[Red House] That natural stay

After a good night's rest, the group set off again early the next morning.

"My lord, take care all the way!" Master Li said with a bow.

"Master Li, please stop." Xia Rong nodded.Immediately with a whip, the horse under him ran forward quickly.

Like when he came, he left in a mighty way.And this small town near the capital quickly returned to its former calm.

No one noticed that on the side of the unremarkable restaurant, two tall and straight figures stared at the group of people who left, and then disappeared quickly.

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On the snow-covered trail, two horses, one black and one white, galloped forward at an extremely fast speed.And the two people immediately were Mo Jue and Xia Rong who were one step ahead.Three days ago, they passed by the large army and took shortcuts all the way to Jiangnan.

"There seems to be a farmhouse in front, let's go there and have a look!" Seeing a small black spot in the distance, Xia Rong said to Mo Jue who was beside him.

Mo Jue nodded, they had been sleeping in the wild for some time.It's also a good idea to take a break if you can.

The thoughts of the two of them coincided with each other, and they both speeded up at the same time.

It was only when we got closer that we could see the farmhouse clearly. It stood quietly beside the path. Outside was a small yard surrounded by a bamboo fence.The courtyard is dotted with white snow, and the roof is also glistening.

The two dismounted outside the fence with a wooden gate.Xia Rong stepped forward and knocked on the closed door, and said loudly: "Is there anyone in the house? I'm waiting for my brother to pass by here, and I want to take advantage of the precious place to rest. I hope you will take me in."

After a while, no one answered.The two looked at each other and spoke again, their voices echoing in the air.There was still silence, but when he was about to turn around and leave, a voice came from behind:

"What's the matter with you?" came a young male voice.

The two turned their heads, and the person who came was a young man dressed in coarse linen, with ordinary features and a yellow complexion, obviously caused by long-term hunger.

Xia Rong took a step forward and repeated what he said earlier.The man looked at the two of them a few times and readily agreed.He walked up to the wooden door and put down the two bundles of dry wood in his hand, then pushed the door open and walked in first.Mo Jue followed closely behind.

Walking through the courtyard, a series of footprints were left in the snow-white courtyard. The house is an ordinary hut, but the interior is reinforced with wooden boards, so it looks particularly strong.The layout is traditional east-west wing rooms with a hall in the middle.The three of them walked in, and although it was a bit rough to the eye, it was very neat.

"The humble house is so poor that the two young masters laughed at me." Putting down the basket and firewood, the man smiled at Mo Jue and the two of them, then went into the small hut outside the house, poured two cups of hot tea and placed them on the table. in front of people.

Mo Jue and the two were about to say something when heart-piercing coughing sounds suddenly came from the east wing, and the young man quickly turned around and walked in.The two looked at each other, put down the teacups in their hands, and followed them in.

There was a bed next to the wall in the room, on which lay a skinny old man, covered with a blue printed mattress, but several places were patched.At this time, his mouth was slightly opened, and the young man was feeding water bit by bit.

Mo Jue smelled a strong smell of medicine when he first entered the door, but he is not the kind of nosy person.If the master didn't tell, he naturally wouldn't ask.Seeing the source of the medicinal smell at this time, I couldn't help but look at it carefully.The eyes of the old man on the bed were dark, the eye sockets were deeply sunken, and the eyeballs were cloudy, obviously he was a little out of his mind.The hair was messy, black and white, and weedy.Mo Jue frowned calmly. The several herbs in the medicinal taste were simple detoxification herbs. Combined with what he saw at this time, he already had a measure in his mind.

After the young man finished feeding the water and carefully helped the old man to press down the quilt, he carefully backed out.

The three returned to the hall and sat down, speechless for a while.

"You two are laughing, the one just now is my father, who has been bedridden for more than a year." The young man smiled wryly.He didn't say what the disease was.

"It's poisoning." Mo Jue said suddenly, making plain statements.

The other two turned their gazes to the young man aside in surprise, one was surprised with astonishment, the other was surprised with disbelief.

"You..." The young man didn't know how to speak, and wanted to ask how the other party knew, but he opened his mouth and still didn't ask anything.

After that, Mo Jue didn't say anything, and Xia Rong wasn't a kind person.In a word, it is like throwing a stone on a calm lake, and it returns to calm after splashing ripples.

After several times of hesitation, the young man finally said nothing. After entertaining Mo Jue with some steamed buns and fresh vegetables, he prepared to say goodbye.

"Thank you for your hospitality." Xia Rong cupped his hands. Although he had no superfluous expressions all the time, he was courteous and would not be annoying.

"The two young masters are too polite. It's just a simple meal, and I can't afford the word of hospitality." The young man waved his hand, as if thinking of something, and then said: "I don't know where the two young masters are going."

"Jiangnan."

"Jiangnan?" His expression was startled, but he returned to normal immediately.

"Jiangnan is at a critical time now, the two young masters must be more careful." He said.

A flash of deep thought and inquiry flashed across Xia Rong's eyes, "Thank you for the reminder, the strong man, I will definitely be more careful when I wait for the two brothers."

Then he turned and got on the horse.

Before leaving, the young man turned his eyes to Mo Jue who was aside many times, with complicated expressions in his eyes.Mo Jue didn't care what the other party was thinking, and directly stepped forward and took out a piece of paper from his pocket, and handed it to him.

"This…"

"This is the prescription for detoxification. If you trust me, your father will recover within a month." Mo Jue said.

The man carefully checked the prescription, although he was not good at medicine, but as the saying goes, a long illness makes a good doctor, and his father has been bedridden for more than a year, so he also knows the properties of several medicines.I also have my own judgment on this prescription in my heart.

All of a sudden, I have mixed feelings, my life has undergone tremendous changes, and I have no choice but to take my old father to live here in seclusion. A stranger who met by chance can be so enthusiastic.No matter whether this prescription worked or not, it made him feel a little grateful.

"Thank you, sir." He cupped his fists.

"It's nothing more than a little effort." Mo Jue shook his head, and then got on the horse.

Seeing the figures of the two drifting away, the young man suddenly shouted: "I'm Zhang Mo."

Responding to him were two elegant figures walking away on the snow.

The two of Mo Jue hurried forward, and finally they were only ten days away from the "Jiangnan Territory".At this time, they were resting in a forest. The snow hadn't fallen in the past few days, but it was getting colder and colder.The fire in front of him fluttered in the cold wind, as if it would be extinguished in the next second.It was pitch black all around, and the neighing of some kind of night beast seemed to be heard in a trance.

Xia Rong handed the hot steamed buns on the wooden stick to the boy across the fire, "Eat it while it's hot!" After a long day and night, Mo Jue lost weight obviously, and his baby-fat face became sharp and angular.

Mo Jue was not too polite, took it and started to eat it. The dry food they brought was steamed buns and other things that were easy to store, but because of the rush of time and the weather, one meal a day, the cold steamed buns were too hard to chew. .Unless it's warmed up like this, it's really unappetizing.In addition, because of the transformation of the body, it would be fine even if he didn't eat, so Mo Jue became even more self-willed.

The two of them were biting their steamed buns, in the howling cold wind.Mo Jue's ears moved suddenly, and the system in his brain also spoke at the same time:

"Mo Jue, there are people approaching, and there are quite a few of them."

He pulled Xia Rong across from him, walked towards the nearby woods very quickly, and said quickly: "Someone is approaching, let's go quickly."

Xia Rong didn't ask too many questions. His previous experience and getting along with him recently allowed him to have no objection to the young man's words, and he also accelerated his pace in cooperation.The incident happened suddenly and it was at night, so the two did not choose to ride horses.

After the two left one after another, a group of people emerged from the place where the fire had been burning. They all had fierce faces. After searching for it, they found only two horses left, and the people had long since disappeared.

"Old scar, where's the person?" The leader turned around and asked, about thirty or forty years old, with a terrifying scar across the entire face.Coupled with the fierce expression, the abuse of the whole person rushed to the face, making people afraid to look at him easily.

"Brother, brother, I clearly saw two people parked here, and I didn't either. I don't know why they suddenly disappeared." The man named Lao Ba behind the crowd stepped forward tremblingly, obviously terrified. He made a great achievement, but now it has become like this.They obviously came from a secret path, if they didn't know in advance, it would be impossible for them to escape so quickly.

"Brother, wait a minute, the prey doesn't seem to be far away." A gentle man stood up from the fire and said. "Brother, look, this wooden stick is still slightly hot. It seems that it was caused by baking something just now. For some reason, it sensed our movement, so it ran away. However, I didn't go far after thinking about it. Now go after us. Come in a hurry."

"Okay, listen to the third brother, brothers! Spread out, let me chase now, whoever catches the prey, the meat will be the first choice!" He opened his mouth and promised.

There was a lot of response, as if this 'choosing meat' was the most normal thing.So far, the closer you are to the south of the Yangtze River, the impact of the snow disaster can be seen. Many homeless refugees spontaneously formed teams, degenerated into bandits or thieves, and robbed people who passed by in a certain area. .But at this time, there are very few people who will come to Jiangnan.When the government's porridge sheds can't cope with more and more victims, the bad roots of human beings are about to show up. It's nothing new to change children to eat in order to survive, and everyone even begins to share Cannibalism.With the longer time of disaster, this kind of situation has gradually become popular from a small number of people, and it is like evil spirits running rampant in the world.

And now the group that was chasing Mo Jue and the other two were robbers in this area at the very beginning. During these days of snow disaster, after eating all the looted things in the village, and when there were no pedestrians to rob Under such circumstances, the women who were finally robbed from the village were also eaten.Now, how can a group of vicious wolves give up so easily when they finally meet two 'little sheep'?