Jiaohua

Chapter 137 Fair Dealing
One hour, it is said to be fast, and it is necessary to wait patiently if it is said to be slow.

Old Tong and Zhi Changle were sitting inside the door, leaning against each other sleepily, staggering.

Old Tong was snoring, and there was a piece of grass hanging from his clothes to pass the time.

The water on the mountain flows down, and after passing through this area, it flows to a lower place.

A few figures on the hillside in the distance looked at the fork in the road below, but hesitated to move forward, not daring to pass.

"Is that so?" someone asked.

"It should be, but there are other people alive..." a bystander said.

"Should we go there?" A girl asked fearfully.

Several people discussed in low voices, but they haven't fully made up their minds yet.

There were also people from the other side, looking at the ruined temple anxiously, one of them was seriously ill, his face was pale, and his lips were bloodless.

"Do you want to go there?" asked the leader.

"Did that sound just now be the bell from the temple?" Someone asked expectantly.

"I don't know... But, it should be a real person, right?"

"I heard from Grandpa that someone will come to rescue us in half a month... Could it be the person sent to rescue us?" A little girl said timidly.

"Then, go and have a look?"

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At this time, a group of people had already gone down, six people in front and behind, with sticks in their hands, walking bumpily.

The tallest man had a short knife stuck behind him, without a scabbard, and a bunch of grass wrapped around it to prevent himself from being hurt during activities.

"There are people over there!" The little girl on the mountain was the first to see it and stretched out her finger.

"Six people...alive." The bystanders whispered, looking at the dagger with complicated expressions.

"Shall we go down too?"

"Don't... take a look first." The others hurriedly said.

The team disappeared at the fork in the road and walked towards the ruined temple hidden in the hillside forest in the distance.

There was no water in the courtyard of the ruined temple, and the flowers and trees on both sides were severely beaten by the wind and rain, and they collapsed crookedly in the mountain wind.

There was still a fire in the yard, sizzling, they didn't go in, they just looked around at the door.

"Boom!"

A stone was impartial, and fell into the furnace cauldron in the middle of the yard, splashing a string of water.

Everyone looked up, a little girl was sitting on the roof of the hall in the distance, raised her hand and threw another stone, impartially, and threw it into the furnace.

"Someone is here." Xia Zhaoyi said.

Lao Tong and Zhi Changle struggled to get up and looked out of the yard.

"Someone is really here." Old Tong said, took the weeds from the lapel of his clothes, and greeted him.

Zhi Changle yawned and went out to welcome him.

Xia Zhaoyi sat on the roof without moving, threw another stone, turned his head and continued to look at the terrain below the mountain.

Lao Tong and Zhi Changle welcomed the vigilant people outside, and when they reached the courtyard, another stone was thrown and fell into the furnace.

The water splashed very high, but it was not big, and it didn't splash around.

Everyone raised their heads again, the girl didn't look at them, nor did she look at the cauldron, she just looked down the mountain, raised her hand casually, and saw another stone.

Very accurately, the stone fell into the water of the furnace again, and the splashed water was also not scattered randomly.

The beam roof of the temple is much higher than that of ordinary houses, so the girl sitting on the high place is farther away from the furnace in the middle of the compound.

At such a long distance, she was able to throw a stone without looking at it, and everyone was surprised.

"Let's go," Lao Tong shouted, "the house has specially cooked vegetable soup for you, come and drink."

As soon as they heard that there was food, everyone put away their thoughts, and their eyes became brighter when they looked at Lao Tong.

………………

The people in the distance are still far away, everyone is very uneasy, looking at the intersection over there, hesitating whether to go or not.

This feeling is very annoying.

But soon, several people made up their minds and went to have a look.

The four of them went together, each with a weapon on their body, each with their own eyes, and their figures quickly disappeared at the fork in the road.

Finally, the others couldn't bear it anymore, and gradually, more and more people came out and walked over there.

Curiosity, suspicion, vigilance, but more is the expectation in my heart.

The inside of the temple was very noisy, and you could even hear laughter when you got close. Several people were sitting on the stone beside the yard talking, and someone led a horse out. The laughter came from the person who led the horse.

The newcomer's eyes lit up when he saw the horse.

Can... eat?
"Someone is here again!" Old Tong turned his head and shouted into the hall, "Come someone to pick them up!"

Xia Zhaoyi has already come down from the roof, and now he is squatting in the innermost corner of the yard, drawing with branches on the ground, while looking up at the people who come by the gate of the yard.

From the beginning to the present, a total of 16 people have come, including men, women and children.

There are too many people, it will delay the journey, and the problem of eating will become more serious, but it is not without benefits.

She looked away and wrote down the newcomers on the ground next to her.

Compared with Lao Tong's welcome to these people, Zhi Changle was already very anxious, and the smile on his face was almost stiff. When he saw these people coming again, Zhi Changle simply left the things here and ran to find Xia. Zhao Yi.

"Ali!" Zhi Changle lowered his voice and said anxiously, "I didn't know there were so many people alive. What if there are more and more people? There is a famine here, and the only thing that is lacking is that morsel of food."

Xia Zhaoyi smiled, squatted on the ground, and looked up at him: "Why do you all think that there is a famine, but I see food everywhere on the mountain."

Zhi Changle: "..."

Although there are already patches of bald vegetation on the way here, but the further you go into the deep mountains and old forests, the more you can eat.

Things that fly in the sky, things that walk on the ground, things that swim in the water, things that grow in the soil, what Xia Zhaoyi saw were piles of food.

Zhi Changle was teased by her, she didn't know what to say for a moment, paused, and said: "But there are so many people, it's always inconvenient to go on the road, I'm most afraid that some people here will have some crooked thoughts, and if someone gets sick again, is it right?" Don't you still have to take care of it?"

"Then take care of it," Xia Zhaoyi looked at him and said with a smile, "You are sick, do you want someone to take care of you?"

"However, the situation is different now, we..."

Zhi Changle sighed, couldn't continue, raised his hand and scratched his head.

Xia Zhaoyi was waiting for him to finish, but he didn't, so he said, "I didn't expect so many people to come, but now that I see so many people, I have an idea."

"Huh? What idea?"

"Maybe they can help me build a boat."

"Ah?!" Zhi Changle suspected that his ears had misheard, "What? A Li, what are you talking about, a boat?"

"We need to cross the river, and we need a boat to cross the river." Xia Zhaoyi looked back at the painting on the ground, "They helped me build the boat, and I helped them find food. This is actually a fair deal, what do you think?"

Zhi Changle still felt a little strange, but once again he didn't know what to say.

　There have been some minor incidents in the past few days, all caused by eating... I got angry from eating lychees, and my gums swelled up to half a broad bean-sized meat ball. The pain was so painful that I would rather die.My brother was curious and ate a large bag of cicadas. He was highly allergic to protein, his whole body was swollen, and he almost died.In fact, it’s okay to eat lychees, and it’s okay to eat cicadas (although I dare not even glance at QAQ), but it’s really not good to eat too much. Everything requires "self-discipline" and "control", but we always know that it is easy Difficult to do. _(:з」∠)_
　　
　
(End of this chapter)