Jiaohua

The sky is getting brighter and brighter, and the early morning by the lake is colder than the late night. The morning breeze brings the fisherman's songs on the Qingjiang River in the south, high and melodious.

Shen Lie stepped up the stone steps from the mud, his knees were scorched black, and there were two withered yellow fingers lying on the instep of his boots.

He shook off his severed finger and prepared to leave.

A burst of sharp and piercing laughter sounded from the quagmire behind: "I finally know why you look familiar, your father, is he called Shen Shuangcheng!"

Shen Lie paused slightly, and looked sideways at him.

This quagmire is huge, about sixty feet long and twenty feet wide. The bottom is deep and shallow, and the shallowest part just reaches his knees.

Now, there are a dozen corpses in the quagmire that are slowly sinking.

The man who spoke was about 40 years old, his skin was frighteningly pale, and he was as cold as he hadn't seen the sun for a long time.

He clutched his bleeding broken arm, looked at Shen Lie, and continued to laugh: "Your mother, is that coquettish bitch Shi Yingying?"

Shen Lie didn't speak, and looked at him with black eyes motionless.

"Hahahaha," the man laughed, "Aren't you curious, what happened here when they were young?"

Suddenly a fishy smell rose from the man's throat, he spat out a mouthful of thick blood, looked down at his severely injured ribs, laughed a few more times, and said with blood in his teeth: "Your mother is a broken shoe, she is talking to you Before my father, I already had a daughter! Hahaha, you are a big family member of the Shen family in Yunliang, you have a good reputation as a big son, if the world knows that you have a sister who is a prostitute, what do you say to the world? Laughing at you, hahaha...cough, cough, cough!"

More and more blood was coughed up by him, and he was still laughing until he passed out of breath.

Shen Lie watched his body sinking slowly, and looked away calmly, but heard a crisp coughing sound.

Shen Lie looked up, and the girl was standing at the stone gate in the northwest, playing with the long whip with her fingers, and looking at him with clear and bright eyes.

After searching for her all night, Shen Lie was overjoyed and strode over: "Ali."

The girl looked up at his eyebrows, and then looked at his straight and slender legs.

"A lot of mud." Xia Zhaoyi said.

Seeing Shen Lie's black eyes looking at her dirty hands, she lifted them up, turned the backs of her hands and said, "I can't find a place to wash them."

"You haven't slept all night?" Shen Lie said.

Not only that, she fought all night.

"Why are you here?" Xia Zhaoyi frowned, "Gao Zhou let you in?"

"...You also know how Gao Zhou can stop me? I tied him up."

Xia Zhaoyi was taken aback: "You!"

Shen Lie looked into her eyes: "Ali, if you want to blame me, you can blame me after you get out. There is a hole in the sky here, it's dangerous and unpredictable, it's not the time to argue with me."

In such a deep cave, his brows are more profound in the light and shadow, and the pair of black eyes that stared at her are also more deep and serious.

Xia Zhaoyi took a deep breath, and looked at other places in the cave.

There is a big quagmire below, and every two steps there is an irregular big stone about the size of an ordinary book case. These big stones are pieced together to form a road, which can barely cross the "river".

To the southwest of the cave, there is a row of dilapidated suspended houses, built on the top of the hill, with colonnades outside.

The age is too long, leaving an old and dark color on the house, and also destroying the original architectural appearance.Those dark places seem to be full of eyes.

Outside the mire, where it connects with the other two stone gates of the cave, there is another pond.

Xia Zhaoyi thought he had read it wrong, so he fixed his eyes again and again, only to see that the coffins floating on the lake were really chained coffins one after another.

"Let's find a place to sit." Xia Zhaoyi looked at Shen Lie solemnly, "Tell me what you have encountered, and I will tell you what happened to me."

Seeing that she really "disregarded the past", Shen Lie smiled lightly: "You go to find a place first, I want to go back to get things, give me a moment, I will be back soon."

This place is too big, the peach forest is like a flower blooming in it, except for the peach forest, the rest are lush green forests.

Xia Zhaoyi left a mark along the road so that Shen Lie could find it. After walking for a long time, she accidentally found a small pond.

The water in the pond is clear, so I dare not drink it directly, but it is no problem to wash my hands.

After washing her hands, she felt drowsy and her eyelids began to twitch.

She would not be like this before, even if she was sleepy, but in a dangerous situation, she was still able to maintain a high degree of sobriety and vigilance.

Not to mention the past, it was before, fighting all night and still not getting tired.

Is it... because of Shen Lie?
The subconscious mind knew that he would come back, so her sleepiness spread wantonly?

Yesterday was, today is also.

Xia Zhaoyi raised her eyebrows, pulled herself together, looked around, then pulled out the dagger on the inside of her boots, and went to cut wood.

When Shen Lie found it, Xia Zhaoyi's wooden frame was almost ready.

Her hands are extremely dexterous, and the wooden frame is very large, connected with mortise and tenon.

Everything is fine except for a pot or bowl.

Seeing the two small bundles in Shen Lie's hands, Xia Zhaoyi put down the dagger and wood in his hands.

Shen Lie squatted down, opened the two small bundles, and a light fragrance came to his face.

If it wasn't for the cold food, I'm afraid the aroma would be stronger.

Xia Zhaoyi was a little surprised: "Who sent it? They came down too?"

It's not easy to think about it, there are traps everywhere, and not everyone dares to cross the thousand-blade cliff.

"I brought it down last night," Shen Lie said, "but I seem to have gone the wrong way, and I didn't find you."

"Then, where did you come from? Did you meet a strange man bound by iron chains?"

"...Then there are others down here?"

Xia Zhaoyi paused, and said: "You can pass a cliff, straight and straight, only for three people to walk side by side."

"Ah."

"Then after you come here, you can see a secret passageway?"

Shen Lie was silent for a while, and said, "I thought it was..."

Thinking of the stench, Xia Zhaoyi said, "I see, you think it's a cesspit."

"Cough." Shen Lie coughed lightly.

"...a bit of a slip of the tongue, after all there is food here." Xia Zhaoyi said sincerely.

"Did you go down?" Shen Lie looked at her, "The weirdo you mentioned is down there?"

Xia Zhaoyi nodded: "I don't know who it is. It seems that he has been locked up for a long time. After a long time, he seems to have lost the cognition of ordinary people. What I saw with his eyes was irritable, irritable, crazy, he couldn't understand human words, and he didn't know what to say. will express."

"If you are interested, we will take him away when we go back."

Xia Zhaoyi suddenly smiled: "Mr. Shen Erlang doesn't think he stinks."

Shen Lie found out helplessly that he actually liked being teased by her so nonchalantly and harmlessly.

"A Li, I didn't dislike it at all," Shen Lie said seriously, "If I knew there were living people down there, I would probably go down too."

What's more, he carried food in his hand that he asked his subordinates to rush back to make.

This is food for her, how can he be soiled.

Looking at her slightly haggard face, Shen Lie lowered his head and took out a small paper ball from his bag, holding a piece of plum cake in the paper ball.

Opening the paper, Shen Lie handed it over: "You eat first, and I'll go out again."