Chapter 19: The Food of the Mouth
That tall and thin man is named Zhou Lie, twenty years old, he is also from Tianfeng City, and he is from the Zhou family, Jiang Yu knows him, according to Zhou Lie's own words, he was just passing by when the two families were fighting, and he was caught here as a brawler, and he has been locked up for two years now, and there is still a full year before the completion of his sentence. And Zhou Lie asked why Jiang Yu was locked up here, and Jiang Yu only said that he had injured someone else by mistake, and did not mention that he had killed someone. Because the people locked up here are all from Tianfeng City, then it is inevitable that there will be people from the family, and he doesn't want to cause unnecessary trouble.
Zhou Lie is also an old man here, and he quickly helped arrange Jiang Yu's residence, and he was crammed into a house with more than a dozen prisoners. It's not because there aren't enough houses here, but because living alone in a house in the snow and ice will freeze to death. After all, there is not even charcoal for heating, let alone anything else.
Zhou Lie introduced Jiang Yu to the other prisoners as his best brother. But those prisoners didn't seem to have much interest in Jiang Yu, they just took care of their own things and continued to cultivate their own. Jiang Yu rested on an old stone slab -------- his own bed.
"If you want to mix well here, you have to cultivate a little!" Zhou Lie came over, squatted and looked at the roommates who were "practicing" around him, and said to Jiang Yu, who was lying down and resting with his eyes closed. In fact, Jiang Yu didn't want to practice, but the time hadn't come yet.
"Why?" Jiang Yu opened his eyes and asked, he had long wanted to ask this question.
"You'll know at night, you know, before I came here, I didn't know any martial arts, I didn't know any exercises, and now I'm a person in the triple aura realm, how about it, it's amazing!"
When Jiang Yu heard this, his heart was shocked, if he had been practicing since he was a child, and he had the guidance of a famous teacher, it would be nothing to reach the Triple Spiritual Qi Realm within a year. However, according to Zhou Lie, he was already eighteen years old when he was enlightened, and he had already missed the best time for enlightenment, it seemed that such a starting point was as difficult as carving on a piece of rotten wood, and his cultivation was several times slower than that of ordinary people. There is no such thing as a famous teacher here, let alone a minor such as a spirit stone, but he can practice to the Spiritual Qi Realm Triple in two years, which can be said to be an almost genius-like qualification.
"The triple of the aura realm is a fart, and you can blow it when you see the double person, and you have the courage to practice on stage at night, and you can't beat your shit out!" a thin "roommate" scolded Zhou Lie out loud.
Zhou Lie was dissatisfied, and sneered at each other: "Hmph, it's like you dare to go up, when you draw lots, don't you also ask God to tell your ancestors, for fear that you will be drawn and beaten to death." ”
"What, do you want to practice now?" the man stood up as he spoke, and Jiang Yu looked at him.
"Reiki Realm Fivefold!"
"I'm just talking about it. Zhou Lie recognized it very well, and the man snorted and sat back.
The fight was resolved so easily, which made Jiang Yu feel a little incomprehensible, the people here were very murderous, after all, good people would not be thrown into the Liuyun Palace. Private fights are not forbidden, but few people fight. And soon, Jiang Yu understood why they didn't fight easily, not that they had a good temper, but that fighting was extremely physically exhausting, and in this place where food was scarce and heating was difficult, losing a lot of physical strength was equivalent to suicide.
Jiang Yu and Zhou Lie chatted, and Zhou Lie introduced him to the Liuyun Palace. Just as he was talking about the excitement, I suddenly heard a bell ringing. When this bell rings, it is better than any trumpet. Except for Jiang Yu, the people in this room all stood up and rushed out, and Zhou Lie was the same, before going out, he was still greeting Jiang Yu who was lying there, and said, "Hurry up and keep up!"
Jiang Yu didn't know what was going on, but he still stood up and followed. As soon as he went out, he was taken aback, the scene in front of him could be described as spectacular, thousands of people came out of the large and small houses, all rushing towards the height of the Liuyun Palace, if you look at it from a distance, it is like thousands of ants moving towards a goal.
Jiang Yu followed Zhou Lie and the others to run forward, and soon squeezed into the flow of people, and the crowd was almost suffocated. After squeezing forward for a long time, Jiang Yu realized that the reason why these people were so excited was that it was time to eat.
Jiang Yu could see from a distance that each prisoner could only receive one steamed bun, and the steamed bun was still pitiful.
"How can you eat enough to eat only one steamed bun for a meal?" Jiang Yu asked Zhou Lie beside him, and when Zhou Lie heard this, he said, "What? One meal per meal? That's the amount of a day! Not everyone can get it." ”
Hearing Zhou Lie say this, Jiang Yu somewhat believed what Zhou Lie said before. There is really too little food here. I have just arrived, and my physical strength is still sufficient, if I only eat one steamed bun a day, in such a cruel environment, I am afraid that I will die if I don't last long.
Jiang Yu's luck is not bad, in Zhou Lie's words, the amount of steamed bread today is a lot more than on ordinary days, after squeezing for a long time, Jiang Yu and Zhou Lie both grabbed a steamed bun, and Zhou Lie swallowed it quickly. And Jiang Yu was not very hungry, but he thought that such a day might last for a long time, and he had to conserve his physical strength, so he also ate quickly.
Jiang Yu had just finished eating the steamed buns, and he saw many things fluttering in the sky falling down and falling in the crowd.
"It's jerky!" I don't know who shouted, but when the hungry prisoners saw the jerky falling from the sky, like wolves that had been hungry for a long time, they jumped up one by one to fight for the few jerky.
It's not that you don't know the taste of meat here, but you won't taste any meat if you don't bite your cheeks for three years. The madness of these prisoners is understandable.
Jiang Yu looked up and saw a gorgeously dressed man standing on a high platform, who seemed to be the king and grandson of the nobles, who were throwing down the dried meat one by one at this time. Jiang Yu could even see the cruel smile on his face, it was ridicule, it was kindness, it was condescending, it was condescending!
Jiang Yu suddenly remembered that when he came, there were dozens of very gorgeous carriages parked near the Liuyun Palace. Of course, the prisoners don't need such a gorgeous carriage, and the jailers don't have to use such a carriage to travel, the only possibility is that they are outsiders, but what are they doing in such a ghost place.
"Do outsiders often come here?" Jiang Yu asked Zhou Lie puzzled, but found that Zhou Lie was already a few feet away.
"What are you still doing in a daze, come here and grab it!ah!" As soon as he finished saying this, Zhou Lie was trampled on the ground, seeing that he was trampled on, Jiang Yu jumped over and pulled him out of the crowd, but even so, Zhou Lie's face was injured in several places, and he grinned in pain.
There were fewer and fewer jerky falling from the sky, and finally seeing that it was gone, Zhou Lie sat on the ground with his butt and looked at Jiang Yu and said, "If you were willing to help me just now, maybe we would have jerky to eat." ”
"Not necessarily. Jiang Yu, who was reluctant to eat the food he had come, pointed to the prisoners in the distance who were fighting for a piece of dried meat, and a few prisoners who were seriously injured and fell to the ground, not knowing if they were dead. Seeing this scene, Zhou Lie stopped.
Life is like a mustard, these four words Jiang Yu is extremely impressed. It's so cruel here, if you have strength, you will have jerky, and if you don't have strength, you will wait to be beaten to death, starved to death or frozen to death. And out of here, there is much difference between the outside world and here, but the outside world is not as straightforward as here, and there is no difference in essence.
Jiang Yu looked up, at this time the noble son on the high platform was still there, he smiled slightly, looked down, and laughed with the people around him from time to time, as if he was watching something extremely funny, Jiang Yu clenched his fists tightly and stared upward. He hated the expression.
"What did you ask me just now, will there be outsiders here?" Zhou Lie remembered what Jiang Yu had just said. Jiang Yu looked at him sideways and nodded. Zhou Lie said: "This is not an uncommon thing, there will be a group of people here in ten days and half a month, it is normal." ”
"What's so good about this ghost place?" Jiang Yu asked the question in his heart. He said in his heart that when he was strong enough, he would definitely find a way to escape from this ghost place, only a fool would really stay here for ten years. Waiting for the sentence to expire.
"Because some people say that this is the temple of antiquity, and there are treasures left here. Zhou Lie said weakly.
"Treasure...... These people are all here to hunt for treasures?" Jiang Yu knew that this was an ancient temple, but he had never heard of any treasures here.
"Yes, speaking of it, it's nonsense, where did the treasures come from, if there are really treasures, the Lin family has guarded this Liuyun Hall for not a thousand years but hundreds of years, and this land is almost scraped by them, there are really treasures, and they have long been surnamed Lin. ”
Jiang Yu listened to Zhou Lie's words, and said in his heart that what Zhou Lie said was not unreasonable. People are like this, a lie flaw that can be seen by any person, but under the temptation of interests, it is usually ignored by people. If everyone could debunk this truth, there would be no liars in the world.
When it's hot, the sun doesn't set for a long time, and when it's cold, it's just a blink of an eye, and the sun has no shadow. This is especially true in this bitter cold place. Soon it will be night, and the special program belonging to the Liuyun Hall has just begun.
All the prisoners were gathered in a huge ancient fighting arena, and Jiang Yu was naturally among them. The center of the arena was very wide, about fifty or sixty zhang long, and thirty or forty zhang wide. Around the arena, there are platforms where people can sit on the floor. Like a step, there are fifty or sixty floors upwards. Jiang Yu and the others were either squatting or sitting on such a platform, looking at the center of the arena.
Jiang Yu is a newcomer, so naturally he doesn't know what is wrong here, but when he saw Zhou Lie and the others, they were all reluctant, and they were like facing a great enemy.
"Could it be that the prisoners are competing with each other to make fun of the VIPs who come here to hunt for treasures?" Jiang Yu guessed in his heart.
In fact, Jiang Yu was not wrong in guessing. From time to time, there will always be distinguished guests in the Liuyun Palace, and most of these distinguished guests are not something that Lin Wei, the small hall master of the Liuyun Palace, can offend. In order to entertain these distinguished guests, Lin Wei tried his best, there is no good delicious hospitality here in Liuyun Palace, let alone beauty, only blood and violence. In the end, he decided on a program that could be used to entertain distinguished guests. That's to watch the fight between the prisoners here. Fight to the death!
In order to make the prisoners here full of fighting spirit, Lin Wei never forbade private fights between prisoners. He even turned a blind eye to prisoners learning martial arts from each other and practicing martial arts. He believed that no matter how much these prisoners cultivated, they would not be able to go away to him. Although the Liuyun Hall is short of food, there are twelve cities to provide supplies on time, although it is not good to eat, but it is enough to feed the prisoners here, but Lin Wei knows that only the wolves on the edge of hunger are the most ferocious and brutal, and the fight is also the most exciting and beautiful. Because he stipulated that as long as the prisoner won the battle, he could have a full meal, and he wanted vegetables and meat. For this meager reward, the fight between the prisoners can be described as extremely cruel.