By the time the white smoke was diluted, the would-be would-be had already run away.

"I'll chase it!"

Lu Jingxiang was about to chase after her, but Song Che shouted to her: "Forget it, the danger ahead is unknown, don't chase easily." ”

Looking at Nangong Yue again, she had a big opening on her waist, the blood had stained a large piece of her clothes, her pale face and gritted teeth, she was enduring the pain.

"Boss, I'm fine, it's my uselessness, I failed to block the thief's secret weapon, and you broke your face......"

The more she said this, the more guilty Song Che felt.

Song Che stroked his cheeks and asked with a smile, "I'm broken, am I still handsome?" ”

Nangong Yue was stunned for a moment, and barely squeezed out a smile, "Look at Chad, there is a gap, but it is more manly." ”

"Hehehe...... Okay, it's not a good place to stay for long, let's get out of here quickly. ”

Song Che used gauze and alcohol to simply treat Nangong Yue's wounds;

Lu Jingxiang put down the female corpse, stripped to cover her shame, and if she dug a grave on the spot and buried it, it would take a lot of time;

Lu Jingxiang carried the corpse, and Song Che took Nangong Yue and left the sow forest quickly.

When you get out of the forest, your eyes suddenly open up, in early spring, everything recovers, and under the moisture of several spring rains, flowers and plants grow luxuriantly, but it is a dead silence.

It's dark, and it's about to fall into the night.

Heavy dark clouds, a heavy rain is coming.

There are a few scattered houses along the road, which either collapsed or burned down, and they are not inhabitable.

Nangong Yue's face became more and more pale, and she could obviously feel that she had a fever, and she had to quickly find a place to shelter from the rain to rest.

"Boss, look, there seems to be cooking smoke over there!" Lu Jingxiang suddenly pointed.

Song Che used a telescope to probe around, four or five miles away, there was a slightly raised mound, dozens of families stood next to the mound, curling smoke straight up to the sky.

"Let's go, go over and have a look."

The two of them hurried up.

To enter the village, you need to turn from the main road to the small road and pass through a bamboo forest.

"Be careful, if you can stay on this land, there may be a militia—"

As soon as I entered the bamboo forest, I just opened my mouth to remind, but before the words fell, suddenly there was a shaking in the forest, "Huh! "A tripping rope straightened out of the pile of dead leaves.

"Phew!"

Lu Jingxiang, who was walking in front, reined in time and avoided the stumbling rope in a thrilling way, she immediately drew her sword out of the sheath and said to the bamboo forest:

"Who is in secret! Get the hell out of here! ”

The forest was noisy again, and more than a dozen men in cloth clothes rushed out from both sides of the road, holding flat poles, carrying firewood knives, carrying hoes, and wearing homemade rattan armor.

Sure enough, it's the militia.

Nearly 20 militiamen surrounded Song Che and them.

"Who are you, and how should you come to invade my village?" A man in his early thirties with a scruffy beard asked.

Unlike the other militiamen, he wears a shabby suit and has a full but gapped-up Pak knife.

Lu Jingxiang said: "Are you clumsy? There are only three of us, how can we offend your village? ”

"Then get out of here! You're not welcome here! ”

"You-"

"Alright." Song Che shook his head at Lu Jingxiang, signaling not to quarrel, he stepped forward and saluted the big man with his fists, and explained kindly:

"This hero, we were going to Penglai from Zhongyuan, and we couldn't find the accommodation along the way, and it was getting late now, passing by your village, and I wanted to spend the night, I don't know if it was convenient?"

Seeing that Song Che was so humble, the man also eased his tone a little, but he still refused: "This official, look at your dress and conversation, you are not a layman, but there are rules in our village, and people who are not from this village will not be entertained, if you really want to find a place to stay, walk along the avenue for seven miles, there is a land temple there, and it is no problem to shelter from the wind and rain." ”

"If we take shelter from the wind and rain, we won't bother, but this friend of mine is seriously injured and must be recuperated."

Song Che took out a full ingot of silver from his sleeve and handed it to the big man, with a pleading tone: "We only rest for one night, and we will leave early tomorrow morning, is it convenient for the hero?"

Dahan looked at Nangong Yue, who was pale on horseback, and couldn't help but fall into thought, and sighed: "The major events in the village are all decided by the village chief, I will go and ask the village chief to see if he can keep you."

"Wait a minute." Lu Jingxiang jumped off the horse with the female corpse she had rescued in the woods earlier, handed it to the big man and said:

"She was accidentally rescued by us when we passed by the sow forest just now, you don't accept the living, the dead must always be good, help her into the ground for safety, right?"

When the big man looked at the female corpse, he hurriedly came up, brushed away the messy hair to see the face clearly, and suddenly burst into tears, hugged the corpse and wailed:

"Xiuhe!"

……

The village is called Chenjia Village, with more than 80 households and more than 300 people.

Dahan is the militia captain of the village, called Li Tao, who has been in the north for five years, and after returning to his hometown, his family is surrounded by four walls, and then fortunately the village chief Chen Qing does not dislike it, and recruits him as a son-in-law.

The daughter of the village chief and Li Tao's wife is Chen Xiuhe, who was rescued in the forest.

With this relationship, Song Che and the others naturally lived in Chenjia Village.

Night.

Heavy rain is urgent.

Song Che asked the clever woman in the village for needlework.

Nangong Yue was injured by a knife, and the wound was an inch long, and the best way to avoid inflammation and infection was to suture.

"If you endure it a little, it might hurt a little."

Song Che first boiled the needle and thread with boiling water, then soaked it in alcohol to sterilize, and finally stitched up the wound for her one by one.

If you don't take anesthetic, it must be very painful.

Nangong Yuebei clenched her teeth, her body trembled slightly, and every stitch was accompanied by heavy breathing, and she never said anything until the end.

"If you hadn't saved me today, you wouldn't have been so badly injured, I'...... It's useless. ”

Looking at her sweaty appearance, Song Che felt indescribable guilt in her heart.

Nangong Yue hugged the pillow and said: "The role of the duck is to lay duck eggs, and the role of the hen is to lay eggs. ”

Song Che smiled: "It's a very vivid metaphor. ”

"How did you know I was sending eggs and duck eggs?"

"Whew-"

Lu Jingxiang slammed open the door, holding a tray in his hand, on which were a bowl of chicken and duck eggs, a bowl of millet porridge, and a few dry pancakes.

Don't look simple and light, for a small village, this is already a high-standard hospitality.

Lu Jingxiang filled a bowl of rice porridge, peeled an egg, picked up the small cloth bag next to the bowl, took out a yellow crystal from the bag, and threw it into the porridge bowl-

"Wait."

Song Che asked, "What is this little square?"

Lu Jingxiang said: "The boss looks like he is from a rich background, this is a piece of salt, and it tastes good when you put it in the porridge."

She didn't say that it was a piece of salt, Song Che thought it was a stone that had been deducted somewhere, "A piece of salt of this color has impurities at a glance, how can it be edible?" ”

Lu Jingxiang pursed her lips, "What can I do, there is a shortage of salt at the moment, and many villagers can't even eat salt, I heard that the village chief's daughter was arrested by the Japanese in order to buy refined salt in the town......

Salt purification is not necessarily difficult?

Song Che snatched the salt bag and went straight to the kitchen.