Chapter Seventy-Six: The Desert Smoke
I slowly opened my eyes in a state of dizziness, and the whole thing seemed to be shaking. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 It took a while for everything around me to quiet down.
It looked like a deserted military station, but it was warmly and elegantly furnished, and with a small bowl of water on the table next to me, it seemed to be saved again. Where there is silence, it seems that there is no despair.
The door was gently pushed open, and a neat woman crept in, and when she saw me wake up, she was very happy, helped me up and fed me water, and said to me with a smile: "Sister, in this desert, water is more important than gold, you drink more." ”
I gratefully agreed, and after drinking the water, I asked the sister in front of me where was this time?
"This place is between Tianshui and Jiuquan, so I don't have a name. Don't call me sister, my name is Alain. There are other sisters here. ”
"Thank you for the rescue, I wonder how the boy who walked with me is now?"
Alain asked me to lie down slowly, and told me indifferently: "It's tied up outside, I don't know if it's still alive." ”
I was shocked when I heard it, these are all wandering friends, why is the difference in treatment of survival so big?
Alain reassured me and said, "Our women have all been hurt by men, so our men are like pigs and dogs, and after stealing money, they will be sold to the Western Regions to do hard labor, regardless of what they do." Ah Mei lie down, you have lost too much blood, you have to recuperate. ”
I hurriedly grabbed Alain's hand and asked her to take me to Shen Mo, telling her that it was my brother, that I had been escorted all the way here, and that he was not a bad person. After saying that, I thought it was weird, because he was really not a good person. I pleaded again and again, and I almost knelt and kowtowed, and Alain finally brought Shen Mo in.
At this time, the silence was already red, the large and small sunburns and broken skin on the body, the original face was tired and aggrieved, but after seeing me, a smile suddenly bloomed, and asked me: "Chu Xin, are you awake?" I'll just say that you are such a stubborn Lord Yama will not dare to accept you, okay! ”
I hurriedly withdrew some unbearable eyes, but he still saw it, and pretended to be relaxed: "It's rare to have such an opportunity, after shedding this layer of skin, I can still be whiter, and I like it more for girls." ”
Before he could finish speaking, he suddenly received a whip from Alain. Alan said to him coldly: "Since you haven't sunburned enough, I might as well let there be one more dried corpse in the Gobi." ”
I stretched out my hand to stop: "Sister Alain, it depends on the owner to beat the dog." No, no, you should give him a bowl of water for me, you don't know that he is also a person who has been hurt by men. ”
I cast a color at Silence, and Silence winked at Alain knowingly.
So I made up the story of Hu Guang's chaos and abandonment of the two of us, saying that Hu Guang did not distinguish between men and women, played wantonly, and abandoned us from the beginning to the end, banishing us to fend for ourselves. The angry Alan only scolded his father, and Shen Mo also complained about the woman's posture on the side.
Although Alan still didn't like Shen Mo very much, she was finally a sister in one camp, so she untied Shen Mo and handed him a bowl of water. Silently pinched the orchid finger and drank it like a whale swallowing a cow.
Alain told me that it was an abandoned military station. At the beginning, the Mosuo girl Yasheng found out about this, and successively rescued many poor women and taught everyone kung fu, and they lived by robbing and selling traders. When they robbed men, they saw their sins, and those who were guilty of lesser crimes remained at the barracks to work. Those who are responsible for the crime are sold to the Western Regions as slave dogs. I saw the silence sigh weakly.
I couldn't help asking, "After all, women can't outperform men in physical strength, so how do you make them obedient?" ”
Alan replied: "Yasheng is from the Mosuo tribe, he is good at making insect Gu, there is a kind of Gu called Wumen, after getting down on the body, hearing the bells on Yasheng's feet touching each other, it is like ten thousand ants devouring bones, and the male slaves have suffered a few times and are obedient." But the worm Gu will backlash, Alan is now festering from the bones, and she can no longer walk, but in order to keep us from being bullied, she still refuses to go to the Gu poison on the male slave. ”
Male slave ...... I couldn't help but smile evilly, thinking that this treatment was very suitable for silence. He looked at me smiling flatteringly, and tried very hard to be coquettish.
Alain went on to tell me: "Yasheng is so pitiful. She is a Jinhua of the Mosuo tribe, the most beautiful girl in the tribe, and she met a man who was recuperating in the tribe at a bonfire party, and she made a private agreement for life. The Mosuo tribe is a female society, but she ignored the opposition of the people in the tribe and asked the man to take her away from Lugu Lake. The man was in a high position and power, gave her a rich life, and also gave her betrayal, Ya Sheng was afraid that he would lose him, so he threatened the man to give him a trick. The man was afraid, so he let his subordinates stun Yasheng and threw him into the river and drowned. The subordinates coveted Yasheng's beauty and defiled her, and it was this period of time that Yasheng woke up and saved her life. She couldn't go back to the tribe, and saved many poor women along the way, and finally lived in this desert. ”
I listened to it with a chill behind my back, thanking the man in my life for not killing him.
Alain also told me about the sad past of many of the women at the station. The hill girl was said to be ominous by the fortune teller because of her broken palm and was going to be burned to death; Lian Qiao's uncle bullied her, but her mother-in-law said that she was inappropriate and wanted to soak her in the pig cage; He Sanniang was originally the daughter of a good family, but she was instigated to elope and sold to the Qinglou. Even Alain was regarded as a broom star because of the early death of her husband and was discarded on the Gobi Desert.
I was wronged by Ye Keting's stabbing, but compared to them, I suddenly felt that the wound didn't hurt anymore. They are all women who depend on men to live, and they have lost the favor and protection of men, so they have fallen to the point where it is difficult to survive, so they hate men all over the world. I silently prayed in my heart for Shen Mo, there is no woman who has been burdened by him here, otherwise the main course tonight may be Shen Mo stewed mushrooms.
I asked Alain to take me to see Ah Sheng's injury, so I could help her.
When I got out of the station, I saw these male slaves, their hands and feet were chained, their expressions were miserable, and they were all sitting in their hands without looking at the labor. Shen Mo reacted quickly, and after catching up with me quickly, the mother called out in a girlish voice: "Sister wait for me." ”
"You see everybody here chopping wood, feeding horses, living like a poet. I think that's what you should be treated with, and that's what you should be. ”
He twisted his body and didn't follow: "Sister, don't make trouble, how can you treat me like this." I choked on his disgust and walked quickly to Alain's house.
There was a young woman sitting on the bed, looking out the window with empty eyes, as if the joys and sorrows of this world had nothing to do with her. I stepped forward and said who I was, and by the way introduced my "sister" silently in disgust.
Yasheng did have a lot of abscesses on his legs, which had hurt his bones. I saw that the house was full of snakes, insects, rats and ants, and I knew the cause of her illness. It's not that it's a backlash, but that she has been breeding ants for a long time and using ant venom to control male slaves, which leads to too much formic acid on her body and corrodes her skin. Just rub the wound repeatedly with the juice of the cactus and it will heal in no time. It's just that she can't use ant venom anymore.
Yasheng disagreed, she was worried that so many sisters, without male slaves, would starve to death in this desert.
What a good girl, life seems too unfair to her. I told her soothingly, "It's okay, I know how to do it, and I can cook some food, and I can teach it to my sisters." ”
Yasheng hated in his eyes: "That's not possible, once a man gains power, he will bully us women, I can't let them go like this." ”
Soon Alain brought the cactus flesh, and I gently applied it to Ah Sheng's leg with my hand, and the pain was immediately reduced. I sincerely told Yasheng, "I know that you are deeply injured, but we can't eat an egg that is stinky and think that the egg is stinky in the future." The men I have seen, not only are they not vicious, but they are gentle and affectionate towards their wives. It's just this time, so next time we might as well keep our eyes open......" Yasheng is not as old as me, but her eyes are full of dead silence. I talked to her all afternoon like a bosom sister. I'm also young, okay?
Shen Mo pinched the orchid finger like this and accompanied him all afternoon.
"Actually, these men you have captured, their wives may still be waiting for them to go back, you have experienced despair, don't let these poor people feel despair too."
Yasheng is very grateful to me, so she also thinks about what I said: "Then Sister Chu wants me to let them go?" ”
"Not yet, there are some things that still have to be caught."
At night, the weather gets cool. Shen Mo leaned outside the barracks and looked at the stars with thatch, he was better treated than a male slave, and could sleep in a grass hut instead of in a stable.
After holding it for a day, he could finally speak in a male voice, and it was a little awkward to listen: "Chu Xin, we have to leave quickly after recovering from our injuries, I'm afraid that I may not be able to come back if I stay." ”
"That's a good dare, it's done for the people."
Shen Mo bit the thatched pole and told me: "That's not good, there are so many women here, I'm afraid I won't be able to hold it." Hearing only a click, there was an extra set of locks on Shen Mo's wrist, Alain stretched out his hand and pointed to the stable on the other side, and Shen Mo moved over with a bitter face. It made me laugh.
On the second day, I took my sisters to ambush in Mingshaling to rob the merchant traveler, and I made a blindfold for myself to make myself look like a newly debuted robber. I have three chapters of the law with you: don't use Gu, don't kill, don't let go.
At first, I was a serious robber, but watching the merchants who were in a hurry all the way, they looked tired and couldn't bear it, but they became the guides. Familiar with the desert, Yasheng and Zhuying took the horse team to avoid the sandstorms and mirages, and the caravan gave us a lot of rice and silver coins.
For several days in a row, we also harvested a lot of things, which inspired everyone's confidence. Yasheng and Zhuying were in charge of guiding the way, Alan and Aunt Qu exchanged rice and noodles with the merchants, and He Sanniang and Lian Qiao sewed some embroidery by hand and sold them to the merchants in the Western Regions. The dilapidated military station was lively, and there were even business travelers who came to stay to avoid the sandstorm, which added another amount of income.
Most of these business travelers are in a hurry, and it is a great happiness to be able to sit in the military station and eat a piece of melon. When you go out, you will starve and suffer from heat stroke, not to mention being exploited by robbers in various regions, catching up with bad weather, and even taking your life. Life is not easy, and if you can live in mutual benefit, don't be embarrassed by each other.
I gathered together the rice and other condiments I had gathered, and told everyone the secret recipe of the wind for ten miles, and the women were busy making alcohol. Alan is a native of the city, he can cook local food, and his skills are not bad, and he also teaches everyone with his money. Shen Mo became the leader of the male slaves, and took the male slaves to make tables, chairs, and bed frames out of poplar wood.
We worked together to decorate the station, and on an auspicious day, the station inn officially opened.
The desert is desolate, since the military station inn was opened not far from the Moon Spring, the business travelers who come and go finally have a place to stay, and they can rest for a while in the scorching sun, and this life is given by melon juice and cold wine.
Therefore, the business of the inn is as hot as the sun in the desert, and this big family always has a livelihood.
After earning some surplus money, Yasheng distributed it to male slaves, untied the Gu poison and dismissed them. Before leaving, I threatened these people that if they were unfaithful to their wives and children, the Gu poison would still recur, so frightened that they nodded again and again, and went home without stopping. Looking at their departing figures, I also want to return to the southeast as soon as possible. It's hard to leave my homeland, and after eating too many steamed noodles, I suddenly miss those delicate side dishes.
But one of the slave boys never left, and when he asked him why, he smiled honestly. We saw Lian Qiao's face suddenly turn red.
I greeted Yasheng and the others and prepared to leave, but everyone was quite reluctant. I hugged everyone and told them that there was still a need for men in the inn, and that the world would not hinder their happiness. If there is someone worthy of trust, it is better to rob and come back than to miss it again.
Afraid that they would be bullied again, he silently painted them with the thirty-six moves of returning to the shore, and left them with the nineteen styles after returning to the shore. Only when you are self-reliant will you not be afraid.
The women sent us a long way away before they reluctantly watched us leave.
Silently unshackled, his hands and feet were light, and he kept chattering on the horse. I laughed at him, he could have torn it off, but he had suffered for so long.
The corners of Shen Mo's mouth rose slightly and told me that this was also an opportunity for him to atone for his sins, he was not a good person before, but he wanted to be a good person in the future.
I was deeply moved, and the desert sun finally dried the water in his head. Silently turned back and did not change the money, I solemnly offered praise.
He looked at me and smiled heartily: "Chu Xin, you are more powerful than I thought. ”
"What?"
"You let the desert bloom. You made two deserts bloom. ”
I couldn't help but be surprised: "Still going through a desert?" ”
Shen Mo nodded, and the corners of his mouth raised slightly: "I hope that the soldiers in the military station this time are all men who were injured by women, and you can also experience the experience of sleeping in the stable and being gnawed by the horse at night." ”
When I looked closely, the silent hair was strange. I laughed and told him, "Then this time we will go to a place where no one has ever been hurt by their lover, and no one has changed their minds." Let's see if the people there will live happier lives. ”
Shen Mo didn't speak, I knew that that kind of place was a desert with only lonely smoke, and no grass grows. (To be continued.) )