The old housekeeper drove on the official road for more than half a month. Along the way, the old man and Lu Yu told the story of his flattery and intrigue in the officialdom for most of his life. The purpose was to be afraid that Lu Yu would not be well-versed in the world and not know it after being plotted against others. Although the old man subconsciously believed that immortals were tempted without desire and were determined to seek the truth, the old man still told Lu Yu about the cruelty of the world for some reason, and let him judge the right and wrong by himself.

"Grandfather, do you think there are more evil people in the world than kind people?" Lu Yu asked seriously.

"People do not distinguish between good and evil. Good people may also do a lot of evil things, but others do not know; on the contrary, a person who is unforgivable may also do some good things, but others may not know. Therefore, bad people have no fixed boundaries." The old man twisted his beard and replied calmly.

"Then isn't there any distinction between good and evil in the world?" Lu Yu asked in confusion.

"Yes, the difference between good and evil lies in your heart. Your heart will be the only criterion for judging others and yourself. No matter how many bad things some people do, they feel that they are not a bad person; some people just do something a little wrong, and they will blame themselves for a long time." The old man said calmly.

The old man wanted to continue to explain some truths, but suddenly the carriage stopped suddenly, and the grandparents and grandchildren staggered and almost fell down. Only the butler's trembling voice came from outside the carriage.

"Master, there are so many dead...dead people in front of you."

When Mr. Lu heard this, he was shocked. Could it be that there were horse thieves on the official road? But he still pretended to be calm on the surface and scolded: "Afu, you have been with me for so many years. I have never seen any big scenes before, and a few dead people have scared you like this."

"Master, it's not a few dead people, but dozens..." The old butler calmed down a little and said nervously.

After hearing this, Mr. Lu felt relieved. According to common sense, horse thieves generally would not kill so many people, let alone this is still on the official road.

Mr. Lu said to Lu Yu: "Yu'er, grandfather gets out of the car and see. Stay in the car and don't run around."

Lu Yu shook his head and said, "Go with you, grandson."

Master Lu did not dissuade him and took Lu Yu out of the carriage. The carriage was parked on a highway, and there were desolate mud next to the road. Large corpses were lying on the mud, and most of the corpses began to rot, and groups of flies were flying "buzz--buzz" on the corpses. Lu Yu saw the scene in front of him, his face turned pale, and he felt nauseous and nauseous, and he hurried to the side of the carriage and started to retching.

The old man looked at his grandson who was vomiting, and said nothing, but just patted Lu Yu on the back gently.

Then he walked towards the body closest to him. The old man used to be a county magistrate and often had to deal with these murders. Such scenes were common. After some investigation, the old man also had some preliminary judgments in his mind.

At this time, Lu Yu walked towards this side, his face slightly better than before. The old man couldn't help but admire his grandson. When he saw this scene, he vomited for a whole day. Unexpectedly, his grandson was so young, and his adaptability was much better than that of him, an adult.

"Is it better?"

"Well, I thought I wouldn't be afraid before getting off the car, but I didn't expect..." Lu Yu scratched his head awkwardly.

"Grandfather was not as good as you back then. I vomited all day long." The old man patted Lu Yu's shoulder and comforted him.

"Grandfather, do you know how they died?" Lu Yu asked.

"Most of them were killed by blunt objects, just like wooden sticks or axes." The old man said affirmatively. Then he pondered for a while and continued, "And it looked like he was killing each other."

Lu Yu was a little unbelievable. So many people killed each other. He walked to the corpses and observed the wounds, and found that as his grandfather said, they were all caused by sticks, axes and other things.

Suddenly, he found a little girl under the arm under a corpse, with a gray-black face, her eyes closed, and her mouth was red and purple. However, the mouth seemed to have moved just now. He stopped and observed carefully, and found that the little girl's mouth was really moving, but her mouth was extremely dry and cracked, which was not easy to detect.

He hurriedly walked up and picked up the little girl, but he seemed to forget that he was also a child. He just took two or three steps and felt that he could not hold him anymore. He quickly called on his grandfather to come and help. The old man was explaining something to the old housekeeper. He heard the grandson shouting and looked at him. He saw his grandson walking towards him with a little girl in his arms. He hurriedly led the old housekeeper over, took the little girl, and the three of them put the little girl in the carriage.

The old man touched the little girl's forehead with the back of his hand, feeling it was extremely hot. He quickly said to the old butler: "Go back to the road when we came, and go to the town we passed by to find a clinic. This child is so burning." The old butler responded and drove the carriage to carry the three people back and forth.

"Grandfather, will she have any trouble?" Lu Yu looked at the girl who was about the same age as him and handed the kettle beside him to Mr. Lu.

The old man took the kettle and put the mouth of the kettle into the girl's cracked mouth. Seeing the little girl drinking water subconsciously, the old man sighed and said, "It depends on her luck later."

After hearing what his grandfather said, Lu Yu could only stare at the little girl silently, and could not speak for a long time.

After a short while, the carriage was parked in front of the clinic, and the three of them carried the little girl into the clinic. They stayed for seven days. When the three of them came out again, the little girl could barely walk. The four of them drove the carriage toward the official road in the distance.

Seven days ago, the three of them sent the little girl to the clinic.

After seeing this, the doctor prescribed some medicine and frowned and said to the three of them: "If the child has not woken up within three days, then I have no choice. Now I can only rely on herself."

The three of them had to stay in the clinic and wait for the little girl to wake up. On the third night, just when everyone was about to despair, the little girl finally woke up, but after only looking at everyone, she fainted again.

One day and one night.

On the morning of the fifth day, the little girl woke up again, and Lu Yu brought a bowl of porridge to feed the little girl. The two children became familiar after a while. When the little girl learned that Lu Yu had saved her, she kowtowed and knelt down for a while, which made Lu Yu feel at a loss. It was not until the maid of the clinic came in and had to wash and change the dressings for the little girl, Lu Yu had the chance to "escape". When she walked to the door, she remembered that she didn't even ask her name.

After the maid finished washing the little girl, the old man took Lu Yu to visit the little girl. The little girl looked very different from when she was rescued. When the little girl saw that the two benefactors were pushing the door and entering, she quickly thought of getting up and getting out of bed. The old man quickly stopped the little girl and signaled her to lie on the bed. Lu Yu moved a wooden bench and placed it by the bed for her grandfather to sit. He stood beside her grandfather.

"Girl, what's your name?" Grandfather asked with a kind look on his face.

"My name is Liu Yiyi."

"I've gone before, and the willows are swaying. Now I'm thinking about it. The rain and snow are drifting. The willows are swaying, a good name! Your father must be a scholar, right?" The old man was furious when he talked about poetry.

When Liu Yiyi heard this poem, she immediately buried her head in her knees and started sobbing in a low voice.

"Yiyi, what's wrong with you?" Lu Yu asked hurriedly when he saw that Liu Yiyi was crying.

Liu Yiyi raised her head, wiped away the tears from her face with her clothes, and smiled bitterly: "I made my two benefactors laugh. I just remembered my father. He often hugged me and read this poem to me during his lifetime."

"You..." The old man wanted to speak but stopped.

"When I was eight years old, both of my parents died of a serious illness." Liu Yiyi said with tears in her eyes.

"What a miserable child. How have you lived all these years?" the old man asked with a sigh.

Liu Yiyi stroked the thin hair on her forehead, smiled and said, "My benefactor, I'm not bitter at all. The villagers treat me very well. I grew up eating the hundreds of food in the village."

"Girl, stop calling me kind-heartedly, it's strange. You call me grandfather like Yu'er." The old man looked at Liu Yiyi with a loving face. Then he asked, "By the way, how old are you this year, girl?"

"I will be eleven years old after the Chinese New Year." Liu Yiyi calculated with her fingers.

"That Yu'er is one year older than you." The old man turned his head and said to Lu Yu again: "You can take good care of your sister in the future."

Lu Yu looked at Liu Yiyi lying on the bed and nodded heavily. Lu Yu has no brothers and sisters. When he was a child, he always envied other friends for their brothers and sisters. Now that he has an extra sister, he suddenly feels a little strange.

"Okay! Today is such a good day. I, Liu Yiyi, not only have my grandfather, but also my brother." Liu Yiyi happily danced on the bed, accidentally touched the wound. She grinned and almost cried. Looking at Liu Yiyi's crying expression, both the grandparents and grandchildren were laughing and crying.

The old man seemed to remember something again and asked hesitantly: "Girl, grandfather asks you a question. If you don't want to say anything, you don't have to say it."

"Ask whatever grandfather wants to ask."

"Uh...what happened to you later? How could it be..." the old man asked vaguely.

When Liu Yiyi heard this, her eyes suddenly became dim. Her little hands grabbed the corners of her clothes and kept squeezing and rubbing them. Then she took a deep breath and said, "This year, our village has an insect storm and all the food is gone. No one in the village can survive. Some relatives have to join their relatives, but those who have no relatives have to go out to escape from the famine. I went out to escape from the famine with my aunt next door, and later... Later, my aunt starved to death."

Liu Yiyi was already full of tears when she said this, and continued: "A few days before the accident, an uncle in the village got a bag of food from somewhere. Then, everyone robbed the food like crazy. Many people died. I was so scared that I kept crying..."

Liu Yiyi said this and was already crying. The old man quickly walked to the edge of the bed, hugged Liu Yiyi in his arms, patted Liu Yiyi's back gently, and said gently: "Be good girl, girl won't cry. From now on, you will be with your grandfather, and no one will bully you."

When Lu Yu heard the truth about what Liu Yiyi told, he felt a little nervous. He had guessed many reasons before, such as bandits robbers, government killing good deeds and other assumptions. But in the end, he did not expect that the truth of the matter was a tragedy caused by a bag of food by some kind and simple villagers. This made him understand the cruelty of reality at a young age, and only by becoming a strong man can he survive.

In the next two days, because Liu Yiyi could not move, Lu Yu came to chat with Liu Yiyi every day and told stories. Lu Yu never forgets the stories in his mind, so there were almost no stories in his mind. Liu Yiyi also kept asking Lu Yu to tell stories one by one. Lu Yu simply moved to Liu Yiyi's room to tell stories with him. Liu Yiyi often told him some interesting stories in the village. The two got along even closer than brother and sister.

It was not until the early morning of the seventh day that the doctor checked Liu Yiyi's condition again and said that nothing was wrong. Grandfather left the town with the three of them. Grandfather said that he would keep rushing all the way now, otherwise he would not be able to reach Qixia Mountain before August 15th.
Chapter completed!