Chapter 4: The Starving Ghost

Suoba tried his best to finally get rid of the shackles of his withered hands, and he took the opportunity to pull out his legs, get up and run.

What rotten meat is not rotten meat, it has long been thrown out of the clouds by Suo Ba, let's escape from this ghost gate first!

Suo Ha shook off his big foot and ran for his life, and now his other broken shoe was also lost.

At the moment of his life, the pain was almost zero, and he didn't know that his foot was pierced and bleeding.

This so-called Belle Ye, this time the speed of running is almost catching up with the long-distance running champion, and there is a wolf behind him who may not be able to catch up with him.

I was thirsty and hungry in my stomach, and I couldn't run anymore after running for a while, and if I ran again, I wouldn't be tired to death, and I would probably vomit blood from exhaustion.

So he stopped, clutched an old poplar tree in both hands, and panted with his mouth wide open.

Even if he was so embarrassed, the jade wrench finger was still in his hand, Suo Ba was really a master who sacrificed his life and gave up his money.

He looked at the wrench, rubbed it on the other cuff, and put it on his thumb.

Now Suo Ba felt that his temperament immediately improved, and this time he really looked like a veritable Belle master.

Since ancient times, Lord Belle has three treasures, a wrench, a walnut, and a caged bird, and he can't help but show a wry smile when he thinks about it.

scolded and grinned: "I didn't lose money, I went back and sold the wrench, it bought half a catty of good beef, hum!" Teasing you Babel, you are still hairy. ”

Suo Ba just now was a headless fly, flying around, and he didn't know where he had run for a long time.

He looked around with wide eyes, trying to find his way. Trying to find a way back to the mountain temple,

However, it was pitch black, and no matter how much he rubbed his eyes, he still couldn't see far.

Suddenly, a faint light flashed in front of him, and although the light was not very bright, it finally saw hope.

Suo Ba suddenly came to his senses, he slammed the big tree away, and went straight to the light.

The house of the lantern is a three-room thatched hut located in a village called Liumajiazi.

It is said that a long time ago, this area was uninhabited for hundreds of miles, and it was a meadow, and only wolves haunted it all year round.

Due to the vast land of the Northeast, a random piece of planing, sowing seeds and growing crops, has set off a trend of breaking into the Kanto region.

At that time, a family came from Guanli, settled here, built a horse frame and settled down.

The great writer Lu Xun once said, "There is no road in the world, and when there are more people, it becomes a road." ”

With the first one, there is no worry about the second one, and it didn't take long for five more families to move in succession, and they all built up a frame to live.

Because there are a total of six horse shelves, the surrounding area calls this tun a six-horse frame.

Not far away, there is also a village called Twelve Horse Rack, and the origin of the name should be exactly the same.

Later, more and more people gathered in Liumajiazi Village, and the number of households increased to dozens of households.

As people's lives changed, the horse frame gradually disappeared, and a square adobe house was built, but this place is still called the six-horse frame.

In fact, the name "Six Horse Racks" is derogatory in a sense, which not only reflects people's helplessness in order to survive, but also reflects the extreme poverty of the people at the bottom of the old society.

Some of the poor had to live on horse racks, which looked like they were for animals.

Suo Bayi's injured feet like blood gourds dragged his tired body, and after walking for a long time, he finally came to Liumajiazi Village.

He ran to the only one of the three thatched houses with the lights on, and the broken doors of the thatched houses had not even been painted, and it looked like they would have to fall apart if they were opened a few more times.

Suoba came to the door and knocked on the door a few times, waited for a while, but there was no response from inside.

Then he knocked a few more times, and not only did there be no response, but even the lights were turned out.

Suopa begged through the crack in the door, "Is there anyone?" I'm not a bad person, I'm lost, can you open the door and let me in? ”

Then a woman in the house responded, "Doesn't the bad man say that he is a bad man, but does the good man come knocking on the widow's door without sleeping in the middle of the night?" What the hell do you want to do? If you don't leave, I'll call someone. ”

Probably frightened by Suoba's knock on the door, the woman's voice trembled slightly.

Suo Ba said: "Don't worry, I'm really not a bad person, just now I seem to have bumped into something dirty, it chased me behind, if you don't open the door, I will be bitten into a zombie." ”

I heard Suoba say this, the lights in the room came on, and then with a "creak", the door opened a narrow slit more than a finger wide.

The faint glow of the oil lamp shone through the crack in the door, and then a large eye appeared, flickering through the crack in the door and staring at Suoba.

The woman was afraid that Suo Ba would take the opportunity to push the door open, so she said in a commanding tone, "You go back a little." ”

After hearing this, Suoba had no choice but to retreat, and the woman's eyes rolled wildly, and she began to go up and down a lot.

When she saw Suo Ba's bare feet like blood gourds, her facial expression tightened, and then she shone the oil lamp on Suo Ba's black face again.

"Where are you from?"

The woman was not as nervous as she had just been, and her voice was much calmer.

Suo Ba pretended to be pitiful and said: "I am from Houtun, I went out to run errands and came back late, and I met dirty things, so I made this kind of embarrassment, and almost lost my life, please let me go into the house and hide!" ”

Suopa didn't say that he lived in the mountain temple, he knew that he was already notorious.

Everyone knows that there is a scoundrel living in the mountain temple, and if you mention to a woman that you live in the mountain temple, you will definitely be turned away, and letting him in the door in the hearts of others is equivalent to luring a wolf into the house.

The woman glanced behind him again, making sure that there was no one else behind him.

Maybe she thinks that if Suo Ba is bearded, he will definitely not be a person, and since there is no one behind him, then he will not be a bad person.

She hesitated for a moment and said, "Okay! I'll let you in, but you have to be honest, if you're not honest, the old lady will chop you up, do you believe it or not? ”

Suopa said, "Don't worry! I'm really an honest child. ”

The "creak" door opened with the screeching sound of wanting to fall apart, and the woman was fully displayed in front of Suoba.

Although the light of the oil lamp was not too bright, Suo Ba could still see the woman's appearance clearly.

This woman's name is Maria, she is of mixed Chinese and Russian descent, her father is a foreigner, and her mother is Chinese, so her appearance is a combination of Chinese and Western.

Maria's hair is slightly yellow, with a pair of oversized eyes, double eyelids, a high nose bridge, and thick lips; Tall and plump, convex and backward, with long legs, such a figure is a devil.

Maria leads the way in front of her in a gown and a kerosene lamp.

She walked with a flickering sensation in her body, and at the same time, there was a fragrance on her body as she drifted.

The strong smell of perfume hit Suohachi's nostrils, and he couldn't help but take a few inhales.

Soba stepped barefoot through Maria's door, and as he entered, he first looked around.

In the middle is a kitchen with a clay stove next to a water tank and a dilapidated cupboard inside, and that's it.

Although there are few things, they are quite clean and can be said to be spotless.

On both sides of the kitchen are the east and west houses, Suo Ba was allowed into the east room, there is only one earthen kang in the house, on the earthen kang is a bamboo kang mat with a patch of Luo Buding, and a broken quilt is spread on the kang mat, although the quilt is broken but clean.

Maria is such a clean woman, even the floor in the house is swept spotlessly, the room is small but it makes people feel very comfortable, and the air in the stomach feels exceptionally fresh.

Maria pointed to the edge of the kang and whispered, "You sit down!" ”

Suo Ba was stunned for a moment, and then sat on the edge of the kang.

Maybe it's because of the loneliness of the man and the widow, he is a little restrained from the inside out, so he just put it on the edge of the kang, and most of his buttocks are dangling.

Suo Ba said with a deflated stomach: "You...... Can you get me some water? I...... Thirsty. ”

"Hmm!"

Maria said yes and turned to the kitchen, and after a while brought back a scoop of cold water and handed it to Suoba.

"Here, you can drink!"

Suo Ba stretched out his hand to take the water scoop, and without saying a word, he drank it like an old yellow cow drinking water, and drank it with a big scoop of water in an instant.

Maria asked, "Is it enough?" ”

Looking at the embarrassed appearance of Soba drinking water, Maria pursed her lips and giggled.

Suo Ba also bared his teeth with embarrassment, and his smile could fully prove that only his teeth were white.

Soba handed Maria the ladle and said, "Bring me another scoop!" I'm dying of thirst. ”

Maria took the empty ladle handed over by Suoba, glared at Suoba, and then turned around and went back to the kitchen.

When Maria returned, in addition to holding a scoop of water in her hand, she also had a large kitchen knife under her arm.

Suo Ba's eyes were fixed on the kitchen knife, and his ass moved involuntarily into the kang, trying to distance himself from Maria.

Suo Ba thought to himself that this woman wouldn't be Sun Erniang in "Water Margin", right? What does it mean for her to come out with a kitchen knife? You don't want to chop me into minced meat and make buns, right?

Maria glanced at the trembling Suoha, and then placed the scoop on the edge of the kang.

She said fiercely: "Give it to you!" ”

She threw the kitchen knife on the kang, gritted her teeth and said: "Don't be honest, my mother will chop you tonight, it just happens that there is no meat in the store, I see that you are covered with fine meat, and you will definitely be able to sell it at a good price." ”

Before the words fell, she burst out laughing, and the corners of her mouth were about to reach her ears.

Suo Ba's small eyes paid attention to Maria's actions, and from time to time glanced at the kitchen knife on the kang, before he reached out and picked up the water scoop like a thief, and drank a big sip of water with a "coo-dong" head.

Suo Bayi drank two scoops of water in a row, and finally wiped his mouth with his dirty sleeve.

He smiled embarrassedly and said, "Thank you!" ”

Before Maria could speak, he touched her shriveled belly.

He added, "Do you still have anything to eat at home?" I'm so hungry that my chest is pressed against my back. ”

"People don't look good, but there are a lot of things."

Maria said something that was not salty or light, and turned to go to the kitchen.

After a while, Maria brought a few mixed noodles from the kitchen, and a plate of mustard gnocchi cut into pickle strips, and placed them on the edge of the kang beside Suo Ba.

Suo Ba saw the food and immediately put blue light in his eyes, he was not polite, picked up a steamed bun with his right hand, picked up a pickle strip with his left hand, and ate it in a big gulp.

Suo Ba was so hungry that he ate in a hurry, choking on his neck.