Hantan Village is surrounded by mountains. There is only one winding mountain road leading to the village. Despite its remoteness and poverty, the village has a beautiful environment and is warm as spring all year round. It is a good place for self-cultivation.
The mountains are rich in products. In the early years, wild fruit trees and medicinal materials were dug freely, and wild animals roamed everywhere. Sumian spent her childhood in the mountains. In autumn, she went to the mountains to pick wild fruits, in winter to catch frozen animals, and in spring to break them. Spring bamboo shoots, picking wild vegetables, and in summer, I go up the mountain to escape the heat by the cold pond, do my homework, and catch summer cicadas and bullfrogs.
After experiencing the apocalypse of bloodshed and intrigue, Hantan Village has become the pure land that Su Mian wants to protect from the bottom of her heart.
When Sumian arrived at the entrance of the village, she saw the village chief Li Dali driving three sheep down the mountain. He shouted from afar: "Xiao Mian, why did you come home?"
"Hello, Grandpa Village Chief." Su Mian waved her hand and looked at the three tile-roofed houses at the foot of the mountain, her eyes instantly moistened. She has been homeless for three years.
"Go home and see your grandma." The village chief said with a smile.
"Hey, good." The houses in Hantan Village are all bungalows with tile roofs and high beams. They are very transparent and comfortable to live in. Every household has a fence around it to raise poultry.
The village chief's family raised three sheep, Grandma Sumian raised a pig, and several other families raised chickens and ducks.
When Sumian arrived at the door of her house, she saw some wild vegetables dug from the mountains drying in the yard. Grandma was wearing reading glasses and sitting under the jujube tree in the yard, picking up the soles of her shoes. There was an old-fashioned radio playing an opera next to her.
"Grandma, I'm back." Su Mian opened the courtyard door, her eyes were moist, she hugged Grandma Su and buried her head in her arms.
Grandma Su was surprised and happy. She stopped wearing the soles of her shoes. She took off her reading glasses, touched Su Mian's head, and said with a kind smile: "You didn't go back to school on the fifteenth day of the year. Why did you come back so soon?"
"I missed you." Su Mian choked, then wiped her eyes quickly, took out a few cans of plums and a large bag of jujube cake from her backpack, and smiled through her tears, "Grandma, I bought you jujube cake. , and sour plums.”
"Hey, okay, you can eat by yourself. If you haven't eaten yet, grandma will make you dinner." Grandma Su smiled so hard that her eyes narrowed.
"Grandma Xiaomian, is Xiaomian back?" Uncle Liu next door opened the courtyard door and said with a smile, "I picked a pumpkin and made it for Xiaomian to eat at night."
"Grandma Su, this is the rabbit our Huba caught in the mountains before. There is also some rabbit meat. You can cook it for Su Mian." Aunt Six from the end of the village also brought something.
"Sister, I still have two sausages at home. You can cook them for Xiao Mian at night. The child is growing and needs to eat something good." Village chief Li Dali also brought two sausages over.
The village is so big, with only seven households in total. As soon as Sumian came back, everyone in the village knew about it, so everyone came to visit with their things.
Grandma Su smiled with wrinkles on her face, and quickly asked Su Mian to give everyone two pieces of the jujube cake she bought, and then went into the house to get some New Year nuts that she was reluctant to eat.
"Xiao Mian, why did you suddenly come back this time? Isn't school in session?" Village Chief Li Dali smiled while puffing on his cigarette.
"Come back to do a research project. Grandpa Village Chief, I happen to ask you for help with something." Su Mian said with a smile, "I want to contract the hills of our village, including the pool in the back mountain. The funds will be allocated by the school to do some research on the mountains. The study of species.”
"Is there such a good thing?" Li Dali smiled and said, "No problem, I will go to the county tomorrow to help you find out how to get the documents."
The villagers are simple and have not read any books. They have blind trust in the only child in the village who has passed the exam. Su Mian does not even need to explain.
Everyone chatted around Su Mian until it was almost dark, then they dispersed and went home to cook.
Grandma Sumian has already cooked rice and is steaming sausages and pumpkins. She has also washed a handful of fresh wild vegetables from the mountains and is preparing to cook them with the bacon.
Su Mian looked at her grandma busy in front of the stove, and felt warm in her heart. This was the life she wanted to live. Peace, warmth, and the company of loved ones.
In the apocalypse, Su Mian's life is actually not too bad. Luo Hansheng is domineering and possessive and restricts her freedom. She will suffer some hardships in bed. In other aspects, she can almost be regarded as pampered.
Luo Hansheng ate meat, and Su Mian could follow suit. On the contrary, many times when Su Mian was a vegetarian, the man forced her to eat meat.
But in the final analysis, he is a strange man, and she is not an unconscious tool. This pathological relationship, which is unequal from the beginning and is similar to that of a master and a female slave, makes it impossible for her to adapt.
Fortunately, now she has a new choice.
Su Mian lowered her eyes and exhaled lowly, expelling all the chaotic memories of her past life from her mind.
After eating a home-cooked meal, Su Mian was full. After eating, she went to wash the dishes, boiled a large pot of hot water, and soaked her feet with her grandma to relieve the cold.
"What happened when you came back this time? Don't fool me with the same story you used to fool your Grandpa Li." Grandma Su took her hand and asked thoughtfully, "There is no sophomore in any university. After one month of classes, we provide money for students to go home and do research."
Su Mian knew that her grandma was different from the villagers in Hantan Village. Her grandma was well-educated and knowledgeable. She taught her how to memorize and read when she was young, and taught her the principles of life. To be precise, her grandfather and grandson were homeless. When she came to Hantan Village, neither she nor her grandma were born and raised in Hantan Village.
Knowing that she couldn't hide it, Su Mian bit her lip and said in a low voice: "I told you, don't be too surprised. I had a dream that the end of the world will come in three months, and the whole world will become a high-temperature planet." A furnace, people who walk under the sun will spontaneously burn to ashes, no animals or plants are spared, and the world is plunged into disaster."
Grandma Su was shocked, hugged her little granddaughter, patted her back, and comforted her: "Don't be afraid, it's just a dream, grandma is here."
"It's a prophetic dream, grandma." Su Mian raised his eyes and looked at her steadily, and said seriously, "I have dreamed about the endings of everyone around me, clearly, as if I have experienced it in my previous life. The end of the world will definitely happen. It will come, I came back this time just to save myself."
"Grandma, there will be a landslide in the mountains in a while, and the two mountains in front of our house will collapse. Then you will understand that what I said is true." Su Mian remembered that when a landslide occurred in the mountains, even the news She didn't, so she found out after calling back, because at that time natural disasters were happening all over China, and all the news was suppressed.
Grandma Su showed a bit of horror. She closed her eyes and held the Buddha statue around her neck tightly, chanting in a low voice: "Amitabha, please protect Xiao Mian safely."
At night, the grandfather and grandson slept together in the same bed. They didn't mention a word about the prophetic dream about the end of the world, and only talked about trivial daily life. Sumian knew that grandma believed at least half of it, and the rest would have to be proven by time.
Huadu
The night was dark, and a small waning moon climbed up the tall building and hung quietly in the sky.
The man suddenly woke up from his dream, his muscles tensed up and he was panting violently. His light-colored pupils blended into the night, while the other strange pupil had a faint flame burning.
The man turned on the light and half-supported his hands on the bed with some weakness, feeling a stinging pain in his temples. Luo Hansheng pursed his lips, his face was as pale as snow, and he looked at the small box of ginseng on the bedside with hot eyes, and reached out to reach for it.
Luo Qi, who was sleeping outside, opened his eyes, turned over like a carp, and quickly entered the house. Seeing that Luo Hansheng's lips were turning white, and the room was like an ice cave, his expression suddenly changed, and he quickly took out the homemade bag he had brought with him. Lijiu, said hurriedly: "Master, take a sip of strong wine."
Luo Hansheng shook his head. Even though he was about to be frozen into an ice sculpture by the cold air in his body, he still picked up the box of ginseng on the bedside and smelled the faint smell that almost disappeared.
The four major families only know that his supernatural talent is the first in a hundred years, but no one except Luo Qi and four people know how serious his backlash is. It is so serious that he can't sleep at night. The backlash is like a thousand arrows piercing the heart. The pain is overwhelming.
In his eagerness for success, his body absorbed the power of various elements. Except for the power of water and fire, which could be refined by him, the power of other elements lay dormant in his body, causing collective riots from time to time. If the body is like a vessel, then his body is like a porcelain bottle full of cracks.
"Master, eating ginseng is useless. Drinking wine will relieve the cold." Luo Qi was so anxious that his eyes were red. This wine was extremely potent and contained a large amount of fire element power, which could quickly resolve the cold in Luo Hansheng's body.
Fortunately, the young master has a body of water and fire, and can master both water and fire elements, otherwise he would have become an ice sculpture long ago.
Luo Hansheng got the ginseng, smelled the mild medicinal fragrance and the power of the water element, his face slowly softened, and he said in a low voice: "It's okay."
Luo Qi saw that his complexion was slowly getting better and his eyes were back to normal. He was stunned and said in surprise: "Master, is this ginseng more effective than strong liquor?"
Luo Hansheng thought deeply after hearing this. Although the ginseng was not particularly old, it contained a strange power, which was gentle, gentle, soothing and nourishing. He was actually able to fall asleep and dream in the past two days.
Thinking of the dream he just had, the man's face became darker and darker, and he clenched his slender jade-like fingers. He dreamed of a woman whose face he couldn't see clearly. As long as he got a little closer to her, a crazy idea would scream in his heart, as if she was born. It belongs to him, to him alone.
Since his birth, he has been abandoned by heaven and earth, abandoned by his family, and is a cursed person. If it belongs to him alone, he will get it by any means.