The little princess was torn, and the demon emperor patched her up

Chapter 13 The evil god heard her prayer

The little girl with double buns held her face in her hands and said, "Mom, Cuicui next door said her family had meat yesterday. I want to eat meat too."

The woman puppet in an apron touched her little head and said, "Don't we eat it during the Chinese New Year?"

"But mom, it's already August!"

The woman said with a sad face, "Yaoyao, your father was working in the county magistrate's mansion. He fell off a shelf and broke his leg. When your father gets better and you get paid, I'll make you braised pork, okay? Be good, here's fifty cents, go to the clinic and get a dose of medicine for your father."

The woman opened the handkerchief wrapped in layers and carefully counted out fifty coins.

The little girl left home reluctantly with the money in her pocket.

She walked through the town's market and saw vendors selling candied haws and red bean glutinous rice cakes. She was so greedy that she could hardly walk.

The puppet dressed as a butcher shouted, "Pork for sale! Pork for sale! Fresh pork belly is the best for braised pork!"

Braised pork...

The little girl stood in front of the pork stall and was reluctant to leave.

The fifty cents in her bosom seemed to be hot, urging her to use the money to buy a piece of pork.

The butcher laughed and said, "Hey, isn't this the Lin family's kid? Are you here to buy some pork?"

The little girl looked at the meat eagerly, swallowed her saliva, and shook her head: "I don't want to buy pork, I want to go get medicine for my father."

"What kind of medicine are you giving me? It's so bitter, your father won't like it!" The butcher said with a smile, "Buy a piece of pork, maybe your father will get better after eating it!"

Will Dad get better if he eats pork?

Perhaps she believed what the butcher said, or perhaps out of selfish desire to eat meat, the little girl actually used the money she had saved for medicine to buy meat.

She carried a piece of pork home, and the woman collapsed: "Where's the medicine? Where's your father's medicine?!"

The little girl smiled and said, "Mom, I bought some pork. Dad will get better after eating it!"

The pork belly in the hand is fat and lean, and it makes people drool just by looking at it under the shade of the locust tree.

But my mother's face looked so ugly.

"Snapped!"

That was the first time Yaoyao’s mother hit her when she was seven years old.

Her mother forced her to return the pork, but she refused and rolled around in the yard crying and making a fuss, attracting all the neighbors.

The respected elder in the town called the butcher over and scolded him: "What does such a young girl know? It was you who instigated the whole thing and got her beaten for nothing! You know the situation of the Lin family, so how dare you do such a wicked thing?!"

The butcher felt ashamed and embarrassed, and apologized to the woman: "Sister-in-law, I'm sorry, I'll return the money to you, please don't hit Yaoyao! I'll treat Yaoyao to this pork, okay?"

The woman just cried.

While crying, she asked Yaoyao to return the pork to the butcher.

Yaoyao refused and cried loudly while holding the pork: "I want to eat meat! Mom, I want to eat meat, and my brother wants to eat meat too! We haven't eaten meat in a long time! Uncle gave it to us without asking for money, so why don't we accept it?! Mom, you don't let us eat meat, you are so mean!"

The frail middle-aged man suddenly appeared under the eaves with a cane and said weakly, "Mother, since everyone is so kind, please make a meal of braised pork for the children."

Yaoyao looked at him excitedly: "Dad!"

Dad gave her a loving smile.

Then, with red eyes, he bowed deeply to his neighbors and the butcher in the town.

My mother covered her face and sobbed.

At that time, Yaoyao didn't understand why her mother and father were crying.

They obviously don’t want the money anymore, why are you still crying?
She ran to the straw pile on the back mountain in anger, and decided to hide there until dark, until her mother and father called her name all over the mountain, and then she would go home.

Let them worry for a while and see if mother dares to beat her again in the future.

She hid for a long, long time.

But until the moon rose, no one came to look for her.

She became more and more panicked, wondering if her mother was still angry with her, or if her father and brother had eaten the bowl of braised pork without her knowledge.

But that was clearly the pork she brought home!

The more she thought about it, the angrier she became.

She refused to let them eat alone, and went down the mountain angrily to go home, only to find that the whole town was in a mess, the lanterns were stained with blood, the doors and windows were broken, her little friends were gone, and the uncles, aunts, and uncles who were sitting under the eaves with their bowls to eat were also gone. The originally bustling town was now eerily quiet.

She hurried back home.

The house was in a mess, but the wooden square table that my father had sawed under the locust tree was still there in good condition. The food was ready, and four sets of bowls and chopsticks were neatly placed. The white rice in the bowls had piled up into a small hill, and in the middle was a bowl of braised pork, which had not been touched by the chopsticks yet.

"mother!"

She called out timidly, but no one answered her. Her mother and the others had disappeared.

She ran out of the house in panic and saw torches everywhere on the winding mountain road in the distance. The soldiers had tied up all the residents of Furong Town with iron chains and were chasing them into the mountains like dogs.

Blood food...

Every two years, Julu County would pay tribute to the imperial court with the Bingpo Qiongling Flower.

They treated the people as blood offerings to ferocious beasts in exchange for passage into the mountains to pick flowers.

Yaoyao saw that her parents and younger brother were among them.

"Father, mother!"

She was suddenly very frightened and ran desperately on the mountain path to chase after the enemy. She didn't care even though she had lost her straw sandals. It was not until she fell heavily to the ground with her elbows and palms covered with bruises that she started to cry loudly.

As if she sensed something, my mother, who was walking forward in the crowd, suddenly looked back.

Even though they were so far away, Yaoyao could clearly see tears in her mother's eyes.

Mother opened her mouth silently.

Come back home.

go home……

Her mother wanted her to go home.

Yaoyao didn't know how she got back to the yard.

She vaguely saw her parents and brother sitting around the table.

"I don't know where Yaoyao has gone. The little girl has grown up and needs to maintain her dignity. You shouldn't have hit her today."

"Daddy, Mommy, I'm hungry, I want to eat meat!"

"Your sister loves braised pork the most. Be good, wait until your sister comes home and we'll eat together."

The night breeze is slightly cool.

The fragrant braised pork had already gone cold.

They didn't wait until she came home.

Yaoyao picked up a piece of braised pork and stuffed it into her mouth.

So bitter.

Why is braised pork so bitter?

Unappetizing.

It’s not delicious at all…

Tears flowed down my cheeks and into my mouth.

Her mother asked her to go home.

But Yaoyao has no home anymore.

Spring passes and autumn comes.

Furong Town is becoming increasingly dilapidated and covered with moss.

The little girl wrapped herself in dead leaves and curled up under a locust tree, praying to the gods to let her family return to her.

For this, she was willing to be a slave to God and she was willing to pay any price.

The evil god heard her prayer.

He carved dolls out of wood to house the remaining souls of the deceased.

Let them live in that town forever to keep her company.

……

Xiao Baojing walked through several courtyards of the county magistrate's mansion, but still couldn't find Yaoyao.

"Should we go check on Qiu Yuejian again?" She lifted her skirt, feeling a little scared of Qiu Yuejian's cruelty. "She even dared to kill the princess of the dynasty. If Yaoyao, a helpless monster, fell into her hands, wouldn't she be tortured to death?"

She bypassed the hustle and bustle in the front yard and hurriedly sneaked into the yard where Qiu Yuejian lived.

Qiu Yuejian's white satin embroidered shoes were stolen. She was furious because she was afraid of being laughed at for being disabled and refused to attend the birthday party.

Qiu Xinghe appeared at the end of the corridor wearing clothes, his face still pale and a little sick.

He looked at his sister with a complicated expression: "Yue Jian."

(End of this chapter)