Chapter Forty-Nine: A Passerby Who Inquired about the News
In the first half of the night, because the two ran out of the relationship, they had to go home before dawn, so as not to get up but not see anyone, and give birth to right and wrong.
The chicken head and chicken neck and chicken paws in the lotus leaf bag made the dog overjoyed, although he was a little rancid, but he still gnawed with relish, he patted Changsun Hong's shoulder vigorously, said straightforward words, and said these meats, and it was incumbent on Changsun Hong to save the little lady he fancied.
Changsun Hong had to remind him several times: Lao Tzu didn't take a fancy to this woman, purely out of kindness.
The dog squeezed his eyebrows and made eyes, and responded obscenely with an expression of "I understand, I understand", while still chewing chicken bones "squeaking", looking funny.
The girl's body temperature has been maintained at a very high level, and it seems that the effect of the antidote is too slow, or because of the infection of the wound, in short, hovering on the edge of life and death, and it is extremely dangerous.
Changsun Hong and the dog kept using cold water to cool her down, and the physical cooling method was actually best done with wine, but Changsun Hong stole not much wine, where can he use it, and the wound will be gone after the poison is removed, so it can only be replaced by cold water.
But things are developing in a good direction after all, when it is close to dawn, in the sound of the sleeping dog snoring, Changsun Hong found that the girl's skin completely faded purple, her face began to turn from flushed to normal, the white rash on the wound disappeared one by one, and all the symptoms of poisoning gradually dissipated under the cracking of the antidote.
The body temperature on the forehead has also dropped slightly, and the temperature is no longer amazingly hot, although it is still feverish, it is not as good as the level of a person who wants to die.
"This chick's physique is really different from ordinary people, I don't know what good things I ate when I was a child, ordinary people encounter such injuries, I'm afraid they will die a long time ago." Changsun Hong couldn't help but sigh that with the medical knowledge of his later life, it was basically impossible for him to survive by relying on his own immunity in just one night without antibiotics.
But thinking about it, it doesn't seem to be difficult to explain, listening to what my father and second uncle said, Tangmen is hidden in the world, biased towards secret doors, good at poison and secret weapons, there are many people in it, the chick should have grown up in it since childhood, and it is not strange to be poured into something strange, after all, the kind of body method of jumping one or two feet away is not practiced by a little girl of this age, and it makes sense to be able to heal seriously and quickly.
People turned around, so that Changsun Hong breathed a sigh of relief, although this chick is hateful, she stabs strange handsome guys with a sword, and has no consciousness of a rotten girl chasing a good-looking brother in later generations, but after all, it is out of self-defense, if she dies in her own pit and unconscious poisoning, it really makes Changsun Hong unhappy.
Moreover, once the people of the Tang Sect know that the chick died in their own hands, they are afraid that there will be an extra powerful enemy for no reason, so why bother? If you can save it, save it!
The night was spent in snoring and exhaustion, the morning star shone brightly in the middle of the morning, the early chickens in the village crowed one by one, and although it was still dark outside the cave, the eldest grandson had to go back.
The dog was woken up, and he yawned two times because of lack of sleep, stood up in a daze, glanced at the sleeping girl, and found that her skin was no longer purple, and immediately barked in a fuss: "Yo? Discolored? ”
He asked Changsun Hong, "Is this a good thing or a bad thing?" ”
Changsun Hong rubbed his eyes that were astringent because of the sleepiness, and replied, "The body temperature has dropped a little, it should be a good thing." ”
The dog nodded with satisfaction: "That's good, otherwise the little lady you look at will be gone in a blink of an eye, wouldn't it be a pity?" ”
Changsun Hong punched him on the back, the two laughed and cursed, and after putting a wet cloth on the girl's forehead for the last time, he covered the hole with weeds and branches, and quietly touched the mountain.
The sentry next to the road at the entrance of the village is still there, but they are all staggered and sleepy-eyed, and some are weakly waiting for the shift change. The eldest grandson Hong and the dog walked around from the side, quietly went home, picked up the bucket and started the morning exercise that must be carried out every day.
When Zhang's got up and was busy in the stove, the eldest grandson Hong had already come back with water in a sweaty manner, although she was surprised that her son got up so early today, but she did not suspect it, on the contrary, she was a little heartbroken, blaming her son for sleeping too little, which was not conducive to physical development.
The eldest grandson Hong smiled and said nothing, enjoying the warmth of his mother's love, but when he was eating, he secretly saved some of the brown rice porridge in the bowl and poured it into the crockpot.
After cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks, the eldest grandson Hong insisted on following the Zhang family to the field, his father and second uncle were not there, and the heavy farm work was pressed on Zhang's shoulders, as a son of man, how could he stand it? The Zhang family couldn't resist him, so he had to take the eldest grandson Hong away with a relieved heart.
The land of the eldest grandson's family is a good paddy field, and it is not far from the village, and it can be seen that Li Xian was quite reluctant to entrap the eldest grandson.
The millet in the field has been harvested, and what needs to be done is to turn it into brown rice, and the Zhang family will store the harvested rice in the nearby people's homes, carry it out, dry it in the drying field, and then raise the husks of the rice.
After a few words, it can't be done in a few days, where did Changsun Hong do these heavy farm work before, and he was tired and had back pain in the morning, but he didn't have the thin and small Zhang Shi to do it much faster.
The benefits of the rice mill make the eldest grandson Hong think in his heart, if there is it, just watch by the side, where can I use a hammer like a stone chicken pecking rice?
Seeing the clumsy son's hard work, Zhang's heart ached, and he often snatched the work from his hands to do it himself, and after noon, his mother began to beat people when he drank water and rested.
"Go back to reading and practicing calligraphy! This kind of thing has been done all your life, and you can't get tired, but you're clumsy, but it's in the way here. Zhang frowned and feigned anger: "A scholar should have the appearance of a scholar, my mother knows that you are filial, but when the villagers see it, they should laugh at my family for not knowing how to cherish the reader, your father's face has nowhere to go, and the master will be angry when he hears it, be obedient, go back, ah!" ”
When it comes to reading, Zhang's attitude is extremely tough, even if Changsun Hong is soft and hard to no avail, and then at the insistence of his mother, Changsun Hong had to obediently leave the threshing floor and go home.
The barn is only half an hour's walk from the village, and the countrymen are used to walking, and they don't feel far at all. However, although the road is close, it is outside the village after all, and you have to go around several small hills, and the hills along the way are undulating, and there are patches of woods.
Changsun Hong hummed a little song, while remembering how the girl on the mountain was injured now, while wondering if to call the dog up the mountain to see, walking all the way, it coincided with noon, at this time, the average person was busy all morning, sitting in the shade to rest, there were almost no pedestrians on the road, on the winding village road, only Changsun Hong was humming and chirping walking.
A turn in front, a bend in the back, between the two hills, is a not very long road, the roadside is woods, is a good place for the village people to collect firewood, at the moment the branches are luxuriant, the whole village road is quiet and shady.
Several people sat on the stones on the side of the road, looking as if they were resting after a long journey, and Changsun Hong lowered his head and was thinking about things, and when he saw people, they were already very close.
"Hey, little brother, I want to ask you something!" One of them shouted to him, in a rather casual tone: "Come here." ”
Changsun Hong raised his eyes and saw a fat man wearing a blue cardigan and a square scarf smiling at him, what he said, although the fat man was not as fat as Li Xian, he also had a big belly, and the flesh on his face squeezed the whole head round, carrying a blanket on his back, smiling cutely, and he looked like a shopkeeper in a certain trading house.
There were three people gathered around him, young men, all dressed as ordinary men, short clothes and linen trousers, thick hands and feet, all of them were very strong, and they looked very powerful.
In general, it was just a shopkeeper with a few guys resting.
The place where they sat was next to the road that Changsun Hong had to pass, so whether Changsun Hong listened to the fat man's words or not, he had to walk forward.
However, where did the merchants come from in this poor and remote country?
Changsun Hong is a little strange, generally the merchants who come from outside are small businesses with a burden on one person, not like a team of four or five people. And this road is not the road leading to the small wharf in the village, even if there are stone heads who are willing to go ashore in the county town and choose this side of the merchants will not come here.
What are these guys doing here?
Walking a few steps closer, the sharp-eyed eldest Sun Hong saw that several strong men dressed as men were leaning on the Pu knife beside them, and the short handle on it reflected the sunlight brightly.
Changsun Hong "chuckled" in his heart, and faintly felt that it was not good, but he was very close to those few people, and he couldn't run again, so he had to meet it hard.
"A few officials, what's the matter with the boy?" The eldest grandson showed the curious expression that an ordinary twelve-year-old child should have, stood still on the road, and opened his mouth to answer.
The fat man walked over, dug and touched his body, took out a penny, half-hunched his body, let his face be on the same level as Changsun Hong, shook the money in front of Changsun Hong's face, and said with a smile: "I'll inquire about something, you answered well, this money is yours." ”
The fat man showed off the copper plate, thinking that the half-grown child in front of him was the same as the children in the countryside, he had never seen the world, and a penny was enough to arouse their interest, but he didn't know that the eldest grandson Hong's net worth had already exceeded 100 yuan, and a copper coin could make him excited.
"Phew! It's still an iron coin! Eldest Sun Hong spat in his heart and scolded.
But I was vigilant in my mind, in this era, those who use money to tease children are the same as the goldfish guys in later generations, they are definitely not good people, is it human teeth? Seeing that Lao Tzu was handsome, he wanted to trick me into selling money and giving a rich woman a face-to-face head?
What he thought in his heart, his expression was diametrically opposed, and he said with a smile on his face: "What does the official want to ask?" The kid knows everything. ”
"It's nothing, I just want to ask, you are a local, have you seen a young girl in this neighborhood recently, well, she is about the same age as you, and she is very beautiful." The fat man bent over, and his fat face was almost squeezed into a flesh flower because of a smile: "Well, she should still be injured, and it may not be convenient to walk, have you ever seen her?" ”
Changsun Hong's heart suddenly jumped faster.