Chapter 17: Desert Survival (4)

What should I do now? I've been waiting for such a person for a long time, and it's a little bit of a grudge. If she stepped forward like this, Chu Yunyun didn't dare to guarantee that the person who only hit her with a stone yesterday would let her go today. But if he is allowed to leave like this, what if no one else has come today? What if the village has been looted if the notice is too late?

Chu Yunyun just sat in place, originally she was going to fight and tell the man, but later saw that he didn't have anything on him, which means that he won't be grazing here for too long, he should go home for dinner at noon, and there will be more time before the group enters the village. She decided that if no one else came until the man was gone, it would be better to quietly follow him back to the village, and then think about how to inform everyone when she got to the village, which was better than doing nothing.

Seeing the man sitting leisurely by the water, Chu Yunyun kept telling herself in her heart that she was not sunburning, nor thirsty, did not envy the environment by the water, and did not feel irritable at all. Look how well the grass grows on the ground, green and tender, if you can really pinch out the water, it would be better, and look at the desert in the distance...... Forget it, let's continue to pinch the grass.

Finally waited until he stood up and drove a few cattle and sheep away, Chu Yunyun hurriedly ran to the river, found a clean place to drink, this climate is really unbearable.

Chu Yunyun didn't dare to follow too closely, after all, except for a few undulating mounds, Gobi rocks, a few bushes, and occasionally a few trees, the sky was high and wide all the way, and it was impossible to hide in the ground. Moreover, this person estimated that the family's economic conditions were limited, and there were too few cattle and sheep, so it was not practical to hide in the flock. Fortunately, he has been immersed in his own world, not knowing what he is thinking, and not caring about his surroundings at all.

Walking and stopping all the way, seeing that she could see Ka Village, Chu Yunyun realized that this place was not far from the oasis, and she was not even a quarter of the distance she had yesterday. She wanted to cry without tears, did she go around in a circle yesterday? should she be glad that luck broke out when she finally reached the oasis?

I found a place to stop, there must be people in the village today, you have to be cautious, otherwise it will be easy to be discovered. It should be around noon now, and there are at most two hours before the two o'clock they have set, though she doesn't know why the group is setting such an hour.

It is impossible to show up directly in the village to explain the situation, and she still doesn't know what grievances the original body has with Kacun, so she can only remind her in other ways.

Looking at the two words "Kacun" carved on the stone, it is a bit similar to the small seal. Fortunately, because of his interest in auditing the course of paleography, Chu Yunyun's favorite is the seal script, like its unique structure and shape, especially admire the people who can write plum blossom seals, but unfortunately she learned a little but did not know the essence, can not do "far to see as a flower, close to see into words." There are words in the flowers, and the flowers are hidden in the words", but I learned a few small seals roughly. Looking at these two seal characters, Chu Yunyun thought of a way.

Carefully enter the village, which should all be having lunch, and there is hardly anyone outside. I found a nearby house that seemed to be in good condition, and quietly entered it while there was no one around, and hid behind the house under the cover of the earthen wall in the courtyard. I heard a voice talking inside, as if a family of five was discussing the preparations for the sacrifice after eating.

Chu Yunyun looked at the layout of this house, a typical earthen building, three main rooms, there is a small room next to it I don't know if it is a kitchen or a warehouse, and the cattle and sheep are surrounded by poplar wood next to the yard, and there are quite a few of them. A table was placed in the middle of the courtyard, probably to prepare for the afternoon festival and the tribute.

Chu Yunyun walked to the room next to him, fortunately, he only hung a curtain at the door in the summer, and if he opened the door, he would definitely make a sound to attract people. Lift the curtain and flash in, it's a small kitchen. Just after cooking, there is a little charcoal fire in the stove, which seems to be a mixture of cow dung and tree branches, but fortunately, there is no smell when dry cow dung is burned.

Carefully pulling out the burned branches, he tried them with his hands, took the ones that could be made into charcoal, and hurried out while they were still eating. I found seven stones of suitable size in the village, and then used charcoal made of tree branches to write the words "Bandits come in the afternoon" on them.

Chu Yunyun carefully walked around the village, and put the seven stones at the door of several houses with large houses and more sheep, so many families must have a few literate people. Then she waited near the house where she stole yesterday, and the whole village belonged to his family's house with the largest number of sheep, and he should be the richest person in the village or the village chief. Just now, just for the sake of insurance, Chu Yunyun still put the last stone on the door of his house, so that the people in the house would definitely be able to hear it.

Sure enough, as soon as she hid, someone in the house lifted the curtain and came out. It is a man about forty years old, almost 1.75 meters, with a straight waist, Zhou Zheng facial features, his skin is not too dark, and the occasional light in his eyes looks cold, and he should be the village chief when he looks at his bearing.

He looked at both sides of the door, and saw that no one wanted to go back, and when he turned around, he saw the stone in the doorway, which was obviously smashed by someone just now. There were a few black lines on it, and when I picked it up and saw that "the bandits are coming in the afternoon," I couldn't help but laugh.

Another man of about twenty came out of the house, saw the stone in his hand and asked, "What's the matter, big brother, which little cub came here to slam the door?"

"Who knows, I don't know if it's a prank or what's going on. The man called Big Brother held up a stone and told him to read the words on it.

"Afternoon...... ,This,It's not that the eldest brother doesn't know the words I know,I don't know a lot of words.,What is written?Why is it still written on the stone?"

"Let you not learn and have no skills since you were a child, the above is that there are sand bandits coming here in the afternoon, it should be to remind us and prepare early. ”

"Haha, who is this, disgusting people in this way, can human sand bandits come here?!"

"Hmph, who knows which one has a dirty heart. If I had sent the letter to inform the village to prepare, no one would have been ready to blame anyone for the evening shaman, and I would not have been blamed. If you want to pull me down from the position of village chief, they deserve it too!" said the eldest brother with a sneer.

"Big brother, don't worry, our Ka family has been the village chief of Ka Village for generations, I see that anyone dares to be disrespectful to you, younger brother, I am the first to spare him. After patting his chest and swearing, he looked at the stone in his eldest brother's hand and asked, "Then what if this is true, if the sand bandits are really coming, our village will not be able to resist." ”

"If it was said more than ten years ago that there were sand bandits, I would still believe it, but now, any bandit who comes to see it will want to leave something for the village. The village chief said sarcastically, seeing that the fourth brother was a little scared, he was the only younger brother now, so he said, "Don't worry, grandpa had a good relationship with the surrounding sand bandits back then, and he also made an agreement that as long as Kacun was still there, they would not be allowed to harass the villagers." These bandits, cowards, are obviously barbarians who kill people and oversell goods, but they boast of their righteousness and keep their promises, and look down on treacherous people, then they will definitely not do such a thing. ”

"Sure enough, I deserved to be a grandfather, I heard about the glory of his old man since I was a child, but unfortunately I was born too late and never met him. ”

The village chief was silent for a while: "Okay, let's go into the house." ”

...... Chu Yunyun, who witnessed the whole process, said that he didn't want to speak.