The old man pursed his lips, his eyes rolled for a long time, and after pondering repeatedly, he nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll be a suckling pig first, and you will roast me." Then you be a suckling pig, and I'll roast you, okay? ”

Stone thought to himself: This old man is really stupid. If you are a suckling pig, I will roast you, will he still have a chance to roast me? He grinned and generously agreed: "Okay, wait a minute, you will roast me, now you lie down first." He pointed to the pyre.

The old man triumphed at the sacrifice he had made, and looked back at the stone as he climbed the pyre. Every time he looked back, he had to raise his chin and wrinkle his nose, and snort a little more until he climbed to the top of the pyre, carefully stepped over the candle, and lay down obediently.

Stone picked up a candle, placed it next to the old man's face, and said tentatively, "I'm going to start lighting it!" ”

The old man closed his eyes and lips tightly, and he didn't dare to breathe, although he didn't know what the consequences would be if the stone really lit the pyre, but he knew that he had to show nervousness at this time for the game to be interesting.

When the stone held back a smile and thought about how to continue to scare the old man, a lark-like gentle voice came along with the breeze: "Uncle Hai, where are you?" ”

The voice was like a fairy from the sea, and it was like a fairy from a flower. After all this inexplicable suffering, the stone felt the urge to pounce on it and embrace the voice.

The stone was about to turn his head when the voice suddenly became sharp and harsh: "Ah! You ......" Stone's right hand was punched, and the candle fell into the earth, and the candle flame was extinguished instantly.

A beautiful girl was panicked and stared at the stone with hostility. She was eighteen or nineteen years old, her eyes were round and big because of annoyance, and a small beauty mole between her eyebrows jumped up and down with her frequent frowning, which was very charming and moving.

She clenched her teeth, and her pink lips turned white. Her dress is simple and generous, and her graceful figure is not inferior at all because of the skirt made of coarse cloth.

"Why are you hurting my uncle?"

"I'm ......" Stone was momentarily speechless, his face flushed, and he was ashamed as if he had taken off his pants.

He had never regretted his stubborn actions so much, and opened his mouth to explain, but was frightened away by the girl's vicious eyes.

The girl raised her eyebrows like an angry lioness until she climbed up on the pyre and lifted the old man up.

"Uncle, why are you running around again? I'm in a hurry to kill Xiaomin! Her gaze softened.

"Xiaomin, I'm playing a game!" The old man smirked happily.

"What game to play?"

"Roast suckling pig!" The old man clapped his hands happily: "Now I will be a suckling pig, he will roast me, and when he is a suckling pig, I will roast him!" Xiaomin, you can play together! The old man tugged at Xiaomin's sleeve and looked at her expectantly.

Xiao Min turned her head and glared at the stone again, and when she faced the old man again, her eyes could always quickly change to the most gentle look: "Uncle Hai, he is a bad person, you can't play with him, he wants to harm you." ”

Shi was anxious, and the "bad guys" were heinous people for him, sinister and cunning people like Nong Qingyun and Shi Shazhu. He shook his hands desperately and shouted, "I'm not a bad person! I'm kidding him! ”

Xiao Min helped the old man down the pyre, patted the dirt off his body, and said to the stone that was waiting to be killed: "Teasing him, why don't you be a suckling pig first?" ”

"I ......"

"I can't see that you are white and pure, your heart and eyes are so black, even the old people have to bully! Uncle Hai, let's go! ”

"I'm not leaving!" Uncle Hai pouted unhappily and muttered that he wanted to play a game.

"Uncle Hai, that kid is a bad person, he's bullying you!"

The stone rushed to them quickly, stretched out his arms to block their way: "Don't go, I said I'm not a bad person!" ”

"Where are you from? Why haven't I seen you? Xiao Min asked, his cold breath was enough to extinguish a blazing stove.

Only then did the stone realize that he didn't know where he was or how he got to this place.

He closed his eyes and tried to recall the unbearable experience, remembering the creepy murderous deeds of Nong Qingyun and Shi Shazhu that night, remembering that he tried to warn Zhiyin but was stopped by the little beggar, remembering that the little beggar made him drink a lot of wine, and then ......

He was bound hand and foot, gagged, spinning in the dark, and something was constantly hitting his head, his back, his chest, his arms, his thighs, and something sharp that cut his face, his hands......

Stone lowered his head and rolled up his battered sleeves, bruises and blood marks confirming his memory. He rolled up his trousers again, his bruised, swollen and bleeding legs that looked worse than his arms.

"Where the hell are you from?" Xiao Min looked him up and down, only ignoring his scars.

"I ......" Shi Shi couldn't argue, and in the face of the aggressive Xiao Min, a burst of sadness hit his heart.

"My clothes are torn like this, bleeding here, here, there, and I don't have any shoes on, and my face, which must be swollen like a pig's head! Where do you say I'm from? Are the bad guys as miserable as me? ”

"Hahaha, roast suckling pig! Roast suckling pig! Uncle Hai mercilessly clapped his hands and jumped around the stone.

"You must have stolen someone else's things, been chased by others all the way, and hid here!" Xiao Min didn't show any pity, she felt that he was pretending to be pitiful.

"Thieves? My family has money, who will steal something! Stone's long-simmering sadness turned into uncontrollable anger, and he shouted hysterically.

"Steal, steal!" Uncle Hai continued to fall into the well.

"Whoever you are, I'm not interested in knowing. If you dare to fight Uncle Hai's idea again, beware of me beating you! ”

Xiao Min clenched his fists and shook his arm. Her arms were white and thin, and she didn't know how she had the confidence to use this useless-looking creature to demonstrate against the stones.

After saying the threatening words, she took Uncle Hai's arm and turned to leave.

Stone looked at their backs in annoyance. He was disappointed by the rivers and lakes he longed for.

He wanted to go back to the capital, to return home.

There is no one there who will deceive him into trusting him and put him to death; There was no one there who would tie his hands and feet, gag his mouth, and throw him into a strange place; No one there will call him a bad guy; There he would not be ragged and bruised.

The stone turned and faced the river. The surface of the water is sparkling, and the current is tirelessly rushing forward. Where are they going? Where do I go? He walked blankly towards the river.

"Ouch!"

"Be careful, Uncle Hai, are you alright?"

The two men who hadn't gone far had started shouting again. The stone didn't look back, and he would now rather face two fish than two.

He continued on his way, and the river was close at hand. When he imagined that he could immediately feel the care of the water, he was overjoyed.

"Hey!" A hand was caught off guard on the shoulder of the stone, and he felt like he had been pulled out of a sweet dream by an evil spirit, and his heart was beating and his soul was scattered.

"I've wronged you." A hemp bag and a few ropes were thrown in front of him, and Xiao Min looked at him anxiously: "Look at these things!" Uncle Hai said, you were tied hand and foot just now, and you were in this sack! ”

Stone didn't answer, and his mind was in a mess.

"Someone might want to hurt you, they put you in a sack and rolled you down the mountain," Xiao Min pointed in the direction of the mountain, "No wonder you are covered in injuries." ”

"Loading suckling pigs, loading suckling pigs!" Uncle Hai pointed to the sack and then to the stone.

Once again, Stone remembered the earth-shattering dizziness and piercing pain in his heart, which matched every word Xiao Min said, and he finally learned from others about the painful experience that had happened to him a few hours earlier.

"Is it Shennong Palace on the other side of the mountain?" He was saddened, mostly because of the betrayal of the little beggar.

"Yes."

"It's them! The people of Shennong Palace hurt me! Stone gritted his teeth, "I'm going to settle accounts with them!" He kicked the sack and the rope hard, turned and left.

"Where are you going?"

"Over the hill!" The stone did not look back.

"Hahaha, it's easy to roll down this mountain, but it's hard to climb up. So steep, see? Our hunters here are only hunting at the foot of the mountain. ”

The stone stopped abruptly and looked up at the mountain. The peaks of the mountains reach into the sky, and the summits are shrouded in mist.

As far as the eye can see, there is not a single trail in sight, and you will never reach the top. It is a kingdom of towering trees and strange rocky cliffs.

If you throw a man there, it is like throwing him into the sea, not only will you lose your way, but you will never get ashore. The stone involuntarily took two steps back.

"How's that, can't you go up? If you don't have anywhere to go, come back with us! Xiao Min's unexpected invitation made Shi suspicious.

Does she want to beat my mind too? What does she want to do?

The stone looked down at himself, and there was nothing but a ragged shirt. He remembered the legendary human meat buns.

"Look you're hungry too, I made steamed buns today, you're blessed!" Xiao Min said again, because he had wronged the stone, he showed a smile to compensate.

A fear that he had never felt before sent chills down his spine, and his meagre experience told him that he was about to fall into a trap.

He looked at the mountain again, and realized that he could run from the foot of the mountain to the top of the unconquerable mountain in one go. He ran away.

"Hey, what's wrong with you?" Xiao Min shouted at his back.

"Senior brother! Senior brother!" Uncle Hai shouted.

"Neurotic!" Xiao Min withdrew his gaze from the last rays of the sky, "Let's go, Uncle Hai, let's go back!" ”

The stone didn't go far, and his bare feet punished him again and again with heart-rending pain.

"Ouch! Ouch! He groaned as he looked around, and when he saw that a boulder in the dim twilight that could barely hide him was not far away, he rushed to it.