Chapter 25: Hong Laoqi's Ambition
"Gu Lao, don't get excited, let me talk to you slowly." Qin Han's arm that was grabbed by Gu Lao was slightly painful, he didn't expect Gu Lao to be so old, but his hand strength was not small at all.
Hearing Qin Han's reminder, Gu Lao was also a little embarrassed, and he was a little emotional just now. "Qin Xiaoyou is really embarrassed, the old man is abrupt."
"Gu Lao, the one who relieves Brother Hong's fever is called alcohol." Qin Han said as he pointed to the wine jar next to the seventh brother's bed.
Gu Lao looked at what Qin Han was pointing at and picked up the jar. As soon as the altar seal was opened, there was a pungent smell. "It smells like strong wine."
Qin Han poured some more alcohol on Gu Lao's arm, and after wiping it evenly, he felt a cold feeling.
"Gu Lao, that's how you cool down Seventh Brother." Qin Han explained.
"I see, it's so magical." Gu Laoyou wiped it by himself, and sure enough, he felt the cold feeling again.
"Then how did you control Hong Laoqi's inflammation?"
Qin Han scratched his head, he couldn't tell Gu Lao that the molecules of alcohol have a great penetration into the bacteria, so that the molecular structure of the proteins that constitute the basis of bacterial life will change, causing protein denaturation, so as to play a bactericidal role. There's no way to explain to Gu Lao what bacteria are and what molecules are.
"Gu Lao, you can treat inflammation as inflammation and poison, and this alcohol can kill poison. It's just that you can only eliminate the toxins of this wound outside the body, not in the body. Qin Han could only explain simply.
"Oh, alas, I thought it would cure all the inflammation." Gu Lao shook and sighed, but it was enough to save more lives only externally.
"Old Gu, can you save Seventh Brother Hong now?" Gong Zisong thought of Qin Han and Gu Chunqiu's words yesterday, and asked with some expectation.
"Hehe, since the inflammation can be controlled, other injuries and illnesses are not difficult." Gu Lao stroked his gray beard, there was no inflammation, and it can be said that he was nine percent sure of curing Hong Laoqi.
"Hong Laoqi is here to thank Gu Lao for saving his life." Hong Laoqi struggled, trying to straighten up.
"Eh, you don't have to be like this, if you want to thank Qin Xiaoyou, it's not that he controlled your inflammation, and the gods can't save it." Gu Lao stopped Hong Laoqi's movements, in Gu Lao's opinion, he studied medicine to treat diseases and save people, not to make people thankful, and Qin Han was the one who played a key role, and he was just an assistant.
"Brother Qin, Lao Qi is stupid, he has never read a book, and he won't say anything good, in the future, Hong Lao Qi will be cheap, but he will be driven by his kindness." Hong Laoqi endured the pain, but still sat up straight, and said with a fist at Qin Han.
"Brother Seven, lie down quickly, wait for your injuries to heal, and have important matters to discuss." Qin Han helped Hong Laoqi to lie down, since Gu Lao was able to cure Hong Laoqi, there was no need to do Plan B.
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Gu Lao prescribed medicine for Hong Laoqi, and told a few little beggars who were responsible for taking care of Hong Laoqi some things that needed attention, and left. Hong Laoqi is not the only patient who needs treatment.
Seeing Gu Lao leave, Qin Han was ready to talk to Hong Laoqi about Wang Laohu, but he had just saved people, so he had to make a request, and he was a little embarrassed.
Looking at Qin Han's appearance of wanting to speak and stopping, Hong Laoqi said. "Engong, Zisong has already told me about Wang Laohu. Not to mention the grace of Engong's life-saving, just the grievances between us and Wang Laohu will have to be resolved sooner or later. ”
After Hong Laoqi finished speaking, Qin Han breathed a sigh of relief, and Gong Zisong said that it was okay, so he didn't use his own words anymore. "Actually, it's not just Wang Laohu's business. There is one more important thing. ”
"Something important?" Hong Laoqi's face was full of doubts.
Qin Han got up and looked at the dilapidated and decaying City God Temple. "Do you want to stay in this place for the rest of your life? Guarding this part of the west of the city all your life? Or do you want the children you worked so hard to save to beg for a lifetime like you? ”
Hong Laoqi looked at the City God Temple full of spider webs, and his spirit was a little trance. Hong Laoqi doesn't remember when he came here.
When I was very young, the Longnan army was in turmoil, and the rebel army rushed into the city and killed many people, and my father took himself and his mother to hide in the grain pile.
The shouting and killing in the city lasted from noon to dawn the next day. The father hugged himself and his mother tightly, and the family hid in the grain pile for three days without eating or drinking. I was really hungry, so my father went out to investigate. Hong Qi could see that his father was very scared, and his legs trembled when he walked out.
But my father still smiled at himself and his mother, and touched his head.
"Mother-in-law, take care of my brother."
Looking at his father who covered the hole with a smile, Hong Qi was very afraid, very afraid that his father would never come back if he went.
God forbid, my father is back. The rebels have taken away all the grain, the crops have long been harvested, and there is no food left in the fields for a long time.
Then came the famine, and his family began to beg all the way from Longnan. On the way to escape the famine, many people died, including my father.
In those days, no one could find anything to eat. During the day, I heard a few adults say that they want to eat two-legged lambs, and the two-legged lamb is the most delicious.
Hong Qi was a little happy, he had been hungry for so long, and he was able to eat meat, but where was there a two-legged sheep, they were so stupid. But the father and the mother looked panicked, especially the mother, who kept looking around.
At night, Hong Qi was woken up by his father. "Dad, did you eat sheep?"
The father didn't speak, hugged Hong Qi with his mother, and ran away from the sleeping place quickly.
Hong Qi didn't understand, didn't he say that everyone ate sheep together, why did they run away. After a while, there was the sound of chasing after me.
"Stand still and leave the little lamb behind."
"Do you want to starve us to death?"
At this time, Hong Qi knew that he was the so-called little lamb, but he was obviously a human.
I don't know how long I ran, but I really couldn't run, but the people behind me still chased closely.
The father took Hong Qi and his mother to hide in the dry grass. My father was crying and his body was shaking.
The father laughed again, laughing while crying, but Hong Qi didn't know why. The mother looked at her father and couldn't stop crying. "Master!"
The father didn't answer, just laughed. Said the same thing as at the beginning.
"Mother-in-law, take care of my brother."
My mother began to tremble, but my father was gone. just hugged Hong Qi and kissed him. As if he went out to plow the fields on weekdays, he looked at Hong Qiniang and the two with a smile, holding a pile of dead grass and running into the distance.
Hong Qi felt that his father would never come back this time.
The crowd ran towards his father, his mother covered her mouth with one hand, but she kept crying, Hong Qi also cried, but her mother covered her mouth. It wasn't until the crowd ran away that the mother ran out of the dry grass with Hong Qi in her arms.
I didn't know how far I had walked with my mother, but I just begged along the official road, and never approached the crowd fleeing the famine.
On the way to escape the famine, the mother and son met a four-person, and Hong's mother wanted to tear off his coat, but it was almost winter. Unexpectedly, I unexpectedly touched the consistent money.
Later, they went to Anping, and the mother and son had not eaten for two days. Seeing the stall selling steamed cakes, Hong's mother couldn't wait to buy two steamed cakes and use them to satisfy Hong Qi and herself.
This scene was seen by the beggar next to him, but the mother and son didn't know it. Until that night, a group of beggars blocked the mother and son in the alley, beat them severely, and robbed them of the money.
Hong Qi thought that this was the end, until a beggar looked at Hong Qi.
"This kid looks so pitiful, what a natural begging good thing."
After saying that, the group of beggars took Hong Qi away, and Hong Qi struggled desperately, but to no avail.
Seeing Hong Qi being taken away, Hong's mother chased after her and slapped the beggar holding Hong Qi desperately. Mother Hong slapped with all her might, but it seemed so insignificant.
Hong's mother's slapping angered the group of beggars, so Hong's mother also died. There wasn't much movement, just a flurry of punches and kicks.
Hong's mother was shouting Hong Qi before she died.
Since then, Hong Qi has been sent out by this group of beggars to beg, but he has never seen his mother's corpse. I have to hand in everything I ask for every day, and I can only eat very little. Punching and kicking is more like a routine.
In this way, Hong Qi reached the age of thirteen or fourteen, maybe so old, Hong Qi didn't know, he didn't learn arithmetic, and he didn't know what year he was born. Hong Qi has long been like these beggars, bullying and bullying weak and disabled beggars, punching and kicking those who are younger than himself, and ordering them to beg.
Until one day, he and his so-called companions heard that a group of little beggars had escaped from the west of the city, and these were good goods. The ones that I raised by myself have long been familiar with the faces in Anping, and everyone has also figured out the details, and there is nothing left to ask for.
When they were about to succeed, an old beggar stopped them. It's just an old man who can't eat enough, where is the opponent of Hong Qi and others, and he can't get up in three or two strokes.
But the old man did not stop care, but hugged his companion's leg and shouted to let the children go. Hong Qi looked at the old man in a daze, thinking of his dead mother.
The old beggar man also died, being kicked in the head by his companion and hit the wall.
After going back, Hong Qi felt that his father was a person, and so was his mother, and he thought that he should be too.
So, he took advantage of the night to take the little beggar to the City God Temple, and he stayed until now.
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Hong Laoqi retracted his gaze and looked at the little beggar beside him. Maybe they haven't experienced the dangers of the world too much, maybe they shouldn't let them pay attention to it, maybe they can let them grow up like normal children.
"My lord, please advise." Hong Laoqi clenched his fists and said to Qin Han. Hong Laoqi didn't know what the lord meant, but he heard the storyteller on the street say that those fierce generals, when they are loyal to the leader, are called the lord. Hong Laoqi thought that he should also call Qin Han like this.
"It doesn't have to be this way, it doesn't have to be this way." When Qin Han heard Hong Laoqi's salutation, he almost fell. Didn't this Hong Lao Qimo watch too much of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, shouldn't it, where is the Romance of the Three Kingdoms at this time.