Chapter 19: The Raid
Xu Xiangwan was so frightened that he immediately stopped, and cautiously turned his head to glance behind him, only to see a flying feather arrow swaying into a tree behind him, entering the tree for three points. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
This time, Xu Xiangwan was completely stunned.
"That...... Hero ......" Xu Xiangwan racked his brains, and finally thought of a more appropriate name, so he explained in a trembling voice in a low voice, "You're here to hunt, right?" I'm not going to rob you of this wolf. I was just a villager who came to pick wolfberries, and I just passed by and didn't see anything. ”
After a long while, when Xu Xiangwan thought that the person had left, the cold voice sounded again, but it didn't sound as loud as just now: "Know medicine?" ”
As soon as the man spoke, Xu Xiangwan didn't dare to stop for a moment, and immediately replied: "If you want wolfberries, I'll put the back here and I'll leave like this, okay?" ”
Xu Xiangwan thought that the other party was interested in her wolfberry, after all, in her opinion, wolfberry was a precious thing worth a lot of money. If the other party is really a rogue, he should be interested in something valuable.
I knew that she was collecting firewood. A trace of regret flashed in Xu Xiangwan's heart, but then he thought that his life was almost gone, so why did he care about money.
After Xu Xiangwan said this, the other party fell silent again.
"Hero, my family is still waiting for me to go back to eat, I just went to the mountains to hang out today, and I didn't see anything." Xu Xiangwan couldn't stand the silent and oppressive atmosphere, and reassured.
The forest was still silent, and there was no response.
Xu Xiangwan took a tentative step forward.
The other party did not react.
Xu Xiangwan took another step forward.
The other party still didn't react.
"Do you need my help?" Xu Xiangwan's eyes rolled and asked tentatively.
There was still no reaction from the other party.
"If you don't need it, I'll go?" Xu Xiangwan's heart was beating suddenly, and his palms were full of cold sweat with nervousness.
"Am I really leaving?" Xu Xiangwan saw that the other party was still silent, so he took a few steps bravely, and saw that the other party still did not react, so he spread his feet and ran out for a long time.
Something is wrong, Xu Xiangwan suddenly stopped after running out for a while.
"That guy can't be hurt, right? Was it bitten by a wolf? Xu Xiangwan muttered to himself, and couldn't help but think of the giant wolf just now, and couldn't help but shudder.
Do you want to go back and see? In this barren mountain and wilderness, if that person was really unconscious here, even if he didn't die from injuries, he would be bitten to death by other fierce beasts attracted by the smell of blood.
Xu Xiangwan suddenly couldn't take a step.
Anyway, the man didn't move for so long, either he didn't have the strength to kill her, or he just wouldn't kill her. What's more, if you really talk about it, the man just now can be regarded as saving his life, otherwise he would be bitten by the giant wolf on the neck, and he would be seriously injured if he didn't die.
Since there is no danger for the time being, why don't you go back and have a look? Xu Xiangwan couldn't help but say to himself.
Without hesitating for long, Xu Xiangwan decided to go back and take a look.
Following the direction of the other party's voice in his memory, Xu Xiangwan cautiously looked for it in the depths of the forest.
After walking about forty or fifty steps, Xu Xiangwan found a man unconscious on the ground behind a big tree.
The man looked to be fourteen or fifteen years old at most, and should be called a "boy" to be exact.
The boy was very handsome, but his face was pale, and even in a coma, his expression was still cold, and the clothes on his left shoulder and right leg were torn in large pieces, and his flesh and blood were blurred.
Looking at the boy's appearance, he doesn't look like a rogue, but like the son of a rich and noble family, although his clothes are tattered, but at first glance he looks like a valuable brocade dress.
The boy still held a bow tightly in his left hand, but there were no arrows in the quiver behind his back.
Xu Xiangwan breathed a sigh of relief and was a little unbearable at the same time, although this person released a cold arrow at her at the beginning, he didn't really hurt her after all, so he didn't seem to be a bad person.
Of course, at this time, Xu Xiangwan didn't think that the wolf just now might have been attracted by this guy, and he didn't think that maybe this person was too seriously injured just now and an arrow missed.
Xu Xiangwan didn't think too much, all she could do was to help this person clean up his wounds, as for whether he could survive or not, she could only resign herself to fate. In the future, Xu Xiangwan will not have any intersection with this person, no matter what his identity is and what his purpose is, anyway, his purpose will definitely not be related to her.
"The root of the wolfberry can stop the bleeding." Naturally, Xu Xiangwan thought that wolfberry roots could stop bleeding
The root of wolfberry is commonly known as the skin of the bones.
Xu Xiangwan glanced at the boy with a blank face and a frowning brow, and compassion rose spontaneously.
Without any further hesitation, Xu Xiangwan put down his back and hurried to the wolfberry forest.
There were no tools for excavation, so Xu Xiangwan found a thick wooden stick, broke it from the middle, revealing a relatively sharp point, buried his head and dug it.
After a while, Xu Xiangwan dug out several pieces.
The skin of the bones is generally dried and then medicated, but now the conditions do not allow it, so Xu Xiangwan picked up two clean stones by the stream, hammered the skin of the bones, and then put them in the palm of his hand to give medicine to the boy.
Compared to the wound on Zhang's forehead a few days ago, the boy's injury looked even more terrible, and his shoulder and half of his leg were already soaked with blood.
Carefully dressed the boy little by little, and watched the bleeding gradually stop, then he used an arrow to cut off a piece of the boy's sleeve and bandaged the boy's wound simply.
After doing all this, Xu Xiangwan breathed a long sigh of relief.
Seeing that noon had passed, Xu Xiangwan suddenly felt a little hungry.
When picking wolfberries just now, Xu Xiangwan found a few small fish in the stream, which could be grabbed and roasted at this time.
As a child of a farmer's family, Xu Xiangwan has followed Wulang and others to catch fish since she was a child, and catching fish is difficult for her.
Soon, Xu Xiangwan caught four crucian carp that were three fingers wide and threw them on the shore.
There is a flint by the stream, and the flying feather arrow that shot into the trunk of the tree just now should be iron, as a child who has been playing in the mountains since he was a child, Xu Xiangwan has been making a fire almost since he was sensible.
The position of the flying feather arrow was right above Xu Xiangwan's head, and half of the arrow was submerged in the trunk.
Xu Xiangwan pulled out the arrow vigorously for a while before pulling it out.
After processing a few fish with arrows and threading them with washed branches, Xu Xiangwan also went to pick up a bunch of dried leaves and put them by the stream.
In order to prevent a wildfire, Xu Xiangwan cleared a five- or six-foot-square open space by the creek.
Xu Xiangwan found a yellow-white flint, put the dry leaves under the flint, and then scraped the flint vigorously with an arrowhead.
Sparks flew everywhere, but they still didn't ignite the leaves, and Xu Xiangwan's forehead began to sweat.
The best way to start a fire is to use wood or paper wool, but the conditions in the mountains are limited, so you can only use leaves, and after many attempts, the spark finally ignites the dry leaves.
After the fire was lit, Xu Xiangwan began to grill the fish.
I don't know if Xu Xiangwan hasn't eaten meat for too long, or if he's too hungry, the aroma of grilled fish comes to his nose, which is very tempting, causing Xu Xiangwan to swallow his saliva.
Soon the fish was grilled to brown, although it was black in some places, but overall it was quite successful, and Xu Xiangwan was very proud of his craft.
I remember that in the past, Goro and Xu Qiuyi were responsible for grilling fish occasionally, and this was the first time she grilled fish by herself.
couldn't help but take a bite, although there was no condiment, but it was still delicious, Xu Xiangwan solved a fish in three or two bites.
For Xu Xiangwan, who has not tasted meat for a long time, the attraction of this grilled fish can be imagined.
Looking at the remaining three fish, Xu Xiangwan couldn't help but lick his lips, and stayed on top of the grilled fish with one hand for a while, and finally picked the fresh maple leaf bag and took it all to the place where the boy was.
The boy's bleeding had stopped, but his face was still pale.
"There are a few fish here, and I don't know when you'll wake up, so I'll put them here, and when you wake up, eat them and leave quickly." Xu Xiangwan sat down next to the boy and placed the grilled fish wrapped in maple leaves on the other side of the boy.
"Saving someone's life is better than creating a seventh-level floating slaughter, I have also done a good thing, there should be a good reward, right? I don't expect other good rewards, just let my mother's body get better as soon as possible, and our family will live a good life. Xu Xiangwan looked up at the blue sky through the lush leaves, looking forward to it.
Xu Xiangwan wanted to leave, but he was worried that it would be dangerous to leave this person here alone, so he wanted to invite Lang Zhong, but his intuition was inappropriate, so he had to stay for about half an hour.
Just when Xu Xiangwan noticed that the boy's brows moved slightly, two familiar and anxious voices came from the slope of the mountain in front of him.
"Late!"
"Late!"
It's Gorou and Xu Qiuyi.
"This little man, my brother and my sister are coming to me, and I can't stay here with you. You look like you're waking up too, so you should be able to get down the mountain before dark, right? Your archery skills are so good, as long as you wake up, you shouldn't be in danger, right? Xu Xiangwan didn't know whether he was comforting the other party or himself.
When Xu Xiangwan went out today, he was wearing a shabby khaki coarse linen shirt and trousers of the same color. After most of the day's tossing, Xu Xiangwan's clothes were almost unrecognizable, and there were still many places where they were torn by the thorns on the wolfberry tree.
It is precisely because the clothes on the body are so dirty that the wolf blood sprayed on the upper body does not look particularly obvious.
Xu Xiangwan touched his face again, and found that it was a little sticky, so he remembered that the wolf blood was sprayed on his face, so he hurriedly went to the creek to wash his neck and face, and took a picture of the stream, and found nothing wrong, so he packed up his back and prepared to leave.
Suddenly, Xu Xiangwan stopped, picked a banana leaf from the banana tree not far away, scooped up some water and put it beside the man, and then carried it out of the valley on his back.
Xu Xiangwan didn't notice that before she could get out of the valley, the boy had slowly opened his eyes.
At this time, the voices of Gorou and Xu Qiuyi were getting closer and closer.
"Brother! Sister! I am here! Xu Xiangwan hurriedly responded.