I looked nervously at the door, and an uncle with a bamboo basket on his back, dressed in gray and shaking a broken straw hat in his hand, entered the door. The stubble on his face made his face look extraordinarily vicissitudes, his gray-white clothes were also very old, and he was wearing a pair of broken straw sandals on his feet, and his trousers were tied up on his calves, this person was no different from a mud-legged man in his forties on the street. When the guys saw him coming, they greeted him affectionately, and I was surprised and messy in my heart, staring straight at him, and watching him walk to the counter and talk to the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper smiled and chatted with him for a few words, then turned around and left the counter and went to the inner room to find Chen Shang out. The man in gray took off the bamboo basket on his body, took out some oiled paper bags from it and put them on the counter.

After a while, Chen Shang and the shopkeeper came out of the inner room with a bamboo curtain. Chen Shang glanced at the person on the cabinet, and quickly looked at me. Looking at his eyes, I knew that the person I was looking for was here, and the person who could save Ah Wei was here. At that moment, the joy in my heart moistened my eyes.

Chen Shang smiled and called him Brother Ju, and after greeting him, he checked the contents of the paper bag, some dried mountain goods, and a few small purple lingzhi. Chen Shang was very satisfied with the quality of the things, weighed and paid, and the deal was done, and then the two said goodbye to each other, and the herb picker left the shop with the bamboo basket on his back.

Seeing that he was gone, I hurriedly said hello to Chen Shang and chased him out. When I went out the door and looked ahead, the herb picker was already twenty paces away. I can't help but sigh, this person's foot strength is really good!

I hadn't figured out how to convince him to save Ah Wei, and I was afraid of scaring him away, so I didn't dare to approach him easily, but followed him cautiously. At first, he walked the streets normally, but after a while, he was walking around the city. By the time I realized I had been exposed, he had already scurried into a tavern. I became alert and hurried in. I saw that the tavern was full of people, and his figure had flashed out of the opposite door in a flash.

A layer of cold sweat broke out on my body, and I thought to myself, "He's going to slip away." I chased after me in a panic, and I didn't know what was under my feet, and when I ran to the door, I tripped over something and landed on my face.

I crawled up to the stinging half of my face, and when I looked back to see what I had tripped over, I saw the herb picker standing by the door with a look of wanting to say something. When I saw that he didn't run, I was so happy in my heart! Just stumble over it! But I can't put it off, in case he really slips away for a while, it will be difficult, so I hurriedly said to him, "Uncle, I have something to ask for your help!"

"What can I do to help you, a mountain villager! The herb picker's face suddenly turned ugly, and he rejected me in one bite, and then walked away on his own.

"Uncle, you listen to me, can you help me......" I followed him step by step, trying to make it clear to him.

"Can't help!" he replied simply, walking faster.

"You'll be able to help me, let's find a place to talk about it. I continued to pestering him with a dead face.

"There's no need for this, it can't be helped!" he still refused.

"Uncle, at least listen to what I want you to help me with!" There are people coming and going on the street, I can't say my request directly, and he refuses simply, so I can only grind with him like this.

"It's the same whether you listen or not, I can't help, and I don't have that much spare time, so you can go quickly!" the herb picker walked impatiently at a very fast pace, and I almost had to run to catch up with him.

I said, "Uncle, what kind of light skill are you practicing, and how did you go so fast?"

He was silent, more focused on hurrying, and I shouted as I chased, "Uncle, you wait for me......"

What's even worse is that he actually kept a gray donkey at the herbal tea stall at the gate of the city! This donkey has some things on it, which seem to have been purchased earlier. Thanks to this donkey's legs and feet, he can't walk fast, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to catch up with him.

When it got dark, the herb pickers didn't go around in circles with me, and I followed. No matter how much I tried to grind with him on the way, he said no, he couldn't help. When he got so annoyed, no matter what I said, he didn't care. I can be said to be out of breath all the way, my mouth is dry, and I fell all over the place. On this hot and sweltering summer night, between the countless insect chirping, my screams would be heard from time to time.

It's a long way to go...... Far away...... After walking for an hour or two, I began to suspect that he was deliberately playing tricks on me, trying to make it difficult for me to retreat. I talked too much on the road, my throat and eyes hurt, and I looked at the dark scenery around me, and my heart was also dark. Thinking that he couldn't turn back, he could only follow him. In the back, I was so tired that I couldn't speak, and my legs were numb, like a walking corpse, following the medicine picker.

The dark night, the shaking lantern, the gray donkey with bad legs, and two silent people walking in the dense forest at the foot of the mountain, suddenly made me feel creepy.

Suddenly, there was a little light through the cracks of the trees in the distance, and faintly, you could even smell some fireworks and hear some noisy human voices. I was about to open my mouth to ask the herb picker if he was almost there, but he suddenly stopped, patted the gray donkey's back, and whispered, "Wait here." ”

The lame donkey seemed to understand his words and stopped, and then the herb picker walked forward with a very fast but quiet pace. He seemed nervous, very cautious and flustered, so I guessed something unusual had happened. There's no way I'm waiting here with the gray donkey, so follow his example and follow closely.

After walking about one or two hundred meters, and when I was about to leave the forest, the herb picker suddenly grabbed me and flashed to the back of the tree and signaled me to silence. I did so, silently observing what was going on.

There is a clearing in front of it, and there is a grass hut standing alone, and you can see that it is very lively inside through the fence wall. In the courtyard, groups of bare-chested men surrounded several places, roasting wild game over a bonfire, pushing cups and changing lamps, and talking in a high-pitched manner. This situation looks like a group of bandits.

The herb picker looked at the scene in the grass house, grabbed one hand on the tree, his knuckles turned white, and he groaned in an extremely suppressed voice, "Mother......"

Living in seclusion among the barren mountains and mountains, and when I went out and came home and saw such a situation, I probably understood what was going on, and asked him in a low voice, "Are you a bandit in your house?"

He hit the trunk of the tree hard, and said angrily at me, "If you hadn't been delayed today, how could my mother have encountered such a thing!"

I shuddered at his fierce expression, and when I looked closely at the situation in the cottage, I found that there was still a man lying on the ground in the courtyard, as if he was tied, and although I could not tell whether he was alive or dead, he was motionless.

I bit my lip, ready to resist the eyes of the herb picker who was about to be eaten, comfort him, and then work with him to find a way to rescue the old man. However, when I turned to look at him, I saw that he had pulled out a firewood knife out of nowhere, and was about to rush out with it. He clutched the hilt of his knife in his right hand, and looked ahead with a fierce and hideous gaze, and then I heard him say, "It's your fate today, if you don't meet these people, you will have to be fertilizer in my medicine garden." Now I don't have time to clean you up, go as far as you want!"

From the moment he found out that he was being followed by me, he didn't hide from me, and even led me to follow him, I felt that he had a strange attitude, and it turned out that he had already planned to kill people. Although I had thought that he might do this, I couldn't help but shudder when I heard him say it himself.

Of course, people are inherently mortal, and I am not afraid of death. In fact, I have long thought that maybe Sun Xuan's body is gone, and I will be able to return to my own world, if this is the result, it will not be a relief for me.

Naturally, there are things that I am nostalgic for, but we should be two parallel worlds, and there should be no intersection, if I go back to my own world, it will be to set things right and everything will be back on track. Xuanyue is about to be robbed, I really don't have any confidence in whether I can help him, I think the date of my departure from here is not far off. I, but I can't fight the ending of separation, this time I desperately came to find the herb picker, I have already realized that even at the cost of my life, I also ask for the help of the herb picker, this is just because I want Ah Wei to live is my only belief now.

Facing the figure of the herb picker who was about to rush out in an instant, I grabbed his wrist with all my strength, and persuaded in an unusually calm whisper, "Big brother, don't be impulsive, you are going to send someone to the head like this, and we will think of a way together." ”

The medicine picker's round eyes were flushed with red threads, and the wrist holding the handle of the knife was secretly forced, and he replied with mockery and fierceness in his tone, "Find a way? The only way to deal with these robbers who kill people and oversell goods is to kill them all!"

A thick murderous aura rippled from his body, making people fearful. From his fierce eyes, I seemed to see the scene of him fighting with wild beasts, and even fighting with people. I was shocked in my heart, but I couldn't retreat, so I could only use all my strength to hold him tightly, suppressing my trembling voice and continuing to persuade, "Ling Tangji has her own natural appearance, she must still be alive, don't you rush out like this to kill her?"

Hearing this, he finally calmed down, stared at the grass house with cold eyes, and observed again. At this moment, there was some commotion in the courtyard again. The old man, who was tied up and curled up on the ground, groaned and writhed again. The herb picker's mother was still alive, she was tied to the side, she made some movement uncomfortably, and was kicked twice by the scolding robber.

The herb picker gritted his teeth, his hand holding the hatchet tightened a little, and he frowned and asked me, "What can you do?"

I was secretly glad that he had calmed down, and I was embarrassed by the question he asked, and it was really difficult for me to come up with a way to save him. But I need such an opportunity now, and I need the medicine collector to owe me a favor, a great favor. Otherwise, even if I am so skillful, I am afraid that I will not be able to move him to save Ah Wei.

"Let me think about it!" Unconsciously, my left hand was already supporting the elbow of my right hand, and my right index finger was gently rubbing the wing of my nose, pacing back and forth to think. The best way to save the medicine picker's mother is to surrender without a fight, so as not to endanger the lives of the medicine picker and his mother. Thinking about it this way, it is best to use the strategy of diverting the tiger from the mountain, and let me lure the bandits away, and then let the herb picker save his mother and escape.

How can I lure away these vicious bandits? I was trying to think about how to use my meager strength to carry out this strategy to divert the tiger from the mountain, and my feet were walking faster and faster, and the medicine collector stared at me silently, and at this time it was unusually quiet. Finally, a flash of inspiration occurred to me.

When the herb picker saw that I had stopped, his eyes were bright, and he immediately approached me with understanding and said to me, "Tell me, what do you think of?"

I immediately whispered my plan to him, and he looked suspicious and said in a tone of disbelief, "This ...... Can this be done?"

I said, "For a while, it is naturally difficult to have a perfect method, not to mention that you and I may not have a chance to win when facing them, so in this case, it is better to take risks." Although my method is dangerous, as long as you seize the opportunity and use it properly, you will definitely be able to escape safely. ”

The herb picker's eyes flickered and he made a decision, and suddenly stared at me again and asked, "What about you, how are you going to get out?"

I ...... and I was shocked, I didn't seem to be thinking about my own future.

"Naturally, I had a way out. "I was full of confidence, but I knew in my heart that I had put myself to death.

"You ......," the herb picker looked at me differently, and asked me instead, "Why did you come to me at such a risk?"

I was stunned for a moment when I heard his question, "Oh......" I quickly untied the sachet tied around my waist and handed it to him, and then said to him deeply, "My son-in-law is seriously ill, and I want to ask my uncle to go out of the mountain to save his life!"

The herb picker took the sachet suspiciously and pulled it to see what was inside. I continued, "You can find him by taking the white jade pendant in the sachet and going to Zhongzhou Yunlai Temple. ”

"Oh, you're a loyal servant, and you're willing to work so hard for your son-in-law. The herb picker took out the white jade in the sachet and talked to me while groping with his hand.

I didn't care how weird he said, and said firmly, "I want to make a deal with you now, uncle, as long as I can rescue Lingtang, uncle will promise me to go and treat my son-in-law quickly." ”

"What? Listening to your tone, is your son-in-law about to die?" The herb picker put the white jade pendant into the sachet again, and asked me sharply.

My heart was gloomy, and I replied with a deep sense of weakness, "Three days ago, he had fainted, and the master said that he would not last long. I have been looking for you for three days, and I do not know what happened to him now. ”

Then I adjusted my mood and continued, "Ling Tang is old, the world is chaotic, and living in the mountains and forests is even more dangerous, you go to Gongzi's place, and you will have a care, Ling Tang can take care of his life, why not?"

The herb picker looked at me playfully, and then said in a weird way, "What you said is very good, I am really going to be impressed." ”

Listening to the mocking tone in his tone, my heart sank a little, and I felt that he was not moved by my words. However, he suddenly changed his tone and said, "But...... If you can really save my mother, I will help you save your son-in-law. ”

Hearing this, I was really pleasantly surprised, and I hurriedly looked at him and raised my right hand, and said, "A gentleman's word!"

"Whip the horse!" The herb picker raised his left hand to greet him, and I touched his palms lightly, but he didn't make much noise, and then his palms were clenched tightly, and they said together, "If you violate this oath, the heavens and the earth will be destroyed!"

After making an oath, I discussed with the herb picker to prepare for the implementation of the plan to divert the tiger from the mountain. The bandits in the grass hut were eating and drinking, and the fire for the implementation of the plan was not yet ready, so I asked him to prepare the props first, and he kept an eye on the bandits and his mother by himself to prevent accidents.

Half an hour was about to pass, and the occasional chirping of cicadas and night owls sounded in the silence of the mountain forest. The air was hotter and humid, and I wiped the sweat from my face with my sleeve, looked up at the dark sky, and intuitively felt that it was going to rain.

Seeing that the bandits were already staggering, I felt that the time was almost up, so I decided to start implementing the plan with the herb pickers. Before we parted, the herb picker said to me rarely, "Take care!"