There is no dynasty, no country, and no government in the Xuanhuang world.

Because the monk sect is too strong, they control everything in the world, so they are not allowed to have a kingdom in the world.

The division of the region is based on the similarity of the terrain and the similar folk customs, and among the plains, there are often several states and a state, and there are dozens of cities in the small area, and more than 100 cities in the large.

At the junction of Ganlan Prefecture and Qingping Prefecture to the south, there is a reckless mountain, stretching for thousands of miles, called Savage Mountain. In the savage mountains, poor mountains and bad waters, it is a borderless land.

A pair of thirteen or fourteen-year-old boys and boys have been walking for more than ten days and nights in this mountain.

His clothes were dirty, and they were torn by the thorns and vines in the mountains. That outfit is worse than a beggar dressed in quails.

Li Xitong has been cheering up his sister who is tired and hungry and can't take a step: "If you walk for a while, you will arrive at Qingping Prefecture, which my lord used to say." There are many families in Qingping Prefecture, all of whom are kind and hospitable, whether they know each other or not, when they come to the guests, they have wine and meat to entertain them. ”

He swallowed his saliva himself, but his mouth was faint, and it didn't feel good to swallow saliva.

"Brother, why hasn't the master ever said this to me. Li Xilian said weakly.

Li Xi was stunned for a moment, patted his chest and said: "The master and I are both men, men and men, of course, talk a little more." ”

Li Xilian's tired face showed a look of admiration: "Brother, will there be a Taoist priest in Qingping Prefecture?"

"Yes, but the master said that the Taoist priests over there are all good people. ”

"Brother, you're as hungry as I am, aren't you? ”

"I can't rest yet, it's dark when I rest. Li Xitong gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, let's find a place where you can shelter from the wind and rain first, even if it's a cave." ”

"Brother, didn't you say that there will be a home soon?"

“...... I mean, if you find the cave first, you can rest first. ”

The brother and sister protected each other and walked again.

Since childhood, he has been a servant in a wealthy family, although both brothers and sisters are very capable, but every day they are busy with some housework that does not go out of the village, and the biggest thing is to go out with those adult long-term workers to chop wood and plow the fields.

Therefore, once they entered the mountain, the brother and sister had little ability to survive. Unlike Ren Pingsheng's desperate cockroach, he can't live a good life for a few days in the bustling world, but as soon as he enters the mountain, he is like a fish in water.

Li Xitong was sure that he had lost his way, and when he left the village, he was heading south. Entering the mountain, after several twists and turns, he no longer knew whether the front was south or north, east or west.

Every night, there is a dark forest everywhere, and strange cries are heard, some wild beasts howl like whining and wailing, and some beasts cry like babies crying......

Mixed with these sounds one after another, even the sound of insects and frogs that I was used to hearing in the village became dark and terrifying.

So the brother and sister didn't get a good night's sleep.

Sometimes, when I finally found a slightly open and clean place to sit and rest, a gust of wind passed, and a few sounds of wild beasts patrolling in the grass could make the two frightened boys run wildly through the thorns of the trees.

Until now, let alone running, the brother and sister have even lacked the strength to stand up straight. Fortunately, along the way, I didn't encounter any man-eating beasts.

Because they didn't bring fire, they didn't drill wood to make fire, they always relied on some mountain spring water and wild fruits, and even the core of wild plantain trees and the rhizomes of yams that they could dig up.

If you have eaten raw and cold wild fruits, you will be even more uncomfortable when you are hungry.

I don't know how many mountains I have crossed, and now I am in a valley with a slight slope.

As far as the eye can see, you can't see much away, only endless forests.

The sky is starting to get dark again.

Li Xitong's brows were tightly locked, and his face was loose due to exhaustion, and he could no longer support the confidence he had pretended to be for many days.

"Brother, you say, will we die like this this time?"

"No, it won't. Li Xitong spit out two words in his mouth, and suddenly felt a little terrible, and glanced at his sister with a strong spirit, "There is a brother, don't think about it, just be responsible for following along." ”

After speaking, he himself began to think about this question: "Yes, will he die this time? How will he die? How he will die, he is much luckier than those clansmen who die and have no place to be buried......

"But if you're going to get away with it, you're going to have to be lucky!"

Suddenly, such a thought popped up, and Li Xitong's state of mind became more and more gloomy.

Once he stopped talking, it was a deathly silence.

There is only the sound of silence, and the croaking of frogs and insects seems to be urging death.

But of course, it couldn't be these sounds, but a strange aura that suddenly began to approach from all over the forest.

In Lijiazhuang, everyone must learn the sword. Slaves can't afford to buy swords, and when they reach age, they will also receive old swords as gifts from their masters.

Therefore, Li Xi, with his brothers and sisters, has also been practicing swordsmanship diligently.

Swordsmen always have a particularly keen intuition for the aura of danger.

For example, this breath now.

When they fled in a hurry, there was not even a single broken sword left in the village. Therefore, everyone has only a flat-headed firewood knife with a wooden handle that has been burned.

Now that the firewood knives have a new wooden handle, the right hands of the two teenagers have been tightly grasped on the new wooden handle, which is not very familiar to the hand.

In the dense canopy of the trees ahead, there was a sound of breaking wind!

Li Xi held the knife in his hand, staring at the place where the sound came. Then he saw a man falling straight down from a tree, but he stood firmly on the ground!

Immediately afterward, the surrounding popping sound remembered, and people kept jumping from the trees in the same way.

These people were the same long-haired, stout but not tall men, naked, bronzed, and surrounded only by a circle of leaves at the key point between the waist and legs.

There were a dozen or twenty naked men, armed with bows and arrows, or with spears. But the arrows are not wound, and the spears are not directed at the enemy.

The brother and sister leaned back to back, their knives in front of them, their eyes turned sharply, looking around at these "wild men" who didn't know what they meant.

- They, they can't eat people, do they?

Among the surrounding "wild men", a man with a string of animal bones on his chest stepped forward and took a few steps closer to Li Xitong. He babbled, but he didn't know what to say, thinking it was the local language.

Li Xi looked at the beast-bone man's actions, and it was difficult to distinguish between good and evil, but the crisis of being attacked or besieged should be considered to have disappeared temporarily. The flat-headed firewood knife in his hand, which did not have much threatening power, naturally hung down, but the handle of the knife was still tightly held in his hand.

Seeing that the other party's guard had decreased slightly, the beast bone man seemed to be very excited, grinned innocently, and put the spear in his hand on the ground. He spread out his hands to Li Xitong and continued to take two tentative steps forward, his enthusiastic eyes seemed to be trying to get past his brother's body and look at his sister behind him.

Li Xi was nervous, and the handle of the knife in his hand involuntarily tightened again.

The beast-bone man waved his hand repeatedly, he turned his head and gestured to his fellow human beings, and everyone put down their spears and bows and arrows and stood with their hands down.

The man turned his face again and continued to babble at the siblings. I didn't understand a word, but fortunately, the gesture was quite clear.

He pointed to the two siblings, then to the outside of the forest, and then made a gesture to eat and sleep.

They should have seen that these two teenagers had been lost in this reckless jungle.

Outside the canyon, I don't know how deep the cliffs are, the layers of mountains are like daisies, stretching to the horizon. The sunset clouds dyed red at dusk, and it fell beyond the spring mountains.

This canyon looks like the foot of the mountain, but in fact, it is actually a gorge on the top of a large mountain, and the mountains rise again on three sides.

The gorge is a mountain stream with jagged boulders, a sloping riverbed, and a large drop, all the way to the high mountains behind the gorge. There is a waterfall hanging high in the high mountain, and the sound of water can be heard from afar.

Wooden houses are built along a mountain stream. The gate side of the hut is connected to the shore, but on the back side of the house is overhanging a mountain stream, supported by wooden pillars raised from boulders in the riverbed.

The wooden houses hanging high above the stream are very cool to look at. ①

The reason why the wooden houses are overhung on the river is that there are very few flat lands in this valley, and the slightly gentle slopes are terraced vegetable fields. It's just that even so, looking at the scattered terraced rice fields scattered on the hillside like patches, it is not enough to feed the old and young of this village.

Li Xi and his brothers and sisters were brought to this very special cottage by those naked savages, and they couldn't help but be amazed when they saw the pattern and scene in the village, almost like a paradise.

The tense vigilance was also slightly relaxed.

When you enter the village, there are women and children coming and going, and the general waist circumference is a circle of leaves, and there is no shelter in other parts. Some women, who don't seem to be much older than Li Xilian, are actually breastfeeding young babies.

Such a spectacle, the brother and sister were so ashamed that they couldn't bear to look at it directly.

The two of them had never left Lijiazhuang, and they had never heard of such alien races in the mountains.

Although the scene everywhere made people blush, the brother and sister actually didn't have much strength to avoid suspicion - they were both starving for half a life.

The peaceful and leisurely old and young in the village, when they saw two strange young men in different costumes and tired, they all smiled kindly. Occasionally, when they meet someone to greet each other, the brother and sister can't understand.

The beast bone man took them to a solid flat ground in the middle of the village. This is the only idle flat land in the village, which is open on three sides and leans against the mountain wall on one side, which should be the place where the local people gather for deliberations on weekdays.

Strangely enough, no one invited the siblings into the house, but let them sit on the stones scattered here and there in the flat land. The villagers either stopped to watch, or pointed back and forth, making the two teenagers extremely uncomfortable.

After a while, the dozen or so men who had appeared in the deep mountains, carrying all kinds of cooked food in their hands, came out of the wooden houses on the mountain stream and came to the flat ground.

Immediately afterwards, five or six young women, like the men, came from all over the place.

These people, both men and women, who had just walked over, were holding a box woven from some kind of broad-brimmed mango leaf in the palm of their right hand. The box was swollen and steaming, apparently filled with cooked food.

The shape of the mango leaf food box is different, there are star-shaped, bull-head-shaped, cone-shaped, heart-shaped...... It's all ingenious.

In their left hands, they carry different things, roasted leg of lamb, steamed chicken, large pieces of meat of unknown beasts......

The cooking is very rough, but the aroma of food floating in the air is the greatest temptation in the world for the two hungry teenagers!

Note (1): The scene of wooden houses in the mountain stream here can be seen in Xiaosang Village, Yuanbao Mountain, Rongshui County, Guangxi Province more than ten years ago, which is very primitive. In recent years, due to social development, roads have been opened everywhere, and people have moved into new houses. It is only because of the need to protect the original customs that those wooden houses on the stream have been preserved after some restoration by modern means. You can still see the original pattern, but it is impossible to be completely authentic.