back to the field

After the beginning of spring, the south of the Yangtze River is getting warmer, and the spring rain is also lingering for a few days.

From the east of Fuliang County to the Xiuning County of Shezhou, Raozhou is a mountain forest stretching for hundreds of miles.It has been raining for a few days in spring, and the weather is getting warmer again. The mountains are full of miasma, and the damp air sticks to the body, making people feel uncomfortable all over.

Tang Sixian jumped out from the deep mountains and old forests, and stepped on the muddy road.Seeing this artificially built road, she finally breathed a sigh of relief: "It can be regarded as finding the road!"

The watch that would show her the direction was put away, and she followed this road all the way to the northeast.

After walking for a while, she met a woodcutter, and she asked him, "Uncle, is this Luxi Township?"

The woodcutter looked at her carefully and felt that she was not a threat, so he replied, "Yes!"

"Which direction is the big house?"

"What are you doing there?" the woodcutter asked suspiciously.

"I'm going to look for relatives! My uncle's house is in the big house. I came here last year, but my sense of direction is not very good. There are many mountains and forests here, so I always get lost." Tang Sixian pretended to be naive appearance.

The woodcutter saw her worn-out collar peeking out from under her clothes, and thought that maybe her parents had died, so she had come to seek refuge with relatives, so he didn't wonder why she came here alone.

He said: "Then you have to be careful. There are thieves blocking the way. If you go to find your relatives, you'd better hide your belongings. If you encounter thieves, don't go head-to-head with them."

"Well, thank you, uncle."

The woodcutter pointed out the direction for Tang Sixian, and she continued walking in the direction he said, and finally saw the familiar wooden archway engraved with "in the big house" before dark.

Not far from the wooden archway is a river seven or eight meters wide. Because of the rain, the river is turbid and bottomless.

It was here that Tang Sixian was rescued by Tang Qingman.

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"Sister, are we really going to Raozhou?"

When it comes to that strange "hometown", Tang Sixian is a little dazed and a little scared.Tang Qingman looked at his younger brother who was half a head taller than himself, and said, "Father said, at least we have relatives who are close in blood when we go to Raozhou."

Tang Sixian looked at the deserted door and made up his mind: "Then let's go, the people here are not easy to get along with. In the past three years after Dad's death, they have always taken advantage of our family and even bullied us. I don't want to stay here anymore!"

Tang Qingman smiled slightly, and said: "Aunt Qi said that a tea merchant will come to Fuliang to buy tea in two days. We can go with the tea merchant's caravan. It will be safer if there are more people."

Fuliang is a well-known hometown of tea in Raozhou. Although its status has gradually been overtaken by Jian'an and other places in the past few decades, there are still an endless stream of tea merchants coming and going here.

These merchants had already come out of experience on which routes were safe, so the siblings followed the team of tea merchants introduced by Aunt Qi with great peace of mind, starting from Xiuning County, Shezhou, and heading to Raozhou along the official road.

After walking for a few days and approaching the boundary of Raozhou, Tang Qingman found that the road the caravan traveled was getting narrower and narrower. She asked, "Mr. Zheng, why is the road we walk so narrow?"

Tea merchant Zheng Yuanwai said: "In front of this is Raozhou. There are checkpoints on the official road, and all caravans have to pay taxes, so we have to take a small road."

"But you haven't bought tea yet, and there is no goods in the car, do you still have to pay taxes?" Tang Sixian asked.

Zheng Yuanwai wryly smiled and said: "You don't know, the guards here don't care whether you have goods in your car or not, they control the official road, and everyone who passes by has to pay tax. If you have goods, pay the merchant tax, otherwise your goods will be confiscated If there is no goods, pay poll tax."

"Does the government in Raozhou not care about it?" Tang Sixian asked again.

"Behind these barbarians are the local wealthy people. These wealthy people arbitrarily judge the country and do all kinds of evil. The government can't do anything to them."

"I thought the neighbors in our village who always wanted to take advantage of us were already extremely hateful. I didn't expect there to be such hateful rich people in the world!" Tang Sixian said to Tang Qingman.

"Sixian, speak carefully!" Tang Qingman was afraid that Hao Min's eyes and ears would hear her, so she hurriedly persuaded her younger brother.

Seeing how nervous she was, Officer Zheng smiled and said, "You don't have to worry too much. Although this road is small, it's safe for caravans like us to come out."

Tang Qingman felt a little relieved.

However, she did not expect that what happened next would become a lingering haze in her heart.In the following days, nightmares followed like a shadow:

Walking to Maoling, a group of thieves jumped out from nowhere, shouting: "Put down your money, we will spare your lives!"

The whole group was frightened by the blood stains on the cloth wrapped around the handle of the half-worn sword in their hands, and they dared not move.

"Sister." Tang Sixian hurriedly protected Tang Qingman behind him.

"Officials, we are just country folks visiting relatives in Raozhou, and we don't have much money with us," Zheng Yuanwai said hastily.

"Do you think we are blind? There are three donkey carts here, how can they look like visiting relatives? Don't talk nonsense, hand over the money quickly, don't try to escape, or I will kill you!"

"Didn't you say it's safe here?" Someone asked Yuanwai Zheng, and the latter also wanted to cry, "I've walked so many times, I don't know why it's not safe here!"

In desperation, he saw Tang Qingman and Tang Sixian's siblings, and hurriedly shouted: "Nephew and niece, hurry up and give them the money!"

The siblings were both dumbfounded, and the eyes of the thieves followed Zheng Yuanwai's words and cast their eyes on them.

"Officials, for the sake of safety along the way, our money was put on my two nephews and nieces. You can find out after searching." Zheng Yuanwai said.

"No, the money on us is our own." Tang Sixian shouted.

As soon as he shouted, two thieves walked towards him: "Hand over the money!"

Officer Zheng took this opportunity to whip the donkey a few times. The donkey was frightened and hurt, and ran straight at the thieves. He escaped while the thieves were avoiding the chaotic donkey cart.

"Sister, run away!" Tang Si first pulled Tang Qingman, turned around and ran away.However, there were already two thieves in front of him, and they caught up and caught him before he ran a few steps.

The thieves were furious.But when they took control of the donkey cart, there was no sign of Zheng Yuanwai and the others!Therefore, they could only spread their anger on Tang Sixian who was caught by them.

"Dare to tease us, court death!"

Tang Qingman was terrified: "Sixian!"

"Sister, run!" Tang Sixian shouted hoarsely.

But soon, the roar stopped abruptly.Tang Qingman could only see blood red drifting across his eyes...

"Sixian—"

Tang Qingman screamed and struggled to wake up from the dream. She grabbed the thin quilt on her body and stared at the roof in fear, "Sixian."

A thin layer of sweat broke out on her body, but her body was icy cold.She got up, walked out of Tang Sixian's room with the faint light outside, and called: "Sixian."

After a while, she opened the door.It was quiet inside, the quilts were neatly folded, and the furnishings remained unchanged. It looked empty and lifeless.

"Why haven't you come back..." Tang Qingman muttered to himself.

She walked to the edge of the bed, supported the edge of the bed and sat down, then touched the wooden pillow, and lay down slowly.After staring at the roof for a while, she fell asleep again.

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"Still angry."

After discovering that the chest of the person he rescued was still heaving, Tang Qingman saw a glimmer of hope.It's just that she found that although the man was still angry, his breathing was getting weaker. If he left it like this, he would definitely die.

She recalled the method of curing drowning people she had learned from the villagers before, and hurriedly applied it to this strangely dressed little lady.It wasn't until the man spit out a lot of water and opened his eyes again that she was completely relieved.

"Are you ok?"

Tang Qingman felt happy from the bottom of his heart that a life that should have been lost was saved by himself.

It's just that she smiled and smiled, and her face was full of tears: she couldn't save her brother...

Tang Sixian, whose head was still dizzy, felt that she had no energy in her body, and her nasal cavity and lungs were burning like fire. She was about to say something when she suddenly felt nauseous again, and then spit out a big mouthful of water mixed with mud and sand.

"Ahem——" After coughing, she finally found some consciousness and strength.

"How are you?" Tang Qingman asked with concern, wiping away tears.

Tang Sixian said weakly: "Help me, call the police."

"Hold you tight? Are you cold?" Tang Qingman helped her up, then hugged her tightly, "I need to find a doctor for you."

Tang Sixian: "..."

From which corner of the mountain did she meet the lifesaver?It's quite humorous.

"I'm fine, help me first..." Tang Sixian didn't finish his sentence before he noticed the clothes of the savior - he was dressed like a disaster victim who was playing an ancient disaster in a play.

Although this is a place inhabited by ethnic minorities, she doesn't seem to have any ethnic minorities who dress like this.

Are you a fan of Hanfu?

She quickly realized something was wrong, and carefully asked, "Where is this?"

"In the big house."

Tang Sixian was puzzled, inside the big house?Where is the big house?There are mountains and water here, and I don't even see a wooden house!

Tang Qingman felt a little uneasy when she saw that the person who had regained his anger suddenly stopped talking in a daze.

Looking around, there was no other movement except for the chirping of birds and the gurgling of the river. The panic filled the bottom of her heart, and she quickly found some topics to divert her attention: "Who are you, accidentally Fell into the river?"

Tang Sixian came back to his senses and replied, "My name is Tang Sixian."

"Sixian?!" Tang Qingman was in a daze. Seeing the scar on Tang Sixian's forehead, she felt short of breath for some reason.

Tang Sixian: "..."

Although it sounded like he was calling her, but if he listened carefully, it sounded like he was calling someone else?

"Your name is Sixian?" Tang Qingman asked repeatedly.

"Svendy, envious Xian."

Only then did Tang Qingman realize that she had misheard.Thinking of her younger brother Tang Sixian, her eyes were a little sad: "Your name is not Sixian..."

Tang Sixian felt that the appearance of the savior was a bit strange, but she hadn't figured out her situation yet, so she naturally didn't want to bother with others.

After regaining her strength, she touched her pocket and found that her phone was long gone.

"That..." Tang Sixian asked tentatively, "Do you have a cell phone?"

"what is that?"

Tang Sixian took a deep breath, and tried again: "What do you use when contacting others?"

"I don't have anyone to contact anymore. If it was before, I would go straight to find someone, after all, I can't get in touch any farther away."

After listening to Tang Qingman's words, Tang Sixian was sure that he was in a dire situation.

However, she soon discovered that her thinking was still too simple: she thought she was just living in a remote mountainous area, but it turned out that she was living in a feudal era that had nothing to do with modernization except language!

The big house is not a big house, it is a place name in Luxi Township, Fuliang County, Raozhou, Jiangnan West Road, and it is thousands of kilometers away from the place where her accident happened!

Whether it is time or space, earth-shaking changes have taken place.

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Tang Sixian continued to go northeast along the river, and when he saw a dilapidated and narrow earth temple, he detoured to the path behind it, and continued walking all the way until he reached a hillside with countless mounds of earth.

This is a cemetery, but it's the cemetery of poor people. Because they don't have the money to burial, they can only find a hillside, sweep the corpse with grass and bury it, without even an inscription.

After Tang Qingman collected Tang Sixian's bones, he buried him here.Tang Sixian took his place and came here once before leaving with Tang Qingman.

Although there was no inscription, Tang Sixian found his tomb according to his memory.

More than half a year passed, and there were a lot of weeds growing here. Tang Sixian tore off a few taller weeds, and muttered: "Fortunately, I have a good memory, and I still remember that you are here. Your sister is fine now, It's just that the important thing in life has not been settled... But I don't think she should be in a hurry. If you are in a hurry, give her a dream or something. Of course, it's best not to have a dream that will scare her..."

After nagging for a while, Tang Sixian finished what he wanted to say, and he was hungry.She wiped the mud off her palms and said goodbye: "I will avenge you now. If you can return safely, I will take you back to your hometown and wait for me!"

The author has something to say: Tang Moujian: I didn't expect to go back to my old job again!

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This chapter is afraid that everyone will not be able to understand it. Let me explain that the first and last sections are in progress.The second section is Tang Qingman's memory.The third section is the memory of Tang Qingman + Tang Sixian.

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Ban husband: People who set up cards to collect tolls at the important places of village shops and allowances, the fifth-class households take turns.

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感谢在2020-07-2818:53:08~2020-07-3001:00:53期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who threw the grenade: 1 Shufeng;

Thanks to the little angels who cast mines: not easy, simperer, take a scumbag name, cool dream, change a lamp, W, core like catalpa water, no name? 1;

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