Chapter 143: Deliverance (4)
They followed the voice, and at this time they could no longer care about concealment, and rushed forward. The voice of the pen and the fun www.biquge.info is, it is the ...... of the little six They were familiar with this voice, the one they heard when they first fell into that barrel, the one he heard when he brought his water when Xuan Qi was seriously ill, such a lovely sound, it could only be Xiao Liu.
However, with a long scream echoing through the forest, the man had picked up his broadsword, and slashed at his arm with both hands, and in an instant blood gushed out from his shoulder, like a dam that had suddenly burst into the flood, and the red seemed to permeate their brains to their eyes.
At this moment, the small bodies of the two of them stood motionless in the grass, and in their field of vision, there was only red, the shocking red, and the arm that fell to the side, gradually losing its blood. That day was the darkest day of his life, he had never seen so many people die, let alone die in front of him, and the death was tragic.
When Xiao Liu died, they were suddenly speechless, and twenty-eight of them came out, but now only two of them remain.
How close is death to them? Maybe the next moment, they will end up in the same way.
They fled in a daze, and ran into the depths of the forest in a daze, and finally found a cave, surrounded by tall trees and dense bushes, relatively hidden, and the night should have been safe for the time being.
None of them could light a fire, and could only watch the night slowly fall, spreading darkness around every corner. The stars are lit up, and there are so many stars tonight, more than usual. Xiaoli began to believe that after death, people will go to the sky and become one of the ten thousand stars, and some people will be bright, and some people will be dark, and then they will stay in the sea of stars together for hundreds of millions of years.
"You say, did Xiao Liu hurt when he died?" Xiao Li suddenly asked, holding his legs.
He blinked and looked at the same sky as her, "Xiao Liu and his sister are there!" Following the direction of his finger were two stars that were very close together, shining with each other, as if they were blinking and talking.
Xiao Li looked at the two stars in a daze and asked, "Xuan Qi, I suddenly feel that it would be good if I made a star like Xiao Liu and everyone else." ”
"Why?" she shook her head, probably because the stars could hang silently in mid-air, probably because she didn't want to live in such fear every day.
"Xiaoli, I want to tell you a secret. ”
She raised her head and looked at Xuan Qi on the side, "Secret?"
Xuan Qi's eyes gradually sank, and for some reason he suddenly wanted to complain, "Actually, I am a prince, this poor worm in the imperial city of the Jade Capital." ”
Her eyes widened and she looked at him, "Prince, you say, you are the prince, from the Imperial City of the Jade Capital, prince?"
Xuan Qi nodded, he had never spoken to anyone here, but he was afraid that one day he would suddenly die and no one would know his identity again.
"Xiaoli, I'm the prince of this jade capital, really. He suddenly became serious, and said in a particularly serious manner.
"Well, there should be someone to save you, there will be a lot of people to save you. Her eyes lit up but suddenly darkened, and she said, "Unlike me, my father and mother don't want me anymore, and no one in this world will come to save me." ”
He habitually touched her head and comforted, "We can escape from here and escape back to Jade Capital City, and your father and mother will be happy at that time." ”
"Really?" her eyes were full of stars, and she was very beautiful.
"Well, definitely, definitely. "He wanted to go back, he wanted to get justice for the twenty-six children who had died, and he suddenly wanted to become the emperor who would eradicate the thieves for the people, and let the blood and fear be repaid to those people.
On the second day, they didn't sleep much that night, and woke up in a daze, but continued to flee, because the only thing they wanted to fulfill their heart's desire was to make sure that they were still alive, and they didn't want to die easily, let alone be the stars in the night sky.
After walking a long way, they were very thirsty and tired, and they did not eat all day and night, and their stomachs could not bear it anymore. There was a small mountain village ahead, and they were lucky enough to get out of this forest in the midst of many complicated paths, but they could not stay here for long, for those people would not spare them easily.
"Sugar gourd! Sugar gourd ......"
They followed the cries and looked around, and although the town was not rich, it had a lot of good food, and their stomachs were almost hungry, and they wanted to put anything in their mouths at once.
"Xuanqi, I'm so hungry, so hungry......" Her stomach couldn't make that gurgling sound anymore, and she really felt that she couldn't run anymore.
They eventually passed by the stalls and walked on, but they were hungry, hungry, as if the sun might dry them at any moment. Most likely, when the time comes, they will starve to death without being killed by the pursuers.
"I can't walk, Xuanqi, I really can't walk. Xiao Li sat on the ground and couldn't get up again.
"Little ......" he took her hand, but slid down weakly again, she really couldn't hold on, indeed, she was just a child.
Xuan Qi suddenly smiled and said to her, "Xiaoli, whatever you want to eat, I forgot that I secretly hid some money, it's really confused, what do you want to eat, I'll go to the place just now to buy it for you!"
“……”
"What?" he leaned his ear closer.
Her faint voice slowly emitted small syllables, "Sugar...... Bottle gourd...... Lu ......"
He gently stroked her head again and comforted, "Okay, I'll buy it now, you count to two hundred, you must count to two hundred, and then I'll be back." Still uneasy, he stroked her head again.
Xiao Li nodded lightly, and as he said, his lips trembled slightly, and he uttered a simple syllable, "One, two......"
Xuan Qi desperately ran back to that town again, he knew that if there was no more to eat, Xiaoli would die, and he would die soon after. He did one thing he might not have done in his life - stealing. How he hated the thieves that he shouldn't have tolen no matter how much life forced him to.
But now, he only wants that string of sugar gourds, that is, sugar gourds tied to that wooden barrel, just one string, one string......
Just as he reached out to pick one off, the boss who sold sugar gourds suddenly reacted, and looked at the child below taking a string of red and bright sugar gourds, and the picture seemed to be suddenly frozen.
"Little rabbit cub, and learn to steal!" he stretched out his hand to grab Xuan Qi, he couldn't break free, it was clear that this was an old man.
Immediately afterwards, many people came, many of the townspeople, some with shovels for farming, some with brooms at home, all wanting to do something to this bad boy.
"This kid doesn't look like it's from our town! Just beat him to death!" said from somewhere in the crowd.
With a pimple in his heart, he held the sugar gourd in his palm and looked at them with fear.
"I think so, everyone knows that Lao Li Tou's life is not easy, although he is just a child, but he can't get used to him like this!"
Suddenly, the crowd became excited, they wanted to execute the thief, and they wanted to vent all the hardships of this difficult life on this unknown child.
I don't know who went down with a broom first, hit Xuan Qi's back, and fell to the ground in response, but fortunately, his hands were supported, and the string of sugar gourds held on his chest was not destroyed. Approaching, they did not let him go because he was a child, as if they had captured a poor beast and left them to toss.
One, two, three...... He couldn't remember how many blows he had received on the back, probably because he had been punished by his mother so often that the broom whips were not enough to bring him down.
The scar on his back slowly oozes blood, but the sugar gourd on his chest is still red.
He knew that he couldn't die, he couldn't die so easily, and there were still people waiting for him in this world.