Chapter 1: Picking up corpses by the river

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"What a beep dog!" Dongfang Wu scolded and scolded on the one hand, and carried the dead dog-like man he picked up by the river to Tucun.

This is the second time Dongfang Wu has picked up people by the Tucun River, the last time was half a year ago, the man was seriously injured and dying, his skin was white and wrinkled by the river blisters, the wound turned outward, and he was dying.

Maybe it was fate, Dongfang Wu happened to go to the river to make clothes, and the man floated on his back on the water, which really scared Dongfang Wu, and when she came to her senses, she slowly went down to the water and scooped up the person, but fortunately, the person was still alive.

Dongfang Wu carried him back to the thatched hut where he lived, and took care of him day and night, when the man first woke up, his eyes showed a fierce light, which was really scary, but fortunately, he recovered very quickly, and he was fine in two months.

One day, when Dongfang Wu went to the back mountain to collect firewood, the man left a letter and never appeared again.

"Damn, I don't say hello if I want to leave, it's good to leave something valuable to repay my life-saving grace, who can understand this TMD ancient text!" Dongfang Wu opened the letter and glanced at it, and couldn't help but scold.

No, it's only been a long time, and I've picked up another one. This time, Dongfang Wu thought that when he woke up this person, he must tell him in advance about repayment.

This river is really gentle, mother river wow! Why can't you drown people, one by one, you have nothing to do jumping into the river to play, right? Why don't you float some silver for her to pick up?

Dongfang Wu thought indignantly, she knew that this world was different from before, the class hierarchy was quite obvious, and those in power regarded human life as a mustard, but the education she received in the past was equality, friendship, and mutual assistance, and she really couldn't do such a thing as not saving her when she died.

Dongfang Wu carried the person to the thatched hut where he lived behind the village, put the person on the straw mat, took off his filthy clothes, and carefully examined his body, and couldn't help but be a little shocked.

The man was covered in wounds, his hands were obviously broken by life, the tibia of his right leg was also broken, and the deep wounds, the skin and flesh were turned out by the river blisters, which was shocking.

This can make Dongfang Wu difficult, she is now busy all day and can't even eat, how can she have the spare money to treat him.

She thought to herself, should she carry him back and throw him back into the river?

Then I thought about it, hey, no, no, what's the difference between this and killing people directly, alas, forget it, let's see if there is anything valuable on him first, and then let's talk about it!

Dongfang Wu groped in the men's clothes he took off, although the clothes were filthy, but the material was still quite valuable, and he didn't find anything in the money bag or anything when he touched it, so he had a piece of jade on his belt that looked like an ordinary jade, and a pendant.

Dongfang Wu looked at the pendant and thought: This thing should be hanging on his waist!

Dongfang Wu took the clothes to the river and washed them, cut the clothes into pieces, connected the jade belt and pendant, walked ten miles to the county seat, found a pawnshop and sold some silver.

I bought some medicine that I needed, bought rice and noodles, returned to the village, and asked Aunt Zhou, who lived nearby, to buy two worn shorts by Zhou Daming, and then hurried back to my small hut.

The man, like Dongfang Wu, lay quietly on his back on the straw mat motionless, as if he was not alive.

Dongfang Wu dragged his medicine box out from under the bamboo bed, pressed his finger, and the medicine box opened, and there were various types of knives in it.

Dongfang Wu cleaned his hands, took out a small scalpel, cut off the whitish carrion on the man's body, connected the thick blood vessels he had broken one by one, stitched up the wound, and smeared medicine on him.

Forgive her for not giving him anesthetic, this thing is going to die, I guess he doesn't feel pain anyway, she won't waste her anesthetic, the quantity is limited, so she has to save it!

After doing all this, two hours passed, and Dongfang Wu was dizzy from hunger, but he still endured the discomfort and connected him with an arm.

She kept an eye on it, and said that it is impossible to harm others, but it is also necessary to guard against others, especially in this unfamiliar place, she is in a different place alone, and she should be more cautious.

If he was a good person, she would cure him and let him repay him, if he was a bad person, a cripple and a broken arm, she could still deal with it, she thought confidently.

Pulled the quilt full of patches over and covered him, and Dongfang Wu went out to get food.

She stored the rice and noodles in exchange for scraps of cloth and pendants in a clay pot, threw a few bamboo shoots at the back of the hut and peeled off the bamboo shoot shells, and began to gnaw on the ground as soon as she sat on the mound.

Several women laughed loudly and passed by the edge of the bamboo forest, watching Dongfang Wu sitting on the ground and gnawing on bamboo shoots with relish, and whispering gossip from ear to ear.

"What a wicked girl this girl is!" The widow of the Sun family in Tucun said this, she wore a cloth towel tied to her head, wearing a gray collar, a purple and gray short-arm cloth coat, and a skirt, with a little pity in her eyes.

"Hey, isn't Zhou Daming of the Zhou family still married a daughter-in-law, the mother and son of the Zhou family are thin-skinned, and they made a special trip to me to talk to her and make peace, I saw that the thatched house where she lived was leaking on all sides, and told her that after Zhou Daming, there was food and drink, and she couldn't be hungry or frozen, this girl was high-spirited, and she refused in one bite!" The person who said this was Zhang, a well-known matchmaker in Tucun, who was wearing a dark red narrow sleeve and slightly chubby.

Mrs. Zhang is a woman who can talk more in the village, and when she has nothing to do, she likes to talk about matchmaking everywhere and earn some money to thank the matchmaker, I heard that she has a son who works as a running partner in a big restaurant in the county, but Dongfang Wu has never seen it.

Dongfang Wu remembered this mother-in-law, when she first arrived in Tucun, this mother-in-law saw that she was helpless, so she came to her door and told her a few times, the object was that Zhou Daming, that Zhou Daming was a simple and filial man, but how could she have the heart to get married, Dongfang Wu was a little helpless.

The heart is high, which one does this say?

When the research ship was pulled by a strange force, deviated from the course, and sank into the sea by a thunderstorm, she finally picked up a life, but found that the energy chip in her body was damaged while protecting her master, and when she surfaced, she found that she was in an empty cave, and beyond the cave was another world.

It turned out that under the mountain where the cave was located, there was an underground dark river, because their scientific research ship was sunk in the dark river under this mountain, she didn't know if her father, the major, and her colleagues were still alive, and dragged her tired body out of the dark cave, wanting to go to the outside world for help, but she was shocked by the reality and couldn't speak, she even wondered if she was dead, thinking about her father's pursuit for many years, she couldn't help but smile bitterly, this is really the biggest joke made by God.

At first, she was lonely and anxious, she wanted to leave here day and night, everything here made her uncomfortable, the energy chip was damaged, she was in another world, completely reduced to an ordinary person, and even the most basic fire had to be made for a long time.

In half a year, she dived into the dark river several times, when the accident happened, the underwater undercurrent surged, and now the dark river is silent, she can't help but wonder, is the boat sinking here to block the undercurrent, but such a big boat, and damaged the chip, how can she shake it, maybe she will be trapped here forever, never go back, it is already a very lucky thing to be able to pick up a life, she dare not ask too much.

Taking a step back, what if one day the water of this dark river comes alive again and can lead to somewhere in that world? If she was still on the deserted sea, it would be difficult for her to survive.

But she's still alive, which can be regarded as the luck of misfortune, nothing is more important than life, life is gone, that's really a hundred.

So she moved everything that could still be used and moved from the sunken ship to the cave, and she didn't dare to bring too many things out, for fear that those things would be out of touch with the world and attract attention.

The chip didn't work, so she brought a medical kit, a modified solar-powered illuminated electric baton, a small dagger, and some unopened vegetable seeds.

The civilization of this world is not as good as that of the other world, air traffic control is being implemented there, and the rulers have expanded their territory to the interstellar, but they think that the mothership is too slow, and they are spending a lot of money to build a time shuttle, wanting to travel quickly through the stars.

And here slash-and-burn farming, even using livestock to pull carts, it is said that there are fierce beasts on this mountain, without the power of chips, she does not dare to live on it alone.

What kind of tiger jackal, she can still handle one or two, in case of bad luck to come to a dozen, she will be cold.

Although she also came out of the army, after the shipwreck, she was a little afraid to stay alone, when she was alone, the dead silence around her made her panic, and it was still more dangerous to live alone in a barren mountain.

So she built a thatched hut next to a bamboo forest at the back of the village, and although there was a distance from the villagers, she could feel the popularity. At first, the people in the village were not happy to let her live here, but it happened that Lizheng's grandson Dou Ding broke his leg because he fell from a tree while digging birds' eggs.

Li Zheng sought medical treatment everywhere, the doctors in the county town said that Dou Ding's leg was lame, and it could not be cured, Dou Ding's mother Xu Niangzi cried breathlessly, at first she didn't care, and then she saw that Li Zheng was quite popular in the village, and Dou Ding was Li Zheng's only grandson, and here, Li Zheng was about the same as the village chief, after thinking for a while, she volunteered to come to the door and give Dou Ding a bone.

With this kindness, Li Zhengcai gave her a guarantee and let her settle down in the village.

Li was about to go to the county seat to open an account for her, and asked her what her name was! She hesitated for a moment and said, "Dongfang Wu." ”

Her surname is God, at the beginning, when she came out of the cave, she walked for a long time to another county town, her hungry eyes were full of gold stars, and she met a swinger on the road, and saw that although she was dressed in a strange dress to describe her embarrassment and dirty, but she looked handsome, and immediately asked: "If you tell my son who your surname is, where you live, I will buy you buns to eat!" ”

At that time, Dongfang Wu was really hungry, and he didn't care if this person was wasteful, wasn't it just a name, so he said: "Shenyin." ”

When the prodigal son heard this, he was furious: "Bold, such a filthy man dares to be surnamed God, blasphemous the gods, arrested!" ”

Suddenly, the little guy behind the swinger was about to come up and take her down, Dongfang Wu saw that the situation was not good, turned around and ran, and finally got rid of those people, but she found that she had become a wanted criminal.

Although she couldn't recognize the words on the notice, and the portrait on it was also poorly drawn, she could still guess the meaning of the first two words when she saw the word order.

She's wanted!

Later, she made a vague inquiry, and learned that mortals cannot be surnamed gods, for fear of offending the gods, and the gods will bring disasters.

A group of people who don't understand science, gods are just beliefs in people's hearts, and they are really incorrigible superstition!

Dongfang Wu shouted in his heart: β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’mmp! A group of ignorant and foolish people, my aunt's surname was given by my father, how can my father be called a god!

She had no choice but to go back and go in the opposite direction, and only then did she arrive at Tucun.

So when Li Zheng asked her name, she was a little sad, and her hope of going back was dashed, she came from the East, so she took the East as her surname, looking at this strange world, she thought of the Wu character, reflecting the huge loneliness in her heart.

has come here, it is already a miracle to be alive, "Dongfang Wu" from now on, this is her name, and she wants to start a new life with this name.

"Hey, I don't know where this girl came from, I heard that her surname is Dongfang, what is her nameβ€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’" another woman answered.

Dongfang Wu threw away the bamboo shoots that couldn't be gnawed underneath, stood up and patted his buttocks, and said, "Three aunts, this is going to the river to wash clothes!" ”

The three women were a little embarrassed when they saw Dongfang Wu asking, and the three of them nodded again and again.

Dongfang Wu said: "That's right, I just shaved some fresh bamboo shoots, you take them to the river to wash them yourself, and take them home to eat!" ”

Widow Sun was a little embarrassed and said, "Then how embarrassing! ”

Mrs. Zhang and the other woman surnamed Lin were also a little embarrassed.

Dongfang Wu carried a few bamboo shoots in his skirt, walked quickly to the three of them, stuffed the bowl of big bamboo shoots into the hands of the three people, and said: "Hey, a few aunts, don't be embarrassed, this is what I just gouged out, I just tasted it, it's not bad, it's not worth much, they all live in a village, distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, my little girl will inevitably have to be taken care of by the aunts!" ”

"That's right, it's all from the same village, so we won't be polite to you!" Lin smiled heapedly, and as he spoke, he put the large, white bamboo shoots into the wooden basin that was sandwiched around his waist.

Seeing this, the other two also said some polite words and took the things away.

After a few more greetings with the three of them, Dongfang Wu entered his thatched house.

The man was still lying motionless on the straw mat of her bamboo bed, his black hair was messily spread behind his head, and some of his hair was stuck to his face with beads of sweat on his face.

Dongfang Wu sat on the bamboo bed sideways, stretched out his hand to brush away the hair standing on his face, revealing a pale and handsome face, Dongfang Wu slowly wiped the sweat beads on his forehead with coarse cloth sleeves.

This person is eight feet long, slender and sturdy, and looks like a dog, and he doesn't dress like an ordinary villager, and he has been seriously injured, he must have a person in the past, maybe there is an enemy.

Just thinking about it, the man suddenly opened his eyes, staring at her fiercely, Dongfang Wu's hand was still on his forehead, looking at each other, his eyes were pitch black, crystal clear, and deep, her clear, pure, and dense.

After a while, the man came back to his senses, tried to move his body, as if remembering something, and suddenly felt a little desperate, his pale and chapped lips moved, but he could not hear what he said.

Dongfang Wu withdrew his sleeves and said, "Don't show this expression, I'm still waiting for you to repay me when you get better!" ”

The man stared blankly at the roof, his eyes full of despair, as if to say, what did he do to save him like this, he didn't want to live like this.

Looking at his dying-alive appearance, Dongfang Wu was a little annoyed, stretched out his hand and patted his face, and said playfully: "Sample, you can't die if you want to die now, you see that I am so poor, in order to save you, I took an arm for you, and I spent all my savings, I still want to save some money to connect your other arm, eh, and your broken leg to you, and then you make money to support me, cook on the fire, make me cattle and horses at my disposal, to repay my life-saving grace, do you say okay?" ”

Of course, Dongfang Wu said this to tease him, she knew that people here were generally conservative, and teasing him was purely funny.

When the man heard this, a pair of crystal eyes stared at Dongfang Wu burningly, as if he had hope of life again.

Dongfang Wu smiled faintly with satisfaction, like a spring breeze blowing on her cheeks, soft, warm and bright, she understood his eyes, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, you'll be fine!" ”

The man saw that Dongfang Wu was sure of what he said, and his lips moved, but he was too weak to speak after all.

"You're hungry, you sleep a little longer, I'll cook porridge for you, I'll call you when it's done, soon!" Dongfang Wu was very happy, took the door out, and happily went to cook porridge for him on the simple small stove set up outside.

Her heart has begun to bubble, she has temporarily dispelled the idea of going back, now surviving here is the most important thing, when he is healed, if he can repay her a sum of money, she will find someone to rebuild the house, now this hut is too simple, the night is leaking everywhere, when the time comes, she can buy some things back, and the life can be more moist.

If she has no money to repay her, then let him make her cows and horses, chop wood, and cook, and if she can't do these things, she will sell him to the skin and meat restaurant, anyway, with how much money he looks like, but he has more injuries on his body, and the price may have to be discounted.

At this time, the man who was in the hut and had a complicated heart would definitely want to crawl over and strangle her if he knew Dongfang Wu's thoughts at this time.

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