The mountains are barren ridges, the houses are shabby houses, and the tombs are lonely tombs.
Dai Yue walked behind Zhongli and saw him walking quickly to the front of the solitary grave. His body trembled and he knelt down. He put his hands and knees on the ground and kowtowed heavily towards the solitary grave. Dai Yue could not see Zhongli's expression.
I secretly thought in my heart: Is this the place he wants to take me to? Who is buried in the grave? What does it have to do with him?
Zhongli kowtowed dozens of times before he stopped and stood up. He wiped away the dirt on his hands, knees and forehead. He turned around and walked up to Dai Yue. He drew out the long sword from his waist and stabbed it out suddenly. The tip of the sword stopped at her chest.
live.
Dai Yue was so shocked that she dropped her crutch and fell to the ground. The tip of the sword then landed between her eyebrows.
"Hunchback, you...what do you want to do? Do you want to kill me?"
Dai Yue thought that after spending many days together, the hunchback would have softened his heart, not to mention that the flower picker wanted to pick flowers, so there was no reason to kill the person first. However, the touch of the sword was so cold that his skin seemed to have been pierced.
, blood flowed down, and Dai Yue's heart fell directly into the ice cellar: He really wants to kill me!
But the sword edge never continued to penetrate.
Zhongli stood still for a long time, then suddenly sighed and took back his sword. The sword's edge only left a shallow wound between Dai Yue's eyebrows, from which a few drops of blood flowed down to the tip of his nose.
Dai Yue's heart was still beating wildly. She put her hands on the ground and stepped back little by little. After walking a few feet away, she stood up and turned around, limping her right leg and running down the mountain. Dai Yue didn't dare to look back or stop.
I was really afraid of this hunchback from the bottom of my heart: He was joking before going up the mountain, but in the blink of an eye he was going to kill himself! Ah, the hunchback killed many people along the way, he is a murderous devil! I can't believe it.
That's stupid, why should you hope that he will treat you special?
After running for a long time, Dai Yue stopped out of breath. She felt her mouth was dry and her stomach was empty. She turned around and looked around. She saw only yellow grass and sparse grass, and a desolate place. She had no idea where she had come, or even where she was.
I have forgotten which way I came from. But as long as I escape from the clutches of the hunchback, my life is saved.
Dai Yue walked aimlessly in the distance, becoming more and more thirsty and hungry. It was not until evening that she saw a small river in the distance. She ran over lamely, lay down on the bank and drank a few sips of river water, holding back her mouthful.
I swallowed the earthy smell, then retched and coughed several times.
There was water, but there was still no food. It was hard to catch even a grasshopper, let alone chasing hares. As night fell, Dai Yue held her stomach and huddled behind a bush on the shore. She heard something nearby.
I heard the crowing of frogs, but I couldn't find a frog. I sighed in my heart: If I don't need the hunchback to kill me, I will starve to death in this wilderness.
Suddenly, there were bursts of howling in the distance. Dai Yue hurriedly lay down on the ground, not even daring to breathe loudly. She didn't know whether it was a wolf, a jackal, or something else that made such horrifying sounds. In short, she didn't know.
If you can't bear to eat them, you just want not to be eaten by them.
But the howling was getting closer and closer. The back of Dai Yue's palms was sweating a lot, and she didn't dare to move. Not long after, she heard footsteps rubbing against the sand and gravel again nearby, and Dai Yue held on tightly.
He touched his lips, just praying that those things would never come near.
The moonlight was suddenly blocked by a shadow, a pair of feet appeared in front of my eyes, and the familiar mocking words jumped into my ears: "A few wolf howls scared you into this kind of behavior. Miss Dai Yue, you are so cowardly."
Dai Yue raised her head in shock, only to see Zhongli arriving in front of her at some point. She turned around again and looked around. Where was the shadow of a jackal in the empty wilderness? She immediately understood that it was the hunchback that was scaring her. Tears were about to well up again, Dai Yue looked up.
Yue tried her best to hold back the urge to cry and said, "If you want to kill me, just kill me. Why are you teasing me like this?"
Zhongli grinned and said: "You want the hunchback to kill you, but the hunchback refuses to kill you, so he keeps you and plays like a monkey."
"It's up to you!" Dai Yue simply lay down on his back, "You can do whatever you want, I won't resist."
Zhongli said: "You have a beautiful idea. Don't look at yourself. How can you be worthy of a hunchback picking flowers? Get up from the ground and follow me."
Dai Yue pursed her lips: "I won't leave."
"It's okay if you don't want to go." Zhongli raised his leg and took two steps forward. Seeing that Dai Yue hadn't gotten up yet, he stopped for a moment and said, "Although there are no wolves in this place, there are venomous snakes."
"ah!"
Dai Yue jumped up from the ground with a scream, and Zhongli burst into laughter.
The two of them were walking in the wilderness, wearing stars and the moon. Zhongli's leg was still a little lame, and Dai Yue was still lame. There was always a distance of more than ten feet between the two of them. In front of him, Zhongli spoke again: "Miss Dai Yue, your father is a powerful demon swordsman."
"Wang', the famous general Tianwei of Dayu Kingdom, why don't you know martial arts? You have never learned it?"
Dai Yue kicked away a piece of dirt on the road and said bitterly: "What kind of martial arts are you learning? What's so good about this thing?"
Zhongli said: "I don't think you can learn it. If you can't eat the grapes, you will say the grapes are sour."
"Nonsense, I learned martial arts very quickly when I was a child."
Dai Yue retorted.
"That's strange. You learned martial arts quickly when you were a child, but now you look like you don't know any martial arts at all."
"That's because I don't want to learn, and it's all wasted. Learning martial arts is very hard and tiring. I have to get up early and go to bed late every day. I don't have to protect my family and the country, or eliminate violence. What kind of martial arts should I learn? I figured it out when I was ten years old.
La. As a little girl, it is my wish to grow up happily and marry a good-looking and handsome man."
"Yes, every little girl wants to grow up carefree and marry a good husband." Zhongli's voice was hoarse than usual, sounding a little desolate, "But you have a family background to protect your wishes.
, some people don’t.”
Dai Yue said: "You don't have to have a distinguished family background. I have seen some peasant women. They have strong husbands and lovely children, and they live happily every day."
Zhongli laughed from his nose: "Do you think everyone can be lucky?"
Dai Yue was speechless for a moment, thinking: What unfortunate thing happened to the hunchback? He is a murderer and has a weird temperament, but he doesn't seem to be completely incapable of listening to reason. If I chat with him more, maybe he will be in a good mood.
Just take me home.
He was silent for a while and then spoke again: "Brother Camel, I don't know your name yet."
"My surname is Zhong and my name is Li, the bell of the death knell, the Li of hatred."
"It sounds very poetic, and it goes well with my name. There is a poem written by someone from the previous dynasty, in which there is a sentence: 'The bright moon does not know the pain of separation, and the slanting light penetrates the Zhuhu at dawn.' There is separation, and there is also the moon.
,Ha ha."
Zhongli stopped and asked, "Why are you laughing?"
"I...I think the two of us are actually quite destined..."
"'The bright moon does not know the pain of separation and hate', haha, the bright moon hangs high in the sky, it has been for eternity, how can it know the pain of separation and death in life? How can it be fate!"
Dai Yue remained silent and complained secretly, why did he think of this sentence and violated the hunchback's taboo!
Zhongli was not as angry as she had guessed. After saying that, he added: "Actually, I wanted to kill you at first, but then I didn't want to anymore."
"Why?"
"I originally wanted to kill you and let your father feel the pain, but then I thought, if a stupid and ugly daughter like you dies, he will only embarrass him. Instead of suffering, he will be happy.
I don’t want to kill you anymore.”
Dai Yue opened her mouth to refute, saying that her father clearly loved her the most, but then she thought, if she said that, wouldn't it be like stretching her neck to the blade of the sword? She quickly changed the subject: "Your sword is really a good sword."
Zhongli took out the snake-shaped sword and raised it towards the moon. The faint moonlight shone on the dark sword, giving it a very special luster.
"Of course it is a good sword. Even the world-famous swordsman Luo Qinghan wants to get it."
"Where did you get such a good sword?"
"Of course it was stolen."
"Where did you steal it?"
"Far South."
"Who is the original owner of the sword and how did you steal it?"
"I don't want to tell you."
"Actually, I think this sword suits you very well."
"Oh? Why?"
"Everything seems strange at first glance, but upon closer inspection you will find that there are hidden edges and secrets."
"It's useless for you to flatter me. The hunchback is not afraid of anyone's scolding, and he doesn't need anyone's flattery."
"This is not flattery, this is sincerity. Can I see your swordsmanship again?"
"Didn't you see it before? I killed many people."
"I was too scared to look at it at that time."
Zhongli suddenly stopped, and Dai Yue stopped immediately.
The long sword moved, and the sword blade passed Dai Yue's neck. Zhongli appeared behind Dai Yue, and thousands of long hair floated into the sky and scattered with the wind.