2. Chapter 2: Dream 2
I woke up to a humble hut, and I was lying on my bed, the faint smell of medicine pouring into my nose. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info Everything becomes unreal. Why am I here? Where is this? Who am I? The feeling of a splitting headache made me have to stop thinking.
The tingling pain from the palm of my hand let me know that I was still alive, and looking at the bandaged palm, the medicinal fragrance came from nowhere. The sourness all over my body, mixed with one question after another, I couldn't help but fall asleep again。。。。。。
My throat seemed to be smoking, and I woke up again with a violent cough, when a white hand holding a bowl of water appeared in front of me, and I looked forward with my hand, a little girl of about fifteen or sixteen years old, was motioning for me to drink water. I got up slowly, took the bowl with my right hand, and gulped it down. The sweet water with a refreshing coolness instantly spread throughout the body. I thanked her as I lay down on the bed again. The little girl didn't speak, took the bowl and gently placed it on the wooden table. I saw that her eyes were a little blank, and to avoid embarrassment, I pretended to close her eyes and fell asleep. At this moment, when the wooden door creaked, someone entered the house, and I saw a short old man fifty miles away, putting down the herbs on his back. He said to the little girl, Xin'er, you go and boil water. The little girl nodded and walked out of the house, leading the door with her. The old man walked up to my bed, carefully examined my wound and bandaged, took my vein, and said to me, you woke up early, I opened my eyes and nodded. The old man said that on the way back from collecting medicine the evening before yesterday, he saw me fainting under the bridge, so he took me back here.
I tried to remember something, but there was a dull pain in my brain。。。。。。
I woke up again, under the dim oil lamp, in front of a small stove, the old man was picking a berry that he had picked, and the fragrant smell could be smelled a few meters away. When the old man heard me wake up, he looked back at me and said, you are still very weak, don't get up yet, today, it is the third day that you have been here, you were very poisoned at that time, if it wasn't for me, hehe, he shook his head, said no more, and then picked berries. I asked curiously, what kind of fruit is that? The old man smiled slightly, this is called the dead man's heel. Seeing that I was about to ask, he put the picked fruit in a large bowl and brought it to me, only to see that the fruit, the size of a soybean, had a millet-sized core faintly in the transparent thin skin, and the shape was like a miniature peach. A burst of fragrance came, and I only felt that my mind was a little clearer. I saw the old man take out another sea bowl, put it on the fruit, squeezed each other, squeezed the juice into the teacup, and the pale pink liquid seemed to have a halo flowing. The old man handed me the teacup and said, "Drink it, your life depends on it." I didn't hesitate to take a sip, the sweet and sour feeling, after drinking the lips and teeth. I saw the old man pick up the sea bowl and pour the residue into the casserole, add a few herbs and start to boil the medicine. I silently watched him busy, maybe it was the effect of the drug, I only felt the warm current surging between my heart and chest, the blood in my limbs flowing, the soreness in my body gradually flowed to my left hand, and my palm was itching. A faint black liquid oozes out of the bandaging area。。。。。。
While skillfully fiddling with the medicine pot, the old man said that there are many unknown berries in the mountains and forests, and in order to prevent children from eating them by mistake, adults often refer to the nameless berries as the heels of dead people. Only a few berries are non-toxic. Such as sand dates, mountain red, etc. Fortunately, I saw this berry after meeting you, otherwise, no matter how good my medical skills are, I can't save you. This berry grows too low, birds and beasts like to eat it, and this time I happened to pick some. You see, this kind of bush berry, the whole plant can be used in medicine, which is very rare. Come, drink it while it's hot, don't be hot, just say it, hand me a teacup of medicinal juice, and I quickly take it and drink it. The fiery black medicinal juice ran down my throat, and the entrance was extremely bitter, as if there was a flame stirring my blood, and the medicinal gas reached my cold limbs, and in the palm of my hand, suddenly hot and cold alternated。。。。。。
The door creaked open, Xin'er walked into the house, and the old man handed her the berries, and she silently took them and sent them out of the house. I endured the burning trembling sound in my throat that did not dissipate and asked the old man, is Xin'er unable to speak? The old man smiled bitterly and said, she can speak, she is not dumb. A few years ago, when I was collecting medicine on a mountain, I found her hanging unconscious on a branch under a cliff, she was covered in blood at that time, and when I woke her up, she just said that the bandit had killed her parents, and her name was Xin'er. She hasn't been heard a word since. Alas! The old man shook his head and said, "Hard-working child。。。。。。
I was speechless. Strange place, strange people, strange me, I don't know who I am, and now, lying here like a wasted person, I really know that this is not an illusion.
When the old man saw that I was silent, he asked me again, do you want to hurry up? I nodded. But I saw him turn and go out of the door. After a while, he came in with a one-foot-long wooden figure in his hand, the wooden figure was dark black, with a male body, and the body was covered with horizontal and vertical red lines. The old man explained that this thing is said to be a relic of Sun Simiao, my surname is Yue, and my family guards this valley for the medicine kings of previous dynasties. I casually asked, who is this generation of medicine kings? Yue Lao replied, his name is Lin Lan. Since childhood, he has been frail and sickly, and it is strange to say that most of the descendants of the Queen of Medicine are women. She went to the bottom of the Medicine King Valley, and estimated that the valley master should come back in the next few days, the Medicine King Valley was full of miasma all the year round, and although it produced strange medicines, no one had been able to enter the valley. You must have a special anti-miasma medicine made by the valley owner to keep with you in order to go deep into the valley bottom. That's why I usually only collect medicine in the mountains.
I was holding the wooden figure in my hand, and there was a feeling of qi deficiency in my internal organs. Alas, it seems that I am already a waste, and the wooden figure weighing a few pounds feels heavier and heavier in my hands. Yue Lao saw that I was sweating on my forehead, and said to me, you look at it first, and I'll go and make a bowl of porridge for you. With that, he turned around and walked out of the house. I put the black wooden figure at the head of the bed and played with it carefully. I saw that the joints of the limbs of this puppet could be moved and bent. If it weren't for the red lines on it, I would really think it would be a child's toy. I snapped the legs of the Kuroki man and posed in different poses. At this time, I suddenly saw sesame seed-sized handwriting next to each red line, most of which were already a little blurry. I looked closely, vaguely in the direction of the red line. On the right leg of the Kuroki man, the thickest red thread caught my eye, starting with the big toe of the wooden man, and every other paragraph had a two- or three-character name. As I watched, I unconsciously looked for a corresponding position in myself. At this time, suddenly there was a burning heat from the center of my foot to my toes, and it traveled along the red line of my body like an ant walk, and I couldn't help but be startled, and deliberately controlled the heat from spreading upward, and sure enough, the heat stayed on the calf knees. I think it's fun to keep the heat flowing. I subconsciously followed the red line mark on the black wood man. The heat goes up the legs, and the soreness in the part where the heat passes through is immediately reduced, and you feel comfortable. I was overjoyed, and earnestly followed the heat along the black wood man, through the lower abdomen, on the chest, to the shoulder socket, and finally into the lungs and disappeared。。。。。。
As the heat traveled, the feeling of qi deficiency in my body gradually lessened. In my lower abdomen, there is a hot air mass that slowly forms. At this time, I blessed my soul and memorized all the twelve red threads on the black wood man one by one. I lay back on the bed and began to confirm myself one by one according to the memories in my head, and at this time, the heat in my lower abdomen had condensed into a clump, and when I felt the qi running all over my body, I felt that my physical strength had recovered a lot. I don't know how long it took, I opened my eyes, sat up, and the black wood man was held in my arms for some time!!!! �;
In the midst of doubt, I heard a knock on the wooden door. As soon as I looked up, I saw Yue Lao walking to my bed with a bowl of porridge, he put the porridge on the table, and said to me with a smile, you drink the porridge first, and now you can return the black wood man to me, right? I embarrassedly handed over the black wood man with both hands, and Yue Lao took the black wood man and said, it's not early, you drink the porridge and rest early, how much you can comprehend depends on your own creation. After speaking, he opened the wooden door, turned around and told him again, our valley master is back, and she will come to see you tomorrow morning. With that, Yue Lao gently brought the wooden door up. I picked up the porridge and drank it slowly。。。。。。
I felt that my body was suddenly warmer after drinking the porridge, so I slowly tried to stretch my legs, only to hear a soft sound in the joints, tendons began to itch, in addition to the muscles in the thighs were still a little sore, I felt my strength gradually begin to return to the body. I got out of bed carefully, the soles of my feet were still numb on the ground, and suddenly a hot breath spread from my lower abdomen to the soles of my feet. The numbness disappears immediately. I simply moved my limbs, constantly mobilizing the qi in my body, my body seemed to be getting lighter and lighter, and after a while, I was able to walk slowly in the house. I was overjoyed and slowly moved the air flow throughout my body。。。。。。