Until now, Yun Xiaotian still didn't know what the Xingfu Courtyard was thinking.

In Tulin Village, for several days, his life did not have the slightest wave.

All day long, it is nothing more than watering and fertilizing the cassava trees, pruning branches and leaves, and doing short-term work in Tulin Village every day, in exchange for a white flour baked cake a day and a firewood house where you can sleep.

He is not a loss, but Tulin Village is very profitable.

The villagers here seem to be hospitable on the surface, but they don't give him much charity in vain.

It's not easy for each family, so naturally they won't be overwhelmed, after all, there are so many things, and if you give one point, you will lose one point.

Yun Xiaotian didn't care about this, the name of the village allowed him to live here, even if it was a firewood house, it was actually someone else's kindness.

The most taboo thing for a person is often his own insatiable greed.

Greed is endless, and there is no end to what you want.

Yun Xiaotian is certainly not such an insatiable and contented person.

And here is a relatively dull life.

The only thing that gave him a headache was the ugly girl who was still lying on the ground covered with his coat and still hadn't woken up.

Obviously, Yun Xiaotian's coat has become her exclusive sleeping blanket.

Yun Xiaotian is a good man who doesn't fight with women, he has long lost half of his temper and the courage to resist.

This woman likes to be angry so much, inexplicably, that Yun Xiaotian seems to be unpredictable forever.

Yun Xiaotian had nothing to do at all, and he could only avoid her as much as possible all day long.

And what she wanted, Yun Xiaotian didn't know why she was obedient, and did it obediently.

At this time, lying under her, with his coat underneath, a cool mat woven from cassava leaves and thin branches, was made by Yun Xiaotian for several days at her request.

Moreover, this woman will look for him except when he asks him to work, and when he asks him to cook something for her to eat. Other times, it's a high-minded attitude that doesn't pay much attention to his cold attitude.

Even if Yun Xiaotian sometimes forcibly chatted with her and wanted to get some information about this place from her mouth, he was often always defeated by her indifference and indifference.

In the end, he had no choice but to admit defeat and give up this idea.

Yun Xiaotian is patient and waiting.

When he leaves Tulin Village, he will be able to reach the sky and the sea, and it is best for everyone to never see each other.

Sometimes they interact strangely, and sometimes they are accidentally seen by other villagers.

will always provoke them to laugh, you and I will always be a burst of ridicule and ridicule with a sense of matchmaking.

They laughed happily, only Yun Xiaotian couldn't say it, and they didn't know how to argue.

It seems that in the eyes of these villagers, Yun Xiaotian and the woman beside him are the most suitable couple, and they will definitely stay in Tumin Village to get married and have children in the future.

These villagers saw that Yun Xiaotian was usually quite diligent in his work, and he looked like a good guy, and they had gradually recognized his qualifications to stay.

Today is a big day for Tulin Village.

An envoy from Huangdu City came to Tulin Village to select the children to be sent to the Holy Mountain to study.

For these remote mountain villages, facing the loess with their backs to the sky, this is the only opportunity to change their unchanging, uneventful and hopeless lives.

They have only three places in the entire Tulin Village, every five years.

And only children under the age of six have the opportunity to be selected and sent to the Holy Mountain to become dependent children.

In other words, everyone only has such a chance in their lifetime.

Early in the morning, all the people in the whole village of Tulin were dressed in their best clothes and tried their best to dress up.

Qi Qi waited at the gate of the village for the arrival of the envoy of Huangdu City in the distance.

The children, who had just learned to stand, were also dressed in fancy clothes and were caught between the legs of their parents.

The smaller ones can only be held in the hand.

"Babble...... babbling ......", non-stop, very cute.

Yun Xiaotian carried a bucket and hurried over.

He didn't know it, and thought that someone was marrying his daughter.

So, as usual, he returned to the cassava grove where he needed to work, and with the ugly girl he hated, he began to take care of these cassava trees for a day.

Yun Xiaotian and the two of them didn't know anything about it, so they didn't see the messenger from Huangdu City.

They didn't know that the opportunity they had been waiting for for a long time had quietly come.

Not every day is as good as the last snake hunt.

After working all night since dusk, he only managed to get two small fish half the size of a palm, and four or five small fish that were only the size of a finger.

And the snake meat that was hard to get that day had already been eaten by them early in the morning.

He didn't dare to venture into that forest again, and after listening to the people of Tulin Village, he realized that the forest was actually notoriously dangerous in this area.

In the Dagu Snow Mountain, these villages at the foot of the mountain raise cattle and sheep in captivity, and half grow crops, and everyone lives very hard.

There are many people who have lost their cattle and sheep, and in order to find them, they accidentally walk in, and often never come out.

Although the village is not far from the forest, everyone is safe.

But in normal times, no matter how difficult it is, no one will have the idea of not being afraid of death and going to fight that forest.

Yun Xiaotian had seen the power of the poisonous snake in it, so naturally he would not take such unnecessary danger again.

That day, he hadn't penetrated much before he had already appreciated the dangers inside, and God knew what strange things would be in the deeper places.

If you're hungry, you're hungry!

Yun Xiaotian returned to the cassava orchard with a handful of small fish that he could catch and a few wild vegetables.

Seeing that there was not much to eat today, the ugly woman, with a bad temper, ate more.

And Yun Xiaotian can only drink some soup and chew fish bones.

"Xiaotian, come here!"

The erratic village chief Huang, followed by his bearded brother, beckoned to Yun Xiaotian outside the woods.

Yun Xiaotian put down the fish bone in his hand, clapped his hands, ran over, and came to the entrance outside the cassava forest to talk to the village chief.

"Have you gotten used to it lately?" Village Chief Huang asked politely.

He can't say that he can't eat enough every day.

Yun Xiaotian replied casually: "It's okay, it's good." ”

"Don't you want to go to Huangdu City? In a few days, you two will come with us! ”

Yun Xiaotian nodded, with an ominous premonition, and secretly said with some strange surprises in his heart: "Two", what does it mean.

Village Chief Huang didn't know Yun Xiaotian's thoughts, and still continued: "The life in the village is hard, don't be surprised. According to me, you might as well stay here. The desert is vast, and you probably can't find your way back. ”

"Give it a try!" Yun Xiaotian replied firmly.

"I don't persuade much! Go back first. Be prepared in your own hearts for what these days are. ”

With that, he left with the big bearded man, a strong man who looked a little older than him.

Yun Xiaotian walked back to the cassava forest and told the ugly girl about it.

Yun Xiaotian knew that she didn't want to stay here, and he wasn't surprised, he had already learned that she was not from here in the first place, and it was normal for her to want to leave.

It's just a matter of asking him to wait a few more days, he has already endured it for so many days, and he naturally doesn't mind enduring it for a few more days.

It's a big deal, when they get to that Huangdu City, it's better to divide their own things.

But his thinking is very dangerous.

How many people endure and endure it, and a lifetime has passed.

Who knows the final outcome and answer to this kind of thing?

……

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Walking on the village path in Tulin Village, the bearded man couldn't help laughing.

He said to the village chief Huang beside him: "I'll go away!" Fuck, this guy, what a heavy taste. Even such an ugly woman can do it, I really admire it, this brother is really an ordinary person! ”

"I'm optimistic about him! Ha ha...... Ha ha......! ”

The village chief of Tulin Village, without his usual restraint and old age, laughed with him, and said with a smile: "You are optimistic about him, what's the use." You say it and don't count! ”

The bearded man nodded in agreement: "That's ...... Is that......! ”

"We're just a bunch of people, but we can't decide anything."

The two of them talked about each other, and their figures gradually drifted away, disappearing into the dim and darkening night ahead.

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It was night, the clouds were light and the sky was high, and bright stars covered the night sky.

Yun Xiaotian covered his face with his hands, lying on his side against the wall, sleeping on the dry pyre, he was trying to cover his ears at this time, tossing and turning, unable to sleep.

Even when the wooden door was closed, the silver-white starlight from the stars outside would always find a crack and sneak into the house.

Yun Xiaotian was a little annoyed, and sat up alone in the intertwining of darkness and starlight, with an angry face, looking at the ugly girl who was sleeping soundly below.

She actually snores, and it's a terrible kind of snoring.

In the dark, with the faint starlight, Yun Xiaotian stared at the ugly girl's undulating chest, and listened helplessly to her anxious heavy snort.

Last night, he didn't sleep well.

This is the case again tonight, and Yun Xiaotian has no idea of confronting her at this time.

In his opinion, this ugly girl with a strange temperament would definitely not admit it at that time, and even if she did, it seemed to be equally useless.

Yun Xiaotian turned over the firewood pile, carefully opened the small wooden door of the firewood room, and began to prepare to wait for the next dawn to set off and go to Huangdu City.

It's a very remote village, and there are no other metal products except for a few farm tools.

He couldn't find something suitable, as his weapon, Yun Xiaotian could only make a wooden bow out of snake tendons and rattan, and he could only say that talking was better than nothing.

A few cassava branches and hardwood are made into feathered arrows, and the most threatening thing is probably the poison that has been quenched from the edges of the arrows.

Since receiving the news that he would soon be able to go to Huangdu City, Yun Xiaotian ventured into the dangerous forest, found some Acacia bellflower, rubbed some of its poisonous juice from the body of the Acacia bellflower with an arrowhead, and carefully wrapped it in strips of cloth by him.

At this time, both the bow and the arrow were carried behind by Yun Xiaotian.

Originally, he actually wanted to take a firewood knife from the village.

But I've already broken someone's handful, and now I'm secretly taking another handful, which seems to be a bit unkind.

The materials in the village are scarce, and Yun Xiaotian sees it.

After a little consideration, in the end, he gave up on this idea.

He had no choice but to use a wood knife to find the best old vine in that forest and sharpen a wooden spear.

It's just that he's not good at using a spear.

It's just that if you make it look like a commonly used wooden knife and a wooden sword, unless you use wood made of special materials, the blade or sword body is too fragile and won't be of much use in battle.

Of all the things he could do, the wooden gun seemed to be the best option he could use for self-defense.

By the time Yun Xiaotian had already packed up his things and made all the preparations for departure.

The ugly girl in Yun Xiaotian's eyes, who was named Ai Bingtai under the pseudonym of Qingxin at this time, walked out of the firewood room slowly and sleepily.

At her waist, at this time, there was a bull-killing knife that she got out of nowhere, the cold blade was shining, and it was dazzling in the brilliant morning light.

As usual, she ignored Yun Xiaotian's slightly envious eyes, and walked briskly to the well in the forest, drinking water and washing her face.

After some tossing, Yun Xiaotian and Qingxin came to the village chief's house.

At the village chief's house, on a boxy table of eight immortals that has been around for some years, a few dishes of pickles, and a large bowl of white porridge.

Ai Bingtai and Yun Xiaotian were scrambling to eat, and they didn't know how to be polite

In the past few days, the two of them have been hungry and full, but there is no reason to let go of such a good opportunity to eat well.

They didn't mean to be polite to the village chief, and carefully calculated that these dishes of pickles were enough for them to drink a few bowls of porridge.

It wasn't until the pickles on the table were eaten that the two of them reluctantly put down the dishes and chopsticks in their hands.

Yun Xiaotian burped and spit out a mouthful of turbid abdominal qi, which was full of unpleasant smell of white porridge.

provoked Ai Bingtai, looked at him, and rolled his eyes.

Village Chief Huang looked kind-hearted, but he didn't care about it, and he had the demeanor of a virtuous elder, looking at them with a smile from beginning to end.

After the table was served, the white porridge in the bowl was eaten, and he did not touch it again.

In fact, he didn't expect that they would be so scoundrels and so unceremonious.

The three of them seemed to know it tacitly, and when everyone arrived in Huangdu City, it was estimated that they would never see each other again.

Now there is no need to have too many mutual scruples.

It's just that in the eyes of Village Chief Huang, the eating appearance of Yun Xiaotian and Ai Bingtai is too exaggerated.

How did he know that in the past few days, the food competition between the two of them has become more and more intense.

Whoever is a little slower will go hungry at night.

These days, after getting acquainted with each other a little bit, Yun Xiaotian gradually became less polite to the ugly girl than before.

As soon as he is polite, then she will have to inch in and kick her nose and eyes.

That meal every night is their daily must-have battlefield.

Whoever eats more will be the winner today.

The next day, you can raise your head and chest all day, raise your eyebrows, and look down at each other.

Yun Xiaotian and Ai Bingtai are actually the kind of people who are very strong in their bones, so naturally no one will lose to anyone.

Besides, Yun Xiaotian has always cared about his eating appearance since he was a child, and he has always been casual.

And this is Ai Bingtai, who participated in the entrance selection test of the Xingfu Academy under the pseudonym Qingxin, since accepting the reality of his current appearance, he has already let go of himself, and he has no scruples in his heart.

What's more, can face be eaten as a meal? Is being able to eat more important than being full?

For the two of them now, of course, that's impossible!

After a full meal, the two waited for a long time at the village chief's house, and the people who set off together this time arrived one after another.

Village Chief Huang is the leader, and there are the big man who has a beard, and the young man who found Ai Bingtai that day and the man who was slightly blessed, and there are three male villagers with children, and finally Yun Xiaotian and Ai Bingtai.

There were nine adults and three children.

Three children, two boys and one girl.

The girls were older, four or five years old.

Two boys, one can only hold it in his hand for a few months, and the other is two or three years old, and he has just learned to walk, and from time to time he asks his father to hold it in his hand.

Two boys, ignorant, lay quietly in their father's arms.

The girl's eyes were red, apparently crying, and a small hand grabbed her father's trouser legs.

Seeing this, Yun Xiaotian and Ai Bingtai didn't quite know what was going on.

They don't have much contact with the people in Tulin Village, and until now, they don't know about the envoy of Huangdu City.

I don't know, these three children, this time, are the children in their village.

They didn't ask much.

Since coming to Tulin Village, they have not been too familiar with the people in the village from beginning to end.

The matter of Tulin Village had little to do with them, they just followed them to Huangdu City along the way.

Although I can't help but think about it a lot, it's still better to have more than one thing.

Whether it is Yun Xiaotian or Ai Bingtai, the impression of the villagers here is not very good.

After Ai Bingtai was kicked out of his home by the villagers here, no one here was very pleasing to the eye.

She just wanted to get out of the village as soon as possible.

Yun Xiaotian found that the folk customs here were not simple at all, greedy for money and profit, and full of calculations between each other.

Tulin Village is a small village, but the relationship between them is quite complicated.

One night, I came back from a small river outside the village.

As soon as he was accidental, he saw a village woman, carrying her husband behind her back, cheating outside, hiding in the haystack outside the village, and doing unscrupulous things.

There was a big movement, and he who was returning late, just heard it, and was slightly startled, and when he looked around, he saw those things faintly.

And he had no choice but to pretend not to see it, and slipped back into the village at a brisk pace.

He didn't dare to tell the others, and when he met the two villagers, he was sometimes even more embarrassed, and he only hated that his memory was too good to forget it earlier.

The most important thing is that because his five senses are too acute, he seems to have discovered this kind of thing more than once.

It can only be said that this may be the case with the folk customs here, and everyone knows it.

But Yun Xiaotian hated these things very much and wanted to leave early.

With the help of the villagers, the group soon left this remote Tulin Village.

They descended the creek and needed to go deeper into the desert.

The three villagers with small children, holding their children, sat on the backs of sand hunchbacks.

The rest of the people could only walk underneath, not daring to waste the strength of the sand camels.

In the vast desert, every cent of resources and strength can only be saved, which is the iron rule here for a long time.

Those who disobey it have long since turned into white bones and been buried by quicksand.

And in the desert, the sand camel is much more important.

If a person has no strength, he can still sit on a sand camel, but he cannot afford a tall and heavy sand camel.