21. Stitches
Zhenshu had only climbed a few feet high, and suddenly heard Lin Dayu shouting loudly, and the tiger roaring. She looked back and saw that Lin Dayu was pressed under the tiger not far away, with blood stains on his face and neck, he held the tiger's head with both hands for a long time, and after a while, his hands were loose, and the tiger's head was lowered.
Zhenshu thought that the tiger had bitten Lin Dayu to death, and said in his heart that since he was dead, this tiger would come to eat herself, even if she was lucky enough to climb the tree, there would always be a time when she would come down, as long as the tiger waited, she would not be able to escape. I remembered that this big fish was eaten by a tiger in order to send him, and there was no fear in my heart, but my anger rose.
She jumped down from the tree and said to herself: If you have fallen into such a situation, you will die, and you cannot cry and be sick and weak, even if you have a stone, you must hit the tiger and make it suffer some pain. She looked around, and saw that there were no stones in the forest, but there was half a dead tree not far away, so she picked it up and dragged it in her hand, walked barefoot to Lin Dayu, and called softly: "Brother Big Fish." โ
The tiger doesn't move, and neither does the big fish. Zhenshu said in his heart that this tiger was motionless, I am afraid that it is not dead. It's just that she didn't believe that Lin Dayu could kill a tiger with her bare hands, so she raised her stick and hit the tiger on the back. Who knew that the tiger was still with its eyes closed, and after her stick, suddenly its eyes widened angrily, and it was about to pounce when it got up with a roar.
Zhenshu's frightened hairs stood on end, but he still tightened his grip on the stick and gave the tiger another blow on his back. The tiger opened its mouth to scream, but blood gushed out from the corners of its mouth. It struggled to its feet, and walked towards Zhenshu step by step. Zhenshu stepped back, still taking the stick and slamming it on the tiger's head. Only then did she see clearly that there was a dagger stuck in the tiger's throat, which must have been inserted by Lin Dayu when he was fighting fiercely with Lin Dayu just now.
The tiger called Zhenshu and provoked the anger to the extreme, although the blood did not stop, the mixed fluff stood up, the tail was also high and stilted, the front paws were extended, and the waist was about to pounce. Zhenshu retreated step by step, and saw that Lin Dayu was still motionless, and hated the tiger in his heart, so he raised the stick again, used the resentment against the Su family and Zhenxiu together, shouted, and sent the tiger out when he jumped.
This tiger was already at the end of the crossbow, and it was no longer able to hurt people, and after the stick of Zhenshu, he fell to the ground with a limp.
Zhenshu was afraid that it would still not be able to die, so he knocked the tiger on the head with a stick a few times, and saw that it was still not moving for a long time, so he threw the stick to see Lin Dayu.
She lifted the skirt and wiped the blood on his face and neck, and saw that there were no scars on his face, and the blood in her heart must have gushed out of the tiger's neck. Then he examined his body and legs, and saw that there were no external injuries everywhere, and listened to him breathe evenly, and his hanging heart was relieved for a while. So they stayed by his side until he woke up.
Lin Dayu carried a woman on his back last night for half the night, and followed the tiger in the woods in the middle of the night for a long time, before he tried his best to get a tiger, the tiger had great strength in his palm, although he sent the dagger into the tiger's neck, but also made the tiger stunned. He slowly opened his eyes after a long time of drowsiness, and saw Zhenshu holding his mouth and opening his two apricot eyes without blinking, and he was stunned for a long time before asking, "Girl, why don't you run?" โ
When Zhenshu saw him wake up, he cried with joy, and fell on him and cried: "You saved my life last night, how can I leave you alone." โ
Lin Dayu tilted his body and looked around, saw the tiger lying not far away, and grinned: "I actually killed a tiger." โ
He was a little greedy for the little girl's dependence on him, and the trust and reliance she had wholeheartedly when she looked at him, so he refused to interrupt it, so he closed his eyes and squinted for a long time.
By this time the sky was already bright, and the morning sun was slightly rising. He raised his hands in front of him, and the backs of his hands were full of tears that had burst open from the tiger, and deep blood lines oozed from them. Zhenshu helped him sit up, and saw that his back was also soaked with blood, so he helped him up and said, "Let's quickly find a place where there are people, so that we can change your clothes for you." โ
Lin Dayu waved his hand and said, "In this entire Wen County, I can't show my face." I know there's a place to go, but I have to help me get there. โ
He pointed to the sparsely wooded and shallower area on the left-hand side and said, "A little further away from that side, there will be a small river, let's go up the river, and about two miles away there is a hunter's hut, you can send me to it." โ
Sadashu put his arms around his neck and stood up, he was such a sturdy and tall person, and now the whole body was leaned on her shoulder, and she dragged him forward step by step. Zhenshu gritted his teeth and endured the pain in his right leg, and walked step by step to the place where he felt a shot, and saw a clear river meandering in the forest, which must be a tributary of the river next to the official road in the forest. The terrain by the river is difficult to walk, and in many places the river water follows the cliffs, so it has to flow up the river.
I don't know how long I walked along the river, the sun shone in the air, the river water melted warmly, and when the bees and butterflies of the four wild fields were dancing, Zhenshuguo saw that on a gentle slope not far away, there was a thatched house.
Lin Dayu seemed to have lost consciousness completely, and the whole person was lying on Zhenshu's shoulder, pressing her out of breath. Zhenshu gritted his teeth, put Lin Dayu half on his shoulders, rushed up the hillside with all his strength, and opened the wooden door of the house with his feet, and saw that the inside was still clean, and a bed with wooden planks occupied the entire back half of the room, and some hay was spread on it. In front of a large jar with a lid on the top and a small urn on the other side with a lid, and in addition to that, there were bunches of dried peanuts and sweet potatoes hanging on the wall.
She put Lin Dayu on the bed, knelt beside him and called softly, "Brother Dayu, can you hear me?" โ
Lin Dayu slowly raised his hand and waved it slightly, Zhenshu saw that he could hear it, and said: "If it is bright today, I will walk along this small river, and I will definitely be able to reach the official road." When the time comes, I will walk over Wuling Mountain and find my family. โ
Lin Dayu still waved his hand gently, thinking that he wanted her to go. Zhenshu hesitated for a while and then asked, "I'm leaving, can you do it?" โ
Lin Dayu lowered his hands and closed his eyes, and was speechless for a long time. Zhenshu was puzzled in his heart, and his heart was to make the tiger stunned, and he should wake up at this time, but he still had other injuries on his body. She tried to turn over the big fish in Fulin, and saw that there was blood on the grass where he had just pressed it, and hurriedly turned him over, only to see two deep claw marks on his back, and bright red blood gradually seeped out from the rolled flesh.
I don't know when the tiger caught him, but he caught him so hard.
Zhen Shuxu stretched out his hands and gently pressed the area around the wound, and Lin Dayu's painful muscles shrank sharply.
She got out of bed and opened the vat, and saw that there were only a few cobwebs inside.
He lifted the lid of the urn again, and inside was half an urn of white rice. She leaned down at the bottom of the bed, and there was a pile of miscellaneous belongings underneath, and inside was a half-edged wooden basin with a bowl and a pair of chopsticks, apparently used by the hunters for their night's sleep. She freed the bowl and tore the bloodied curtain of her skirt. went out with a wooden basin and washed the skirt curtain by the river, came back with half a basin of water, and knelt beside Lin Dayu to wipe the wound on his back.
His wound turned outward, and if it was not sutured, I am afraid that not only would it not grow well, but it would worsen. Although Zhenshu has not used needlework since childhood, she is bold enough to run wild, and when she was a child, she often peeked at the peasants roasting pigs in the village, and she had read all the books in Song Anrong's study, and she had skimmed a few medical books, and knew some simple recipes.
She knows how to sterilize and suture wounds, and she knows the consequences of ignoring them. It's just that there is no needle and thread here, and there is no fire or water, and it is only wiped with raw water, and it cannot be completely disinfected.
She sat on the edge of the bed and stared at Lin Dayu silently for a long time before she got up and put the handkerchief on the branch outside to dry. Then he went into the house, took out everything under the bed, and carried it outside to dust off. She pulled out a triangular pot from under the bed, and there was a dry handkerchief lying in it, which must have been used by the hunter to cook the shabu-shabu. He also took out a duster with loose teeth and loose hair, presumably for them to clean the house.
Zhenshu first took out the unstained dry firewood on one side of the bed to dry and dust, wiped the bed board clean with a handkerchief, and then took the hay back and spread it loosely, and then untied his skirt and spread it on it, and made it into a soft and clean bed. After the laying, he wiped all the places in the house with a wet cloth, and then took water and sprinkled the wet ground, starting from the bottom of the bed to sweep it clean.
After Zhenshu finished these things, Lin Dayu was still in a slumber. She stared for a long time before coming out again, and began to sort through the pile of miscellaneous things outside, including tattered clothes stained with old blood, a ball of rotten cotton felt and a rotten hat, and a trap covered in iron embroidery.
Zhenshu sighed, and said in her heart that there were no needles in this house, and she couldn't move Lin Dayu to the outside of the mountain, how should this be?
After all, he saved her from danger, how could she sit idly by.
Because he was hungry and could not make a fire. Zhen Shufu went back to the house, stood on the bed and touched the thin tapes on the rafters of the roof, and touched it, and when she touched a slanted pillar on the top of the large vat, she touched a palm-sized thing, wrapped in animal skin. Zhenshu was overjoyed, and hurriedly took it down and opened it, and saw that it was wrapped in a fire sickle and flint, and there was a three-inch-long needle in it.
Hunters are often out hunting, and injuries are common, so it makes sense for them to have needles.
With this needle, you can stitch up Lin Dayu's wound. Zhenshu jumped out of bed and ran outside the house, picked up some dry grass, kneaded the hay to pieces, and struck the flint a few times with a fire sickle, and the spark gradually ignited.
She fell on her knees and blew the fire vigorously, and then put the branches on it in a triangle, and in a moment the fire was burning vigorously. She took water and hung it in a pot to boil, took some threads from the shirt to boil and fished it out and put it on the side, then boiled the needle carefully, lit it with a fire, and then took the clean cloth that she had just removed from her skirt, and took boiling water to wipe the wound for Lin Dayu. Thread the half-dried thread in the needle, tear off the clothes on Lin Dayu's back, and sew up the wound for him.
Who knew that she had only stitched up, and Lin Dayu screamed and got up, humming in his mouth: "It hurts!" Hurt! โ
Zhenshu hurriedly pressed him down on the bed, and said softly: "Good, it doesn't hurt, it doesn't hurt, at most there are two more stitches." โ
Lin Dayu closed her eyes before falling asleep, and she had another stitch. At this time, Lin Dayu sat up with a painful sigh, looked at the needle and thread in Zhenshu's hand, and said angrily: "Little girl, why are you poking me with a needle?" โ
Zhenshu took the needle and said: "You have two deep marks on your back that tiger melon seeds, and the meat is turned out, if you don't sew it for you, what should you do if you get caught in the cold?" โ
Lin Dayu saw that the bed on one side was neatly laid, and he didn't dare to lean over the wolf chaff on his body, so he just blindly hid in the corner of the wall, waved his hand and said: "But the cat's claw scratched the same small injury, and it will be fine in two days." โ
Zhenshu himself had one leg that was still swollen and shiny, and his movement was quite inconvenient, and he knelt on the bed like this, his knee hurt like a heart, and he was anxious and angry at this time, so that Lin Dayu fell down on the bed, and simply sat on him without telling him to move, and coaxed: "Such a thin needle, but the pain of a bite of an insect, it will be fine for a while." โ
Since there were no scissors, she had to lean over and bite the stitched thread with her teeth every time she stitched it. Although Lin Dayu had injuries on his body, Zhenshu's two soft lips were pressed against his injured back, which was undoubtedly the best anesthetic. Every time his lips are grinding, he is extremely โกโก and uncomfortable. It was also obediently lying on his stomach without moving.
Waiting for Zhenshu to stitch up the two wounds, he still said: "This is the end?" โ