Doomsday Grain

The two turned their gazes to the crack. The branches of the tree were luxuriant, and the breeze moved the branches. Most of the leaves were young, as if they had just come out of the branches. The emerald green color looked very lively.

Lin Qian took a small step over to have a look. He Yangxuan stood behind him, frowning and looking at the tree: "It's a species I've never seen before. But this tree is quite well-grown. If you want to say what kind of tree seeds fall into it and grow It’s also possible that it came out. But with such a thick board, there is no light coming in. Even if ordinary trees need sunlight, when they meet the board, they just avoid growing. It’s too exaggerated to push it out directly.”

Lin Qian also saw this, and frowned, "Maybe I'm thinking too much. Wen Xuan, I always think of the tree root that the fire brigade picked up from the crack in the ground last year."

"No matter what, it's best if nothing happens. If something happens, the government should be able to solve it."

Lin Qian picked up a wooden stick from the side, and poked the branch of the tree with his hand. It looked like an ordinary tree, but with a little force, a few leaves were knocked off.Lin Qian lowered his head to pick up the leaf, and looked at it carefully.Although it is not clear what kind of tree it is, the leaves have a clear texture when placed in the sun. They are ordinary leaves, nothing special.

A few more courageous people also removed two wooden boards that were sealed on the top, and took a flashlight to shine down.

The place where the light of the flashlight can touch can't see the roots of the tree. Looking down, it is blocked by the dense leaves. Going all the way down, just like the depth of this ravine, the height of the trees cannot be seen.

The top part looks like a small twig, but looking down through the crack, the upper part of the twig is just the tip of the iceberg.

Everyone who saw it shuddered. If a simple tree by the side of the road is not scary, but this tree came out of this bottomless crack, so it feels weird no matter how you look at it.

Lin Qian showed the leaves to his grandfather. Looking at the leaves, his grandfather couldn't think of what kind of tree it was.

Someone suggested to invite Mr. Yin Yang to come over and take a look.But now in this world, even traveling is a problem, let alone hiring people.And even if they come to the door, whether the husband is alive or not is another matter.

Lin Qian threw the leaf back into the ground.Some people saw Lin Qian picking leaves, and they picked two leaves to play with.I've never seen this tree before, since it's okay to touch it, it's not bad to pick two leaves and keep them for fun.

After waiting for half an hour, the fire truck finally came.

That touch of red is very conspicuous on the green land that has just awakened.

When the car came to a close stop, several fire officers and soldiers brought two experts over to survey the terrain first, and then two members of the fire brigade held gardening shears and cut off several layers of branches to have a look.

It was already afternoon, and it was the hottest time of the day. Everyone hid under the shade of the trees, and some even picked the larger grass leaves on the side of the road to fan the wind, waiting for the results from the fire brigade.

There were more and more people. Grandpa called the children together and asked them to recite the multiplication formula.

In the expectant eyes of everyone, a firefighter who went down to the ground gave the signal to come up. He was busy for nearly an hour, but in fact he only went down more than 20 meters.Along the way, I used gardening shears to cut off the branches, and at 20 meters away, I found a piece of clothing.

This is a dark blue dress, not big in size, it should be a little boy's clothes.

Several adults discussed for a while, and one person said, "Isn't this the clothes of Li Erchun's children?"

No matter when, as long as the time is suitable for travel, the children in the village will walk around in groups and play around.So what kind of clothes a child likes to wear, most of the villagers have some impressions.

The child of Li Erchun's family was the one who fell into the cracks in the ground last year. He was naughty at first, and he often played outside all day long, so anyone in the village who is willing to go out knows this child.

Saying a word, everyone present felt that there was a gust of wind behind them.When the child fell, the fire brigade went down more than 120 meters without seeing anyone, and only brought up a tree root.Now the child still cannot be found, but a tree that has never been seen grows out of the gap.The clothes that the child was wearing when he fell into the ground were carried by the tree into the gap 20 meters above the ground.

What about the child?

An answer emerged in everyone's mind, and perhaps this answer was a bit intrusive.

Child, eaten up by this tree.

There are similar legends about the man-eating tree in most places, but most of them are used to scare ignorant children. The tree that is growing in front of us now seems to be the true version of those legends.

In the scorching sun, cold sweat broke out from behind the people present.

The firefighters didn't expect such a thing to happen. They glanced at each other and were a little silent.

After a long while, the leader said to the crowd: "Where are the parents of the child? We will take this dress home for inspection, and we will return it after inspection. But before that, we still need to obtain the consent of the parents of the child."

A group of people peeked at each other, and two men turned their heads to look for Li Erchun.

Li Erchun has not married a wife until now, his only son is gone, and his life has been muddled for the past year.When it was cold last year, his family had a lot of firewood, so someone moved into his house to live with him as a partner, because he produced a lot of firewood and provided enough food, so in general, the partners in the house would help clean up and eat. , and helped with the housework, and it was pity for him to dawdle by himself.

After the beginning of spring, the family moved back to their own home. Li Erchun was alone at home, and he seemed to have little energy on weekdays. Sometimes he even forgot to cook, and he was almost skinny.

The botanist cuts off a branch and wraps it up and takes it back. The geologist has no way to investigate the situation below. He can only study the terrain here and use the limited conditions to solve the current problem.

After a while, Li Erchun was brought back by two men.

Li Erchun heard that his son's clothes were brought out by a tree growing out of the cracks in the ground, and he walked so fast that the people behind almost couldn't keep up.The person was still 50 meters away, and he saw the dark blue dress at a glance, and immediately his legs softened and he sat on the ground.

The two quickly held him by the arm and helped him to see clearly.

"Fengfeng!" Li Erchun approached and grabbed the clothes.The clothes also had an animated image of Ultraman printed on them, and they were the clothes his son wore most often before his death.After Li Erchun's wife died, he didn't know how to tidy up or do laundry by himself.This dress is dark blue, and it is not easy to see when it is dirty, so he often takes it out for his son to wear, and his son never cares about what to wear.

So this clothes is the clothes he often wears to run around the village, and it is also the last clothes he wears before he dies.

Most of the people present were parents, and most people's eyes were red when they saw such a thing.

Someone went over to the firefighters and said, "Comrade, can you look further down, maybe the pants and shoes are also brought up."

In fact, everyone would think in their hearts, would they bring the bones of the dead?But that was too creepy to say.

The firefighter looked at the crying father holding his clothes. Although he couldn't bear it, he still shook his head: "The following situation is really unclear, and there is also the danger of being unclear. We have already brought samples of the tree back for research, and I believe it will be soon. There will be results."

There is no way around this.In the last days, the most taboo thing is unnecessary sacrifice.The child was brought up with only one piece of clothing, so the possibility of the tree "eating people" cannot be ruled out.Firefighters are human beings. Even in this context, every firefighter is precious and can save more people. There is really no need to take risks because of this.

In the end, the firefighters took the clothes with Li Erchun's consent, and drove away in the red fire truck.

Grandpa took the six children back together, and when he got home, he opened his mouth to teach the children an important lesson.

"Did you see it now? That seam is very dangerous. It's not a suitable place to play. Maybe sometimes, adults tell you not to go there to play, but it makes you more curious, thinking that it's okay not to do what the adults say occasionally." What's the matter. But grandpa wants to tell you that any disobedient behavior of yours may cause you to never see your family."

A child raised his hand and asked, "Is everything the adults said true?"

This question is the beginning of a child's rebellion.When I was young, I always felt that everything the adults said was right, and I believed and obeyed it unconditionally.But when they suddenly learned one day that adults don't know everything, they further learned that sometimes it would be nothing if they didn't listen to adults, and at most they would say a few words.

After a long time, it is a very interesting thing to make adults jump when they are disobedient, so they become more and more fond of singing against adults.

"Of course it's not all wrong." Grandpa said patiently, "Because everyone in this world makes mistakes. You will face more choices when you are older, but in your current position, all the things that adults prohibit you from doing are all It’s from the standpoint of protecting you. In other words, if adults don’t let you do anything, bad things will happen if you listen. But if you don’t listen, maybe it’s okay once or twice, and it will make you feel very interesting, but I don’t know Which time you will never see the person you want to see."

Grandpa tried his best to tell the children in terms they could understand, not to try to gain happiness through rebellion, the price may be unbearable for them.

In fact, not only children, many adults have been like this.When others forbid them to do something, what they often think about is not the consequences, but what will happen if they really do it.

It's like putting a stone there, no one will feel anything, but when you write graffiti on it one day, you will find that there are more graffiti on it every day.

As far as children are concerned, they usually don't feel anything if they don't go to the river, but once the adults tell them "don't go to the river", they will pay more attention.When a child proposes to play by the river, all the children will go to see it together with curiosity.

And what grandpa is doing now is to try his best to let these children who already have a rebellious mentality understand that some things cannot be played as fun.

Lin Qian and He Yangxuan were not in a hurry to work when they got home, but went back to the room to talk for a while. There were too many people just now, and many things could only be said behind closed doors.

"That child might have been 'eaten'." Lin Qian said, "Did you notice that dress? It was very clean, with only some dirt and scratches, but no blood."

There were sporadic bloodstains, more like scratches.If the child died below and was brought up by the branches after the body became bone, then there must be traces of decay on the top, and this clothes obviously does not belong to this kind.A better explanation is that the child is caught by the tree after falling, and then the whole child is absorbed by the tree little by little, and then the clothes hang on the branches and come out as the tree grows.

"If what you said is true, then we are facing two problems now." He Yangxuan pulled Lin Qian to sit on the sofa, and opened the curtains to let the sunlight in.In this way, when the two of them talk about this topic, they will not be horrified.

"Tell me."

"First, if this tree really eats people, will it actively attack, or only 'eat' dead people? You know, if the child didn't take off his clothes by himself, the temperature would have been higher when he fell in last year. It is very cold, and the temperature has just warmed up now, so it is impossible for a child to rot into bones in such a short period of time. The only explanation is that the whole person was digested and absorbed by the tree, and then the clothes remained."

He Yangxuan himself couldn't help shivering when he said this.

Lin Qian gasped, and continued, "Second, where exactly did the child fall? According to the extent of the search, the child should be below 120 meters, fell, stopped somewhere, and was absorbed, and his clothes were taken away." Bring up the tree branch. Then can it be explained that this tree grew from 120 meters below the ground!"

As mentioned earlier, although there are very few trees whose roots can take root below 120 meters, it is almost impossible for a tree to grow up from below 120 meters, at least botanically unreasonable.

Children know that plants need sunlight, air, water and soil to grow.Even if the latter three conditions are sufficient and there is no sunlight, how can the plant grow 120 meters in one winter?

Not to mention 120 meters, another variety will not grow 120 centimeters in winter.

He Yangxuan said: "If you count from the ground, there are many trees that can grow more than 120 meters, but it takes decades to grow. This winter..."

"Evil door, too evil door!"

I have never seen anything like this in all my years of living.For Lin Qian, even after experiencing the apocalypse, such a thing is unimaginable.

This kind of thing can't think of a result, and at most it can only pin its hopes on the government.However, the end of the world has always carried too many mysteries.

"Forget it, don't think about it. In two days, let's go to the field to see how the fry are surviving, and sprinkle some fish food by the way. How much they can survive in the future depends on themselves. There are still a lot of fish left Those that can lay eggs, should we incubate them?"

"Hang up the signboard and make an appointment. Just like eggs, it's no secret that our family has fish anyway. But it's better to wait for two more days. Let's see how the fry survive in the ground. As long as they survive in the first few days, later As long as there is enough water, it’s not a big problem.”

"Actually, even if you can only raise them for a month or two before running out of water, it is enough for the fry to grow big enough to eat meat. Some people went down the river to catch fish before, and I saw them too. Some were as small as a pinky finger, and I also caught them. Eat it. Basically as long as the fry you sell are alive and kicking, whether they can grow them later is their own problem."

The next day the two went up the mountain to collect pine oil, but they met two snakes on the way.Snake head triangle, more likely to poisonous snakes.Although snakes generally do not actively attack people, and snakes will dodge first after cutting the grass, in order to avoid accidents, the two of them reduced the number of hikes up the mountain. There is no room for a snake's mouth.

Just three days later, the fire trucks came again.This time, before the villagers could react, the firefighters poured fuel into the gap, and then lit the fire.

The flame rose several meters, and the surrounding area was scorched hot.When they saw the black smoke, many villagers gathered around to have a better look.

The tree burned without warning.The fire officers and soldiers also brought back the child's clothes, entrusted the villagers to hand them over to the family members of the deceased, and then cleaned up the area around the flames to ensure that the flames would not spread, leaving two fire officers and soldiers to observe the fire. Back to the county to prevent the lack of manpower due to emergencies during this time.

I thought that the flame might end in two or three hours, but who would have thought that it would take three days and three nights for the flame to rise.

It wasn't until the fourth day that the flames subsided.But it doesn't mean that the bottom is completely burned, it can only be said that the upper part that can contact the outside air is completely burned, and the oxygen inside can't support the intense combustion, so the flame begins to gradually decrease.On the fourth night, standing on the crack, I could still see the faint fire inside.

On the fifth night, the light of the fire turned into sparks.

On the sixth day, the fire truck came again, and a whole truckload of water was continuously poured into the cracks in the ground. There was no spark at all that night.

The ashes of the burning trees fell into the cracks of the ground without a trace, and the only trace left was the leaves that had been taken away.

After the burning, the ground seam was sealed again. This time, it was the steel plates sent by the government. The steel plates were sent over and put together on the ground seam, and each seam was welded with electric welding, and the steel plates were tightly fixed with large screws. on the ground.

The engineering team arranged by the government to build the greenhouse came here.According to the order of ranking, enter each family who is willing to build a greenhouse one by one for construction.

To build a greenhouse, the state will reimburse 90.00% of the cost, and will also subsidize some soilless cultivation tools and nutrient solutions.But there is only a small part, and the rest depends on your own arrangement, whether to cultivate directly on the land in the greenhouse, or choose soilless cultivation, or set up a shelf and use flowerpots to plant, all of which need to be paid for by yourself.

In the village, except for the few families who are really in trouble, they basically chose to build greenhouses to change the status quo.If the weather this year is still the same as last year, then there is no doubt that there is a guarantee for having a greenhouse.Not to mention how much money is sold and how much income is brought in, even if it is simply producing food to feed a family.With a greenhouse, you can sow and harvest throughout the year regardless of the four seasons. The same land can get two to three times as much food as before.

Although a greenhouse is expensive, it will undoubtedly pay off in the long run.

The days are getting hotter and hotter every day, and people are reducing their travels. At most, they go to the fields in the morning and evening to see how the crops are sprouting.

The growth in Lin Qian's field was quite good. After the watering was stopped at first, the seedlings in the field withered for two days, but now the leaves regained their vitality after the roots took root.

The rice seedlings in the field are the best. The rice seedlings in Lin Qian's house were planted more than ten days earlier than other houses, and they looked much taller than other houses. However, the rice fields in the whole village were growing very gratifyingly, and they could almost be seen It's the day when the golden autumn is full of rewards.

The small fish fry in the ground are growing well.Both the water outlet and the water inlet of the rice fields are tightly blocked by fishing nets, and there is almost no case of fish escaping from prison.Because of the lack of pesticides, there are more and more algae or weeds in the water, which can provide enough food for small crucian carp.At the same time, the weather is hot, and many insects come out. These are natural fish food.

Lin Qian began to put up posters at the door of his house, and anyone who wanted to try raising fish in the rice fields could come and order fish fry.The price of fish fry is not expensive, nor is it cheap. Within a hundred fish fry, ten fish fry per catty of grain, if more than one hundred fish fry, five fish fry per catty of grain, which is within the acceptable range for both parties Inside.It’s just that on average, at least 6000 fish fry can be placed in one hectare (one hectare). If some fish food is sprinkled, more than [-] fish fry can be placed in a single day.

Each person has less than one mu of rice land, and the whole family’s three or four mu of land can be put in about a thousand fish fry. If they are really willing to put fish fry, then a family may spend more than 100 catties of rice. Buy fry.

Most people order 30 fish fry and buy more in small quantities.However, fewer people in the village choose to buy fish fry than expected. There are only more than [-] households in total.

It's not that they are not greedy for fish and meat, but some people have moved their minds.

Lin Qian and He Yangxuan cultivated fish fry, and they would only be sold after more than [-] days.In this way, the fry will grow larger and the survival rate will be higher.However, the price of this is to consume more small fish feed, which increases the cost.

After 20 days, basically every household received the fish fry they bought, kept a few to try to raise in their idle fish tanks, and poured the rest into the rice field.

Just a few days after it was poured into the rice field, something happened.Some who didn’t buy fry and wanted fish, just took the fry from other people’s fields and put them in their own rice fields while others were not paying attention.

The reason why it was discovered was that the person who stole the fish fry stepped into the rice field in order to catch the fish fry, and even trampled to death several rice seedlings.

If these crucian carp grow up, with so many crucian carp, not only can they eat meat at home, but they can also be sold for a lot of money, which is very valuable.

Even if rice seedlings are stolen, there is no more distressing thing than fish seedlings being stolen.

Thirty or so people who bought fish fry gathered together, including Lin Qian's family. Even though the weather is hot now, every family will build a simple grass shed. Whether it is day or night, there will be two or three people checking and patrolling. .

Although this cannot completely prevent people from stealing fry, at least it can be greatly reduced.

In the future, if the weather becomes unbearably hot, basically no one would want to go there during the day.At that time, you only need to watch the morning, evening and night.As long as these fry can be protected, the hard work is worth it.

After organizing patrols to protect the fry, Lin Qian's family's orders for fry increased.

Lin Qian discussed with He Yangxuan, so that these fry will be artificially propagated as soon as they enter the breeding season. After the fry are bred, they will be sold to the army except for their own use and those bought by the villagers.

Although fishes are not uncommon in places like reservoirs and rivers, systematic large-scale farming is still very necessary for the lack of meat.Because of floods, droughts, and floods, most of the fish ponds in the country ran out of fish. Lin Qian just needed to sell fry at this time.

Thirty people work in shifts for patrolling, and two families work in groups, and it takes fifteen days to go on duty once.Lin Qian and He Yangxuan took the time to summarize the things sold at home, and then started to record their daily income.

Lin Qian covered the last bit of the yard with a greenhouse, so there were four more smaller greenhouses in the house.

With so many greenhouses, if each greenhouse had its own stove for heating, it would actually consume a lot of fuel, and even a rich family like Lin Qian's family couldn't afford it.

In the end, we had to study with the government's construction team, and added money to install heating in every greenhouse.The heating boiler is placed in the greenhouse for raising livestock.This boiler is larger than the boiler in the building, after all, it is to be supplied to each greenhouse.

Lin Qian thought about it, and opened two more vents on both sides of the greenhouse.This effectively ventilates while preventing the indoor temperature from being too high.

Every greenhouse is connected, and the interconnected water pipes are in mid-air. In order to prevent the exposed water pipes from being damaged by freezing in winter, or unable to preserve the temperature, a shelf is simply built with bricks at the places separated from each other, and then Bury the pipes inside.

After the cover is finished, a quilt or the like will be placed on the shelf for heat preservation.This has a disadvantage, that is, the fire cannot be extinguished for a long time in the cold winter, otherwise, once the water pipes here are frozen and cracked, it will be very troublesome to repair.

After the construction of the whole village is completed, it will be nearly two months later.

The fish in Lin Qian's land had already grown to more than one or two pounds. Depending on the size, it was fine to eat them at this time. Occasionally, a few dead fish were encountered, and they were fished out in time for fear of affecting the water quality.

The fry of other people's fish were released a little late, so naturally they were not as big as Lin Qian's fish, but they were all growing very gratifyingly.Some families with children can’t help but grab two or three of them, boil a pot of fish soup for the children to satisfy their cravings, and keep the rest as treasures.

The days are gradually entering June, which is the time when there are many mosquitoes.In previous years, when the mosquitoes got up, they had to start applying pesticides, because many of the larvae of the insects lived in the rice fields and would eat rice to grow up. However, this year I raised fish, so basically there is no need to worry about such things.

If you meet someone with other diseases, it will not have a big impact on the fish if you fight less.

In this way, seeing the fish grow up day by day, the village has more expectations.Regardless of other things, as long as the group of fish grows up, even if there is no harvest in the field, selling fish can bring in a lot of money.

It is still a helpless drought. Since the beginning of spring, there have only been two light rains. The ground is not very wet, and it dries up as soon as the sun comes out.

Several families dug wells in partnership, and at first they pumped groundwater for irrigation, but later the government banned the pumping of groundwater for irrigation.I'm afraid of being punished these days, so I can only do this.

However, there are policies above and countermeasures below.If groundwater is not allowed to be used for irrigation, then it is not illegal to store water on the ground, right?

There are also people who visit other villages. I heard that those villages farther from the river still dig a few water storage pits in the village. Although the water they store may not be enough to irrigate so many fields, even if they can only keep part of the land, they will be able to harvest. Well, at any rate, there is a harvest.

The people in the village looked at the drought that lasted for two years, and they were moved.Some people started to take action, spending two hours a day digging holes in their own fields.Those who are close to the mountains are okay, and no one cares about digging the land in the mountains directly. Those who are close to the ground and cannot dig, they can only sacrifice part of the land.

There are still crops growing on the ground, so it is natural not to want to move them, not to mention that there has been no rainfall this year, so it would be better to wait until after the harvest.

After Lin Qian heard the news, he was greatly inspired.

Lin Qian drew a simple drawing on paper and showed it to He Yangxuan.

"What is this?" The sketch is divided into two pieces, one is viewed from above, and the other is a cross-section, but without annotations, it is impossible to see what it is, only a big inverted triangle can be seen.

"I saw such a picture on the Internet before. It is a means of storing water in an extremely dry place abroad. It seems to be called a step well. This can be said to be as big as you want, and as deep as you want. , you don’t even need to dig out the water. There are layers of steps on all sides. After it rains, all the water received around these four sides will converge to the center below. No matter what time, people can easily touch the water, regardless of the water level Wherever the line is, there are steps closest to it. The same principle is used when using it, use a little, the water level will drop a little, and a little step will be exposed, so that even if the water reaches the bottom, the water will not be spoiled, let alone someone will fall into it. "

He Yangxuan squeezed his chin and thought about it: "And if the water seepage is not considered, some plants can even be planted on these steps, and these plants absorb the water seeping from the innermost part, coupled with the arid weather and abundant sunshine, they grow very well. will be better."

"Smart." Lin Qian put the drawings on the table, "But we have to face three problems in this way: first, if we do this, the area to be constructed will be huge, and at the expense of the same large area, we can only own someone else's house A quarter of the water in the small reservoir, after all, people dug straight down."

"If we simply dig our own home, half of our land may not be able to grow plants with a long growth cycle, which is not cost-effective. But it is good for fish farming, but it is a pity that the water is stagnant and cannot be replaced regularly. "

"Not necessarily. If the water is transported here from the riverside for a long period of time and stored here, it can also be conceptually changed regularly." Lin Qian squeezed his chin.

"Do you know what your name is?" He Yangxuan asked.

"what?"

"Take off your pants and fart. If you really want to fetch water from the river to irrigate, not to mention the trouble, it's better to take the risk of fetching water from the well. Even if you really fetch water, why not dig a small place for temporary water storage on the edge of the ground, Why dig so big with such fanfare?"

"That's right." Lin Qian collected his thoughts again and continued, "The second question, this kind of project is not small, if we want to do a good job of waterproofing, we need to use things like cement to make the interior well, which requires There are a lot of things. I know you have them in your space, but the origin must be clearly stated, so you can only buy them from the government."

"This also leads to the third problem," He Yangxuan said with a smile, "but if the first two problems are solved, the third problem is not a problem."

Lin Qian nodded: "According to regulations, land changes need to be approved, let alone digging such a large stepwell. But in this world, it should be easy to pass this kind of thing."

Then the next thing to solve is to convince the owners of several nearby lands to agree to this plan.Several families can work together to dig this step well, and the water stored in it can be used by several families, at least a considerable part of the harvest can be preserved in the dry season.

It's just that the first question is the worst.A water pit with the same area as others, or a small reservoir, can store four times the water storage capacity.

In this way, is it not worth the loss?Lin Qian didn't mind this loss, but to others, this loss was worth a lot of money.

After looking for people in the surrounding area, no one agreed to this proposal. Lin Qian couldn't just dig in his own house, and the project was too big, so it wasn't worth it now.

However, this proposal was not completely in vain, because after the village chief knew about the proposal, he took the initiative to come to Lin Qian to find out more about it, and then reported it to the leader directly. Lin Qian didn't know the specific leader.

The time has entered late June.

Lin Qian's condition has not been very good these past few days, he often lost his mind and didn't know what he was thinking.

At first, He Yangxuan thought that Lin Qian was disappointed because the matter of the stepwell could not be implemented. After all, after the end of the world, basically all of Lin Qian's proposals went smoothly.But after a few days, something felt wrong. The two had been together for ten years, and He Yangxuan knew Lin Qian too well.

At first, he was reluctant to ask, but kept paying attention. Three days later, He Yangxuan couldn't bear it any longer. Lin Qian first asked, "Are you free?"

"Ah? Yes."

"Come with me to burn paper on the bridge."

It was just getting dark.Burning paper on the bridge is usually for those who have no way to burn paper on the grave, but can only go to the crossroads or the bridge to pay homage.

Usually, people would pay homage to someone, but in He Yangxuan's memory, there seemed to be no one in the family who died in June. Who could Lin Qian pay homage to?

Although he had doubts, He Yangxuan took out two bags of paper money from the space, and took out a small bundle, and asked Lin Qian what to write.

According to local rules, if it is not in front of the grave, the address and name of the person must be written on the first piece of paper before burning. According to tradition, only the dead can receive it.

"You don't need to write it, and no one around has received it, so I'll just give it to the parade brat." Lin Qian stepped out.

When Lin Qian was going out, He Yangxuan followed and just met his grandfather.

"Where is this going?" Grandpa asked.

"Qian'er is going to burn paper on the bridge, and I don't know who to burn it for. I will accompany him and come back after burning." He Yangxuan put on his shoes and went out.

Grandpa looked puzzled at the closed door, and finally shook his head and went back upstairs to sleep.

On the bridge, Lin Qian circled a place, took a small stick and began to burn paper.He Yangxuan didn't ask any questions, just squatted beside him.Normally one would kneel down to burn paper, so Lin Qian squatted there, and even found a stone to burn paper under his buttocks.

The act of burning the paper was also very perfunctory, throwing bundles into the fire.

When all the papers were thrown in and the fire started to be fully burned with sticks, He Yangxuan asked, "Have you been absent-minded lately?"

"Don't worry, basically when the fire is over, everything will be fine." Lin Qian looked at the burning flames.

"What? Bewitched by an evil spirit? Burning paper can lure the evil spirit away?" He Yangxuan laughed.

I thought that Lin Qian would retort if I said this, but Lin Qian didn't say anything.He Yangxuan became more serious: "Can you tell me about it?"

Lin Qian glanced at He Yangxuan, smiled lightly and said, "Burn it for me."

He Yangxuan trembled when he heard this: "What nonsense!"

Burning paper is only needed when people die, and the burning paper is the money spent underground.Leaving aside any feudal superstition, how could anyone burn paper to a living person?Isn't that a curse to death?

"Look, you asked me, and you didn't believe me when I told you." Lin Qian saw that the last flame was gone, only a few sparks were left, turning the fire, and the burnt paper ash was still glowing red, "Don't worry Well, I'm still alive, so naturally I can't receive it. If... If no one receives it, then it's really a way to send off the brat, so feel at ease."

"I think it's necessary for you to tell me about this kind of thing." He Yangxuan said.

Lin Qian had a secret, and He Yangxuan knew this.But from the beginning to the end, he didn't ask He Yangxuan unless he mentioned it.But now Lin Qian's actions are too abnormal, he suddenly came out to burn paper in the middle of the night, and he said he burned it for himself, not to scare people like this!

Lin Qian thought about it, and said, "Burn it for me in my previous life."

"Past life?"

"I died at this time in my last life. Although I don't know the exact date, I know it was late June." Lin Qian thought about it, and then said with a hint, "After all, the few months before the harvest is the most famine. Serious time."

He Yangxuan stretched out his hand and grabbed Lin Qian's arm: "Speak clearly! Why did you die in your last life and why did you die at this time!"

The more you care about it, the more taboo it is to talk about life and death.

Seeing that the last spark was gone, Lin Qian stood up, and He Yangxuan also stood up, frowning at Lin Qian.

"I've worried you for the past two days." Lin Qian said softly, "Actually, I've been a little confused these two days. The time coincides, and I'm thinking, what would you do if I were a ghost?"

He Yangxuan was so smart, even if Lin Qian didn't explain it clearly, he could piece together the whole story with just a few words.

This also explained why Lin Qian knew so much, he would know about earthquakes, and he would also know about the end of the world.

"You're lying, right?" He Yangxuan reached out and grabbed Lin Qian's head, pressing his forehead against it, feeling the other's temperature, "You are more real than anyone else, you are alive."