In front is a cliff.

Eighty or ninety stone houses were built on the cliffs.

They took me into these stone houses.

Here is a village, the name is Tuowu Village.

When the people in the stockade saw them returning, they greeted them with joy. When they saw the old man walking in front of them, they all saluted the old man respectfully, and called him out of their mouths.

Although I did not understand what they called him, I thought that this old man, if not Toast, was the head man of the stockade, and I heard the owner of the caravan call him the head man.

When they saw me in custody, they rushed over and punched and kicked me. The girl hurried over to separate me from them, and said something to them, and they stared at me and left.

The girl smiled and said to me, "Do you know why they beat you, they say you are a flower thief." ”

I said, "I'm not." ”

Walking to a large stone house, the old man stopped. He said to those around him, "Send a letter to the man surnamed Tian and tell him that his enemy is in my hands, and see what he does." ”

A strong man said yes and turned away.

I was locked up in a small stone room, which had no windows, and even the light that came through the cracks was gray-black.

I know that my future is as bright as this house, and the person surnamed Tian will definitely use the ocean to tell the old man to kill me here.

I didn't loosen the tie, I didn't get a bite of food, and there wasn't even a thatch on the ground, so I sat on the cold stone floor, looking at the gap that could penetrate a ray of light, and waited to die.

The door opened, and the room lit up as if it were day—it was the torches that illuminated it.

The girl walked in with a torch in one hand and a woolen blanket in the other. She put a torch into the crack in the wall, spread the woolen blanket on the ground, and said, "You will sleep on this blanket." ”

I sat still and didn't even blink my eyes. The cold of nature did not teach me to feel cold, but the heat of the world made my heart cold.

- Although a girl's eyes can make people forget the cold.

- Although the torches bring a hint of warmth.

But I didn't look at her moving eyes, and I didn't take the heart to appreciate the warmth of the torch.

I stared at the door with a blank face, and the door was black and hollow, like the heart of the surname Tian.

The girl looked at me for a moment and said, "Don't bother, I won't let you run away anyway, which hunter do you see letting the prey you get your hands run away?" ”

But I said coldly, "When are you going to kill me?" ”

The girl crouched in front of me, stared at me and said, "You want to die?" ”

I didn't look at her, my eyes still fixed on the dark door, and said, "Will you keep me alive?" ”

She said, "Why did we kill you? ”

I said, "The man surnamed Tian wants you to kill me with money," and then I stared into her eyes and said, "Will you refuse?" ”

She said, "I won't want you to die if he takes the money." ”

I said, "If I don't die, will you get the money?" ”

She said, "I can find a substitute for the dead." ”

I stared at her and said, "The one surnamed Tian knows me." ”

She said: "Mess his face so badly that he can't even recognize him, how can the guy surnamed Tian recognize him?" ”

Seeing how sophisticated she is, they must have done such things a lot.

I stared out and said, "Why don't you want me dead?" ”

But she said, "I heard that you alone destroyed all the bandits on the muddy mountain." ”

I said lightly: "So what, it didn't fall into your hands obediently." ”

But she said excitedly: "You are very powerful, very amazing. ”

I said, "Awesome, amazing?" Today, I don't have the slightest strength to resist. ”

She excitedly said, "Join us." ”

But I said coldly, "I am a strong man who escaped from the army. ”

"We are not the army," she said. ”

I said, "The bandit family." ”

She said, "Do you know who that old man is today? ”

I said, "Your grandfather." ”

She said, "He's the toast in our village, do you know the toast?" ”

I nodded and said, "Emperor Tu." ”

She nodded and said, "So, we're not bandits either, at least not ordinary bandits. ”

I said, "The people under the Emperor of the Earth are also called soldiers. ”

"Yes," she said, "but they don't have to go to the front to fight." ”

I stared at her and said, "What if someone comes and fights with you for territory?" ”

She smiled and said, "No one dares." ”

I said, "Is your village famous?" ”

She covered her mouth and smiled, and said, "Because we have such a powerful and amazing person as you in our village, who of them would dare to come?" ”

I said, "What about the man surnamed Tian?" ”

"We're not afraid," she said. ”

I said, "He has an army under his command and machine guns and artillery, and he can easily blow down your stockade." ”

She said: "He has to find our stockade, can his cannons be transported here in this reckless Daliang Mountain?" Will his men and machine guns be able to come to our stockade? ”

I stared at her, speechless.

She smiled and said, "Join us and be the man in our village." ”

I thought about it for a while and said, "Your grandfather has sent someone to deliver a letter, asking the person surnamed Tian to take money to buy my head, he will not agree to let me live, this is the rule of the rivers and lakes." ”

She said: "As long as I decide something, my grandfather will not object to it. ”

I looked at the stone room and muttered, "Once I promise to join you, I will stay here forever······"

She said, "Isn't it good here? The mountains here are high and the emperor is far away, and no one can control us, let alone ······" She stared at me and said, "And the beauty is with you." ”

I didn't look at her and said lightly, "You?" ”

She nodded, plucked up the courage to say, "Am I not beautiful?" ”

I looked at her for a while, and then said coldly: "I'm a bad spirit, and I've already hurt three or four women." ”

She said, "You can't hurt me, I'm a good hunter." ”

After saying that, he came and sat on my lap, put his arms around my neck, and stared at me with gentle eyes.

I said, "What if I refuse?" ”

She stood up suddenly, twisted her waist and walked outside, and said, "The head given to the person surnamed Tian will not be someone else's." ”

By the time the last word was spoken, her people were already outside the house.

She closed the door, but the voice came in: "Think about it, I'll come to see you tomorrow." ”

I know that she will come to see me tomorrow and disagree.

I said, "I'm hungry." ”

I heard her footsteps paused as she left, and then disappeared into the endless darkness. I knew she wouldn't come back tonight, and even if she brought me food, someone else would have brought it. She should report to her Grandpa Toast now.

I leaned against the hard wall, looked at the roof, and let out a long sigh.

I was determined to live.