was reluctant to marry Da Nier's father to the old man's father, and finally sold Da Nier.
Watching the car pulling Da Nier and the others disappear from view, the parents standing at the entrance of the village are either crying or quietly wiping their tears, and of course, there are those who are smiling with copper coins.
Wu Nier's mother fell on the kang when she got home, her face buried in the quilt and she cried.
Erlang, Saburo, and Si Nier were too frightened to say anything, and their father crouched on the threshold and said nothing.
Wu Nier sat on a small bench in the corner, her whole body hidden in the shadows.
She heard her mother still muttering "immortals" in tears at such times.
Yes, immortals.
She had heard many people mention the word many times.
If only the immortals were here.
If only the immortals could give up their prayers for rain talismans.
If only the immortals could come and conjure water.
Why haven't the immortals come yet?
The immortals haven't been here for years.
She just thought that this was the ignorance and superstition of the villagers, turned in her ears, and then dispersed with the wind.
But now, at this time, her mother is still whimpering and mentioning "immortals".
She cried: "Why don't the immortals come, if the immortals come, choose Da Nier to be an immortal, and Da Nier will not use it" In distress, in despair, this woman counted on the advent and mercy of the "immortals".
How foolish and weak this is.
Yang Wunier lowered her eyes.
She looked at her hands.
She is almost seven years old, and with age and perseverance, although she is still slightly worse than the average child, her control of her body is much stronger than before.
But, it's still so weak.
She is useless in the predicament facing this family.
She can't even follow her father and mother to the mountains and forests to find food like Si Nier, because it will slow down everyone's speed.
Yang Wunier deeply understands that in this family, she is just a burden that will consume food.
She couldn't do anything.
Watching Da Nier get stuffed into the car in tears, watching the car go farther and farther, she couldn't do anything.
This feeling of powerlessness is familiar.
Yang Wunier didn't know why, she hated herself like this.
Da Nier left, and her father and mother sent Si Nier to sleep in a room with her.
She got up in the middle of the night to pee and heard the conversation of her father and mother next door in a low voice.
The house is too simple, and although there is a wall in the middle, the top is open.
"Little Five doesn't look good," said the man, "and everyone says she's stupid." ” The woman hummed softly, and the man continued: "Today, my uncle persuaded me, such a fool, people like us can't support it."
The room was quiet for a moment, and the woman seemed to suddenly understand what the man meant, and exclaimed, "You, what do you mean?"
The man was silent for a while, and said with some difficulty: "Uncle persuaded me, it's better to say" His voice was lowered in the back of his voice.
This is probably an instinctive reaction of human beings, when they themselves know that what they are about to say is wrong, they will subconsciously lower their voice.
Wu Nier heard her mother's voice suddenly rise: "No" She then "hmm" twice, as if her husband covered her mouth.
He said, "Be quiet."
She began to cry with a suppressed cry, just as she had done in the afternoon after Da Nier had followed the human teeth.
After that, the voices of the two men were so low that they couldn't be heard clearly, and Wu Nier listened for a moment and gave up.
He returned to his kang and lay on his back, looking at the dark roof, silent.
The next day, her mother served her more food than her two brothers for the first time.
"Eat."
She said.
After saying that, he turned his head and wiped his eyes.
When her father told her that he was going to take her to the mountains to dig mountain goods, Yang Wunier didn't say anything, obediently took her father's hand and let him lead her into the mountain.
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When I turned around, I saw her mother crying and falling by the door She had never been in the mountains with an adult before, and the farthest she had gone was at the foot of the mountain outside the village, and at the very edge of the farmland.
Strictly speaking, this means that you have never left the village.
But even so, she could still notice that the route her father took her into the mountain was extremely tortuous, and even went around in circles in a few places.
Eventually, he took her to the mountains, where even they wouldn't have gotten so far.
He said to her, "You wait here for Daddy, Daddy go dig something."
His voice trembled when he said this, and his hands trembled, and he did not dare to look into her eyes.
Yang Wunier looked up at him for a moment, nodded, and let go of his hand.
The man walked into the distance, turning back three times at a time, with a glint in his eyes.
"Daddy."
The man turned back in fear.
Yang Wunier looked at him and spoke slowly: "Come back early." ” The man's lips twitched, and he suddenly turned his head, ran away as if he were running, and soon disappeared into the trees.
Yang Wunier sat quietly on a large rock for a while, and when the man's figure disappeared completely, she stood up.
She knew that she was abandoned.
She couldn't do anything, she was obviously a fool who only wasted food, and was eventually abandoned by her parents.
She walked in the direction where the man had disappeared.
She didn't want to go home, because they had abandoned her, it made no sense to go home.
She just wanted to go back to a populated place.
She knew her current situation very well, and she would not survive in such a mountain forest.
Only by returning to a populated place can she have a little hope.
She then slowly followed her memories and walked back.
But this is a wild mountain forest with no artificial traces in the whole mountain, and it looks almost the same from front to back, left and right.
This year's drought affected all miles of land.
This year's summer grain was not harvested.
Even in the deep mountains, even though it is summer, the trees are wilting, and the leaves are yellow, which looks like late autumn.
She walked for an unknown amount of time, and finally got lost and ran out of strength.
My stomach began to ache with hunger, and my feet were blistered, and I felt a hot pain for a while.
She saw a dead tree in front of her, walked over and sat on it, and rested for a while.
Looking at the position of the sun and the sparseness of the branches, he silently thought about which way to adjust the direction of travel.
At this moment, she heard a "hissing" sound, accompanied by the sound of the fallen leaves on the ground being crushed, and a thick fishy smell approached her.
Yang Wunier slowly turned her neck three feet behind her, and the giant python that stood taller than her spat out the letter, staring at her who had become the prey with slit-like eyes Wu Nier didn't feel fear, at least not the fear of the cold giant reptile itself.
But a strong sense of crisis and oppression still grabbed her, making her hold her breath and unable to move.
The smell in the air was getting stronger and stronger, and Wu Nier moved her fingers.
The only thing the fingertips touched was the rough bark of the tree, and there was no weapon to defend itself.
With the movement of her fingers, the python's body shook slightly.
Wu Nier stopped her fingers.
The python also stopped shaking.
One person and one snake, looking at each other from afar.
This is the first time that Yang Wunier has felt that her five senses are so sensitive since she can remember things clearly.
She heard her own heartbeat, blood gurgling in her veins, and even the sound of the breeze on the branches.
All the tiniest sounds are infinitely amplified.
A drop of sweat slipped from his forehead into his eyes, blurring his vision.
Yang Wunier still kept her eyes open and didn't blink.
The wind blew through the treetops.
The little beast walked quietly, but trampled on the dead branches.
The moment the slight "click" sounded, Yang Wunier, who had been accumulating strength for a long time, suddenly ran wildly The python is large, but it moves as fast as lightning.
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Yang Wunier only ran a few steps before she felt a tightness in her ankles, and the whole person fell to the ground At the moment when she was dragged backwards, she grabbed a stone, put her hand on the ground, and turned over.
The smell of fish came to her face, and the python was silent, and it wrapped itself around her ankle to her thigh.
Yang Wunier gritted her teeth, raised her hand and smashed it with a stone, only to hit it twice, she felt the shadow in front of her shaking, and she didn't know which part of the snake's body was so hard that she was dizzy and her head was buzzing.
Fortunately, the stone in her hand was tightly grasped so that it did not fall, and she raised her hand again, but the python had already wrapped itself around her shoulder and arm from her chest.
The stone "snapped" to the ground, and Yang Wunier's two arms were locked by the giant python, and she didn't want to think about it, so she opened her mouth and bit the giant python Unfortunately, her small teeth are just ordinary human teeth, and she is just a long-term malnourished and thin little girl.
Her teeth were so painful from the scales on the snake's body that she couldn't bite through the hard, cold scales even when she tasted the blood coming out of her gums.
The python wrapped around her, squirming tightened.
Yang Wunier felt the pain of the bone squeezing, and slowly lost her breath, and finally let go of her mouth She knew that when she completely lost the strength to resist, the python would swallow her whole into her stomach and slowly digest it.
Is she going to die like this?
Because of the lack of oxygen, she gradually fell into a coma.
Just when she thought she was destined to die in the belly of the python, she heard a man's roar The voice of "Wunier" was poignant and angry, coming from someone she knew very well.
Fishy snake blood sprayed all over her face, and Yang Wunier's lips moved before she fell into a coma completely father When I woke up, the sun's light was not as bright as before, and it began to turn yellow.
She lay on the man's broad back, her thin body undulating with his steps.
He had the familiar smell of honey locust, and the brown caftan on his body was a piece of cloth she used.
Her family never buys cloth, her sister spins thread, her mother weaves cloth, and she is completely self-sufficient.
Even the quilts at home use this cloth.
It's rough and a little sassy, but it's sweat-wicking and it's strong.
Last but not least, the most important point.
Yang Wunier moved her hands like chicken feet and grabbed the clothes on the man's shoulders.
The man's body trembled and said, "You're awake."
Yang Wunier snorted, grabbed him, and climbed up.
The man paused, shook her up, and strode down the hill again.
"Nier" he said, the voice was a little choked, "Daddy is late, you are scared, you don't complain about Daddy" Yang Wunier closed her eyes.
"Well, don't complain."
She said.
He came back late, but he came back anyway.
So, she doesn't complain.
The man suddenly felt warm droplets of water drip down his neck.
He paused, quickening his pace.
At this moment, he finally agreed with his wife's statement, Wu Nier, she is not stupid.
Yang Wuni has been hungry for a day, tired for a day, and her physical strength has been overdrawn.
She fell asleep on the man's back until she reached the entrance of the village, when she was woken up by the sound of voices.
She watched into the village, saw her low thatched hut getting closer and closer, and saw her depressed mother sitting on the threshold suddenly have bright eyes, and rushed over and snatched her from the man's back like crazy, and kept chanting "Wu Nier" and "Wu Nier", and held her tightly in her arms, as if she was afraid that someone would snatch her again.
Tears rained down.
That night, she was once again treated in the same way as her brothers, with a bowl of porridge mixed with wheat bran, wild herbs, and roots of unknown plants.
This kind of treatment is rare, because the brothers have to go into the mountains with their father and mother to dig wild things, so they will be given more food.
Yang Wunier cherished this opportunity, and she ate the food in the bowl cleanly.
Because she wants to live, she wants to live well.
After dinner, she heard her father and mother discussing the purchase of food.
They sold Da Nier, and with some money in their hands, they wanted to go farther away to buy some food.
According to the mother-in-law who is a human tooth, they are almost the worst drought here, so the farther they go, the cheaper the food will be.
But these mountain people, many of them go to the farthest place in their lives, that is, the town dozens of miles away.
But it's also dry.
"The village chief came next morning and said that tomorrow the big guys will go to buy grain together.
I was so confused that I didn't hear it anymore.
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Erlang, tell your father about it. ” So the man gathered with his son and listened to him.
The woman wrung a wet hand towel and took Yang Wunier to the back room to wipe it.
The wells dried up, the rivers dried up, and the springs in the mountains that were once familiar with them were gone, making it difficult to get water.
The family has no treatment of burning their feet and washing their faces, so they twist a wet hand towel and wipe it one by one.
"Sleep with my mother today."
The woman said.
Yang Wunier glanced at her.
For more than a year, her cheeks were thin and deep.
"Hmm."
She nodded.
That night, she slept between her father and mother, and slept very deeply.
The next day, the men of the village, summoned by the village chief, pushed wheelbarrows and pulled carts to buy food farther away.
The women and children waited at the entrance of the village for five days before the men returned.
"It's really cheaper the farther you go," they said.
But the so-called "cheap" is only the price relative to the town dozens of miles away.
With the money from the sale of their sons and daughters, they bought a small amount of grains and more bran.
The drought shows no signs of abating, and no one knows how long it will last.
The summer grain harvest was lost, and they planted the winter wheat like their fate, kowtowing and burning incense every day in anticipation of the rain.
If you don't have winter wheat, you won't survive.
After they had eaten the last of the food, they had no choice but to leave their homeland and flee the famine.
However, after the summer had passed, the riverbed was still dry and cracked in the autumn, which should have been rainy.
The air was all dry and there was not a hint of rain.
"There's something to eat in the mountains."
Yang Wunier said while holding the empty rice bowl.
"It's gone."
Her mother's breath was weak, "What can be dug and caught is gone." ” Yang Wunier looked at her and said, "Go deep, there are in the distant mountains."
My dad and I saw it. ” The woman and the man looked at each other.
They knew that Cinier was talking about "that time", and it was really not a pleasant memory.
"That's not going to work."
The man said, "We people can only find food in the mountains, and we can't go deeper, this has been the rule for many years." ” Yang Wunier couldn't understand this rule.
"Do you want to starve to death?"
The man sighed and said, "You don't understand, there are big things in the mountains, you have seen them."
Deeper, there are monsters.
The immortals have already set the rules, and we are not allowed to go deeper. ” Immortals are immortals again.
Ethereal immortals.
When it comes to immortals, whether it is her father or the villagers, they are all in awe and piety.
But these people are about to starve to death now, where are the immortals Yang Wunier thought indifferently.
I feel helpless for the ignorance and superstition of the villagers.
She never imagined that just a few days later, her world view would be refreshed.
It turns out that the "immortals" in the mouth of my father and mother are not ethereal myths, but a real and living group of people.
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