Bianshanhan [farming]

Li Qingwen was cracking a hazelnut. Although the hazelnut was small, it fit perfectly. He bit into several teeth marks, not only did not eat the kernels inside, he almost bit his tongue.

Seeing it resist so tenaciously, Li Qingwen began to hesitate whether to spit it out, killing people is just nodding, there is no need to hurt both sides with a hazelnut.

At this moment, a timid voice sounded next to him, "Yes, is that the Li family's little brother?"

Li Qingwen turned his head with the intact hazelnut in his mouth, and saw a little girl standing aside and looking at him. The little girl was about ten years old, with thin yellow skin, yellow and disheveled hair, trousers rolled up below her knees, and her feet were staring at a pair of straw sandals. Have chilblains.

Although there is no wind, it's also winter, so it's so cold to dress like this...Looking at this attire, Li Qingwen wanted to shudder for her.

As soon as he turned his head, the little girl saw Li Qingwen's face clearly, and said happily, "Brother, you really are, do you still remember me? On the way from Bingzhou to the north, I was bitten by insects and almost rotted." , you gave me a straw hat, and taught me to recognize those insect-repelling grass..."

When walking north from Longbei City, the weather was hot and there were inevitably mosquitoes. Jiang Cong made a lot of straw hats for Li Qingwen. The reason was that he gave them out as he walked...

After the little girl said, Li Qingwen remembered something, and said: "I remember, your name is Li Wenwen, where are your parents, why did you come out in such thin clothes?"

The little girl's name was only one word different from Li Qingwen's, so he remembered it.

As he said that, he took out a cloth towel and frostbite medicine for the little girl, "Wipe your hands and feet with water, and then apply the medicine. You'd better put on loose gloves after applying the medicine... It's okay to say, the most important thing is, If you are frostbitten, don’t run around.”

Hearing him call out her name, the little girl was very happy, she took a step back, and didn't ask for his cloth towel, "Brother, it's sunny today, so it's not cold, and chilblain is nothing. If it's too cold, I won't be afraid of the cold in the future." gone."

This is pure nonsense, the frostbite is severe, the wound is festering, if it is infected, it will be fatal at that time.

Li Qingwen frowned, and put his leather hat on her head, "Where is your home? Where are your parents? I'll send you to find them!"

He felt that his tone was very serious, but the little girl turned around cheerfully, and shouted into the distance, "Father, mother, you are really the little brothers of the Li family, come quickly!"

After she finished shouting, Li Qingwen saw a man and a woman in Haishui walking towards this side with buckets, and they could be seen from a long distance away dressed similarly to Li Wenwen.

Obviously, life here is not easy for their family.

The couple of the Li family, with obvious exhaustion on their faces, approached and bowed repeatedly, grateful for the care of the Li family and Jiang Cong and others when they went north. Li Wenwen's mother looked at the burdens on the ground and asked: "You Is it from a border town? Where is this going?"

Li Qingwen nodded, "Use Master Zhou's light to go to the capital and visit relatives."

Seeing the bruises and frostbite on the two couple's bodies, Li Qingwen understood that they were forced by life, so they consciously closed their mouths and stopped talking about letting the girl go back.

Li Wenwen's father wanted to reach out and take off the hat on the girl's head, but retracted his hand, and said dully: "My hands are dirty, you should take them yourself."

Jiang Cong put the hat he put on the burden on Li Qingwen, bent down and pulled out a fur blanket from his bag, handed it to the man and said, "Brother, after we part, will your journey to Su go smoothly?"

Li Wenwen's father didn't want to ask for other people's things for nothing, but now it's more important to live well than face. He thanked him in a low voice, took it, put it on his daughter, and said with a bitter face: "The mark left by Mr. Chen is quite obvious. We didn't get lost, and nothing happened except that we were hungry. We thought we would be fine here, but we didn't expect that it would be really difficult to make a living..."

Although the leather blanket was old, it was soft and warm. Li Wenwen wrapped her upper body well, and wrapped the hanging piece around her legs, covering most of her body. She felt very comfortable.

Seeing her daughter like this, her mother was very sad, and she didn't say anything back to her, she just sent her to go home in a low voice.

Li Wenwen nodded after listening to her mother's words, and ran back quickly on straw sandals.

On that side, Father Li had already started talking about the experiences of those fleeing famine after they arrived in Linsu.

Li Wenwen's family was on the way to escape. They ran into robbers in the middle of the night and ran for their lives. They got separated from other brothers and uncles. The mighty north.

The family felt that it would be safer if there were more people, and seeing Yangshu Village supporting the old and the young in a calm and unhurried manner, they felt more reliable, so they walked north together.

But it was too uncomfortable to go on the road hungry, and I heard that the ice and snow in the border town did not melt for half a year, and I was really afraid of freezing to death, so when they heard that they could go to Linsu, which was closer, they parted ways with the people of Yangshu Village .

When they first arrived in Linsu, the fleeing people lived a good life for a few days. After the tide ebbed, there were a lot of sea things on the beach. Whoever picked them up would own them. Everyone was very happy, and they ate a few full meals. No longer have to worry about food, the tiredness of the journey is not in vain.

But not long after, the officers and soldiers here gathered the fleeing famine together and allowed them to stay here to earn a living, but they had to do two things, one was to go fishing with them, and the other was to build a large ship.

Then the men are pulled to work, and the women and children start to make ends meet for the family.

They have never lived by the sea, and they don't know that the food given here is not so easy to get. When the tide rises and ebbs, many people who pick up things are swept away by the sea, and no corpses are left behind.

At the same time, when going out to sea to hunt whales, there are often ships that fail to return, and the people on board are buried in the sea quietly...

In just a few months, nearly a hundred people were lost in their fleeing famine. There were more and more graves in the north, and there was no clothes in the tomb, because the living people did not have enough to wear. Was secretly poached.

"I'm lucky. I went out of the boat once and came back alive." Li Wenwen's father grinned, but the expression on his face was worse than crying. "I just don't know if I will have such good luck in the future."

Are you afraid, of course you are afraid, everyone is afraid of death, but where can you find food when you leave here?I can only hope that my fate will be hard, and I can come back alive every time.

There are also people who don't want to be oppressed by the officers and soldiers, and leave quietly, but they don't know whether it is life or death.

If there are many men in the family, or if there are other clansmen, Li Wenwen's father would also like to go out for a venture, but there are only three of them. In a barren and inhabited place, we must guard against wild animals, hunt for food, and not get sick... He really doesn't know how to live this life.

After finishing speaking, Li Wenwen's father touched his face vigorously, and said: "If you are lucky, you can pick up a lot of things, and you don't have to go out to look for food in the cold weather. It's just that you're hungry, and you want to save more when the weather is good... …It will be fine next year, and it will be warm next year, so let’s open a piece of land next to it and plant some food, so that the child and her mother don’t have to go to the beach every day to touch these random things.”

They had no food, and lived on the things in the sea for several months. They were about to vomit, but they still endured the little seeds, hoping to plant them next year.

Listening to his words, Li Qingwen seemed to have a weight in his stomach, which was very heavy.

After all, it is the people who have traveled hundreds of miles together before, and hope from the bottom of their hearts that each other can live well, but it seems that it is not so easy.

After speaking, several people were silent for a while, and Li Wenwen's mother suddenly asked: "How is your life in the border town?"

In fact, you can know without asking, all of them are wearing thick leather robes, their faces are rosy, and they look good.

Li Qingwen didn't know what to say, so he simply talked about what they did after they went back.

Before Li Qingwen finished speaking, Li Wenwen's father began to sigh. He regretted it a long time ago. If he gritted his teeth and followed to the border town, life might be better than now.

In the past, whenever this idea came up, I would always think that maybe it would be more difficult to go to the border town, but now when I heard Li Qingwen say it, I felt more regretful.

Seeing him like this, Li Qingwen said: "Fortune and misfortune depend on each other, no one knows what will happen in the future, if you can get through it, get through it, if you can't, then think about it."

Going to sea is very dangerous, but you won't meet people from Luocheguo and Puju.

There have always been few things in the world that have the best of both worlds.

They were talking when Li Wenwen came back panting with a sack.

"You guys came all the way here, you should have a good meal..." Li Wenwen's father took the sack from his daughter, handed it to Jiang Cong, and said, "The house is just a dilapidated shed, and you can't even go in straight. Get up, I won’t let you suffer, here are some sea fish, you caught them a few days ago, you can try them out.”

Jiang Cong didn't give in, accepted it, turned around and went to the back, and gave them two bags of fried sorghum and a bottle of frostbite medicine.

Li Wenwen blinked her eyes and asked Li Qingwen, "Brother, when is your boat leaving?"

"Two or three days later." Li Qingwen replied, "But it's not sure, it depends on how the captain makes up his mind."

The little girl said: "If you don't leave tomorrow, I'll roast shrimp for you. The ones I bake are very delicious."

Li Qingwen nodded.

At this moment, the big boat put down the small boat to pick up people. Li Qingrui and the others were already sitting on the boat, greeting Li Qingwen and Jiang Cong.

Just like that, Li Qingwen and Jiang Cong bid farewell to their family of three, and boarded a boat with the others towards the big ship in the sea.

After they left, a few people ran over panting and looked around, "People, people, didn't you say that people came from the border town, where are they?"

When the three of Li Wenwen saw the person, they didn't want to talk to him, and turned around to go back, but one of them saw the bag in their hands, and it was food at first glance, "Who gave this to you? Did someone come from the old Li's family in the border town?" ?”