Chapter 405 Li Ergou's Childhood(1/2)
It's the black crow!
Why do black crows attack their own people?!
Wang Siyan continued to fall to the ground, his thoughts extremely confused.
The black crow transformed the windbreaker into a pair of pitch-black bird wings, emitting billowing black smoke.
Wang Siyan opened his mouth wide and was dumbfounded.
She didn't understand why the black crow, which was supposed to be the enemy, suddenly attacked the knight. Aren't they companions?!
Wang Siyan landed firmly on the ground, and the black crow spread its wings in front of her. He turned his head, stared at Wang Siyan with bloodshot eyes, and said with a cry: "Master Fox Fairy! Do you still remember me?"
Black Crow looked at Wang Siyan's face excitedly. He would never forget this face, so beautiful and holy.
Although sixty years have passed, he has forgotten many things. Even his real name, Li Ergou, he rarely remembers.
But he has never forgotten Master Fox Fairy and his mother.
In those difficult times, he was happier than ordinary children. In his long life, the only thing worth remembering was the short ten years of childhood...
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When he was a child, Li Ergou didn't know how scary the world was. All he understood about the outside world was what adults talked about.
They often said that monsters appeared somewhere outside, Taoist gods appeared somewhere, bandits robbed so-and-so's village, how many people died, and deserters from the army fled near the village.
Although the adults say that the area outside the village has become a mess, the village is still peaceful.
His mother often told him that many people outside didn't have enough to eat. Before she fled here while pregnant with him, she was hungry and ate Guanyin soil. At that time, many people were starving themselves to death like this. She didn't want to eat the soil, but by then she was already hungry.
Not even the grass roots or bark were eaten.
She, a weak woman, was alone. The reason why she was able to walk to the village was because the fox fairy protected her.
Yes, Fox Fairy... Everyone in this village says they are protected by Fox Fairy.
"Mom, you said the Fox Fairy saved you, what did she give you to eat?"
"A handful of rice."
It was so common, he thought it was meat.
"Before this, mother, you always ate bark and grass roots?"
"Yes, there's nothing to eat."
"Can that be eaten?"
"Ergou, you'll know after you try it."
His mother took a piece of bark from the tree and put it into his mouth. He chewed it and spit it out on the ground. How could he eat something that was so dry on his tongue? His mother must be lying.
No matter how hungry people are, they will not eat tree bark. Why don't those hungry people go to farm? Doesn't it taste good to eat the sweet potatoes and rice grown?
Every man in their village farms, and Li Ergou has never been hungry since he was a child. Although he has no father, all the uncles in the village will give his mother food.
My mother said that these foods are only available in their village. The past few years have been bad and the land in other places cannot grow food. Only their village can grow food with the blessing of the fox fairy.
In addition to protecting the land from growing food, the fox fairy will also protect the people in the village from outside demons. A Taoist named Zhou once visited their place. The young Taoist said personally that there was a fox fairy living in this village.
If you worship sincerely every year, the fox fairy will bless the village with safety and success.
The god lived in the village for several years and did a lot for the village. He never stayed in other people's homes at night, but only lived alone in a broken temple on the hill behind the ancestral hall. Then one day, he suddenly left, saying...
In the face of a national crisis, some things must be done.
The old man sitting under the tree at the entrance of the village said that soon after the god left, a group of bandits and refugees came to them.
The bandits robbed all the food in the village and piled it in the ruined temple behind the ancestral hall. They grabbed a few women from the village every night and released them back during the day. Those girls could be heard crying every night during those days.
Voice.
Finally one day, the people in the village couldn't stand it anymore, and they made an appointment to get some guys together. They rushed in while the bandits were doing business in the middle of the night and killed those guys. That night, everyone held hoes and sickles, and at the third watch of the moon on the treetops,
Shifen gathered outside the temple, preparing to rush in and kill the girls when they started crying.
But they waited all night, and there was no movement inside.
The old man was holding a sickle and asked others if it was because these beasts had realized their conscience today and no longer planned to do that.
"If they don't do that, why do they come to arrest women?"
He thought it was right, so a large group of men continued to wait at the gate of the temple.
But when they arrived at Dongfang Yubaibai, there was still no sound at all in the temple. When everyone couldn't wait any longer and prepared to rush into the temple to fight the bandits, the wooden planks of the ruined temple door were suddenly removed from the inside, and the captured girls came one after another.
Came out from inside.
The villagers were shocked. When they broke in and took a look, they found that the men were all lying on the ground with their chests exposed and their clothes disheveled. The men hugged each other intimately. Their bodies were thin and thin, and the shape of their ribs was clearly visible, as if they had been sleeping overnight.
It was as if the essence and blood had been sucked dry.
After questioning, the girls all said that they had just entered the temple yesterday and fell asleep unknowingly. In their dreams, they saw a very beautiful fairy, but the fairy had ears like Huli and nine ears on the back of her buttocks.
With a translucent tail, she told them not to worry, and would go to the village tomorrow morning to have people move all the food back. She also said that she hoped the village could repair the ruined temple and put a bed in the temple.
"Just come here once at the end of each season. Don't get close to it during normal times." The fox fairy said.
Since then, the people in the village have been behaving well and doing things according to the instructions of the Fox Fairy.
Li Ergou heard this story more than a hundred times from the old people in the village. He couldn't bear his curiosity. One night, he violated the village rules and sneaked into the renovated temple to try his luck to see if he could see it.
The legendary fox fairy.
He saw the Fox Fairy. Looking from the grass to the top of the temple, he could see a woman in white clothes sitting on the top looking at the moon. The moonlight was pouring like a waterfall, and her clothes seemed to be shining. Li Ergou came from
He has never seen such a beautiful person, and he will never forget that face.
Soon, the fox fairy disappeared on the roof. He was about to get up and go home when he heard a very pleasant voice coming from behind.
"Kid, are you peeking at me?"
"Ah! Lord Fox Fairy! Lord Fox Fairy! I was wrong, I never dare to do it again!" Li Ergou knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing.
He didn't know what kowtow meant. He only knew that his mother had told her that kowtow should be done when meeting gods.
The old man in the village said that if you peek at the fox fairy, the fox fairy will make the person who peeks sick and die. If the fox fairy is angered, the fox fairy will leave.
Li Ergou neither wanted to die of illness, nor did he want to get rid of the fox spirit.
"Kid, stop kowtowing. Why are you so afraid of me? I won't eat you."
"I...I'm afraid I'll make you angry."
Li Ergou quietly raised his head to steal from the other party, and found that the Fox Fairy was looking at him with a smile, not angry.
"Forget it this time, but you are not allowed to peek in the future. If anyone comes again, I will really leave."
Li Ergou looked up at the other party and asked doubtfully: "Master Fox Fairy, why don't you want everyone to see you? Everyone respects and loves you so much."
The fox fairy showed a smile, squinted his eyes and looked at the bright moon in the sky, and said slowly: "Someone told me that people like me will become what other people expect. When you see me, I will become what the story says.
But I prefer how I am now.
You go back and don’t tell anyone else you were here, otherwise I will really be pissed off!”
Li Ergou just returned home without telling anyone.
Summer is coming soon, but this year's summer is extremely hot. The rice in the fields has dried up in patches, and the fields have dried up into countless small pieces. There hasn't been a drop of rain in the sky for several months.
The young men in the village go to the river every day and watch as the water drops day by day, finally revealing the river bed, and the wet mud turns into dry and cracked soil.
Only then did Li Ergou realize that the weather could be so hot. He had never felt it was so hot before. When he got up early to urinate and came to the fields, the air would be humid. Unlike now, people would die if they peed outside.
Already.
Everyone said that the Fox Fairy was gone, but Li Ergou suddenly remembered that he had gone to take a peek at the Fox Fairy.
He told his mother about his peeping in the temple, emphasizing that Master Fox Fairy had said that she would not leave the village.
He will never forget that day when his mother found the village chief, dragged him to the street, hung him on a tree and whipped him ten times, until his skin and flesh were torn.
He cried and asked his mother why he had to be punished like this. Apparently Master Fox Fairy had forgiven him.
But my mother said: "Er Gou! If you do such a thing, I would rather you die with me!"
Li Ergou didn't understand why his mother became like this just by secretly glancing at Lord Fox Fairy.
Everyone said that the fox fairy left because he was angry. The uncles and uncles in the village scolded him when they met. He went home and cried to his mother, but she didn't say anything.
Not long after, many people in the village left, and he and his mother were also driven out of the village.
He and his mother wandered in the mountains, walking from the mountains to the plains, through deserted villages, and through dry river beds.
Li Ergou finally believed what everyone in the village said, there was really nothing to eat outside.
For the first time, he experienced what it felt like to be extremely hungry. Even the roots were so delicious that his teeth almost fell out when he chewed them. However, after chewing them up and swallowing them, he felt an inexplicable sense of satisfaction. Then one day, they came to a well.
In my village, my mother got a bowl of broth with several pieces of meat in it.
later……
To be continued...