Chapter 38: Yuanheng's Decision
The food of the farmer is naturally not as exquisite as in the palace, but there is a different taste of life, after a few people have eaten and drunk, Yuan Heng wants to take Yang Liang away, but he didn't expect the weather to change abruptly, the sky is cloudless in the morning, and now it is cloudy, I don't know if it will rain in the afternoon, Chen's father and Chen's mother want to let their son's life-saving benefactor live for a few more days, so as to express their gratitude, so they persuaded Yuan Heng to let him stay here for another night.
Yuan Heng hesitated, thinking of the weather here, it will be sunny and rainy, looking at the current sky, the probability of rain in the afternoon is very large, in case of the same situation as before, the horse stopped on the road and refused to go, then it would be troublesome, so he decided to stay at Chen's house for another night, and look at the weather tomorrow to make plans.
Counting up, now it has been about twenty days since Yang Liang was diagnosed with poisoning, and when Zhao Yiren entrusted Yang Liang to Yuan Heng, he had told him that he must rush to Linshui within twenty days, because Qian Ma is just one of the antidotes to frustration, although it is the most important one, but it also needs to be equipped with other drugs to detoxify, otherwise the effect of the medicine will not work, but it will be harmful to the body.
Although Zhao Yiren copied a copy of the prescription given by the old doctor to Yuan Heng, so that he could prepare the antidote after he arrived in Linshui, so that Yang Liang could take the detoxification directly, but in case they encountered an unexpected situation after arriving in Linshui, such as the medicine on this prescription was incomplete, or some other circumstances, wouldn't it delay Yang Liang's treatment time?
Therefore, Zhao Yicai asked Yuan Heng to make preparations with both hands, if he could get the antidote in Linshui and directly solve the toxicity on Yang Liang's body, it would naturally be the best, but if there was any emergency, Yang Liang could not get the antidote in Linshui in time, then hurry up and go back and forth, and after returning to Zhao State, he could also think of other solutions.
Yuan Heng, who was on the task, looked at the sky outside, and sighed helplessly, if he delayed the afternoon like this, it would definitely be too late to rush to Linshui in those twenty days, how good is this!
While Yuan Heng was worried about the tight time, Yang Liang was trying to contact the system, trying to figure out what this power of faith was and what it did.
However, the dog system is worthy of being a dog system, no matter what Yang Liang called it, it had no reaction, and in the end Yang Liang could only give up helplessly, and opened the system mall instead.
Although the system is reluctant to communicate with him, other functions of the system can still be used normally, such as the system mall that Yang Liang spent a lot of effort to unlock.
Although Yang Liang hasn't bought much in the system mall, of course, it's not mainly because he can't afford it, although his current emotional value balance is not much, but there is no problem in exchanging a few skills for use.
As long as Yang Liang has experienced the marketing of the 21st century Internet era, it can be said that he can see the tricks played by the system mall very thoroughly, which is nothing more than a routine of his emotional value, paralyzing his sense of crisis, taking this skill exchange column as an example, using a low-cost exchange such as a three-day effective to paralyze you, so that you feel that you can exchange a skill with a very small emotional value, but in fact, this is just a person who buys in the routine, so that he falls deeper and deeper.
His thoughts drifted farther and farther, and when he came back to his senses, Yang Liang had unconsciously opened the skill exchange page, thinking of his own brainstorming just now, Yang Liang decided to resolutely resist the temptation of the system mall, and was about to close the interface of the system mall.
At this moment, Yang Liang's afterglow swept to the skill bar, and there seemed to be a few new skills that were different from the original, and he curiously stopped the action of planning to close the system mall, and then turned back and took a closer look at the few newly launched skills.
One of the skills called "Power of Faith Automatic Induction" aroused Yang Liang's strong interest, mainly because the words "Power of Faith" were so dazzling that he had to pay attention.
After clicking on the interface of this skill, Yang Liang couldn't help but feel a burst of surprise, it seemed that his sixth sense was right, this skill was exactly the same as he thought. The reason for getting the power of faith on both occasions is exactly the same, both are because they touched the statues in the temple and absorbed the remaining energy from their bodies, even a fool can guess that the way to collect the power of faith is to find the idols in the temple and touch them.
As long as you can touch the statue in the temple, you can get the power of faith, saying so, but it is very difficult to operate in practice, this temple is found in the territory of Wei, I don't know if there is Zhao or other countries, and even if other countries have, it is difficult to find.
And this "Faith Power Auto Sensing" skill, as his name suggests, is to help automatically detect the exact location of the idol where the Faith Power exists, and lead the host to find it.
Although this skill made Yang Liang very excited, but looking at the price, it would cost 2,000 emotional points for three days, Yang Liang deeply felt his poverty, and then sighed, or closed the interface of the system mall.
In the afternoon, the sky was already dark and gloomy, and it looked very scary, Yang Liang was glad that Yuan Heng didn't take him away, otherwise he would be walking on the road, otherwise this kind of weather would be no different from killing himself in the wild. After a while, the pouring rain began to fall.
Because of the rain in Lucheng, when Chenjia Village was originally selected, it was a village built on a high ground, and the drainage effect was very good, so even if it rained so much, Chenjia Village did not have any trouble with water accumulation.
When Yang Liang was observing the terrain of Chenjia Village, and sighed in his heart that the address of Chenjia Village was well chosen, Chen Lu suddenly knocked on his door and asked Yang Liang to take him to Yuanheng, he had something to ask for.
Yuan Heng's decision was actually the matter that Chen Lu said that there was something to ask for, and Yang Liang guessed a lot, which was nothing more than asking Yuan Heng to get medicine for Chen's mother after arriving in Linshui.
However, what Yang Liang didn't expect was that Chen Lu was talking about this matter, but not only this matter.
"What did you say?!" After listening to Chen Lu's request, Yang Liang was a little surprised for a while, he didn't expect Chen Lu's request to let them take him to Linshui together, and he went to get medicine for Chen's mother.
As soon as Chen Lu said this, Yang Liang and Yuan Heng looked at each other, in fact, if they were really going home to visit relatives as they made up, then they could bring their shirts and pants, and they would not be in vain in his filial piety.
But the trouble is that they are not ordinary people, and the purpose of going to Linshui is not ordinary, the road from Lucheng to Linshui is still far, plus the journey back, it will take more than half a month, if Chen Lu is really taken, he is so smart, if he finds any clues, then there will be more life periods.
So Yuan Heng subconsciously wanted to refuse Chen Lu's request, but he didn't expect that before he could say anything about refusal, Chen Lu "pounced" and was in front of Yuan Heng.
"Lu'er, please!" Saying that, Chen Lu planned to kowtow to Yuan Heng again, Yuan Heng had never seen such a scene, he hurriedly stopped Chen Lu who was about to kowtow, and carefully helped him up.
"Why do you have to follow us?
Isn't it the same when we come back? โ
Yang Liang asked on the side.
Although he still likes Chen Lu, a smart child, but the stakes are very high, their trip to Linshui is already very dangerous, if you add such an uncertain factor to him, it is really a bit difficult.
Hearing Yang Liang ask this, Chen Lu's eyes couldn't help but turn red, in fact, for what, Yang Liang and Yuan Heng both knew it, they just wanted to find an excuse to reject him, so they asked.
"I feel so sorry for my mother!"
As he spoke, Chen Lu lowered his head and wiped a handful of tears, and then said: "Since I was a child, I have always been the one who worries my mother the most, the eldest brother and the second brother are more than ten years older than me, my mother gave birth to me late, and I am the one who hurts the most......
Although I have never gone to a private school, and my husband has taught me the way of a saint, I also know that filial piety comes first, my father and mother gave birth to me and raised me, and they were so good to me, but now my mother was bitten by a snake because of me, and she was poisoned, if this poison is not unsolved in time, it may even be crippled......"
Speaking of this, Chen Lu's voice was already filled with crying.
"Although it was the thief who kidnapped me this time, they had the opportunity to kidnap me at the beginning, and it was because I usually relied on my own courage and always liked to do nonsense, so they had a chance, in the end, I was all to blame, if it wasn't for me, my mother wouldn't have to endure the pain like now."
"So, I want to go to Linshui with you, I want to get medicine for my mother with my own hands, so that I can also relieve some of the guilt in my heart, I hope Uncle Wang will fulfill Lu'er's wish!"
As he spoke, Chen Lu wanted to kneel down and beg Yuan Heng again, but fortunately, Yuan Heng quickly stopped him.
After listening to Chen Lu's words, Yang Liang suddenly felt very embarrassed, although Chen Lu looked giggling, but his mind was very delicate, and he valued feelings and understood filial piety, and he was also a good boy.
Yuan Heng, who has never felt any father's love and mother's love since he was a child, was silent, although he had not been favored by his parents, but he cherished the feelings of his relatives very much, so he sighed and made a decision.
"You can come with us."
"Really!!" Chen Lu jumped up happily.
"But you have to promise me one thing." Yuan Heng's expression suddenly became serious.
"Whatever you see or hear, don't remember it, and don't tell outsiders about it, or you'll ......."
Although Yuan Heng didn't say it so clearly, the threat in his words was already obvious, and there was an obvious murderous aura.
Chen Lu was frightened by the murderous aura in Yuan Heng's words, nodded mechanically, and forgot for a moment that he was happy because Yuan Heng promised to take him to Linshui.
Chen Lu came to ask Yuan Heng to take him to Linshui, it should have been approved by Chen's father and Chen's mother, not long after Yuan Heng agreed to Chen Lu, Chen's father came to Yuan Heng's room with red eyes, and said a lot, probably asking Yuan Heng to take care of Chen Lu and the like, Yuan Heng also responded one by one.
In the evening, Chen's father was still killing chickens and fish, and made a table of sumptuous meals, saying that he was going to feed Yuan Heng and them, Yuan Heng learned a lesson this time, and he didn't drink a sip of wine, but just ate a lot of dishes, and it seemed that he was really hungry.
However, Chen's father drank a lot of wine, and Chen's mother couldn't persuade him, Yang Liang said that he understood, which parent could be willing to let their children go far away, Chen Lu should have spent a lot of effort to persuade them to agree to let him go to Linshui with Yuan Heng.
After Chen's father finished drinking, he chattered a lot, and Yang Liang's eyelids were heavy, and he dozed off, and suddenly woke up from his sleepiness, but saw that Yuan Heng was very patiently chatting with Chen's father one sentence after another, and he couldn't help but feel a little emotional, although Yuan Heng looked like a cold-blooded killer, but in fact, he also had a knot that he couldn't let go of for family affection.
The next morning, Yuan Heng got up and cleaned up, Chen's father and Chen's mother prepared a lot of food for him on the road, he knew that this was their heart, so he accepted them one by one without prevarication, and put them in the carriage with some of Chen Lu's luggage.
He also prepared some straw cakes for the horses, and repaired the parts of the carriage that should be repaired to make sure that everything was ready.
Today's weather looks very good, the sky is blue, cloudless, and the rare thing is that the sun's rays are also very mild, and there will be no dazzling feeling, so it is very suitable to travel on such a day.
Chen's mother probably cried all night last night, and her eyes were swollen this morning, and Chen Lu was the same, her eyes were red and swollen like rabbits, and the mother and son inevitably cried when they parted.
Before leaving, Chen Lu knelt down to Chen's father and Chen's mother, kowtowed a few times, then wiped his tears, stood up and said: "Dad, mother, you can rest assured, I will definitely bring back the herbs for my mother's treatment, you can wait for me at home with peace of mind!" โ
After speaking, he didn't look back, got into the carriage directly, Yuan Heng politely said goodbye to Chen's father and Chen's mother, and then waved his horsewhip and drove the horse forward.
Because of the fact that the road meets the horse thief Lucheng because it is in Shanyin, the surface vegetation coverage rate is very high, and it looks very fresh and moving, but this is only because of its unique geographical location and climate, and other cities in Wei are still gray yellow sand style, such as Yuncheng, which they are about to arrive.
Since the last time the three of them left the road from Chenjia Village, they have been on the road in the wilderness, and it is not pitiful to sleep on the road, but fortunately, there is no heavy rain again, so the journey is quite smooth.
Yuncheng is about three or four days away from Lucheng, and Yuan Heng and them have to walk extra fast because they are taking a carriage, and it only took two days and two nights to arrive.
Although it covers a relatively large area, because it is located in the northwest region, the economy of Yuncheng is not developed, but because of the sparse population, it is in a relatively poor state all the year round, which is far from its neighbor Lucheng, and even happened in the past that there were people in Yuncheng who could not eat enough to go to Lucheng to grab food, but in recent years, it has been much better under the suppression of the government.
But in poor areas, some people can't eat enough and are hungry, and sometimes they will take risks to do some criminal deeds, such as falling into the grass and becoming a thief, or becoming a gentleman on the beam to steal some money, such things happen repeatedly in Yuncheng.
Especially the bandits, but in Yuncheng they have another name, called horse thieves, because the terrain of Yuncheng is relatively flat, so horses have become a common means of transportation in the local area.
And these robbers will guard the border of Yuncheng, and specialize in robbing those people and chariots and horses who come to Yuncheng from other places.
And what they are encountering now is such a team of horse thieves.
"I opened this mountain, I planted this tree, if you want to cross this road, leave to buy money!" The horse thief led by him shouted violently, Yang Liang was speechless in his heart, how could they say this guess line no matter what era the robbers robbed, wouldn't they think that this was plagiarizing each other!
Tucao is complaining, for the scene in front of him, Yang Liang is still a little afraid, although Yuanheng's martial arts are strong, but he can't stand the many people on the other side, let him count, one, two, three, four, five...... There were a dozen men on the other side, and they looked strong and strong, with weapons in their hands.
Yang Liang's heart suddenly became even more panicked, it's over, looking at this meeting, they don't plan to give up, is it really going to fold the things in this carriage here today?!
And looking at their ferocious appearance, maybe not only their carriage, but in order to prevent future troubles, they may kill all three of them!
The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, and Yang Liang began to frantically summon the system in his mind, wanting the system to give him ideas.
Although the system is very doggy, it is still relatively reliable at the critical moment, it calmly analyzed the current situation, listed the comparison between the opponent's combat power and our combat effectiveness, and then gave Yang Liang a suggestion - let him go to the system mall to exchange for life-saving skills that he can't afford at all......
Okay, I'll take back the sentence I just said that the system is reliable, where is this thing reliable!
It's clearly a big pit of money! It's been like this, and it hasn't even forgotten to sell, and there is really nothing else to say except to scold a dog system accident.
Since the system is unreliable, Yang Liang decided to calmly analyze the situation in front of him, according to Yuan Heng's martial arts, there should be no problem for him to deal with five or six alone, if they talk about martial arts, it is best to go up one by one, so that Yuan Heng guarantees that he can kill them in seconds;
If they still have a little conscience, then half and half are not impossible, so that Yuan Heng should also be able to beat them to annihilation;
In case the worst......
Before Yang Liang could think of the worst-case scenario, the people on the other side had already made a moveโthey really went to the most despicable strategy, which was to rush up.
Yang Liang was so frightened that he squatted in the carriage with his head in his hands, trembling, it's over, it's over, it's completely finished!
Chen Lu was also at a loss next to him, although he usually looked like a little adult, but after all, he was only a ten-year-old child, where had he seen such a scene, seeing Yang Liang squatting down with his head in his hands, he also did the same, squatting next to Yang Liang, while still praying, all the gods blessed......
There was a crisp sound of weapons connecting outside the carriage, it sounded like it should have been a fight, and it felt that the battle was very fierce, Yang Liang and Chen Lu didn't dare to push the window to look, for fear of seeing the terrible scene of Yuan Heng being poked into a sieve from the opposite side, so the two buried their heads deeper......
I don't know how long it took, the sound of the fight outside gradually subsided, Yang Liang and Chen Lu felt that the carriage door was pushed open, and neither of them dared to look up to see if it was Yuan Heng who opened the door, but they just hugged their heads tighter.
"Okay, it's okay, they're all gone."
Hearing that it was Yuan Heng's voice, Yang Liang and Chen Lu breathed a sigh of relief, and looked up at Yuan Heng, there were some colors hanging on his body, there was also a shallow knife edge on his face, and the sword in his hand was still stained with some blood that had not dried up and changed color.
Seeing the blood on the sword, Chen Lu's eyes widened in horror, and he stammered and asked, "Wang...... Uncle Wang, you ...... You killed someone?! โ
Yuan Heng saw that the blood on the sword frightened Chen Lu, so he took a piece of cloth in his hand, wiped the blood stains away, and put the sword back into the scabbard, and explained: "Those horse thieves are all some timid rats who are bullying the weak, I just hurt them and deter them, they naturally don't dare to be presumptuous anymore, and now they have run away." โ
Hearing Yuan Heng say this, Chen Lu breathed a sigh of relief, since the last time Yuan Heng threatened him with murderous aura and asked him not to talk nonsense, he had an inexplicable fear of Yuan Heng, and just saw that his sword was stained with blood, so he subconsciously thought that it was not Yuan Heng who killed them.
In fact, horse thieves like this are doing some evil things of burning, killing and looting, even if Yuan Heng really killed them, it was just doing the right thing for heaven, but he took into account that there were two children in the carriage, and if he really killed someone, the corpse would not be easy to deal with, and he was afraid that he would provoke some right and wrong again, so he played them and scared them away, but he didn't expect that if he was not careful, he still had a color on his face, which was also a small failure in his career.
Yang Liang and Chen Lu naturally did not go to Yuan Heng's psychological activities, if they knew what Yuan Heng thought, they were afraid that they would be shocked on the spot, and they would sigh that Yuan Heng was worthy of being a killer, and his brain circuits were different from ordinary people like them.
Ignoring this little episode, Yuan Heng calmed the frightened horse, and the three of them found a hidden place to have lunch, trimmed it slightly, and continued to set off towards Yuncheng.
Yang Liang and Chen Lu sat in the carriage, looking at the scenery outside the window, it was actually a desolate yellow earth, but in the past, in modern times, he had only seen such scenery in documentaries, and he had never experienced it in person.
In such a desolate landscape, Yang Liang suddenly felt that he also had a sense of pride in his heart.
But this pride did not last long, for soon the band of thieves had returned, and seemed to be outnumbered before, and they followed the carriage, and the hooves of the horses raised a gust of yellow sand, gradually enveloping the surrounding scene.
Yuan Heng also noticed the wave of horse thieves behind him, it seemed that there were more people than before, he didn't want to cause more trouble, so he whipped the horse again, the horse was in pain, so he spread his hooves and ran forward, but because he was still carrying a carriage and three people, the speed was not as fast as the horse thieves behind him alone.
Seeing that those horse thieves were about to catch up, Yang Liang suddenly found that there was another team of people and horses in front of him, and he couldn't see the face clearly, only that they were also riding horses, Yang Liang was shocked, and thought, it's over, could this be the accomplice of those horse thieves!
Do they still have the wisdom to outflank the front and back?
The group of people gradually approached, resting on the yellow sand, Yang Liang vaguely saw that they were wearing soldiers' clothes, and his heart was happy and surprised, happy that there were these officers and soldiers, so there was no need to worry about the horse thieves behind, and the surprise was that Yuan Heng and his identity could not withstand scrutiny, in case these soldiers were also like those guards guarding the city, then wouldn't they want to show their stuffing!
But there was not much to do at the moment, and as the group of soldiers got closer and closer, the horse thieves who were following behind also sensed that something was wrong, and some of them had turned around and ran back, but the group of soldiers had already set up their bows and arrows and shot at the horse thieves.
These soldiers knew at a glance that they were well-trained, and their bows and arrows were very accurate, and the horse thieves who were close to them fell in response, and the rest of the horse thieves also realized that the situation was wrong, and they all turned around and fled, but it was too late, and the soldiers had already formed an encirclement, surrounding the horse thieves and Yang Liang and their carriages.