Chapter 3 Unbearable Looking Back
It has been two months and three days since Xiao Tianjian came to this world. As soon as he closed his eyes, Xiao Tianjian couldn't help recalling his life during this period.
In the first month, he could describe it as unbearable to look back. He didn't even dare to recall how he survived that time. In fear, he even put down all his dignity and lived for a bite. He even knelt down by the roadside to imitate those hungry people and begged, just begging for a bite, but in addition to suffering all the white. In addition to his eyes, there were also insults and kicks, and even being whipped by officials, but he failed to get a mouthful of food. If he hadn't been lucky enough to kill a few mice by relying on his naughty skills when he was a child, I'm afraid he would have been thrown into the wilderness and become one of the countless hungry people.
It is said that a certain traveler returned to ancient times, showing his fists and feet, what a fork, how to fly up and rise, and surrounded by beautiful women. However, he, as a time traveler, was so miserable that it could not be more miserable. God was so good that he was so good to die and threw him in this Chongzhen for seven years at the end of the Ming Dynasty, but he was not dead. Throwing into this sad land of Shaanxi, as soon as he arrived here, he would face the situation of almost starving to death. Xiao Tianjian sat under a dead tree, but his mouth was bitter, and his stomach sounded like a drum. He had never experienced this feeling of hunger before! Even after graduating from college, no matter how smooth the work is, he has never been hungry. Thinking of this inexplicable time travel, he can't help scolding God's bastard. Why did he throw him into this damn world?
In this month, he tasted the warmth and coldness of the world and looked at the miserable world. Before people ate each other, it used to be just a legend, at most a symbol, but in this month, he saw someone barbecue a human leg in the field outside the city, and then ate it separately.
Many people cried aimlessly and cried along the road to find their children. Their children accidentally walked out of the house, and then there was only one, that is, gone. The so-called gone is gone, instead of being abducted and sold. The moment they get lost, they have determined their fate and eventually become Chinese food for hungry people.
Hunger has been bothering Xiao Tianjian all day. In addition to looking for food, he can't think more. Wild vegetables, elm leaves, bark, grass roots and other things that he didn't think about before have become delicious in his eyes. But even these things have already been swept away by the hungry people, as long as It is something that can be stuffed into his mouth. It has basically been swept away by the hungry people, and there is nothing left for him to eat at all.
When people are hungry, they will be drowsy, but even if Xiao Tianjian is so hungry that his eyes are green and his legs are weak, he does not dare to lie down and sleep, because some hungry people have been staring at him maliciously. He understands what they think. His posture is fleshy in this world. If he falls asleep, he may be sure. If you can't wake up anymore, the end is likely to be that these hungry people are thrown into the cauldron to cook.
In a month, such things were staged countless times in front of Xiao Tianjian's eyes, so that even he began to feel numb. He finally understood the meaning of the world as a melting pot. Anyone who watches such a tragedy every day will also become like a stone.
Before he came here, although he didn't get along well, at least he was not worry-free about food and clothing. Even so, he couldn't help but look at everything. From time to time, he criticized current events and complained, as if everything was not satisfactory to him. To put it bluntly, he was a angry young man, but when he came to this era. Later, he knew that the life of future generations was heaven, and this was a hell, which made him miss the life of future generations very much.
One night more than a month ago, when he had just found a place to lie down in an abandoned village outside the city, he was targeted by several malicious people and surrounded him. One of them took a knife, directed several others to try to kill him, and then filled his stomach with his meat.
It may be the instinct of survival, which made Xiao Tianjian burst out his last potential. He picked up a wooden stick from the ground and fought with these people like a madman. With his height and weight far more than that of people in this era, as well as his keen skills and physical ability to practice basketball before, he knocked over with a wooden stick. After the leader, he took the man's knife, and the others immediately became birds and beasts. They desperately fled the abandoned village, and Xiao Tianjian was able to avoid the fate of being killed.
After finding a rag wrapped in this knife, Xiao Tianjian went on the road again and walked in the direction of Fengxiang Mansion. When he was so hungry that he could no longer walk, he finally figured out a truth. In such a world, what kind of benevolence and morality are all empty talk. If you hold such an idea, then wait for him next. Only by freezing and starving to death, only the strong can survive in such a troubled world!
So he struggled to leave the boundary of Qingyang Mansion and took a black vegetable ball from a beggar's hand. With this vegetable ball, he was able to survive. As for the fate of the beggar, he could not take care of it. There was likely to be only one ending. When the beggar lost the vegetable ball, he could only starve to death. All the way, but in order to survive, Xiao Tianjian has temporarily thrown his conscience out of the sky.
During this period, he didn't want to find a livelihood that can make a living. Unfortunately, under such circumstances, he is a similar modern person who can't even understand where his family is. How difficult it is to find a livelihood in this troubled world.
He can write and calculate. There is no problem in managing the account, but who dares a person of unknown origin to do this? He can work hard, but in today's troubled times, there are endless people in large families, and naturally no one uses people like him! Now there are bandits everywhere, and Shaanxi is the place where the rebels started their home. The government is very strict with strangers. An unknown person like him is caught and killed, so he doesn't even dare to go to the city, let alone find a job!
There are not many people like him in this world. I guess no one will bury him when he dies. There is no way to make a living. Except for relying on his strength to fight, he can't think of any other way to live in this world.
What's more, he knows better than anyone else in the world that the world is in chaos. If he remembers it well, it has been less than ten years for the Taran to enter the customs. What is safe place in the world? Sooner or later, they will be occupied by the tars, and the Han people will eventually become the targets of slaughtered by the tars in the Qing Dynasty.
As soon as Xiao Tianjian thinks of the more than 200 years of humiliation history of China under the rule of the Qing Dynasty, he is depressed to death. China has always been a great country admired by the world in this world. Whether it is science and technology or economy, it is the strongest country in the world. However, after the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, the emperors of the Manchu and Qing Dynasty have been Big, shut up, and don't look at the progress of other countries in the world. As a result, China finally became the object of being divided by the world's powers.
What's more, Xiao Tianjian also knows more or less about some atrocities after entering the customs. Although it is not clear, at least tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of Han people will be reduced to the wronged soul under the slaughter knife of the Qing army. Even if he can survive in this world, he will shave half of his head and leave a pig tail. Xiao Tianjian is depressed. Now he runs to be a traitor and joins the tari. Maybe it's a way to live, but can Xiao Tianjian do this?
Xiao Tianjian asked himself, as a Han man, he hates traitors. Even if he dies, he doesn't want to do this kind of thing. What about surrendering to the army? At first glance, with his figure and physique, it is also feasible to get ahead in the army. It is guaranteed that it can change the history of this era! However, after calming down, Xiao Tianjian re-examined this problem, but directly broke up the idea. According to his understanding of history, the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty in this era were basically weak, not to mention that the Ming Dynasty, the court, had already been rotten. After more than 200 years, the system had already been rigid. He wanted to It is basically a desperate idea to get ahead and do something in this system.
So after thinking about it, Xiao Tianjian finally decided to pull a pole in this troubled world. Following the example of the Rebels of this era, they also fought vigorously, which was a hundred times better than the cowardly death at that time.
The countryside has already had ten rooms and nine empty rooms. A large number of refugees have been unable to make a living under the famine and military disasters over the years. They either leave their hometown and go to other places to beg for food to survive, or they are roaring in the mountains and forests as robbers. The rest are either people who are so hungry that they can't walk to die, or they have a lot of money and food at home. Some local tycoons recruit villagers to build villages to protect themselves, but these local rich people will not take out their own food at all to relieve the disaster victims around them. In order to protect their food and family wealth, they have built earth castles one after another and recruited some dingmen among their own tenants. According to the castle, ordinary small-stock rioters are really There is nothing we can do about them.
Although Xiao Tianjian got a waist knife, he still had no way to live in such a naked environment. Along the way, he could only rely on grabbing some food from the already miserable refugees, or using his unique skills to hit a mouse to fill his stomach. He was the luckiest, and even hit him with stones. A half-sized hare finally came all the way to the vicinity of Fengxiang Mansion.
But when he came here, there was a black-faced man beside him, that is, the iron head.
After taking care of the horse, Tietou waited for Xiao Tianjian to lie down, and then found a flat ground nearby. He lay down with the waist knife that Xiao Tianjian gave him from the officer and soldier who was killed by them. After closing his eyes, the scene of that night a month ago also appeared.
Tietou is also surnamed Zhao, and his family is in Zhaojiazhuang, Qingyang Prefecture. They have been the tenants of Zhao Bencai family in Zhaojiazhuang for generations. Although they used to be poor, at least they could still live. At least it is not a big problem to eat enough. However, for several consecutive years, the drought and lack of water made the land basically have no harvest. Zhao Bencai still It is to collect the rent according to the agreement. Their family can't afford to pay the rent at all. Even his little sister was robbed by Zhao Bencai. When his maidservant went there, there were gangsters in his hometown. Seeing that he couldn't survive, Tietou's father had to abandon the rent field and took Tietou's mother and brother and him to escape from Zhaojiazhuang. For the exiles.
Tietou himself feels that he is a relatively lucky person. Although he is the only one left in his family at present, at least he has left a seed for their Zhao family compared with those who have died.
And the reason why he survived was thanks to Xiao Tianjian beside him. He clearly remembered that it was a month's night. He couldn't eat anything for many days in a row. He lay in a dilapidated temple, and there was no sound around him quietly. He saw an extremely tall man walking into the ruined temple. He glanced at him coldly.
Up to now, he still remembers the scene that night. The tall man stepped into the ruined temple with a waist knife. At that time, he was very afraid of being killed by this man with a knife, and then roasted him, but he had no choice. Hunger had made him no strength to defend himself, and he even had a relief. Sense, if this person really kills him, then he doesn't have to suffer such a life anymore, and he can see his family in the underworld.
But the man didn't seem to be interested in him. He walked to the other end of the ruined temple and lay down. Neither of them spoke, and the moonlight sprinkled into the hall through the broken roof.
The iron head was so hungry that he didn't even have the strength to look up. The only movement that could prove that he was still alive was his undulating chest. I don't know when there was a sound in the corner of the hall. Through the bright moonlight, the iron head saw a fat and unreasonable mouse coming out from somewhere. Come on, he crawled over in front of him, then sniffed around and climbed up the tattered incense case.
The iron head really wanted to jump up and catch the mouse, so that he could live for a few more days. Unfortunately, he had no strength and could only watch the mouse crawl in front of him, but there was nothing he could do.
The mouse seemed to laugh at the iron head. After climbing up the incense case, he looked at the iron head with its small eyes, as if waiting for something.
Tietou suddenly understood that the reason why this big rat can eat so fat may be by eating the meat of people who are starving to death like them. It seems that it has stared at itself today and will eat happily after swallowing its breath.
He closed his eyes in despair. He didn't want to and didn't have the strength to think too much. It's up to fate! Maybe you will be relieved if you die!
But things did not go in the direction he wanted. When he opened his eyes again, suddenly the corner of his eyes saw the man at the other end of the hall moving. He suddenly waved his hand, and the mouse lying on the incense case suddenly made a sad squeak scream and rolled and fell to the incense case. Then he twitched violently, as if he had been fatally hit.
The man lying at the other end stood up, strode over, grabbed the mouse, and fell heavily on the ground. The mouse suddenly became quiet.
The iron head stared at the man's movements. Hearing a click, a small flame lit up in the man's hand. A bonfire rose in the hall. The iron head almost screamed (if he was still strong). He had never seen a flame in his hand. He almost thought that the person in front of him. It's a fairy.
Not long after, the iron head smelled a long-lost smell of barbecue, which also made his long-lost greedy mouth again. Under the strong ** of this fragrance, the iron head struggled to raise his head and saw that the man was grilling the mouse killed by him on a pile of bonfires. The fragrance was from This skinned mouse came out of his body. Even if it was just the fragrance of a mouse, it became an unreachable delicacy at this time.
But the strong desire to survive made the hungry iron head's body emit a kind of strength. He slowly turned over and crawled inch by inch to the tall man with his back.
Then the next thing is that the iron head, relying on half a roasted yellow and fragrant mouse, finally climbed out of the door of the Yanluo Hall and returned to the world again. Since then, he has become Xiao Tianjian's first subordinate.
In such a world, Xiao Tianjian could completely ignore the help of Tietou, a person who almost starved to death, without knowing whether he could eat anything tomorrow, but he finally gave the big mouse half to Tietou and let Tietou live.
The iron head began from the moment Xiao Tianjian tore off half of the big mouse and handed it to him. The iron head cried. As he swallowed the half of the mouse, he made up his mind. No matter what happens in the future, as long as this person is willing to take him, he will always follow him. Anyway, he gave this life. What should he do? Use it, just use it! He has nothing to complain about!
But Tietou firmly believes that this person is a good person. It should be right for a good person to do things, so doing things with him should be to do good deeds! Although Tietou is a little older than Xiao Tianjian, in his eyes, Xiao Tianjian has already been his master.
At dawn, he recovered some strength because of eating, so he followed Xiao Tianjian out of the broken temple that allowed him to be reborn and walked towards Fengxiang Mansion.
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