Chapter 33 Boiling Moss and Burning Moss
Duanmu Kang handed the long knife in his hand to his grandfather Huang Shang.
Unexpectedly, when Huang Shang's fingers just touched the handle of the knife, he withdrew his hand as violently as before, as if he had been shocked. As soon as the handle was taken off, it fell to the ground. It can be clearly seen that this time, the situation is obviously more serious than before! I can only see that his wrists are shaking, and his fingers cannot make fists.
Ruan Shuipei hurriedly said, "Grandpa, how can this be?" Huang Sheng also had a puzzled look on his face.
At this time, Duanmu Kang slowly bent down, wanting to reach out to pick up the long knife on the ground, and when his fingers reached above the hilt of the sword, he hesitated, stopped, and then gritted his teeth again, and grabbed the hilt with his heart!
It's very bizarre, Duanmu Kang grabbed the long knife again!
Grandpa Huang Sheng and Ruan Shuipei's expressions were very surprised, and their faces were full of doubts. In fact, Duanmu Kang was even more surprised!
Duanmu Kang raised the long knife in front of his grandfather and Ruan Shuipei, and said suspiciously: "Why am I holding it but I'm fine!"
Ruan Shuipei said to himself: "Could it be that this knife recognizes its owner? But Brother Akang has clearly never seen it, how can it be its owner again!" Then, after some random guessing, he only felt upset, and finally fainted.
In fact, this sword is a denial of the Lord, which is all an afterthought. Now, the real situation is that this knife is indeed a "cold-eyed knife", and it is also inextricably linked with Duanmu Kang's "true life experience"! It will not be shown here, and it will be described in detail later.
Let's say that during the period from Ruan Shuipei's fainting to waking up, Duanmu Kang smashed the wooden box full of gold and silver, and found the fire knife and flint through the light reflected by the gold and silver and the night pearl, and it was still usable!
Duanmu Kang used a cold eye knife to cut the wooden box into wooden strips and set it on fire, and the entire space where the three of them were was lit up by the firelight. At this time, he and his grandfather saw clearly that they were in a huge stone cave, the ground had obviously been filled in and repaired, so it was very flat, and the roof of the cave was still naturally formed, and there was no trace of artificial excavation.
There is no shortage of ashes from cooking, pots and pans, and it is clear that someone has lived in this cave for a long time. What's even more surprising is that Duanmu Kang found that the stone wall was engraved with a human-shaped pattern of making a knife and dense small characters!
When Ruan Shuipei woke up, she saw the cave in front of her that had been illuminated by the firelight, the flames were "fluttering" and flickering, and her surroundings seemed to be a little too quiet, which made her heart startle, and her heart was "pierced", and then she said in her heart: "Could it be that I have arrived at the Netherworld?" immediately shouted anxiously: "Grandpa, grandpa, Brother Akang! Are you here? Where is this?" Listening to her trembling voice, she seemed to be about to cry in fright!
The sound of footsteps was approaching, and then there was a gentle voice, "Sister Ruan, you're awake!" Ruan Shuipei was naturally the most familiar with this voice! She hurriedly turned her head to take a closer look, it was Duanmu Kang who walked towards her, followed by her grandfather Huang Shang.
Ruan Shuipei relieved himself and asked, "Why did I fall asleep? I woke up and I didn't see you there, it's scary!"
Huang Sheng sat next to Ruan Shuipei and said softly: "You are fainting from hunger, Ah Kang and I will go around to see if we can find something to eat." Ruan Shuipei looked up at Duanmu Kang, from his eyes, she knew that her grandfather and Duanmu Kang had found nothing! However, she was not surprised, she knew that the cave had been uninhabited for such a long time, there would definitely be nothing to eat.
Ruan Shuipei looked at his grandfather and Duanmu Kang calmly, at this time, Duanmu Kang was also hungry, and sat on the other side of Ruan Shuipei like his grandfather, and then told what happened after Ruan Shuipei fainted.
Ruan Shuipei listened quietly, and said, "Presumably, there is a cold eye knife on the wall!" and asked eagerly: "Brother Kang, have you practiced a few moves?"
Duanmu Kang shook his head and said, "How can you be in the mood to practice any sword technique!" sighed, and then said: "Even if you practice, what's the use! What I want to do most now is to stay with you and my grandfather, and I don't think about it anymore!"
While the two were talking, Grandpa Huangshang's stomach "gurgled", obviously because he was hungry. Immediately, the three of them looked at each other and smiled bitterly!
After a short rest, Duanmu Kang gradually regained some strength and said, "I'll look for it again and see if I can find something to satisfy my hunger." With that, he stood up and wanted to pat the dust off his body, and when his palm touched his clothes, he realized that the gray cotton pants had already been soaked by the pool of water, clinging to his skin.
Ruan Shuipei looked at Duanmu Kang, then looked down at himself, his cheeks were red, and he lowered his voice and said nothing.
I saw Duanmu Kang take out a piece of clothing from the bone pile, wrap it around the stick that Ruan Shuipei used some time ago because of his broken foot, and reach out to the fire next to Ruan Shuipei to light the clothes.
At this time, Ruan Shuipei also saw clearly, where was the stick, it was clearly a bone, fortunately it was not a human bone, so Ruan Shuipei saw it clearly at this time, and he was not afraid.
Ruan Shuipei said: "Brother Akang, I'll go with you!"
When Duanmu Kang heard that Ruan Shuipei wanted to look for food with him, he refused to agree, and told her to rest quickly, and the grandfather on the side naturally also advised! But Ruan Shuipei refused, and in the end, he followed Duanmu Kang as he wished, and walked in the other direction.
Walking more than ten meters in the light of the torch, Ruan Shuipei suddenly stopped and said: "This is where we fell, Brother Akang, you take the torch closer and see what slid us down at that time?"
Duanmu Kang then remembered that it seemed to be grease when he slid down the hole, and when he was about to stretch out the torch, he saw it clearly!
"It turned out to be green moss!" Ruan Shuipei sighed, and with a light touch of his hand, some water overflowed from the green moss.
The two continued to walk, round and round, and they didn't know how many times they stopped and stopped, but they didn't find anything to eat, and Ruan Shui sat on the ground and didn't move!
The three of them sat silently by the fire, looking at the flickering flames, Ruan Shuipei finally closed his eyes and fell asleep.
I don't know how long the time has passed, maybe a few hours, but it may also be a day or two, anyway, when she opened her eyes slightly, the clothes on her body had been dried by the fire, and the fire was obviously filled with a lot of ashes, maybe Duanmu Kangxin filled it in. Grandpa sat beside her, looking at him, as if he was closing his eyes and recuperating. And Duanmu Kang, who was sitting opposite, was dozing with his head shaking and shaking.
Ruan Shuipei's mouth was dry and he wanted to speak, but his throat didn't obey, and his face was flushed in a hurry. At this moment, she saw an earthen bowl beside the fire, and the shadow of the flame was reflected in the bowl, and it was obvious that there was water in the bowl!
Seeing the water, Ruan Shuipei suddenly became excited, she was very thirsty, as if she had never drunk water after walking in the desert for days and nights, even though she had never been to the desert.
Ruan Shuipei stretched out his arm with all his strength to take the earthen bowl, but as soon as his body tilted, he fell weakly sideways, and his palm was knocking on the edge of the earthen bowl. The earthen bowl was knocked over by her, and she herself was in even more pain, and she cried in pain, but she couldn't cry in the end.
It was also this bowl of water that woke up the grandfather who was sitting quietly and Duanmu Kang, who was almost asleep. Immediately, Grandpa leaned her on his knees, and Duanmu Kang picked up the water beside him and poured it on Ruan Shuipei.
There is nothing happier in the world than drinking water, she grunted and drank the whole bowl of water, only to feel that her body was transparent and smooth! ”
Ruan Shuipei said: "Is there anything else?"
Duanmu Kang got up and walked over to rip off some more green moss and squeezed the water inside into the bowl. Ruan Shuipei took a few more sips and signaled that he would not drink any more.
Grandpa Huang Shang said leisurely: "I don't know how long we have been stuck here!" and said: "It's not enough to just drink water, we have to find a way to change something to eat, otherwise, even if we don't die of thirst, we will eventually starve to death." He said these two words very lightly, but there were Duanmu Kang and Ruan Shuipei here, and they naturally heard Grandpa's words clearly. They also understood that Grandpa just said the truth that they and even Grandpa himself would not admit: if you don't eat, you will die sooner or later!
Duanmu Kang sat by the fire and threw the green moss in his hand into the fire. The green moss was squeezed out of some moisture, but it was not very dry, and immediately there was some smoke, followed by the smell of burnt food. The three of them smelled it, looked at each other and smiled, thinking about it in their hearts!
Ruan Shuipei said: "No matter what happens in the future, I won't die of hunger now!"
The boiled green moss tasted really bad, and it was even a little dry and difficult to swallow! But at the moment, there was nothing else to satisfy the stomach, and all three of them ate some.
Sure enough, a sense of happiness after a full stomach spread throughout the body, and it was extremely comfortable, and the spirits of the three of them gradually improved.
Ruan Shuipei lit the fire and whispered: "Grandpa, Brother Akang, the ancients had a saying of 'boiling beans and burning moss', and now, we can also be regarded as 'boiling moss and burning moss'!"