By the lake, the girl in white wiped the blood off Wang Xiaotai's face, put the small lamp she brought on the ground, and asked Wang Xiaotai to squat down, "They are still asleep now. Why don't you wash your face here first and wake up. We will leave when it gets daybreak. There is still some dust on your face, you can't see it yourself, and there is no mirror now. Squat down and I will wipe it off for you."
"Who are you?" Wang Xiaotai came back to his senses, took several steps back, and pressed his chest warily. Between the clothes and the flesh, there was the storage bag that Changsheng had given to Wang Xiaotai. Inside it was all Wang Xiaotai's hopes in this life.
"You are the only orphan in Jinghe that Changsheng mentioned, right?" The girl saw that Wang Xiaotai was so defensive, but she was not angry and said with a smile, "Speaking of which, we are still fellow villagers and I am stable. Where in Jinghe are you from?"
Wang Xiaotai raised her head suddenly, but her eyes revealed that she was also from Anding County, Jinghe, Shaanxi Province. She didn't expect to meet a fellow villager here, "I am also from Anding."
Shaanzhou, Jinghe, Anding County, the name Anding seems a bit ridiculous now.
Peace and stability, never had peace. Two years of drought were about to end, and the dragon disaster came. The giant dragon in Qiantang burned for 800 miles and devoured 600,000 people. Most of the people had no bones left and became the rations of rats.
The girl in white sighed and looked at the sparkling Jianfo Lake under the moonlight. She frowned slightly, seeming to be worried, "My name is Bailian. Although we are fellow villagers, I haven't been home for a long time. What is stability?" Looks like, I’ve forgotten about it a long time ago.”
"They all said that for eight hundred miles of the Jinghe River, everyone died, and even the trees were burned down. My father and mother probably don't have the luck like you to survive." After waving, Wang Xiaotai really didn't want to. After finishing with her, she washed her face and hands, etc. Bailian didn't force her. She took off her shoes and socks, put her feet into the Jianfo Lake, and splashed the water, causing the ripples to spread and the moonlight to break.
"Can you tell me about stability?"
Wang Xiaotai looked at Bai Lian's back and said, "What are you talking about?" What's there to say? She recalled everything that happened suddenly. It obviously happened so fast, but everything seemed to be very slow in her memory. Every frame of the slow process was properly stored in the deepest place by her, and she would never forget it. .
"The girl who was sacrificed is my friend," Wang Xiaotai said suddenly. "No one knows it, but she is actually my friend. On that day, she was going to be sacrificed to the gods. I was still very envious. She, because we haven't had enough to eat for a long time, in order for the souls of these sacrificed people to say something good before the gods, they will save food for the sacrificed people to eat, and also save water. Give her a bath, and I saw her eating so well that night, and I was actually very envious."
This is something that even Wang Xiaotai's parents don't know, but somehow, on this early morning, by the Buddha Lake, she was willing to tell Bailian these words. Perhaps it was because Bailian didn't look directly at her with a pitiful look. Caring for her, she looked at Bai Lian's back, but suddenly felt a sense of security being tolerated.
"I was drooling outside her window and she saw me and she gave me the food, tortillas, lentil soup, black rice porridge and a hard-boiled egg. She only ate half of the tortilla. It seemed that she couldn't eat anymore after seeing me. She gave me the food while crying, and she said she didn't want to die and wanted to make a change with me."
"Xiao Moss, we are best friends, right? Then can you save me! You are so powerful, I don't want to die! Let's switch with me. I'll go out and you come in. Let's switch, okay?"
Wang Xiaotai's memory suddenly jumped to the night before everything happened, that ordinary night.
She and her secret friend looked at each other across the pigsty. No pigs had been raised here for a long time, so the pigsty had no special smell. Her double-eyed friend held the food in his hands and handed it to her, crying. She asked her to accept the food. She knew that Wang Xiaotai was already starving. Could she make an exchange with her, where Wang Xiaotai would come to eat and Wang Xiaotai would go to the sacrificial table? Even if she eventually died of starvation, she did not want to die so early.
Wang Xiaotai looked at the food in her hand, swallowed hard, thought about it, ran back, and took an ax that had not been used for a long time at home. She raised her thin arms high and used the ax to chop the pig. The lock on the circle, "I will split this lock, you run! Dandan, you have no family here, you can run far, far away, and never come back again!"
Wang Xiaotai tried her best to cut the lock, and tried her best to pick up the ax that was thicker than her arm again and again.
Dandan inside covered her mouth with tears streaming down her face, "Xiao Tai, Xiao Tai, Xiao Tai, I... I'm sorry, I just want to live! I shouldn't... I'm too scared, Xiao Tai, Xiao Tai, what should I do, Xiao Tai..."
Wang Xiaotai watched with satisfaction as the huge iron lock shook as she chopped it, "There's no need to be sorry, and there's no need to give me food, Dandan, we are friends!"
Even though no one knows it, you were the one who gave me half a steamed bun when I was the hungriest. It was you who climbed in through the window to stay with me when my parents were not at home. It was you who accompanied me to catch fish by the dry river. The non-existent firefly is that you are willing to sit down and listen to my silly words. Even if no one knows, we are friends!
After all, the sound of chopping iron locks was too loud. This was the pigsty of the priest's house. His bedroom was right next to it. He heard the noise soon. The sound also woke up many residents nearby. They were originally Be wary of the escape of the sacrificed humans and animals. Now that there is any movement, you quickly come out to check, and the lights gradually light up one by one.
Dandan pursed her lips. She saw Wang Xiaotai sweating profusely as he tried his best to cut the iron rope. She saw Wang Xiaotai's arms were already trembling and he still kept moving. The voices beside him became louder and louder, as if there was someone. Many people were gathering in this direction, but Wang Xiaotai was still chopping the iron locks. She was so focused on chopping that she didn't seem to hear the gradually noisy sounds nearby.
Dandan bit her lip and encouraged Wang Xiaotai in her heart, hurry up, hurry up!
The lights were getting closer and closer, and Dandan had already seen someone's figure through the window. If they were caught and destroyed the sacrifice, Wang Xiaotai would definitely be beaten to death, but... maybe the sacrifice could be someone else?
She really doesn't want to die.
Do you want to remind Wang Xiaotai? Dandan's tears flowed down as if she wanted no money. She didn't even know she still had so much water in her body.
Seeing that those people were about to see her, seeing Wang Xiaotai's ax cutting the iron lock getting lower and lower, her arms were shaking violently, and it was obvious that she had no strength. Dandan suddenly stretched out her hand to wipe away the tears on her face, she He said, "Let's go."
Wang Xiaotai seemed unaware and tried her best to cut the iron lock, but she was too weak and had been hungry for too long. After cutting for a long time, she could only cut off half of it.
Dandan rushed to the door and opened it hard inside, "Let's go, you idiot! Come on! Who is your friend! You fool! You fool! I'm much smarter than you, do you know! I If you are smarter than you, you have to listen to me, you know! I have always been taking care of you, who wants you to save me, you idiot! Get out of here!"
"Go away, I won't run away. My father died here, my mother-in-law died here, and I am going to die here too! You go, Wang Xiaotai, to find your father-in-law and mother-in-law. We don't want to be friends. ”
"Did you hear that? Wang Xiaotai, get out of here! We won't be friends anymore!" Dandan shook the door wildly inside and screamed, as if hoping to break up with Wang Xiaotai in this way.
A big hand lifted Wang Xiaotai onto his shoulder, picked up Wang Xiaotai and ran behind the pig pen. Wang Xiaotai stretched his neck on his shoulder and looked back, watching the figures holding torches getting closer and closer to Dandan. , and he was getting farther and farther away from Dandan, and finally shed tears.
After returning home, his father put Wang Xiaotai down and beat her hard. Her mother was also wiping her tears. Just after the beating, her father was called out before he could say anything, probably asking him to go and have a look. Regarding the situation in the pig pen, my mother was applying medicine to herself under the oil lamp with distress, and hot tears fell on her body one by one. Wang Xiaotai also cried so hard that she fell asleep tightly in her arms. . The family didn't say anything that night, they just shed endless tears.
The next day, Dandan was tied to the sacrificial table as scheduled. Wang Xiaotai didn't say a word to her. She always felt that even if she couldn't rescue her, she felt that she should at least say goodbye to Dandan, but she didn't have time to do anything. When Qiantang arrived, she saw Dandan again. Her enchanting eyes were splashed into Wang Xiaotai's mouth, and then exploded in her palm.
That was the last look between them.
Probably all the tears have dried up. Wang Xiaotai doesn't have any tears now. She is just a little confused. Are they friends? What future would they have without that dragon?
Wang Xiaotai only knew her name was Dandan. Dandan's parents died early, and Dandan even forgot her last name. She just called Dandan, Dandan.
What kind of friend is this?
