Chapter 4: Salvation
Ye Zheng himself didn't know how long he had been in a coma, and when he was just a little conscious, in a daze, a rough and thin hand lifted his head, and slowly poured him two bowls of gruel, a few bowls of gruel went down, Ye Zheng's complexion improved significantly, and his mind slowly sobered up.
At this time, a young man's voice sounded in his ears: "Mother, can he survive?"
The rough hand gently put down Ye Zheng's head, and a woman's voice said unhappily: "Big Tiger, don't talk nonsense, this little brother is just overly hungry, it's okay to drink a few bowls of gruel to slow down, let's go, let's go out and chop the firewood first, let him recuperate well." ”
After speaking, Ye Zheng only heard a "squeak" door, and the two footsteps walked out one after the other, and after a while, there was a crackling sound of chopping wood outside.
After more than ten minutes, Ye Zheng felt that his weak physical strength had recovered a lot, and he slowly opened his eyes and looked around.
He found himself lying in a simple and old log cabin, the walls of which were covered with the skins of wild beasts, the corners were filled with many old farming implements, and on the right side of the door hung two wooden longbows, the bows were dark and old, stained, and the owner must have been of Orion origin. The golden sunset shining through the crack in the door, Ye Zheng estimated that it was about five or six o'clock in the evening, and after calculating the time, he was probably in a coma at about eight o'clock in the morning, and he had been asleep for nearly ten hours now.
Thinking of his hunger fainting in the barren mountains and mountains in the morning, if it weren't for the kindness of this hunter, it is estimated that he would have died by now, thinking of this, his heart can't help but be full of gratitude to this kind hunter, and he struggled to get up from the bed at the moment, ready to go out and thank people in person.
Pushing open the simple wooden door, Ye Zheng came to the outside of the house, and saw that on the field outside the house, a fourteen or fifteen-year-old black thin boy was chopping firewood with an axe, and the sides of him were piled up with firewood that had been chopped, and a village woman was busy picking up the chopped firewood one by one and placing it neatly under the eaves. The village woman was about forty years old, dressed plainly, with a thin yellow face, and although her face was covered with a little wrinkles and sweat, she looked so kind and simple.
The young man who was chopping wood saw Ye Zheng walking out of the room, and immediately smiled at him kindly, revealing his white teeth. At this time, the village woman also looked up at Ye Zheng and said with a smile: "Little brother, you woke up, do you feel better now?"
Ye Zheng's heart was full of gratitude at this time, and he walked quickly to the two of them, and suddenly knelt on the ground with a "poof". "Auntie's life-saving grace, I'...... I really don't know how to repay you, please accept my worship......"
"Little brother, what are you doing? Hurry up, hurry up, your body hasn't recovered yet, you can't toss like this. Seeing that Ye Zheng suddenly fell to the ground, the village woman hurriedly stepped forward to stop her, and when she turned around, she saw that the young man chopping wood was looking at this side with a stunned face, and said with displeasure below: "You kid, why are you stunned, why don't you hurry over and help this little brother up!"
When the young man heard this, he hurriedly threw down the axe and ran over, and hurriedly helped Ye Zheng who was kneeling on the ground with the village woman.
With the support of the boy and the village woman, Ye Zheng was sent back to the house by the two of them, and the kind village woman kept nagging, saying that he had been hungry and collapsed for so long, and he should lie on the bed more to recuperate, but he couldn't run around, otherwise it would be bad for his body to recover.
Listening to the village woman's concerned nagging, Ye Zheng's heart was warm, which reminded him of his mother who had passed away for many years. Looking at the kind face full of wrinkles, Ye Zheng found that the words of gratitude he had prepared were so pale and redundant.
The village woman carefully covered Ye Zheng with the quilt and said with a smile: "Little brother, you can rest in peace now, and I'll go to cook dinner and cook some broth to replenish your body." With that, he closed the door and left.
Listening to the caring words of this kind village woman, Ye Zheng was even more grateful in his heart, and secretly decided in his heart that after his body recovered, he must repay them well.
How can we repay this kind family?
Ye Zheng thought about it for a long time, he now has no money, no gold and silver treasures, and the only thing he has on his body is so many inconspicuous jade pendants, but who knows if these things are worth anything? Looking at the animal furs and longbows hanging on the wall, he couldn't help but move in his heart, and said secretly: "Since they are hunters, then I will help them fight more prey in the future to repay them, anyway, I have pistol bullets, how should they be stronger than their bows and arrows, well, what to do." Hey, it's over, why is my pistol gone? It's over, it's over, it can't be that I fell on the mountain before I fainted, right?"
Ye Zheng touched his chest and found that the pistols were missing, so he was shocked, and couldn't help but look around the room, and finally, found them on the small wooden table next to the bed. Three pistols and boxes of ammunition were placed on it, and it was thought that the village woman must have taken them out of her clothes for fear that they would weigh her down and make her uncomfortable.
"Wow!"
At this time, there was an excited dog barking in the distance outside the house, and at the same time, the loud voice of a teenager also came in. "Brother, mother, I came back from the mountain and down, what did you see hunting?"
"What a big pheasant! Little Tiger, you're in luck today. The wood-chopping boy laughed.
The village woman smiled and said, "Now you can stew some chicken soup for the little brother to try, big tiger, you hurry up and boil some boiling water, and the chicken feathers will fade later." ”
At this time, the young man named Xiaohu asked, "Mother, how is the man we rescued from the mountain in the morning?"
"That little brother, he has woken up, it shouldn't be a big deal to cultivate for a while, you go and help your brother light the fire now, my mother has to go to wash rice and cook dinner." ”
"What a ......"
At dinner, Ye Zheng and the village woman, mother and son, ate around a wooden table, and it could be seen that their life was very poor, in addition to the pheasant in the pot, there were also two bowls of unknown wild vegetables, the rice grains in the rice bowl were very yellow and rough, and there was a faint musty smell in the mouth, and at a glance I knew that the quality of this rice was very inferior, and it was completely different from the white and soft Thai fragrant rice and pearl rice that Ye Zheng often ate in his previous life.
Although the meal is not very rich, it is not a delicacy, but Ye Zheng eats very happily, it is conceivable that if a person has been hungry for five days, he has not eaten properly, and now even if he eats grass roots and bark, it will be very fragrant, and at the dinner table, the village woman and her family are very enthusiastic, and they constantly give him vegetables, chicken, chicken legs and chicken wings of a pheasant, and other parts with a lot of essence and meat, basically all go to Ye Zheng's stomach.
So, that night, he was very full, and he had never been so full in his life.
After a meal, Ye Zheng also became familiar with their family, and when the village woman asked about his life experience, he made up an excuse to fool him by the way, saying that his hometown was affected by the disaster, and he fled here, so he couldn't tell them that he had crossed over from the earth, anyway, the people in the mountain village were simple and kind, and he didn't suspect that what he said was false.
After talking with the village woman, I learned that her name is Chen Daogu, and the people in the village generally call her Chen Gu, who was told that she married to this small mountain village 20 years ago, and her husband was arrested by the government five years ago to serve as a laborer, and he never came back. At that time, Aunt Chen became a widow, with two children under the age of ten, life was very difficult, often ate the last meal without the next meal, if it were not for the sympathy and relief of the villagers in the village, it is estimated that she and her two children would have starved to death. Therefore, when they saw Ye Zheng, who was dying of hunger, they decided to rescue him without hesitation, because they were also rescued by others in this way.
The small mountain village where Aunt Chen lives is called Niujia Village, there are not many people in the village, only 19 families, basically all of them rely on hunting for a living, and everyone in the village is surnamed Niu, and her two sons are called Niu Dahu and Niu Xiaohu respectively. The two brothers are twins, and the big tiger is the elder brother, who is long black and thin, but his personality is more stable and sensible. Xiaohu is a younger brother, long black and strong, with brute force, but his personality is very hot and impulsive, and he often fights with people when he disagrees.
In addition, Ye Zheng also vaguely learned from Chen Gu's mouth that they belonged to the people of the Dalie Empire, and the Niujia Village where they were located was a small town located on the border of Qingjiang County of the Dalie Empire, and the current governor of Qingjiang County was King Liang, I heard that King Liang seemed to be a prince of the Emperor of Dalieguo, because he was crowned the king of the domain, so he was ordered to come to Qingjiang County to take up the domain, and at the same time, the entire Qingjiang County is also the fief of King Liang, and he is the supreme ruler of the entire Qingjiang County.
After learning about these unfamiliar information from Aunt Chen's mouth, Ye Zheng was stunned!
Qingjiang County, Dalie Empire?
What the hell is this place? Why haven't I heard of it in history before? Isn't the world you are familiar with when you are reborn in history?
After thinking about it for a long time, Ye Zheng finally understood that he had come to a strange era that was completely different from what was recorded in history, and this was a strange world. However, the only thing that can make Ye Zheng happy is that although this world is unfamiliar, through all aspects of understanding and observation, he is sure that this world still belongs to the era of cold weapons, as long as it is the era of cold weapons, then the infinite arsenal he has can come in handy, and he can realize his dream of being a warlord and hegemon here.
Thinking of this, Ye Zheng's mood was much better, in order to be able to learn more about this strange world, he listened and asked Aunt Chen a lot of questions, but Aunt Chen couldn't answer many of them, because the farthest place she had ever been to in her life was the market in the town, and she never went anywhere else, even the things she just told Ye Zheng were basically heard from others.
After Ye Zheng chatted with Aunt Chen's mother and son for a while, they saw that it was not too early, and they were all ready to sleep. Since there were only two rooms in Aunt Chen's house with beds, Ye Zheng and Dahu and Xiaohu could only squeeze into the same room.
Before going to bed, the two brothers, Dahu and Xiaohu, saw Ye Zheng sitting on the edge of the bed, wiping the pistol with a rag, and couldn't help but be curious: "Brother Ye, what is the iron lump in your hand? ”
Ye Zheng smiled and said casually: "This thing is a secret weapon, which has been handed down by the ancestors to protect one's life, and it is very powerful." ”
When Xiaohu heard this, he came to his senses, and hurriedly leaned over and asked, "Hidden weapon, is it really fake?" How powerful is it, can you shoot the fox?"
Ye Zheng said proudly when he heard this: "Cut, what is it to shoot a fox, don't talk about a fox with my secret weapon, even if it is a wild boar and a black bear, I will shoot it the same!"
The two brothers, Big Tiger and Little Tiger, rolled their eyes when they heard this. "Bragging, just such a small piece of iron lump in your hand, and you still want to shoot tigers and giant bears, it's just bragging! Our best hunter in Niujia Village, Niu Sanyan, he can only shoot an adult roe deer at a distance of thirty steps (about 36 meters) with a good elm bow and an ironwood sword head, can this thing in your hand be stronger than Brother Three-eyed's elm bow?"
Seeing the disbelief on the faces of the two brothers, Ye Zheng couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly: "This thing in my hand is not powerful, I will go hunting in the mountains with you in a few days, won't I know?"
The two brothers listened to Ye Zheng's words, and yawned disapprovingly and went to sleep.