The sun hangs on the west mountain, and the sky will be late.

Li Xiao limped back to Aunt Li's house, and when she saw that Aunt Li hadn't returned home yet, she couldn't help but be impatient. Although they have only been together for a few days, Li Xiao already has concerns about Aunt Li and the second girl. The food was so scarce, Aunt Li also raised him for a few days, which made Li Xiao very moved.

Lying flat on the bed, her stomach was stretched, and Li Xiao felt that her stomach was not so uncomfortable. Li Xiaoxiang: When I used to read extracurricular books, I read that in a year of famine, hungry people would exchange their children for food. I'm a foreigner, will I be killed by the people in the village to eat meat? Thinking of this, Li Xiao shuddered.

In the past, Aunt Li would leave at sunrise and come back with some bits and pieces of food before sunset, but today is really abnormal. Li Xiao waited a little anxiously.

The full moon is in the middle of the sky, and Aunt Li still hasn't come back. Li Xiao was very afraid, first, he was afraid that Aunt Li would have an accident, and second, he was worried that the people in the village would kill him like a pig. And where is the second girl with crooked eyebrows?

Li Xiao lay on the bed and thought wildly, and then became more and more hungry, and wanted to eat the bark in his hand several times, but he didn't eat it, he wanted to leave these pieces of bark for Aunt Li to eat, because in the past few days, every time Aunt Li brought back a little bit of food, she gave him to eat, but she herself didn't want to eat it.

Li Xiao fell asleep in a daze. In the dream, he returned home, his mother was cutting tomatoes with a knife on the kitchen cutting board, and there were two crockpots on the stove in the corner, one was stewed with chickens and mushrooms, and the other was stewed with pig's trotters and soybeans. The burst of aroma made Li Xiao overjoyed. Li Xiao hurriedly took a spoon, scooped out a chicken leg, blew hot air with his mouth, stuffed it into his mouth, and chewed it, it was the taste of dry bark.

Li Xiao woke up in shock and burst into tears. He was hungry again, with a strange pain in his stomach, very intense, and his mouth was very bitter, and he longed for the taste of boiled water.

Before dawn, Li Xiao felt out a piece of bark and chewed it in his mouth, but he couldn't swallow it. The more I tried to swallow it, the hungrier I became. In desperation, Li Xiao used his fingers to cut open the knee where the wound had not healed long, bent down and sucked a mouthful of blood with his mouth, and there was a heart-piercing pain in his leg.

He sucked another mouthful of blood and swallowed it with the bark in his mouth. When swallowing tree bark, it seemed to hurt his throat, and Li Xiao felt that tree bark was a very unpalatable food, especially raw tree bark.

Maybe it would be better to stew the bark and pork ribs together. When Li Xiao thought about the ribs, his stomach rumbled again. Li Xiao put the second piece of bark in his mouth and chewed it, sucked a mouthful of blood, and forcibly swallowed it, his throat hurting hotly.

I can't eat anymore, I can only sleep hard, and when I fall asleep, I won't be hungry. When you are full, you sleep comfortably, and when you are hungry, it is difficult for you to sleep. But Li Xiao fell asleep because the wound on his leg had put him in shock.

At dawn the next day, the lame village chief arrived at Aunt Li's house, and when he saw Li Xiao lying on the bed, he woke him up and asked Aunt Li if he had returned. Li Xiao sat up with difficulty, the pain in his knee brought tears to his face, and he cried to the village chief to give him something to eat, saying that the bark could not be eaten. The village chief said with a serious expression, "It's all the people from our village who went out to ask for food, so how can you outsiders come to our village to ask for food?" After saying that, he actually snatched the remaining four pieces of bark.

Li Xiao was furious and just wanted to get up to retrieve the bark, but was suddenly pushed down on the bed by the village chief.

Li Xiao was stunned and didn't know what to say. I could only stare at the bark in the village chief's hand.

When young people are angry, they are desperate. Seeing Li Xiao's angry eyes, the village chief couldn't help but feel a trace of fear in his heart, after all, Li Xiao was a foreigner with short hair, and he didn't know the details of Li Xiao. So the village chief said casually: "You are a stranger, you must be a monster." ”

"Don't talk nonsense, I'm not a monster. ”

"Hmph, the daughter-in-law of the Yang family you saved crawled out of the grave last night. ”

Li Xiao said in surprise: "That's impossible!"

The village chief said angrily: "How is it impossible? She also scared my daughter-in-law to death. ”

"Where did you see that?"

The village chief said casually: "What other place can it be, of course it is on the hillside, on the hillside where the daughter-in-law of the Yang family is buried!"

Li Xiao pondered for a while, and asked suspiciously, "What are you and your daughter-in-law doing there at night?"

The village chief's face suddenly became extremely ugly, and he said angrily: "It has nothing to do with you. ”

Li Xiao lowered his head and thought about what the village chief had said, and said in his heart: Chinese lessons are still useful.

The village chief knew that he had said too much, so he diverted the topic and said: "Aunt Li and the second girl are gone, I think it has nothing to do with you." ”

Li smiled: "Don't you know? Aunt Li is at the Jinniu Town Market. ”

"I'm not in the bazaar, I don't know, I just know that the second girl is gone. The daughter-in-law of the Li family did not come back after she went out yesterday. I'm guessing you're a man-eating youkai. ”

Li Xiao said anxiously: "Aunt Li will come back, she will definitely come back." Why don't you go with me and look for it, and look for it in the Golden Bull Town Market?"

Seeing that Li Xiao was anxious, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he said with a smile: "I'm too lazy to go to the market, besides, there are more than ten miles of mountain roads." It takes half an hour to walk to the market in Jinniu Town, and I am tired and exhausted, and before I can get there, I may starve to death. ”

After listening to Li Xiao, she was secretly worried that Aunt Li would get up, so she said, "Then I'll go alone." As he spoke, he tried to stand up, but his knee was already scarred, and the pain was unbearable when he moved.

When the village chief saw the injury on Li Xiao's leg, his eyes couldn't help but light up, swallowed his saliva, and said, "If you want to go, go there, it's better than starving to death here." Before you go, you tell me, where did you find your bark?"

Li Xiao thought for a moment and said, "I won't tell you." ”

The village chief's eyes lit up coldly, and he changed color and said, "If you don't tell me, I'll kill you, a foreigner, and eat meat." Tell me, where does the bark grow?" he said, pulling out a sharp knife.

Li Xiaohan's hair stood on end, and he hurriedly said, "I'...... I say, I say!"

Li Xiao had no choice but to say the approximate place where the steep slope was. After listening to this, the village chief knew the location and left without looking back. The village chief regarded the village as his own territory, and there was nothing he didn't know.

Seeing that the village chief was gone, Li Xiao was still very frightened in his heart, could it be that the village chief's family also needed tree bark to satisfy hunger? This is really an unthinkable thing. How much bark can that little tree have? The worst case is that the village chief may see that there is too little bark and go back and forth. Thinking of the village chief's sharp knife, Li Xiao's spine felt a chill.

Li Xiao wanted to run away quickly, but his knee was already cracked, and one leg could no longer move. If Aunt Li doesn't come back now, she will be in a desperate situation.

Li Xiao became nervous, this place is too evil, the second girl said that her brother was killed by the big dog monster, I haven't figured it out yet. Now the village chief says that the dead peasant woman has crawled out of the grave, which is too scary. Maybe the village chief will come back and cut my flesh in a moment.

Li Xiao even suspected that the village chief and his wife went to dig the grave of the Yang family's daughter-in-law last night, and wanted to cut some meat to eat at home. No, the peasant woman is dead, wrapped in a quilt and buried, and she is dead if she doesn't die, she is dead.

What if I shout for help and call the village chief? God, no, party, you come and save me. I grew up so old that I didn't have a girlfriend yet! At school, I didn't have to study hard; at home, I often made my parents angry; and when I was a child, I stole the neighbor's apple. Nothing else has been done badly.

The party has taught us that if we can win, we will fight, and if we can't win, we will run. If you can't run, hide.

Li Xiao endured the severe pain, forcibly rolled from the bed to the ground, dragged the injured leg, and crawled out of Aunt Li's house extremely slowly. The wound on his leg had cracked, and Li Xiao could only crawl sideways to prevent blood from dripping on the ground and leaving marks. There was a lot of blood oozing out, so Li Xiao drank it himself. It's a cruel thing.

The sun was shining outside, and Li Xiao was sweating profusely and thirsty. Li Xiao thought: Where am I going to climb now? Let's hide first? I can't dodge, Hongxing Village is the territory of the lame village chief, like a village the size of a palm, he doesn't know how many times a day he has to walk, here, where is there a place he doesn't know? The book says that the most dangerous place is the safest place, should we hide in the village chief's house? This needs to be analyzed in detail on a case-by-case basis, and it would be a tragedy to fall into the net. At the east end of the village is the road where Aunt Li went to the market, and how long did it take me to climb there? The lame village chief said that there were more than 10 miles of mountain roads! There were few people on the mountain roads, and I had not walked them, so I did not know how to walk.

There is a place to try.

After hard work, Li Xiao climbed to the house of the Yang family's daughter-in-law. Li Xiao found that the Yang family's house had been looted, the better tables and chairs had been removed, and the quilt mat in the back room was gone.

Li Xiao sat on the dirt floor next to the bed, and said in his heart: This is something that doesn't even let go of the dead. Soon, Li Xiao fell asleep tiredly. Thirst and hunger can rob a person of their willpower.

When Li Xiao woke up, it was already night, although he felt hungry, but his mind was very clear, he asked himself in his heart: The brain has become clear, is it the return of the light before death?

Through the unobstructed window, Li Xiao saw that the moonlight outside the house was like slowly flowing clear water, and said to himself: I have never felt such a beautiful moonlit night before. Tonight, when I noticed the beauty, I was dying. Who will save me? Will I starve to death like that aunt in the daytime? Where are you, Aunt Li? Mom and Dad, are you okay? Most teenagers leave their parents, and it seems that there is only one way to die. How proudly and shamelessly my classmates spent their parents' hard-earned money, eating and drinking spicy food, but they didn't study well, they had no conscience.

Li Xiao shrunk and lay on the ground on his side, and said in his heart: I'm going to die, and there is no one by my side. People are the loneliest before they die, especially when they have no relatives around them. When the old man dies, his children and grandchildren are by his side to see him off, which is the greatest filial piety. If a person is often under the threat of death, then he will often feel life, understand the preciousness and meaning of life, and then cherish his life more.

The moon is bright, the light is soft, the night is quiet, the chickens and dogs are silent, and the insects are chirping. Li Xiao closed his eyes and felt his brain fluttering and fluttering, and in his dream, his body was also fluttering and floating......

(There's a reason why Li Xiao is floating and floating in his dreams.) Thank you for collecting and voting for your recommendations. Thank you! It's been a busy Chinese New Year. Guests come to my house, I have to accompany, I go to a relative's house, relatives will accompany, dinner is over to send off the guests, it's late, in a word, the code word is extremely inconvenient. So...... During the Spring Festival holiday, there will be one update every day, and the number of words in each chapter is guaranteed to be more than 3,000 words. Please forgive me and continue to support you. ）