Liang Chuan never imagined that he would come to this eastern island country.
The god of luck made a small joke with him and sent him to the nest of this old enemy.
The history of the two countries can be described as a feud. The history of national hatred intertwined with blood and tears makes people love and hate this country. What I love is their tenacity and perseverance of the national spirit, but what I hate is that they are still unwilling to bow their heads and admit it. Harm to our nation.
Before the Meiji Restoration, our country would never look at this tiny land with a straight face. Their people were short and ugly, and they were worthy of the title of Japanese slaves. We were even willing to call Goryeo (the Great Expedition of the Sui and Tang Dynasties) The opponent doesn't want to deal with these uncivilized barbarians.
The ship docked in a small fishing village. In Liang Chuan's impression, the island country was a clean and highly modernized country, where the people lived comfortably and the society was highly developed. But Liang Chuan lay down on the wooden plank they were carrying him and took a look. The small fishing village was in a dilapidated state. There were probably less than a hundred households there, and it was even worse and more dilapidated than He Lu.
The residents' eyes were dull and lifeless, their hair was knotted and covered with dirt, and their clothes were more tattered than the most destitute beggar in Fengshan. When they saw this huge ship, it was like seeing a god in the sky, and many people even He knelt down and worshiped the ship.
"Brother Lu, don't leave me here. I'll go back with you. When I get to Qingyuan, I will have money and I can repay you well."
"Brother, it's not that we don't want to help you. The supplies on the ship are only enough for the few of us to go to Goryeo and take a side trip to the Liao Kingdom. You are tall, strong and seriously ill. We really don't have the energy to spend on you. It's too risky to follow us at sea, you might as well recover here, and if I can come again next year, I will take you back!"
What Lu Fei said was the truth. In this era, ocean voyages are equivalent to climbing Mount Everest. If you save others, you have to spend your own supplies. If you are not careful, a whole ship of people will be destroyed just to save one person.
They sent Liang Chuan to land as a sign of mercy. They didn't expect Liang Chuan to give them anything in return. Everyone who was in trouble would draw a big cake. They also knew that eating this piece of cake would be almost as difficult as climbing to the sky.
In this way, Liang Chuan was abandoned by them in this small fishing village. Everything he saw was desolate and ruined. Liang Chuan wanted to climb on the boat and follow them to Goryeo or Liao Kingdom. In that case, he could return by land. Arrived in the south. But Lu Fei's ship left the coast little by little, and finally disappeared into the distant sky between the water and the sky.
Due to the injuries on Liang Chuan's body, his bones were broken in many places, and he could not move. He was lying on the beach like a waste. The sun was very strong, and Liang Chuan hadn't been in the sun for several months. His eyes started to shed tears after being exposed to the sun for a while.
The villagers from the fishing village surrounded him. They were extremely short in height, and they were all like carrot heads. It was not an exaggeration to call them three inches of corn bark. He was sallow and thin, looking at Liang Chuan with fear in his eyes.
They were chattering in a lot of languages that Liang Chuan had never heard of. They thought they were Japanese, but it didn't look like it. They were probably early Japanese languages. People found that Liang Chuan couldn't move. After watching for a while, they started to disperse after finding that there was nothing to see.
Liang Chuan shouted a few words to the crowd, hoping that they could help him, but no one paid him any attention. You are going to starve to death, so why do you have time to care about others?
There was only one little girl left in the crowd, a little girl who looked very much like Yi Niang, with big eyes, a thin body, and the same clear eyes as Yi Niang.
This scene seemed to bring Liang Chuan back to the scene when he first met Yi Niang. He couldn't move, and a girl looked at him.
Life is full of twists and turns, could it be that I have traveled through time again? Traveled through time to Japan? Starting over again?
The little girl looked at Liang Chuan quietly for a long time, and Liang Chuan tried to say to her: "Thirsty...thirst...is there any water...?"
The water on the ship was very unpleasant to drink. It had a rancid smell, more like the rotten smell of a reservoir that has grown moss after being left there for a long time. Liang Chuan couldn't drink it after drinking it a few times. He was so thirsty that he couldn't drink it anymore. He would never take another sip when he was in the sun. After being in the sun for a long time, his mouth was parched and he would die of dehydration if he didn't drink water.
The girl looked at him, as if she didn't understand what he said, and stood there numbly. After a while, she also left.
Liang Chuan lay on the beach in despair. The sea water began to rise, and a group of black clouds appeared on the horizon. The sea breeze was strong this season, and the sun was still bright in the morning. After the afternoon, there might be a heavy rain.
Liang Chuan watched the dark clouds getting closer and closer, and the roar of thunder and lightning became clearer and clearer. Finally, raindrops fell on his face, from tiny dots to big raindrops, crackling mercilessly. Hit him in the face.
Everyone ran home to hide from the rain. Only Liang Chuan could not move and endured the baptism of rain on the beach. This is not the most terrifying thing. The most terrifying thing is that the sea water has begun to rise. If Liang Chuan lies down again, he will be submerged by the tide and he will be dead.
The rain helped the tide, and the tide rose very fast. Within a few cups of tea, half of Liang Chuan's face was covered. At this moment, the little girl just appeared again. Seeing that Liang Chuan was about to be submerged by the tide, she pulled Liang Chuan up. The clothes on his body dragged Liang Chuan hard to the shore.
Liang Chuan originally weighed a lot, but after floating at sea for three months, there was only a layer of skin between him and the specimen, and he had long since lost all fat and muscle. Although the girl was thin, it was not very difficult to drag Liang Chuan. It was just that the bones in Liang Chuan's body were broken, and it was more painful to be pulled by him.
The pain is better than drowning in the sea water.
The girl dragged him to a small thatched shed built with a few broken thatch roofs, which barely protected him from the rain. There is also a grass mat underneath, which is much more comfortable than lying on the beach.
"Thank you. Although you don't understand what I said, I still want to thank you."
After the girl dragged Liang Chuan to the thatched shed, she disappeared again. When she reappeared, she was holding a broken pottery urn with clean spring water in her hand. Liang Chuan glanced at her and wanted to stand up to drink water, but there was no way.
The girl handed the water to Liang Chuan's mouth and tilted it at an angle, allowing the water to slowly flow into Liang Chuan's mouth.
What kind of shitty luck did I have? When I was living in this world, I always met these female Bodhisattvas. There was the artist before me, and this girl after me. Was it because I had used up all my luck that I was blown up to this end of the world by gunpowder?
This girl has a dark face and her hair is a little unkempt, but Liang Chuan believes that if she takes care of it carefully, her appearance will not be too bad. After all, her facial features are so delicate and her eyes are as big as stars, twinkling. of.
"Where do you live?" Liang Chuan asked.
The girl looked at Liang Chuan and just kept giggling. Then she crossed her legs in frustration, leaned against the pillar of the shed, and buried her head in her legs, as if she was listening to the sound of rain quietly and thinking about something.
"Do you have any relatives? Are you alone?" After asking so many questions, the girl never answered Liang Chuan. Sometimes she buried her head, sometimes she looked up at the heavy rain outside. She looked very lonely. , also very lonely.
In the evening, the rain finally stopped, and the red-hot clouds and rays of light on the horizon reflected the sea. The gentle sea breeze lost its violent breath, blowing on people's bodies, and soon dried the water on their bodies. The girl disappeared again. .
When the girl appeared again, she had several fresh sea fish in her hand. The fish were very big and had no injuries on her body. Liang Chuan was curious about how the girl caught the fish.
The girl set up two wooden sticks beside the grass shed. After cutting the fish open with a stone chip and removing its internal organs, she scraped off the scales and inserted them on the sticks to build a bonfire.
The fire was magical. It was in the thatched shed and was covered with a large leaf. No wonder Liang Chuan felt warm when he was lying on the ground. The girl stirred up the scent of the tree and blew into the charcoal fire, and a cheerful flame jumped out happily.
She added dry firewood to the pile of firewood. She didn't know where she got the firewood. The two fish were more than a foot long and had plump flesh. Although there was no seasoning, not even salt, but in the Under the scorching heat of the charcoal fire, the alluring aroma penetrated into Liang Chuan's nostrils mischievously. Liang Chuan, who was so hungry that he looked at the girl's hard work, wanted to help her share the burden.
Grilling fish is a technical job. If you rush it, the fish will be burnt. If you go slow, the fish will not be cooked thoroughly. In Liangchuan, Fengshan, I often caught fish in Nanxi and grilled it. At that time, I had to sprinkle a lot of dogwood powder on it. Seasoning, and then put salt on it, thinking that by then I would be tired of eating fish, and I would want to slap myself twice.
Drought kills drought, flood kills, and a man who is full does not know how to be hungry.
This girl was obviously not grilling fish for the first time. She skillfully kept the skewer and the charcoal fire at a certain height, allowing the charcoal's yin fire to sear the fish instead of using fire to cook the fish.
The fish was grilled over charcoal from dusk until the end of the moon. The insects chirping around me were pleasant, and the stars in the sky were exceptionally bright. It was a very beautiful summer landscape.
"Okay, the fish is ready to eat."
Liang Chuan was still immersed in fantasy, and was so shocked by this perfectly spoken Chinese sentence that his jaw almost dropped to the ground. .
"You...you can...speak Chinese!"
"Can't I speak Chinese?"
"But why didn't you say it during the day?"
"You didn't ask me..."
The girl's voice was very gentle. It seemed to be the nicest and most pleasant words in the world. Every word sounded extremely kind to Liang Chuan's ears. It is said that hearing old news in a foreign country means meeting someone who can speak Chinese in this island country. , this probability is not much greater than that of Liang Chuan being fished out at sea. .
Liang Chuan cried, so moved that he cried. .
God, you really treat me well. .
