Chen Mo carried Xiao Yanyu on his back and quickly scurried between the forest and the road. Chen Mo didn't know if doing this would be useful, but it would definitely be useless if he didn't do it.
The incident by the river could have been avoided. Chen Mo didn't know how he got into trouble with them. Could it be that he just looked at them twice?
Something happens, it just happens, and it is meaningless to discuss the original reason.
Late at night, Chen Mo, who had been running away for a long time, found a secluded pool on a quiet road. The surrounding ground was covered with large leaves. No one had set foot here for a long time.
Upstream of the pool, a low waterfall continuously pours fresh water into the pool, and the splashing sound adds a bit of vitality to the quiet forest.
Chen Mo Zhongwu took a bath and sat next to the bonfire with his upper body naked and his lower body covered with underwear. Beside the bonfire, pieces of wet clothes, some big and some small, were spread out with tree branches and placed next to the fire.
Roasted.
Chen Mo took a small bottle of medicinal powder and applied it to the wounds on his body. The wounds were caused by the fight today. They were all skin injuries. Such injuries were nothing to Chen Mo.
In the pool behind Chen Mo, Xiao Yanyu finally got her wish and took a bath. This was something she had to pay for after a lot of hard work. The shabby but wet clothes were washed by her.
Soaking in the water, even though the late night water was a bit cold, she was unwilling to get up and scrubbed every part of her body vigorously, like a general on an expedition, sweeping his battlefield over and over again, not allowing any
Omission.
After Chen Mo treated the wound, he put on his clothes and said, "The clothes are dry."
As he spoke, he took the smaller lining next to him in his hand and shook it behind him.
After a long time, no one took away the clothes from behind.
"three."
As soon as Chen Mo finished speaking, the sound of rushing water came from the pool behind him, and a pair of footsteps walked behind Chen Mo with soft dead leaves, and then took away the clothes in his hand.
After a while of movement, Xiao Yanyu, who was feeling refreshed, sat back down by the campfire. Chen Mo glanced at her, her little lips turned purple from the cold, and she didn't want to come up.
After sitting down, Xiao Yanyu stretched her head forward and pulled her wet long hair that had just reached her shoulders, baking it in front of the flames. She didn't have a headscarf and didn't want to wipe her hair with dry clothes, so her hair got a lot of water stains, which soon became wet.
The ground in front of me dripped into irregular small puddles of water.
From Chen Mo's perspective, Xiao Yanyu's posture was like a little water ghost crawling out from the bottom of the water.
Chen Mo stood up and walked to her side, picked up the hem of his clothes, covered her head, and rubbed it randomly like revenge, making Xiao Yanyu a little confused.
After doing all this, Chen Mo picked up the knife and walked into the forest, leaving behind a message: "Don't run around and scream."
She had become accustomed to Chen Mo leaving. She knew that he was looking for food.
Xiao Yanyu played with his hair that was not so wet. He felt much better and played with his hair a little happily.
After a while, Chen Mo came back with a deer, and he went to the water pool to clean the deer.
As the deer meat was roasted by the fire, Chen Mo said quietly: "When you find a small village someday, you can settle down there."
After walking for so many days, Chen Mo felt that there was no place in this place that was not free from catastrophes. It was far away from the border wars and it had beautiful mountains and clear waters. There must be many small villages. It was time to put this little girl down. If she could be like this
At this time, Chen Mo already felt that he was a saint.
Besides, there is no need for him to bring a child with him who is not a relative or an acquaintance. If it is inconvenient, he should pay more or less attention to her if anything happens in the future.
Xiao Yanyu didn't speak, but quietly looked at the deer meat that was roasted by the fire and became sizzling with oil. His throat couldn't help but slide.
Seeing that she ignored him, Chen Mo took it as her acquiescence and began to close his eyes and rest.
Chen Mo recalled what he had seen today. The scene of each move with the sword appeared in Chen Mo's mind. Even the sword that the woman shot him down by the river was not missed. He felt the flow of the opponent's energy.
At this time, Chen Mo also had a qi machine rotating in his body, wandering around his limbs and bones, and finally dissipated in his hundreds of meridians, as if nothing had happened.
After a while, the Qi machine reappeared, doing the same thing over and over again, as if it was looking for something. Each time it failed to find something, it would return in disappointment, and then it would come out again after recuperating.
It's like a hard-working farmer looking for something in his newly cultivated land, but he doesn't know what it is, but that thing is very, very important. Without it, the land will lack something vital.
Chen Mo basically does this kind of thing every night, ignorant but never tired of it.
"The meat is enough."
Xiao Yanyu picked up a piece of meat and shook it under Chen Mo's nose. Seeing that he didn't have any reaction, he felt bored, so he started eating it himself.
She heard what Chen Mo said before. Although she is still young, she knows many things. Her home is gone and she can't go back.
She still resented Chen Mo at the beginning. Why? Because Chen Mo appeared in their village. If he and them had not appeared and they had not fought in their village, the village would not have been destroyed, and she would not have been destroyed.
He will become an orphan, an orphan who lives by following the person who may be the "culprit".
Because of him, his village is gone.
Because of him, he was able to survive.
Gradually, she discovered that he was very lonely, just like herself. One day, she also asked him where his home was, and he only answered with two words: No more.
It turned out that they were traveling together.
Gradually, she became familiar with his life around her. She told him many things and asked him many things. However, he either listened quietly or rarely answered his own questions. Just like his name, Chen
Strange, silent.
Now, he has to leave himself behind. He has his own way to go, and he can't keep up with his pace. Perhaps as he said, finding a good family is indeed a good choice and is good for everyone.
With a stable home on one hand and him whom she was used to, she was a little hesitant.
In the midst of these random thoughts, I fell asleep, with only the crackling fire singing a lullaby.
At dawn the next day, they left here. Chen Mo was still carrying Xiao Yanyu on his back, regardless of his physical strength.
One day, two days, and three days passed. Chen Mo didn't notice anything unusual and stopped escaping. He once again transformed into a brother and sister, one big and one small, walking on the country road.
The clothes are still a little tattered, but at least they are not slovenly, and he has returned to his status as a poor boy from the countryside.
As we walked further, the number of people began to increase. When we first came out of the mountain, except for the refugees, we didn't see a single village. There were only cities with high walls, keeping them away for thousands of miles.
Occasionally, you can see some small caravans on the small road. Xiao Yanyu, who has never seen the world, pulled Chen Mo and asked me this and that. Chen Mo could also answer such questions. The two of them had something to talk about.
Putting aside the issue of age, in Chen Mo's opinion, this is what a child should look like.
The appearance of rice fields proved that they had arrived at the main gathering place of life in Chu State. Chen Mo had not seen such a scene for a long time, and his mood improved a lot.
Every time he passed a village, Chen Mo would stay for a while, trying to help some old farmers do some hard work in exchange for some dry food, but most of them could only get a little bit. After all, what they grew did not belong to them.
Chen Mo understands the difficulties of farmers.
But Xiao Yanyu didn't understand. She used to live in the mountains, and she would gain as much as she put in. Regarding her incomprehension, Chen Mo only explained it once. Chen Mo would not answer her in-depth questions, but just asked her to ask more questions.
Take a look and find the answer yourself, because Chen Mo can't give her the answer either.
Every time he was in a place, Chen Mo would not stay any longer. Apart from looking for some dry food, the most important thing was to find a place for Xiao Yanyu to stay.
But almost every household tightens their belts and wants to sell their daughter. Who would take in an outsider who doesn't know the details?
Two months passed, and Chen Mo took Xiao Yanyu to one village after another.
The two of them, who still had no results, headed east again. Chen Mo had already made plans, so he would watch as he walked. He was going east to Tang State anyway, and the trip was not urgent. Anyway, it would be the same wherever this little girl was placed.
"Chen Mo, why are there no adults in so many of those families? Where have they gone?"
Of course Xiao Yanyu knew what the adult Chen Mo was referring to. This situation also existed in the village where he was a child, only her small village far away in the mountains was different.
"They all went to war."
"Why fight? Why not fight?"
"No, they can't survive without beating them."
"Why, how could he starve to death when he has so much land?"
It seemed that Xiao Yanyu didn't understand that the death mentioned by Chen Mo was completely different from what she understood.
Chen Mo did not explain, but continued walking on the road with the little girl. It had been two days since they left the last village. Xiao Yanyu was not tired of this wandering life, but rather liked it even more, because she
He saw a lot of different scenery and encountered a lot of things he didn't understand. Although Chen Mo sometimes helped him answer his questions, there were still many things he didn't understand.
"Reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles."
Xiao Yanyu saw that his murmur attracted Chen Mo's sideways glance, and explained: "My father said that."
Xiao Yanyu paused for a moment and then said: "Have we traveled thousands of miles?"
"No."
"oh."
"I heard that there is a small county town not far away. Let's go take a look then."