An hour is said to be very fast, but to be said to be slow, you need to be patient and wait.
Lao Tong and Zhi Changle were leaning against each other in a state of distress. Lao Tong was snoring, with a piece of grass hanging from his lapel that he had used to pass time.
Two people were sitting inside the door, swaying.
The water from the mountain flows down, and after passing here, flows to lower places.
There were several figures on the hillside in the distance looking at the fork in the road below, but they hesitated and did not dare to go there.
"Is that that?" someone asked.
"It should be, there are actually other people alive..." someone else said.
"Should we go there?" a girl said fearfully.
Several people discussed in low voices and had not yet completely made up their minds.
Some people came over from the other side and looked at the ruined temple uneasily. One of them was seriously ill, his face was pale and his lips were bloodless.
"Do you want to go there?" Wei asked.
"Is that sound just now the bells in the temple?" someone asked expectantly.
"I don't know...but it should be a living person, right?"
"I heard my grandpa say before 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, come over and take a look?"
…
At this time, a group of people had already gone down, six people in front and behind, holding tree sticks in their hands and walking bumpily.
The tallest man had a short sword stuck behind him. There was no scabbard, and a bunch of vegetation was wrapped around the outside to prevent him from hurting himself during activities.
"There's someone over there!" The little girl on the mountain saw it first and stretched out her finger.
"Six people...are alive." Someone else whispered, looking at the short knife with a complicated expression.
"Should we go down too?"
"Don't... take a look first." Others hurriedly said.
The group of people disappeared at the fork in the road and walked towards the ruined temple hidden in the forest on the hillside in the distance.
There was little water in the courtyard of the ruined temple. The flowers and trees on both sides were severely beaten by the wind and rain, and they were slanted and collapsed in the mountain wind.
There was still a fire burning in the yard, but they did not go in, but only looked at the door.
"Boom!"
A stone fell impartially into the furnace cauldron in the middle of the yard, causing a string of water splashes.
Everyone raised their heads, and saw a little girl sitting on the roof of the hall in the distance. She raised her hand and threw another stone, impartially, and threw it into the furnace.
"Someone is coming." Xia Zhaoyi said.
Lao Tong and Zhi Changle got up in difficulty and looked out of the yard.
"Someone is really coming." Lao Tong said, took off the weeds from his clothes and went out to greet him.
Zhi Changle yawned and followed him out.
Xia Zhaoyi sat on the roof without moving, threw another stone, turned around and continued to look at the terrain below the mountain.
Lao Tong and Zhi Changle welcomed the people who were still wary outside. After arriving in the courtyard, another stone was thrown and fell into the furnace cauldron.
The water splashed very high, but not too big, and did not spread around.
Everyone raised their heads again. The girl didn't look at them or the furnace. She looked down the mountain. She raised her hand casually and saw another stone.
Very accurately, the pebbles fell into the water of the cauldron again, and the splashes did not scatter randomly.
The beam roof of the temple is much higher than that of an ordinary house, so the girl sitting high up is further away from the furnace in the middle of the courtyard.
&nbs
p; From such a long distance, she was able to throw the stone without even looking. Everyone was surprised.
"Come on," Lao Tong shouted, "we have specially cooked vegetable soup for you in the house, come and drink some."
As soon as they heard that there was food, everyone put away their thoughts and looked at Lao Tong with bright eyes.
…………
The people in the distance were still far away, and everyone was very uneasy. They looked at the intersection over there and hesitated whether to go there or not.
This feeling is very annoying.
But soon, several people made up their minds to go and have a look.
The four people were together, each carrying a weapon, and each of them was cautious, and their figures soon disappeared at the fork in the road.
Finally, everyone else couldn't bear it anymore, and gradually, more and more people came out and walked towards that side.
Curiosity, suspicion, vigilance, but more importantly, the expectation in my heart.
It was very noisy inside the temple, and you could actually hear laughter when you got closer. Several people were sitting on the rocks next to the courtyard talking, and someone led a horse out. The laughter was coming from the man leading the horse.
The newcomers' eyes lit up when they saw the horses.
Can...eat?
"Someone is here again!" Lao Tong turned around and shouted into the hall, "Someone is here to pick them up!"
Xia Zhaoyi had already come down from the roof, squatting in the innermost corner of the yard, painting with tree branches on the ground, looking up at the people coming through the courtyard gate.
From the beginning to now, a total of sixteen people have come, including men, women and children.
If there are too many people, travel will be delayed and the problem of eating will become more serious, but it is not without its disadvantages.
She withdrew her gaze and wrote down these newcomers on the ground next to her.
Compared with Lao Tong's welcome to these people, Zhi Changle was already a little 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 them.
Xia Zhaoyi.
"Ah Li!" 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 missing is that one mouthful of food."
Xia Zhaoyi smiled and looked up at him: "Why do you all think there is a famine, but I see there is food everywhere on the mountain."
"..."
Although we have seen patches of bare vegetation on the way here, the further we go into the mountains and forests, the more food we can eat.
Things that fly in the sky, things that walk on the ground, things that swim in the water, and things that grow in the soil. What Xia Zhaoyi saw were piles of food.
Zhi Changle was so troubled by her that he didn't know what to say for a moment. He paused and then said: "But there are so many people, it's always inconvenient to go on the road. I'm most afraid that someone here will have some wrong ideas, and if someone gets sick again, it's
Don’t you still have to take care of me?”
"Then take care of you," Xia Zhaoyi looked at him, "You are sick, do you want someone to take care of you?"
"But, the situation is different now, we..."
Zhi Changle sighed, unable to speak any more, and raised his hand to scratch his head.
Xia Zhaoyi was waiting for him to finish speaking, but when he didn't wait, he couldn't help but smile: "I didn't expect so many people to come at first, but now that I see so many people, I have an idea."
"Huh? What's your idea?"
"Maybe they can help me build a boat."
"Ah?!" Zhi Changle suspected that his ears heard wrong, "What? Ah Li, what are you talking about, boat?"
"We need to cross the river, and to cross the river we need boats." 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 trade, what do you think?"
What else did Zhi Changle feel? Once again he didn’t know what to say.
