Disaster For the Country · Return Journey

Chapter 20 – The First Way

The blue and white boat sailed for ten days, Yi Fei was watching the clouds on the side of the boat, and brother Xiong beside him said with a smile: “I will arrive in Lianzhou in two days. This trip really wronged my third brother.”

Yifei coughed pretendingly, Brother Xiong hurriedly put the cloak on him: “It’s windy, third brother, let’s rest in the room.”

“Where are the seven masters?”

In the past few days, Brother Xiong also knew that the woman who was with the third brother was actually the most famous agate in Ruyimen. Although he also heard the news that the Seven Lords had disappeared in an accident, he was still respectful to the two of them, and immediately replied: : “The Seven Masters are still taking care of Qi Cai.”

Qi Cai has been ill for several days, with a persistent high fever. The crew wanted to throw him away, but Qi Fu tried his best to stop him, alarming Qiu Jiang, so they gave up.

But the medicines on board were limited, and Qiu Jiang only knew a little about medical skills, and after several doses of medicine, he still didn’t get better. A woman in the same room also fell ill, and it must have been infected by Qi Cai. When everyone heard this, they were numb and watched, but they became agitated, accusing the siblings and demanding that he be thrown away.

Qiu Jiang didn’t say anything, and picked up the leather whip used by the crew beside him and whipped it, the woman stopped in fright.

Everyone fell silent and huddled back.

Qiu Jiang picked up Qi Cai and said to Qi Fu, “Follow me.” Then she took the two of them back to her room.

Qi Fu wiped away his tears, and immediately knelt down: “Sister, save my brother!”

Qiu Jiang said lightly: “Everyone has his own destiny. Say goodbye to him.”

Qi Fu was shocked: “Brother, he…brother! Brother!” He immediately hugged Qi Cai and cried bitterly: “Sister, save him, you must have a way! Please!”

“Even if it gets better, the road ahead will be very difficult. Going like this may be a relief.”

“We are not afraid of hardships! We made an appointment to grow up together, and we will go home to seek revenge from our uncle and the others! He can’t just leave me like this, no, no…”

She shook Qi Cai’s body desperately, but Qi Cai still couldn’t open his eyes and stopped breathing.

Qiu Jiang watched this scene quietly, his pupils deeply thoughtful.

After crying for a while, Qi Fu put down his younger brother, got up and slapped himself hard twice, then stopped crying and wiped his face with his sleeve.

After finishing all this, she turned around, knelt down in front of Qiu Jiang again, and bowed three times: “Sister, my name is Qi Fu, my younger brother is Qi Cai, my mother is Fang Xiu, and my father is Qi Dasheng. My The enemies are Qi Dakang, Qi Dayuan, and their wives and sons.”

“What are you telling me about this?”

“Sister, I will definitely live. If there is a chance to meet again in the future, please ask me, ‘Qi Dakang Qi Dayuan, are they all dead?’”

The girl in front of her was only eight or nine years old, and her childishness had not yet faded away, but her eyes were full of hatred.

People with hatred can usually bear the intolerable.

But those who carry hatred will also be trapped in Avici Hell for a lifetime, and they will no longer be able to touch the light.

And only when a person lives with a bright hope, is he “born as a human being”.

Qiu Jiang knelt down, looked into Qi Fu’s eyes, and said slowly, “Okay. But I want to ask one more question.”

“What?”

“I buried Qi Cai’s body for you. Have you thought about how to repay this kindness?”

Qi Fu was taken aback.

“After taking revenge, remember to repay the favor.” Qiu Jiang said, patted her on the head, and walked out of the room. After the hatch was closed, Qi Fu’s cry of breaking down again came from inside.

Yi Fei didn’t know when he came, so he stood two or three steps away, looked at Qiu Jiang, raised his eyebrows and smiled: “It’s hard to take revenge, but it’s even harder to repay kindness.”

Qiu Jiang ignored it and continued on.

Yi Fei followed her: “How do you plan to bury Qi Cai?”

He soon found out.

Qiu Jiang asked Brother Xiong to dismantle the two hatches, set up wooden stakes in the middle, and divide it into upper and lower layers. The upper layer was filled with sawdust and cotton wool and poured tung oil.

The fire blazed, engulfing the boy’s tiny body.

Qi Fu stood at the bow of the boat, watching this scene, and the tears flowed down again.

In this way, after the raft was almost burned, Qiu Jiang jumped over with a rope, took a piece of the most charred bone, crushed it, put it in a jar and brought it back. The others slowly sank into the sea with the burning hull.

Qiu Jiang handed the jar to Qi Fu, and Qi Fu bowed to her deeply, then turned back below the deck and continued to stay with the others.

Yi Fei said: “You treat her so special, I’m afraid you have harmed her.”

“If she can’t even deal with those people, if she enters Ruyi Gate, she will die.”

“Then why didn’t you send the Buddha to the West, and simply asked Brother Xiong to let her go?”

“A nine-year-old orphan girl living on the streets will only make things worse.”

“Or you tell her, if you stay at Ruyimen, it will be over soon.”

Qiu Jiang looked at Yi Fei with a strange look, and suddenly reached out to touch his face. Yi Fei was caught off guard, and she held his cheek just like that. His heart beat faster several times. “What, what are you doing?”

“I’m not covered…” Qiu Jiang mocked, “Then what happened today? Just ask stupid questions.”

Yi Fei was startled, and asked himself, he did ask a bunch of questions. At least, it shouldn’t be a question he would ask. It’s just that he couldn’t say it clearly himself. When she found out that Qiu Jiang was not Jiang Jiang, and that Feng Xiaoya didn’t have such a deep bond of fate, she couldn’t help but want to talk to her often. Even if you have nothing to say, even if you are laughed at by her.

In order to hide this emotion, Yi Fei coughed loudly.

Qiu Jiang glanced at him, then continued to look at the sea, Qi Cai’s raft had sunk into nothingness. How many people have come to this world once and ended up like this, without causing any change, they just disappeared.

The only one who cried for him, was obsessed with him, and continued to run for him was his sister.

Sister…brother…wet two words.

***

That night, there was another strong wind at sea.

Brother Xiong ordered the crew to furl the sails and close the door, and deliberately came to remind Yi Fei and Qiu Jiang: “Third Brother, Seventh Master, this storm is not small, unless it is absolutely necessary, you two must not come out.”

Yi Fei frowned: “We’re almost at the inland sea, how could there be a hurricane?”

“The month is not good. In July and August, the Dragon King is angry. The Dragon King is not happy for a while…” Brother Xiong said and hurried out with the lantern.

Yi Fei closed the hatch, feeling filled with emotion: “This journey is really full of wind and rain.”

Qiu Jiang closed her eyes and rested her mind, not wanting to waste her energy.

However, Yi Fei saw a fortune-telling copper plate on the side, his eyes lit up, and he took it in his hand and shook it six times: “Come on, come on, let’s make a divination…”

The hexagram came out to be fierce, he sweated on his forehead, and hurriedly said: “Ah, I forgot to wash my hands, come again.”

Wash your hands again, it’s still fierce.

“Forget to meditate on what you want in your heart, and come again.”

The third time, it was still fierce.

Yi Fei tentatively handed the copper coin to Qiu Jiang: “Why don’t you come?”

“I don’t believe this.” Qiu Jiang turned over and turned her back to him.

“Come on, try it, what’s the point? Come on, come on, come on…” The voice was like an old oiran soliciting customers in the street, which made people feel restless.

In order to stop the noise, Qiu Jiang had to sit up, took the copper coin and shook it, and when it fell, it was a big disaster.

The two were speechless to each other, looking at each other for a long time.

Yi Fei blinked: “You didn’t wash your hands, it doesn’t count. Come, come, wash your hands and then come again…”

Qiu Jiang laughed angrily, and was about to throw the copper coins at his face, but Yifei didn’t dodge, seeing that the three copper coins were about to hit his nose, the ship shook, and the copper coins flew out obliquely, rubbing his ears fell to the ground.

Yi Fei’s body was unstable, and he fell headfirst towards Qiu Jiang. He wanted to dodge quickly, but seeing Qiu Jiang subconsciously reaching out to pick it up, his eyes flickered, and he immediately leaned over softly: “Ah!”

Qiu Jiang steadied him and said in a low voice, “It’s not good.”

“Yes, the storm is so big.” Yi Fei continued to stick to her body.

“Not a storm.”

When Yi Fei heard this, he immediately stopped laughing and sat up straight. He looked around, sensing the vibration of the ship, his face changed gradually: “The swing is regular, it’s not a storm, it’s gunpowder.”

The two of them met each other’s eyes, and quickly rushed to the door, but the door was not moving, it was locked from the outside!

“Deng Xiong betrayed us!”

Yi Fei immediately went to hit the ship’s wall, but after the wood was broken, a layer of iron wall net was exposed inside.

Qiu Jiang smiled wryly: “Many people tried to escape by breaking the boat. Since then, iron nets have been added to the blue and white boats.”

At this moment, thick, pungent smoke continuously squeezed in from the cracks in the wall. At the same time, the flames burned the outer wooden boards and burned in through the iron net.

Qiu Jiang flicked out the curly wire on the Buddha bead bracelet, trying to cut through the iron net, but the curd wire was too thin, and the iron net was too big, burning too fast, it was too late, Yi Fei remembered that there was still a handful of luck in his waist. The sword was drawn out immediately, and slashed fiercely.

The two worked together, and finally cut a gap in the burning fire and jumped out.

However, it was also burning outside, and the other party actually set the whole ship on fire with gunpowder!

After Qiu Jiang and Yi Fei searched for each other, they found that Deng Xiong, the crew and the nineteen abductees were all gone.

“This place is close to the inland sea, and they escaped in a small boat.” Yi Fei analyzed, “Deng Xiong deliberately pretended to be obedient and stabilized us, but at this time the fatal blow will burn you and me to death.”

Qiu Jiang didn’t speak, and his expression was very complicated.

“Don’t think about that for now, jump into the sea!” Yi Fei stretched out his leg and kicked a window down, and immediately grabbed it in his hand and was ready to jump. When he looked back, he saw Qiu Jiang was still in a daze, so he grabbed her, “I want to What? Jump!”

The two jumped off the boat together.

Almost at the same time, another fire burst into the sky, and the whole ship was divided into two from the middle, and fell to both ends.

Yi Fei, who jumped into the sea, grabbed the board and swam quickly. The huge vortex kept chasing after him, like a flame burning from the middle chasing the edge of a paper. The two swam for a long time before they dared to look back. The vortex had swallowed the boat mercilessly.

If it had been slower just now, both of them would have been swallowed together at this moment.

Yi Fei lay on the wooden board, his lower body soaked in the water relaxedly, wiped the water from his face and said: “It really is fierce.”

Qiu Jiang also leaned on half of the plank for help, his eyes still stayed in the direction of the sinking ship, his expression was in a trance.

“What’s wrong with you?” Yi Fei finally managed to ask this question.

Qiu Jiang’s reaction was very unusual, she completely lost her previous composure and agility, and this was the first time Yi Fei had seen her lose her composure since traveling with her.

Qiu Jiang pursed her bloodless lips, and said softly: “Although the blue and white flowers belong to Ruyimen, they are directly under Mr. Pin’s orders. If Madam has orders, they must be given through Mr. Pin.”

“So?” Only then did Yifei know that Ruyimen still has two separate powers.

“Deng Xiong is only a small soldier, how dare he kill the two of us? What’s more, the boat is expensive to build, and given his courage, he would not dare to destroy it privately.”

“So, Madam Ruyi or Mr. Pin ordered us to be killed?”

Qiu Jiang’s eyes flickered, and he obviously thought so, but his expression was neither angry nor confused, and there was still some unspeakable concealment.

Yi Fei said: “Let’s think about it now, should we swim back to the shore in one breath, or just float here to try our luck and wait for the boat to pass by?”

The night is dark, and this place is close to the inland sea, and ships going out to sea usually travel during the day; and there are not too many ships returning to sea, after all, Lianzhou is the most dilapidated port in Chengguo.

Qiu Jiang quickly estimated the advantages and disadvantages of the two phases, and at this moment, the sea water is going further east, and her physical strength should be able to support it to the shore, so she said, “Swim!”

The two of them traveled eastward on the floating board together.

The sea water was extremely cold at night, and his physical strength was lost much faster than Qiu Jiang expected. And it may be that the hexagram is really a big ominous one, and I didn’t even see a fish along the way, let alone a boat.

Both of them were exhausted after swimming for an hour. However, the two of them also knew very well: they must not stop at this moment, and once they stop, they can no longer continue. Therefore, no one spoke, and continued to move forward little by little according to the rhythm of breathing.

Half a night moon hangs in the sky, coldly but almost compassionately bringing some light to the struggling ants.

Yi Fei glanced at Qiu Jiang’s side face through the moonlight, and suddenly asked, “How long have you been swimming the longest?”

“Three hours.”

Yi Fei just breathed a sigh of relief, but Qiu Jiang said again: “But it was daytime.”

And at night, willpower is usually discounted.

Just as Yi Fei was about to speak, his complexion changed in vain, and his movements stopped for a while.

“What’s wrong?”

Yi Fei quickly regained his composure: “It’s nothing. Continue. I seem to see a light…”

Qiu Jiang looked over, and there was no light on the dark coastline ahead. But at this time, she didn’t have the physical strength and energy to analyze it, so she just continued to grit her teeth and swim forward.

As she swam, she felt that the floating board she was supporting was getting heavier and heavier. At first she thought it was because of her exhaustion, but then she turned her head and saw that it was Yi Fei lying on the board and not moving.

She pushed him, twitched her tongue in her mouth, and suddenly didn’t know what to call him.

When she met him in the past, she called him Lord Huazi; later, she called him the third prince; and after that, she called him the third son for a long time. It wasn’t until this moment that she realized that she had never called his name.

Yifei was pushed by her, and opened his eyes instantly, his eyes were in a trance for a moment: “I fell asleep? I’m sorry…” Immediately, he swung his arms to speed up, but after a few swipes, he slowed down, and finally got faster and faster. Slowly, slower and slower, and closed his eyes again.

“Yifei?!” Qiu Jiang finally called out his name, and pushed him again, but this time, he didn’t wake up. She reached out to touch his forehead and found that his body temperature was terribly low.

“Yi Fei! Yi Fei!” Qiu Jiang was anxious, immediately picked him up, put him flat on the floating board, and then took a few deep breaths, trying to calm himself down.

Are you pulling him to continue swimming? Or do you swim back by yourself, find the boat and come back to save him?

The former has little hope of success, because she is already exhausted at the moment, let alone dragging a person forward. The latter, I am afraid that he will drift away with the waves or sink, and he will never be found again.

Qiu Jiang glanced at Yi Fei who had lost consciousness, reached into his clothes and rummaged through them, and found two small bottles. One bottle could not be opened, and the other contained medicine such as Jiuxin Pill. I immediately fed him one and ate one myself. Then I took a deep breath, untied one end of my belt and tied it to the board, and pulled him to continue tour.

He saved her.

Feng Xiaoya’s test didn’t count. The time on the blue and white boat can’t be counted. But when the blue and white boat exploded, if it wasn’t for Yifei’s tug, she definitely wouldn’t be able to jump in time.

Revenge is difficult, and gratitude is even more difficult.

Qiu Jiang thought: You don’t have to take revenge. But yes, we must report.

She swam desperately.

Like when I was nine years old, I desperately wanted to escape from the high wall; Like when I was twelve years old, I desperately wanted to escape from the Holy Land; Like when I was nineteen years old, I desperately wanted to escape from Feng Xiaoya…

For so many years, she has been working hard.

Fight with the sky, fight with people, and fight with yourself.

The sky will come down to the people of Sri Lanka. Although I always use this sentence to motivate myself, when I dream back at midnight, it is three words that are chewed on the bottom of my tongue with blood dripping—why?

I heard that Ji Ying once said a word: “Just because the one who sent away back then wasn’t me?”

She also has a saying: “Just because, I am me…?”

Why is it me?

Why does it have to be me?

Why did fate treat me like this? Why should I obey fate?

why why why?

There are sour things overflowing from the fundus of the eyes, and the vision is blurred. I don’t know if it is because of sweat, sea water, or something else.

The smell of blood kept oozing from the gap between the teeth, welling up on the tip of the tongue, and then swallowed hard down the throat. Before Qiu Jiang got confused, the last thought that came to his mind was – it would be nice if there was a jug of wine…

Then she dreamed of a jug of wine.

The wine was packed in a purple sand teapot, carried on a tray by her, and walked into a study room.

There are so many books in the study room that there is almost no end in sight.

A young man was sitting by the window, basking in the sun and reading a book. On the low table beside him, the tea and pastries were not moved.

He looked so focused and serious, the sunlight fell on his eyelashes, shining golden.

The boy was wearing a white robe, his whole body was bathed in divine light, clean and hazy like a dream.

She brought the wine over and said to him, “Let’s change to a cup of tea.”

The young man nodded slightly, but did not raise his head, allowing her to pour out the original tea and refill it.

She handed him the cup.

The young man picked it up to drink, but stopped the moment he touched the rim of the cup, then raised his warm golden eyelashes, and smiled brightly at her: “Are you trying to lie to me again?”

Are you trying to lie to me again—

Are you trying to lie to me again?

Are you trying to lie to me again…

These words spread from the ear, and gradually went away.

But something was taken away by it and fell into the dark.

Qiu Jiang woke up.

Seeing the golden sunshine, continuing the brilliance in the dream, shining on her. Beneath her was the same golden sand—beach?

All the bones in my body seemed to be broken, and the pain caused tears and snot to flow out all at once. She coughed, and while enduring the severe pain, she struggled to get up, and then found that she was indeed on land.

She remembered that she swam and swam until finally she lost all strength and passed out.

Is it lucky? The waves washed her ashore. So what about Yifei?

She staggered around looking for it, and it didn’t take long before she saw a familiar piece of clothing beside a broken rock.

Qiu Jiang ran over and pulled the clothes away, revealing the face underneath. It was indeed Yi Fei, but he was still unconscious and his breathing was very weak. A further examination of his body revealed that his right leg was bruised and had a jellyfish sting on it.

Halfway through swimming last night, I passed out. It turned out to be stung by a jellyfish.

Qiu Jiang slapped him on the face, Yi Fei’s eyes were closed tightly, his face was pale, and his body was very cold. Qiu Jiang gritted her teeth and picked him up.

Unexpectedly, Yi Fei looked very thin, but actually quite heavy. She herself had tossed in the sea once, her internal organs were in pain, and it was even more difficult for her to carry him on her back. But even so, Qiu Jiang did not give up and carried him forward step by step.

After about a meal, I finally saw smoke in the distance.

Where there is smoke, there are people!

She had a glimmer of hope and continued to grit her teeth and move forward. Every step I took, my feet felt like I was stepping on thousands of knives, and cold sweat was pouring down my forehead like rain.

So sad!

So sad!

The body is constantly protesting, but the will is becoming more and more firm.

“No matter what,” Qiu Jiang stared at the smoke in front of him, thinking, “No matter what, I will go there before stopping.”

Just one step, two steps, many steps.

Cooking smoke seems to be close in front of you, but you can’t get there. At this time, Yi Fei who was on his back suddenly said: “Put me down.” His breath was very weak, as if it would be cut off at any moment.

Qiu Jiang was overjoyed: “Are you awake?”

“Put me down.”

Qiu Jiang lifted his body up and replied, “Okay. Wait until we find someone.”

Yi Fei looked into her ears, his eyes became deep and melancholy: “You can’t get there.”

“Who said that?” Qiu Jiang ignored him, “I’ll be there soon. Do you see the smoke? We’ll be there in another fifty steps!”

Yi Fei stopped talking.

Qiu Jiang counted softly: “One, two, three…”

She had reached her limit and couldn’t hold on any longer, but Yi Fei’s awakening suddenly gave her new hope, she was no longer alone, and could continue to move forward bravely because of the company of another person.

Her heart was filled with strength.

But she didn’t know it herself, blood was pouring out of her ears, drop by drop, collected into lines, mixed with sweat, and flowed into her clothes.

Yi Fei leaned on her back, looking at those bright red blood drops, deep in his heart, there was unspeakable sorrow.

He knew that this scene would remain in his mind forever, washing away the past and becoming eternal. For the rest of his life, he will never be able to forget: How did a girl walk forward step by step while carrying him who was unable to move while her ears and nose were bleeding.

This scene overlapped with Songzhu who died for him at the secret passage at the bottom of the lake two years ago.

In Yi Fei’s eyes, a mist filled the air.

And this difficult fifty steps are finally over.

A dilapidated thatched hut appeared in sight, but in Qiu Jiang’s eyes, it was more beautiful than any gorgeous palace.

“We’re here!” Qiu Jiang’s lips trembled, and tears flowed down her face involuntarily. “We’re here! We’ve finally found him!” She blushed and knocked on the door behind Yifei’s back: “Is anyone there? Is there anyone?”

With a creak, the door of the hut opened a little, and a white-haired, skinny old woman poked her head out and looked at her blankly.

“Old man, our ship was shipwrecked at sea, and my brother was injured, can you…” Qiu Jiang’s voice stopped abruptly. She suddenly found that the scene in front of her eyes turned red. Numerous red shadows filled the air, covering her sight, and she couldn’t see clearly.

what happened?

Only then did she realize that she was bleeding, and the blood was gushing from her eyes and ears. She coughed and spit out a bunch of blood foam.

“Can you…see a doctor…” Qiu Jiang insisted on finishing the sentence, and took out the last gold leaf from the pocket of her underwear, and stuffed it into the old woman’s hand.

The old woman was shocked when she saw the golden leaf.

After Qiu Jiang finished saying this, she was completely powerless, so she put Yi Fei on the ground, supported the wall beside her, and gasped for breath. The blood was still flowing out, she thought that her internal organs were probably injured internally, and she didn’t know if there was a good doctor in this kind of place, and whether they could be healed in time…

The old woman held the gold leaf in silence for a while, then looked at the two of them with a complicated look, and said in a low voice, “Wait.” After saying that, she staggered away on crutches.

“How are you?”

Qiu Jiang heard Yi Fei asking worriedly from the side, so he smiled: “You won’t die, don’t worry.”

So many narrow escapes have survived, and this time is the same. And they have found someone, given money, and hope.

Qiu Jiang adjusted her breath silently, struggling to support her.

Time passed extremely slowly, and I could only think slowly, but because the things I thought about were too complicated and heavy, I became more and more tormented.

Why did that person kill himself?

The base camp has been destroyed, where is Mrs. Ruyi now?

I don’t know if it’s because of the blood loss, the body is so cold, it would be great to drink a jug of wine at this time… Just as she was thinking this, footsteps came from a distance.

Qiu Jiang was overjoyed, and turned around quickly, only to see the old woman came back with a six or seven-year-old boy.

“Third grandma, are these two people?” The boy looked at them curiously and naively.

The old woman nodded.

Qiu Jiang said: “Old man…” She was just about to ask about seeing a doctor, when the old woman raised her crutch and threw it down hard at her!

Although Qiu Jiang was extremely weak, her body still dodged naturally, and that turn failed to hit her head, but hit her shoulder.

Qiu Jiang spit out a big mouthful of blood and said angrily, “Why?”

The old woman did not answer, but continued to beat her with the cane. Qiu Jiang no longer had the strength to dodge, and was hit several times. Fortunately, the old woman was old and weak. Although she exerted all her strength, she could bear it.

Qiu Jiang gritted her teeth and stiffened, Yi Fei suddenly rushed over to protect her, and blocked the old woman’s crutches with her body.

The boy shouted: “Third Grandma, this man is still alive!”

“Do it!” The old woman scolded. The boy swung a wooden stool out of the room and threw it at Yi Fei without saying a word.

For a while, both Yi Fei and Qiu Jiang, who was protected by him, suffered many blows.

Qiu Jiang went to buckle the beads, but found that the poison inside had already been used up, and only the tungsten wire remained in the eighteen beads. A trace of murderous intent flashed in her eyes, she was about to use the wire, but was held down by Yi Fei.

Yi Fei’s face was as white as paper, he smiled at her, and said softly: “Don’t kill the untouchables…”

Qiu Jiang’s fingers trembled and let go.

The boy was tired from hitting, he put down the bench and panted, “Third grandma, why are they still alive?”

“Don’t kill us…” Yi Fei softly begged for mercy, “We have a lot of money…”

“The third grandma said, it looks like a big trouble to you at first glance, and only after death can it become no trouble.”

Yi Fei smiled wryly.

Qiu Jiang stared at the old woman who was also out of breath, and said in a deep voice: “You are wrong. We are dead, our people will investigate this matter thoroughly, and you will have no chance to stay out of it.”

The boy smiled and said: “Who are you bluffing? You are dead, throw it into the sea, and the sea fish will be eaten clean. How can there be any traces?”

Qiu Jiang looked at his innocent and immature face, which became more and more cruel, and didn’t know what to say for a while.

Yi Fei softly said: “It’s really not negotiable? We really have a lot of money…”

“Then it’s even more impossible to stay!” The old woman raised her crutch again…

Yi Fei clung to Qiu Jiang’s ear and whispered, “I’m pestering them, so run if you can.”

“If I had the strength, I would have beaten them both!” Qiu Jiang said angrily.

Yi Fei laughed: “This is probably the legendary Tiger Falling in Pingyang.”

Seeing him laughing at a time like this, Qiu Jiang also admired him.

“Since we can’t run away, let’s die together.” Yi Fei said, holding her tighter, “It’s good that you don’t have to worry about so many things after you die.”

Qiu Jiang’s heart skipped a beat.

Indeed, for both her and him, living was too tiring. There are too many things to do, too difficult, too painful, but death is a relief. However, after struggling in the mud for so long, if you give up at this moment, wouldn’t all the previous hard work be in vain?

There are too many unwillingness.

Unwilling to die. Unwilling to fail. Unwilling to be betrayed and unable to ask clearly.

Qiu Jiang dug her fingers deeply into the soil, gritted her teeth, and said, “Even if I die, I have to see my wife before I die!” At this point, she gathered all her strength to push away Yi Fei, threw the old woman down, He opened his mouth and bit her neck.

The old woman screamed in pain.

The boy rushed forward to rescue him, but Qiu Jiang bit him so tightly that the old woman’s exclamation turned into a scream, with snot and tears pouring out.

“Killed! Killed!!” The boy turned and ran away shouting.

Not long after, he came back with the two of them. Both of them were old men, as dry and thin as the old women.

They came up and worked hard together, Qiu Jiang was hit **** the back twice, her throat was sweet, and she coughed again. With this cough, the teeth loosened. Everyone took the opportunity to drag the old woman away from under her.

The old woman clutched her neck and said, “Kill her! Kill her!”

“The Zhu’s shop in Nanrong Lane, Lianhuo City owes me fifty gold. You just need to talk to the boss, and you can get fifty gold!” Yi Fei who was on the ground suddenly said loudly.

“Don’t listen to them, kill them quickly!” The old woman was anxious, but when the two old men heard about fifty gold, their eyes straightened. One tremblingly looked back at Yi Fei: “Really?”

Yi Fei’s expression was so sincere that he couldn’t be more sincere: “Go get it now, if you can’t get it, it’s not too late to come back and kill us.”

“Don’t believe it, it’s fake! He’s wasting time!”

“You don’t keep your promise, you took my gold leaf, and you didn’t ask me for a doctor!” Qiu Jiang also said loudly, “Take out the gold leaf in your sleeve and give it to these two old men!”

The old woman panicked immediately, and went to cover her sleeves: “What, what gold leaf? Nonsense, nonsense!”

The two old men looked at each other, and they rushed over, one restrained the old woman, and the other searched her sleeve, and sure enough, they pulled out a gold leaf from it.

The two looked at the golden leaf with bright eyes.

Yi Fei took the opportunity to increase the price again: “We are very rich! As long as you don’t kill us, give us as much as you want!”

The old woman’s face was ashamed: “Don’t be greedy! Don’t be greedy! If you don’t kill them, they will definitely find a chance to take revenge. By then, we will all have money to enjoy!”

“Get out!” An old man kicked her on the head and kicked her rolling several times, “I know you are a stingy woman, you eat alone all day long, and you don’t call us for fifty gold deals, and you don’t even think about it.” Can you do it by yourself?”

The old woman said anxiously: “Fifty gold! Even the whole village can’t make it!”

The two old men looked at each other, and the old woman’s heart sank, knowing that she had said something wrong, she quickly shouted at the boy: “A Dong, run!”

The boy was still unknown, so an old man rushed over to hold him down and tie him up. Another old man **** the old woman.

The old woman cursed loudly: “Are you two crazy? This is what you want to do…” Before she finished speaking, “I think the fifty gold is enough for our two points, and the fewer people, the better.” The old man copied it. The crutches on the side fell on the old woman’s head, and with a single blow, her head was split open, and red and white flowed all over the floor.

Just as the boy was about to exclaim, he was hit by a wooden stool and chased after the old woman.

The two wanted to kill Qiujiang and Yifei with crutches and wooden stools, but in the end they died under the crutches and wooden stools instead.

A few drops of blood splashed onto Yi Fei’s face, and Yi Fei watched the scene quietly, with unspeakable emotions surging in his eyes.

The two old men dragged the corpses of the old woman and the boy into the house and hid them, then walked up to Yi Fei and said, “Speak. What are you going to say to the owner of Zhu’s shop?”

Another person threatened: “You’d better not play tricks, otherwise, the grandparents and grandchildren will be your fate.”

Yi Fei showed fear and said: “Don’t dare. You tell Boss Zhu that Mr. Sanhua wants to drink, a kind of wine called Acacia, and you will get fifty gold.”

The two old men walked aside and chatted for a while, one of them went to get the gold, and the other stayed and watched the two.

There was nothing left or right, the old man took a broken fishing net to mend it, and his rough fingers passed through the net line, but they were very flexible.

Yi Fei struck up a conversation, “What do you call the old man?”

“Tian.” The old man answered indifferently.

Yi Fei asked: “What do you want to do after winning fifty gold?”

This question got to the point, and old man Tian suddenly became interested: “I’ll buy a new boat, buy a new fishing net, build a pond, and raise some soft-shelled turtles! Now these soft-shelled turtles are very easy to sell, and you can only get them if you send them to a restaurant.” Twenty Wen! The nobles love to eat.”

It seems that this person is a pragmatic. Qiu Jiang thought, with so much money, he didn’t want to eat, drink and have fun.

“It’s only twenty for a restaurant, but if you cook and sell it yourself, it can be as high as seventy or eighty. Don’t you want to open your own restaurant?”

Old man Tian was moved, his eyes sparkled, but dimmed after a while: “We don’t have that life, we don’t want to benefit from that.”

Yi Fei stared at his fingers with exceptionally thick bones and joints, and said leisurely: “How do you know you don’t have that life?”

“People like us put our lives on the line every time we go to sea. God doesn’t care about it, so we can come back alive. If God looks at you, you will die…” Old Man Tian said as he finished mending the fishing net, and stood up hunched over. Looking back at Yi Fei, he said, “I know you are trying to get close to me and want to escape. Because you know that if the old grandson doesn’t get the money back, you will die; if he gets the money back, you will still die. I advise you to accept your fate. Everyone has to accept their fate in this broken land.”

Yifei fell silent.

Old man Tian went out and locked the door from the outside. As a result, only Qiu Jiang and Yi Fei were left in the dilapidated and moldy hut, as well as the two corpses hidden under the woodpile.

Qiu Jiang was seriously injured, and his eyes and ears were still bleeding.

Yi Fei was poisoned by a strange poison and had a high fever.

Both of them are exhausted.

It seems that without waiting for the old grandson to come back, the two of them will die.

Yi Fei was stunned for a while, and he tried to regain his energy, then turned to Qiu Jiang and said, “I have dragged you down. If there is a next life, how do you want me to compensate you?”

“In the next life…” Qiu Jiang’s eyes froze for a moment, then became gloomy, “I don’t want the next life!”

Yi Fei smiled: “Okay, okay, then you will fly to the sky to become a god, and bless me in the next life.”

“What kind of next life do you want?” Qiu Jiang was curious.

“I want to reunite with my mother. I have a generous and gentle father. You don’t need to be rich or powerful, even if you are as poor as here, but everyone works hard and is very harmonious.” He looked at the dilapidated hut, and the smile on his lips became softer Get up, “I went out to sea with my father since I was a child, and brought back a fish taller than me as a gift to my mother. My mother praised me and scolded me and tore my clothes. I cut off the grape flesh under the fish’s eyes and gave it to my mother secretly Go to the prettiest Ah Hua next door. When I grow up, I will marry Ah Hua and have many children. My mother calls me to take off my clothes to make up for her while shouting that raising the baby is hard work…”

Qiu Jiang listened to these words like a dream, thinking of Yi Fei