Good luck every time

(The last chapter had a 1,000-word overhaul at 10 a.m.)

The snow in the mountains has not melted yet, so it is quite dangerous to go up the mountain at this time. Not to mention the slippery road and easy to fall, if you fall and the salt falls to the ground, it will melt along with the snow.

Li Ruyi would always put hay in the backpack and wrap it with oilcloth, for fear that the salt would spill out if it fell.

Because of the good protection, there have been no accidents.

When the villagers in the mountains saw Li Ruyi, each one was more enthusiastic than the other. The people in the mountains buy very few things for the New Year, usually red paper, door gods, hanging money and the like. Li Ruyi had sold everything he could sell long ago, and the main reason he came here now was to sell salt.

Some families even had empty salt jars, and they came hurriedly with medicinal herbs, as if they were afraid that Li Ruyi would run away.

After collecting the herbs, Li Ruyi and Li Shiwu went to the next village. This time the two villages were close to each other, so they could finish the trip in one day, so they wanted to make it until midnight.

After delivering the salt to the next village, Li Ruyi divided the medicinal herbs with Li Shiwu and each carried them down the mountain.

The downhill road was difficult to walk on because the snow had not been cleared. Li Ruyi did not dare to take the shortcut which was too steep. He turned around and took Li Shiwu around a forest and came down from another flatter path.

Li Ruyi usually doesn't take this side of the road. This road passes by a village. That village was one of the villages that was instigated by Zhao Laonian, and their attitude towards Li Ruyi was also very bad.

Zhao Laonian’s price was too low and Li Ruyi couldn’t sell it. They also stopped him from leaving, and Li Ruyi had to work hard to run away.

Walking on this road, she couldn't help but think of this incident.

When they reached the entrance of the village, Li Ruyi took a detour. Li Shiwu was not good at speaking, so he didn't say anything or ask any questions. They both walked forward in silence.

This way, they circled half of the forest.

The forest was gloomy, the sunlight outside could not shine in, the snow was mottled, and the fallen leaves on the ground had a cold and rotten feeling.

Li Shiwu couldn't help but clench the bag of his backpack.

“Ruyi, do you feel this place is eerie?”

Li Ruyi stretched his neck and pointed with his chin to a deeper place, where something shadowy was standing.

"Look! That's the cemetery of their village."

Li Shiwu: ...

"Why are you here?"

Li Ruyi sighed.

"Don't mention it. The people in this village are unreasonable. Zhao Laonian has been gone for so long. I'm afraid they are short of salt and will rob people."

Li Shiwu looked shocked.

"So fierce?"

Li Ruyi nodded.

“Very fierce!”

He sighed and quickened his pace, wanting to pass by the cemetery as quickly as possible. However, he didn't expect that after taking only two steps, he suddenly felt a breeze on the back of his neck.

The next moment, a strange voice was heard, as if it was a woman's, with a faint and resentful voice.

"help me!"

The sound was clear and eerie in the empty winter forest.

Li Shiwu was so frightened that his steps froze in mid-air for an instant. His scarf, which was not tied tightly, fell down, and the back of his neck felt even colder.

"Ru Ru Ru Yi, did you hear…"

Li Ruyi frowned slightly.

"I heard!"

Not only did she hear it, she heard it very clearly.

The voice came from the grave. The person who spoke had used up all his strength. After saying this, only a low breath was left.

Li Ruyi hesitated for a moment, but still walked over.

Li Shiwu hurriedly followed closely.

"Ruyi, what's going on?"

Li Ruyi was not sure either. The tombs here were located close to the mountains and rivers, and the terrain was relatively high. Li Ruyi stepped over a ditch and walked in.

Li Shiwu followed her closely and would step on her little boots when he was anxious!

Li Ruyi was so annoyed that he waved his hands and drove the person away.

We walked past the small mounds nearby and arrived at the foot of the mountain.

The sound was slightly louder.

"Save me...save me...cough cough..."

Li Shiwu looked around, always worried that a hand would emerge from the grave.

However, this was all his imagination.

Li Ruyi walked behind a pile of graves, where they saw a woman in tattered clothes and covered with wounds.

The woman raised her messy hair. Her face was covered in blood, and the blood had frozen her hair to the tattered mat beneath her.

Li Shiwu was frightened by the woman's ferocious face, but when he turned to look at Li Ruyi, he did not see any fear on the other's face.

All Li Ruyi had was a kind of compassion and sympathy that he could not understand.

"What are you doing?"

The woman was almost dying, but because she heard the conversation between Li Ruyi and Li Er, she had the strength to survive and shouted with all her might. Her mind was not clear enough, she just knew that if she missed this person, she would definitely die!

Li Ruyi raised his head and saw many tattered mats scattered around. Some were from recent times and had frozen blood stains on them, some had already rotted, and some were buried under snow and soil.

She knew that most of the women who were not even allowed to dig pits in this village were married but had no children.

The men did not want to be buried with them, so they threw the bodies here. It would not be long before wild beasts from the mountains came and dragged the bodies away.

All traces of a person's existence will disappear completely, as if he or she had never been there. No one will miss him or her, and he or she will not be worshipped.

The woman couldn't raise her hands very high, and she couldn't grab Li Ruyi who was standing above her head. She could only reach out and pull Li Shiwu's pants.

"help me……"

Li Shiwu was frightened by her again.

"Wow, wow, wow! What's wrong with you?"

The woman's wrists were frozen purple.

Li Ruyi hesitated for a moment, put down the backpack, and took out the oilcloth from it.

She held the oilcloth to the woman's body, wondering how to avoid touching her injuries.

Li Shiwu suddenly realized that Li Ruyi wanted to save people.

He also quickly squatted down and pulled out the oilcloth from the backpack. After pulling out the oilcloth and looking at it, he felt that it was not enough, so he took off his tattered long jacket.

Under the long coat was Li Nian's cotton-padded jacket, which Li Nian gave to him because he was afraid it would be too cold in the mountains.

The woman was a small, thin ball, and the warm long coat seemed to wrap her up instantly.

Li Ruyi glanced at Li Shiwu, went over and wrapped the woman tightly, and then wrapped her feet and legs with oilcloth, and then wrapped another piece of cloth and put a hat on her.

Take out the rope used to wrap the salt bags and tie the man up.

Li Ruyi was not tall enough either, so he talked to Li Shiwu.

"Brother Fifteen, please carry her back!"

The woman fainted as soon as she was wrapped in the long coat. She was so limp that she couldn't even be carried on her back.

Li Ruyi pressed the herbs into a backpack and used the free rope to tie the woman to Li Shiwu.

Li Ruyi was carrying an empty backpack, while Li Shiwu was carrying a woman.

They went down the mountain together. The way down was not peaceful either. Li Shiwu had never been on this road before and was not familiar with it. He stepped into a snow pit and his foot twisted in an instant.

As he fell to the ground, the weight of the woman behind him also slid down. Li Shiwu was startled and instantly knelt on the ground, supporting his body with his hands.

He fell badly and knelt there for a long time without getting up.

However, the woman was fine.

Li Ruyi heard that the patient was still breathing, so she thought that the patient was not seriously injured.

She went over and pulled Li Shiwu up, helping him brush the snow off his pants, only to find that he had been kneeling on a stone.

"How's it going? Are you injured?"

Li Shiwu moved his legs and felt fine. He stretched them a few times and nodded.

"It's okay!"

Li Ruyi felt helpless. What had happened to the Li brothers? Why did they either have a broken arm or an injured leg?