Ten days later...... It was a sweltering afternoon, with no clouds in the sky, a blazing roar overhead, no wind, and the trees stood listlessly and lazily.

The earth is like a steamer, so hot that people can't breathe.

"It's hot, it's hot......" There were bursts of shouts in the small courtyard on the mountainside.

Nangong Sheng jumped and jumped alone in the quiet courtyard that belonged to him, the weather itself was hot enough, he jumped so much that his whole body was soon wet with sweat.

The fan in his hand was so anxious that he fanned hard, but it still felt extremely hot, and the wind from the fan was also warm.

Nangong Sheng sat back under the vine, and let out a big breath, wanting to cool himself down, this ghost weather, why is it so hot, Nangong Sheng complained in his heart.

When it was hot, he didn't even have the interest in teasing the crickets, and he washed his face several times after a while, and it was cool when he washed it, but it was still hot after a while.

"Hot, hot, hot...... Boredom, boredom, boredom...... "I'm not interested in doing anything on such a hot day, and I can't wait for the sky to snow immediately."

Since his daughter Nangong Linlin, that is, Huang Ying, left, he didn't even have anyone to talk to, although Nangong Sheng would go down the mountain to play every day, but when he returned home, he still inevitably felt a little lonely.

It's really uncomfortable to be alone at home, every time he talks to his beloved cricket, talking to himself, and talking to two people by himself.

"I said Brother Flora, what do you think I should do on such a hot day?" Nangong Sheng said to the crickets in the jar under the grape trellis.

After finishing speaking, Nangong Sheng hurriedly ran to the other side and said in a different voice: "You want me to say it!" Brother Sheng, you should sit down quietly, your heart is calm and naturally cool! When you calm down, you won't feel hot. ”

Nangong Sheng ran back to his position, pouted and said, "Brother Flower Skin Pattern, I understand everything you say, but how can I calm down when I'm so bored!" I wanted to go to sleep, but I couldn't sleep when it was hot! ”

Nangong Sheng ran back again, and said in a different voice: "Brother Sheng! Didn't I say you, didn't you develop a kind of cool air pill by yourself? Didn't you say that after eating the cold air pills, it will make people feel like they put an ice cube in their stomachs? Wouldn't it be hot if you ate one yourself? ”

Nangong Sheng's voice changed, and he said: "Brother of Hundred Victories!" It's not that you don't know that the medicine is three parts poisonous, how can I take the medicine casually. You know, I haven't taken medicine in years. ”

"I'm back, I'm back......"

Just as Nangong Sheng was talking to himself to the two crickets, a loud cry suddenly came from the door.

Then Nangong Sheng only heard a bang, and the door of the small courtyard was knocked open, and then a figure rushed in.

"Who?" Nangong Sheng's figure flashed, and he flashed in front of the man at once, stomped his feet and shouted, "Who are you, what are you doing in my house?" ”

Nangong Sheng saw the person who broke in just now, his hair was scattered, covering his face, the clothes on his body were tattered, all dirt, and a pair of shoes with his toes exposed, Nangong Sheng thought that he was asking for food.

After the man who broke in saw Nangong Sheng, he hurriedly said, "Brother Nangong, it's me!" Yue Kang. ”

Then Yue Kang brushed away the hair that covered his face, revealing a face full of dust, opening his mouth and smiling, and two rows of white teeth appeared in front of Nangong Sheng.

"Little Brother Yue, are you?" Nangong Sheng blinked in disbelief, thinking that he had seen it wrong, "Seeing Yue Kang's embarrassed appearance, Nangong Sheng asked in surprise, "Little brother Yue, why did you get like this?" ”

"Brother Nangong, it's a long story, it's not something that can be explained in one or two sentences, Brother Nangong, do you think it's this herb?" After Yue Kang finished speaking, he hurriedly took out the herbs he had worked so hard to collect.

Nangong Sheng took the box in Yue Kang's hand, opened it and glanced at it, and said weakly, yes, yes, it is this herb. Nangong Sheng looked at Yue Kang, who was embarrassed, with a surprised expression, just went to pick a medicine to make it like this.

"Great, I'm afraid it's not this herb." After Yue Kang got Nangong Sheng's approval, his heart relaxed, he was always worried that he was afraid that he would find the wrong herb, so he brought back almost one of each herb by Guxia Mountain and Lake, lest he make a mistake.

Little Brother Yue, don't blame me! It's not my attention to make you like this! Nangong Sheng thought in his heart, just looking at Yue Kang's appearance, he knew that Yue Kang must have suffered a lot along the way.

"Miao Dan, Ye Xue, I'm back, why haven't you come out yet." Yue Kang shouted at the house. "Xiaoshun ......"

Yue Kang shouted a few times in a row, but there was no response in the room, Yue Kang frowned and became worried in his heart, "Brother Nangong, what about Miao Dan and Ye Xue?" ”

Nangong Sheng's expression was a little embarrassed, "...... them They...... This ......" Nangong Sheng swallowed, and he didn't say a reason for a long time.

"Did something happen to them? Brother Nangong, what the hell happened to them? Yue Kang was in a hurry, shook Nangong Sheng's shoulder, stared at him and asked.

"Brother Yue, don't get excited, they're fine." Nangong Sheng saw that Yue Kang was about to go crazy, and hurriedly pressed Yue Kang, who was emotionally unstable.

Yue Kang knew that his emotions were too excited, so he comforted him and asked, "Brother Nangong, where did they go?" Did you go to Infernal Affairs to play? Yue Kang asked guessingly.

"They're back in Hangzhou." Nangong Sheng said directly.

"What? Did they go back to Hangzhou? Yue Kang was shocked, "How is it possible, why didn't they wait for me to go back to Hangzhou." Yue Kang was confused all of a sudden.

Nangong Sheng looked at Yue Kang's eyes with a feeling of guilt, and saw that Yue Kang was a little embarrassed, and then Nangong Sheng asked Yue Kang to sit down and told Yue Kang the reason why they returned to Hangzhou early.

After hearing this, Yue Kang suddenly realized, it turned out to be like this! He asked again, Brother Nangong, you said that the medicinal effect of this herb is only twenty days, right?

Nangong Sheng hummed with a clear conscience, he really didn't dare to betray his baby daughter Nangong Linlin, otherwise he would have good fruits to eat in the future, and his daughter always didn't harm Yue Kang, and it wasn't too much to trick him.

Nangong Sheng knows his daughter best, if Yue Kang didn't provoke her, she wouldn't have deliberately rectified Yue Kang, but the two of them also just met, where did Yue Kang provoke that aunt, Nangong Sheng thought in his heart.

After listening to Nangong Sheng's words, Yue Kang hurriedly stood up from the chair and said to himself, No, I have to go back quickly, as soon as possible, in case there is a delay on the way back to Hangzhou, this herb will be troublesome if it has no medicinal effect.

Yue Kang was also very strange in his heart, when he went to Guxia Mountain to collect this herb, why didn't Nangong Sheng tell himself that the medicinal effect of this herb was only twenty days, and now Yue Kang was not in the mood to ask, and it was important to go back to Hangzhou immediately.

"Brother Nangong, without further ado, I'm going back to Hangzhou now, take care of yourself, and after curing my lady's illness, I will take my lady to thank you." Yue Kang said the meaning of the words.

"Why is Little Brother Yue so anxious! Haven't you only been collecting this herb for a few days? If you can't delay it, take a good rest today and go back tomorrow. Nangong Sheng said, he really wanted to find a partner to play.

"No, Brother Nangong, I can't sit down for a moment, I have to go back immediately." Yue Kang said firmly.

Nangong Sheng had no choice but to agree.

"You kid, if you want to leave, you have to wash and change your clothes before leaving! People think you're asking for food. Nangong Sheng grabbed Yue Kang, who wanted to leave.

After Nangong Sheng's reminder, Yue Kang couldn't help but look at himself, the clothes on his body were already tattered, and they were covered with dust, and his toes were exposed on a pair of shoes, which was even more shabby than the beggar's clothes, and the smell on his body was also quite unpleasant.

Walking on the street like this, taking a stick and carrying a broken bowl, it is estimated that some well-wishers will throw themselves two copper coins, Yue Kang smiled bitterly at his appearance, this dress is also in line with his identity as the leader of the beggar gang.

Yue Kang said in his heart, let's wash first and then go! Otherwise, walking on the street like this will not disgust people to death.

Yue Kang's burden was full of his change of clothes, but on the second day of his way to Guxia Mountain, the burden on his back accidentally fell under the cliff, Yue Kang looked at the bottomless cliff, and smiled bitterly in his heart, there was no way that there was still a lot of dry food in the burden that Xiaoshun was prepared for him to eat on the road.

The burden is lost, not only the clothes are gone, even the food is gone, Yue Kang has no choice, when he is hungry, he will hunt some prey to fill his stomach, but generally he eats this meal and does not have a meal, Yue Kang does not have hunting tools with him, it is very difficult to catch a prey, under normal circumstances, he eats wild vegetables on the mountain raw, and his life is about to catch up with the hardships of five or eight years.

In the past ten days, Yue Kang has not slept for five or six hours, he set off as soon as it is dawn, and continued to rush when it was very dark, until he was really tired, so he stopped to rest.

The wind is blowing and drying along the way, and you have to find food and drink, plus such a hot weather, you can imagine how hard Yue Kang is along the way, he doesn't dare to sleep on the ground when he sleeps alone, what if he sleeps and finds it, the wolf or tiger in the mountain eats himself!

So every time Yue Kang sleeps, he is looking for some thick woods, squinting at the branches for a few hours, he has always been dishonest when he sleeps, and he is always afraid that he must not fall from the tree after falling asleep, and the things he eats these days are also very bitter, all of which are digging sweet potatoes in the mountains, yams and other things, as long as they can fill his stomach, they can become Yue Kang's hearty meals. Yue Kang simply became a mountain savage.

After all these rushes, Yue Kang's whole person was much haggard.

When he was unlucky, he drank cold water and stuffed his teeth, Yue Kang was not easy to catch a rabbit in the grass on the mountain, and thought happily in his heart, this time there was something delicious, Yue Kang excitedly lit a fire, although there was no lighter or match in this era, but Yue Kang had been here for so long, and he had already learned to drill wood to make fire.

The rabbit was roasted, Yue Kang smelled the fragrant smell of the roasted rabbit, swallowed his saliva a few times, it was time to take it from that part of the rabbit's body, Yue Kang thought with a sigh of thought, how could he not be willing to eat the roasted rabbit in his hand.

"Whew......"

"Whew......"

"Whew......"

Yue Kang suddenly heard a series of wolf howls, and felt that he was beside him, Yue Kang turned his head violently and saw no less than twenty wild wolves emitting a cyan cold light behind him.

After that, Yue Kang chased the wolves and escaped, but the roasted rabbit became the dinner of the wolves.

Yue Kang walked alone in the mountains, wolves, tigers, lions, cheetahs, and even wild boars came to bully Yue Kang, wanting to be greedy for Yue Kang's piece of fat.

Yue Kang didn't know how many times he had been chased by wolves in the mountains, he was sleeping in a tree, and it was not uncommon for a leopard to suddenly run into a tree, and it was common for a group of black wild boars to chase behind his ass and play some games of running away with wild boars.

With all this, it is not difficult to imagine Yue Kang's current embarrassment. There is hardly an intact place where the clothes have been scraped.

In fact, there is no such danger on the mountain, generally experienced mountain people go up the mountain to avoid those monsters that are not easy to mess with, but Yue Kang is different from others, those wolves, leopards, tigers, originally ignored Yue Kang, a small human being, but Yue Kang wants to eat other people's meat, people don't chase him, who to chase!

Finally, the herb was picked back, and this dangerous trip came to an end.

Yue Kang hurriedly washed his body, but suddenly remembered that he had no clothes to wear, so he said to Nangong Sheng: "Brother Nangong, can you lend me a piece of your clothes." ”

Nangong Sheng knew that Yue Kang's clothes were lost, so he took out one of his clothes and gave it to Yue Kang, and said, I am not as tall as you, and my clothes may be small.

The clothes are indeed a little smaller, Yue Kang wears a section of his arms and legs, Nangong Sheng's clothes are not only a little smaller, but also very thin, Yue Kang feels that his whole body is wrinkled and he can't even fasten the buttons after wearing it.

Yue Kang had no choice but to inhale and fasten the buttons, his clothes were tightly attached to his body, and Yue Kang felt that he couldn't curl his arms and legs.

It's too tight, and it's the kind that doesn't have a surname.

It's better to have clothes to wear than nothing, Yue Kang said a few words to Nangong Sheng, and then said goodbye, and when he left, Nangong Sheng also stuffed him with a piece of silver, saying that he would keep it on the road.

Yue Kang is penniless now, and he really needs silver, so he smiled, and took the silver a little embarrassed.

……………………

Three days later, Yue Kang arrived in Jingzhou City from Phoenix Mountain.

Yue Kang came back directly by the merchant ship from Infernal Town to Jingzhou City, and finally returned to Jingzhou City after three days of walking by water.

Yue Kang didn't stop, he directly took care of a carriage and asked the other party to send him to the rudder of the beggar gang in Jingzhou.

After getting the news of Yue Kang's return, Li Kui, the helmsman of Jingzhou, led his subordinates out to greet him, and after seeing Yue Kang, he greeted him with a smile on his face.

(To be continued)