Convinced that he was not mistaken, Gu Dan put away the dry food that Lin Xiaoyi had prepared for them, and patted Xun Ke, who was still in a daze.

"Someone."

"Huh?"

Xun Ke was stunned, where can people still live in a dilapidated village like this?

His gaze followed the direction of Gu Dan's finger.

There really are people.

At this time, it is the autumn cold season, but the person is in rags, the clothes are almost all turned into strips of cloth hanging on the body, the autumn rain is very cold, falling on her body, can't help but keep shaking, her hands and feet seem to have some problems, stumbling when walking, the arc is huge, almost sliding in front of the ground, it looks a little funny.

The two hurriedly stepped forward and walked over.

When I got closer, it was clearer, it was a woman, to be precise, it should be an old woman, but the current appearance was too inclusive to describe as raunchy, her body showed an almost black luster, her hands and feet were unnaturally bent, and there was still some distance from it, and the unbearable stench came to her face.

Her figure was extremely thin, and her loose skin was tightly clinging to her bony body, making her clothes look a little fat, but her belly, bulging, was completely disproportionate to her skinny body and protruding forward, like a pregnant woman who had been pregnant for several months.

Xun Ke stared at her in the rain for a while, and then shouted with some disbelief: "Aunt Cheng? ”

The old woman, who had moved her body forward, took a few more steps forward, and turned her head at a very slow speed as if she had just heard a voice.

At this time, Gu Dan finally saw that one of her eyes was already blind, stunned, and did not move, and the other eye was shrunk like a grape that had been stripped of its shell, and the pupils of her eyes were eager to shrink to the size of a pinpoint.

"Who?"

Her face was aimed at the two of them, but she couldn't see everything around her clearly, her hoarse voice seemed to be squeezed out of her heart and lungs, muddy and unreal, and with a thick country accent, as if she hadn't spoken for a long time.

"It's you!"

Xun Ke wanted to say something, but he was stuck in his throat, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

Fortunately, Gu Dan reacted quickly, took out the prepared warm clothes from his package, put them on for Aunt Cheng first, and then said undoubtedly: "Go to the house first." ”

The two of them helped Aunt Cheng to Xun Ke's previous home, and Aunt Cheng's expression looked a little resistant-but she didn't have any strength, and the slight toss made people feel it at all.

"Aunt Cheng, I'm Xun Ke! That kid from the Xun family, I also went to your house to beat dates before! Do you remember? I'm with the big cow and the second cow."

Xun Ke also opened the chatterbox, "Why are you still here?" What about the rest of the village? ”

came to the eaves, temporarily avoided the wind and rain, Gu Dan swept the surrounding open space with his true anger, and demolished the only remaining wooden table in Xun Ke's house and lit it into a fire.

Then take out the clean thatch that the two of them used before and spread it on the ground, and let Aunt Cheng sit down and roast it together.

"Xun Ke. Xun Ke."

Aunt Cheng muttered the name, her stiff face showed a thoughtful look, her reaction was very slow, and even her thoughts were slow.

Xun Ke looked at Gu Dan anxiously.

Mr. Gu is a healer, although this identity seems to be very light.

Gu Dan nodded slightly, and with a wave of his hand, patches of green fell on Aunt Cheng's body.

Aoki's internal qi didn't seem to be as good as before—as soon as the green light landed on her body, Aunt Cheng's body twitched involuntarily, and an unbearable roar came out of her throat.

"Hmmm!"

She vomited violently, a faint yellow saliva accompanied by large patches of beige and something dark white, and a strong earthy smell hit her face.

Aunt Cheng's belly, which was originally bulging as if she had been pregnant for a long time, was also accompanied by vomiting, which quickly subsided.

"It's . Guanyin soil? ”

Gu Dan has understood.

Guanyin soil, in the year of the catastrophe, the people who have no food to eat are forced to make the last choice.

It is really a kind of soil, eating it will give people a strong sense of satiety and hunger, but it can not be absorbed and digested by the human body, and it is not real food.

Aunt Cheng's belly swelled like that, because of this.

The internal qi of Aoki's transformation and rebirth recipe was making up for the unrepeatable body that seemed to be a dry desert at an extremely fast speed, and those Guanyin soil naturally became genuine foreign objects, and was rejected by the body for the first time.

After a long time, Aunt Cheng finally barely stopped the feeling of vomiting, but the internal qi that had always seemed invincible was a little deflated for the first time, and one of her eyes was still stunned, it had been completely damaged, even the internal qi of Aoki's transformation recipe could not be cured.

But the other eye finally showed a crystal light, no longer dry, and the original blurred world became clear and clear again.

Even the hands and feet that were originally unnaturally bent have been bent a lot less - the bending of the years has completely twisted the bones, and it is impossible for Aoki's internal qi to completely heal them.

"Aunt Cheng, it's me, I'm Xun Ke! Can you see that? ”

Xun Ke tried hard to shake his hand in front of her, without the slightest disgust, "Why are you here alone?" ”

"It's Xun Ke. It's Xun Ke! ”

Her reaction was finally a lot faster, and the only one left stared at Xun Ke for a while, and a smile appeared on her face, "You're back!" When did you come back, why didn't you tell Aunt Cheng? ”

"Just came back."

Xun Ke helped her to another place next to the fire.

"Just came back? Oh, yes. The autumn harvest is over, everyone is idle, it's time to come back. ”

The old woman's logic was barely clear, at least she knew that it was autumn, but she obviously lived here alone, otherwise it would be difficult to make it look like this, and even when she needed to eat Guanyin soil.

"Come, sit down first. It's raining outside, and it's easy to get cold in the rain, so let's start a roast fire together. ”

The stools were long gone, and the floor was covered with clean thatch, and it was warm to be around the fire.

The old woman looked hesitant, with an embarrassed look on her face, and said tremblingly: "Some time ago. Thieves in the house! I wanted to come to your house to borrow a fire, but I didn't find anyone, so I went back again, worried about what would happen if you came back at that time. It's okay! ”

"What did you just do?"

Xun Ke nodded, his nose was a little sour, but he still forced a smile and asked softly.

"Ah, isn't this just after the autumn harvest! I went to see the wheat that had been cut off, and I knew that my family was the most careless, and always had some ears of wheat left in the field. If you don't pick it up, someone else will pick it up! Let me tell you, Da Niu can't work in his family, I think it's a pity that his fields are full of weeds, they are all good fields. We did our duty, but we didn't go to his field to pick it up. It's just that this year's house was cleaned up quite clean, there were no ears of wheat left, and it happened to rain, so I came back."

(End of chapter)