Chu Hantang drank all the water he had left before entering the town, and now he wants to ask someone where there is water to drink, or where to buy water.

If you don't drink water again, you will really die of thirst, and the most unexposed person is her.

So, as soon as Chu Hantang saw people, he stepped forward regardless of the person and asked, "Hello, where is the water here?" ”

The man with only a pair of blue eyes on his face was looking straight at her.

Chu Hantang saw that he didn't speak, thinking that the wind and sand were too big just now, but the other party didn't hear it clearly, so he asked again, "Hello, where is the water here, I can pay silver to buy water." ”

When she first read the original book and saw the content about Qingzhen, she happened to be in an irritable mood, she didn't want to watch the plot much, she just wanted to read the emotional line, and she often skipped chapters.

After all, Chu Hantang usually only reads about 40 or 500,000 words.

The original book has more than 1.5 million words, which is a bit long for her, and it is not strange that she often skips chapters, so now she is not very familiar with Qingzhen, and she only remembers the character Fu Qingren.

"Outsiders are not welcome here."

Chu Hantang waited for a while, only waiting for the blue-eyed man to say this, and reacted slowly for a few seconds, "We have no malicious intentions, we just passed through here, and the dry food and water were gone, so I wanted to ......"

The blue-eyed man was silent for a few seconds, then turned and left.

Leaving her messy in the wind and sand, she still didn't know where to drink water, and she was looking forward to Fu Qingren appearing quickly.

Chi Yaoyao also noticed the situation on Chu Hantang's side and frowned.

She regretted that in order to take a shortcut to the capital, she chose to pass through Qingzhen, which looked weird, and the surrounding area was as hot as an oven during the day, and the wind and sand were big.

It's a pity that they came all the way and needed supplies, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to get out of the Gobi Desert near Qingzhen.

The most important thing at present is to find a water source, Chi Yaoyao saw that Chu Hantang's lips were chapped, she reached out to the water bag on her waist and shook it, and found that she had drunk all the water and couldn't give it to her.

One by one, they ran out of water.

There is only one person who still has a small half bag of water left, and that is Xie Yihuai.

Chi Yaoyao had no choice but to ask him if he would like to give the rest of the water to Chu Hantang to drink first, among them, she was the most short of water at the moment.

Xie Yihuai looked down at the water bag hanging on his waist, "I've drunk the water from this water bag before." ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone couldn't grasp his thoughts, and they didn't know whether they were willing or unwilling, and this sentence sounded like a prevarication.

Chu Hantang walked in front of him in a few steps, "It's okay, I don't mind." ”

Xie Yihuai looked at her for a while, smiled, and said gently: "Since this is the case, then Master Chu will take it and drink it." ”

For people who are short of water, this small half bag of water is like nectar, Chu Hantang drank a few sips before he felt alive, "Thank you so much for the water." ”

He looked at the corners of her lips that had some water stains left because she drank too quickly, "Young Master Chu is polite." ”

The houses in Qingzhen are all one-story mud houses, presumably to adapt to the weather here.

There is no inn here, and they can't find a place to stay for the time being, so they can only consume their physical strength on the road, and seeing that it is about to get dark, Chi Yaoyao is becoming more and more anxious.

Xie Qihuai didn't have the slightest panic on his face, and looked at Qingzhen as if nothing had happened.

It's just that he occasionally paused for a few seconds when his eyes swept over the two water bags hanging on Chu Hantang's waist, not knowing what he was thinking.

Chu Hantang's mood was the same as Chi Yaoyao's, and he was irritable by the wind and sand.

Luckily, however, they met a good-hearted woman, led them into their mud hut, and promised them to stay there for the night.

The mud house looks big and small on the outside, but there are two rooms in the south, east and west, a total of eight rooms, and it is more than enough to live in them.

The woman told them that in each room there was a tank full of water, which could be used directly if they drank or used it.

There was only one well within a few miles of radius, and they would go there and carry it back when they needed water.

The men who lived in the vicinity somehow knew about the low outer walls of the mud houses, and the women who had brought them back had come out to see them with different eyes.

Chu Hantang met those people's eyes several times, and they all looked away in a hurry.

After arranging the room for them, the woman lowered her voice and repeatedly told her not to open the door to anyone she didn't know at night.

It's normal not to open the door to people you don't know, and you can't even open it to people you know?

Chu Hantang didn't understand very well, "Why?" If my friend is in a hurry to find me......"

The woman interrupted her violently, "No, no, unless you don't die, little boy!" ”

As if realizing that she was too excited, the woman softened her tone and explained earnestly: "We have a legend here that a ghost knocks on the door in the middle of the night. ”

Xie Yihuai leaned against the wall, and when he heard that a ghost would knock on the door in the middle of the night, he was finally a little interested.

The woman said that there has always been a legend in Qingzhen that a ghost knocks on the door in the middle of the night and cannot be opened, and not many people believed it at first, until in recent years, they have believed it.

Not only were the outsiders killed by the ghosts in the middle of the night, but even the locals were not spared.

Midnight ghosts will knock on the door at midnight.

It will also imitate other people's voices to trick and deceive the people staying in the room, and once the door is opened to the ghost in the middle of the night, then it will disappear, leaving only a pool of blood.

Even the corpse will not be found.

Chu Hantang was horrified when he heard it, "As long as you don't open the door for them?" ”

The woman's blue eyes shone brightly, weird and beautiful, "If you don't open it, the ghost won't break into the door in the middle of the night." ”

Chi Yaoyao and Bai Yuan never believed in ghosts and gods, they only felt that someone was pretending to be a ghost behind their backs, but it was not easy to refute in front of the woman.

They promised the woman that they would never open the door at night.

The woman was reassured by their repeated reaffirmations, and when her husband returned from going out, he suddenly saw so many strangers staying in his house, and his sword eyebrows were tightened, but he did not speak.

The woman brought out bread and gave it to them to sit in the courtyard enclosed by a low wall.

The flatbread was hard and the taste was not good, Chu Hantang poured a bowl of water out, put the cake in and soaked it before taking it out to eat.

Xie Ruhuai tore off a piece of bread, put it in his mouth, and put it down after only one bite.

Chu Hantang was startled, almost wanted to spit out everything in his mouth, and asked in a low voice: "Poisonous?" ”

He looked out of the yard, "It's unpalatable." ”

She was speechless for a moment, seeing Xie Huai's skinny appearance, her heart that had been nurtured by socialist thought softened a little, she broke off her own cake, put it in the water to bubble, and then gave it to him.

"Wouldn't it be better if you tried this?"

The dry and hard cake was blistered and took on a Microsoft state, and was held in Chu Hantang's hand.

Xie Ruhuai's slender eyelashes moved slightly, and he looked at it coldly, but he didn't reach out to take it.

Chu Hantang followed his gaze and looked at his hands, understanding something else, "I just washed my hands, and my hands are clean." ”

The others didn't pay attention to them.

Xie Yihuai ate the cake that was softened by the blisters, and ate it with her hand.

The corners of her thin lips accidentally brushed Chu Hantang's fingers holding the cake, and she almost retracted her hand directly, but stopped in time.

Chu Hantang guessed that Xie Yihuai didn't want to get his hands dirty, the blistered cakes didn't stick to his hands like dry cakes, they were sticky when they were wet, rubbed on his fingertips, and they needed to be washed after eating.

"Or?"

Chu Hantang rubbed his fingers a few times unconsciously, and he didn't care very much, but was happy that Xie Qihuai didn't dislike himself so much.

This shows that in the next few days, there is no need to worry that he will kill her early.

Since he secretly kissed Chi Yaoyao in Peizhou and was unintentionally discovered by Xie Yihuai, Chu Hantang has not had a smooth life in the past few days, and he is afraid that he will torture himself because of this matter.

According to the tasks promulgated by the system, Chu Hantang needs to survive until the finale.

Although she has to go through the plot, she always keeps in mind that it is best not to offend the moody and psychologically distorted sick and delicate male second.

It's okay to say that Chu Hantang is cowardly.

But she would not encounter this kind of thing in modern society, she was just an ordinary book-wearer, and her martial arts skills were low, so she really couldn't get angry with Xie Yihuai, who said that if she kills someone, she will kill someone.

Chu Hantang broke off another piece of bread and put it in the water, and intimately brought it to his mouth.

He turned his face away, "I'm not hungry." ”

If Chu Hantang didn't miscalculate, Xie Yihuai only ate a mouthful of dry cakes and a mouthful of wet cakes she handed over, which were not enough for her to stuff her teeth, and he actually said that he was not hungry.

If it weren't for Chu Hantang, who had seen Xie Yihuai act like this before, I am afraid he would not have believed it.

If you don't eat it, don't eat it, Chu Hantang hasn't eaten yet, so he took a large piece of cake that he had left.

Halfway through eating, she saw Xie Qihuai'an sitting quietly, and wanted to find something to say, "Gongzi Xie, do you believe that there are ghosts in the middle of the night?" ”

He asked, "Do you believe it?" ”

Chu Hantang thought for a moment, then shook his head, "I don't believe it, I'm an atheist." ”

"Me too." Xie Yihuai frowned when he heard this, he looked really easy to get along with, who would have thought that this young man with a smile on his face was a sick girl with a twisted and dark heart.

A pair of eyes are clear, neatly dressed, and almost impeccable except for the thin body.

Even Chu Hantang, who had read the original book, lost his mind for a second, and when he came back to his senses, he inexplicably wanted to move his butt and sit farther away.

The color is deceptive, but in fact he is a femme fatale, which is perfect to describe him.

Xie Ruhuai's gorgeous facial features flickered and flickered with the candle flame in the courtyard, and his smile did not decrease by half, "The most terrifying thing in this world is not a ghost that does not exist, but a person, isn't it." ”

Chu Hantang also agreed, even if there is, it is made by people.

The most terrifying thing is the human heart.

But she didn't intend to talk to him about it in depth, and after eating the bread and baking it for a while, the woman urged her back to her room to rest.

At night, the temperature drops dramatically.

It was very cold at night, Chu Hantang took off his coat full of sand and dust, curled up in the futon and shivered in his underwear, gritting his teeth, just like winter, the temperature difference between day and night in Qingzhen was not ordinarily large.

Just when she was drowsy, someone knocked on the door, "Young Master Chu." ”

Chu Hantang woke up immediately, sat up wrapped in the quilt, raised his hand to rub his sleepy eyelids, looked at the door with half-open eyes, and heard the voice that it was the woman, "Aunt Li?" ”

"It's cold at night, I'm here to send an extra futon to Gongzi Chu, it's not good to catch a cold."

It turned out that Aunt Li was here to deliver the futon, Chu Hantang endured the cold, lifted the quilt, put on her shoes, and walked towards the door.

When her hand touched the doorknob, she suddenly woke up, withdrew her hand and went back, feeling a gloomy feeling rising from the soles of her feet, and she was afraid, "Aunt Li, did you also send a futon to my friend?" ”

Aunt Li said "um", "It's all sent to them, and you're still left with Master Chu." ”

Chu Hantang didn't dare to open the door, and took a step back, "No need, I'm not cold, thank you Aunt Li, you can take it back." ”