After arranging it, Leng Yi called Master Dong to the house and told him that he was going to take his wife to the countryside for a private visit to learn about the spring ploughing people, and that the affairs of the yamen were temporarily in charge of the master book, and asked him to assist in handling it. At the same time, the maid grass spike was also handed over to Master Dong to help take care of it. Master Dong hurriedly agreed.

After the Spring Festival, the spring flowers are blooming, and everything seems to have woken up from the harsh winter.

Leng Yi and Zhuo Qiaoniang changed into casual clothes, both wearing men's clothes and human skin masks, dressed as two peasants, carrying a small bag, and walking on the mountain path, like two peasant brothers who came back from visiting relatives and paying New Year's greetings.

Leng Yi was not in a hurry to go to the village to inspect the people's situation, he wanted to take his wife and hide in the mountains for a few days. Now, it's all about saving your life.

His backpack was large, with a small tent inside, as well as pitons and a large bundle of string. This kind of rope is used by local medicine pickers to climb cliffs to collect medicine, it is very thin but very strong. Leng Yi made some pitons according to the modern style of climbing with pitons, and asked a blacksmith to order some pitons. Also put in the bag.

Zhuo Qiaoniang carried a small bag with only dry food and water.

Leng Yi was not very familiar with the surrounding terrain, and he didn't know where the cliffs were. Coincidentally, on the road, I met an old man who was picking herbs and carrying the herbs he picked to the city to sell, so he greeted him and arched his hand: "This uncle, can I ask you about something?" ”

The herb picker also returned the salute: "Yes." What's up? ”

"My family is sick and needs a medicine called Wuling Fat, and I heard that it is only available on the steep mountain wall. However, I don't know where this kind of mountain wall is nearby, you always collect medicine, can you give me some advice? ”

"Five Spirit Fat?" The herb picker smiled, "This medicine is bat droppings, right?" It has to be on the mountain wall, but it's dangerous. Can you? ”

"There's no way, you have to use it for treatment. Old man, please help me. It only has to be on very steep and steep cliffs. Where is this kind of cliff? ”

"You know how to do it, that's right, the five spirit fats are only found in such cliffs." The old man twisted his beard and looked Leng Yi up and down, and said, "Well, look at your body and fingers, it's not bad, you should often climb mountains and cliffs, okay, then I'll tell you." The old man turned around and pointed to a mountain peak in the direction of Tubo in the distance, "Well, if you cross that mountain, there will be a ravine at the foot of the mountain on the other side of the mountain, and if you go up along the ravine, it will take about two days to reach a mountain wall, called 'Ghost Axe Cliff'." The mountain wall was very steep, and there were a lot of five spirit fats on it. It's just that most people don't go to that place. ”

"Why?" Leng Yi asked.

"It's almost the border of our Northern Song Dynasty, and if you go there, you'll be in Tibet. That's a place that neither Tubo nor our Great Song Dynasty can control. It is really high and deep, and there are no people in a radius of hundreds of miles, and wild beasts are infested. I heard that there are also man-eating mountain demons! Besides, the mountain wall was so steep that there was almost no place to start, and there were also bold herb pickers who went there, but fell to their deaths. Anyway, I don't know of anyone daring to go there to collect medicine again. So, you better go back and find a way to scrape together money to buy it, although this thing is very expensive, but compared to the surname, it is still very cheap. Hey hey"

When Leng Yi heard this, he was very happy, he just wanted to go to such a place, where it was most appropriate to hide for a while. The killer can't find it, and you can also practice rock climbing. He hadn't climbed for two months, and he was worried that his muscles would turn fat from laziness and his will would become sluggish from the lack of training in dangerous environments, which was not what he wanted to see.

Leng Yi arched his hand and said, "Thank you, old man!" ”

The old man looked at their distant backs, shook his head, and said, "Alas! Don't die if you want medicine! ”

When Leng Yi and Zhuo Qiaoniang climbed over the mountain and went down to the ravine at the foot of the mountain, it was already dark.

There is a small river in the ravine, and as the temperature rises after the spring warms, the snow melts on the mountain, and the amount of water increases, and it is half a man deep, and it flows down slowly with ice cubes.

The hillsides on both sides were towering, and the valley was very cold and dim, Zhuo Qiaoniang hugged Leng Yi's arm with some fear, and said, "Official, ah no, big brother, it's so scary here!" ”

Leng Yi smiled, patted his arm, and said, "Don't be afraid, we have flying knives!" Who dares to mess with us? ”

Zhuo Qiaoniang also smiled, thinking about the fact that her husband, a scholar, actually killed six assassins by himself, all relying on the flying knife given by Cheng Cheng's head, this thing seems to be really powerful, she felt a little at ease, looked around, and suddenly pointed to the mountainside, and said, "Look, there are people!" ”

Leng Yi looked in the direction of her finger, and saw a farmer carrying a load of firewood on a winding mountain road, walking along the mountain road.

Leng Yi said: "Someone must have someone's home, let's go spend the night!" With that, he pulled Zhuo Qiaoniang and the two up along the ditch.

After walking a short distance, suddenly, I heard the man on the mountain cry, hurriedly looked up, only to see that the man was walking on a small wooden bridge, suddenly collapsed, the man with firewood fell into the rocky ditch under the bridge, and then rolled down, was stuck by a tree, and kept screaming.

"Oops!" Leng Yi hurriedly took Zhuo Qiaoniang, climbed up the hillside, and came to the man's side, only to see that this person was thin and small, wearing only a single coat in the cold weather, holding his legs with both hands, and kept screaming and screaming in pain.

Leng Yi said: "This brother, where did you get hurt?" ”

"Legs! My leg! Ouch, it hurts! ”

Leng Yi squatted down and lifted his trouser legs, only to see that his two calves were weirdly flipped, and from this posture, he knew that both calves must have been fractured!

Fortunately, it is a closed fracture, that is, the bone is broken inside, and it is not poked out, so as to avoid causing infection.

"Your leg is broken!" Leng Yi said, "You have to connect the bones first." ”

"Thank you! - Who are you ......? ”

"Oh, we are going up the mountain to collect medicine, it is dark, I wanted to find a place to spend the night, I happened to see you carrying firewood over, we also want to follow you to the house, where do you spend the night, I didn't expect to see the bridge collapse, you fell down."

"It must be ......," the woodcutter cried out again in pain halfway through his words, "thank you, my surname is Ma, and my house is not far ahead." Thank you for saving me. Thank you! ”

Leng Yi said: "I can't pick up the bones, what should I do?" ”

"Uncle Qi will! - It's my neighbor! The woodcutter said, "Can you please carry me back?" Thank you, you can spend the night at my place tonight. ”

"Okay. I'll carry you back. Leng Yi grabbed the woodcutter's hands, carried him on his back, climbed back onto the path, and walked forward along the path, Zhuo Qiaoniang followed behind.

After walking a short distance, I turned a corner and saw a wooden house and a small yard by the river at the foot of the mountain. There seems to be a light inside. Leng Yi said: "This is here, right?" ”

"It's not! I won't live here, this is by the river, there is a lot of snow this year, and there will be a lot of water in the summer, and the house will be washed away! The woodcutter said, "My house is still on it, on the side of the road." There are several houses, that's it. ”

After another meal, when it was about to get dark, I finally saw a relatively gentle lawn, scattered with four small wooden houses, three of which were lit.

The woodcutter said, "The one at the front without a light is my house." The one with the light on at the back is Uncle Qi's house. Just ask the big brother to carry me there. ”

Leng Yi carried the woodcutter to the gate of the courtyard of Uncle Qi's house, and the woodcutter said loudly: "Uncle Qi! Help, Uncle Qi, my leg is broken! ――Let's go inside! ”

Leng Yi carried him into the courtyard, and a middle-aged man came out of the door and said, "What's the matter?" How did you break your leg? ”

"Alas! I'm so angry," said the woodcutter, "I went to fetch firewood, and when I came back, I passed the little wooden bridge above the cow's house, and somehow, the wooden bridge broke, and I fell down and broke my leg, which is really unlucky!" ”

Uncle Qi's wife, Sun Shi, who came out with him, muttered: "How can the wooden bridge be broken when it is good?" ”

"Who knows." The woodcutter didn't have a good breath and said, "Uncle, you can show me first." ”

Uncle Qi asked Leng Yi to put the woodcutter on the bed and began to examine him.

Uncle Qi muttered: "Anyway, whoever has a cow family will be unlucky!" Last time, Luo Panya passed over the cow, didn't he smash his head by the stones that rolled down from the mountain for some reason, and he shed a lot of blood. ”

Leng Yi asked strangely: "Who is the cow?" ”

Ma woodcutter said: "Cow is the family by the river that I saw first, a single person, because his surname is Niu, and he speaks like cow, so he is called cow." ”

Zhuo Qiaoniang couldn't help but laugh at the back, and quickly covered her mouth.

These people all heard that Zhuo Qiaoniang's voice was a female voice, and said strangely: "It turned out to be a woman?" ”

Leng Yi hurriedly said: "She is my mother, we went to collect medicine, for the convenience of the road, so we changed our dress." ”

"As it should be!" Sun said, "In this wilderness, it is not safe for the girl's house to walk, so it is better to change your outfit." Girl, please be seated! Pull Zhuo Qiaoniang to sit down next to the fire. Poured a bowl of hot tea.

Uncle Qi checked the woodcutter's legs and said, "Both legs are broken!" But it doesn't matter, the bones are not rotten, apply the medicine, and I'll just splint it on you,--but you'll have to stay in bed for three months. You know, it takes 100 days to break your muscles and bones! ”

"Then I must not starve to death!" The woodcutter said with a bitter face, "Seeing that spring plowing is about to begin, and I can't get off the ground for three months, what crops will grow in my field?" Nagano grass got! ”

"Don't worry, just ask someone to help you plough your little land."

"Who's invited?" The woodcutter looked at the two of them pitifully, "There are only four of us around here, who are you please?" ”

Sun said: "That's right, every family has a scripture that is difficult to read. Jiao Laosan fell ill before the harvest last autumn, couldn't get out of bed, wanted to ask someone to help harvest, you can't go if you're not in good health, Brother Ma harvested the crops and had to go up the mountain to chop firewood and burn charcoal, Luo Panya has a lot of land, and the whole family can't even go to the ground to harvest the old lady, and can't help him, so he begged for cow dung, cow dung is a strength, but people just don't go, and said that Jiao Laosan deserves a retribution, he waited for the excitement to see nothing, will he help? Jiao Laosan was so angry that he almost vomited blood. In the end, I could only force myself to go to the field to harvest, and my illness worsened and I almost died, not to mention, the crops were still half rotten in the ground. ”

(To be continued)