Chapter 3: The Road to Survival (Part II)
Just squinted for a while, and when he opened his eyes, this was the scene, Chen Kai tensed for a day, and then the nerves that had eased down for a while tensed up again. Fortunately, this time I may have rested enough, and I have really seen people, and I still have the self-confidence to deal with people, but I am much calmer than just now.
His eyes widened in horror, but Chen Kai's mind was running rapidly. The room was still the same as before, and from between the two of them, the door was open, but the sky was already dark, if it weren't for the short man holding a bamboo stick the thickness of a thumb in one hand and slightly longer than the middle finger was bubbling with a slight fire, I am afraid that none of the three of them could see each other clearly.
However, what made him feel strange was that the tall man spoke in a dialect, which sounded a bit like that of the Chaoshan area. What's more, their clothes are not pullovers, nor plackets, they don't look like modern clothes at all, but they are more like short Hanfu, and their hair is like the ancient Han people, and the whole person looks weird.
"What the hell is going on?"
Chen Kai didn't know how many times he had asked himself this question today. However, this time he never dared to say it. There was no way, the two dotted steel forks were pointing at his chest, even if there was a collar between each other, he would never dare to hold it up.
After thinking about the customers with Hokkien accents he knew before, and roughly discerning what they were saying, Chen Kai slowly stretched out his hands from inside his robe, spread his ten fingers, and made a harmless gesture to the two of them, before he said slowly: "Don't get me wrong, I'm just a passerby, it's too late to find an express hotel, so I'll rest here for a while." Since there are two of you here, I can leave immediately. ”
Hokkien, Chen Kai can vaguely understand some of it, but it is difficult for some strong people to ask him to speak. In this case, Mandarin came in handy, and he believed that with the popularity of the Republic, no matter how strange these people were, they could always understand Mandarin.
Chen Kai's voice fell, and the two looked at each other strangely, and then the short man with a fire in one hand said to the tall man: "Brother, what he said seems to be official." ”
Mandarin?
Chen Kai's doubts had not yet emerged, but the tall man categorically denied it, and shouted with a more stern emphasis: "This guy is not speaking official words, but the local dialect of the northerners. ”
The tall man snorted, and the short man had an angry face, and the steel fork he held in his hand was even more straight and straight towards Chen Kai, and it was directly on top of the robe, completely threatening to stab Chen Kai in pairs.
The dialogue between the two is a bit informative, and the Hokkien language is not easy to understand, Chen Kai has not yet analyzed the reason, and it is already like this.
Fortunately, the short man didn't continue to stab, but the tall man shifted his attention to Chen Kai after talking to his brother. Only this time, he was no longer using the Chaoshan dialect, but it sounded a bit like Tianjin, but mixed with a hodgepodge of a lot of Chaoshan dialects, which sounded like this person could probably do the same.
Tianjin dialect is fragmented, and the urban area is closer to the Huaisi accent. Although this hodgepodge was not much better, it was at least easier than the pure Chaoshan dialect, and Chen Kai had to go through a round of translation before analyzing and answering, and he soon figured out what the man was trying to ask.
"As I just said, I was a passer-by, and I got lost in the mountains, and when I saw no one in the house, I thought it was an abandoned house, so I took a place to stay overnight. Since it is the abode of the two of you, I can leave immediately. ”
Repeating the answer just now, Chen Kai's mind was full of the meaning of words such as "official dialect", "local dialect of northerners" and "northern Yankee who has lowered the tartars". It's just that the more he thought about it, the more cold he felt to his bones, so that the speed of his next answer inevitably slowed down a lot.
"I asked you again, what happened in Niujia Village, and what did you see?"
Another sharp question, the impatience in the tone of the questioner did not require any translation at all. However, before Chen Kai could figure out his words, the short younger brother said, "Say!" Did you kill the people in Niujia Village", and two lines of tears erupted from his eyes.
The words had already been asked, Chen Kai sighed, and uncovered the collar covering his body at an unimaginably slow speed. The two of them began to see Chen Kai move, and they were a little nervous, but when the answer was revealed, the two of them were only stunned.
"Tell me, I'm dressed as a primitive person, what do I do to kill the dozens of people in the village?"
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It doesn't matter whether you can understand the meaning of primitive people or not, as long as you see Chen Kai's outfit, you will naturally understand. After a few moments, the steel fork was erected by the wall, and the short man lit a bonfire, adding firewood to it. The tall man went out and scooped a ladle of water, poured the rice and water into a bamboo tube, sealed it with leaves, and placed it in the firepit.
As soon as the primitive people's equipment came out, the two also let down their guards. Chen Kai claimed that he had been knocked unconscious, and when he woke up, his clothes and belongings were all gone. As for the small village in the col, he did pass by, and he was so frightened that he fled here after seeing so many corpses. Basically, it's kind of echoing the facts, and as for how he fell there, he doesn't understand it now, so he has to make one up.
The misunderstanding was resolved, and Chen Kai learned that the two brothers were surnamed Lin, the elder brother was called Dezhong, and the younger brother was called Dexiao, who were the hunters in the mountains, and they found the temporary residence of the hunters in the mountains and forests after following him after seeing the tragic situation in the village. However, to his surprise, these two people were not from the small village, but their uncle lived there, and they were also ordered by their mother to hunt some wild animals and send them to their uncle, but they witnessed such a tragedy.
"What kind of ferocious person can do such a conscientious thing without fear of retribution?"
Chen Kai looked distressed, seven points were from the heart, but three points were from the heart, but three points were to continue to use this topic to continue to use their words.
Sure enough, Chen Kai had just brought up this topic, and Lin Dexiao looked furious: "The corpses in the village are all men's, and the women should have been plundered." Eighty percent of them were made by those thieves in Huanggang and Nanyang, otherwise who would have known such a remote place. ”
The younger brother punched the wall, but the elder brother shook his head and explained: "I'm afraid it's not, those thieves are thieves after all, and they don't want to be the first to take credit." From a certain point of view, nine times out of ten it is the car that is heavy. Didn't Tartar say that he didn't keep his head without hair, and he didn't keep his head if he kept his hair, that guy was originally born as a red-headed thief, and I heard that he made Fucheng like a thief's den, and he could definitely do it if he killed the good and risked his work. ”
Chen Kai couldn't remember who Che Renzhong's suspected target was, but when he heard this, if he didn't understand his own situation, wouldn't that hobby of history be a waste of time?
Keep your head without hair, keep your hair without your head!
At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, it is no wonder that there will be any "official language", no wonder Mandarin is considered to be "the native dialect of the northerners", and it is no wonder that there will be such a saying in this world as "the northern Yankee who has descended the Tartars", this notorious sentence alone can already explain everything, and the rest is nothing more than details.
The details, Chen Kai didn't have the heart to think about for the time being. The huge amount of information directly blinded Chen Kai there, and the next conversation between the Lin brothers became deaf, and all that was left in his mind was "It's crossed, it's especially the troubled times of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties." In addition, thoughts such as "what should parents do" and "how to go back" are also constantly impacting his thinking nerves.
However, just like he hadn't figured out "what the hell was going on" for most of the day, he couldn't have an answer to these questions, especially now that he was dressed as a primitive person, the possibility of dying of starvation was greater.
"Brother Chen, Brother Chen, are you okay?"
A concerned gaze came, Chen Kai shook his head with a wry smile, and then said to Lin Dezhong: "Thank you Brother Lin for your concern, I, well, after waking up, I can't remember a lot of things, and I was in a trance just now, and it doesn't get in the way." ”
"That's good."
As he spoke, the skin of the bamboo tube thrown into the fire had been burned, Lin Dezhong picked it out, made a cut with a firewood knife, and knocked it slightly, as if the lid had been lifted, and a fragrant bamboo tube rice was presented in front of their eyes. After opening the first bamboo tube, Lin Dezhong opened another one, put two bamboo tubes in front of Chen Kai and his younger brother, and sat there waiting for the skin of the other bamboo tube to burn.
The fragrant bamboo tube rice aroused Chen Kai's hunger, but such a big thing happened, and his mind was already occupied, but it was not like Lin Dexiao, who directly pouted with the branch, and picked up the bamboo tube to eat, and there was no way to be as vicious as it, as if this bamboo tube rice was killing his uncle's enemy, and he couldn't wait to eat his flesh and sleep on his skin.
"Brother Chen, isn't it to your taste?"
"No, it tastes good, but it's just that something happened in the picture below, and I'm a little uneasy."
Speaking of this, Chen Kai sighed heartily, then stood up, learned from the appearance in the TV series, and bowed down.
"In Xiashan Xicheng, the political envoy Si Tongsheng Chen Kai, went south to visit friends, met bandits on the road, and fell into trouble here. Thanks to the grace of the virtuous uncle, I will feel the five inside, but there will be a day of development in the future, and it will be rewarded. If you violate this oath, the heavens and the earth will be destroyed! ”
One bowed down, and when he got up again, Lin Dexiao's eyes and mouth were already wide, and the coarse rice couldn't stop falling from his mouth; Even his brother was no better, and the same incredulous look of disbelief was always roasted in the fire with the charred bamboo tube.
Until an instant later, with a scream, Lin Dezhong hurriedly dropped the firewood knife, and then hurriedly picked out the burning firewood knife and the bamboo tube rice that was about to burst with firewood. immediately stood up and hurriedly returned Chen Kai's salute.
"Brother Chen, ah, no, Mr. Chen turned out to be a scholar, and he was really offended just now."
"I was enlightened when I was a young man, and I read the books of sages, but I failed to get famous, and I really lost the face of my father and family teacher. The two of them are kind to the next first, don't mention anything offended, there are no outsiders here, brothers can be commensurate, too much red tape is useless. ”
"How this deserves, how it deserves."
Lin Dezhong spoke incoherently, Lin Dexiao's bamboo tube rice also squirted out, and he hurriedly covered his mouth and swallowed it forcibly, but his eyes were still full of disbelief, but there was more reverence and trepidation in it, all of which were in Chen Kai's eyes. Seeing this, Chen Kai picked a burning firewood, knocked out the fire, and wrote on the ground one by one.
"Oh, these are the three words Lin Dexiao."
After that, Chen Kai wrote Lin Dezhong's name again: "The name of Xian Bozhong is only one word missing, which is the first two words of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness spoken by the sage." The more troubled the times, the more our generation must follow the teachings of the saints, emphasizing loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness, so that the world can have the possibility of restoring great governance. ”
The words fell, the words had been written, and the Lin family brothers looked at the names on the ground, swallowed their saliva, and looked at Chen Kai without doubt.
Next, Lin Dezhong hurriedly picked a pheasant from the prey and began to pack it up, saying that he wanted to give Chen Kai a taste of the game in the mountains and forests. And his younger brother was helping his brother to help, while talking with Chen Kai, when he saw that Chen Kai's bamboo tube did not have chopsticks in front of the meal, he immediately found a branch, wiped it back and forth on his clothes, until he was sure that it was clean, he pouted it in half and handed it to Chen Kai with both hands.
"Thank you."
Yes, we must first try to survive, in this remnant apocalypse of the sea of corpses and blood.