"What the hell?"
"Look at the man in front of you."
Shen Yi looked at the person she was looking at through her perspective. It was a man squatting on the ground sharpening a knife with a stone. His face was fleshy and he was shirtless.
Such people can be found everywhere in the village, so it's not surprising.
But as He met Chuyun's gaze, Shen Yi began to feel that he was different, and he was a little confused, but soon he understood why he felt different.
It's because of the tattoo on the man's back. The thick lines are twisted like giant earthworms crawling on it.
The real gangsters in this world are not those spiritual young men in the previous life. They have the habit of wearing tattoos. Because they feel that their body and skin are influenced by their parents, they will hardly tattoo random things on their bodies. If they do, it is because of religious reasons or other reasons. Other reasons, just tattooing some totems or something.
The same shirtless men I saw before were only covered in dirt but had no tattoos.
"Are you referring to the... tattoos on his body?"
"Yeah." Tsurumi Chuyun nodded, but then shook his head: "I saw some similar tattoos when I was a child. It seems that only people in Black Snake Town have them, but I'm not sure."
"Black Snake Town..." Shen Yi blinked.
"Hey, the atmosphere in this village is really similar to the rumored Black Snake Town."
"gone."
Seeing the man looking over with searching eyes, Tsurumi Chuyun quickly moved her eyes away and prepared to leave, but before she could take a step forward, several men blocked her in front of her.
The leader looked at her with a frivolous expression and said teasingly: "Young lady is so pretty. Have you passed the door? If not, then you can go through my door."
As soon as he finished speaking, the others who followed him also started laughing. Kan Tsurumi looked at Chu Yun as if he were looking at a rabbit with nowhere to escape.
She frowned, and a coldness flashed in her eyes.
"Step aside."
"Hahaha, she asked us to get out of the way?"
"Ha ha ha ha!"
"Little lady, what can you do to us if I don't let you?" Several men continued to tease. Tsurumi Chuyun didn't say anything, but his face became colder and colder. One hand was already on the sword at his waist. superior.
"What's wrong? You want to draw a sword to kill someone? Who are you trying to scare with a sword?"
"Hahahahaha, this is the first time I've seen such a white girl."
"It looks like he is still a baby. How old are you?"
"Hsiao'er? I've never seen what Hsiao looks like in my life? Come and play with me. When you're done, you'll be in our village. I'll make sure you have a good time and drink."
"Shut your mouth!"
A few people said nothing to each other, completely ignoring Tsurumi Chuyun's feelings, and they did not see that the killing intent in her eyes was getting stronger and stronger.
Finally, the leading frivolous man stopped them, and then looked at her hand holding the sword hilt, excited and impatient.
"These little hands are really pretty, let me touch them."
As he said that, he stretched out his hand to grab her, but the next second, a cold light flashed, and the man felt that the right side of his body was empty, and then the severe pain spread all over his body instantly, making his legs weaken and he collapsed directly. on the ground.
After reacting, he made a sound like a slaughtering pig.
"Ah! Ah! I...I, I...my...my hand!!"
"Boss!"
The minds of the remaining few people went blank. After reacting, they immediately drew their swords to fight back. But how could they, who were all at the straight level of cultivation, be able to defeat Tsurumi Hatsuun, who was at the peak of the straight level?
Before their hands could touch the handle of the knife, several more rays of cold light flashed across them. In the blink of an eye, several people's arms were gone, and they were rolling on the ground in pain.
Finally, she turned the sword in her hand and pointed it directly at the leader's throat.
Feeling the cold at the tip of the sword, even if his arm was broken, he did not dare to move. He gritted his teeth and held on. He changed his previous attitude, showed an extremely ugly smile on his face, and begged: "Woman, spare your life! Don’t kill me! Don’t kill me! It’s the villain who is blind and has offended the heroine... Don’t kill me! I was wrong.”
Tsurumi Chuyun looked at him with a cold face, but the sword in his hand did not move forward.
"It's okay if I don't kill you. Answer me a few questions first."
"Okay, okay, as long as you don't kill me, I will tell you what I know!"
Tsurumi Chuyun pondered for a moment and asked the first question.
"who are you?"
"Huh? Hiss~" As soon as this question came out, the man was stunned at first, and then because the movement was too big, the pain from the broken arm made him take a breath of air.
"I...I...I'm not anyone!"
Tsurumi Chuyun quickly realized that the question he asked was a bit strange, thought about it, and lowered his voice.
"Are you from Black Snake Town?"
"No, I'm from Shenan Mountain. I've been here for less than a year." He answered truthfully. Unexpectedly, the next second He Jian Chuyun's voice became colder, and a murderous surprise was released, which made him He shuddered.
"Tell me the truth."
"Don't kill me! I've already told the truth..." The leading man was panicking, and his voice rose several times. But before he could speak, he suddenly realized something, and then Kanhe's eyes became even more frightened and uneasy when he saw Chuyun. got up.
"You...could you be..." There were three words he didn't say after that. At this moment, his life was in the hands of the other party. If he said these three words, his life would be at risk. Of course, this was what he thought. of.
As soon as his mind changed, the man immediately changed his words and asked: "Are you looking for someone from Black Snake Town? I can take you to find them. Many people in the village are from Black Snake Town, and Gong Ye is one of them. .”
"Who is Master Gong?"
"There is a tyrant in our village, and I work under his control."
Tsurumi Chuyun shook his head slightly: "No, I just happened to pass by and come in to have a rest. I didn't expect to meet such a short-sighted person like you, and I happened to know the situation here."
"Oh...oh! So that's it. Hey, it hurts. Can you let me go now?"
"What do you think?"
"anymore question?"
"You are all from other places, what about the villagers who originally lived here?"
"I don't know about this. Everyone died before I came here. Those men from Black Snake Town are all on the arrest list. They can't leave Jizhou, so they can only live here temporarily. It turns out that The Xiubo Village has long been transformed into the current Xiubo Village."
"Well, last question, do you know if anyone sells dry food in the village?"
"Solid food?" More and more blood was flowing from the broken arm, and the man's face was completely drained of blood. But when faced with Tsurumi Chuyun's question, he could only answer: "No, we don't have this. We usually feed and kill people." The animals eat meat, and no one makes dry food to sell.”
She frowned, and when she saw that the other party didn't look like he was lying, she sheathed her sword and uttered one word expressionlessly.
"roll."
The man was overjoyed, holding his broken arm that was bleeding profusely, and ran away in a panic, not caring about the little brother behind him who had lost both arms and couldn't even stand up.
Tsurumi Hatsuun walked a little further away. Although she looked like an innocent person on the surface, she was actually observing the reactions of the people around her.
It was reasonable and unexpected. Although what just happened attracted the attention of the people around them, no one made any move. They just watched quietly. When the matter was over, they all looked away. Everyone went to do their own things.
Seeing that bleeding incidents like this happen frequently in this village, people have become accustomed to it and not only do they ignore it, but on the contrary, they become particularly interested whenever such a thing happens.
"This Black Snake Town is really as rumored."
"Black Snake Town has simple folk customs."
"Uh... the folk customs are simple?"
"Is this simple?"
"..." No matter what, Tsurumi Chuyun suddenly felt relaxed. She seemed to understand why some people were so yearning for Black Snake Town in the past.
In a chaotic society with no law, no order, and no rules, people can kill people as they please, and everything they can have depends on how hard their fists are and how sharp their knives are. There is no need to worry about anything. The harm is borne by the weak at the bottom, but for the strong, such a world is undoubtedly fascinating.
Having said that, it was a bit of a headache that there was no place selling dry food in this village. Tsurumi Chuyun originally wanted to go door to door and ask who sold food, but after walking for a while, he suddenly saw a shop. There is a plaque hanging on the door of the store with the words "Big Mouth Meat" written on it.
It was obvious that this was a meat and wine restaurant.
After touching his stomach and thinking of filling it first, Tsurumi Chuyun walked in.
This meat restaurant seems to be built on the basis of a wooden shed. It is very large. The seats and benches inside are extremely old. Traces of being slashed by swords can be seen everywhere. In addition to being soaked in blood for many years, it has penetrated into every part of the village. In addition to the smell of blood in the corner, there was also a strong smell of alcohol in the restaurant, mixed with the sour smell of vomit, which was simply disgusting.
There were many guests among them, squatting or sitting, with uninhibited postures, shouting and screaming into their ears, but they were all the kind of big men who never left their bodies, and there was not a woman in sight. Tsurumi Chu As soon as Yun came in, the air suddenly became quiet, and many people's eyes were attracted to her.
"That's...a woman?"
"This skin is so white, at first glance I thought it was made from the hands of a porcelain maker."
"His grandma is really a woman. When I saw the woman in Lao Sun Piao's book, I thought it was fake. I didn't expect that she actually looks like this."
"Women have been playing for nothing in the past few decades. If you want to play, you should play like this. Look at those hands, they look soft. Mom even pulls her butt, but she doesn't know what it feels like. I feel very itchy. .”
"Hey, go down and step on my bowl."
"..."
Almost all the discussions around her were about her, to which Tsurumi Chuyun turned a deaf ear, but held the sword in his hand tighter.
The butcher shop owner stared at her blankly, and only came to his senses when he got closer, asking in a strange tone: "What do you want to eat?"
"What do you have?"
"There's only meat and wine, and the rest is gone."
"Yeah." She looked around and saw that the kitchen was far away and Tsurumi Chuyun couldn't see where she was now. Finally, she looked away and threw a bag of copper coins on the table.
"Then serve me a plate of meat."
The shopkeeper reached for the money bag, opened it, nodded with satisfaction, and shouted to the waiter who was collecting the plates in the distance: "Two kilograms of rice and meat!"
"Rice meat?"
The moment she heard the word "rice meat", Tsurumi Chuyun's eyes suddenly turned cold. Although she was not a gangster, she also knew that rice meat meant human flesh.
Only then did Shen Yi realize that the texture of the meat on the customer's table in the store was extremely strange, and he had not thought carefully about what kind of meat it was before.
"What the hell..." Shen Yi cursed in his heart, then put the matter aside and continued to stare at the customers in the store with awareness.
The refugees outside are so hungry. It is not difficult to imagine how scarce food is here. In a famine, it is inevitable for people to eat people, not to mention that most of the people living in the village came from Black Snake Town. Come.
Outside the space of consciousness, Tsurumi Chuyun shook his head seriously to the shopkeeper and said word by word: I don’t want rice or meat. "
"You don't want rice and meat?" The shopkeeper was startled, looked at her deeply, and put back the bag containing the coins in his hand.
"If you don't want rice and meat, then eat other meat. But if you want to eat other meat, this thing is indispensable." He stretched out his hand and rubbed her with his thumb and index finger. The meaning was obvious.
"Besides rice and meat, what other meat is there?"
"Pork, horsemeat, beef."
"How to sell beef?"
"Five ounces of money per catty."
"..." Tsurumi Chuyun's face was a little shocked. Even though she had been mentally prepared that other meat would be expensive, she never expected it to be so expensive.
Although cattle are used as labor force, people are not prohibited from killing cattle and eating meat in Daliang law. In normal times, a pound of beef is sold for more than 70 yuan. In special times, it can be sold for hundreds of yuan. But here, A pound of beef costs five cents, which is nearly a hundred times more.
It's really an exaggeration.
She would only spend five ounces of money on ordering a table of delicious dishes at Juacheng Restaurant.
With the amount of money she has now, if she really eats the beef here, she won't be able to buy much dry food.
"A pound of beef costs five taels of silver...Old witch, do you deserve to eat beef?"
"...Shut up and leave me alone."
"hey-hey."
"..."
After hesitating for a while, Tsurumi Chuyun decisively gave up the beef and asked the owner of the meat restaurant: "Where is the other meat?"
"Horse meat costs three ounces per pound, and pork costs one pound per pound."
"Then give me a pound of pork."
"This... you know what I mean." The shopkeeper stretched out his hand, and Tsurumi Chuyun silently took out a silver coin and put it on it.
The shopkeeper took it and flicked it. Listening to the crisp sound, he couldn't help but sigh: "I haven't seen this thing in a few days."
After saying that, he looked at Tsurumi Chuyun: "Sit anywhere you like, and I'll serve you food in a moment. By the way, do you want some wine?"
"don't want."
"Okay."
…
After that, Tsurumi Chuyun found a place where there were relatively few people and sat down. He took out the unknown book and read it. Not long after, the shop assistant came over with a plate full of meat. After the meat was placed on the table, the shop owner The waiter's eyes stayed on her for a while, until Tsurumi Chuyun also looked at him and then left with some reluctance.
After checking the meat on the plate to make sure it was genuine pork, Tsurumi Chuyun started to use his chopsticks.
However, she stopped after less than a quarter of the meal. It was obvious that this plate of meat was not delicious. From her perspective, the pork was simply boiled in water and cut into slices before being served. It didn't have any seasoning and tasted earthy.
"Why don't you eat?"
"The rest is for you."
"Ouch, I was almost moved by you, but... I won't eat it."
"..."
...(End of chapter)
