Chapter 785

Xiao Dongniang turned around and looked at the falling red in the distance, and the mountain that had blocked them for thousands of years.

"Didn't you find that recent meals are getting more and more tasteless?"

Shen Qingci lightly pursed her red lips, well, she tasted it, but she didn't think too much, she thought it was Xiao Dongniang who forgot to put salt, but every meal is like this, so it's a bit weird .

"Don't put it, because we've run out of salt."

Xiao Dongniang sat down, her eyes turning red again.

"Everything is good here, but there is only one thing. We don't have salt. Later, we found a salt field at the other end of the mountain. The salt there is enough for us to eat our ancestors, and the salt can still be regenerated."

"Isn't that very good?" Shen Qingci turned his head and looked at that place, but in fact he couldn't see anything, only the shadow of a mountain could be vaguely seen among the falling peach blossoms.

The mountain not only protected them, but also brought them salt.

"Salt isn't that easy to handle."

Xiao Dongniang wiped her tears again, "If we want to get salt, we have to climb the mountain. Maybe this is the punishment for us in Dongling. Anyone who takes salt will surely die."

"And the salt they brought back can let us eat for a year, but every year, there will be young and strong men going up the mountain to get salt, and they will have their own lives in exchange for the salt we depend on."

"And the salt they exchanged for their lives saved the entire village. The whole village, men, women and children, is also because of their sacrifices, so there will be generations of people in Dongling."

Shen Qingci suddenly felt a little discomfort in his stomach.

If so, then she would rather not eat such salt.

This salt is exchanged for human life, which is equivalent to the salt and rice she has eaten, in fact, the flesh and blood she eats.

Xiao Dongniang said a lot, maybe all she can say is that she is only an outsider like Shen Qingci. The village has been like this for generations, and they are all used to it. Every year, two young and strong men are sent in. .

Xu is their father and brother, and Xu is their children and grandchildren, so they don't say it, and they have no way to say it, every household is like this, and everyone is like this.

In the past, they would send one person to fetch salt, but they found that many people did not come back. In the end, they sent two people each time, one died and one injured, and they could finally bring back enough salt for the whole village for a year.

But what kind of salt is there to eat, it is clearly human flesh and blood.

Shen Qingci couldn't help covering his mouth, and he also felt as if the contents of his stomach were upside down.

She has never encountered such a thing before. It is very easy to get salt outside, and it is also as cheap as cabbage. There are several large salt fields in Dazhou, and even Qi Yuan had one in his hand. Now it has been re-mined. It is enough for the thousands of people in Dazhou to eat for thousands of years, and the salt field is inexhaustible and inexhaustible.

She has eaten a lot of salt in her two lives, and even she sometimes forgets things like salt, but she never imagined that someone would lose her life because of these little salts.

Shen Qingci helped Xiaodong comb her hair. Boys and girls comb the same hair, but since she learned to comb her sister's hair, her fingers are a little more dexterous, not as stupid as Zeng Jin. With hands and feet, a few strands of hair were pulled.

And when she thinks of her sister, she can't help but think of the flowery world outside. No matter how bad the outside world is, it is still her home, and home is always home.