"They seem to be chasing us!"
Dong Qingqiu listened to the sounds behind him that seemed to be getting closer and closer. Looking ahead, he could easily be spotted by them and catch up.
"What should I do?"
Hina kept looking behind her anxiously, and the sweat on her palms made her feel like she could no longer hold his hand.
"They're in front!"
"The Wang girl was also kidnapped by him."
"Stop, don't run!"
The head catcher, who was running at the front with a knife in his hand, led his subordinates and villagers behind him in pursuit.
Dong Qingqiu was extremely anxious. If he continued like this, they would surely catch up with him.
Instead of letting them capture and kill you, you might as well give it a try. Anyway, you still need "food" around you so that you won't starve to death.
Dong Qingqiu looked at the nervous Yang Cai with a smile and told her not to worry. Then he held her hand tightly, turned around, and ran towards the mountain that was about to be closed by heavy snow.
"You can't run up the mountain, you'll freeze to death."
Haruna said as she ran, not forgetting to look back.
"It's okay, trust me. When they stop chasing you, I will take you home."
Hearing what he said, Hina stopped thinking about anything and ran with him towards the mountain where the snow was up to her ankles.
The snow under my feet "squeaked", and the hot breath in my mouth disappeared quickly. The footprints left on the snow were soon covered by heavy snow.
"If you chase him, don't let him run away. If you block him, you will block him on the mountain."
There are fewer and fewer people behind the head catcher, and only about twenty people are still chasing.
Dong Qingqiu stood on the boulder, breathing heavily. Those damn things below were as densely packed as ants, crawling tirelessly on the rugged snow-covered rocks.
The two of them touched their fingers, and the blood from between their fingernails would ooze out with any force.
"Hey! Stop chasing him, be careful not to go down the mountain." Dong Qingqiu shouted loudly and laughed wantonly. "The Chinese New Year is almost here, be careful you can't go home."
Lifting up a big stone on the side, with the help of Yang Cai, the big stone swayed "rumblingly" and jumped more than three meters high in the air, like a sparrow soaring into the sky, and then swooped down at a very fast speed.
The mountain road was rugged, and a government official who had no time to dodge had his left leg broken by a stone and fell down the steep cliff.
Several people behind the officer were also knocked down the mountain, leaving only intermittent traces of blood on the white snow.
Dong Qingqiu looked up to the sky and laughed, picked up the gravel on the ground and threw it at the people below.
Hina frowned worriedly and looked carefully at her injured uncles and brothers below.
"Girl Wang, come down quickly, he is not a good person."
An ugly-looking young man below yelled at Hina desperately.
The mountain was filled with the sound of snowflakes beating. Yang Nai couldn't hear what she just said very clearly, but she still looked up in confusion. The man in front of her didn't look like a bad guy.
The reason why he is running away now is all because of himself. The big rock just now wasn't intentional, he just didn't want them to chase him anymore. He must have done this because he was afraid that he would not be able to get down the mountain.
He said that he loves me and he will not lie to me.
Dong Qingqiu smiled at Xiang Yangcai, took her hand and continued running up the mountain. When you reach steep sections, you have to use your hands and feet to climb up. The bloody hands of the two men were due to this reason.
Hina was shivering from the cold and had no feeling in her feet.
From a distance, it seemed that the two of them were already on the raised ridge, and the road under their feet became flat.
But there were still people chasing after him.
Dong Qingqiu had a gloomy face. Yang Cai, who had fallen to the ground, could no longer stand up. Regardless of the cold snow on the ground, she sat down on it, grabbed the snow on the ground and ate it.
"A mountain village woman is a mountain village woman, and she will never achieve anything in her life. Even if she is lucky enough to become a Taoist immortal one day, her temperament and habits will never change." Dong Qingqiu looked harmless on the surface, but in his heart he belittled Yang Cai countless times.
"Get up and walk quickly. They're about to catch up."
Yangcai ate snow to relieve her thirst. Her whole body was shaking violently. Seeing that she hadn't caught up with him yet, she struggled to hold up her exhausted body and hugged Dong Qingqiu deeply, "I won't run away, you are here." Wait. I will go down the mountain alone and tell them that you accidentally slipped and fell to your death. You will go down the mountain when the snow stops. Remember, don’t come to me. Keep running south, remember."
"Zhou Zhili, I, Yang Cai, will only love you for the rest of my life."
Big tears fell from the corners of Yang Cai's frozen eyes, and fell on Dong Qingqiu's rising and falling, hot chest.
Dong Qingqiu hugged Yangcai tightly, greedily absorbing the last bit of warmth from her body.
Yangcai felt Dong Qingqiu's reluctance and unconsciously increased the strength in her hands. She hugged Dong Qingqiu tightly and couldn't help crying anymore.
Yangcai's cries were covered up by the subtle sound of snowflakes hitting the branches and the ground, while her body squirmed in Dong Qingqiu's arms. Suddenly she felt a chill on the back of her neck, and her heart told her not to move.
Dong Qingqiu pushed Yang Cai's arms away, and the small sickle, as curved as the bright moon, circled around the back of his neck and finally stopped at his throat.
Dong Qingqiu stood behind Yang Cai, holding the small sickle in his hand against his neck. Blood would spurt out with just a little force.
"Why?"
Haruna stood there collapsed, her sad tears falling to the ground, making a deep hole in the thick snow.
"You are helpless and acting like a fool. Who will you choose if I don't choose you?" Dong Qingqiu stuck closely behind Yang Cai, maintaining his own body temperature. He pushed the small sickle forward, and Yang Cai, who originally wanted to resist, Cai straightened his body and did not dare to move. "Wang Wu is dead, and there is only one grandma left in your family who can't get out of bed. Your parents don't care about you, let alone expect them to care about a dying old woman. So don't resist, follow me obediently, maybe you can still May you live to see your grandma."
Hina didn't understand why the person who loved her so deeply just now suddenly became like this. She even betrayed Brother Wang Wu for him, thinking that she would get gratitude from the other party, but suddenly it turned out like this... She couldn't accept it, she couldn't accept it. She roared desperately in her heart, wanting to die with the guy in front of her who deceived her feelings, but she heard her grandma burst into tears again. I miss Brother Wang Wu, I really do.
"Please let me go! My grandma is old and she needs someone to take care of her." Hina cried bitterly.
"Whether your grandma dies or not, what does it have to do with me?"
"Please, Grandma is too old. She will die if no one takes care of her." Yang Cai fearfully promised that she would never tell him, but in exchange she was ridiculed by Dong Qingqiu.
"If Wang Wu is still alive, he might take care of your grandma for you. It's a pity for him, so you'd better listen to me now, otherwise I will kill you, and your grandma will not survive this winter."
Hina closed her eyes tightly in fear and nodded in fear.
"Miss Wang, please continue on your way."
Taking away the knife from her neck, Hina could only continue walking towards the top of the mountain. It's just that this time the speed is no longer as fast as before.
"Have you ever liked me?"
Haruna walked slowly at the front, her heart full of regret, but she couldn't help but ask this ridiculous question.
"Like? Why should I like you? Is it just because we met by chance? Or did you save my life?" Dong Qingqiu put one hand in his pocket and the other hand holding a small sickle until he thought there was no one behind him. After chasing him, he said casually without thinking and without any emotion, "Even if you don't come to me, I will come to you."
Hina, who was secretly laughing at her stupidity, suddenly turned around in confusion after hearing the last sentence. He seemed to have changed into a different person.
"Why?"
“Food is the most important thing for the people!”
After speaking, Dong Qingqiu stopped talking and urged Yang Cai who wanted to delay time.
Haruna would shed a tear every step she took, thinking of Brother Wang who protected her.
Brother Wang Wu's bloody face kept appearing in his mind, and he couldn't help crying anymore, but was slapped in the face by the man behind him who he thought was a hundred times better than Brother Wang Wu.
He no longer looks as gentle, gentlemanly, and gentle as jade before. What is shown now is a wolf in human skin!
Of the more than 20 people who were originally chasing behind them, only a few lonely five government officials and one leading arrester remained. One of them had his leg broken by a stone. He didn't know whether he would live or die, so he had to be sent down the mountain for treatment.
"Brother, do you think that young man killed all the people in that room?"
"People's hearts are unpredictable. It's getting dark, so let's go down the mountain first to avoid freezing to death after the heavy snow seals the mountain. We'll take the body away tomorrow."
Before they left, the leader of the group did not forget to say harsh words: "I don't believe he won't freeze to death tonight."
Night falls.
Dong Qingqiu and the two walked in the mountains for who knows how long, and their legs were so frozen that they could no longer walk. The fingers can no longer be curled up.
Dong Qingqiu put his hands that were too cold to move into Hina's body.
The vegetables were like meat on the chopping board, not daring to resist at all.
Pushing Yangcai to the ground, Dong Qingqiu couldn't bear it anymore, took off her clothes and pressed her tightly against him.
His hands kept stroking Hina's rough body, increasing his own temperature.
Yang Cai gasped heavily, her chest heaving violently, and her hands kept stroking Dong Qingqiu's body. The only difference was that his skin was so smooth it looked like dirty, condensed hair compared to his own.
Suddenly, a fiery red light reflected on the dark ground, and he realized that his surroundings became clearer. Dong Qingqiu quickly pulled out the small sickle from his waist and looked at the three people in front of him warily.
The three of them wore brown bear hats, clothes made of wolf skins, and thick boots. They carried bows and arrows and sharp knives on their backs. They had shocking scars on their faces. Just holding a torch and looking at the two naked people in the snow.
"Dad, look at them, they haven't even taken off their pants."
One of them, a fat man with a bloated body, approached with a torch and looked at the naked Hina carefully. He didn't care about the naked man holding a knife and staring at him with eagerness.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk! No, if you look like this, you won't have milk at all. Being a wife is not worth it." The fat man shook his head in disgust and walked back.
Yangcai hurriedly pulled her clothes to cover her naked upper body, and pushed Dong Qingqiu away who was riding on her belly.
Not caring about sorting out his torn clothes, he knelt down in front of the three of them and cried bitterly. He held the hand of one of them who looked older, middle-aged, and refused to let go.
"Uncle, please help me. I'm from Wushui Village at the foot of the mountain. Please help me, he wants to kill me."
Haruna kowtowed on the snow desperately, unwilling to get up no matter how much the middle-aged man helped her.
There was no other way. The fierce-looking middle-aged man used the torch to see clearly the young man in front of him.
"Is everything this girl doll says true?"
The three people holding torches and covered in blood in front of them did not recognize Yang Na, which meant that they were not from this area. Judging from their clothes, they should be Orions.
Dong Qingqiu made an incomprehensible gesture to the hunter in front of him. The middle-aged man who was still murderous frowned in confusion, and then burst into laughter.
"How could you do that, little brother? The secret language between us hunters?"
This made the two people beside me confused. After hunting for so many years, I had never heard of code words among hunters.
Dong Qingqiu bowed to the three of them and said with a smile: "My father will also be a hunter in the future, but... something happened to him."
The middle-aged man obviously felt a little regretful after hearing this. It was not ordinary people who could know the code words. It was a pity to die.
Dong Qingqiu secretly rejoiced in his heart. Fortunately, his father taught him the code words he learned from the old hunter when he was playing with him when he was a child. At that time, he only used it to play with him, but he didn't expect that it would be useful now.
"My name is Wu Chuan, and these are my two sons. Wu Ju and Wu Peng. What's going on with this woman?"
Dong Qingqiu nodded at the two of them again, and then explained: "Uncle Wu, this is the case. The village I just came to a few days ago was suffering from hunger and cold, and I was rescued by a family. Today, a family member died, so I Thinking that the villagers saved me, I wanted to help out and repay the favor to the villagers. Later, I met a strong man bullying this girl, so I beat him to death. The villagers reported it to the police, and she was willing to join me in order to repay the favor. Leave. We had no choice but to run into the mountains to avoid being hunted. Now she thinks that I am poor and useless, and she regrets that she will freeze to death here again."
"It's not like that, it's not like that. Uncle, listen to me. He killed Brother Wang and deceived me into coming to this mountain."
Yangcai collapsed and wanted to hold Wu Chuan's hand again, but Wu Chuan threw him away. She had no choice but to kneel on the ground and pray to Wu to lift the two brothers Wu Peng.
Wu Chuan didn't care at all what they said, why would he cause trouble for himself when he had nothing to do? You'll make a mess, and in the end you'll just feel disgusted with yourself.
"Since it's your business, we won't bother you. Wu Ju and Wu Peng, let's go." Wu Chuan said to the two brothers with an expressionless face.
"Dad! Look how handsome she looks." Wu Ju's fat man held Yang Cai's hand and refused to let go, looking at his father reluctantly.
Dong Qingqiu put away the funny little sickle in his hand, stepped forward and took Wu Chuan's hand, took out all the money from his arms, and handed it to Wu Chuan: "Uncle Wu, my name is Zhou Zhili. Take this little money, look. It’s going to snow heavily again soon, and I don’t have anywhere to go…”
Wu Chuan quickly pretended to decline, but couldn't resist Dong Qingqiu's genuine enthusiasm, so in the end he could only reluctantly hold it in his arms.
"What is this, little brother Zhou? We are like old friends since we met, can I leave you alone?"
Dong Qingqiu and Wu Chuan laughed together, not forgetting to lower their status, which gave Wu Chuan enough face.
"Aren't Uncle Wu's sons married yet?"
Hearing Dong Qingqiu ask this, Wu Chuan seemed to be a little shorter, like a deflated rubber ball. Talking about this matter seems almost powerless.
"Alas! As you have seen, my two sons are not as good as Brother Zhou. They stay in the mountains all year round. It is strange to have a wife."
Dong Qingqiu suddenly understood. No wonder these two silly boys who didn't look very smart never took their eyes away from Hina when they saw her.
Dong Qingqiu leaned into Wu Chuan's ear and whispered: "Uncle Wu, don't say anything else. The people in Wushui Village saw her running up the mountain with me, and maybe they thought we were dead. Why don't we give her to Brother Wu and Wu Chuan?" The second brother is a daughter-in-law, and in your free time you... You also know that men can't do well without women. Uncle Wu doesn't want to see his two sons not even knowing what a woman is like, right? There will be no way to explain it to the ancestors a hundred years later! "
Wu Chuan was indeed stabbed in the heart by Dong Qingqiu's words. It was pity that he was incompetent and had suffered a lot for his two sons. He didn't say whether he would really meet his ancestors, and he couldn't let the old Wu family die.
Looking at Yang Cai who looked really good, Wu Chuan was very hesitant. Seeing this, Dong Qingqiu added fuel to the fire, which finally made Wu Chuan make up his mind.
"Uncle Wu, don't look at how dirty this little girl is now. When she is cleaned, she will be a piece of fine jade." Dong Qingqiu pinched Yang Cai's face hard and showed it to Wu Chuan, "Don't worry about her family. Someone comes to our door, just a lame old lady, and her parents don't care about her. They even want to sell her, so we can see who she is to be her wife."
"Besides, Uncle Wu, your family rarely goes out to the mountains once a year. Who knows this place better than you? Look, how much do the two brothers like it?"
Wu Chuan looked at his two sons, and sure enough, they were all drooling at Hina's silly smile.
Wu Chuan, who loves his son eagerly, slapped his thigh and said through gritted teeth: "Let's do it. At worst, I will give his parents some money."
I don't know why my father is happy, but the two brothers still laugh together with their father.
Yangcai looked at Dong Qingqiu's frightened eyes and kept backing away. His feet suddenly exerted force and he ran down the mountain with all his strength.
"Help! Help!"
He fell hard and fell to the ground. He didn't care about the pain and got up and ran down the mountain as hard as he could.
"Brother Wang, please help!"
"..."
Wu Ju pointed his finger at Yang Cai who was running away, talking nonsense in his mouth.
"Dad...Dad. The woman...ran...ran away...the woman ran away."
Dong Qingqiu chased after him anxiously, and when he felt something, he suddenly ran past him, like an agile cheetah, and suddenly caught up with Yang Cai who was trying to escape.
Wu Chuan threw Yang Cai off his shoulders. Dong Qingqiu rode on him and slapped her face hard several times. Seeing that Yangcai still dared to resist, he continued to hit her hard until Yangcai's whole face swelled up and she didn't dare to resist anymore before she stopped.
Wu Chuan held his silly son and kept comforting him.
"Dad! Die...die...beat him to death."
Wu Chuan couldn't bear to look at Hina, whose face was covered by her hair. He still felt sorry for beating his daughter-in-law to death, but it was no longer possible and he quickly persuaded:
"Okay, okay. Brother Zhou, don't be angry. If you beat him again, he will be beaten to death."
Dong Qingqiu tiredly twisted his sore body, and Hina, who was curled up on the ground and whimpering, stopped.
Seeing Dong Qingqiu take off the small sickle from his waist, Wu Chuan quickly stopped him and asked what he was doing.
"Uncle Wu, cut out her tongue so that no one will find out."
Wu Chuan patted Dong Qingqiu's shoulder and persuaded him: "Brother Zhou, let's forget it! Leave my two sons with someone to talk to."
"Wu Ju and Wu Peng, carry your two daughters-in-law back." Then he said to Dong Qingqiu: "Brother Zhou, please come to my house and have a good sit at dawn tomorrow. Now, please just squeeze in our tent."
After walking for about half an hour, we finally saw the so-called camp.
A cave not too big or too small.
There was a lot of ashes inside, and it seemed that the three of them spent the night here.
While the Wu Ju brothers were making a fire, Dong Qingqiu walked over to Wu Chuan who was tying up Yang Cai.
"Uncle Wu, how far is this from Wushui Village?"
Wu Chuan thought for a while and said, "About a hundred miles away. Brother Zhou, did you two escape yesterday?"
"No, it's almost afternoon."
Wu Chuan was shocked and praised him repeatedly.
Dong Qingqiu looked incredulous that he actually ran over a hundred miles with a burden.
"Brother Zhou, come here and get warm."
Dong Qingqiu sat next to Wu Chuan and received the dry food.
"Daddy! My wife needs to pee."
Wu Ju gestured anxiously beside Wu Chuan.
When Dong Qingqiu heard this, he became angry again, dropped the dry food in his hand, and slapped his face several times.
"Pee in my pants."
"Stop your tricks, or I will kill you and let your grandma freeze to death."
When Wu Ju saw him beating his wife, he knocked Dong Qingqiu to the ground with all his strength.
"Don't bully my wife."
Wu Ju opened his hands to protect Yang Cai from Dong Qingqiu hitting her.
Wu Chuan hurriedly helped Dong Qingqiu up. Although he had only known Dong Qingqiu for a short time, there were not many good people who could give him a wife and daughter-in-law as soon as he made a move.
"Wu Ju, this is the daughter-in-law of you and your brother."
When Yangcai heard this, she suddenly understood something and cried and prayed to Dong Qingqiu.
"No, don't buy me. I don't want to be their wife, please, please! I...I would rather follow you than sell me to these two ugly monsters as their wife. You can beat me and scold me, that's it. Don't leave me behind, I don't want to be their wife. Fifth Brother Wang!"
Yangcai cried miserably and desperately, calling Wang Wu's name one after another.
Another slap hit Yangcai on the face, but this time it was not Dong Qingqiu, but Wu Chuan.
Dong Qingqiu calmly looked at Wu Chuan, whose chest was rising and falling violently, and replied in his heart: "You made a mistake, it's not two, it's three."
"Don't touch me, you ugly thing. Kill me, kill me."
Looking at Wu Chuan's motionless back, Dong Qingqiu suddenly panicked.
He picked up a piece of hot charcoal between two branches, pinched Hina's mouth, stuffed the hot charcoal into his mouth, and covered his mouth with both hands to prevent any sound.
The charcoal made a sizzling sound in Yangcai's mouth, and Yangcai's whole body was like a pig on the chopping board, kicking a big hole into the ground.
The head that was shaking desperately was tightly restrained by Dong Qingqiu's hands, clamped under his armpits and unable to move.
Yangcai kept making humming sounds from her mouth, and Dong Qingqiu didn't let go until Yangcai stopped struggling.
A pool of black water flowed from Hina's mouth, accompanied by a disgusting stench.
The rope binding Hina was about to break.
"Brother Zhou, what are you doing?" Wu Chuan pretended to blame.
"This way you can be quiet and you can still talk."
Wu Chuan happily patted Dong Qingqiu's shoulder, took out a clean dry food and handed it to Dong Qingqiu.
Dong Qingqiu endured the pain in his shoulder, pretended to be nothing, and accepted the dry food handed over by Wu Chuan.
"Dad, can I play?" Wu Peng, who had been silent at this time, suddenly said to Wu Chuan.
"Go ahead and play, don't delay my chat with Brother Zhou." Wu Chuan waved his hand impatiently.
Dong Qingqiu hurriedly grabbed Wu Peng.
Wu Chuan frowned when he saw this, and said in a deep voice: "Brother Zhou, what do you mean? You said you gave us this wife, but my son can't even play with it if he wants to?"
Dong Qingqiu stood up in a hurry and explained to Wu Chuan, who would get angry at any time if he said something wrong: "Uncle Wu misunderstood. What I want to say is that this girl is still a young girl! I'll leave it to you to enjoy."
Wu Chuan's wrinkled face suddenly relaxed. This was the second time he had murderous intentions for Dong Qingqiu.
"Brother Zhou is interested." Then he angrily said to his two sons, "Just touch it. Let's play again when we get home."
