Adopt this koi

The water tank in the house was broken, and there is no well in the village. The water is all picked from the river outside the village. The full tank of water was brought back by the old village head all morning.A hole was smashed by the officials, the water in the full tank was only left with a bottom, and the boiling pot was also smashed in. The wife of the old village chief held the flattened boiling pot, and shaped it with rough hands. But there was nothing he could do about the iron kettle.

Lin Ze kept staring at the busy old woman, and saw her gathering up the broken tiles and picking up the cotton wadding from the torn jacket... The water tank was broken, and the water flowed all over the place, and soon formed knots on the ground. With a thin layer of ice, the old woman took a kitchen knife and chopped up the ice cubes, collected them in a wooden bucket, brought them to the stove, melted them and precipitated them, and they were edible.After finishing all this work, I picked up the smashed water bottle and began to shape it, but I couldn't get the dented piece out no matter what.

Lin Ze pursed his lips that were white with cold, squeezed the fingers in his arms, sighed helplessly, stood up and walked to the old woman, "I'll do it."

The old woman's cloudy eyes turned slowly to Lin Ze, and made no further movements.

Lin Ze pointed to the kettle in her arms, "I'll get it."

The old woman was stunned for a while, and it took a while for the simple three words to comprehend the specific meaning. She grinned and showed a loving smile in her eyes.Send the pot to Lin Ze, "Here, here."

Now it was Lin Ze who was stunned, and took the iron kettle from the old woman's hand in a daze.He should be angry. He fled to the depths of the cave with his teacher, brother and guide, but found a different kind of cave. He wandered in the woods for several days. If he hadn't found a hunter's resting house and found some warm clothes, He died of cold before starving to death.After finally getting out of the woods, I found the village. The people in the village were very weird, wearing ancient costumes and with tentacles growing on their foreheads. When I saw myself surrounded by four people vigilantly, they did not behave out of line for a short time.

Later, people from another village came and conspired to catch the teacher and the three of them. Lin Ze thought the dry toilet in the village was too dirty and went outside to find a place to expose his buttocks in the wild. He escaped the first catastrophe, but did not Escaped the villagers' capture of him for the second time.Lin Ze probably hated the villagers, but he couldn't bear it when he looked at the impoverished old woman who treasured her broom.Silently shaping the kettle in his hand, Lin Ze didn't say a word.

"A few years ago, when my son died in the war, my old lady became stupid and became what she is now." The village head sat awkwardly at the table, seeing that strangers were paying attention to his old wife, and quickly explained.

Qin Heyi withdrew his gaze from Lin Ze and the old lady, "Can you tell us about the situation on your side?"

The old village head nodded, "There is nothing to say. There are wars every year, and then there are various disasters. This year is even more catastrophic. There is no rain in spring, floods after severe drought in summer, no harvest in autumn, and no harvest in winter. The heavy snow has never stopped, and not many people can survive this winter. That little brother, we have no choice but to trade you up for rice in order to survive, all to survive." No When Qin Heyi and the others asked why, the old village chief continued on his own, "There are people from Huangliang Country pretending to be people from Nanke, and the government issued a notice, and all those who don't grow tentacles will be arrested as spies. One person can exchange two catties of rice and one tael of meat, and the four of you can exchange eight catties of rice and four taels of meat. Eight catties of white rice can be exchanged for thirty catties of brown rice. Everyone in the village will have a way to live. Alas, a way to live."

Qin Heyi and the others didn't need to ask, the old village head started talking in a rambling manner. Many things that were stuffy in his heart and no one to say, were all poured out to Qin Heyi and the others.

The village is called Liushu Village. It was originally a big village with a population of hundreds of households. They work at sunrise and rest at sunset.Even if Nanke and Huangliang have been at war for more than 100 years, it has not had much impact on this remote village. Those sent out have not yet returned, and the second and third groups of conscripts came again. Boys who had just turned 160 years old and old people over [-] years old all went to the station, leaving a village of old, weak and sick Disabled.

The young and strong men have all left, and no matter whether it is heavy work or light work, it falls on the shoulders of the old and weak women and children. Life is already difficult, and droughts and heavy rains have alternated for decades, and the fields have no harvest.The exploitation from above is severe, and all kinds of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes are imposed on them, which almost drains every drop of blood and sweat from the people.

Later, spies from the Huangliang Kingdom continued to appear everywhere. The government issued a notice that as long as the spies were caught and sent to the government, they could get rice, grain, meat and eggs. They had no choice but to survive. People who saw no tentacles were tied up and sent away. to the government.

"Seeing that everyone can't survive, some people cut off their own tentacles, and asked everyone to tie them up and send them to the government. In exchange for rice, the rest of the people can live for a while." Under hardships, in order to survive, the general manager It is possible to think of a way. "The tentacles are the two bones protruding from our foreheads. Without them, we are no different from blind people. We can't walk steadily, can't see things clearly, and then slowly die like shriveled eggplants."

The old village head picked his eyes, drooped his eyelids, rubbed his hands, and continued talking.

"Well, my son was drafted to fight ten years ago, and we sent back the news that he was dead three years ago. Our old couple only have such a son. The old woman couldn't stand the stimulation and went crazy all of a sudden. Crazy and dumb, it’s good like this, so you don’t have to immerse yourself in pain. Later, my daughter-in-law threw herself into a well, and Xiao Sunzhi froze to death in the winter of last year. We are the only two old people left in this family. I dare not Die, the village still wants me to be the master, and those who sacrifice can’t die in vain, pity my daughter-in-law and grandson.” The old village chief stood up tremblingly with tears streaming down his face, and bowed to Lin Ze again and again, "Young man, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, there is nothing we can do to survive."

Lin Ze hid in the past, "Don't bow to me at such an old age, you will lose your life. I'm fine now, don't blame your head office, just tell me where the person who came with me is."

The old village chief stood up straight with the table, hunched like a handful of withered grass, struggling to survive in the cold wind, "Our village has a small number of people, the old, the young, the disabled, and the people from the next village see them." A few of us came here without tentacles, so we called for help and arrested them and sent them to the government, so they should be in the county government now."

Lin Ze nodded, as long as he knows where the person is, but why is there a faint uneasiness in his heart.

There is one more thing that Qin Heyi needs to understand clearly, "Old man, are the tentacles on your heads all born with?"

"Ah, yes." The old village chief smiled, and his wrinkled face forced a strange smile, "Yes, you are right. People in Nanke Kingdom have tentacles on their foreheads when they are born. We have another pair of eyes. If you go to other places, be careful, you will be arrested." Speaking of this, the old village chief's eyes flashed a strange light.

The tentacles on the old village head's forehead are dry like branches, but they are part of the body, like hands and feet, alive and alive, trembling from time to time, as if to detect the slightest change in the air.The same is true for the antennae on the old woman's head, which would vibrate from time to time, even if she didn't have to look with her eyes, she would know what was happening behind her.

Qin Heyi glanced at the old village chief, "We will be careful."

The old village chief was a little nervous when Qin Heyi looked at him, so he forced a grin.

Qin Heyi said he wanted to go out for a walk, so he took Tong Xiu out of the village chief's house, leaving Lin Ze alone in the village chief's house trembling, and the village chief's wife lit a fire to boil water and stood by the pot It's so warm that people don't want to leave half a step away.

The village is very dilapidated. The houses are either mud bricks or thatched houses. In the cold wind, the wind is blowing on all sides. The roofs are covered with snow, which is thickly pressed on the roofs and also plays a role in heat preservation, provided that the roofs are not crushed. Come down... The windows are sealed with wooden boards and rags, and the door is tightly closed, but it still can't stop the pervasive cold wind.

After being plundered by the officials just now, those who remained in the village were frightened and huddled in the house tremblingly. When they heard footsteps outside, they only dared to peek outside through the crack of the door.

"Squeak——" a sound came out from far away, and a little girl came out. Seeing Qin Heyi and Tong Xiu cowering back, she heard the sound of "clucking" behind her, and summoned up the courage to ask Taking a step forward, "Thank you for saving Mao Mao." A Hua quickly glanced at the faces of Qin Heyi and Tong Xiu who were approaching, and then bowed deeply.

"Little girl is so cold, what are you doing out here?" Qin Heyi asked gently.

Ah Hua closed the door behind her to prevent the cold wind from blowing in.She was wearing a thin cotton-padded jacket that was full of patches and was washed white. The sleeves were cut short, and her bony wrists were exposed when she stretched out her hands. Straight ankles, straw sandals on the feet, blue and purple toes from the cold, unwilling to be lonely, got out of the straw sandals.The tentacles on the forehead were frozen in the cold wind, and they were so cold that they didn't move.

"I went to fetch water from the river and boil water for my younger brother to drink."

"There's snow all over the ground, why don't you boil the water for drinking?" In the old village head's house, the old woman cherished the water flowing out of the water tank so much, and kept it when it was frozen or filled with mud. Feel very weird.

Ah Hua looked at the thick snow on the ground, forced herself to move her eyes away, and then said forcefully: "Because the snow water can't be drunk, there are dirty things in the snow, and the water in the river is clean, drinking it will make you smarter, and you can grow healthy and beautiful. tentacles."

A child inside the door suddenly started crying in a hoarse voice, and then a woman coughed uncontrollably. Ah Hua hurriedly opened the door and walked in, even forgetting to close the door.Their home is very small, just a small thatched house, and they cook on an earthen stove built outside.Open the door and there is a kang. On the kang, there are two people, one big and one small, covered by a thin quilt. The young one is sitting up and crying, with dry yellow and dry hair falling on his smooth forehead, and rubbing his eyes with his little hands. Even crying is like a kitten whimpering, with a big head and small body, like a wooden doll.

Tong Xiu couldn't bear to turn his head, "What a skinny baby."

Tong Xiu's voice made Ah Hua jump in fright, and the hands coaxing her younger brother trembled violently. She jumped off the kang, and the small and thin man rushed over to close the door with great strength. It hit the door frame, making an overwhelmed creaking sound, which also cut Qin Heyi's thoughtful line of sight inside.

Tong Xiu was taken aback by Ah Hua's sudden action, "What is that child doing? He rushed over to close the door suddenly, with a frightened and ferocious expression on his face, which shocked me. I've never seen such an expression on a child's face. "

"Probably because she is afraid that the cold wind will blow to her younger brother and mother." Qin Heyi said: "The time in Xumi's small world is often different from that in the outside world. You heard what the old village chief said just now. There have been wars for more than 100 years. , The famine lasted for more than ten years, and the conscription ranged from 160 years old to more than 500 years old. They were all counted in hundreds."

"Don't say 'One day in the cave, the world has been in the world for thousands of years', the world will be turned upside down when we go out, Brother Pei will go crazy if he can't find us." His parents are not ordinary people, Qin Heyi's father and Grandpa is not an ordinary person, the passage of time is not important to them, but Pei Yixing is different, he is still waiting for him to film "Legend of Destiny".

"I think it's the other way around. It should be 'a hundred days in the cave, only a few days outside'."

"Old Qin, what do you mean, time passes faster here than outside?"

"Well, it should be like this. I think the length should be the same, but the way of walking is different. It takes an hour and a minute to go around outside, and I ran ten laps at a faster speed when I ran here. It's just that the speed has increased, but there is no Change the total amount." Qin Heyi wanted to find someone as soon as possible and find a way to leave, but seeing that life in the village was difficult, he couldn't bear to just leave like this.

Tong Xiu thought the same way, "But how can we help them? If we don't help the poor, if we give them gold, it might bring disaster to them."

The villagers have hands and feet and are able to support themselves, but they cannot farm and produce themselves because of natural disasters and man-made disasters. It would be best if there is a crop that can grow in a disaster year and fill their stomachs.Discuss with Jiuge Ding and ask him to hand over the sweet potatoes that he hid last year.

Jiu Ge Ding made a gesture of covering his pockets, "No, they are so cute, how can I give them to you, I will keep them." Jiu Ge Ding collects things to see what he likes and whether he can be interested in him. effect.Last year, Qin Heyi bought a bunch of sweet potatoes. He looked beautiful and cute, so he hid some while Qin Heyi wasn't paying attention, and felt complacent that Qin Heyi didn't notice.

As everyone knows, Qin Heyi has seen his little tricks a long time ago, but he didn't say anything about it.

There is still a big difference between Jiu Ge Ding's aesthetics and Qin Heyi's. For example, Qin Heyi didn't see the cuteness and beauty from the sweet potatoes that were stained with soil. The sweet potatoes are big and plump. Whether it is roasted sweet potatoes, sweet potato porridge or sliced ​​and boiled and dried, they are all good choices. The flavors are different, but the taste remains the same.

"Crying, you cruel human beings, you want this from me, have you ever thought about my feelings?" Jiu Geding held his pocket tightly, vowing to protect his pocket to the death.

"...Didn't you make a bold statement when you sucked Lao Qin's blood, we can choose your collection as we please."

"One time, one time, one time, you didn't touch my sweet potato. You are cruel, you make trouble for no reason, woo woo woo..."

"If you have time, we will grow sweet potatoes on the mountain this year, and you can have as many as you want."

Jiu Ge Ding glanced at Qin Heyi, "Tong Xiu is going to film, you guys have the time to go home and grow sweet potatoes!"

"Then buy, red heart, white heart, red skin, purple skin, as long as you like, I will buy it for you."

"Okay then." Jiuge Ding hesitated for a moment, and felt that Qin Heyi's proposal was not bad, so he reluctantly nodded, "I don't want purple potatoes, they are not cute, I want the ones that grow on Daqingshan The sweet potato is as big as a palm, with two pointed ends and a round middle, and it tastes sweet."

Jiugeding took out eight big sweet potatoes, Qin Heyi felt that something was wrong, "I clearly remember that you took away at least a dozen, why are there only eight now?"

Jiugeding rolled his eyes, "I don't know how to eat."

"Ah, didn't you say they are cute and are for collection?" Tong Xiu asked in astonishment.

Jiuge Ding once again gave Tong Xiu a supercilious look, "They are very cute, but the cutest thing is their taste. They are sweet when eaten raw, and glutinous and sweet when eaten baked. It is better than the cheese made by Qin Heyi. The cake is delicious, I gave you sweet potatoes, can you make me sweet potato cakes, sweet potato balls, and sweet potato cakes when you get home?"

Seeing that Jiuge Ding has contributed a lot to this family, Qin Heyi agreed, "Yes."

Tong Xiu hugged his belly and laughed. In the end, he hid sweet potatoes because of eating, which is also one of the manifestations of true love.

Qin Heyi and Tong Xiu brought back a bunch of sweet potatoes after going out for a trip. Lin Ze, who stayed in the house, stared straight at him. The idol and the man of the idol are definitely not ordinary people.

Sweet potatoes are warm-loving, not cold-tolerant, and they don’t choose where they live. The yield is large. Sweet potatoes can be eaten, and the tender sweet potato vines can also be eaten. Qin Heyi asked the old village head that there is no such crop here.

Qin Heyi kept the sweet potatoes and told them how to plant them, "After the winter is over, they will grow a lot of sweet potatoes, enough for all the men, women and children in the village to eat."

The old village chief thanked him again and again, holding the sweet potato tightly, "Thank you, thank you."

After asking where the county seat is, Qin Heyi and Tong Xiu took Lin Ze there, and after finding the other three, they could concentrate on finding a way to leave.On the road, Lin Ze kicked the stones on the ground sullenly, raised his head several times to look at the two leisurely people in front of him, and swallowed his words again.

"What do you want to ask?"

Lin Ze looked up at the back of Qin Heyi's head, there were no eyes on it, "They are so poor, what if they eat sweet potatoes? It's not like there will be no sweet potatoes for seeds in the coming year."

"If you save some of the eight big sweet potatoes, you can barely survive for a while."

"Oh, but it won't last all winter."

"Then they have their own way."

The indifference in Qin Heyi's tone stunned Lin Ze. Didn't he think of a more comprehensive way to help others?

"Are you a fool or an idiot? Believe what people say. If they don't arrest you, arrest anyone." Tong Xiu stretched out his finger and pointed at Lin Ze's direction and clicked on the void, "Most of what the old village chief said was It's true, but part of it is false, and I keep emphasizing everyone because it's the default behavior of everyone."

"What?" Lin Ze hadn't reacted yet.

"No one cut off the tentacles voluntarily, but they conspired to arrest and cut off the tentacles and send them to the government to exchange for food. His daughter-in-law probably didn't die by throwing himself into a well." Tong Xiu shrugged, "Of course, there must have been People who sacrifice voluntarily, maybe we think too much."

"No, it won't be." Lin Ze couldn't believe it.

Tong Xiu smiled slyly at Lin Ze, "Maybe."

Lin Ze clasped his arms tightly, "They are all old and weak women and children, how can they be kidnapped and sent to the government?"

"Then what about you before, did you wind up the rope yourself?"

Qin Heyi and Tong Xiu's conjectures were not groundless, they were made up randomly.It is true that the two countries have been at war for a hundred years, the conscription is true, and it is true that the secret work is found to be handed over. However, if you voluntarily sacrifice yourself and cut off the tentacles, there will be moisture on it. It is not ruled out that there are such people who sacrifice their lives for others. Respectable people.However, the attitude of the village head is a bit suspicious. When it comes to voluntary sacrifices, he is ambiguous, and when he mentions the cover-up of his daughter-in-law throwing himself into the well.There was also Qin Heyi's question about tentacles later on, and the old village chief's intentional concealment, all kinds of things made it impossible to believe in the character of the villagers.

There are many troublesome people in poor mountains and bad waters. Although they are not hit, they are not far away.

A gust of wind blew, rolling snowballs and hitting his face, Lin Ze shivered violently. He didn't know if it was the cold, or he was frightened by the truth. "Could it be that the village chief lied on the tentacles? He reminded us to be careful."

"It's just not telling the truth. Some people in Nanke Country were born with tentacles on their heads, while others didn't. This is similar to double eyelids and single eyelids, dominant genes and recessive genes. Judging from the current situation, it should be respected. Tentacles." Qin Heyi explained, "We walked around the village before and saw a girl's younger brother who didn't have tentacles on his head."

"Maybe it fell off." Lin Ze blurted out, but he couldn't even convince himself.

Tong Xiu went on to say, "That little girl doesn't have tentacles on her head either. That pair is fake."

"The little girl obviously doesn't want to go to the river to fetch water, but because of conventions and the mentality of not wanting to be found out by others, she has to go there to fetch water." Qin Heyi raised his hand and pointed, "I asked just now, it is the place outside the village. A small river, let's go over there and have a look."

Lin Ze took a few steps on the spot, and listening to the analysis of the two people, he felt that he was a fool who couldn't see through people, and he believed what people said.Can't help but ask Qin Heyi, "Who are you?"

"We are gods." Tong Xiu waved his cloak, trying to make himself look a little more fairy-like, but his movements were like Bump Man throwing the curtains, like a superman.

"..." Lin Ze felt a toothache as the cold wind swished.