Chapter 43: The Shelter
In addition to the father and son, there was also a woman in this family, who was the wife of the man, who was mediocre in appearance and had nothing special. A family of three was preparing to eat at this time, the vegetables were wild vegetables, the porridge was not even gruel, the clear soup was little water, and there were very few rice grains.
The man just agreed to let him go into the house to warm up, and did not scoop porridge for him, and Yun Yi did not take the initiative to ask for it, took out two dry food from the baggage, left one, and handed one to the other party.
The dry food had been soaked in seawater before, and now it had been frozen into hard pieces, but the man did not dislike it, took the dry food and bowed down to thank him, and then broke it into three parts and ate it with his wife and children.
The table was the most respectful and inferior place, and though it was very barren, it had the same idea of male superiority and female inferiority as Middle-earth, and the woman ate and sat beside her, and did not dare to look directly at the man, who commanded her, as if there was no one around.
Seeing this scene, Yun Yi frowned slightly, the Taoist sect also talks about respect and humility, but it is not divided by the status of men and women, one yang and one yin between husband and wife, one inside and one outside, complement each other, and divide the priority and the secondary.
Before he could think about it, Yun Yi shook his head, this man was not from the Daomen, and there was no reluctance in the woman's demeanor, he thought that these were purely self-inflicted.
When I came back to my senses and thought about what was going on here, Zuo Ci had talked about the pattern of the world during his lectures. There are not only Middle-earth in the world, but there are also many foreign states outside of Middle-earth, and there are small foreign states such as Goguryeo, Wofu, Rulou, and Chenhan in the northeast of Middle-earth. Although these foreign nations are close to the East China Sea, they are not in the sea, and only the Japanese live on the islands.
He is currently on an island in the middle of nowhere, and it is very likely that it is the country of the Japanese people.
The Wadi is inferior to Middle-earth in all aspects, and has not yet formed a situation of great unification, with many large and small countries, so the Wa Kingdom is only a general term.
The man's family had eaten dinner, packed up their beds and prepared to sleep, and there was only one room in the courtyard, and the other houses had collapsed a few days earlier, and there was no place for him.
Seeing that the man's face was embarrassed, with a look of wanting to say and stopping, Yun Yi was embarrassed to bother any longer, got up and went out of the house, looking for another place to stay.
After searching several families in a row, none of them were willing to stay with him for the night, so he had no choice but to leave the village.
Fortunately, on the road of endless heaven, Yun Yi endured the cold wind and walked dozens of miles east, and saw a village not far away, so he quickened his pace.
In fact, he didn't have much hope in his heart, and he saw a pile of miscellaneous items in the other party's house before, including a lot of pottery and stone tools, pottery is pots and pans, and stone tools are axes and chisels.
He didn't even own iron tools, and you can imagine how barren the Japanese country was, and how could they keep him for the night if they didn't even have enough to eat? Even if he just stayed overnight and left tomorrow morning.
Yun Yi frowned when he was less than a hundred feet away from the village, this village was even more desolate than the village where the Japanese family was, to be exact, it was deserted, the walls of the houses were mostly collapsed, overgrown with weeds, and covered with moss.
Since this place has not been inhabited for a long time, it has accumulated a lot of yin energy.
Places with heavy yin qi are easy to breed demons and ghosts, but Yun Yi does not feel afraid, aside from his identity as a Taoist, he has wandered on the edge of life and death many times along the way, and the fear in his heart has long been almost consumed.
Entering the village, Yun Yi was even more relieved, with his cultivation was enough to sense the demonic qi and soul qi in the village, but he did not detect the abnormality. He can't perceive the demons and ghosts that are profound, but the demons and demons that are profound, will not shrink in such a broken place.
After taking a few steps, Yun Yi felt that something had broken under his feet, so he leaned over to remove the weeds and saw that it was a white bone. Although the bones were shattered by him, the ulna of a human arm could still be recognized.
Walking further, several bones were broken one after another, including ribs, sternums, skulls, etc., all of which were human bones.
Seeing that it was a human corpse, Yun Yi was suspicious, looked down at the ground, and when he moved forward, he first cleared the weeds with his feet, and found that there were a lot of bones scattered on the road.
There are no less than twenty skulls alone, and they are not designated as one person.
The size of the village is not small, when there are sixty or seventy households, and one family is counted as a family of three, which is no less than 200 people.
Frowning and walking all the way, I entered a fairly complete yard, I wanted to go in to rest, but I found that there were also a lot of white bones scattered under the weeds in the yard, both adults and children.
Due to their age, the bones are heavily weathered and can be easily crushed.
Originally, he didn't feel afraid, but after seeing so many dead people, Yun Yi couldn't help muttering in his heart, and his back was a little cold.
Suppressing the slight fear in his heart, he looked more closely, and found that in addition to bones, there were many stone prismatic objects and decayed wooden sticks in the grass.
At first glance, he didn't know it, but when he thought about it, he had seen it in the house of the Japanese before, it was a kind of stone spear, and the stone diamond-shaped object was the spearhead, which should have been fixed to the wooden stick with a straw rope before, but due to its age, the straw rope was rotten.
The stone spears were not the original color of the stones, and most of them had patches of black spots on their heads, which he had seen before, and were bloodstains.
After frowning and looking at it for a long time, Yun Yi found many stone axes and stone knives, all of which had black blood stains on them, there should have been a large-scale melee here before, and the villagers should have died in the melee.
The bones of the dead will be scattered after the corpse decomposes, but the dispersal range will not be too wide, the bones here are widely scattered, it should be that the corpse was eaten by wild beasts after death, and scattered everywhere under the bite and drag.
However, he didn't understand why there was a scuffle here, and who killed the villagers here.
If you don't get a promise, you won't dig deeper, because it doesn't make sense, and after closing your eyes and perceiving it, you will go into a house to rest after making sure that there is no evil spirit in the village.
Although the house was sheltered from the wind, it was very cold at night, and Yun Yi had to freeze and fell asleep after a few weeks of silent luck.
In the middle of the night, Yun Yi was awakened by a mouse that jumped to his chest, and he slapped the mouse to death with anger, and lay down and fell asleep again.
After a night of freezing, the next morning, Yun Yi got up early and left, there were too many dead people and bones here, and it was unlucky.
The leg injury has healed completely, I don't feel any pain, and I can walk much faster.
Along the way, he passed through the village many times and met many people, who were generally half a head shorter than the Han Chinese, so he was even more sure that this was the Wa Kingdom.
In a hurry, he did not forget to inquire about the whereabouts of the fat man, due to the language barrier, every time he met a Japanese man, he could only use his hand to compare the physical characteristics of the fat man, hoping to gain something. However, God did not fulfill people's wishes, and I asked many people in a row, and the answer I got was to shake my head.
Although there is no news of the fat man, the day's journey has also given him a general understanding of the Japanese country.
The people regard food as the sky, and whether a place is rich or not depends first on whether the people can eat enough, which can be known without asking.
The Wa country is surrounded by the sea on all sides, moist and rainy, the main crop is rice, but the arable land of the Wa country is very limited, the monks have more porridge and less porridge, and the rice is only a drop in the bucket, which does not play a big role, so the Wa people also often go out to hunt, and the people who rely on the sea will often go out to sea to fish and subsidize the family.
Even so, the Japanese people did not have enough to eat, and often nine out of ten intestines were empty.
Where there are people, there are disputes, and the Wa Kingdom is not much bigger than the Middle Earth, but there are many large and small countries in this place, and there are often wars, and the reason for the wars is also very simple, plundering the land where rice can be grown.
To be precise, the country here is not a country, it is more accurate to say that it is a tribe, some so-called countries are more like a village, the big tribe is like a towering tree, the small tribe is like a rootless duckweed, and some small tribes will also belong to the big tribe in order to survive.
Because the Japanese were often fighting, the dead became commonplace, but many more died of starvation.
On the way, he encountered a group of Japanese people attacking another Japanese village, and unlike the war in the Central Plains, the Japanese did not pay attention to any rules and regulations, nor did they have any decent weapons, and rushed to the village with stone spears.
In this case, he did not stay long, let alone meddle in affairs, this is a war between the Japanese people, and he has no reason for an outsider to intervene, even if there are old and young women and children among the dead.
As a result, he guessed what was going on in the abandoned village where he spent the night last night, and that the Eight Achievements had been destroyed by the other widows.
After understanding the situation of the Japanese country, he knew that the road of living with the Japanese people was impassable, and he could only rely on himself.
I don't know when I want to find the fat man, it may only take ten days and half a month, or it may take three years and five years, and before that, I can't bump around like a headless fly, I have to settle down first, and then think about it in the long run.
After thinking about it, Yun Yi changed his route to the south and walked to the place near the sea, the reason for this decision was very simple, the lack of food in the inland made it a problem to eat, and the place near the sea was convenient for fishing.
Rushing out of more than ten miles, Yun Yi frowned and stopped, although the place near the sea is easy to fish, but there is a lack of fresh water, eating is solved, what should I do if I drink water?
After racking his brains and thinking about it repeatedly, he didn't think of the best of both worlds, Yun Yi didn't continue to think about it, and continued to move south.
There is still some clear water in the water bladder, and it should not be a problem to hold on for four or five days, so go to the beach to settle down first, and then think of another strategy.
The star-chasing moon by month was exerted to the extreme, and at noon we arrived at the beach, which was not flat, with many rocks, and a strong fishy smell in the sea breeze.
To the east, the terrain rises higher and higher, and five or six miles away forms a towering cliff, from the top of the cliff to the bottom of the cliff is a crystal clear ice curtain, which is a frozen waterfall.
Seeing the waterfall, Yun Yi was overjoyed, as we all know, the more salt the water contains, the less likely it is to freeze in winter, the sea water is like this, since the waterfall is frozen, it means that fresh water flows from its source.
Seeing the water source is equivalent to seeing hope, Yun Yi will chase the stars and the moon to the extreme, sweeping eastward, although the terrain is uneven, but it does not affect his speed, and he will be at the bottom of the cliff in a moment.
When he arrived at the ice curtain, Yun Yi stabilized his body, slammed the ice curtain with his right palm, smashed down an ice pick, put it in his mouth and tasted it, there was no salty taste, it was indeed fresh water.
Hold back the joy in your heart, take a deep breath, and look for shelter, the waterfall flows into the sea, so naturally you can't set up camp here, otherwise it will be flooded every time the tide rises.
After looking around for a moment, Yun Yi chose to be in a col three miles west of the waterfall, which was relatively sheltered from the wind and could not be flooded at high tide.
Yun Yi walked to the mountain col, found a hidden stone crevice to hide the burden, and hurriedly used the body method to return the same way.
Although he found shelter, the environment was open-air, and there was nothing to shelter him from the sea, so he came across the woods on the way, and he could find some wood from there and build a wooden house.
There is no ready-made wood in the woods, so you can only cut it by hand, and if you don't have an axe, you can use the five thunder palms, the five elements of Jin Kemu, the qi travels through the lungs, and the palm hits the roots, and the big tree falls down after the loud noise.
knocked down fifty or sixty big trees in a row, and felt that the aura of the sea of qi had gone seventy or eighty, and then Yun Yi stopped.
At this time, he began to have trouble again, how to bring the wood to the sea?
There is no rut, so I can only carry it back, two at a time, and I have to go back and forth more than 20 times. The extra branches are in the way, all of them are broken, and it will be easier to carry them back.
It is easier said than done, there are twenty or thirty miles from the woods to the sea, and it is not possible to run fast with two logs at a time, and it is only after dark that I bring back a dozen logs.
It was dark, Yun Yi didn't carry it anymore, gnawed two mouthfuls of hard dry food, and went to sleep in a leeward place.