Chapter 543 The Mountain
"Don't you remember? No, everyone should remember. I clearly remember that I was still a little carrot head, not as tall as my father's knees. I was carried in, just in a cave..." Aunt Liu tried hard to recall, "Although I don't remember clearly, it was indeed a cave, and there were many delicious fruits, juicy and sweet."
Thinking of the smell, he licked his mouth and said with certainty, "It's very delicious. I have never eaten such sweet fruit in my life."
Aunt Liu Si looked at each other in front of her: "..."
Are they sure they were raised in the same village? Why are they different memories?
Aunt Liu Si's mother's surname was Li, and she married into Liujia Village next door. Later, her father, named Liu, died early, and her mother only gave birth to a daughter like her. Her husband-in-law disliked her "unlucky" and did not want her, so she asked her to go back to her parents' home with her mother, which is Lijia Village.
Her mother is still young and she is a girl again, so she has no hope, so the outside family asked her mother to remarry.
In order to allow her mother to marry better, she asked her mother not to remarry her and promised to help her raise her daughter.
So although Aunt Liu's surname is Liu, she grew up in Lijia Village. Later, she married a relative from the outside family. She was considered her mother's nephew, and her current man Li Jian.
Aunt Liu Si and Li Jian grew up together. Although they are just a generation younger than Li, how could Li Zheng not have experienced what Li Jian had experienced?
But when I was thinking about memory, Aunt Liu Si was clearly discovering that their memories of what happened in the year of disaster were different from Li Jian's.
"Why are they different?" Li Jian scratched his head, "Why are they different? I clearly remember that there were many people coming to the village at that time. Because there were too many people in the village, they had to go into the mountains to find a way out. Then my grandfather and my father took me into the mountains."
Aunt Liu Si frowned: "I don't remember any incident of entering the mountain at all. I feel like I've been in the village. But what you said about dead people is so good. It was indeed dead at that time. The family was a little far away from the village and lived alone. No one noticed it when something happened."
Rikamasa was also trying hard to recall: "I don't think so, but I don't think so, why do I feel a little strange when I say it?"
“What’s strange?”
"Although I don't remember entering the mountain, you think, there were so many victims in the village at that time, and there was so much food in our village, and they wouldn't rob it? But how did we survive the natural disaster?"
Li Zheng's question was so hard that he hit the heart.
Aunt Liu Si: "...I don't remember."
Li Jian: "...I said I was hiding in the mountains, but you don't believe it."
"So this is strange. Li Jian remembered hiding in the mountains, but Aunt Liu Si and I didn't remember this." Li was pondering for a while, and he felt that it was necessary to touch this matter, maybe it was a clue.
He also asked Aunt Liu Si what questions he asked when chatting with the elderly in the village. He thought that the elderly’s answer was helpful to this matter.
As a result, Aunt Liu Si didn't think so much, so she only asked if it rained in autumn. What would happen if it didn't rain?
According to the situation she asked so many elderly people, the elderly seemed to be afraid that it would not rain in autumn. Some people couldn't say it, but some people said like Grandpa Li: "It won't rain in autumn, and people will die."
Li Zheng was even more worried - it seems that this matter is about to be stable.
The person sent out has not answered yet, and the village has been moving more frequently.
Let me talk to this today, and to that tomorrow, the old man carrying the load, the old man squatting at home, and the famine that year...
Finally, he found the patriarch and shared with the other party what he had found.
"Don't you remember?!" The patriarch looked surprised. He was a few years older than Li Zheng, but he was also a fellow generation, and the natural disasters he experienced were the same.
"You remember?"
The patriarch nodded and said with a serious expression: "I am hiding with me."
Li Zheng: "..." He walked around the village several times, and talked about the past like a chat, and accidentally asked about the natural disaster.
As a result, one of the ten people answered that the year of the natural disaster was indeed hiding in a cave and escaping.
At that time, the natural disaster was so severe that it was everywhere in the country.
Wherever there was food, the victims ran to them.
Then the people here suffered a lot. Not only were the land occupied, but the houses at home were also occupied, and many lives were caused.
Later, there was no way, so everyone had to risk going into the mountains in order to survive.
Although the mountain behind them was unknown, they were able to hold on that year because they were able to hold on.
"You ask me where the cave is?" The patriarch frowned, "To be honest, I don't remember it either. I was so young at that time, all the elders in my family carried it into the mountain. Who still remembers how to walk the road?"
"What should you do if you say this?"
"Wait a minute, I'll look through the notes left by my ancestors." The patriarch asked him to wait, and went into the house and found a lacquered wooden box.
The lacquered wooden box is black, with copper patterns on the four corners on it, and a circle of auspicious clouds around it in the lock.
On the top, there are a few large copper-sautified characters - a letter to the head of the Li clan.
When each Li clan leader takes office, in addition to going to the ancestral temple to worship his ancestors, one of them is to inherit this "Lei clan leader's letter".
It is said that the Li clan leader recorded the most important major events in the history of the Li clan and their various difficult problems. To be elected as the Li clan leader, one condition must be met, that is, literacy.
If you are illiterate, how do you read the notes and genealogy?
The genealogy was placed in the ancestral temple for sacrifice, and only this letter from the Li clan leader was placed in the clan leader's home.
The patriarch opened the box in front of the front and took out 1-7 letters from the Li clan leader.
"Generally, more important things will be recorded. Things like natural disasters and man-made disasters should be recorded in them. Things that were so big that year, even if they were not fully recorded, there should be some clues..." As he said, he began to query according to year.
Soon, they found that year, and it turned out to be: [In the ninth year of Tianli, there were nine days, and the disaster suddenly came, and the people were in chaos in the world. The disaster arrived, and the village was in chaos. The sky was not dry, and the grain was not broken. History, the three families of Chai died, and it was a man-made disaster. The food and wealth were robbed, and the house was taken away, and people were killed, and people were panicked, and there was no place to stay. The gods appeared, and I discussed with the righteous couple and lived in the mountains to avoid chaos...]
Li Zheng was in a daze: "Have you really been hiding in the mountains?"
However, the note did not state how they hid in the mountains, but only said that it was "the gods appeared". Only when they had a way to avoid natural disasters, they hid in the mountains.
Chapter completed!