The rain was pouring down, the wind was howling, and a thin curtain of rain had been hung on the eaves outside the window.

At this time, Zhao Hao was sitting on a soft leather sofa, stirring the bonfire in front of him, roasting a thick corbel, and from time to time grabbing a puff of spices from the side and sprinkling it on it, the aroma had already filled the entire room.

Occasionally, a drop of yellow-orange-orange grease dripped from the campfire, and there was a zizi sound in the campfire, and another pot of stock was cooking next to it, making a gurgling sound.

A dirty, unkempt young man was squatting on another sofa at the moment, holding a piece of meatloaf in his hand that was about to be eaten, his mouth was full of muttering, swallowing hard, raising his head from time to time to look at Zhao Hao, and then looking at the barbecue in his hand, a trace of longing flashed in his eyes.

Zhao Hao could naturally feel the young man's gaze, and smiled slightly, but he was surprised by the amount of food in the other party, you must know that the meatloaf is the daily food of professionals in the dark world, and it is full of portions.

For professionals with a large amount of food, they are full after eating two or three pieces in a meal, and ordinary people can make their bellies round with one piece, but the young man next to him has already eaten two pieces in a row at this time, and the belly still looks a little empty, which is a little surprising.

"It's also a gift, isn't it?If you can eat it~"

Zhao Hao shook his head slightly, turned over his hand and took out two white porcelain plates, cut off the roasted beef leg one by one with a dagger, and poured some sour and spicy sauce on the side.

"Goo Dong~!" Seeing this, the young man on the side swallowed his saliva hard, his eyes were a little straight, but he didn't dare to take the initiative to come over and get food.

"Eat, take a shower and change your clothes when you're done, I've got some old clothes I wore before, they may be a little out of size, but they're better than what you're wearing now. ”

Zhao Hao said, handed over a large plate of roast beef, reached out and took a pair of chopsticks, who would have thought that the young man couldn't wait to eat it with his hands, looking at the gobbling up, as if the two meatloaf that he had eaten before was not a big deal.

Zhao Hao only smiled when he saw this, took back his chopsticks, turned over and took out a large box of yogurt, opened it and handed it over, and said softly: "Don't choke, drink some of this, there is still a lot of meat here, enough for you to eat." ”

When the young man heard this, he reached out to take the box of yogurt, looked up and poured a big mouthful into his mouth, leaving two lines of tears silently, and then did not say anything, and continued to eat with his head buried in it

More than half an hour later, the sky outside has gradually cleared, and the original black and oppressive rain clouds have already shown signs of clouds opening and fogging at this time, but the wind is still relatively strong, whirring, rolling up the wind and waves from time to time to lap the beach.

The fire in the woods caused by Zhao Hao's deliberate arson has been completely extinguished at this moment, and not even a little smoke can float anymore.

At this time, the young man has already washed his whole body, well~ or should it be said that it is a little girl, originally because of her dirty dress and unkempt appearance, she can't see her appearance clearly, but she looks a little sloppy, plus the ancients are used to having long hair for both men and women, so that even Zhao Hao can't help but look a little away.

At this time, the little girl was wearing a few clothes that he had worn back from the dark world, and her whole body was curled up on the soft sofa and looked at him, her clean and fair face had a bit of girlish softness, and it looked red in the light of the fire.

The original unkempt grass-like hair had changed at this time, lying softly on the side of the cheek, shiny black, and in the wide robe, the soft little body looked like it was only seven or eight years old.

"Okay, now that you're full of food and drink, tell me about the situation in this village, when I came here before, I saw a lot of corpses in the waterhole outside the village, and now I have been overtaken by the poor road, you should be from this village, right?"

Zhao Hao was holding two cups of prepared hot coffee in his hand at the moment, one was handed to the little girl, and one was held by himself, sat down on the sofa, and asked.

"I, my name is Huang Xiaoyu, and I grew up by the sea since I was a child"

With the narration of this little girl named Huang Xiaoyu, Zhao Hao finally knew the murderer of this village, as he had guessed before, the murderer was a group of vicious and vicious widows who came across the sea.

In fact, it is not only this village, many villages near this coast have been attacked by the Japanese pirates, before every once in a while, this group of beasts will come back to burn and loot, and then they will take advantage of the arrival of the officers and soldiers to flee by boat, although the village will also suffer heavy losses, but there are still seeds, not like this time the whole village was slaughtered.

This time, there seemed to be more people coming, and the scale of the raid was much larger than in the past, not to mention the scale of three or four thousand people, which was menacing, and even if the regular army of the Ming Dynasty was encountered, it was no longer like before and fled, but confronted it head-on.

Due to the lack of preparation, the troops stationed in the surrounding area had suffered heavy losses at this time, and had no choice but to retreat towards the city, relying on the city walls to confront it.

Seeing this, the gang of would-be robbers knew that they would not be able to capture the city guarded by the walls, so they did not stay here any longer, and continued to fight elsewhere, all the way to the north along the coast.

Huang Xiaoyu, this girl, is actually not from this village, but compared to the villagers who were slaughtered here, the situation of her original village is not much better, and there are very few survivors in the entire village.

Huang Xiaoyu is naturally more able to eat, most of the time in this small fishing village on the coast does not have enough to eat, because the little girl is more sensible, she does not want to cause too much burden to the family, so she will often choose to go out to find food by herself.

And this time, it was also the time when she went out to forage for food, and she never thought that this act happened to save her own life.

When the group of shaved pirates passed by her village, Huang Xiaoyu was holding a harpoon and lying on a reef to fish, and witnessed the murderous little girl of the pirates, and was so frightened that she jumped directly into the water.

Finally, I dived and escaped, hiding in a hidden reef depression formed by the impact of the waves, and hid for a day and a night before I dared to come out.

When I returned to the village, I saw that it had been completely destroyed by the Japanese bandits, that my parents, grandparents, and grandparents had been slaughtered, and that everything of value had been looted, and that there was nothing left to eat.

In this case, Huang Xiaoyu was grief-stricken, panicked in his heart, and at the same time, the signs of hatred had quietly grown.

But in order to survive, she could only bury her parents and relatives, while looking for something to eat everywhere, while quietly falling behind the gang of widows.

It's just that I didn't expect that the gang of would-be robbers seemed to be very cunning, even when they burned and looted all the way, they didn't forget to do a good job of reconnaissance and palace work, before that, Huang Xiaoyu's whereabouts were discovered by the other party, and a few would-be robbers came quietly.

Thanks to this little girl, although she is young, she is very smart and clever, and her personality is more cautious, after finding out that things are not good, she turned around and ran away, escaped all the way up and down the sea, climbed trees and hidden, and finally she was hungry and couldn't stand it, so she came to this village to look for food, but she happened to meet Zhao Hao.

"In this way, the manpower of those gangsters is actually not too far from here?" Zhao Hao asked with a calm face, in fact, in his heart at this moment, a violent intention was brewing.

"It's about a dozen miles away from here, and I escaped from there, Dao Chief, are you going to kill the Japanese Kou?

After listening to Zhao Hao's words, Huang Xiaoyu seemed to think of something, and his body, which was originally curled up in the sofa, sat up suddenly, and asked with a look of hope.

"You're still young, even if I take you there, you won't be able to help, and you'll have to let me distract and take care of you when the time comes, eh?" Zhao Hao's voice suddenly paused, and the eyes that had been staring at the door suddenly flashed a trace of gray light, and then the sneer on his face flashed away, and continued.

"If you really want to follow, I won't stop you, but you have to say it in advance, follow me, I will be responsible for your food, but not responsible for protecting your safety, do you still want to follow?"

As soon as the words fell, Zhao Hao's whole person disappeared in an instant, and Huang Xiaoyu was directly stunned there.

Halfway through the flight, the long sword was in his hand, and it turned into a blurred white shadow along with Zhao Hao's vigorous posture.

At this time, the sky has begun to open with clouds and mist, and the sun is shining, and the brilliant golden light penetrates the clouds and falls to the ground, which is particularly dazzling.

Huang Xiaoyu only had time to quickly get up from the sofa and ran to the door, and saw that Zhao Hao had returned with a sword in one hand at this time, with a golden light printed on his back.

And in his other hand, three bald heads were staring at him with round eyes, with sloppy beards and fierce faces, which were the same few robbers who had chased after him before!

Seeing this, Huang Xiaoyu ran out barefoot, his eyes were red, ignoring the muddy water and gravel on the ground, a pair of pink fists clenched tightly, as if he wanted to smash the three heads.

"Wait. Seeing this, Zhao Hao turned his palm and put away the long sword, and stopped Huang Xiaoyu, who was eyebrow-up, with one hand, and said.

"If you want to kill the Japanese invaders, there will be a chance in the future, so keep this head for the time being, and I will take them to worship the people in this village. ”

As he spoke, Zhao Hao looked at the little girl's bare feet, reached out and stroked her head, and said softly, "Go back and put on your shoes first." ”

Half an hour later, Zhao Hao took Huang Xiaoyu to the side of the waterhole outside the village, which could no longer be called a waterhole, because all the water here had been steamed dry by the previous fire.

Even if it had just rained, there was only a small layer of muddy liquid in the pool, and at best it could only be called a quagmire.

In the middle of the quagmire, a patch of bones and limbs were stacked there, and the fire had burned many of the bones to pieces, except for a few intact white bone skulls, only a pile of debris remained.

Before this quagmire, the heads of the three would-be were lined up, and a fine arrow passed through the center of the head, like a string of sugar gourds, and the arrows were stuck straight into the dirt.