The worst is the next cousin

In the next two days, almost no one in the team spoke, and the speed of the march became slower and slower, and they stopped again on the way to set up camp.But this time it was not a planned break, but a surprise attack by a blizzard.

Under Jin Su's command, everyone set up the tent in an orderly and fast manner.

When the blizzard came, it was as if thunder was shaking the whole ground. Mao Xiaofei, the three of them, and four other members of the Qinglong Gang stayed in a big tent. Press and hold if there is a gap.

Everyone held a bowl of greasy soup in their hands, and the oil droplets on the soup surface condensed into white fat flakes due to the low temperature.

From time to time, someone raised their panicked eyes, staring vigilantly at the upper part of the tent that was torn and deformed by the violent wind and snow.

"It can't go on like this."

Suddenly came such a sentence in his ears, Mao Xiaofei looked to the side in a daze, shivering Jin Chen curled up into a ball and leaned into Xu Qi's arms, and whispered: "It's cold, I'm cold, uncle, hug me .”

Xu Qi didn't seem to hear either.

Mao Xiaofei thought he heard it wrong, and just took a wooden stick to poke the fire that was not too strong, when besides the sound of burning, there was the sound of someone talking——

"We are human beings too. I came here at the wrong place. Brother Li, you told me to come with you. See what they did to us? They didn't treat us as their own brothers, so why should they work hard for them? I Zhu Jiu would rather die by the knife of his enemies than starve to death in such a useless way."

The voice was full of anger.

"At the beginning, we were also desperate. Since Topi is in the Qinglong Gang, how can we say such things again." A helpless and hoarse voice said.

"Why can't you say it? Yes, the grace of saving lives is beyond heaven, but what is it to starve to death and freeze to death like this? If you have a quick battle with someone, if you lose, I, Zhu Jiu, would like to offer this head with both hands. Brother Li , are you and I such cowards? Don’t go wandering in the great rivers and lakes, but stay here to be ordered by servants, order around, listen to orders, and not give you enough food!”

"That's not Director Jin's fault. He told us to prepare more dry food, but... everyone didn't listen."

"Then did he tell us where we are going? Brothers who were killed before, have they found out the murderer? I think Ye Bajiang is an old turtle, and his son is a bastard turtle, otherwise why he has not shown up until now. Staying in the car all day, lustful and greedy, I really don't want to accept such a person as our leader, brother Li."

The man called "Brother Li" didn't speak.

"Brother Li, we can't sit still. I felt something was wrong after we left Shangqi. We never walked this road, and haven't you heard of it? The north of Shangqi is completely deserted. What are we doing here? Have you ever thought about it? We are people with flesh and blood and brains, not animals. Once the whip hits the face, we will go east if we are told to go east, and we will go west if we are told to go west."

Mao Xiaofei raised his eyes and glanced at him calmly, facing a face flushed with righteous indignation, but his head was lowered, and they sat far away, and Mao Xiaofei didn't care if the members of the Qinglong Gang didn't mix with the three of them. I'm used to it.

These people don't even know where they are going or what they are going to do.

How can someone stand by and watch without caring about their own life or death? Mao Xiaofei took a sip of the cool broth, and the fishy smell hit his throat.

This team will be disbanded sooner or later, how many people can be left behind, and whether these people can help, depending on Ye Jintian, Jin Su and Xu Qi, Mao Xiaofei couldn't help but worry, whether he can get what the old man asked for in the gift list thing.Up to now, not to mention not seeing towns, not even people, does that legendary country really exist? At least now Mao Xiaofei can’t see any hope, so will they die in this snowy field?

The tent was still rumbling, the two big men were talking in a low voice, Mao Xiaofei found out that Xu Qi really didn't hear them talking, it was just that the four people gathered together, and the other two remained silent.

Everyone went to sleep with their own concerns. In the second half of the night, someone opened the tent, and the biting cold wind made Mao Xiaofei shiver unconsciously in his sleep, and huddled tightly into a ball.

But I don't know what happened, and I couldn't sleep warmly after that, but Mao Xiaofei was too tired and sleepy, and didn't want to get up to look, and repeatedly wondered if the tent had been blown away. When he opened his eyes, he saw that the tent was still there, that is, it was inside the tent it's too cold.The fire had already been extinguished, probably because the ground was too cold, and many people couldn't resist sleeping like this in the ice and snow.Mao Xiaofei pressed half of his face to the ground, shivering involuntarily from the cold.

Suddenly, he stopped shaking, his mouth was slightly opened, and after a while, his face was flushed, and a puff of white smoke came out from around his head and face, covering his face.As time passed, not only did Mao Xiaofei not wake up from the cold, but he was sweating profusely. When he was woken up, the entire quilt was wet, and the quilt was full of heat.

Mao Xiaofei sat up in a daze, and was covered by the clothes thrown by Xu Qi.

Mao Xiaofei tucked his hands into his sleeves, stretched his legs and put them on his pants, while Xu Qi stood by and watched.

After putting on his clothes, Mao Xiaofei realized that Xu Qi gave him medicine before and he didn't feel anything at all. Since Xu Qi said to let Mao Xiaofei consider being with him, now he feels a little uncomfortable wearing clothes in front of Xu Qi.

But Mao Xiaofei didn't want to appear uncomfortable, so he pretended to be relaxed and said: "Let's go, is it still snowing outside?"

"Xiao Fei." Xu Qi seemed to have something to say.

A person walked in from outside the tent. Jin Chen stood with folded arms and watched. He brought some bad news: "Two people died last night, and they were still in the same tent as us. It's strange."

The face of the deceased was dark purple, and he was a little blue from the cold in the snow. His hands and feet were stiff, as if he had been frozen to death.

One of them was Zhu Jiu who blamed Jin Su in the tent last night. Mao Xiaofei subconsciously glanced at Jin Su. bury.

The other dead person was the one called "Brother Li" by Zhu Jiu.

"What's the matter?" Xu Qi came, put one hand on Mao Xiaofei's shoulder, and comforted in a low voice, "Don't be afraid, I'm here, if you're cold or hungry, just tell me. I won't put you in danger, Believe me."

Mao Xiaofei turned to look at Xu Qi.

Do you want to tell Xu Qi what you heard yesterday? The person is dead, and it's useless to tell, and things can easily be strung together.What Zhu Jiu said yesterday must not have been heard by him alone. The two gang members who sat with them went out last night, and more than one person went out. No wonder it was so cold in the tent. Maybe it was Zhu Jiu and Brother Li. After being called out, he was assassinated on the spot.Too many people have been frozen to death and frostbitten in the past few days, so it is not surprising that two more people died.

Mao Xiaofei raised his head, searched the crowd, saw the two people in the same tent yesterday, remembered their faces deeply, and tried not to contact them as much as possible.

However, the members of the Qinglong Gang will not take the initiative to contact the three of them.

The two dead were hurriedly buried, and there were only 43 people left in the team. Everyone rode on the road. Some people's horses were so exhausted that they had to lead the horses.Every horse has lost a lot of weight, and it can't move faster than people in the snow.

On the eve before Jinsu was able to go out, everyone lay silently on their horses. The wind was not strong, but it was very cold, cutting people's faces like invisible knives.

With a bang, someone's horse fell, and the man got off the horse, picked up his luggage, and caught up with the team without saying a word.

"Xiao Fei, drink some water."

Mao Xiaofei glanced at the clean snowball in front of him, took it and slowly stuffed it into his mouth, melting the snowball with the moist and cool tip of his tongue and mouth.His throat was very sore. I don't know what happened. Half a day ago, his body temperature started to rise, but he didn't have a fever when he touched his head. It was probably either because of the cold or because he was too tired.

Walking on the snow can be said to consume a huge amount of physical strength. Mao Xiaofei has no meat all over his body, nor does he have any fat to keep out the cold, but every time he feels stiff from the cold, he feels that his dantian is getting hot, just like his body. There is a small stove hidden inside.

"I'm not thirsty anymore, where is Jin Chen? You don't have to take care of me, just watch him more."

Xu Qi don't turn around to look for Jin Chen.

This night was extremely long, and everyone was gritting their teeth and enduring it. After dawn, they should be able to see a new world, at least there will be a town.

Before dawn, Mao Xiaofei still didn't see any hope, but there was no better way than choosing to believe in Jin Su.The blue and black colors between the sky and the earth were dispelled with the rising of the sun, and the first ray of golden light appeared on the snow field, and everyone's despair deepened, because there was still no sign of any town within sight.

I don't know who was the first to get down on the ground. After that, people kept reining in the horse, turning over and getting off the ground, and rested in the snow.

Jin Su squinted his eyes, turned his horse's head towards Ye Jintian's carriage, and after a while, came back and announced loudly: "Rest here."

Mao Xiaofei couldn't explain this feeling, although the night before was difficult, but he had hope in his heart, now all hope is like a white field under the sun, empty, letting the cold snow wind roar past.

Suddenly, a bearded man stood up in the crowd, grabbed a long knife in his bandaged hand, and went straight to Jin Su in a menacing manner.

"Brother Xu, look." Mao Xiaofei walked to Xu Qi's side, Jin Shen was trying to start a fire, but it was difficult to ignite the torn cotton wool he spread out without kerosene, and after rubbing for a long time, no sparks burst out.

"Idiot." Jin Chen glanced at him, then lowered his head to strike his flint.

Xu Qi grabbed Mao Xiaofei's arm, dragged him closer to him, and said in a deep voice, "Don't look."

The man had an angry face and said a few words to Jin Su, and he could vaguely hear him asking how long he would have to walk in the snow, more and more people stood up, at first there were only one or two, now there are more than ten A man stood, silently picking up a weapon in his hand.

Jin Su glanced coldly, her lips moved, but she couldn't make out what she said.

Mao Xiaofei heard the sound of horseshoes in his ears, the sound was still far away, but he heard it.Mao Xiaofei suddenly fell to the ground.

"Xiaofei, what are you doing? It's cold on the ground, get up quickly." Xu Qi went to pull Mao Xiaofei, but he broke away with his backhand.

Mao Xiaofei raised his face, and a gleam of joy appeared on his cold gray face, "Someone is here, and there is a horse." Mao Xiaofei said this in a low voice, and immediately many people lay down on the ground to listen, and there were people in the crowd He shouted in surprise: "Someone is here! Someone! Finally there is a living person! Someone...someone..."

Almost crazy voices came and went, as if they had never seen other living people.

After the initial surprise passed, Mao Xiaofei looked at Jin Su, he was the leader of the group, now Jin Su walked to Ye Jintian's carriage and said something.

Soon, Jin Su came back, and a low and steady voice was heard clearly in everyone's ears: "Pack up your things, mount your horse immediately, and get out of here immediately."

Many people were stunned, only a dozen people acted immediately according to Jin Su's order.

Mao Xiaofei glanced at Xu Qi.

"Get on the horse." Xu Qi said without doubt.

In the distant place where the sky and the earth meet, a row of extremely inconspicuous black spots appeared in everyone's field of vision.