"Old man, we are crossing the road. It's getting late and I want to stay here. Why is there no one in the village?"
The eyes in the crack of the door looked at him and slammed the door shut again.
Then there was no more sound inside.
Kino was stunned for a moment.
"Old man? We are really not bad guys, can you open the door?" He patted the door again.
But the old man was silent at all.
Kino sighed and walked back, "There are people in that room, he should be an old man, but he opened a crack in the door and saw me shut the door again."
Bone Shadow frowned and said, "We must ask him to open the door and ask, even if he can't let us in, he also asks if there is anything to eat, can we pay for these dishes."
Uncle Chai said: "Let Zhu'er and Shuang'er go, he might not be so scared."
Something must have happened in this village, otherwise the old man would not be so vigilant and so scared.
They should have sent someone to walk the village to see if there is any danger, but now everyone can hardly walk, and they have to breathe after taking a few steps, so just forget it.
Zhu'er and Shuang'er helped each other to the front of the house and knocked on the door.
"Old man, we have been hungry for many days, and we have no water to drink. Now we don't even have the strength to speak. Can you give us something to eat? We will pay."
"Old man, our wife is still sick. If there is no water to drink and nothing to eat, she will have a hard time going through it, please."
Zhu'er and Shuang'er begged for a long time outside the door, but they couldn't stand still. The two leaned against each other, their bodies trembling as if they were about to fall down, and the door in front of them opened another crack.
They glanced at each other and quickly stood up straight.
The people in the door watched for a while before finally making a sound.
"Where did you come from?"
"Bai Lei Ya." Zhu Er knew that there was nowhere to go in this area, and the nonsense might make the old man retract again, so she told the truth, but it was also mixed with a little lie.
"Our wife is ill. I heard people say that there is a strange medicine on Bai Lei Ya, so I wanted to look for it. Who knew the medicine was not found, but was in danger, and we couldn’t find anything to eat along the way. I'm starving to death."
After listening to her, the room was silent for a while before the door opened with a creak.
Zhuer and Shuang'er finally saw the true colors of the people in the room.
Sure enough, he was an old man with white hair and white beard, thin cheeks, wearing a patched padded jacket, half of his ears were still bandaged, oozing some brownish medicine color.
The old man looked like he was honest, but because his eyes were always alert and defensive, people couldn't relax.
"How can you go to Bai Lei Ya? The danger is tight there," the old man said.
"Yes, I realized that it was really dangerous after I went." Zhu Er said quickly.
The old man sighed and said, "Where are you all? How many are there?"
"Look, they are all over there. We are nearly twenty people."
"So many people..." The old man took a look over there and saw a few people lying under one roof. He was startled, "What's wrong with this, this?"
Shuang'er smiled bitterly, "Hungry, old Bai, we are all starving to death."
"Go and call someone over," the old man hesitated, then pointed to the neighboring house, "you can go to that house, you just slam the door open."
Zhu Er and Shuang Er froze for a moment, "Old man, where are the people in this village? Doesn't it matter if you hit someone else's door?"
"What's important, I'm afraid I won't come back. I and my wife are left in the village. I closed all the doors and hooked them with iron hooks from the outside."
The old man shook his head and waved his hand: "Go, the original owner of the house is the one with the most money in the village. You can first find out if you have any clothes to change, and then go to another house and check it out. I'll go in first. I'll cook something for you."
Zhu'er and Shuang'er watched him enter the room, then turned back and waved to Bone Shadow and them.
When everyone came over, Bone Shadow heard their narration and was also at a loss.
But now I can’t bother to ask too much. The sky is getting dark quickly, and the outside is too dim to see clearly, the cold wind is also ringing, the night is coming with the chill, and the village is dark, so It always makes people feel inexplicably cold.
The door kicked open easily.
The old man said that this one is the richest in the village, perhaps because the house is a little bigger and the furniture inside is complete.
There are three rooms in one house, one of which is a Chase shop.
The bedding on the bed is neatly folded, and there is no unpleasant smell. The things in the house are also arranged in an orderly manner. There is no dust on the tables and chairs. It can be seen that the owner of the house is very clean.
The king of Zhenling carried the cloud and put her on the bed in a room. Although he was disgusted, there was nothing to fault here, so he had to cover her with a quilt.
Other people also entered the house. The fainted guards were carried to the Chase Shop, and the rest of them rummaged in the house looking for food.
Kino was more familiar with this kind of environment, so he went into the kitchen at once and found a half-clay pot of rice and some flour and pickles.
There is even a big water tank in the kitchen, and the water in the tank is still seven or eighty full.
The kitchen utensils are also complete.
He breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately brushed a pot, ignited the stove, and filled a pot of water to boil it.
Zhu Er and Shuang'er also walked in. Seeing that he was already busy driving, the two of them also insisted on helping.
"You have no energy right now and can't do much work, Zhu'er, you just sit here and make a fire, Shuang'er, I have boiled the water to warm up, you just need to wash these dishes.
"it is good."
Shuang'er watched Muye move swiftly to work, and couldn't help but said to Zhuer, "It turns out that Muye is very capable."
I don't usually think that Kino can do anything, but in certain situations, he will still play a different role.
The two of them didn't learn to cook and make fires before, and it would be better for them to do it as well as Kino.
Kino quickly boiled a pot of water to warm, and divided it into two pots, one pot let Shuanger wash the dishes, the rest washed a basin, and boiled another pot of water, hot , Poured into that basin.
Bone Shadow came in at the right time, and Kino immediately gave him the basin of water.
"Let the girl and the prince scrub this water first, and I will cook immediately."
The bone shadow nodded and entered the room with the basin of water.
Ding Dou had already brought two large pots of water from the old man over there, and everyone poured a bowl of water.
"Drink water, drink water quickly."
He drank a big bowl himself, and finally felt as if he had been relieved.
Uncle Chai and Xu Jing quickly drank a bowl, and then went to feed the others with water.
At this moment, the remnants of a house seem defeated.