Lying on the rocking chair, I still saw the scene in front of the Nine Demons Tower. Inexplicably, I remembered a story from my childhood, a very weird story. Maybe from the beginning of that story, I was destined to embark on this journey.
road.
In the summer of 1944, a sudden famine fell in the sky of Henan, and the haze swept across the whole of Henan like a plague. Memories were also opened. That taboo memory was not only in Henan, but also in the land of Gannan.
Suffered endless torture. Although I have never experienced it, I heard it from my grandfather’s mouth. It starts from the story when I was a child.
Qian and Kun determine the heaven and earth, Xun shakes with wind and thunder, Likan stirs up water and fire, and Duigen moves the mountains and rivers.
This is the sentence that my grandpa often mentions. He has been telling me words that I don’t understand since I was a child, and I have grown up listening to them. In addition to these words, my grandpa also often tells me about random gods and monsters.
things, but she also told them secretly behind her back. Grandma was very superstitious and could never listen to these things.
It wasn't until this building appeared and those things happened that I suddenly realized that those things might really exist.
What grandpa likes to talk about most is my great-grandfather, who is my grandpa’s father. Strangely enough, most of them don’t understand it and just listen to it as a bedtime story. The stories here are true and false, so I listen to them in a daze.
But as I listened, I kept it in my mind.
In my grandfather’s words, it was a story that my great-grandfather Jiang Ergou experienced in his hometown in Jiangxi during a turbulent era. At that time, it was the time of the fall of the Qing Dynasty and the warlords’ wars. My great-grandfather ranked second at home, so he took the title.
Such a mean name. People in the countryside believe that the meaner the name, the better the livelihood. Naturally, they can't have a nice name. As for my great-grandfather later becoming a Feng Shui Yin Yang master, changing his name to Jiang Kan was something that happened later.
My great-grandfather caught up with the local famine when he was about eleven or twelve years old. The ground was full of hungry people. Looking at the past, they were all skinny people. There was no light in their eyes, and they looked like they would fall apart if they were touched. People with full stomachs
When you are hungry, you are a human being, and when you are hungry, you are a beast. My grandfather often recited this to me, and his eyes became cloudy as he spoke, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses. I didn’t want to hear these things, so I just let my grandfather do it.
Fugue.
I was so hungry, what to eat? I ate tree bark and grass roots. In just half a month, all the trees within a hundred miles were peeled off and all the grass roots were shaved off. I had no choice but to eat the most vicious thing.
Guanyin soil. What is Guanyin soil? It is a kind of strange soil with a little sweetness. If you are very hungry, just fill it with whatever can fill your stomach. But Guanyin soil can be eaten or not. It saves you for a while.
It will naturally end your life if you grow up.
When you finally run out of ammunition and food, you have to exchange your children for food. You know, a tiger's poison will not eat its children, but other people's children are different.
Every time my grandfather talked about this paragraph, he would just say this sentence and pass it by to me. Only when I grew up did I understand what it meant, and I trembled with fear every time I thought about it. This is a taboo story, the story of the Great Famine.
In this era, do you still want to eat meat? But there is one kind of meat you can eat, and that is... haha... But if you can't control your own children, just exchange them. At that time, human life was not even worth the life of grass, and
Who cares.
The Jiang family was once a big family. It inexplicably rose to prominence in southern Jiangxi, and then fell inexplicably in this area. Although a starved camel is bigger than a horse, it has really reached this point. A big family has gone to the trouble of blood for the sake of blood.
Such a path.
The family wanted to keep a seed, but after all calculations, the second child in the middle couldn't get it, so my great-grandfather was replaced.
So after my great-grandfather was transferred to that family, he saw a family of wolves with glaring eyes. His great-grandfather felt his heart tightening, not because of fear, but because of the faces. When he woke up again, his hands and feet had already been tied.
Damn it, this kid has no strength to break free.
At that time, my great-grandfather was leaning against the stove, looking at the black pot. He suddenly woke up and vaguely felt that he was about to be eaten. Listening carefully again, there was the sound of sharpening knives outside, and there were people.
The sound of talking and laughing is nothing more than finally being able to eat a bite of meat. Grandpa is here
I cursed in my heart, and the more I scolded, the more scared I became. Thinking about the knife on my neck, bleeding myself all the time. Even an adult would be so scared that he would pee his pants if he encountered this situation. How could my grandpa be so scared that he had runny noses and tears?
They all came out, but they couldn't scream with a rag stuffed in their mouths.
Even if I can scream loudly, I'm afraid it will be a quick death, right? It's really that the sky and the sky are not working, and the earth and the earth are not responding.
My great-grandfather was leaning against the broken wall, desperately trying to escape. His hands and feet were moving all the time, and his little face had no color at all. It was strange to say that the sky at noon suddenly lost the sun and became dim. My great-grandfather was so
At first glance, it turned out that the king of hell was trying to take his life, and he fainted again.
When I woke up again, I only felt that the sky was dark and the earth was dark, and I felt that I was already in the underworld. My great-grandfather was heartbroken. He was already dead anyway, so there was nothing to be afraid of, so he became calm.
It only took a few minutes for the great-grandpa to realize that he was not dead. What was going on? The curious great-grandpa pricked up his ears and heard that there were several outsiders coming to the house.
The voices belonged to two people, a man and a woman. The man was about forty, and the woman was in her early twenties. My great-grandfather was even more puzzled, who would come to this remote place like ours? In the blink of an eye, maybe I
I can still get some vitality from these two people, even if I am a cow or a horse, it is better than eating.
But he was tied up from head to toe, so how could he move? My great-grandfather was also smart. He gritted his teeth and banged his head against the broken wall.
The noise was quite loud, but it did not attract the two foreigners, but the family. The family looked at the great-grandpa fiercely, and punched the great-grandpa on the temple. How could the great-grandpa withstand such a beating? The family members cursed and cursed.
After a few words, nothing more than a warning to Grandpa, he actually turned around and walked out.
Grandpa was really desperate at this time, because the first time he saw his family, he recognized that the man in the family was his second uncle. His second uncle, who usually made him laugh, looked like this. Grandpa felt that the sky was falling. Dad
My mother doesn’t want her anymore, even her second uncle wants to eat her.
But the more people got to this point, they looked away. Grandpa shook his head and started listening. Maybe he could find some life in the conversation between these people.
"You three gentlemen, it's an honor for us to stay here for the night. Let's drink some water first." The voice belonged to the second uncle. The more my great-grandfather heard it, the more disgusting he felt. The second uncle who was usually like this was now like this. But it was vague.
In the middle, my great-grandfather always felt that something was wrong. He clearly heard only two voices. Why did the second uncle say that there were three masters?
"Prepare something to eat. Daddy and I will take a rest first." It was the woman's voice. From the sound of her voice, she sounded like a lady. She didn't know why she came to this place.
"Here, can you three gentlemen ask for some luck first? You know we have been in famine for a long time. We need a lottery to bring good weather in the coming year." The voice of the second uncle came to the ears of the great-grandfather again, and the great-grandfather even came up with two ideas.
Bo's flattering look only made him feel sick.
"Here, we don't eat meat." This time it was the man in his forties who spoke, followed by the sound of two silver dollars falling on the table. These are two silver dollars, how long can a family eat?
"Ah, but...but we only have meat here." The second uncle's voice was trembling, for fear that the man would take back the silver coins, and he could even hear the sound of swallowing saliva.
My great-grandfather was really itching with hatred, and secretly scolded this second uncle for being so immoral, for wanting to eat him, and even wanting to exchange his own flesh for money.
"Go to town to buy, aren't these two silver dollars enough?" The woman's voice was a little dissatisfied, but she didn't say much.
"That's enough, that's enough. Don't worry, uncle. Cao Wa will take the three uncles to the back room."
My second uncle's family was allocated a large house in the early years. Although it has fallen into decline, there is still a lot of room in the house.
"I said, boss, do we really want to go to town? There is famine everywhere, where can anyone sell food to us." The second mother's voice was trembling, and it was obvious that she was very happy to have made such a windfall.
"Humph, of course I'm going." The second uncle said and paused for a moment, as if he was looking at something. After a while, he whispered: "I'll go with you. I remember when I met villagers on the road, they said we were going to borrow food from other places.
.”
"Why?"
"You see, they only need two pieces of ocean for their attack. Humph, that's all we need. If something bad happens, we can just run away to other places." The second uncle's voice was filled with anger at this time, and he was frightened.
Grandpa shrank his neck.
Great-grandpa wanted to hear something more, so the second uncle walked into the kitchen and quickly closed his eyes and pretended to be faint.
"You brat, you get dizzy at every turn, or you ruin something big for me, but you can't exchange it for your body." At this time, the second uncle's voice had become emotionless and cold and unfamiliar.
It took an unknown amount of time for my great-grandfather to dare to open his eyes, but he still can't believe that this is his usually smiling second uncle. Thinking about it again, is the second uncle going to?
Grandpa cursed secretly, and quickly tried to find a way to escape. Human potential is endless. Grandpa scratched his face and finally got up. Just when Grandpa was about to grind the rope that tied him
When it stopped, the kitchen door creaked open.
"I haven't lived enough yet." At this moment, my great-grandfather cursed God in his heart for playing tricks on people, for giving him hope and then trying to kill it.
※This book is relatively slow-moving, and there will be scary plots later. I hope readers will forgive me, and Li Jiu will change it according to the suggestions given by readers. (To be continued)