HCB Chapter 263: Deep in Nanzi
Chapter 263: Deep in Nanzi
After a night of rest, Lou Xiao did not vomit blood again.
But on the second day, the villagers came to hunt them down, wave after wave.
Lou Xiao was not surprised. She had some recollection of what she had done that day.
But when she was sober, she was not willing to kill people. After all, there was no need.
She also stopped running around at the beginning, and now followed Mo Jingchun's lead and headed towards the depths of Nanzi.
She knew that Mo Jingchun had thought it through and wanted to take her to Qieyue Village.
Even he was not sure whether the vomiting blood was caused by the Gu and whether it would cause damage to her body.
He had some inexplicable thoughts about me, so how could he watch me fall into danger?
Lou Xiao felt guilty for taking advantage of his feelings, so her attitude was much better along the way.
Of course, there is also the reason that Mo Jingchun is very "virtuous".
Lou Xiao, who has always been successful, has never been injured. Mo Jingchun originally thought that she was so powerful that she was unmatched, but once the powerful person in his mind shows his vulnerable side, he will be particularly pitiful.
Although Lou Xiao did not think of herself as weak, Mo Jingchun obviously treated her as a patient.
Besides being in a hurry to get by, she refused to let him do anything. She would deal with the obstacles on her own if she met any. She would only draw her sword when she couldn't defeat them.
In the eyes of the people of Nanzi, the traitor had found a backer and was going to overthrow Nanzi.
Regardless of how harsh their insults were, Mo Jingchun just ignored them.
Even when he was injured, he gritted his teeth and took medicine on his own, then went hunting, picked fruits in the mountains, and secretly picked some food from the land in the village as if nothing had happened.
Just so that she wouldn't go hungry.
Lou Xiao's appetite is extremely big.
On this day, Lou Xiao sat on the cliff of Nanzi Shiwan Mountain, looking at the endless green peaks shrouded in mist.
I thought that if a writer like Li Huaiqing came and saw such scenery, what a magnificent chapter he would leave behind.
It's a pity that she can't write poetry or paint.
The scenery that is commonplace for the people of Nanzi is the only unique scenery that exists in calligraphy and painting for the literati and scholars of the Central Plains.
Mo Jingchun brought her to the top of the mountain, where she could look down from above and easily spot whoever attacked her.
He treated her as someone he was taking care of, and told her to sit still and wait for him, while he buried his head in picking red fruits from the thorn bushes that covered the hillside.
Filled the pocket with the incomplete lapel.
Lou Xiao looked at him for a long time and sighed.
"Mo Jingchun, that's enough."
Mo Jingchun raised his head from the thorn bush and said with a smile, "Wait, it will be ready soon."
After saying this, he picked a bunch of orange-red flowers from the grass, scooped up the fruits, carefully picked out the thorns, and walked towards her with a smile on his face.
When he got to her, he proudly showed her the fruit in his pocket, just like a young man showing off his spoils to the girl he liked.
"This fruit is delicious. When I was young, I often came here at dusk to pick a basket full of it and brought it back to make wine for my mother."
Lou Xiao reached out and grabbed a handful, then put it into her mouth under Mo Jingchun's expectant gaze.
It tastes sour and sweet, with a green flavor.
Mo Jingchun sat down beside her, picked up a handful of fruits, picked out the less ripe ones and threw them into his mouth, and opened her palm to carefully place the rest.
Then he looked at the distant mountains and told her about his childhood.
“When I was young, my parents carried hoes to work every day, and I carried a basket and picked a lot of fruits.
There are often snakes, insects, rats and ants in the bushes, but I am not afraid of them. Sometimes I even catch them to play with, and when I am ready to go home, I release them back into the wild."
At that time, Mo Jingchun had experienced turmoil and found peace. His adoptive parents were hardworking and kind. All he wanted was to be a carefree child.
While they were working, I played with the soil and insects. Occasionally I would go to help, but would be chased away and left to play on my own.
The best time in his memory was when no matter how far away he went, he could always see his adoptive parents as long as he looked back.
It’s a pity that we can never go back.
This was the first time he brought someone home. Even though he knew why, he was homesick and even felt nervous as if he was taking his sweetheart home to meet his family.
"It's so beautiful here."
Lou Xiao sincerely praised, "This is a great place to cultivate the body and mind. Do you have any martial arts masters living in seclusion here in Nanzi? This is the true way to get away from the worldly disputes."
Mo Jingchun shook his head, "There is a serious dispute over territory among the villages. If someone dares to occupy a mountaintop and live in seclusion alone, no village will let him go.
Moreover, Nanzi is mostly mountainous, and the slightly flat land that can be used to grow crops is in the hands of the big villages. People who come here to live in seclusion don’t even have the possibility to grow their own land.”
Only some desperate criminals with no other options would venture into Nanzi, but one by one they disappeared quietly into the mountains.
"Your family can have farmland, it seems that Qieyue Village is very rich." Lou Xiao looked at all the people who were chased for revenge in the past few days.
Although it looks better than the outskirts of Nanzi where I first came from, life there is still far from being affluent.
Mo Jingchun's appearance is truly unique in Nanzi.
"Compared to the Central Plains, Qieyue Village is not rich, and it can only barely support tens of thousands of people in the village.
For the Nanzi people, being a captive of Qieyue Village is something they would love to have, after all, it is much better than living a life of starvation and satiety."
Mo Jingchun no longer remembered where he was born. Only the hunger engraved in his bones reminded him of what kind of life he had lived before coming to Qieyue Village.
He never hated the village that raised him, he just didn't want to accept it.
"I am looking forward."
Hidden deep in Nanzi, this mysterious village is good at making poisons. She had only heard about it from others, but now she was going to see it with her own eyes.
"There are more experienced Gu masters in the village than me. They must have a way to remove the Gu in your body. But it's best not to tell them your identity -
Some people in Nanzi have a grudge against the people of the Central Plains, especially those in the imperial court.”
"I've always heard that Nanzi refused to obey the imperial court's discipline, and I thought he was used to self-government and was afraid of decentralization. Where did his grudge come from?"
Mo Jingchun turned around and looked at her. Her expression did not seem fake. As the Duke of Zhenguo, didn't she know?
Lou Xiao continued to ask, "Could it be that knowing that I am from the imperial court, they want to kill me?"
"That won't happen. But I certainly won't help you at all. After all, the court doesn't care about our lives, right?"
Lou Xiao opened her eyes wide, "How did this come about?"
How can we not manage the people who have already surrendered carefully?
"Let's start with the famine in Nanzi seven years ago. There was little land to begin with, and with the sudden wildfires that drove away many wild animals, Nanzi experienced a famine that was rare in a century.
At that time, as long as someone provided some food to get through the New Year, things would be fine.
But at that time, several villages in Nanzi wrote letters to His Majesty asking for help, but the court did not send a single grain of food.”