On the morning, the sunlight shines directly into the window. The support rod on the wooden window divides the sunlight into one after another. You can see the dust in the light rolling in the air. The birds on the mountain are chirping and happily looking for insects to eat.

It was around 8 o'clock in the morning. During the long-lasting weather, the heat on the ground began to rise, and the earth began to slowly become hotter under the sun.

Zhang Rui was sleeping in a daze and wanted to get up and turn on the air conditioner to cool it down, but when he got up, he realized that he would probably never be able to enjoy the air conditioner life in his life.

A wave of loss and depression instantly occupied his heart. Although the man bleeded but did not cry, he was just not sad.

Suddenly I remembered my family, my friends, and I thought that I could never live my previous life in the future. This is not a trip to the countryside, camping outdoors, and when I’m tired, I can go back to the harbor at home to rest.

Although the work was a bit hard and tiring in the past, it was a thousand times better than it is now. As Zhang Rui thought about it, he found that he could not control his tears and could not help but shed.

There was once a saying that life is like being raped. If you really can't resist, just accept it and do whatever you want! Since Zhang Rui has no way to change the status quo, he can only accept it.

Without sleepiness, he got up like this and welcomed his next day.

After eating the pheasant and wild vegetables cooked last night, Zhang Rui found that the first thing he had to do now was how to find the food for the afternoon and tomorrow.

There are only some wild vegetables I picked yesterday left at home, but because they were not put in place last night, many of them have already started to rot due to the hot weather.

The so-called "people without long-term thinking" must have immediate worries. This is a good saying. If you don't get some food, you will probably go hungry again after noon.

Zhang Rui closed his eyes and recalled Zhang Liu's memory, trying to find useful things, but he was disappointed. Except for his six acres of rice fields with a low yield, there was no place where he could find food in his memory.

The only place where you can find food is the wild vegetable field I accidentally discovered yesterday. However, after picking it yesterday, I guess I can't recover for less than three or five days.

As for eating wood leaves and grass roots, Zhang Rui felt that he couldn't accept the pain because he knew Zhang Liu's memory. It would be better to kill himself and maybe he could wear it back.

"Since there is nothing to eat, I will cut the rice in the field and eat it. Anyway, it is almost mature now, and one step is one step." When I really couldn't think of other food sources, Zhang Rui could only recite at the end. After saying that, he picked up the sickle used to cut grain next to the corner of the wall and went out.

There was no shade along the way, and the heat waves on the ground began to slowly surge. Under the sunlight, Zhang Rui obviously felt sweat on his body begin to emerge. Fortunately, the rented rice fields were not far from home, and Zhang Rui arrived in a short while.

Along the way, I saw some Yanxi rice with their heads down. As the saying goes, rice rice, rice without water can produce many good millets. I really don’t dare to think about it, especially now, this kind of grain is not hybrid, and there are no chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

Zhang Rui, who was looking at the edge of the field, suddenly found that his neighbor Li Si was also cutting his own rice. So he naturally said to Li Si in the local dialect according to Zhang Liu's memory:

"Uncle Li Si, hurry up, don't you come to cut the grain too (a kind of Hakka dialect: Uncle Li Si, so early, have you come to cut the rice too?)"

"It's a dog, no way, all the food is not good. The aged dog and the younger sister both told him that the food should be done, so they came to cut the drip and ran to wait for the food. You should eat slowly until the grain is ripe! (Yes, dog, there is no way, there is no food. My dog ​​and my younger sister are crying and want to eat, so now I cut it back and make it for them to eat. If you eat slowly, you should eat it until the rice is ripe!)" (For the convenience of dialogue, the latter part is directly translated into Mandarin)

After hearing the sound, Li Si stretched out his bent waist in the fields, looked at Zhang Liu, who was Zhang Rui, and explained.

"You are here to harvest rice, too?"

"Yes, there's really no food, there's no way."

Li Si's family and Zhang Liu have the best relationship in the whole village. Not only because the two families live close to each other, but more importantly, the two families are among the few single families in the village.

Zhang Liu's grandfather is a single pass, and Zhang Liu's father is the same. When he arrives at Zhang Liu, there are no relatives who are relatives. In addition, poor relatives do not like to walk around, but renting land is already relatively mobile.

This also makes people understand why people have been so persistent in loving the land since ancient times. Without their own fields, they can’t even live a stable life, let alone falling leaves return to their roots.

Zhang Liu's mother was bought by Zhang Liu's grandfather from the human traffickers with three dans of rice. She was only eleven years old and was a little sick, so she was so cheap.

I heard from her mother that she remembered that her family lived in a place called Guomu Village, Hunan. Her mother's surname was Zhu, her name was Zhu Caiwei, and her father was Zhu Dachang, and she knew how to read.

There is a sycamore tree in her yard that is very beautiful when it blooms. In addition to her parents, she also has a younger brother who is a few years younger, Zhang Liu's uncle. He loves to laugh very much and looks very beautiful when she smiles.

Originally, the family lived a happy life, but my younger brother fell ill when he was two years old. The family really had no money to treat her, so her father could only sell her to the little daughter of a local landlord as a maid with tears in his eyes, and exchanged for five dans of rice, two chickens and three hangings to treat his younger brother.

She was abducted by human traffickers when she was helping the lady out to buy things, and then she met Zhang Liu's father.

Zhang Liu's mother said: She didn't blame her father for selling her, nor did she resent her brother's illness, nor did she even avenge her abducted and trafficked her into human traffickers. Because when she met her husband, she felt that God was favoring her, and her husband was really nice to her and never beat her up and scolded her before. She left anything delicious to her first, and thought of her first if there was any good thing.

She only resents this world, why no matter how hard they try, they can only survive.

When Zhang Liu's mother was ill and dying, she said that she really wanted to go home, go back to see her parents, see her younger brother, and if she could, she would see the blooming sycamore tree at home again.

Although her husband promised her to accompany her back to realize her dream as long as she had a little spare money, she knew it was impossible. Now she was only worried about what her husband would do and what her son would do after she left.

In the end, she was resentful to the world, but she had to persuade her husband and son to leave the world with a smile. Zhang Liu's father also passed away shortly after suffering from longing.

The successive departure of the two close relatives made Zhang Liu, who was only fourteen or fifteen years old, confused and at a loss. It was Li Si's family who helped to handle the matter and comforted him that Zhang Liu came over.

I heard from Li Si's family that the reason why the two families are so good is because when Li Si's family first moved here, Zhang Liu's father gave them a residence and helped build a house, so the two families have always had a good relationship.

When he approached and saw Li Si in the fields, Zhang Rui felt inexplicable sadness. Perhaps it was some memories from Zhang Liu that this man in his thirties was oppressed by life and looked like he was fifty years old.

The skin that was shining by the sun all day long was red and shiny, accompanied by shriveled skin, with heavy wrinkles on the face, and even the short rat's tail braid could see the white hair. Thick calluses could be seen in the palm of his hand, and feet without shoes could be worn, and black mud could be sandwiched between the soles of his feet and the deep cracked dead skin of his heels all year round. However, it was such a man who supported a family and was full of heaven.

The Li Si family originally had four children: the eldest dog hair is several months younger than Zhang Liu; the second child got sick shortly after he was born, and died because he was not well taken care of; the third child was ten years old, and there was a daughter and younger sister who was only six years old.

Originally, the boss was about to grow up, and it would be easier to have an extra labor force at home. As the saying goes, poor children are early to become home, and they can help them do whatever they can do, such as carrying water, cooking, manure and field.

But one day last year, Gou Mao went to the town to go to the ruins (dialect: the meaning of going to the market) and never came back. Later, he found the body hanging on a tree, but Zhang Liu put it down and carried it home with Li Si and buried it.

Aunt Li, who knew the bad news, fainted from crying. If there weren't two young people in the family who had to take care of her, she wouldn't know how she would have survived it.

Zhang Liu also cried for several days. In this village, he had a good relationship with him, especially when Zhang Liu's parents passed away, he was always with him. He would come to help him with his work after finishing his own work. He was like a brother, but now he died so tragically, how could Zhang Liu not be sad?

Later, after inquiring from many sources, I found out that day that Gou Mao took the wild mountain bamboo shoots he dug into the ruins to exchange for a good small jewelry with Xiao Lang who was selling the goods. On the way back, he happened to come down from Zhilianshan to rob.

A bandit fell in love with the small accessories of dog hair and asked him to hand it over. The dog hair hesitated for a moment and was chopped over by him. The dog hair, which was bleeding and unable to move, was hung on the tree and bleeding until death. A fifteen-year-old child died unwillingly.

Li Si knew the bandits directly connected to the mountain. The tough guys who had moved here only a few years ago looked like twenty or thirty people. They all held steel knives and often went down the mountain to rob, and they would kill and rob people whenever they were unhappy.

They are not afraid of bandits being evil people, but are afraid of bandits having ideas. They know who can move and what cannot move, so they only rob civilians and past businessmen and never get involved in local gentry. The government knows that this group of bandits also turns a blind eye to make them even more indulgent.

After knowing the cause and effect of the whole thing, Li Si and Zhang Liu went home to pick up the kitchen knife to help Dogmao take revenge. However, Aunt Li hugged Li Si tightly and refused to let them go.

Because there are no two ordinary people who can go to the bandit nest of twenty or thirty people, they will definitely die. If the main lord Li Si of the family is dead, how can they let their mother and three live!

The helpless world forced Li Si to take revenge. After thinking about it all night, Li Si still felt that he couldn't swallow his breath, so he decided to go to the county government to file a complaint.

As an ordinary citizen, he had to pray that the county government could be like a parent and official in the opera, and sent people to suppress the bandits on the mountain to avenge the dogma.

The yamen is facing south, so don’t come in if you have any money. People in this era understand this. Take the only dozens of copper coins in the family, Li Si and Zhang Liu went to the county yamen with him. Thinking of the yamen, he beat the drums and complained about his grievances when he arrived at the county yamen.

As a result, they just saw the drum at the entrance of the county yamen. Before they could walk over, they were stopped by the yamen runners at the door. After Zhang Liu and Li Si kept kneeling down and telling each other, they handed five copper coins to one of the yamen runners. They decided to make an exception to report to the county master for them.

As a result, the yamen runners looked dark as soon as they came out, asking them to leave quickly and not cause trouble here.

Zhang Liu and Li Si had never encountered such a thing, and they didn't know what to do, so they could only continue to kneel at the county government office.

More and more people were watching the fun, and the yamen runners at the door were unable to drive them away with sticks. Moreover, more and more people were talking at the door, so they had to go in and report again.

This time the yamen runners came out and let them in, saying that the ruling masters around the county master agreed to see them. Then they wanted to take them in and disperse the onlookers.

When they saw the master standing with his hands behind their backs, they were scolded by the master as soon as they knelt down and said, "Don't make trouble for trouble. The county is peaceful under the diligent governance of the master. How could there be bandits and even kill people and rob people?"

Then, the master asked the yamen runners to beat them up to warn them, and even the ten copper coins on them were not spared. He said that it was the price they paid for making trouble, and warned them to imprison them if they were stubborn and continued to make trouble. As for which mass grave would have two extra graves.

Zhang Liu and Li Si, who were greatly affected by physical and mental health, limped and supported each other out of the county government.

With the kind reminder of some wise people who have seen through, they finally understood. It was not that the county government office did not know that there were no bandits, but these bandits were very smart. They did not touch the interests of the local gentry, and sometimes even gave gifts to the yamen, so the county government office turned a blind eye to the well water and did not violate the river.

You should know that it costs money to suppress bandits. Wenquxing like the county master has to do big things so that he will not do thankless things for a few untouchables. The most important thing is that he does not use any oil and water to catch up.

No matter how many untouchables die, it doesn’t matter. After all, untouchables grow fast, just like leeks. After cutting a batch, they will grow soon. Especially under the prosperous era of Qianlong, the Qing Dynasty, the population will only increase. There is no need to take the life and death of a few untouchables to heart.

After listening to the kind reminder of a thoughtful person, Li Si went home and was silent for a long time. When he went out again, his rat tail appeared on his head.

Li Si told Zhang Liu that he would forget the grudge of Dog Hair! He would not blame Zhang Liu, nor would he blame Zhang Liu for not blame him, so that Zhang Liu would let Zhang Liu live a good life. He only blamed himself for not being able to do it, but only blamed this evil world.
Chapter completed!