Chapter 300: Ah Li
Changtian asked her in a low voice, "Now, what are you going to do?"
She understood the reason why Nangong Zhen entrusted her with the aftermath. Guangcheng Palace has been closed, and since she is outside, it means that she has left Guangcheng Palace before Yin Jiuyou was born, and it is impossible for her to be possessed. Nangong really didn't want to hand these things to his disciples, but he would rather take the risk of believing a little girl who met in Pingshui, isn't this a kind of sadness?
"We can't afford to delay any longer, just leave. She pondered for a moment before saying, "The top priority is to get you out of prison first." Yin Jiuyou's desire to seize the power of Guangcheng Palace is not something that can be completed in a day or two, so find an opportunity to hand over the token and jade slip to Bai Qing. As for Qianjintang, let's talk about it later. ”
She repaired another letter and attached it to the green worm money, and released it to find Miluo. Eight days later, when Guangcheng Palace reopened the mountain gate, Miluo would be able to receive the letter. In the letter, she detailed the matter of Baihuo Valley assigning the Wu family to inquire about the news of Fengtianfu, and asked him to send someone to the Wu Mansion to receive information and save the Wu family.
There is a saying that the enemy of an enemy is a friend. If the Valley of Worship Fire and Yin Jiuyou are inseparable, then why can't she pull Fengtianfu onto the warship?
(This is the end of the Guangcheng Palace Scroll.) Next volume, Bai Yujing)
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In mid-August, in Liangzhou.
There are many canyons and rivers in this state. The fierce wind from the northwest is like a knife, carving the mountain into a strange rock, dangerous peaks and towering momentum. The river trudged through a difficult trek and was fragmented by a canyon, creating many small inter-river shallows. Walking between such mountains and rivers has become a particularly difficult task.
Now. There is a small team that is rising to the challenge. They climbed over treacherous cliffs, through dense forests that saw no day, and escaped the sound of water to the river.
I saw the water. Everyone let out a long sigh. The leader shouted, "Rest in place." Leave in an hour!"
The people seemed exhausted, and only a few strong men had enough strength to go into the woods to collect firewood and wild vegetables, while the women picked up pebbles on the river beach and prepared the stoves. A man sitting on the ground gasping for breath untied a cloth bag behind him, took out a handful of unsifted flour from it and threw it into the pot, and the women then threw the washed wild vegetables into the pot and stirred it repeatedly. This makes a pot of batter soup.
The adults were so tired that they were about to fall apart, but there was a little girl with big eyes who ran back and forth energetically, and helped pull a lot of wild vegetables. However, no one thought of her when she drank the soup. It wasn't until the batter in the pot had bottomed out that a dark and thin middle-aged woman beckoned to her and said, "Ah Li, you can eat some too." ”
Ah Li took out a broken bowl out of nowhere and happily handed it over. But when retracting the hand. There was only a small half bowl of mush in the bowl, and she only had to take a hard sip to drink it all. But she didn't, but held the bowl, squinted, drank it little by little, and finally licked the bottom of the bowl with great satisfaction.
This small bowl of batter was in my stomach, and I was even more hungry, but Ah Li didn't dare to say it. Disaster in the stockade. The hearts of those who escaped were heavy. If she dared to clamo for more food, the villagers would probably leave her alone. In her ears, she could vaguely hear Wangcuo's mother crying in a suppressed voice. While crying and cursing, Ah Li, that little wild seed is not dead, why is her family's Wangcuo gone.
Wangtso, like most people in the village, did not survive the disaster. But she survived, and she, a girl who had no father, no mother, no support, and no home, did not die in that disaster.
She rolled up her sleeves and helped the women brush the pots and bowls, the fish in the river was only the length of her palm, smelled the smell of batter, and quickly swam over to grab food. Ah Li had an idea, picked up a handful of hedges and soaked them in the river water, and poured all the water from the bowls into the hedges. After a while, the white flour residue sank to the bottom, and a few timid fish wandered for a long time, but at last they could not resist the temptation of food, and dared to swim into the fence.
She lifted her hand and pulled it out, and the fence was out of the water, and she sifted the greedy little fish into the lattice. "Hey, we've got fish to eat!" Ali announced triumphantly.
The villagers did not answer her, but a gentle voice came from beside her: "Little girl, you are so smart. ”
She raised her eyes and saw a young man in a green shirt with a long figure and a temperament that she had never seen before, but she immediately remembered a word that Xixi in the village had said, called "Sven Xiuqi", this young man's eyes were bright and bright, faintly revealing a warm light.
Hey, when did this man come to him?
Ah Li looked at it and blushed a little. After a long time, she realized that behind the boy stood a strange giant creature, with a body like a lion, four legs, a tail like a snake, and wings covered with thick feathers. The strangest thing is that this guy has the head of an eagle, sharp eyes, and a pointed beak like a hook, and looks at her like a fat and juicy little lamb.
Because of this malicious look, she took a step back slightly, only to find that the people in the stockade had long been hiding far away. The thin, dark woman looked uneasily.
"Don't be afraid. The boy laughed, "It doesn't eat people." Uh, no more cannibalism. He looked at the villagers in the distance, then at the little girl, and suddenly frowned, "Among them, there are no relatives of yours?"
Ah Li blinked and said, "You're so smart." How do you know?"
The young man smiled: "If you have a close relative, I should have carried you back when I came down, and if there are distant relatives, I should also beckon you to go back, how can I let you face the unknown danger?" The young man's white teeth made her envious. In the village, only the head family is qualified to rinse her mouth with green salt, and she can only brush her teeth with wicker.
Ah Li suddenly felt a little ashamed, she pursed her lips tightly and didn't dare to show her teeth, for fear that he would find out that her teeth were not white enough.
How did the boy know that these strange thoughts flashed through the heart of this seven-year-old girl. He asked Ah Li in a harmonious voice: "You are locals, you should be familiar with this area." I'll ask you about a village called a slatted village, you know?"
She nodded, then shook her head again, and said sadly in the young man's surprised gaze, "You know, we are all from the Slatted Village. But the village was suddenly flooded last night, and only a few of us escaped. The stockade, the stockade is gone. ”
"Flooded?" the young man was startled and said to Ah Li, "You show me the direction, and I'll go over and see for myself, okay?"
Ah Li stretched out his little finger and pointed to the other side of the dangerous peak, and then instructed him: "The stockade has been submerged under water, and it is not easy to find." However, there was originally a white boulder next to the stockade, which was very recognizable. ”
The boy said softly, "Thank you." Have you ever seen such a big rock when you were in the stockade?" he gestured with his hand, "at least it looks like a stone." It should be the size of a fist, the color of gold all over it, very beautiful, and it may also be offered in a shrine or temple in the village. ”
Ah Li thought carefully and thought about it, and finally shook his head and said, "No, we don't have that thing in the village." ”
The young man was not discouraged, and took out a big red apple from his arms and handed it to her: "This is for you." Eat it now. He glanced at the villagers in the distance.
Ah Li felt embarrassed to eat in front of him, but the young man insisted on asking, so she still tried to bite as gently as possible under the gaze of the other party. When she finished eating the apple, her face was as red as the apple.
The boy rubbed her hair and rode away on the monster. The monster flapped its wings as it took off, and the wind that raised made it impossible for her to even stand still.
It's really strange, why didn't she realize when this giant bird went down to the ground just now?
Her stomach was full. Ah Li looked at the sky in a daze. It wasn't until the giant bird carrying the boy turned into a small black dot on the horizon that the villagers leaned over and began to pack up the things on the ground.
She knew that someone was pointing fingers at her, saying that she had the benefit of the fairy master. She also knew why the boy had to eat the big apple in front of her - he and she knew that if he turned and flew away, the apple would fall into the hands of someone else.
Ah Li felt that he was very gentle, and he was different from the ruthless fairy lord in the legend.
But their path was different, this was just a small meeting in Pingshui, so half an hour later, the villagers were led by the leader and re-embarked on the road. The head man said that they would have to walk more than 200 miles to another cottage. That village has a relationship with the head, and it is easy to place such a dozen or so people.
Two hours later, they climbed another hill and entered a dense forest. The leader was in a hurry, because in two hours, it would be dark. And deep in the mountains, the wild means danger. They need food, they need hot water, they need shelter from the elements.
Even as a child who is used to being wild in the mountains, Ah Li doesn't like this forest. It's so dense that the trees here are short, but the extremely vigorous foliage weaves a thick barricade in the air, almost making it impossible to walk. Two sturdy villagers waved machetes in front of them, trying to cut a way out of the forest.
One woman was not paying attention, and with a soft snort, the hem of her linen dress was cut by a branch, and a small strip of cloth was cut off. She cursed softly.
As we walked, it began to get dark, the power of the sun faded, and the water vapor in the forest began to transpire into a milky white fog, which spread across the dense forest.
The arrival of the dense fog made the road more and more difficult to walk. All the men were muttering curses, while the women pursed their lips in apprehension, trying to keep up with the troops.
An hour later, they hadn't come out of the woods.
A villager asked the leader: "Is the direction right?" The leader frowned and said: "This road was walked by me fifteen years ago, and there was no such dense forest here at that time. He thought about it, and there was no other good way, so he had to urge everyone to move on. (To be continued......)