Chapter 8 - The Climb to the Hill is Not Smooth
Cheerilee and her group took advantage of the afternoon rain to dissipate and prepare to go up the mountain again to collect herbs. At this time, it was the end of November, and it stands to reason that it would not be so cold, but the cold wind was blowing, making the hair on the back of the neck stand upside down, Lan Yi was worried at the moment, and Cheerilee also felt a bad omen.
But the three of them worked together, and it could be regarded as their strength to break the gold, and after a while, the progress of the three people caught up, especially the brother Che Yuechi, who was familiar with picking herbs, had already harvested a lot, and Lan Yi was not inferior to him, and he also picked most of the herbs in the basket, and even a weak woman like Cheerilee also picked a lot of herbs.
She picked up an herb and waved it in the air, and then used it to probe her brother's nose, scratching her brother's nose so much, and sneezed at Changtian, while Cheerilee was trembling with laughter, she didn't forget to turn her head and smile at Lan Yi and said, "Now you don't have to worry, Master Mo will definitely accept you as a disciple now, you can rest assured." ”
Brother Che Yuechi also hurriedly echoed: "Yes, yes, Lan Yi, don't worry too much." I roughly estimated the herbs, and eight or nine were not far from ten. ”
Just as the three of them were overjoyed, they didn't notice the change in the sky, starting with the observant Cheerilee, who spotted the first snowflake that fell on her nose from the sky.
Cheerilee exclaimed, "Look, look, it's snowing, look up." ”
Following Cheerilee's voice, the two of them also looked up at the sky, and it actually started to snow lightly, "This is so beautiful." Lan Yi looked at the snowflakes that were falling in the sky like fine salt, and couldn't help but sigh.
Cheerilee was also a happy color, she spread the palms of her two hands, felt the coolness of the snowflakes, the snowflakes danced in her palms, and finally burrowed into her palms, disappearing. She almost danced in the snowflakes. Seeing that his sister was so happy, Che Yuechi also smiled stupidly, this stunned boy would be so stupid.
"Why don't we go down the mountain." Lan Yi proposed, "Since the herbs are very similar and it is snowing again, it is better to just go back." ”
Che Yuechi frowned and went down the mountain: "Although it's a big difference, but in case there are duplicate herbs, let's pick more before leaving." ”
"Well, that's fine." Lan Yi nodded in acquiescence.
As if she hadn't heard their conversation, Cheerilee was still blowing snowflakes in the air, "It's fun." Cheerilee smiled sweeter than honey, and her face was flushed red after the cold wind blew in a way that befitting her name.
"Cheerilee, we're going." The elder brother called the younger sister.
"Haha, that's fun."
"Cheerilee......" her brother called out to her again, "we have to continue collecting medicine." ”
Cheerilee turned her head to look at her brother and Lan Yi, "Okay." Her red face was reflected on Lan Yi's face, and somehow Lan Yi's brain seemed to have a stream of blood slowly surging up, and he was stunned, "Lan Yi, what's wrong with you?" Cheerilee saw Lan Yi looking at her, and the corners of her mouth were motionless with a smile on her lips.
"Ah, nothing." Lan Yi was distracted, scratched his head embarrassedly, and his eyes flickered. Cheerilee also came back to his senses, all of this was seen by his brother Che Yuechi, and his heart chuckled again.
"Let's split up." Che Yuechi gave an order, and the three of them marched in different directions.
Cheerilee's heart is put down, because she picked a lot of herbs before, people are a little lazy, she is playing while picking medicine, she walked, saw a flower standing proudly in the wind, the flower color is bright, close to smell this flower is very fragrant, she has never seen this kind of flower, Rao is rare, so she folded it down, put it in front of the nose and smell it again.
But it didn't take long for Cheerilee to feel that something was wrong, her head was a little floating, and she felt a little nauseous and wanted to vomit. She held on and walked on, but the scene in front of her was ghosted, and it became blurry, and she wiped her eyes with her hand, and as soon as she took a step forward, she staggered and fell to the ground.
Suddenly she felt the world spin, and at that moment something climbed up her leg and bit her hard, and she looked down at her ankle, which turned out to be a poisonous snake.
Then in the blink of an eye, the world in front of Cheerilee's eyes was pitch black, and she gradually felt numb, and she fainted.
Just when Lan Yi and Che Yuechi were working hard, they realized that Cheerilee had gone away and disappeared, she was always chattering on weekdays, her brother and brother kept screaming, she could always find many new and interesting things, and now there is no voice from her, the two of them feel strange.
So his brother Che Yuechi shouted into the air first: "Lan Yi, where are you?" ”
When Lan Yi heard it, he immediately responded: "I'm here." ”
The two met after a while, and Che Yuechi asked Lan Yi about Cheerilee. "I didn't see her, I thought she was looking for you." Lan Yi looked at Che Yuechi and said.
"Not good." Che Yuechi may have telepathy with his sister, and when he sensed what happened to his sister, he hurriedly pulled Lan Yi to search the entire mountain, and Lan Yi was also a little panicked. "My sister must have encountered something." Che Yuechi didn't even care about the herbs in his hand, and threw them on the ground and left.
It is said that they can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, and the more they look for it, the more they can't find cherries. Unbeknownst to them, Cheerilee had fallen in a haystack not far from them.
"Cheerilee, Cheerilee, where are you? Don't scare your brother. Che Yuechi shouted at the dense mountain forest.
And at this time, Cheerilee, who had fallen into the infinite darkness, felt as if her brother's voice was floating in her ears, and she tried to wake herself up, but she couldn't do anything. She kicked her leg hard, and though she didn't know if she had done it, she was just dizzy.
"Shhhh It was still Lan Yi's ears that were tipped, and he made a silent gesture to Che Yuechi, and the two of them pricked up their ears to listen carefully to the movement on the ground.
Cheerilee kicked the haystack around her again, "Look, there." Lan Yi took the lead in rushing to the haystack where the cherries were, and picked them up horizontally.
"Brother Yuechi, come and see, Cheerilee's leg is bleeding, as if she was bitten by something." Lan Yi shouted at Che Yuechi not far away.
Che Yuechi strode over, he first observed his sister's injury, and then looked down at the ground, "It's not good, it's a five-poisonous flower, my sister must have been bitten by a five-poisonous snake." Lan Yi also looked down at the ground, and then he realized that there was a bewitching flower on the ground where he had just picked up the cherry, and he was about to bend down to pick it up.
"Don't pick it up, this flower is poisonous." Saying that, Che Yuechi stopped Lan Yi with his hand.
"What kind of flower is this?" Lan Yi asked puzzled.
"This is the five poisonous flowers, this flower is extremely bright, the fragrance of the flower is poisonous, guarded by the five poisonous snakes, the five poisonous snakes rely on the poisonous fragrance of this flower to attract the arrival of the prey, once the prey is stunned, the five poisonous snakes will hunt the prey, and the body of the prey becomes the nutrients of the five poisonous flowers, which is a mutually beneficial symbiotic relationship between the two." Che Yuechi explained in detail.
"I see, is there any salvation for Cheerilee?" Lan Yi said and looked at Cheerilee with Che Yuechi.
At this time, the cherry in Lan Yi's arms was dark, unconscious, and dying, so it seemed that something was wrong.
"If you want to say that in this early winter, it stands to reason that the snakes have already hibernated, so why are the cherries still bitten?" Lan Yi asked.
Che Yuechi replied: "These five poisonous snakes hibernate much later than other snakes, and they are particularly cold-tolerant, and they are our exclusive poisonous snakes here, presumably when my sister met them, it was pseudo-hibernating." ”
"In this way, we immediately went down the mountain and asked my master to treat my sister." Che Yuechi proposed, and his gaze at Lan Yi was so grim.
"Okay." As she spoke, Lan Yi, who was holding Cheerilee, flipped her over and carefully moved her to her back.
Seeing Lan Yi carrying his sister on his back, Che Yuechi always felt strange in his heart, so he said to Lan Yi: "My own sister, Lan Yi, let me carry it." ”
"Brother Yuechi, when is this still going to be blocked, let me carry it, you are familiar with the environment here, you lead the way in front." Lan Yi didn't forget to look back at the cherry on his shoulder, "If it's too late, Cheerilee may be worried about his life." ”
"Alright then, let's get down the hill quickly." After Che Yuechi bandaged Cheerilee briefly, he led Lan Yi down the mountain.
Unexpectedly, it was only the end of November, and there was a snowfall, and now the snow began to fall again, and it was quite heavy, and the snowflakes were flying in the sky like a lion with its mouth open to swallow people. The snow was so heavy that Che Yuechi and Lan Yi were caught off guard, "Why is it snowing so much?" Lan Yi frowned at the flying snow and asked.
"If this snow goes down again, we won't be able to go down the mountain, so we have to leave as soon as possible." The elder brother, who has always been calm, also lost his way for a while.
Just when they hurried down the mountain, Lan Yi didn't give up, and was slipped by the snow on the soles of his feet, and the whole person and the cherries fell to the ground, and the snow was sprinkled down like a scoop, seeing that the cherries were going to freeze so much that they had no intuition at all, and they were poisoned by the poison, their lips were black, and their foreheads were cold.
Lan Yi hurriedly got up from the ground, not caring about the dirt and snow stains on her body, she quickly straightened the cherry on the ground, held her in her arms, kept rubbing her hair, and shook her head: "Cheerilee, wake up, wake up." ”
Brother Che Yuechi felt that he couldn't wait any longer, so he said to Lan Yi: "It's too late to go down the mountain and wait for the master, the snow has blocked the way down the mountain, we have to figure out the way out by ourselves, I'll go to find the herbs that can treat the five poisonous snakes and snake venom first, you are here to watch my sister, I'll come when I go." With that, Che Yuechi set off and walked hard in the snow to find herbs.
After Che Yuechi walked a distance, Lan Yi found that the temperature on Cheerilee's body was dropping sharply, and her hands were cold, so he didn't care about the difference between men and women, and desperately rubbed Cheerilee's hands with his thick and warm palms, hoping to pass his body temperature to her.
Maybe it worked, maybe it was because Cheerilee was so vigorous that she moved her eyelids, and although she didn't have the strength to open them, at least she was conscious.
Lan Yixi was so happy that his facial muscles twitched unconsciously, he hugged Cheerilee's head and cried with joy, while telling his heartfelt words: "Cheerilee, do you know, I fell in love with you when I first saw you, you may not know, you told me stories in the mountains to make me laugh, and my confession to you on the roof tile that day was sincere, although I am just a poor boy with amnesia." ”
Although Cheerilee couldn't see with her eyes, her ears could feel the heat coming from Lan Yi's lips, and he whispered gently, every word and sentence of his was imprinted in her heart, and involuntarily, a tear slipped from the corner of her eye.
"You wake up, you have to be well, wait for you to wake up, be my girlfriend, okay? Let's go to see the cherry trees in the small fishing village, go on an outing, go fishing and catch shrimp, and spend our time together. Lan Yi also burst into tears as he spoke, he was too afraid of losing Cheerilee.