Chapter 128: Deep Forest
"You're stupid!" Master Mingtu poked her forehead hard, leaving red marks, "That ointment has the miraculous effect of reducing inflammation and relieving pain and fading scars, you insist on rubbing it for a month, and you don't even have a scar!
Xue Ying stood there quietly and let her scold, and she didn't reply. The www.biquge.info of the pen and the fun pavilion became even more angry when she saw her like that: "Speak! What do you want?
"It doesn't matter. ”
"What does it matter?! Tell you, my apprentice must be a beautiful and high-minded person, and I don't want an ugly apprentice!"
"Master Mingtu, calm down, be careful of headaches. ”
"I'm so angry with you that my liver hurts and my lungs hurt now!" Mingtu still huffed, "You, go and steal the herbs back!"
"I don't. Xue Ying's tone was resolute. "If you dare to boil me with the 'princess's disease' again, I will make a few more strokes on the right side of my face. ”
"You!" Mingtu slapped the bed board angrily and beat his chest, "I originally picked a well-behaved and beautiful apprentice, but now it's good, not only disfigured, but also learned to disobey me." ”
"Master Mingtu. Xue Ying softened her voice, "Don't worry, even if my face is ruined, I won't become a person with low self-esteem as you feared." ”
Master Mingtu looked stunned, and finally retracted his teeth and claws, and settled down to look at Xue Ying.
Xue Ying promised very seriously: "My appearance will never damage my pride, I promise." ”
Master Mingtu's violently undulating chest slowly calmed down, and it took a long time for her to say slowly, "I hope you never forget today's sentence." ”
Spring goes and autumn comes. The temple became more and more deserted, and more and more people went down the mountain to run for disaster relief, but more and more good news came back. Since the sudden rainstorm, the rain has gradually increased, and the temperature has dropped slightly, finally alleviating the drought that has plagued people for a long time. The abundant rain and sunshine also allowed the newly planted grain to grow well in the spring, and with the arrival of the harvest season, the mood of the masses gradually stabilized.
It's just that the increase in rain also means that Master Mingtu has more and more illnesses. In order to find herbs, Master Mingjue went deeper into the mountains, and often came back after ten days and a half months, but Rao was like this, and the stored herbs were getting less and less, and he was about to see the bottom.
This made Xue Ying blame herself very much: if it weren't for the treatment of her face, she wouldn't have wasted so many herbs.
Early in the morning, Xue Ying carried a small basket on her back, and Mingxin asked, "Mingche, why are you going?"
"Go pick some wild fruit and come back. "Now that the mountains are gradually recovering their vitality, and they are also starting to grow wild fruits, Xue Ying will go out from time to time to pick some and come back to satisfy everyone's hunger, because it is not far, and the people in the temple do not pay too much attention.
"Have you brought dry food? You can eat when you are hungry on the road. ”
"I brought it, but I couldn't go hungry. Xue Ying waved her hand, "If I can't come back for dinner at noon, you don't have to wait for me." ”
"Be careful, don't go far. ”
"Hey, got it!"
After Xue Ying went out, she walked on the road she had already been familiar with before--this road was the most common way for people in the temple to go up the mountain to cut firewood, which was not remote, but also relatively safe.
But at a certain intersection, Xue Ying stopped. On the left is where she used to pick wild fruits, and on the other side of the path that is barely visible, Master Mingjue once took her to a place where she had a "princess's disease".
The location was relatively close, and if it went well, she might be able to get back by the afternoon. Master Mingjue has been gone for more than half a month, and the weather is relatively good during this time, maybe the "princess disease" in that place has regrown.
Xue Ying hesitated for a moment and touched the short dagger on her waist. Because the mountain road that Shanggan Xiaosi asked for had to be walked alone, Aunt He'an was afraid that she would be in any danger, so she specially gave her this dagger as a self-defense. But she hadn't used it in a long time.
"It's okay, go early and come back early!" she cheered herself on, and walked into the grass that almost submerged her calf, and walked in the direction she remembered.
Fortunately, when she went out in the morning, she remembered to bring the sickle used to clear the wasteland, but she had to work hard to clean up these weeds and branches that Master Mingjue could easily clean up before. Many times, she simply bent over and went straight over, allowing the blades of grass and branches to make small cuts on her body.
Her leg strength had been specially trained by Master Mingtu, but this kind of environment was by no means something that a child like her could overcome, so her speed was much slower than expected. She gritted her teeth: Anyway, it's like this, and she can only continue to move forward, otherwise she will be found by Master Mingtu after she goes back, and she may not be able to go out in the future.
The sun gradually rose, but the temperature in the deep forest remained relatively cool, Rao was so, Xue Ying was also panting and sweating profusely, and her eyes were black for a while.
She wiped the sweat that had slipped from her face, and found that she seemed to be not far from her destination, so she couldn't help but feel happy and quickened her pace.
"Bang!" came the sound of broken branches from deep within the woods. She didn't pay much attention to it, there were inevitably some small beasts in this deep forest, monkeys and squirrels all over the ground, this sound was too normal. Besides, she was about to reach her destination, and she didn't have the energy to pay attention to the things that didn't matter.
She made an almost fatal mistake.
With a "whoosh", a sharp arrow slashed not far from her side, and plunged into the trunk of a tree behind her with a "thud".
She froze for a moment, and before she could react, a few shadows flashed in the woods, and then she found to her great sorrow that she seemed to be surrounded.
Oh no, those who surrounded her wanted to surround someone else, but she accidentally fell into the center of the trap and became a turtle in an urn with the person who was surrounded.
What kind of luck is this!
Originally, the two sides who were fighting didn't expect a child to suddenly appear in the forest, but since it was a child, they naturally didn't have to care too much, so their attention was still on each other.
Although Xue Ying didn't dare to move at will because she was afraid, she still quickly saw the situation at the scene: surrounded by a slender man with a bloody face, holding a spear in his hand, although he was embattled, he still straightened his back, but his right leg was weak, and he was a little soft.
This can't be blamed on the right leg, after all, it is bleeding from a broken arrow, and the blood is black and purple, Xue Ying can smell a strange and pungent smell from such a distance, obviously the arrow is still poisonous.
The people who formed the encirclement were all dressed in black, covered with black veils, and their murderous appearance was not a good thing at first glance - all of them were classic images of killers, and they were not discounted at all.
Judging from the strength of both sides, the one who was surrounded was weak and very pitiful.