holy Sect. Xiuxiu lay on the bunk, squinting sleepily, "I want to sleep for a while, don't disturb me." β
Stupid girl suddenly understood something, she didn't come to be a disciple of the sect, she was different from Xiuxiu.
She remembered the words of the middle-aged man when she first came, testing people, life and death.
Life or death, she can eat and sleep now alive, it is life, and the ants she poked under the tree in front of her house this morning are dead.
The Holy Sect doesn't need her to practice martial arts, doesn't need her to work, as long as she has a life.
The stupid girl sat down against the cabinet and closed her eyes, which was boring.