Chapter 395 The Art of Animal Creation! Three Yang Kaitai! Mea: 'I am really a human!' (8k big chapter two in one)
Chapter 395 of the Text Volume: Animal Creation Technique! Three Yang Kaitai! Baa: "I am really a human!" You ask Jin An if he is afraid of eating sheep meat outside?
Afraid.
I must be afraid.
So he smoked with charcoal, ate garlic, and blew in the air all afternoon. After exhausting all kinds of tricks, he finally dared to return to the inn where he was staying before sunset with a guilty conscience.
Garlic is also called garlic. The Hu people used garlic to smear their bodies because they loved its aroma and to protect themselves from the cold. It was very popular in the Western Regions. The custom of eating garlic among the Han people was introduced from the Western Regions and was then cultivated on a large scale.
The goat thief is shrewd. Jin An stayed away all night and for another day after dawn. He thought with his buttocks and figured out what Jin An was out for. He must have gone to eat his own kind. The pair of sheep eyes growing on both sides of his cheeks.
Staring straight at Jin An, ah!
It stood up alertly from the sheepfold, approached Jin'an and sniffed for a while, but ended up digging it open after just a few sniffs.
咩咩咩!
It looked at Jin An suspiciously, as if asking, did you go out to eat pig meat noodles or snail noodles?
Jin'an's eating roast mutton was revealed for the time being. In order to attract Shayang's attention, he then took the initiative to ask Shayang if the two people he secretly carried back last night were awake? Did they want to run away midway?
When Jin An came to the sheepfold where there were pellets of sheep excrement on the ground, and when he opened up the haystack of the sheepfold, he found that his hands and feet were tied up in various ways, and two men in black robes and black scarves were lying unconscious.
One is older, about fifty or sixty years old, and the other is younger, about twenty years old. They both have typical facial features of people from the Western Regions.
He had no choice but to kidnap these young and old men last night. He killed people too quickly last night. Everyone in the yard was instantly shocked to death by the Kunwu knife. He also killed the six people in the house named Ayesha until only the last one was left.
Vulture man.
He originally thought that the man with the bald head and the most tattoos, who looked like the leader at a glance, would know more information, so he was kept here specifically. Who would have thought that he was actually frightened to death by him, as he was the least likely to be beaten.
So in desperation, he could only resort to the next best thing and tie up two shadows who were responsible for standing guard outside, trying to get more clues about the Guchi Kingdom, the Human-Faced Corpse Cricket, and the Yin-Assassin Master.
Of course, he did not kidnap people casually. The other sentry shadows all had more or less resentments on their bodies, which meant that they had killed people or had done many unethical things. They were all heinous people, and they were directly punished by him.
Killed. Only the two people in front of me were the cleanest under the Qi Watching Technique. Although they were also entangled with a very light black energy and karmic fire, and they had done some bad things, they were not so heinous that they had harmed nature and had human lives on their hands.
Jin An carried the two men on his shoulders and walked into the house and closed the door with his feet. He threw the two men on his shoulders to the ground and said coldly: "I know you are already awake. If you don't want to suffer some physical pain,
Just stop pretending to be asleep."
At this time, the two people on the ground blinked and opened their eyes in confusion, pretending to have just woken up, and then looked at Jin An with hatred and anger.
Looking at the two people who were very good at acting, Jin An had no expression on his face and was too lazy to expose such poor acting skills in person.
“I ask, you answer.”
“Don’t talk any more nonsense.”
“I don’t want to repeat the same question a second time, so you’d better answer it honestly to avoid suffering the consequences.”
Jin'an asked the question straight to the point without any air.
“Are you the treasure thieves who recently killed the treasure thieves who were digging up the ruins of the ancient city in the desert?”
“That day you were near the shipwreck and ran for your lives in panic all night long. Did you happen to be digging for stolen treasures in a nearby ancient city? What exactly did you encounter that day?”
“Why are there corpses with human faces from the holy mountain of Guchi on Ayesha’s body? Are you also looking for Guchi?”
"Is there any connection between the human-faced corpse cricket on Aisha and the large human-faced corpse cricket found in the desert near Guchi Kingdom that has been spread recently in the desert? Have you already found the sacred mountain of Guchi Kingdom?
Exact location?"
“Ayesha, how did those Vultures get the ghost tattoos on their bodies, and how did they know the Yin Tattoo Master?”
“Do you know where the assassin is hiding in the desert?”
Jin An asked six questions in a row, but the two people on the ground kept looking at him with hatred, their mouths were very harsh, and they did not say a word.
Seeing that the old man and the young man were silent, he rubbed his chin with his fingers and muttered: "Aren't you going to speak?"
“Is it because you can’t understand what the Han people are saying?”
Suddenly, he smiled: "If you really can't understand the Chinese language, your eyes won't show the happy expression of relaxation."
"I don't!"
The young man shouted subconsciously
The old man glared: "Sabir!"
Seeing the expression on the old man's face, the young man named Sabir realized that the Han Taoist priest in front of him was deliberately deceiving them and deceiving him. Sabir opened his mouth in frustration: "Fourth uncle, I..."
The old man saw that his nephew had made many mistakes, and before the Han Taoist priest asked anything, his nephew had already revealed the identity information of the two of them. He glared again angrily: "Stop talking, the more you talk, the more mistakes you make."
many!"
Sabir knew he had committed the crime, his head drooped, and he stopped talking.
After the old man finished scolding his nephew, he turned to look at Jin An with hatred: "Han Chinese from Kangding, don't try to get anything out of my mouth, Sadiq. Sadiq means loyalty. I will never do it."
Betrayal! The desert gods hate people who are dishonest. If I betray the Vulture, the desert gods will punish us and the people in the village with desert and lack of water!"
“You Han people are too cunning. We won’t say anything else. Just kill us. The people in the village will be proud of our deaths!”
Looking at the tied old and young couple on the ground, Jin An showed a look of laughter and tears on his face, and suddenly said: "So your names are Sabir and Sadiq, you come from the same place, you are relatives, the relationship between uncle and nephew."
Sabir:“?”
Saadiq:“?”
Nephew Sabir looked at his fourth uncle with a shocked expression on his face.
"Sabir, look at my uncle, am I right? The Han people are the most cunning, even more cunning than the wild wolves in the desert, so I asked you to be careful of the Han people! It's all your fault for talking nonsense just now. I told you to say that before.
Be more vigilant, but you let the Han people tell you what to say!" Sadiq scolded his junior.
Nephew Sabir bowed his head with a depressed expression and admitted his mistake: "Fourth uncle, I'm sorry, I was really wrong."
After Sadiq lectured his nephew a few more times, he once again glared at Jin An with hatred: "Han people who are more cunning than sand wolves, give up. We will not betray the desert. Beat him to death."
I won’t tell you anything! Once you catch us, we will be mentally prepared to die and fall into the arms of the desert gods!”
“Why do you hate the Han people so much and are so wary of the Han people?” Jin An asked curiously.
When talking about hatred, both Sadiq and Sabir showed hatred and angry expressions, which was the hatred of blood.
Looking at the two people who were full of wariness and hostility towards him, Jin An looked thoughtfully.
After the three people in the room fell into a brief silence, Jin An spoke again: "Do you think Vulture, Ayesha and others kill innocent people indiscriminately, and in order to silence passers-by, they want to kill dozens of people in our caravan and silence them.
, do you think that demons like this who will be spurned by the desert people can enter the arms of the desert gods after their death?"
Jin An wanted to break through the psychological defense of the two people from the side.
Neither Sadiq nor Sabir spoke.
"Your silence has actually told me the answer. They will only go to hell after death, and their souls will be imprisoned in the desert forever. They will endure the fire during the day, the cold at night, and will never see the sun again. Do you think that you helped the vulture and Ayi?
Sha and the others helped the evildoer and became the devil's accomplices. Will the desert gods forgive the murderer's accomplices?"
Saadiq opened his mouth to argue, but there was nothing left to say.
“We didn’t follow the vultures and they killed anyone! We just followed them as they dug sand to dig up the ancient city, and never killed anyone!” Sabir shouted.
But his voice became lower and lower as he shouted.
Perhaps even he knew very well that they followed the desert treasure thieves to excavate the ancient city and disturbed the rest of the dead in the desert. Their souls would not be forgiven by the desert gods.
"Just, even if we are guilty, I...we have planned to go to hell from the beginning. As long as we can find water for Apa Ata, as long as we can find water for the people in the village, with water, everyone can live.
Go down, we are willing to go to hell, willing to be abandoned by the desert gods, willing to accept eternal desert hunger, water shortage, exposure, fire burning, storm torn apart... In fact, we have already done this since the day we followed the vultures out of the village.
Be mentally prepared to die outside..." Sabir, whose hands and feet were tied, spoke lower and lower, and his eyes were red.
Sadiq, whose hands and feet were also tied, hit his nephew hard and shouted angrily to shut him up: "Stop talking! What's the use of saying this? Men in the desert bleed but don't shed tears. Even if there is a butcher knife today,
Even if it falls on our necks, don’t let the Han people underestimate us men in the desert!”
Sabir could no longer hold back the tears in his eyes and cried bitterly: "Fourth uncle, I am not afraid of death, I am just afraid that our souls will go to hell, but we did not fulfill our original promise to leave the village and did not find the people in the village.
Water, I didn't find water for Apa Ata... Now that the Vulture and the others are dead, it means that the only hope of helping the tribesmen in the village find water is gone. Before we followed the Vulture and the others and left the village, we promised the tribe that we would definitely find it outside.
If there is a clean water source, I will definitely bring it back. I am not afraid of death, nor am I afraid of my soul going to hell. If I can find water for the people in the village, I am willing to go to hell alone and bear all the punishments imposed by the desert gods alone!"
He cried loudly, as if he wanted to let out all the uneasy conscience he had been holding in his heart for this period of time.
Even Sadiq’s eyes were red at this time.
"Fourth uncle, although I usually do things half as slowly as others and seem to be slow to react, although you didn't say anything, I know everything. Ever since we followed the Vultures out of the village, there was no turning back for us. We helped
The devil has lost the blessing of the desert gods to the desert people, and will die in the desert sooner or later..."
"It's just that I didn't expect... we would die so quickly... the vultures and the others would die so quickly..." Sabir cried sadly.
"Han people, the result you want has been achieved! Are you feeling very proud now, thinking that you have easily grasped the weakness and incompetence of our desert people? I, Sadiq, still said the same thing, you Han people are more cunning and vicious than desert wolves.
, we won’t tell you anything! When we die, we will go to hell, and you Han people will also die in the desert and be buried with us!" Sadiq's eyes turned red, and he became more hateful and hostile to Jin'an.
Sabir raised his head and rubbed away the tears on his face with the rough sand on the ground. He glared at the silent Jin An with the same hatred: "I shouldn't have saved you Han people in the first place, otherwise I wouldn't have stayed away from Apaa."
Ta, leave the village to find water to atone for your sins! Otherwise, I will drag my fourth uncle, who has loved me the most since childhood, to follow me out of the village to find water!"
Saadiq and Sabir knew that they could not escape death this time, so they kept cursing Jin'an and the Central Plains Han people who entered the desert.
Jin'an is silent.
There was not a word of rebuttal.
Until the two of them were tired of scolding and couldn't stop scolding due to thirst, he looked coldly and said, "Are you done scolding?"
Although the two people's life experiences are very pitiful, he will not have bottom-line sympathy and believe everything the other person says.
“Do you know why I didn’t leave anyone else behind but only the two of you?”
"Because under my Qi Watching Technique, you two are the only ones who do not have the resentment of the dead. If you have killed someone, the resentment of the dead will haunt you. I believe what you said at the beginning, you did not kill anyone.
Extraordinary."
“But I won’t use my bottomless compassion to believe that two strangers are good people when they first meet, so I won’t let you go.”
"Are you... willing to believe our words? Are you willing to believe that we followed the Vultures and they didn't kill anyone?" One moment, Sabir was still scolding Jin An with hatred. The next moment, he looked at the Han Taoist priest in front of him with innocence and curiosity. Jin An raised the corners of his mouth.
In an arc, he felt that Sabir's description of himself was right. He was not only slow to react, but also a bit naive.
Now he gradually began to believe that this Sabir once saved the Han people, but was later tricked.
Unless this Sabir's acting skills are superb, every detail is performed deliberately.
"I just said that I believe you have never killed anyone or committed other heinous crimes. For now, you can be considered a good person. As for the rest, we will talk about it later." Jin An nodded.
He saw Sabir and Sadiq looking at him in astonishment. Sabir opened his mouth to say something else, but interrupted directly: "Even if you have not killed anyone with the Vultures or committed heinous crimes, but you have
Being surrounded by karmic fire means that you are still considered to be the accomplices of the vultures, indirectly planting the seeds of karma..."
"There is also Buddhism here in the Western Regions. You should have heard of cause and effect. I don't know what promises the Vultures have given you to make you believe so much that they will definitely find water for you. I just want to say that you are helping the evildoers like this.
Even if you really help the people in the village find water, do you think that once you two die, all the cause and effect will really be settled?"
"A murderer robs money and kills people. As long as his wife and children can enjoy the life money with peace of mind, then his wife and children will have cause and effect, and they cannot be said to be innocent. Just like repaying debts is a matter of course. If you don't pay back the money, you will be harmed.
It makes no sense to say that you are willing to bear all the consequences alone when someone else's family is ruined. It does not harm your wife, children and parents. Your wife, children and parents did not enjoy the money stained with human blood. They are indeed innocent and cannot harm them. But as long as they feel at ease.
If I spent a copper coin, they can't stay out of it and say I don't owe them the money, pretending to be innocent."
"If the vultures really bring water to the people of your village, not only you two will be abandoned by the desert, but also the tribesmen, parents, wives and children who have drank the water will be abandoned by the desert. This is not something you two say you are willing to bear.
All the sins can be borne, but it depends on whether the grievances of the deceased will bypass your tribe and family."
After hearing Jin'an's words, uncle Sadiq and nephew Sabir's eyes showed hesitation, fear, fear, confusion, and finally confusion.
"Since you knew from the beginning that Vulture, Aisha and their demons are evil people, then there is no need for you to be honest with them, because demons are sinful bodies abandoned by the desert, and people who keep a pact with demons are accomplices.
People who rise up to resist the devil are heroes who protect the peace of the desert. The wisdom of the desert protects the heroes who protect it, but will not protect the devil's accomplices."
“You understand my words well.”
"This will be your last chance to atone for the sins of your people and be forgiven by the desert."
After finishing speaking, Jin An left the two of them behind, opened the door and walked out.
He didn’t go too far, he just went out to find the innkeeper Kuturuk and said he wanted to buy two sheepskins and asked if there were any sheepskins in the inn.
"There are a lot of sheepskins. After slaughtering the sheep, we will keep the sheepskins to wear ourselves, or sell them to merchants from the Western Regions who go to Kangding. How come you, Taoist Jin An, suddenly thought of buying sheepskins?" The innkeeper looked at Jin An curiously.
Jin An made an excuse casually, but the innkeeper didn’t ask any further questions and readily sold him two sheepskins.
When Jin An returned to the house with two sheepskins in his hand, Sadiq and Sabir remained silent, but they couldn't help but look curiously at the two extra sheepskins in Jin An's hand.
Seeing the curiosity in their eyes, Jin An had no intention of hiding it and explained the functions of the two sheepskins truthfully: "Logically speaking, it is more convenient to bring two more camels in the desert. It is not conspicuous and can also be used."
Help me carry more water and heavy objects. It’s just that I have just practiced the art of animal making not long ago, and the Zang Qi in the Five Zang Immortal Temple is not enough to make two camels, so I can only use two sheepskins to wrong you first.
It’s been a while.”
Listening to Jin An's words, the two of them's eyelids jumped, and they suddenly had a very bad premonition in their hearts.
"Since you are unwilling to answer a few of my questions, I don't know if what you just said is true. Although I believe that you have never killed anyone or committed any heinous crime, there is no guarantee.
You must all be good people. You are burdened by karma. The desert thinks you are guilty, so I can't let you go. If the tiger returns to the mountain, I will have to bear the karma. You always have to bear the karma.
I can't be the good person, and I have to bear the consequences of your crimes in the end, right? The most important thing is that you have legs and hands, and I will take you with me. You will definitely think about running away all the time, and I will
I can’t keep an eye on you all the time, so you wouldn’t mind becoming two sheep, right?”
Jin An tried his best to speak in a gentle tone.
Actually, apart from the above, he didn’t say anything else.
The art of animal creation also has the effect of avoiding three disasters and nine disasters. It can not only use the five evils and ten evils of the animal path to hide from heaven and avoid heavenly catastrophes and karmic fire, but also allow people to suffer the suffering of the reincarnation of the animal path and offset the disasters and sins on the body.
Although Sadiq and Sabir followed Vulture and the others astray for a period of time, it seems that they are not bad in nature at present. Although Jin An cannot believe everything they say, he is moved by their life experiences and has compassion for them, and can pull them back.
Just try to pull up those who fall into the water. At least they were once kind, but the evil in this world is like a big wave overturning the boat ferrying people to the other side.
The reason why he didn't say this to the two people in front of him was that, firstly, it would be unsatisfactory to explain all the secrets of heaven, and unintention would become intentional; secondly, these were some of his insights from observing "The Seventy-two Techniques of Taoism", and he had not really practiced them yet.
, so he didn’t dare to speak too fully.
Of course, if these two people had killed someone directly or indirectly, and were riddled with resentment, they would have been killed by Jin An last night and would have never had the chance to see the sun the next day.
But in the eyes of the two desert men, Sadiq and Sabir, his smile was more devilish than the devil. This was a terrifying smile that only devils have.
The two men nodded wildly and shouted: "We mind!"
“We don’t mind! Don’t come over!”
Jin Zangruo ignored this, and used his Taoist Qi with his palms to flap continuously on a piece of sheepskin. It was supposed to be peeled off from the middle. The soft sheepskin seemed to be alive, and was blown up and swollen little by little.
Really turned into a sheep on all fours.
Lifelike.
Had it not been for the fact that the sheep had no eyes and its belly had been disembowelled by the butcher, it would be an exaggeration to say that it was a real sheep that had been resurrected from the dead.
The uncle and nephew, who were still tied up and thrown to the ground, looked at the unbelievable scene in front of them, and their mouths grew bigger and bigger.
Goose bumps all over my body stood up like being struck by lightning.
Soon.
咩咩!
咩咩咩咩咩咩!
There were two more sheep with fragrant breaths in the house. They kept barking in the house, and their tails swept wildly behind their buttocks, pulling out pellets of sheep excrement. They looked exactly like real sheep.
“Yao, Yao, Yao…Yao Dao!”
The two wanted to speak human words, but in the eyes of outsiders they could only hear the bleating sheep. Only Jin An, who personally used the art of making animals, could understand the two words because of the connection between Dao Qi and the three souls and seven souls.
People's words.
The more frightened they became, the more they kept fighting, and the room suddenly became smelly with sheep shit.
Jin An covered his nose and quickly took the two sheep out of the house and stuffed them into the sheep pen to stay with the stupid sheep. He miscalculated this time. He didn't expect that the animal creation technique was so realistic, even the stinky smell on the sheep.
They are all so realistic.
The goat, which had been living well in the open sheep pen, saw two sheep being shoved in at once. It looked sideways at Jin'an, one of the sheep, and continued to chew hay with its head lowered.
“Silly sheep, don’t bully them.”
"And you two, don't think about escaping. As soon as you go out now, you will be the most plump and attractive kebabs."
咩咩
咩咩咩
The sheep kept bleating in the sheepfold. Azati, the son-in-law of the innkeeper who happened to be passing by, stood outside the courtyard wall with dead branches and asked curiously: "Priest Jin'an, I haven't seen you for a day, why did you get two more sheep?"
Jin An was surprised and thought: "Hey, yes, why do I have two more sheep?"
Azati looked at Jin An with a sullen look on his face.
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You ask me? I shouldn’t be the one asking you. Is it right for you to answer me?
"I understand, Taoist Jin'an is from the Central Plains. He is not used to tough dried meat and likes fresh mutton, so he brought three freshly grilled mutton skewers into the desert?" Azati said this after holding back for a long time.
“What?”
“What?”
The uncle and nephew in the sheepfold were so frightened that they peed and started to poop and poop again.
Jin An looked serious and shook his head: "How could I be willing to eat them? They are sheep in your eyes, but in my eyes they are human beings, living family members with flesh and blood."
Azati has lived in the desert for more than 20 years. He has never seen all kinds of people. He has seen people who treat camels as their parents, and he has seen people who treat camels as their sons. In fact, he can understand all of this. Camels are gifts from the gods of the desert.
The greatest favor of the people of the desert is that if you take good care of the camel, the camel will one day take you to find water in the desert and save your life. But how can you raise the sheep with such care and treat them as family?
, this was the first time I saw it, and I was filled with admiration.
No wonder Taoist Jin'an has never touched mutton since he stayed in the hotel, not even a skewer of kebabs. He only drinks goat's milk wine. It turns out that this is the reason.
Azati finally figured out the doubts in his heart.
"There is a saying in Kangding State called 'Three Yang Kaitai', which is an auspicious hexagram and means good luck. Tomorrow I will take three sheep into the desert. Everything will go smoothly and all my wishes will come true." Jin An said "love"
He stroked the sheep with his palm and said.
“咩!”
“What!”
The two sheep in the sheepfold resisted and wanted to ask Azati for help, but they could not escape Jin An's "love" hand.
Azati looked at Jin An in shock: "Taoist Master Jin An, you are not only bringing one sheep! You are also bringing three live sheep into the desert!"
There was a solemn expression on his face, and he felt that it was necessary to educate the Han Chinese, Taoist Jin An, about the dangers in the desert. Taking three sheep into the desert would be like seeking death, because sheep consume more water and fodder, and not only cannot help people.
Carrying supplies and having to drink water all the time become a drag.
Camels are the mythical beasts of the desert.
Listening to Azati's popularization of the dangers of the desert and the importance of water, Jin An didn't look impatient. Instead, he patiently listened to Azati's kind advice. Finally, he thanked Azati for his kindness and insisted on taking three sheep with him.
Into the depths of the desert.
Seeing that he could not persuade the other party, the kind-hearted Azati looked worried, but as an outsider he could not persuade him any more. In the end, he could only persuade Jin An to bring more water.
"Seeing Taoist Jin'an reminded me of a pair of masters and servants who had stayed in our hotel. They were also from Kangding. The old servants in the masters and servants like to recall the most. Like Taoist Jin'an, they also said, 'Seeing sheep
I can't help but think of someone's words. In Kangding Kingdom, is this called seeing things and missing people? I don't know if the Chinese I have learned over the years is correct."
“So to speak.”
Seeing that it was getting late, Azati stopped disturbing Jin An's rest and was about to turn around and leave.
Seeing that Azati was about to leave, Sadiq and Sabir in the sheepfold called for help like crazy: "Save us, save us, we are really humans, there is a demon here that turns us into sheep!"
"Help!"
“We are human beings! We are human beings! My name is Sabir, and my fourth uncle’s name is Sadiq. We are really human beings and we are not lying!”
“It’s this Han Taoist priest who turned us into sheep!”
But no matter how they called for help, Azati’s ears turned into bleating sounds…
When Sadiq and Sabir started talking, they always made the sound of sheep bleating and making wild noises.
Azati took a curious look at the two sheep that suddenly became active. Before leaving, he boasted that these sheep were jumping around. It seemed that Taoist Jin'an had raised them well.
It wasn’t until Azati was sent away that Jin An looked back at his uncle and nephew who were still shouting for help.
"Stop shouting. No matter how many times you call for help, it is just the cry of sheep in other people's ears. Only I can understand you."
Speaking of this, even Jin An was surprised by the tyranny and mystery of this animal-making technique. As long as he did not take the initiative to take away the magical powers from the two of them, the two of them would never be able to turn back into human beings.
I wonder what the remaining seventy-one Taoist magical powers will be on the jade slips after his realm gradually reaches a higher level? It is certain that they will become stronger and stronger.
The more mysterious and powerful the animal-making technique is, the more confident Jin An becomes that this animal-making technique can avoid three disasters and nine disasters.
After hearing Jin An's words, the uncle and nephew in the sheepfold were devastated and began to cry sadly. While crying, they continued to pull wildly, flicking their tails and sweeping away the sheep excrement particles on the floor.
Seeing that the uncle and nephew were in a state of despair, Jin An couldn't ask anything for a while, so he planned to wait for a day or two until the two of them calmed down completely before continuing to ask about Guchi Country and Hidden Corpse Ridge.
Clues to the assassin.
He picked up the dustpan and broom and walked into the house, shoveled a pile of dirt and sand, and swept up the sheep excrement and urine in the house.
…
The sunset and the moon rise.
It is already night.
The plateau desert is so close to the sky that even the moonlight above the head is exceptionally bright and clear. The moonlight shines on Yueqiang City and the sheepfold of the inn.
Sadiq and Sabir, who were tired of crying for several hours, licked and drank more than a dozen sips of water in the stone trough, and then cautiously approached the goats that had been eating hay in the sheepfold.