"City Lord..." Su Yuexi was shouting, but I stopped her.
"You should call me Zhou Bo. After all, it always feels weird when the city lord calls me that, and my last name is not Cheng." I joked.
She immediately smiled and nodded at me obediently. Then she thought of something and said, "How about I call you Brother Zhou Bo?"
I was confused for a moment. I remembered that the person who called me Brother Zhou Bo before was that annoying girl Song Yingchun. At that time, she always called me Brother Zhou Bo, over and over again. At this moment, Su Yuexi called me again. In addition, this was the place where the three of us had lived the longest and most stable. For a moment, I seemed to have returned to that time, and the person in front of me was the deceased Song Yingchun.
She was always getting into trouble, always throwing tantrums, and always disobeying, but every time she begged me to kiss her, she would call me Brother Zhou Bo, Brother Zhou Bo.
Seeing that I was fascinated by her, Su Yuexi lowered her head shyly for a moment, but she still glanced at me with her affectionate eyes and muttered, "Why are you looking at me like that?"
When she was shy, she was even more charming and charming, like a bud about to bloom, full of endless reverie, but now was definitely not the time to think about these things, so I put away my focused eyes and said, "It's okay, your name reminds me of an old friend."
She smiled slightly, shrugged her shoulders, and said, "This girl must have some story, otherwise how could Brother Zhou Bo remember it until now when it was just a simple title?"
I shook my head and said, "Who wants to remember her? She used to be a nuisance in our team. At that time, I wanted to throw her into the sea and pretend that I had never saved her. But I still blame myself for being too soft-hearted. In addition, many things tied me up and I kept her aside. It's just that now in this place, looking at the ancient scenery, I can't help but recall the past. This is why I think of her past again. Forget it, let's pack up and get ready to go. Let's go back to the original space and return to normal life as soon as possible."
She nodded, but still said, "Brother Zhou Bo, the way you looked at her just now was full of a brother's love for his sister. You are not too soft-hearted, but you want to protect everyone around you. That is your nature. From now on, I will call you by that name, and I hope that I can also get your protection and pity for me."
The affection in her words caught me off guard for a moment, and she realized this. Just as she was about to explain, I coughed and said, "Don't worry, it's me who got you here. I will definitely send her back safely and responsibly. Otherwise, even if we return to the original latitude world, your godfather will not let me go."
A laugh broke the awkwardness, and then we both got busy for a while.
My busyness mainly focused on several aspects. One of them was to make some temporary weapons for defense. The only thing I could use was the iron hoe that was originally needed in the corner. Now I could only use a stone to knock it flat and make it stand upright. Then I went to the backyard and dipped it in water and rubbed it back and forth on the stone to make a weapon with sharp sides. Although it would not be very effective, it was better than nothing.
The second thing was to go to the second floor and tear off some dirty sheets. I wouldn't need them anyway, and it would be fine when I returned to my original latitude world. It didn't matter if they were torn. So I pulled them apart and took them away with confidence. I tore off a piece about the size of a square tablecloth. I took it to the backyard on the first floor, used a flat hoe to chisel some ice from the spring pool, brought it into the house, dug a hole, and put the ice in.
On the other hand, I asked Su Yuexi to go to the underground passage and dig up the fishman's fat wall candle lamp, so that we had a fire. Then we found some firewood and hay to start a fire, melt the ice, and then put the dirty and smelly things in it to improve it a little for the next use, and then dried it on the fire. In the same way, we washed two or three porcelain bowls, which were all in this post station.
These are some necessary things for us to use along the way. After all, forget about pots and pans, and backpacks can only carry these smelly and dirty things. Since we don’t know how long we will stay in this hellhole, we urgently need these daily necessities to make do on the road and be prepared.
In addition to cooperating with some of the things I said, Su Yuexi also had some things to do on her own. She was using the charcoal to draw some strange patterns on the ground, muttering something, but I couldn't understand what she was saying. Then she bit her finger and dripped two drops of blood on the formation pattern. Not long after, all the charcoal on the ground began to turn blood red.
The entire crimson pattern began to spread and stretch on the ground until the entire strange pattern turned blood red, and there seemed to be a kind of floating air standing inside. Su Yuexi stepped forward and blew a breath, and the smoke dissipated, but at the same time, all the patterns on the ground she had just drawn disappeared, as if they were absorbed by the land.
At the same time, a small tender tooth grew on the ground. Su Yuexi stepped forward, picked it up and put it in her pocket.
"What is this?" I asked.
"Things to use at critical moments, Brother Zhou Bo, have you ever supported your wives by making do with some makeshift methods like you did just now?" she asked.
"Yes, but the way we survived can only be attributed to the relationship between us. As the saying goes, many hands make light work. Only when we unite as one can we help each other and survive until now." I said.
"Well, so, you need to do the same thing to me now, right? Help each other and rely on each other," she asked.
"Of course, now you are my ladies," I said.
As soon as she said this, she bit her lips, her excitement was beyond words, and I also noticed my slip of the tongue. However, thinking about her confession to me that night, and how she secretly kissed me while I was asleep, and knowing her feelings for me, why not make her happy instead of disturbing her sweet dream?
"It would be great if I were that lucky," she said with a smile.
"You've been lucky," I said.
She stared at me in a daze, swallowing her saliva constantly, her nervousness was beyond words. I was scratching my neck and was about to say something else when I suddenly heard a creaking sound outside the house. The sound seemed very familiar.
There were more and more noises coming from the roof, and then I realized that the wolf spiders were out hunting again. They had been growing and living on the mountain walls, and they had not been eliminated in this latitude world. Maybe now was the time for them to go out and look for food.
It’s terrible, I have to leave quickly!
"What's wrong? What's that sound?" Su Yuexi asked.
"It should be the wolf spider coming. Pick up the torch and follow me down into the tunnel quickly. Follow me closely, okay?" I said.
"Wolf spider?" Su Yuexi couldn't help but wonder.
But there was not much time to explain now. I took her tender little hand, and without even bothering to see her reaction, I picked up a burning torch and hurried out. Sure enough, there were quite a few wolf spiders walking around with their legs apart on the roof and in the yard. It seemed that this was their nest where they liked to collect food. The big spiders, each more than one meter and five feet tall, finally returned to my cognitive world. Although they were old acquaintances, I should cherish them for a while.
But now it is obviously not the case. Besides, they look really horrible, extremely ugly, hideous and ferocious. The fur all over their bodies makes people shudder. If I want to reminisce about the past, I'd better do it another day.
I saw several of them crawling towards me at a pretty fast speed with continuous squeaking sounds. I waved the torch in front of them and swept around to scare them away. Then I quickly pulled Su Yuexi into the underground tunnel. But before I had taken two steps, I suddenly realized that I couldn't pull her. I turned around and saw her looking at me with horror on her face. Her hair and her back were all caught in the spider web. I could see that many wolf spiders were about to attack, and the huge claws in their mouths were about to swallow them in one gulp.
I could only give up my own safety temporarily, risking turning around, swinging the flat, sharpened hoe in my hand, and smashing the spider webs hard. However, my turning also gave the spiders behind me more space and opportunities, and soon they all surrounded me.
At this time, Su Yuexi grabbed my hand tightly and said, "Brother Zhou Bo, I am very happy that one day you will regard me as equally important as your wives... I am very happy and content."
I was wondering what she meant when suddenly she stretched out her other hand to me, pressed my lower lip, stuffed something into it, and then gave me a faint, sad smile.
Just at this moment, my body began to float up with excellent buoyancy, and I floated upwards, escaping from danger, but she... was still below!