Chapter 246: Ending (2)
Zhao Xiangrong's eyes widened. This voice!!!
It was the Hun who had helped her before.
First I heard the surprise in the voice, then I noticed the man's words.
Zhao Xiangrong himself didn't know what he was doing. He suddenly turned over, pressed the man down, and used his body to cover the man's face.
By the time Zhao Xiangrong reacted, his whole face turned red.
Oh my God, she was so close to a strange man.
How could she do such a thing?
It must be because I have been on the grassland for too long, and I have become much more bold and unrestrained without realizing it.
Zhao Xiangrong was worried that the man might have wild thoughts, so she explained shyly:
"I, I was trying to cover for you."
A man's voice came from my ear: "I know."
Several Xiongnu soldiers came over and saw two people being intimate on the grassland. One of them was a woman from the Central Plains. The Xiongnu soldiers laughed and walked away: "You know what, this batch is different from the ones sent before."
"What's the difference?"
"I heard from the seniors that those women in the past were desperate and wanted to escape every day. This group of women are not afraid, and even take the initiative to seduce some young generals. I guess they want to be noticed and live a more comfortable life."
"It should be distributed in a few days, right? Do you think our captain can get one?"
Although there has been no specific distribution of women in the Central Plains, this is a very common thing and nothing surprising.
Therefore, the Hun soldiers did not look closely and dispersed to look for the suspicious man on the grassland.
After the Xiongnu soldiers walked away, Zhao Xiangrong got up from the ground: "Well, I didn't want to go to the tent to hook up with someone..."
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In Lingnan, the most dangerous thing is not people, but the natural environment.
Once, Shen Wei and Xiaoying accidentally entered a miasma area and inhaled a lot of miasma. Xiaoying foamed at the mouth and fell down on the spot.
Shen Wei gritted his teeth and forcibly brought Xiaoying out of the miasma forest. He tore open her clothes, and the small silver bills hidden inside fell out.
This was specially sewn by Xiaoying before setting off. She sewed the silver bills inside her thick clothes, which helped her avoid being robbed by bandits along the way.
Shen Wei took Xiaoying, who had escaped a near-death experience, to the town to find a doctor for treatment. Fortunately, the doctor was a kind man and did not have any ill feelings towards them because of their identity as women.
"Girl, you... you have a very good physique. You have inhaled a lot of miasma, and you can even bring people out of the miasma forest."
The doctor was surprised that Shen Wei was only slightly unwell.
An ordinary person would have died if infected by the miasma, but the girl in front of him just looked paler and weaker.
Shen Wei explained: "It may be because my father was also a doctor in the past. He always asked me to test medicine for him, so my body has antibodies."
The doctor stroked his beard and nodded, agreeing with Shen Wei's statement.
Xiaoying felt better after a day's rest. Shen Wei originally wanted to go to Jigong Mountain by himself and leave Xiaoying in the clinic to rest.
But Xiaoying insisted on going together, so Shen Wei had no choice but to agree.
Before leaving, Shen Wei told Xiaoying again and again.
"Xiaoying, you can't be so stubborn this time. If you feel unwell, you must tell me."
"I don't want to lose you after losing Xiaoman."
“The sweet potato vine is important, but you are just as important.”
Xiaoying smiled at Shen Wei: "Don't worry, I know what I am doing!"
"I will definitely not cause you any trouble."
Shen Wei shook his head: "It's not a matter of causing trouble, I'm just worried about you."
"Okay, let's get going."
The two of them no longer pretended to be old ladies, but instead put on scholar's clothes that were washed white and had several patches on them. From a distance, they looked like two pedantic scholars who were so poor that they could not even afford to eat.
A few days later, the two stood at the foot of Jigong Mountain.
Looking up, you can't see the top of the mountain as it is covered by fog. You can only vaguely see a peak similar to a chicken's neck looming in the fog.
The two waited until noon, when the fog had almost dissipated, before they began to search in the mountains.
As soon as you enter the mountain, a familiar smell hits you.
Shen Wei and Xiaoying ran without saying a word, and only sat down on a rock when they were far away from the miasma.
Over the next few days, the two men lived at the foot of Jigong Mountain. They went into the mountain to search at noon when the temperature was highest, and had to come out in the evening, regardless of whether they found it or not.
The miasma at night was even more frightening, almost covering the entire Jigong Mountain and preventing any living creature from entering.
The two men didn't dare eat the animals in the mountains and could only fill their stomachs with wild vegetables.
It was another day when the fog was about to dissipate. Shen Wei and Xiaoying went into the mountains again. This time they needed to go deeper to look for it. They had searched everywhere outside but still couldn't find the centipede.
"Shen Wei, something seems to be wrong... Is the ground sinking?"
The two were not far apart. Shen Wei heard Xiaoying's voice, ran over to see, and saw that Xiaoying's lower body had already sunk into it.
Xiaoying seemed to notice that she was being dragged down, so she tried to climb up anxiously. However, the more she moved, the faster the ground beneath her feet sank, as if someone was pulling her legs from below.
Even someone as strong as Xiaoying was frightened to the point of turning pale and her lips trembling.
"The water ghost is pulling my leg!!!"
Shen Wei shouted:
"Do not move!"
Seeing this scene, Shen Wei's face turned pale with fright.
Xiaoying was stunned. It was the first time she heard Shen Wei's panicked voice.
Her trust in Shen Wei had reached the point where she didn't need to use her brain. She only needed Shen Wei to speak and her body would subconsciously obey Shen Wei's words.
After Xiaoying stopped moving, her sinking movement slowed down.
"Shen Wei, is there a water ghost..."
As Shen Wei explained, he looked around for a tree fork.
"This is a swamp. The more it moves, the faster and deeper it sinks."
"That's why I told you not to move. This is my first time encountering a swamp. I've only seen descriptions of swamps and self-rescue in books before."
"First, don't move your lower body, but move your upper body to expand the contact area between your body and the mud."
"Only by dispersing your whole body weight can you reduce the speed of sinking. You can't let your whole body weight rest on your feet. This won't work."
Xiaoying took a deep breath, closed her eyes and gritted her teeth, suppressing the fear in her heart, and chose to slowly move her body towards the quagmire.
At this moment, she was extremely scared.
But she chose to believe Shen Wei. If the book was wrong, she believed that Shen Wei would take good care of her two children.
It seemed as if half a century had passed.
Her body just touched the quagmire, and unlike what she had expected, the quagmire did not swallow up her whole body, but seemed to have stopped flowing.