Tiancheng Territory · Ansheng City.
"Once you leave this time, you don't know when you will come back."
On the dilapidated streets, Heyue and Lide walked side by side.
In fact, the two of them rarely appeared outside the Lord's Mansion at the same time. Li De can go out to surf, but He Yue must stay at home to deal with paperwork in order to ensure the smooth operation of Yunyang. But this time, He Yue deliberately used up the vacation saved before, first she stayed up all night to clear up the backlog of paperwork, and then offered to go to Tiancheng with Li De to have a look.
"I want to show you here, the place where I used to live."
He Yue's embroidered shoes stepped on a pile of broken tiles, picked up a fragment of porcelain from the ground, blew the sand on it, and gently played with it in her hands. Lide looked around the streets on both sides, and there were already ten rooms and nine empty rooms. Even if Yunyang took over Tiancheng, the giant infrastructure group has already started the restoration work, but the house will be rebuilt one day, but people cannot be resurrected from the dead.
In the distance, a dirty child poked his head out from behind the wall, and immediately shrank back after realizing Lid was looking at him.
Lide showed a soft smile, took out a piece of sesame biscuit that was supposed to be dry food from his arms, and made a gesture of handing it over. The child seemed to be very excited. He took a step out from behind the wall carefully, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, but ran away without warning the next moment.
This reminded Lid of when he used to feed stray cats himself, and many cats were like this. Wanting to go up to eat, but afraid of being caught, after wandering, he chose to retreat silently while hungry.
He Yue said calmly beside him:
"He probably won't come... Those children who will come are no longer here."
Lide broke the cake in his hand in half, threw one half over, held the other half in his mouth, patted the cake crumbs on his hands, and turned away with He Yue. The child was frightened by the piece of cake thrown at him at first, and quickly shrank into a corner. When Li De and He Yue were completely gone, a small hand stretched out from behind the wall, quickly grabbed the half of the sesame seed cake, and then retracted it.
Lide said to He Yue:
"Seeing the scenery here and seeing the people here, you can probably imagine what kind of pain you have suffered here. Whether they are good for you or you, everyone is living very hard."
He Yue sighed slightly, her tone seemed a bit depressed and sad:
"Do you know, Lide, I have been studying Tiancheng's situation for a long time. The longer I study, the more I fall into a strange circle. Whether human nature is good or evil, even I can't figure it out Clearly... When Lord Tiancheng died, I didn't have the joy of getting revenge, maybe it was because I realized that the situation in Tiancheng was not created by a few people, but the original sin was the help of the majority and their indifference."
He Yue's figure seemed a little thin.
She looked at the collapsed walls, the dusty haystacks, and the well ropes that seemed to be broken soon. At first, she showed a look of emotion, but soon she seemed to realize something and tidied up. Emotionally smiled, and said to Lied:
"What are you talking about? It's hard to go out with you for a vacation. It's like work. Let's talk about something else. It's rare to come out to relax. I'll take you to my childhood home... I remember it was in …”
He Yue looked around in front of her while talking. But she must have been away from here for several years, and things are not people and affairs, and she couldn't find a specific direction for a while. Lide noticed the smoke coming out of a family's yard, so he followed Heyue and walked in that direction.
The dilapidated house no longer has the concept of a "door". He Yue knocked twice on a piece of broken wood, and there was a burst of chattering voices in the yard, mixed with the sound of ping-pong-pong. Worried about what happened in the yard, He Yue took the initiative to take a step inside, and saw a family sitting around in front of the boiler. One of the middle-aged men looked flustered when he saw He Yue, and reached out to cover the iron that was cooking porridge. The pot, the turbulent steam scalded his palm in an instant.
"We're not enough of ourselves..."
The man opened his mouth, his voice hoarse like a roaring beast:
"Get out, this is our last ration! My child needs to eat and survive this year..."
He Yue was frightened by his aura. Seeing that He Yue was not moving, the man immediately picked up half of the wooden stick from the side, and strode forward aggressively.
The next moment, Lide took the initiative to move half a body forward, reached out to stop the man, and said:
"What is there to grab for a pot of broken porridge? Look at the clothes we are wearing, do you look like someone who can eat this kind of thing?"
After the man was scolded, instead of getting angry, he stopped and looked at Li De and He Yue seriously.
Lide took out a handful of copper and silver coins from his pocket, threw them on the ground, and said in a flat tone:
"Inquire about something."
After the two sentences, the man immediately hid the stick behind him calmly, his tone softened a lot, and he asked tentatively:
"You, what do you want to ask?"
Li De glanced at Heyue, Heyue exhaled and asked with a smile:
"Excuse me, how do I go to Xiaowu Hutong, Songchun Street?"
The man looked at He Yue carefully, completely let go of his guard, and muttered a few words:
"That place disappeared a long time ago... I didn't expect that other than the little mule, there is anyone who remembers it. Are you looking for someone there? Last time there was a military disaster in that place, it was completely burned by fire, and now it has become a ruin. You guys After going out, turn left, go to the end, and then go right along the road, and there is a row of black earth walls on the right hand side."
He Yue nodded and glanced at the porridge in the pot. The porridge was not a beautiful white rice porridge, but a handful of rotten leaves were mixed with some things like rice bran, so the taste of the boiled rice was not as good as the aroma, and it was full of bitterness. But those children sitting around the stove with their hands folded on the stove looked at the pot with sparkling eyes, as if it was a delicacy that could only be eaten during the Chinese New Year.
He Yue sniffed and backed out. Lide noticed that the man holding the wooden stick just now had a lot of blisters on his hands when he was covering the iron pan. The blisters burst when he gripped the wooden stick just now, and his hands were covered with blood.
But the man didn't seem to feel the pain, his eyes fixed on the seven copper coins and two silver coins on the ground.
After Lide and Heyue exited, they vaguely heard the voice of gratitude coming from the room.
Lide stopped and listened. The man was grateful to the gods in the temple. He said that the clergy were right. They endured torture for generations to repay the original sin they were born with. Instead, the child in front of the stove asked suspiciously, didn't the big brother and big sister who gave us the money just now
The man was speechless, and after muttering for a long time, he said: Let's eat first.