Adopt this koi

The water source that Liushu Village relies on for survival is just outside the village. The small river is formed by underground springs. The small river is very narrow, like a palm and a half. It is more accurate to call it a stream than a river.The small river is not long, and it winds and flows around the village for half a circle before gradually drying up and disappearing.It was mid-winter, except for the springs, other places were covered with thick ice, but there was no snow on the ice, and the clean ice surface could be seen.

The ice at the spring's eye has also piled up very high, only fist-sized water gushing out.

Lin Ze rubbed his hands, stomped his feet, and sniffled in the cold wind, "There's nothing special here, let's go, it's freezing to death."

Qin Heyi and Tong Xiu didn't leave, they cleaned up a place by the spring, kicked away the big clods and dry plant roots, and sorted out a relatively flat place, looking like they wanted to grow up here. The appearance of talking.Tong Xiu also bent down to pick up a small piece of ice from the river, and threw it to Lin Ze without saying hello, Lin Ze caught it in a panic, "What are you doing?"

"Cover your hands." Tong Xiu said.

"What?" Lin Ze was inexplicable, and wanted to throw the ice cubes in his hands, but felt a little warmth from the palm of his hand.Lin Ze can be sure that it wasn't a hallucination that occurred after he was frozen stupid. He really felt the warmth from a piece of ice, and the warmth in the palm of his hand spread to his whole body, and his limbs felt warm. "Hey, what's going on here? Is this why the people in the village must go to the river to fetch water?"

Lin Ze quickly squatted beside the small river, sticking his whole hand to the ice. If the small river was not too narrow, he would have stuck his whole body on it.As soon as I put it on, my palm felt like I got an electric shock. I immediately took it away from the ice and shook it quickly, "Hiss, it's so cold, how can it be cold, woo, it's too cold, my fingers are about to freeze off."

"Hahaha." Tong Xiu covered his stomach and laughed, "Why did you put your whole hand on it? You didn't stretch out a finger to try it first. You just hold the one that was given to you and didn't let you touch the others."

Lin Ze was aggrieved, "I'm cold." He hugged the ice cube Tong Xiu gave him, and he didn't know whether it was because he was too eager for warmth and had an illusion, or if the temperature of the real ice cube had changed. The ice cube inside was getting hotter and hotter, so hot that his palms ached, and he could hardly hold it anymore.He quickly hugged it into his arms, holding it through his clothes, like holding a small stove, very comfortable.Lin Ze shouted in surprise: "What's going on?"

The hot ice hadn't melted yet, which made Lin Ze even more surprised, holding it upside down through his clothes to study it.

As soon as I looked up, I saw Qin Heyi and Tong Xiu sitting on the ground. They dug a shallow hole in the ground, put dead branches and leaves in it and made a fire. The flames moved lightly in the cold wind, outlining a warm edge. Lin Ze didn't dare to sit directly on the frozen ground, squatting opposite the two of them, closing his eyes to feel the warmth of the fire, and the unhealthy white face was also dyed with a little red warmth.

Qin Heyi broke off a branch and sent it to the fire, "Tell me what happened to you after the earthquake."

After squatting for a while, Lin Ze felt that his legs were numb, so he stretched his legs in a squatting position. Hearing Qin Heyi's question, his legs couldn't hold on anymore, so he simply sat down, "The earthquake happened several days ago. It’s something, I didn’t count carefully, the sun rose and the moon set several times, wandering around in the woods, I couldn’t find the way out at first, who has the heart to keep track of the time. Did you come to us on purpose? Oh, by the way, I remember that the idol has a TV series to be filmed, and the filming location is in Daqingshan? Did you also enter the cave to hide, and then came here?"

"No, Tong Xiu and I came here specifically to find you. Don't think about anything else, just tell us about your own experience, how did you end up here."

"Oh." Qin Heyi's face was cold and majestic. Lin Ze had heard all kinds of rumors about Qin Heyi when he was in the town, so he was more afraid of him, so he asked him not to talk nonsense about what happened after the earthquake. Lin Ze Ze didn't dare to delay, and said directly: "When the earthquake happened, the teacher happened to see a tree frog unique to Daqingshan. It was different from other tree frogs. There are black spots, and the eyes are also black. Daqingshan tree frog has... Uh, sorry, I won’t talk about this. Just when the teacher asked us to make records and take pictures, the whole mountain began to shake, there was thunder in the sky, and there was a lot of smoke and dust Rising from a distance, it is about to pounce down..."

Speaking of this, Lin Ze shivered a bit. Baoyue Town was peaceful and peaceful, and the weather in the old city was smooth. The biggest natural disaster Lin Zechang had ever seen was heavy rain during a typhoon, but he had never experienced an earthquake.The whole person was frightened, and the professor who took the lead yelled, and everyone came back to their senses and ran for their lives and hid with the guide who was familiar with the situation in Daqingshan.But there was too much smoke and dust, and the guide couldn't tell the direction. Fortunately, everyone didn't get separated and stayed together.

The guide found a cave, and everyone hid in. In the panic of fleeing, the backpacks they carried were lost and scattered, and there was no food or water...

"Everyone was tired and thirsty. The professor said that the cave where we hide is ventilated and the air is humid. There must be an underground river in it, and we can find water to drink. Originally, he and the guide went in to find water, but the brother suggested not to separate and go inside together. .Inside, inside..." Lin Ze swallowed hard.

"Have you seen a snake?" Qin Heyi asked.

Lin Ze nodded, then shook his head again, "I don't know if it's a snake. At first I walked back, and when the people in front backed away screaming, I didn't know what happened. Standing in the same place, it was my brother who grabbed me and led me to escape. I turned my head and saw a snake-like thing crawling in the dark. It was thick and long, with yellow eyes and a head. There is a pair of horns growing on it, which is terrifying. My senior brother and I ran with the professor, and the guide Uncle Zhang next to us. We ran in the wrong direction when we ran, but we heard a snake behind us. The sound of the letter, I can only bite the bullet and run inside, and when I run and see the light, I come here."

Lin Ze pointed to the direction of the forest, "We ran into the forest. We were cold and hungry. Fortunately, we found a hunter's hut and barely found something to keep out the cold. The uncle guide identified the direction, and we entered the village. You will know later .Professor, brother, and uncle guide were all arrested by them, and I was almost taken away." Lin Ze said in a low voice: "What is this all about? Where is this place? Have we crossed over or come to Xanadu ? No, it's not Xanadu, it's a barren land, there are still uncivilized places in China!"

"Don't you think there's something strange about you?"

"What?" Lin Ze looked down at himself. He was wearing a robe that would not give up his life. Under the robe, he still had a full beard and tail. Except for being too cold, there were no missing parts.

"Nothing." Qin Heyi shook his head, "Let's go."

"Ah?" Lin Ze couldn't figure out why he just left.

Qin Heyi stood up, lowered his eyes and looked down at Lin Ze, "Because the time to stay is almost up, you won't be frozen to death." Looking up, Qin Heyi who smiled was that gentle person again, but gentleness is For Tong Xiu alone, "Little Tong, are you ready, let's go."

"Wait, I'll knock another piece of ice off, it's quite fun."

Lin Ze braced himself and was about to stand up, when he suddenly felt that the clothes at the back of his collar were being lifted up. He, a young man, was actually being lifted in his hands like a bag of apples or a chicken.The surrounding scenery retreated rapidly, and Lin Ze realized that they were advancing rapidly. He wanted to open his mouth to ask why, but he was filled with wind. He could only close his mouth, squint his eyes, and look at the rapidly retreating scenery on both sides.

The water in the creek is rich in fire aura, and the fire aura usually sleeps in the water. Tong Xiu picked up an ice cube and used the aura to activate the fire aura in the water, which turned the ice cube Lin Ze was holding into a stove. .Generally speaking, aura is non-attribute, peaceful and docile, floating freely in the world.But in places where the five elements are out of balance, the aura will change from a non-attributed state to a discrete state of the five elements. For example, there are a lot of sleeping fire-attribute auras in a small river.

The grandparents in Liushu Village have been drinking the water from this river for generations. They can't explain why they must drink it, but they subconsciously follow the footsteps of their grandparents and feel good in their hearts.

Qin Heyi guessed that the water aura in the water was probably related to the tentacles on their heads.

Liushu Village is really remote. The county seat is 15 kilometers east of it. Qin Heyi and Tong Xiu can get there in about 10 minutes at the current speed. But with an ordinary Lin Ze, they can only slow down. At some speed, it took three to [-] minutes to reach the destination.The county town is not prosperous, because of the cold weather, most people hide at home, but some things have to go out to solve, for example, there is no water in the house, so they can only fetch water with buckets.

Rubbing their hands in the cold wind, stomping their feet, and queuing up with their necks shrunk, some people can't bear the loneliness, even if they eat a mouthful of wind, they still have to talk.

"Have you heard, the village below has caught a few more, and the county magistrate will be rewarded by sending those people up again."

The latter curled his lips when he heard it, "Huang Liangguo is mentally ill, sending spies to every corner of our corner every day. Who knows how those people without tentacles got here, hmph."

"Shh, keep your voice down, everyone knows this matter well, the people above are easy to trade for credit, and the people below give people away in exchange for food and living. It's the best of both worlds."

"That's right, that's not the case. In the village where my distant cousin married, the village head sent his stupid son who didn't have tentacles to make up for it. It not only reduces burdens and burdens, but also has more food and meat to live on. Poor that one." child."

"Tch, those who don't grow tentacles are inherently inferior."

"Don't say that either..."

The three of Qin Heyi and the others passed by the water fetcher, and upon hearing these few words in their ears, Lin Ze buttoned the big cap on his robe tighter on his head in fear, buried his head low, and followed Behind Qin Heyi and Tong Xiu, they were inseparable.

The county government office is in the middle of the entire county, and it is easy to find without asking for directions.It was cold, and everyone in the county government was sitting in the house warming up and bragging. Qin Heyi and the others easily found the place where the prisoner was held.The county government is not big, and there are no special cells. The prisoners are directly locked in the firewood room at the back. At this moment, there are more than a dozen people crowded side by side. Some of them have dull expressions, crooked eyes and mouths. Drooling, digging his fingers on the ground, he didn't know what fate was waiting for him.Some people look sad and angry, their eyes are gray, their eyesight is out of focus, they have to lean against the wall when they sit, there are two blood holes on their foreheads, there are wounds that have not been healed, the skin and flesh on the holes are turned out, and the skull is clearly visible. In winter, the wound is frozen, and in summer, it must be bleeding, pus and festering.

In addition to these two kinds of people, there is another kind of people who are sane, have good eyesight, and have no wounds on the places where antennae should grow on their heads.

After a quick glance, Qin Heyi knew that there were no senior brother Lin Ze and the three of them, but he asked Lin Ze to take a look to make sure. "See if there are any of them from your professor."

The interior of the firewood room was bright and dim. Lin Ze was not as capable as Qin Heyi and Tong Xiu. He opened his eyes wide and watched for a long time before he could see the situation in the room clearly.Looking back in disappointment, he shook his head, "Not one of them. Where did they go?"

Lin Ze was anxious, everyone came out together, came here together, and three of them disappeared in a blink of an eye.

"Get someone and ask." Qin Heyi turned his head and looked behind him.

Lin Ze followed his line of sight to look forward, and saw Tong Xiu walking over with a short, fat man with big eyes and few black pupils. Roll your eyes.The bridge of the nose is short and the tip of the nose is very large, occupying a large part of the disc-shaped face. It seemed that the nose was supposed to be slender and straight, but it was suddenly blocked by an external force, and the path of growth was abruptly blocked. It's so long, it can only develop advantages to both sides.

Being carried by Tong Xiu, the man first scolded and struggled, but when he couldn't break free, he begged loudly, but the begging didn't work. pour out.

Tong Xiu threw the man out forcefully, and the man flopped forward and fell to the ground, a pile of meat heaving up and down, and he sat up clutching his buttocks, "Aiyo, aiyo, the hero threw it well, throw it away wonderful."

"... Let me ask you, where are the people caught before sent?"

"It's really a crime that deserves to die. Could it be that the relatives of the heroes were arrested? The villains really have no eyesight and mistakenly arrested good people."

"Tell me, where did you go?" Tong Xiu asked sharply, not wanting to deal with this flattering villain.

The county magistrate shivered for a moment, he still felt that he was wronged, he was wrong and flattered, that's right, could he be flattered by the wrong thing? "I sent it to the magistrate in two hours." That is, before lunch.

"Damn it." Lin Ze scolded, "People eat chaff and swallow vegetables, but you enjoy people's fat and people's cream, and make yourself fat and strong like a pig."

Qin Heyi stepped over the fat meat mountain, took out a handkerchief from his pocket, picked up Tong Xiu's hand and wiped it carefully with the handkerchief, "Why are you carrying a pile of meat, it's all dirty."

"..." Lin Ze

"..." Roshan

Tong Xiu held back his laughter, and then asked the fat county magistrate, "Where is the magistrate?"

The county magistrate stretched out his big, carrot-like finger and pointed in the north direction, "Out of the county town is the official road, go straight north, and you can reach Nanping City in four hours, that's where the people are sent."

"Four hours, it's still early." Qin Heyi said, "Let's go, find someone early, and leave here early."

"Hey, wait a minute." Lin Ze glanced at the people in the woodshed, and raised his voice slightly to call Qin Heyi and Tong Xiu, "You just leave them here?"

"The back door is open. If you want to leave, you can go by yourself. There is no one guarding them." Qin Heyi turned around, but not for the people in the woodshed, but walked to the side of the Lord of Roushan County, index finger and thumb The magistrate closed his eyes and passed out. After waking up, he would not remember what happened just now, so he would not be able to vent his anger on the poor man in the firewood room after waking up. people.

As for those poor people, Qin Heyi can be sure that there will not be many people who want to leave, and three or four of them are considered to be the best.It's freezing outside, and these abandoned people have no tiles to cover their bodies. Although the county government firewood house restricts freedom, it has four high walls and a tight roof, and the county magistrate wants to use them for credit, so they can live Change.It is impossible to have regular meals for three meals, but there is also a steamed bun with miscellaneous grain noodles and water delivered every day, which is much better than leaking wind everywhere, not being full and not wearing enough clothes.

Lin Ze also came to his senses and understood Qin Heyi's unfinished words, but he did not give up. As a modern man, a college student who can eat and drink well, there is nothing more precious than freedom in his heart.Standing at the door, he said to the people inside: "The back door is open there, and everyone can leave at any time. The world is big, and there is always a place for oneself." Facing the cruel reality, everyone was indifferent. Shouted, "Staying here will kill you!"

Only one looked up at him.

Lin Ze was helpless, he had forgotten that the freedom of not having three meals a day, the freedom of struggling in the quagmire of poverty, is not real freedom.

Qin Heyi threw the fainted county magistrate into the aisle, the draft was gusty and the ground was cold, hoping that the magistrate's stomach full of fat would be warm enough.

When he came out of the county government office, only one person from the whole room came out. He was very thin, with messy hair scattered on his shoulders. He looked about fifteen or sixteen years old or younger, according to Nanke and Huangliang. Calculating the time, plus a hundred words, it is only one hundred and fifty 60-year-old young people.The head is smooth and has no tentacles, the brain is clear and the eyesight is normal, which is similar to the Ah Hua I saw.

After coming out of the county office, the young man fell behind Qin Heyi and the others not far or near all the way, walking barefoot on the ground, the cold wind was howling, and walking barefoot on the street did not seem to shrink in the slightest.

At this time, the sky had already darkened, except for a few of them, there was no one on the street, only a few shops hung lanterns outside, the lanterns were blown tottering by the wind, and the candles inside were dimmed.They passed the well they had come here again, and now no one was drawing water, only the old well was waiting alone in the cold wind of the cold night.

Like the small river outside Liushu Village, the well water contained dormant fire-attribute aura, and this well was used for eating and drinking water in the town.

Whether rich or poor, from life to death, it is used.

"Child, come here." Qin Heyi waved.

The young man who fell behind them looked at Qin Heyi vigilantly. After a while, he stepped forward cautiously, and stopped when he was about four or five steps away from them. His bright black eyes watched Qin Heyi with suspicion Yi Yi's every move, the muscles are tense, as long as there is any trouble, they will run away immediately.

Qin Heyi took out five exquisitely crafted gold leaves from his sleeves. They were some ordinary gold leaves given by his father and grandfather. He took out some and let Jiu Ge Ding keep them in case of emergencies. Isn't it just for use now? up.

"My child, I'm here for you. I believe you can use them to play a role." Qin Heyi took the gold leaf and sent it to the front, put away the indifference on his face, and said gently.

The child looked up at him. Under the messy hair and dirt, there was an unexpectedly beautiful face.Qin Heyi took the gold leaf and sent it to the front again. The child quickly glanced at Qin Heyi's forehead, snatched the gold leaf and ran away.

Lin Ze witnessed the whole process, and stared dumbfounded at the direction where the child disappeared, "Who is he, who has no education at all, and doesn't say thank you." He also had a little dissatisfaction with Qin Heyi, and he murmured softly He said, "I don't help in the village, and I don't help in the firewood house of the county government. I just give a few gold leaves to a child."

No matter how soft the murmur was, even a monk could hear it clearly. Tong Xiu glanced at Lin Ze, "What do you know, that is the person who can change the world." Qin Heyi's eyes can't lie, The child's luck has purple qi and golden light, and he will be the one who will completely end the war in Nanke and Huangliang. Saving a moment cannot save the whole life. Only by completely changing the chaotic status quo of Huangliang and Nanke can one be able to escape from poverty.

Lin Ze shut up, took a deep breath, and told himself not to be impatient.But watching Qin Heyi and Tong Xiu go to the restaurant instead of saving people, he was anxious, "Why don't you save people, they will be sent to the magistrate's office if it's too late, let's go now It happened to save people halfway."

"Young man, don't worry, it's getting late. A group of lazy people in the county government will not continue on their way. They can use public funds to eat and drink at the post station. Why go on the road at night." Tong Xiu said soothingly, and then dragged Qin Heyi went to the most prosperous restaurant in the entire county. This restaurant was the only restaurant in the county that was still lit in the cold night, and there was soft singing from the closed windows. The fragrance hit her face, and a little girl came up to meet her immediately.

"Is it objective to hit the tip or stay in a hotel?"

The restaurant's underwear is fragrant and temples, colorful clothes and brocade fur, the cups are exchanged, the cups are exchanged, the music is in the air, silk and bamboo are incessant, and it is different from the poverty and suffering outside.

Lin Ze was a little dazed, a little angry, a little helpless, a little longing... His heart was like overturning oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, with mixed flavors, indescribable resentment and sorrow.

The waiter led the three of them to the private room by the window on the second floor. The window was facing the stage in the lobby, where they could watch juggling and listen to ditties without being disturbed by others. "What do you guys want to eat and drink? Don't say anything else in the small shop. The saury is the best. Except for the county town, even if you go to Nanping, it may not be as good as our saury."