It's good that Xiang Ye didn't say this, but when he said this, Meng Su's competitive spirit was suddenly hooked. She didn't say a word, she grabbed the arm of the man on Xiang Ye's back and dragged him off and hunched him on her back.

But seeing Meng Su's determined eyes, Xiang Ye finally gave up continuing to argue with her and let her carry the man on his back. Although he didn't get along with Meng Su for a long time, he already had a deeper understanding of her, Meng Su was a strong woman, sometimes even a little too strong, if she forcibly prevented her from carrying that man at this time, it would inevitably make him and Meng Su unhappy.

After walking forward for nearly an hour, although Mengsu was tired and sore, he still carried the man on his back and continued to walk forward with difficulty.

"Wait." Xiang Ye suddenly stopped, raised a hand to stop Meng Su's advance, he pricked up his ears to listen carefully, and after a long while, he excitedly said to her: "Listen! The sound of water! ”

Meng Su also pricked up her ears and listened carefully, and gradually, a smile appeared on her face, and she couldn't suppress her excitement and shouted to Xiang Ye: "Yes, there is water, there is water!" ”

"Quick! I'll carry him on my back and go to the water's edge as soon as possible. Xiang Ye reached out and took the man who was still unconscious from Meng Su, picked him up on his back, and ran quickly in the direction where the sound of water came.

Meng Su didn't compete with Xiang Ye this time, she was indeed very tired, a woman carrying a man weighing one or two hundred pounds on her back walked for an hour in a row, which was already a very unimaginable thing.

The two of them ran for a while before they saw a small river, not so much a river as a stream.

The water of the river is very fast, and the turbulent water rolls up the sediment at the bottom of the river and churns to the east.

Xiang Ye and Meng Su didn't care about the mud and sand in the water, so they threw themselves to the river and drank a few sips, and when they were full, Xiang Ye picked up the man who was still unconscious and poured the water into him little by little.

After a few sips of water, the man's pale face looked a little better. Along the way, Xiang Ye and Meng Su only cared about carrying him on their backs, and they didn't have time to take a look at his appearance, so they just took advantage of the time to feed him water to observe him.

The man's face was slightly thin, his skin was fair, his face was as smooth as a knife, he had a black beard three or four inches long on his chin, and he carried a five-foot long sword on his back.

To Xiang Ye and Meng Su's surprise, there was a deep wound on the left side of the man's chest near his heart, although the wound had stopped bleeding, but the blood that had flowed out earlier had already burned the clothes on his chest to a gray-brown color.

"We've got to keep going." After feeding the unconscious man and resting for a while, Xiang Ye said to Meng Su: "As long as there is a river, there will inevitably be a village not far away, and if we go downstream along the river, we should be able to see the village before sunset." ”

Monsu nodded and replied, "I haven't slept all night, I'm a little tired, but I really need to find a place to rest as soon as possible." ”

Xiang Ye carried the unconscious man on his back, and Meng Su followed him along the river all the way to the east, I don't know how far they walked, until they walked from the rising sun to the middle of the day, and they saw a hut appear by the river in the distance.

Xiang Ye and Meng Su, who were sleepy, tired and hungry, suddenly came to their senses when they saw the hut, and hurriedly ran towards the hut with a shout.

When they came outside, they were stunned by what they saw. On the left side of the door, a fishing net made of coarse cloth and twine was cool there, because it had not been used for a long time, some of the nets had begun to rot, and several large holes had formed in the net.

Xiang Ye put down the man on his back and asked him to lean against the door, while he walked into the hut by himself.

There was a strong musty smell in the house, and a straw mat on the ground had already been a little ashed, and the place where his foot had been stepped on was suddenly stepped out of a big hole. The decent furniture in the hut was a stunted long table and two large wooden basins, presumably used to hold fish.

Xiang Ye stretched out his hand to lift the basin, and he picked off a piece of the wooden basin, which showed that the two basins could not be used.

In one corner of the room, two dusty clay bowls lay quietly. Xiang Ye shook his head, stepped forward and took the two pottery bowls in his hands and walked towards the door.

"Looks like we're going to have to be good people." After going out, Xiang Ye raised the bowl in his hand towards Meng Su, shrugged his shoulders and said: "No one has lived here for a long time, these two skeletons at the door should be the owners of the house, we want to live in their house, in order for them not to come to trouble at night, it is better to let them enter the ground first." ”

Meng Su nodded approvingly, and followed Xiang Ye to dig a pit in the sand not far from the river.

The two of them had no tools, and they dug for a long time to dig two large pits that could bury dry bones. After throwing the bones into the pit, Xiang Ye said to Meng Su: "You have also stayed up all day, let's rest in the first room, I will go and see if the fishing net can still be used, I hope I can use it to catch a few fish, we can't just worry about hurrying and forget to eat." ”

Meng Su and Xiang Ye have been on the road for the past two days, and they have hardly eaten anything. Because they were always worried that Guan Yijian would catch up from behind, they really forgot that they were hungry. As soon as Xiang Ye mentioned eating, Meng Su also felt his stomach rumble, nodded heavily at him, turned around and walked outside the hut and dragged the man leaning against the wall into the room.

After Meng Su entered the house, Xiang Ye walked to the fishing net, and he gently pulled the place that had not rotted, but the fishing net suddenly turned into ashes under his pulling.

Xiang Ye sighed a little disappointed, looked at the fishing nets that had turned into broken threads, and he looked back at the hut, where Meng Su was still waiting for him to bring back something to eat.

When Li You entrusted Meng Su to him, he did not refuse, although the reason why he did not refuse was that he could never refuse at that time, but after leaving Xingyang, Xiang Ye took it as a responsibility to bring Meng Su to the Xiang military camp. He was a man of commitment, and a man of responsibility, even if it was promised with great reluctance.

The turbulent river was flowing, Xiang Ye walked into the river, took off a shoe and tried the water, the water was very cold, when his feet poked into the water, the cold river water stimulated his feet, he felt a spasm in his feet, and quickly pulled his feet out of the water.

Xiang Ye looked around, and apart from the broken fishing net, he didn't see any other tools that could be used for fishing. Just when he was almost in despair, a round object placed in the corner of the outside wall caught his attention.

He ran over in three steps and two steps, lifting the round thing with a smile on his face.

This is a fish basket, and it is a small fish basket with a large belly in the middle. This type of basket is generally used by fishermen to hold fish, but it can also be used as a fishing tool in special situations.

Xiang Ye ran to the river with the fish basket, and when he looked at the turbulent river, he was a little troubled. To catch fish with a basket, you need to tie bait to the bottom of the basket, this kind of bait is best to eat meat, but now he is empty-handed, where does the meat come from as bait?

The weather has turned cooler, and it is unlikely that even if you want to catch a field chicken and skin it as bait. The excitement I had when I first saw the basket disappeared because I couldn't find the bait.

The cool wind swept past Xiang Ye's ears, and the slightest coolness made him shiver. He looked at the sand on the ground, and several scattered shells appeared in front of him.

These are the shells of several river mussels, but unfortunately the mussel meat has long been pecked by wild animals or birds, and only the hard shell is left to sparkle in the sun.

Xiang Ye frowned, the river mussel gave him a little inspiration, but looking at the turbulent river, he hesitated again.

He had a weakness, and a very fatal one. Although he has won several Collegiate Cup championships in sanda, he is a landlubber who never learns to swim.

On several occasions when he went to the pool with his classmates, he had to wear two lifebuoys on his body before entering the water, and he had to wear water sleeves and life jackets before he dared to enter the deep water. Of course, this strange outfit did not help him learn to swim at all, but it attracted him a lot of strange eyes, and he became the focus of the pool for a while.

Xiang Ye had no doubt that if he really went into the water to touch the river mussel, I am afraid that if the river mussel did not touch it, he himself would probably fall into the river and sink to the bottom of the river like a weighing stone.

He looked back at the fishing nets scattered on the ground and broken into rags and hemp threads, and then looked at the fishing basket helplessly.

The fish basket has a thick layer of dust, and there is no fishy smell on it.

He soaked the basket in the water, and when it was completely soaked and no longer floated on the surface of the water but could be suspended in the water, he tied the basket with a hemp rope and fixed it in the shallow part of the river.

There were some snails lying on the riverbed in the shallow water, Xiang Ye looked at those snails, and pouted helplessly. The flesh of the snail is very tight, and the meat without the mussel is easy to attract fish, and to get the meat of the snail out of the hard shell, it is necessary to have a sharp steel needle, and now he has only a dagger made of bronze in his hand except for a sword.

"It's all right!" Thinking of the long sword, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he couldn't suppress his exclamation of excitement, bent down and squatted by the river to put his hand into the river, groping on the riverbed.

The icy water overflowed his palm, but he continued to grope into the water unconsciously, and it didn't take long for more than a dozen wet snails to be placed in front of him.