Hogetsu

Wang Jiexi's earliest memories can be traced back to a village in the Iberian Peninsula, but he didn't know that the place where he lived was called the Iberian Peninsula.It also doesn't know that most of its area is controlled by three Christian countries, and the Muslims and Jews living in their isolated villages are about to be exterminated by natural disasters and man-made disasters.

His world was too small for that, and Leona and Sophia and the stove with the oak boughs made up the whole.He and Sophia lay by the fire all day long, listening to Leona talking to herself and the oak tree crackling in the fire.

Sometimes, when he woke up and found himself on the second floor, it meant that Leona was treating patients downstairs and could not go down until the patients left him.Wang Jiexi lay on the window and looked down. Sometimes the patient left quickly, sometimes not.Some of them left by themselves; others were carried and covered with sackcloth.Leona said the man was dead.

What is death, Wang Jiexi doesn't know.All he saw was motionless. Is this death?Then Sophia would die for a long time every day, and so would she, for example, being carried upstairs by Leona motionless.

He dies and wakes up every day, and it is uncertain how long this period is. At that time, he did not learn any calendar to calculate how many sunrises and sunsets he had passed.Although you can judge the height of the child at that time by the height of the window in the memory, but you can't judge yourself by analogy with the childhood of ordinary people.After all, five centuries have passed before he grows up to the appearance of ordinary people in their twenties.

The days of dying by the fire ended with the appearance of a peculiar group of sick people, covered with boils and blotches of black or livid gray.Wang Jiexi lay on the window watching more and more people being carried away, and some people suddenly collapsed on the way to see a doctor, lying dead on the road.

"Black Death?"

"Yes." Wang Jiexi is not surprised that Yu Wenzhou would suddenly interrupt his narration. This reaction is just a sequela left by the Black Death. The people who faced the Black Death back then were called crazy: God's merciless punishment made people When the corpses lay everywhere, I remembered the Ten Commandments again.

You shall have no other gods before me.

Do not worship idols, do not serve anything in the sky, on the ground, or in the water.

Do not take the name of the LORD in vain.

Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy.

Respect parents.

Do not kill.

Not allowed.

Do not steal.

You shall not bear false witness against anyone.

You shall not covet your neighbor's house; nor your neighbor's wife, his servants, his maidservant, his oxen and his donkey, or everything that he owns.

At this moment, people remembered that the eyes of God watched and knew everything: God knew that there were demons and Jews living among them; Lying; God knows that they abandon their parents; God knows that they enslave servants and farmers on the Sabbath; God knows that they murder, steal, steal, and perjury; God knows that they are greedy, jealous, and love to compare.

Some people whipped themselves with canes to beg God's forgiveness; some starved themselves to death to show their piety; On Judgment Day, indulge in wine and indulge in carnival.

As a milestone in history, the Black Death also changed Wang Jiexi's fate, even though he didn't know it at the time, he stayed upstairs as usual and waited for all the patients to leave.

Until one early morning, Leona came up before he went to bed and said to him, "Jessie, stay in the dark and don't let them see you."