Chapter 67 The encounter on the grassy hillside
She was so hungry that she thought she could find a place to buy food with the money so that she wouldn't go hungry.
But along the way, there were traces of war and devastation everywhere. Where was there a place to buy, sell or eat?
Xie Yuan kept riding forward according to the map in his memory, while secretly blaming himself for being too stupid.
And in order not to show off his trap, he didn't even bring a bow and arrow, and he didn't even have the chance to shoot a bird or a rabbit to satisfy his hunger.
The desolate scenes in front of her flew back one after another. She couldn't figure out how long she had been running, but this nightmare-like road seemed to have no end. In the afterglow of the setting sun, it looked unreal and unreal.
Real beauty.
Just when she was tired and hungry, and her consciousness was a little blurry, she suddenly smelled a faint aroma of smoked food.
But there was no smoke, no trace of people, and no house even found ahead.
She couldn't help but pull on the reins and looked around for the source of the smell.
Suddenly, she looked at a hillside next to her. The grass on the hillside was thick and blocked her sight. However, from behind the grass, she could faintly hear the voice of someone speaking. She could not hear clearly intermittently, but the tone was full of words.
The taste of joy and relaxation.
The aroma of food seems to be coming from the other side of the hillside.
Because of this fragrance and the sound of such relaxed conversation, Xie Yuan subconsciously felt that as long as he climbed over this hillside, he would see a normal village or town.
The smoke from the kitchens there must be different from the desolation of this road. They had food, enough for people to share, and they would be happy to sell some to her.
So Xie Yuan got off the horse, tightened the reins, and pulled the horse to climb up the hillside.
The thin and skinny grass was so tall that when Xie Yuan led the horse in, it even reached above her head.
While she struggled to dig through the dense grass and find the path under her feet, she carefully pulled the horse, fearing that the horse might have a sprained hoof. The horse was an important partner in helping her escape from danger.
, you have to use your legs to measure it. You don’t know how many difficulties you will encounter in the future.
So I climbed up slowly.
The hillside was not steep, but it was very long. As I walked, my eyes suddenly opened up. The dense tall grass disappeared and was replaced by a newly dug earth pit. It was very strange.
She led the horse carefully around the pit, and when she turned to the other side, she saw a wooden board thrown on the ground, half-covered in the soil. On the wooden board, there were a few words written in charcoal: The Tomb of Ge Erzhuang.
The character for tomb was still written wrong, it was written as "嶶".
Xie Yuan has always been courageous. Even if he saw the tomb of a dead person, he wouldn't think much about it. He just thought it was strange that this newly dug tomb had a tombstone but no body, so it was left hanging like this.
She guessed in her heart that maybe it was because of the war or other things that were too hasty that Ge Erzhuang's family had no time to bury him, so she continued walking up.
Simply because of the empty tomb, the tall grass in front of it had already been trodden out, making it much easier for her to walk.
"Shh... listen, there seems to be movement." The voice of the person on the other side of the hillside became clearer and clearer, and could be clearly heard in Xie Yuan's ears.
Just listen to another person stuttering and asking:
"No...it won't be haunted..."
"What's going on? People are here. Are you afraid of a ball?!" another person said.
Xie Yuan didn't say anything. She was anxious to see what she expected, so she quickened her pace and rushed forward, ready to say hello with a smile.
But when she finally stood on the top of the hillside, she was shocked by the sight in front of her, and the smile froze on her face.
No matter where there are villages or towns, there is no difference between the scenery here and the scenery on the road next to it.
There were only two Southern Dynasty soldiers in tattered clothes gathered around a campfire, looking at her with ghostly eyes.
What was roasting on the bonfire was obviously a person's arm.
There was a headless corpse lying crookedly on the ground next to it. The corpse had been stripped of its upper body military uniform and thrown aside in a mess. The color of the clothes was the same as what they were wearing. It looked like they were comrades in the same military camp.
And the two arms on the corpse are gone...
The dim light of the setting sun shone on the two soldiers, making it difficult to see their appearance. Their tattered uniforms looked like evil ghosts crawling out of hell.
Xie Yuan, who had always been bold, finally realized what it was like to be afraid - her face turned pale, cold sweat broke out all of a sudden, soaking her back, and her empty stomach was filled with cold air, violently.
A feeling of nausea rolled in my chest.
She involuntarily took a step back, staggering, and might have rolled down the hillside if the horse's reins hadn't been in her hands to pull her.
The two men saw that Xie Yuan was a half-year-old child, leading a horse. His clothes were neat, and the workmanship and fabrics were expensive. At first glance, he was not from an ordinary family.
So he subconsciously stood up first, blocked the "food" on the campfire, and looked at her warily.
There was a short, suffocating and tense stalemate, and everything in the wilderness was quiet, with no more human sounds.
"Brother...what should I do?" asked a slightly thin soldier.
The soldier who was called the eldest brother was tall and thin. He narrowed his eyes warily and looked at Xie Yuan. He squeezed the sword in his hand tighter and asked:
"Child...where are your adults?"
Xie Yuan's heart was pounding, he was sweating profusely, his stomach was churning with severe nausea, his legs and feet were weak, and he was speechless.
The tall brother slowly took two steps forward, seeming to be thinking about something. After a while, he said firmly:
"He's the only one! San'er, let's work together to capture him and bring him the next meal's rations... That horse is not bad either."
He just discussed it with the other thin companion in front of Xie Yuan.
When Xie Yuan heard this, he finally plucked up the courage to get on his horse. Just as he was about to turn his horse's head and run away, he saw the thin soldier running back and picking up a bow from the ground.
Xie Yuan's mind buzzed: If he turned around and ran away, the hillside would be overgrown with grass, the road would be rugged, and everything would be open and unobstructed.
When they stand at their feet and shoot arrows downwards, they will almost certainly die!
Thinking of this, Dangjui took out the sword from his waist, clamped his legs on the horse's belly and kicked it, shouted "Drive!" and rushed towards the two soldiers!
The tall soldier's eyes widened, as if he did not expect that Xie Yuan would rush down from above on a horse. After being stunned for a moment, he immediately ran out with his sword in hand.
But Xie Yuan's main target was not him! It was the archer, so he kept whizzing past him and went straight to the man holding the bow and arrow and swung his sword away.
"Hurry up and shoot!!!" The tall soldier saw the thin man holding the bow and arrow still aiming, trembling and swishing, hesitating whether to run away or shoot, so he couldn't help but shouted anxiously to urge him.
But it was already too late, I saw Xie Yuan lying low on the horse, with an overwhelming momentum, holding the sword high in his hand, and rushed to the front in an instant.
The thin soldier could no longer hold on. He screamed in horror and turned around to run away. His back was cut through by Xie Yuan's sword, and he fell to the ground, making no sound anymore.
I’ll post the second chapter later today, I don’t know if I can post it... I’ll try my best.
Chapter completed!