"Do you have what it takes?"

Ati stopped sobbing and stared at Yeli, the tearful mandarin duck's eyes were full of painful expectations, just like Zixi's eyes when he got married in Yong'an Palace!

Yeli trembled with a throbbing pain, as if the tip of his heart had been cut, and he wanted to stretch out his arms to arm Ati and give her warm comfort, but he only dared to think so, but he didn't dare to do that.

He looked at Ati with pity and warmth: "Xi'er don't worry, it's strange that my brother has this ability, even if he goes up to Daoshan Mountain and gets off the oil pot, he also wants to get this tiger bone and cure this corpse worm disease for Grandma." ”

Yeli's loving and enthusiastic gaze was like a burning flame, and suddenly Ati's inexplicable delicate face was feverish, and the deer collided.

She hurriedly wiped away her tears, hid her nervousness, and said, "Then I'll thank you for this weird brother." Okay! Having said all this unconsciously, we've rested enough, so let's go collect medicine now. ”

As the words fell, Ati panicked and snatched the stack of herb identification maps, carefully put them back in the purse, and then picked up the medicine basket and walked away from the big rock quickly.

Yeli also felt out of shape, scratched his head, and then walked down the big rock.

The two of them walked into the mountains and forests one after the other and began to look for herbs to dig and pick.

Although this large area of mountain forest is lush and lush, it is already the end of winter, countless shrubs have long since withered and decayed, and most of the wild herbs have dried up and are very difficult to find.

Fortunately, Ati has rich experience in collecting medicines, and when he was looking for some in the mountains and forests, he found a rhubarb, hurriedly unloaded the medicine basket, took out the sickle and the medicine hoe, first used the sickle to clean up the surrounding weeds, and then picked up the medicine hoe and dug it up carefully.

Yeli wanted to help, but Ati told him to "go and go" and look for herbs elsewhere, but Yeli had to walk away.

By the time Ati had finished digging up a horseshoe rhubarb plant and putting it in the medicine basket, Yeli had already found a wild Panax notoginseng nearby, so he hurriedly asked Ati to come over quickly.

Ati lifted the medicine basket and ran over happily. Yeli couldn't wait to grab the medicine hoe and excavate, and Ati shouted again and again on the side, "Be careful, be careful to dig up the medicine."

The two of them were immersed in the pleasure of searching and digging herbs, and at one time Ati found a rhubarb plant, one night left to find a notoginseng plant, one time Ati found another ginger plant, and another one night found a continuous ...... You tell me to shout, I dig you up, and I'm very busy.

The two of them were busy for most of the day, and even forgot to eat the dry food corn in the lotus bag, and the tea and bamboo tube hanging on the medicine basket did not move.

When Ati finally caught a glimpse of the shadows of the trees on the ground stretching quite long to the east, she realized that the sky was about to get dark, and she was afraid that she would have to go down the mountain in the dark if she delayed any longer, so she hurriedly packed up her sickle, medicine hoe and medicine basket, and prepared to go down the mountain to go home.

At this time, the medicine basket was already filled with a lot of herbs, and it could be said that the harvest was very rich.

After packing up, Ati was about to carry the medicine basket, but was snatched by Yeli and carried the medicine basket on his back. A shy warmth welled up in Ati's heart, and he didn't speak, and Wu led the way. Yeli secretly drank the retreat/charm/魍/魉, and followed behind Ati.

Facing the afterglow of the setting sun, they slowly walked down the mountains of thousands of miles in the remnants of winter.

When the two returned to the stilted hut, the sun had already sunk into the western mountains, and the wilderness was dark.

In order to save some lamp oil, Ati hastily ordered four bowls of corn gnocchi, which he ate indiscriminately as dinner.

As for the medicinal soup of Grandma and Brother, it has been prepared twice in the morning and evening, so it is hot and served.

And there is no need to prepare the dry food when you go up the mountain to collect medicine tomorrow, because today's dry food corn has not yet been eaten, and it is just left for tomorrow.

When it was time to go to bed that night, Ati led Yeli to Are's room and tied him up with hemp rope as usual.

Ah Lei glanced at Ah Ti beside him and seriously tied up Yeli round by circle, and couldn't help but say: "Ah Mei, Ah Li is also quite tired from accompanying you up the mountain to dig herbs for a day, so don't tie him up." ”

"Where are you tired? I don't feel tired at all, is he still tired as a big man?"

"Xi'er: I'm not tired, you tie it up. ”

"Brother, listen, he himself said that he was not tired!"

"Where is there a person who doesn't get tired of going up the mountain to collect medicine? Brother knows very well in his heart that Ah Li is just coaxing you. ”

"That's it, I know he's coaxing me, do you know why he's coaxing me?"

"How does this brother know!"

"Actually, I don't know. Ati said seriously, "He and I are not related, since he coaxes me, there must be some ulterior motives, so whether he coaxes me or not, whether he really treats my brother and aunt's injuries or not, I have to tie him up and sleep, so that I can feel at ease." ”

"This ......," Arley was speechless.

Ye Li said: "Xi'er can tie it up, it doesn't matter." ”

"Hmph, don't think that if you help me collect medicine, I will let my guard down, and I won't be so stupid. Ati insisted on his principle and said, "Okay, you can go to bed early, and you will continue to go up the mountain to collect medicine tomorrow." ”

"Well, Xi'er is right, although we have picked a lot of herbs today, the herbs in the formula are still not enough, and we will continue to go up the mountain to collect herbs tomorrow. Xi'er, you should go to bed early. "Ye Li went up the mountain with Ati to collect medicine today, as if he felt the joy of meeting Zixi back then, so he hoped to continue to keep it up.

"I know!" Ati mischievously pushed Yeli to the ground.

She stood up, clapped her hands happily, and was about to walk, when she suddenly squatted down again, looked at Ye Li, and said, "I have picked so many herbs today, I have never picked so many herbs, so I still want to thank you for this strange brother." When the words fell, he smiled and left lightly.

Ah Lei felt that Ati's behavior was quite rude, so he sighed to Yeli: "My sister, since my Ada died, she has become this pungent appearance, not to mention that my brother can't be provoked, even the young people in the cottage can't be provoked, so don't see her strange." ”

"I'm not going to see Xi'er. ”

"That's good, then you'll be a little wronged for the time being. ”

"It's okay...... I don't feel wronged at all. ”

"It's strange who you're a person. Ah Lei finally couldn't help but express the doubts in his heart, "Why did you come to help us heal, and why are you so kind to my sister?"

"Because she's Xi'er. ”

"Because she is Xi'er, why do you call my sister 'Xi'er', did you know a girl named Xi'er before who looks very similar to my sister?"

Ah Lei asked so suddenly, and suddenly the night was confused, and the shadows of Ati and Zixi appeared in his mind at the same time, the two kept fluttering, overlapping, and changing, I don't know who is Ati and who is Zixi.

He shook his head painfully, calmed his spirit, and said in a stunned voice: "'Xi'er' is Xi'er, how can you say that she looks very similar to your sister? If you really talk about Xi'er, you can't finish talking about it for ten days and ten nights, I want to ask Brother Alei first: Why did 'Xi'er' cry sadly when she mentioned her Ada?"

Yeli has been thinking about the scene when Ati mentioned her Ada on the big rock in the mountains, choked with tears, because Ati was sad, and he was also very sad, so he wanted to find out what was going on, and then he could share it for Ati.

When Alei heard this, he looked sad and said, "Because I'm Ada... Dead ...... Died a terrible death. ”

"What do you mean?!" Yeli was very surprised, and was anxious to know more about it.

Ah Lei said: "My aunt has cadaver worm disease, and I heard Dr. Wuyi say that people who have this disease are extremely difficult to cure, and they can only be cured well unless they take tiger bone powder, so in order to get tiger bones, I Ada and fifteen hunters in the cottage went to Tiger Mountain to fight tigers. Outcome...... As a result, although I, Ada, was a good hunter, not only did I not get a piece of the tiger bone, but it was eaten by the tiger, and only the bow and arrow hunting fork and a bloody piece of clothing were brought back. ”

"Xi'er's Ada was eaten by a tiger?

Night's head shook violently, twisted his eyebrows and gritted his teeth, "I must avenge Xi'er, go to Tiger Mountain to fight tigers, retrieve tiger bones and treat Xi'er's aunt." ”

"Can't go to Tiger Mountain. Ah Lei hurriedly persuaded, "That Tiger Mountain is full of tigers, and there is not one out of ten that can go and return, and it is impossible to beat the tiger back." I Ada went to a total of fifteen hunters that time, and in the end only two and a half came back empty-handed, half of them died on the way (there was a whole corpse anyway), and the other two returned to the village, and had nightmares every day, dreaming of countless tigers biting their necks, picking their stomachs, and pulling their intestines, and then one was scared silly, and the other was frightened crazy. ”

"I'm not afraid, I must go, as long as I can make Xi'er not cry, I'll be stupid and crazy to death, it doesn't matter. Ye Li's words are decisive, and in his eyes, the tiger full of mountains and fields is nothing!

He raised his eyes and glanced out the window, his two eyes were like lightning, and he shot coldly for thousands of miles.

Outside the window, the wilderness is endless, the cold frost is overwhelmed, and the world is clear.

In the early morning of the next day, the weather was sunny and cold, and it was a good time to go up the mountain to collect medicine.

The rooster crowed three times, and Ati got up again, cooked breakfast, and came to the Westinghouse to call for Yeli to get up.

As soon as the sky was bright, he asked Ati to take him to Tiger Mountain to fight the tiger to take revenge, take the tiger bones back, and treat her grandmother.

Sure enough, as soon as it was dawn, there was the sound of footsteps climbing the stairs outside the house, Yeli sat up, turned his head to look, and saw Ati walking into the house, so he hurriedly said: "Xi'er, quickly untie the hemp rope for the strange brother." ”

"Didn't I come, what are you in a hurry, you don't need to be in such a hurry even if you go to the thatched house, right?"

Yeli hurriedly said: "It's not a thatched house." ”

"It's not a thatched house, so what's the hurry?" Ati squatted down and began to untie the hemp rope for Yeli.