After three days of heavy snowfall, the sun finally emerged from the thick clouds.

At the foot of Beishan Mountain in the northeast of the capital, there is a simple wooden house with a thatched roof, and the perimeter of the wooden house is surrounded by a fence made of some tree branches.

A young man, who was not particularly thickly dressed, was at the back of the hut with a hoe in his hand, digging a hole in the ground.

This teenager, this is Li Xin who has traveled to this world.

He was originally an ordinary office worker in another world, and after seven or eight years of working in the workplace, he has climbed to the position of assistant manager in a small company, and was promoted to manager not long ago, so he went to the bar with his subordinates to celebrate, and then... And then there is no more!

Drinking to death is really a shameful way to die......

But now he doesn't have time to think about the things of his previous life, because he has to face the reality, that is, he has to live in this world.

Now, three days have passed since he crossed here, and for two days he was in a coma, and in the process of this coma, the memory of this unfortunate child who was pierced by his own soul was watched by him like a movie.

After reading the memory of this "Li Xin", Li Xin had only one thought in his mind.

What an unlucky kid......

Therefore, when he woke up from his slumber and barely recovered some strength, he went to the ruined temple, carried his uncle back, and wanted to dig a pit to bury the old man who had frozen to death.

At this time, although the sun is out, but the weather is still extremely cold, because of the cold, the surface of the earth is frozen soil, extremely difficult to dig, fortunately the weather here is not that kind of extremely cold weather, so only a little surface layer is frozen, after digging the surface of the frozen soil, it soon becomes soft, until noon, Li Xin dug a pit of about half a meter, he compared, felt that it was almost deep enough, so he was ready to put his uncle in.

"Deeper."

An old voice came from the side, Li Xin looked back and found that the old carbon seller who rescued him, carrying a half-old straw mat in his hand, sat on a stone on the side, and held a yellow gourd in the other hand, looking up from time to time to drink a few glasses of wine, depending on the situation, he had already watched himself dig a pit for a long time.

The old man tilted his head and took a sip of wine and continued.

"Your uncle has no children, according to the rules, you have to dig three feet nine, and dig deeper."

When he woke up, Li Xin probably told the old man who sold carbon about his own situation, and by the way, he also told his uncle's situation, so the old man knew that his uncle had no son.

Li Xin had no choice but to wipe his sweat, pick up the hoe and continue to dig the pit.

The old man took a sip of wine, got up from the stone, and wrapped Li Xin's uncle in the straw mat in his hand.

After death, it is impossible to directly touch the soil, this is a great taboo, in ancient times, even if you are poor, you have to find ways to get yourself a coffin, no matter how poor, you have to wrap your body in a straw mat, this is already the most "economical" way to die, can not be saved.

In the eyes of people in this era, if a corpse touches the soil, it is only slightly better than exposing the corpse in the wilderness.

In this way, Li Xin dug the pit while selling charcoal and pointed out beside him, and by noon, the grave pit was barely dug up, and the old man looked around the tomb and nodded with satisfaction.

"The baby is good, I didn't forget to collect your uncle's body when I woke up, it's a filial doll, the old man didn't save you in vain."

Li Xin sat paralyzed on the ground, panting for breath.

Three feet nine, that is, more than one meter deep, and under the guidance of this old man, the length and width are exquisite, this is a lot of work, Li Xin's body is still small after all, and he hasn't eaten much for several days, and the whole person collapsed on the ground.

The old man walked around the tomb a few more times, and was more satisfied, he turned back and smiled at Li Xin, who was sitting on the ground, and then said, "The old man saved your life, and you must repay the old man." ”

Li Xin sat on the ground and breathed heavily, the little girl was very sensible, trotted forward a few steps, and handed Li Xin the bamboo tube hanging in her waist to Li Xin, Li Xin opened his mouth and drank a few sips of water, only then did he regain some strength, he looked up at the charcoal seller and smiled reluctantly: "The old man saved the boy's life, if there are any conditions, just say, if you can do it, the boy is duty-bound." ”

Although he is a modern person, he has completely taken over the memories of this unlucky child, so he naturally knows how to speak in this era, or the world, so there is no problem at all in the conversation.

The charcoal seller smiled very kindly: "In the future, when the old man is gone, you will also dig a tomb for the old man to stay, remember, the old man has a son, and the grave should be four feet three deep, don't be mistaken." ”

Li Xin was slightly stunned for a moment, and then saw that the charcoal seller's face was furrowed, and the hair on his head had turned snow-white, and he immediately understood what this old man meant.

He got up from the ground, his face was serious, and he said to the old man: "Don't worry, the kid should take this matter, the old man saved Li Xin's life, and Li Xin will give the old man a pension in the future." ”

The charcoal seller lowered his head and coughed, and then said in a muffled voice: "It's okay to send it to the end, but you don't have to support the elderly, your kid is penniless, and he was almost frozen to death, why should you provide for the old man?" ”

While talking, the old man and Li Xin placed his uncle's body in the grave, and then sat on the big stone next to him and instructed Li Xin to start burying the soil.

Under the guidance of the old man, about an hour or so, Li Xin piled up a beautiful grave, and after kowtowing a few times in front of the grave, he followed the old man back to their wooden house.

In this wooden house, there are two rooms with two beds, but both beds are in one room, and the other room is a clay stove with a wooden bellows next to the stove.

The charcoal seller skillfully sat in front of the bellows, threw pieces of wood into the stove, and prepared to start the fire.

Charcoal burning is actually a technical job.

Burning wood alone does not produce charcoal, only soot.

The trick is to close the door of the furnace halfway through the burning, so that the charcoal inside cannot continue to burn, and then slowly carbonize.

In ancient books, this is called burning wood.

The old man sat on the edge of the bellows, pulling the bellows, coughing and opening: "This year's cold weather, there are many people in the city to buy charcoal, the old man is too busy alone, see that you have nowhere to go for the time being, so I left to help a group of old men, this year's work is okay, you help burn more charcoal out, you can have an extra pair of chopsticks." ”

This charcoal seller is obviously a very kind person, and in this era, no poor family will allow one more person in his family to eat.

Li Xin really has nowhere to go now, his uncle is gone, his mother is also dead, his hometown in Yongzhou can't go back for the time being, and the "scumbag father" in the capital is even more unreliable.

Moreover, he doesn't have any thick clothes now, and he doesn't have half a penny on him, and when he walks out of here, he will easily be frozen to death like his uncle.

So he nodded to the old man and smiled, "Thank you for giving the boy a bite to eat." ”

The old man raised his eyebrows.

"Starting tomorrow, you go into the city in the morning to sell charcoal, go up the mountain in the afternoon to cut wood, and come back in the evening to burn charcoal."

“…………。”

This old guy exploits child labor...!