Yashan Village.

The old man couldn't kneel down because Xin Quan took action to support him.

"Old man, sit down first, don't hurry, just say it slowly."

The old man calmed down after a long time under Xin Quan's comfort.

And a dusty past also surfaced.

.............

The old man's name is Lin A San.

Sixty years ago.

A knife-maker came to Yashan Village.

He was covered in slack clothes and looked vicissitudes.

The villagers avoided it.

A person who sells a knife is not a good person.

Ancient rumor, this profession is very strange.

There is no need to, don't have any interaction with them.

However, silence was broken because of a kitchen knife.

For the villagers of Yashan Village, it is already a very valuable property.

When making fine iron, chopping bones and cutting vegetables, except for a few wealthy families, ordinary villagers have almost no kitchen knives.

Many villagers are extremely short of money at home, and many of them use stone blades.

It is to choose the right stone and grind it into a blade.

For the poor, kitchen knives can be regarded as treasures for family heirlooms.

The man who credited the knife said he didn't want money, but just said a prophecy. When the prophecy succeeded, he would come to collect money again.

The price is ten times the price, based on the price of the fine iron kitchen knife that will be collected in the future.

Some villagers were still hesitant at that time.

After all, the person who credits the knife is very evil.

When the knife-maker made his prediction, the villagers looked at him like a fool.

It rained heavily and the river in Yashan Village was dry. He came to collect the money again.

How could the river dry up even if it rains heavily?

Although the villagers did not study, they were not stupid.

Most people took his knife directly.

Except for a few villagers who are afraid of the profession of knife-makers.

They have always been afraid of the legends passed down by the people.

Don’t make a cause and effect with the person who credits the knife.

But there are only a few people who are sober.

The man who credited the knife didn't say anything about this.

After the knife in his hand was fired, he turned around and left.

He seemed to be unworried that the villagers would be liable for their debts.

Lin A San, he is also one of the few people who have not taken a knife.

He calculated carefully and the knife creditors had 108 knives in total.

No more or less.

After the knife man left

In the first year, it was safe and sound.

The next year, it was still the case.

Until the ninth year.

Yashan is still in good weather.

Even the person who was vaguely uneasy with the knife before has already forgotten about this matter.

That year.

The second day of the second month.

The dragon raises its head.

That day, heavy rain and strong winds raged.

But this is also common on the days when the dragon raises its head.

However, the river on which Yashan relies for survival actually emerged in the upstream, the mountain roads collapsed, collapsed, and blocked the rivers, counting on several mileages.

The river water actually poured back into the river.

Wait for the rain.

The river is dry.

The drought that the villagers had never thought of was coming.

Even the sun is a bit hotter.

But at the beginning, no one realized the seriousness of the matter.

Nine years have passed.

They have long forgotten the bets they had back then.

However, the knife-maker is here.

Just like ten years ago.

Wearing clothes and carrying baskets.

Yashan Village can be said to be unfavorable in the passing years and encounters variables.

According to the original agreement, it would be ten times the money to be returned.

Even if villagers are not affected by disaster, it is difficult for them to make the money, let alone now?

Someone begged hard but didn't want to pay back the money.

For richer families, they suggest that they will pay it back slowly in the future.

The people who bought knives shook their heads one by one and refused.

"This is an agreement, and the world is watching."

That night, the lights of the village ancestral hall swayed all night.

The knife-maker and the villagers were in the ancestral hall, and it seemed that they reached an agreement in the end.

Anyway, early the next morning, the knife-maker flew away.

Lin Asan did not have a knife credit, so he didn't know what the result was that night so many villagers discussed with the knife credit credit credit credit.

Later, everything was as usual.

Lin Asan thought that the man who bought the knife only left after getting the money.

Yashan Village has also returned to normal and has made every effort to deal with the drought.

However, that year, Yashan Village had no harvest.

No one wanted to report to the official, but he was blocked by the village official.

People like Lin A San who did not have knives were even monitored by villagers and were not allowed to leave the village.

Even Muramasa, the same is true.

He also took the knife of the knife man who made a credit card.

Then every day, middle-aged villagers walked into the mountains with their elderly parents on their backs.

Lin A San knew why.

This is a chance to sacrifice the elderly, save food, and give young people a chance to survive.

That year, all the elderly people over 50 years old in the village entered the loess.

Later, when Lin Asan entered the forest to hunt, he would still vaguely see the bones.

It is full of jackal teeth marks.

That was the corpses of the old men who carried them up the mountain.
To be continued...