Chapter 16: Mules and Horses
I don't know how long it took, the unconscious Xiang Ye woke up leisurely, the sky was already dark, and the moon secretly jumped into the sky at some point, and was gently pouring the light to the ground.
Chi Xue'e, who was lying under him, hadn't woken up yet, and there were one or two wolf howls in the distance from time to time, thinking of the wolves besieging them, and then looking at the corpses scattered around and some livestock that hadn't gone far, Xiang Ye suddenly felt that he couldn't continue to stay here, he had to leave here quickly.
After staggering to his feet, his stomach "gurgling", he rubbed his stomach, and then remembered that he had been in the chaos during the day, and he had not felt hungry. The surroundings calmed down, and when the tension was no longer there, the feeling of hunger began to hit him.
He staggered two steps towards a corpse, the corpse was carrying a blanket on its back, Xiang Ye took off the blanket from him and sat cross-legged on the ground, reached out and dug it inside, felt out two handfuls of cooked wheat kernels, and chewed it in a big gulp.
"Hmm!" When he finished chewing a few handfuls of wheat kernels and rubbing his full belly, a woman's low ** sound came from behind him.
Xiang Ye turned his head and saw that Chi Xue'e had also woken up, and after wound treatment, her face was much better than during the day, and in the soft moonlight, her bronzed skin had a faint luster and luster.
"You're awake!" Xiang Ye took out a handful of wheat kernels from his coat again, walked to Chi Xue'e's side and handed them to her: "Can you go?" If we could go, we would have hurried out of here and spent the night in this wilderness, which was too uneasy. ”
Chi Xue'e struggled to sit up, took Mai Ren from his hand, the wound on her back was no longer as painful as during the day, looking at Xiang Ye's face that was slightly pale due to excessive blood loss, she suddenly remembered the salty pig hand that held her chest when he was looking for wound medicine during the day, and her face suddenly blushed a lot.
Although Chi Xue'e had sold her body in order to make more profits from some big businessmen and eunuchs, she was a woman after all, and she would feel equally ashamed and nervous when a strange man's hand reached into her collar and scratched it wantonly.
The injury was too severe during the day, and she didn't have the leisure energy to take care of the shame at that time, but now that the wound had been treated and the pain was no longer painful, her mind naturally flew back to the memories of the groping pig hand.
"I remember you could speak." Xiang Ye sat cross-legged beside Chi Xue'e, watching her eat wheat kernels one by one, and the feeling of pity for the jade became even stronger.
Chi Xue'e lowered her head, eating wheat kernels in small bites, chewing food in her mouth, but she couldn't taste it at all, her mind was all in the memories of the day.
During the day, when the war horse carrying Xiang Ye was chased by wolves and rushed towards the caravan, she had thought of shooting the war horse and sacrificing one horse in exchange for the stability of the entire caravan.
After Xin Ling and the others appeared, she also ordered the guards to take Xiang Ye hostage, and when Xin Ling didn't care about the life and death of the hostage, she even wanted to really order him to be killed.
To her surprise, even so, after she was seriously injured, Xiang Ye still chose to save her. Not only did he treat her wounds, but he also stayed by her side and didn't leave.
Chi Xue'e thought so, in fact, it was really a bit of a mistake, Xiang Ye didn't want to leave, it was just because he had just woken up and hadn't thought about where to go.
"Why don't you leave me here and go by myself?" Chi Xue'e filled the little wheat kernel left in her palm into her mouth, turned her head to look at Xiang Ye, her eyes were full of gratitude to him, and at the same time, there was a little loneliness in the depths of her eyes.
Xiang Ye scratched his head, blinked his eyes, and then said to her: "You said that if I saved you, you would promise it with your body, such a good thing, how could I give up easily!" ”
After that, he also squeezed his eyes at Chi Xue'e, and his expression was extremely obscene.
Chi Xue'e sighed a little disappointed and shook her head, and said faintly: "Why are men like this? Isn't there anything else to be found in a woman besides desire? Well, the promise I made will naturally be fulfilled, and I will give it to you when I am better, and then you and I will be cleared! ”
Xiang Ye saw the loneliness in Chi Xue'e's expression, stood up with his hands on the ground, and said to her: "If you can go, let's get out of here quickly, the group of wolves during the day doesn't seem to have gone far, and when they come back, it is estimated that no one will come to save us." If they eat it in your stomach, your body will become a lump by then, why do I want it? ”
"You ......" Chi Xue'e couldn't cry or laugh at Xiang Ye's words, shook her head and said to him: "Actually, it doesn't matter if you can't go, you just need to lead two mules and horses, and we can still get out of here quickly." ”
Xiang Ye turned his head to look at the few remaining mules and horses not far away, the war horses that carried him here had gone nowhere, and there were only a few short donkeys and mules left nearby, he smiled bitterly, shook his head self-deprecatingly, and sighed in his heart: "It seems that in this era, not only must you learn to ride a horse, but you also have to learn to ride a donkey!" ”
It took a lot of effort, and after a good battle of wits with the mules and horses, he led a donkey and a mule to Chi Xue'e's side.
The mule was fine, Xiang Ye pulled the rope, and it obediently followed behind. But the little donkey was not so obedient, Xiang Ye led it, it kept shaking its head, trying to shake off the rope, and from time to time it took a few steps back.
Xiang Ye took a lot of effort to lead the two animals to Chi Xue'e's side, and when he reached her, he held the rope in his hand and said to her, "Do you choose to ride a donkey or a horse?" ”
"Horses?" Chi Xue'e looked at Xiang Ye puzzled, and then looked at the mule and donkey behind him: "Where is the horse to ride?" ”
"This one!" Xiang Ye turned his head and pointed to the mule and said to Chi Xue'e: "You'd better ride a horse, this big-eared horse is quite well-behaved, unlike that little donkey, I lead it, not only does it not go forward, but it also retreats!" ”
"Poof!" Before he finished speaking, Chi Xue'e couldn't help laughing, and her smile suddenly touched the wound on her back, and she almost shed tears when the wound hurt. Although the pain disturbed her, she still covered her small mouth with her hand and laughed non-stop.
"What are you laughing at? What's so funny? Xiang Ye glanced at Chi Xue'e very depressedly, and said with some dissatisfaction: "If you don't like to ride a horse, then I'll ride, and you can ride a donkey." ”
"Horses? You say it's a horse? Chi Xue'e ignored Xiang Ye, still covered her mouth and laughed, and after a while, she pointed to the mule and said, "That's a mule, what kind of big-eared horse?" Why don't you even know the mule? ”
"Oh, oh, oh!" Xiang Ye was embarrassed to sigh several times, it was indeed the first time he had seen a mule when he was so big, and it was an accident that he knew horses and donkeys living in the city, where would he have the opportunity to see a mule.
"Hmm~~ah~~" Xiang Ye said several times in a row, and the little donkey behind him thought it was going to stop, raised its hooves, and found that it was not moving, and let out a long protest behind him in dissatisfaction.
The little donkey suddenly let out a high-pitched cry, which startled Xiang Ye, and he hurriedly jumped forward, turned his head and glanced back.
As he jumped forward, he ignored the ropes that held the donkey and the mule in his hands, and when he turned back, two animals happened to be coming towards him under the ropes.
The little donkey was obviously easily frightened, Xiang Ye turned his head suddenly, startling it, it jumped forward two steps, stretched out its head and arched into Xiang Ye's arms.
Xiang Ye was arched by the donkey, staggered a few steps and sat backwards, and happened to sit in the arms of Chi Xue'e, who was laughing and trembling.
"Ugh!" Both of them snorted in pain at the same time and fell to the ground.
"Don't make a fuss, we're all hurt!" After a long while, Xiang Ye got up with a grin and said to Chi Xue'e: "Let's go quickly, I'm afraid it will be dawn if it's too late!" ”
"Hmm!" After Chi Xue'e got up, she nodded, and stood up with Xiang Ye's support.
Instead of riding the mule, she sat on the donkey's back.
After settling Chi Xue'e, Xiang Ye ran to the pile of dead people to find some wheat kernels, pulled a piece of cloth from the body of a corpse and wrapped it in his arms. I don't know how long I have to walk the road ahead, and if I don't bring dry food or less dry food, I am afraid it will not be possible to reach the destination alive.
"Change your clothes! If you are still wearing this clothes in the front, I am afraid that you will be killed if you can't even cross a city! When Xiang Ye walked towards the mule with a few blankets full of dry food, Chi Xue'e, who was riding on the back of a donkey, lifted his jet-black shirt for the second time.
Xiang Ye looked up at her in confusion, and didn't understand for a long time how this dress could be related to his life.
But in the end, he still chose to believe Chi Xue'e, after all, on the road ahead, if there was no him, she would not have much hope of surviving after being seriously injured.
Stripping off the clothes from a relatively clean corpse and changing them, Xiang Ye held the jet-black short suit and handed it to Chi Xue'e.
Chi Xue'e took the set of clothes, didn't even look at it, threw it on the ground, shook the reins of the little donkey and said to Xiang Ye: "Let's go!" ”
Riding on the back of a mule, Xiang Ye also looked back at the clothes lying on the ground and faintly reflecting the light in the moonlight. What a good piece of clothing it was, it was actually thrown away by Chi Xue'e very casually.
The night is getting deeper and deeper, and there are a few autumn insects chirping on the roadside from time to time, adding a bit of vitality to the quiet night.
"Where are we going?" Xiang Ye, who was riding on the back of a mule, leaned over to Chi Xue'e and asked in a low voice.
"Xingyang!" Chi Xue'e looked ahead, there was only a vast night in front of her, and she said to Xiang Ye in a low voice: "Sanchuan County Shou Li You and I are acquaintances, I want to go there and ask him to send someone to help me find out who is behind the scenes who instructed Wu Yue Sword Tomb to take my treasure!" ”