At night, the cold wind howls.
There is a small courtyard for three people, and the door is closed.
After the old Taoist gave Chen Tianwen a martial arts secret book called "Qi Jing", he kicked the three of them out.
At that time, Li Junchen was holding the courtyard door with his hands, leaning his head, looking pitifully at the old Taoist inside the door, and said: "Senior, you see, we haven't eaten for a day, and we won the competition. The food you promised us, what? When can..."
"I'll come back tomorrow to get rations, and I'll be able to feed myself all day long." The old Taoist shook his head and said leisurely.
"Senior has a high level of cultivation, but our martial arts are low. Today we had another fight with the mountain chief's apprentice, which cost us a lot of effort. Now we are so hungry that we can't stand it anymore because of the long night."
Li Junchen had a grimace on his face, his energy was listless, and he was about to cry.
He really couldn't bear to wait for tomorrow for such a long time overnight.
Behind them, Lu Youjing and Chen Tianwen were leaning against the door frame, looking exhausted, wailing and patting the door panel.
"Senior, just give us a bite of food!"
"I can't help it anymore. I just want to collapse on the ground now."
The old Taoist looked embarrassed, and under the expectant eyes of everyone, he walked back to the courtyard, carried two jars of the remaining wine, walked over, and said: "I have nothing left to eat and drink here. This is There are two jars of wine, you can take it back and hold one jar."
He pushed the wine jar to Li Junchen, pressed it with his hand, and pushed Li Junchen's head out.
There was a "clang" sound.
The courtyard door is closed.
The three people worked hard all day and only got a little more than a jug of wine, but the old Taoist only gave them this, and there was nothing they could do.
I could only go home dejectedly.
The three of them sat on the threshold, each of them took the wine bottle and drank. There was no light in their eyes, they didn't speak, they just stared at the sky blankly.
It's like he has lost his soul.
Until no more wine can be poured out of the jug.
Li Junchen stood up staggeringly and said, "The wind has picked up. It's really cold outside. I have to lie down."
Chen Tianwen did not answer. He also stood up and followed Li Junchen into the house.
"Brother Lu, remember to close the door when you come in." Li Junchen, who was lying on the bed, said, lying on the bed, stretched out his hand to pull open the quilt, and wrapped his whole body in it.
At this moment, he wanted to be isolated from the world, and hunger made him very irritable.
The three of them fell asleep one after another and remained silent all night.
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The next morning.
Li Junchen got up early. Lu Youjing beside him had been talking in his sleep last night, shouting, "Steamed buns, steamed buns."
He was left half asleep and half awake all night, thinking about the white flowers in his mind. He waited for a ray of light to shine through the window and climbed out of bed.
Li Junchen stood on the bed with disheveled hair. He nodded and looked at Lu Youjing, who was sleeping soundly on his side, and kicked him into the bed.
Then he looked away and got off the bed.
"Li Junchen, are you awake?" Chen Tianwen stretched out his head from the bed, looked at Li Junchen who was standing on the ground and said slightly injured.
"Well, I didn't sleep well all night. Lu Youjing talked in his sleep all night and shouted about steamed buns, steamed buns, which made me hungry and annoyed."
Li Junchen said sadly.
Chen Tianwen smiled bitterly and said, "I heard it too. Brother Lu's sleep talking is as disturbing as killing someone."
As he spoke, he was arranging the black hair on his head, and then he also stood up.
Li Junchen and Chen Tianwen sat on the threshold, holding a secret book they had obtained every day in their hands and flipping through it.
Li Junchen looked at Chen Tianwen's slightly swollen cheeks and the heavy dark circles on his eyes. It was obvious that he had not slept well last night because of Lu Youjing's sleep talk.
A gurgling sound sounded.
Li Junchen put down the book in his hand, pinched his waist with both hands, and said, "I'm so hungry, I really can't read at all."
Chen Tianwen sighed, closed the phone in his hand, turned around and said, "Let's wait at Senior's place now, I can't bear it either."
As soon as he finished speaking, his whole body deflated like a deflated rubber ball.
Chen Tianwen bent over, put his head on his knees, hugged his calves with both hands, and turned his head to look at Li Junchen.
"No matter what happens today, I must have a bite of food." Li Junchen said with a fierce look on his face.
"From the seniors' conversation yesterday, it seems that only the mountain chief has food. You don't want to grab it, do you?" Chen Tianwen looked at the fierce look in Li Junchen's eyes and muttered in a low voice.
People are so bold when they have nothing to eat, but they can do anything.
What's more, people from Li Junchen's family background are more courageous than ordinary people.
"Brother Chen, what are you thinking? Do I look like the kind of person who has no brains? As far as the mountain leader's inscrutable martial arts, there is no difference between me going to his house to steal food and risking death."
Li Junchen looked at Chen Tianwen's worried eyes and gave him a sideways look.
"I'm not worried that you're going hungry, so what do you mean by that? Is there any other way to solve the problem of eating?"
Chen Tianwen asked after thinking for a while.
"We rely on mountains to eat mountains, and we rely on water to eat water. There are mountains and water here, so we can only go into the mountains to hunt some wild animals." Li Junchen explained.
"Then yesterday..."
Li Junchen smiled apologetically and said with some embarrassment: "I didn't expect this to happen yesterday, and I was a little tired, so I didn't think about spending a lot of time."
He didn't expect that he didn't ask for food yesterday, otherwise he would have called Lu Youjing to catch wild animals in the mountains if he had known this was the case.
I thought that I would eat something when I got back, and it would be okay if I starved first.
"Then today, no matter what happens, I will be able to eat!" Chen Tianwen said excitedly. He was also a little scared of hunger. Anything can happen on this mountain.
"Yes, no matter what happens, we will definitely have full stomachs today." Li Junchen looked at Chen Tianwen and said with assurance.
"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go. Let's go to Senior's place now and ask for food." Chen Tianwen cheered up and sat up again, not as sluggish as before.
"Isn't it a bit early at this time?" Li Junchen looked at the sky and saw that it was not yet bright.
"Go ahead and wait. Anyway, we are waiting here and waiting wherever we are." Chen Tianwen was a little excited at this moment, which was a little different from his previous temperament.
He was actually a little worried. He might not be able to get food from Laodao today, so he might as well go early and go straight into the mountains when there was really no food.
This won't waste much time. After all, he just doesn't have much hope.
Li Junchen felt that what the other party said made sense.
