Chapter 30 Natural and Man-made Disaster

Han Youcai, 20 years is like a day. I stayed in this stone room for a day, but it seemed that it had been a hundred years. I watched him be punctual for three meals, whistled when I had nothing to do, and looked at the skylight in a daze.

I was so hungry that my eyes were dazzle. Sometimes when I saw him eating cockroaches, I also wanted to catch a tooth sacrifice, but when I saw his expression when he ate cockroaches, I was afraid.

I spent two days and nights in the stone room. When I woke up, I saw Han Youcai half kneeling on the ground, looking up and then dripping drops of water from the top of the room. Looking at his awkward appearance, I didn't want to die like this. I kept turning left and looking in the stone room, hoping to find some secret organs.

But there are no gaps except for a few mouse holes in the corner. The skylight hung overhead, and the sun was divided into many parts by the window frame, casting mottled light and daring to open their eyes.

"Don't be afraid, I scared you yesterday, and you can't die!" Han Youcai's mouth is still unfinished.

After listening to it, I looked straight at him. I didn't know if this man was crazy, but my heart was still much wider. I hurriedly asked him, "Why can't you die?"

"I just had a meal today!" He groped his teeth and groped on the ground.

After listening to this, I shook my head in frustration and whispered to him, "How many meals do you have to do with my life or death? If you eat a hundred meals, I'm going to die!"

He glanced at me, looked at the skylight, and said to me with a smile, "I don't understand the sky, and I can't pinch the secret, but since you came here, I haven't had a full meal. The rat cockroaches are hiding!"

Although he didn't say it clearly, I heard what he meant. When I was a child, I heard the old man in the village say that he went down to the kiln to dig coal, drilled the ground, and gave him a bite of food whenever he saw rats and long insects (snakes). I don't know when I can save my life.

It is said that the daughter of the land master is a rat spirit. If the coal kiln is going to collapse, or the oxygen in the well is about to run out, the rats will bump around and look for an exit. The scientific explanation is that mice are sensitive to sense and touch, and can perceive dangers that humans cannot detect.

"But this Tulongling is a treasure that is hard to find in the world at first glance. How can there be any natural disasters?" I asked him doubtfully.

"It's not a natural disaster, but also a man-made disaster. It is said that rats can be psychic. I'm afraid it won't be much better than natural disasters." He brushed his messy hair and breathed a sigh of relief.

I patted a cockroach to death, handed it to him, and asked, "You'd rather eat a mouse cockroach to live. Do you have any wish?"

"Not bad!" He shouted loudly.

"What wish?" I hurried to ask him.

He didn't answer for a long time and looked straight at the remnant sun. He hadn't eaten the cockroach I patted to death, but just held it tightly in the palm of his hand.

I went forward and poked him twice with my finger. Seeing that he didn't respond, I shouted in his ear. He fell into my arms, like a homesick child. I tried his breath and realized that he was no longer working.

I don't know what his wish is. I can only guess from his background that he wants to go home and see the river that raised him and destroyed him.

I took his body to a shady corner, and there were many secrets buried in his collapsed belly. The big bones were stunned, witnessing the miracle of life! It was not the cockroach mouse that maintained his longevity, but the dream that made him unyielding.

That night, I sat next to his body. I don't know what it was like in my heart. I don't know when the natural disaster or man-made disaster he said will come.

I was hungry and had some difficulty breathing. Everything in front of me became blurred, my head sank and I fell asleep.

"Get up! Leftovers! Get up quickly!"

I don't know who shouted at me in my ear and pinched me fiercely. I swallowed my saliva and opened my eyes with difficulty. It turned out to be Manshuang!

"Why are you here?" I don't know where the strength came from and sat up.

Manshuang made a silent gesture to me and took my hand to run out. I looked at my head, and the moonlight was shining on Man Shuang's face. I didn't expect him to come to save me. At this time, my feelings were mixed. Looking back at Han Youcai's body, he ran out with Man Shuang.

Man Shuang ran out of the stone room and saw several wooden houses outside the stone room. We carefully walked through the wooden house and looked left and right. There was no one around. Man Shuang turned her eyes again, pointed to the mountain bag in the distance, and whispered to me, "Let's go there. No one can find us!"

I nodded and followed her. He arrived at the mountain bag very open, but Man Shuang did not mean to stop, and ran to a stone behind the mountain.

I ran hard behind her. He saw that I had no strength and came back to help me. My heart warmed and I almost didn't cry.

Manshuang helped me sit on the big stone in front of me. I gasped and asked him, "Why are you here?"

Man Shuang pouted and replied in a low voice, "You saved my life, and this time we don't owe anyone!"

I scratched my head and didn't dare to touch her eyes, but my face was fevered. What I wanted to say was already in my mouth, but I forgot it behind my head.

I saw that Manshuang was fine here, so how did Guo Laoscar say that Manshuang was over? I looked up at Manshuang and asked her, "Are you all right?"

After listening to this, Man Shuang looked at her arm and nodded, with tears in her eyes.

I know that she has suffered a lot of grievances these days, but I don't know how to comfort her. I asked her softly, "Have you married that Sun Wujing?"

She wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, sat next to me, looked at the stars, and said to me, "Well, that boy has been pestering me since I was a child. He is the son of Sun's razor, the helmsman of Henan Province. His grandfather is one of the four heavenly corpses in Wanlong Shouzhuang. All major events in the village need the approval of the corpse to be carried out."

"Grandpa's body is also wanted to be buried. Sun Razor said that if I didn't marry his son, I wouldn't let Grandpa's body enter the tomb. My brother and I had no choice but to agree to him." After saying that, Man Shuang snorted and was extremely angry.

I lowered my head and didn't dare to look directly at Man Shuang. I whispered to her, "Your grandfather's death has nothing to do with me..."

"It has nothing to do with you. After you left, it was a scale that provoked many times, and the helmsmen everywhere fought. After that, he told my brother that you killed them." Man Shuang frowned and said to me.

"Your brother also..." Man Shuang covered my mouth and didn't let me say any more. She just cried numbly.

I kept comforting him, but always with a sense of guilt. Unconsciously, she stopped crying and lay on my shoulder to watch the stars rise and fall, but she didn't know which two stars we were and whether they would fall together.

I can't tell jokes. I can only tell the anecdotes that my fourth uncle and grandfather told me when I was a child. I know that Man Shuang grew up in Yulongpo. These stories will not surprise her too much, but she still listens to me carefully. Forget where you are now.

"Manshuang!"

I was talking about the key point when I suddenly heard someone calling Manshuang's name. I played a thrill and heard why the sound was so familiar.

"It's Sun Wujing!" Man Shuang pouted and said to me angrily.

I carefully climbed to the top of the mountain bag and saw Sun Wujing shouting all the way and walking this way. My heart was broken. If this boy finds me here, he has to call someone to catch me back.

Man Shuang stamped her feet and asked me to hide behind the big stone. Then she took her coat to me, saying that Sun Wujing had a dog nose, and Sun Wujing couldn't smell me in her clothes.