Chapter 102: Overnight in a lonely village
Mo Yu only knew that he had saved a wild horse, but he didn't know that he had saved a BMW, and it was a good horse that was rarely encountered in a thousand years. This kind of horse usually lives in primeval forests, and it is common to travel thousands of miles a day, and it is also psychic, but it is extremely difficult to tame, so it is extremely rare in the rivers and lakes.
Mo Yu peeled off the tiger skin and put it on a branch to dry, it was a rare white tiger skin, and he was going to take it back to his mother to make a jacket.
Mo Yu made a fire in the open space and roasted a tiger's leg, feasted beautifully, and wrapped the rest in leaves. I don't know how many days to walk in the vast mountains ahead, so I have to prepare enough food.
The horse was leisurely looking for grass in the distance.
Mo often hears people say that a spiritual horse can be summoned with just a whistle. He also wanted to try the horse's spirituality. So he pursed his mouth and whistled loudly.
The horse was startled at the sound, and looked up suddenly, still holding a mouthful of unchewed grass in his mouth.
Mo Yu saw that it had a reaction, and was overjoyed, and blew again.
The horse raised its head and neighed softly, as if in agreement, and then ran to Mo Yu's side with brisk little steps.
Mo Yu patted the horse's neck and said, "Good job, you can actually understand." Seeing the blood red color of your coat, I'll give you a name... Come up with a name... Let's call it 'Phantom Blood'!"
The horse flicked its tail and made a 'clacking' sound in its nose as if in response.
Mo Yu put the tiger skin on his back and said to Phantom Blood, "Let's go, don't run too fast, I'm not good at riding a horse, don't drop me off." As he spoke, he jumped on the horse's back and patted it lightly on the horse's buttocks.
Phantom Blood raised his head and hissed, trotted a few steps away from his front legs, slowly accelerated, and then leaped to a long time.
At first, Mo Yu was worried about riding unsteadily, so he hugged the horse's neck tightly as soon as he went up, but later found that his worries were completely unnecessary. Although Phantom Blood ran as fast as a whirlwind, it did not bump in the slightest. For the first time, Mo Yu can feel the feeling of flying without using light skills.
I thought it would take three or two days to climb the mountains, but I didn't expect that it would take less than two hours under the hooves of phantom blood, and there was a plain under the mountain, with dozens of scattered households.
Tonight's accommodation problem has been settled, you can go to the village to spend the night. Mo Yu thought, urging the horse down the hill and marching into the village, it was already evening, the old people in the village came out to sit in the courtyard and stayed cool, and the children chased and played naked.
Seeing Mo Yu walking slowly on a horse, they were all surprised, and the children were a little scared, and they ran to the adults.
Mo Yu jumped off the horse, saluted the old man at the entrance of the village, and said, "Hello old man!"
The old man bowed his head slightly and said, "Son, good!"
"I'm going here, it's getting late, can I borrow a night at home?"
"I'm really sorry, there are only three thatched huts in the house and there are no empty rooms, and the son also asks to go to another house to see. ”
Mo Yu asked a few families in a row, either there was no extra house, or it was inconvenient for only women and children to be at home.
Mo Yu is the kind of person who is not good at asking for people, he didn't find a few of them, he was on fire in his heart, he jumped on the horse and wanted to leave, he didn't want to go overnight, and now he was accompanied by phantom blood, even if he walked at night, he wouldn't be so lonely.
"If Childe doesn't dislike it, you can go to the cold house for one night. A lean middle-aged man came out of the village and said with a fist at Mo Yu.
"Then bother, I can pay for the accommodation. Mo Yu replied immediately.
"No need to pay for accommodation for one night. Please!" the lean man laughed.
Mo Yu jumped off his horse and entered the village with him.
"Good horse!" the man said, glancing back at Phantom Blood.
"Well, this is a wild horse I just got from the mountains. ”
I heard that there are fierce beasts in this mountain, and there are several hunters in the village who have not returned, and the people in the family do not dare to go into the mountains to look for them, and I heard that they have all been eaten by fierce beasts. ”
"There is... Tigers, I only meet tigers. Mo Yu nodded.
"Childe met a tiger? Childe, please come in. The man asked in surprise.
As he spoke, he had already arrived at the man's door. His house is slightly wider than the others, and there is a small courtyard in front of it.
"It was cool outside and we sat here. The man led Mo Yu into the courtyard and sat down at a stone table in the courtyard. Two little girls were crouching on the ground looking for ants. As soon as he saw Mo Yu come in, he ran into the house in fright, and stretched out his head to look quietly at the door.
"Go and ask your mother to cook two more appetizers, and a guest is coming. ”
The little girl turned around and ran into the back room, and after a while came a young woman in her twenties, who was quite beautiful. A green cloth dress is difficult to hide the appearance, and it is a little more natural beauty than a woman in a Chinese costume.
"Xianggong!" the woman exclaimed, seeing Mo Yu and bowing shallowly, "I've seen Childe." ”
"Hello sister-in-law!" Mo Yu nodded back.
"This son has come from afar, stay at our house tonight, you go and prepare a few good dishes and we will have a few drinks. ”
The woman agreed and went in.
"Childe just said that you met a tiger in the mountains?" the man asked.
"Well, two white tigers, one female and one male, the male tiger was killed by me, and the female tiger ran away. ”
"White Tiger? ”
"Look, the tiger skin is still here!" Mo Yu removed the tiger skin from his back.
"It's really a white tiger skin!" The man reached out and touched the smooth tiger hair, and a strange look flashed in his eyes, "I can kill the tiger, it seems that Gongzi is a master, you don't know how many people in the village have gone into the mountains and never returned." ”
"Meaningless, I could have killed both tigers, but there were too few white tigers, so the female tiger kept it to breed offspring. "Mo is an understatement.
While talking, his daughter-in-law had already brought the food and placed it in the courtyard. As for Mo Yu and him, the daughter-in-law and children are not at the table.
The man poured two glasses of wine and handed one to Mo Yu and said, "Poor and remote, I can't take out anything decent, so I ask my son to take care of it." ”
"It's good to be polite, it's good to eat! Mo Yu said, "It's just that I am very strange, on the way down the mountain, I see that the land is fertile, the crops are growing happily, and the cattle and sheep are still fat, but after entering the village, I see a different scene of poverty." ”
"Gongzi doesn't know, originally we were a rich village here, but in recent years, the war has continued, the government has increased taxes and miscellaneous taxes, the surrounding bandits are wanton, and from time to time there are gold people to attack, and this day is not as good as day by day. As the head of a village here, the villain feels powerless. The man said, picking up his glass and drinking it down.
"Oh, it turns out that Brother Tai is the village chief here, disrespectful!
"Alas, don't mention it, I, the village chief, am a real wretch, watching the villagers' lives like this, but I can't do anything. The man shook his head.
"It's not your responsibility, and you don't have to blame yourself. Mo Yu comforted.
"The nearby mountain bandits are quite righteous, I told them to come and collect them once a year, but the Jin people are not easy to say, you don't know what the hell is to come, killing, burning and looting are all evil. ”
"Didn't you think about organizing the men of the village to rebel?"
"Those who resisted, but those wolf cubs were brave and good at fighting, and the villagers were no match for them at all. The man smiled wryly.
"If I run into him, I will kill him and there will be no return. Mo Yu slapped his palm on the stone table. There was a "click", and the corner of the table broke off and fell to the ground. "I'm sorry, I missed it for a while. Mo Yu apologized embarrassedly.
"It's okay, it's okay, a broken table. The man hurriedly said.
Moyu never greedy for a cup of drinking, and after slowly drinking two glasses, he stopped asking for it, and ate a small bowl of rice casually. After the meal, the two talked about it again, and then rested separately. The ink language is arranged in the attic.
The bed was covered with a thick layer of straw, and the quilt had just been changed, and it still had the smell of the sun, which was indescribably comfortable. Mo Yu lay down and fell asleep for a while.
I don't know how long I slept, but Mo Yu heard someone whispering downstairs, "Childe!
Mo Yu heard that it was the man's voice, so he asked, "Are you calling me?"
"Yes, Childe, hurry up, there is a situation. ”
When Mo Yu heard this, he turned over and got up, picked up the sword, and jumped downstairs, not even bothering to walk the stairs.
"What's the situation?" Moyu asked
"Someone's coming!"
"Who?"
"I don't know yet, but in the middle of the night, the person who came was not a good person. ”
"Someone's coming, where?" Mo Yu was puzzled, his hearing was so good that if someone came, he wouldn't be able to notice it.
"Childe, listen!" the man suddenly fell to the ground and pressed his ears to the ground.
Mo Yu did the same, and sure enough, there was a slight vibration on the ground.
"It's the sound of horses' hooves, and there should be more than ten horses. The man said.
"I didn't expect you to have the ability to hear such a small voice. ”
"Living in troubled times is a last resort!," said the man, "I should be five miles away from listening to the voice, but I will soon enter the village." You quickly took the children down the tunnel. His last sentence was to his daughter-in-law.
His daughter-in-law quickly picked up the two sleeping children and lifted the bed board and climbed in. It turns out that the entrance to the tunnel is under the bed.
"But how did you come up with the idea to listen to it?" Mo Yu didn't panic at all, but asked curiously.
"When I got up in the middle of the night, I saw a fire moving on the ridge in the distance, so I quickly lay down and heard that it was coming this way. I had to tell the villagers to rise up and resist. ”
"No notice. ”
"Huh?"