Chapter Seventy-Three: The Village

The three of them then rested in the temple, ate some dry food, put some dry food into a cloth bag, and set off on horseback!

The village is not too far from this temple, about five or six kilometers away, the road to here is much easier, it should be the reason why the people of the village often come to this temple, walk more, the road will be!

But this road is only relative, compared to the dense forest mountain road they took a few days ago, it is simply much better! But it's not good enough to be able to ride a horse on this kind of road!

The three of them could only ride horses and walk slowly!

That snake scale army doesn't say much in 28 words, basically you ask him a question, and he will answer you! If you don't ask him, he's as non-existent as air!

Wen Qing wished he was like this, originally she was not happy for him to come, but then she thought about it, if those barbarians in the village wanted to make a move, she would definitely not be able to resist! So to be on the safe side, she didn't refuse!

On the way, Wen Qing directly ignored him!

"Alas, Hugh Lan! How did you get to this place of the hell? Those barbarians, aren't they very xenophobic? ”

For the title of Xiulan, Song Xiulan was a little resistant at first, but then he got used to it!

It's just that for Wen Qing's title, he still calls Wen Qing Miss Wen, no matter how Wen Qing protests, he just calls Miss Wen! In terms of his dedication to some things, even the details are exactly the same as Kong Sheng!

Hugh Lan said, "That was two or three years ago, I didn't know there was such a place, and it was a complete accident when I first entered this place!" ”

Wen Qing was a little curious, "Accident? ”

Song Xiulan nodded, "I remember, that year I took a boat with Ah Hu to Yangzhou, but suddenly encountered a rare storm on the way, the boat sank, I grabbed a plank with Ah Hu to survive, it was dark and rainy, we grabbed the plank, drifting all the way, and when it was dawn, we didn't know where to drift!" Eventually, the river washed us up to a shore! ”

"When we came to our senses, we found that the place was surrounded by dense forests, and we didn't know where it stretched all the way, as if there was no end!"

"The river must not go on! We had to plunge headlong into the woods, and then in the woods not far from the river, we saw a child, who somehow couldn't walk with blood on his feet! Ah Hu and I bandaged his wounds, and then he babbled and took us to their village! That is, the stockade we are going to at this time! ”

"Maybe it was to thank us, but Ah Hu was a little injured at the time, so they let us live in their village for a while, and I learned their language during that time!"

"When they learned that we had been caught up by accident and that we wanted to go back but didn't know where to go, the locals gave me a map! I just relied on the map to return to Luoyang City! ”

"It's all a map to Luoyang City, but the other end of the map has to go a little past their village, I didn't think much about it at the time, I don't know how they have a map to Luoyang City!"

"Now that I think about it, that map should be the team sent to Cyan Town by Zhao Moushi!"

Wen Qing thought for a while and said, "It's not good, the team sent by the old man to Cyan Town has never been to Cyan Town at all, and they were killed in the stockade!" Otherwise, no matter how dangerous Teal Town is, there are so many teams, there will always be one who can escape! ”

Song Xiulan's face flushed, "Nonsense! The people in the village are very simple, you will know when you see them! ”

Song Xiulan is angry, if he is angry, his face will turn red!

This is exactly the same as Kong Sheng, in the past, one of Wen Qing's pleasures was to make Kong Sheng angry, a disagreement can make him angry, super angry kind, just like a pufferfish, it will bulge into a cute balloon when touched!

But now Wen Qing didn't mean to make Song Xiulan angry!

Wen Qing said coldly, "I'm talking nonsense? Will the simple villagers worship the giant dog of Tuzhen as a god? ”

Song Xiulan was choked up and speechless all of a sudden!

After a while, he said, "Anyway, we just let them pass us!" As long as they give way to us, it means that they are still very simple by nature! ”

Wen Qing just laughed after hearing this!

Song Xiulan wondered, "What are you laughing at?" ”

Wen Qing pointed to his face, "Laugh at something on your face!" ”

Song Xiulan touched his face, but he didn't touch it for a long time, he muttered, "Where is there something?" ”

He turned to Wen Qing and asked, "Where is something on my face?" ”

Wen Qing snorted and pointed to the left side of his face, "Then it's not?" ”

Talking and laughing, he beat the horse and surpassed Song Xiulan.

Song Xiulan touched it again and still didn't touch it! He asked the snake scale army who had caught up from behind!

"28, do I have something on my face?"

28 snorted and nodded solemnly! Then he also hit the horse and walked away!

Song Xiulan touched it alone behind him for a long time, and he didn't touch anything, and then he realized that there was nothing on his face at all! He was tricked......

It's just that such a serious snake scale army is actually joking seriously, it's really... Let him have nothing to say!

After a distance of five or six kilometers, they finally walked for more than an hour to arrive!

Those villages are not big, and the distance is not very far! It would be more accurate to say that it is a few villages!

As soon as they entered the village, someone recognized Song Xiulan, and the villagers who were busy in the village all ran here, they babbled and didn't know what to say, but looking at their expressions, they could see that those villagers were very excited to see Song Xiulan!

One of the children showed enthusiasm beyond the others, no need to guess, he should be the child with a leg injury who was helped by Song Xiulan!

Song Xiulan took off the cloth bag from the horse and gave the cloth bag to these villagers, which was regarded as a meeting gift!

It contained some dry food snacks brought from Luoyang City, these dry food snacks were common in Luoyang, but here, they were some rare goods, Wen Qing even wondered if they had eaten these things!

Because judging from their expressions after taking the cloth bag and opening the cloth bag, they were even more excited than seeing Song Xiulan!

Song Xiulan turned his head and said proudly, "What's the matter, they are all simple villagers!" ”

As if in response to Song Xiulan, those villagers also followed Song Xiulan's gaze at this time, looking at Wen Qing and 28, the two uninvited guests!

Their expressions slowly turned from excitement to dullness, and finally there was some hostility!

Wen Qing snorted and didn't speak!

Song Xiulan also noticed their abnormality, and hurriedly chatted with those people, and those people's expressions eased!

Song Xiulan lowered her head and said something to the child, and the child glanced at him and ran away!

Song Xiulan turned around and said with a wry smile, "They... It's true that there is some hostility towards outsiders, but I have explained to them that you are my friends! It won't hurt them! ”

Wen Qing took a deep breath, and looked around, there were no less than thirty or forty of these villagers coming around at this time, and besides, these villagers had been wandering in the deep mountains and forests for a long time, and everyone was as strong as a cow, who hurt whom?

Wen Qing glanced at Song Xiulan with disdain!

Song Xiulan continued, "I have already asked someone to inform the owner of the village, he is very prestigious here, the villagers listen to him, and he has the final say in matters here!" ”

As soon as the words fell, the child led an elderly villager to this side, and the old villager should be the big village master that Song Xiulan said!

He was on a cane and didn't walk fast, and the kid in front of him kept pulling him without caring about his feelings, and he didn't get angry and tried to keep up with the kid's speed!

Before he arrived, Xie Yu dismounted and headed towards him!

The two hands clasped together, and the two of them were shushing and asking for warmth, and those villagers surrounded the two in the middle, and from time to time bursts of cheers!

Wen Qing couldn't hear what they were talking about at all, and even if she did, she couldn't understand it!

They were on a dirt slope at this time, and they were riding on horses, and from here, most of the village could be seen in full view!

The stockade is composed of wooden foot buildings, and in the open space of the stockade, a lot of bamboo pole shelves are erected everywhere, and many animal skins and flesh and heads are hung on the shelves like drying clothes, and there are still scarlet blood dripping on them!

There were a lot of flies around the meat products on the shelves, and they set up a stove under the shelves, and put huge logs in the stove that were not easy to light, and the wood lit up puffs of smoke to keep the flies away!

As soon as the wind blew in this direction, the smell of blood and smoke mixed together, almost making Wen Qing nauseous!

Wen Qing turned her head to 28 and asked, "28, do you think it's weird here?" ”

28 shook his head, "I can't see it, I don't know where Miss Wen thinks it's weird?" ”

Wen Qing motioned to 28 to look at the shelves in the open space, "There! ”

28 Following Wen Qing's gaze, he smiled rarely, "Miss Wen, the people in the mountains rely on the mountains to eat the mountains and the water to eat the water, and the villagers here live by hunting, nothing is surprising!" ”

Wen Qing shook her head, "I don't mean this, I don't know if you have noticed, have we seen some large animals on the way from the temple?" ”

28 After thinking about it, it seems that I really haven't seen it, but what does this mean?

"We came all the way and didn't stay in one place for too long! Didn't meet it, but that's normal! ”

Wen Qing asked again, "Then look at the shelves on those open spaces, those animals, how long do you estimate how long they have been dead?" ”

"It shouldn't be long before it's still bleeding!"

"Can you tell how many there are?"

"Let's say thirty at least!"

"Be more detailed! Big or small! Can you tell the kind? ”

"Much bigger, basically bigger! As for the variety, there are many of them, there are sheep, donkeys, wild dogs, wolves, tigers, ......"

"Then you roughly calculate, how many people are in this village, how many adults, how many children, how many old people!"

"This village is not big, it seems that there are no more than 100 people, and half of them should be children, old people and adults!"

"That is to say, we will calculate at most one hundred more people in this village, there are fifty adults, and these fifty adults are also divided into men and women, just count it in half, twenty-five men and twenty-five women!"

"Why are you so detailed?"

"Children, old people, women, don't go hunting! Isn't hunting all for men in the prime of life? ”

28 When I thought about it, a cold sweat broke out.

"Miss Wen... Shine... According to what you say, this village seems to be really weird! ”

At the same time, Song Xiulan finished talking to the big village master!

He walked over and said excitedly, "28, Miss Wen, I told the master of the big village that he promised to make way for us to go to Qingse Town!" I just said, they are all simple people, how can they stop us from letting us pass? ”