Chapter 104: Map
His right foot was not heavy or light on the ground, and he had not been able to recover from the fleeting scene in front of him, so Lu Shaoyun, who was slightly stunned, was immediately pulled by Lin Xiran, who arrived in time, before taking the next step. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ info
"Brother Shixuan, Frost and Cold will be fine." Lin Xiran, who was rational and sober-minded, and didn't want to rush to her side to help because he saw Xia Shuanghan being injured and bleeding, saw the two safety ropes tied to Xia Shuanghan and Chagap, and concluded that with Xia Shuanghan's ability, the current situation would not bring her any fatal injuries, and said to Lu Shaoyun: "Didn't she just say, let you wait for her below, you will never act rashly, distract her, and cause trouble for her, right?" β
Lu Shaoyun, who reacted from Lin Xiran's advice that he had almost done something just now, quickly left the phantom in front of him behind.
Regaining his composure and sanity, he glanced at the safety rope held in the hands of the villagers on the mountain road, and then turned around and nodded to Lin Xiran beside him, to tell him that he would never make any impulsive and reckless moves. Then, he raised his head and shouted to Xia Shuanghan on the cliff: "Shuanghan, you take your time, be careful, I'm waiting for you below, you know?" β
"Okay, I know." Lu Shaoyun's words made Xia Shuanghan, who was hanging with a heart, exhale relaxedly. Gripping the tail of the arrow, which was becoming more and more difficult to grasp due to the sweaty palms of her hands, she began to use her right foot to find the point of focus she needed to continue climbing down the cliff.
The whole descent was painful and difficult.
Needless to say, the pain is obvious to anyone with a discerning eye, and the hideous wound on Xia Shuanghan's left calf is still bleeding outward. And because of the pain, whenever her left calf was stressed, it always trembled uncontrollably.
As for the difficulty, it was because of the blood that was constantly dripping downwards from Xia Shuanghan, which made the many arrowtails that lay beneath her wet and slippery, which was neither conducive to her stepping on nor grasping.
But fortunately, before Xia Shuanghan's left calf reached the limit of its endurance, she finally reached the ground without danger.
And Lu Shaoyun, who had been waiting under the stone wall with Chagap's father Taluk, immediately bent down and hugged her horizontally the moment Chagap was taken away on Xia Shuanghan's back.
"Sister Bariya, medicine box." Lu Shaoyun, who walked quickly through the pile of rocks and left the cliff with Xia Shuanghan in his arms, found a flat rock on the open ground and put the person in his arms down. After that, he took the equipment she handed him for Xia Shuanghan's debridement from Bariya, who had already prepared the medicine box just in case.
It was not a good thing to watch someone else pick out the broken wood stubble from their bloody wounds with forceps washed with spirits, so in order not to let the visual perception exacerbate his pain feelings, Xia Shuanghan turned his eyes to the Hazru family not far away.
Camorra, who was crying with joy while holding her son who had survived the disaster, was gently patted on the back by her husband Taruk.
Sanisa, who arrived from the village shortly after the accident, is also excitedly kissing her grandson for the rest of her life.
Agil, who ran into the mountain after Lin Xiran, was walking around thanking the enthusiastic villagers who had come to help.
During the whole process of Xia Shuanghan going up and down the rock wall, Baliya, who had been worried about it and turned pale with fright, watched Lu Shaoyun treat Xia Shuanghan's wounds with concern.
"Frost, uncle, I really don't know how to thank you." The one who spoke was Hazru who immediately came to Xia Shuanghan's side after confirming that his grandson was okay.
In the face of Hazru, who was grateful and cared about her injuries after thanking her, Xia Shuanghan, who had always regarded Yehon's family as his relatives, hurriedly smiled and dismissed Hazlu's thanks, and said a word of relief to Yehon's family, who soon gathered around her.
After learning from Lu Shaoyun that Xia Shuanghan did not hurt his muscles and bones and would be healed in a few days, Ye Hong's family listened to Xia Shuanghan's advice of "I don't matter, the caravan's affairs are priority". Then, they took the firewood, firewood knives and boots that she couldn't wear for the time being, and walked out of the mountain with the other villagers who slowly dispersed.
So in this way, in the open space near the cliff, only Xia Shuanghan and Lu Shaoyun, the unmarried couple who needed to talk well, were left.
"Ting Xuan, why don't you seem to be happy at all when Chagape was saved?" On the open ground under the cliff, Xia Shuanghan, who was sitting on the rock, looked at Lu Shaoyun, who had been sullen since he started treating her wounds, frowned and wondered: "What's wrong, did something happen on the way to business?" β
"No, nothing happened." Although Xia Shuanghan clicked on the acupuncture points on her left leg to relieve her pain, Lu Shaoyun, who finally used tweezers to pick up the broken wood stubble in the wound and clean up the mud and sand around the wound, still couldn't help but feel distressed and angry after seeing Xia Shuanghan's fists clenched because of unbearable pain.
"I've only been away from you for a month, why have you made yourself so virtuous?" After applying the ointment to stop bleeding and analgesia and promote wound healing to Xia Shuanghan's wound, Lu Shaoyun wrapped gauze in a circle for his sweetheart, and said angrily: "Tell me how many times this is the first time?!" During the Lantern Festival, I broke into the fire to save people and lost half my life, Sanqingguan came to me to report and coughed up a bowl of blood, Xia Shuanghan, can you take good care of yourself, don't make me uncomfortable and worry about it? ! β
Xia Shuanghan, who instantly understood the emotions in his heart from Lu Shaoyun's words and expressions, knew that it was indeed wrong for him to worry, but he couldn't guarantee that he would not hurt himself for the sake of his relatives in the future, he raised his hand to hide his face and made a crying motion, pretending to be sad to divert Lu Shaoyun's attention and said: "Tingxuan, you are really hateful, I am about to die of pain, you don't say that it is wrong to comfort me, you actually murder me, I am really wronged to death." β
β...... Are you too embarrassed to cry? Now that you know it's hurting, why did you go there in the first place? Lu Shaoyun, who had only seen her cry when Xia Shuanghan was asleep, knew that the girl in front of him was pretending to cry. So, although he hoped to use today's incident to leave a lesson for Xia Shuanghan, Lu Shaoyun, who endured it in his heart and endured it again, couldn't help but speed up his movements.
Lu Shaoyun, who had neatly tied the last knot on the gauze, got up and sat down beside Xia Shuanghan helplessly and distressedly, and stretched out his arms to take her into his arms.
"You bad guy, you said it yourself, how can there be a fiancΓ© like you in this world, the fiancΓ©e I haven't seen for more than a month is injured, you don't comfort me, don't make me happy, you actually scold me as soon as you meet, you are really too much!"
Facing Xia Shuanghan, who was buried in his arms and complained about him with a crying voice, Lu Shaoyun, who was surprised by his sweetheart's abnormal reaction and blamed himself for his performance, raised his hand and hugged the delicate body in his arms, and comforted him softly: "Shuanghan, don't cry, it's all my fault, I shouldn't murder you, okay if I apologize to you?" β
"No...... It's not good," Xia Shuanghan, who was buried in Lu Shaoyun's arms, suffocating her laughter and suffocating her internal injuries, shook her shoulders uncontrollably, but created the illusion that she was crying even more sadly to the people around her.
So, Lu Shaoyun, who was holding Xia Shuanghan, thought more and more to herself - if she hadn't brought Shuanghan outside the border, how could she have to suffer these hardships and these sins? So in the end, it's because he didn't take good care of her.
"Frost, don't cry, the reason why I was angry just now wasn't because I was so anxious when I saw you injured! I really didn't mean to kill you. β
"What else?" Xia Shuanghan, who pretended to cry while holding back a smile, was so cold that tears were about to fall, "I haven't seen you for more than a month, except for those words just now, you don't have anything else to say to me?" β
"There is ......" Speaking of this, Lu Shaoyun, who had suffered from lovesickness for more than a month, couldn't help but lower his head and kiss Xia Shuanghan's hair gently, and then said: "Shuanghan, I miss you very much." β
"I miss you too." Xia Shuanghan, who couldn't hold back her smile anymore, raised her head and kissed the corner of Lu Shaoyun's mouth, which she could barely reach at the moment, and then said with a smile: "You're not angry now, are you in a better mood, right?" β
"......" stared down at his sweetheart, neither saw the reddened eye circles on Xia Shuanghan's face, nor did he find the mottled tear stains of Lu Shaoyun, and instantly understood that he had been deceived. It's just that Lu Shaoyun, who knew that Xia Shuanghan wanted to lie to him was just to make him stop being angry, and he really couldn't make a straight face to reprimand his sweetheart.
So, he sighed helplessly, reached out and put the small medicine box at his feet neatly and carried it to his side, and then squatted down in front of Xia Shuanghan and motioned for her to lie on his back.
Xia Shuanghan, who was carried on the mountain trail by his sweetheart, loosely circled Shaoyun's neck with both hands, rested his chin on his shoulder, and kept asking him about his life for more than a month.
"Look at you, you've lost a lot of weight compared to just over a month ago. If you can't get fat in half a month, it won't look good on you in the auspicious clothes on the wedding day! β
"It's okay," feeling the warm blowing on the side of his neck, although he knew that the wedding that would be held in the near future would not be real, Lu Shaoyun, who was still happy in his heart, replied: "Didn't you say that when you got out of the capital, you would cook me every meal in different ways?" If I can eat your food, I'm sure I'll be back to my original weight soon. β
"It's not certain if you can eat it, did you call the animal skin for the proposal? If I'm not satisfied with that fur and don't want to marry you, you can wait and drink the northwest wind. β
"Got it, the fox skin from the 'eye to the eye' is the skin of a brightly colored fire fox, right? Rest assured, I will be sure to offer it with both hands before the celebration is over. β
"That's pretty much it."
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The night after returning from the business was hectic and festive, but at the same time tired and sleepy.
After eating at dusk, he once again thanked Xia Shuanghan's Yehong family for today's charity at the dining table, and very interestingly handed over the task of helping her with inconvenient legs and feet to go up and down the stairs to Lu Shaoyun, who would become her husband in a few days. After that, after a busy day, they dispersed and rested early after washing.
In the quietly decorated room, under the banner of "I want Shixuan to see if there is anything in the wedding room that makes him dissatisfied, and let him try whether the winter clothes fit", Xia Shuanghan, who won peace of mind for Lu Shaoyun and himself, after the Yehong family entered their respective bedrooms, they mysteriously pressed Lu Shaoyun on the cushion at the small table in the new room.
The new house on the third floor was the same place where one of Balia's two sisters lived before they got married a few years ago. It's just that in August, this spacious and bright room was arranged for Nanisha, who was used as a new house by Xia Shuanghan, to help her clean and clean it, and repair it from the inside out. Subsequently, this room, which was newly decorated with various embroidery dowries and newly bought carpets and wall felts, became the wedding room of Lu Shaoyun and her.
"Say, if you brought me here so late, it can't really be as simple as letting me look around the room and try on clothes, right? During the day, when I carried you down the mountain, you were still worried about whether I was tired or not, and I couldn't carry it, but now that it's night, you don't urge me to rest, but pull me here, it must be because you have something else to say to me, right? β
Although he felt very comfortable and comfortable about the pleasing room in front of him, after sorting out all the comfortable and fitting winter clothes that he had just tried, Lu Shaoyun still shifted his attention to the topic that Xia Shuanghan was going to unfold next.
It's just that even though Lu Shaoyun knew that Xia Shuanghan's serious expression indicated that the content of the conversation was unusual, and he had done a good job of building his heart, he was still so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth after seeing Xia Shuanghan's drawings spread out on the small table.
"This is, a map of the inner passage of Qiuz Mountain?" Looking at the hand-drawn map spread out in front of him, Lu Shaoyun, who was in shock, widened his eyes and asked eagerly: "Frost Cold, what's going on, where did you get this map?" β
"I drew this map myself, and I'm sure you can tell from both the handwriting and the brushstrokes." Xia Shuanghan, who had already expected Lu Shaoyun's current reaction, sat down at the small table with a map with a calm face, and continued: "Ting Xuan, do you remember how I answered you when you asked me about Sanqingguan more than three months ago? β
"You said you couldn't tell me your hidden secret until the day we actually got married, right?" Lu Shaoyun, who guessed what Xia Shuanghan was going to say to him next from the past, said the answer in his heart on behalf of the person in front of him: "You mean, you have to wait until the day you marry me to tell me this secret about how this map was drawn, right?" β
"Yes, you're right." Xia Shuanghan, who nodded in agreement, said: "It's just that you can rest assured that this map so far only God knows what you know." In the process of drawing the map, I did absolutely not do anything that might arouse the suspicion of the 'sentinels'. So I'm sure this map will definitely give you and Hee some help in what we're going to do next. β
"Frost ......" looked at the map on the table, although it was incomplete, but it was obviously possible to draw it only through field investigations, and knew that Xia Shuanghan would never go deep into the interior of Chuzi Mountain, Lu Shaoyun sighed: "Although I trust you as much as I trust myself, but if you take out such a map without concealing it, you are not afraid ......"
"Afraid of what? I'm afraid you suspect me of colluding with the criminals in Chuz Mountain? Or are you afraid that you will suspect that I am a monster who can enter and exit the mountain freely and find a Taoist priest to take me in? β
Sure in his heart, even if he told Lu Shaoyun the fact of his rebirth now, Lu Shaoyun would never be hostile or afraid of her, Xia Shuanghan smiled lightly: "As you just said, you trust me as much as you trust yourself, and my trust in you is exactly the same as yours." So, I'm sure that even if I pull out this map of unknown origin, you will never doubt me. β
As for why I don't confess to you the fact that I am born again now, it is simply because I don't want you to interfere with your choices in this life because of the burdens of your past lives. Entering the Xia family with a mentality of compensation and guilt is not the marriage I want.
"Frosty ......" Although there were still doubts in his heart about how Xia Shuanghan drew this map, Lu Shaoyun finally decided to respect Xia Shuanghan's idea and reserve a little necessary hiding space for her secret, "I don't have to ask you how this map came about, but I hope you don't do anything that might threaten your own safety for me in the future, okay?" β
"If your life is not threatened, then of course I am willing to do my best to protect my own safety. But if you're in a life-or-death situation, then I'm sorry, it's impossible for me to stay calm and protect myself in that situation. So, I hope that if you have to put yourself in danger in the future because of Jin Wuwei's official duties, you can remember that I am still looking forward to your safe return, okay? β
β...... Good. Lu Shaoyun, who was surging with indescribable warmth and emotion in his heart, realized at this moment what "wife's care" and "husband's responsibility" are. It's just that at this time, he completely left behind the fleeting phantom of the day, but he didn't know that not long after, after he and Xia Shuanghan got married, the bits and pieces of their husband and wife getting along after marriage in their previous lives would slowly infiltrate and completely encroach on his dreams.
On the second day of September, it is the last day before the start of the annual grand celebration of the Rong people.
According to the tradition of the Rong people, in late August every year, in order to participate in the celebration, countless nomadic herders scattered all over the grassland will rush to the major villages or towns where their relatives and friends live to set up camp, so as to achieve the purpose of visiting relatives and friends to celebrate the celebration. In the last few days before the start of the celebration, the daily necessities that the Rong people need to exchange or buy for the winter every year will also be purchased before the third day of September.
Throughout the day on the second day of the ninth lunar month, there was a busy scene everywhere in Naming Village and on the grasslands around the village.
Villagers who make a living as traders are pushing out truckloads of tea and medicines that they have reserved for their homes in advance. At the same time, countless furs, deer antlers, wolf teeth and other commodities purchased from nomadic herders are also being pulled into the warehouses of various families to be sold in the capital next year.
"The festival starts on the third day of September and lasts until the eighth day of the new month, right?" In the backyard of Ye Hong's house, Lu Shaoyun, who had been busy going in and out and finally stopped to drink saliva, glanced at Xia Shuanghan, who was sitting on the side obediently keeping accounts because of his inconvenient leg injury, and asked: "After the celebration is over, will those nomads who came from afar stay on the nearby grassland for the winter?" β
"No," replied Xia Shuanghan, crackling as he recorded the numbers in the ledger, "The grass near the villages and towns is not enough to sustain the herdsmen's consumption throughout the winter, and this is the consensus of the herdsmen on the grasslands. β
So, by mid-September, most of the nomads would disperse after attending the weddings of their relatives and friends, and go to places where there is plenty of grass and water to spend the winter. Of course, by the time they left Qiuzi Mountain, the sheep they had brought with them had been consumed a lot, after all, whether it was a celebration or a wedding, the consumption of mutton was very huge. β
"On the way back from the merchant, I heard Umar say that if a Rong man does not know how to slaughter a sheep when he reaches the age of thirteen, he will be ridiculed and despised by his fellow people, is this true?"
"It's true." Xia Shuanghan, who put down the pen and paper, pulled a white towel to wipe the sweat from Lu Shaoyun's forehead, and explained: "For herdsmen, sheep represent property and the most important food in daily life, so according to the living tradition of the Rong people, the young man who can't slaughter sheep is the same as the girl who can't do needlework in the eyes of the Han people, basically can't find a partner." β
β...... So, do you think I need to learn how to slaughter sheep? Lu Shaoyun, who put down the empty water cup, said worriedly: "Although I have done a lot of killing chickens and rabbits, I have never tried to slaughter sheep." β
"You are Han, it doesn't matter if you don't slaughter sheep. But if you're willing to learn, I'm sure Uncle Hazrub will be very happy. After all, every year at the end of the wedding, many elderly uncles will have all kinds of muscle soreness and stiff backs because they have slaughtered too many sheep. If a young man like you is in the prime of life and helps in the slaughter of sheep, the elders will surely praise you. β
"What about you? Will you praise me? β
"Poof," glancing at Lu Shaoyun's expectant eyes, Xia Shuanghan couldn't help but laugh: "Yes, how could not." In my eyes, my Shixuan is the most capable and reliable young man in the world, such a compliment is okay, right? β
At the beginning of September, the grassland outside Naming Village is scattered with countless large and small yurts, and the open land near the yurts is the competition land opened up in advance by the Rong people to celebrate the annual celebration.
In the fluttering of colorful flags and the sound of drums and horns, on the morning of the third day of junior high school, Lu Shaoyun, who helped Xia Shuanghan, who was still careless and flexible in his legs, rode on the "red cloud", followed countless people pouring out of Naming Village, and walked with Yehong's family to the celebration venue a few miles away. (To be continued.) )