After walking for more than an hour, Shen Yanxiao arrived at the entrance of the village.
Small houses nestled in the small village which were tightly close to each other, mottled walls were covered with grey, and the straw-stacked roofs looked extremely shabby. Several villagers dressed in short-sleeves clothing with hoe in their hands were laughing inside the village.
Shen Yanxiao squinted her eyes, she nally
understood why Du Lang did not doubt this village, which, at any rate, seemed so barren and simple.
The few passing villagers suddenly saw Shen Yanxiao and Vermilion Bird who stood at the village's entrance. With a look of goodwill, they walked over to them with a simple and honest smile and said, "How can two children come here? Are you lost? There's no other village here, you two must be tired."
Shen Yanxiao did not say anything and just looked closely at the villager who started talking to them. Shen Yanxiao acutely sensed that the man's goodwill was not camouage,
and those plain eyes could not be seen with any false hypocrisy either.
If it wasn't for the unfathomable level of acting, then he was really simple and honest.
"Old Ba, you just had some summer radish in your house. Go get some for the two little ones." Shen Yanxiao's silence did not concern the villagers, but they were rather worried that the two boys were not safe in the wild outskirts, and eager to get them something to eat.
"Oh, I'll go, Little Ke, you first take these two little guys to Uncle Jiu for them to rest, and also get them some water to drink."
The middle-aged man called Old Ba had a simple and honest face. He told them to look after the hoe and then ran back to get the food.
"You two don't look very old, really pitiful. I'll take you to drink some water and rest. Are you separated from your family? I will take you to Uncle Jiu, he is our village chief, let him think of ways to get you home."
Little Ke looked only in his early twenties, although not tall, his body was actually very strong.
It was not surprising that these villagers would think as such. Within a radius of a few hundred miles around, there were only their village. The reason for the sudden appearance of these two little ones was really hard to imagine. They could only think that Shen Yanxiao and Vermilion Bird were children
separated from their family. Faced with two young helpless children, the simple villagers showed all their enthusiasm.
Vermilion Bird just wanted to speak, but he was stopped by Shen Yanxiao.
Shen Yanxiao pretended to be well-behaved and nodded, she did not utter a single sound.
Little Ke and two other villagers led Shen Yanxiao and Vermilion Bird and walked toward the village.
Shen Yanxiao noticed that the clothes on these people in front of her were very shabby, and they were all patched up. Even Little Ke's shoes was worn out, the two big toes of his big feet were exposed on the outside, provoking a very sad feeling.
Along the way, they met some villagers again whose situation was similar to Little Ke's.
The houses in the village seemed to have many years of history. Some of the roofs had already collapsed, yet some villagers were still living there.
The doors and windows of most houses there were incomplete. By all accounts, it was really an extreme barren village.
However, the villagers here were unusually kind and exceptionally helpful. For Shen Yanxiao and Vermilion Bird, the two from a foreign family, the villagers did not ask much. Instead, they enthusiastically served some food and told Little Ke to bring them well to Uncle Jiu.
It was a dilapidated thatched house, and the wind was creaking through its wooden door.
Little Ke walked inside leading Shen Yanxiao and Vermilion Bird. The dim room could only be illuminated by the sunlight coming through the door and windows.
"Uncle Jiu! Uncle Jiu!" Little Ke called out.
A stooped old man walked slowly along with his cane, his wrinkled face was covered with weather-beaten traces, and his narrowed eyes looked very old.
"Brat, what's the big idea shouting so loudly, this old man's ears have no diculty
hearing yet." Uncle Jiu scolded Little Ke, his turbid eyes darted to Shen Yanxiao and Vermilion Bird who were standing beside Little Ke.
"Hey, Uncle Jiu, I'm in a hurry to nd
you." Little Ke honestly grasped his head.
"These two children are?" Uncle Jiu asked.
Little Ke immediately explained, "Uncle Jiu, these two children are so pitiful. They were following their family to run their business, the result was that they met bandits halfway, the people had been scattered, and these two were muddled and arrived at our village. Uncle Jiu you must help these two children ah. "
While on the way, Shen Yanxiao found a decent reason for her and Vermilion Bird's emergence. Little Ke firmly believed it and told this to Uncle Jiu.
Uncle Jiu looked at the two fragile children in front of him. He turned silent for a moment before sighing faintly.
"Really poor children. You both find a place to sit down and I will go prepare some food for you. It's also getting late. There is no other place besides our village nearby. Let's wait if your loved ones will come, if not, I will try to send you back tomorrow. "
Shen Yanxiao was somewhat surprised at the words of Uncle Jiu. Little Ke did not say less about Uncle Jiu along the way. He was not only the chief of the village, but also the only doctor in this village. Shen Yanxiao thought that the other party would be somewhat shrewd. But now it seemed that he was as
simple as the other villagers.
There was no other questions at all. Just by Little Ke's words, the old man believed in the origin of the two of them, and had not intention of asking any further.
If Shen Yanxiao didn't know that the Cave Wolves Mercenary Corps met a mishap in this village, then it would be very dicult
for her to associate the people in this village with the word danger.
"Hey, I already let Old Ba get some food for these two children a moment ago. Uncle Jiu you see, these two little ones are thin, they must have sufered a lot along the way…" Little Ke was very concerned as he opened his mouth.
"It's naturally not easy to encounter these things at such a young age." Uncle Jiu responded.
Little Ke said with a smile, "Uncle Jiu, now that you're here, why don't you also take a look at the wound on my back? I've been itching a lot these days."
Uncle Jiu nodded. Little Ke took off his clothes, revealing a strong upper body.
On that red date-colored back, a large ferocious wound appeared in Shen Yanxiao's line of sight.
That wound was very large that it almost covered the entire back of Little Ke. Although already a scab, it was still shocking.
Uncle Jiu checked Little Ke and said to the stunned Shen Yanxiao at the side, "Did it scared you guys? Little Ke accidentally fell a while ago, rubbing off the skin on his back. If you feel scared, you can sit here for a while.
Come with me Little Ke, I'll give you some more medicine which should make you ne
after a while."
After he spoke, Uncle Jiu took Little Ke to the room at the other side.
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