Chapter 179 Live One More Day

"I don't have a wife and I don't have a home." This is the only answer I can answer: "You can't bring outsiders in the place where I live." After struggling for a long time, I told her the truth I could tell. In fact, in my heart, I hope she can beg me to take her to a safe place. I know that I can't resist it.

"Oh, so that's it." The girl's expression was gloomy. After a long sigh, she staggered to stand up. Her frowned and talking look just now suddenly disappeared, and her standing posture was quite tense, and the direction she walked was actually facing the center of the black desert.

"Don't go." Seeing that she was like this, I was anxious at that time, so I stood up and grabbed her hand. For the first time, I clasped my fingers with a girl, and the feeling was wonderful. Her soft skin, with the misty rain belonging to the south of the Central Plains, melted my numb hands rubbed by the wind and sand in an instant. I just felt a slight twitch all the way from my fingers to my heart. Under the influence of this wonderful feeling, I almost blurted out a sentence from my brain: "I remember a place where you can rest."

In fact, there is no such place. I just don't want to see a girl's disappointed eyes, regardless of my ability, and I didn't think of the serious consequences of such a practice.

Sure enough, the girl immediately turned around, and her body, which had just been a little crescent because of fatigue, suddenly straightened up again, and a gorgeous blush hung on her face. Instead of let go of my hand, she held her fingers tightly. I could feel the small bones in her fingers, as if they were soft. With courage, I slightly tightened my fingers to feel everything that had never been experienced.

After the promise, it should be implemented, which can't be helped. As an apprentice whose status is only higher than that of slaves in Xuecheng, I don't know any secrets. I admit that at that time, I promised that there was a fluke in my subconscious. After all, this man who suspected to be my father helped me once, and he may help me again. Even if he is not my father, there must be a kind face hidden under the seemingly cold iron mask. Such a kind person will not watch such a beautiful girl die in the desert. As a person who boats in this desert, the ferryman will definitely have his own secret place.

I asked the girl to wait there, and I walked to the sand boat alone to negotiate with the ferryman. At this time, the ferryman was lying in the sand boat, with his legs on the boat. I don't know if he is asleep. If he is sleeping, I will wake him up like this and make him unhappy. Then these "unreasonable" demands will be yours.

So I stood by the boat tremblingly. I knew it was going to be dark. The ferryman does not work at night. All the ferryman will eat meat and drink a large bowl of wine in their own place at night. They are one of the few manual workers in the city, so there is also a lot of meat in their diet. As an apprentice, you can only eat some leftovers from bachelors for three meals a day. This is also what the teacher told me. At that time, he told us that only this kind of physical self-reliction can promote academic progress. If you eat too well, all the body's attention will be on digesting food, and there is a lack of understanding and understanding of knowledge. Therefore, apprentices in the city of learning , can only eat broken cakes. When an apprentice becomes a bachelor, what he can learn is basically finished. What he has left to do is how to live longer and use the experience of life and learning to do a little research on the basis of the knowledge of his predecessors.

Repeat is easy, innovation is easy. Learning is a repetition, while research is an innovation. The teacher's most common sentence is that what they say in class one morning is the result of hundreds of years of research by countless excellent bachelors. They have thought about countless days and nights for a simple sentence in class, from a vigorous young man to a thin old man. Finally, at a special mysterious moment, years of hard work exchanged for the extravagance of that moment, and the long-troubled problem was seen through. Then the results of this moment of luxury time were recorded on parchment and passed down forever, becoming something that we humble scholars can learn.

Now that I think about it, the teachers in Xuecheng have deceived me a lot of things. They wantonly distort the originally square facts with their students according to their likes and dislikes, but this is the only thing about repetition and innovation that is correct. Because in my past life, I have also experienced such "luxurious moments", which indeed made my dry eyes shed clear tears.

I believe that these ferrymen who have no intellectual pursuit will not live such an ascetic life as we do. Since the wine and meat are in front of them, their stomachs will wake them up at the right time to enjoy the dinner that seems too luxurious in the school city.

Not long after I stood next to Sha Zhizhou, the ferryman's body suddenly moved. His legs seemed to be a little uncomfortable, so he stretched again. I know this is a good time to wake him up, but the problem is that I don't know his name. The apprentices secretly call the ferrymen iron-faced people, but I don't think they will like this name. Since they ask him to do things, respect is the minimum requirement. The great opportunity is in front of me, but I am more hesitant.

In the end, the ferryman couldn't stand it. He suddenly sat up, looked at me and said, "What, the matter has been solved? People have also been saved. It's time for us to go back. He stood up and slapped his clothes to beat down the sand and dust brought by the wind lying on the sand boat. The action was exaggerated and terrible. I even felt that if the slap hit me like this, I would probably be directly scattered.

"She is alive, but if she is left in the desert, she will die. Her camel is lost..." I don't know what to say next. I can't force the ferryman to take away a girl he doesn't know. There are many apprentices in the city, but few ferrymen. If you provoke him, he can completely leave me in the desert and let me die, and the school city will not be too harsh on the ferryman. Even if I'm really his son, what is this kind of blood relationship in Xuecheng? He may have many sons and don't need to look at me differently.

What a cowardly young man I was at that time. I wanted to protect the girl I liked, but I couldn't make a positive request, because I was afraid. From that moment, I began to find that when I walked out of the school city, or when I walked out of my usual life circle, even if it was A simple question, for me, is all about abnormal fear, unprovoked fear, and unprovoked demons.

"Young man." The ferryman was not as angry as I imagined. On the contrary, his tone was gentle that I couldn't imagine. He patted his hand gently on my shoulder, which was very different from the strength he used to pat his clothes just now. It's enough for you to help this girl once. You can't help a person forever. Even if you can solve her urgent needs, it's benevolence and righteousness.

"I don't want to help her forever." I'm a little anxious and don't know how to express my inner feelings: "However, if she dies tonight, it will be meaningless for me to come out to save her. At least, let her live tonight. As for what will happen in the future, that's her own business. I try to make my words rational and logical, but in fact, when I say it, even I can hear the crying in it.

The ferryman hasn't spoken for a long time. He stood still, which even made me doubt whether he would fall asleep standing here because I was too bored by what I said.

"Young people, what you said makes some sense. At least let this girl live today, at least we didn't toss around today. You know that you can't bring outsiders in the city, but there is no shelter in the surrounding sand sea..." The ferryman pondered again: "Well, let her go to the old city for one night tonight, tomorrow morning you find her a camel, and then I will send her to the correct route she wants to go. You see this. Is it okay?"

I didn't expect that the ferryman would agree to my request so happily and forgot to be happy there. But how could I, who was happy at that time, know that this hasty request would bring such consequences?

After being slightly stunned, I bowed in a hurry to thank the ferryman. He waved his hand to me helplessly, and then I ran quickly to the girl and took her hand again. I admit that it was intentional this time, and I really want to experience the feeling just now.

"You have a place to stay at night. Come with me." I pulled her up and walked to the sand boat.