Half a bag of millet (folk tale)

When Jiang Yiti was sent to Zhimayu Village for exercise, he was only 19 years old, which was the same age as Hua, but he fell ill due to water and soil dissatisfaction, malnutrition, and illness.

　　

　　Sesame Yu is a small village of fifty or sixty people, too poor, the villagers eat sweet potatoes and sorghum every day, these things are almost no nutrition, Jiang Yiyue wants to vomit. But there was no way, it was difficult for the villagers to feed themselves, how could there be something better for her as a foreigner.

　　The village director Lao Liu gave Jiang Yiyue 3 eggs, which was just a cup of water, but it made her feel more hungry. But apart from these, Old Liu couldn't come up with anything else decent.

　　No way, Jiang Yiyue dragged her weak body up the mountain, she wanted to find a few wild eggs to replenish her strength. She had heard the villagers say that there were pheasants in the mountains, and every spring, they would lay many wild eggs, nest after nest, and that thing was very nutritious, and eating it was good for her body, especially for her body. Usually, Jiang Yiyue had heard pheasants calling on the mountain in the village, but if she wanted to find wild eggs on the mountain, it was more difficult for her to climb the sky than for a girl in the city.

　　Sure enough, Jiang Yiyue went to the mountain for most of the day, tired and half dead, and did not find a wild egg, but only tired the originally weak body even more weakly. Fortunately, she dug up a little wild yam and went back to boiling it to deal with a few bites. It's a hard day.

　　Jiang Yiyue lived in a broken temple at the head of the village, which later became an empty temple, and after she came, she had no place to live, so she lived here. There is a big locust tree in front of the temple, and usually some villagers are fine and like to gather under the locust tree to pull the croak.

　　When Jiang Yiyue walked to the door of the temple, there was silence under the locust tree, and there was no one. No wonder, the stomach is not enough to eat, who will come out to play. Suddenly, Jiang Yiyue's eyes lit up, and there was a bag containing things under the locust tree, lying there quietly, not knowing who had landed here. Jiang Yiyue was overjoyed, took a few quick steps, and looked over, it turned out to be half a bag of burnt yellow millet.

　　These millets were like a small hand, tightly grasping Jiang Yiyue's hungry stomach, she looked up for a moment, there was not even a shadow around. She tried to ask out loud, "Whose Xiaomi?" "But there was silence in all around, and there was no one there. Jiang Yiyue carried Xiaomi into the temple. She was too hungry to take a bite out of her meal.

　　Jiang Yiyue tried to grab two handfuls of millet, put them in the pot, poured water, and cleaned the little wild yam he dug up on the mountain, and did not want to peel it, so he put it in the pot and boiled it together.

　　Half a bag of millet weighs 10 pounds, less than this two, it does not matter. Jiang Yiyue persuaded himself in this way.

　　Half a pot of millet yam porridge, not fully cooked, let Jiang Yiyue eat it all into the stomach, and there was no soup left. For this reason, her small mouth was burned with two bubbles, and she didn't feel any pain.

　　Suddenly, the sound of gongs and drums beating came from the street outside, followed by an old and powerful voice: "Catch the thief!" Come and see! Someone stole something. ”

　　Thinking of that half bag of millet, Jiang Yiyue was shocked. It must have been discovered, and I couldn't wash it away when I jumped into the Yellow River. She was about to go out with the half bag of millet to turn herself in, but she heard a change in tone on the street: "Down with Liu Sanshou, this evil spirit, the money thief!" ”

　　It turned out that Liu Sanshou, the nephew of the village director Lao Liu, stole 30 yuan from Lao Liu, and was reported afterwards, and Lao Liu took him and was touring the streets in the village.

　　This Liu Sanshou was a three-handed, and the crops in the field in the village were often stolen by him and taken to his home. Every time the people who watched the slope found that they had lost something, nine times out of ten he did it, and went to his house to find it, looking for a quasi-one. None of the people in the village had a good impression of Liu Sanshou. Usually, Jiang Yiyue also avoids him, and she is a big girl's family, so it is not rare to get involved with such a person who is not inconsistent.

　　After this trouble, Jiang Yiyue felt that he was no different from Liu Sanshou. She blushed to the base of her neck, fiery and uncomfortable, and she decided to hand over the half bag of millet.

　　After Jiang Yiyue encountered the half bag of millet, he explained to Lao Liu in a brain, including the fact that she grabbed two handfuls of half-pot porridge, and no details were left behind. Old Liu was taken aback, let her carry the millet to the village committee, and then shouted in the village loudspeaker for most of the day, who lost the millet, go to the village committee to claim it.

　　Although Sesame Yu is poor, the folk customs are good, except for Liu Sanshou, who is a harmful spirit, no one does those things that make people poke their backbones. However, even if Lao Liu shouted in the horn and broke his throat, the half bag of millet was still lying in the village committee and sleeping, and no one went to claim it.

　　3 days later, Lao Liu carried the half bag of millet to the broken temple where Jiang Yiyue lived. According to the old rules of the village, things that no one claims, more than 3 days, who picks up who belongs to whom.

　　With that half bag of millet, Jiang Yiyue finally survived. Of course, she did not forget to take out a little bit to help the five insurance households in the village. Under the nourishment of small rice, Jiang Yiyue finally survived that spring, his face gradually became rosy, and his body was not as weak as before.

　　Later, at the end of the one-year exercise period, Jiang Yiyue returned to the city. Within a few years, she got married, her work also improved greatly, she was promoted, and she became the deputy director of their unit.

　　On this day, Jiang Yiyue was approving documents when suddenly the phone rang, it was Lao Liu, the village director of Sesame Village. It turned out that he was no longer the village director, and recently he was not in good health, so he went to the city to see a doctor, remembered Jiang Yiyue, and by the way, he gave her some local specialties from their sesame village.

　　Hearing that it was the old Liu of Sesame Village, the floodgates of Jiang Yiyue's thoughts opened like a flood, and the bits and pieces of the sesame village in that year all poured into his mind. She immediately put down her work and ran to the hospital to take Lao Liu to the best restaurant in the city, and she wanted to invite Lao Liu to eat a good meal.

　　Old Liu brought Jiang Yiyue millet, sesame seeds, sweet potatoes, and eggs from the village, and put a large bag of things, which dazzled Jiang Yiyue.

　　During the meal, Lao Liu said to Jiang Yiyue: "When you were in the village, you didn't take good care of you. ”

　　Jiang Yiyue said proudly: "Director Liu, that condition was there back then, if you didn't take care of it, where would I be today?" You sent eggs and millet at that time, and I always remember it. ”

　　Old Liu sighed and said to Jiang Yiyue, in fact, he felt sorry for Jiang Yiyue was still secondary, after all, she did not take long to return to the city, sesame Yu was just a transition point for her. He felt the most sorry in his heart was his nephew Liu Sanshou.

　　Lao Liu said: "This child is not bad in nature, that year, he was short of food, extremely hungry, and stealing a little crop is actually nothing." If you're not hungry, who wants to make three hands? That time, I insisted on calling the police, and he was duly punished, and they all blamed me. ”

　　In the sound of Old Liu's chatter, Jiang Yiyue finally understood, and later Liu Sanshou went to steal other people's things, was caught and broke a leg, and now he is still alone, and the villagers have seen that they have lived a good life, and only Liu Sanshou has a miserable life. Old Liu asked Jiang Yiyue if he could let him go to their unit to see the gate, and heard that Jiang Yiyue's unit was recruiting doormen.

　　Thinking that Liu Sanshou was such a person, Jiang Yiyue shook his head resolutely. Old Liu's originally happy face suddenly faded, and then he sighed, and he didn't take a bite of the meal and left.

　　Jiang Yiyue's heart was full of mixed feelings, and he looked at Old Liu's back and sighed heavily. Looking at the local specialties left by Lao Liu, Jiang Yiyue suddenly felt breathless, and she decided to go to the hospital to see Lao Liu.

　　Old Liu saw Jiang Yiyue come to see him, looked a little happy, and said to her: "I know you will come, I did not misread you." It's just that I'm confused, and I shouldn't have thrown the hot potato like Liu San's hand to you. It's just that he's changed now, and he used to be very hungry to steal some crops, nothing. Later, he broke his leg because he was not accustomed to the abuse of the elderly by the unfilial son, and helped the old man go to his son's house to get something, and was beaten by the unfilial son. In fact, he did not eat the crops he stole that year, but most of them were secretly given to the old, weak, sick and disabled in the village. ”

　　Jiang Yiyue looked into Lao Liu's eyes and listened quietly to his chatter. Lao Liu then said: "It was the 30 yuan he stole from me that year, and he also saw me sell a few goats, got 200 yuan, only took 30 yuan, and did not take all of them, which shows that his essence is not bad." Do you know, that is, the 30 yuan, he did not leave it himself, I heard that he bought half a bag of millet, deliberately placed it under the big locust tree at the door where a person lived, and let the person take it to eat. ”

　　When Jiang Yiyue heard this, her brain "buzzed", and later lao Liu said anything again, and she didn't listen to a word.