Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Desert Village
The courtyard was quiet all of a sudden, and Jiang Hong, who had just changed his personality, was also a little depressed at this time, but there was a place where Shi Yahan was, and it was still in her grandfather's yard, and after a while, he was jumping and talking, and the old man Shi also looked at her with a smile.
After laughing for a while, Jiang Hong suddenly asked, as if he remembered something, "Grandpa Shi, we only came back yesterday, why do we have to leave today?"
"Jiang Hong, you have been in Shijia Town for a while, you may not know the situation here, I will tell you about our situation here......" Old Man Shi looked at Jiang Hong's serious face with a somewhat solemn face and continued: " In Shijia Town, you have also seen in the past few days, some crops can not be grown at all, and there are mountains all around, so our life has to rely on hunting, but now the beasts on the mountains are not easy to find, the beasts we can deal with in this area are almost finished, and there are powerful beasts in the deep forest, and some powerful ones do not dare to face even in the later stage of the Broken Dan Mirror, so here our life in Shijia Town has become difficult. ”
"Let you go to Jiang Hong's grandfather's house, that is, we will move there one after another after a while, just let you adapt to life first, the environment over there is not like here, but the road is a little far, you have to be mentally prepared." ”
Jiang Hong was a little stunned when he heard the whole person, and he didn't expect this to be the reason. He has eaten a lot of beast meat here in the past few days, wouldn't that add some burden to the people of Shijia Town, and he felt a little upset when he thought about it.
After Old Man Shi finished speaking, he looked at Jiang Hong's embarrassed appearance, he knew what Jiang Hong was thinking, and he was also hoping that Jiang Hong would think so in his heart.
Seeing Jiang Hong's embarrassed and red face, Old Man Shi stood up and slapped his shoulder and said, "You go over first, and let Taishu come over if his injury is better in a few days, as for us, this is our home after all, and I want to stay for a while." After saying that, he lowered his head, as if relieved, and staggered towards the house. He looks a lot older, and he seems to be a little lighter, yes, relieved!
Jiang Hong looked at the figure of Old Man Shi walking towards the house, all kinds of thoughts flashed, and in the end, he thought that Old Man Shi was because of the life in the whole town and the blow to him from Shi Taishu's injury, and he didn't know what to say if he wanted to comfort him, so he had to wait in the courtyard for the people who brought them to arrive.
After about an hour, a tall, dark-skinned, stubble-covered middle-aged man with shawl hair appeared at the door of the courtyard.
"Second uncle, when did you come back, why didn't you tell me?" Shi Yahan asked excitedly, it was a tone of blame, but there was no blame, and there was only endless joy.
"It's all grown up, it's not good to stick to me like this, what are you going to make people laugh at?" Shi Yahan's second uncle pulled away her tightly neck-tightening arm, touched her shoulder a little helplessly and said, and smiled at Jiang Hong as he spoke.
At this time, Jiang Hong also knew that this was Shi Yahan's second uncle, and he had lived in someone's room for many days, but there was still a big difference between Shi Yahan's second uncle and what Jiang Hong thought in his heart. He immediately smiled, took a step forward and said, "Second uncle, I'm Jiang Hong, I'm borrowing from your Shijia Town, and I'm bothering you! ”
"Haha, I know these from the old man, thanks to you this time, since you call me second uncle, you don't have to be polite to me anymore. ”
"Okay, second uncle, I will definitely not be polite to you in the future!" This sentence sounded like a hostile look, Jiang Hong scolded himself in his heart after speaking, why did he talk like this.
Fortunately, Shi Jian is a bold person, and he also understood what Jiang Hong wanted to express, so he immediately laughed and said: "I like your character, if we meet earlier, maybe we can become good brothers, it's a pity." ”
Jiang Hong scratched his head in embarrassment when he heard Shi Jian say this, and he didn't know how to answer. Shi Yahan pouted unhappily on the side, and Jiang Hong knew that he was still silent.
Shi Jian saw the appearance of Jiang Hong and Shi Yahan, looked at Jiang Hong and Shi Yahan with some meaning, and felt that he was confused, patted his head and said: "The old man still has something to tell me, you play for a while, I will go to see if the old man has anything to instruct, and we will set off after coming out." After speaking, he strode towards Old Man Shi's room.
Only now did Jiang Hong understand that the person they were waiting for was Shi Jian, but the appearance of this Shi Jian also made Shi Yahan brag to Jiang Hong about how her second uncle coaxed, and Jiang Hong wanted to laugh a little when he heard it, but looking at Shi Yahan's innocent eyes, Jiang Hong still couldn't help but didn't refute.
It didn't take long for Shi Jian to help Old Man Shi out of the house, and when he saw several people in the courtyard, he smiled and signaled, and then said to Shi Jiajia: "Jiajia, I'll let you pack your things, okay?"
"Grandpa, I sorted it out before I went to call Jiang Hong. Shi Jiajia replied with some excitement, she vaguely guessed that she was going to go with her this time, and her heart was already happy.
"Then you can set off with your second uncle, and your second uncle will tell you about the things on the way. ”
"What about my brother, is my brother going?" Shi Jiajia looked around, and finally found that something was missing, and hurriedly looked at Old Man Shi and asked.
Jiang Hong was just about to speak, when he saw Old Man Shi squeezing his eyes at him, and then said, "Your brother still has something to do, he will come over in a few days." ”
Shi Jiajia didn't say anything, stood aside and waited to go.
At the entrance of Shijia Town, Jiang Hong, Shi Yahan, Shi Jiajia and Shi Jian looked back at the village that was still asleep at ten o'clock in the afternoon, everything seemed to be silent here, lacking a trace of vitality, Jiang Hong felt it, but he explained in his heart that it was because he was leaving, so it was not a special entanglement.
Shi Yahan and Shi Jiajia are no different, they still chatter non-stop.
Only when Shi Jian looked back at Shijia Town, a trace of helplessness flashed on his face, as well as bitterness, which made him, who was already a little vicissitudes, even look a little down.
A group of four people walked along the mountains of Tai'an Forest, rolling and undulating, and after a full day's journey, Shi Yahan had already said that he couldn't walk, and now Shi Jiajia couldn't hold on anymore and wanted to stop and rest. Jiang Hong felt that it didn't matter, after returning from Wangfu City, he felt that his body was getting stronger, and it could be said that it was ridiculously strong compared to the past.
The Tai'an Forest they passed through this time happened to be similar to the place where Jiang Hong first came to this world, and what they saw in front of them at this time was still a boundless desert, standing on the edge of the desert as if it was as open as facing the sea, but there was no happiness in spring.
"Second uncle, will you remember the wrong way, this is all desert, there is no grass, where did the village come from?" Jiang Hong sat on the yellow sand, and asked Shi Jian with some doubts, this is not the first time he has asked, but every time he answers, he just let himself walk and see.
"Okay, I think you're all confused, so I'll just tell you, today is only the first day, and we haven't finished a quarter of the journey, because the road behind will be more difficult and there is a possibility of danger, so I'll tell you in order to let you rest in peace." Seeing that Jiang Hong and the others were all listening carefully, he copied his long hair back, and continued:
"The place we are going to is in this desert, there is an oasis there, which was discovered by the old man and Taishu's grandfather in the early years, the area is as big as four in Shijia Town, but Taishu's grandfather, that is, Old Man Zhang, asked your grandfather to move over, but it was too difficult for us to move in Shijia Town, so I didn't go.
But Old Man Zhang and his people moved to that oasis, where they could feed some livestock and plant, and there was no problem in life anyway. Since then, we have named it Desert Village, and it is there that we are going. ”
"There are about four days to walk, so you have to be prepared, you can only spend the night in the desert, and the night in the desert will encounter the attack of the sand beast, but on the way we are going, the strength of the sand beast is not high, just be careful not to let the sneak attack" In fact, there is one more thing he didn't say, the sand beast will spew out a yellow liquid, which is very corrosive. Shi Jian was afraid that speaking out would affect their appetite, so he planned to talk about it when the time came.
Listening to Shi Jian's words, Shi Yahan and Shi Jiajia both regretted coming along, but they couldn't help it, this was what their grandfather ordered, and they had to obey, at this moment there was no excitement on their faces, only a trace of helplessness.
Jiang Hong is okay, anyway, he has already been mentally prepared, and now the last thing he is afraid of is rushing. It's just that the sand beast looks like, I don't know if I have a chance to see it. If Shi Yahan knew what he was thinking, he would probably try his best.
Jiang Hong chatted with Shi Jian casually for a while, then took out the tent that Shi Jian had prepared for them and set it up, it was just made of rags, which could prevent the wind, and if it rained, it was estimated that it would be enough to choke.
The night on the edge of the desert was a little cold, Jiang Hong, who didn't have much clothes last night, was tortured, and then he had to get up and meditate and practice the exercises in his mind, and now Jiang Hong felt the importance of that exercise, and he wondered if he could use meditation instead of sleeping in the future.
What Jiang Hong didn't know was that he had such a situation entirely because of the exercises in his mind, and many people couldn't meditate instead of cultivating unless they reached the late stage of the Breaking Dan Mirror. The previous realm relied entirely on its own training and perseverance, forging spiritual power into muscles, meridians, and bone marrow.
He didn't even know that he had just advanced to the Ninefold Perfection of the Body Refining Body and didn't have a stable cultivation, because he had fought against the cold last night and completely stabilized it.
"Ah......" Jiang Hong, who was still secretly happy about the exercises he had obtained, was pulled back to reality by a scream, and there was a vast yellow sand in front of him, and he slowly stood up in confusion.