Chapter Seventy-One

After saying that, I regretted it.

As soon as the people went out, she struck her forehead with her fist, then climbed to the top of the collapse, lifted the thick curtain and looked out.

The wheels of the carriage were rolling again, and she saw what Du He had taken, put it in the placket of his coat, then turned the horse's head, and left the group, going in the opposite direction.

Tan Wanqing was lying on the window of the car, and as the carriage and horse turned the corner, it blocked her vision a little bit, and before she was completely out of sight, she saw Du He get off the horse and enter the courtyard of the Tan family.

She put down the curtain, secretly relieved, as soon as she relaxed, she couldn't help coughing twice, she is now also under the fence to take care of herself, ...... in the future I'm afraid that in the future, I will never have a chance to see each other again.

As for the person who slammed the door in anger just now, she was sure that he would not throw her out of the carriage, so she said that, there was actually a better way, so she was grateful in her heart, put herself in her shoes, if she let the enemy out of the siege, it would also take a lot of heart.

It should be the guard in the mouth of the people.

The group braved the cold wind and set off early, except for resting and eating dry food, the rest of the time was in a hurry.

There are more than 100 miles from Fengli to Guard'an, and most of the area is deserted and inhabited, and not even a bird stays. If you can meet a half-human Zhuangzi, it is also considered lucky.

Obviously, their luck wasn't good, but it wasn't too bad either.

Taking advantage of the sunset that was sinking in the west but had not yet set, Xie Chengzu looked down from a hillside and found a dry river, next to which were some ruined houses and broken walls, and a few dead old trees.

In the bitter cold of midwinter, when the cold cracks the skin, in such a place where there is no village in front of the village and no store in the back, it is very good to have a wall to avoid the cold, not to mention that there is now wood, and the heating problem has also been solved.

The group of chariots and horses had already walked tiredly and sleepily, and when they saw a place to rest before sunset, they all cheered up and rode forward, and soon a large patch of yellow dust rolled up behind them.

When they got closer, they saw the small village in front of them, and everyone dismounted.

This place is so desolate that it is really uninhabitable, and you will either migrate elsewhere or be slaughtered by the bandits you meet, and such a small village cannot survive in troubled times.

The elite soldiers selected by Xie Chengzu are not ordinary soldiers, they are on the battlefield, crawling out of the pile of dead people alive, marching and staying overnight, etc., without Lord Xie to speak, a dry group of people, etc., to the almost dry river, looking for broken ice, knocking on ice, splitting wood, and looking for several earthen houses behind the house.

In an area like this, which is close to the desert and has a lot of yellow sand, in winter, digging a pit to build an earthen house is not only labor-saving and time-saving, but also much more comfortable than a thatched house with a leaky wind.

A few soldiers were a little excited, with this, they could sleep well at night, this thing was much better than breaking the wall on all sides and leaning against the fire.

With the life of the adults, several people simply rested the lightly damaged roof and cleaned it up.

Pick up some wild grass and weeds, and simply lay the ground.

After cleaning up, the sky was completely dark, a fire rose at the root of a broken wall, some ice found in the river was warmed to feed the horses, and drinking water was prepared in the car, but the road was still far, and if it could be saved, it was saved, and with the fire, the dry food that was tied up was not so unpalatable.

The adults and the group were also gathered around the fire, their faces were as smelly as in the morning, and they did not sweep the carriage at all, but they were still cooking porridge in their hands and sprinkling dried meat into it.

Du He looked at it here, knowing that he was from the past, how could he not understand, although he didn't know what it was for, but the adult was cold to the one in the carriage, and he remembered it in his heart, as soon as the porridge was cooked, he didn't send it himself, Baba called him over.

Du He had to take the order to run this leg.

He couldn't just lift the curtain and enter like an adult, but stood by the car and asked, "Miss Tan, come out and drink some porridge to warm your stomach." ”

There was an answer in the carriage, and after a while there was a sound of "Xi Xi Suo" mixed with two coughs.

The dark carriage was already dark and silent, and when she opened the thick curtain, she found that the wilderness was even more terrifying in the dark, the cold wind was raging, and the only warm light was the fire not far away, two fires, the firelight shone on more than a dozen people, and she saw at a glance that the person who was playing with the fire tongue with the firewood in his hand with a cold face did not look at her from beginning to end.

Tan Wanqing got out of the carriage, choked and coughed by the cold wind, she looked up at Du He, and then took two steps towards the fire, Du He saw it next to her, hurriedly stopped, and led the other direction and said: "Miss Tan, the resting place is behind, go this way......"

It's not the first time Tan Wanqing has seen this kind of earthen house, the conditions in the border land are difficult, and when the weather is cold, the corpses are frozen everywhere, this kind of pit house that can temporarily shelter from the wind and cold, simple and easy, is everywhere, it was originally from the barbarians, but it saved many lives.

There is a fire trough in the earthen pit, the fire has been burning for a while, the wood for the fire is removed from nowhere, the rafters are thick and heavy, fill a few pieces can be left overnight, it is a good place to rest for people who are in a hurry on a cold night.

But for Tan Wanqing, whether it is outside or inside, it is a black hole, gloomy and quiet, like a tomb. Du He went to fetch porridge, but Tan Wanqing was left alone, and by the light of the fire trough, she had the courage to look around.

The wall was so dark that I don't know if it was smoke or fire, a house of withered grass on the ground, a few zombie insects that had not been cleaned up in the corner of the wall near the fire trough, she moved her feet with difficulty, and then looked up, the beam above was not high, and she could clearly see the nearest one, the thick dust on it, and a dark red trace of paint or blood.

Rao is brave her, and she couldn't help but take a step back in shock, her foot stepped on a few split logs at once, she really fell, her waist socket was in the corner of the groove, and she burst into tears on the spot.

When Du He, who was carrying the hot porridge, came over, Tan Wanqing got up from the ground and there were a few wolves on his face, Du He didn't come down, and the person was hidden in the dark shadow, so he naturally didn't see it, only saw some red marks on the back of the hand that took the bowl, but asked, where was Tan Wanqing willing to tell someone who was not familiar with him that he was scared just now, and he fell down, so he only vaguely said that it was okay and took the porridge bowl.

Tan Wanqing was in pain for a while before she recovered, but fortunately she didn't hit the bone, so she didn't dare to go into the dark shadow anymore, so she could only shrink in a bright place by the fire trough, and then looked at the meat porridge in her hand, and there were two pieces of hot and soft honey cake on the chopsticks.

Tan Wanqing wiped the corners of her eyes, she was used to wronging herself, it was difficult to find hot food, so she had to fill her stomach first.

The honey cake is very sweet, the porridge is very fragrant, but in the "basement" where sparks are splashing in front of me, and there are many shadows everywhere, no matter how delicious things are, I am not in the mood and swallow them like chewing wax.

Du He took the leather of the carriage and sent it over, and took the bowl by the way, Tan Wanqing raised her head, looked left and right with her eyes, and looked straight behind Du He, but there was no one, and the person who thought about it did not come.

I can't tell you how empty my heart is, I slowly spread the skin next to the fire trough, the fox fur is covered on my legs, I sit there and rub my waist, I don't know what to wait for, I waited for a long time, until there was no more footsteps, and then I slowly lay down.

The wilderness outside was like a woman crying cold wind, getting bigger and bigger, rolling yellow sand everywhere, whipping very close, as if the thin roof above the head, I don't know how long, a piece of sheltered wood was loosened by the wind, "bang" fell down, rolled out of the distance.

Tan Wanqing's heart was beating fast, and when she opened her eyes, she looked at it worriedly, afraid that the next moment, those few rotten roofs would be overturned.

Because the cold wind kept pouring in, the heat of the fire trough also dropped, although Tan Wanqing got up and threw two pieces of wood, but her body was still very cold, and she could only shrink motionless in the fox fur, preserving the heat.

I don't know how long it took, there was a noise at the entrance, and then someone came down the stairs, and the face of the man was not visible in the darkness, but he came over with a cat on his waist, as if to look at her, and then lightly followed the place left on the other side, and lay on her side.

Tan Wanqing, who was originally nervous and her heart was beating like a beat, couldn't help but turn around anymore, snuggled into his arms, and hugged his waist tightly.

"How bold are you to be scared?" The man's unkind voice came in the dark, but the person turned sideways to facilitate the person in his arms to hold, and even untied his belt and stripped off his clothes, so that the person could snuggle into his arms to keep warm.