249,—the twenty-seventh cannon fodder—(1/2)
Taomi smiled in her heart, as anyone with a little knowledge of knowledge would know that what she said was nothing but heresy, and only a dabbler like Ying Huada couldn't react to it.
"Okay, everyone, let's continue to work hard, otherwise it will be like starving to death as some people say. You must know that only by working will you be rewarded. People who can only recite poems and don't even understand the meaning
, of course I will starve to death." As she said that, Taomi walked to Liu Lantong and continued to do the work in hand.
Liu Lantong winked playfully at Taomi. It was really interesting. Ying Huada was unlucky when he met Taomi, but he brought it all on himself. He could memorize a few poems and use them randomly. Now it's bad luck. He must have been ridiculed.
Everyone else has also started working, but there is only one person. The first person to talk to Ying Huada just now, her name is Ma Yinghong, she is also a girl from Lingxi Village. Her appearance should be good, but the conditions at home are not good.
Well, there are not only sisters in the family, but also brothers below.
The family favors sons over daughters. She is not the first, nor is she the youngest. She is not taken seriously at home, but she does look cheerful outside and can say a few words to everyone she meets. No other girl should
Some are afraid of life.
She likes Ying Huada, but she has never told anyone else. She just likes Ying Huada's scholarly temperament, which is completely different from other boys, so every time Ying Huada comes, she
She would take the initiative to talk to him in order to make Ying Huada remember her.
She was very happy that Ying Huada came today, and she talked to him as before. But she didn't expect that Taomi would say such things to Ying Huada today, and said that he was not diligent in his limbs and could not separate the grains. He was a scholar and wanted to share the grains.
What does Qing Gu do? He doesn't farm, so only those who don't know how to make progress would rather farm in the soil for the rest of their lives. When she grows up, she must leave Lingxi Village.
I heard that there are now brick houses in the county, but she has never seen one. She will definitely live in a brick house in the future.
She glanced in the direction of Taomi with a complicated expression. At this time, she was talking and laughing with Liu Lantong, lowering her head and busy with the work in her hands.
What Taomi and Ying Huada said was no secret, and there were many people present. Naturally, Shen Cheng and his wife knew about it. When they came home at noon, they asked, "Fangfei, I heard that you and Ying Huada had a fight today.
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"Dad, where did you hear that? It wasn't really a quarrel, it was just a couple of arguments over differences of opinion. Your daughter and I successfully defeated him. Judging from his appearance when he left, he seemed to be running away in despair. I guess so.
You can't say that I, a little girl, feel ashamed." Taomi said proudly. In the eyes of Shen Cheng and his wife, she looked like a young and competitive daughter.
"That's good, just don't quarrel. Although Ying Huada is not good at farming, he is still knowledgeable. This is the only educated person in our ten villages and eight stores."
Shen Cheng felt quite regretful when he said that, and Taomi also lowered her head and started eating. Shen Cheng represents the thoughts of some people in this era. They are eager for knowledge, but dare not do anything. They can only silently admire those who have knowledge.
As a human being, if Shen Cheng and others hadn't turned a blind eye and just let Ying Huada hold a book and say something sad, would he still be alive and safe until now?
The sun was too hot in the afternoon, so Shen Cheng didn't let Tao Mi go to the fields with him. Shen Cheng was the village chief and a cadre within the establishment. He got a salary every month, which was not less than a little girl's.
Taomi thought for a while and went out to go up the mountain. Yesterday she was with Liu Lantong and she didn't have time to feel it carefully. Today she felt it to see if there was really spiritual energy.
She was originally a cultivator, and her desire for spiritual energy was like a fish's desire for water. She quickly reached the top of the mountain, sat under a tree, and repeated the actions she had become familiar with before.
With luck all around, Taomi finally managed to feel the presence of spiritual energy again half an hour later, and because of this spiritual energy, she felt comfortable all over.
Hehe, although there is little spiritual energy, as long as she has it, she will not be afraid of anything. Her requirements are not high. As long as the spiritual energy can be used with the help of elixirs to change tendons and cleanse marrow, of course she is talking about that kind of High-grade elixirs are not the kind of elixirs used in space to improve the physical condition of animals.
It had been several worlds without spiritual power. Taomi could no longer remember the last time she had spiritual power. She was so happy that she sat on the top of the mountain all afternoon, and then hurriedly ran down the mountain when the sun was about to set. , the speed was much happier than when she went down the mountain with Liu Lantong yesterday. Let's just think that this is because she absorbed the effect of spiritual power.
It's nightfall, and Taomi has been doing daily exercises in her body. Although she has not been able to successfully introduce Qi into her body and has not cleansed her marrow, she still needs to do what she should do, right?
I had just finished dinner and entered the house when I heard Shen's mother's voice coming from outside, "Lantong is here, Fangfei is in the house, come in."
"Okay auntie."
As soon as Liu Lantong came in, she grabbed Taomi's arm and said, "Let's go, I'll take you to a place."
After saying that, Liu Lantong dragged Taomi out and spoke to Shen's mother in the yard. Shen's mother didn't care. They had been running around in this village since they were children. Now they don't have to worry about encountering danger or anything like that. .
Liu Lantong pulled Taomi all the way to the river. It was already dark. Liu Lantong pointed at the fish in the river and said, "Look at the fish here."
"The fish here? What's weird?" It's normal for there to be fish in the river.
"I'm talking about the types of fish in this fish. There seem to be a lot more. I heard my grandpa say that before there was only Hualien here, but now it seems there's more than just Hualien."
Listening to what Liu Lantong said, Taomi also set her sights on the river. With the afterglow of the sun, she could see that the fish active below the water level were indeed not only Hualien, but also carp, and even a small amount of silver carp. You can also see a few loaches drilling around.
During the famine a few years ago, the wild boars on the mountains ate everything, not to mention the fish in the river. Many were killed. Later, the old village chief made a statement that the river was public property and no one was allowed to fish in the future. , although there are a few petty thieves who steal fish, but no one is killing them on a large scale. In the past two years, the number of fish has gradually increased.
Shen Cheng carried out large-scale fishing every summer and distributed the fish to everyone fairly, but he never noticed when the fish inside changed.
In the memory of the original owner, the only fish caught last year was Hualien. Why are there suddenly so many kinds of fish now?
"Lantong, what do you think?"
"I'm just asking you because I don't know. These fish are so big, and they don't look like newly added fry. And who has the spare money to put fry in them at this time?" Liu Lantong pointed towards the entrance of the village.
He said, "Our creek is downstream. I suspect that these fish come from upstream. I don't dare to do it alone, so I want you to go and see it with me."
"Why don't you just say that you are looking for me to embolden you? Why bother with it?"
"Hey, are you going to come with me? Aren't you sad that I got lost and got eaten by the big bad wolf?" She has only been here a week and has never left the village. She looks like this
The river is not short. What if she can't find her way back?
Taomi smiled and said, "Okay, I will go with you tomorrow, but it may be in the afternoon. I have to go to the fields in the morning."
"I know, I know. I'm going to the fields in the morning too. It's a deal. I'll come find you after lunch tomorrow."
Nature is a very magical existence. After millions of years, a single-celled organism can transform into a variety of organisms. Someone once mentioned that all things are of the same family, and this is not unfounded.
Taomi went to the fields as usual in the morning, but Ying Huada didn't come today. I guess he won't show up for a while, but again, after losing such a big face, how could a person like him who cares about face come back?
In the afternoon, I walked along the creek with Liu Lantong. They had already left the village, but they still didn't find anything. Seeing that the weather was still early, the two of them kept walking.
Seeing that we were getting farther and farther away from the village, and there was no one around, and there was nothing else except the stream, "We... we are going up the mountain."
"Yes, I never thought that this stream actually flows down from the mountain."
Liu Lantong thought that Taomi might not know what the creek was about. She looked at the creek next to her and saw that it was no longer as wide as the one in the village. The types of fish in it were probably similar to those in the village. They were all the same.
kind.
"Forget it, let's go back. We are not geographical scientists and can't find any clues. Anyway, it would be nice to have more fish to eat when fishing in the summer."
Liu Lantong said somewhat decadently that she was originally thinking about finding out where these fish came from. After discovering this, people in Lingxi Village would be able to eat more fish. It seemed that her efforts were in vain.
Not found.
Taomi nodded, and the two of them were about to walk back when they saw a person from a distance, swaying as if he was about to fall down. Was he drunk?
"I'll go over and take a look."
Liu Lantong said this, and Taomi still went with her. If he was really a drunkard, it wouldn't be good to let a little girl see it by herself.
When he walked in, he saw that there was indeed a man lying on the ground. He was wearing a green military uniform and carrying a big backpack on his back. Was he a soldier? Liu Lantong turned him over, his face was miserable, his mouth was dry and cracked, and he was still holding something in his hand.
He was holding a kettle, and Tao Mi saw that it was out of water. If he hadn't been holding this just now, she wouldn't have mistaken him for an alcoholic.
"Did he have heatstroke?" Liu Lantong looked at Taomi and said in confusion. It's not the summer solstice yet, and the weather isn't hot either. Why did he faint?
"Maybe he was exhausted due to lack of water." It didn't look like he had heatstroke.
"Exhaustion from lack of water?" Liu Lantong said in shock. They were originally walking along the creek. They were only a few hundred meters away from the creek. If they could collapse from lack of water, their luck would be gone.
Tao Mi took the kettle to the creek and filled it with water, and secretly replaced the water with the water in the space. Who knows if the water is clean? Even if it doesn't save people, it can't harm them.
When she came back, the man had already opened his eyes, but he was too weak to get up. Taomi gave the kettle to Liu Lantong, and Liu Lantong fed him a few sips. He was still a little reluctant and kept turning his head. Taomi
He opened his mouth and said, "This water is all clean."
Seeing that he was fine, Liu Lantong asked, "Why don't you go find some water to drink?"
"Those are not mine."
"Ah?" Liu Lantong felt that his brain was a little exhausted. He didn't drink the water from the stream, not because he disliked the dirty water in the stream, but because it didn't belong to him. What's the reason?
This sentence suddenly broke into Taomi's mind. Soldiers in this era of emotions all thought this way. This stream was not his, so he would not drink the water in it, 666.
Liu Lantong also thought about it and suddenly smiled and threw the kettle into his arms, "You drank even if you didn't want to. Just find a way to return the water you drank to the people. Let's go."
Taomi and Liu Lantong left. Wang Liguo looked at the kettle from behind for a long time. Finally, he unscrewed the lid of the kettle and drank all the water inside. Then he looked around, finally stood up and followed Tao like a normal person.
Mi and Liu Lantong walked in the direction they left.
As soon as Taomi and the others arrived at the village, they were told that the old Wang family's son who was a soldier was back. The two of them looked at each other. It couldn't be such a coincidence.
Oh, by the way, she remembered that during the life of the original owner, Liu Lantong married a man who was a soldier in the village. There are now hundreds of households in Lingxi Village, and many people went to join the army in those days. They either came back or died.
Over there, now only the sons of the Wang family are serving as soldiers.
Could this be the person Liu Lantong will marry in the future? I have to say that their meeting was quite good, but the man just now was a bit dull.
"You don't understand. Inflexibility is a characteristic of men. In ancient times, it was called pure and good. In this era, it is called obedient. In the future, it is called stupid and cute. There are people in every era who like this kind of men. They are very popular." Mimi's voice rose at the right time.
, Taomi disagrees.
"I also like silly and cute ones, but I don't like those that are too simple." Just like that, I was almost exhausted and didn't drink water, just for the so-called principle. Although this kind of principle is very worthy of promotion in this era,
But she still likes little wolfdogs, she is innocent towards her wife, and like a wolf to outsiders, she can protect those who need protection.
"Oh, times have changed. The kind of people you mentioned are called scheming in this era. No, they are called scheming in any era. They cannot be called stupid and cute at all."
Well, if it’s not, then it’s not.
Taomi and Liu Lantong went home respectively and spent a dreamless night.
As the saying goes, spring rain is as precious as oil, which shows that the busy farming period in spring is short and precious. In the blink of an eye, all the seeds have been sown into the land. After the busy farming period, rural people have a break of leisure time.
Originally, Taomi didn't need to go to the fields every day, so she went to the top of the mountain every day. She wanted to cleanse her marrow these days, but there was no suitable time. But now that the busy farming season is over, there are people looking for someone on the mountain.
There were no wild animals, and although those people were also sneaky, it would not be good if she was discovered.
"Guess what I found?" Mimi said flying out from a distance,
"What?"
"I saw an underground river. Just walk along the creek at the entrance of the village, and there is an underground river. You don't want to wash your marrow in space, and you are worried that there is no place for you to wash your marrow. I think there is a place where you can wash your marrow.
Just right."
"Really? Then you can go and have a look."
Taomi followed the stream and found the underground river Mimi had mentioned. It was under a hill. It was a little narrower than the width of the stream at the entrance of the village, but the water flow was not very fast and there were a lot of fish in it. It seemed that
The reason why there are so many fish at the entrance of the village is because they swim from here.
To be continued...