I am honest

Qingshan County is located in the Yunling Mountains, backed by the fairy mountains and facing the big river, it is a land with good weather, but it has not had a drop of rain for three years.Now the river is dry, the ground is cracked, there is no grain harvest, even the grass is dead, and the bark of the trees has been stripped and eaten.

There is an inconspicuous shop at the corner of Dongcheng Lane in Qingshan County. There is a plaque above the lintel of the shop - Baojia Grain Shop.A girl with an abacus hanging around her neck was sitting behind the counter. The girl looked only twelve or thirteen years old. She was thin, with a pointed chin, and her wrist was so thin that only a layer of skin and bone remained. Only a pair of black scissors Qiu Mou shines brightly.Her eyes were fixed on the words "benevolence, kindness and virtue" on the wall, her pupils flickered like stars in the sky, and a series of small voices came out from the slight movement of her lips: "white flour, steamed buns, steamed buns, deep-fried dough sticks, Soy milk, rice dumplings, glutinous rice cakes, braised noodles..."

The girl's surname was Bao, and she was originally the only daughter of the owner of this small grain shop. The father and daughter depended on each other and lived by running the small grain shop.Qingshan County has beautiful mountains and clear waters, abundant rain, and is known as the land of fish and rice. The father and daughter run this small grain shop. Although they are not rich and rich, they have no worries about food and clothing. The face with a pair of small dimples and the curved crescent-shaped eyes are comparable to the big white buns at the bun shop next door.Because of her rich appearance, the neighbors in the neighborhood don't call her by her name, which means "five grains will be harvested", but by her nickname - Baozi.

Now she looks nothing like Baozi, which fits her real name - Baogu.There is no difference between the skinny one and the sun-dried bag of grains, so the neighbors in the neighborhood called her back to her real name.

"Bao Gu, is there still water in your well?"

"Bakery, do you still have buns for sale?"

"Bao Gu, do you really have no flour in your house?"

"Baogu, can you go to your granary again to see if there is any grain leaking from the bricks in the corner?"

There was a severe drought for three years, the grass seeds did not germinate in the fields, and there was no harvest for three years. Even the treasury and granaries in Qingshan County were empty. Surplus food, if her family still had food, she wouldn't have lost weight from a white and fat bun to a bag of grains.

At the beginning of the year, her father passed away from a serious illness.When her father passed away, there was only one bowl of rice left in the rice jar at home, and she used that bowl of rice to ask someone to bury her father.Afterwards, she used a shovel to pry up the brick platform for weighing and selling grain at home, and dug out a lot of moldy and insect-infested grain from the cracks in the bricks and under the brick platform, and put them on the shelf in the back kitchen in the dead of night. Go to the small stove to cook porridge secretly.She reduced her food intake from one meal to two bowls of rice to one bowl of porridge a day, and the moldy old food allowed her to survive the first three months of the year.She thought that there was grain leaking from the cracks in the bricks used to weigh the grain, and there might be cracks in the granary to dig.She couldn't pry the stone slabs on the ground by herself, so she asked the neighbor Aunt Zhou who took good care of her in the past to help her. She pried open the stone slabs with cracks and mouse holes in the granary, and dug seven more from the cracks and mouse holes. Eight catties of grain.She gave half to Aunt Zhou's family and kept half for herself.With more than four catties of miscellaneous grains, she only drank one bowl of porridge a day, and she has survived until now.

Strange to say, Qingshan County is backed by the fairy mountains and clouds, and faces the Yunshui River. A record three years of drought.

Last year, a Taoist priest from Qingyun Temple outside the city looked at the sky and said: "There is a man in the south who is two or three feet long. He is naked and his eyes are on the top. He walks like the wind. He is called 魃. The country he sees is severely drought, and the land is thousands of miles away." Thinking it was caused by the Hanba, they even organized people to burn the Hanba. A lot of graves were dug, and many corpses were burned, but there was no rain.

The sheriff invited the mage to cast spells to rain many times, but there was no rain.

Bao Gu also heard that the sheriff sent people to Yunling Mountain to look for immortals who practiced in the mountains, but there are many wild beasts in Yunling Mountain surrounded by clouds and fog, and the traces of immortals are very small, how can they be found?

Baogu now has only one feeling—hungry!All that came to her mind were white flour steamed buns, steamed dumplings, wontons and braised noodles!

She had already drank the last half bowl of multigrain porridge in the house, and now her stomach is empty, and she has dug out the cracks in the bricks and the floor in the house, and it is really impossible to make half a grain of grain. The undistinguished face was wrinkled abruptly into bun folds!

How could Baogu, who was nicknamed "Baozi" because he was raised in vain and fat by guarding the granary since he was a child, tolerate himself to starve to death at home.She waited until noon, when the sun was at its most vicious, and was ready to go out to find something to eat.

This is the first time that Bao Gu has stepped out of the house since the severe drought and after attending her father's funeral.Because there was still food in her house, and there were too many beggars outside, she was afraid of meeting others begging from her when she went out.Now that she has also become a beggar, naturally she doesn't have to worry about others begging from her again.

Before going out, Bao Gu even tidied things up.She found a burning stick as a walking stick, took the small casserole for making porridge at home, and carried some firewood on her back, and when she was about to ask for food, she set up a stove and cooked it in a place where no one was around. .It is unrealistic to find food to bring home and cook. There are too many neighbors on the street, and everyone is too familiar. If she finds food by herself, she is too embarrassed to refuse to give it to the neighbors who are dying of starvation.

Baogu carried firewood in a small bamboo basket, turned a fire stick in his left hand, and stepped out of the house with a casserole for cooking porridge in his right hand.

Going out to beg is a disgraceful thing, Bao Gu turned down the street where his family lived with his head bowed and neck shrunk shamelessly.She turned to the street next to her, and saw a man wearing black cloth shoes and an azure robe approaching with a low face, Baogu didn't have the nerve to raise her head to see who it was, she lowered her head and put the casserole in front of the man, groaning Said: "Please, please do me a favor, I haven't eaten for three days, I'm starving to death..."

A weak voice sounded from above her head: "Bao Gu, do you think I have something to eat?"

Bao Gu heard this voice very familiarly, and when she looked up, she saw Sun Aiqing and Sun Xiucai, who was so skinny and hungry that only skin and bone were left, who looked like firewood and a big horse monkey, standing in front of her and looking at her pitifully, The cracked and pale lips trembled, as if asking: "Bao Gu, do you have anything to eat?" Bao Gu walked around Sun Xiucai silently.

When Bao Gu first met people, he would ask: "Please, please, is there anything to eat? I haven't eaten for three days, and I'm starving to death." Later, it was shortened to "Is there any food?" Weather Dry, dehydrated, thirsty.She met a lot of acquaintances, and when they met, everyone would show the bowls in their hands, look into each other's eyes and ask expectantly: "Is there anything to eat?" Begging with a bowl, she is begging with a pot.

All the people that Bao Gu saw while walking along the road were skinny and starved to the point of skin and bone. Some people were so hungry that they could only crawl on the ground like monkeys.In contrast, Baogu, who is carrying firewood, holding a fire stick, and a casserole, grows the fattest and richest.

When she came to the gate of the government office, she saw many people who were so hungry that they were not human, lying under the eaves outside the government office. Some government servants pulled the carts and threw those who were so hungry that their bones had died down onto the carts and pulled them out. outside the city.

A familiar voice sounded: "Baogu!"

Hearing Aunt Zhou's voice, Bao Gu quickly turned his head to look in the direction of the voice, but saw the starving people around him looking around with glowing eyes.Many people followed Aunt Zhou's line of sight to see Baogu carrying a pot, firewood, and a fire stick. The sound of swallowing saliva continued, and several people even crawled towards Baogu.

Aunt Zhou, who was in her early forties, was very fat before the drought. She was as tall as two people, but now she is as thin as a chicken, and her feet tremble when she walks.Seeing Baogu being surrounded by people, she hurried over and shouted to the hungry people next to him like chickens, and shouted: "Go, go!" Then she asked Baogu, "Baogu, why are you here?" Seeing there were still people Grabbing it, she seemed to want to find food from Bao Gu, and hurriedly shouted: "Don't come here, there is no Bao Gu here, this girl's name is Bao Gu!" She dragged Bao Gu to the stone monkey at the gate of the government office, and asked her son to move out. He took a seat and said, "Come on, sit here. Are you..." Looking around, he lowered his voice and said in a low voice, "You're about to run out of food, too?"

Bao Gu said, "It's not that we're running out of food. This morning I cooked the last handful of grains and drank them."

Aunt Zhou sighed deeply, looked at the cloudless sky above her head with tears in her eyes, and said, "God, there is no way for people to live! Do evil!" She asked Bao Gu again unwillingly. : "Your family really can't find a grain of grain?"

Bao Gu looked at Aunt Zhou pitifully.

Aunt Zhou said: "I heard that many rich and powerful households have run out of food. Even the county sheriff is almost out of food. His wife sold the jewelry and drove five carts thousands of miles away. They were snatched on the way. I took three cars, and only two cars came back under the desperate protection of the county sheriff. I heard from the third girl that the county magistrate’s wife would deliver porridge every evening from today, so I hurried over here. I thought you still had food to last Hold on, alas, I didn’t expect you to run out of food too, God, there’s no way for people to survive! But don’t be afraid, my third girl was sold into the county guard’s mansion and became a girl and wife, and she will come out to serve porridge later. If you can distribute it to us first, you can sit next to me, and you will definitely be able to distribute porridge." She patted Aunt Zhou's hand and said, "Thanks to your four catties of miscellaneous grains, alas."

Listening to Aunt Zhou's nagging, Bao Gu also sighed secretly, and looked up to see when a rain cloud would come over this God who doesn't give people a way to live.As soon as she looked up, she saw a shadow moving in the sky. She thought she was dazzled, so she quickly rubbed her eyes and found that there was indeed a shadow moving.Bao Gu hurriedly shouted: "Aunt Zhou, Aunt Zhou, I see a bird, quickly ask Brother Zhou to take a bow and shoot it down!" , The bird didn't know where it was going, so it couldn't help but sighed heavily.

Bao Gu watched the bird fly away helplessly, but he didn't expect that the bird turned around and swooped down towards the Fuya.Yes, swooping down at an extremely fast speed. The shadow that was only the size of a fist grew rapidly, and you can gradually see colorful lights flowing around it.Bao Gu was startled, and thought, "Could it be the divine bird of the fairy mountain?"Alas, if only this fairy bird could understand human language and report the news to the fairy on the fairy mountain.

While thinking about it, the fairy bird flew closer and closer, obviously intending to land towards her.

Bao Gu suddenly became excited, stood up and shouted loudly: "Look, fairy bird! Fairy bird, fairy bird of fairy mountain, fairy—" Halfway through speaking, Bao Gu choked.Because that "fairy bird" was already very close, she clearly saw that "fairy bird" was wearing a very beautiful long skirt with fluttering skirts, and was stepping on a sword that was shining with radiance.Bao Gu shivered secretly, and cried out in his heart: "It's bad, I'm mistaken, this is not a fairy bird, this is a fairy! It's still a fairy."

The hungry people around knelt down and kowtowed.

"Fairy—"

"Immortal—"

"I beg the fairy to bring rain and save my life..."

Bao Gu saw the fairy with the Liuxia sword flying down from the sky, landed on a place above her head that was slightly higher than the gate of the government office, and looked down at her.The fairy was covered with light and shadow, she couldn't see what the fairy looked like, she could only see a pair of bright beautiful eyes staring at her, and then she heard a sentence: "Hmph! You are the bird, and your whole family is a bird! "Then the fairy who stepped on Liuxia's sword flew into the mansion.

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