The old butler has been driving the carriage on the official road for more than half a month. Along the way, the old man and Lu Yu told the story of their flattery and intrigue in the officialdom for most of their lives. The purpose is to be afraid that Lu Yu is not deeply involved in the world, and he will not be aware of being tricked by others. Although the old man subconsciously still believes that immortals have no desires and desires, and only seek the Tao, but for some reason, the old man still told Lu Yu about the cruelty of the world, and let him judge for himself what is right and what is wrong.
"Grandfather, does this mean that there are more evil people than kind people in the world?" Lu Yu asked seriously.
"There is no distinction between good and evil. A kind person may do many evil things, but others do not know; on the contrary, a heinous person may also do some good things, and others may not know. So there are no fixed people who are bad and good. The boundaries." The old man twisted his beard and replied calmly.
"Then there is no distinction between good and evil in this world?" Lu Yu asked still puzzled.
"Yes, the difference between good and evil lies in your heart. Your heart will be the only criterion for judging others and yourself. Some people don't think they are bad people no matter how many bad things they do; some people just do one thing If you make a slight mistake, you will blame yourself and feel guilty for a long time." The old man still said calmly.
The old man wanted to continue talking about some reasoning, but suddenly the carriage stopped suddenly, and the grandfather and grandson staggered and almost fell down. All I heard was the trembling voice of the housekeeper coming from outside the carriage.
"Master, there are many dead... dead people ahead."
When Mr. Lu heard this, he was startled suddenly. Could it be that there are horse thieves on the official road. But on the surface, he still pretended to be calm and reprimanded: "Ah Fu, you have been with me for so many years. I haven't seen any big scenes, and a few dead people scare you like this."
"Master, it's not a few dead people, it's dozens..." The old butler calmed down a little, and said nervously.
After hearing this, Master Lu felt relieved. According to common sense, horse thieves would not kill so many people, not to mention that this is still in the official way.
Master Lu said to Lu Yu: "Yu'er, grandpa get out of the car and have a look. You stay in the car and don't run around."
Lu Yu shook his head and said, "Grandson will go with you."
Master Lu didn't dissuade him either, and took Lu Yu out of the carriage. The carriage was parked on an avenue, and beside the road were patches of barren mud. There were large pieces of corpses lying here and there on the muddy ground, most of the corpses were beginning to rot, and swarms of flies were buzzing on the corpses. Lu Yu's face turned pale when he saw the scene in front of him, and he suddenly felt nauseous, and hurried to the carriage to retch.
The old man looked at his grandson who was throwing up beside him, he didn't say anything, he just patted Lu Yu's back lightly.
Then he walked towards the corpse closest to him. The old man used to be a county magistrate, and he often had to deal with these murder cases, and such scenes were commonplace. After some investigation, the old man also had some preliminary judgments in his mind.
At this time, Lu Yu walked over here, his face was slightly better than before. The old man couldn't help admiring his grandson. When he saw this scene, he vomited for a whole day. He didn't expect his grandson to adapt much better than an adult at such a young age.
"Do you feel better?"
"Well, before I got out of the car, I thought I wouldn't be afraid, but I didn't expect..." Lu Yu scratched his head in embarrassment.
"Grandpa wasn't as good as you back then. I vomited all day long." The old man patted Lu Yu's shoulder to comfort him.
"Grandfather, do you know how they died?" Lu Yu asked.
"Most of them were killed by blunt instruments, things like sticks or axes." The old man said with certainty. Then he pondered for a while, and continued: "And it looks like killing each other."
Lu Yu couldn't believe that so many people died by killing each other. He walked to the corpses one by one, observed the wounds, and found that, as his grandfather said, they were all caused by things like sticks and axes.
Suddenly, he found a little girl under the arm of a dead body, her face was gray and black, her eyes were tightly closed, and her mouth was red and purple. It's just that the mouth seemed to move just now. He stopped in his tracks, observed carefully, and found that the little girl's mouth was really moving, but the mouth was abnormally dry and cracked, so it was not easy to detect.
He hurried up and picked up the little girl, but he seemed to have forgotten that he was also a child. As soon as I hugged and walked two or three steps, I felt that I couldn't hold it anymore. He quickly called his grandfather to help. The old man was explaining some things to the old housekeeper, when he heard his grandson shouting, he hurriedly looked over, only to see his grandson walking towards here with a little girl in his arms. He hurried over with the old housekeeper, took the little girl, and the three of them put the little girl on the carriage.
The old man touched the little girl's forehead with the back of his hand, and it felt unusually hot. He hurriedly said to the old housekeeper: "Immediately go back the way we came here, and go to the small town we passed just now to find a medical clinic. This child has a bad fever." way to go.
"Grandpa, will she be okay?" Lu Yu looked at the girl who was about his age, and handed the water bottle beside him to Mr. Lu.
The old man took the kettle and put the spout into the girl's chapped mouth. Seeing the little girl drinking water subconsciously, the old man sighed and said, "It will depend on her fate."
After hearing what his grandfather said, Lu Yu could only stare at the little girl silently, unable to speak for a long time.
After half a day, the carriage stopped in front of the clinic, and the three of them carried the little girl into the clinic. This stay is a full seven days. When the three of them came out again, the little girl could barely walk. The four of them drove the carriage towards the official road in the distance.
Seven days ago, the three sent the little girl to the hospital.
After seeing it, the doctor prescribed some medicine, and said to the three of them with a frown: "If the child doesn't wake up within three days, then I have nothing to do. Now she can only rely on herself."
The three had to stay in the hospital, waiting for the little girl to wake up. On the third night, just when everyone was about to despair, the little girl finally woke up, but after only glancing at everyone, she passed out again. dizzy again
one day one Night.
On the morning of the fifth day, the little girl woke up again, and Lu Yu fed the little girl a bowl of porridge. The two children got to know each other as soon as they came and went. When the little girl learned that Lu Yu had saved her, she kowtowed and knelt down in gratitude, making Lu Yu at a loss for a while, until the maid from the hospital came in to wash and change the little girl's dressing, and Lu Yu had a chance to "escape". When I walked to the door, I remembered that I didn't even ask her name.
After the maid finished grooming the little girl, the old man took Lu Yu to visit the little girl. At this time, the little girl looked very different from when she was rescued. Seeing that the two benefactors were pushing the door and entering, the little girl wanted to get up and get out of bed. The old man hurriedly stopped the little girl and motioned her to lie on the bed. Lu Yu moved a wooden stool by the bed for his grandfather to sit on. He stood beside his grandfather.
"Girl, what's your name?" Grandfather asked kindly.
"My name is Liu Yiyi."
"I used to go, Yang Liu Yiyi. Now I come to think about it, rain and snow. Liu Yiyi, what a good name! Your father must also be a scholar." The old man beamed with joy when he mentioned poetry.
When Liu Yiyi heard this poem, she buried her head in her knees and sobbed softly.
"Yiyi, what's wrong with you?" Seeing that Liu Yiyi was crying, Lu Yu hurriedly asked.
Liu Yiyi raised her head, wiped away the tears on her face with the skirt of her clothes, and said with a wry smile: "I made the two benefactors laugh, I just thought of my father, he often hugged me and read this poem to me before his death."
"You..." The old man hesitated to speak.
"My parents died of a serious illness when I was eight years old." Liu Yiyi said with tears in her eyes.
"What a miserable child, how did you live all these years?" The old man asked with a sigh.
Liu Yiyi stroked the thin hair on her forehead, smiled, and said, "Grandfather, I am not bitter at all. The people in the village treat me very well, and I grew up eating all kinds of food in the village."
"Girl, stop calling me benevolent and benevolent, you're a weirdo. You can call me grandfather just like a feather." The old man looked at Liu Yiyi lovingly. Then he asked again: "By the way, girl, how old are you this year?"
"After the new year, you will be eleven years old." Liu Yiyi counted with her fingers.
"That Yu'er is one year older than you." The old man turned his head and said to Lu Yu, "You can take good care of my sister from now on."
Lu Yu looked at Liu Yiyi who was lying on the bed, and nodded heavily. Lu Yu has no brothers and sisters. When he was a child, he always envied other friends to have older brothers and sisters. Now that I have a younger sister, I suddenly feel a little strange in my heart.
"Okay! Today is such a good day. I, Liu Yiyi, not only have a grandfather, but also a brother." Liu Yiyi happily danced on the bed, accidentally touched the wound, and she grinned in pain and cried out up. Seeing Liu Yiyi's expression of crying and laughing now, both the grandparent and grandson couldn't laugh or cry.
The old man seemed to think of another thing, and asked hesitantly: "Girl, grandfather asked you a question, if you don't want to say it, you don't have to say it."
"Grandpa can ask whatever he wants."
"Uh... what happened to you afterwards. How come..." the old man asked vaguely.
When Liu Yiyi heard this, the look in her eyes dimmed immediately, and her two little hands grabbed the corners of her clothes and kneaded them non-stop. Then he took a deep breath and said, "This year, there was a plague of insects in our village, and all the food was gone. People in the village couldn't make a living. Those who had relatives went to relatives, and those who had no relatives had to go out to flee famine. I followed the neighbor's My aunt came out together to escape the famine, and later... Later, my aunt starved to death."
Liu Yiyi's face was full of tears when she mentioned this, and continued: "A few days before the accident, an uncle in the village got back a bag of grain from nowhere. Then, everyone grabbed the grain like crazy. Many people died , I was so scared, I kept crying..."
When Liu Yiyi said this, she couldn't cry anymore. The old man hurried to the bed, hugged Liu Yiyi in his arms, patted Liu Yiyi's back lightly, and said gently: "Be good, girl, don't cry. From now on, you will be with grandfather, no one will bully you is you."
Lu Yu heard the truth of what Liu Yiyi said. Suddenly, he felt a little nervous. He had guessed many reasons before, such as robbery by bandits, such as the government's murder of good people and other hypotheses. But in the end, I didn't expect that the truth of the matter was a tragedy that happened to some kind and simple villagers because of a bag of grain. This made him understand the cruelty of reality at a young age, and only by becoming strong can he survive.
For the next two days, because Liu Yiyi couldn't move, Lu Yu came to chat and tell stories with Liu Yiyi every day. Lu Yu has a vivid memory for reading, so there are so many stories in his mind that he can hardly tell them all. And Liu Yiyi kept asking Lu Yu to tell stories one by one. But Lu Yu simply moved to Liu Yiyi's room, and chatted with him. Liu Yiyi also often told him some interesting things in the village. The two get along closer than brothers and sisters.
Until the morning of the seventh day, the doctor checked Liu Yiyi's condition again and said that there was nothing serious. Grandpa left the small town with the three of them. Grandpa said that now we have to keep on driving without stopping, otherwise we will not be able to reach Qixia Mountain before August 15th.