Chapter 6: Helplessness
At night, they spent the night in a barren mountain. Zhu Kexin was not well from her illness, but this night of sleeping in the open made it worse. By dawn, it was already vague and I couldn't open my eyes. Xuanmeng stayed by her side, secretly crying.
A day has passed, Kexin is still not getting better, it is dusk again, Zhang Xuanmeng looked up at the sky, gritted his teeth, tied Zhu Kexin to a big tree branch with a mountain vine, knelt down and kowtowed a few times and said: "God, please bless Kexin, let her be safe and sound before I come back, I am willing to suffer any disaster for her." Looking at Zhu Kexin's red-hot face, he gritted his teeth, turned around and ran down the mountain.
I ran all the way and walked straight for more than ten miles before I saw a village and a town with a pharmacy in the town. Xuanmeng hurried over, the door was closed, he lay outside the door and repeatedly complained, begging again and again, the store opened the door and grabbed some ephedra powder and other antipyretic and detoxification drugs for him. Zhang Xuanmeng took the medicine and hurried back. He didn't dare to imagine what Zhu Xin would do if a beast and poisonous snake appeared.
When he came closer, he heard Zhu Kexin screaming in a daze: "Xuanmeng, Xuanmeng, come quickly, hug me tightly, I'm so uncomfortable." Zhang Xuanmeng's hanging heart relaxed, let out a sigh, and sat on the ground. After resting for a long time, he went up to the tree and hugged her down, took out the medicine from his side, and held it in his hand, but he was stunned, there was no water, how to take this medicine. I took quite a lot of medicine. Get up and see, it's dark all around, and there's no place to find water.
Zhang Xuanmeng licked the medicine with the tip of his tongue, the bitter taste was pungent, he really had no strength to look for water, hesitated for a long time, woke up Kexin with his hand, and said: "Kexin, you bear with it, let's take some medicine, and the disease will be cured." The medicine is very bitter, so you must take it. ”
In a blur, Zhu Kexin also knew that Xuanmeng was going to feed her medicine, and said in a low voice: "I will definitely eat, Xuanmeng don't be afraid, I will be fine, I will not die, and I will avenge my father." Zhang Xuanmeng was stunned. He never had time to think about revenge, this was the first time he heard Zhu Kexin mention revenge, and he remembered that in the previous life, Zhu Kexin didn't say such a thing, Zhu Kexin just cried.
Zhang Xuanmeng pinched some medicine with his hand and put it in Kexin's mouth. Ke Xin frowned and swallowed half of it, but the bitter taste rushed to her nose, and she couldn't swallow the rest anymore. Zhang Xuanmeng was stunned for a moment, forcibly put the rest of the medicine in his mouth, stirred it with his tongue, mixed a lot of saliva, and fed her mouth-to-mouth. This is much better than Zhu Kexin's dry food. Then he took her in his arms and took some dry food and put it in her mouth. Although Kexin had a fever and was hungry, she barely ate some.
Zhu Kexin was afraid and tired, and it took more than ten days for the disease to completely recover. Zhang Xuanmeng and Kexin left the valley and traveled southwest, along the way they no longer hired cars, but only walked from the inaccessible paths, and when they saw a man on horseback passing by, they hid and did not stay in the store, and bought dry food and leather kettles to carry with them. At night, find a sheltered place in a hill or valley to lie down. They don't want to be fast, they don't have a place to go, as long as they don't get discovered.
The secret book Zhang Xuanmeng took the time to look at it, and like in the previous life, the secret book is still the secret book, talking about the meridian acupoints and the method of practicing qi, which is not complicated. Zhu Kexin has been honed during this period of time, and has also become stronger, no longer crying like at the beginning, and is more sensible, when he saw Zhang Xuanmeng in a bad mood, he came over to comfort him. Zhang Xuanmeng also told her the story that Liu Ruzhai told him, as well as the causes and consequences of the Shura Sect to kill her whole family and seize the secrets, and the ins and outs.
Zhu Kexin didn't know until this time that her great-grandfather was a member of the Shura Sect, Liu Ruzhai was from Xuandumen, and she came to her house for this secret book, and her parents also knew martial arts, and these two secret books were the relics of Xuandumen, the treasure that everyone in the martial arts wanted.
At that time, because the three apprentices of the Xuandu Daoist died in the Xuandu Daoist, they were not satisfied with the Xuandu Daoist passing on the head to the second senior brother, so they colluded with the Shura Sect, which had been destroyed by the Xuandu Daoist, to grab the position of the secret and the head, but it was used, resulting in the destruction of the Xuandu Gate, and the secret was also divided into three points.
At that time, the Shura Sect Master Tongtian only grabbed the middle and lower two, and the upper part was obtained by Liu Ruzhai, the second senior brother and little apprentice who was missing. The leader of the Tongtian Sect died of serious injuries soon after, and the Shura Sect also had civil strife due to the secret after the death of the Tongtian Sect Master, and the middle part was stolen by the distant ancestor of the right protector Zhu Kexin, and the lower part became the town of the Shura Sect. These were what Liu Ruzhai told him when he wanted to accept Zhang Xuanmeng as an apprentice on the evening of July 3.
It was only then that Zhu Kexin knew that all the tragedies were caused by this secret of the Xuandu. But there is one thing that they can't guess or figure out is why the Shura Church killed Xuanmeng's parents, and they, like other villagers, have nothing to do with it. Zhang Xuanmeng never figured out the cause of his parents' deaths in his previous life.
Time is easy to pass, there is nothing to say all the way, I don't feel that more than a month has passed, and the summer is slowly going away. On this day, they actually came to the Yangtze River, only to see the Yangtze River rushing down from the upstream, without end, the waves rolling, like a white dragon, surging endlessly. Several small boats drifted on the surface of the river, sometimes high and sometimes low, as if they were about to be driven to the bottom of the river. Looking at the other side, the other side is far away, and I don't know how wide it is. Some of the rocks on the banks of the river stand tall, and they are repeatedly slapped by the river, making loud noises, and the places where the waves are rushing are like thousands of troops and horses, making a roaring sound.
Zhang Xuanmeng and Zhu Kexin stayed by the river for a long time, and when they saw that they could not cross the river, they went down the river to find a fisherman to inquire. The two walked along the river, and soon came to a small town built along the river, with a small scale and hundreds of families. Zhang Xuanmeng entered the town, found a small inn, gave the shopkeeper two taels of silver, and let him be his own. At first, the shopkeeper saw that it was two children, cold and indifferent, and saw that Xuanmeng was generous, nodded again and again, and said with a smile: "Young master, miss, please, please." "I personally took the two of them to the room on the second floor.
After settling down, Xuanmeng went to the town to buy a few sets of clothes made of high-quality fabrics, replaced the original ones, and put a small baggage. I asked for a table of big fish and meat, and I was full. When the shopkeeper saw that the two of them had changed their clothes and came out, they were like a pair of golden boys and girls carved in pink and jade, and they didn't dare to slack off.