Half River Autumn Moon and River Spring [Rat and Cat]

Zhan Zhao supported the cliff and said as he walked, "It seems that this place has something to do with the grave village. Yutang, this place is slippery, walk slowly."

Bai Yutang originally had some resistance to this place, but after hearing Zhan Zhao's words, the resistance disappeared instantly. After all, having the cat's concern is more important than anything else.

The winding and narrow cliff path was very difficult to walk. The two supported each other and walked for a long time. Zhan Zhao looked back and said a little strangely: "It seems that no one has walked this road for a long time."

Bai Yutang turned around, puzzled, "Why?"

Zhan Zhao pointed behind him: "Look, there are only footprints of the two of us on the way here."

The road on the cliff wall gets wetter as you go down. Once you step on it, you will leave footprints. Bai Yutang squatted and looked ahead: "Besides us, there seem to be some animal footprints here."

"Really?" Zhan Zhao also squatted down and observed the inconspicuous footprints. As expected, there were indeed some large and small hoofprints on this road, "The bigger ones are like the hoofprints of cows and horses, and the smaller ones are deer. Deer or something?"

Bai Yutang got up: "Let's go, we're not far from the bottom of the cliff."

Zhan Zhao nodded, got up and followed. When he got close to the bottom of the cliff, the hoofprints here became more and more obvious due to the humidity. The depth, but judging by the depth, it seems that there is something on its back."

Bai Yutang asked, "Could it be that animals are used to transport bird's nests?"

"It's possible." Zhan Zhao frowned, "But this road is too clean..."

"Clean?" Bai Yutang felt that Zhan Zhao had misunderstood the word "clean", and that he was actually called clean on this muddy road?

"I mean, along the way, I didn't see any animal feces at all." Zhan Zhao explained, "If animals are used to transport goods, there will be no one who deserts and shits on such a long wall?"

"..." Bai Yutang felt that the cat's thinking angle was very... strange, and he even felt that the road had that smell.

"Generally, there will always be large pieces of excrement on cattle or horse paths. If you can't see it, it's because someone has picked it up and cleaned it up as nourishment. But this road is so steep that it is impossible for anyone to risk their lives to clean up the excrement. This animal It’s not like people have self-discipline, unless someone is bored, train animals not to hold shit on the way.”

"so what?"

Zhan Zhao smacked his lips: "That's why it's quite strange."

Finally reached the bottom of the cliff, the river waves beat against the rocks at the bottom of the cliff with the cold wind, near the entrance of the cave, he had to step into the water with half a leg, Bai Yutang put the knife behind him, took the torch and lit it, and He took Zhan Zhao by one hand and said seriously: "Mao'er, this cliff cave is surrounded by water, although it is not deep, but the river waves are very strong, please help me to walk, don't slip on the soles of your feet."

Zhan Zhao nodded, holding one hand and pulling the other side of Bai Yutang with the other, fearing that he would slip and fall.

The two entered the cave by wading through the waterway. This cave is very large and deep. The black top is densely packed with nests of dead swallows. On the top of the cliff, it is shocking to see the rivers and seas outside, but it is quiet and spacious inside, which makes people stable.Zhan Zhao stretched out his hand and pushed the bamboo poles in front of him, and found that these bamboo poles were very thick and firm. He pushed hard, but they didn't move: "Yutang, what are these bamboo poles for? To fix the support?"

Bai Yutang raised the torch, looked up at the top of the bamboo poles, shook his head and said, "No, these bamboo poles are used to climb and retrieve bird's nests."

Hearing this, Zhan Zhao turned around one of the bamboo poles, and said while turning, "You mean, someone climbed up through these bamboo poles and pried away the bird's nest?"

"Exactly, I have seen the same practice in the bird's nest cave by the sea."

The further you go in, the shallower and calmer the water inside, but the deep ink-like water surface always makes people feel unsafe, as if something is watching them.The normally burning flames suddenly trembled violently, and there was a loud noise from the entrance of the cave. Zhan Bai and the two turned their heads, and saw a large number of corpse swallows waving their wings and flying back. In the bird's nest, thousands of pairs of blood-red eyes stared at the two of them like ghosts.

Bai Yutang explained: "It's time for the formation to work, and the corpse swallow has returned to its nest."

Looking at those star-studded red eyes, Zhan Zhao sighed, "It's so densely packed that it's really scary."

"It's okay, they shouldn't hurt anyone."

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a sharp bird cry in the cave, and the corpse swallows who had been resting in the nest seemed to have received some instructions, waving their wings and attacking the two from top to bottom, Zhan Zhao I just blocked it twice with my hands, and found that my arms were hurting from the impact, and there were too many of them, so I couldn't resist it for long with my hands, so I drew out my sword to block it, but those corpse swallows rushed towards them desperately. And the bird's claws are like hidden weapons, which are hard to guard against.

The two faced each other with their backs, and waved their weapons to block for a while, but there were too many corpse swallows, one group after another came again, endlessly, and finally even the torch was extinguished, Zhan Zhao had no choice but to shout: "Yutang, we Get out of the cave first."

"it is good!"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang ran out of the cliff cave in embarrassment under the swarm of corpse swallows. As soon as they got out of the cave, the river waves hit them violently. Luckily, those corpse swallows did not chase out of the cave, Zhan Zhao coughed and said, "Didn't you say you won't hurt people?"

Bai Yutang helped Zhan Zhao with his back, and also frowned, "I don't know how this happened. Normally, they are not interested in living people, and there have never been rumors of hurting people."

After being drenched all over, Zhan Zhao felt extremely cold when blown by the wind, Zhan Zhao shivered: "This matter has to be discussed in the long run, let's go back and talk about it first."

Bai Yutang nodded, and the two returned to the top of the cliff along the path along the cliff.

They didn't realize that after they left, several long tails slowly swam into the cave.

On the way back, the sky was already slightly bright, and the two of them rode their horses and walked back along the Luojiang River, hoping to get back to the Mojia County Government House before dawn. After running for a while, Zhan Zhao suddenly reined in his horse and stopped, Bai Yutang Seeing this, he was about to ask a question, when Zhan Zhao made a silent gesture to him.

Bai Yutang had no choice but to remain silent. At this moment, he heard intermittent cries coming from not far away. Before he could hear it clearly, Zhan Zhao started galloping: "No, someone fell into the water!"

Bai Yutang hastily urged his horse to follow, and the two hurried to the source of the sound ahead, only to find that it was Deng's grandma crying to Luojiang the name of her grandson, Zhan Zhao got off his horse and saw Xiao Shanzi somehow I fell into the river and was being pushed farther and farther by the waves. Seeing the child struggling up and down in the water, the little hands raised constantly, the frightened eyes, and the cry for help that drowned in the river before he could shout, Without even thinking about it, Zhan Zhao rushed into the icy cold river.

"Cat, you can't swim!" Seeing this, Bai Yutang was so anxious that his heart jumped out of his throat. Something behind him pushed him back. When he turned his head, he saw Zhan Zhao's red horse turning towards him. , revealing a spare coil of hemp rope on the horse, Bai Yutang hurriedly took the hemp rope, seeing that Zhan Zhao had already caught the hill that was getting farther and farther away, but since he couldn't swim, he could only hold on to it with all his strength. Looking at the child, Jiang Lang beat him to the ground.

Bai Yutang hastily tied a rope with a loop, threw it to Luojiang and shouted, "Zhan Zhao! You grab the rope and I'll pull you up!"

Zhan Zhao in Jiangli tried his best to protect Xiaoshanzi, barely heard Bai Yutang's shout, and raised one hand to grab the rope ring, but the Jiang waves were so violent that he failed to catch it several times. Finally, he was beaten into the river by a wave, and disappeared with Xiao Shanzi.

Seeing this scene, Bai Yutang on the shore felt bad, and hastily shouted Zhan Zhao's name, the rope sank into the river with the waves, and neither of them reappeared, Bai Yutang shouted for a long time, until he His mind went blank, only meaningless humming remained, and he stumbled a few steps into the river...

The heart seemed to stop suddenly, the world was spinning, and the whole world seemed to disappear.

Zhan Zhao, Zhan Zhao?Zhan Zhao!

Suddenly, the rope in the distance was pulled vigorously!The rope straightened instantly!

As if awakened by a burst of icy water, he pulled the rope desperately, clenched his teeth and pulled it up, a hand that was wrapped around the end of the rope was pulled up, and then Zhan Zhao, who was hugging Xiaoshanzi tightly, was caught He dragged it up with all his strength!

After Zhan Zhao came ashore, he let go of Xiao Shanzi, lying on the bank weakly and coughing hard, his mouth and nose were filled with cold river water, his eyes were bloodshot, and the rope was still tightly wrapped around his hands.

Seeing this, the grandmother of Deng's family, who had been crying all the time, hurried over and hugged Xiao Shanzi. Xiao Shanzi spat out a few mouthfuls of river water, regained his strength, hugged his mother-in-law and burst into tears.

Zhan Zhao almost vomited, turned over and lay down on the shore, saw Bai Yutang staring at him but said nothing, forced a smile, "Yutang, I'm fine..."

"Zhan Zhao, if you dare to have a next time, I will destroy you!"

Zhan Zhao was taken aback for a moment, then let out a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "I've known you for so long, and this is the first time I've heard you swear."

Bai Yutang calmed down, and wiped the drops of water on Zhan Zhao's face with his own clothes: "I know I don't know how to swim, so what are you rushing for? Do you really think I'm a cat with nine lives?"

At this time, Zhan Zhao was a little scared, and said with emotion: "It is indeed too impulsive. At that time, seeing the child dying, I forgot that I can't swim."

Seeing that Bai Yutang was sullen and silent again, Zhan Zhao had no choice but to say: "Yutang, I was wrong, I will definitely not be so impulsive next time, I was really wrong."

Bai Yutang still remained silent, Zhan Zhao knew that Bai Yutang was really angry this time, he thought for a while, and held Bai Yutang's hand, only to find that the other's hand was still trembling uncontrollably, he felt guilty for a while. : "Yutang, I owe you my life. I promise you that I will never be reckless in the future. I will cherish my life."

Bai Yutang nodded: "That's what you said, your life is mine, how much I cherish your life, you must work hard to protect it, otherwise..."

"Don't worry, otherwise." Zhan Zhao propped himself up and sat up, "Just now in Luojiang, someone rescued me and Xiao Shanzi."

Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao in bewilderment, Zhan Zhao raised the arm tied with the rope ring: "Just when I thought I was about to die, someone tied this rope ring to my hand."