Chapter 158: Xiangxi Prefecture Corpse Valley (6)
"When the fake is true, it is false, and when it is false, it is also true."
"The scholar's speech is becoming more and more confusing, as if he answered, and then as if he did not answer."
Chen Buyi was a little distressed.
"A few of us are rough people, how can we understand these sour words, I was about to continue to ask, but at this time there was an accident."
"It's hot!"
"The head of the dart felt a burst of heat in his chest, as if something was burning, and I turned my head and saw that his chest was on fire."
"The fire burned out of his bosom, and it kept the outer garment on fire, and I saw it."
The head of the dart put his hand into his arms in a panic and threw out the invitation card with fire.
"I didn't bring a fire fold, how could this invitation burn on its own?"
"I watched as the invitation was thrown to the ground, burned up at a great speed, turned into ashes, and dispersed as soon as the wind passed."
"I muttered in my heart, and unconsciously touched my chest, for fear that the invitation card in my arms would suddenly burn."
"We all looked at the scholar and asked him to explain this strange situation."
The scholar looked at the two invitations in his hand, and then, under our gaze, slowly took them back.
"Everyone put away their invitations, it looks like they're the key to getting us out of here."
"After saying that, he didn't pay attention to us, and then walked forward, we had no choice but to follow hard, and it was already the twelfth day at this time."
"For the next ten days, we walked for ten days in a row, and we didn't see anything for those ten days, but for us at that time, none of this mattered."
"Why is that?"
Wan Chaoyang asked.
Chen Buyi stood up suddenly, turned his back to them, and looked into the distance, his pupils flashing with an inexplicable light.
He stood there for a moment before continuing
"Because we're starting to get hungry."
"On the 10th day, I started to feel dry mouth, hunger, and obvious physical exhaustion, which we had never experienced before after walking for more than ten days in a row."
I licked my tongue and sat down on the floor.
"Rest for a while, I'm tired."
The other four people were not having a good time, and the scholar was lying on the ground on all fours.
"I'm so hungry."
"Chu Yulou, this kid is just when he is growing his body, he can't bear the hunger at all, and his eyes are bulging at the moment."
"I only felt the hunger, thirst, and sleepiness that had accumulated for more than 20 days, and the most terrible thing was the mental breakdown, the previous fear, surprise, despair, anger, and all kinds of negative emotions, as if one after another wet paper was covering my face, making me feel suffocated."
"I tried to shout, but I found my crying hoarse, and I tried to look at the other four to see what they were doing."
"But there was nothing but an endless sea of corpses around, empty, nothing, those four people disappeared!"
"Hey! What about people?"
"I shouted hoarsely, and no one answered me at all."
"I don't know how long it took, I felt like I couldn't hold on, as if I was going to faint at any time, my mind was spinning, the sea of corpses in my eyes seemed to be alive, countless corpses were pressing towards me, I felt a stronger sense of suffocation, desperately stretched out my hand, trying to pick up those corpses, but where did I make the strength at this time."
"My eyes were dark, and the whole person fainted, and the moment I fainted, I really thought that I was going to die."
"But when I opened my eyes again, I found myself in a small room."
"Goo."
"My stomach was thundering, I squinted and observed my environment, it was a thatched hut, there was a table in the room, a few benches, a straw hat hanging on the wall, and a piece of clothing, and then, there was nothing."
"I soon found out that the clothes were my own, and I tried to get up, but I found myself in severe pain, my brain was groggy, and my body was halfway up and fell down again."
"Ugh!"
"I groaned in pain, but I didn't expect my sound to alarm the people outside the house."
"Squeak."
"I heard the sound of the door being slammed, and at the same time, a smell of food came to my nose, someone was cooking, and I was greedily sniffing the aroma of rice."
"Are you awake?"
"It's a woman's voice, and I have a stomach full of questions I want to ask her."
"Don't move."
"I felt her palm light with a smell of earth and pushed me back to the bed."
"My mind gradually cleared up, and I saw the person in front of me clearly, this is a young woman, her complexion is dark yellow, very thin, her face can't be called two taels of flesh, she is dressed as a peasant woman, and her clothes are also mended."
"Where is this?"
"This is Ping'an Village."
"How did I end up here?"
"I dragged you back from the edge of the pit."
"Big Pit?"
"yes, it's the pit full of corpses."
"I realized that I should have come out of the Valley of the Corpses, but how did I get out, and where did the others go?"
"How long have I been asleep?"
"It's been a few days, and when I get you back, you'll have one breath left."
As she spoke, as if suddenly remembering something, she turned and ran outside the house, and soon I saw her come in with a steaming bowl of porridge.
"I stared at the porridge, my eyes turned green, and I drank it all in three or two bites."
"Anything else?"
She looked at me a little crampedly, and I understood it at once.
"It's me who is abrupt, I'm embarrassed, I dare to ask the girl's name what's the name, the grace of saving my life, and I will repay it when I make up my mind."
"My name is Xiuxiu, I don't need to repay the favor, I just saved you."
"I subconsciously touched into my arms, and found myself underlined and my clothes hanging on the wall."
"Xiuxiu, can you help me get some clothes?"
"After Xiuxiu brought me the clothes, I took some silver from the clothes and handed them to her."
"That's the money for food."
"I don't know if this girl refuses to accept it, so I don't force it, thinking that when I leave, I will secretly put it on the table."
"Xiuxiu, how far is it from the big pit?"
"About a dozen miles."
"Did you find me alone at the edge of the pit?"
"yes, you're the only one."
"At this time, while I was glad that I escaped from the Valley of Corpses alive, I had many doubts, but Xiuxiu didn't seem to know much, so I couldn't ask."
"I have been recuperating in the house for two days, and every day Xiuxiu's house will come to many young people, and it seems that Xiuxiu is very popular in the village."
"Xiuxiu, this is a wild boar that I went to hunt by the big pit, and I gave it to you."
"Brother Zhuang, no need, I can't eat that much alone."
"Xiuxiu, I went to the state city yesterday and saw a beautiful hairpin and gave it to you."
"Brother Little Tiger, I already have a hairpin."
"Sister Xiuxiu, I've brought you rice!"
"Early in the morning, I was woken up by the noise outside, and it happened that I was almost recuperating and wanted to go out for activities."
"Unexpectedly, as soon as I went out, I was besieged, and several young people looked at me hostilely."
"Xiuxiu, why are you hiding a man at home?"
"Still a foreigner."
"That's it."
"I greeted them warmly, but these children didn't seem to welcome me, but I didn't care, anyway, when I fully recovered, I was going to leave for Youzhou."
"In the next few days, Xiuxiu's house became even more lively, and a group of young men came over one after another to sneak into the house."
"Ping'an Village is a rural village, from the village to the corpse valley, more than ten miles of land, all farmland, Xiuxiu has to go to the field every day to farm, after I can go to the field, I want to go to the corpse valley to see, so I use the excuse to help Xiuxiu work, go with her."
"I originally thought of a place, gave Xiuxiu some drugs, and went to see outside the corpse valley alone, but I didn't expect that those young men were afraid that I would have something to do with Xiuxiu, so they actually followed us from afar, making it difficult for me to start."
"Especially the one named Da Zhuang, I can see that he is the most hostile to me, according to Xiuxiu, he is the son of the village chief."
"He always makes me bad, and for a few days I can't completely get off the ground, this guy takes advantage of Xiuxiu's absence, throws stones at me from the window, thinking that I don't know, I'm too lazy to bother with him."
"But now he wants to do bad things for me, I can't let him go, and when we get to the place, I use the excuse of convenience, and I run to a remote place, just to lure them to do something to me."
"Sure enough, Da Zhuang led those boys to follow, I casually found an open space, and before I could stop completely, those young people surrounded me."
"Hey, foreigner."
"Huh?"
"I warn you, get out of our village!"
"Why?"
"Looking at your squinting eyes, you know that you are playing Xiuxiu's idea, Xiuxiu is the baby bump of our village, and he will not take a fancy to you, an ugly ghost."
"I knew that these people had been coveting Xiuxiu for a long time, so I wanted to provoke them."
"I'm sorry, Xiuxiu is already my wife, I'll take her away when I'm healed."
"Although I said it casually, at that moment, I really had the appearance of Xiuxiu in my mind, and even I didn't expect that the first time I saw her, it was so deeply imprinted in my heart."
"Young people are young people, as soon as I provoked, they were eager to come up and beat me, I sneered, and I was going to teach a lesson."
"Stop!"
Xiuxiu ran over and stopped in front of me, the internal force I had just transported was instantly withdrawn, and her hair brushed the tip of my nose, at that moment, in my opinion, the earthy smell of her hair was so good."
"What are you doing?"
"Xiuxiu, don't be deceived by him, this guy doesn't look like a good person."
"It's none of your business!"
"Da Zhuang saw that Xiuxiu was so protective of me, so he was even more anxious, glared at me viciously, and left with someone."
"You wait for me!"