1. Legend of mountain ghosts
"It's medical malpractice! You must take full responsibility! ”
"What does this have to do with me? I'm not the surgeon? I'm just a hands-on intern! I don't carry this pot! Carry me for the rest of my life! ”
Two figures are arguing.
Shen Qiu felt that one of them was very much like himself.
The chaotic picture of the dream turned, and he saw the figure that looked like his own back dragging a box alone, walking in an aisle that seemed to never finish.
Someone was shoving something into his hand.
"This is the 'heart' that Dr. Zhao gave you privately. Not much, but it's enough for you to live for a while, mainly that thing..."
"Dirty money! I don't want it! ”
He saw that he shook off that hand, and there were bills flying all over the sky.
"Phew, I don't know how to lift!"
The figure cursed.
The picture rotated again, and he saw that he had stumbled and fallen, and the sky in front of him was so blue, and he reached out and tried to touch the sky, but it was getting farther and farther away.
Was it a stumble and a fall?
Not quite like that...
The blurred picture turned again, and he became a half-grown child, in a vast snowfall, wearing a rag cotton jacket, with a small village with mist cooking smoke in the background.
"I'll do it."
A tall man stood in front of him, his face blurred.
He put something in the hands of the dazed child, put his hands behind his back, and sighed:
"The immortal fate that people in this world can't ask for, it's still yours after all."
The screen turns again.
It was still that village, but the young man Shen Qiu was lying in the grass, already dizzy from hunger, and in front of him, there was a girl wearing a small red cotton jacket and combing a small bun.
As she handed the boy half of the yellow nest, she said:
"I begged Master, and he said that it would be good to have one more person to help, so come with me. Your family is starving to death, and you can't survive if you stay here. ”
Is that...
It was the green girl, and that was the first time they met.
Immediately after that, the last frame covers everything.
Outside a deep and collapsed ancient tomb, a white-haired old man held a plate axe, protecting him and Qingqing, surrounded by people in black from last night, pouring in from all directions.
"Let's go! Shen Qiu, take your junior sister away! Don't look back! ”
"Let's go !!"
He saw himself carrying his sister and rushing out of the road, riding an old horse and rushing out of the encirclement, he was slashed in the chaos, and the horse galloped in the night rain, and he could vaguely hear the shouting and killing behind him.
The old man was roaring.
Is that...
That's his master, unruly, a weird-tempered old man who always has no good face.
Hmm, it turns out that this young man is also called Shen Qiu.
It's really fateful.
"Ugh."
Strange dreams came one after another, and the chaotic Shen Qiu finally opened his eyes.
He heard the chirping of birds coming from outside, and when he looked up, he saw that outside the cave, sunlight shone down the dappled leaves into the hole.
After a night of heavy rain, it finally stopped.
He was covered with his clothes and was still a little damp, but he was mostly roasted.
Next to the humble straw mat was a burning fire, on which stood a black clay pot with the gurgling sound of water.
Shen Qiu felt very weak, and the wound in his abdomen was still painful.
He looked at the strip of cloth wrapped around his waist, which should have been the wound that Qingqing had treated for him, he untied the strip of cloth and took a look.
The knife cut open the skin last night, but it didn't hurt the internal organs, soaked in the river water, and burned by the red-hot stone.
The wound looked rather hideous, and there were black carbon marks on the side of the wound.
It seems that the stupid girl did follow her own instructions and treated the wound for herself to avoid infection.
That girl has a good memory.
"But... Where did she get these from? ”
Shen Qiu leaned against the stone wall, struggling to put on his clothes, and he found that he was wearing a muddy sword-shaped jade on his wrist, and the ash fluttered inconspicuously.
But it should be the beloved things of this body, and they are almost grinding out of the pulp.
Shen Qiu looked left and right, there were straw mats, clay pots, and a bonfire made of stones, and there were several bags thrown in the corner of the cave, and there were some things like potatoes or sweet potatoes in them.
There is also air-dried meat, which has not been properly handled, and there is still animal hair on the jerky.
This shouldn't have been prepared by Qingqing, that girl is not so powerful, she should have been lucky to find the small house prepared by Orion, right?
Luck.
Shen Qiu smiled, he picked up a wooden stick from his hand, supported his body, and walked to the campfire.
Looking at the clay pot with boiling potatoes, there are two large porcelain bowls with boiling water in them.
"Ah, senior brother! You're awake. ”
A joyful cheer came from the entrance of the cave, and Shen Qiu, who was sitting cross-legged on the straw mat and drinking water, turned his head and saw the green girl carrying a fat rabbit and two forked fish, and walked into the cave.
The originally beautiful little girl was like a mud monkey, covered with grass stalks, and there were mud marks on her casually coiled hair.
Beneath the rolled up trouser legs, both feet were also covered in mud.
However, that fat face was full of surprise, and it could be seen that she was really happy for her senior brother to wake up.
In other words, such a big girl, no matter how eccentric she is, she can't pretend to be in such an emotion, right?
Besides, the two of them were through hardship together last night, and this little girl saved her life.
"Hmm."
Shen Qiu responded.
Somewhat apathetic.
It's not that he has any opinions about this girl, it's just that he occupies the body of someone else's senior brother, and the memories in his mind are also fragmentary, and he can't pretend that his senior brother Shen Qiu should be like for a while.
It's easy to leak the stuffing if you talk so rashly.
Qingqing didn't care much, the girl came over with a big grin, put the fish on the stone, and picked up the stunned rabbit, she held a short knife in her hand, and gestured around the rabbit's neck.
I don't know if I can't do it, or if I can't handle this game.
She looked at her senior brother blankly, Shen Qiu finished drinking the water, noticed Qingqing's eyes, and then looked at the rabbit and knife in her hand.
He shook his head and said:
"I'll do it."
Although it was still a little weak and tired, it was not a fatal injury after all.
With the help of Qingqing's hands, Shen Qiu quickly scraped the fish scales, took out the internal organs, and asked Qingqing to wash the fish and pick some wild fruits by the way.
With the experience of handling samples in the dissection class, he skinned and cleaned the rabbit, and after a quarter of an hour, the rabbit was put on the fire, and the fish was mixed with chopped wild fruits and thrown into the clay pot.
There is some coarse salt in this cave, which is very astringent, but it is also a little seasoned, so as not to let this fallen brother and sister eat white meat like that.
Qingqing squatted by the jar, looking at the boiled fish soup and the aroma of roast rabbit, this girl's throat moved up and down, she should be very hungry.
Shen Qiupan sat by the bonfire, looking at Qingqing while plucking the fire with a stick, and he asked softly:
"How did you find this cave?"
"It's a bird."
Qingqing raised her head and smiled at her senior brother, she waved her hand and said innocently:
"I looked around last night for shelter from the rain, but I couldn't find it, and then I heard a bird calling, and I followed the bird's call, and I found it."
"I'm lucky, right? Hehe, Master often says that my luck is different from ordinary people. ”
"Good luck is true, but in such a heavy rain, there are still birds chirping?"
Shen Qiu narrowed his eyes, and he asked again:
"Are there any Orions around here?"
"I don't know."
Qingqing snorted, and she said:
"We haven't been here before, but Master told us not to get too close to the Taihang Mountains, saying that this place is haunted."
"Haunted?"
Shen Qiu moved his shoulders uneasily, and he asked:
"Are there really ghosts in this world? I heard those people say last night what about the relics of the immortal family, there are really immortals? ”
This question made Qingqing girl roll her eyes, she reached out and tried to touch Shen Qiu's forehead, she said:
"Senior brother, do you have a fever? Burnt and confused? ”
"The immortals have long been gone, some people say that there were immortals thousands of years ago, but what kind of aura loss and the like, so that the immortals can't live, and now the people walking on the rivers and lakes are people who practice martial arts, as for the ghosts..."
The little girl pursed her lips and said a little scared:
"Master said that there are no ghosts, but I heard the little guy singing in Suzhou say that if a person dies and has a grudge, he will become a ghost. But I haven't seen it, but it's not a day or two that Taihang Mountain is haunted, and everyone in the rivers and lakes knows it. ”
Shen Qiu nodded, he cut a slice of rabbit meat on the stick, put it in the green bowl, sprinkled some coarse salt, and handed it to the little junior sister.
The latter held it in his hand, and he didn't care about the heat, so he devoured it like a hungry kitten, which was quite cute.
Shen Qiu chuckled, he patted Qingqing's back and said:
"Eat slowly, and drink some fish soup later. By the way, tell my senior brother about this haunted thing in Taihang Mountain? ”
"Senior brother, you're so strange."
Qing Qingpan sat on the ground eating rabbit meat, she looked at Shen Qiu with strange eyes, and said:
"You didn't care about these things at all, and laughed at me for always liking to listen to stories about the rivers and lakes, and how did you know last night that this cliff was only a few feet high, and we wouldn't die if we fell down?"
"Uh, that, you stepped on the broken stone and fell, listen to the echo, the gravitational acceleration is roughly calculated..."
Shen Qiu glanced at Qingqing, who was staring wide-eyed, and he vaguely changed his statement:
"It's taught by the master, we don't play a dart game, although there are only three people, but the master said to learn this, this is common sense! Everyone in the martial arts understands it, and you will understand it when you grow up. ”
"Really?"
Qingqing rubbed her head, and she said:
"Master is really partial, he doesn't teach me. Alas, we were separated from Master..."
Speaking of Master, Qingqing was very sad, she ate meat with the same taste as chewing wax, she looked at Shen Qiu, and said in the expectant period:
"Senior brother, you said that Master must be fine, right? He said that if we escape, we will go back to Suzhou to meet him, he must still be alive, he must still be looking for us, right? ”
Looking at Qingqing's expectant eyes, Shen Qiu pursed his lips.
Judging from the scattered memories in his mind, Lu Bujian stayed there last night to resist the knights of the Northern Dynasty, I am afraid that it is more than lucky.
There are too many people on the other side, and it is a sneak attack.
From Lu Buji's last shout, Shen Qiu could also feel that the old man had already made up his mind to die.
But how could he say this to Qingqing, a 14-year-old girl?
What's more, this Shen Qiu is not the other Shen Qiu, he doesn't have too many special feelings for Lu Buji, and he doesn't know anything about this strange world.
As a person who has been beaten by society, he has seen the sinister heart of people, and he is not so easy to trust others.
Even the girl in front of her was in trouble together, and after saving his life, she had some intimacy.
Faced with Qingqing's expectations, he could only say vaguely:
"Well, it should be, Master's martial arts are strong, probably rushed out, we have to find a way to get out of here and go back to Suzhou... Eat, don't delay, we're on our way when we're full. ”
"Hmm."
Senior brother's words eased the girl's worry a little, and the fish soup in the clay pot was almost cooked, and Shen Qiu filled a bowl for himself and Qingqing.
This fish soup was not delicious, and it didn't have much taste to speak of, but the warm soup mixed with boiled wild fruits slid into his intestines, making Shen Qiu's spirit shake suddenly.
"Here in Taihang Mountain, I heard Sister Yaoqin say that it was because more than ten years ago, the Northern and Southern Dynasties fought here, and many people died, more than 100,000 people."
Qingqing, this girl is a little broken-mouthed.
When she saw that Shen Qiu stopped talking, she told her senior brother the story she had heard from others.
She said:
"The emperor of the Northern Dynasty was assassinated by the people of the Demon Sect, but after the Northern Dynasty retreated, there was a plague in the Taihang Mountain generation, and all the people in this vicinity died, so they became mountain ghosts and guarded near the Taihang Mountain."
"Those mountain ghosts hate the people of the Northern Dynasty very much, as long as we people from the Southern Dynasty enter Taihang Mountain, as long as they don't do anything wrong, they can exit safely, but as long as the people of the Northern Dynasty come in, they will die."
The more Qingqing spoke, the more excited she became, she was like a storyteller, and said to Shen Qiu:
"Two years ago, an army was opened from Yanjing, with hundreds of people, who went into the mountains to search, but in the end only a dozen people ran out, and they were all frightened."
"The mountain ghosts are taking revenge on those dog thieves of the Northern Dynasty."
Qingqing licked her lips, as if she was afraid that Shen Qiu would not believe it, and added a sentence with added oil and vinegar:
"That's what everybody says anyway... Another bowl. ”
"Really?"
Shen Qiu frowned and added a bowl of fish soup to Qingqing, although his body was only two years older than Qingqing, his soul was already a 25-year-old adult.
He was an atheist and did not believe in ghosts.
But if there are no ghosts in this Taihang Mountain, then the protagonist of this rumor must be a person. Relying on the extensive social information in my mind, there is a chance that this is another trick of pretending to be a ghost.
Last night, Qingqing said that she heard the sound of birds chirping in the night rain, so she found this cave, allowing her and Shen Qiu to escape with their lives.
It seems that his brother and sister can survive in a desperate situation, and they really have the help of "ghosts and gods".
"Qingqing."
After Shen Qiu finished drinking the fish soup, he remembered another thing, and he said to the little junior sister:
"Did Master really get the so-called 'Immortal Relic' in the ancient tomb?"
"Hmm."
Qingqing nodded vigorously, she touched her flat chest, and she whispered:
"It's a picture, Master asked me to keep it close to me, and the package you threw out last night was full of the ledger and other things of the dart game."
"Then put it close to you."
Shen Qiu didn't want to look at the so-called immortal thing, he stood up with a wooden stick and said to Qingqing:
"Clean up, let's get out of here, that gang of thieves may still be looking for us, we can't stay here for long."
"And where are we going?"
Qingqing asked:
"Are you going back to Suzhou?"
"Nope."
Shen Qiu glanced at the things placed in the cave behind him, and said:
"Since the ghosts of Taihang Mountain hate the people of the Northern Dynasties very much, we will lead those thieves to avenge the mountain ghosts, and we will not return to Suzhou."
"Let's go into the mountains."