There is a clear stream in the south of Yuanjia Village. In the midsummer season, the cicadas and birds sing here, and the fragrant flowers are fragrant. It is a holy place for children in the village to escape from the summer.
The dolls in the countryside are no better than the young masters and young ladies in the towns. For them, it is the most pleasant time of the day in summer when they can play in the cool stream by touching the mud snails and playing the hogweed. .
After all, after returning home, I have to help my parents feed the chickens and chop wood, and do a lot of hard work. The older ones even need to prepare meals for the whole family, waiting for their parents to return from the fields after a hard day's work.
Yuan Xianger weighed the basket on her back, shaking off the water in it. The basket was almost as tall as she was, and it was filled with hogweed that had just been fished out of the stream. She adjusted her breath, trying to keep up with her sisters. At the age of seven, she has been used as a labor force in the writers, and has lost the qualification to play all day.
Because of an accidental car accident, she suddenly traveled from the prosperous modern society to this barren medieval period. But in any case, the seven years have made her gradually adapt to this pastoral life with no electronic products, closed information, and manual labor.
There had just been a thunderstorm in the morning here, and a lot of water had accumulated on the pitted dirt road after the rain.
The children walked by the puddles, big and small, with their bare feet, and no one noticed that there was a small humanoid creature struggling desperately in a small puddle just beside their feet.
It is so small that it is not even a finger taller than a child. It has thin hands and feet, fair skin, and looks like a human being, except for a pair of membrane-like wings on its back.
The wings were wet and dragged to the bottom of the water, making it more difficult to break free. He could only stretch his small arms out of the water and keep flapping, with a look of fear on his face.
However, the passing children seemed to be completely invisible to the dying creatures in the water, and they were still laughing and trampling on the muddy water to pass by.
Yuan Xianger, who was at the end of the team, suddenly stopped.
She glanced at her sisters who were walking in front of her, and squatted down calmly, stretched out a finger to fish out the little man in the puddle, and placed it on a sunflower that was open by the roadside. superior.
The drowning villain was rescued in panic, using all four limbs, tightly clinging to Yuan Xianger's fingers. So much so that Yuan Xianger took a little effort to get it off and hang it in the sunflower blue-brown flower tray.
The little man was paralyzed on the soft yellow petals, with a very anthropomorphic expression on his small face, his facial features wrinkled together, he folded his two little hands and raised them to the top of his head, bowing to Yuan Xianger, and spit out a few saliva bubbles.
Also a little cute.
A slight smile appeared on Yuan Xianger's mouth.
I don't know if it's because of having experienced a death, since the time of crossing, she has found that she has a unique ability, and she can clearly see all kinds of spirits and monsters living in this world.
But out of prudence, Yuan Xianger didn't tell her relatives about it. This is a village where people's wisdom has not yet been fully civilized, and they worship and fear ghosts and gods.
As for whether there are other people in this world who can see all kinds of monsters like her, Yuan Xianger doesn't know. After she was born, she had not yet had the opportunity to step out of the village and see the outside world. She only knew that in the Yuanjia Village, which was not too populated, she had not found anyone with the same ability as herself.
Whether it is the parents, siblings, or the goddess in the village who are said to be able to invite all kinds of great immortals, they seem to be completely invisible to those special existences in the wild forests, and they can't feel the little monsters that are mixed around everyone.
The eldest sister Yuan Chunhua who was walking in front stopped and looked back at the little sister who was far behind. Seeing her younger sister, who was less than seven years old, smirking at a sunflower on the side of the road, she sighed helplessly.
The three sisters in the family, the second sister is the kind of character who steals and plays tricks, the younger sister is diligent and calm, but I don't know why she often likes to talk to herself or giggling in empty places.
Twelve-year-old Yuan Chunhua was like half a mother in front of these younger siblings. She patted her brother who was on her back, walked back, took out two wet hogweeds from the little sister's basket and stuffed them into the already full tilan in her hand, reducing the burden on the young sister. .
"Xiang'er, stop playing, go home earlier, the sun is high, and the road is tan."
The Yuan family's parents were ordinary farmers. They lived their whole lives facing the loess with their backs to the sky, guarding several acres of dry land. In addition to an old mother who is lingering on the bed, there is also a child who is waiting to be fed, and life is very tight.
The eldest daughter was born in winter. In order to get a good omen of first flowering and then bearing fruit, she named Yuan Chunhua abruptly. It is a pity that the sky is not as people wished, the fruit did not bear, but the flowers bloomed one after another.
When the second girl who popped out of her mother's stomach was still a girl, Grandma Yuan's expression couldn't be restrained, so the second girl's name was plainly called Yuan Zhaodi.
As the third loser born in the family, Yuan Xianger is destined to be a disappointment to everyone.
Just after crossing over and barely opening her eyes, the first thing Yuan Xianger saw clearly was the mother's disgusting face, and what she heard was the sighing voice of her father who was squatting outside the door frame.
She also knew that although she was reborn after her death, she was still a person without parental ties.
Because of her birth, Yuan's father finally realized that he was unable to choose a name that would continue the incense for the old Yuan family, so he asked Dao Po Wu from the east of the village to give him a name, and finally set the third girl's name as Yuan Xianger. It means that the Yuan family will be able to flourish since then.
After taking this name, the Yuan family really added two men in succession. Since then, Xiang'er's mother felt a light on her face and straightened her back at her husband's house, so she did not forget the neighbors and neighbors for many years to praise Wu Daopo. Amazing.
Just in order to hear more of this legend, Yuan Xianger used her small arms and short legs many times to climb up the low wall of Dao-in-law Wu's house to watch her as a top immortal.
At this time, the yard would have several floors of villagers on the inside and outside. In the open front hall, Wu Daopo stood at the entrance of the hall, worshiped the seven stars, put the incense bowl, and sang and danced to reveal the amulet.
It was hilariously lively. It's a pity that no matter how hard Wu Daopo danced and how superb her performance was, Yuan Xianger couldn't see any spiritual energy in that colorful hall. It was certain that neither Wong Tai Sin nor Madam Hu's shadow appeared.
Wu Daopo choked her throat, sometimes calling herself Hu San's grandmother, and sometimes incarnating as the real emperor of the Huang family. worship.
So Yuan Xianger knew that she could only see this kind of god-to-god ceremony as a lively one, and couldn't peep out anything she wanted to know from it.
The top of the wall she used to pull is a good position with a good view, and a little boy with a fox's tail often climbs up beside it. A little girl with bunny ears.
Everyone tacitly understood and "watched the fun" without disturbing each other.
The more I went, the boy with the fox tail discovered that Yuan Xianger, a human cub, could actually see himself. He was very curious about this, and reached out to Yuan Xianger to pass some hazelnuts and chestnuts from the mountains. Everyone smashed the fruits and watched the performance of the human female in the yard.
But it was said that after the Yuan family added two men, although they earned enough face, they were completely drained. The family of eight ate chaffy vegetables, and life became more and more difficult. In summer, it was better. In winter, winter clothes and food It will be a serious problem that the family can't solve.
Yuan Xianger, who had passed through before, lived in a well-known family with a very rich background and belonged to the upper class of society. The family's economic conditions are superior and the material life is prosperous. She has enjoyed excellent educational resources since she was a child. After returning from studying in a famous overseas school, she directly entered the family business. The avenue of life is spacious and bright, and everyone is envied by everyone. But she doesn't know who her father is, and her mother is a strong professional woman, independent and strong, and never married.
Ever since Yuan Xianger had a memory, her mother had always had sharp makeup and exquisite clothes, and she always came and went in high heels. Even if he stopped occasionally to meet his daughter, he was still stern and rigid. Accompanying her to spend her childhood in that luxurious villa can be said to be the constantly changing housekeeping aunts at home, and of course there are more and more kittens and puppies around her.
She traveled through the night and suddenly faced such a barren and backward living environment. She should have been very uncomfortable, but Yuan Xianger didn't feel uncomfortable in her heart. She was even grateful for being able to get the chance to live in the world again. When she died unexpectedly in a car accident, she felt very strongly that she wanted to live.
Even though her life in that world was lonely and lonely, she still wanted to continue to live, not to die.
The eldest sister, who was walking on the ridge holding Yuan Xianger, noticed the change in her sister's mood. She picked a wild flower by the roadside and pinned it to Yuan Xianger's hair.
"Elder sister is so partial to the third sister, I also have to wear flowers." The second sister Yuan Zhaodi pouted in dissatisfaction.
Yuan Xiaobao, who was just one year old with his back behind Yuan Chunhua, also stretched out his small hand and shouted inarticulately, "Huahua, want Huahua."
So Yuan Chunhua picked a lot of wild flowers, put them all over the heads of his sisters, and made a wreath for his younger brother, and put it on his small head with two or three yellow hairs. The brothers and sisters laughed and walked home.
Bright sunlight, swirling grass and trees, children running on the ridge.
Life was obviously hard and hectic, but it was such a lively and simple life that made life a little more flamboyant, and it seemed that Yuan Xianger's once lonely and regrettable childhood had been made up for a small piece.
At the other end of the dirt road, a gray-haired old man walked towards him. His beard and hair are all white, but his complexion is very ruddy. He is wearing a gorgeous silk and satin clothes, and he walks slowly and unhurriedly.
Yuan Xianger glanced at his smiling appearance, froze for a moment, and instantly got goosebumps.
This old gentleman is the same as ordinary people, and there is nothing strange about him. But the more so, the more frightened Yuan Xianger was.
In this barren little village, most of the old people who have worked hard for a generation have gully faces and hunched backs. Those who can walk around in clothes without patches are already a rare wealthy family in the village.
Suddenly, on the dirt road of the ridge, an old man with such a beautifully dressed and rich face appeared. The sisters beside her did not respond to such a sudden appearance. Yuan Xianger knew in her heart that this must be a special existence that only she could see.
Having lived in this world for six or seven years, she knows that there are big differences between fairies and ghosts. Those little foxes and little flower demons mixed in the crowd in the village can't really hurt humans except for occasional pranks. As a young person in modern society who is easy to accept new things, she is not afraid to come into contact with those small alien creatures.
But the old man who came over at this moment can not only take a leisurely walk in the human-inhabited village in the noon sun, but also perfectly transformed into a human shape in appearance, and is a "big monster" that he cannot provoke casually.
So Yuan Xianger took the second sister Yuan Zhaodi's hand and pretended to be nonchalant, as if she hadn't seen the old man like her sisters.
The distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, Yuan Xianger felt a little nervous, she tried to keep her eyes fixed in the distance, turned a blind eye to the old man who was close at hand, and her palms began to sweat slightly.
When passing by, the old man suddenly bent over and put his smiling face in front of her,
"Little girl, can you see the old man?"
Yuan Xiang'er's face turned pale instantly, and her body tensed.
"Xiang'er, what are you doing? It hurts to catch me." The second sister shouted in dissatisfaction.
Yuan Xianger was speechless, she didn't know how she should react now. It's possible that the other party just wanted to deceive her, but he couldn't hold back at that moment, and it could be considered that he had already revealed his secrets.
If this "old man" wants to do something to their siblings, she is completely helpless and has no way of defense.
She could only keep her mouth shut, followed her sister forward stiffly, and continued to walk past the old man nervously.
"I'm so hungry, Sister, what do we have for lunch? Let's make soup with the clams we caught." Di Yuan Zhaodi was still thinking about the lunch meal.
"You know that you are greedy, that one has to be raised in a water tank to spit mud, and eat it when Dad and Aunt come back from the field in the evening." The eldest sister Yuan Chunhua replied.
The two elder sisters were unaware of the crisis around them, they talked to each other with ease, and walked over against the edge of the old man's clothes.
Fortunately, the other party didn't seem to have any intention of embarrassing them, smiled and avoided them, relaxed them and left.
In the dog days, the sun was shining brightly, and Yuan Xianger broke out in a cold sweat.
The old man looked at Yuan Xianger's back as he slowly walked away, twitched his beard and nodded, "Sure enough, he is a child with good aptitude. At a young age, he not only opened his eyes to the sky, but also remained calm. No wonder Mr. Nature came for her."
"Hmph, she's not scared. I can see that her legs are shaking when she's scared. She's less courageous than a rabbit. She's not tall enough for me to stick between my teeth." A voice with a strange tone came from somewhere from the ground.
"She is only six or seven years old, and even a human is only a cub. How can she be compared with an old monster like you who has lived for six or seven hundred years." The old man said with a smile.