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Shen Miao didn't pay attention to the changes in the old man, only secretly said that it was not good, it was safe in this poor mountain pass, but he couldn't find Lang Zhong, this person was injured and had a high fever, what should I do?

The old man changed his questioning method and continued to ask Fang Cai's question: "What the hell is going on with this person, why are there so many wounds?" ”

Shen Miao had no choice but to answer honestly: "I don't know." ”

"Don't know?" The old man was surprised, "You don't know him?" ”

Shen Miao nodded.

The old man became more and more strange: "I don't know him, why do you want to take him away?" ”

Shen Miao had no choice but to tell what happened, including that he was nailed into a coffin and dragged to a mass grave while his breath was still alive, and he met this person in the mass grave, and because this person's horse was very spiritual, he couldn't bear to refuse and saved him, and he was stopped on the road, regardless of 3721, he was sent here.

The old man was stunned for a long time after hearing this, and looked at Shen Miao with a gaze of complete disbelief.

Shen Miao also knew that the story was too bizarre, and others might not believe it, so she had to break the jar and say: "Anyway, mine is the truth, believe it or not." ”

Who knew that the old man seemed to believe it, and took out a bag of salt from the corner of the room and gave it to Shen Miao: "Use this to wash his wounds, there are only weeds growing on this mountain, not herbs, and there is no way to cure it." ”

How can it not grow herbs? Shen Miao was strange, although he didn't understand it very well, he also vaguely remembered that the vitality of some herbs was okay, how could it not be long? What made him even more strange was that the old man handed over a pound of salt, salt should be a rarity in ancient times, how could a place so poor that he couldn't even eat rice?

The old man snorted coldly and explained the problem of salt: "The matter of salt is a 'good thing' done by Dong Chang. ”

As soon as she heard the word "Dong", Shen Miao couldn't help but pay attention and asked more: "What the hell is going on." ”

"Dong Chang is an observer envoy in Yuezhou, this person has little ability, but he is so ambitious and bent on becoming bigger, and he thinks that he has promulgated a lot of 'benefiting the people' policies, and the abolition of the monopoly of salt is one of them. As soon as this thing was abolished, illegal salt was rampant, and every household hoarded a lot of it in an attempt to ship it to other states for profit. But selling smuggled salt is the wealth of the official family in other states, which is so easy for you to make a profit, the salt can't be shipped out at all, and all the salt hoarders have no return, so they can only pile up at home and eat slowly. The old man said sarcastically.

Shen Miao understood, and quietly glanced at the old man sympathetically, he also had salt at home, which meant that he was also a member of the army that had no return.

The old man noticed Shen Miao's gaze and swept his eyes back rather unhappily.

Shen Miao hurriedly retracted and said goodbye, dragged the man home with difficulty, took a lot of effort to move to bed, and then went to the main house to find a pot to boil water, the pot was found by the way, but the water could not be found, this place was obviously watered, and the streams and rocks were wet, but there was no water.

Shen Miao had no choice but to ask the old man again.

As soon as the old man heard that Shen Miao was here to ask for water, he immediately refused: "Just put salt directly on the wound, what kind of water to boil?" ”

"How much does that hurt? It's not cured pork. Shen Miao continued to beg for water.

The old man was disdainful: "The most precious thing in this mountain is water, if you want it, find it yourself." ”

Shen Miao was strange, the climate in this place didn't look like the north, how could this kind of mountain be short of water?

The old man still didn't explain, Shen Miao had to work his own, and he couldn't find an ordinary way, so he could only take a trick. Isn't there a spirit horse? Let it look around. Shen Miao walked up to the horse and explained it with a dance, the horse seemed to understand, and turned his head and took Shen Miao around the mountain along a path on the mountainside.

After walking for about half a mile, I bypassed this mountain and went around to the back of the mountain, and the scene presented surprised Shen Miao, the huge mountain has slipped down as a whole, and the slopes are full of all kinds of rocks, the edges and corners of the rocks have been somewhat weathered, and the landslide seems to have occurred for some years.

The horse and Shen Miao cautiously walked down the landslide and stopped in front of a dark, artificially hewn mine road. It snorted, signaling that there was water in it.

Shen Miao was puzzled: "How can there be water here?" ”

The horse did not answer his question, and the old man's voice suddenly sounded: "There is indeed water in it, and your horse is really spiritual." ”

Shen Miao was startled, and without realizing it, the old man followed him all the way, saw that he had found the mouth of the pit, and lit a torch.

"Come with me." The old man walked in with a torch, and Shen Miao hesitated but followed.

The mine was a mess, littered with rubble, and the wooden bars supporting it were crooked and ready to collapse at any moment. After about fifty paces, the mine began to descend, the gravel gradually increased, the wooden strips almost disappeared, the ground began to get wet, and after another fifty steps, the mine road was completely blocked. There was a pool of water under the blockage, not much, but enough for Shen Miao.

"This place used to produce a kind of precious stone, made into a seal is very popular with those officials and masters, many people come to pick, you dig one, I dig one, do not let each other. As a result, one day the mountain god was touched, and all the mines collapsed, and those who had not had time to escape died inside. The old man looked at Shen Miao, who was drawing water, and said slowly.

When Shen Miao heard this, he immediately looked around, there have been dead people here, can this water be used?

"Don't worry, the water is clean." The old man said, "Since the wrath of the mountain god, the terraces on the mountain have collapsed, and there is no longer any water in the streams, and even if the crops are watered as hard as they can, they always die in the summer, and they will not be harvested in the autumn. The grass and trees on the mountain are the same, because of the lack of water, they all die, only in the Qingming Valley rain, which often rains, there will be some grass. There are only two ways to drink water in the village, either to catch it when it rains, or to come here to draw water. But the water here will dry up as long as it doesn't rain for seven or eight days, and the people in the village can't get by, so they leave one after another. ”

When Shen Miao heard this, she finally understood what was going on with the many strange things she had seen before.

This is caused by the cracks in the mountain caused by the collapse of the mine road, and after the collapse of those coal mines, such problems will also occur on the surface. When the water falls on the mountain, it can no longer be stored, and it leaks into the mountain through the cracks in the soil, and the inside of the mountain will gradually hollow out, gradually forming an underground river, and the living environment of the vegetation on the mountain will be destroyed since then.

"So the rent of this Zhuangzi can never be collected, no matter how many people Yang Xingfeng hacks to death, no matter how many Zhuangtou he sends, it will be useless, Dong Chang handed over this Zhuangzi to him, and asked him to govern it just because he couldn't get used to Yang Xingfeng's perverse and violent whereabouts, and he deliberately taught him a lesson and gave him a problem. It's a pity that Yang Xingfeng can't see through it, or he can see it through, but he doesn't dare to find Dong Chang's theory, so he can only sprinkle his anger on other people's heads. The old man sneered and said, looking at Shen Miao condescendingly, as if laughing at Shen Miao for being stupid.

Shen Miao sucked his hand for a moment, and the old man's words made the cause and effect of the matter clear, objective and clear, straightforward and cruel. Governing this Zhuangzi is a joke, the product of a struggle between two great men, and he is a mole ant caught in the middle, but he is doomed to die for no reason.

This was a huge blow to Shen Miao, who had just established his confidence, and he was silent for a long time, making a choice between resigning himself to sinking and waiting for death, and working hard to change his life. In the end, he was firm in his previous idea and chose the latter.

He was not reconciled! It's hard to live another life, and I don't want it to end so quickly!

Shen Miao took a deep breath, tightened her hand gripping the basin, lifted it vigorously, and smiled at the old man: "What about the facts, I can't change it, but I want to live, and I will work hard for it." ”

The old man was very surprised and surprised, he had seen countless village heads, and after knowing such a situation, he was crying with his head in his arms, and he had nothing to love, but this person's reaction was completely different. This woman-looking man shouldn't have reacted like this, what the hell is going on? The old man frowned and pondered, he didn't speak for a long time, and he didn't even notice that Shen Miao had already gone out with the water.

Seeing that Shen Miao came out safely, the horse rubbed Shen Miao very happily, Shen Miao patted the horse's head, and took it back with a basin of water.

The water boiled quickly, and Shen Miao dug out the natural science knowledge that he hadn't used for a long time from his brain, barely prepared the proportion of saline, and began to deal with the person.

The man's body was full of knife wounds, and it seemed that he had been looted before he was thrown into the mass grave, the belt and shoes were gone, the upper body was striped, and the pants on the lower body were also crumbling, except for the part of the chest wound that had been washed away by the rain, the rest of the wounds were embedded with unknown soil brought from the mass grave, and many of them were tied together with the wounds, and it was a huge and painful process to deal with.

Shen Miao took out a low stool from the dining hall of the main house, found a few more chopsticks, cut them into thin slices, and then sat down and began to deal with them.

In the first few, Shen Miao was stumbling with his hands, and he often tore the wound bigger, so that even if the person was unconscious, he was so pained that he reacted slightly. After gradually becoming proficient, the situation improved, and Shen Miao also explored other methods, first using a cloth soaked in ordinary warm water to paste the wound, and then treating it with salt water after the scabs and filth softened.

With such patience and meticulousness, when it was completely dark, Shen Miao finally dealt with everything, including the wound on her head. He breathed a deep sigh of relief and got up from the stool, but after sitting for too long, his legs were numb, and he was completely unsteady on his feet, and he fell to the ground at once. There was a basin of water on the ground, and the pain of this planting could be imagined, Shen Miao closed her eyes and waited for the pain to come.

Unexpectedly, the pain did not come, the old man suddenly appeared and helped him, Shen Miao was very surprised.

The old man didn't explain, but handed over a small cloth bag with a cold face: "Here is some brown rice, not much, cook porridge to eat, enough for you to eat for ten days." ”

Shen Miao was even more surprised, according to previous observations, the old man's life was very poor, and his diet was mainly wild vegetables, although these were brown rice, they should also be his most precious food, how did they give it to him?

The old man still didn't explain, only said: "I don't want to forget it." ”

Shen Miao hurriedly took it, comprehended the old man's kindness, and said gratefully, "Thank you." ”

The old man let go of Shen Miao, pushed the door and went out.