In the wilderness, on a hillside, stood a dilapidated charity village.
At this time, the sky was dark outside, the cold wind was howling, and it was even more silent inside Yizhuang.
"Ah sneeze!"
The cold wind blew in through the cracks in the earthen wall, causing Li Yu, who had just gotten up, to sneeze and runny nose.
With a casual touch of his sleeve, Li Yu leaned over and pulled out a cloth bag from under the bed.
When he saw several kilograms of brown rice inside, as well as seven or eight sweet potatoes of different sizes, potatoes, and a bunch of dried wild vegetables, he couldn't help but froze:
"Isn't that what it is?"
"Who can eat this little food?"
Complaints are complaints, but Li Yu had to face the fact that these things are his food for winter this year.
“It’s so shabby”
Li Yu sighed.
In his previous life, he was also a demolished household. Not only did his family receive an eight-figure demolition payment, but he was also divided into two houses. Not to mention that he was tired of eating delicacies, but at least he had enough to eat and drink, and there was no shortage of big fish and meat. How had he ever suffered such injustice?
?
But according to the memory of my predecessor, the world is now in the feudal farming era, with low productivity. And because of years of droughts and floods, as well as harsh taxes, many people may not even be able to eat cornmeal, sweet potatoes and potatoes!
These days, it's good if he doesn't starve to death, so why is it his turn to find fault?
That's right, Li Yu is a visitor from another world.
His previous name was Li Yu, which was only one word different from his own name. He was originally a first-class citizen, but was adopted by a lame corpse-keeper in Yizhuang. He had a taciturn personality and was not very bright.
After the old lame man passed away, Li Yu naturally became the bodyguard and barely made a living by relying on this righteous village.
Last night, a masked dark figure sneaked into Yizhuang. While his predecessor was getting up for the night, he immobilized his body with a single finger. Then he formed a knife and cut open his waist and abdomen. He picked out two kidneys and then quietly
Leave.
After being killed by Ga Yaozi's predecessor, his body and most of his memories were inherited by Li Yu who traveled through time.
The strange thing is that when Li Yu woke up, the wounds on his waist and abdomen disappeared, and he didn't feel any discomfort, which was very strange.
Of course, Li Yu, who had digested most of the memories of his predecessor, quickly accepted this.
Gein's world seemed different from the world in his previous life.
This world is called Qianyuan, which is similar to his previous life in ancient times, but it actually contains some incredible powers.
The old lame man went to private school for several years when he was young, but something happened to his family. After that, he sold wild medicines and joined a caravan. He was well-informed and had witnessed many things with his own eyes or heard about them through hearsay.
The old cripple once told his predecessor that there are many strange people and strangers in this world.
For example, there are evil people who are proficient in the art of making animals. They can peel off the skins of black dogs and monkeys and put them on children while they are hot, turning them into monkeys and dogs. They can make money by performing on the street, or they can turn them into cattle, horses, donkeys, sheep and other livestock for sale.
money.
There are also Gu masters who are good at raising voodoos and can use hundreds of voodoos to harm and save people. Once ordinary people offend a Gu master, they often die without knowing how they died.
There are also some evil cultivators who have mastered the art of driving away corpses and can drive away walking corpses to harm people.
In addition, there are also martial arts masters with steel and iron bones, who pull the tail of ox backwards, and even masters of spiritual practice with great supernatural powers, such as the legendary dragon.
Thinking of the masked kidney cutter who could cut off kidneys with just one flesh palm last night, Li Yu did not doubt the old cripple's words.
It's just that from the stable and peaceful social environment in his previous life, Li Yu suddenly came to such a mysterious and dangerous world. It was inevitable that Li Yu felt a little nervous and uneasy.
But the world is huge, and eating is the biggest thing.
His stomach was empty now, he was so hungry that he felt weak all over, and he had no time to think about it, so he simply decided to fill his stomach first.
This body is not very old, only about seventeen years old, but its body is a little thin and weak due to years of malnutrition, and it looks like a bamboo pole.
This is the age when your appetite is greatest and you can eat the most.
Li Yu found a chipped porcelain bowl and filled it with a handful of brown rice. He also grabbed a few wild vegetables and pushed the door open to the hall.
On one side of the hall, there is a thin-skinned yellow coffin with a memorial word engraved on it. The lid of the coffin is tightly closed. Next to it are a few simple wooden beds.
There was also a corpse lying on one of the wooden beds, covered with white cloth, showing the outline of a human figure, cold and stiff.
There was a faint rancid smell that made people sick.
But Li Yu is already used to it, or his body has already been used to it.
This is Yizhuang, and it is natural that there should be corpses.
These two bodies were just delivered yesterday.
In the coffin was Chen Zhuo, the son of an old tavern owner in Qingshui Town, more than ten miles away. On the wooden bed was Lang Wu, an old bachelor from Guojia Village next door.
The former was an alcoholic. He drank too much and plunged his head into a ditch on the street. No one found him at night. When he went to look for him the next day, he was found drowned.
And that ditch is only more than half a meter deep.
The latter was simply frozen to death.
This kind of thing is very common. Similar situations happen every winter. Li Yu is not surprised.
These days, being able to bury a person in a coffin is something that many poor people dream of. Most of them don’t even have enough to eat, and even a piece of clothing has to be worn by the whole family in turn. When they die, they can only find a coffin.
Just wrap it up in a straw mat and bury it in the soil, and that's it.
Li Yu glanced at an arm that was purple from the cold exposed under the white cloth. He simply lifted the white cloth and stuffed his arm into the white cloth without daring to look at the stiff, dead face.
When I came outside, the cold wind penetrated through the gaps in my clothes, like a razor blade, and my skin and flesh hurt from the cold.
Li Yu briefly washed the brown rice and dried wild vegetables, and then soaked them in water.
Clean the iron pot again, wait for the water to boil, and add brown rice and dried wild vegetables.
When it was almost done, Li Yu quickly poured some water on it and put out the fire.
These firewood are essential supplies for winter, so you have to use them sparingly.
I carried the bowl back to the back room. The steaming rice porridge was dotted with scattered wild vegetables and exuded a faint fragrance of rice. It might not look good, but Li Yu couldn't wait to eat it.
The rice porridge was clear and watery, garnished with some wild vegetables, and tasted light and rough. It was clear that a large bowl of rice porridge had gone into his stomach, and his stomach was even bloated, but Li Yu didn't feel full at all.
Li Yu knew that he was short of oil and water. Anyone who could not eat meat once a year, had little soup and water all day long, and had no food to eat, was prone to this situation.
However, what Li Yu urgently needs to solve now is not the problem of eating, but how he should spend this winter.
It is the twelfth lunar month of winter, there is not much food in Yizhuang, and he is too thin. Once the mountains are blocked by heavy snow or a cold or fever comes, it will definitely be fatal!
Moreover, the masked kidney-cutting customer last night was also a big trouble!
The masked man has obviously killed Li Yu. If he knew that he was still alive, the consequences would be disastrous.
After all, even Li Yu himself didn't know how he survived.
"Brother Li, are you there?"
After dinner, Li Yu simply tidied up. It was freezing outside and he had nothing to do. There were no entertainment activities in the village. He was about to get into bed when he heard someone calling him outside the door.
When he opened the door, he saw a man with thick eyebrows and big eyes. He was tall and strong. A long scar stretched diagonally across half of his face, just like a ferocious flesh centipede, adding a bit of evil aura to him.
At this time, the visitor's face was red from the cold, and he was huddled in a torn cotton jacket, stamping his feet and breathing hot air into his hands.
"Hey, Yang An, why are you here? It's windy outside, come in quickly!"
Seeing the visitor, Li Yu hurriedly invited him into the house.
Yang An is a villager from nearby Guojia Village. He is tall and mature, but he is one year younger than the seventeen-year-old Li Yu. He is quite familiar with his predecessor.
A few years ago, Yang An's father went hunting in the mountains and accidentally encountered a black bear, which was found dead on the spot.
People in this era are quite taboo about death without a complete body.
Afterwards, Lao Laizi and Li Yu worked hard for a whole day, sewing and patching up the remains of the body, and finally the whole body was assembled, so that Father Yang could bury the whole body.
From then on, Yang An's grandfather and Yang An were very grateful to the old lame man and his predecessor, and would often come to help with whatever they could, or give him some daily necessities.
"No, no need."
Yang An shook his head quickly. He subconsciously glanced at the dim hall behind Li Yu. The light inside was dim, and the several mortuary beds and coffins in the background were a bit eerie. He immediately didn't dare to look further and directly handed the cloth bag in his hand to Li Yu.
, whispered:
"Brother Li, my grandfather said that there may be heavy snow in the mountains these days. It will be inconvenient for you to be alone in Yizhuang, so let me remind you and give you some cornmeal by the way."
A big man with a fierce look, half a head taller than Li Yu, but he spoke with a bit of timidity and shrinkage. This seemed a bit strange, but Li Yu was not surprised, because Yang An had always been like this since he was a child.
kind of character.
Some people look fierce on the outside, but are actually soft, kind and timid on the inside.
"That's it"
Li Yu hesitated for a moment, then reached out and took it.
At this time of year, ordinary people have to save money on food and clothing, and they have to calculate the food rations at home. Even the landlord's family may not always have surplus food. At this time, Yang An and his grandson can still think of him and send food. Such thoughtfulness
Rare and valuable.
"Okay, then I'll accept it."
Li Yu is not polite. He is really short of food now. Since the other party has already sent it, he will just accept it and repay the favor when he has the opportunity in the future.
Perhaps because he had digested most of his predecessor's memories, Li Yu now naturally integrated into his predecessor's identity without much discomfort. He added by the way:
"Also, when you go back later, help me bring a message to the old man, asking him to keep warm. I will go see him when the weather is better another day."
Yang An was stunned for a moment, vaguely feeling that the Li Yu in front of him seemed a little different from before, because Li Yu had never said this before. He nodded quickly and said:
"Hey, I got it."
Yang An didn't stay long and quickly left.
After watching Yang Anyan go, Li Yu withdrew his gaze, looked at the bag containing cornmeal in his hand, and showed a smile.
To be honest, it feels really good to be cared about and remembered.
Li Yu turned around and returned to Yizhuang. After closing the door, he turned around and was about to go back to his room when his steps suddenly stopped.
Just because there was a corpse under a white cloth on a morgue in front of him, and its arms stuck out again at some point.
The purple corpse skin clings to the bones, and the palms are as thin as chicken feet, showing a hint of ferocity.