Volume 1 There Are Guest Stars in the East Chapter 25 Flowers Have a Reblooming Day, and No One Is Young (4)
The medical hall is not far away, it is said to be a medical hall, but in fact, it is a slightly larger board house, and there are round bamboo screens placed on the ground in the courtyard in front of the door, which is no different from the surrounding fishermen's houses at first glance.
The difference is that the bamboo sieve of the other family is dried with fish and shrimp and seafood, while this one is dried with herbs and mountain delicacies. Doctors are not just doctors, in such a small fishing village, there are fewer people, and even fewer people are sick, and it is not enough to support one doctor. Therefore, in addition to curing diseases and saving people, this doctor will go to the town once a month to sell mountain goods such as medicinal herbs and mushroom fungus. The so-called "relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the sea to eat the sea", but the mountains here are too small, only enough for him to eat alone, the fishermen have other ways to live, and they don't want to walk dozens of miles to the town to see a doctor, so they don't rob him.
Cai Huan walked to the front of the courtyard, the low bamboo fence was not latched, and the leg opened as soon as he touched it. Thinking of such a low fence to prevent chickens and ducks from being pecked by other houses is all useful, and ordinary people can step over it as soon as they lift their feet.
Isn't the doctor at home? Cai Huan looked at the wide open door and the two open windows, and there was no movement in it.
At this time, the gull baby who led the way pulled her finger and motioned her to look behind the grass hut.
There was a forest of fir trees with gray bark, and one after another of dilapidated tents, also gray and white. The color was so similar to the ground and the trunk of the tree that it was not too far away to stand out when swept over it.
Cai Huan pulled the gully baby closer, only to see a gray-haired old gentleman staggering through the tent. There was a constant moaning in the tent, interspersed with eager greetings, and the old gentleman answered as he slipped into another tent—perhaps the man in this tent had greeted him earlier, or perhaps he had a higher rank, or perhaps the old gentleman had just been distracted and distracted.
A soldier on the perimeter walked up to the two and looked at the disrespectful woman in front of them.
"If you're not at home and watch the children, what are you going to hang around here!" the soldier could not have thought that what was standing in front of him was an elite of the state religion who could knock him down with one move, so he just dismissed it like an ordinary village woman.
"Go, go......" he slapped his hand at the gull, like a kitten and a puppy. Where the children go, the women go. That's what he thinks in his heart.
But the woman in front of her was not an ordinary village woman, I saw Cai Huan pull the ouwa closer and look up into the soldier's eyes. Don't say it's a village woman, even the man at the top of the village woman's house doesn't dare to stare at our military master like this.
"I want to ask the doctor to help treat a man who is very badly injured. Cai Huan tilted his head in the direction of the old gentleman and said solemnly to the soldier.
The soldier was stunned when he heard this, and let out a soft "oh", unable to think of how to respond for a while.
"Yo, where did the little lady come from, it's much more eye-catching than those local goods. ”
At this moment, a young man with a helmet in his arms lifted the curtain of the tent and came out, his armor was clean and incompatible with the mournful camp.
"Are you in charge?" Cai Huan asked without changing his face, ignoring the other party's harassment.
"The girl is not a local. The young man confidently concluded.
"It's none of your business," she said coldly, "my friend is in need of a doctor now, please let me go and ask the old gentleman for some medicine." As he spoke, he walked in.
"Hey——, don't worry," the young man reached out and grabbed Cai Huan's shoulder, which was opened by the latter's palm.
He was not angry, but smiled with peach blossoms in his eyes, "The girl is this friend, but the girl's sweetheart?"
Cai Huan didn't answer, just stared at him coldly.
"No," the young man inferred from her reaction, "that's good. ”
"Uncle Zhao, come here!" he beckoned behind him while stopping Cai Huan. A short time later, a middle-aged officer with much dirtier armor than him walked over.
The young man smiled at Cai Huan like a fox again, turned his face to the officer and asked, "How many of our wounded here are here, how many are seriously injured, and how many are dying?"
The middle-aged officer was a little confused, and glanced at the soldier next to him, who was angry at Cai Huan's direction, and saw this rather beautiful and arrogant woman, the officer understood a little, and replied to the young man helplessly: "There are seventy-one wounded in the camp here, nineteen are seriously injured, and two are dying. ”
The young man was not distressed by the pain of his comrades, but he took over and said in a hypocritical manner: "You see, it's not that we don't give it, but that we really can't do without Dr. Xu here." ”
"But......" He slowly withdrew the hand that stopped in front of Cai Huan, and his five fingers moved restlessly, "If the girl is willing to accompany Xia into the tent ......for a while," he said, and the hand touched Cai Huan's cheek.
Yes!
I only heard the young man's scream, and that hand had been twisted by Cai Huan for half a week, and it was on the verge of dislocation.
Boom!
Both the soldier and the middle-aged officer drew their swords from their sheaths, but the young man held out his still free hand and shook it, signaling them not to be nervous.
Cai Huan instinctively touched her waist, but the familiar feel of the ivory handle was not reflected in her hand - she lowered her head slightly, only to find that all the clothes on her body had been changed, probably because the fisherman and fisherwoman looked at the blood stains on her body and kindly changed them.
Fortunately, the soldiers and officers obediently put the knife back into the sheath, Cai Huan felt his thighs tremble slightly, and when he lowered his head, it turned out to be Ouwa shrunk behind him in fear, revealing only one eye and two small hands on Cai Huan's legs.
The young man smiled begging for mercy, and raised his other hand to his face in a gesture begging her to calm his anger.
Maybe it's because Cai Huan is confident enough in his own strength, maybe it's because the young man's face is not obscene or even handsome, Cai Huan's heart is just disgusted, but he doesn't really feel that he will be bullied by him. Moreover, in such a military camp, she didn't think that if she really fought, she would have much chance of winning if she was unarmed.
So she shook off the young man's hand, picked up the gull baby with her free right hand, and turned to leave.
The young man shook his arm that was about to be dislocated, and continued to provoke unrepentantly, "Girl, this is leaving?" he raised his eyebrows, "Is it the friend's life that matters, or the girl's smile?"
If only it really just needs to laugh it off. Even Cai Huan's face, which has been frozen for more than ten years, can be laughed at if he tries hard. She instinctively did not want to be coerced in this way, not because she cherished this body, but because she was simple, simple but resolute pride.
Maybe the doctor can go back to his home to rest after dark, and then how about bothering the fisherman's eldest brother to carry Dongzi over with him? Cai Huan thought so in his heart. Such calculations could barely suppress the guilt she felt in her heart for rejecting the young man's proposal.
Just as Cai Huan was thinking, a row of golden-red fireballs like small suns flew from outside the boundary of the fir forest, and the gull baby, who had not yet turned around with Cai Huan, saw this scene from a distance, and pulled Cai Huan's hand as if it were an alarm bell.
The fireball flew over the camp, and the only three soldiers, officers, and youths in clean armor who were outside the tent saw it, and all three of them stared wide and froze in place. One of the young men was the first to react, pulling out the gavel from the waist of the soldier guarding the gate, and striking the brass gong at the entrance of the camp with a desperate sound.
"Withdraw, withdraw, withdraw!"
He shouted, and the hand that struck the gong never stopped, and the human voice and the gong were fighting to see who was louder.
The wounded who could still walk came out of the tent one after another, and their originally confused expressions turned into panic after looking at the fireballs in the sky, and their eyes followed their gaze, and panic was also transmitted one after another among the soldiers of the Greedy Spirit Army.
Finally, the firelight and heat, as well as the panic of the people outside the tent, made the seriously wounded who were still in the tent aware of the danger, some of them endured their leg injuries and jumped out on one foot, some of them sat on the ground and moved backwards with their hands propped up, and as long as they glanced at the approaching fireball, no matter what their posture, the speed of the people moving had increased to the point that they could not be faster.
"Take the wounded, take the wounded, take refuge at the beach!"
In the midst of the crowd, the young man stood still, waving his arms to show his comrades and villagers in the direction.
"Little ghost, do you live by the sea?" After roaring a few times, he looked at the gull baby with a serious face, no longer the frivolous appearance just now.
Ouwa nodded and stood up tentatively from behind Cai Huan.
"Okay," he replied with a little delight, then raised his head to look at Cai Huan, "My people will take the little ghost to the beach for refuge, and your friend is over there, right?" I'm begging the girl for one thing now......" said as he unloaded a dagger from his belt and handed it into her hand.
Cai Huan reached out to take it a little confused. The seemingly cynical young man in front of him didn't seem as simple as it seemed—Ouwa was just a child in the small village where they were temporarily stationed, and he could actually distinguish it without a single point. In any case, this proposal is much more than I liked just now. She tapped her head.
The young man also said with a more affirmative weight, "The girl should be very skilled, how about accompanying the next one to get the head of the demon dog who killed and injured the soldiers and good people in vain?"
"Okay. Cai Huan opened his mouth and said only one word, and only one word answered him. The young man looked back and smiled at her, and there seemed to be some cynicism in this smile, but it was more of an affirmation of his partner.
Cai Huan handed the gully baby to the middle-aged officer on the side, and rubbed it twice on the top of his head like a fisherwoman, and the movements were very stiff.
"It seems that you are not a good mother. The young man on the side smiled. Cai Huan gave a cold glance.
"Gone. The middle-aged officer said goodbye to the young man, led the gull and trotted up, merging into the crowd. He seemed to trust the young man and didn't say anything about his next plan of action.
"Let's go too. The young man looked at Cai Huan and patted her on the shoulder, but the latter dusted her off with the back of one hand.
In the fir forest, which had turned into a sea of fire, two figures trudged against the flow of people. The fir tree needles that had never been committed to the winter snow were powerless in the face of the flames at the moment. One after another, the branches covered with fire fell heavily to the ground, and there were wisps of different fragrances in the smoke and fire.