Three Kingdoms in a box

Chapter 7 If the Immortal has a spirit, please let him appear.
After sending the old couple away, they looked at the food put on the table. Li Yu touched it and found it was still warm. It was probably because Grandpa Wang came home and said he was back. Grandma Wang gave them freshly hot rice. As for the bowl of eggs, they should have been freshly cooked. boiled.

After working for a long time, Li Yu was a little hungry, so she came to the table and started eating.

While eating and having nothing to do, Li Yu took the box over and put it at his feet. While eating, he opened the box and looked inside. He saw that the scenery inside the box had completely changed.

What started as a desolate hill has turned into a gathering place for people, with rows of yellow mud thatched houses, some of which have collapsed. It looks like a poor and desolate place.

There were still villains acting on the street. Li Yu looked carefully and saw that these villains were sallow and thin, and all of them looked like they were malnourished. At this time, Li Yu took out his grandfather's magnifying glass and took a closer look at the people of this era. .

I saw that these people were wearing very tattered burlap clothes, with small patches on large patches, and small patches sewn on the small patches.

There is an air of poverty just looking at it.

Look at a big tree in the distance. Under the big tree, there are several sallow old men enjoying the shade. Several naked children are running wildly on the street. Each of the children is also skinny and looks like they just don't have enough to eat. That kind of thing.

Looking further away, this is the edge of the village. I saw women carrying their infant children on their backs, digging wild vegetables, tree roots and other things that could feed their stomachs in the forest on the edge of the village. The infant children were being exposed to the sun at this time. Yes, I can only cry weakly a few times.

But it didn't attract the attention of the women. There was nothing they could do. If they couldn't pick wild vegetables today, then everyone in the family would go hungry today!
On the farmland at the entrance of the village, the men stood in the field, looking at the dying crops that were being burned by the sun. They all looked sad. If it didn’t rain, the seedlings in the crops would be welded to death. By then, they would not be able to produce food. He has to pay grain to the landlord's family and taxes to the court. It's hard for his family of three to survive.

Thinking about the men, he had a sad look on his face. What a thief! He won't let people live a good life.

The man returned home with a sad face. The woman at home was sorting the wild vegetables picked today. They were said to be wild vegetables, but in fact most of them were weeds, tender roots and the like. Now the wild vegetables around the village have basically been harvested.

They don't dare to go too far. The public security outside is not good now, there are many bandits, and they might be caught by the bandits.

By then, your life will not be in your hands, and you might even become a food reserve for bandits.

"Why did you pick so little?"

The man looked at the miserable little wild vegetables on the ground and couldn't help complaining. After hearing this, the woman sighed and said: "There was a disaster this year. Every household went out to dig wild vegetables. No matter how much wild vegetables we have, it's not enough. We can only have so many." Not bad.”

The man sighed and squatted down with a sad look on his face. The woman then said, "Master, we don't have much food at home. How about you go to Mr. Zhang Jiao's house to borrow some more?"

After hearing this, the man sighed and said, "I went there once a few days ago. How can I open my mouth again if I go there again?"

The woman didn't say anything after hearing this, but got up, came to the pot, poured the wild vegetables into the earthenware casserole, then came to her rice vat, tilted the rice vat over, and looked at the millet inside, which was enough for two meals. After thinking about it for a while, the woman just took one-half of the usual grain, poured it into a clay pot, and cooked a bowl of wild vegetable paste that was dark and as light as water.

This is their family's meal today.

The woman filled two bowls, and handed the more to the man, and gave the less to herself. Men are the backbone of the family, so they should eat more. Even so, the woman was not willing to drink the yellow rice in the bowl that was so thin that it could make out the silhouette of a person. Instead of porridge, feed the child rice soup first.

The family just ate the unsatisfactory food with sad faces. Looking at the clear sky outside, the man cursed in frustration: "If God doesn't rain, we will all starve to death!"

...At the same time, Zhang Jiao's family is considered to be the most prosperous in the village. This is also due to the fact that Zhang Jiao's father left a lot of wealth. Therefore, all three Zhang Jiao brothers have read Book.

However, among the three, Zhang Jiao was the most learned, because the old man had not yet passed away at that time, but once the old man died, it was considered that the family was in ruins, and then Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang stopped studying one after another.

Now Zhang Bao is responsible for taking care of several acres of thin farmland at home. Zhang Liang is good at martial arts and likes to take people to the mountains to hunt.

Zhang Jiao was originally promoted to become an official in the county. However, because he could not afford the money to buy an official position, he had to come back and live with his two younger brothers.

But Zhang Jiao was knowledgeable and charitable, so people in the village respected him.

At this time, Li Yu found Zhang Jiao's house through visual locking. It was a large thatched house, and it was very well repaired inside and outside. At least it was much better than the surrounding shabby houses.

At this time, outside the courtyard, a woman thanked Zhang Jue profusely, holding a small bag of corn in her hand.

Zhang Jiao nodded to show that he understood the woman's suffering, and kept persuading: "Yes, please take it home and cook it for Brother Dong to eat."

"Thank you, Mr. Zhang. When the year improves and we harvest food, we will definitely pay him back."

Zhang Jiao smiled and said: "Okay..."

After talking for a while, the woman took the food away. As soon as the door was closed, Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang looked reluctant. Zhang Jiao knew what the two brothers were thinking and said: "The second brother and the third brother are from the same village." , can you bear to watch them starve to death?"

After hearing this, Zhang Bao said: "Brother, we don't have much food left at home. Moreover, in this year, the production of our twenty acres of land will probably be reduced. By then, our family will not be able to open the pot!"

Zhang Liang also spoke at this time: "Brother, what the second brother said is that our family is not a government office, but is it used to help the people?"

Zhang Jiao sighed after hearing this and said: "Two worthy brothers, my brother is a practitioner of Huang Lao's way. He is a disciple of the immortal. He walks in the world. I want to radiate the grace of the immortal to everyone, so that everyone can trust me and trust me." Immortal!"

"Exalted Immortal? Brother, you talk about the Immortal every day, and today you say that the Immortal saved you. Why don't I believe it?"

Zhang Liang looked at Zhang Jiao and said. After hearing this, Zhang Bao shouted from the side: "Third brother, don't be rude, how can you question the elder brother!"

Hearing this, Zhang Liang glanced at Zhang Jiao, then clasped his fists and saluted: "Brother, I made a mistake, please forgive me."

After that, he added: "But brother, we really can't borrow food from outside any more."

Zhang Jiao wanted to speak after hearing this, but Zhang Liang immediately said: "Brother, I know you are talking about your immortal, but the immortal cannot fill his stomach. If your immortal is really effective, Just let him appear and give us some food, brother, I haven't had a full meal in several days!"

Zhang Liang looked at Zhang Jiao and said.

(End of this chapter)