1755 The road is endless
When Qiu Shuang couldn't hold on any longer, he finally found traces of the oasis!
Ahead is a small town, with rows of wooden walls surrounding the oasis in the center. There are scratches from animal claws everywhere on these walls, which is shocking to anyone who sees them. But Qiu Shuang is extremely excited now. Seeing the oasis means that the two of them can survive.
Qiu Shuang pulled Li Fan and almost moved to the gate of the town.
"Please, please...save us..."
Qiu Shuang's throat had long been hoarse, both of her hands were bitten, and the cloth strips wrapped around them were stained with blood. She knocked on the door desperately, shouting in a hoarse voice again and again.
After a long time, two rickety figures appeared from the city wall.
"Where did it come from?"
"Baicheng."
Qiu Shuang is very smart, she will not tell that she is from the imperial capital. When I arrived in this place, in the past, the more noble my status was, the more I would be discriminated against.
"We are all deported now, please take us two in."
"Tribute."
The two people on the city wall had no emotion at all, and they threw out two words very mechanically.
Qiu Shuang reached out and took off a necklace from her jade neck.
There is a jade pendant hanging on the necklace. This is a good piece of jade. It is the only relic left to Qiu Shuang by her mother a long time ago. But now, for Li Fan, she must hand this over.
The eldest prince and the second prince also deliberately did not confiscate this thing. Their wish was to leave such a way for their imperial sister to survive.
The two people wanted to kill only the queen, not their own royal sister. Now that the Queen has abdicated, there is no need for fratricide.
"Yes, it's Kuai Hao Jade, worth a few pieces of fairy crystal."
The defenders used a rope to catch the jade pendant, and then put it in a steelyard for judgment.
Qiu Shuang said nothing. This piece of jade was worth at least tens of thousands of fairy crystals. But here, these are naturally worthless. Survival is the only value.
"come in."
The city gate was finally slowly raised, and a small oasis opened its arms to Qiu Shuang.
It is indeed a small oasis. This so-called town is just a small tribe set up with tents. The tent was built around a pool with an area of about thirty square meters. There were not many residents here, probably about a hundred or so people.
Qiu Shuang and Li Fan are the new residents here. These residents are responsible for mining a special silver mine near the oasis. This silver ore can be used to make seals, weapons, and armor with spatial properties.
The same is true for this tribe. There is a small silver mine next to it. If the residents of the tribe want to survive, they must constantly go to the silver mines to mine. And every week, the residents of each oasis must pay one hundred kilograms of silver ore to the mayor of the oasis. And every month, troops will come here to seize the silver mines from the mayor.
This is the only value of existence in the wilderness.
Since Qiu Shuang became a member of the town, she was naturally assigned a small tent as her living space. And because Li Fan lost his ability to move, Qiu Shuang had to pay at least two hundred kilograms of silver ore every week in order for both of them to have the right to survive in the oasis.
Everyone is expelled, and there is almost no communication between everyone, and they are also very indifferent to each other. Qiu Shuang goes out with the townspeople every day to mine silver mines. After a few days, Qiu Shuang's skin became a little darker, and her whole person became a little vicissitudes of life, and she could hardly tell that she was the queen.
"Come, husband, drink some water."
Qiu Shuang used the fairy crystals in exchange to buy some water and food. The food here is very monotonous, only some kind of tree fruits produced by plants near the water source. Although it doesn't taste good, it can at least sustain life.
During this period of time, Li Fan still didn't say a word. He just lay there every day, like a dead man. But Qiu Shuang took good care of Li Fan, scrubbed his body every day, and often brought back some dark black stones to treat Li Fan.
These stones are called Dark Mothers and are only produced in the wilderness. It is said that they are stones made from the secretions of a kind of insect in the wilderness. This stone has no other effects, but can weakly replenish the immortal power. Qiu Shuang herself has been taken away from the law body, and these stones are meaningless to her. But for Li Fan, it should be more or less effective.
The Dark Mother was something that the fourth prince had told Qiu Shuang in private. Apart from them, the other royal families and even the Council of Elders did not know that such a thing existed.
Qiu Shuang thought to herself that after having these dark mothers, her husband's body would slowly recover.
A month later, Qiu Shuang got up early as usual, fed Li Fan water and food, then put on his tools and followed the large army out of the town to the silver mine not far to the west.
There is a wind and sand in the wilderness. According to some old people, in the wilderness, when there is a wind and sand, you must be extremely careful. Maybe the terrifying sandworm is hiding among them.
Sandworms are an insect unique to the wilderness. These insects are three to four meters long and like to eat people. And the people who were expelled were all helpless sinners, and they couldn't fight against the sandworms. Therefore, from time to time, an unlucky person will be buried in the belly of the sandworm. Fortunately, sandworms only appear at night. But I don't know why, Qiu Shuang always has a vague feeling in her heart.
A fishy smell floated into Qiu Shuang's nose, and then, screams came from the side!
Qiu Shuang turned around and saw a three-meter-long sandworm emerging from the sand silently. Then it waved its claws and tore a companion next to her in half in the wind and sand, and then swallowed it. In the belly. The smell of bugs on it was so strong that it made Qiu Shuang want to vomit out.
Death is by your side.
The sandworms were raging, preying on those who fled in panic.
Qiu Shuang is also running. She cannot die. If she dies, no one will care about her husband!
Live!
Qiu Shuang said to herself, she must live!
But the next second, the terrifying sandworm had already rushed in front of him.
Husband…
"puff!"
The sandworm's head suddenly flew high, and a figure wrapped in a black cloak, holding a machete, was standing in front of him.
"Third Princess, are you okay?"
A familiar voice sounded in Qiu Shuang's ears.
"Butler Wang?"
The somewhat elderly man in front of him was the old butler who had been with his father for many years. When my father abdicated, I heard that he also disappeared. How could he appear here