Chapter 716 The small building listens to the spring rain all night
Feng Qingyan did not stop and hurried westward.
After meeting the five young beggars, he finally saw human traces on the earth. However, the demons he met were all skinny...
Like a wild dog, looking for food everywhere.
However, due to the existence of dead soil, plants on the earth are very rare, and most of the land cannot grow food.
So food is very scarce.
He sighed.
At this moment, he was thinking, is there a way to make the demons leave this place? If they can really leave, can Kutuotian accept their existence?
But now he has only walked part of the way, and he still doesn't know whether all the demon lands are dead lands.
Maybe there is still a place to survive?
He traveled tens of thousands of miles and saw only a few villages here and there, growing half-dead food on the land filled with lifelessness.
The greenness of these villages is even greater than the hundreds of miles of woods we encountered earlier.
If those hundred miles of forest can be cultivated properly, it should be able to support a city of 100,000, or even hundreds of thousands of people.
It's a pity that no one has discovered the existence of Linzi before.
Facing the eternal dead soil beneath the soil.
There was nothing he could do.
He can save one or two people, or even one or two hundred people, but he cannot save the entire demon clan...
He sighed and continued to go west.
The land of demons is infinite. He has traveled tens of thousands of miles, but he has not reached the end yet. The total number of demons he met on the road is only tens of thousands.
A small town, hundreds of small villages.
They all live in poverty.
For some reason, he felt a little sad as he looked at it.
At this moment, he was passing a dilapidated village that seemed to have been deserted for a long time. He saw that there were only sporadic weeds growing in the entire village. It could no longer be cultivated, and all the original villagers had moved away.
Um?
When he crossed the dilapidated village and walked only a few miles.
He saw fields opening up in a valley below, and a thin and short old man was working hard to turn over the fields with a wooden hoe.
In the field next to her, there was a little girl of seven or eight years old, pulling out scattered weeds.
The crops in the fields are half dead...
Whether it was a little girl or a skinny old man, their clothes were all very worn and emaciated. Moreover, every time the old man turned the hoe a few times, he had to stop and rest for a while before he had the strength to continue turning the soil.
Feng Qingyan stood quietly in the sky.
In the fields opened up in the valley, the crops were growing very poorly, and many of them had died for no reason.
Of course Feng Qingyan knows.
This is due to the death energy seeping out.
Not far from the valley, there is a cave with traces of life, which seems to be the residence of the old man and the girl.
"grandfather--"
When Feng Qingyan lost consciousness, he heard the little girl's anxious cry.
When I looked over, I saw that the old man had fallen to the ground at some point, and the little girl ran away extremely anxiously, tripping over the overturned soil from time to time.
"Grandpa, what's wrong with you?"
The little girl pulled the old man and shouted in a panic, but the old man didn't move, "Grandpa, are you hungry? Wuwu——"
At this moment, the little girl seemed to think of something, so she ran towards the cave and came back holding a pottery basin.
The water in the pottery basin spilled out from time to time.
When she ran, half of the water in the pottery basin had been spilled.
"Grandpa, water, drink water."
The little girl held a clay basin and poured water into the old man's mouth.
After the old man was given water, he slowly regained consciousness, opened his eyes, and said: "Grandpa is okay, it's okay."
"grandfather."
The little girl cried with tears, "Grandpa, I, I will find you something to eat."
"No, Grandpa is not hungry." The old man shook his head and said weakly, "It's a pity that this good field is becoming increasingly difficult to cultivate."
The little girl continued to feed the old man water.
The old man drank slowly and drank up all the water in the pottery basin. His eyes became brighter and he said, "Grandpa will be fine after you rest for a while."
"oh."
The little girl nodded and took the pottery basin back to the cave.
But at this moment, the old man didn't know what the little girl was looking for in the cave. About half an hour later, the little girl took out a small basin of paste and ran towards the old man with excitement on her face, saying: "Grandpa, there is something to eat."
"
The old man was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then he became furious and said, "Did you boil all the seeds?"
The little girl was stunned.
She seemed to have never seen her grandfather get so angry.
"Did you boil the seeds?"
The old man threw away his hoe and ran over. Looking at the paste in the pot, his face became even uglier and he said angrily: "Did you boil the seeds?"
"I, I don't know..."
The little girl was scared.
At this moment, the old man rushed back to the cave frantically. After a while, he came out in despair. He looked at the little girl who had done something wrong and said nothing for a long time.
"Grandpa, eat it quickly, it won't taste good when it's cold."
The little girl held the pottery basin and walked back carefully to avoid falling it.
"Grandpa is not hungry, you can eat."
The old man stared blankly at the paste in the pot and said.
"Grandpa, Xiaolou cooked this for you. Grandpa hasn't eaten for several days." The little girl licked her lips and looked at the paste in the pottery basin eagerly.
But, she had already eaten yesterday.
"Grandpa, it's okay if you don't eat for a few days. You're still growing now, so just eat." The old man sighed and didn't blame the little girl for cooking the seeds.
If we keep these seeds, it will be difficult to grow food in the end.
I can't survive this day.
At this moment, he was thinking, how did Xiaolou survive after his death?
Xiaolou is only nine years old.
He felt that he could not hold on for much longer.
If it was okay to grow food, he would have to survive for a few years before dying, but in the past two years, it has been difficult to grow food in the land with a radius of thousands of miles.
The villagers in the original village have either moved away long ago or have starved to death.
Xiaolou's parents starved to death just because they left a morsel of food for Xiaolou.
In fact, he should be the one who deserves to die the most. After all, he is old and not as young and strong as young people...
But Xiaolou's parents died.
The obligation to raise the small building had to fall on him.
He didn't dare to leave the village easily. After all, he didn't know how long it would take him to find land that could grow food.
And there is a very good chance that he will starve to death on the way.
Although the village is no longer suitable for farming.
However, you can still survive.
But now, it is really impossible to survive...
The old man was extremely sad at this moment.
he died.
What to do with the small building?
"Grandpa, why are you crying?"
The little girl held the pottery basin in both hands, raised it towards her grandfather, and said, "Grandpa, eat it quickly. It will be fine after you eat it."
"Woo-"
But the old man couldn't help crying.
Tears flow freely.
"Grandpa, I, I was wrong."
The little girl panicked and quickly put down the pottery basin to wipe away the old man's tears.
"Little building." The old man squatted down and hugged the little girl, crying: "Grandpa is dead, what should you do?"
"Grandpa won't die."
cried the little girl.
On the sky.
Feng Qingyan watched silently.
After a moment, he raised his head slightly and looked at the cursed stone mill deep in the sky...
"I, Feng Qingyan, have returned after experiencing all kinds of suffering, but the world is still bitter, as if all kinds of suffering have been added to the body, and there is no sweetness in the stars. Why?" Feng Qingyan murmured, "There is bitterness in the Kutuo sky, and the land of the demons is even more bitter.
Suffering has filled the world for thousands of years..."
"There is even more dead soil and dead energy..."
"I, Feng Qingyan, have gone through all sorts of hardships and come back. Is this what heaven and earth will be like?"
"I, Feng Qingyan, have gone through all kinds of suffering and returned, but the world is still suffering..."
"Someone once said that I have gone through all kinds of hardships and come back to save those who are suffering..."
"Drive Cihang backwards and save all sentient beings from the sea of suffering..."
At this moment, for some reason, he suddenly thought a lot.
My mind is a little confused.
But when it comes down to one point, it means "infinite distances and countless people are all related to me."
He came down from the sky.
At this time, the old man also discovered Feng Qingyan, alert and suspicious.
Because the clothes of the visitor were spotless, too clean, and they were clothes he had never seen before...
Like a person in heaven.
"Old man, thirty thousand miles to the east, there is a hundred-mile forest. There are many fruit trees in the forest, as well as many pheasants and wild boars..."
Feng Qingyan pondered for a while and said.
"Thirty thousand miles?"
The old man was stunned for a moment and then froze.
Is he able to walk thirty thousand miles? If it is only one thousand miles, we can also consider thirty thousand miles...
At this moment, the little girl stared at Feng Qingyan curiously without any fear.
"Brother, I seem to have seen you somewhere."
The little girl stared at Feng Qingyan and said.
Feng Qingyan smiled, took out two peaches from the scroll, and said, "I'll give these peaches to you, eat them."
When the little girl saw the peach, her eyes immediately lit up, she kept licking her lips, and said curiously: "This is a peach? It looks delicious."
Feng Qingyan handed it over.
The little girl wanted to eat very much, but looked at the old man.
After the old man nodded, the little girl immediately took it and said, "Thank you, brother."
"You are welcome."
Feng Qingyan smiled and handed the other peach to the old man.
"I, I don't want to eat."
The old man immediately shook his head and said.
"It's just a peach. There are still some in the scroll. Eat it."
Seal Qingyan Road.
"Thanks."
In the end, the old man could not overcome his hunger, so he took the peach, touched it carefully, smelled it, and took a bite carefully.
He has only heard of peaches, but has never eaten them.
He took a bite and tasted it carefully. His face was full of enjoyment, even though his mouth was bitter. In the bitter days, everything is bitter, but people will not get used to "bitter", and they will still be bitter.
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"My father-in-law, are you willing to go to that hundred-mile forest?"
Feng Qingyan asked.
"Can't leave."
Although the old man longed for it and could not imagine a hundred miles of forest, he couldn't walk thirty thousand miles.
"Brother, how far is thirty thousand miles?"
The little girl asked curiously while eating the peach, "Brother, is there really a hundred miles of forest? How much food is grown there? Is it too much to eat?"
"Thirty thousand miles, it's very far." Feng Qingyan said, "If we grow food there, we won't be able to eat all the food, but it will be enough to feed tens of thousands of people..."
"Tens of thousands of people?"
The little girl was very shocked and said: "I have only seen a few people."
"Old man, if you are willing to go to Baili Forest, I can send you there." Feng Qingyan thought for a while and said, "Pack it up now. If you can't take it with you, don't take it with you."
"Send it to me, brother?"
The old man was stunned.
Feng Qingyan nodded and said, "Do you want to go to Baili Forest?"
"think."
the little girl said.
"Old man, hurry up and clean up."
Feng Qingyan said, looking around, there seemed to be nothing to pack.
The old man looked at the fields around him, but the crops were half dead and it was difficult to produce food. In fact, if they continued to stay in the valley, they would only die...
Although I feel a bit reluctant to leave, I have lived in this village for dozens or hundreds of years.
But had to leave.
If the forest that the young man in front of him mentioned was really a hundred miles wide, it would really be like a holy land. Even if he died, he wanted to take a look...
So he packed his things.
Although many things are very tattered, he is always reluctant to part with them, and the more he collects, the more he collects. Moreover, he does not have such a big cloth package, so he can only scatter it on the ground...
Feng Qingyan looked at it and saw everything.
In his opinion, they were all useless things, even rubbish. However, he didn't say much, he could take it away...
After a while.
He saw that the old man had even dug up the seedlings in the field and wrapped them carefully...
Feng Qingyan still didn't say anything.
So the old man simply dug up all the crops and seemed to be preparing to transplant them in the forest.
In fact, the old man did a good job.
"Brother, what's your name?"
The little girl asked curiously.
"My brother's name is Feng Qingyan, what about you?"
Feng Qingyan smiled.
"My name is Xiaolou."
The little girl said, looking at the picture scroll Feng Qingyan was carrying behind him from time to time.
At this moment, Feng Qingyan took out two more peaches from the scroll, which immediately made the little girl's eyes shine.
About an hour later, the old man finally finished packing. When he saw the things he had packed, he felt very embarrassed, but he still looked forward to it and said, "Brother, can you, can you take it with you?"
"Can."
Feng Qingyan smiled and nodded.
After a while, he turned back with the old man, the little girl, and a "hill" on his back, and flew towards Baili Forest.
His speed was very fast, and he could cover hundreds of miles in an instant.
It takes less than a day.
The hundred miles of forest has already appeared in sight.
As Baili Linzi got closer and closer, the old man and the little girl finally looked at the Linzi. At this moment, they all stared at the Linzi in shock, looking at the Linzi with disbelief on their faces.
The forest was so lush that they could not imagine it.
"This this……"
The old man was so excited that he could not speak.
"Wow, there are so many trees, and there seem to be birds."
the little girl said.
At this time, he took the old man and the little girl and landed in the Baili Forest, choosing a place farther away from the five young beggars. He was not sure whether the five young beggars would do anything to the old man and the little girl...
It's better to separate for now.
The old man and the little girl fell behind the forest, still looking around in shock. They saw that the trees and weeds around them were growing very well and luxuriantly.
To them, it was simply unbelievable.
Feng Qingyan smiled, took a branch, cut out a small wooden sword, and said, "Your name is Xiaolou, right?"
"Um."
The little girl nodded.
"The small building listens to the spring rain all night, and the deep alley sells apricot flowers in the Ming Dynasty."
Feng Qingyan suddenly remembered a poem from his previous life, and engraved it on the small wooden sword, saying: "Xiaolou, this wooden sword will protect you, and you can throw it away when you are hurt."