Chapter 2 Natural Disasters and Rats
Yun Xuan looked at this girl and smiled happily: "Sister Xiaoyu, why did you come down too, I'm okay alone." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”
The girl who talked to Yun Xuan, named Lu Xiangyu, was Yun Xuan's childhood sweetheart, and she was also the biological daughter of Master Lu Fang. The two grew up together since childhood, and the relationship is naturally very good, the key thing is that whenever Yun Xuan is bullied by something, Lu Xiangyu always rushes to the front to protect him, and he is also the person who cares least about his status as a witch among all people.
Lu Xiangyu grinned, reached out and touched Yun Xuan's silver hair, with a doting expression. Although she is only one year older than Yun Xuan, she always considers herself a big sister and takes great care of him in everything.
"What do you say, we've been on the road for half a day in a row, and we're stuffy in the car, and now we happen to come out to breathe, and it's time for lunch by the way. ”
As soon as the words fell, he heard a "gurgling" sound from the side, which lasted for nearly a minute, and the rest of the people were dumbfounded.
I saw that among the few robber accomplices who were frozen in their ankles, a skinny man smiled awkwardly and scratched his head: "Yes, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to, you talk, you talk, just when I don't exist." ”
Lu Xiangyu rolled his eyes, didn't bother to pay attention to these villains, and asked instead, "By the way, Xiao Xuan." What the hell are you looking at when I see you here?"
Gollum...... Gollum......
There was another groan in his belly, and the thin man smiled bitterly, but he couldn't control the sound of his stomach. Originally, they hadn't eaten for more than two days, and Lu Xiangyu suddenly mentioned the word lunch before, which made him even more impatient.
Yun Xuan smiled faintly, took out a pancake wrapped in an oilcloth from his arms, and handed it to the thin man: "Eat something, you look like you've been hungry for a long time, and if you don't eat it, you'll be starved into a skeleton." ”
"This ......" the thin man hesitated, not because he suspected that there was something wrong with the food, but because it was not enough. Especially feeling the red glowing eyes of several companions around him, and the sound of constantly swallowing saliva, made him even more unable to speak.
"If you give it to eat, you can take it, my brother is so kind to give you food, you still don't want to eat it, right?" Lu Xiangyu crossed his hands on his hips with a dissatisfied expression.
"No, no, no, that's not what it means. The thin man waved his hand again and again: "I want to say, it's not just me who hasn't eaten, can I ...... Can you give us all a little bit? ”
"You've got to make inches, don't you?"
Lu Xiangyu was about to teach him a few words, but was gently pulled by Yun Xuan: "Okay, Sister Xiaoyu, I don't have much on me, you can help go to the car and get some food for everyone." Don't worry, when you come back, I will explain the reason to you, thank you. ”
"Hmph, it's all for my brother's sake, otherwise who cares if you're hungry or not. With that, Lu Xiangyu turned his head and walked to the side of the carriage.
When the thin man heard this, he didn't care about Lu Xiangyu's attitude at all, and he was about to kneel down for Yun Xuan with a handful of snot and tears, but because his feet were frozen, he could only barely bend over, and his movements were very awkward.
"Good guy, you're really a great guy. Woo, we've been hungry for days, and if it weren't for the help of good people, we wouldn't have lived long. As he spoke, several people wept with joy and cried profusely.
Yun Xuan was not surprised, because it was precisely because he sensed the strangeness of these people that he was willing to give them food. He hadn't seen robbers for the past few days, but all of them had their backs and were dripping with oil. But these people are different, everyone is sluggish, sallow-faced, and obviously lacking in qi and blood.
"I see that your nature is not bad, what are you doing outside, why do you have to come here to be a robber?"
When several people heard this, they looked at each other, showing hesitant looks, obviously they had something unspeakable. Finally, the thin man sighed and said, "You are a good man, so we should not hide it from you." In fact, if it weren't for the situation, how would we have been willing to be such robbers!"
"Tell me what's going on, and maybe we can help. ”
The thin man raised his eyes and looked into the distance, and said slowly, "Over there, this is the village where we are. If it had been a previous year, we would still be farming in the field at this moment. But just five days ago, there was a disaster in the village, which not only destroyed the farmland, but also infected most of the people in the village. ”
"What kind of disaster?"
As he was talking, Lu Xiangyu had already taken some food back from the car, and these men who had been hungry for an unknown number of days, no matter what the taste was, stuffed food into their mouths in large gulps, and almost choked to death after a few bites.
Fortunately, Lu Xiangyu was delicate, and while bringing food, he also brought a pot of water. After all the men had eaten about the same, they continued to tell the story.
"Even though we didn't see the scene, the crops in the wheat fields were eaten and everyone in the village was infected with the plague at the same time. We went to see a doctor, but the doctor didn't sit long before he ran away. Later, we learned that the people in the village had contracted the plague. ”
Yun Xuan frowned, and said suspiciously: "Plague? This is an infectious disease, but it doesn't spread so fast, and the whole village is infected with the disease in one day?"
"yes, that's where we get weird. A few people who were still in good spirits told us that a large group of rats suddenly appeared outside the village out of nowhere that day, and these rats ate food when they saw it and bit it when they saw the villagers. The scariest thing is that these guys are very big, the size of a feral cat!"
"Hey, don't talk crazy, no matter how big the rats are, they can't be as big as cats, are they still cultivating to the essence?" Lu Xiangyu asked loudly.
But who knows, the thin man responded again and again: "Yes, yes, that's what those people said, they said that at that time, they seemed to see a mouse the size of a child, able to stand and walk like us, and his eyes were still glowing red, not a monster or something?"
When Yun Xuan and Lu Xiangyu heard this, they fell silent, showing serious expressions, if the matter was really like what people said, then they couldn't deal with it casually.
"What else do you know about this situation in other places besides your village?"
The thin man hurriedly said: "Of course, since the appearance of monsters in our village, we want to go to the county seat to report to the official, but who would have thought that we passed by many villages along the way, and the situation is exactly the same as ours, or even more miserable than ours, many people have already been stinky because of the outbreak of the plague. ”
"Later, when we arrived at the county seat, we found that the county official had long since lost sight of where he had gone, and the people in the city were also dying and walking. In desperation, we had to go back the same way, and the food we could bring was almost the same, and the nearby village was also empty, and everything we could eat was eaten by rats. So...... So as a last resort, we can only stay on this road, hoping to grab something to eat to fill our stomachs. ”
In the end, the rest of the people couldn't help but shed tears in their eyes, they should have been simple villagers, but now because of this disaster, they had to become robbers, which was not what they wanted.
Especially Lu Xiangyu, after knowing the reason, she was deeply sympathetic to the plight of these villagers, and felt guilty about her previous attitude: "I'm really sorry, I didn't expect you to be so pitiful." By the way, have you eaten enough, we still have a lot to eat, I'll go get you some more. ”
Without waiting for them to refuse, she couldn't wait to run back. Yun Xuan smiled and shook his head, he knew the character of his sister, she had been grinning since she was a child, she was a cheerful girl who thought of what to say.
Yun Xuan turned his head and continued to ask, "Can you ask, have you ever seen a rat swarm attack with your own eyes?"
"This ......" several people looked at each other and shook their heads: "No, we haven't seen each other, these are all from other people." And it is said that none of the people who have seen the rats will survive. ”
"I see. Yun Xuan groaned and lowered his head, taking advantage of the situation to melt the ice under the feet of these people, allowing them to move freely.
He wasn't afraid that these people would run away, because once they were gone, they wouldn't necessarily be able to eat a full meal.
Yun Xuan looked up at the sky, pinched his fingers to his lips with one hand, and blew out a long whistle that spread to the horizon in the distance. Just as the others were not aware of the reason, they suddenly saw many sparrows falling straight from the sky, circling and flying around him.
In the stunned expressions of these ordinary villagers, Yun Xuan imitated the calls of birds, as if he was speaking to a multitude of sparrows.
It didn't take long for those hovering sparrows to seem to really understand Yun Xuan's meaning, and they flew away in all directions very neatly.
At this moment, Lu Xiangyu also came back with a lot of food, and with her, her father, that is, Yun Xuan's master, Lu Fang.
"Xiao Xuan, I heard Xiao Yu say, there is something important on your side. This girl hasn't told me, she has to pull me over, you can tell me. Lu Fang smiled lightly, and his eyes subconsciously looked at a few villagers next to him.
Lu Xiangyu raised his head proudly: "Dad, this is a big thing that our Xiao Xuan discovered, of course it has to be said by him, otherwise wouldn't I rob him of his credit?"
Yun Xuan was not verbose, and simply and quickly retold the whole thing.
While listening, Lu Fang's face became solemn, and it was not until all the circumstances were understood that he looked at Yun Xuan seriously: "Xiao Xuan, can you tell the teacher, how did you find the problem?"
"Well, I thought it was weird when I came out before. Master, you see, except for the man who has practiced martial arts at the head, everyone else is in a state of mind and has a sallow complexion, how have you ever seen such a tired and weak bandit? Besides, both in terms of their clothing and their weapons, it shows that their situation is a little strange. ”
As he spoke, Yun Xuan pointed to the "weapons" that had been thrown away by the villagers on the side, which turned out to be some iron farm tools, not even weapons.
Lu Fang looked at Yun Xuan with a surprised and relieved gaze, and I have to say that even he didn't notice these small details. Because of his preconceived ideas, he had already decided that these people were robbers, but he had never paid attention to other places, and this was something he didn't understand, and it belonged to Yun Xuan's strengths.
Observe the ordinary people's ignorance, and feel the ordinary people's inconvenience!