Chapter 72: Poisoning
Ran Qiunian grabbed the quiver in her hand, there was a lot of potato flour in it, she didn't need to smell what was mixed in it, the snake's nose was far more sensitive than hers.
"Day and night, it is difficult to prevent thieves. It seems that this time, I can't stand you, Miss Ran. ”
Wu Hongling didn't expect that this crisis was actually because of the minions that ate inside and outside her Zhuangzi, and suddenly smiled bitterly, and her eyes were full of guilt for Ran Qiunian, who was innocently affected.
Now is not the time to find out who is right and who is wrong, and now that we have figured out why these snakes are attracted to them, it will be much easier to solve the dilemma at hand.
Ran Qiunian immediately decided to use potato flour to lure the snakes away, but her body was already stained with the smell of potato flour, and it was most appropriate for her to do this matter.
"Miss, where are you going?"
Xiu Gu slashed the oncoming little snake to the ground with a knife, and before she could take a breath, the surrounding snakes suddenly began to retreat, she turned her head to look, and saw Ran Qiunian manipulating the jujube mare to slowly retreat while sprinkling tapioca flour on the ground.
"Miss Ran, don't take risks, you throw the potato flour to me, this matter should be done by me."
Wu Hongling also discovered Ran Qiunian's intentions, and hurriedly spoke out to stop it.
"I already smell of potato flour, these snakes will only chase me, so don't drag you into the water anymore."
Ran Qiu said without looking back, pulling the reins, soothing the somewhat uneasy horses, and speeding up the departure, while the other hand looked at the place, and sprinkled the powder that allowed the snakes to gather little by little.
The pressure around Wu Hongling and Xiu Gu instantly eased a lot, and after they killed the last few poisonous snakes around them, Ran Qiunian had already led the snakes into the depths of the forest.
"Let's go find Miss Ran, she doesn't know martial arts, and I'm afraid she's run out of sleeve arrows for self-defense."
Wu Hongling quickly picked up the arrows on the ground that she used to shoot the snakes, put them into the quiver, and turned over on the horse. After greeting Xiu Gu, he planned to rush over to find Ran Qiunian with this only self-defense weapon.
"Please Miss Wu go back to the village and transfer some nursing homes, Miss has me there."
After Xiu Gu finished speaking, she pulled the horse next to her and wanted to turn over on the horse, but found that her horse had already been bitten by a poisonous snake at some point, and she fell to the ground and couldn't walk after a few steps.
"You use my Cher. Zhuangzi is not far from here, and I recognize a shortcut. ”
Seeing this, Wu Hongling gritted her teeth and let her beloved Xue'er out. Xiu Gu thanked Wu Hongling, pulled the white horse, and rode it to the forest to find Ran Qiunian.
Ran Qiunian led the snakes to the depths of the forest, and when she came to a small stream, she saw that the stream was not deep, so she turned her horse's head and went towards that place.
The horse's hooves stepped across the stream, and Ran Qiunian threw the remaining potato flour and the connecting quiver to the side of the stream, turned around and grabbed the reins and quickly crossed to the other side of the stream.
Most of the snakes were left on the other side of the stream, and the quiver she threw down was entangled by dozens of poisonous snakes the next moment, and from a distance it seemed that only a small brown mountain bag remained.
Ran Qiunian rubbed her arms, suppressed the chill in her heart, and was about to take advantage of this gap to ride around the stream and return to Zhuangzi from the other end, but the jujube mare who followed her all the way suddenly shook a little.
She turned over and dismounted, wanting to check the situation, and really saw a few snake bite wounds on the horse's legs, this mare is also extremely tame, and it was bitten like this, but it was still able to carry Ran Qiunian for such a long distance.
Seeing Ran Qiunian get off the ground, the mare finally half-knelt down and fell to the ground weakly, the snake venom on its leg was not fatal, but it would make it stiff and paralyzed, unable to move for a long time.
"It's too bad now, I'm not familiar with this maple forest, and I don't have horses, when and when can I get out of the woods?"
For now, I can only wait for Aunt Xiu or Wu Hongling to get out of danger and then turn around to rescue me.
After a while, a few snakes had already swam over from the stream following the smell, Ran Qiunian glanced at the traces of powder left on his hands, and secretly screamed badly.
She couldn't get up the horse, and all the sleeve arrows were shot, Ran Qiunian knew that she should retreat to the forest behind at this time, and hide as far away as possible.
There is no danger in the forest except for the snakes that have been specially caught and put in front of you, and it is undoubtedly the best solution to hide in the forest after getting rid of the snakes.
But Ran Qiunian couldn't leave the horse that protected him all the way for a while, and after hesitating for a while, he had already let those snakes who were lucky enough to come ashore come over, and Ran Qiunian could only grab the horsewhip and deal with it first.
Ran Qiunian threw out the whip and pulled the approaching poisonous snakes aside, but the snakes still rushed towards her one after another, no matter how powerful a horse whip was, it couldn't kill the snakes, so she could only throw them off again and again.
Soon, Ran Qiunian was physically exhausted, the horsewhip failed, and a small black snake pounced on Ran Qiunian's ankle and bit it, through a thin layer of fabric, Ran Qiunian only felt a tingling pain.
The next moment, the poisonous snake that slipped through the net was hit by a sharp stone from a distance and fell to the ground by seven inches, Ran Qiunian didn't have time to think about it, so the whip whipped the snake aside.
She took two steps back, and the paralyzing sensation that quickly spread up her leg caused her to fall to the ground, and the next moment, the snakes waiting around her were slashed one by one by the sudden appearance of the sword.
"Big brother?"
Ran Qiunian was still holding back the pain in his legs and the fear in his heart, but after seeing Xiao Yin who suddenly appeared, he instantly felt relieved, followed by an irrepressible grievance and fear, and his tone couldn't help but bring a little crying.
At the end of the road, Xiao Yin descended from the sky to save her from the fire. Ran Qiunian couldn't care about it at this time, wondering why Xiao Yin appeared here, his eyes were full of Xiao Yin's shadow.
"You've been bitten by a snake. It needs to be healed quickly. ”
Xiao Yin noticed the movement in the forest at Qianzhuang, and found that there were snakes infested, thinking that Ran Qiunian seemed to be nearby today, so he came to check it out with confidence.
At this time, Xiao Yin's heart was full of joy, no one knew that after he found Ran Qiunian, when he saw the poisonous snake that bit her ankle, his mind suddenly emptied, and his body hit the stone before reason.
He quickly dealt with the poisonous snake on the ground, turned around and exposed Ran Qiunian's ankle, and saw that the place where the snake had bitten was slightly blackened, and his face suddenly became ugly.
Xiao Yin tore off a strip of cloth from his body and wrapped it around Ran Qiunian's calf to prevent the toxin from spreading, and he didn't want to lean over to suck out the poisonous blood in the wound for Ran Qiunian.
"Big brother! Wait......"
Ran Qiu Nian saw Xiao Yin leaning down without hesitation, and she didn't know whether she should be shy first, or moved by the fact that her eldest brother, who had always loved cleanliness the most, was willing to suck out poisonous blood for herself, she watched Xiao Yin treat her wounds with tears in her eyes, and her heart was full of mixed feelings.
Xiao Yin sucked out the poisonous blood, but there was still residual poison, and he didn't know how poisonous the snake that bit Ran Qiunian just now was, he couldn't rest assured, and directly hugged Ran Qiunian in his arms, carefully avoiding her wounds, and rushed to the forest with people.
"Go to the Zhuangzi of General Wuwei's Mansion, there is a fast horse ......" Ran Qiunian reminded weakly in a whisper.
After hearing this, Xiao Yin turned his feet and rushed to the other side of the forest with Ran Qiunian in his arms.
He concealed his identity today to go to Qianzhuang to do business, the carriages and horses were parked in the distant village, far away from the water could not solve the near fire, at this time it is far more appropriate to go to Zhuangzi to ask for help than to go to Qianzhuang.
Xiao Yin took Ran Qiunian to the Zhuangzi without stopping, and was very lucky to meet Xiu Gu who was chasing on horseback halfway, seeing that Ran Qiunian was held in Xiao Yin's arms, he didn't bother to ask Xiao Yin why he was here, and let the white horse under him go.
With horses, Xiao Yin's speed is even faster.
Xue'er is a horse that has always been raised on Zhuangzi, and she is most familiar with the roads in the forest, and soon sent Ran Qiunian and Xiao Yin to the stable on Zhuangzi.
After tossing for a day, the white horse was already a little lacking in energy, perhaps it was somewhat human, knowing that the two were in a hurry, it was very smart to carry Xiao Yin to the fastest horse in the stable, signaling that he could change to this one.
And Ran Qiunian was already a little delirious at this time, so she didn't see Xue'er leading Xiao Yin to the fierce black horse in the stable.
Xiao Yin didn't know the temperament of the black horse, and after seeing the white horse stop here, he was tired and unwilling to move, so he had to turn over and dismount and lead the black horse out.
Wu Hongling was leading a team of guards to the stable to fetch horses at this time, and wanted to take people to the forest to save people, when she saw her Xue'er arching the big black horse in front of Xiao Yin.
"Who are you?" After Wu Hongling walked in, she found that it was Ran Qiunian who was holding in Xiao Yin's arms, and she suddenly didn't care about anything else, and asked nervously, "Miss Ran, what's wrong?" ”
"She was bitten by a snake and needs urgent medical attention."
There was no doctor at all in Zhuangzi, and if he wanted to treat snake venom, he had to ride a fast horse to the nearest village.
Wu Hongling saw that Xiao Yin's concern for Ran Qiunian was not fake, and she was brought by her Xue'er, and she thought that she had also seen the attendant named Xiugu next to Ran Qiunian, so she didn't doubt Xiao Yin's identity.
"Then you hurry up and take Miss Ran to the nearest village, and wait for that horse......"
Wu Hongling said, seeing Xiao Yin pulling the black horse, he was about to sit on it with Ran Qiunian unconsciously, and was about to stop it, but he saw that the black horse that no one let him ride in the past did not throw Xiao Yin down.
Even Ran Qiunian, who had been rejected by it, only snorted unhappily this time, and reluctantly carried it.
Wu Hongling was so shocked that she was almost speechless, and Xiao Yin asked in a deep voice, "Is there something wrong?" ”
"No, no, it's the fastest of all the horses in the stable, so let's go!"
Wu Hongling saw that the black horse was willing to give Xiao Yin a ride, so he stopped talking nonsense and asked people to let them go.
Although he really wanted to go over and have a look, but thinking of the other sisters in the forest who had not heard from him yet, Wu Hongling had no choice but to continue to take people into the mountains to find them.
Ran Qiunian didn't know where she was in a daze, and could only smell a familiar and reassuring cold plum fragrance lingering in her nose, dispelling all the gloom in her heart.