"Ah Xiang, remember to come back early for dinner!" In the northwest of Yanshan, in a quiet mountain village, a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl was carrying an old green cow to the mountain, and the shouts of middle-aged women came from the yard behind her.

"Got it, mother!" Ah Xiang replied crisply, pulled the reins in her hand, and showed an innocent smile on her face, this village is almost isolated from the world, there is no school and no need to study, since the age of ten it has become her job to drive cattle up the mountain to graze every day.

After leaving the village, Ah Xiang's pace quickened, a few days ago she found a wounded squirrel in the mountains, I don't know what animal bit off a leg, the little girl has no friends, so she made a nest for it, and every day she will bring some food to feed the little one.

"Ah Niu, don't run around!" Walking up the familiar mountain road, Ah Xiang found a place with abundant water and grass, patted the old green cow's head, tied the reins to the tree on the side, and looked at a forest in the distance, she thought of something, and couldn't help but giggle.

The old green cow's attention had long been attracted by the grass on the ground, and when he heard the little master's brass bell-like laughter, he seemed to be infected by Ah Xiang's mood, and screamed happily, then lowered his head and ate the grass himself.

Seeing the old green cow eating grass honestly, Ah Xiang patted the soil on her hands with confidence, and jumped towards the grove in the distance.

"Little Ash, I'm here, huh?" Just came to the outskirts of the grove, Ah Xiang had already grabbed a handful of corn from his pocket, and was about to call his little friend, when he saw the scene in front of him clearly, he suddenly froze.

This grove usually has no outsiders at all, and there are no large beasts on the mountain, but at this moment a large number of trees have fallen, and those trees have fallen in the same direction, as if they have been broken by something.

One of the trees was the home of the little squirrel, and thinking that the little guy only had one leg left, Ah Xiang's face changed, and he couldn't think about what was going on here, so he exclaimed in surprise and hurriedly ran in.

The trees are crooked, but fortunately, the roots are still there, Ah Xiang saw the tree where Xiao Ash lived, and ran over desperately, just ran not far, his body suddenly lost his balance and fell to the ground.

"Eh!" The child who grew up in the mountains was very solid, Ah Xiang was not injured, and was about to stand up quickly, when suddenly he exclaimed, in front, I really want to lie down alone.

The man was tall, his clothes were tattered, soaked with water, as if he had just been fished out of the river, and through the cracks in his clothes, he could see that the man had several horrible wounds on his back.

Ah Xiang stayed there, her mind was blank, she had never encountered such a thing, she didn't know what to do, after about ten seconds, her eyes lit up, and she heard some kind of sound similar to a drumbeat.

The drums became louder and louder, Ah Xiang looked around in confusion, and finally his eyes fell on the man lying on the ground, and the sound seemed to come from him.

After struggling for a long time, Ah Xiang finally mustered up the courage, picked up a branch from the side, walked up and knocked on the man's back, and carefully shouted, "Hey, are you still alive?"

Ah Xiang swore to the sky that she didn't use much strength, and when she finished shouting, the drum beat just now suddenly became rapid, and the body of the person lying on the ground began to rise and fall continuously, maintaining the same frequency as the drum beat, as if someone was using his body as a drum and constantly beating.

Ah Xiang's eyes widened, she was frightened by this strange scene, and was thinking about whether to throw away the branches and go back to tell her father, when the drum beat suddenly stopped, and at the same time, the heavy breathing sounded again.

"He can still breathe, he's not dead!" Ah Xiang threw away the branch in her hand in surprise, and made a basic judgment based on her simple experience in this small mountain village for more than ten years.

So, Ah Xiang plucked up her courage and slowly grabbed the man's arm, trying to turn him over, and she was surprised to find that this person looked like he had no muscles at first glance, but his body was not decent, and his muscles were even stronger than her old green cow.

Whew! After a lot of effort, Ah Xiang finally turned this person over and saw the other party's face clearly, it turned out to be a brother, who looked five or six years older than him, with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, not like a bad person.

"Brother, wake up!" Ah Xiang stretched out a finger and put it under his brother's nose, and found that he was really breathing, as if he was sleeping, so he shook the other party's body and tried to wake him up.

kept shouting five or six times, this brother didn't mean to wake up, Ah Xiang frowned, and then looked at the other party's exposed skin, there were still many wounds on it, maybe he thought he had fainted from excessive blood loss.

At this time, a familiar cry came from not far away, Ah Xiang looked up and saw that the little squirrel, who had been missing a leg, was standing on the ground looking at herself, it was her little ash.

"Xiao Ash, you're okay, great!" Ah Xiang ran over to pick up Xiao Ash in surprise, and after checking it, he found that he was not injured, so he was completely relieved.

Brother is too heavy, Ah Xiang can't move, his wound is no longer bleeding, but it looks very terrifying, if it is not treated in time, I am afraid it will not last long, she can only pull the old green cow that is grazing over, and it took a lot of effort to move Brother up.

In this way, Ah Xiang held the squirrel Ash in her arms, and the old green cow carried the unconscious brother on her back, and after coming out of the house for less than an hour, she hurried down the familiar mountain road.

The wooden courtyard gate was pushed open, and a middle-aged woman in the courtyard was washing her clothes, and after hearing the sound of the door opening, she asked without raising her head: "Didn't the boss let you go to the field to hoe grass, why did you come back so quickly?"

The middle-aged woman raised her head suddenly, and when she saw the strange man on the back of the green cow, she couldn't care about washing her clothes anymore, and her face showed a puzzled expression.

Ah Xiang patted Xiao Ash's head in her arms to let it settle down, and said to the middle-aged woman embarrassedly: "Mother, I found this person on the mountain, and he fainted." ”

"Okay, it's important to save people!" Ah Xiangniang hesitated for a moment, but finally gritted her teeth, walked over and worked with Ah Xiang to get the young man off the back of the old green cow, and then carried it to her own earthen kang.

"Ah Xiang, you go get some hay to feed the cows, I'll go to the town and call the doctor!" After letting go of the unconscious young man, Ah Xiang Niang was immediately frightened by the wounds on his body, afraid of causing death, and hurriedly ran out of the house after giving Ah Xiang a word.

Ah Xiang drove the old green cow to the cowshed, got it some hay, and patted the cow on the back embarrassedly and said, "Ah Niu, I'm sorry, I can't take you to eat grass today!"

The old green cow naturally didn't understand Ah Xiang's words, just instinctively responded, and lowered his head to chew those hay, when it rained in the past, it was eating these things, and naturally it would not dislike it, but today it may be a little strange, the weather is obviously good, why does the owner refuse to let him go to the mountains to graze.

After comforting the old green cow for a few words, Ah Xiang took Xiao Ash to her room again, sprinkled a handful of corn on the table, and watched Xiao Ash also start to eat it in a big gulp, she sighed and returned to her parents' room with a basin of water.

"Hey, I don't know what this brother has experienced?" Ah Xiang took off the unconscious young man's shirt, scrubbed the dirt on his body with a towel, looked at those shocking wounds, and couldn't help but muttered to himself in distress.

Because there were too many wounds on his brother's body, Ah Xiang's movements were very light, and after helping him scrub it, more than an hour had passed, and the towel in his hand had completely turned black.

"Oh no, this towel is used by my father and mother to wash her face!" Ah Xiang looked at the towel in her hand, only then did she react, she couldn't help but stick out her tongue, she hurriedly took the basin out, and worked by the water tank for a long time before the towel returned to white.

Ah Xiang had just hung up the towel when there was a rush of footsteps, and a cropper man of medium stature and dark complexion ran in, and after seeing her, he paused and asked, "Ah Xiang, why are you in the yard, that injured young man?"

The person who ran in was Ah Xiang's father, seeing that Ah Xiang didn't notice the towel on the coat rope, Ah Xiang secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and pointed to her father's room: "Lying there!"

Ah Xiang's father nodded, walked a few steps in, Ah Xiang looked at the old green cow who was grazing in the cowshed, then looked at his room, and finally followed into his parents' room.

"How did you get this wound?" Like Ah Xiang and her mother, Ah Xiang's father couldn't help but widen his eyes after seeing the wound on the young man's body, and shook his head incredulously.

Ah Xiang thought of the situation he saw on the mountain, and hurriedly told his father, the more Ah Xiang's father listened, the tighter his brows wrinkled, although he was a farmer, he would occasionally go to the town to sell some grain or mountain goods, and he knew more than Ah Xiang's mother and daughter, and immediately understood that this matter was not ordinary.

"This young man may have caused some enemy outside!" After thinking about it, Ah Xiang's father made the most reasonable inference, and finally said to Ah Xiang: "Don't talk about this matter first, wait for him to wake up, and we will make plans after we ask clearly!"

"Well, I know!" Ah Xiang was also startled after hearing Daddy's judgment, the villagers of this small mountain village are very simple, but the outside world is different, there is such a group of wicked people in the town, they are idle and have nothing to do things that hurt the heavens and reason, if this brother offends them, they really have to pay attention to secrecy, otherwise they will harm others.

The father and daughter waited until noon, and Ah Xiangniang came back with a few packets of medicine, and explained helplessly: "After the doctors in the town heard about this young man's situation, they all said that he was dead and did not want to come to see a doctor, so I could only buy a little gold sore medicine, and it didn't cost much!"

"It's okay to spend some money, everyone has brought it back, so you can't ignore it!" Ah Xiang's father nodded understandingly, took the medicine bag and opened it, and after taking a look, he handed it to Ah Xiangniang.

Ah Xiang Niang separated several packets of medicine and handed one of them to Ah Xiang: "Ah Xiang, you go and fry these medicines!"

Ah Xiang went out with the medicine, Ah Xiang Niang opened another package of medicine, which contained some black ointment, which was a gold sore medicine prepared by the doctor in the town, which usually treats bruises and injuries, and also has a good effect on knife wounds.

Taking advantage of Ah Xiang's decoction, the couple began to treat the wounds of the young man, which was nothing more than cleaning the wounds and then applying those black ointments, the whole process was not complicated, and the villagers sometimes went to the mountains to hunt, and they were often injured.