Chapter 20: The Aftermath of the Catastrophe
The empty mountains are lonely, and the cold moon is like a hook. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info cold stars are suspended above the sky, like a little spot of light, like a chess cloth. The valley in the night was originally bleak and cold, like a barren next door, but if you look closely, you will find the sparkling river under the cliff, and the glow of the moonlight, the ghost light reflected on the cliff and the cliff also reflects the ghost light on the water. The ground on the shore is full of flowers, trees are verdant, and the whole air is filled with the fragrance of flowers and the fragrance of plants and trees, and the two fragrances are intertwined, which makes people fascinated. Suddenly, a bird's chirp pierced the lonely valley in the night, and it became a little more angry out of thin air. At this time, countless flocks of birds flew at the end of the sky, and there were thousands of jackdaws.
As the river flowed, a few pieces of driftwood floated downstream, stuck on a few mossy boulders. And on the driftwood lay an emaciated figure, the rushing river lapping her face. Gradually, the person on the driftwood regained consciousness. She slowly opened her eyes, and the sensation of her body gradually recovered. It was late at night, and the river was bitterly cold. Her body trembled terribly, and the feeling of hunger and cold made her know that she was still alive.
Zhao Qing gradually recalled that she and Yan Yunxi fell into the cliff together. She began to panic, searching around for Yan Yunxi's figure by the moonlight. There was a person lying on the shore more than a hundred meters away from him, Zhao Qingqiang endured the cold, and swam to the shore little by little holding the stones, she climbed onto the shore and stumbled to the person's side. She was petite and thin, and she used all her strength to turn the person over, and it was really Yan Yunxi.
Under the moonlight, Yan Yunxi had countless abrasions and bumps on his body. And the long knife wound in his back, which almost pierced his entire back. Zhao Qing remembered that Yan Yunxi hugged her tightly and protected her when they fell. The raised stones on the cliff that she bumped into halfway were all blocked by Yan Yunxi, and there were almost no scars on her body, only some small abrasions.
"Yunxi, Yunxi!" Zhao Qing patted Yan Yunxi's cheek, hoping that he could react a little bit and tell her that she was still alive.
Yan Yunxi still didn't react, and Zhao Qing laid him flat on the ground. Lying on his chest to check if there was still a heartbeat, she suddenly remembered that she had learned first aid after drowning when she was studying abroad. She tried to calm herself down, and Zhao Qing immediately checked Yan Yunxi's mouth and nasal cavity for mud and debris, repeatedly pressed Yan Yunxi's abdomen, and quickly vomited water for first aid. She leaned over to listen to Yan Yunxi's snort, and found that Yan Yunxi was barely breathing, and even her heartbeat was gone. Her heart tightened and she panicked.
"Calm down! Calm down! Zhao Qing, you can't mess with yourself at this time! She was at a loss and could only repeatedly tell herself to calm down, she took a few deep breaths and suddenly thought. I remember that if you find that the drowning person is not breathing and has no heartbeat, you should immediately unblock the mouth and nasal cavity, and perform artificial respiration and cardiopulmonary resuscitation, right! ”
Zhao Qing made Yan Yunxi lie on his back, tilted his head back, and immediately performed oral artificial respiration. At this time, her heart began to collapse slowly, she couldn't feel any temperature and living breath on Yan Yunxi's body, and she began to stop shedding tears. I can only loudly carry the first aid measures I learned when I studied abroad, and at the same time give first aid to Yan Yunxi to calm down!
"Hit the precordial area with your fist 1-2 times, with appropriate force. Place your hands on top of each other at the junction of the middle and lower one-third of the drowning person's sternum and press regularly and uninterruptedly. Compress with your arms straight at a frequency of 100 beats per minute and at a depth of 5 cm. Stop until the patient's carotid pulse can be felt. For every 30 compressions on the heart, blow into the lungs 2 times. Zhao Qing began to hold back the sobbing sound and did these actions repeatedly, she believed that Yan Yunxi would not leave her behind.
"Yunxi, wake up, open your eyes and look at me. Yun Xi ......" Zhao Qing's cry echoed in the night sky, so desperate and heartbroken.
At this time, she had been doing first aid for nearly five minutes, but Yan Yunxi showed no signs of survival. She began to despair, she hated that she was powerless, and hated that she didn't save Yan Yunxi. For the first time, she felt that she was just a weak woman, and how she wished that someone could help her. Zhao Qing lay on Yan Yunxi's chest weakly and cried bitterly, the cry was so sad in this poignant night.
"Why, why didn't you let go at that time. Why are you so cruel to punish me with death. What do I Zhao Qing owe you, you bastard, to ...... me like this" Her tears turned into resentment, guilt, heartache, and despair, and they slid down the corners of her eyes and fell on Yan Yunxi's chest. "You promised me to protect me for the rest of your life. How can you break your promise and leave me alone! You big liar, wake me up, wake up! ”
"Ahem......" Yan Yunxi suddenly coughed up the river water that was choked in his body, and he heard Zhao Qing calling his name all the time. Hear her worries, heartaches, pains, and despair.
"Yunxi? Yun Xi ......" Zhao Qing was frightened by Yan Yunxi's coughing sound, and couldn't believe it was Yan Yunxi's voice.
"Qingqing...... You're scolding like this... Loud, I'm going to die... It's also you... Woke up.... Yan Yunxi's extremely weak voice came. And also... You're so heavy......"
"You bastard, you're kidding at this time! Dislike! Zhao Qing was originally a mixture of joy and sorrow, but he was amused by Yan Yunxi to cry and laugh. She wiped away the tears on her face and looked at Yan Yunxi with a smirk.
"It's okay... You're okay..."Yan Yunxi squeezed out a relieved smile, his eyes full of pampering.
"What's fine! Do you know that you scared me to death just now, seeing that you had no breath and no pulse. How scared and desperate am I? Zhao Qing thought of the previous fear and despair, all the grievances in his heart overflowed, and tears couldn't stop falling.
"I'm sorry... Green... Don't cry, I..." Her tears made him feel distressed, and Yan Yunxi, who was at a loss, wanted to get up to comfort her, forgetting the injuries on his body, and just moved slightly to the point that he couldn't breathe. "Uhh......h
"Yunxi, don't move, you have injuries!" Zhao Qing only cared about the grievances, forgetting that Yan Yunxi still had injuries on his body.
"But seeing you cry, my heart hurts even more......"
"Okay, I won't cry anymore." She wiped away her tears, took a deep breath to calm herself, and looked up at the waning moon in the night sky. "It's going to be dawn soon, and you have to find a place to treat your injuries right away. There is a river here, depending on the direction of the river's flow, the southwest direction is the upstream, and the upstream should be inhabited. As long as we find a place where there are people, we will be saved. ”
"Good ......"
"You wait for me." Zhao Qing thought that Yan Yunxi was seriously injured and couldn't walk. Remembering the plank that had been washed to the shore by the river, I got up and ran in the direction of the plank.
The plank was the wreck of a carriage, just the size of a man lying down. She found some more old hemp rope and tied it to one end of the plank. The other end of the hemp rope was carried on his shoulder and dragged to Yan Yunxi's side.
"Yunxi, come, lie on it." Zhao Qing put Yan Yunxi's arm on his shoulder, and used his petite body to help Yan Yunxi move to the plank and lie down.
Zhao Qing pulled up the hemp rope and wrapped it around his body, carrying the hemp rope and walking forward, but the plank did not move at all. She didn't give up, she believed that since they didn't die by jumping off such a high cliff, God wouldn't let them die here so easily. With all her might, she finally dragged the plank.
"Yunxi...... You must not... Sleep, I can't wake up when I sleep. I finally ... Get you back..."Pulling the plank was already the limit of her strength, and she struggled with every word she spoke.
"Okay, I don't sleep." Yan Yunxi's voice trembled slightly.
"Talking counts... Can't lie... I ......"
"No......" looked at her petite and hard-working back, and the deepest part of his heart was touched.
The night slowly faded, and the dawn broke through the darkness. That ray of morning light was reflected on Zhao Qing's face, and her delicate face was already covered with fine beads of sweat, allowing Qingsi to dance in the wind against the warm morning light. At this moment, they have been walking for two hours, and Zhao Qing has never stopped, except for feeding Yan Yunxi water on the way to ensure that he will not become dehydrated. Basically, they were all on the road, and she firmly believed that if she walked a little further, she would be able to see the farmers.
Finally about a mile into the valley, she saw a wooden house with smoke rising from its roof. She was overjoyed that she was finally saved.
"Yunxi, I see the house, we have been saved!" Zhao Qing quickened his pace, as if he had grasped a life-saving straw.
After walking for about a quarter of an hour, she finally came to the wooden house. Although the wooden house is small, it looks clean and tidy from the outside. The wooden house is surrounded by a fence, and there is a wooden door in the middle, and there is a simple plaque on the wooden door, which reads Hundred Herbs. In the courtyard in front of the wooden house, there are many wooden bamboo racks for drying herbs, each of which has three layers, and each layer is covered with medicinal herbs. The smell of medicine wafted from the house, and someone was refining medicinal materials in the house.
"Anyone? Is there anyone in the house? Zhao Qing stood outside the door and shouted a few times.
The people in the house heard the noise, and a young boy in a blue cloth shirt walked out. Eleven or twelve years old, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a ghostly look.
"Who are you?" The boy looked up and down at the embarrassed woman in front of him, her clothes were ragged, her shoes were worn out, her hair was scattered, and there were some abrasions on her body.
"Great... Little master, please... Help me save him......" Zhao Qing saw someone come out, the tense nerves in his heart finally let go, and he suddenly felt dizzy in front of him, his whole body was weak, and he fell to the ground with a soft foot.
At the last moment of her confusion, she saw Xiao Tong shouting out another person in the house and running towards her and Yan Yunxi, finally relieved, and gradually fainted.
Confused, Zhao Qing didn't know how long she had been asleep, she was too tired. In a daze, two voices were heard.
"Senior Brother Winterworm, why hasn't she woken up yet?" The owner of the voice was slightly immature, it was the child just now.
"Don't worry, she's just overdepleted and a little cold, just take the medicine and sleep for a few hours." Xiao Tong's senior brother was not too worried about the woman's state, but he looked at the man covered in injuries in confusion. "I'm most worried about this man, he is covered in injuries, there are a few fractures, and the most fatal thing is the knife wound in his back, which almost cut off his muscles and bones, and it is also a loss of his good foundation, otherwise he would have died in Huangquan."
"How's that good? The master went out to look for medicine, and I don't know how long it will take to come back. This person looks like he is about to die, and he can't drag the master back! Xiao Tong was a little worried that the man would not be able to hold on, and he seemed a little anxious.
The winter insect frowned and hesitated. They have never treated such patients alone, they have always seen the master heal, although they have seen a lot, but when it is really time to treat themselves, they really have no bottom in their hearts. After much thought, the winter worm finally made up his mind. Saving people is like fighting fire, and you can't hesitate anymore.
"Senior Brother Xia Cao, you go and bring the Snow Plant Herbal Paste that you have just practiced."
"Snow Grass? Senior brother, the master worked hard to find it from the Northern Yan Kingdom, and there are only a few plants. If we use it, what should we do if the master punishes us? Although Xia Cao was very worried about that person's injury, she was also afraid that she would be punished by Master for using Master's herbs without permission.
"I can't take care of it so much, herbs are originally used to save people, if you don't use them because they are precious, then you won't lose the meaning of curing diseases and saving people! Go get it! Although he hesitated, the master was a medicine idiot, and before leaving, he had instructed him to be optimistic about the snow plants. Now that he is using it to save people privately, Master will definitely be angry. But when you think about it, if the doctor heals the sick and saves people, if the master is here, he will do the same.
"Okay, senior brother, I'll go get it!" Xia Cao ran to the pharmacy and took out a delicate white medicine bottle from the wooden box and gave it to her senior brother. "Senior brother, can this really heal the knife wound on his back?"
"Snow plant grass is born in the extreme cold of the north, growing in the cracks of the stone walls of snow-capped mountains, and it is a miracle medicine. It is said that this kind of knife wound can heal in one day. However, he was a little too badly injured, and it could be a little longer. ”
The conversation between the winter worm and Xia Cao, Zhao Qing listened to it, but his body was too weak, and he fell asleep again.