The three of them were silent, anyone could guess what was happening outside, and two more cultivators died in the Great Wilderness Lonely City, still a man and a woman.

Throughout the night, Zheng Qiu, Eared Cat and Ma Peng, no one dared to close their eyes to sleep, God knows if the wicked people outside have left, in case the snoring of sleep comes out, then they will not see the sun the next day.

I don't know how long I waited, but in the dark hole in the wall, Ma Peng asked in a low voice, "Is it dawn?

"I'll see!"

Zheng Qiu crawled to the edge of the cave and carefully removed a wall brick, and just removed a gap, a dazzling light poured into his eyes from the outside.

He narrowed his eyes and rubbed the back of his hand as he moved the gap wider.

There was no one outside the wall, and there was only yellow sand floating in the wind on the bare ground, and there was no trace of a fight at all.

"It's dawn, there's no one outside!"

Zheng Qiu slowly peeled off the bricks at the entrance of the cave, and crawled out with his probe, "Come out quickly, you still have to go to the market to ask for rations." ”

The three of them climbed out of the hole in the wall one after another, looking around.

The marks of the fight on the ground have been erased, leaving only the dents and cracks in the walls that tell the story of the previous night.

"Zheng Qiu, Ma Peng, come and see!" The eared cat squatted on the ground, brushed aside the layers of yellow sand and gravel, and found something shiny.

It was a broken tip of the sword, only five inches long, and next to the tip of the sword, there were reddish-brown blood stains that had long since dried.

Seeing the eared cat reaching out and pinching the tip of the sword, Zheng Qiu reminded loudly: "Be careful, don't hurt it!"

"Rest assured. The eared cat pinched both sides of the tip of the sword, slowly lifted it, and then he took out the stone bowl and slammed the blade of the sword into the stone bowl.

Tuk, the stone bowl was immediately knocked out of the gap.

The eared cat was overjoyed: "Good things, good things! Use it to chisel the stone bowl, it is absolutely troublesome, and we don't have to worry about the stone bowl breaking in the future." ”

Ma Peng suggested: "It's hard to take it now, so let's go to the market first and beg for food, and I'll process this thing." ”

Zheng Qiu and the eared cat nodded in agreement, and the eared cat handed the tip of the sword to Ma Peng, picked up the stone bowl himself, and ran to the market with Zheng Qiu.

"Big brother and big sister, okay, let's give me something to eat......" Zheng Qiu and the eared cat held a stone bowl and cried and begged to passers-by.

After shouting for about an hour, a chubby pedestrian passed by, glanced at the crouching little beggar, and threw the rest of the scone in his hand to the ground.

"Thank you, big brother, thank you, big brother! Big brother will definitely soar and live a thousand years old......," Zheng Qiu shouted, picking up the scones on the ground, patting off the sand on them, and stuffing them into the ear cat.

"Zheng Qiu, you eat, this is the ration you begged for. ”

Zheng Qiu directly stuffed the cake into the arms of the eared cat: "It's okay, I'm hungry, it's okay if I don't eat for ten days, this piece is for you." ”

"Zheng Qiu, eared cat! Come here. At this time, Ma Peng came out of the alley and waved to the two.

The two glanced at each other, picked up the stone bowl and ran over.

"Look, I've got it. ”

Ma Peng held a dagger in his hand, and he clamped the tip of the sword with two stones, and then tightly wrapped it with strips of cloth, and filled it with sand in the gaps in the stones, making the dagger stronger.

The exposed blade was three inches long, and it was enough to cut things and chisel stones.

The three of them happily hid their daggers and crouched back to the side of the road with the stone bowl to beg for food.

At noon, the three of them got half a fruit, Zheng Qiu gave the flesh to Ma Peng, and he gnawed the kernel cleanly.

In the afternoon, two men came to the street, dressed in gray robes, with cloth gloves of the same color on their hands, and their heads tightly wrapped in gray cloth, leaving only a pair of eyes exposed.

Their clothes are embroidered with the word "order" in bright red, and they are the commanders of the lonely city in the Great Wilderness.

Behind the two commanders, three large men in cloaks pushed a wooden cart with a huge tin bucket on it.

Seeing the tin bucket, the eyes of everyone on the street became hot, this tin bucket was filled with water, which was the most precious thing in the Great Wilderness Lonely City.

The water of the Great Wilderness Lonely City cannot be purchased from the executor who guards the spring, but is distributed at the time determined by the city lord.

There were fifty of them in the city, and every once in a while, the ruler would fill the bucket with water and take it to the fifty designated water points in the city.

In order to give the ordinary people in the city a chance to live, the Great Wilderness Lonely City has always had a rule.

No one is allowed to move within three feet of the tin bucket, and if it is snatched, the executor can be executed on the spot.

One of the exemplars picked up the iron spoon on the cart, rang the vat, and shouted: "Half an hour later, the distribution of water will begin, today there are only one hundred and fifty servings, hear clearly, only one hundred and fifty servings!"

Hearing the words of the executor, the people in the streets quickly dispersed, and each went home to look for the utensils to hold the water.

At the corner of the street, Ma Peng complained with a bitter face: "It's only one hundred and fifty copies, and there were two hundred the day before yesterday, each time less than the other." ”

The eared cat echoed: "Yes, it's more difficult to pick up cheap now, and I don't know if I can get water today." ”

The rules only say that no one is allowed to do anything within three zhang of the iron bucket, but it does not say that no one can snatch it outside the three zhang, so every time water is distributed, it will cause a large-scale scuffle.

The people who are three feet away will never let the people who get the water leave easily, and at the same time, they will not let the people who have not taken the water get close to the tin bucket.

Because to fight, the utensils for holding water must be firm and durable, and they must be easy to carry, so the people of the Lonely City of the Great Wilderness have come up with a special utensils for holding water, iron kettle belts.

It is a belt made of metal chains, and the belt is wrapped around a row of iron pots, each the size of a palm, sealed with a special copper core and iron lid, even if it hits the ground, it will not leak water.

The iron kettle has a long and short belt, the long one can be used as a belt, and the short one can be wrapped around the neck as a necklace, but this chain is a bit heavy, and the weak person will only break the neck.

When fetching water, there is always an iron kettle that will fall to the ground, and Zheng Qiu and the three of them took advantage of this opportunity to pick up the iron kettle that no one paid attention to.

The tin kettle is a hot potato, if you can't hide it after you get it, and if you are seen, your life will not be guaranteed.

So every time they picked up the iron kettle, the three of them immediately drained the water and drank it, leaving only the empty kettle to throw on the ground.

Half a month ago, they had good luck, and Ma Peng found a broken water bladder in the garbage heap.

The bladder is made of leather, covered with a red copper plug at the top, and has a hole at the bottom of the right side, which looks like it has been punctured by a sharp object.

Zheng Qiu didn't know how Ma Peng made up this water bladder, he only knew that Ma Peng hid the water bladder against his chest, and the water bladder opened to the collar position.

Every time he picked up the kettle, Ma Pong poured water into his bag so they could go back to their hiding place and drink slowly.

Half an hour passed quickly, and hundreds of people poured in from all directions, surrounding the vat of water. But these people were all five feet away, and no one dared to lean in the direction of the vat.

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