Chapter 160: The Strange Bamboo Forest and People
According to the route indicated by Xue Xiaojie on the phone, Zhong Lin, Plum Blossom Sparrow, and Lark went straight to Beiwangzhuang along the mountain road......
The journey of more than ten kilometers was a piece of cake for the three of them, and it was not until Zhong Lin felt that he was about to arrive that he signaled the plum blossom finch and lark to slow down. Since you want to dress up as a high school student, you have to dress up like a little bit, and you can't tell others that Xue Xiaojie's three classmates are all sports students.
In order to be consistent, Zhong Lin also temporarily gave himself a nickname - owl. Although it is not as good as the plum finch and lark, it is only used temporarily, and it can't be used so much.
It is hard to imagine that the economy is already so developed, and there is still such a backward place. The road to the village is basically only a hand-held tractor, and if you want to get through high-end cars such as Ben and Bao Donkey, you have to do it unless you tear down the site or replace it with special tires......
Both sides of the road are covered with moso bamboo, but it is strange that it is just summer, and I don't know why the leaves of moso bamboo, which should be tender green, have turned dark green or even yellow in late autumn. The ground was covered with thick fallen leaves, and as far as the eye could see, it was a bleak and bleak scene.
A gust of wind blew, and there was a creaking sound in the bamboo forest, a sound that only dead bamboo could make. Apart from this sound, there was no other sound in the bamboo forest!
"Strange, why is this place so deserted, it's so deserted that people feel panicked!"
The plum blossom finch looked around and frowned and said.
"Yes, I thought I could take a trip to the mountains and rivers this time, but I think it's such a desolate place, this is really a place where birds don't, no, I should say that there is not even a place for birds......"
The lark also felt very strange, it was said that it was only a dozen kilometers away from Qingshui Town, and it should have been a beautiful place with clear mountains and clear waters.
As he spoke, he saw three people come to the entrance of the village. On the side of the road at the entrance of the village stands a large stone more than one person high, and the big stone has three big characters written on it: "Beiwangzhuang".
Just when the three of them were glad that they had not gone to the wrong place, a person came out of the bamboo forest on the side of the road.
"What are you three doing here? Are you here to have fun, or are you looking for someone?"
The three of them were stunned when they saw that the person who came asked for no reason. Seeing that the man was about forty years old, and he looked like he was full of Zhouzheng, Zhong Lin said unhurriedly: "Oh, we are here to play with classmates." ”
"Looking for classmates, your classmates are from Beiwangzhuang?"
The man asked, speaking standard Mandarin.
"Yes, she is from Beiwangzhuang. By the way, uncle, we haven't been here before, do you know where Xue Xiaojie's house is?"
Zhong Lin asked as he looked at the dozens of two-story villas in front of him that were out of step with the surrounding environment.
"Oh, I have something to do, so you can go to the front and ask. ”
As he spoke, the man had already turned around and returned to the bamboo forest, and disappeared in three or two turns.
"What is this guy doing?
The lark went on with some strange feelings: "Boss, are you sure we're here......?
Yes, although there are dozens of small villas in front of the three of them, there is no one on the street, and it is deserted like a ghost village.
"That's right, this is it!"
Zhong Lin smiled, and then made a call to Xue Xiaojie. After waiting for half an hour, I saw a figure walking down a mountain road next to the village.
That person was Xue Xiaojie, still wearing the same clothes she wore when she first met Zhong Lin a few days ago.
"Brother Zhong, are you here?"
Xue Xiaojie walked up to Zhong Lin quickly and said excitedly.
"Xiaojie, don't call me Brother Zhong, you have to call me 'owl' these days, my temporary nickname, this is a lark, this is a plum blossom finch, and the three of us are now your high school classmates. Zhong Lin introduced Xue Xiaojie.
Listening to Zhong Lin's words, Xue Xiaojie was stunned for a moment, and then subconsciously glanced in the direction where the person they met Zhong Lin just now disappeared, and then said, "Okay, owl, I understand." ”
"Boss, I also understand, the person who came out of the bamboo forest just now is not from Beiwangzhuang!"
"That's right, I knew from the moment he opened his mouth just now, I remember Xue Xiaojie's accent very clearly, and that person spoke standard Mandarin, and he was obviously interrogating us. ”
"Hey, it's still the boss who is prescient! Let's pretend to be Xiaojie's classmate. The lark also said.
"Don't be in a hurry to pat yourself on the back yet, what should you call me?"
Zhong Lin frowned and said.
"Owl!"
The plum finch and the lark said in unison.
"Let's go, old classmates, let's go up the mountain!" Xue Xiaojie obviously amplified the volume when she said this.
"Why do you want to go up the mountain?!, isn't that your house in front of you?" asked the Plum Sparrow, puzzled.
"It was indeed a villa built by the islanders in our village, but now almost no one lives there, because the well water there is no longer drinkable......
Xue Xiaojie said as she walked up the mountain. Between the words, there is a faint sadness.
"Well water, don't you have running water here?" asked the lark, a little confused.
Xue Xiaojie looked at the lark and smiled bitterly, and said: "We are here in the mountains, and our ancestors have drunk mountain spring water and underground water for generations. The water that comes from the fetch can be drunk directly with a scoop, and the water has a faint sweet taste. By the way, there is an advertising slogan you have heard, 'Fisherman's Spring is a little sweet', yes, our mineral water here is a little sweet, sweet and refreshing, better than the mineral water sold in the town. We are used to drinking this kind of mountain spring water, and we people here don't like the smell of tap water......"
When it came to mountain spring water, the expression on Xue Xiaojie's face seemed to be much more relaxed, and her thoughts seemed to drift to the happy time when she used to scoop water directly with a scoop to drink before.
"Then you can't drink the water now?"
"I can't drink it, there is a strange smell in the water, and many people are sick, and everyone suspects that it has something to do with water, so they all moved to live in the mountains, only the mountain spring water pollution is less. Xue Xiaojie said helplessly.
"Lark, let's not talk about these unhappy things, we're here to play. Zhong Lin whispered as he winked at the lark.
The lark immediately understood, and the three of them didn't speak anymore, and followed Xue Xiaojie to the residence on the mountain.
Soon there were a few makeshift cabins in a hillside clearing, apparently inhabited by three or four families.
Xue Xiaojie's mother was preparing lunch, while Xue Xiaojie's father was lying on the bed in the wooden house. It took so long after Zhong Lin called just now that Xue Xiaojie went down, just to decoct his father. After Xue Xiaojie gave a brief introduction to her mother, she hurriedly walked into the room to feed her father medicine.
"Hello Auntie!"
"Hello, Auntie!"
Several people stepped forward one by one to say hello to Xue Xiaojie's mother. Xue Xiaojie's mother looked at the three of them, squeezed out a smile on her face, rubbed her hand on the apron, stretched out her hand and shook hands with the three of them with some restraint, then looked around, and said with some embarrassment: "Xiaojie, you see, we don't even have a decent stool here, I'm really embarrassed." ”
"Auntie, you're busy, don't worry about us, let's go see my uncle first. Zhong Lin said as he beckoned, and the plum blossom finch and lark brought the nutritional products that they bought for Xue Xiaojie's father in the town into the room.
The cabin is not big, and a bed more than a meter wide is almost enough to sleep two people. There was nothing in the hut except for the simple necessities of life.
The medicine taken by Xue Xiaojie's father had a very special smell, which was a little pungent. Xue Xiaojie was using a spoon to put the medicine into her father's mouth. After all the decoctions were delivered, Xue Xiaojie's father's frowning brows could be relaxed......
"Uncle, what do you think? We are Xiaojie's classmates, come and see you. ”
Zhong Lin leaned forward and asked in a low voice.
Xiaojie's father struggled twice and wanted to sit up, but due to the pain, the eyebrows that had just been stretched out wrinkled suddenly, and the corners of his forehead instantly sweated.
"Uncle, lie down and don't move. ”
"Thank you for coming all the way to see me, thank you, I feel pain all over my body, I can't entertain you, hey......"
Xue Xiaojie's father sighed, he was loyal, and when he saw a few children come to see him, his heart warmed.
"Uncle, my family has known medical skills for generations, let me show you, right?"
"This ......"
Xiaojie's father looked at Zhong Lin with some doubts in his eyes.
"Dad, my classmate him, his parents are doctors, he is also very powerful, we have any headaches and brain fevers to see him......"
Xue Xiaojie nodded to Zhong Lin as she spoke, her eyes were full of gratitude, and at the same time full of hope, he did not doubt Zhong Lin's "medical skills" at all, she hoped that Zhong Lin could create a miracle again.
Zhong Lin leaned over and gently put his fingers on Xue Xiaojie's wrist. The bed was very low, and Zhong Lin was tall, so he bent over with great difficulty, and Xue Xiaojie hurriedly found a bamboo chair from outside for Zhong Lin to sit down.
A trace of Zhong Lin's source power seeped into Xue Xiaojie's father's body along his fingertips, examining his three souls and seven spirits and important organs such as five internal organs and six internal organs, and found that there was no problem with his three souls and seven spirits, but the important organs of the body such as the five Tibets and six mansions were more or less damaged, and the most serious damage was the liver and kidneys, and there were also unknown toxins in the blood. The damage to the internal organs is caused by long-term accumulation, and Zhong Lin's source power is powerless, but he has a way to get rid of the toxins in the blood......