On this trip, Liu Xiu has no purpose at all, where he goes, the unknown is full of expectations.

As for the return date, it is around the winter season......

At that time, the task deadline he set for Li Changan was also up, and it was the time to check the results, and besides, the snow and ice covered the earth in winter, and it was white and vast as far as the eye could see, and the scenery was monotonous.

Starting from Qingliu Town, Liu Xiu did not go to the direction of Linjiang City, after all, he had already been there, so he casually stepped on a small road and started his journey.

He didn't fly, he walked at the speed of an ordinary person, and he couldn't walk a hundred or ten miles a day at such a speed, but he didn't care, he just wanted the feeling of being at peace with what happened.

The so-called encounter is not as good as a chance encounter, although it is a trip, but if you are too deliberate to go somewhere to see a certain scenery is not beautiful, perhaps you can encounter pleasing scenery inadvertently around a corner.

After leaving Aoyagi Town, as far as the eye can see, there are torrents formed after heavy rains, in the mountains, in the fields, in the woods, flowing in a hurry, and when they reach the low-lying places, the torrents converge into rivers and rush to unknown places.

The road was muddy, Liu Xiu walked on the road, and after a while, his feet were covered with mud, and the hem of his shirt was dirty, he was a little obsessive-compulsive, but he didn't have a serious cleanliness habit, he wanted to do whatever he wanted, so he didn't deliberately avoid these by means, but enjoyed it.

Walking on the muddy road, on the contrary, Liu Xiu recalled the life in his hometown in the countryside when he was a child, when the roads in his hometown were almost the same as they are now.

Liu Xiu still remembers that when he was about four years old, he went to herd cattle with his father, when he was still young, he accidentally fell into a mud pit, and then he became a mud monkey, when he was twisted up by his father and slapped his ass twice, his clothes were pulled down by his father and dried in the sun, and he was bare on the hillside for an afternoon......

In addition to the muddy road beneath your feet, there are images of torrents, landslides, fallen trees, and washed out fields.

Although the torrential rain that has been going on for several days has stopped, the weather has not completely cleared up, and it may start to rain lightly at some point.

One foot in the mud and one foot in the water, Liu Xiu set off from Qingliu Town in the morning, and when he stayed until noon, he had only walked twenty or thirty kilometers, and it was estimated that he had not yet left the range of Qingliu Town.

This is because he is not tired at all and keeps moving forward, and if he were an ordinary person, I am afraid that the distance he has walked out is not even half.

Perhaps because of the raging rainstorm a few days ago, he walked for so long and didn't even meet a single person.

Looking at the sky, Liu Xiu casually found a clean stone, and planned to take a break here to eat something, and by the way, clean the mud all over his body.

He didn't bring dry food, and he didn't even bring money when he went out this time, so he was a veritable poor traveler.

But he is not worried about the problem of food and accommodation in the next trip, eating is great to hunt game, accommodation is not good to sleep in the wild, anyway, how to be happy.

No, he flicked his fingers, and a stone broke through the air, and then a pheasant foraging in the grass a hundred and ten meters away fell to the ground, stepped over and picked it up, and the next thing was to pluck the feathers and remove the dirt.

After the rainstorm, there was no shortage of water everywhere, and after cleaning the pheasants, Liu Xiu picked up firewood to make a fire and roast them.

"Tsk, I forgot to bring some spices out......"

Shaking his head and smiling, he didn't care, he roasted the pheasant rack on the fire, and he went to the side to wash his shoes and the hem of his clothes, and then baked it by the fire.

When he dried his shoes and clothes, the pheasant was also cooked.

I ate half a pheasant and barely filled my stomach, and to be honest, without seasoning, even game is really not very delicious.

He didn't lose the remaining half of the pheasant, he picked two wide leaves and wrapped them in the back basket, and the next meal was hot and hot, no, it wasn't because he was saving, he was purely for fun, anyway, how happy he was.

Having eaten and drunk, he continued on his way.

However, on the next road, he did not move forward with mud and water, although he still walked at the speed of a normal person, but his feet were not dusty.

Isn't he sick, it's enough to experience muddy walking, can he really find guilt for himself?

Stop-and-go, in the afternoon, Liu Xiu estimated that he had walked out of a distance of fifty kilometers in a straight line from Qingliu Town, and he didn't know what boundary he was in.

To be honest, there was really nothing worth his nostalgia for along the way before, and the scene after the rainstorm could not experience the small freshness after the new rain in the empty mountains.

The only picture that impressed Liu Xiu was at a small river after the river swelled, when a thick dead tree was washed by the river, and three or five snakes were wrapped around the dead wood, and then there was a nest of mice.

They occupy the dead wood together, and the snake does not attack the rats, but rises and falls with the dead wood without incident.

Snakes and rats should be able to swim, right?

Liu Xiu was still puzzled when he saw that picture at that time, but he didn't think about it, and left it behind in a blink of an eye.

Walking and walking, Liu Xiu came to a big road.

However, this road seemed to be more difficult to walk than the road he had walked before, the loess road was full of mud, and there was nowhere to put his feet, of course, this did not affect Liu Xiu in the slightest.

Standing on the side of the road for a while, he looked at Liu Xiu for a moment and headed to the left.

There are obviously many people walking on this road, otherwise it would not be muddy like this, through the footprints, Liu Xiu found that the people who had walked on this road before had all gone to the left, and there were almost no footprints in the opposite direction.

After only a few dozen meters along the road, Liu Xiu stopped, looked at the side of the road, shook his head slightly, and sighed.

There was a corpse on the side of the road, the time of death was no more than half a day, this corpse was clean and slippery except for a pair of trousers, and it was obvious that everything on the body had been ripped off.

Without delving into the cause of the man's death, and without thinking about who pulled the clothes on his body, and glanced at the corpse slightly, Liu Xiu stretched out his hand and grabbed it in the air at the roadside, and the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi turned into a three-meter big hand, and directly grabbed a big pit on the ground.

After doing this, Liu Xiu continued on the road.

He had long expected that a similar situation would be encountered on this trip, after all, the disaster after the rainstorm would affect many people, and if he didn't see it, forget it, since he saw it, he didn't want to see those who suffered from the disaster die in the wilderness.

Burying the body is out of respect for the deceased, and if it is left unattended, the decomposition of the body is likely to have more serious consequences......

Walking and stopping all the way, more than ten miles away, Liu Xiu had already buried seven corpses, most of them were elderly, but one of the babies who was still swaddling made Liu Xiu feel a little uncomfortable.

In the face of disaster, all beings are like ants!

The clouds covered the sky, and it was estimated that when the sun went down, Liu Xiu finally met a living person.

It was an old man covered in mud, resting on the side of the road with a cane, carrying a small bag on his back, looking at the dirt road in the distance, his old face numb and dazed.

"Old man, do you need help?" When there were still about ten meters away from the other party, Liu Xiu asked.

Hearing the voice, the old man was stunned for a moment, then turned his head to look at Liu Xiu and said with a little vigilance: "No...... No, I don't."

As he spoke, he also protected the small bag on his body in his arms.

Perhaps because he was too wary of Liu Xiu, a young man who suddenly appeared, the old man didn't notice Liu Xiu's feet standing on the mud without sagging.

"Don't be afraid, the old man, the juniors are not bad people, it seems that you are in trouble when you pass through here, so I ask this question, if you are frightened, the juniors are here to compensate you, no" Liu Xiu did not approach the other party, but stood in place and said.

The other party seemed to be slightly relieved, but still shook his head and said: "You go first, I'm fine, just take a rest."

In the face of disaster, all beings are like ants, and the old man does not know what he has experienced to come here.

Regarding the old man's refusal to help, Liu Xiu no longer insisted, nodded and said: "In this case, the younger generation will take the first step."

Seeing that Liu Xiu said to go, the old man seemed to be sure that he was not a bad person, which was very strange.

He said to Liu Xiu's back: "Housheng, did you also go to Niujiao Town to escape?" ”

Stopping, Liu Xiu turned to look at the other party and shook his head and said: "The juniors are not fleeing, and they are not locals, they just travel since then, as for the old man, you said that the younger generations don't know where the Niujiao Town is."

"That's ......"

Hearing Liu Xiu's answer, the old man pondered for a moment, got up on crutches and said: "A few days ago, there was a heavy rain, there were countless disasters, this road is not very peaceful, what are you running around with a young doll, I will accompany you for a while"

The old man seemed to be worried about his own safety, although he couldn't cry or laugh a little, but Liu Xiu felt a trace of warmth in his heart.

Seeing him walking with mud and water, Liu Xiu said, "Old man, do you need me to help you?" ”

"No, I'm not too old to walk, I've grown crops all my life, and I'm strong," the old man refused, waving his cane as he spoke.

Seeing this, Liu Xiu didn't insist, thought about it and asked: "Is the old man going to Niujiao Town to escape?" ”

"Yes, it rained a few days ago, and there was no harvest in the fields, and most of the village was washed away by floods, so where can you go if you don't go to Niujiao Town," the old man said bitterly.

After a little silence, Liu Xiu still asked, "What about your family, old man?" ”

Hearing this question, the old man's eyes darkened and seemed to be filled with hope, and he said in an extremely firm tone: "At that time, the village was washed away by the flood, and I was separated from my family in a panic, they must be fine, they must have gone to Niujiao Town with other people, I went to meet them!" ”

"They must be fine, you will be reunited soon," Liu Xiu nodded.

In fact, Liu Xiu knew that if it weren't for the belief of his family, I am afraid that the old man would not have been able to insist on coming here at all......