It is said that the Yan family was a fisherman by the Thunder Swamp a long time ago, and later became a ferryman on the swamp. However, with the change of the times, the profession of the ferryman has gradually been replaced by steamboats and sightseeing boats.

In the past, the ferrymen who rowed small boats lost their jobs, and it was impossible for the father of the Yann family to become a fisherman again, because the fishing industry had already been monopolized by several chambers of commerce.

He had to enter the city to find a way out and make a living, and became a worker in a shipbuilding workshop.

The father of the Yann family had dreamed of owning a steamboat or his own transport ship all his life, but he failed to realize this dream until he died of exhaustion and illness in the workshop.

After his death, the children's mother chose to abandon everything and remarry, leaving only four children in Yan's family: the elder brother, the second sister, the third sister, and the younger brother.

It was still dark.

Lilian, who was just thirteen years old, was already going out to work.

She was used to getting up early and setting off at this time, so she quickly got up and packed herself.

She put on her beloved headscarf to cover her neat short hair, put on a white washed skirt that didn't fit, and set off with a big rattan basket in her arms.

This is a tall, energetic girl with piercing eyes.

"gone!"

Lilian turned her head and called urgently to her brother and sister in the room. The eldest brother is a stable and old-looking person, his clothes look clean, but he exudes a peculiar oily smell of shipbuilding workshops. The second sister was squatting under the cheap oil lamp, obsessively reading a thin book, and when she heard Lilian's cry, she immediately put it close to her body.

Lilian followed her elder brother and sister to the shipbuilding workshop. The three walked through the dark street and saw the lights by the river from a distance. On the square paved with rectangular stone bricks, groups of workers have already begun to appear. They come out of various dark alleys and head towards the workshops in the distance.

The eldest man of Yan's family took his two younger sisters to a tall building with an iron plate, and then told the two younger sisters with a serious face.

"I'm going to work, be careful, and go back quickly after collecting your clothes." "Be careful of those homeless people, don't take the path, after dawn"

The eldest brother wanted to say something more, but the people in the shipbuilding workshop rang the bell, and he could only rush in quickly.

"No, no, no, I'm already here."

And a fat man inside pointed at his eldest brother and cursed, with cold eyes.

"faster."

"Whether you want to do it or not, if you don't want to do it, some people will do it."

"Late, deduct money!"

The eldest brother, who was still majestic just now, nodded and bowed in front of the other party, looking humble.

The eldest brother wanted to go forward to apologize, but just as he stretched out his hand, he saw the other party back three feet immediately, as if he was afraid that his dirty hands, which were stained with oil day after day, seemed to be unclean, would touch him.

After he stepped back, he shouted angrily.

"Go to work, what are you still doing here, dawdling, you lazy people deserve to be poor."

"If you delay for a minute, you will take my money for nothing. Is money so easy to earn?"

Everyone in the workshop got busy, and the Yann sisters also started their work in the workshop.

"It only costs one penny to wash clothes."

"It only costs one penny to wash clothes."

This is the daily task of the two sisters, helping some bachelors in the shipbuilding workshop to wash clothes. The money is very little, but it can also subsidize the family.

The two went back with two big baskets of tall clothes.

On the way, they ran into a drunken man who was entangled.

The second sister was so frightened that she couldn't speak. After being grabbed by the drunk man, she kept shrinking back. Instead, the younger sister Lilian put the clothes frame on the opponent's head, picked up a stone and threw it on the opponent's head desperately. .

"Kill you!"

"Kill you!"

Lilian doesn't look very old, but she is like a beast when she gets angry.

He beat the tramp until his head was bleeding, and fled away.

Lilian threw the stone and clapped her hands, feeling a little proud.

The two picked up their clothes and walked back.

On the way, Lilian said, "Second Sister, you should be more ruthless. If you are not more ruthless, you will be bullied."

The second sister said softly, "People should be kind and friendly. It's written in the book, especially girls."

Lilian seemed to scoff.

The two carried a pile of dirty and smelly clothes across the south wall of the shipyard.

I only saw a few words written on the wall, which were already somewhat blurred.

"Work hard and get rich."

It seems that everyone believes that hard work can get rich, and the second sister is also like this.

The two walked under the high wall, and the morning sun rose from the east and cast on them, making the shadows obliquely long.

The second sister twisted her neck, staring at that sentence in a daze.

"We can earn forty copper cents for washing clothes for a day, which is..."

"If all goes well, we'll be able to do it in a year"

Lillian said, "We can die of exhaustion."

The second sister said: "How can people make money without working hard? Hard work is hard work, but hard work can definitely change."

Lilian said, "Father worked hard all his life, and finally died of exhaustion and illness, and his mother abandoned him."

"It's all bullshit."

"In this world, it's the glamorous and upper-class people who play by the rules, because it's good for them."

"People who live at the bottom don't talk about this, because this is a world of the jungle, and we speak with our fists and claws and teeth."

"If we are still obedient, we will get nothing but be completely swallowed up by others and turned into their nourishment."

The second sister was upset: "Then what are you going to do?"

Lilian said: "When I grow up, I must make a lot of money, and I will do whatever makes money."

The second sister kept a straight face at this time, showing her elder sister's majesty: "Are you going to be bad?"

"I'm just talking about making money, not being a bad person," Lillian said.

Speaking of this, Lilian's voice changed: "However, I won't listen to others honestly, I only listen to myself."

The two of them took the clothes home and washed them from morning to night, until they were too tired to straighten up.

Lilian thumped her shoulder and sighed, "When is this a head!"

Even the second sister was speechless, and she no longer had the enthusiasm to talk about how many copper points she could earn in a year.

She wiped the water on her hands, but she touched the cracks in her hands, and she grinned in pain.

Life is busy and heavy.

However, when a table of hot food was served and waiting for the elder brother to open the door, the younger brother shouted excitedly.

"Brother is back, we can serve dinner."

Everyone in the family still smiled.

Under the lights, they sat around talking about what happened today.

Lilian was talking viciously about how she beat up the drunk, and the older brother said he would beat that guy up when he met him.

The younger brother looked at the third sister adoringly, the second sister didn't speak, but couldn't help covering her mouth and smiling.

The picture is warm and beautiful.

On this day, the second sister came back with a copy of the Gospel Book of the Temple of Thunder, and excitedly told everyone.

"Your Highness Witch, we can see Your Highness Witch."

The third sister and younger brother of Yan's family looked at the second sister and thought she was hysterical. And the eldest brother seems to have guessed something: "It's the witch's reincarnation day that is coming!"

The second sister kept nodding, holding the Gospel book in her arms: "At that time, the witch's ship will set off from Thunder City to the deepest part of the swamp, the Kingdom of God in the sky."

"Then there, meet Wei

Big sky giant. "

"If we find a good place, maybe we can meet the witch." "His Royal Highness the great witch Liz VII."

The second sister has longing in her eyes, because the witch can be said to be the most noble woman in the world, except for those legendary female gods.

The younger brother asked, "Where is the witch going?"

The second sister raised her head and looked at the sky outside the window, holding the Gospel book and swaying her body slightly, she replied, "Of course it is to go to the kingdom of God, above the sea of ​​clouds, where there is a city floating in the sky, that is the kingdom of God, and the witch will be there." There the reincarnation is completed."

The younger brother was very curious: "Is there really a Kingdom of God in the depths of the Thunder Swamp?"

At this time, the eldest brother interjected and said, "Really, I heard a conductor on a sightseeing boat tell me that he saw the city of the Kingdom of God in the sky a long time ago."

When the eldest brother talked about it, he was also beaming with joy: "In the deepest part of the swamp, there really is that lost country."

Lilian's point of concern is rather strange: "On the day of reincarnation, will the witch also die?" The second sister immediately said: "The witch will not die, she will only become a child again, and then grow up again."

Lilian held her chin, a little envious: "It's great, I won't die, I can always go back to my youth, and still have a noble status, enjoying a life and inexhaustible wealth that we never imagined! "

The second sister frowned: "The witch doesn't care about these things. She is the spokesperson of God. Nobility, power and wealth are not worth mentioning to her."

Lilian couldn't believe it: "How could someone not care about these things!"

Second sister: "That's a witch."

Lilian: "The witch must be the same."

Second sister: "A guy like you who doesn't like reading books and newspapers, how can you know the greatness of a witch."

Lilian and the second sister argued, and neither of them accepted the other.

And soon, the reincarnation day of the witch arrived, and this day also happened to be the ceremony of offering sacrifices to the sky giant god.

The two gathered together, and this time the ceremony was far more than before. Countless sky believers rushed here just to send the witch to the lost country.

Amidst the turbulent crowd, Lilian finally squeezed to the front and found the elder brother and younger brother who had already occupied their seats.

Lilian looked to the side: "What's the matter, hasn't the second sister come yet, she is what she is looking forward to the most?"

The younger brother shook his head and said, "I don't know, she said she would come after washing the clothes."

Lilian: "It's about this time, and I'm still thinking about earning those two copper points!" Lilian looked like she was still arguing with her sister: "This guy said that some things are more important than money and power, but in the end She can't give up even a copper point."

Looking into the distance from a high place, the elder brother suddenly shouted: "Third and fourth, the boat is coming."

After shouting a word, everyone immediately moved and looked towards the other side of the river.

So did Lilian.

She said she didn't look forward to it, saying that a witch must eat and **** like a human being, and must also like money and status, but at this moment her eyes were focused, with a hint of longing.

Above the ripples of light, she saw a tall ship emitting divine light gradually approaching, like a palace walking on water.

The ship was inlaid with all kinds of precious stones, and all kinds of extraordinary materials were exhausted. This ship alone would consume the financial resources of a country. It was the Thunder Kingdom that went on and on and built it successfully.

There are beautiful servant boys and maids on board, engraved with cloud patterns, and the walking is accompanied by clouds and mist.

They looked devoutly into the depths of the swamp sea of ​​clouds, their eyes motionless.

"Wow!"

Where has Lilian seen such a picture? At this moment, she really believes that the witch really doesn't care about those external things, because she really already has everything.

Even God's preference, she already has it.

The boat gradually passed by, passing by the side of Thunder City.

And when she was about to leave here and enter the depths of the swamp, Lilian saw someone on the top of the boat lift the curtain, looking at

outside.

Those were a pair of beautiful, mature and moving faces, and their eyes were as pure as the water in the depths of a swamp, rippling with certain emotions.

Lilian was a little lost: "It's so beautiful!"

"Is this a witch who does not belong to the world?"

She didn't know what a goddess looked like, but maybe that goddess was just as flawless as that?

But she didn't see the bitterness, confusion, and fear in the witch's eyes. The whole world fell silent, no one dared to speak anymore.

Until the Witch Ship completely leaves for a distant place.

In everyone's eyes, the other party must have reached the kingdom of God.

The three brothers and sisters looked at the depths of the swamp, looked at the cloud mountain connecting the sky and the water, and imagined the beautiful picture.

Lilian couldn't restrain the excitement in her heart. On the way home, she kept thinking about the picture of going to the sky and sea of ​​clouds, as well as the pious eyes of those maids and maids, and recalling the huge power and enchantment emanating from the Witch's Ship.

"So holy!"

"so beautiful!"

She felt that she might really be as ignorant as she told her second sister.

However, after returning home, as soon as Lilian opened the door, she saw the disheveled second sister lying on the ground with scars all over her body.

Lilian was taken aback for a moment, then immediately rushed forward.

"Second Sister!"

After she asked, she found out who did it, and that person was the drunk they beat off before.

The guy came back for revenge, and just happened to meet the second sister who was doing laundry at home. "I won't let him go, I won't let him go."

"I'm going to make him pay, that guy"

Lilian was furious, she had never been so angry before.

She felt as if her heart was about to burn, and the flame seemed to travel along with the heart and blood to her limbs and brain, igniting her scalp and hair.

However, after the dying sister regained her strength, she asked Lilian, "Have you seen the witch?"

Lilian didn't know why the second sister was still paying attention to this issue at this time. She could only reply a little at a loss: "I see."

The second sister said, "What is she like?"

Lilian didn't know how to describe it. After thinking for a long time, she could only say, "Like a witch."

The second sister seemed to understand this sentence, a witch highness who was just like the imagined witch.

For a moment, her eyes were filled with regret.

She shed tears slowly, and at this moment she began to sob: "Unfortunately, I didn't see it."

Lilian looked into the eyes of the second sister, and seemed to see the sound of broken dreams. She knew that the other party yearned for a witch, and the other party seemed to be a perfect existence, because it was written in books, newspapers, and gospels.

Because of being born humble, because of having nothing, because of being out of reach.

So I look forward to the unattainable beauty even more.

Lilian: "I will definitely avenge you."

Next, Lilian went looking for that guy like crazy. She finally found out the identity of the other party, and the other party turned out to be the housekeeper of the owner of the shipbuilding workshop, the shipbuilding workshop where brother Lilian and his father worked.

After she knew the other party's identity, she immediately found her elder brother.

However, after the eldest brother heard the news, the first thing he said was: "He must be made to lose money, and he must be made to pay the price."

Lilian looked at her elder brother in disbelief: "Losing money?"

Lilian got up suddenly, and looked at her elder brother angrily: "He raped the second sister, and you said that he should pay for it. Is this how you protect your family and your younger sister?"

The eldest brother looked at Lilian and said, "What can we do, shall we beat him up, or send him to the trial court?"

"What's the point of that, we have to take this opportunity to get something back."

Lilian opened her mouth wide, her jaw trembling, but she couldn't say a word. according to

Lilian got the news and knew the other party's behavior pattern.

The eldest brother took Lilian and blocked the other party on a remote road, but the other party was still arrogant and domineering and didn't care.

"It's just a washerwoman..."

The other party said so.

The laundress is not a good word, because most of the laundresses do not just wash clothes for others, but also sell their bodies part-time.

While the eldest brother was arguing with the man angrily, Lilith, who had been silent all the way, suddenly walked forward, faster and faster.

She suddenly pulled out a dagger and stabbed it into the opponent's body.

"Pfft!"

Lilian's face was expressionless, but her hands stabbed down again and again fiercely, blood splashed all over her body, dyeing her face blood red.

The other party has made no sound, and she is still waving the dagger. And the eldest brother stood beside him, blood was flowing to his feet, and he seemed to have just recovered.

He looked at Lilian with trembling hands: "You, you murdered!" Lilian stopped, she sat on the ground panting, lowered her head and said stiffly: "I know."

After a while, she added: "I killed the wicked, and he deserved what he deserved."

The eldest brother didn't say anything, and both of them fell silent.

But after a while, tremblingly, he and Lilian dragged each other's body together, and the two handled the body together.

"Come on, come and help."

"No one can discover and know that you killed someone."

The two covered the body with something, filled the blood with soil, and dragged it away with a cart after checking the situation.

At night, the two dug a pit to bury the other's body, but they found a pile of banknotes from the pack animal bag that the other was carrying.

"money!"

"It's gold dollars, it's gold dollars!"

"So much money."

The eldest brother exclaimed, he seemed to have never seen so much money.

Lilian looked at the money. In the past, she always felt that she needed a lot of money, but now seeing so much money, she didn't know why she couldn't be happy at all.

After disposing of the corpse, Lilian and her eldest brother walked back together.

Back home, Lilian walked up to the second sister and finally showed a smile: "Second sister, I avenged you."

The second sister's eyes were still a little dull, she turned her head slightly when she heard Lilian's voice, opened her mouth and said "Oh!"

After a while, she said with tears, "Thank you, Lilian." Lilian looked at the tears of the second sister, and seemed to see no joy at all.

It is a disillusionment of hope for the future, and confusion.

However, when the eldest brother took out those gold dollar banknotes, they piled up in front of the second sister.

The second sister turned her eyes slowly, and said in disbelief.

"So much money?"

The eldest brother cried bitterly while holding the money, and lay down in front of the second sister.

"That's right, we're rich!"

"I have money."

"We finally don't have to suffer. You don't have to wash your clothes with your fingers as cold as radishes. If you came earlier, your father wouldn't have to die from exhaustion."

"Finally, we can live like human beings."

"Dignified man!"

They killed people and got a sum of money, and then used the money to order a magic crystal steamboat that was not too old.

With this magic crystal steamboat, they can open up a situation on the river, they can carry passengers and cargo, at least they can get rid of poverty. On the way, the eldest brother was very excited.

Even Lilian was a little excited, it was a magic crystal steamboat, even if it was a second-hand one.

Although the elder brother didn't dance, and tried to keep his words calm, Lilian could already see that his fingers were trembling, but the reason for the trembling was different from last time.

"Magic Crystal Steamboat!"

"Father has been thinking about a steamboat for so long, but he never got it, and now we have it.

And when they passed by the street, they heard a familiar voice shouting from the street.

"Take them away, search their homes, you must find my money, my money!"

Is the workshop owner of the shipbuilding workshop.

When the two walked into the crowd, they saw that the chubby workshop owner was ordering people to search a small three-story building. An old woman and a woman with three children were kneeling in front of the workshop owner, constantly beg for mercy.

"We really didn't take it, we really didn't take it!"

However, there was no mercy in the workshop owner's eyes, instead he slapped the woman down to the ground.

"That guy ran off with my money, someone has to be responsible, you thieves, you always think about getting something for nothing"

The eldest brother pushed Lilian: "Don't look, we have something to do, go home." Although Lilian left with him, her eyes kept looking at the family, she couldn't be happy, she seemed to be able to see To the end of that family.

On the way, Lilian suddenly said, "We should return it."

The elder brother who was walking in front did not respond, Lilian continued.

"This is not our money, we are here for revenge, not to steal money."

"And the money should belong to the workshop owner. If we take it away, there will be problems, and his family will definitely be implicated."

"They...will die."

The eldest brother didn't stop, but turned his back to Lilian and asked suddenly: "How do you send them back and tell them that we killed them?"

Lilian caught up with her eldest brother and said, "We can quietly send it back to that family. As long as the money is paid up, the workshop owner won't care what happened."

The eldest brother said, "Unfortunately, the money has already been used."

Lilian: "It's just a deposit."

The eldest brother finally stopped and turned to look at Lilian: "The money was given to them, what about us?"

Lilian also stopped and looked into her elder brother's eyes.

"But we're going to kill them."

"An old man, a mother, and three children."

"Five lives!"

The elder brother got angry: "That's the cold-blooded workshop owner, what does it have to do with us?" Vivienne's voice became softer: "We can save them."

However, the elder brother stared at Lilian intently. It seemed that after the night of burying the corpse, the other party also began to change.

The eldest brother said, "Do you think that I have no humanity, that I am all for money?"

Lilian: "I didn't"

The eldest brother quickly interrupted Lilian: "That's what you think." Lilian didn't know how to refute and fell silent.

The eldest brother said: "I don't know what is human and inhuman, cold-blooded and not cold-blooded." "But I know."

"If we don't have money in this world, I will die of illness in the workshop like my father. Your second sister will really become a washerwoman one day, just like those women who sell their bodies while washing clothes."

"I know you are very courageous, and you are unwilling, but no matter how unwilling you are, your courage can only be gradually worn down by reality. I have seen a guy who is too unwilling, so what, in the end, it is not toward Reality bows down."

"And your younger brother's life is destined to be like my father and me, always working in a dark corner of the workshop."

"Our father, I!"

"Your second sister, you, and your younger brother."

"That's the fate of all of them."

"Do you know what I was thinking when I saw your second sister's desperate eyes?"

"I'm thinking.

"This is just the beginning, the beginning of our rush toward despair." "I have to do something, but what can I do?"

The elder brother's face was as stiff as a

He was holding an iron plate, but his muscles and body were shaking constantly. His hands clenched into fists and beat his body one after another.

"I can't change it."

"I don't know how to change that."

"I'm desperate, but I can't scream."

The eldest brother beat his body three times, then gritted his teeth and said.

"But now, we have a chance, a chance to change our destiny."

"I'm going to take this opportunity!"

"I don't want revenge, I don't want humanity and sympathy for others." "I just want your second sister, you, and your brother to get rid of this fate."

"It doesn't matter if it's shameless, or it doesn't matter if it's inhuman."

"Anyway."

"We want to change our destiny."

At this moment, the elder brother who was roaring in a low voice was like a toothed beast that was driven to a corner and went berserk after seeing blood.

Even the fang beasts that are bred for meat will try their best to jump out of the stable once they see hope and muster their courage.

"Didn't you say that those of us who follow the rules can only be swallowed by others?"

"You said that you want to change your destiny, make money and become a big shot. Is this your determination?"

"Or are those words of yours just lip service?"

The eldest brother pointed at Lilian, pointing at her heart.

"human nature!"

"That's what people said."

"Are we human?"

"We're not, we're a bunch of brutes."

"Didn't you say that in our world, people who follow the rules, who are kind and innocent, are destined to be swallowed by others?"

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Lilian looked at her elder brother. It was the first time she realized that her elder brother was like this in his heart. This man who supported the whole family by himself seemed to be a little stupefied, but the despair and pain in his heart erupted like Overwhelming.

She watched her elder brother's tears flow non-stop, his chest heaving and falling, she couldn't say anything, she could only cry ah ah, at this time she was crying like a child of her age.

The eldest brother looked at Lilian who was crying, and suddenly softened, then hugged Lilian in his arms, and said softly.

"You want to be human, you want to be polite, you want to be honest, you want to live like a human being."

"No problem, you are not wrong."

"Lilian, you are right."

"Now!"

"I'll take you to that world."