Chapter 206: Pit
Chunzhi's words were incoherent, but Su Tong could almost understand them.
"Ah Feng? Fell into the pit?"
"Yes! I heard that the ancestral hall was on fire, so I rushed to look for him. When I got there, his house was almost on fire, and there was no one in the house..."
"I called him everywhere, and when I found him at the edge of the pit, I heard his response..."
When Chunzhi said this, she was already crying.
Su Tong looked at the genuine sadness and helplessness on her face, sighed, and said:
"Wait for me, I'll go with you."
As he said that, he closed the door, took out a small flashlight from his waist bag, took out a small notebook, tore off a page, and quickly left a note for Qin Yi.
He touched the dagger on his calf and the needle bag on his wrist again, then opened the door and said:
"Let's go!"
There is something fishy going on and there is no way to avoid it.
It’s better to go out and take a look.
Most importantly, they cannot judge whether this is a "test" on the way to Xiaoya Village. If they simply avoid it, they may miss "important" information.
This is also one of the reasons why Qin Yi chased after him.
Chunzhi still held her torch and led the way hurriedly.
It was only then that Su Tong discovered that Chunzhi was limping, as if she was injured.
Su Tong called her, "Chunzhi, is your leg injured?"
"I was running so fast just now that I accidentally sprained my ankle. It's nothing serious!"
Su Tong pulled up her trouser leg, shone the flashlight under it, and found that her right ankle was swollen and looked seriously sprained.
Chunzhi pulled her legs back, "It's okay! Sister! This little injury is nothing, let's go over there quickly!"
After passing a few houses, we saw flames rising into the sky and faint wailing sounds.
The fire in the ancestral hall should be considered a huge event in this primitive village that is almost isolated from the outside world. It is no wonder that the villagers could not spare the energy to save an outsider.
Chunzhi took Su Tong and ran towards the direction of the fire for a distance, then pointed to the left.
"The ancestral hall is ahead, and the pit can be reached by walking this way."
Then he explained: "When I arrived, the fire was not that big. I saw that there was no one in the brother's room, so I shouted everywhere in a hurry. Later, I found the edge of the pit and heard noises from below."
The pit is indeed not far from the ancestral hall, and one can see flames and flashing human figures from afar.
The so-called pit is a natural hole with a diameter of about ten meters. There are some sparse shrubs and dead grass growing on the wall of the hole. It gets darker as you go down, and you can't see how deep it is.
"Brother—Brother—"
Before Su Tong could speak, Chunzhi started shouting anxiously.
"Brother—are you down there? Brother—"
Fortunately, after a while, there was a response.
"Chun-Chun-zhi-Chun-zhi-I-I'm down there."
The voice sounded weak and unclear, probably because he was injured when he fell.
"Brother, don't worry! I'll rescue you right away."
Su Tong listened to A Feng's voice and felt that the cave was at least seven or eight meters deep. He took a small flashlight and shone it carefully, but unfortunately the light could not be focused at a distance and could not reach the bottom.
"Chunzhi, have you ever been down this pit before? How deep is it?"
Chunzhi nodded. "Yes, they have. A sheep fell down there before, and my father and his family went down to pick it up, but the sheep broke its neck and died."
Chunzhi gestured as she spoke, but she couldn't tell how deep it was.
Su Tong didn't ask any more questions. He took the rope from Chunzhi's hand, found a big tree by the pit, tied one end of the rope to the tree firmly, and said to Chunzhi:
"Let the rope go down! Let your brother follow the rope..."
Halfway through her words, she thought of Afeng's injured arm and changed her words:
"Tell your brother to tie the rope around his waist and we will pull him up."
Chunzhi nodded repeatedly and lowered the rope little by little. Su Tong picked up Chunzhi's torch and said:
"Tell him to get out of the way, and I'll throw the torch down, or he won't be able to see the rope."
"Yeah! Brother—we are going to throw torches! Watch the rope and we will pull you up."
Su Tong walked a few meters to the side and slid the torch down the wall of the pit.
This kind of torch is made of fir bark and yellow straw paper tied tightly together layer by layer, and is soaked with tung oil inside and out. If you apply a little force, it will not go out easily.
Fortunately, the wall of the pit was relatively smooth and the torch slid smoothly to the bottom.
Only then did Su Tong see the situation at the bottom of the pit clearly. The pit was about ten meters deep, but there was unexpectedly dense vegetation growing at the bottom. Although most of it was withered and yellow, from a distance it looked like a layer of grass mat at the bottom of the pit, which was very strange.
At the edge of the torch's illumination range, one could see Afeng lying on the "grass mat", crushing a large area of dead grass around him. The torch was still three or four meters away from him.
However, he only turned his head to look at the torch, and remained lying down, as if it was difficult for him to move.
Sure enough, Afeng's voice soon came, still unclear and weak.
"Haru, Haruzhi - I seem to have fallen somewhere, and I can't move at all."
Chunzhi was lying on the edge of the pit looking down. When she heard this, she was so anxious that she wanted to cry. She got up and grabbed the rope, "Sister - I'm going down! I'm going down to save Brother!"
Just as she finished her words, she slipped and fell on the edge of the pit, almost falling in without even grabbing the rope.
Su Tong was quick and grabbed her left shoulder and pulled her to the side.
"Your foot is injured! How can you save your brother? You can't get up even if you go down."
Chunzhi slammed her legs hard, covered her face and started crying "woohoo".
Su Tong sighed and said, "I'll go down! You help from upstairs!"
She put the flashlight into her waist bag and quickly analyzed the situation.
Judging from the worst outcome for tonight's situation, if there is something wrong with Afeng at the bottom of the pit, both of his arms have varying degrees of muscle strain. Even if he doesn't fall and get injured, he won't be able to be his opponent.
If Chunzhi retracted the rope after she went down, then neither she nor Afeng would be able to get out. This possibility is unlikely.
Of course, there is another possibility.
Chunzhi pulled Afeng out first, and after Afeng went up, the two men did not throw the rope to her, leaving her at the bottom of the pit.
However, this did them no good.
She would also avoid this situation by tying Afeng up first, then she would go up first, and then pull Afeng up together with Chunzhi.
At this height, the rope is long enough.
Even if she was really left there, Qin Yi would find out that she did not return in time and would soon come looking for her based on the message she left behind. There was very little they could do to her, so there was no need to do so no matter how you looked at it.
Of course, maybe she was just overthinking it and nothing would happen.
The best outcome is that Anran rescues Afeng and stops Chunzhi's tears.
This girl has so many tears.
These thoughts flashed through my mind in just a moment.
Time did not allow her to think too much.
Because the torch had already ignited the dry grass below, if she didn't go down, another fire would break out.
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