tall and rhubarb

"We can't wait until August [-]th, let's set it on July [-]th." Zheng Guohong said, July [-]th is the birthday of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, which is considered auspicious.

"July [-]th is good." Fifth Uncle nodded.

"Let's choose the place outside on the road. Don't ruin the things in the village." Zheng Guozhong added that when the time comes, the dead will die, and the living will continue to live. The people behind stay.

The atmosphere in the village was extremely dull. Uncle Wu and the others sat for a while, and when they saw that everyone had nothing to say, they got up and prepared to go back.

"Fifth Uncle, is this the only way for us to go?" Zheng Guobang's wife, Lin Jianhong, spoke.

The fifth uncle had already stood up, walked a few steps outside with the support of the junior, stopped again after hearing what Lin Jianhong said, and comforted her, saying: "Jianhong, don't be afraid, I have agreed with Master Mingtong When the time comes, let him bring a few masters to chant scriptures for us, with the blessing of Bodhisattva, don't be afraid."

"Uncle, why don't we go out to bask in the sun, stay here, don't go outside, discuss with the government, let's provide them with silk and silk quilts." Lin Jianhong's words reappeared in the crowd A ripple, yeah, have a good talk with them, maybe there's another way.

"Wait a little longer, maybe there will be a special medicine out. If we bask in the sun now, we will die in vain."

"They told us to leave, but we refused to leave and stayed in the village."

"Yes! If we don't leave, what can they do with us?"

At this time, Uncle Cui snorted lightly. "Even if we can stay here, we can't stop people from outside from coming in. When the time comes, we people will have the final say on this mountain?"

"Even if people from outside don't come in, the villages like ours will mutate and mutate. If you walk around, it's impossible if you want to live the old life. If nothing else, the marriage of your children will become a problem." There is no need for others to solve the problem, and within a few generations, it is time to cut off all children and grandchildren."

Uncle Cui’s words silenced the people in the yard again. Yes, the mutated people’s identities are all gambled with their lives. After mutated, who would find a non-mutated person to marry and let their offspring gamble with their lives again? once?

"Anyway, the date is set on July [-]th. Those who are willing to go can go, and those who don't want to go don't mind. There are still a few days left. You guys should think about it carefully." Uncle Wu said so, and then waved his hand to signal Everyone dispersed.

Speaking of this, there is nothing to discuss anymore. To put it bluntly, those who dare not bask in the sun are still afraid that when everyone mutates, they will not mutate. It will be difficult to live in isolation. If you don't go out to bask in the sun, then at least you have a companion.

Gao Chang’s government in this country was mainly infiltrated from the inside and finally achieved a change. The war was not very fierce, so it was relatively mild in terms of various policies, which also led to some people. Still holding a fluke mentality.

In fact, the whole world is similar. Although the war is tragic, after the war, no country’s government has ever heard of raising a butcher knife to the people. Even if they really want to, they will never dare to do such an anti-human things.What's more, even among the mutants, there are many people who advocate the harmonious coexistence of new humans and old humans and oppose bloody rule.

Of course, there are also many radicals who believe that the replacement of human beings from old to new should not be procrastinated, but should be cut quickly to end the transition period in a short time and open a new chapter in human history.However, these radical remarks have not received widespread support from all over the world. On the contrary, many places still regard them as fascist precautions, which cannot be stretched politically.

The whole world seems to be in good shape, but the pain and hatred brought about by the war cannot be easily eliminated.In order to stabilize their own rule and prevent the country's original political forces from resurging, the new human government created images of many people's heroes one after another.

The deeds of these heroes are widely circulated. From the persecution they suffered before the war, to their finally unbearable resistance, to their sacrifice, every story is vivid and touching.While commemorating these heroes, what is deeply implanted in people's cognition is the ignorance and cruelty of the old humans, and they are inevitably hated.

The government uses the hatred in the hearts of the people to strengthen its regime, but those who want to use them to stir up trouble.It is undeniable that many people were indeed persecuted by the authorities in the early days of the mutants. Now that the old human regime has been overthrown, the hatred in their hearts has nowhere to vent, and the conspirators incited them to count these hatreds on all the old humans. .

Those who intend to incite the public cannot be completely realistic. They try their best to stir up the anger in the hearts of the people and get those people to support their political views.In fact, their goal has always been only one, and that is the political power. The new human governments all over the world are as immature as babies. Those insidious careerists want to take advantage of this time to squeeze one or two to death, and replace them by themselves.

Now there are two paths before the villagers. One is to follow the general trend and go out to bask in the sun. Whether they survive or not is left to fate. The other is not to participate in the mutation, and whether they survive or not depends entirely on the government.

Everyone also knows in their hearts that if there is no change in the current situation, even if they can survive, they must not live very well.For example, if two people fight, with the physical fitness of the old human beings, it is absolutely impossible to beat the new human beings. In this case, the old human beings do not want to be beaten, so they have to behave with their tails between their legs.

The whole world is pretty much the same. Now that the new human beings are in power, the old human beings want to live under the new human government, just like a stepmother’s baby. It’s pretty good to be treated fairly on the surface, but secretly I have to suffer some grievances.

In the next few days, people in the village began to prepare for the day of July [-]th. The radio also mentioned some things that need to be paid attention to when mutating. Everyone is not completely clueless.

When an ordinary person is exposed to blue sunlight, the skin will automatically absorb the energy in the sunlight. Too much energy makes the body unable to bear it and has no place to vent. Many people lose control of their emotions and make destructive actions, resulting in death rates. Always high.

Everyone chose a suitable place on the road outside. They are in a mountainous area. One side of the road is a mountain wall, and the other side is often a steep slope. If one accidentally rolls down the hillside during the mutation process, accidents are easy to happen. Everyone The section of road chosen by my son is relatively safe with fields on both sides.

A large amount of silk cloth is cut into long strips, which will be used to tie people up at that time, so as to prevent everyone from harming themselves or fighting each other. This kind of cloth woven from silk has not been dyed, and even if it is strangled into the flesh, it will not hurt. There will be any rag residue, pretty safe.

On the night of July 29th, several pigs were killed in the village, and Gao Chang asked them to kill the sheep as well. The two sheep bought back at the beginning were also old, and the lambs were close relatives, so they were not allowed to kill them. For breeding, they are usually slaughtered and eaten when they grow to twenty or thirty catties. Now there are only two old sheep and two lambs, and they were all killed this night. In the future, the world will be peaceful, and it is not easy to buy a few goats.

Although the meal was rich, it was very depressing. By the time of three or four o'clock in the morning on July [-], almost everyone had taken up a good place on the road, and people from several nearby villages came to watch the excitement. They were all driven away by Bai Bao and the others.Gao Chang was also present. After a while these people were exposed to the sun, and they might cause trouble. He also took a look at it.

All the villagers who participated in the mutation were tied tightly with silk strips, lying on the road like dead people, waiting for the judgment of fate, the whole village is here, although some people are still afraid of the blue sun, but They are more afraid of being alone.The monks of Baohua Temple almost came out in full force. Under the leadership of Master Mingtong, they lined up on the side of the road in a long line, sat on futons, and began to chant sutras before dawn.

When the scriptures sounded on this road, the restless emotions of the people were gradually calmed down.What the monks recited on this day were all introductory scriptures such as "Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Sutra", "Heart Sutra", and "Diamond Sutra", which are very familiar to the people in the village. After so many years of influence, the people in the village , even illiterate old people can read these scriptures along with them.

The scriptures of peace and tranquility flowed in the valley, and the villagers also began to recite them one after another. Their originally stiff and tense bodies gradually relaxed. I watched the sky turn white bit by bit, and some people lay on their sides on the road, weeping quietly amidst the endless scriptures.

Before the first ray of sunlight shone in this valley, it was as peaceful as every morning in the past.Then, the sun finally rose, and blue rays of sunlight leaked from the mountains in the east, and the villagers closed their eyes, waiting for the final judgment.

At 07:30 in the morning, someone let out the first roar, and soon there was a wail and curse, the villagers rolled on the road, and some even started biting each other with their teeth.Anticipating that this would happen, Gao Chang also brought out a piece of cloth today, tore it into pieces, aimed at those who screamed the most, and stuffed a piece of cloth into their mouths without hesitation.

As the sun climbed higher and higher, the monks' foreheads were covered with sweat, and their lips began to dry out. A few people came from the other side of the road, men and women, old and young, all carrying wooden barrels, several barrels The tea was distributed from one end of the road to this end. After the monks finished drinking, they went to the crowd on the ground.

"Baby, let your father drink some water." Wei Chengying had already mutated, and now he was squatting beside his father Wei Changrui, who was also tied up into a dumpling, curled up, and hoo hoo came out of his throat There was a strange sound, and sometimes he struggled to look up at his son, saying vaguely, Dad is fine, it's fine.

Wei Chengying turned his head and looked at the woman beside him, his lips were tightly pressed together, but he didn't speak.

"Boy, let your father drink some water, he will be fine in a while." The old woman gently lifted Wei Changrui's head, fed him half a glass of water, and then stroked his back with rough and thick palms, He muttered in his mouth: "Young man, don't be angry, don't be annoyed, you still have a baby..."

"Woo!!! My granddaughter! Granddaughter! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh He broke free, and hurriedly walked over with the spare cloth strip at the side.

"I'm sour! My soreness!" Zheng Guofeng thumped the ground suddenly, while circling around one of his granddaughters, like an angry orangutan, hysterical, wishing to smash the road into powder.

With his outburst, Chen Yuzhen and the others around him obviously became restless, and the scene was a little out of control for a while. Although Gao Chang felt sorry for what happened to him, he still tied him up with cloth strips forcibly, and then blocked him with cloth His mouth, with hundreds of people on this road, is now like a pile of explosives, if the situation gets out of control, the consequences will be disastrous...

When the sun went down, the long day finally came to an end. The monks dragged their weary pace back to Baohua Monastery. They only drank a few sips of water all day long.

The people in Gao Chang's village lost [-]% of the population, and Zheng Guofeng's family was left with Chen Yuzhen and Liu Zhila's grandfather and grandson. Next to the only remaining granddaughter, she survived.

Zheng Guoqiang, that is, Zheng Zongjie's family of three, there was no one left, all gone, Zheng Xiaoqiu came to collect their bodies without crying.Uncle Fifth was out of breath a long time ago because he was too weak, but he never said a word, and the others were too busy to take care of themselves, so he was not discovered until the end.

Uncle Ninth Uncle and Uncle Cui in Gao Chang's yard survived, and what made Gao Chang happy was that Bai Bao's family was fine, and Uncle Ah Shan next door was also fine.

In the next few days, villages continued to imitate the model of Gao Chang and his village, rolling people into rice dumplings to bask in the sun, and invited monks from Baohua Temple to chant sutras.In Gaochang Village, except for the seriously injured, everyone else went out to help. Some helped maintain order, some brought tea and water, and some made vegetarian meals for the masters who chanted sutras to eat in turn.

These monks have been sitting in the sun every day to recite sutras, starting in the early morning and ending in the evening, and their bodies are a little overdrawn. The villagers are grateful for their kindness. Send someone to the side of the road.Because they all know that without the guidance of these masters, they may not be alive now, and even fate has left them with such thoughts, such as Chen Yuzhen's family, she now has a granddaughter Liu Zhila, What could be more precious than this?

The last group of young monks to walk into the sun was the group of young monks in Baohua Temple. On the same day, the boat sent by the new government sailed into Gaochang's bay.