This kind of handkerchief Zou Youheng recognized that this was when he first came out, in order to make it easier to identify, Ye Xiaoyu bought a few for each of them, thinking that he could leave some marks at the critical time.

At that time, he laughed at her fiercely, but he didn't expect it to come in handy so soon.

"Ye Xiaoyu-!!"

After realizing that she might be somewhere in this cave, Zou Youheng began to shout at the top of his voice.

But there is nothing but a continuous echo.

"You said that she couldn't have been taken away by something, right?"

Seeing that no one answered, Zou Youheng began to panic again.

"Maybe."

There was a clear answer from the side, he didn't know what he was studying, and the whole person was almost stuck to the cave wall.

This is the first time since they met, and Zou Youheng did not hear a positive answer from Qinglang's mouth.

The temperature in the cave was slightly warmer than outside, but he unexpectedly felt even colder.

*

Birds and flowers, spring full of garden.

Although it is not appropriate to use this kind of word to describe late autumn, Ye Xiaoyu feels that the scene in front of her is like this, or even more so.

She woke up on a bamboo bed, the room was clean, and the table was still with some fruit and rice cakes, but there was no one around.

Ye Xiaoyu vaguely remembered that when the stone room was flooded, it seemed that someone had saved her, but she was confused and not too impressed, but judging from the environment around this house, this should be a village in the mountains.

The yard is not large, but it is full of flowers and plants.

If it weren't for the constant pain in the shoulder. She must have thought it was a dream, and she herself was either dead or almost dead.

"Sunny? ……”

Thinking that maybe it was sunny that saved her, Ye Xiaoyu stood at the door of the house and shouted.

"Zou Youheng—?"

No one responded.

The sudden sound frightened away the sparrow perched on a beech tree in the courtyard.

Nima, it's not a hallucination again, is it?

Ye Xiaoyu thought and pinched his arm fiercely.

The real pain is transmitted from the arm to the whole body.

―― Not a dream.

It's not a dream, but there is no one around, could it be that the gods saved her? And now she's in some wonderland?

Ye Xiaoyu felt that she was simply insane.

*

"Yabu, you have a good harvest today, this basket is full of ......"

"Uncle Yan, you are not lazy, the weather is good this year. So things in the mountains grow well......"

Ye Xiaoyu stood at the door. Suddenly, there was a sound of people talking outside, and before she could get back into the house, she saw a young man with a basket on his back walking in from outside the courtyard.

Wrapped in a headscarf, colorful outfits. The young man's outfit doesn't look like a person from the Central Plains.

"Are you awake? ……”

As soon as you walk through the door. saw Ye Xiaoyu standing at the door of the house. The young man smiled happily.

"Sunny ???"

I had never seen such a bright and bright expression on this face, and Ye Xiaoyu's eyes widened.

"It's windy outside, let's go in and rest......"

The young man was stunned at first. Then he said with a smile.

"It's ......"

Ye Xiaoyu followed him into the room, and then sat on the edge of the table in a daze, and only after the young man put down the basket on his body did she realize that she had a bunch of questions in her mind.

"This is Aba Village, you accidentally fell into the water......"

Seeing Ye Xiaoyu's face full of questions, the young man explained with a smile.

"You saved me?"

Ye Xiaoyu was a little incredulous.

She remembered very well that she was in an almost completely sealed stone chamber, and then the water poured in from nowhere, and there was no exit around it, how did this person save herself?

"Yes, I happened to catch fish in the mountains yesterday, and I saw a place in the river that kept blistering out, I thought it was some big fish, and I swam over to find that there was a hole at some point, and there was a shadow faintly at the bottom, I thought it was a stupid shark, so I dived down, and later found out that the shadow was a person......"

The young man said with a smile as he sorted out the wild vegetables in the basket.

The sun was shining on his face, and Ye Xiaoyu couldn't open his eyes a little.

This person looks exactly the same as Qing Lang except for his clothes, and the only difference is that his smile overflowing with warmth is simply the difference between heaven and earth compared to Qing Lang's perennial cold as frost.

Are there really two people in this world who look exactly the same?

If not, then is she in a damn dream now?

"What's wrong with you? Is there something uncomfortable? ”

Seeing that Ye Xiaoyu was stunned, the young man couldn't help but ask with concern.

"Oh, no, no. I just remembered something......"

Ye Xiaoyu smiled.

"I want to ask, how far is it from Guangdong?"

Thinking that they had entered from Yuezhou before, Ye Xiaoyu wanted to confirm how far she was from Qinglang and them.

"Yuezhou? This is Dian Zhou, which has long passed the boundary of Guangdong. ”

The young man didn't understand Ye Xiaoyu's purpose in asking this question, and replied with a puzzled expression.

"Dian Zhou ......"

Ye Xiaoyu muttered to herself.

She is not familiar with the territory of Daye Country at all, but judging from the only few state capitals she knows, this Yunnan State should be the state closest to the southwest of Daye Kingdom, that is to say, it is adjacent to the Southern Barbarian Country, does that mean that Aba Beike is near here?

"What did you just say this village is called?"

Ye Xiaoyu hurriedly confirmed with the person in front of him.

"Aba Village."

The young man had already sorted out all the wild vegetables and mushrooms in the basket, and was about to take them out at this time.

"That, that Aba Bei...... Thank you for saving me. ”

Ye Xiaoyu originally wanted to continue to ask Aba Beike about the distance between him and here, but thinking of Qinglang's description of the dead city, she was afraid of scaring the people in front of her and causing unnecessary trouble, so she swallowed the words when they came to her mouth.

"What's this? It just so happened that I bumped into it, and it was just a matter of raising my hands. ”

The young man smiled lightly.

Unlike the sunny and slightly pale face, the person in front of him may have lived on the plateau for a long time, and his face has been sunburned a healthy tan, and it looks like he is sprinkled with sunshine.

"You ......"

Ye Xiaoyu wanted to confirm something.

"Today I went to the mountains and picked a lot of fresh wild vegetables and mushrooms, and I also have salt beef and eggs at home...... Are you used to eating? ”

The young man stood at the door, looking at Ye Xiaoyu cautiously.

"With so many delicious things, how can I not get used to eating them?"

Ye Xiaoyu laughed.

"Are you going to cook now? I'm idle anyway. I'm going to give you a hand......"

"No, no. I'll just come by myself, and you can rest in the house. ”

The youth hastened to refuse.

"It's said that I'm idle, and I'm so hungry now, how uncomfortable it is to wait. Give you a hand. Time is a little bit easier. ”

Ye Xiaoyu said as she helped him bring some mushrooms to the kitchen.

*

The kitchen is not big. There were plenty of sun-dried mushrooms and fish sticks hanging inside, and the stove was neatly cleaned, although the roof was covered with thatch. But when I walked in, I inexplicably made people feel comfortable.

The young man's cooking skills are very good, standing next to him, Ye Xiaoyu only has a dry look in addition to simply handing over the dishes and chopsticks.

Looking at it, she was in a trance, the person in front of her, whether it was his figure or appearance, was too similar to Qinglang, such a scene made her can't help but substitute the illusion that Qinglang was cooking in front of her.

But illusions are illusions, and the reality in front of them is that after Qinglang and Zou Youheng climbed up from the bottom of the mountain and found that she was gone, they would definitely look for her everywhere, and now they may still be looking for her outside. Thinking like this, Ye Xiaoyu planned to probe this young man's tone again during the meal.

"Wow, I can't see that your cooking skills are so good!!"

Ye Xiaoyu sat on the table, looking at the table of dishes in front of her and sighed.

"It's all home-cooked food, where can it be called cooking."

The young man was praised, and his face was full of embarrassment.

"This salted beef is delicious, much more delicious than I imagined."

Ye Xiaoyu praised while chewing.

"What do you imagine it to be?"

Seeing Ye Xiaoyu's big grin, the young man gradually became less restrained.

"I thought it was like old cured meat, it was hard and salty, and a small piece could make a big bowl of rice."

"And such cured meats?"

The young man's eyes widened in surprise.

Being cute by such an expression, Ye Xiaoyu couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth. It turns out that the sunny face can still make such a cute expression, although the person in front of him who makes this expression is not sunny.

"Yes, it's like salt doesn't cost money, it's hard, and if you bite it, your teeth are about to burst."

Ye Xiaoyu said with an exaggerated description.

The young man laughed along.

"Isn't the outside world beautiful?"

After a while, just as Ye Xiaoyu was thinking about asking some specific information, the young man asked first.

"It's beautiful."

Ye Xiaoyu quieted down, and suddenly caught a glimpse of an inexplicable emotion in the young man's eyes.

"How so? If you like a quiet life, you will feel that the outside world is not good at all, but if you like the waves, the thrill or you like to do something, you may feel that the outside world is not bad. ”

"Is that so?"

The young man laughed.

"I've been here since I was born, and I've been as far away as the mountains, and I've never been out."

"Actually, I envy you for living like this."

Ye Xiaoyu looked at him and said.

When she first came here, she felt that she had to do a great job, but when she really did a career and experienced a lot of ups and downs, she began to feel that being dull was the most valuable.

"Oh, by the way, I forgot to introduce it, my name is Yabu."

The young man was silent for a moment, then smiled brightly.

"My name is Ye Xiaoyu, you can just call me Xiaoyu."

Ye Xiaoyu also laughed.

After a day at Yabu's house, Ye Xiaoyu began to have a more complete understanding of this small village in the mountains. (To be continued......)