Gao Jun and the three of them took advantage of the dim sky of the solar eclipse to move one foot deeper and one foot shallow towards the little light that came out of the trees in the distance. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe lights appear and disappear from time to time, sometimes obscured by swaying trees, and it seems that the distance between the three of them and it is never closer, sometimes they disappear as they walk, and they only see it again when they climb to a high place.

After the eclipse, the sky brightened, and the three faced a wooded hillside, and the lights were no longer visible. Maybe someone here had lit the lights when it was getting dark, and they were already out.

Just when she didn't know where to go, Fan Ying first heard a woman's cry coming from the front, faintly in the wind. She reminded the other two to listen carefully, and Liu Yuru also heard it, she said, "This must be a family in the deep mountains, something may have happened, we must go and see, maybe we can help." ”

They picked up their horses and went in the direction of the cry into the dense forest, where there was no way to go, and everywhere there was gravel and thorns. The crying was getting closer, but still nothing could be seen. Gao Jun asked loudly, "Is there anyone?" Who's here? ”

After asking twice in a row, the crying stopped, and there was no movement for a long time. Liu Yuru said, "Such a deep mountain and old forest, Jun scares the tigers away with your voice, sister, you shout." So Fan Ying shouted again.

After a while, a woman's voice asked weakly, "Which one are you?" What's the matter? ”

Liu Yuru said, "We were lost, and when we heard the lights and voices here, we came over to take a look." I don't know what difficulties you have encountered, but we are willing to help you. ”

There was no movement for a long time, and after a while, I saw a branch not far from them move, and a woman flashed out half of her body, and her tear-stained face was still on guard, and she looked like she was about to flee if something was wrong.

Gao Jun saw that she was only about twenty years old and an ordinary country girl, and he was afraid that he would scare her, so he asked Liu Yuru to explain her intentions.

When the girl saw that it was a man and a woman, and that there was no malice on their faces, she asked, "How did you come up from here, and the road is behind?" ”

Fan Ying said, "This sister, we are lost, where can we find the front and back?" ”

The girl smiled a little, but soon turned to a sad face and said, "My mother accidentally crushed her leg!" ”

Fan Ying said, "Then don't lead us quickly, you have found the right person!" The girl beckoned to the three of them, "Take the horse...... Please come with me. ”

They tied the three horses under the tree, and the girl said, "Don't worry, the horses will be all right, for no one will come from this direction." Fan Ying said, "Aren't we from here?" ”

The girl seemed to hear it, and Gao Jun could see her blushing from behind her, not knowing what kind of family would live in such a closed deep mountain. In addition, from the beginning to the present, there has not been a single man in the family. The girl turned back into the bushes and said to them, "Be careful not to fall, watch your step." ”

Only then did they notice that the ground had gradually risen to a height of six or seven feet. Behind the thick bushes at your feet lies the void, and if you step on it, those bushes can't carry the weight of a person. The girl said, "This is my backyard, and no one will come from here for a long time." ”

Fourteen or fifteen steps further up, the bushes receded, and the eyes suddenly opened up. A wooden ladder led them down to a small, spacious and clean glade. There were a few thatched huts in the clearing, with animal skins hanging from the back eaves, thick branches and leaves hanging down from the top to cover most of the ridges, and a well in the corner of the courtyard behind the houses.

The moaning of another person attracted the attention of the three of them to the top of their heads, and Gao Jun found that behind the thatched hut, a section of yellow wood shelf was exposed behind the bushes, and the moaning sound came from a place more than a foot above the ground, and no one could be seen, but he knew that it was an older woman who was injured.

Liu Yuru said to the girl, "Take us quickly." ”

The girl obviously didn't see anyone often, and this time she led Gao Jun and the three into her backyard, only to quickly remove the ladder leaning against the back wall, and then hesitated a little about what etiquette to entertain them. After listening to Liu Yuru's words, the girl immediately led them around the hut, and the three of them immediately saw a two-zhang high wooden frame erected in front of the house.

The four legs of the wooden frame are straight and thick whole cypress wood, and the four pillars are erected and converged at the top, and are fixed by iron bars. In the middle of the frame was a wooden wheel eight or nine feet in diameter, with ropes of three finger widths wound around the wheel. The rope hung down from the side of the wooden wheel and went deep into a hole half a foot in diameter made of bluestone on the ground.

Gao Jun didn't know what it was for, and he realized that the moans were coming from the ground next to the wooden pillar, above the dripping blood. When I looked up, I saw a woman in her fifties falling on a platform jutting out from the side of a wooden wheel, and the platform was covered with wooden planks, so that there was no affection in sight, only the exposed half of her body on the side of the platform.

There was a wooden ladder that went straight up and down to the platform, and the girl rushed up and shouted, "Mother, bear with me, I will find a helper to save you." The woman groaned and asked, "Who...... From there...... Reliability is indispensable...... Oops! ”

While their mother and daughter were talking, Gao Jun had already climbed the ladder to a one-foot high platform. The woman reclining on the platform was standing up to look at the man who had jumped up.

Her right leg had been stained red with blood, and blood was dripping from the cracks in the planks of the platform, apparently so badly that she could not return to the ground on her own, and the girl could not afford to carry her down.

The platform wasn't very wide, and it was a little shaky when someone came up again. Gao Jun briefly checked the woman's injuries, first stopped the bleeding for her, grabbed her up with one hand, and then held the wooden ladder with the other, and returned to the ground step by step, and the woman thanked them in mid-air and asked where they came from.

Liu Yuru followed them, answering the woman's question for Gao Jun, and Fan Ying immediately called the girl to the stone well behind the house to fetch water for backup.

Gao Jun took the scissors and carefully cut the trouser tube on the woman's calf, and couldn't help but sigh to Liu Yuru, "Madam, why did we meet two broken legs as soon as we arrived in Jiangnan, is there any omen?" ”

The woman and the girl immediately became nervous, and asked in a crying voice, "Is it broken?" How good is that! ”

Gao Jun said, "Don't worry, I'm specifically dealing with broken legs, and your legs will be fine if you meet me." They were relieved to hear this. Gao Jun continued to break her bones while listening to the woman's story about her injuries.

It turned out to be a nine-foot wooden wheel, and the two ends of the shaft were fixed to the wooden frame. Another wooden shaft was connected to the main shaft, extending to the platform of Fangcai. The person steps on the wooden platform, and a cam at one end of the wooden shaft connected to it slowly strengthens the main shaft, so that the heavy wooden wheel with the rope is slowly twisted.

When the afterburner reaches a certain point, the cam slides out, and the wooden wheel will spin briefly, allowing the iron cone hanging at the bottom of the rope to complete a short impact. At this juncture, the sky suddenly darkened, and the woman stepped into the air in surprise, and the wooden cam at the end of the shaft suddenly broke.

Liu Yuru asked, "But what are you doing this for?" ”

Fan Ying also asked, "yes, isn't this fun?" Such a small eye can't lift water. Besides, don't you have a well? ”

The woman's legs had been taken care of by Gao Jun, and her daughter had washed them and treated them with gold sore medicine. At this time, she was relieved, and her face was a little ruddy.

She could see that the three people who rescued her were not malicious, and they had come from afar to hear the accent, so she said to them with confidence, "Tell the three Engongs the truth, this well is not for drawing water...... It's about lifting the fontanelle upwards! (To be continued.) )