Hold on, cook your soup! "It was always the same person who answered him. That person's face was covered with scary scars. There was only one eyeball in the two eye sockets. Gone.
Around the two quarreling people, there were still beggars sitting in a circle, either missing arms or broken legs, and there were four or five good hands and feet who kept gesturing blindly. It was estimated that they were either deaf or dumb.
There was a wooden bed behind them. There were three people lying on the bed, one old and two young, who were exactly what One Eye called "Uncle Liu, Scissors, and Little Rock." They were covered with quilts that had long been torn, with a faint musty smell, but it was a bedding anyway.
The three lying down were breathing heavily, and all seemed to have a fever. Their faces were gray and pale, and they were abnormally red. Their lips were blistered, and there were many cracks. The neck that was exposed outside the bedding was barely good. Skin, covered with large festering wounds.
The strong smell of blood emanated from these three people.
In the corner of this room, there was still a man and a woman sitting curled up. They were young, their facial features were gentle and graceful, and their temperaments were compatible. Although the jackets they were wearing were plain and ordinary, they were not broken or moldy. Although their hair was a little messy, they still seemed out of place among this group of beggars.
This man and woman are Jiang Shining's sister Jiang Shijing and her brother-in-law Fang Cheng.
"A Ying..." Fang Cheng tilted his head and asked his wife in a low voice, "Where is the injury?"
They have known each other since childhood, so Fang Cheng has always liked to call his wife by his nickname.
Jiang Shijing shook his head, "How about you?"
"I'm fine. Don't be afraid, they don't look like they want to kill us or rob us." Fang Cheng said in a low voice, "It's like..."
Both of them looked at the bed on which the person was lying.
After the beggars robbed them, they untied the hemp rope wrapped around their bodies, leaving only the part on their wrists, and said gruffly, "We can't do anything about it either."
Just when they were about to elaborate, some... very strange voices suddenly appeared in the room.
It seemed that someone was slowly coming down from the upstairs, walking heavily, and it sounded like he was not in good health, or maybe he was old.
At that time, those beggars were stunned for a moment, then they looked at each other, and one person even raised his hand to count the number of people: "Five, six... Seven, plus Uncle Liu and the three, it is ten, just right, all of them. "
As soon as these words came out, the expressions of all the beggars changed, and they were immediately a little startled - everyone was in the room, so who was the one walking slowly on the stairs? !
A daring beggar spat out "pretending to be a ghost" and went out of the house, intending to see who was going downstairs, but he disappeared completely until the sound of footsteps disappeared and never appeared again. .
The other two beggars teamed up to find him. It is said that they searched up and down the front and back of the building, but they did not see the missing one, but it was foggy in the village, so thick that even the house next door could not be seen. out of touch.
This bizarre scene reminded the beggars of the legend about the haunted Wen Village. They were so terrified that they sat in a circle around the fire, and no one dared to go out again.
"Would you two doctors drink some of this mushroom and wild vegetable soup, you won't be able to go back for a while." The one-eyed turned to Fang Cheng and Jiang Shijing and said, "Drink some soup to warm your hands, just like our brothers. Let me make an apology for you. You adults don't remember the villain's deeds. Let's check the pulse of Uncle Liu and the others. They are covered with sores. This lousy idea."
"Although we can't live as individuals, we're also afraid of death." Broken hand continued his words, "But we can't make money, we can't hire a doctor, and we can't catch yào, we can only be a bandit once..."
Sure enough, as they had guessed.
Fang Cheng shook his head and said: "There have been many disasters in the past two years. There have been several famines and famines. It is inevitable that life will be a little more difficult. If you can't pay the money, you can't pay. If you really want to come to the door, can you still die? With such a small amount of money, I refuse to give any material, my wife will definitely be the first to refuse. It's just... "
He looked at the one-eyed and said, "It's really too much to snatch people with their heads indiscriminately on the street. With the strength to catch people, what can't you do?"
"We also want to make a living, but no one wants to." Broken Hand raised his wrist, "If we are like this, if we don't say anything else, it is definitely not as good as a good worker, and we are willing to hire someone like us. , Ji is purely doing good deeds. In these troubled years, I can't live fully, so how can I spare my energy to do good deeds."
"No one wants to?" Fang