Chapter 44: A Strange Town
Although Yue Wuying also knew that this was not Xue Yutang's unfounded worry, but the current situation was that even if he had a heart, he was powerless, and Yue Wuying could only try his best to comfort Xue Yutang.
Early the next morning, a few people went to the street, found a place to sell carriages, and found a Tieling carriage, this time several people did not hire a coachman, but chose to drive themselves, but the purchase of materials was delayed for another day, and there was nothing to say all night, and Xue Yutang drove the Tieling carriage out of the city gate by himself, and took off in the direction of Xue Ying's departure.
There was no Xue Yutang in the carriage, and Yue Wuying and a few people chatted about women's daily routines, but they also seemed very boring.
Although Xue Yutang knew the approximate path, but he didn't know the location of the specific city, he almost missed the last city, and slept in the wild, seeing that the sun was about to set, Xue Yutang didn't know how many places he had walked through, and after walking through the last city, he didn't even see the shadow of the city in front of him, just when Xue Yutang felt helpless, I was afraid that he would have to sleep in the wilderness again, but he saw a shadow of the city in the sky from a distance, Xue Yutang immediately became excited, and he didn't care about feeling sorry for the Tieling carriage, and accelerated all the way, finally before the gates were closed.
It's just that this city looks huge from a distance, but when it came to the front, Xue Yutang felt very strange, this town was not smaller than what they had seen before, but Xue Yutang found that there was a lot less fireworks here before landing, and in the huge city, there were not many households with this green smoke rising, but Xue Yutang didn't have time to think about these anymore, he had to enter the city as soon as possible, otherwise he would really sleep in the field tonight.
The Tieling carriage fell from the sky and traveled a distance on the ground, seeing that the soldiers guarding the gate had begun to pack up their things as a team and were about to close the city gate, Xue Yutang hurried to catch up at the last moment, and the soldiers guarding the door saw Xue Yutang rushing over, and they didn't plan to let him in again, but Xue Yutang said that the soldiers guarding the door reluctantly agreed to let them in, but in the end, the leader of the soldiers guarding the door said to Xue Yutang: "Don't come out after midnight." Then he turned around and led the team away, and when he left, every soldier looked at Xue Yutang with a very strange look in their eyes.
Xue Yutang shook his head, feeling very strange, but he didn't care too much.
Xue Yutang pulled the Tieling carriage and walked inside, but the whole street was empty, there was no inn at all, the houses on both sides of the street were almost abandoned, the tall buildings and all kinds of plaques showed the prosperity of this place, Xue Yutang frowned, why is this desolate like this, depending on the newness of this abandoned house, the time of abandonment here will not be particularly long, that is, in just one or two years, what can make such a prosperous town become like this.
Xue Yutang led the Tieling carriage all the way to the end of the town, and he didn't see a single inn that was open for business, but it was all abandoned.
This made Xue Yutang look a little anxious, it was already dark this day, and he couldn't enter the city, and he had to sleep on the street in the end!
But fortunately, after turning a street, in a relatively remote place, there was an inn where the lights were still on, Xue Yutang hurriedly led the Tieling carriage to the door of the inn, but although the inn was lit, it was empty, and Xue Yutang looked for a long time without seeing anyone.
Just when Xue Yutang felt strange, an old man with a rickety waist and a basket of vegetables walked in from outside, and was obviously startled when he saw Xue Yutang, and when he figured out that Xue Yutang was coming to stay in the hotel, not only did he not have any expression on his face, but he looked very embarrassed.
Xue Yutang was strange and asked, "Uncle, you opened a store, we came to live in the store, why are you still so reluctant?"
The old man looked at Xue Yutang for a long time, looking very helpless, and finally shook his head and said: "If the guest officer wants to stay in the hotel, he has to go and find a guest room by himself, but you have to do the cleaning and eating yourself, and there is really no way to serve the guest officer in the whole inn now!"
Xue Yutang was obviously stunned for a moment, and then asked, "Uncle, I see that there are abandoned houses all the way here, why is this?"
The old man smiled bitterly: "Why else, everyone is dead, what can I do if we don't abandon it?" The rest of this group of people are all struggling to breathe, maybe they won't be able to open their eyes again tomorrow!"
Xue Yutang said "ah": "All dead?"
The old man shook his head and sighed and walked back with the dishes: "It's all dead!"
Xue Yutang looked at the old man's back, but he felt a chill in his back, no matter what, let's stay first, anyway, he and the others will stay here for one night.
Yue Wuying and the others were called down from the Tieling carriage by Xue Yutang, and they didn't know so much about the situation here, which was also why Xue Yutang was afraid that there would be something in the middle, so he asked the three of them not to get out of the car as much as possible.
After hearing Xue Yutang say that he wanted to clean up his room and make food, he didn't react, they lived outside all the year round, this was not a big deal, it was always better than sleeping in the wild.
A few people went upstairs and found a relatively large room, and the sight here is relatively good, in addition to being able to monitor the entire inn, you can also see the situation on the street, Xue Yutang didn't let Yin Sanniang and Yun Lan live alone tonight, Xue Yutang always felt that this place was weird, a huge town, people were dying, isn't this weird enough!
Fortunately, they are looking for this house is still relatively large, divided into two rooms, Xue Yutang let Yue Wuying live in the inner room with Yin Sanniang and Yun Lan, and live alone in the outer room, after a day's journey, they always have to eat something, Xue Yutang and a few people are also tired, so they did not go downstairs to the kitchen to get food, but dealt with the things brought by themselves and others casually, but always had to drink water to wash, Xue Yutang went downstairs to the kitchen to get water, who knew that the kitchen was actually covered with dust, obviously no one used it for a long time.
Xue Yutang had no choice but to carry a bucket to find the old man and ask where the well was, but he didn't find it for a long time, and found that there was a well in the backyard, Xue Yutang carried a bucket of water upstairs, and just entered the house, he saw Yue Wuying with Xiaoqing wrapped around his arm, and Yue Wuying sat there teasing Xiaoqing.
Xiao Qing saw Xue Yutang carrying water into the house, and before Xue Yutang could put the bucket down, Xiao Qing immediately stood up as if he had encountered something dangerous, looking like he was facing a great enemy.
Xue Yutang was surprised, so he pointed directly at Xiao Qing, who was about to attack, and asked, "No shadow, what's wrong with Xiao Qing?"
Yue Wuying was also strange, so he asked through his consciousness, and after a while, Yue Wuying's face changed and changed, and he said to Xue Yutang: "Xiaoqing said that this is the snake nest of poisonous snakes, and there are at least twenty or thirty poisonous snakes at the demon king level!"
Xue Yutang said "ah": "Snake Nest, Demon King, what's the situation?"
Yue Wuying opened his mouth and said: "Xiaoqing said that the water you are carrying is full of poisonous snakes, whether it is an ordinary person or a cultivator who drinks it, it will be poisoned, and it may not die immediately in a short time, but it will directly accelerate the rapid aging of lifespan, ordinary people will die in three months at most, even if a cultivator can't last three years under the accumulation of toxins!"
Xue Yutang took out a scoop of water from the bucket with a water scoop, and looked at it by the light, the originally clear well water actually showed a faint green, if it wasn't for Xiaoqing's reminder, no one would pay attention to the color of the well water, Xue Yutang put it under his nose and smelled it, this well water has a faint fishy smell, but this is difficult to distinguish from the fishy smell of the well water itself, if you don't deliberately distinguish it, you can't find it at all!
As if he suddenly thought of something, Xue Yutang threw the water scoop in the bucket, turned around and ran out, Yue Wuying hurriedly shouted behind Xue Yutang: "Xianggong, what are you doing?"
Xue Yutang had already walked out of the door, turned around and went back, pulled Yue Wuying and said, "Follow me down!"