Chapter 13 The evil god heard her prayer
The little girl's puppet with double buns held her little face: "Mom, Cuicui next door said that her family ate meat yesterday, and I want to eat meat too."
The woman wearing an apron and the puppet touched her little head: "Don't we only eat during the Chinese New Year?"
“But Mom, it’s August now!”
The woman frowned and said: "Yaoyao, your dad was working at the county magistrate's house and fell off the shelf and broke his leg. When dad gets better and gets his wages, mom will make braised pork for you, okay? Good boy, this is It’s fifty cents. You go to the hospital and get some medicine for dad.”
The woman opened the handkerchief wrapped in layers and carefully counted out fifty pennies.
The little girl took the money and reluctantly left home.
She walked through the market in the town and saw some selling candied haws on a stick and some selling red bean and glutinous rice cakes. She was so greedy that she could hardly walk.
The puppet dressed as a butcher shouted: "Selling pork, selling pork! Fresh pork belly is the most delicious braised pork!"
Braised Pork...
The little girl stood in front of the pork stall and was reluctant to leave.
The fifty cents in her arms seemed to be burning hot, urging her to quickly use the money to buy a piece of pork.
The butcher smiled and said: "Hey, isn't this the Lin family's doll? Are you here to buy pork?"
The little girl looked at the meat eagerly, swallowed her saliva, and shook her head: "I don't want to buy pork. I want to get medicine for my father."
"What kind of medicine are you taking? The medicine is so bitter. Your father will definitely not like to drink it!" The butcher smiled and said, "Buy a piece of pork. Maybe your father will get better after eating pork!"
Will dad get better after eating pork?
Perhaps because she believed the butcher's words, or perhaps out of her own selfish desire to eat meat, the little girl really used the money for medicine to buy meat.
She carried a piece of pork home, and the woman collapsed: "Where is the medicine? Where is your father's medicine?!"
The little girl raised her smile and said, "Mom, I bought pork. Daddy will get better after eating pork!"
The pork belly in your hand is alternately fat and thin, and looking at it in the shade of the locust tree makes people drool.
But my mother’s face looked so ugly.
"Crack!"
That was the first time that Yaoyao's mother hit her when she was seven years old.
Her mother forced her to take away the pork, but she refused. She cried and rolled in the yard, attracting the neighbors.
The well-respected old man in the town called the butcher over and scolded him: "What does such a little girl know? You were the one who instigated me, and I got a beating for nothing! You don't know the situation of the Lin family, so why are you still here?" Dare you do such an immoral thing?”
The butcher felt ashamed and ashamed, and apologized to the woman: "Sister-in-law, I'm sorry, I'll give you the money back, so don't hit Yaoyao! I'll treat Yaoyao to this pork, okay?"
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The woman just cried.
While crying, he asked Yaoyao to return the pork to the butcher.
Yaoyao refused, hugging the pork and crying: "I want to eat meat! Mom, I want to eat meat, and my brother also wants to eat meat! Our family hasn't eaten meat for a long time! Why didn't my uncle give it to us without asking for money?! Mom, you don’t let us eat meat, you are evil!”
A sickly middle-aged man suddenly appeared under the eaves with a cane and said weakly: "Children, since everyone is kind-hearted, please cook a braised pork meal for the children."
Yaoyao looked at him excitedly: "Dad!"
Dad smiled lovingly at her.
Then, with red eyes, he bowed deeply towards his neighbors and butcher in the town.
My mother covered her face and sobbed.
At that time, Yaoyao didn't understand why her mother and father were crying.
It's obvious that they don't need any money anymore, so why are they still crying?
Angrily, she ran to the straw pile in the back mountain and decided to hide until dark and her mother and father calling her name from all over the mountains and plains before returning home.
Tell them to be anxious and see if they dare to hit their mother again in the future.
She hid it for a long time.
But until the moon rose, no one came to see her.
She became more and more frightened, guessing that maybe her mother was still angry with her, or maybe her father and brother had finished the bowl of braised pork behind her back.
But that was obviously the pork she brought home!
The more she thought about it, the angrier she became.
She refused to let them eat alone, and angrily went down the mountain to go home, only to find that the whole town was in a mess, the lanterns were stained with blood, the doors and windows were broken, her friends were gone, and so were the uncles and aunts who were sitting under the eaves with bowls to eat. , the originally bustling town was almost eerily quiet.
She hurried home.
The house was in a messy state, but the square wooden table cut by my father under the locust tree was still there. The food was ready, the four sets of bowls and chopsticks were arranged neatly, and the white rice in the bowls was piled on top of a hill, with a bowl of rice in the middle. A bowl of braised pork, and I haven’t touched my chopsticks yet.
"Mother!"
She called out timidly, but no one answered her. Mother and the others are gone.
She ran out of the house in panic and saw from a distance that the winding mountain road was full of torches. The officers and soldiers tied up all the residents of Furong Town with chains and drove them into the mountains like dogs.
Blood food...
Every two years, Julu County must pay tribute to the imperial court with the Ice Soul Qiongling Flower.
They treated the people as blood food offered to ferocious beasts in exchange for the way into the mountains to collect flowers.
Yaoyao saw her parents and younger brother among them.
"Father, mother!"
She was suddenly so frightened that she ran hard to catch up on the mountain road, not caring if she lost her straw sandals. She didn't cry until she fell hard to the ground, with abrasions all over her elbows and palms.
As if feeling something, my mother, who was walking forward in the crowd, suddenly looked back.
A long distance away, Yaoyao could clearly see tears in her mother's eyes.
My mother opened her mouth silently.
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go home.
Go home...
Her mother wanted her to go home.
Yaoyao didn't know how she got back to that courtyard.
She vaguely saw her parents and younger brother sitting around the table.
"I don't know where that child Yaoyao has gone. The little girl will be embarrassed when she grows up. You shouldn't hit her today."
"Dad, Mom, I'm hungry, I want to eat meat!"
"Your sister loves braised pork the most. Be good, and we will eat it together when your sister comes home."
The night breeze is slightly cool.
The fragrant braised pork has already cooled down.
They didn't wait until she got home.
Yaoyao picked up a piece of braised pork and stuffed it into her mouth.
So bitter.
Why is braised pork so bitter?
Not tasty.
It’s not delicious at all...
Tears flowed down her cheeks and into her mouth.
Mother told her to go home.
But Yaoyao has no home.
Spring passes and autumn comes.
Furong Town is becoming increasingly dilapidated and moss is growing.
The little girl was wrapped in dead leaves and huddled under the locust tree, praying to the gods to let her family return to her.
For this, she is willing to be a slave of the gods, and she is willing to pay any price.
The evil god heard her prayer.
He carved figures out of wood to house the remnants of the deceased.
Let them live in that town forever with her.
……
Xiao Baojing walked through several courtyards of the county governor's mansion, but still couldn't find Yaoyao.
"Should we go to Qiu Yuejian's place again and have a look?" She rolled up her skirt, feeling a little frightened by Qiu Yuejian's cruelty. "Even the current princess dared to kill Yaoyao, a helpless spirit. If If it falls into her hands, wouldn’t it mean that he would be tortured to death?”
She bypassed the hustle and bustle in the front yard and hurriedly sneaked into the yard where Qiu Yuejian lived.
Qiu Yuejian's white satin embroidered shoes were stolen. She was furious because she refused to attend the birthday banquet for fear of being laughed at as a cripple.
Qiu Xinghe appeared at the end of the corridor wearing clothes, his face still a little sickly pale.
He looked at this sister complicatedly: "Tsukimi."
(End of chapter)