Chapter Fifty-Eight: Settle in Jinggu
Qi Si'er looked down and suddenly withdrew from the mouth of the pit, and after a while, he saw a basket of fist-sized stones pouring down from above, if it weren't for Xia Chuxin's quick hand to pull Su Zhao aside, he would have been smashed by this moment.
"Hey, hey, if you want money, you want money, is there a bit of morality?" Xia Chuxin hurriedly shouted.
The fourth child was also filled with righteous indignation on his face, and said: "It is because you don't preach morality that the fourth child wants to teach you a lesson, and the fourth child wants all the money and property on you, all of them, and you are still sacrificing your life at this time?" ”
Xia Chuxin quickly searched Su Zhao and Xia Duo, and this time he was sure that the two of them had been cleaned, so he reluctantly took off the intoxicating bracelet on his wrist, raised these money and jewelry above his head, and shouted upward: "This is really all our things, if you don't believe it, come down and search it." ”
The fourth child poked his head in and looked at it, and after a while, he threw down a basket and said, "Put everything in." ”
Xia Chuxin put the things in his hand into the basket according to his request, and watched the basket slowly rise up. After a while, there was no movement from above, and Xia Chuxin thought in his heart that this bastard wouldn't run away, right? That's too moral, but if you look back and think about it, what morality can a person who digs a pit and rob the Tao have?
"It's over, we've been fooled, this guy has run away with something." Xia Chuxin said.
Su Zhao hurriedly asked, "Huh? So what to do? Are we really going to die here? ”
Xia Duo sighed softly and said, "Don't be discouraged, I'll think of a way." ”
"Oh, this fourth child is really not a thing, and he keeps saying what morality, this king bought a wrench with 20,000 taels of gold." Su Zhao felt distressed at this time.
Suddenly, a voice came from the mouth of the pit, saying, "What bad things do you say about the fourth child?" The fourth child is the most moral, how can he be the kind of person who doesn't talk much. Vacate the middle. ”
The three of them were surprised and hurriedly hid against the wall of the pit, and then saw two objects thrown from above and fall to the middle of the ground.
"The things are given to you, whether you can come out or not depends on your ability." Mi Si'er said.
Xia Chuxin looked at it fixedly, and there were two rakes in the center of the ground. Suddenly desperate, he yelled upward: "Big brother, aren't you playing with us, you know better than us what the shape of this pit is, how can we go up to the two rakes?" ”
Su Zhao grabbed a rake and looked at it, and shouted, "Aren't you the most moral?" You're clearly letting us die here. ”
Mi Si'er poked his head up and said: "Don't worry about Mi Si'er, if you want to give you a rope, then you can't kill Mi Si'er, don't underestimate this rake, Mi Si'er has tried it himself, and it takes some effort to come up." There are old and young people in the four of them, and they are doing risky business, so you should be considerate and considerate. ”
Damn, a robber actually wants innocent people to understand him, is there a royal law in this world? Xia Chuxin wants to wait for me to go up, I have to kill you, bastard. Suddenly I thought about it again, what people said was right, it was kind to run away without taking the money, after all, he was in a high-risk industry, and risk avoidance was a must for his profession.
In this way, the three of them planed along a local net, first planed this line vertically, and then chiseled a few wrong holes for climbing on this line. Xia Duo followed closely behind and climbed up, but in the end, only Su Zhao tried a few times without success, and each time he climbed about a meter and fell. Xia Chuxin sat paralyzed at the mouth of the pit and looked down at Su Zhao, who had fallen into the pit once, and shouted: "You are full of fat brains and eat sea plugs every day, right?" I can't climb up a pit, I'll give you another chance, and if you can't climb up again, you'll be starving to death inside, and my brother and I will save a burden. ”
Xia Duo knew that she was just a mouthful, if Su Zhao had already left him behind, would he wait for him to climb up again and again? However, Su Zhao took it seriously, and shouted "Don't don't, don't leave your uncle behind" while standing up and climbing up hard. I don't know if Xia Chuxin's intimidation has an effect or Su Zhao's luck has come, although it took a little longer this time, this damn uncle finally crawled out.
As soon as he got out of the pit, Su Zhao lay on the ground and said excitedly: "Woo, this king has finally come out, and this king finally doesn't have to die." This king will definitely be a good person in the future and never do bad things again. ”
At such a tense and depressed moment, the Xia family brothers and sisters were actually amused by him. Xia Chuxin said amused and helpless: "You have to do what you say." ”
Su Zhao sat up, raised his right hand and said, "This king swears, swears to the sky, and he will be a good person in the future." ”
At this time, the three of them were exhausted, and Xia Chuchu's mouth was dry, so he had to get up and search around to find out if there was anything to eat. Summer Duo also got up and searched. Finally they found some fruit on a tree not far away, and although it didn't taste good, they wouldn't starve to death. beckoned Su Zhao to come over and eat some together, Su Zhao was still there just now, and when he saw the fruit on the tree, he rushed over as if he had been beaten with chicken blood. Three times five divided by two, the fruit was torn off and stuffed into his mouth.
For half an hour, the three of them ignored each other, just stuffed the fruit into their mouths, and the meal was finally full.
After a few more breaks, the three of them hit the road again. When he came out of the woods and walked eight or nine miles south, he finally saw a small city. In an instant, the three of them galloped away like wild dogs.
Near the gates, the people marched into the city. Xia Chuxin glanced at the long queue in front of him, and saw that the people in the team were dressed differently from Chucheng and Wusu, so that they looked like the costumes of the Miao people in reality. At the front of the line was a gray-haired old man. Xia Chuxin patted the old man on the shoulder and asked, "Uncle, dare to ask what kind of place this is?" ”
The old man looked back at the three of them and said, "You are from the Central Plains, why did you come to our Jinggu City?" ”
Xia Chuxin quickly recalled in his mind that he had not stored any information about Jing Ancient City. Then he asked, "Jing Ancient City?" What nation does your city belong to? ”
As soon as Xia Chuxin finished asking, he was pulled back by Su Zhao, and before Xia Chuxin could gain a firm foothold, Su Zhao pulled her and Xia Duo towards a big tree next to him and hid.
"What are you doing?" Xia Chuxin asked.
Xia Duo didn't know why, and stood aside and waited for him to reply.
Su Zhao poked his head out in panic and secretly looked at the group, and when he saw that there was no vision, he turned around and said to the two: "Why did we come to Jing Ancient City, isn't it to die old." ”
"What happened to Jing Gucheng?" When Xia Chuxin first arrived, I didn't know what this Jing ancient city said.
"Jing Gucheng, how come I've never heard of it." Xia Duo was also very curious about how this small city in southern Xinjiang suddenly made Su Zhao like a great enemy.
Su Zhao poked his head out again and looked around, making sure that no one was paying attention to them before turning around and saying: "You don't know, Jing Ancient City was originally a branch of Jing Man, Jing Man was a member of Jing Man, Jing Man was submissive to Great Chu in the time of my grandfather, due to disagreement with the leader of Jing Man, he led a group of people to the southwest to establish Jing Ancient City, and let out the rumor that no Chu people are allowed to haunt Jing Ancient City, if Chu people enter the city, they will be killed." ”
"Huh?" The brothers and sisters of the Xia family all exclaimed, fortunately they did not rush into the city, otherwise their lives would be difficult to protect.
But Xia Chuxin felt strange when he looked at Su Zhao's expression and expression. This guy isn't going to talk nonsense, is he? If it was really as he said, why didn't the old man take down a few people in public or shout to attract the officers and soldiers at the city gate? I just felt that the third brother of the Central Plains was a little surprised that the third brother suddenly appeared in this ancient city of Jing, just like a few foreigners suddenly came to a small mountain village in China.
Thinking of this, Xia Chuxin was sure that this old guy was talking nonsense, and he deliberately made up his grandfather's generation, so long ago Xia Duo would definitely not know. But what is the reason for his nonsense? What was the reason for preventing them from entering the city? There must be someone in this city that he doesn't dare to see.
"Uh-huh. It's been so long, I think that Jing Gucheng may not reject the Chu people now. Besides, there are several countries in the Central Plains, and we don't have the mark of the Chu people on our heads. Big brother, it's going to be dark soon, and if we don't go into the city today, I'm afraid we'll have to go back to the woods for the night today. Xia Chuxin said deliberately.
Xia Duo immediately heard the meaning of her words, and echoed: "What you said is also right, when others ask, we say that they are from Hancheng, and the Chu people have no obvious characteristics. ”
Saying that the two of them were about to go out from behind the tree, Su Zhao hurriedly blocked behind the two and said, "Slow down." You two are young and don't know a lot of things, what this king said is the truth, this Chu people can't enter Jing Ancient City, if others find out that we are Chu people, it will be unlucky. ”
"We don't say it's Chu, who knows? I said uncle, you are a little too cautious, your grandfather's Huang Li has long since failed. Xia Chuxin said with a smile.
"Oh, you girl, you'd rather believe it than not, this kind of small border country is the most vindictive, in case they have taken this article as a national law and continued it, aren't we just going to die? We finally escaped death, but we can't kill ourselves anymore. Su Zhao followed the good path.
Xia Chuxin was not hindered by him, took two steps forward, and said as he walked: "I can't care so much, it's getting dark, I'd rather take a risk and go into the city to find a place to live than go back to the forest, in case the beasts in the forest come out at night, we really call ourselves dead." ”
Summer Duo followed suit. Su Zhao chased a few steps, blocked in front of the two, and said with a sigh as he retreated: "Oh, you young people just don't listen to the old man, you have to suffer a loss to know that what my uncle said is right." I advised you for the sake of our same ancestry, don't enter the city. ”
"If you're afraid, go back to the woods by yourself, my eldest brother and I will die." Xia Chuxin said and pushed Su Zhao to the side.
Su Zhao was annoyed, and looked at the backs of the two of them who were constantly moving away and shouted, "I warned you." ”
"Young man, don't listen to persuasion."
"Hey, are you really going into the city?"
"Hey, let's talk about it again?"
"Hey. Wait for me. ”
The Xia family brothers and sisters stopped, looked at each other and smiled, and Qi Qi turned around and looked at Su Zhao's fat body and ran towards the two of them.