Chapter Ninety-Five: Distress
It was a man in his early forties with a shrewd face. He had a grim complexion www.biquge.info the lines between his eyebrows and eyes were as deep as a knife and an axe, and he was wearing an extremely ordinary green robe, and on his feet were a pair of cowhide black boots. He was followed by three strong young men, all dressed in ordinary attire. But all of them have straight backs and look powerful.
I saw this man hugging his fist at Huo Lianjue and said: "In Xia Cao Chengwen, from Jinling, these brothers under him have some kung fu. If Brother Tai doesn't dislike it, we should be able to help. ”
"Amitabha, it turned out to be Lord Cao Shi. It would be great if I could have your help. Before Huo Lianjue could speak, Master Wise had already said excitedly.
Huo Lianjue was worried that there was no one available in his hands, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard this. He hugged Cao Chengwen and said very politely: "It's so good, then there will be a few workers." ”
At this time, Xiao Fengnan slowly shook out of the temple. was seen by the wise master at a glance, and the master hurriedly said: "Xiao Nan, you also give them to help." ”
"I ......" Xiao Fengnan pointed to the tip of her nose, and the afterglow swept to Hua Lianyue's anxious state, so she had to say with a depressed face: "Okay!"
"Xiao Fengnan, thank you!"
Hua Lianyue knew that Li Ruolan's identity was special and it was not suitable for her to contact with foreign men, so she persuaded her to wait for news in the temple with peace of mind. She herself followed the improvised first-aid team and set off to the accident site.
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The mountain is steep, and near the top, there is a steep cliff. Except for the monks in the temple who occasionally come to collect firewood, there are very few outsiders who come here. Therefore, the ground is full of thorns and rocks, and it is extremely difficult to walk.
Fortunately, the heavy snow buried everything here, so the few people lying under the cliff were so conspicuous. If it is the season when the warbler flies and the grass grows, it will not be so easy to spot at all.
Hua Liyue looked down cautiously and looked a few times, and in the middle of the bottomless cliff like a knife, there was a huge rock protruding from it. Three people could be seen lying on their stomachs or lying on the rocks.
It was also thanks to this rock that they were held back in the middle of the cliff, and if they did fall to the bottom of the cliff, they probably wouldn't even be able to pick up the bones.
Hua Lianyue saw that the three of them hadn't moved for a long time, and her heart couldn't help but tighten. It seems that these three people are already more than lucky.
Cao Chengwen and the others were already busy working over there, and they were familiar with connecting the hemp rope they carried from the temple, and hung one end in a circle on a huge camphor tree on the edge of the cliff, and the other side made a live buckle and buckled it around Cao Chengwen's waist.
After testing the toughness of the hemp rope and making sure that there was no problem, he strode to the edge of the cliff and prepared to go down in person. Hua Lianyue was stunned, cleared her throat, and said to Cao Chengwen: "Brother Cao, be careful. ”
Cao Chengwen pressed his feet against the rock wall at this moment, and clenched the hemp rope with both hands. Wen Yan raised a swarthy face, smiled at Hua Lianyue, and said, "Thank you girl for reminding me." ...... he shouted at his brothers, and his voice was loud and amazing, and it only shook the snow on the canopy of the camphor tree and fell vigorously.
The other three people had already pulled the middle of the hemp rope hard, and immediately put a short section on it when they heard the words. saw Cao Chengwen's legs kick hard, and his body immediately dropped by half a cut, leaving only his head and shoulders exposed to the cliff mouth.
After he stabilized his figure, he shouted again: "Release!" ...... One after another, loud and loud shouts echoed through the empty mountains.
Huo Lianjue saw that the few people in front of him acted neatly and neatly, without any superfluous words and actions, and at first glance, it was a tacit understanding that can only be cultivated through long-term cooperation. I suddenly wondered in my heart: Could it be that they are all from the army?
Hua Lianyue leaned on the edge of the cliff and looked down, and saw Cao Chengwen's figure getting smaller and smaller. Looking at it from a distance, it looks like a spirit monkey lying on the edge of a cliff. She smacked her tongue secretly and muttered, "This person's movements are really neat, and he has gone down a lot in just one time." ”
Xiao Fengnan glanced at the bottom of the cliff and said idly: "It's just brute force, if he can do light work, where does he need to work so hard." His fluttering words immediately attracted angry glances from Cao Chengwen's brothers.
Hua Lianyue glanced at him obliquely, and said unceremoniously: "You are a trick in your way, can everyone learn it?"
Xiao Fengnan raised his eyebrows, reached out and patted his mouth lightly, and said, "Tell you to talk more." ”
"Hmph!" Hua Lianyue cast her eyes back on the bottom of the cliff. Suddenly, she shouted in surprise: "It's here, it's here, Brother Cao has safely landed on that rock." ”
The rest of the people gathered around to look, and sure enough, they saw that Cao Chengwen had fallen on the rock and was checking the snort of one of them. A cold wind blew, Hua Lianyue involuntarily shrunk her neck, she put her hands to her mouth, and shouted loudly under the cliff: "Brother Cao, can they still be saved?"
It's a pity that Cao Chengwen ignored her, he just lowered his head and looked at the bodies of those people continuously.... Suddenly he stopped, and after a moment of froze, he swooped down and hugged one of them tightly, shaking him vigorously.
"Hey, could it be that Brother Cao knows all those people under the mountain?" Hua Lianyue muttered suspiciously.
"Girl, do you mean that Brother Cao knows the people under the mountain?" spoke a square-faced man. He grabbed the hemp rope tightly with both hands, and didn't dare to relax at all, so he could only ask Hua Liyue for something.
Hua Lianyue nodded and said, "Brother Cao has been holding one of them and shaking, looking like a familiar person. ”
"Great, finally found. The square-faced man had a hint of joy on his face.
The companion standing behind him muttered in a low voice, "I don't know if I am dead or alive, what is there to be happy about." The square-faced man immediately closed his mouth and said nothing.
Hua Lianyue glanced at them a few times, thoughtful in her heart.
"Wait, look there, it looks like something alive has moved. Huo Lianjue suddenly frowned, pointed to the next position on the cliff and shouted.
Everyone looked in the direction he was pointing, and sure enough, a brown-gray animal was shaking. Hua Lianyue froze, her eyes staring for a moment. It didn't take long to see a skinny wolf with a tail between his legs appear behind Cao Chengwen.
Hua Lianyue grabbed Huo Lianjue's sleeve and said in horror: "How can there be a wild wolf there?" Huo Lianjue also frowned, he couldn't understand it either.
At this time, Cao Chengwen also keenly noticed the wild wolf that quietly appeared behind him, and he easily found a stone from the snow. So a man and a wolf confronted each other like this.
Xiao Fengnan's eyes were also firmly fixed on the bottom of the cliff, and said, "Maybe there is a cave hidden behind that rock! This Meiling stretches for dozens of miles, and the mountains are densely forested, and there are often wild beasts infested. Therefore, the walls of the temple are built very tall and strong, and when you sleep in the temple, you will often be awakened by the sound of wolves howling in the middle of the night.
I remember that five years ago, there was a little girl who came to the temple with her mother to burn incense, because she chased a phoenix butterfly into the mountain forest behind, and was attacked by a wild wolf. If it hadn't happened for me resting in the woods at that time, that little girl would have become the food of the wolf. ”
"Oops! Who wants to listen to your nonsense at this time, it still matters how to save people. Hua Lianyue said anxiously. You must know that Cao Chengwen disliked the saber on his waist because it was too much of an obstacle, so he directly untied it and stayed on the cliff, but now he is facing the hungry wolf below with his bare hands.
Compared with Huo Lianjue, Hua Lianyue's anxiety was different, but Cao Chengwen's companions were all calm and relaxed, and they didn't even frown. I heard the square-faced man say: "Don't worry, Brother Cao once killed three evil wolves alone on the grassland with his bare hands." It's just a wolf now, and I can't stand a few punches from him. ”
Huo Lianjue also said: "Yes, even if Brother Cao can't deal with that evil wolf, just pull him up quickly, and it is expected that it will be fine." ”
Listening to them still in the mood to talk, the situation didn't seem as urgent as she thought. Hua Lianyue also gradually relaxed. So she craned her neck to look down again.
Cao Chengwen was still confronting the wolf, and his eyes were already scarlet. Because he was too hard, the back of his hand was bruised, and the stones in his hand were rattled by his grip. After half a ring, the wolf seemed to feel the fierce aura in him, and it turned its neck, as if it had the intention of retreating.
Of course, at this moment, the snow is covering the mountains, and the difficulty of foraging for wild wolves is more than 100 times greater than usual. Now it has not eaten for two days, and its stomach is so hungry that it clings to its back, and now it finally encounters its prey, and it is naturally unwilling to retreat easily. Since those who can move are not easy to mess with, there are those who can't be moved. Its green eyes stared faintly at the person closest to it.
The wolf let out a low chirp in its throat, and with a low body, it kicked its hind limbs, and leaped to its feet and pounced on the food in its eyes. Before its sharp teeth could pierce the skin of the food, it heard Cao Chengwen roar angrily, pounced, and smashed the stone in his hand towards the wolf's head with the sound of the wind.
One, two, three...... The warm blood and turbid brain plasma instantly sprayed Cao Chengwen's face.
"Hmm!" the wolf let out a mournful low cry in his throat, and fell down unwillingly. A rich, pungent smell of blood began to waft around.
Cao Chengwen gasped, he wiped his face and spat fiercely at the wolf's corpse. He began to shake the man who had been attacked by the wolf again: "Second brother, second brother, wake up." ”
At this moment, Cao Chengwen was anxious, and it was his second brother Cao Chengwu and his two subordinates lying in front of him. More than a month ago, Cao Chengwu was ordered to accompany the third lady of the master's family to come out for a break.
As a result, the return date has passed, but Miss and Cao Chengwu have not been seen back for a long time, and no one has sent news back home. The master was anxious, so he ordered Cao Chengwen to come out to look for it,
Cao Chengwen followed the clues left by Cao Chengwu and found Fahua Temple, but unfortunately the clues were broken here. They searched the county town like headless flies in the mountains for days, but there was no news at all.
That's why when he heard the monk in the temple say that he saw someone under the cliff, he immediately offered to help find it. Fortunately, the emperor lived up to his wishes, and after going down to the cliff, he found that it was his long-missing second brother Cao Chengwu lying here.
Cao Chengwu and the other two were not dead, they were just unconscious. It's a pity that no matter how Cao Chengwen called, he showed no signs of soberness. Forget it, let's get them up first, Cao Chengwen thought so, and began to untie the ropes on his body.
Suddenly, he faintly heard an exclamation from the cliff. A gust of wind in his ears was mixed with a strong fishy smell, and he, who had been tested by life and death for a long time, immediately rolled to the side vigilantly. Another yellowish-gray hairy body brushed his cheeks and pounced.
Wild wolves, there are still wild wolves, Cao Chengwen's heart suddenly lifted. There was indeed a hole in the cliff wall, and the wolf had peeled through the thick snow at the hole, revealing the fine and dense moss inside, and a few bushes of yellow dog tails.
The hole had obvious signs of carving, but it was not large enough for an adult to pass through. However, for the wolf is not very large, it comes and goes freely.
Cao Chengwen grabbed Cao Chengwu's neck with one hand, and stared vigilantly at the wild wolf in front of him. The wolf was noticeably bigger than the one he had smashed, and looked much more ferocious.
If it were normal times, Cao Chengwen would never take these beasts in his eyes, but now it is different, he does not have the same weapons by his side, but he has three unconscious companions. Especially his second brother, Cao Chengwen must definitely bring him back intact, otherwise his eldest brother will be in vain.
Just as he was nervously thinking about how to retreat safely from under the sharp teeth of the wild wolf, he saw the wild wolf pacing in front of the wolf corpse, touching it lightly with his nose, and touching it again......
Seeing this, Cao Chengwen's heart couldn't help sinking. At this moment, the yellow-gray wolf raised its head violently and howled bitterly at the neck of its neck. The voice was mournful and long, and it made people's hearts tingle when they heard it.
Immediately after, another pair of green eyes appeared at the entrance of the cave, and then sprang out. One, two, three......
Cao Chengwen was dumbfounded, and secretly smiled bitterly in his heart: "Could it be that you stabbed the wolf's den? Damn, you should have thrown the wolf corpse off the cliff first." He realized that it was this strong smell of blood that attracted this group of vicious wolves.
Fortunately, the wolves that came out kept sniffing around the wolf corpse, and suddenly, the yellow-gray wolf that appeared first had opened its mouth, revealing its sharp fangs, and bit the wolf corpse. I saw that with a hard flick of its head, a large piece of wolf meat was torn off.
The growing smell of blood stimulated the wild nature of the wolves, and they pounced on them and began to tear at the corpses of their companions.
Cao Chengwen confessed that wolves have a certain fear of humans. They will not forcibly attack humans if given a choice. However, because of the heavy snow for several days, they are in a sharp shortage of food, and looking at their shriveled stomachs, you can know that they must have been hungry for several days. When they have devoured the corpses of their companions, they will not let go of the humans in front of them.
Thinking of this, Cao Chengwen didn't dare to hesitate at all, and took off the hemp rope on his body as quickly as possible and put it on Cao Chengwu's body.