Lao Wu withdrew his hand after pinching the young man's bones, but the young man twisted his body violently and bit Lao Wu's hand with his teeth.

"Ho, little wolf cub!" Lao Wu hissed, and hurriedly clamped the young man's jaw with his other hand, forcing him to open his mouth.

With this mouth, Lao Wu saw the problem again: "Huh? The old man said there is a problem, girl, come and see, is his tooth mostly a child's tooth? ”

This kind of representation didn't know how Lao Wu would look at before, at most he would look at the horse's teeth, follow Gu Chaoge's side, and listen to her say those gruesome corpses, and after listening to it a lot, he naturally understands more. Gu Chaoge looked over, and the young man glared at her fiercely, but his hands and feet were tied, and his mouth couldn't speak, like a toothless young beast, he had no sense of threat.

"He's still changing his teeth, these teeth...... Look at the age is very small, huh...... He shouldn't have grown so tall. Gu Chaoge frowned, and pinched his bones like Uncle Wu, and the young man struggled violently, trying not to let her touch it. The kind of eyes that looked at the vicious big villain made Gu Chaoge feel very guilty.

She squatted down in front of the boy and asked him softly, "How old are you?" ”

Uncle Wu let go of his hand, but the young man didn't say a word, just pursed his lips and continued to stare at Gu Chaoge with hostile eyes.

"My name is Gu Chaoge, he is Uncle Wu, we are both doctors, and we have no ill will towards you. Uncle Wu...... Uncle Wu saw that you were sick, so he wanted to help you check it out in this way. Gu Chaoge stubbornly explained Lao Wu's actions as kindness as a doctor.

The boy snorted and turned away from her. Lao Wu's eyes were very sharp, and he saw the young man move his body and quietly took out a knife from his body.

It is normal for people who walk in the mountains and forests all year round to carry knives. The young man's methods were too immature, Lao Wu saw it at a glance, smiled, and reached out to seize the knife, the young man's strength was very small, and Lao Wu easily snatched the knife.

He handed it to Gu Chaoge, and Gu Chaoge played with the knife with several notches on the blade: "You're only about ten years old, right?" But he is already as tall as a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy, and he has problems with his bones and teeth, not because he eats well and grows fast, but because he ...... You're sick. ”

A rare strange disease that puts pressure on the body because the body grows too fast, recorded in Wen Yidao's codex.

The child's expression was visibly flustered by her words, and he opened his mouth, as if eager to ask her how he knew if his illness could be saved. But he actually quickly calmed down, staring at her coldly, staring at the knife in her hand.

Gu Chaoge felt that there would probably be no gain today, so she put all the small bags of maltose on her waist into the child's arms, and then personally picked up his knife and cut his rope little by little. She glanced at Uncle Wu, who spread his hands and did not stop him, he felt that this child was so small that there was no threat.

"We are doctors, very good doctors, I can cure your disease. This bag of maltose is given to you as an apology, just made us wrong, shouldn't have tied you, I will untie you, and the knife will be returned to you. She looks like a good girl who is obedient and kind, more like a good person than Old Wu, who has a pair of eyes that turn around, so during her negotiations with this child, Uncle Wu was silent throughout the whole process. Gu Chaoge's soft and beautiful voice calmed the restlessness of this strange child, he looked at the bag of maltose in his arms but couldn't touch it for a while, tried to sniff his nose to smell the aroma of the candy, and then looked at Gu Chaoge's action of cutting the rope for him, felt that she was too slow, and couldn't help but speak: "The knife will return to me, I'll do it myself!" ”

Gu Chaoge handed the knife to him without hesitation, but the child was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect this "bad woman" to be so easy to talk to.

"Maltose is not poisonous!" He asked as he glared at her viciously. Gu Chaoge smiled, took one from the bag and put it in her mouth, the child stared at her movements, saw her expression of enjoyment, and suddenly her eyes showed envy and longing. Gu Chaoge took out another pill from the bag and fed it to his mouth, and asked with a smile, "Do you want to eat together?" ”

The child stared at the candy, hesitated for a moment, suddenly opened his mouth to take the candy in his mouth, snatched the bag in Gu Chao's singer, and jumped up at the same time, the rope fell to the ground, and the knife flashed and closed into his sleeve. He bent down and grabbed the barrel of fish, then swooped a few steps onto the rocks, climbing the vines and running away. He should have done these movements very skillfully, and he should have done them in one go, but when he was climbing the vines, he seemed to underestimate his body, and almost fell down on the first time he went up.

Gu Chaoge couldn't help but shout: "Be careful!" The child didn't look back, he climbed up and ran quickly, Gu Chaoge only had time to shout behind him: "Your illness must be cured, otherwise you will be regarded as a monster!" So you must come to me! ”

The sound of the leaves soon disappeared, and the mountains and forests were quiet again, only the sound of birds and mountain streams, and Gu Chaoge said to himself prayingly: "I hope this child can come back to me." ”

Lao Wu sat on the spot, took off his shoes, and picked the soles of his feet: "I hope he won't bring someone here, after all, he's just a child." Don't rush to the road yet, let's find a place to stay for two days and see how this village is doing. ”

This is what Lao Wu has always done. The situation of the Yi people's villages is different, some are pro-Han and some are xenophobic, and some retain primitive and cruel sacrifices. Lao Wu would talk to the people in the village he met according to what he heard before, and make a comprehensive judgment to consider whether to go or not. The first person in this village was a child with a strange disease, and Lao Wu couldn't help but be a little more cautious.

The rain in the mountains will come as soon as it is said.

The terrain here is different from the previous ones, and some strangely shaped stones are starting to appear, and in some places there is no vegetation except large rocks that seem to grow in the mountains.

They found a cave with many upside-down pillar-like and bamboo shoot-like stones, which some people in the local area called stone stalactites.

The rain curtain outside the cave has not been broken, and no mountain people will go out in such weather. Lao Wu joked with Gu Chaoge, that kid wouldn't come again, if Gu Chaoge still had a bag of maltose, it might still be possible.

"Maybe." Gu Chaoge sighed, the rainy day slowed down her trip, and the journey to the west, which had found nothing so far, made her full of anxiety about whether she could find that secret technique.

She looked at the gray sky outside the rain curtain, thinking in her heart that thousands of miles away in Suzhou, her senior brother and her sweetheart, I don't know if they have received the gift from her Tuo Yanzhao. Although the senior brother's sachet was a semi-finished product bought in Suzhou Embroidery Workshop, the embroidery on it and the spices inside were all mixed by her personally, and she apologized for not saying goodbye.

And the spider purse for Itsu...... He would probably throw it aside in disgust and not want to bring it. Especially compared with the more good-looking one of the senior brothers, he must be very angry.

Gu Chaoge imagined the expression he might have when he saw this strange purse, as well as the expression when he faced his senior brother, and couldn't help but hook the corners of his lips. She did it on purpose, even if the person was gone, she had to leave something by his side to prove it, so as not to teach him to forget himself.

Ah, she has become so scheming, was she really taught by him?

Gu Chaoge thought wildly, and suddenly, a small stone bone rolled in. Lao Wu immediately stood up vigilantly, the terrain of the cave was higher than the outside, so that no rain would pour in, so it was impossible for the small stones to roll naturally into the cave.

Gu Chaoge also noticed it, she motioned to Lao Wu not to make a sound, and then said in that soft tone like a kidnapping: "Hey, is that you?" You're coming to me, right? It's raining heavily outside, come in and don't catch a cold. ”

There was no movement outside, Gu Chaoge frowned and thought about it, then simply hummed the song and sat by the bonfire, talking loudly to Lao Wu, as if talking about the child's illness as if in passing. After a while, a gray, thin figure appeared outside the rain curtain, and the child stood barefoot, still holding a knife in his hand, hesitating to approach the fire in the cave.

"You say you can cure me, is it true?"

Gu Chaoge turned around and smiled at him, she felt that her luck seemed to have been very good, and she could do everything she hoped for.

"It's true." She said.

So the child finally walked in.

*

"My name is Ah Yan." The child spoke slowly, he glanced at Gu Chaoge and Lao Wu, and then added arrogantly: "Of course my real name is not this, but it is our language, and you Han people can't understand it." ”

Do they have their own language? Lao Wu took a puff of dry tobacco and glanced at each other with Gu Chaoge, both of them were very interested. Having its own language means that the village has its own heritage, and perhaps there will be secret techniques that also need to be passed on.

Gu Chaoge asked him with a smile: "Ah Yan, how old are you this year?" ”

Ah Yan twisted his buttocks and moved closer to the fire, he took the ginger soup that Gu Chaoge cooked for him, and muttered in a low voice, "You guessed right." ”

"That's it...... Ten years old? Gu Chaoge tried to ask.

Ah Yan nodded in a low mood, he slowly drank ginger soup, and Gu Chaoge brought a cowhide blanket to cover him. Lao Wu was banging on his cigarette stick in the corner, smoking the dry tobacco he had quit to refresh himself, and he listened to the child's narration while distinguishing the truth from the falsehood of the child's words.

Ah Yan told Gu Chaoge that he suddenly had a crazy growth in his body a year ago, and everyone didn't care about it at first, until he was much taller than the friends he played with. Ah Yan, who has long hands and feet, stands out among the children, he grows too fast and his body is uncoordinated, and his movements are slightly strange, so the children start calling him a monster and are reluctant to play with him.

His father went to ask the Great Witch to heal him, but when the Great Witch heard about this disease, his face changed, and he first took a hexagram, and then shook his head and refused his father's request.

The Great Witch said that Ah Yan had been cursed by the mountain god, which was a warning to their entire clan that they could no longer use the divine magic handed down by the god to blaspheme the gods.

Gu Chaoge interrupted him puzzled: "What magic technique?" How could it have anything to do with your illness? ”

Ah Yan thought for a moment and replied, "If someone is injured, bleeding, or bitten off a piece of flesh by a wild beast, the Great Witch can make the wound heal quickly. In your words, it should probably be called a secret technique such as inducing anger, and I ......" Ah Yan pointed to himself: "The Great Witch said that I am too angry, and one day my body will collapse because I can't bear the anger, this is the warning of the mountain god, warning us that if we use the secret technique at will, we will all get sick because of the excessive anger." ”

Gu Chaoge didn't listen to any angry nonsense, her two eyes were shining: "Then, if one leg has atrophied because it has been unusable for a long time, can the Great Witch be cured?" ”

Ah Yan thought for a moment and said uncertainly, "Yes...... The Great Witch is omnipotent. ”

Lao Wu interrupted him with a sneer: "Omnipotent, how can you not cure your illness?" ”

Ah Yan retorted: "That's because this is the curse of the mountain god, how can the great witch disobey the will of the god?" ”

Lao Wu squinted his eyes and asked him slowly: "Boy, why are you suffering the curse of the mountain god, and what kind of status do you have in your clan?" "A curse that may befall the entire clan, this kind of thing, wizards will not fool ordinary clansmen.

"I don't have any status," Ah Yan replied simply, he thought for a moment and added, "I'm the son of the patriarch, but I'm not an only son, I also have a younger brother, is this status?" ”

This time it was Lao Wu's turn to light up, but he wouldn't tell the truth, he snorted: "No." ”

"Oh." Ah Yan silently lowered his head and found that a bowl of ginger soup had bottomed out, and he handed the wooden bowl to Gu Chaoge with both hands: "It's gone." His eyes looked at her pitifully.

"I'll serve you another bowl." There are a few seasoning spices in the ginger broth, so he probably thinks it's delicious. Gu Chaoge felt that Ah Yan's action of looking at her soup was very cute, and when she handed him the ginger soup, she couldn't help pinching his face. Ah Yan immediately raised his head in horror and looked at her like a strange aunt, Gu Chaoge changed the topic embarrassedly: "Ah Yan, you are sick, not a curse, I can help you treat it, but the process will be very long." ”

"How long? Do I need needles? "Ah Yan is doing acupuncture on his body, he has been to the town under the mountain many times, and he understands the things of the Han people, otherwise the Chinese would not be spoken like this.

"No need for the time being, let me take a closer look at you first, and then prescribe a prescription to drink and try, I will use medicine to try to suppress your growth too fast. You can find a tree every day to measure your height and see if it works. Gu Chaoge patiently explained to him, Ah Yan obediently stretched out his wrist to let her take the pulse, his expression was full of expectation, but he was a little worried: "I have to go to the town to have medicine, but I slipped out without Abba knowing, if I let him know......"

"Wouldn't it be nice to let him know that your illness can be cured? If you continue to grow like this, your face will become very strange, your nose will become super large, your lips will be thick, your earlobes will be big enough to hang on your shoulders, you will be fat and sweaty, you will have difficulty walking, you will not be able to speak clearly, and you will have all kinds of problems with your internal organs. ”

Gu Chaoge said seriously while gesturing around on Ah Yan's face.

What she said was true, but now when she said it to Ah Yan, it seemed like she was deliberately scaring children.

She really wanted to get close to this village, and asked for the secret technique of the great witch in the village to save Yi Cui, the little boy in front of her was the son of the patriarch, and God knows if there will be a second time for such a good opportunity.

So forgive her for scaring the little ones.

I was really taught badly.

Ah Yan was so frightened by her that tears rolled in his eyes, since he was treated as a monster, he had no playmates, and could only play with his fish. Imagining the scene depicted by Gu Chaoge, he felt that he was so terrifying that he couldn't help but cover his face and yell: "I don't want to be like that!" ”

"Sister Gu, you save me!" Ah Yan grabbed Gu Chaoge's hand and shouted eagerly: "I'll convince Abba, I will definitely be able to convince Abba!" ”

"Wait a minute." At this time, Lao Wu suddenly spoke, his attitude was very cautious, he said to Gu Chaoge: "Girl, you first prescribe a prescription for him, if it is effective, then let this child convince his father, otherwise ......"

Otherwise, beware of being caught as a liar, adults are not as easy to deceive as children.

"Okay," Gu Chaoge took out a handkerchief to wipe Ah Yan's tears, "Don't cry, I'll prescribe a prescription for you first, and I'll go to the town tomorrow to personally grab the medicine for you and send it to you, you wait for me obediently in that small pool, okay?" ”

Ah Yan held her hand and refused to let go, staring at her with two big round eyes: "Okay, you must come!" ”