Chapter 786

She was a little tired and wanted to stop.

"Sister, this time Uncle Danan and Brother Qiang won't be able to come back."

Xiaodong is still so young, but he already knows that life and death are parting.

Shen Qingci's fingers paused, not knowing how to comfort the child.

"Father and eldest brother are gone, so will Xiaodong in the future."

"It will take a long time," Shen Qingci counted, holding Xiaodong's little finger, "Xiaodong is only five years old now, and it will take ten years when he grows up, maybe ten years later, we will be able to find a new The way to go, then the clansmen will not have to fight for their lives."

"Really?"

Xiaodong choked, and was also sadly dropping golden beans.

"Mother only has Xiaodong, and Xiaodong doesn't want to die."

Shen Qingci's heart was inexplicably sad, how old is this child, and now he already knows life and death, but life and death actually have a long time for them, and they may not even remember this time. .

Just like her four-year-old, in her last life, she even forgot her mother's appearance.

She comforted Xiaodong for a long time, and this was the only way to coax the child. At this time, it was just right. There were friends outside who wanted to play with Xiaodong. Xiaodong wiped his tears and ran out.

Still a teenager who doesn't know how to feel sad.

In fact, life and death are still too small for them, and still too far away.

Shen Qingci didn't know the two people who took the salt this time. He just knew that he was an honest farmer. The sixteen-year-old boy helped her pick up peach blossoms.

On this day, the whole village went to see them off. After they said goodbye to their relatives, they climbed the mountain with hidden tears.

The rice that Xiao Dongniang made was still tasteless, and the taste without salt was like that. Shen Qingci could see that the worry in Xiao Dongniang's eyes was indeed worried that they would not come back, because if they didn't come back, not only It means that they will have no salt to eat, and it also means that there may be two more strong laborers in Murakami to die.

Just like it was back then.

The village chief just gave birth to a son of Xiaodong’s father. In that year’s salt collection day, Xiaodong’s father was selected. Xiaodong’s father decided to go. However, this year, Xiaodong’s father did not come back. Later, they had to Then two people were chosen.

But it was a partial birth. This time, Xiao Dongniang's eldest son was selected by lottery. Xiao Dongniang almost didn't cry and blind her eyes. She lost her husband just now, and this time the eldest son is going to die again.

But there is no way, the ancestors in the village are like this, even the village chief is the same.

And now Xiaodongniang is also guarding Xiaodong. If something happens to Xiaodong, then for Xiaodongniang, it will almost kill her.

Shen Qingci came to the front of the mountain again, and she stretched out her hand to touch the stone. The rock was very hard, and it was all stones.

"You are here too."

The village chief came over with a cane, but it was only a few days. What's the matter, he also seemed to be a little older. He had a gray beard, and it turned a little whiter.

"Village Chief, can this be dug up?"

Shen Qingci asked the village, in this way, two boys will be lost every year, or middle-aged men. To be honest, this is almost a disaster for the village. If there are fewer young and strong men in the village, then the time will come. This village is not only the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, and it is no wonder that she always feels that there are many women and few men here. All the work in the fields is done by Xiao Dongniang and the village chief. After all, Xiao Dongniang is a woman, and the village chief is also old.

Many people in the village are like that.

It turned out that it was not because of anything else, but because the strong laborers in their family were gone.

The village chief sighed and looked at the stone mountain in front of him. His father and brother, his son, his grandson, and perhaps his children and grandchildren would all die because of this mountain. This is how God treated them. Lingren's evasion of the punishment of war comrades?

"We tried it," the village chief said, placing his fingers on these stones, stroking them one by one, and touching them one by one, just like touching those dead relatives and heroic spirits.

"We thought about Yugong moving a mountain, even if it were to dig a piece a day, it wouldn't work in one year, two years, two years, ten years, ten years, and a hundred thousand years, but the stones here are very hard, and it only depends on manpower. , there is no way to dig another piece.”

Yes, how could they have not thought about digging mountains, if they could dig, they would have already digged, and they would not wait until now, that is, because the ancestors wanted to dig mountains that year, the men and women in the village The children came here and tried their best. The land was deserted and the food was short of harvest, but they didn't dig out half a stone. That year, they were naked, had no food, and were even more hungry. A lot of people have died, and now this mountain is a devil to them. A demon that could kill their entire village.

Shen Qingci turned around again and put her face on the stone mountain. She closed her eyes, not knowing what she was feeling or listening to?

Those who got the lottery came back after the tenth day. It was the sixteen-year-old boy who came back with a few bags of salt on his back. good skin.

His family hugged him and cried loudly, but the middle-aged man in his forties did not come back.

This kind of despair, even the outsider Shen Qingci felt.

That night, they finally ate the food with salt, but when the food was in his mouth, Shen Qingci couldn't help but feel his stomach turned upside down. He stood up and covered his chest. When he ran out, he spit out all the food he had just eaten, even the yellow bile water.

"Sister, what's wrong with you?"

Xiao Dongniang quickly followed, thinking that Shen Qingci was uncomfortable? This is so good, why did you vomit?

Shen Qingci stood up straight, and suddenly a tear rolled out of the corner of his eye.

"Sister-in-law, I don't want to eat salt, I think it used to be delicious."

Xiao Dongniang thought of something, and she covered her face and cried.

She cried for her husband, for her eldest son, and possibly her younger son in the future.

And Shen Qingci really found that she couldn't eat salt, she couldn't eat anything that was salty, she would vomit whenever she ate salty food, because she would remember that the salt was exchanged for the flesh and blood of those villagers.

She ate not salt at all, but their blood, their flesh, their bodies.

If they didn't eat salt, they wouldn't die. If they didn't eat salt, there wouldn't be so many people going to such dangerous places to exchange their lives for salt. If they didn't eat salt, many people would live.