Chapter 45: Nagging and Talking
Although Bu Hui thinks that Gou Tianxiao is taking risks, who calls someone else the team leader? In the army, Gou Tianxiao is the company commander, and there is a bandit called Xiaotiangu! Among the current volunteers, whoever has a bandit name is powerful, and it is all beards coming down from Wanghai Mountain and Xiaogu Mountain! Like Bu Hui, who was added halfway, he can't compare with others at all!
Although one hundred and twenty people were unhappy in his heart, Bu Hui still had to cheer up all his spirits. In case someone finds out at the city gate, the devil doesn't care whether he is the main culprit or an accomplice, and anyone who catches it will be killed! Even for the sake of his own life, Bu Hui had to work hard to complete this task.
I saw the city gate, but it was actually a few hundred meters away from the city gate! There was a small village next to them, and they came out of the woods on the edge of the village. There was a path from the village to the base of the city wall, and Gou Tianxiao and Bu Hui took this path, and the other five warriors followed far behind in two groups.
Halfway out of the village and towards the city gate, the road was broken, and there was a ditch in front of it. This ditch is long and deep, long and not headlong, and no less than two feet wide, and it is impossible to jump over it in one step anyway.
It is normal to walk in the wild and encounter a ditch, and if you can't jump over, you can go down and climb over the bottom of the ditch. If you really don't want to go down into the ditch, then walk along the edge of the ditch and find a narrow place to jump over.
Gou Tianxiao looked left and right, and it was so wide within a hundred and ten meters on both sides that there was no place to jump over within his line of sight. Isn't it just a ditch, just go down and go up again! I've been a beard for many years, and climbing a ditch isn't like playing.
A few people found a place with a slope and went down to the ditch, but they had just gotten down and didn't even half of it, Bu Hui suddenly shouted: "Who is that?" ”
Gou Tianxiao was taken aback, and looked over there along Bu Hui's finger, it turned out that there was a person dozens of steps away from the bottom of the ditch, bending over with his back to them, and he didn't know what Lu Dao was busy with.
Although Gou Tianxiao didn't see what the man was doing, he had already guessed it in his heart. In these years, there is a lack of food and clothing, and the common people go to the wild to dig wild vegetables in addition to setting up traps to hunt! Looking at the appearance of that person, it is probably because the family has run out of food and is digging wild vegetables here to eat, right?
Since this man can dig wild vegetables here, then he must be near here, and he will not run far away to dig wild vegetables in this ditch!
"I'll go take a look!" It is obviously much safer and more feasible to learn about the situation from the mouth of a local than to sneak in through the city gates! Let Bu Hui stay where he is, and Gou Tianxiao approached the bent back alone.
As he got closer and closer, he saw that the strands of gray hair were showing under the bandana that was no longer colorless, and the wild vegetables in the bamboo basket at the old man's feet had just covered the bottom of the basket.
"Old man, what about digging wild vegetables?" Gou Tianxiao greeted loudly.
The old man stopped, turning his head to reveal a wrinkled face. The old lady only glanced at the visitor, and without replying, without making any movement, she turned back and continued to bend down to dig her wild vegetables. The old lady didn't pay attention to Gou Tianxiao!
Gou Tianxiao was not angry at all, and walked to the bottom of the ditch with a smile to watch, talking to the old lady while watching the old man dig wild vegetables. I've only heard of people talking to young girls, but I've never seen anyone talk to old ladies. The old lady was not bad, she just used the small plow in her hand to dig the wild vegetables in the ground, and ignored Gou Tianxiao's talk, as if she had never seen such a person at all.
The corners of Gou Tianxiao's mouth foamed at the mouth, seeing that the other party paid much more attention to wild vegetables than to him, this simply went over and snatched the small plow in the old lady's hand, and he dug up wild vegetables at the bottom of the ditch!
To say that Gou Tianxiao is also from a poor family, of course he knows wild vegetables, when he was a child, his family was not good, and he followed the adults in the family to dig wild vegetables, but today his method of digging wild vegetables is very unsatisfactory. It doesn't matter if it's a wild vegetable or a wild grass, as long as it looks like the leaves are wide, Gou Tianxiao ploughed down and dug it up from the roots, and threw it directly into the old lady's vegetable basket without even throwing off the mud on the roots!
"Oops, this one can't be eaten! This is Kokana Lady! This is the Broken Intestine Grass! The old lady cried out inarticulately, and with both hands she picked out the inedible poisonous wild vegetables from the basket and threw them out. She threw it out here, and Gou Tianxiao kept digging and throwing it into the basket.
"Housheng, Housheng, do you want to poison my wife?" The old lady complained as she kept picking at the poisonous wild vegetables.
There are a lot of poisonous wild vegetables, but there are even more that are not poisonous, after all, there are not so many wild vegetables in the wild that can really poison people. If the ditch is full of medicinal materials, it is estimated that this ditch would have been filled with herbs, and the old lady would not have come here at all.
Gou Tianxiao threw it into the basket regardless of whether it was good or bad, although the old lady picked it out of the basket and piled a small pile on the side, but the wild vegetables in her basket were indeed increasing rapidly. It didn't take long for most of the basket of wild vegetables to be in the basket.
"Old man, let me inquire with you about something, are there many Japanese and Imperial Allies in this cattle village? Is the inspection of the city strict? I wanted to go into the city to run errands, but there was no road. I want to ask you, how do you get into the town without roads? ”
Since he had successfully led the old lady to speak, Gou Tianxiao asked about the things in the town while the iron was hot. He wanted to see if he could get useful information from the old lady.
It may be that this basket of wild vegetables has played a role, and of course it may be that Gou Tianxiao's words have moved the old man. In short, the old lady has become another chatter since she just spoke, and she is still a nagging chatterbox.
From the early death of her husband, to the early death of her well-behaved and intelligent son, to her nephew, who was a puppet soldier in the town, who was closer than his sons, to see her every morning or afternoon. After introducing the situation at home, the old lady began to explain the knowledge of botany to Gou Tianxiao. Which wild vegetables can be eaten, which wild vegetables are poisonous, which ones have a stomachache after eating, and which ones are covered with acne all over the face after eating.
People love to nag when they are old, especially a lonely old lady like this. Usually no one talks to her. Today, there is a person who can work and talk, and the old lady's interest is really unprecedentedly high! You ask, what do you ask, what do you say! The old lady who knew everything and said everything completely poured out the Niu Zhuang she knew to Gou Tianxiao.
What city walls are of triple earth; How many people died when the walls were being built; It was when his husband was hit in the backbone by a large rock because he was repairing the city wall, and he had been lying at home for three years before he died. The only animal in the house is an old hen. The old hen is also angry, laying an egg every day.
When Gou Tianxiao patiently listened to the old lady's nagging for nearly forty minutes, he finally couldn't help it, put his hands in front of him and reported it together, and made a pause gesture first.