The girl's family is isolated from the village, and their life is even more difficult. In the village, harvesting rice or fishing are usually teamwork, but now, no one is willing to cooperate with the girl's family.
The girl was pregnant and had not yet finished confinement, so she had to endure going to the fields to do laundry, cooking, and exposure to raw water, while the girl's parents went to work in the fields. This year, the snow was extremely heavy, and the ice and snow completely covered the surface of Dianchi Lake.
Freeze, the thick ice means no fishing this winter.
The villagers had no choice but to work together to dig out the ice. Several villagers took turns digging holes in the ice every day. In this way, it took a full half a month to dig out a hole big enough to put the fishing nets in.
In the winter of this year, there were extremely few fish caught. Every household could only get one or two, and the girl's family naturally had nothing. In winter, without food, they were close to death.
The girl can go hungry, and the girl's parents can eat less, but the child can't. The child is at the age where he needs food. If there is no food, the child may not be able to survive this winter.
On a snowy day, the girl's father went up the mountain alone with a machete and hunting tools. He said that he was the only man in the family.
When the girl's father finished speaking, he glanced at the sweet child in the girl's arms and said, "Of course, in more than ten years, my good grandson will be the second man in the family."
That day, the girl, holding her child, and her mother and daughter stood at the door together, watching the girl's father's stooped figure disappear into the depths of the heavy snow.
The snow was falling heavier and heavier, and the ruthless cold wind was howling. However, the girl's father never came back, and only the snowflakes were still flying.
Heavy snow closed the mountains and roads, and the girl's mother contracted the cold and finally fell ill.
The wind-chill is not serious, maybe it's just a minor cold now. All you need to do is drink a bowl of hot ginger soup, drink a bowl of delicious fish soup, and get a good night's sleep.
However, for the girl's family, fish soup is such a luxury word. The girl knows that there is not much rice at home, let alone fish soup.
When her father and mother were there, the girl didn't know how much food was left at home, because every time her mother would always cook porridge and bring it to her, and every time her mother and father would always hide in the kitchen.
When eating, the girl asked her mother if she had eaten, and the answer she always received was yes.
Now, when her mother fell ill, the girl opened the rice vat and found that there was less than a bowl of rice left.
The girl cried, holding the rice vat and crying heartbrokenly. When she looked at the child sitting quietly by the stove, with his big eyes staring at her intently, regret showed on the girl's face for the first time.
color.
That night, the girl held the child and cried all night, crying until her tears dried up. That time, the girl beat the child for the first time. The child's cry accompanied the girl's cry in the village. On this night when the north wind was whistling,
The cries of mother and son were so sad.
The next day, the girl put the child in front of her mother's bed. Then, she walked out of the house alone, wearing thin clothes, and walked to the door of each villager. She knelt in front of the villagers' homes, hoping that they could give them some money.
Food saves mother.
However, the doors of every household in the villagers were closed, and no one gave the girl food. In this extremely cold winter, no one had much food for the winter, let alone a woman who gave birth to a freak.
The girl, who had knelt in front of all the villagers' houses for a day without getting any food, returned home and looked at the mother and child lying on the bed. The girl took a basket and left the house again.
At midnight, the girl came back, and there were a few fish in the basket. Although they were not big, they were at least enough to make a pot of soup.
That night, the girl cooked a pot of fish soup in front of the stove and fed it to the mother's mouth, and then fed the rest to the child.
The next day, a group of villagers suddenly broke into the girl's home. These villagers were angry and wanted to drag the girl away. However, the girl's mother felt better after drinking fish soup last night. Seeing that these villagers were dragging her away,
He walked away from his daughter and quickly stopped her.
In the chaos, it was unknown which villager stabbed the girl's mother's eye with the tree stick in his hand. Blood flowed out of the girl's mother's eyes. The villagers were dumbfounded. Only the girl's angry cries and screams were left.
The screams echoed in this dilapidated house.
But in the end, the girl was dragged away by the villagers, because the girl stole the offerings used to worship the gods in the village, which was unforgivable to the villagers. If she offended the gods, the village might not be able to harvest anything in the coming year.
The villagers, who were afraid of being blamed by the gods, dragged the girl away, brought her to the ancestral hall, and beat her to death with sticks.
No villager noticed that the child stayed in the corner without saying a word since the girl's mother was blinded. He even didn't cry as he watched his mother being dragged away until the villagers left.
The child tremblingly walked up to the girl's mother and licked the blood flowing from the corner of her mother's eyes with his tongue.
That winter, the girl and her father died, but the girl's mother and child miraculously survived. However, the girl's mother's eyes disappeared.
In this winter without food, no one knows how the girl's mother and child survived without food, but this winter, several strange things happened in the village.
There were three families whose children under the age of six disappeared. They just disappeared out of thin air. The panicked villagers felt that this was the fault of the gods and a punishment from the gods. Moreover, every month after that, children from the villagers disappeared.
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There was another thing that happened that winter, that is, the young Taoist priest left the village. This was the first time that the young Taoist priest stepped out of the village after coming to Xiaoshizhai Village, and he stayed away for the whole winter, until spring came and the flowers bloomed.
At that time, the young Taoist priest came back.
When the young Taoist priest came back, the villagers were overjoyed and asked the young Taoist priest what they should do now. However, after hearing what happened in the village this winter, the young Taoist priest was silent. After a long sigh, the young Taoist priest told the girl
The mother and child arrived at the mansion.
When the young Taoist priest came back, there were no more lost children in the village. This made the villagers happy. Everyone had forgotten about the girl who was beaten to death by them that winter. Everyone happily entered the new year and started anew.
For farming and fishing.
Originally, the young Taoist priest said he would take the child with him after three years, but this time he came back, only one year had passed. When the child was three years old, the young Taoist priest left with the child.
However, before leaving, the young Taoist priest took all the villagers to the shore of Dianchi Lake. In front of all the villagers, the young Taoist priest inserted a huge log into the Dianchi Lake.
This piece of wood stood erected in Dianchi Lake, but it did not sink to the bottom of the water. Instead, it was exposed to a height of ten feet above the water. Pointing at the piece of wood, the young Taoist priest said: "If you cast a net around this piece of wood, you can get thousands of catties of fresh fish every year. With this amount
Thousands of catties of fresh fish are exchanged for your taking care of that old woman. Remember not to have other thoughts."
The young Taoist priest's words were very clear. He helped the villagers get a thousand kilograms of fresh fish every day on the condition that the villagers take care of the girl's mother.
After hearing the young Taoist priest's words, the villagers naturally agreed with joy. As much as an old woman can eat, this pound of fish can almost feed the whole village through the winter, and this way everyone can spare more time for hunting and farming.
The villagers agreed, and the young Taoist priest left with satisfaction, taking the child with him, of course.
From then on, there was only one blind old woman left in the whole mansion. She looked forward to the return of her grandson in the mansion every day. Every time the villagers brought food to the old woman, she could be heard.
Crazy screams.
"My grandson, why don't you come back?"
"Junjun, my Junjun, grandma misses you."
For seven years, the villagers gave the old woman food for seven consecutive years, but no one took care of the old woman's life. The old woman completely turned into a sloppy old man. If it weren't for the obsession with her grandson,
I'm afraid the old woman has left long ago.
But even so, the villagers were disgusted with the old woman, because when the old woman walked out of the house, she saw the children in the village and thought they were her grandchildren. Then she stepped forward to hug the children, and even once again held the children in her arms.
He was carried to the mansion and his parents searched for him for a long time.
The villagers were disgusted with the old woman, and time also diluted their commitment to the young Taoist priest. In the winter, no one finally sent food to the old woman. The old woman starved to death that winter, and it was still the snowy winter.
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When people found out that the old woman was dead, the old woman was still sitting on a chair in the courtyard of the mansion. Her eyes with only the whites left were looking towards the door, her hands were slightly stretched out in front of her, and a smile appeared on her face.
, it looked like she was waiting for her long-awaited grandson to come back.
And on the day when the old woman left, the villagers thought about catching another batch of fish before winter, but when they arrived at the Dian Lake, they were dumbfounded, because the wooden stick that was originally erected on the lake
disappeared.
The villagers regretted it so much that it was only then that they finally understood what the young Taoist priest meant by asking them to stop thinking about other things. This thousand-jin fish was what the young Taoist priest used to exchange his search for the old woman with them.
Now, since the old woman is dead, there is no need to continue this exchange, so the wooden stick also disappears.
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The old woman's deep voice floated in the mansion, and everyone listened intently, feeling the tragic and unfortunate family. For a moment, except for the sound of breathing, there was no movement in the entire mansion. (To be continued)