Chapter 2 Out of the Plug (4 I)

With hope, the worries in the hearts of the traders were swept away. Set off to the north overnight, and actually drove more than 60 miles in one breath, until the second half of the night, under the leadership of Hao Laodao, he found a low-lying place behind the hills and settled down, and built a fire to resist the cold wind in the early morning on the grassland.

The grasslands lack forest barriers, so the night winds are frighteningly strong. Even though he hid behind the mound, the cold still pierced his bone marrow. And for this bone-chilling autumn cold, the vendors will never dare to set up tents to keep themselves warm. I had to wrap all the clothes that I could wrap around my body, and then hugged my shoulders, curled my body, and struggled around the fire.

As for why he didn't set up a tent, Uncle Jiu's explanation to Li Xu was: The larger the place, the stronger the wind, in case the wooden stakes on the ground are not strong enough, when everyone is asleep, even people with tents may be swept away by the wind. So although he was carrying a thickened linen tent in his luggage, Li Xu had no choice but to follow the example of everyone and torment by the fire with his shoulders crossed.

In such a cold weather, how can people who go out of the jam for the first time sleep. In a moment, the night wind had already penetrated the heavy cold clothes, blowing Xiao Li Xu's back as cold as ice. He curled his body around in a half circle, and rushed his back towards the campfire, and before he could feel the slightest warmth in his back, the clothes in front of him clattered on his chest like iron.

Li Xu was so uncomfortable with the cold that he turned his face to the fire again. At the moment when he turned his face, the little wolf Ganluo jumped up gently and jumped into his arms.

Although he has been living a day of eating and sleeping in the open recently, Ganluo's body is growing at a speed that can be seen by the naked eye. At this time, it was already the size of a rooster at home, and the fluffy wolf skin ash had silver in it, and it was exceptionally warm to the touch. Perhaps in order to repay his master's kindness for his return yesterday evening, after Gan Luo jumped into Li Xu's arms, he lay down gently. The warm body just happened to stick to Li Xu's abdomen, which was the most uncomfortable by the wind, making him feel a strong warmth.

"You're not a scourge!" Li Xu patted Ganluo's head and said in his heart.

As if understanding what his master meant, the little wolf turned his head back and lifted it slightly. A pair of pale golden eyes just met Li Xu's gaze, and it looked as bright as starlight.

"Sleep! I'm still on my way tomorrow! Li Xu patted the wolf's head again and blocked its eyes with his hand. The little wolf Gan Luo slowly shrank his head into Li Xu's arms, and after a while, he snorted softly in an extremely low voice.

"Beasts are sometimes kinder than people!" Holding the little wolf, Li Xu thought silently. Raising his head, he wanted to find a chance to talk to Uncle Jiu, who had relieved him many times. Since Uncle Nine has always been very sincere to himself, he should tell the other party the true purpose of this northward trip. Deceiving such a kind and open-minded elder, Li Xu would feel uneasy in his heart no matter what. looked closely, but found that Uncle Jiu, who was sitting diagonally opposite him, was already asleep, and a shiny saliva was slowly flowing down from his mouth, shining with the beating flames.

"Can you sleep in such a cold wind?" Li Xu's eyes widened in surprise. After a closer look, I found that not only Sun Jiu, but also Hao Laodao, Wang Mazi and others had already shrunk up and fallen asleep. Not far away, next to another fire, Uncle Zhang's snoring was as loud as thunder.

Drawing on the method of observing people that Xu Dayan said that day, Li Xu's gaze swept over the faces of his companions one by one. He was surprised to find that everyone had different expressions on their faces when they slept, and no two of the people in his company had exactly the same expressions. Hao Laodao, who was sitting on his left, was a man who worked hard to eat, so the expression on his face looked very fierce when he slept, his mouth was snoring, but his right hand was holding the handle of the knife tightly, as if he might jump up at any time and fight with others. And Wang Mazi, a philistine, had a flattering look on his face, as if he was talking about a business with someone, lest the other party regret it halfway. Du Scar, who was curled up beside Wang Mazi, pouted, as if he had just had an argument with someone, and under the light of the fire, the scars on his face looked more and more hideous. Among all of them, the expression on Xu Dayan's face was the calmest, and his sleeping posture was also the most elegant. I saw him sitting cross-legged, his hands slightly hanging on his legs, and his chest rising and falling with his thin and long breathing. Obviously, even the sleeping position of him has been specially trained.

"Behind the details, it is often the life experience that is hidden." Li Xu suddenly found that Xu Dayan's words were very reasonable. Observing Sun Jiu who was sleeping, he found that Uncle Jiu's waist knife was inserted in a very special position. Except for a few swordsmen in the team, whose weapons have always been held in the palm of their hands, the knives used by others for self-defense are usually left or right, and they are hung at random. And Sun Jiu's saber is half across the left side of his waist, and the handle is always facing the right front. Even in his sleep at the moment, if someone comes to attack, he can quickly draw his sword to meet it.

"Uncle Nine may have been a swordsman, or he may have been in the army!" Li Xu came to a conclusion in his heart, and an extremely uncomfortable feeling immediately surged in his chest. He thinks he shouldn't secretly probe the secrets of someone who is good to him. However, in the past few days, the actions of Uncle Zhang, Du Scar, Wang Mazi and others have made him find enough reasons for his actions.

"Right and wrong, good and evil, are not on the surface. What you see in your eyes may not be the truth, and what you hear with your own ears may not be the truth! When parting, Old Master Yang once told him like this. But how to observe the truth behind the fog through people's false smiles and promises that will never be fulfilled, Master Yang did not have time to instruct.

Xu Dayan's observation of people just makes up for this shortcoming. After training, he may have speculated the other party's family background from the infantry captain's weapon. Li Xu thinks that if he usually pays more attention to the details, he will definitely not be deceived by the superficial enthusiasm of Uncle Zhang, Du Scarqi and others at one time.

No matter how true the lie is, the details will be revealed. And grasping these details is the key to grasping the truth. This is another life truth that Li Xu has realized in the past few days. He knew that he was no longer the ignorant boy in Yixian County, and he could feel that he was growing up slowly, slowly, like this little wolf in his arms......

With something to distract from it, the chill in the middle of the night is not so hard. After studying everyone's sleeping expressions for a while, and thinking about the interesting things that had happened in the past few days, Li Xu hugged the little wolf and fell asleep in a daze.

In his sleep, he saw a wolf, in the snow, running and running alone. For a moment, he felt like it was himself.

Alcoholic note: One more, the number of words is less. Make up for it at the second watch in the evening. Thank you for your support.