Chapter 37: A Piece of Jerky

A sound of horses woke Li Xiao up, Li Xiao's armor was hung on the tree, and the reins of the white horse were also hung on the tree, the white horse was dropped in the air, there were several headless people on the tree, who were holding axes and preparing to cut off the head of the white horse, Li Xiao screamed in shock: "Where is the demon!"

The headless people also ignored Li Xiao, only to see a headless man, cut off the horse's head with an axe, and the horse's blood spurted out more than half a zhang, Li Xiao looked at the sword and spear on the ground, but he was hanging on the tree, he made a long move, grabbed it back, broke the branch, picked up the sword and spear, a fierce battle, all the way to the attack, and this fall, I felt that the bones were falling apart, and my body was a little trembling, Li Xiao looked at the headless people in front of him.

Luck luck said: "Where is the demon, is it a person or a ghost?" The headless people didn't seem to be able to understand what Li Xiao was saying, and they walked towards Li Xiao with short axes one by one.

"Whoa" a headless man jumped towards Li Xiao, raised an axe and chopped, Li Xiao turned around, stabbed with the spear in his hand, "poof", penetrated a headless man, blood splashed Li Xiao's face, those headless people saw Li Xiao powerful, frightened screamed, turned around and ran, Li Xiao pulled out the spear, and did not dare to look at the dead headless man, in front of the white horse corpse in the aisle, he said to the white horse: "Brother Ma, I am tired, you can rest." Then he joined the horse's head with the horse, and took his spear, and walked to the other end of the valley.

After walking for a short time, he saw a thatched house, Li Xiao pushed the door and walked in and said, "Is there anyone?"

In the middle of the ring, an old man came out, the old man bowed his waist, full of white hair, and said: "No one has been here for decades, who are you?"

Li Xiao hugged his fists and said: "I am Li Xiao, the expeditionary general, who fought with the Spirit Army, and after the defeat, he fell off the cliff by mistake, and wanted to beg for some food and drink."

The old man said: "There is water, drink it casually, and there are also food that I am afraid that the little general will not be able to eat." ”

Li Xiao said: "It's just when you eat." ”

The old man said, "If you can eat, I'll get you some." With that, he walked into the room.

After a while, the old man came out with a big bowl, some wild vegetables in the evening, and a piece of dried meat, and said to Li Xiao: "Eat"

Li Xiao took it, holding the jerky in one hand and the wild vegetables in the other and stuffing it into his mouth, the old man: "You just said that you fought with the Spirit Army, why did you fight again?"

Li Xiao said: "The spirit army has come to invade our human race again, and we are fighting back." ”

The old man said: "When I was very young, I fought with the Spirit Army, and I can't remember how many years have passed. ”

Li Xiao looked at the old man and said, "Old man, the last time there was a spirit army fighting was more than ninety years ago. ”

The old man said, "Is the emperor outside still surnamed Han now?"

Li Xiao said while eating: "It is surnamed Han, and he is the grandson of Emperor Han Yuan." ”

The old man said: "A grandson is a grandson, and he hasn't come to deliver anything for decades." ”

When Li Xiao heard this, he asked, "Old man, what do you mean by this?"

The old man said: "When I was a child, Han Yuan fought here, and he named me a grain keeper, telling me not to let people in, let alone let the contents out, and to send me some food every few months, and no one has sent me for thirty years." ”

Li Xiao asked again: "What do you eat if no one sends anything?"

The old man said, "I grow some food myself, but now that I'm old, I can't grow it anymore." ”

Li Xiao asked again: "What kind of place is this? Why don't you let people in or let people out?"

The old man said: "This is the headless valley, if you go in, the headless monster will have its head cut off."

When Li Xiao heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and said in his heart: "What I met just now should be"

The old man looked at Li Xiao and said: "There is a savage ditch in the headless valley, and there are savages in the savage ditch who have not yet evolved into humans, these savages are more ferocious than the headless monsters, and the innermost is the falling flower stream, it is said that there is a scattered immortal in the falling flower stream who is practicing, when Han Yuan came here, he cast a spell at the mouth of the valley to prevent the headless monster from coming out, let me watch and don't let people in, so as not to give my life in vain, and I am afraid that someone will disturb the cultivation of the scattered immortals." ”

Li Xiao finished eating the dried meat and wild vegetables and asked, "Has anyone ever come in?"

The old man said: "More than thirty years ago, there were always people who came to the valley, and I couldn't stop them, but these people never came out. ”

Li Xiao nodded and asked, "I don't know how far this place is from Dongning?"

The old man said: "Go out of the valley, you will be able to reach Dongning in about twenty days."

Li Xiao was stunned when he heard this, and said, "How can it be so far?"

The old man said, "This valley is very deep, and the road is not easy to walk. ”

Li Xiao said: "I've been running in Tianshui City for a few hours. ”

The old man said: "If you go to the valley, you can get there in half a day at most, and Han Yuan walked through the valley back then, and you don't dare to walk in the valley alone, little general." ”

Li Xiaoleng paused for a while, felt that his body had strength after eating, and said to the old man: "Thank you, old man, may I ask the surname Gao, who else is in the family?"

The old man said: "I don't remember my name, now I am alone, it turns out that I have a son who died of illness, and my wife also died,"

Li Xiao said: "Old man, don't worry, after I get out of the valley, I will definitely let someone send you food." ”

The old man shook his head and said, "There's no need, old man, I won't live for a few days, and if you eat all my only wild vegetables, I can't pick them." ”

Li Xiao was a little embarrassed and said, "Old man, I don't know this is your only meat dish, I'm really sorry." ”

The old man waved his hand and said, "There is still meat, but I can't eat it."

Li Xiao said: "Is the old man bad at the teeth?"

The old man said: "It's not that your teeth are bad, you eat my wife's meat." ”

Li Xiao was disgusted for a while after hearing this, and the old man said again: "Since I have eaten it, why do you want to vomit, my wife has been dead for a long time, and her body is buried, so I cooked it and dried it into jerky, and when I ran out of food, I didn't feel how to eat it, and later, as soon as I ate it, I dreamed of my wife, and my wife told me, let me go to her, don't eat her meat, I woke up from the dream, and I didn't dare to eat it." ”

Li Xiao vomited for a while, looked at the old man, knelt down on his knees, kowtowed three times, and said to the old man: "Old man, you have a life-saving grace for Li Xiao, this piece of meat, Li Xiao will definitely return it, when Li Xiao comes out of this valley, I will call someone to pick you up, and I will send you to the end of your old age" After speaking, he got up and bowed again.

The old man sighed and said, "That's it, if you had come a few years earlier, maybe I would have gone with you, and now I can't go anywhere, you go, little general, if you really want to repay me, send someone to collect my body, bury me, clean up my thatched house, and bury me in the ground." ”

Li Xiao's eyes were a little moist, he picked up the spear, and walked out of the door, and then the old man said again: "Little general, don't go to the valley." Li Xiao nodded, walked out of the thatched house, and walked towards the valley.