Convinced that he had read it correctly, Gu Dan put away the dry food Lin Xiaoyi had prepared for them and patted Xun Ke, who was still in a daze.
"Someone."
"Um?"
Xun Ke was startled. How could anyone live in such a dilapidated village?
His eyes followed the direction of Gu Dan's finger.
There really are people.
It was the time when autumn turned cold, but that person was in ragged clothes, and her clothes were almost turned into strips of cloth hanging on her body. The autumn rain was very cold, falling on her body, and she couldn't help but tremble constantly. There seemed to be something wrong with his hands and feet. When he walked, he stumbled and curved so much that he almost slid forward against the ground, which looked a bit funny.
The two hurriedly stepped forward and walked over.
As I got closer, I could see more clearly. It was a woman, an old woman to be precise, but describing her current appearance as slovenly would be too inclusive. Her body showed an almost black luster, and her hands and feet They all showed unnatural bends and were still some distance away, and an unbearable stench hit their faces.
Her body was extremely skinny, and her loose skin clung to her skinny body, making her originally rag-like clothes look a bit fat. Only her belly was bulging, completely out of proportion to her skinny body. It protrudes forward, like a pregnant woman who has been pregnant for several months.
Xun Ke stared at her in the rain for a while, and then shouted with some uncertainty: "Aunt Cheng?"
The old woman who moved her body forward took a few steps forward, and turned her head very slowly as if she had just heard the sound.
At this time, Gu Dan finally saw that one of her eyes was blind, and she was stunned and motionless. The other eye was shrinking like a nearly withered grape with its shell peeled off. His pupils wished they could shrink to the size of pinheads.
"who?"
Her face was aimed at the two of them, but she couldn't see everything around her clearly. Her hoarse voice seemed to be squeezed out from her heart and lungs. It was muddy and unclear, making it difficult to hear clearly. It also had a strong local accent, as if she hadn't heard it for a long time. Have spoken.
"It's you!"
Xun Ke wanted to say something, but it was stuck in his throat. For a moment, he didn't know what to say.
Fortunately, Gu Dan reacted quickly. He took out the prepared warm clothes from his package, put them on Aunt Cheng first, and then said without any doubt: "Go to the house first and talk."
The two of them helped Aunt Cheng to Xunke's former home. Aunt Cheng looked a little resistant - but she had little strength, and the slightest tossing was incomprehensible.
"Aunt Cheng, I am Xun Ke! That boy from the Xun family went to your house to beat dates! Do you still remember? Daniu, Erniu and I."
Xun Ke also started chatting, "Why are you still here? Where are the other people in the village?"
After arriving under the eaves, temporarily sheltered from the wind and rain, Gu Dan used his true energy to sweep the surrounding open space, dismantled the only remaining wooden table in Xunke's house, and lit it into a fire.
Then he took out the clean thatch used by the two of them earlier and spread it on the ground, and asked Aunt Cheng to sit down and warm themselves up together.
"Xun Ke. Xun Ke."
Aunt Cheng muttered the name, her stiff face showed a look of thinking, her reaction was very slow, and even her thoughts were very slow.
Xun Ke looked at Gu Dan anxiously.
Mr. Gu is a doctor, although this status seems very insignificant.
Gu Dan nodded slightly, and with his wave of hands, green light fell on Aunt Cheng's body.
However, the inner energy of the Qingmu Transformation Technique did not seem to be as effective as before - as soon as the green light fell on her body, Aunt Cheng's body began to twitch involuntarily, and an unbearable roar came from her throat.
"Ugh!"
She vomited violently, spitting out hazy yellow saliva along with large areas of beige and a bit of dark white stuff, and a strong earthy smell hit her face.
Aunt Cheng's originally bulging belly, as if she had been pregnant for a long time, was also accompanied by vomiting and quickly diminished.
"Is this Guanyin soil?"
Gu Dan already understood.
Guanyin Tu, the last choice made by the people who had no food to eat in the year of great disaster.
It is really a kind of soil. Eating it will give people a strong sense of fullness and satiety, but it cannot be absorbed and digested by the human body, and it is not a real food. If people eat too much, it will also cause many diseases. The most common thing is that it is impossible to excrete, and everything is accumulated in the stomach, so that the person is suffocated to death.
That's why Aunt Cheng's belly swelled like that.
The inner Qi of the Qingmu Transformation Technique is making up for the body that cannot be repeated like a dry desert at an extremely fast speed. The Guanyin soil naturally becomes a genuine foreign body and is rejected by the body immediately.
After a long while, Aunt Cheng finally managed to stop the feeling of vomiting, but the internal energy that had always seemed to be invincible became deflated for the first time. One of her eyes was still staring blankly, and it was completely damaged, even if Even the inner Qi of Qingmu Huansheng Jue cannot be cured.
But the other eye finally revealed its crystal light, no longer looking dry, and the originally blurry world became clear and clear again.
Even the hands and feet that were originally unnaturally bent have become much less bent - years of bending have completely twisted the bones, and the inner energy of the Aoki Transformation Technique cannot completely cure them.
"Aunt Cheng, it's me, I'm Xun Ke! Can you tell?"
Xun Ke tried his best to wave his hands in front of her without looking disgusted at all, "Why are you here alone?"
"It's Xun Ke. It's Xun Ke!"
Her reaction finally became much faster. She stared at Xun Ke for a while with her remaining single eye, and then a smile appeared on her face, "You are back! When did you come back? Why didn't you tell Aunt Cheng?"
"Just came back."
Xun Ke helped her to another place beside the fire.
"Just came back? Oh, yes. The autumn harvest is over and everyone is free. It's time to come back."
The old woman's logic was barely clear. At least she knew it was autumn, but she obviously lived here alone, otherwise it would be difficult to be like this, and she would even need to eat Guanyin soil.
"Come on, sit down first. It's raining outside, and you'll catch a cold easily if you get caught in the rain. Let's start by warming ourselves up by the fire."
The stools have long since disappeared, the ground is covered with clean thatch, and it is quite warm to sit around the fire.
The old woman seemed hesitant, with an embarrassed look on her face, and said tremblingly: "Some time ago, my home was robbed! I wanted to come to your house to borrow a fire, but I couldn't find anyone, so I went back. I’m also worried about what will happen if you come back at that time. Just be fine!”
"What did you do just now?"
Xun Ke nodded, his nose was a little sore, but he still forced a smile and asked softly.
"Ah, isn't it just after the autumn harvest! I went to see the cut wheat. You also know that my family is the most careless and always leaves some ears of wheat in the field. If you don't pick it up, others will Picked it up! Let me tell you, Daniel’s family is not good at work. I think it’s a pity that his land is full of weeds. They are good fields. It’s our duty as human beings, but we didn’t go to him. I went to pick it up in my field. This year my field was very clean and there were no ears of wheat left. It happened to rain, so I came back."
(End of chapter)
