Biquge www.xbiquge.cc, the fastest update to the latest chapter of the Rebirth of a Lady: The Second Wife of the Hou Mansion!Xiao Dongniang turned around and looked at the falling red in the distance, and the mountain that blocked them for thousands of years.
"Have you not noticed that the recent meals are becoming tasteless?"
Shen Qingci pressed her red lips lightly. Well, she tasted it, but she didn't think too much. She thought it was Xiao Dongniang who forgot to put salt, but every meal was like this, so it was a little weird. .
"Don't let it go, because we don't have salt anymore."
Xiao Dongniang sat down, her eye circles became red involuntarily.
"Everything is good here, but there is only one thing. We don't have salt. Then we found a salt pan on the other side of the mountain. The salt there is enough for us to eat for generations, and the salt can still be regenerated."
"Isn't that great?" Shen Qingci turned his head and looked at that place, but in fact, he couldn't see anything. Only among the falling peach blossoms, a shadow of the mountain could be vaguely seen.
This mountain not only protected them, but also brought salt to them.
"Salt is not that easy to take."
Xiao Dongniang wiped her tears again, "If we want to get salt, we have to climb the mountain. This may be the punishment for us Dongling people from heaven. Anyone who takes salt will die."
"And the salt they brought back can last us for a year, but every year, there will be young and strong men going up the mountain to get salt. They will have their lives in exchange for the salt we depend on for survival."
"And the salt they exchanged for their lives saved the entire village, men, women, and children in the entire village. It is also because of their sacrifices that there will be generations of people from Tanglin."
Shen Qing suddenly felt some discomfort in his stomach.
If so, she would rather not eat such salt.
This salt was exchanged for human lives, which was equivalent to the salt she had eaten, the rice she had eaten, but the flesh and blood she had eaten were all human flesh and blood.
Xiao Dongniang said a lot, maybe all she can say is an outsider like Shen Qingci. The village has been like this for generations, and they are all used to it. Every year, two young men are sent in. .
Xu is their father and brother, and Xu is their children and grandchildren, so they don't say it, and they have no way to say that this is the case in every household and everyone.
In the past, they would send one person to collect salt, but they found that many people did not come back. In the end, every time they sent two people, one dead and one injured, they could eventually bring back enough salt for the whole village for a year.
But what kind of salt is to eat here, it is clear that what you eat is human flesh.
Shen Qingci couldn't help covering his mouth, and it also felt as if the contents of his stomach had turned upside down.
She had never encountered anything like this. The salt outside was very easy to get, and it was as cheap as cabbage. There were several large salt pans in the Great Zhou realm. Even Qi Yuan had one in his hands. It is enough for thousands of people in the Great Zhou Dynasty to eat for thousands of years, and Yantian is inexhaustible.
She has eaten a lot of salt in her two lifetimes, and even she sometimes forgets things like salt, but she never thought that someone would have lost their lives because of these little salt.
Shen Qingci helped Xiaodong comb her hair. Boys and girls combed the same hair, but after she learned how to comb her hair for her sister, her fingers became more dexterous, and she was not as stupid as Zeng Jin. The hands and feet have to pull a few hairs.
And thinking of her sister, she couldn't help thinking about the colorful world outside. No matter how bad it is outside, it is still her home, and home is always home.