Zhao Ji turned pale with fright. He straightened up and was about to continue looking for the way back to the academy. By chance, he glanced at Zhang Xiu's calm expression and couldn't help but said angrily: "You are so confident, you must have a way to go back, right?"
Zhang Xiu looked helpless and said: "Not really, but my physical strength is not bad. If I encounter a wolf, I just need to run faster than you, and I won't be eaten."
When Zhao Ji heard this, his heart suddenly became cold. He leaned on the locust tree and fell to the ground with a pale face. He murmured with dull eyes: "I don't want to die yet... I don't want to die yet... …”
Zhang Xiu looked at his frightened look and sighed: "You haven't been chased and bitten by a wolf, but you are now scared like a bird. Think about the people who were bitten by your dogs before. Now you can understand their mood." Alright."
"I……"
Zhao Ji came back to his senses after hearing his words, opened his mouth, and was speechless for a long time.
At this time, his stomach suddenly made a growling sound, and he cried out hungry.
During the day, he was so angry with Zhang Xiu that he didn't eat lunch, and he got lost in the back mountain for a long time. After being exhausted, he was already hungry.
Glancing at Zhang Xiu, he said with some difficulty: "Do you, do you have anything to eat?"
Zhang Xiu nodded and rummaged around in his backpack. After a while he took out a piece of noodle cake and said with some regret: "I also have a piece of noodle cake here. It was made by my mother when I came to the academy. I I have never been willing to eat it, but in this critical moment, I will sell it to you for two hundred taels of silver!"
When Zhao Ji first saw that he was willing to share the cake with him, he felt a little ashamed in his heart. When he heard the last word, he couldn't help but said angrily: "A piece of cake is two hundred taels, does your family run a black shop?"
Zhang Xiu replied confidently: "You don't think it's expensive and I don't think it's expensive either. Just tell me whether you want it or not!"
"I'll... bring it!"
Zhao Ji gritted his teeth, grabbed the purse from his waist and threw it at Zhang Xiu.
Zhang Xiu reached out to catch the purse, smiled and handed the noodles out, while saying: "This money is not what I want, it is the money I asked for for the soup and medicine for those who were bitten by you."
Zhao Ji glanced at him angrily and argued: "I didn't bite him, the dog bit him."
Zhang Xiu looked at the purse in his hand and said nonchalantly: "Hey, aren't they all the same..."
"What the hell..."
Zhao Ji took a few deep breaths and tried to calm down the anger in his heart. He finally figured out that if he died here today, he would most likely not be bitten to death by a wolf, but be mad to death by Zhang Xiu...
Thinking depressedly, he picked up the two hundred taels of silver pancake and took a hard bite, but the next moment, his expression immediately changed.
The muscles in his cheeks twitched hard twice. He opened his mouth and spit out a mouthful of blood. He looked at Zhang Xiu with an unkind expression: "You just said that your mother made this bread for you when you came to the academy?"
Zhang Xiu was a little confused and frowned: "Yes, is there any problem?"
Zhao Ji had a dark face and continued to ask: "When did you come to the academy?"
Zhang Xiu thought about it for a moment and said, "About ten years ago."
Zhao Ji: "@#￥%￥#@......"
God damn it ten years ago! !
It seems that I have underestimated Zhang Xiu after all. Zhang Xiu is much more shady than running a shady shop...
After a while, Zhao Ji ate a few mouthfuls of the bean cakes that Zhang Xiu used to feed the cows, and finally felt that he was alive again. He stood up again and said, "Let's walk further. Maybe we can find happiness before dark." Stop them."
Zhang Xiu hummed, and the two of them walked forward slowly in the thick fog.
Not long after, the two came to a winding path. At the end of the path, a thatched house appeared in front of them.
An oil lamp was lit in the room, and in the shadow of the window, a graceful figure was holding a handkerchief, her shoulders shaking slightly, as if she was sobbing silently.
Seeing that there was a family in front of him, Zhao Ji looked excited and walked forward: "There is a family in front of me. It seems that we don't have to sleep in the wilderness tonight!"
Zhang Xiu looked at the simple thatched house not far away, which had already appeared in front of him once, pressed Zhao Ji's shoulders, and said with a serious face: "Don't go there, there is something wrong with this family!"
Zhao Ji trembled and stopped, turning his head with doubts on his face: "What's the problem?"
Zhang Xiu lowered his voice and said: "I have been wandering around the back mountain for ten years, and I have never heard of anyone living in the back mountain. Think about it for yourself, a house suddenly appears in the barren mountains, and there is a graceful woman living in it." Young women..."
Amid the deep voice, a gust of cold wind hit him, sending a chill down Zhao Ji's spine and shivering involuntarily.
In the past few years, he had heard many strange stories, including the story that a young man was lured into a mountain house by a young woman, and was found dead on the roadside the next day, with his heart ripped out.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help swallowing and looked at Zhang Xiu with some fear: "Could it be that this family..."
Zhang Xiu nodded with determination: "Well, you guessed it right, this family and the women in it must be specialized in performing immortal dances!"
"ha??"
Zhao Ji was stunned with a messy expression, his eyes widened, and he was speechless for a long time.
When Zhao Ji showed an expression of doubt about life, the woman in the room was also full of confusion.
When Zhang Xiu came for the first time, he only glanced at her through the window, then turned and left, completely ignoring her.
At that time, she thought Zhang Xiu was a gentleman who was not willing to be in the same room with a woman and was a bad person.
But now it seems...
Her heart was full of flaws and she couldn't help but speak out.
At this time, Zhao Ji outside the house finally came to his senses, showed a dumbfounded expression, and said: "Brother Zhang, my dear Zhang Dashan, who would do the fairy dance in this ungrateful place! To say the least, Even if we do meet some bad guys, who of them would dare to touch me, the noble son of the Minister of Civil Service?"
"What's wrong with this?"
Zhang Xiu glanced at him faintly: "In a ghost place like this, even if someone beats you to death and feeds your body to wolves, who would know?"
Zhao Ji was stunned when he heard the words, and felt that what he said made sense. Then he noticed Zhang Xiu's gentle and elegant smile that made his hair stand on end. He unconsciously took a step back: "Don't face me with that smile, I... …I’m so scared!”
Just at this moment, a wolf howl sounded in the distance, which became the last straw that broke Zhao Ji's mind.
Zhao Ji was made hairy all over by the howling of the wolf. He gritted his teeth and said, "Even if you really meet a bad guy, it's better than staying outside and being bitten to death by a wolf!" As he said this, he seemed to have made up his mind and strode towards the thatch. Go to the house.
Seeing this, Zhang Xiu couldn't help but shook his head and followed him to the front of the hut.
"Dong dong" After several knocks on the door, a beautiful woman in plain clothes with a charming face opened the door.
It seemed that her eyes were slightly red and swollen because she had just cried, which added a touch of fresh temperament to her body.
Zhao Ji was stunned by the woman's beauty for a moment, then came back to his senses and said politely: "Madam, you are polite. Brother Zhang and I are students of Luzhou Academy. We strayed into the mountains and couldn't find the way back. I wonder if Madam can allow us to rest here for one night."
The beautiful woman covered her face with a handkerchief, glanced at Zhang Xiu and Zhao Ji coquettishly, lowered her head and said, "If you two young masters don't mind the humble and humble abode, then come in."
Zhao Ji was overjoyed and followed her into the house with his chest straight and his back straight.
Immediately, he noticed that Zhang Xiu did not follow the room. He turned around and found that Zhang Xiu was circling the room, seeming to be rummaging for something.
Zhao Ji was confused and asked: "Brother Zhang, what are you looking for?"
Zhang Xiu looked at the water tank at the door and said in a casual tone: "Oh, you are busy with your business, I will find where her accomplice is hiding."
Zhao Ji: "..."
Beautiful woman: "..."
For a moment, she almost couldn't help shouting: I'm a ghost, not a fairy!
