C6 Life in a peach blossom world
Not long after, the young girl prepared some food and served it to him. Shaoming took off his jacket and roasted it by the fire. His body also warmed up a little. Luckily, it was summer, otherwise, he probably wouldn't be able to take it anymore.
When the old woman saw her younger sister carrying the food over, she said to Shao Ming, "Young master, please enjoy your meal. It's better if you don't laugh at the food of our crude families!"
Shaoming looked at the dishes on the table and said, "Old granny, why do you say that!?" I am deeply grateful to be able to save you and eat your food. How could I turn my back on you? "
The little sister picked up a bowl and chopsticks, passing them to Shaoming and said, "You can eat!"
Shao Ming was indeed hungry. At this moment, he embarrassedly took the bowl and chopsticks and began to eat.
The girl brought some food to the old woman and handed it to her. Then she sat down at the table to eat with Shaoming.
Shaoming looked at his sister and asked, "How should I address you, Miss?"
The younger sister said, "My little sister!"
"No surname?" Shaoming asked.
The younger sister said, "I don't know my surname. That's how my young grandma calls me!"
The old woman said, "Sister is an orphan. She was abandoned on the street and adopted by me. For people like us, girls usually only have nickname but not surname. "
Shaoming was shocked. It seemed like the women in this place really had a low status and didn't even have a surname. Sigh! How was it like his own world where men and women were equal?
Shaoming said, "Sister, how old are you?"
The younger sister said, "This year, you'll be 15 years old after the Mid-Autumn Festival!"
Shaoming said, "Oh, then you're still in your youth. That's great!"
The younger sister said, "Young? What is that? "
Shaoming thought that perhaps she had never read a book before, he said, "So you are now the most beautiful age in your life!"
The younger sister giggled and said, "So that's how it is. Are you praising me?"
Seeing her smile, Shaoming also laughed along. "Of course! "You are so young, not as old as I am now!"
The younger sister laughed again, saying, "You're not old either! "How old are you?"
Shaoming said, "Me? You're so old. You're already 21 this year!"
The younger sister said, "Twenty-one, that's not considered old!"
"He's a lot older than you!" Shaoming said.
The old woman beside him said, "Young master is still young, it's the prime of his life. How can he be old? Where are you from, young master?"
He didn't know how to answer, so he definitely couldn't tell them that he was someone from another world. Who would believe him, so after thinking for a moment, he said, "I'm from the Da Kui Country, and my sister was being chased by their enemies, so I ended up here. Old granny, this is the border between the Great Kui Nation and the Seal Finger Nation, do people from the Great Kui Nation usually come here? " In Shaoming's heart, it was best not to have anyone from the Great Kui Nation come here, especially not the soldiers from the Great Kui Nation. Otherwise, he might not have much luck at all.
The old granny said, "This place belongs to the junction of two countries, and is quite remote and belongs to a place where no one cares about. Normally, people from the government rarely come here, and if Young Master is being pursued by the Chou family, it would be fine to stay here for the time being."
When Shao Ming heard this, he immediately let out a sigh of relief. That would allow her to rest here for a period of time. After her body recovered, she would then look for Xiaoqing. No one knew whether she was still alive or not, so they were conflicted just thinking about it.
The three of them finished their meal in a moment, and the young girl picked up the dishes. The old lady said to Shao Ming, "Young Master, I've wronged you tonight, please rest on the chopping board for the time being. We have poor families and simple furniture, so we don't have anything to say to you.
Shaoming said, "I already can't thank you enough for treating me like this. How could I dare to ask for more? Many thanks, grandma!"
Thus, Shaoming stood up and walked towards the kitchen. Seeing his sister washing the dishes, he said, "Let me help you wash the dishes!" He just wanted to help, and he was already grateful.
The younger sister looked at him and smiled, saying, "Young Master, you should go rest. I'll just take care of this place!"
After having his life saved, eating their food and staying here for a period of time, he didn't know how to repay them. He scratched his head and said, "I don't know what can I help you with?"
The younger sister said, "We don't have much work to do here, everything is simple. There isn't much work to do, so you should go rest!"
Shaoming couldn't do anything, so he smiled and walked out. He walked out into the open space.
It was summer, and the night was filled with the croaking of frogs and the chirping of insects. In front of the house was an open area, and not far away was a river. The river emitted a silver light under the moonlight, like the Milky Way in the sky.
"What a great world. But why are there so many life-and-death disputes?" Shaoming couldn't help but sigh.
On second thought, it would be nice if his sister and the old lady could live in a place where there was no conflict between them. They could live a normal life with nothing to worry about. Such a place was rare, even in his original world. Everything was violated by the high technology. Where could such a paradise be found?
As Shaoming thought of this, he looked up at the sky. The night sky was covered with a golden moon and was filled with stars. It was incomparably brilliant. This world is really mysterious, I wonder what secrets are hidden in the vast universe, are there many parallel universes? Are there a lot of unknown worlds? He had teleported to this world for no reason at all. It seemed like the universe was hiding some unfathomable secret. He just didn't know when he would be able to return. He didn't know how his parents were doing, nor did he know if his physical body was dead or if they were in a state of depression.
After thinking about it, Shaoming couldn't help but feel sad.
At this moment, the younger sister walked out and asked, "Big Brother Shaoming, what are you thinking about?"
Shaoming came back to his senses, he looked at his sister and said, "It's nothing much!"
Looking into his eyes, the younger sister said, "You must be sad. Are you missing your home?"
Shaoming said, "Yes, I miss home." Sigh, I don't know when I'll be able to return home! "
The younger sister said, "Who are the people chasing you? Did they take over your home? "
For a moment, Shaoming didn't know how to explain it to his sister. He didn't want to say that he came from Da Kui Country, after all, that wasn't his home, but if she said that it came from another world, then she definitely wouldn't believe it. She really didn't know how to answer her sister.
Thinking for a moment, Shaoming said, "There are a lot of things you don't understand, but don't try to understand them too well. The outside world is very complicated. You can just live here with your grandma." It would be better if you knew less about me. "
Since you don't want to talk about it, I won't ask.
Shaoming said, "Right, is this place only your family?"
The younger sister said, "There are mountains everywhere. Other than a tiger hunt on the other side of the mountain, there are no other houses. If you want to go to the town to catch up, you have to climb several mountains!"
Shaoming was greatly alarmed. This place was indeed isolated from the world! Therefore, he asked, "Then how do you usually go out to purchase daily necessities?"
The younger sister said, "The daily necessities? Purchase? We don't need it! We can raise our own silkworm weave, grow our own vegetables, fish our own fish, and sometimes I even go and hunt some wild ducks and wild rabbits. We have everything here, so we don't need to go outside! But sometimes the tigers on the other side of the mountain bring us something! "
Shaoming was surprised. What a self-sufficient life! He then asked, "Then why don't you go out once a year?"
The younger sister said, "I know how to go out. Every year at the fifteenth of the eighth month, I will go out with Grandmother!"
"You only go out once a year. Don't you feel bored?"
The younger sister said, "There's nothing to be bored about. There's everything here, so when I have nothing to do, I can still chat with the birds!"
Shaoming looked at his little sister and felt that she was so pure, so free from worldly strife that he didn't know what to say. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart. He didn't think that such a person could really exist in this world.
If he wasn't someone from another world, he would have built a house here and lived a good life here too. It was a pity that he wasn't from this world, so he had to find a way to return to his world, where his parents, relatives, and friends lived.
As he thought of this, Shao Ming's heart became incomparably tangled. Furthermore, there must have been a mistake during the process of casting the technique that led to this situation. Not to mention whether or not he could return to the Great Kui Nation to find the Great Master and the others to cast the art again, even if he could return to the Great Kui Nation to have the Great Master and the others cast the art again, he might not have the chance to send him back, because the Great Master and the rest definitely might not know what went wrong with his soul and sent it back from the other worlds!
In the past when he was reading books, he always said that time and space were changing at different times, and there were many opportunities for strange things to happen, but the probability of the same accident was very small. Furthermore, it was very difficult for ordinary people to control it.
Thinking of this, Shao Ming's heart once again twitched. He was much more clear-headed now, and the questions in his mind were much clearer. He was no longer muddleheaded like before, but now he completely understood his own situation. The chances of that happening were extremely slim!
Shaoming couldn't help but shed a few tears.
When the younger sister saw that Shao Ming was crying, she hastily asked, "Big Brother Shaoming, what's wrong?"
Shao Ming wiped away his tears and said, "It's nothing, I just miss my home. Let's go back and rest!"
The younger sister said, "Don't think too much into it. Grandmother has always told me that everything in the world can be transformed according to fate. Just let nature take its course! "What should come will come, what should go will come, and what should go will leave. Karma is limited, as long as you are alive and have a good life, you will be fine."
Shaoming didn't think that his sister would actually be able to say such a great thing. He had already eaten everything, and was happy for her to have such a realization, so he laughed: "You're right, it's up to fate! Let's go back and rest! "
The younger sister smiled and said, "En!"
They both went back to their rooms to rest.
The night passed in silence.
Time flowed on, and not too long after, dawn arrived.
When Shaoming woke up from rubbing his eyes, he found that there was no one in the room. His sister was nowhere to be found, and the old woman was no longer on the bed.
Shaoming stood up, stretched his body, and walked out of the house.
He saw his sister feeding the chicken while the old lady spun on a wooden wheelchair.
Shaoming hurriedly said, "Good morning, grandma!"
When the old woman saw Shaoming, she smiled and said, "You're awake. There's breakfast in the room. You can go eat!"
Shaoming said, "We'll eat later. We're not very hungry right now!" So she went like a sister, who was feeding the chicken, and the chickens were cooing and pecking.
How many chickens have you raised, sister?
The younger sister said, "There's a total of fifteen of them! Look how lovely they are! You still lay a lot of eggs for me every day! I got five eggs this morning! I'll make you a poached egg at noon! "
Shaoming laughed, "Sure!" You cook very well, I like it! "
The little sister giggled and tossed the grain in her hand to the chickens.
Shao Ming looked around and said, "But I'm going to find my friend today. I don't know if she's still alive. Sigh!"
The younger sister said, "If all of you fell into the water at the same time, then she would also go downstream. However, in this area of ten miles, the river water is extremely anxious. Where are we going to find her?"
He thought back to when Xiaoqing had said that he was still two to three hundred miles away from Fengyin Country, and now that he had followed the river to its border for no reason, it seemed like he had also drifted along the river for a long time, which could be considered as his fate, but where would Xiaoqing drift to? There were mountains all around, and only one river led to the outside, he really didn't know where to look.