no soul

Chapter 061

The snow outside is too thick and the wind is too cold. Even if it is a sunny day, the villagers stay in their houses, so there is no one outside.

Lin Hong knocked on the door of a nearby house, "Is anyone there?"

After knocking for a long time, Lin Hong almost gave up, the door opened with a "squeak", and the heat overflowed from the room. In contrast, Lin Hong felt how devastating the wind and snow outside was.

A short old lady stood in front of the door, wearing a thick cotton cloak, with dark skin and wrinkled face, squinting at the people outside the door.

"Grandma, we got lost here and are freezing to death, can we stay here with you?" Lin Hong's "lost" routine came out again.

"What? What did you say?" The old lady's voice was very vicissitudes, but the volume was very high.

It was obvious that his ears were not very good, and he couldn't hear Lin Hong's words clearly.

"We're lost, can we stay with you?" Lin Hong bent down and said again.

"What are you talking about? Louder!" The old lady frowned and leaned over to listen.

Lin Hong spoke louder: "Can we stay with you?"

"What are you talking about? It sounds like a mosquito." The old lady waved her hand in disgust.

Lin Hong: "..."

"Oops!" the old lady yelled, and raised her hand full of age spots to point at Wan Guchuan behind Lin Hong, "You wear so little! Do you want to freeze to death!"

The old lady stepped aside and opened the door, beckoning, "Come in first! Tell me slowly!"

Lin Hong: Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

Compared with the inside and outside of the house, there are two worlds. Close the heavy wooden door to isolate the whistling wind outside the house and the ice and snow.

The firewood in the brazier was burning vigorously, and the wood was crackling. The red fire light illuminated the whole house, and a large piece of the beam above it was blackened.

The house is small, small and warm, and only the old man lives there.

The old lady took off the padded jacket and cloak she had just put on to open the door and hung it on the hanger.

Lin Hong also started to untie his fox fur, looking around the room, "Grandma, do you live alone? Where are your children?"

Old lady: "What did you say?"

Lin Hong: "..."

Lin Hong's hands were stiff, and he didn't take off his fox fur for a long time, and even pulled it in the wrong direction, making a knot.

Wan Guchuan laughed at him, "You're so stupid."

Lin Hong rolled his eyes, "You are so stupid. You see, my collar is so high, it looks like I have a double chin. I can't lower my head. How can I untie it in one go? Don't worry, don't worry-oh, don't worry. Look at me, you go in and sit down first."

Wan Guchuan didn't speak. He stretched out his hand and touched his pig's hand that was about to freeze into a popsicle. He bent over to untie the knot, his long hair slipped from his shoulders and fell to his chest.

"Hmm..." Lin Hong put down his hands.

His slender fingers were near his neck. The man opposite him was tall, but arched, with downcast eyes and a serious expression.

It was a little close, and even the thick black eyelashes were vividly counted.

Lin Hong felt that his gaze was wandering, with nowhere to rest it.

The old lady noticed the horizontal sword behind Wan Guchuan's waist, "The young man is a martial artist, right?"

Wan Guchuan just happened to be untied by Lin Hong, turned to look at her, and nodded.

"Hey," the old lady lifted the pot hanging from the firewood. The soup in the pot was bubbling and steaming. "Come and sit."

Lin Hong hung the fox fur on the shelf and followed it.

The two searched for a seat and sat down.

The old lady stirred the soup in the pot with a spoon, "My son is also obsessed with martial arts, and he insists on joining the army! It's been three years, and he hasn't come back to check. I don't know if he's still alive."

Wan Guchuan was silent.

Three years, joined the army.

Isn't that the battle with Beidi?

Back then, when they fought behind the Tiansi Snow Mountain, they indeed recruited some strong men.

Conquering the dynasty to prosper and prosper, now basically only adopts the recruitment system of the national armed forces to cultivate elite troops.The Fubing system of "soldiers in wartime and farming in idleness" is not prevalent. It is believed that the military strength of the Fubing is weak, and the long-term recruitment will affect agricultural production and the stability of the country.

This time the military recruitment is also small-scale and temporary, and formal enlistment must complete many procedures such as registration of household registration.

Wan Guchuan remembered that at that time there were no strong men formally enlisted in the army, and those strong men returned home after the war.

The fact that the old lady's son didn't come back can only mean...he died in battle.

The room is not very bright, even a little groggy, only the light of the brazier is flickering, and the shadows are also flickering.

"Are you a soldier?" The old lady was particularly interested in Wan Guchuan, and continued to ask him, "I feel like a soldier."

Wan Guchuan nodded.

The old lady's cloudy eyes lit up, "Then do you know my son? His name is Shi Sanzhi!"

Wan Guchuan hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

Lin Hong looked at him.Do you really know each other?

"Oh! That's great! How is he now?" The old lady of the Shi family was a little happy, and put down the spoon, "Is he still alive?"

Wan Guchuan lowered his eyes and nodded.

"I'm still alive and I don't want to come back to see him, leaving me alone in this snow mountain to wait for him, really!" The old lady said angrily, she was actually happy to hear that her son was still alive.

"Go back and persuade him, tell him to come back and have a look, and just say...just say his mother misses him."

Wan Guchuan pursed his lips and nodded solemnly.

Seeing Wan Guchuan's expression, Lin Hong knew that things might not be going well...

"Hey, that's great! Let's eat! You're just in time." The old lady stood up and started to work.

Lin Hong glanced at the dishes on the table, "Wow, is it such a rich breakfast?" The meat of the snow rabbit was roasted—it was a rich meal for an old lady, let alone a breakfast.

Old lady: "What did you say?"

"..." Lin Hong shut up and nodded obediently.

They had just finished eating and tidying up when there was a lot of noise outside.It seemed that all those who were in the house had run out.

Snowflakes are flying outside the window, and people are clamoring.

"What's the matter?" Lin Hong leaned his head against the cold wind and looked out the window. He only saw a few men and women with angry faces, swearing, holding hunting tools and brooms, as if they were driving something away.

Wan Guchuan glanced over his head and looked outside, "Go out and have a look."

Wan Guchuan put on the fur coat given to him by the old lady. It was pitch black, and it was said to be the fur his son picked off a bear after he killed it. It was quite warm.

Opening the door, the voices of the villagers became louder and more obvious, cursing "get out".

Lin Hong looked around for a while before he figured out the situation.

It turned out that an unexpected visitor came to this village.

A woman wearing thin clothes rushed into the village from the vast snow-capped mountains.

Her hair was messy, and no one knew where she came from the snow mountain, like a snowstorm that had no beginning, suddenly blowing in.

And the villagers were like startled beasts in their dens, baring their fangs and waving their claws to drive away the uninvited guests.

The woman looked to be over 20 years old, without a headdress, messy hair, and a sad expression. Her clothes were no different from those of the villagers, except that they were not as thick as the villagers', and were neither old nor worn out.

She was frightened and ran around the village.

Lin Hong didn't understand why the people in the village reacted so strongly. Was it xenophobic?But neither he nor Wan Guchuan received such treatment.

This kind of movement made the old lady of the Shi family listen. She also put on a cotton cloak and went out to look around, "What a girl! What's going on with them..."

Lin Hong also wanted to ask her if the village was very exclusive, but suddenly remembered that she couldn't hear.

So, he walked over on the snow and grabbed a strong man, "Brother, why are you beating her so fiercely?"

"The origin is unknown, and she looks mentally abnormal. Shouldn't she be beaten?! Take her back!" the man said aggressively.

It seems to be exclusive.Lin Hong thought.Such a nation that sticks to the border must have such an unforgiving attitude when foreign enemies invade.

It may be because he and Wan Guchuan are outside this world, so they were not expelled in this way.

However, it would be too radical to do this to a weak woman.

Moreover, this woman may not be an enemy, and even looks like a person from this village, so can't she be accepted?

not quite right...

"Somewhat strange." Wan Guchuan said.

The woman was hiding behind a room, looking around from time to time.

And the villagers were still yelling at her.

This is a person who is excluded from the group and not accepted.

Lin Hong frowned.

"Oh! What are you guys doing! Let me show you!" The old lady of the Shi family limped over, "Why is this big girl bothering you?"

"Grandma Shi, this is an outsider!" A woman with raised eyebrows said.

Granny Shi: "What did you say?"

Woman: "..."

"Come on!" Granny Shi waved to the woman who looked messy, "Come to my house, girl."

The villagers were trying to persuade her, but she turned a deaf ear to it—in fact, she just couldn't hear it...

The woman hesitated for a moment, walked over timidly with her head down, and looked up at the angry villagers from time to time, as if she had done something wrong.

The villagers knew that it was difficult to communicate with Granny Shi, so they all looked at each other silently.

I don't know who sighed, and everyone carried their things back to the house.

This strange and powerful expulsion ended silently, disappeared in a drifting snow, and the aftermath fell into the mountains.

The woman was sitting by the fire in Granny Shi's house, a little embarrassed, her eyes nervously looking around, trying to get familiar with this strange environment.

Lin Hong was leaning against the window, looking at Granny Shi who was preparing food for the women, and couldn't keep his hands idle, fiddled with the pot of green potted plants on the window sill again and again.

He couldn't name this potted plant, presumably because it was warm in the house and it was growing well.

Wan Guchuan stood beside him, looking at the woman, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Girl, let's eat something." Granny Shi put the hot food on the table in front of the woman.

The woman's mental state was not quite right, and her reaction was a little slow. She looked at Granny Shi dumbly, and nodded after a long while.

"Hey, what a girl, how did you make it like this." Granny Shi staggered and took a comb and walked to the back of the woman, "Women want to be beautiful, the old lady will comb your hair!"

The pair of skinny hands held her messy hair, and the comb combed it gently inch by inch.

The woman was combed by her, without saying a word, holding the bowl and not eating, her eyes just staring at the soup in the bowl.

After combing, the long black hair hangs behind her like a piece of silk.

Fingers lifted the watery hair, and the wooden hairpin tied the bun behind his head.

Willow eyebrows and almond eyes, this is a beautiful woman.

A pair of clear but absent-minded and empty eyes, like the vast snowfield in the distance.