When He Mulan woke up, his whole body ached as if he had been run over, but at least he was alive.

Beside him, Zheng Zong slept as if he had died, and in front of her, there was a stout aunt who poured something into her mouth in a way that was not gentle at all.

The whole body will hurt like this, not because of the sequelae of excessive yang energy, she has traveled for so long, and fought with wolves in the middle, and still holds such an adult, people are not beaten by iron, no matter how powerful a person is, he will be exhausted after such a toss, and she is no exception.

But she knew that the heat before she fell out was not an accident, she really had fainted because of too much yang.

Fainting in the desert and dying and surviving is definitely because they are saved.

When the aunt saw that she was awake, she immediately shouted, and Hermulan was very poor at not understanding her language, and did not understand what she was calling at all, but the surprise in it was so that everyone could hear it.

The person who saves people should be a good person......

He Mulan blinked, and the gold chain that hung around his neck was gone.

…… bar.

When He Mullan woke up, something was wrong.

She originally thought that she would be rescued by someone, and she was fed strange juice, which showed that these people wanted to save her, but when the aunt went out, no one came in for half a day, let alone paid attention to her and Zheng Zong.

Zheng Zong's injuries were not well cared for, and his whole body was in pain because the wounds tended to be a little inflamed, and this house was very stuffy, the house made of mud and grass could be smoked to death by the sun, there was no wind outside the window, and after a while, He Mullan was so stuffy that he was about to vomit.

No way......

If you go on like this, you'll get heat stroke, right?

In unbearable pain, He Mulan gritted his teeth and got up, and when he touched his waist, the rock was gone.

She felt a chill in her heart, and touched her arms again, and the good dagger made of cold iron was gone.

The rock was her important weapon, the dagger was touched from the dead soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army, and it was blown away by the wind until there was nothing left, and the dagger showed that it was the most precious thing for him, and it must not be discarded casually.

Compared to these, the gold chain is not very important.

She got up, touched Zheng Zong's side, touched his forehead, and fortunately did not burn. The wounds on his body had not been treated, but the liquor might have worked, and the wounds were not pus-shedding, only a little red and swollen.

Remembering the injury on his back, Hermulan gritted his teeth and turned him sideways, finally breathing a sigh of relief.

The man who rescued them did not do nothing, but laid a straw mat under him, and the straw mat was soaked in some kind of herb, so that he lay on the straw mat, which was equivalent to soaking the wound in the medicine.

Zheng Zong was probably too tired to fall asleep, not dead.

He Mulan sat beside Zheng Zong for a while, and now no one came in, but she was hungry and thirsty, and her whole body was on the verge of collapse, and the room was so hot that she wanted to scratch the wall in annoyance......

She looked down at herself, still in the desert in the waistcoat, shorts and belt, covered in wolf blood, these people didn't even change her clothes, what the hell were they trying to do?

Said to be saving people, she didn't even wipe her body and change her clothes, she still remembered that she had a high fever all over her body, and she always had a cold towel on her forehead, right?

But if you don't want to save them, just leave them in the desert and leave them alone, they will be sunburned to death in a short time, so why bother dragging them back and returning Zheng Zong's mat with herbs?

Thinking of the old aunt who had just come in and was obese, and did not have the dry and thin appearance of the inhabitants of the desert, He Mulan couldn't help but shudder.

They don't eat human flesh, do they?

That's why I'm so fat......

"No matter!"

He Mulan glanced in the room, only a stone lamp was placed on the desk in the corner of the room, so he simply picked it up and waved it twice.

It's better to have something than nothing.

Anyway, rush out and see somewhere first!

Already hoping that he would meet a bunch of "cannibals", He Mullan held back his dizziness and pushed the door open. On her right hand, the stone lamp was held tightly enough to block any weapons that might come her way.

However, as soon as Hermulan pushed the door open, he was completely dumbfounded.

Who can sue her about what's going on out there?

"Purr, Gurg, Gurg!"

An excited man pointed at Hemmoulin and shouted.

"Woo la, wow blah!"

The old aunt just nodded desperately.

Outside the door, dozens of desert dwellers with red faces, who were by no means malnourished, looked at her with their eyes full of essence, these people were men and women, and there were also many middle-aged and elderly people, although they were strong, but their honest temperament had nothing to do with any horse thieves and bandits at first glance.

Seeing Hermulan come out, a crowd of people came around, this one pinched her arm, the other patted her chest, and the other tried to reach out and break her teeth like an animal, but she was surprised to block it with an oil lamp.

Seeing that she still had the strength to block their outstretched hands, a group of people screamed even more, and a few aunts even reached out directly to touch her other vital parts.

He Mulan grew so big, and he had never seen such a formation, so he was so frightened that he took a few steps back and closed the door with a "snap".

"Whew...... Whew......"

Shocked, Mullan felt that he was not so frightened when he saw the wolves.

Sure enough, it's a cannibal. [,！ Let's do it!

He Mulan, who didn't know what was going on at all, and couldn't speak the language, retreated into the house, and it was incredible that those people didn't catch up with him because He Mulan returned to the house, so they let her be an ostrich in the house for a long time, until Zheng Zong woke up.

Zheng Zong was in a coma a little later than her, because he was injured much more severely than her, and even his face was frustrated, so he was awake later than He Mulan, who was injured and yang.

But because it was he who shouted loudly to attract the people in the camel caravan to rescue him, Zheng Zong also asked these people for help for a while before fainting.

But because he also fainted in the end, Zheng Zong didn't know if they would come to the rescue.

He Mulan was in a coma for a day and a night, missing out on many things, including how the men of this caravan chose to save her because of the rock on his waist and the wolf skin in his arms.

It also includes how they brought them to this hut and settled them.

After Zheng Zong woke up, the two exchanged what they knew about each other, and they were a little uneasy.

Although He Mulan can fight, she is not sure that she can protect the sick and disabled Zheng Zong to withdraw from this unknown place.

And with the moment she had just gone out to stretch her head, she could already see that there was still a piece of yellow sand in the distance.

In other words, they are still in the desert, and there is an earthen house in the desert, which at best means that there is a village here.

In the desert, many villages coexist with horse thieves, they provide supplies to horse thieves, and even the relatives of horse thieves.

It was because they both knew that the situation was too bad that both of them were stunned and didn't know what to do. Even if they escape, the two people who don't even know the road are most likely to get lost in the desert again, praying that another pack of wolves will come to their door to replenish their body.

"We can't stay here forever, or we'll either starve to death or die of thirst." Zheng Zong is timid, but once he has someone to survive, he dares to fight better than anyone else.

"General Hua, you help me out to have a look, I will speak Lu Shui nonsense and Xiongnu dialect, I will communicate with them and ask them what they are going to do."

He Mulan also felt that his eyes were very black now, so he helped Zheng Zong to reopen the door, and the two of them were exposed in front of people again.

This time, there were more people gathered at the door of the hut, and He Mullan tried his best to look around, and now there were no other buildings near this small cabin, but there seemed to be a lot of earthen houses further away, and it seemed that there was a real village over there, and this was just a house used for a single purpose.

What to do alone?

Abattoir?

He Mulan thought secretly, holding Zheng Zong's hand and patting him on the waist slightly.

Zheng Zong immediately understood, and asked several times in Lu Shui nonsense, Xiongnu dialect, Qian dialect and Di dialect: "Where is this?" Who are you? Can you help us?"

Seeing that two people could run and move, and one of them could speak his own language, a group of people cheered, and one of them, a middle-aged man who looked calmer, immediately replied in Di: "This is the head of the messy well, we are all people who live here, you were rescued by us!"

Zheng Zong whispered to He Mulan their answer.

He Mulan nodded, and asked Zheng Zong to ask where their weapons were.

Zheng Zong asked, and the middle-aged man immediately showed a wary expression, "There are no outsiders in our village, and the weapon can't be returned to you until we gain our trust."

The tall man's sword is very difficult to take away, it's hard to imagine how this person dances!

And that dagger, so sharp, that even a machete can be cut. I don't know who they are, but what if they get into a ramp with a weapon?

"So what are you going to do with us? Just lock us up in this room?" Zheng Zong pointed to the small room behind him.

Although He Mulan couldn't understand Zheng Zong's words, he knew what he was going to say by looking at his gestures and movements, so he was ready for battle.

As long as Zheng Zongbiao showed the slightest mistake, she would do it.

"No, no, no, we rarely come here, so we have our own rules for dealing with outsiders. If we save people in the desert, we will put them here to take care of them, and if they survive, it will be providence, our guests, and if they die, then there is nothing we can do......"

The middle-aged man said without any guilt.

"The man next to you had a high fever and his whole body was horribly red, but he still woke up and was able to walk. You too, your face and back were rotten when we rescued you, and you can still speak now, then God and the Buddha must be blessing you, and we won't be rude to you."

He Mulan and Zheng Zong had thought about it before, but they never thought that it would be such a reason!

They didn't throw themselves and Zheng Zong into this room to eat them, but to do their best as they wanted, and then just wait for them to fend for themselves?!

Do they think people are animals? Pour some water and rub the herbs to live on your own?

How many people have died in this room?

He Mulan and Zheng Zong glanced at each other, their eyes were incredible, especially He Mulan, who was now raised with universal values, was simply shocked by the other party's disapproval of this "natural selection".

"It's a desert, and a lot of places have weird rules that don't get close to people, but it's already very mild here." Zheng Zong thought for a while and persuaded He Mulan: "We. . . [,！ Penniless, it's all up to them to drag it back, otherwise it's already dead, and now you still need to rely on their help to get out, or follow the local customs. We're alive anyway, it's better to be alive than dead, isn't it?"

"What penniless...... "He Mulan complained expressionlessly, "I originally had a red gold chain around my neck."

In this era, gold impurities were very high, and red gold chains were worth many gold chains of the same weight.

"Ah, you said that ......" Zheng Zong scratched his itchy face, "I'm afraid that they won't save us, so I'll take it off and replace them with them to save you, although I don't know if they understood it at the time......"

He chuckled dryly.

"But, ahem, it looks like the gold they laughed at."

……

So, didn't they take it themselves?

"Forget it, it's all outside the body, and it's not as valuable as our lives."

He Mullan thought for a moment and figured it out.

"What we should think about now is how to heal our injuries and hurry up to the Dai Desert to Qin Khan City to inquire about the news of the Tiger Ben Army."

In this way, He Mulan and Zheng Zong were inexplicably trapped in this small village.

The villages in the desert are almost the same, and there is not much wealth here, so He Mulan and Zheng Zong are a little concerned, although they say that they will treat them as "guests", but every time they go out and think of hanging around, several old aunts will come out to stop them, and their faces are full of apologetic smiles.

They also have to rely on the people in these villages to send food and drink, and they all rely on their life-saving grace to survive, and they can't be rough with these aunts, so they can only be forced to walk around the house.

He Mulan's recovery was amazing, Zheng Zong's injuries were very serious, but because of the water and sufficient food, a few of these people who were in the mess of the well knew how to heal him with crude medical skills, and used some desert plants to treat him, and the wounds were not infected and began to heal slowly.

Because of the hot weather and harsh conditions, the wound was more painful when it healed, and the itching like an ant bite tormented Zheng Zong every day, especially on his face and back.

In the desert they were not in a position to check their injuries, and once the people of this village brought a basin of water to scrub them, Zheng Zong saw the appearance of his face in the water, and took a few steps back on the spot, and did not go out that day, nor did he talk to Hemulan.

No matter who you are, it is uncomfortable to know that you are disfigured, especially a person like Zheng Zong, who is not open-minded.

A person who looks ugly can't be an official, no matter what his background is. Li Shun, Cui Hao, Gu Bi, in addition to having outstanding abilities, are all famous beautiful men in the world.

Don't think that only women are good-looking, in this era of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, men are beautiful, and they are more capital than women.

Zheng Zong used to be the ceremonial official of Honglu Temple, and he became the housekeeper of Tuoba Tao, so his appearance is naturally not ugly, and he can be called "delicate and upright".

With a smile, the future or the future has almost been ruined.

He Mulan didn't feel that what she looked like was a big deal from beginning to end, she was a forensic doctor, her flesh and blood were blurred, and she didn't know how much the corpse had been dissected, Zheng Zong didn't even have his bones cut off when he didn't die, and the soft tissues like his nose were all there, so he didn't show anything too abnormal.

It is precisely because she is too calm and too inappropriate to do the same thing, so all the way over, Zheng Zong didn't know that his face had been ruined like this, and when he saw the truth, the more unacceptable he became.

He began to regret why he was in charge of Princess Xingping at that time.

He wasn't a selfless person at all.

Even, with a somewhat gloomy personality, he has begun to curse the old mulberry and Princess Xingping for not being able to die well.

Zheng Zong's personality was originally the kind of person He Mullan would not actively contact at all. Most of the people He Mullan has met from modern times to ancient times is the kind of hearty and generous character, and the fire companions he met in the army are either delicate or straightforward brutes, even if Di Yefei is so sensitive, he may not be so slender when he walks a bird in the big tent and scolds his mother.

He Mulan didn't know how to make Zheng Zong's heart feel a little relieved, and used a lot of words like "what's the use of a man's face", "I don't think it's ugly, others shouldn't feel ugly", "Now is not the time to care about the face" and so on persuaded him a few times, and it was not easy for him to regain a little spirit, but looking at Zheng Zong's appearance, I'm afraid I can't mind this kind of thing.

But it's not just him.

Even Hermulan couldn't mind the tragic incident he had just born.

and Beiliang's beam, it is completely concluded.

To say that the people of Beiliang didn't do anything at all, they couldn't believe it at all.

After He Mulan began to recover, he would often go out of the house to inquire around, and would also help Zheng Zong to come out for a walk and listen to some news.

This village is still too weird, it has been here for six or seven days, but they have seen very few children, and there are many earthen houses in the whole village, but there are only a few dozen people from beginning to end.

It stands to reason that such a small village is not near an oasis, and there are no big towns around, but He Mulan and Zheng Zong can eat meat and drink water every day, which is simply too strange!

If it weren't for the fact that the two of them could see the tiny bones in the meat when they drank the soup, and that Hermulan recognized them as the bones of small beasts rather than human bones, they would not even dare to eat.

Not to mention that there are many strange sounds at night, and He Mulan and Zheng Zong can often see people riding back after sunrise, carrying a half-human-high bag on their backs. [,！ ] things will still move.

These weirdness can't help but make people think of strange things.

Especially Zheng Zong, he followed He Mullan almost inch by inch, it seemed that only in this way would he not be dragged to a corner and eaten.

What irritates people's nerves even more is that after Hermulan's body began to recover, there were always men and women sneaking around to see her.

Compared with Zheng Zong, who is thin and broken, and is still like a weak-haired chicken, He Mulan, who is slender but capable, muscular, and powerful, seems to be more concerned by them.

Just like there are dialects everywhere, there are many people here who are Di people, but more people speak dialect slang that even the authentic people don't understand, these people often gather around, pointing at He Mulan and Zheng Zong, showing a weird smile like conditional goods, especially He Mulan, many aunts and middle-aged women will take the opportunity to deliver food to secretly pinch her muscles or pat her buttocks, as if weighing where the meat will be more delicious.

Under this kind of unbearable harassment, even He Mulan thought several times that he would simply carry Zheng Zong, who had not recovered from his injuries, and simply run away, compared to which day it was inexplicable, they would rather starve to death and die of thirst in the desert.

But the villagers seemed to be quite friendly, not only did they give them good food and drink, they were fed to their fill, but they also gave them a clean water to scrub their bodies.

He Mulan and Zheng Zong's clothes were so torn that they couldn't look at them, and the clothes that these villagers found for them were particularly durable robes, and they carefully chose sunscreen white.

If they raise two people just to eat them, then they eat a lot of meat, which is simply a loss. Not to mention that many times they are very careful, for fear of neglecting the two of them.

It's just that these middle-aged people and aunts are too enthusiastic.

I can't stand the enthusiasm.

Such an unbearable thing finally caused a riot.

Because they don't know what the people in this village are doing, He Mulan and Zheng Zong have always been vigilant, and rarely fall asleep together at night, usually He Mulan guards the first half of the night, Zheng Zong guards the second half of the night, and then makes up for sleep like this during the day.

Although this makes both people not in good spirits, both of them can sleep peacefully.

It happened in the middle of the night, and Hermulan, who looked like he was asleep, suddenly sneaked into the house.

But she chose not to move.

He Mulan and Zheng Zong once pretended to break a pottery bowl, but in fact, both of them secretly hid a sharp fragment and put it under the quilt, and it was more that Zheng Zong was ready to take it to protect himself.

He Mulan clasped the splinter in his hand, and the muscles of his body tensed, and the man who was ready to come in would cut his throat if something was wrong.

However, the figure who approached made a small mutter, and she realized that it was not an adult man, but a woman.

The women in this village are all black and strong, and I don't know if it's because they only eat meat for a long time or because of race, in short, they are all ugly, and they have big shoulders and round waists.

But no matter how strong you are, only send a woman to deal with them?

He Mulan snorted coldly in his heart.

She felt like she was being underestimated.

The woman came in and went straight to Hemulan's bedside, He Mulan didn't open her eyes, so she couldn't see what she had done, but her five senses were very sensitive, and she didn't feel the killing intent, she continued to tense her muscles, ready to wait.

The woman held out her hand......

Touched Hermulan's crotch.

At this moment, He Mulan could no longer pretend to be asleep, so he flew up and kicked away the woman who fell down on his body, and shouted:

"What the hell are you trying to do!"

This loud shout suddenly woke up Zheng Zong, who had been tortured for a long time, and saw a woman sitting on the ground with a painful face, and then saw that the woman actually climbed up against the wall, and once again walked towards He Mulan with words that no one could understand, and he finally exploded!

Zheng Zong screamed and rushed over, knocked over the woman headlong, sat on the woman's body and choked her throat hard.

"You want to eat us, don't you! You fattened us to eat us, didn't you?! What the hell are you going to do! I'll kill you! I'll kill you! Ahhh "

The crazy Zheng Zong burst out with incomprehensible strength, the woman was also considered to be stout, and she could throw Zheng Zong out with a flick of her hand, but now that her throat was pinched, she could only kick her legs weakly, stretch out her hand weakly, and look at He Mulan desperately with her eyes, full of distress.

Zheng Zong was already close to half-madness, and while he grabbed her throat, he slammed her head desperately to the ground, looking like he would not stop until he killed the other party.

At this time, there was only one voice shouting in his heart.

"They're all ill-intentioned! They ran out in the middle of the night, maybe they were looking for people who died of thirst to kill and eat! They may be monsters who believe in some evil god and want to sacrifice them! "

Zheng Zong, who was frightened, had tears on his face, and his whole body was convulsive.

At this moment, he suddenly felt a pain in his arm, and the hand that had been holding the woman's neck loosened, and at the same time, he was half-hugged and half-carried away from the woman's body, and then leaned into a hot embrace.

With such a hot body, who else could there be but that general?

He felt a strong arm wrap around his chest and clasp his left shoulder, making him unable to move, and the other hand gently patted his chest like a mother soothing her child, causing his tears to flow more fiercely.

The woman who escaped death had no courage to stand up at all. [,！ Gas, the sound of coughing violently, tears kept pouring out with the sound of retching.

"Don't be afraid."

At this time, Zheng Zong heard the person behind him speak like this.

"Her goal is me. Even if the target is you, I'm still awake......"

He Mulan noticed that the person in her arms was not trembling so much, so she soothed him with a smile.

"If I want to hurt you, I have to see if I agree."