"You're crazy!" Her reaction was a little more intense than expected, "You want me to marry that shorty?" ”

I was silent and nodded.

Mu Jinshu was so angry that he stood up and glared at me angrily.

I looked innocent and said, "If you can arrange a marriage for us at will, why can't we choose you to be the partner of the marriage?" ”

Mu Jinshu gritted his teeth and clenched his fists.

I still looked unhurried, and said lightly: "Although we always make fun of him, but height is not a shortcoming, you see that he looks good, no matter how you say it, he can be regarded as a talent, the temperament is good, and the connotation is not bad, at least the two of them will not have nothing to talk about together." He put this condition in us, and many little girls want to marry, and you are still worthy of Miss Mu. ”

Without waiting for her to object, I rushed in front of her and continued what I had just said: "Tang Jiao, I have always had a good impression of you, although he has not woken up yet, but if he knows that the person he wants to marry is you, he will definitely not object." You give us time to think about it, and we should give you a little more time, but marriage is a big deal for us after all, and it's too hasty for us to talk face-to-face like this, so I don't think you can let us get ready, and wait another day to talk to the chief in person to see what we should do with this ceremony. Although we don't have very good conditions here, but Miss Mu, your identity is different from ours, and we still have to have the etiquette we should have here, so we should visit your family. ”

"I didn't agree to marry him!"

I nodded, "yes, so I'll give you time to think about it." ”

Mu Jinshu's eyes were full of resentment, "You mean, to reach an agreement, I have to marry this person?" ”

I said, "We don't have an advantage, we don't dare to put forward any conditions on your territory, it's just a hope." If you want to stay for a long time, you don't have to choose the days ahead, people who live their lives always have to choose a pleasing one, Miss Mu thinks this is too much to ask? ”

She didn't say a word, her thin lips pursed.

"Let me tell the leader about this matter, we can't talk about it and come to a conclusion, what do you think?"

"Who knows what tricks you're trying to play." Mu Jinshu slanted at me viciously, "I'll think about it, it's better for you to stay here obediently and don't run around during this time, otherwise I won't be responsible for what happens." ”

Before she went out, she quietly glanced at the little mute beside Ziwei, and paused hesitantly, as if she wanted to snatch people away.

Ziwei took the little mute by his side, took her a clove of fruit and stuffed it into his mouth, completely protecting the person within the scope of his own defense.

Mu Jinshu had no choice but to dispel the idea of turning his face and snatching people, turned his head and asked me, "When do you plan to release people?" ”

I said, "When you let Jiang Xun go, we will return the little mute to you." ”

Mu Jinshu bit his lower lip, thought for a while, nodded and left.

It didn't take long for her to leave this time, only one day later, someone came to convey the news to us, and sent a letter, on which Mu Jinshu said that he had agreed to our request and would release Jiang Xun on the wedding day, and hoped that we would keep our promise.

A map was attached at the end to welcome the sincerity of our stay, saying that we could move around as we please, and that a few houses were allocated in the neighborhood for later life.

At that time, Tang Jiao had already woken up, and after reading the letter, he asked me and Ziwei very incomprehensibly: "What do you mean?" What wedding? ”

I looked at Ziwei, and Ziwei turned his head to show that he didn't want to explain to him at all.

I coughed lightly twice and said, "Tang Jiao." ”

"Hey, wait." Tang Jiao interrupted me, his lips were still white, and his expression was tangled, "As soon as I heard your tone, I knew that there must be nothing good, don't say it yet, let me slow down, I can't stand the stimulation at first glance." ”

After waiting for a while, he took a deep breath, "Okay, you can say it." ”

"We've got you married."

"Oh my God, I knew you ......" The grief on Tang Jiao's face suddenly changed after reacting, and became a convulsive appearance, "What did you just say?" ”

I said, "We have promised you a marriage, and we have already negotiated and set a date, just a week later." ”

Tang Jiao looked at me stupidly, I also looked at him, looking at each other, he turned his head to look at Ziwei again, and when he nodded, he was in good spirits, "No, what are you doing, although I am not married, but you can't arrange an arranged marriage for me unless you are related to me, who is who, who is the bride, do I know you, you will promise me, ah?" ”

Ziwei held him down and told him not to move, and said, "It's Mu Jinji." ”

I said, "It's not just you, they want all of us to marry the locals and stay here forever to leave them offspring." ”

Tang Jiao's eyes widened, he wanted to laugh and cry, his face twitched for a while, and the first sentence he could say was to scold first, and then asked, "When they got married, they let Jiang Xun go?" ”

I nodded, and Tang Jiao lay on his back on the bed, staring at the thatch above his head in a daze.

I thought he had accepted it, opened the map and thought about the approximate area and layout of this place, and just sketched the picture in my mind, Tang Jiao asked me: "Shopkeeper Shen, didn't we really stay?" Although I like Miss Mu very much, we have only met a few times after all, and you don't joke with me about major life events. ”

I paused, and said, "There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, and if you can get in, there will always be a way to leave." ”

On the first day we walked out of the house, we were given a wooden sign to identify ourselves as guests and prevent us from getting into conflict with the locals.

The wooden plaque was also engraved with the kind of monster with the head and tail of the snake, and it seemed that this thing really meant a lot to them.

The little mute is familiar with us, sticking to Ziwei every day, when Ziwei and I went out to explore the way, I handed her over to Tang Jiao to look at before she got out.

The first place we went was to see the house they had given us, and like the others, it was all a simple hut, and when we went there someone was renovating it, it was not finished, and there was nothing in it.

"Look at the pattern, there are no more than 200 people in this place." I stood on a small dirt slope and looked out at the dense houses in front of me.

It was almost noon, someone was cooking, put a pot that he had boiled out of mud on the fire, and a basket made of paper strips was filled with fresh leaves, grabbed a handful of water, sprinkled it on the other leaves inside, rubbed his hands and shook it, and got out of the pot and boiled the water.

The first time I saw someone eat like this, I was amused, but I also felt that it was not very clean, and I was relieved to think that I had eaten this way in the past few days, and I had my stomach down left and right.

When I looked back, Ziwei was standing behind me, and I lost my mind when I looked at the ant nest on the ground.

I snapped my fingers in his ear, and he looked up, still dazed, a little cute at his age.

"What do you think, let's go, go back." As soon as I finished speaking, before I could step out of my feet, someone shouted in the distance, and the calling-like tone formed a unique ballad.

In the family, which was cooking, all the men took up their bows and arrows and weapons placed at the door, strode and hurried in that direction.

"Something seems to have happened."

I nodded, "Go check it out." ”

As we ran along, the locals looked at us strangely, so I took out the wooden sign, untied the rope and hung it around my neck, and strangely, as soon as I put it on, he immediately looked away, and regarded us as similar, and spoke in tongue with his hand in the shape of a behemoth, pointing to the distance.

Of course I didn't understand it, but vaguely understood that there might be something over there.

When we arrived, we saw not a big thing as we imagined, but a series of animal footprints, not large, but very deep.

When the local resident Ulala was talking and was worried that he could not understand, Mu Jinshu came from another direction with a group of people with a bow and arrow on his shoulder, and when he saw that our steps were stagnant, he stepped forward generously and asked her people a few words.

I crouched on the ground and observed one of the footprints, which looked like a very sharp nail and a powerful foot, the last one was probably left from the jump, a little deeper than the others.

I followed the direction of the footsteps and looked over, and there was a cliff across the dense forest, and I could see a corner of it dimly.

"It's a monster that has only recently appeared." Mu Jinshu suddenly walked over here, looked in the direction of my eyes, and said, "We haven't seen it for what it really is, but I'm afraid it's not something to deal with." ”

I asked, "Someone is hurt?" ”

Mu Jinshu nodded, "There was a family that collided with it, and there was a fight on both sides, and when we received the signal to rush over, the person was already dead, and only half of the skeleton was left in the corpse." ”

"Half a mate?"

"We couldn't tell if it had been eaten or corroded by something, and there was some liquid on the ground, but no one dared to touch it, so we had to bury it on the spot."

Mu Jinshu said in a deep voice: "What's even more terrifying is that our people here often encounter the threat of wild beasts, and all have their own set of methods to call for help, and everyone knows very well what it means if they blow the trumpet for help, so they act very quickly." But at that time, it was less than a minute before the deceased encountered the monster and sent the signal, and we brought people over, and we didn't even find a shadow after we arrived, do you know what this means? ”

I didn't speak, Mu Jinshu held his breath and clenched his fists, "Except for the time when the monster escaped after killing people and the time when the corpse dissolved or was eaten, we estimate that it may only take a few seconds from the time it launched its attack to the time it killed the person, and the person who was killed at that time was holding a bow and arrow in his hand." In the past few decades, we in Muzhang County have never encountered an enemy with such a powerful attack power. It killed our people, but we didn't even see it except for a few marks and footprints. ”

I don't know why, but after listening to her description, I remembered the monsters in the scene I saw in the thick fog of the bushes outside the barrier.

It's big enough, it's terrifying enough, and I have a good reason why it would kill.

But considering its condition, its breath was disordered, and its body was full of cockroaches that had eaten away at its flesh, how could it be possible to stand up and attack a person with considerable experience in the arm in that case?

"Miss Mu." I couldn't help but ask her, "If the cockroach enters the body of an animal, can the animal still live?" ”