Ni Chu

It was good that Xiang Ye didn't say this, but when he said it, Mengsu's competitive spirit was immediately aroused.Without saying a word, she stretched out her hand and grabbed the arm of the man on Xiang Ye's back, forcefully dragging him off to sit on her back.

But seeing Mengsu's firm eyes, Xiang Ye finally gave up arguing with her and let her carry the man on his back.Although he has not been with Mengsu for a long time, he already has a deep understanding of her. Mengsu is a strong woman, and sometimes she is too strong. If she is forced to stop her from carrying that man behind her back, It was bound to make him and Monsue unhappy.

After walking forward for another hour, although Mengsu was tired and limp all over, he still supported the man on his back and continued to walk forward with difficulty.

"Wait." Xiang Ye stopped suddenly, raised a hand to stop Mengsu's progress, he pricked up his ears to listen carefully, and after a while he said excitedly to her: "You Listen! The sound of water!"

Meng Su also raised her ears and listened carefully. Gradually, a smile appeared on her face, and she couldn't restrain her excitement and shouted to Xiang Ye: "Yes, there is water, there is water!"

"Quick! I'll carry him on my back and go to the water quickly." Xiang Ye reached out and took the unconscious man from Mengsu's body, picked him up on his back, and quickly ran towards the direction of the sound of water.

Mengsu didn't compete with Xiang Ye this time, and she was indeed very tired. It is unimaginable for a woman to carry a man who weighs one or two hundred catties on her back for an hour in a row.

The two of them ran for a while and saw a small river. Rather than saying it was a river, it was more like a stream.

The current of the small river is very fast, and the turbulent current rolls up the sediment at the bottom of the river and flows eastward.

Xiang Ye and Meng Su didn't care about the mud and sand in the water, so they rushed to the river and drank a few mouthfuls. After they were full, Xiang Ye took another handful of water to help the man who was still unconscious, and poured some water Feed him a little bit.

After the man took a few sips of water, his pale face looked better.Along the way, Xiang Ye and Mengsu only cared about carrying him on their way, and had no time to look at his appearance at all. At this time, they just took advantage of the time between feeding him water to observe him carefully.

The man's face was slightly thin, his skin was fair, and his face was as smooth as a knife. There was a black beard three or four inches long on his chin. He carried a five-foot long sword on his back. With eyes closed, the whole person still exudes a swordsman's unique chivalry.

What surprised Xiang Ye and Meng Su was that there was a deep wound on the left side of the man's chest close to the heart. Although the wound had stopped bleeding, the blood that flowed out earlier had already burned the clothes on his chest to ashes brown.

"We have to keep going." After feeding the unconscious man and resting for a while, Xiang Ye said to Mengsu: "As long as there is a river, there must be a village not far away. Let's go downstream along the river." , presumably should be able to see the village before sunset."

Mengsu nodded, and replied: "I haven't slept all night, and I'm a little tired, but I really need to find a place to rest as soon as possible."

Xiang Ye carried the unconscious man on his back, and Meng Su followed behind him all the way eastward along the small river. They didn't know how far they had traveled, from the first sunrise of the morning to the middle of the day, when they saw a man appearing by the river from afar. cabin.

Xiang Ye and Mengsu, who were sleepy, tired and hungry, immediately regained their spirits when they saw the hut, and ran towards the hut, shouting happily.

When they came outside the house, they were stunned by the scene in front of them.I saw two white bones lying outside the house. The white bones were reflected white by the direct sunlight, and the white was a bit dazzling. On the left side of the door, there was a fishing net made of coarse cloth and twine. Since it has not been used for a long time, some wires of the fishing net have begun to rot, forming many large holes in the net.

Xiang Ye put down the man on his back and let him lean against the door, while he walked into the hut.

There was a strong musty smell in the room, and a straw mat on the floor had long since turned ashes, and a big hole was suddenly created where his feet had been stepped on on the straw mat.The decent furniture in the hut consisted of a low, long table and two large wooden basins, probably for holding fish.

Xiang Ye stretched out his hand to lift the basin, and he tore off a piece of the wooden basin body. It was obvious that the two basins could not be used.

In a corner of the room, two clay bowls full of dust lay quietly there.Xiang Ye shook his head, stepped forward, took two pottery bowls in his hand, and walked towards the door.

"It seems that we can only be good people once." After leaving the door, Xiang Ye raised the bowl in Meng Su's hand and shrugged his shoulders, "No one has lived here for a long time, the two skeletons at the door should be The owner of the house, we want to live in their house, so that they don’t come to make trouble at night, it’s better to let them go to the ground first.”

Meng Su nodded approvingly, and followed Xiang Ye to dig a hole in the sand not far from the river.

The two of them had no tools, so they dug for a long time before digging out two large pits that could bury dead bones.After throwing the bones into the pit, Xiang Ye said to Mengsu: "You have been up all day, go to the room and rest, I will go and see if the fishing net is still usable, and I hope I can catch some fish with it , we can’t just rush on the road and forget to eat.”

Mengsu and Xiang Ye have been on their way for the past two days, hardly eating anything.Because they were always worried that Guan Yijian would catch up from behind, they really forgot about their hunger.Now when Xiang Ye mentioned eating, Mengsu also felt his stomach rumbling, nodded heavily at him, turned around and walked outside the hut and dragged the man leaning against the wall into the room.

After Meng Su entered the room, Xiang Ye walked to the fishing net, he gently pulled at the part that hadn't rotted, but the fishing net immediately turned into flying ash under his tugging.

Xiang Ye let out a sigh of disappointment, looked at the fishing nets that had turned into torn strands, and turned his head to look at the hut, where Mengsu was still waiting for him to bring back something to eat.

When Li You entrusted Mengsu to him, he did not refuse, although the reason for not refusing was that it was absolutely impossible to refuse at that time, but after leaving Xingyang, Xiang Ye took it as a responsibility to bring Mengsu to Xiang's barracks .He is a man of promises and a man who has the courage to take responsibility, even if the promises are made against his reluctance.

The rushing river was rushing, Xiang Ye walked into the river, took off a shoe and tried the water, the water was very cold, when his feet dipped into the water, the cold river water stimulated his feet, He felt a spasm in his foot and quickly pulled his foot out of the water.

Xiang Ye looked around, but apart from the broken fishing net, he saw no other tools that could be used for fishing.Just when he was almost desperate, a round object placed in the corner outside the house caught his attention.

He ran over in two steps in three steps, lifted the round thing, and smiled on his face.

This is a fish crate, and it is a fish crate with two small ends and a big belly in the middle.This kind of fish basket is generally used by fishermen to hold fish, but it can also be used as a fishing tool in special occasions.

Xiang Ye ran to the river with the fish basket in hand. When he looked at the rushing river, he felt a little bit in trouble again.Fishing with a fishing rod requires bait tied to the bottom of the fishing rod. Meat is the best bait for this kind of fishing, but he is empty-handed now. Where can he get meat as bait?

The weather has turned cold, even if you want to catch a frog and peel it as bait, it is impossible.The excitement when I first saw the fish basket disappeared because I couldn't find the bait.

The cool wind blew past Xiang Ye's ears, and the coolness made him shiver.He looked towards the sand on the ground, and a few scattered shells appeared in front of him.

These are the shells of several river mussels, but it is a pity that the clam meat was pecked by wild animals or birds, leaving only the hard shells shining in the sun.

Xiang Ye frowned, the mussels gave him some inspiration, but looking at the rushing water, he hesitated again.

He has a weakness, and it's a fatal weakness.Although he has won several college student cup championships in Sanda, he is a landlubber who can never learn to swim.

Several times he went to the swimming pool with his classmates. Before entering the water, he had to put on two life buoys, and he had to put on water sleeves and a life jacket before he dared to enter the deep water area.Of course, this weird outfit didn't help him learn to swim at all, but it attracted a lot of strange looks on him, and he became the focus of the swimming pool for a while.

Xiang Ye had no doubts at all, if he really went into the water to touch the mussels, he probably didn't touch the mussels, and he himself might fall headlong into the river and sink to the bottom of the river like a weight.

With some resentment, he turned his head and looked at the fishing nets that were scattered on the ground into rags and hemp threads, and looked at the fish basket helplessly.

There is a thick layer of dust on the fish basket, and there is no fishy smell on it.

He put the fish basket in the water and soaked it. When the fish basket was completely soaked and no longer floated on the water surface but could be suspended in the water, he tied the fish basket with a hemp rope and fixed it in the water. The shallow waters of a river.

There were some snails lying on the river bed in the shallow water area. Xiang Ye looked at those snails and curled his lips helplessly.The meat of snails is very tight, without the meat of mussels, it is easy to attract fish, and if you want to pick out the meat of snails from the hard shell, you must have a sharp steel needle. Now he only has a sword in his hand. A dagger made of bronze.

"It's ready!" Thinking of the long sword, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he couldn't restrain himself from shouting excitedly. He bent down and squatted by the river, put his hand into the river, and groped on the river bed.

The icy river water flowed over his palm, but he continued to grope into the water unconsciously. After a while, more than a dozen wet snails were placed in front of him.