Chapter 6: Wayfinding

After crossing the river, I saw that no one was chasing after me, and I thought that I was temporarily saved. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The two children lay on the bank of the river for the night, and when they woke up the next morning, they struggled out of the riverbank, found a dry muddy meadow, and rested for more than two hours. It was only in the middle of the day that the protest of the 'rumbling' of their stomachs kept ringing before they were forced to get up again and grope their way forward.

On the other side of the river, the place is desolate, and you can't touch a person along the way. But the nine-year-old Qin Siyang is still like a frightened bird, as soon as there is any trouble, he panics and wants to hide.

It won't take long to do this, and Liu Shuangli can't stand it anymore.

"Be careful, that's not how it works. Liu Shuangli shouted as low as possible, "I have studied martial arts, practiced ear power, and I can hear anyone walking within a hundred steps, so you can relax and go, okay?"

Qin Siyang stared at Liu Shuangli, at this moment, he was wearing Liu Shuangli's men's clothes, the clothes were longer, fortunately, although he was a head shorter than Liu Shuangli in height, but the two were about the same in terms of size. Therefore, when you put on Liu Shuangli's clothes, you only need to roll up the trouser legs and sleeves, and the rest look quite fitting.

"Surely you won't be discovered?" Qin Siyang asked uneasily.

"Little ghost, don't be afraid of being like this, relax?"

"I'm not a ghost. Ignoring the meaning of Liu Shuangli's words, the boy struggled with the first two words.

"You're a kid, you're only nine years old. ”

"What about being nine years old, you look down on people. Qin Siyang said.

"You little ghost, you're really tough. Liu Shuangli said angrily.

"Don't call me a ghost anymore, do you hear me, I'm not a ghost. Qin Siyang blushed angrily.

"Shouting so loudly, aren't you afraid of being discovered now?" Liu Shuangli couldn't help but smile lightly.

"You-" Qin Siyang was speechless for a while.

"Haha, a ghost is a ghost. Liu Shuangli chuckled.

"Again, don't call me a ghost. Qin Siyang still entangled this question and complained loudly.

"Okay, okay, I'm not mad at you. Liu Shuangli tilted his head and smiled comfortingly. I turned my head to look at the road ahead, and found that the trees were thinning out as I walked down. From a distance, it is an empty flat land, with nothing to hide, and if a person walks on it, even if he is completely silent, it is very easy to be discovered by people from a distance.

"Go straight down?" asked Liu Shuangli.

"No, if you go any further, you'll be discovered by those people. Qin Siyang stopped, clasped his hands in front of his chest and said.

"Those mysterious people are all black-clad and masked, who are they?Why do you go to such trouble to hunt you down?" Liu Shuangli also stopped, and couldn't help but ask the boy again.

Qin Siyang actually had the intention to avoid this question, and when he heard Liu Shuangli ask again, he only replied vaguely: "I don't know who they are, there are too many people who want to kill me, I can't tell which side they are." ”

"Ah", Liu Shuangli looked at the boy in disbelief, and was really puzzled by his answer.

I really believe the boy's words, I can't talk about it. But if you don't believe it, why should the boy lie to himself with such words?

Remembering that when he crossed the river the night before, the boy said that his relatives were among the people who pursued him.

If it is really the people who are close to you who are chasing and killing, it is really not ordinary miserable, it is even worse than your own situation!

Liu Shuangli shook his head with a wry smile, and didn't ask the boy about it again.

The autumn sun is like a tiger, and walking on a hungry stomach makes people tired just once.

Qin Siyang sat on the ground tiredly, then buried his head under his knees, and rested for a long time before he eased up a little. After recovering his strength, he looked up at the road ahead, but the boy said with some despair: "The people who protected me are dead, and I have nowhere to go now." ”

I didn't know where to go for the time being, so Liu Shuangli sat on the ground with the boy, looked at the flat river in front of him, and responded, "I, like you, am also a person who has nowhere to go." ”

"Are you too?" Qin Siyang said curiously.

"Yes, why would I have stayed in the mountains at night, and I would have been unlucky enough to see you being hunted down. Liu Shuangli lowered his head and said.

When he crossed the river last night, Qin Siyang spent most of his time unconscious, and it was impossible for him to remember what Liu Shuangli said. Now listening to Liu Shuangli say this, it is the first time for him to hear about Liu Shuangli's life experience, and he asked curiously: "What about your relatives?"

"They're long gone. Liu Shuangli smiled bitterly and looked up at the blue sky.

"Gone?"

"It's just dead. Liu Shuangli said quietly, "There was a drought in the township that year, and the family was so poor that they had no food, and the owner came to force debts." The family had no money or food, so my mother was forcibly dragged by them to pay the debt, and then somehow died at the owner's house. My father was afraid of things and ran away from home with me overnight. On the way to escape, he left everything he could eat for me, but he fell ill with hunger, and then he went. ”

Qin Siyang was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and looked blankly at Liu Shuangli, who was caught in painful memories, before he asked again: "Then what happened to you later-"

"Me?" Liu Shuangli smiled, raised his hand and pretended to be relaxed and replied: "I want to count my luck, at the moment when my father was in the past, I happened to meet Master." Master liked me very much, and after my father left, he took me back to Shimen and accepted me as a closed disciple. ”

"Oh, who is your master?"

Liu Shuangli didn't answer, turned his head sideways to look at the boy and grinned, blinked and asked, "Little ghost, you asked me so much, I answered them all." And what about yourself, what is the situation, why are you being hunted down like this?"

Qin Siyang was stunned for a moment, and held back for a long time before replying in a muffled voice: "Okay, don't call me a little ghost, my name is Qin Siyang." ”

"Okay, okay!" Seeing that the boy was struggling with this question again, Liu Shuangli waved his hand again and again, and said, "Seeing that you are like this, I won't call you a little ghost in the future, just call you Siyang, it's okay, right?"

"Well, that's good!, then I'll call you double-leave!" replied the boy with a serious face.

"Hey, that's not right, you should call me sister. ”

"I don't have a sister. ”

"You little guy, why are you so awkward. Okay, okay, I'm an adult, and I don't care about you. ”

"Don't call me a little one. ”

"Okay, okay, I won't even tell you about this 'small' word in front of you in the future, oops, it's really damn. ”

"Damn it?"

"No, it's nothing. Liu Shuangli smiled bitterly.

As the hour slipped past noon, the two children, who had not eaten half a grain of rice for two days, began to protest with their stomachs rumbling again. I haven't eaten for two days, and I tried my best to cross the river last night, and my physical strength has already been overdrawn. They know that if they don't find food to replenish their strength quickly, there is only a dead end waiting for them.

Liu Shuangli stood up, looking at the road ahead without covering, the official road is in front of him, as long as he walks down the official road, he will definitely find the village market town. If there are villages and towns, there will naturally be something to eat. But when she thought of Qin Siyang's situation, she was helpless again.

"However, it is difficult for us to find villages and towns without going on official roads. We can't meet anyone, and we don't know the way, where can we find food?" Liu Shuangli said with annoyance.

"The official road ahead is going all the way in this direction. Qin Siyang said, raised his finger and pointed to the mountain forest on the left and said, "And this forest has always been around this official road." I don't think we have to go to the official road, as long as we go into this forest and follow the direction of the official road, we should be able to find villages and towns. ”

"Hey, is it?" Liu Shuangli carefully identified the direction of the official road in front of him, then looked at the forest on the left, and said with a smile, "Yes, this forest has been walking around the official road, we are just afraid of being discovered, so it is the same to hide in the forest." ”

Saying that, Liu Shuangli looked back at the boy and praised: "Siyang, you are good, you can see so far." “

Hearing the praise, Qin Siyang didn't look happy at all, just looked ahead with a gloomy expression.

Liu Shuang ignored the boy's annoyance, and still smirked alone. After some conversation, she suddenly realized that it was not bad to save this little ghost, although she didn't know who he was, and the boy was very scruples and didn't want to talk about himself. But what about this? Everyone is a hard-working person, and sometimes she can't help but feel sad when she thinks of her own life, not to mention this boy who almost lost his life for this, and she must be even more sad than herself when she thinks about it, so why should she bother to ask him to talk about it?

Naturally, Liu Shuangli also understands that saving this little ghost will undoubtedly be a big trouble, and it may endanger her life if she doesn't say it well. But now that she has made a move, she can no longer sit idly by. Thinking about growing so big, her life has never been lucky. When he was six years old, he was lucky enough to be loved by his master and brought back to his master to raise him, but in the end, his master was ruthlessly destroyed. Even so, with this little ghost walking together, at least in her future wandering career, she will no longer be so lonely and lonely, and she has a little worry in her heart, and her lonely heart must be better.

is the so-called the same end of the world, why should we have met before!

Thinking of this, Liu Shuangli smiled again.

According to what Qin Siyang pointed out, the two children walked around the mountain forest on the left, chatting casually all the way and walking slowly. Although from time to time they will encounter large rocky ditches blocking the way, they will pass by going around a little.

Qin Siyang has a good sense of direction, and he can clearly distinguish the direction just by feeling when he moves forward in the mountain and stone forest. Every time I walk to the edge of the forest, I can always see the official road on the flat ground in the distance at a glance, extending all the way.

Although there was nothing to eat, Liu Shuangli carried a gourd full of water, which she had filled by the river last night. There is nothing hard to fill their stomachs, they drink water on an empty stomach, and their stomachs are 'growling' in protest, but they have no choice but to drink water, because it is necessary to sustain life.

In this way, the stomach was filled with water, and the two children walked for more than an hour. When both of them felt that they were going to reach their limit, they finally saw the smoke rising from the air not far ahead.

Even if there is smoke, it means that there are people living in front of you, and there is hope!