Having said that, here Li Bokang sped up the speed of catching the car, and finally came to the village he saw before dark. When they arrived, they saw many people talking and doing things in the open space at the entrance of the village, and when they saw them coming, they stopped talking in their hands.

It's still a little embarrassing to see so many people looking at them, but after a few days, the things they encountered are still quickly let go. Yang Xue opened her mouth and said to the villagers: "Hello everyone, this is the case, you see that it is getting dark now, can we want to spend the night in your village?" ”

After listening to her words, those villagers didn't say anything when you look at me and I look at you. Seeing that this was the case, she continued: "We are good people, this is my younger brother, and we are going to Fucheng to catch the exam." After hearing her words, the villagers began to talk one after another, and finally an old man who looked to be forty or fifty years old said, "Then you wait for the village chief to come." Then he looked at them again.

There was no way, they could only wait, so she nodded to the talking uncle and said, "Then thank you, uncle." Then the two of them waited while the villagers watched them and talked.

It wasn't long before a child came with an old man, and when they called him the village chief, he knew that it was their village chief. She told the village chief what she had just said again, and after thinking about it for a long time, the village chief agreed to let them stay and spend the night, and arranged a place for them to stay.

After moving into the place arranged for them by the village chief, the two unloaded the contents of the car and made a new bed. Because she wore men's clothes all the way, the village chief only arranged one room, and there was only one quilt in the house, so they had to make another bed by themselves.

After making the bed, the two of them made some food, and after eating, they went to sleep. Originally, the village chief had also said that he would bring them some food, but they politely refused, and the village chief did not force it, after all, they were nervous about eating now. At night, Yang Xue faintly heard some crying, because she woke up quickly because of her previous experience.

After waking up, he found that Li Bokang had also woken up, and even his clothes were already dressed and sitting on the side. Seeing this, she also got up and put on her clothes and sat up. Neither of them planned to go out, but they still pricked up their ears and listened carefully. Later, I knew that it was probably someone else's family matter, and her voice slowly lowered, and finally slowly disappeared and looked at each other, and then she said to Li Bokang: "Sleep, I'm tired in the past two days, it's none of our business, we'll leave early tomorrow morning." ”

As soon as the words fell, I was about to go to bed, and the crying and shouting over there came to mind, and the two of them couldn't sleep anymore, but they still didn't plan to go out, after all, they weren't familiar with each other here, and they were just outsiders staying overnight. I thought that this time the voice would slowly sink like before, but I didn't expect that this time the voice did not sink but became louder and louder. After a while, seeing that the sound was really unsinkable, the two finally came out, and they were ready to go and see what was going on.

The two of them walked along the place where the sound came from, the closer they got, the louder the sound and the clearer they heard, and she listened carefully to what seemed to be someone from a family who was sick or something, and it was still very serious. When the two arrived at the place, they saw another number of people gathered in the courtyard of the family, and heard one of them say: "It's too serious, and there is nothing that can be done...... Good medical clinic...... Money or something. ”

Looking at the crowd in front of them, the two didn't speak, just stood outside the crowd and watched and listened to those people by the way, and saw what was going on. When they arrived, they did not make a sound, and it was dark, so no one noticed them, and they were only found after the two of them came out of the courtyard.

One of the two people she looked at seemed to be the village chief, and the other looked like a doctor and carried a medicine box. At first, she thought it was someone from the village chief's family who was sick, but from the village chief's expression, it didn't look like it was the case. And from the words of those people in the courtyard just now, the meaning is probably that the owner of the family is injured and very serious, and the conditions of the family are not very good, there are old people and children, and the old man is still sick, and the family depends on the injured person to feed. This man seems to be a hunter, and now this man is injured and dying, and I don't know how the family is doing.

One of the two people who came out together before was the village chief they had met today, and when they saw them coming, they greeted them, and then said, "I'm really sorry, you two, I originally wanted you to have a good rest, and I cleaned you to rest." Hearing the village chief's apologetic words, she hurriedly said, "It's okay, it's okay, I have to thank the village chief for agreeing to let us stay here for the night, otherwise we will have to sleep in the wilderness." After speaking, he touched Li Bokang with his hand, and Li Bokang also echoed and said: "Yes, we have to thank the village chief." ”

But anyway, that's all she said, she thought about it and asked, "May I ask the village chief, what's wrong?" I think the guy who came out with you just now seems to be a doctor. However, if it is difficult and inconvenient, the village chief can also ignore me. She was still a little curious, and Li Bokang, who was on the side, was a little surprised when he suddenly heard her words, but then hooked the corners of his mouth and didn't speak, waiting to hear what the village chief said.

Then I heard the village chief say, "There's nothing I can't say." As he spoke, he sighed again, and then began to say: "Alas, it is difficult to say, the owner of this family is called Du Youzhi, and there is a mother and a six-year-old child who are sick all year round. Originally, the situation of his family was still very good, but later his father fell ill and spent a lot of money and couldn't stay, and later married his daughter-in-law and spent almost all the money in the family. After marrying a daughter-in-law, the situation in the family began to gradually improve, and soon had a child, which is now Xiaobao. But who knew that later he encountered dystocia, adults and children could not stay, all gone, so his mother fell ill again, and the money that the family had just saved was spent all at once, and two acres of land were sold to save people and bury his daughter-in-law. Later, there were only the last two acres of land left plus him hunting to live, who knew that God didn't open his eyes, and let Youzhi become like this, and I don't know what they will do in the future, alas! After speaking, the village chief sighed again.

After listening to the village chief's words, Yang Xue and Li Bokang were both silent, and after a long time, Li Bokang seemed to feel something: "Yes, sometimes God just doesn't open his eyes." Yang Xue glanced up at him, and Li Bokang lowered his head after saying this, and didn't see her looking at him, as if with some pity and some worry, as well as some care and other feelings mixed with it.

Then she also said sincerely: "This person, it's difficult! It's hard to live, it's hard to die, it's hard to live, and it's even harder to live! These simple words are an ordinary sentence, and they are like sighs for the way of the world. Although she is still not so familiar with the current world, this does not prevent her from sighing and sorrowing about this world, in her previous life, she heard too much and read too many statements and expressions of this feudal superstition.