Chapter 39: Waste Firewood
"Why don't you allow me to say goodbye to my friends? Why don't you allow it?" Zhao Yu on horseback turned his head, his eyes flashing with excessive pleading.
But Shen Mengting didn't make contact, she shook the hand holding the reins angrily: "Hey, why are you still struggling with this problem?
"But why not? You have to give a reason, right? I just hope that I can have a few last words with a good friend, and not do something bad. ”
"No way!"
"Hey, you're too domineering, too unreasonable!" Zhao Yu's entire body turned backwards, but this awkward posture made it difficult for him to sit comfortably on horseback. His body trembled, and he almost fell off his horse.
"I advise you to stop, otherwise I won't be responsible for falling off the horse!"
"Then tell me, why don't you let me go to see my friends?"
"I've made it very clear, there is no time. ”
"There's no time? Just for a while! I have a best friend, and he's really my best friend. He lives near my house. So just run a little bit and you can get there. Then, I said a few goodbyes to him, and asked him to help me keep an eye on the situation at home. Just a little time. ”
"No, I can't. Shen Mengting said viciously.
"Hey, you...... Why are you ...... like that?"
"I've made it very clear, and you don't have to bother with any more words. I'm not going to say yes. ”
"Why do you look like this? You!" The bumps on the horse's back, coupled with the fact that he was too excited to speak, Zhao Yu's body was constantly shaking. Now that he has no place to vent, he wants to use his strength to knock down the horse's neck with his fist.
"You've wasted a lot of time at home, but I've put up with it until now. But it is because of your filial piety to your mother that I will not squeak. But now it's good, you're embarrassed to go with a friend or something?"
"Why are you embarrassed? Say goodbye to your friends, right? Friends are also important people!"
"But now that time doesn't allow, what are you still tossing around?aren't you afraid of encountering that group of people in the country of Sauron again?"
"They didn't know we were going to say goodbye to our friends?"
"But you don't think like that?" Shen Mengting's words erupted, and the green tendons on her forehead seemed to be expanding, "Won't they go to your friend's house to see what is going on? ”
"Ahh Zhao Yu began to look around as if he had suddenly woken up, he wanted to find a suitable landing point, "I'm going to remind Ah Zha and tell him everything about the Sauron Empire, so that he can be prepared." ”
"Hmph! You can't protect yourself, and you still care about others?"
"But I'm going to at least take a picture with him. ”
"No way!"
"Hey, why are you like this? Don't you have any friends? Your friends are in danger? Won't you go to the tip-off?"
"Don't worry! Your friend won't be in danger. How can the people of the Sauron Empire be so bored, go and kill a few civilians!"
"You said that before, and then ......" Zhao Yu suddenly stopped talking again. He thought of his mother again, and his heart was sour. The sour energy quickly rushed from his chest to his head. There was also a burning sensation near his eye sockets. For this reason, he looked up at the sky with all his might.
Shen Mengting noticed this, and her tone became softer: "You don't have to worry about your friends anymore." And even if you're worried, what can you do? If the people of the Sauron Empire really want to go on a killing spree, what can you stop from it?"
"But at least I can tell them to run away, right?" Zhao Yu said after suppressing the sadness in his heart.
"It's useless. The goal of the Sauron Empire was never just a small town. It's the same everywhere you run. ”
"But how do you know it's useless if you don't do it?"
"I said no, no, no, no. After that, Shen Mengting shook her hand vigorously, and the words 'driving' also squirted out of her mouth.
"You're too unreasonable. ”
"Well, I don't want to argue with you about anything, anyway, no. You can shut up. ”
"You ......" Zhao Yu twisted his neck and glared at Shen Mengting.
Shen Mengting ignored it again, she directly jumped over Zhao Yu's body and looked ahead.
Zhao Yu suddenly felt that a breath was rushing towards his head, and he began to move his body randomly, trying his best to make a big move, "Oh! Why are you like this, you don't even agree to say goodbye." How so, how so!"
Because of Zhao Yu's movements, it affected the running of the horses. Nassa's running form became extremely erratic, and she swayed from side to side.
"Hey, what are you kid doing?" Shen Mengting roared when she saw this.
"I don't care, I'm going to see my friend right now. Otherwise, I won't give up, I don't care, I don't care. Zhao Yu writhed even harder. His levitating legs joined in, and he kept stomping downward.
"Boy, don't make any more trouble!" Shen Mengting glared directly at the warning. She also tugged on the reins to stabilize the frightened Nasa.
Passers-by on the street looked at them in surprise from time to time, but Zhao Yu was still making a fuss in his own way.
Damn! Shen Mengting bit her lip, she couldn't bear it anymore.
"You're just going to let me see my friend! Just a few minutes, very quickly. If you ......"
Just when Zhao Yu was still losing his temper, he suddenly felt a tug on his back. Then, the white horse, named Nassa, also stopped. The white horse's forelimbs were lifted upwards, and the horse's back leaned backwards.
Zhao Yu opened his mouth suddenly. He hadn't even completely entered a state of panic before his body was suddenly lifted. 'Oops' shouted, and he was thrown off his horse with his big hand.
Falling to the ground in a forward stance, he screamed in pain. Even, because the fall was so sudden, he ate a little dirt in his mouth.
It was Shen Mengting's throwing just now that caused Zhao Yu to fall and eat.
Zhao Yu lay on the ground for a while, and slowly got up. He rolled up and lay down on his side, and 'bumped' a few more times out of thin air. Finally got out of the severe pain, he straightened up his upper body and wanted to ask Shen Mengting for an explanation.
However, when he saw Shen Mengting's upright and tough face, Zhao Yu's momentum weakened a lot. He twisted his body and patted his ass to his feet.
"Hey, what are you doing? Just fall down, you're going to die, okay?"
Shen Mengting pulled the reins, and the white horse walked a few steps in front of Zhao Yu, and after a few 'Tata' hooves came, Shen Mengting suddenly turned her head to Zhao Yu.
"I'll tell you, boy, what do you think you're up against right now?" Shen Mengting was trying her best to control Nasa. After letting the white horse stop safely on the street, Shen Mengting's hands dared to relax, "If you make such unreasonable troubles again, I won't take you away." ”
"You...... You ......"
"I'll just throw you here, and then it has nothing to do with me. ”
Zhao Yu's lips were moving violently, and he didn't know what to reply.
"I ask you. Shen Mengting shouted viciously, "Do you still want to avenge your mother?"
As soon as he heard the words 'avenge his mother', Zhao Yu's body suddenly felt a hot current. He held his mouth and nodded heavily.
"That's fine. I'm telling you, if you really want to avenge your mother, you're going to have to suffer what no one else can bear, you know?"
Zhao Yu's head raised rapidly, and his expression was slightly surprised.
Seeing this, Shen Mengting immediately roared: "Do you know what! The people who killed your mother are all elite warriors of the Sauron Empire, you won't know how far away you are from them, right?"
Zhao Yu's heart was like being shot by a root light arrow, and the scene of Shen Mengting fighting with those two Sauron countries floated into his mind again.
"If you think that you can avenge your mother by casually boasting a few words about Haikou. Then I'll tell you honestly right now, you're dreaming. Suddenly, Shen Mengting grabbed the hilt of the sword behind her with her backhand, and then there was a sound of metal rubbing, and she pulled out the giant sword and stabbed at Zhao Yu.
Before Zhao Yu could react, a giant sword shining with a sharp light pointed at the tip of his nose impartially. He gasped and sat back.
"Just like this, you may be pointed at by a sword at any time, how do you say you should deal with it then?" Shen Mengting quickly put away the sword again, and put the sword in and out of the scabbard behind her back, "You can't cope with it at all." Then you will be mercilessly killed. If you die like this, how can you avenge your mother? Don't you think about it?"
Zhao Yu's breathing was speeding up, and Shen Mengting's remarks were chiseled on his heart sentence by sentence.
"You should think about these questions, not about the usual things like saying goodbye to your friends. ”
Zhao Yu is now completely awake, and the fall just now really seemed to wake him up. How bad and so bad is the situation now, he has no ability to avenge his mother, so how can he swear an oath?
"Alright, I'm done talking. Whether to say goodbye to a friend, or to follow me right now. You choose!" With that, Shen Mengting no longer glanced at Zhao Yu, she turned her head to look ahead, and the reins of the horse in her hand were also lifted to her chest. She was clearly about to drive her horse.
"I ...... I'm going to follow you. Zhao Yu patted his ass and said timidly.
Shen Mengting secretly hooked the corners of her mouth when she heard this, "Okay, don't come up soon." She immediately stretched out her arm to Zhao Yu.
Zhao Yu made contact with the outstretched arm. In an instant, he felt a pull. By the time he came to his senses, he was already on horseback.
How strong is this woman? Zhao Yu exclaimed again.
"Alright, let's stop making trouble!"
Finally, after asking Zhao Yu's thoughts, and after shaking her head in denial, Shen Mengting shouted the word 'driving'. The white horse ran again, and the oncoming wind blew with it.
"Where are we going now?"
"Didn't I tell you? But...... Now we need to get out of this town before we talk about it. ”
Shen Mengting drove Nasa and ran towards the east gate of Vortex Town.
Strange to say, the dark clouds that were still pressing on the sky began to slowly disperse, and there was no downpour, but the sky was getting better. It's just that, after all, it's not early, and the sky is still getting dark.
It's going to be night, and Zhao Yu's heart is full of uneasiness.
The white horse kept running until a gate stood in front of him. This is the east gate of Vortex Town, and as long as you pass through this gate, you will be completely cut off from this place.
Goodbye, Zhao Yu turned his head and looked at the scenery behind him for a while. He silently recited a few names in his mind, and finally turned his head over. When will it be the next time you set foot here?
The white horse stepped over the gate and ran quickly towards the forest outside the town.
If he really got out of this town, it would also mean that he was free from the threat of those few Saurons, and Zhao Yu's heart could be regarded as falling in half.
Running on a road with forests on both sides, Shen Mengting didn't seem to plan to slow down. Even when it was completely dark, she drove her horse down the road.
Zhao Yu shook his body with the bumpy feeling on the horse's back. He looked up at the sky, where the moon was already above, and slowly turned his head.
"Hey......! Won't you stop and rest for a while?"
"Non-stop. Shen Mengting didn't even think about it, and immediately replied in a loud voice.
Zhao Yu didn't know how to ask the reason, he scratched his head and resumed his posture of looking ahead.
"You can't say that it's absolutely safe to run out of town, but you still have to run a long distance to sit back and relax. After all, the Saurons would have chased after them. ”
Shen Mengting's voice suddenly came behind her, and Zhao Yu felt that it was reasonable, so he didn't ask anything anymore.
The time was approaching late at night, and Zhao Yu didn't know how long they had been on the road, maybe for several hours, because the surroundings were almost completely pitch black, and the environment was becoming more and more desolate.
The white horse, named Nasa, did not have much fear of the darkness, and still galloped forward. Zhao Yu admired this white horse a little.
However, in addition to other bifurcated thoughts, the most uneasy in Zhao Yu's heart at the moment is still the most. You know, he'd never been to the wild forest so late before, except for the time when he was lost off a cliff. Of course, it was precisely because of that incident that Zhao Yu's life was completely changed. He lowered his head and sighed.
At this time, the white horse suddenly stopped, and the reins of the horses on both sides of Zhao Yu were also tightened. It was Shen Mengting, who tugged Nasa's head and made it stop quickly.
"Well, that's enough. Now that we're some distance from Vortex, we can rest a bit. Shen Mengting dismounted as she spoke.
Zhao Yu heard the words 'oh'. But he was about to dismount when he saw the ground, which was still some height from his toes. His shoulders sank down, revealing a rather helpless look.
He tried to slowly explore his feet first, but his body was firmly attached to the horse's back.
Shen Mengting shook her head violently when she saw this. She stepped forward and hugged Zhao Yu's body and hugged him steadily.
Zhao Yu shrank his neck in flattery and thanked him straight.
"By the way, I wanted to ask you a question for a long time?" Shen Mengting's brows tightened like a bowed hill, "Don't you know how to ride a horse?"
Zhao Yu's body shook first, and then embarrassedly raised his hand and touched the back of his head, "Hungry! Don't say if it won't, I've never ridden a horse before. ”
Shen Mengting instantly collapsed when she heard this answer, "A big man can't even ride a horse, so how old are you?"
Zhao Yu rolled his eyes: "Twenty years old." ”
"Twenty years old, not too young, how can it be that you can't even ride a horse?" Shen Mengting's eyes drifted to Zhao Yu's body a few times, and then she pulled the reins tied to Nasa's head. She also tried to stroke Nassa's head, signaling that she had worked hard.
"I'm sorry. Zhao Yu lowered his head.
"Oh, there's nothing to be embarrassed about, probably everyone in your town is like this!" Although Shen Mengting said this, her heart was full of contempt.
A big man can't even ride a horse, what kind of physique is that! Shen Mengting clearly remembered that when she was five years old, she had already learned chopping skills on horseback.
However, she will not casually compare those mediocre people with herself, but the twenty-year-old boy in front of her is really a little unsightly. In fact, when they met outside the door of the trial ground for the first time, Shen Mengting found that he had a feminine aura on him, and he did not have the masculinity that a man should have.
There is still such waste wood in the world, and I don't know how his mother endured living with him so far. Shen Mengting exhaled and shook her head slightly.
But after all, it was decided to bring this boy out, and he would be responsible for him to the end! Shen Mengting was about to swing her face and face the boy.
"By the way, I still don't know your name, what should I call you?"
Hearing this, Zhao Yu straightened his standing posture, his hands were on the sides of his pants, and he straightened his body high: "My name is Zhao Yu." ”
"Zhao Yu!" Shen Mengting's mouth was broken with this name. "Then Zhao Yu, you should know my name!" After seeing the other party's order, Shen Mengting stretched out her hand, "My name is Shen Mengting." From now on, the two of us are friends. ”
Zhao Yu was a little confused at first, but after coming back to his senses, he still stretched out his slender arm.
The two shook hands immediately.
"Okay, don't make any nonsense about introducing each other, let's go to the woods now to find a place to stay!" Shen Mengting took the reins of the horse and was about to walk into the woods next to the road.
As soon as she saw that Zhao Yu was a little confused, Shen Mengting turned her head and explained with a look of rolling her eyes.
"It's not early now, so let's rest first! It's not safe to travel at night. Wait until tomorrow morning, and then we will ride on horseback. ”
"Oh. Zhao Yu scratched his temples, and his neck shrank in embarrassment. He followed Shen Mengting like this.
After plunging headlong into the bottomless woods, Zhao Yu tried to ask again, "Why do we want to spend the night in the woods?"
Shen Mengting twitched her chin when she heard this. "Hey, do you want us to spend the night at the intersection of the road?"
This kid really doesn't even have any social experience! Shen Mengting let out a sigh of helplessness.