Chapter 41: Barberry
Zilong looked at Li Yu, the little guy was already a little tired, his lips were dry and curly, Zilong himself was dry, and after thinking about it a little, he nodded in agreement.
Niu Erlang saw Zilong agree, smiled, led the way, and beckoned everyone to properly dispose of the bear corpse, and not to act rashly, so that Zilong could carry it when he went down the mountain.
Everyone happily began to fiddle with the bear corpse, and they all gave Zilong a smile and salute, and patted his shoulder, Zilong was infected by the heartiness of these people, and he was in a good mood.
After walking with Niu Erlang for a while, he found an extremely difficult path on the cliff, the path was winding, and the narrowest point was only allowed to pass through to the top of the cliff.
The trail was difficult to walk, Zilong could no longer carry Li Yu on his back, let him walk in front of him, and by the way, he also tied some vines around the waists of the two of them, and connected them together, which made Niu Erlang stunned.
There was nothing to say all the way, although Li Yu's little face turned pale with fright from the path on the cliff, but when he arrived at the top of the mountain, he saw many caves and a few lambs, and he couldn't help but think of his already broken home.
Zilong was also stunned when he saw this, looked at Li Yu's expression, and knew that he was remembering the past, so he couldn't help but pick him up and hold him tightly in his arms and said, "Yu'er, be strong, uncle take care of you!" ”
Li Yu's little face was hot, he held back his tears, and nodded strongly.
Before long, they came to a large courtyard, and the walls of the courtyard and the houses in the courtyard were all made of stones.
Facing the door is a main hall, there is still a pair of couplets engraved on the wooden board, Zilong has been identifying for a long time, and it is difficult to understand its meaning, and the text recognition system is prompting that it cannot be read, it seems that this couplet should be some years old, and he couldn't help but look at Li Yu with a smile.
Although Li Yu was taught by his mother Murong Jing and knew a few simple words, he was also confused, and muttered: "What is the wind and clouds on the mountain, what is the barberry and what is born." ”
Niu Erlang glanced at this little kid in surprise, but he didn't expect him to recognize two words, but it was really funny to pronounce it nondescriptly, so he smiled and said: "The situation on Tugu Mountain has changed, and the heroes in Funiu Village are born." ”
Zilong suddenly realized that the text recognition system did not work, he had learned the ancient small seal with Zijuan for two days, but he didn't recognize much, only to see that this couplet also wanted to mutter like Li Yu, but he was ashamed to say it.
Walking into the main hall, the first thing I saw was facing the door, hanging a portrait of Hu Ren, the figure in the painting was burly, with fierce eyebrows, and three small braids on his bare head.
The man was riding on a sturdy camel, holding a longbow in one hand and a spear in the other, and his eyes flashed with essence in his sunken eye sockets, and his killing intent was vertical and horizontal, and Zilong was stunned when he saw it.
Niu Erlang beckoned the two to sit down, and served some wine, but he sat on the top and did not occupy the main seat.
Before long, a beautiful little girl came to the hall with three delicate and transparent cups, and a small girl came in with a small wooden barrel behind her.
The little girl put down the barrel and exited the main hall, but the little girl stayed, pulled out the cork on the barrel, and a familiar smell wafted into Zilong's nose.
Sure enough, I saw that the little girl carefully shook the wooden barrel, and poured out some magenta viscous liquid from it, with a small transparent cup, which was very beautiful.
The little girl sent three glasses of wine to the three of them, Zilong looked at the wine in the glass, and was surprised that there was such a delicate wine vessel in such a place, smelling the strong aroma of wine, and couldn't help but be intoxicated.
"Grape wine glow-in-the-dark glass, if you want to drink pipa, urge immediately! Wine paired with this crystal glass is even more exotic! Wonderful! ”
Niu Erlang was originally a rough man, if it wasn't for entertaining guests today, he wouldn't have touched the treasures of his eldest brother, and he didn't react when he heard Zilong's words, but the little girl listened, but her delicate body was shocked, and she almost spilled the wine on Zilong.
Niu Erlang looked at it, frowned and said, "Cuixiu, why is it so rude, and you don't apologize to Brother Zilong." ”
Zilong listened to it and hurriedly said: "Miss Cuixiu, if you miss it for a while, it won't get in the way, don't listen to the second brother's nonsense." ”
The little girl secretly glanced at Zilong, but felt that he was handsome and had an extraordinary temperament, although half of his body was stained with blood, but he was even more heroic.
Niu Erlang shook his head and sighed: "This is my eldest brother's daughter, I am used to being arrogant on weekdays, so I just lost my manners, and I hope that Brother Zilong will not blame!" ”
Zilong didn't take it to heart, and laughed.
The two chatted through wine, and Zilong slowly got to know more about this barberry village.
It turned out that the person in this painting was Dong Zhuo's love general and son-in-law Niu Fu in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
In order to avoid disaster, his family fled all the way here, and saw that the terrain near Tugu Mountain was complicated, and this cliff was easy to defend and difficult to attack, so the family settled here.
Hundreds of years have passed in a flash, and Niu Fu's descendants and their families have been in peace and almost isolated from the world here, until Niu Erlang's eldest brother Niu Ichiro returned from a trip a while ago and was seriously injured.
I don't know what the reason is, Niu Ichiro's wound is always difficult to heal, the bleeding does not stop, and judging by the color of the blood, it should be poisoned.
Although there are people in the barberry village who are familiar with medical skills, but the medicinal materials they ask for make everyone worried, and the other medicinal materials are just returned, and the two flavors of medicine are really rare.
One of them is a black bear bear bile that is more than 30 years old, and without Niu Erlang saying it, Zilong already knows how rare this medicine is.
The age of wild black bears is generally 32 years, and the mortality rate of black bears over 30 years can reach an astonishing 90 percent, which is basically difficult to encounter.
Although this is modern data, but it is not much worse than in ancient times, not to mention the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties period, the scholars became extravagant, although the north is mostly nomadic people, but after entering the north, it is gradually contaminated with vices.
Eat bear paws, wear bear skin, decorate bear bones, and use bear bile in medicine......
Driven by various necessary and unnecessary interests, black bears have become the target of many hunters, and black bears that can live for more than 30 years have become a key target because of their declining physical strength and loss of prestige.
I didn't expect Zilong to be so lucky today and pick up one, and I didn't expect that the one he picked up was still the target that people had already locked.
After listening to Niu Erlang's words, Zilong understood the whole story, but he also had some doubts, which were revealed from Niu Erlang's concealment on some topics.
Since it is almost isolated from the world, where do those gold and jade jewels come from? What's the use of coming?
Isolated from the world, where do these grape wines come from? Isolated from the world, where did Niu Ichiro come from to have a grudge against others, and was poisoned by others?
The most important thing is, listening to what he said, this poison is very difficult to solve, why is there a master in the world who can cure this poison in the small cottage, is it really just a village with rough medical skills?
With these suspicions, when Niu Erlang asked Zilong why he came here to Tugu Mountain, Zilong had more or less reservations and did not tell the truth in full.
The two of them had their own thoughts, and although they talked and laughed as usual, they also had a little defensiveness.
Zilong heard Niu Erlang say that there were two extremely rare medicinal materials, but now he only said one, so he asked casually: "I don't know what this other medicinal material is?" ”
Niu Erlang heard this, and was about to answer, but a man ran in outside and panicked.
"Second brother, this ......"
Seeing that there was a new face in the hall that he had never seen before, the man stopped talking and asked Niu Erlang with a puzzled expression.
Niu Erlang told the truth about Zilong slaughtering the bear and giving away gall, and the man's face immediately showed gratitude, and without saying a word, he fell to his knees with a pop.
"Long Ze has thanked his brother for his great kindness, if he is sent in the future, Long Ze will not hesitate to go to the soup."
Saying that, before Zilong could help him, Long Ze got up by himself and said to Niu Erlang: "Look at the bear teeth, sure enough, it is thirty-five years old, bear bile should be effective, but ......"
Glancing at Zilong, Long Ze did not continue, but looked at Niu Erlang, Niu Erlang knew what he meant, so he confessed and followed Long Ze out of the main hall.
After a while, Niu Erlang returned to the main hall, holding a wooden box in his hand, and handed the wooden box to Zilong.
"Brother Zilong, the green mountains do not change, the green water flows for a long time, there are some urgent matters in the village, Brother Zilong quickly go down the mountain, this is a little bit of my brother's mind, brother must not refuse, the horses and water and grass are enough, prepare two bags of wine for the brothers, you go down the mountain quickly!"
Zilong didn't say it, Niu Erlang sent Zilong Li Yu down the mountain, although Zilong was puzzled, but seeing Niu Erlang's anxious expression, he concluded that there must be something urgent, and it was inconvenient to stay again.
It was the little girl Cuixiu who sent Zilong and the others, but this time she went down the mountain from another road, and Zilong then understood why the horses could go up the mountain, it turned out that in addition to the rugged path, there was a slightly wider mountain road on the southwest side of Funiu Village.
Along the way, Cuixiu was silent, peeking at Zilong's expression from time to time, and felt more and more that Zilong was handsome and extraordinary, coupled with a small poem inadvertently by Zilong, which made Cuixiu feel that Zilong had a lot of connotation.
Zilong didn't care about Cuixiu's expression, he talked to Cuixiu without a match, Cuixiu was simple-minded and had no scheming, although every word Zilong said, it made her heart like a deer, but she also knew that everything was endless.
Zilong also took the opportunity to probe, and occasionally asked a question, he could learn some truths, but he didn't dare to make it too obvious, so he still had a very general understanding of this barberry village.
"Miss Cuixiu, thank you, this is a little gadget, just a little thank you for sending my uncle and nephew down the mountain, don't dislike it."
Zilong saw that he had come to the bottom of the mountain, and Cuixiu had said goodbye to the two, so he took out a small thing that was already a little yellowed and stuffed it into Cuixiu's hand.
Cuixiu saw that it was a lifelike grasshopper made of straw, and her childlike heart rose and laughed happily, Xindao didn't expect this person to be so skillful, and accepted it happily.
Zilong took Li Yu on the horse, ready to continue to report to the local officials, so that he could get Juntian, and then said goodbye to Cuixiu, Cuixiu looked at the elegant figure on the horse, and couldn't help but be secretly distracted.
Zilong Li Yu walked for a while, and suddenly heard a shout behind him, like Cuixiu's voice, his heart was shocked, and he hurriedly turned his horse back and left, afraid that Cuixiu would have an accident.
When they went slowly, they returned in a hurry, and after a while, the two returned to the mountain pass where they had just separated, and shouted: "Miss Cuixiu! ”