Chapter 785

She was tired and wanted to stop.

"Sister, uncle Nan and brother Qiang can't come back this time."

Xiao Dong is still so small, but he knows that he is going to die.

Shen Qingci's fingers stopped for a moment and did not know how to comfort the child.

"Dad and big brother are gone, and Xiaodong will be the same in the future."

"It's going to be a long time," Shen Qingci calculated, breaking off Xiaodong's little finger. "Xiaodong is only five years old now. When we grow up, there will be ten years to go. Maybe after ten years, we will find a new road, and then we will not have to fight for our lives."

"Really?"

Xiaodong choked, but also sad to drop the golden beans.

"My mother only has Xiaodong. Xiaodong doesn't want to die."

Shen Qingci's heart is inexplicably sad. This is how old a child is. Now he knows life and death. In fact, life and death still exist for them for a long time, and they may not even remember this time.

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

She comforted Xiaodong for a long time, which was to coax the child. At this time, it was just right that a little friend outside wanted to find Xiaodong to play with. Xiaodong wiped his tears and ran out with him.

Or youth do not know the taste of sorrow.

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

Shen Qingci didn't know the two men who took the salt this time. He only knew that he was an honest peasant. He had met one or two sides, but he didn't remember very clearly. What he remembered was that he had a smiling face and that 16-year-old boy helped her pick up peach blossom.

On this day, all the people in the village went to see them off. After they left their relatives, they climbed the mountain in tears.

The rice made by xiaodongniang still has no taste, and the taste of salt is just like this. Shen Qingci can see that the worry in xiaodongniang's eyes is that they will not come back, because if they don't come back, it will not only mean that they will not have salt to eat, but also means that there may be two strong laborers to die in the village.

As it was then.

The head of the village just gave birth to a son. On the day of taking salt that year, he took Xiaodong father, and he decided to go. But this year, he didn't come back. Later, they had to choose two more people.

However, this time, she won the eldest son of xiaodongniang. At that time, xiaodongniang was almost blind. She had no husband just now. This time, the eldest son was going to die.

However, there is no way. The village has been like this for generations, even the village head is the same.

And now xiaodongniang is guarding Xiaodong. If something happens to Xiaodong, it will kill her.

Shen Qingci came to the mountain again. She held out her hand and touched the stone. The rock was very hard. It was all stone.

"You're here, too."

The village head came here with a crutch, but it was only a few days. What's the matter, he seems to be a little older, and his beard is white.

"Village head, can this be excavated?"

Shen Qingci asked the village that two men would be lost every year. To be honest, it was almost a disaster for the village. If there were fewer young men in the village, then the village would not only be old, weak, sick and disabled. She always felt that there were more women and fewer men, just like the village head's family All the work in the field is done by xiaodongniang and the village head. After all, xiaodongniang is a woman, and the village head is also old.

So are many people in the village.

It was not because of anything else, but because all the strong laborers in their families were gone.

The village head sighed and looked at the stone mountain in front of him. His father and brother, his son, his grandson, and perhaps his son and grandson will all die because of this mountain. Is this the punishment of heaven for their evading soldiers in Dongling?

"We've tried," said the village head, putting his finger on the stones one by one and touching them one by one, just like touching those dead relatives and spirits.

"We thought that Yugong would move mountains. Even if he dug one piece a day, it would not work for one year, two years, two years, ten years, and thousands of years. But the stone here is very hard. If we only rely on manpower, we can't dig one piece."

Yes, they didn't think about digging the mountain. If they could, they would have dug it, and they would not wait until now. That is because the ancestors wanted to dig the mountain that year. All the men, women and children in the village came here and tried their best. The land was scarce and the grain was in short supply, but they did not dig out half a stone. That year, they were naked There was no food, and many people died of starvation. Now the mountain has become a devil to them. A demon who can kill their whole village.

Shen Qingci then turned around and stuck her face on the stone mountain. She closed her eyes and didn't know what she was feeling, or what she was listening to?Those who got the lottery came back after the tenth day, and returned to the 16-year-old boy, who carried bags of salt on his back, and his clothes were ragged and almost all of them were good skins.

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

Even the outsider Shen Qingci felt this despair.

This night, they finally ate the food with salt. However, when the food was put into his mouth, Shen Qing couldn't help feeling that his stomach was reversed. He stood up, covered his chest and ran out. What's more, he vomited all the food that he had just eaten, even yellow gall water.

"Sister, what's the matter with you?"

Xiaodongniang is also in a hurry to follow out, think Shen Qingci is where uncomfortable? This is good. Why did you vomit?

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

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

What did Xiaodong Niang think of, she also covered her face and cried.

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

Shen Qingci really found that she could not eat salt. She could not eat anything salty. She would vomit as soon as she ate salty food, because she would remember that the salt was bought with the blood and flesh of those villagers.

What she ate was not salt at all, but their blood, their flesh, their bodies.

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

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