Love That Is so Humble That It Leads to Death

In the second year of Qianfu, Emperor Xizong of the Tang Dynasty, there was a severe drought in the Central Plains. The land was bare for thousands of miles, and locust plagues covered the sun. From Tongguan to the East China Sea, there was no grain in the fields and no grain of food for the people. Government taxes were not reduced, cruel officials pressed hard like tigers, and the people were displaced and died of hunger. Finally, Wang Xianzhi of Puzhou rose up against the Tang Dynasty. People in Huangchao gathered to respond to the grievances, and the war swept through Henan, Shandong, and Huainan. Known as the Huangchao Rebellion in history. The world is in turmoil, wars are raging, and even the most remote mountain villages have been crushed to pieces by this troubled world. No one remembers that there is a small village called Qingshigou in the mountains to the west of Luzhou on Huainan Road. The village is hidden in the folds of the mountains, with only a dozen households. It relies on mountains and water to feed itself. It is already barren, and in the face of successive years of famine, it is even more precarious. People here live just to live. Love is more luxurious than food. In this troubled world, even a humble life has become a luxury.