The muffled thunder in the sky slowly moved toward the Qinling Mountains. When fork-shaped lightning pierced the sky, the long-awaited heavy rain finally poured down.
From time to time, huge flashes of light above the head will turn the sky and the earth into a blanket of snow, and the thunder that seems to strike people's hearts is even more shocking!
I don't know how long he had been sleeping, but Xiao Han was startled by a loud thunder. He looked at the people still sleeping in the tent, yawned, put on his clothes, got up and opened the tent door.
The mountains outside were dark, like giant beasts from the wild. With the light of a flash of lightning, Xiao Han could see clearly that Ren Qing was sitting under a tree wearing a raincoat. Next to him, there were rice seeds, all covered with raincloths.
Covered tightly.
Ren Qing was very alert. Even in this weather, he still looked over when Xiao Han opened the tent! After seeing clearly that it was Xiao Han, his sharp eyes gradually turned normal.
Looking at the heavy rain outside, Xiao Han put on a bamboo hat, stepped on the rain with bare feet and ran to Ren Qing, shouting to him: "Brother Ren, it's raining hard, you should go in and have a rest!"
"It doesn't matter, this little rain is nothing!" Ren Qing slowly shook his head. The original trip to Southern Xinjiang was much more difficult than this! After going through that trip, Ren Qing thought that nothing in the world could make him
Terrified.
It was raining heavily, and when the thunder stopped for a while, you could hear the roar of the water in the distance! Fortunately, the terrain where Xiao Han was located was relatively gentle, otherwise there would have been the risk of landslides and mudslides.
Ren Qing refused to rest, and Xiao Han was too noisy by the thunder to sleep. He looked around at the dark surroundings and squatted next to Ren Qing.
"What are you doing? You don't have to keep vigil, go to bed! You have to be on the road tomorrow!" Ren Qing glanced at Xiao Han unhappily and scolded him in a low voice.
"Can't sleep..." Xiao Han yawned, and almost rainwater poured into his mouth. He quickly lowered his head and said: "Brother Ren, we will be there in a few days!"
"There should be six days left, but the road ahead will be easier. The beginning and end of this road are difficult, but the middle is easier."
"Oh..." Xiao Han nodded, and then suddenly said to Ren Qing: "I'm sorry..."
Ren Qing glanced at Xiao Han and said without changing his expression: "What's wrong? Why do you suddenly say such things?"
Xiao Han squatted on the ground, holding his face and looking at the heavy rain outside, and said in a low mood: "They told me that there are more than ten of you, and only five of them came back..."
"For this? So you have been depressed these past two days?" Ren Qing looked at Xiao Han, and the usual frost on his face melted a little.
Xiao Han nodded silently and said no more.
Ren Qing withdrew his gaze from Xiao Han and looked calmly into the dark distance. As if saying to Xiao Han, but also to himself: "We never blamed you, really! Even if the brothers didn't insist on it,
At the last place, they still didn't complain at all! And, thanks to them, we still brought the rice seeds back."
Xiao Han picked up a stone and threw it into the rain. Then he didn't say until he couldn't see the stone clearly: "But, they still can't come back!"
"nonsense!"
Xiao Han didn't expect that as soon as he spoke, Ren Qing suddenly stood up! He shouted at him with wide eyes: "Their bodies can't come back! But their souls are always with us! Xiao Hou, you
What we have to do now is to do everything possible to plant the rice well! So that they will not lose their lives in vain, instead of complaining here!!!"
Xiao Han was stunned by Ren Qing's sudden ferocious look. It could be seen that Ren Qing was really angry! It was hard to imagine that this person who had been expressionless all year round could be so terrifying once angry.
Waving his hands, Xiao Han stammered: "Brother Ren, don't be angry... Don't worry, I will definitely do it! When the time comes, I will also erect monuments and carve words in the fields, and I will never let my brothers remain unknown!"
Looking at the panicked Xiao Han, Ren Qing suddenly came to his senses and sat down helplessly. I don't know if Xiao Han saw it wrong, but I always felt something flashing in the corner of Ren Qing's eyes.
Silence, the whole world seemed to be the only sound of wind and rain sounding tirelessly.
After a while, the rain seemed to lighten up, and the thunder and lightning seemed to have changed the battlefield and began to move away. Xiao Han looked at the lightning in the distance, trying to break the oppressive atmosphere around him.
"Brother Ren, you have been to Linyi, where was it like?"
"It's okay, it's just a little warm." Ren Qing said in a low voice.
"Where are the people from? I heard that the fruits there are very big and plentiful! Isn't it very happy to live there?"
"Happiness?" Ren Qing frowned, and then said with relief: "Maybe, if you live heartlessly, it can be called happiness."
"What is heartless?" Xiao Han asked strangely.
Ren Qing thought for a while and then said: "Xiao Hou, it is not suitable for us to live there! Where everything is comfortable, you don't have to worry about food when you are born, because there is food everywhere! In my opinion, this is a
A kind of luck, but also a kind of misfortune!”
"Oh? What's the meaning of this?"
"They are lucky because they can get food effortlessly. Unfortunately, they have lost the motivation to go further! We Han people have to compete with the sky and the earth since we are born! So when we grow up
After all, they are all tough men! And they..."
As he said that, Ren Qing shook his head, as if recalling the scene he saw at the beginning, and said slowly: "Xiao Hou, can you imagine that a few of us captured dozens or hundreds of people from the beginning? Can you imagine,
Just relying on a few of us, can we command several villages around them?"
"I can't imagine." Xiao Han answered honestly. At first glance, Ren Qing's words were indeed a bit fanciful. In the Tang Dynasty, could you go to any village in Guanzhong and give orders? No one in the village would treat you.
Beat him like a bitch!"
"So, the people there just eat and wait to die, leaving the treasures given by God without knowing how to use them!" Ren Qing said bitterly. He didn't know whether he was angry at these people's failure or because God was partial.
, and get angry for giving all the good things to these losers.
"You don't know how lucky you are when you are surrounded by blessings!" Xiao Han somewhat understood Ren Qing's loss, patted Ren Qing's arm and said: "Then tell me, can this rice seed be produced?
That kind of situation in Linyi?"
"There will definitely be one!"
Ren Qing said he was sure, but at the moment he felt a little unsure.
In Linyi, he saw with his own eyes that the rice grew worse than weeds! From sowing to harvesting, it only took about three months! But they say that people are humble when they leave their hometown. Will this food be the same as before when it is away from home?
God knows! But he still hopes that these precious seeds exchanged for his life can exert their original effect. Only in this way can they be worthy of those brothers, and they can rest under the Nine Springs.
