The sun was rising, and Zhang Xing felt that her throat was starting to smoke. On August and September days, the airtight room was like a big steamer, and the sweat on her body came out one by one, because she was really hungry, she didn't even bother to raise her hands, motionless and crooked, letting her clothes dry and wet and dry.

The stone was also boring, and it was crooked next to Zhang Xing.

None of the more than ten children made a sound, the room was quiet, the hot light and shadow on the ground slowly slanted eastward, gradually dimmed, and a clear moon rose. The door of the house was opened with a bang, and Ah Si's slender figure appeared at the door, his face in the light and shadow could not see the expression clearly, and he only felt cold when he looked at it, and his eyes seemed to be snakes. ”

Zhang Xingshi and the two stood up together, and the rest of the children also stood up. Seeing that all the children stood up, Ah Si shouted again and ordered them to follow.

The children only said that they could eat immediately, and although they were dizzy from early hunger, they still followed in a hurry. Zhang Xing and Shi walked to the back of the road, Shi Shi was also very anxious, seeing that the rest of the children jumped to the front, squatted down in front of Zhang Xing, looked back and said, "Xing'er, I'll carry you away." ”

Zhang Xing hurriedly pulled him up and said, "Don't, I can go, you get up quickly." Seeing that her hands were still strong, and did not look like she was starving and prostrating, the stone was stunned in his heart, and expected that she was probably pretending again, although he did not know the reason, but thinking that she had never done useless things, he got up and still held on. The two walked slowly.

At the corner of the corridor, they saw the children in the other rooms, all of them looking hungry. Ye Shen was carrying his younger brother Ye Huan behind the team. The four of them glanced at each other, but did not speak, and each followed.

After walking through the corridor, I turned into a forest. Seeing the dense and gloomy trees on both sides, Zhang Xing felt uneasy, seeing that no one was paying attention to them, he pulled the stone and whispered: "No matter what happens in a while, don't act rashly, remember to remember." ”

The stone fox looked at her suspiciously, and was about to ask each other, when the lights around her gradually brightened, and someone was following from behind. He tightened Zhang Xing's hand.

The man carrying the lantern was always not far from them, and it was difficult for the two to talk again. Following the crowd through the woods, a wall several feet high appeared in front of them, and there was an iron gate about two people high in the wall, and on each side of the door were more than ten people holding torches and wearing short black clothes.

At this time, Zhang Xing didn't say anything, and the stone also noticed that it was not good. Ye Shen also put his younger brother Ye Huan down, looking at the strict high wall and iron gate in a daze. However, the road had come to this point, and they could not help it retreat. The person carrying the lantern in the back directly pushed a few of them in.

Entering the gate, it is a courtyard again, but it is not like an ordinary courtyard, the courtyard is bare, there are no shadow walls, and there are no trees, but there are many horses standing, and more than a dozen small servants are cleaning up.

Since Zhang Xing entered the gate, he paid attention to every place around, and found that there was new mud on many horses' hooves, obviously after a long journey, but the gate of the main courtyard was closed, and the lights were bright inside, and the people were buzzing, but he didn't know who came.

"What are you looking at? Hurry up, go quickly. The man with the lantern pushed Zhang Xing again. Zhang Xing stumbled and almost fell, but fortunately, Shiyan grabbed it quickly, handed her a look, led her, and followed everyone into the side gate next to the main courtyard.

In the side door was a long corridor, with lights on the wall, and a black-clothed cold-faced man stood every ten steps.

When they had finished walking down the corridor, they were pushed into a room, where all the children were, standing in the middle, looking around blankly. On both sides of the house were three iron cages against the wall, which were sealed on three sides, and only one iron door was wide open, about two feet wide apart from each other, and there were people standing beside them. Inside facing the door was a high platform, and four strong men with cold expressions stood condescendingly with their hands on their backs.

Zhang Xingshi and the two stood in the middle of the crowd hand in hand, their chests were pounding, and they didn't dare to make a sound. In a panic, four strong men standing on the high platform came down, grabbed the children standing in the middle of the room one by one, and pushed or threw them into the iron cage. Soon arrived at Zhang Xingshi and the two of them. Zhang Xing's hand was suddenly pulled, but the stone was lifted up by a strong man with a bearded face like an iron tower, and he screamed in panic and refused to let go.

The strength of the two children was no match for the adults, Zhang Xing only felt that his hand was slipping, and the strong man had already turned around with the stone, and with a wave of his big hand, he threw the stone into the iron cage. After the stone got up, he hurriedly rushed out. The man standing next to the cage pulled down the cage door.

The stone shook the cage door a few times with both hands, and when he saw that he didn't move, he had to look at Zhang Xing and shout: "Xing'er, Xing'er." ”

Zhang Xing looked at the panicked stone, his hands unconsciously clenched into fists, his chest rose and fell a few times, and finally swallowed his saliva and suppressed the urge to touch his sleeves. As soon as she was calm, the back of her neck was suddenly lifted, and her feet soared into the air.

Stone looked at her with the cage door in his hand, and shouted, "Apricot!

Zhang Xing shook her head lightly at him, and threw her forward with a wave of momentum. She fell onto a human cushion, and when she stood up, the door of the iron cage "clanged" shut.

The stone was in a cage in the middle over there, and Zhang Xing was in the last cage on the opposite side. The children in the cage stood up one after another, and they all rushed to the door of the cage, looking out in panic.

The four strong men had already stood back in their place.

After a while, there was no change in the room, and the panicked children in the cage gradually quieted down.

Zhang Xing looked at the cage she was in, there was nothing in it except for eight children. Among the eight children, in addition to her, there is a girl named Shuanghong, and the rest are all boys, two of whom she is more familiar with, one is named Loach, which is a group of stones, and the other is a group of Qian Kun, which seems to be called Ah Sheng. When he was fighting in a group, this Ah Sheng kicked Zhang Xing with a wolf, so every time he met Ah Sheng, he would give Zhang Xing a vicious look. After being stared at for a long time, Zhang Xing naturally remembered her.

Zhang Xing has always been quiet and dull, and the children of a boatload, except for a few long-term mixed people, are not familiar with the rest. So she couldn't remember the names of the other children in the cage.

As the children questioned each other, the door opened again, and a tempting aroma of meat wafted in, and the children stopped talking and turned their heads. Four large tables were carried in turn, placed on a high platform, and were filled with chickens, ducks, fish, meat, melons, fruits, and vegetables of various delicacies, swimming in the sea, running on the ground, with a wide variety and rich aroma.

was starved for two days and one night, and when they saw so much delicious food at first glance, the children's eyes couldn't be taken off, and even Zhang Xing couldn't help but swallow hard.

A man in a green cloth shirt walked back and forth in the middle of the room, taking in the child's expression, smiled slightly, pointed to the table full of food, and said, "Do you want to eat?"

The children were silent, staring at the food on the table, without blinking an eye.

The man in green looked at the children in the cage and said, "If you want to eat, then it depends on whether you have the ability to do so." ”