It has been more than half a month since I fell off a cliff and fell into a cold pool and was rescued.

Shen Jiujiu sincerely sighed at her incomparable good luck, and of course she was also very grateful to the strange old man who saved her life.

Sitting in front of the humble wooden house, she looked around with her chin propped up.

Directly in front of it is the original cliff and the cold pool with white smoke, and on the left and right sides of it are towering green mountains, forming a valley at the bottom of the cliff, and the only place that seems to be an exit is behind the wooden house, and at a glance it is full of giant trees and thorns.

Fortunately, the strange old man chose such a place to live in seclusion, otherwise even if she was lucky enough not to die after falling off the cliff at that time, she would never be able to survive by herself in the environment in front of her for a long time.

She was born with a poor sense of direction, and she has no force value, and her ability to survive in the wild is zero......

Whew, thinking about it like this, it seems that the strange old man's various strangeness is not so unacceptable?

Shen Jiulong, who was thinking about it for a long time, realized that he didn't know when he was completely shrouded in a shadow, and when he looked up, he had this strange look again!

People can't help but have cheek pain.

He doesn't speak, just looks at you straightly, looking at you without any waves in his eyes, but in fact, with some kind of inexplicable scrutiny.

The strange old man was dressed in a gray robe, and the sleeves were rolled up to his elbows, revealing the folds of skin on his arms, which were so loosely wrapped around the bones.

The half-white hair is pulled up and only pinned with a wooden hairpin, the face is dark and yellow, the whites of the eyes are full of bloodshots, and the whole person looks a little gloomy, which makes people feel cold down their backs for no reason.

But after watching it for more than half a month, I am no longer as scared as I was at the beginning. After opening his mouth for a long time, before he could speak, the strange old man had already taken the lead in retracting his gaze, and walked into the house without hurrying his legs around her.

That's the first blame. For more than ten days, I didn't hear him say a word.

It's thanks to the four-year-old Lori who doesn't really know anything.,Otherwise, I've been scared and cried I don't know how many times.。

In the bottom of his heart, he is very sure, the strange old man can never be a dumb person, but he is simply not rare to take care of her?

He closed his mouth helplessly, and followed the strange old man into the house with his short legs.

The furnishings in the wooden house are clear at a glance, except for the original table, a bench, a tuanpu, and a bamboo chaise longue that was made in the past two days, there is nothing else.

Yes, she didn't even have a bed, thinking that she had just been rescued, and when she woke up, she found herself lying on a half-person-high square table, and since then this table has become the place where she slept for half a month, and she was always afraid of turning over and falling down in the middle of the night, and the feeling was really indescribable.

This is the second strange old man, who sits straight on the corner of the wall near the window as soon as it gets dark, and sits all night.

Don't sleep so don't need a bed? Well, no problem.

These are not counted, but it can be seen that he is not the weirdest, only more weird, and it is also the third monster that makes Shen Jiujiu the most unacceptable-

After entering the house, the strange old man had already taken out today's dinner from the basket one by one and set it on the table.

The roots have been washed of all kinds of unknown rhizome-like plants, as well as the wild fruits that have been unbearable for a long time, and only crying and pleading.

Yes, that's what they eat these days.

The strange old man's dinner table did not appear in the normal people's meals.

Rubbing his face, Shen Jiujiu came to the table slowly, and before he started eating, his mouth was already bitter, and his facial features were distorted.

I don't know what's wrong with the fruit of this deep mountain and old forest, it's either bitter or sour. Maybe it's because the old man hasn't tried it at all, so these wild fruits picked back are not much better than these roots and stems?

All in all, this is a really strange person.

After Shen Jiujiu finished gnawing the last green fruit with a bitter little face, the sky was gradually graying and black.

"Grandpa, do I still want to make soup today?"

The faces of the people in the dim light were a little blurred without lighting, and the strange old man remained silent as usual, but just lifted the back basket by the table and walked out the door.

Tightening his little hand and exhaling deeply, Shen Jiujiu had to follow behind him again.

……

In the open space next to the wooden house, a fire was erected, and the water was already boiling in the round mouth and three legs.

A variety of herbs are mixed, so that there is an indescribable strange smell in a radius of several miles, which lasts for a long time.

When the strange old man put down the last herb, the potion that was still yellowish instantly turned milky white, and the mist gas of the same color continued to gush from inside and out.

Without waiting for his penetrating eyes to urge, Shen Jiu was wearing single clothes for a long time, and he had lost the fear of being boiled and boiled in the soup at the beginning, and obediently only exposed his head and submerged his whole body into the ding.

I still remember the first time I woke up and was thrown into the ding by the strange old man to make soup.

The frightened Shen Jiujiu burst into tears, first pretending to be pitiful and begging for mercy, and then screaming and scolding after no result, until the pain of burning her internal organs was unbearable, and the combination of ice and fire and all kinds of sourness made her shut up, and she was left to grit her teeth and endure it fiercely.

Although she didn't know how to use medicine, she also knew that she should have suffered a lot of internal injuries when she fell down the cold pool, but after boiling it, all the pain disappeared strangely.

Shen Jiujiu secretly guessed that this strange old man was afraid that he was a real reclusive master. Not to mention his ability to come and go without a trace, this magical medical skill alone is enough to make people breathtaking.

Only then did she let go of the heart she had been carrying, and temporarily believed that the old man would not harm her.

In the short time they got along, it seemed to confirm the suspicion, although the old man's various behaviors were strange, but they never really hurt her.

……

I saw that the little face the size of a long palm was white and red, and the dense fine sweat on his forehead condensed into beads, sliding down his cheeks drop by drop and smashing into the Dingli potion.

Liu Ye's thin eyebrows were furrowed, and the eyes that were bent into a crescent moon when he smiled were slightly red at the corners of his eyes, and the faint water vapor smudged made it look more and more black and bright.

The beads of sweat that hung on the tip of her nose rolled down and fell into her half-open mouth, salty and rusty as she swallowed them one by one, as well as the unconsciously overflowing moans.

I don't know how long it has been, as if all the pain has dissipated like a tide in an instant, replaced by bursts of warm currents surging in the body, making people feel as soft as floating in the clouds, and the incomparably comfortable pleasure makes Shen Jiujiu can't help but sigh for a long time.

Finally got through it again.

Looking at the milky white liquid in the ding, it has unconsciously turned into clear water. This situation is very similar to the medicinal bath described in the novel.

That's why she's always insisted. Although it is just a guess, although the pain is really touching! The body is always its own, whether it is good or bad, it does not deceive itself.

The fire had been extinguished, and only a few sparks remained, and the strange old man had already gone back to the house.

After wiping his body briefly, Shen Jiujiu changed out of his single clothes and put on the coat left by the strange old man, rolled up the sleeve-length part of his hand layer by layer, and then tied the loose hem of his feet with a big slipknot.

After finishing it, he felt the darkness, and with the moonlight in the sky, which was not bright, he carefully moved step by step to the wooden house.

Not to mention that I lived for more than 20 years in my previous life, but some things cannot be changed by getting older, such as fear of the dark, and fear of mollusks.

Are these reclusive masters living like ascetics?

No, the blame old man is worse than an ascetic. Not self-sufficient, farming and gardening, not hunting, not eating meat, fighting tooth sacrifices, not lighting and not sleeping at night, it's not too good!

After complaining silently, Shen Jiujiu had already entered the house and touched the bamboo chair, and was about to climb up and lie down, when he heard a low voice suddenly sound, and she almost jumped three feet high without being frightened.

"Girl... You... Apprenticeship? ”

It seems that he has not made a sound for a long time, and the strange old man's voice is dry and hoarse, and intermittent, especially terrifying in the dark, and permeates people's panic.

"You don't have to... Now back... Tell me tomorrow..."

Covering his little heart, which kept banging and was beating with fright, Shen Jiujiu hummed softly.

It wasn't until she was sure that the strange old man was silent that she climbed into the chaise longue again and nestled in a ball.

After being disturbed, I tossed and turned but couldn't sleep.

I don't know how long it took before my eyelids were lightly closed.

Apprenticeship?

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