Yu Meng said: "Tho barbarian, don't shout anymore, save some strength." Fortunately, Ruyun has prepared a lot of dry food, and it has not been used up yet. ”

The two of them were in the pit, seeing the sky gradually darkening, staying until late at night, not hearing the sound of people, so they had to spend the night in the bamboo cover, one was worried, the more the two came to the second half of the night, the colder it became, so they had to keep warm back to back, and they couldn't sleep at all.

It wasn't until dawn the next day, when they were really tired, that they took a nap and waited for the hunter to come and collect the net.

In a daze, he heard a man say, "The fish in the dry ditch can't run away this time!"

Another man said, "How many are there?

"It's a little dark down there, I can't see a few of them clearly. ”

Suddenly, there was a shout from the bottom of the pit, "Two!" It turned out that it was the man who was sleeping in a daze, and when he heard someone asking, he immediately shouted.

The people above were startled, and a man exclaimed, "What kind of thing! Can you speak human language? Isn't it a human bear!"

In the legend of the locals, the man-bear catches a person, grabs the person's hand and does not let go, laughs first until he dies of laughter, and then slowly eats the person after waking up. However, it seems to have disappeared in the dang. Some people say it's brown bears.

The other two people on the pit heard the "man-bear" and ran away.

Vitality is outside, and the two people in the pit shout "Help!" and keep screaming.

After a long while, I heard the voice of a middle-aged man: "It's obviously a human, where is a man-bear." ”

The barbarian shouted, "Yes, yes, we are human!"

Yu Mengyu also shouted: "It's a person! It's a person!"

It was determined that it was a person, so three men came over, lowered the rope, and rescued the two "prey".

After being wronged all night, the barbarian came out of the pit, did not thank the hunters, and angrily scolded them for their tricks.

A hunter, about twenty-five or sixteen years old, scolded him: "You boy, you don't know what to do! You have the good intentions to save you, but you still want to curse people!

The barbarian said angrily: "Believe it or not, throw the three of you into the pit!"

Yu Mengyu hurriedly stopped, and when he asked, he knew that he had arrived at the sub-clan of the Chang clan under the jurisdiction of the big tribe of Hu'an Mountain.

Although he didn't care much about the major affairs in the tribe, he also knew that this Chang clan had committed a crime of rebellion in history, and was almost wiped out, and later made miraculous achievements and became a member of the Hu'an Mountain tribe again;

Therefore, Yu Mengyu preliminarily judged that it was very likely that the Chang clan did not participate in the conspiracy of Zhongqing Xiangshan in Hu'an Palace. However, things are changing, and I am not sure whether I will participate or not, and besides, under the pressure of the Xiang family, it is entirely possible to pretend to be deaf and dumb.

Based on this judgment, Yu Mengyu thought that it was still necessary to be cautious, and secretly instructed the barbarian not to be reckless and act at the opportunity.

Following the three hunters, Mengyu and Tho Barbarian arrived at the foot of the mountain, and it was already the sun in the west.

It is Chang's village, more than 20 men, women and children, I heard that someone fell into the pit of hunting wild animals, talking and laughing to see the excitement.

She saw that one of the women was looking at her, about eighteen or nineteen years old, with a beautiful face, some familiar faces, and she couldn't remember it for a while.

Chang Zhu, the owner of the village in his fifties, got the news, came out early, looked at the guests, and said with a smile: "The two of you were frightened and froze in the pit all night. ”

"Thank you for saving your life!"

The barbarian said angrily: "Thank him again! If it weren't for the good deeds they did, we would have to fall!"

Chang Zhu smiled: "This strong man is right, but he is not right. However, it is we who should be accompanied. ”

Chang Zhu made compensation for the gift, and Meng Mengyu and Tho Manzi had to thank each other and report their names. Tho Manzi said: "My name is Tho San, and her name is Rumeng." ”

Chang Zhu said: "Please enter the village to suppress the shock." ”

Tho Manzi: "What are you afraid of! I'm so hungry that I drool."

Seeing that this village is built by the mountain, the scale is much smaller than that of Sanmiao Village, Xiangshi Village, and Guoshi Village, and the buildings are mainly bamboo, but they are also fresh and chic.

The owner of the village asked the two guests to go and rest for a while.

In less than an hour, someone came to invite the guests to eat.

The two guests were led into a more spacious room, ready for a small feast, and there was no one else except the owner of the village and a maiden who served.

When he smelled the wine, he said happily: "You must be rich in this place, and you can drink wine at any time." ”

The owner of the village smiled: "Let the two of you freeze all night, this is considered a crime." ”

The guest and the host sat down, and the owner of the village said: "In my village, there are many bamboo shoots, and the best is to pay tribute to Hu'an Palace. ”

"I don't drink. ”

Tho Manzi said: "I drink." ”

The two guests were already so hungry that their stomachs were pressed against their backs, and they were not polite, and they ate and drank.

After drinking a few bowls of wine, the owner of the village ordered the girl to go out, and then said, "Where are you coming from, and where are you going to go?"

Before he could answer, the barbarian had already exported: "Go to Sanmiao Village!"

Chang Zhu was skeptical and said, "Tho three strong men, can you lend me your sword?"

Tho Manzi said: "It's not a sword, it's not worth seeing." ”

Chang Zhu smiled: "Don't hide it from me. Your sword is the special sword of the tiger ben of the Hu'an Palace. ”

Second, the guests were shocked.

Tho Manzi said: "You are wrong. ”

"Hahaha! I see that your scabbard, although the pattern on it has been polished, I dare to say that it must be from Hu'an Palace. ”

It turned out that in order not to make people recognize that it was a person from the Hu'an Palace, the Tho barbarian had already polished off the double-headed pattern of the tiger and eagle on the scabbard and short sword on the rough stone on the way to flee to the turtle country.

Seeing that he couldn't hide it, he didn't want to plead, so he straightened his neck and said, "What do you want?"

Chang Zhu smiled: "Don't dare to do anything." Maybe you don't know yet: Hu'an Palace ordered the recall of Huben. ”

Yu Mengyu was suspicious: "What do you mean by recalling the tiger ben?"

"Last year, Xiangshan surrounded Hu'an Palace, disbanded Huben and returned to his hometown, this year, Yijun executed Xiangshan and Xiangmei, and made Huben return to the palace. Tho three strong men, if you were originally a guard of Hu'an Palace, I think you can go back directly. ”

The dream language and the barbarian don't dare to be gullible.

"I haven't heard the news along the way, could it be that he recognized me?" and said with a smile: "When is this news?" Of course, we don't care about what Hu'an Palace or what Yijun is. ”

Chang Zhu said with a smile: "The boundary of the Hu'an Mountain clan is in this direction, and my Chang clan is the most remote, and the direction you come from does not belong to the country of Pakistan, so it is common sense not to know the news of Hu'an Mountain." You should have heard the news that the sixth prince of the capital has passed away, right?"

"I haven't heard of it either. Again, it's none of our business. ”

"Really, the sixth prince is dead, and now the eighth prince Ba Yuan'an is in charge of the capital. ”

This is another piece of good news, although Meng Mengyu's hatred for Ba Ping'an has almost disappeared, but his death is at least beneficial to his return to Hu'an Mountain, and he said, "We have been out for many years. ”

"In the past two years, many major events have happened in Danfushui. Not to mention the rest, recently, there are monsters in Pangu Lake. ”

Yu Mengyu exclaimed: "When did the monster come out again?"

"It's been a few months, and I've heard that it's a few big recklessness. These days, Pangu Lake is so sealed that it is about to enter the cave to destroy the demon. I don't know the specifics, but I just heard the rumors. ”

After eating some meat and drinking a few glasses of wine, Chang Zhu said meaningfully to Yu Meng: "In the summer of the previous year, I went to the grassland of Hu'an Mountain to participate in the ceremony of worshipping phoenix birds. Also, Chunhua, the daughter of my brother Shu Xian, also went. ”

Yu Mengyu didn't know anything about the latest situation in Hu'an Mountain, and couldn't be sure whether what the owner of the village said was true or false, and at the same time couldn't be sure whether he guessed his identity, let alone what his intentions were, and secretly thought: "I have participated in the worship of the phoenix bird, and it may be a person who has participated in the Four Fourth Flower Festival. He's probably already recognizing himself."

In order to be cautious, Yu Mengyu pretended to be confused and said: "What the owner of the village said has nothing to do with us!"

Chang Zhu said: "No!"

With this simple answer, Mengyu was even more suspicious that he recognized himself.

Gossip while eating, and after a while, Chang Zhu said again: "Many years ago, my clan lived at the gate of the gorge, and the Xiang clan entered Danfu Water and drove my Chang clan here. ”

This sentence sounded completely unrelated to the words of the man, but he understood the dream language, and it was Chang Zhu who showed that the Chang family and the Xiang family were not on the same line, and said: "Hehe, the blind man, the Pizi, each has its own footwork." ”

Chang Zhu said: "You said that you want to go to Sanmiao Village, and first rest in peace for a night to nourish your spirit." It just so happens that I have something important to enter Hu'an Mountain tomorrow, and by the way, I will give you a ride, which can be regarded as making up for my mistakes. Please come with me. ”

"No need. ”

Chang Zhu smiled: "The journey is hard, multiple companions, neither lonely, but also safer, it's always a good thing!"

Tho Manzi didn't understand what Chang Zhu said, and said, "Wow." ”

Yu Mengyu fully understood what Chang Zhu meant, thinking that he could be trusted.

Chang Zhu and Yu Mengyu have a common idea, that is, the missing Yu Mengyu suddenly fell from the sky, which will inevitably cause a sensation, get it wrong, and cause new trouble, so from beginning to end, these two people play dumb riddles, do not break each other, and tacitly.

It was cold and sleepless all night in the elimination pit, and today I walked twelve or thirteen miles of mountain roads, tired, full of food and drink, and went to sleep.

In the middle of the night, the barbarian who lived next door and swore that he would not sleep to death was heavier than dead, and after a sleepy sleep, he was like a reptile all over his body, turning over and coming back, and he couldn't sleep again.

She thought for a while that Hu'an Palace was safe, and she would soon be able to see her parents and others, and she was very excited, and then she thought: Mu Mangzi and Wucheng, I don't know where they were, let alone whether they were alive or dead, and they were depressed again.

Dreamy sighed softly, half-asleep.

Suddenly, she was startled when she heard someone whispering in the courtyard outside the house.