Half-life immortal

Chapter 48 Destiny likes to joke, very bad joke

14 years ago that day.

It was a slightly cold day, it was almost autumn, half of the sparse leaves had turned yellow, and soon even the river would freeze, and the naughty squirrels had to patiently collect pine cones to prepare for the winter, Hakushu would usher in The dead of winter.

Just before the river was about to freeze, a small boat floated along the river.The small boat was improvised and shoddy, the workmanship was extremely rough, and it was so small that it couldn't accommodate a person standing up, so it could only accommodate a small baby girl.

The baby girl was covered with a quilt, so she was not frozen to death by the autumn wind. However, in this seemingly endless river, the baby girl was drifting helplessly in the small boat. I don’t know how long it took before an old hunter passing by Baizhou picked it up. she.

She is not the kind of god who can live without eating or drinking. She was dying when the old hunter picked her up. Fortunately, the old hunter had raised children when he was young and knew how to take care of the baby girl, so he managed to save the baby girl. .

The baby girl was very clever, she was just the size of a full moon, and she didn't cry or make trouble. She looked at the old hunter with bright big eyes, as if she wanted to imprint the image of the old hunter in her heart forever.

The old hunter liked the baby girl and named her "Qing'er", hoping that she would bring beautiful sunny days.

But Qing'er is too young, the old hunter often goes into the mountains to hunt for a few days, and has no time to take care of Qing'er, so he has to entrust Qing'er to a couple in the village to take care of her.The couple had no children, so they were naturally happy to have such a lovely daughter.

But the good times didn't last long. Once an old hunter went hunting in the mountains and never came back.Everyone in the village said that the old hunter died and was eaten by bears, and his bones could not be found. Gradually, no one remembered the old hunter.

The couple who took care of Qinger soon had their own child, and their own life was not rich, so they sold Qinger to a person in a nearby town at a low price.

When Qing'er was sold for the first time, she was just over one year old.

Although she is only one year old, she can barely babble and walk unsteadily by herself. It's just that she is malnourished the day after tomorrow, her body is weak, and she gets sick every now and then.This is no wonder, after all, it is an abandoned baby thrown in the river, and the doctors all concluded that this child will be a sick child for the rest of his life.

The person who bought her knew about this and didn't want to put up such a useless and sick child, so he sold her again not long after.

Then things became very strange and "natural". Qing'er was sold, then bought by another person, and then sold again, just like this, and sometimes she was abandoned in the wilderness if she couldn't sell. .I don't know if it was her luck or her meat was too unpalatable. After being discarded several times, she was not eaten by wild animals but was picked up by others, and then her fate of being sold and bought was repeated.

When she was three years old, she couldn't remember how many adoptive parents she had changed, even if she was born with an amazing memory and could distinguish people, she couldn't remember how many times, but the faces of those people were engraved in her heart, counting them one by one Come on, there are dozens of them too.

Sometimes she hates her extraordinary memory. Ordinary children are still three or five years old and can't remember clearly, but she can clearly remember everything that happened, even what those people said , how he disliked her so much, he remembered clearly.Perhaps the only thing that comforts and rejoices her is that she does not remember the parents who gave birth to her.

When she was three years old, it was a nightmare within a nightmare. She still remembered that she was sold to a farmer in a small village that year.

The farmer was a very good man, second only to the old hunter, and an old bachelor with no wife or children.The farmer bought her because she was a poor little girl and had no intention of using her as a child bride or selling her for money again.

For about a few months, the farmer was very kind to her, and that was the most stable time since she could remember. Although the farmer could not read a few big characters, he would always let Qinger go first when he received delicious food. After eating, Qing'er's originally delicate and sickly body gradually recovered.

But fate always likes to play jokes on her, and they are very bad jokes.

In that year, natural disasters came, and the farmer's land was barren, and there was almost no harvest.Not only the farmers, thousands of miles around, perhaps thousands of miles around, had no harvest. It was the biggest famine in decades.

People who haven't seen it with their own eyes may not be able to understand how terrible the famine is, and Qing'er is equally ignorant.

She just saw that the farmer was distressed and haggard every day, and the rice and noodles at home gradually decreased. After another month, it almost bottomed out.

As a little girl, she can already help the farmer with some housework, but she doesn't have much strength, and she can't help in any real way, so she can only watch the farmer suffer.But the farmer really treats her very well, even if there is only the last bit of rice noodles left, he is still willing to share it with Qing'er.Qing'er could tell that the farmer really liked her and regarded her as his own child.

She didn't get along with the old hunter much in her early years, so she regarded the farmer more as her father in her young heart.At that time, she had vaguely understood what parents were, and she believed that only a good man like the farmer who truly loved her was worthy of being her father, so she was willing to call him "father" in a coquettish voice.

At that time, she actually had something that she was obsessed with even to death, and that was her farmer father.She wants to be the most well-behaved daughter of the farmer, and she has to be filial to him all her life. When she grows up, she has to work hard to make money so that her old father can live comfortably in his old age.Her goal in life is to make the farmer proud of her and make him say "Qing'er is indeed my daughter".

The famine is still going on. No one thought that the famine would last for a few years, and the farmer’s family could not get rid of it. Qing’er was often hungry when she was a child, but she also practiced the ability to bear the hunger. starve.

One day, the farmer came back, and he brought back a lot of broken pieces of meat.Meat is so rare in the age of famine. Although Qinger is young, she is not stupid. She asked the farmer how to find the food in doubt. The farmer only told her that he went hunting in the mountains.

Is Qinger really stupid?She is not stupid.

She knew that the famine had lasted for so long, and all edible fruits and prey within a radius of a hundred miles had been snatched away. Even the roots and turf, everything that could be chewed had been plundered and taken away. Desert, where does the prey come from?

She had guesses in her heart, but she didn't ask any more.She cooked the meat according to the farmer's instructions, and the two of them ate it. The meal was extremely quiet, and it was the slowest meal in her life.

Then every now and then, the farmer will bring back some pieces of meat, sometimes more and sometimes less, sometimes weighing more than a dozen catties, and sometimes only a few taels.Qinger never asked him how he got the food, but she noticed that there were fewer and fewer people in the village. Whether those people starved to death, left or disappeared, Qinger never asked, and dared not ask.

And finally when the farmer came back empty-handed again, Qing'er was afraid.

She hid in a corner to observe the farmer's actions, and found that the father who loved her had become something she didn't know, and his eyes were no longer full of love when he looked at her. to see her.Several times, Qing'er could feel the farmer looking at where she had more flesh...

Qing'er didn't know it before, but hunger is more powerful than everything in the world.Hunger can change a person more thoroughly than anything else. It can turn a person who is kinder than a Bodhisattva into a devil in a very short period of time, and it is a devil through and through.

She was really scared, and she didn't want to become the cooked meat on the farmer's plate. Her mind was full of images of the farmer eating meat, but she didn't want to be that meat.

What does a three or four year old girl know?
Facts have proved that under the terrible pressure and the natural ability to recognize and learn, Qinger understands everything.At least she understood the difference between eating meat and being meat, so she was afraid of it.

She can not eat meat, she is not afraid of starving to death, but she does not want to become meat.

This is very simple, there is no reason, it is just an instinctive impulse.She never thought about the difficult problem of eating enough for one and starving to death for two. She was too young at the age of three. In this era of famine where too many people died, such a young Girls have no reason to survive.

However, if there is no reason to survive, should she accept the fate of becoming flesh?
In fact, she didn't know what she was thinking, or maybe she didn't think about anything.

She just saw the farmer sharpening the kitchen knife one day. The knife had been sharpened very quickly by the farmer. The farmer hadn't sharpened the knife since the last time he returned empty-handed, but today he was sharpening the knife again.

There is a ladder next to the house to climb to the roof. It is usually used by farmers to repair the roof. Maybe the farmer forgot to move it away, and the ladder is just there.

Qing'er picked a very large and sharp stone, tied it with a rope, and stretched her little arms and legs with difficulty to climb to the roof, slowly pulling the stone up with great effort.

Holding the stone, she sat on the roof for a long time, watching the beautiful sunset over there gradually set, but the sound of the sharpening knife below was still the same, every time the sound of brushing was like hitting her heart Similarly, she never knew that the sound could be heavier than the big stone in her hand.

The farmer finished sharpening the knife, did not put the knife away, just held it in his hand, and then he went to boil a pot of boiling water, the sound of bubbling and bubbling was very loud, and the farmer sat by the boiler, even though the water was already boiling, he did not turn it off The meaning of falling.

Qing'er lifted the tiles on the roof and saw this scene. She knew that as long as she appeared in front of the farmer, the farmer would wipe off her neck with the kitchen knife in his hand, and then carefully cut up the meat on her body piece by piece. Come down, and then throw it into the pot to cook while it is fresh, or eat it raw on a whim.After eating, he would lick his lips, aftertaste, and then look for any remaining pieces of meat on the bones, and make another pot of bone soup while he was in the mood.

Out of seasoning?
It doesn't matter, isn't there that red viscous "seasoning"?Might be good in bone broth.

what else?The farmer has always been a person who doesn't like waste, and the pieces of meat he brought back before were all processed, so what about the rest?For example, eyes?Brains?Qing'er remembered that the farmer seemed to have a hobby of eating fish eyes...

The more she thought about it, the more frightened she became, and she slowly lifted the tiles above the farmer's head, and then lifted the big stone in her hand to the gap.

This is the biggest and biggest rock Qing'er can move, and it's high enough here.She once saw a small stone fall from the tower next door, and it killed the big yellow dog under the tower.Although the roof is not as high as the tower now, the big stone in her hand is heavier than the small stone, so the effect should be similar.

She concentrated on looking at the farmer's father through the gaps in the tiles, just like the farmer concentrated on the boiling hot water and the sharp kitchen knife in his hand.

Her hands were shaking, not from fear, really not from fear.It's just that the stone in her hand is too heavy for her to hold it. She has kept the stone hanging in the air for several seconds, and she really can't hold it anymore.

She wanted to take the stone away, but the stone was really too heavy, and the stone fell down as soon as she loosened her wrist.

With a "bang", the stone hit the "father" she wanted to repay with her whole life, and the farmer was hit on the top of the head without even screaming, and then fell into the boiling hot water There is no more movement.

All this happened very quietly, the farmer did not make a sound, and neither did Qing'er.She just sat on the roof and watched this scene blankly for a long, long time, until the firewood under the pot was burned out, the boiling water stopped bubbling, and the warm water turned into cold water, but Qinger was still sitting on the roof. with.

She sat for a long time, from dawn to dusk, and from dusk to dawn, but she still couldn't figure it out.She didn't know why she did this, she didn't know what to do next, and she didn't know how to survive.

She couldn't think of anything, and went down from the roof in a daze, and came to the corpse of the dead farmer, and then cleaned it up according to the way a farmer handles meat, and made the food into preserved meat.Ironically, relying on these foods, she, who had absolutely no chance of surviving, survived the famine smoothly.

These memories are actually very old, 11 years have passed, Xue Qinglan should have forgotten, and should have been erased from her memory, maybe the monsters biting each other in the Lihe Cave were not good enough to make her The memory that had been silent for a long time revived again, and those things that she absolutely didn't want to think of reappeared in her mind.

She finally remembered that she was actually a very bad person, worse than those guys who turned people into monsters with drugs.So she actually has no position to pursue something, and she has no position to desire something.Someone asked her what regrets she would have before she died. In fact, she wanted to say that she did not deserve regrets.

Regret is such a noble thing, only a person with a heart will have regrets, and is she still a person with a heart?Didn't her heart break with a big rock 11 years ago?

(End of this chapter)