Misfortune and blessing

Moonlight, panic.

Panting for breath, Wei Xi crawled forward in the dry grass, the sharp edge of the grass cut his face, and the slightly melted snow made his hands and knees tremble, but the bloody rain outside the grass made him unable to stop for a moment. Don't dare to stop.Crawling and crawling, Wei Xi almost exhausted all his strength, he had to bite his lip tightly to suppress his panting.

At least until dawn.

Wei Xi knew in his heart that as long as someone passed by at dawn, there might be a glimmer of life.

Trembling, moving little by little, just as he was about to faint, he suddenly saw a few clusters of green flames in the depths of the grass.Wei Xi was stunned, and after a while he realized that it wasn't fire, and with eyes full of anger, he leaned back hastily, trying to escape quickly, but unlike those people outside the grass, the group inside the grass Animals understand darkness better than anyone.

In order to survive, Wei Xi had to stand up. When he got up, he realized that he had long lost his strength. His shaking legs seemed to be planted in the ground. They were heavy and heavy, and it was difficult to even walk.

Gritting his teeth, he only took a few steps with the strength of breastfeeding, but the group of cat-faced creatures covered with beautiful spots was already approaching him step by step. Wei Xi panted, watching helplessly A large animal opened its mouth wide and approached itself.

Suddenly, a black shadow fell in front of his eyes. The man held up the bow in his left hand and the arrow in his right hand. He set and released them. After watching him clean up two or three of them neatly, he clicked his tongue.

"Too bad, too many arrows were wasted just now." After finishing speaking, the man threw the bamboo basket behind his back in front of Wei Xi. "Take it."

Wei Xi took the bamboo basket, only to realize that the seemingly light bamboo basket was surprisingly heavy. When he took it, he almost fell to the ground.

After finally standing still, he saw the man with a bow in his right hand, and jumped briskly in front of the remaining two animals. Seeing that he had no arrows, the two animals became even more angry, opened their mouths, and roared again. , screaming again.

The man just blinked, not afraid at all, two giants jumped towards him at the same time, but the man actually jumped up, turned an arc in the air and then flipped behind the animals, the longbow in his hand hit one of them hard They twitched, and then slammed the back of the other with both feet. The two animals howled and rolled to the ground, exhaled, and struggled for a long time to get up again.

"Hey, sure enough, the heat is still a bit off."

Reflecting the moonlight, Wei Xi saw his face. He was actually the young man of that day. He was not like the bright smile of that day. There was a bloodthirsty smile on his face. , but he did not forget that this man was one of the robbers.

Thinking about it, Wei Xi gritted his teeth, not knowing the strength he was born with, which made him subconsciously pick up the bamboo basket and run crazily.

***

After rolling on the ground several times and getting up again and again, Wei Xi was already in a daze, never thinking of throwing off the bamboo basket that made his center of gravity unstable, and just ran desperately.

Panting desperately, running desperately, his ears were filled with the sound of his own disordered breathing, but soon, he discovered that it was not only his own breathing sound coming from his ears.

The man who had finished cooking the powerful cat happened to follow beside him in a flawless manner, running very leisurely, looking at him with a smile.

"It's really immoral to run away after stealing other people's dinner." The boy said, winking at him, and maybe making a face.

Seeing him approaching, Wei Xi had to run to the other side, but the boy switched from his right to his left faster, forcing him to turn.

"My name is Luo Tianxing, you can just call me Xiaotian, how about you?"

Wei Xi ignored it.

"You don't speak, is it because you can't speak, or you don't want to speak, or——too breathless, can't speak?"

Wei Xi didn't even look at him, but he came closer again, so Wei Xi had to change direction again.

"Well, if you don't speak, then I will." Luo Tianxing continued to speak, in fact, from the beginning to the end, he was indeed the only one who spoke. "Didn't I say that Jiangzhou is very dangerous? Why are you so careless? If I didn't want to part with you and came to see you again, what would you do?"

Is this the door's confession?Wei Xi's heart trembled when he heard this, and his feet stopped like this.

"It's really a tacit understanding. I actually know it." Luo Tianxing continued. "By the way, for the sake of carrying your dinner back, I forgive you."

Wei Xi was startled by his words, and then found himself in front of a garden, reflecting the moonlight, he could clearly see three large characters written on the broken wooden board above the door——Qifengzhai.Although it is not the time to praise others, he has to admit that these three words are well written.

The boy beside him spoke. "By the way, you haven't told me your name yet."

Wei Xi said coldly. "I don't associate with robbers."

Luo Tianxing hummed, and then laughed out loud. When he spoke, his voice was soft and sweet. "What a pity you just missed out on the best person in the world."

Although he looks good and has a nice voice, Wei Xi doesn't want to talk to him at all.

The guard at the door shouted happily when he saw the two of them. "The leader! The leader is back!"

Then, a group of people rushed out from the gate and surrounded the two of them. "Boss, you are finally back."

Looking at this group of "robbers", Wei Xi's eyes widened slightly.

It turned out that they were all children.

***

The oldest was no more than 14 years old, and the youngest was about seven or eight years old. A large group of children surrounded them asking questions and talking about things.

"Okay, stop talking, let's go in first." While Luo Tianxing stopped their conversation, a young man said.

"The leader hasn't told us yet, who is he?"

Hearing this, everyone who had already started stopped, but Luo Tianxing still had a smile on his face. "Aqi, you asked a very strange question. If you want to know who he is, you have to ask him himself, not me. Also, he helped us carry the dinner back. It shouldn't be too much to invite someone to dinner ?”

After hearing this, the person named Ah Qi retreated silently, and a small man happily took the bamboo basket from Wei Xi's body, and the words he spoke seemed to be singing. "It's the chief cooking tonight."

Luo Tianxing laughed out loud. "Xiaobai, I forgot. It's so late, so hurry up." He said, took the bamboo basket with one hand, grabbed Wei Xi's hand with the other, and smiled at him. "Sorry, I have to ask the guest for help."

He didn't give Wei Xi the right to say no, so he was grabbed into the kitchen in a few clicks.

Wei Xi had never been in the kitchen before, so he could only stand in the huge space, watching Luo Tianxing quickly start the fire and fill the large pots with water one after another.

From the heavy bamboo basket, Luo Tianxing took out the same ingredients: vegetables, wild mushrooms, and pieces of unknown meat.

At the moment when he was in a daze, Luo Tianxing had already pushed him to the side of the water tank, and threw vegetables, mushrooms, etc. into his hands. "Wash the vegetables."

Wei Xi frowned. Although he couldn't understand Luo Tianxing's words for a while, it was just washing vegetables, but as he was washing and rubbing, he suddenly thought of something wrong—are you kidding?This man is a robber, this is the robber's den, and he is a hostage taken by the robbers, why does he have to help wash the vegetables?

Wei Xi raised his head, and saw Luo Tianxing was cutting up pieces of meat. As he was cutting, he didn't know what to do with half of the meat, and then arranged the other half of the meat, clearing the table in an orderly manner, and turned his head. Seeing Wei Xi frowned when she looked at herself.

Putting the knife on the chopping board, Luo Tianxing washed his hands, moved to Wei Xi's side, quickly rinsed the rotten vegetables in the barrel, and scooped them all up.Then quickly rolled the cut pieces of meat in one pot, picked them up with a big spoon, and threw all the vegetables, mushrooms, etc. into another big pot.

Feeling Wei Xi's gaze, Luo Tianxing said with a smile. "I don't have enough time tonight, so I can just cook it casually." As he said, he seemed to take something in his hand, rubbed it into the soup, and after smelling the smell, he added some things from bottles and cans .

Wei Xi watched the food rolling in the pot, and the air was full of tempting aromas. Luo Tianxing took a spoon and filled a large bowl of food for him.

"Eat it, it tastes good."

Wei Xi took the bowl and chopsticks, and saw Luo Tianxing opened the kitchen door. The door was already full of children waiting to eat. They lined up orderly from small to large, and entered the kitchen in order, happily Scoop the food in the pan.Then, some were standing, some were sitting, some were in the kitchen, some were outside the kitchen, and everyone happily ate.

Luo Tianxing watched everyone eating, and then went to the pot to fill half a bowl of soup, and took a sip of it.He looked at the bowl still overflowing in Wei Xi's hand. "Aren't you going to eat?"

Wei Xi pursed her lips. "I'm not hungry." After saying this, my stomach growled unsatisfactorily.

Luo Tianxing said with a smile. "If you want to escape, you need to have strength."

"Yes, yes!" Xiao Bai, the little man just now, said. "The leader's everything-tasting pot is the most delicious pot in the world. If you eat it, you must be strong."

Wei Xi blushed, and didn't want to talk to them at first, but his stomach was so hungry that he picked up those annoying mushrooms with his chopsticks. He took a sip, and then took another sip, not knowing whether he was hungry or not. Too much, or this delicious pot is really delicious, and I ate most of it in two or three strokes.

Looking at the mushrooms in his bowl, Luo Tianxing said deliberately. "No way? You're so short and picky eaters?"

Wei Xi's face became even redder. With eyes closed, he swept those mushrooms with a terrible smell into his mouth, and almost passed out. Fortunately, someone handed him a glass of water.Wei Xi took a big gulp before swallowing those terrifying things.Taking the cup from Wei Xi's hand, Luo Tianxing asked Ah Qi to assign some work, and then walked out.

Seeing this, Wei Xi immediately followed behind him, and after a while, he walked to the stream outside Qifeng Village.