Chapter 4: Camel Take-in
Qingqing looked at the camels and bearded people who were chasing closer and closer, and the fear in his heart was like a web tightly clinging to the nerves of his body, and he couldn't shake it off or open it.
"Don't chase anymore, I can't run." Qingqing held on to the trunk of the tree and breathed heavily, her throat felt a burning pain, she was really overdrawn after not exercising for many years.
"Girl, I'm not chasing you, I'm being dragged by this stupid camel to chase you. Did you bring something with you to attract this brute? The bearded man was panting as he sat on the ground, his hands still tightly gripping the rope on the camel's nose.
And the stupid camel stretched out its head and leaned in front of Qingqing, looking at Qingqing's face with its small eyes that were disproportionate to its face.
"Ahh Qingqing looked at the ugly and smelly camel that suddenly rushed in front of her and screamed in fright, although she had seen camels in modern times, but such a sudden encounter with such an ugly creature still made her unable to accept it for a while.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." The bearded man quickly got up and pulled the camel back, and the camel desperately leaned towards Qingqing, who was scared and covered her face with her hands, because the dead camel stuck out its tongue and wanted to lick her face.
The bearded man looked at the abnormal camel and was sweating profusely, if he was seen bullying a little girl with such a monster that was not common in the plains, he would be arrested and reported to the official, and then he would not want to take back his hard-earned money.
Louter was in a hurry in the camel's body and couldn't help it, the camel couldn't speak, he couldn't express his thoughts, so he had to express it with his eyes, who knew that Qingqing's stupid girl didn't look at his eyes at all when she blocked her face.
"Go away, or I'm welcome!" Qingqing thought that the seriously injured person in the family was still waiting for her mother to go back for treatment, and she glared angrily at the camel in front of her.
The camel was obviously calmed by Qingqing's voice, it didn't expect to be so domineering to watch the weak Qingqing start a fire.
Qingqing took advantage of the camel's stunned efforts to remove the needle on the sleeve and pierced the camel's face, and after piercing Qingqing, he turned around and ran.
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Qingqing didn't pay attention to the first step of running under his feet and tripped himself, and the needle in his hand pricked himself again, this time it was a little hard, Qingqing pulled out the needle that pierced his finger hard, and the blood on his hand and the blood of the camel mixed together. In an instant, the wind and clouds suddenly changed, the sky darkened, and with the lightning Qingqing heard the voice of the camel: "Don't run anymore, listen to me: You are Li Qingqing in the 21st century who was struck by lightning and unfortunately died and crossed here." Okay, trust me, right? ”
Qingqing looked at the camel in front of her with her mouth wide open, its mouth was not moving, but she did hear a voice.
"The needle in your hand is mine, and you can't get through it without my needle. Don't prick me with it, it's no ordinary needle! The sound of the camel was a little erratic, and soon the surroundings were calm again.
"Girl, girl, wake up!" Qingqing opened her eyes and saw the bearded man patting her face, and she quickly left his side, clutching the needle tightly in her hand.
"Don't get me wrong, you just fell and passed out." The bearded man explained.
Qingqing looked at the camel standing quietly next to her, she couldn't tell whether it was real now or what was real just now.
"Uncle, do you sell your camels?" Qingqing actually understood the camel's eyes, and she wanted to buy the camel and slowly ask about the situation.
"This? Can you afford it? The bearded man rubbed his hands, he was one hundred and twenty willing to sell, he really didn't want to be tortured by this beast anymore.
"I don't have any money on me, oh, no money." Qingqing lowered her head and rummaged around her body, hoping to find something valuable to pledge, but in addition to the needle in her hand, she had a hollow bracelet of plain silver in her hand.
"What nonsense are you talking about without money?" The bearded man was about to walk away with the camel in his anger, and when he saw the murderous aura slowly rising in the camel's eyes, he shuddered and lowered the rope again.
"Then it's okay to exchange something casually, and I'll be a bodhisattva today." The bearded man smiled and turned back to Qingqing and said, it is really the eyes of that dead beast that can kill.
"Uncle, is this bracelet okay?" Qingqing handed over the bracelet in his hand, and the bearded man frowned when he took it.
"Hollow?" The bearded man originally wanted to return it to Qingqing, but the afterglow of his eyes immediately felt the light of the beast's threat, what the hell he was threatened by the beast today.
"Okay, it's done. I advise you, girl, to go back and kill this beast and eat it, anyway, it won't pull a cart or plow the fields, and you will feed a waste for nothing. The bearded man took his finances off the camel's back and kindly reminded him to clear it, and the camel stretched out his legs and gave him a hoof.
The bearded man covered his legs and pointed at the camel for a long time without saying a word.
"Mountains and rivers meet, Brother Camel, I wish you a long life!" The bearded man finally gritted his teeth and left after saying this, and finally turned around and made a motion to wipe his neck, and the camel waved his head disdainfully to look at Qingqing grinning at the camel's mouth.
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Looking at the bearded man who walked away, Qingqing walked to the camel and stroked its head: "Was it you who just talked to me?" ”
The camel blinked, and it wanted to speak, but its vocal cords were not equipped to speak. The louter in its body had fallen asleep because of the overdraw, but he would be glad to wake up because he had found a way to restore his energy.
After staring at the camel for a while, Qingqing didn't hear the sound he wanted to hear, and sighed in disappointment and prepared to continue to find his mother.
The camel rubbed its head against Qingqing's hand, and Qingqing looked back at it and didn't know what it was going to do. Seeing it staring at the rope on the ground, Qingqing went over to help it untie it and patted its neck: "You are free." ”
The camel didn't move, but continued to rub Qingqing's hand.
"You want me to ride you?" Qingqing suddenly understood the camel's intentions.
"But are you still running?" Qingqing asked, the camel blinked again, Qingqing walked to it and was about to turn over and ride up, but when he saw its dirty hair and unpleasant body odor, Qingqing hesitated again.
The camel didn't know Qingqing's thoughts, and the Lotter couldn't have known, and if he had, he would have found the bearded man and slapped him in the mouth a dozen times, and he hadn't bathed him all the way.
Qingqing thought that he had been out for a long time and wanted to find his mother quickly, so he covered his nose and climbed on the back of the camel and tightly grabbed the hump in front of the camel, it may be that it hurt, the camel looked back at Qingqing, Qingqing let go and said that he didn't mean it, and the camel ran up as soon as it accelerated and almost threw Qingqing down.
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Some distance from the market, Qingqing jumped off the camel, she knew that there should be no camels in the plain at this time, and if she rode it swaggering into the street, it would definitely attract onlookers. She hid the camel in the bushes and told it not to move and went to her mother.
Soon, Qingqing came back with a woman in her thirties who simply tied a bun with a wooden hairpin on her head. The woman's clothes and shoes were half-new, and they were the only clothes she wore when she went to relatives or to the market.
"Mother, shall we go back from the path?" When he reached the edge of the bushes, Qingqing stopped and asked his mother.
"In a hurry to get back?" The mother just said a word and turned to the bushes, Qingqing felt in her the long-lost maternal love, that is, the kind of love that will only spoil you and warm you and don't reciprocate.
"Mother, look!" Qingqing ran to the front and took out a camel to show her mother.
"What is this? It's ugly that a donkey is not like a donkey, and a horse is not like a horse! "My mother has never seen a camel, so I don't know her.
"It's called a camel, and it's a creature that lives in the desert, and I just picked it up in the woods." Qingqing didn't dare to say that she would exchange the bracelet, she guessed that the bracelet was also one of the few luxuries in the family.