Chapter 57: Overnight at the Broken Temple
I didn't pay attention yesterday, but I paid attention today, and sure enough, I saw many victims walking with difficulty along the way, some were single, and some were in groups, most of them were ragged, with yellow faces and thin muscles. Gentle didn't know where they were going, probably they didn't know themselves, they just wanted to find a place where they could beg for food and not starve to death, thank God.
"What a lot of victims!" Wen Gang had the ninety-nine multiplication song in his mouth, and from time to time he glanced out of the window, comparing the victims, he suddenly felt that he was very happy, since he went home gently, he was able to eat and dress every day, and his body gradually improved, and his face was a little bloody. He secretly swore in his heart that he must study hard, so that his mother and sister can enjoy the blessings of Qingqing in the future, and he no longer has to work day and night for life.
Wen Wen didn't know what he was thinking, so he just let out a soft "um", lowered the curtain, and began to think about what kind of money he could do to make a living after entering Kyoto. She didn't want to sell the fried stinky tofu anymore, and she moved out of Yuanchang City just to hide her traces, and she didn't want to reveal the details.
Just as she was thinking, the coachman's shouting suddenly came from outside the car, and then the car stopped, and the coachman opened the curtain and said inward: "Let's make a sharp start here at noon!" Buy more food, there are no villages and towns to rest tonight, we have to live in a broken temple. β
"Broken temple?" Wen Wen frowned slightly, probably because he had read too many martial arts novels before, and when he heard the word broken temple, he felt uncomfortable, and he was always afraid that something unpredictable would happen, so he hurriedly said: "Can't you hurry up anymore, or find a place to rest early?" β
The coachman shook his head and said: "There is a broken tea house here, you can buy some food, and further on, within sixty miles of the road, there is only the abandoned broken temple on the way, so you have to hurry up, otherwise you can only sleep in the open." β
Sleeping in the open! This is not good, although it is spring now, but the weather is warm and cold, the wind is still very cold at night, if you sleep open, people are afraid that they will have to freeze, there is a broken temple to block the wind, and the fire is piled up again, even if you don't sleep well, it is better than sleeping in the open. Wen Rou had no choice but to accept the coachman's proposal, get out of the car and sharpen it, and bought more food to take on the road.
When the sky gradually darkened, they finally rushed to the ruined temple that the coachman said, but at this time there were already six or seven people gathered in the ruined temple, looking at the dress, except for the two men who looked like scholars, the rest of them looked like disaster victims.
"It's going to be one night." The coachman said as he unloaded the cart from the mule.
Gently stepping into the temple gate, ignoring the inexplicable gazes that looked at her, she glanced around, found a sheltered place behind the temple gate, and spread the oilcloth that the coachman had given her on the ground. Wen Gang followed her in, hugged two quilts, and prepared to cover her body at night to block the cold, while Xiaohuan and Wen's mother held the dried lotus leaf wrapped food together, and a pot also slowly walked in.
Wen Wen saw the pot, and felt funny, Mother Wen is really good at living, when she moves, she is reluctant to lose anything, if it weren't for the fact that she can't put so many things in the car, she may even move all her belongings to the car, but it's not bad to have such a pot right now, go out to pick up some firewood, find some water, and cook hot water to drink.
"Uncle, is there a water source near here?" Gentle probe asked the coachman who was still taking care of the mules outside the temple.
"Yes, there is a well behind this temple." The driver looked up and pointed in the direction.
"Gang'er, you accompany me to collect some firewood." Although it was not completely dark, it was better to have someone with you in this wilderness. said gently, and asked Mother Wen to fetch a pot of water, and wait for her to come back after picking up firewood, so that she could boil the water.
She and Wen Gang went to a small forest not far away, but it often rained a little drizzly in the past two days, and most of the fallen leaves and dead branches at the edge of the forest were wet and could not make a fire.
"Rustleβrustleβ" A small voice came from the woods.
"Sister, what's that sound?" Wen just stopped collecting firewood and tilted his ears.
"Probably a hare or a weasel or something." When Wen Rou heard the voice at first, she was also a little surprised, and urged Wen Gang to say, "Hurry up and pick up the firewood and go back." β
"Why do I sound like digging dirt?" Wen Gang was curious.
"Don't worry so much, collect firewood!" Wen Rou knew that curiosity killed cats, and she didn't plan to look at it at all, whether the sound was a hare running on a fallen branch or someone digging in the soil, she just wanted to quickly gather enough firewood and go back to the fire. But Wen Gang was still young and had a strong sense of curiosity, so he gently bent down to collect firewood, and dropped a sentence, "I'll take a look." So he ran to the source of the sound, and was so fast that gentleness had no time to stop him, so he had to chase after him.
Running into the forest, through the dim light, I gently saw a person kneeling on the ground with his head down, holding a broken porcelain piece in his hand and digging the earth, and on the ground beside him, there was a skinny middle-aged man lying on his back, with a stiff posture-
That's a dead man! Gentle legs and feet went weak for a while, and she almost exclaimed, she never thought that she could really encounter such a strange thing. Dusk, wilderness, ruined temples, dead people......
This is simply the usual plot in martial arts novels! However, the person who digs the earth does not seem to be very old, and the person is wooden, only caring about digging the earth, and he doesn't even raise his head to look at them when he runs over, and he is dressed in tatters, and his hair is dirty and tangled, no matter how he looks like a martial arts master, he looks like a flower child.
Hey? Beggars! By the way, they were dressed like the victims they saw on the road, so this dead person probably died of illness or starvation, right? The gentle heartbeat finally calmed down, and his legs and feet were not so soft, and he reached out and pulled Wen Gang, who was also stunned beside him, and motioned for him to follow him and leave quietly, so as not to disturb the person who digs the earth.
As soon as the two of them turned around and walked two steps, they heard a dull crashing sound behind them, and they hurriedly looked back, but it was the man who was digging the earth and fell to the ground. Looking at it from this angle, I just happened to see half of the man's extremely pale face, his eyes were closed, his lips were chapped, although his face was ugly, but Gentleness could still be recognized, this was a teenager, looking at his appearance, I was afraid that he was not much older than Wen Gang, so the dead people around him should be his relatives, right?
"Sister-" Wen Gang tugged at her sleeve and said softly, "This person seems to have fainted." β
"Hmm." Nodding gently, she glanced at the young man a few more times, then turned around and said, "Let's go." β
"Let's go?" Wen Gang hurriedly said, "Don't you carry him back to the temple?" If he lies in this forest and freezes all night, he will probably die! β
Gentle heart is also a little unbearable, but there are a lot of scruples in my heart, and finally I have to say helplessly: "That's what I said, but in this wilderness, I don't know what the identity of this person is, what if I rush to save it and harm myself?" β
Wen Gang heard her say this, and he was speechless, and squeezed out a sentence for a long time: "I think he looks like a disaster victim, that dead person, he shouldn't have killed him, right?" β
Who knows? Gently sighed, and walked away. Even if this young man is a disaster victim, but there are many disaster victims in the world, her personal strength is limited, and she can't save so much if she drags her family with her!
Wen Gang hurriedly followed, walked for a while, and hesitated: "Is it really not saved?" β
was asked by him like this, and Wen Wen hesitated in his heart, after all, it was a life, could he watch him freeze to death? Butβ
Forget it, anyway, the boy was woken up, and the next day they continued their journey to Kyoto, and from then on they had nothing to do with him, so they shouldn't cause any trouble.
"Let's go back to the temple first! Even if you want to save him, you have to call the uncle who drove the car to help, how can the two of us carry him? Gently said, hugged the dry wood in his arms, and quickened his pace.
In fact, the young man was very thin, as if a gust of wind could blow it down, the two of them could barely lift it, and they could still lift it, but there was a dead man lying next to the young man, if you want to say that you are not afraid of gentleness, it is fake! It's better to wait until you get back to the temple and call two more people to talk!
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"Pet Pet" is over, you can concentrate on changing "Red Apricot", but yesterday I wrote two chapters of "Pet Pet" in one go, "Red Apricot" hasn't moved yet, and the only saved manuscript has come out, so let's let me delay it for two days.
Starting tomorrow, "Red Apricot" will be a double shift every single day, a single shift every double day, and a quack, that is, a double shift every other day. Wait for me to save the draft of two chapters first, and then double update it every day in a few days ^^