cold moon is king

After two hours, Chu Jiangli slowly woke up. The clothes on his body had not been changed, but there was an extra worn blanket on his body. Chu Jiangli touched the blanket on his body and could still smell There was a bloody smell, but it was not the smell of human blood, but the blood of poultry.

He lifted the blanket, closed the open skirt of his body, and then began to look at the room. This room can be said to be completely empty, without any furniture. The only thing there is a bed and a broken bar. table with legs.

Chu Jiangli rubbed his sore wrist, and was about to get up from the bed when he heard the sound of the door. He quickly lay down and stared blankly at the roof with his eyes open.

Sure enough, not long after, the wooden door creaked. The peasant woman pushed open the rotten wooden door and got in sideways. She was still holding a wooden basin, and mist curled up from the wooden basin. The peasant woman turned around and saw Chu Jiangli on the bed. , looked stunned for a moment, then forcefully forced a smile, "Girl, are you awake?"

Chu Jiangli's dull eyes turned to the peasant woman, but he didn't say a word. Seeing this, the peasant woman's heart softened, and she walked towards him, and placed the wooden basin on the ground beside the bed.

The peasant woman soaked the cloth towel in the basin and wrung it dry, and said earnestly to Chu Jiangli who was on the bed: "Let me wipe your body for you, and take a look at your injuries."

Chu Jiangli's eyelashes trembled, he shook his head slightly, his voice hoarse: "Many, thank you, I can do it myself."

The peasant woman didn't force her, she directly helped him to sit up, and stuffed the cloth towel into his hands. Chu Jiangli's fingers were long and calloused, but this didn't attract the peasant woman's attention. Apart from not being as white as Chu Jiangli, everything else was pretty much the same.

Holding the cloth towel, Chu Jiangli didn't shy away from the peasant woman, so he tore open the skirt of his clothes and stuffed the cloth towel into the skirt, revealing half of his white collarbone, shining white in front of the peasant woman, and the peasant woman's eyes fell on Chu Jiangli's face, Chu Jiangli Suddenly he raised his eyes until he met the peasant woman's eyes. Those eyes were deep but contained an inexplicable melancholy. The peasant woman's face was hot and she lowered her eyes in a hurry, saying: "I'll go out first, you wipe it slowly, and call after you wash it." I'll do."

After she turned and closed the door, she found that she forgot to tell the woman her name, so she quickly opened the door again, stuck a head in, and said, "You can just call me Mrs. Yang."

She was stunned again when she saw this, Chu Jiangli was just lifting up her skirt, a slender white leg was exposed, the movement of her hands stopped, Chu Jiangli hurriedly put down her skirt, lowered her head shyly, "Okay, sister-in-law Yang You can call me Lou Yao."

When Sister-in-Law Yang heard this, she nodded and closed the door. She thought to herself, Lou Yao is a good name, and this woman has delicate skin and tender flesh, but she has calluses on her hands. Maybe she is also a worker. Good hand, she suddenly thought of her younger brother from her natal family, who has not been married so far, if she can match one or two, it will be a good relationship.

Thinking of this, she felt more sympathy and compassion for Chu Jiangli in her heart, and her attitude became more earnest.

She didn't go in until a delicate voice called her from the door, and she carried a plate of fried wild vegetables in her hand. Chu Jiangli sat at the table and looked at the plate of fried wild vegetables, smiled a little embarrassedly, and said: " Please trouble Mrs. Yang."

"No trouble, no trouble." Sister-in-law Yang actually has good facial features and is very delicate, but she is a little yellow and thin, and looks not very energetic. Sister-in-law Yang hesitated, and then she thought how could there be such a beautiful girl in her village? As for the engagement, I'm afraid they've already been married, so they probed: "Xiaoyao, do you have a marriage?"

Chu Jiangli lowered his eyes, but a red cloud appeared on his face. He raised his hand to his lips to hide his shy smile, and said in a low voice, "I'm not married yet."

Sister-in-law Yang showed joy, "Sister-in-law Yang sees that we are also very destined. Sister-in-law Yang will introduce someone to you. Would you like it?"

In this situation, Chu Jiang had a countermeasure in his mind. He needed to relax Sister-in-law Yang's vigilance before he could sneak into the village. I have no reason to refuse to do anything."

Sister-in-law Yang was telling him about her younger brother's situation. She was very embarrassed, because her family's situation was really bad. Her family was a butcher in the village, and she only knew how to butcher pigs. Wen, presumably the situation at home is not going to be very good. Since she got married, she hasn't had any problems for several years.

When she went back, she could only exchange letters. She was also worried about her brother's situation, but there was nothing she could do.

The Liujia Village where she lives has always had a rule that only outsiders are allowed to marry in, but people in the village are not allowed to marry outside, and once married into the village, they are not allowed to return to their natal family. home village.

There was a famine in the Northwest that year, and the pigs had nothing to eat. They were all skinny, and they couldn't sell them for money, and even if they had money, it was useless. Her natal family was really poor that year, and they couldn't even eat. Let her have enough to eat, and finally chose to marry her off.

Just after Mrs. Yang finished talking about the situation of her natal family, Chu Jiangli was neither surprised nor disgusted. He just hesitated and said, "The northwest is too far away from the capital, so I have to go back and discuss it with my parents."

Sister-in-law Yang immediately responded, "That's natural." She smiled awkwardly, "My natal family's situation really makes things difficult for you, but my younger brother is very capable. Create a business."

Just as Chu Jiangli was thinking about how to deal with it, the wooden door was kicked open, and a big man with thick eyebrows and black face came in carrying a bow and arrow. When the big man saw Chu Jiangli, his eyes narrowed. She looked at Chu Jiangli with her eyes, but Sister-in-law Yang pursed her lips and couldn't help trembling. This weird scene made Chu Jiangli lower her eyes quickly.

With a thought in his mind, he immediately said: "Sister-in-law Yang, thank you for saving my life. It's getting late, and the family must have been looking for me. I will bring my family to pay my respects some other day."

Sister-in-law Yang took a careful look at the big man, then nodded: "Okay, okay, you, you go first."

Chu Jiangli walked towards the door in small steps with his hands folded in front of his chest, but a black shadow like a mountain blocked his way, and the big man's voice was as deep as a bell, "Are you the girl my wife picked up outside?"

Chu Jiangli smelled the strong smell of blood on the big man's body, and the smell of blood was mixed with the smell of human blood. He paused, did not look at the man, but scanned the man with his lowered eyes. It was a bunt made of coarse cloth, with an animal skin wrapped around its chest, and the animal skin was still stained with some unknown bloodstains.

Before Chu Jiangli could speak, the big man said in a rough voice, "Why, you could talk just now, but now you're dumb?"

Sister-in-law Yang saw that her husband was about to lose his temper, so she hurriedly stepped forward and untied the big man's leather armor belt, "The girl is more restrained, she was frightened by you for a while, yes, I found her in the woods."

Chu Jiangli nodded slightly: "Yes, that's right."

The big man circled around Chu Jiangli, "Which village are you from?"

Chu Jiangli pursed his lips, and had already thought of his words, "I'm from Li Family Village."

The big man let out a groan, and asked suspiciously, "I've been to Li's Village, why haven't I seen you?"

Chu Jiang's heart skipped a beat, and he explained: "My family only moved into Lijia Village in recent years, and the house with the red brick roof is my home."

The big man thought for a few seconds, but he couldn't remember whether there was such a house, so he said, "It's easy to get in in our Liujia Village, but difficult to get out. Since you're here, don't even think about leaving. Go to the ancestral hall and ask the village chief to transfer your Let's clarify things."

Chu Jiangli's eyes widened immediately, and he raised his hand to cover his lips with a frightened expression on his face. After a while, he tremblingly said: "My benefactor can do whatever he wants, but I want to go home first." Say hello to your family."

Sister-in-law Yang was also anxious when she heard the big man's words, but she didn't dare to refute, she whispered tremblingly: "Well, how can this be done, she..."

The big man waved his hand, and stared at Chu Jiangli with a pair of hanging eyes, "Hmph, it's already here, is it so easy to leave?"

Chu Jiangli was grabbed by the shoulders by the big man and sent to the ancestral hall. The ancestral hall was actually full of tablets, with the names of the ancestors of the Liu family village clearly engraved on them.

Chu Jiangli quickly scanned the names above, but found nothing unusual. After a while, people from the village entered the ancestral hall one after another. All men, women and children stared at him in amazement. After a while, an old man with thin cheeks and a shriveled figure came in with a cane, the old man's cloudy eyeballs flashed a little light, the old man coughed twice, and said: "What is your name, where are you from, how old are you?" People, how did you come to our village, report them one by one."

The old man's voice was dry and shrill, like a taut broken string, being constantly plucked. He waited for a while, and seeing that Chu Jiangli hadn't opened his mouth, he urged, "Come up quickly."

Chu Jiangli raised his head, revealing his own face. The messy hair hanging on his shoulders did not affect his beautiful face. At this moment, the whole ancestral hall fell into silence. The crowd spotted his target, Maimon was wearing the same coarse bunt as the villagers, and he was talking to the people around him with his eyes downcast.

They did not leave.

Why does this village accept foreigners in such a way that it rejects outsiders?

Chu Jiangli thought about it, and said slowly in a soft voice: "My name is Lou Yao, I am from Lijia Village, a family of five, today I went out to pick wild vegetables, but I met a villain, I fled into the woods in a panic, but lost my way , and finally met Mrs. Yang, and was able to save her life."

Sister-in-law Yang quickly stood up, "Yes, that's right."

The old man's cold eyes fell on Mrs. Yang, "Did I let you talk?"

Sister-in-law Yang shuddered and shut her mouth suddenly. She quickly retreated into the crowd again. The old man took out a register, and soon someone handed over a brush. The old man added a few strokes to the register, saying : "From today on, you are a member of our village."

The roster is naturally not a genealogy. Chu Jiangli looked at the roster clearly, and it was clearly written on the roster of slaves. Chu Jiangli's strange thoughts suddenly popped up. What's so great about making Maimeng and the others willingly submit and become slaves?