The moment Ergou shouted these words, tears already burst into his eyes.
"Why do we have to cut back on even eating solid food? When my mother was still alive, she told us brothers that we can only work when we have a full stomach...Why...why do we have to stay in the ravine, thinking
I had to eat but couldn’t afford it. After this meal, I didn’t have the next meal…”
His tears kept flowing. He looked like he was only twenty years old. He was very skinny and inhuman. He was hungry... That was the reason why he was sad. He didn't have as high a consciousness as adults. Of course he felt sad.
Those women in the village, those children, but...
"My eldest brother was hunting in the mountains last year, and half of his body was eaten by the tiger. I went to see it, and all the white and yellow stuff in his stomach was turned out by the beast...but there wasn't even a grain of rice or a piece of noodles...there were a lot of them.
The leaves are weeds - my eldest brother didn't even have a full meal before he died. He hunted prey and gave it to the children to eat. I...I want to eat it too, but I want my eldest brother more."
"Mother... I starved to death when I first came here. She said that what makes young people eat more is that she sewed countless pairs of trousers for everyone and knitted countless straw sandals for everyone. She died and lived.
Starved to death, I was young and ignorant... Only now do I realize that every mouthful of food I ate back then was life-saving food that my mother who was starving to death should have eaten."
"Why... I didn't do evil, and I did good. I followed Brother Fei to fight off the tigers and drive away the wolves. I don't want my mother and brother to come back... I just want to fill my stomach now - why
, this can’t be done, why do we have to stay in the mountains, I might as well let the army capture me, maybe... maybe I can still have something to eat before I die?"
When he said this, Ergou was already crying. He knelt on the ground, seeming to be angry at himself for not living up to expectations.
Lao Lin in front looked at Ergou who was kneeling and crying and beating the ground. He seemed to have lost his mind. He shrank his shoulders in fear, but...but his thoughts began to drift into the distance involuntarily.
Yes...why do you need to be hungry?
Why?
Because he followed the Feizhan uprising in his early years, and as a Shanyue, faced off against those high-sounding princes, and against the real murderers who took away their homes with their own hands?
But why... why did his wife and children not receive treatment due to the epidemic and had to die in a cold hut?
What did they do wrong?
"Boss Fei! I...I don't want to be hungry anymore!"
"I... I want to see my married daughter... We have not seen each other for ten years... If we don't see each other again, maybe... maybe I will never have the chance again."
"Brother Fei, I'm just a woman. I can't say I'm in any mood. I can only do some repairs for everyone... I really deserve the food I eat every day - but... but Xiao Shitou is... he is only six
Years old... It's a good time to study... My husband once said before he died... One day we must let Xiao Shitou go to the city to study... I have no problem staying in this ravine, but please don't let Xiao Shitou stay there all his life.
In the mountains…”
The lady who spoke had a pale face, with a sad smile on her face. She said these words without any emotion, which were most likely to be an explanation of the funeral, but the child beside her seemed to feel something. Although she couldn't understand...but he
Still holding on to the hem of her mother's clothes:
"Mother... mother... what are you going to do? Are we going outside the mountain? Then... then I want to go out with mother..."
The child is ignorant because he was born in the mountains and has no concept of the outside world. But...he has heard from people in the village since he was a child that the outside world...is very wonderful.
Just as Yi Xiaotian said, Ergou's cry was like a spark of fire, setting off a prairie fire, sweeping towards all the "Mountain" people standing in front of the house and standing under Fei Zhan.
They could no longer hide their desires. Some even said they were pitiful, but they just wanted to have a full meal, and some just wanted to see their long-lost children, but...these were their true feelings——
Lao Lin was stunned. He didn't know what his mood was, but his face was moist from just now.
"Old Lin, let me ask you now, what do you think? Before your wife and children died, if we had devoted the whole village's efforts, we could have sent them to the hospital, but I was also the one who vetoed the case.
, because saving your wife and children will only cause more people to lose their chance of survival. Now I want to know what you really think..."
Fei Zhan spoke again.
It's just that he didn't look at anyone else. Instead, he looked at Lao Lin, the first person he named - the old man who had been following him loyally.
The words were like a bolt from the blue, blasting open Lao Lin's heart that had been sealed for a long time - his sad emotions rushed out like a flood that burst a dam.
Along with the tears flying, there was spit from his mouth. He finally cried desperately and roared desperately:
"Fei...Fei Zhan, I fucking hate you, I hate you so much! You...you bastard, you always use bullshit brotherhood to trick me...you give me back my wife...you give back my daughter, you give me back
…Ah ah ah ah ah--"
Fei Zhan jumped down, and everyone was immersed in pain, but... they had never heard that the always cheerful old Lin had such a past.
Under everyone's attention, Fei Zhan, a tall man with a heavy and determined look, slowly walked up to Lao Lin.
What about Lao Lin? Lao Lin was holding up his knees at the moment. He was crying so hard that his throat hurt from crying. He kept coughing from crying and his face turned red - until that figure appeared in front of his eyes.
Fei Zhan raised a hand, and when everyone thought he was going to punch him out - God, Lao Lin looked so skinny, if he was hit by Fei Zhan...
Peng Hu couldn't bear to look directly and closed his eyes hard - today, he was already in enough pain and shock.
As a latecomer, he really didn't know... those who had followed him, and those who later forced themselves to smile, all endured such pain in their hearts.
When he thought of this, Peng Hu felt so deeply about his sin that he bit his lip and bled.
Zhao Yun frowned tightly, while Lu Lingqi, Sun Feng'er and other women screamed, as if they couldn't bear such a scene to happen.
Only Yi Xiaotian, from beginning to end, just looked at Fei Zhan quietly——
"This mountain forest has almost buried all the talented people..."
No one heard Yi Xiaotian's muttering clearly.
But everyone heard clearly the clear and loud slap that followed.
Out of instinct, Old Lin protected himself out of fear, but when this crisp sound appeared next to him and there was no pain on his body, Old Lin opened his eyes tremblingly and looked in front of him...
Snapped--
There was another crisp sound, and when this sound came out, most people saw the truth of the matter.
Snapped--
"Fei Zhan! You...what are you doing!"
Lao Lin exclaimed and used his thin arm to tightly hook Fei Zhan's thick arm.
And Fei Zhan...because of several useless slaps on his cheeks, his cheeks were extremely red and swollen, and blood was oozing from the corners of his mouth.
"Old Lin, these slaps should be given by you. I was worried that you didn't have the strength to achieve the effect, so I took it upon myself to do it for you. If you don't feel relieved, just keep giving me a few more punches. I know.
My wife and children can't be bought back with fists and kicks, and I won't ask your forgiveness...but...I promise you..."
"No...I promise everyone-"
Fei Zhan stood up, gritted his teeth, endured the pain, and declared to the entire valley:
"I, Feizhan, will definitely help you live a good life... This is my last wish and my last promise in this life."
