Chapter 44: Hospitality
As soon as Jiang He's words fell, a person next to him sneered: "Are you afraid of death? ”
This is undoubtedly an insult, Jiang He turned his head angrily, faced Liang Fengxian with a sneering look, and said in a deep voice: "Brother Liang, old man, I respect your martial arts, but I haven't seen your medical skills yet, I hope your medical skills are smart enough to save the people from the epidemic." ”
Liang Fengxian sneered and said, "What are you as Lao Tzu?" Guanyin holding a clean bottle to save the suffering? ”
Although Jiang He was angry, he still cared about the face of the two of them in the end, who knew that Liang Fengxian not only did not appreciate it, but ridiculed him, and he couldn't help but be even more angry.
Xie Jin, who originally wanted to borrow Jiang He to provoke Liang Fengxian to make a move, only then did he play a round and said: "Okay, okay, the two old gentlemen are both masters of divine doctors, so let's say a word less!" ”
Jiang He looked at his face, but he still held back his anger in the end.
Who knew that Liang Fengxian snorted coldly at this time: "Who is happy to be a god doctor with such a death-fearing ghost?" He is greedy for life and afraid of death, Lao Tzu is not afraid, Lao Tzu left first, if you are not convinced, just chase after him! ”
When he had finished speaking, he pressed his palm on the horse's head, and immediately his body swept up and swept straight towards the village.
Jiang He clenched his fists, if he wasn't old now, I'm afraid he would really have to use his fists with the old man surnamed Liang!
Xie Jin glanced at him and saw that he had no intention of chasing him, so he happily gave him a step down, and said softly: "Mr. Jiang, you can't chase him anymore, Mr. Liang has already entered the village, you have to sit here." ”
Liang Fengxian made provocative remarks, Jiang He would definitely fight if he was twenty or thirty years younger, but he was now fifty or sixty years old, so he knew very well that he had to do everything according to his ability, otherwise he would suffer for himself. So he had to endure it now, but it was really a bit of a shame to swallow his anger like this, and it happened that Xie Jin gave him a step, and he couldn't help but feel grateful.
"Don't worry, Lord Xie, the old man will stay here to ensure the safety of your lord."
In this way, Jiang He's failure to accept Liang Fengxian's provocation can be said to be reasonable, rather than cowardly and afraid of death.
Who knew that while they were talking, a bad horse passed by them.
Xie Jin was surprised: "San'er? ”
Jiang He frowned and analyzed: "I think it's hard to restrain my excitement when I go home, right?" ”
"But isn't it dangerous for him to have a child inside?" Xie Jin said worriedly. It is necessary to urge the horse forward.
Jiang He hurriedly stopped him and said, "Don't be impatient, my lord. San'er is a child of this village, and when the plague broke out, he was unharmed. It can be seen that there are some unknown antibodies in the body, and there will be nothing wrong with thinking about it today. ”
What he said was reasonable, even though Xie Jin was worried, he had to put his worries down for the time being.
Yan Ming on the side seemed to let out a disdainful snort.
A hint of unnaturalness suddenly flashed on Jiang He's old face.
The village is gray. It's brown, the color that has been collecting dust for too long. It was the color of the bare ground, and there was no trace of emerald as far as Liang Fengxian's eyes could see.
Liang Fengxian swept again and again, and his body landed on the tallest house in the village like a swallow.
He squinted and saw that there were still a few families in the village with clothes hanging in front of their homes.
It turns out that there are really people living here. I just don't know what they've become now. Liang Fengxian frowned and decided to go quietly to take a look, just as he was about to fly down the house. Suddenly I heard the sound of horses' hooves galloping, and then I saw a small child sitting on a bad horse.
Of course, this child is three.
Liang Fengxian couldn't help but grin. Greeted: "Good boy! ”
He flew to the ground and blocked in front of San'er, as if he was not worried at all that San'er was not good at riding and would not trample him to death in time.
San'er didn't even look panicked, and stopped the horse with an indifferent expression.
Liang Fengxian said with a smile: "No matter what your identity is, you always have a little conscience, it seems that you are really a child in this village." ”
San'er looked at him expressionlessly, turned over and dismounted, and pointed to the hill behind a row of houses with his whip.
At this time, the young man's face finally showed a trace of sadness, and he said slowly: "When I left the village, I buried my father, aunt and sister there. ”
Liang Fengxian looked along his horsewhip and saw that the mountains were barren, with large patches of sand and gravel exposed in many places, and only a few places still had one or two weeds.
"This mountain is the consequence of the rat crossing?" He asked in a deep voice.
San'er nodded slowly, and his body suddenly shuddered, obviously the memories of the past were extremely painful memories, but he still gritted his teeth and continued: "This mountain was originally very verdant, and we would still open up wasteland on it, but when I came back from my first time out to work, it became a state of no grass, and it seems to be better in the past two years, you may not imagine what it is like for the rats all over the field to run by, their teeth are very sharp, and everywhere they go, they are all eaten cleanly, my father said, Even the mountain has been damaged by their scourge, and I don't know when it will be green again. ”
San'er took care of himself and remembered the sadness, but Liang Fengxian suddenly felt a little irritable, and suddenly raised his voice and shouted: "Okay, where does Lao Tzu have so much time to listen to your little doll, Lao Tzu is going to see the situation of these villagers now, if you want to go, you can go, if you don't go, go back first." ”
Hey, this person is really strange, obviously he wanted to ask San'er himself, but when San'er said it, he was unhappy to stop others, isn't it a bit contradictory? Alas, he is indeed a bit contradictory, he has always regarded himself as a wicked person, and he has not done any good deeds except for his rigorous medical practice, but in fact, his nature is not bad, and when he heard the tragic situation described by San'er, his heart was not unmoved, so he was not used to showing it, so he only pretended to be impatient and shouted loudly.
San'er glared at him angrily, if it wasn't for this moody old man who saved his life, he would have beaten him down a long time ago!
Liang Fengxian turned a blind eye to his angry gaze, turned his back and flicked his sleeves, his arms outstretched, his toes forced, and his figure had swept out.
"Dead old man!" San'er said indignantly, but turned around and tied the bad horse he was riding to the abandoned stone mill in front of a house.
Liang Fengxian's body was as sensitive as a bat, and he also landed at the other end of a house in a few ups and downs.
San'er frowned, subconsciously looked around left and right, and saw that there was no one around, so he bent his knees slightly. Then he jumped up violently as if he had a spring on his foot, and San'er's body unfolded, stepping on the ladder cloud step in mid-air and chasing Liang Fengxian quickly.
Liang Fengxian landed in front of a dilapidated house, and there was a bamboo fence around the house, and a small piece of land had long been barren.
Liang Fengxian stood outside the house, the house was in tatters, and the window paper of every window was tattered. It's just right for him to snoop.
The house is small. It didn't take much effort for Liang Fengxian to determine that it was an old couple who lived inside.
The old couple looked no different from ordinary old people, the same bad legs and feet, and the old gentleman was on a cane. The old lady was there to help him walk, to help him walk, to help him sit down.
It's the meal.
Liang Fengxian frowned and leaned into the room, but he didn't see a trace of food at all.
Doesn't the old couple have to eat? But how could they survive until now if they didn't eat? Or is it that what Liang Fengxian saw was not a human at all, but a mountain spirit spirit.
The more Liang Fengxian looked at it, the more he felt that the couple was a little evil. I was hesitating to rush in and ask questions.
His figure had only moved, when he suddenly heard the voice of the old lady talking. His body immediately froze.
The old lady in the house was still laughing, and said to the old gentleman, "We have a better life now, and we have meat to eat every meal." ”
The old gentleman said, "Yes, but it's just a little bad." I'm always worried that they're going to gnaw away at my last crutch. ”
As he spoke, he caressed the rough cane cut from the trees with great care.
The old lady pursed her shriveled mouth and laughed, and then said, "The water is boiling." ”
The water is obviously not boiling. Water should never be boiled. The water is in the pot and the pot is on the stove. There was no fire in the hearth - they could not find the wood, they had no way to make a fire.
From Liang Fengxian's angle, you can clearly see the stove of the black hole.
He suddenly realized that the old couple might have some mental problems. But how do they live?
Liang Fengxian held his breath and did not alarm them, although they were probably dizzy by now.
Liang Fengxian soon saw their food, food that others would never have imagined.
A fat mouse!
Liang Fengxian has traveled for many years, and he has really seen such a big mouse before!
But the old gentleman and the old lady did not seem to be frightened at all, and the old lady even had the audacity to carry its tail.
Although this room is poor, although it is dilapidated, and although there is not even wood for living, there is still a knife, and this knife is still sharpened.
Liang Fengxian's throat tightened, and he suddenly had a guess that made him not very pleasant.
In the next second, the old lady held a kitchen knife and stunned the big mouse, and then chopped it into three pieces very simply! A sticky patch of blood immediately flowed from the table.
The old gentleman knocked on the place with a cane, and said very painfully: "Oh, look at you, the soup is all spilled." ”
The old man barely stood up, stretched his neck, and sucked the blood on the table with his mouth open.
The old lady seemed to be a little unhappy to be complained by her wife, and snorted: "You know that next time you can cook by yourself." ”
With that, she threw a few pieces of the rat's carcass into the pot of water.
The water splashed, and the blood of the rats immediately stained the whole pot of water.
The old lady threw it hard and didn't finish venting her anger, so she just flipped it in the pot with chopsticks and hummed: "If you want to eat meat, you come and eat it yourself!" ”
The old gentleman sighed helplessly, and did not dare to trouble his angry wife, so he stood up alone with a laborious cane, and dragged one leg to the stove slowly.
"Come by yourself, come by yourself." He snorted, took a pair of chopsticks and reached into the pot to pick up a piece of rat meat with a tail.
"This one is fatter than yesterday's, and I don't know how it tastes." He muttered to himself, raising his hand and sending the rat meat into his mouth full of yellow teeth.
He chewed and swallowed with relish, and a piece of his tail was still gently shaking on his tail.
Liang Fengxian clenched his teeth, his face turned pale, and he almost couldn't help but vomit.
It turns out that they are now catching rats!
"Vomit ......"
There was a vomiting sound outside the house, not too loud, but it was still very abrupt in such a quiet situation.
This is not the voice made by Liang Fengxian, so who is it?
Liang Fengxian frowned and turned his head to look, and saw San'er holding his throat with a pale face and bending over retching, it turned out that he arrived here after Liang Fengxian, and also heard the conversation between the two old men, and saw them eating rats with relish!
Liang Fengxian snorted lightly, and before he could say anything sarcastic, he heard the people in the room ask loudly, "Who?" ”
It was the old gentleman who asked him, and it turned out that although he was old and his legs and feet were not good, his ears were still very bright.
Liang Fengxian was about to leave subconsciously, his eyes flashed, and he caught a glimpse of San'er with a strange face, and his steps were paused, but he still didn't abandon him.
The people in the room did not hear an answer, and decided to go out and see what was going on.
So Liang Fengxian soon heard the sound of crutches hitting the floor heavily, as well as the sound of slight footsteps.
Liang Fengxian rolled his eyes, grabbed San'er's collar, raised his hand and threw him in.
San'er slammed open the door and fell into the house, right in front of the two old men.
"Huh?" The old lady said, "Why did a child fly in from outside?" ”
The old gentleman said: "I don't know this, but, old woman, this child seems to be a little familiar!" ”
"Really?" The old lady squinted her eyes, bent down with great effort to look at San'er's pale face, as if she suddenly recognized it, and said in surprise: "It turned out to be Xiao San'er!" ”
"Little San'er?" The old gentleman was obviously also very happy, and said happily: "You came back from working outside?" Come on, come on, my uncle said to you, let's go back now, we have meat to eat, by the way, you came back just right, your uncle just cooked a pot of meat, come on, come on, you eat here today, don't go back, go back and blame the cold pot and cold stove, we don't worry. ”
What he said was so natural, not confused at all.
But he was obviously confused, he was able to drink the pot of cold water rat soup, and invited San'er to eat it very hospitablely.
San'er, of course, was not confused, so he couldn't eat the pot of rat soup anyway, and in the face of the old gentleman's warm invitation, his face became even more ugly, and as soon as he rolled over and got up, he staggered out of the house, and bent over and vomited in the deserted vegetable patch.
San'er vomited even more, and suddenly heard someone say strangely: "Hey, Lao Li's house has a guest?" ”
San'er's body trembled, and when he looked up, he saw a man standing outside the fence, holding a bloody thing in his hand, looking at him expressionlessly.
San'er's stomach churned again.
But I heard the old gentleman in the room answer, "What? He's a junior, and he just came back from work, don't you recognize him? ”
The man let out an "oh", a weird smile tugged at the corner of his mouth, and said, "I remember." ”
"Little San'er." He called San'er to say, while raising his hand, he showed him the thing he was holding in his hand, "You came back by coincidence, we all have meat to eat today, and there is a lot of meat that can't be eaten outside, so we will let you pick up the wind and wash the dust tonight." ”
San'er's lips trembled and he didn't speak.
The old gentleman wondered, "Where did you get so much meat?" ”
The man said, "Hey, I don't know who led a horse outside and told me to see it slaughtered." ”
San'er's blood suddenly surged, and his throat was sweet.
(To be continued.) )