Chapter 57: Snake Venom

Overnight, Dugu Hao and I seemed to disappear for many years, and we naturally took off our usual precautions and felt an unprecedented relaxation. The breeze came slowly, ruffled the hair of my ears and temples, disturbed the slight itch on my face, and the mandala bathed in the sun gave off an unusually rich fragrance.

"Dugu Hao, do you remember what your mother looks like?"

"Hmm. My mother is a very gentle woman. The year she died, I was old enough to remember what she looked like. ”

I sat on the soft grass with my knees crossed, my chin pressed against my knees, and muffled, "Hey—sometimes I envy you, you and your mother have memories for so many years." I haven't seen my mother, and neither has Sister Ying, so compared to this, God is partial to you. My mother died to give birth to me, and although my father didn't blame me, I think he actually minded in his heart. He never told me about my mother's past, nor did he leave me anything related to my mother. I'm so big, I don't even have a portrait of my mother. ”

At the age of five or six, it is the age when a child begins to have a memory, and if he pays attention to it with a little sensitivity, he can hear some old things that catch the wind and shadows. During that time, I used all the tricks I could think of, whether it was sa (Jiaojiāo), or cheating, and even I persisted for two days on a hunger strike and threatened my father without drinking water, even though it showed a child's tenacity beyond common sense, it still failed to impress my father's hard heart.

I sat on the floor and refused to get up, crying and fussing, asking my father over and over again, why do other children have mothers, but I don't? I've never cried so badly since I was a child, the more I talked, the more I couldn't stop sobbing, and the tears kept coming out like a spring.

I remember once the maid in the house took the sugar gourd that her mother bought for her and asked me if I would eat it, I smiled and took the string of sugar gourds, and threw it on the ground in front of her, she cried very aggrieved, but I felt very happy, what is the great thing about having a mother? It's not like I'm bullying you yet. Later I realized that it was pure jealousy. It's ridiculous, my dignified eldest lady of the Qin family actually bullied a servant girl out of jealousy.

There were more and more similar things (情qíng), each time it became worse and worse, and my father finally noticed that something was wrong with me and began to discipline me harshly, so there was a scene where I was rolling on the ground and distressed. At that time, I didn't understand that the father who lost my mother was far more sad than me, far more painful than me. Dad frowned and looked at me who was crying non-stop, and he was distressed. The tall (身shēn) form is becoming more and more depressed, and the god (情qíng) is indescribably lonely.

Dad is a rare man in the world who is long (情qíng), after his mother died, he admired women other than his mother, and he never looked at it more, and the matchmaker said that the threshold of the Qin Mansion was about to be broken, and he didn't see his father loosen a little. That night, my father locked himself in the study, holding jars of liquor one after another, desperately drunk himself, no one in the entire Qin Mansion dared to disturb him, only I pushed open the door of the study, and saw him drunk on the cold ground, shouting his mother's name over and over again, like a lost child, a dignified seven-foot man, the city lord of Qinzhou City, crying so sadly like a child, two lines (hot rè) tears fell from his resolute cheeks, which was heartbreaking.

After one night, I didn't pestering my father to ask about my mother. There is a past about my mother, which has become a secret that my father and I tacitly buried in the bottom of our hearts.

"Your mother must be very good-looking, but my mother must be a more beautiful woman than your mother." I mourned to myself.

"Most of the women are weak; Mothers, most of them are strong. If your mother is still alive in the world, even if she dies for you, she will sacrifice herself regardless of (身shēn). ”

My legs were a little numb: "Dugu Hao, how did your mother die?" ”

The ugliest realities that are buried among the families are like an ugly and hideous monster that opens its bloody jaws and strikes at me.

"My mother took me to move out of Dugu's house, not to escape, but to be expelled, Dugu's family left our mother and son to fend for themselves, and my father forgot about us completely. My mother relied on the meager help of her mother's family, barely (日rì), and (身shēn) 体一 (日rì) was not as thin and weak as one (日rì). ”

"Remember when I told you that if it weren't for my mother's death, I wouldn't have been taken back to Dugu's house? When my father was young, he committed many killings in order to seize the head of the family, and his sons died violently one after another, and in the end, only three or four children survived. The warlock said that I was destined to be rich and prosperous for a long time, and my father went to see my mother in the other courtyard overnight, and my mother died on the second day, and I was naturally taken back to the family. ”

"My father didn't order my mother to be killed, he had too much blood on his hands, and he was afraid. He just gave my mother a choice, her death can be exchanged for my rebirth, whether I want to be a mediocre wasted person for the rest of my life, or become the most outstanding son of the Dugu family, it is up to my mother to decide. Therefore, my mother chose to sacrifice herself in exchange for my wealth and glory. ”

"It can be said that everything I have gained today (日rì) is stained with my mother's blood. Qin Xi, I am the sinner, the sinner who killed his mother. ”

Dugu Hao's tone is still ruffian, no different from the usual appearance of Hangerlang, this person is not even upright when he is sad.

"Do you hate Dugu Shibo?"

There was a special firmness in his expression: "What can you change if you hate or not?" Everyone has his destiny to endure, if one day I have to do my best to stand at the top of the Dugu family, I need you to be by my side (body shēn), and I will prove that I am different from my father. ”

"Dugu Hao, don't you understand?"

"Understand what?"

"Whether it's my father or Dugu Shibo, they have always chosen you. From the day you stepped into the Qin Mansion, you were the successor they recognized, and no one could shake your position anymore. You ask yourself, with your ability to return to the Dugu family back then, how could you have been the opponent of your brothers? Dugu Shibo must have blocked a lot of damage for you in secret. As for my father, which of your well-known teachers didn't my father take the trouble to invite? ”

"You think you have chosen a dangerous path full of thorns, but in fact, Dugu Shibo has already helped you clear many obstacles. You are only one step away from the price status you want. ”

The reason is very simple, although Dugu Hao's mother has a meager background, but compared to other brothers from a young age, his situation makes him have stronger endurance than ordinary people, I think Dugu Shibo should have seen Dugu Hao's determination to climb up desperately, this amazing perseverance prompted him to make a risky move, and handed over hundreds of years of inheritance to a child who has nothing.

Even if this is a ridiculous decision? Not to mention that going back to a hundred years ago, several major families have created a foundation from scratch, and the family has always been interested in ability and ability, and the background that (body shēn) relies on can only be called the icing on the cake, not to mention that with the support of his father, how can those who see the wind and steer the rudder, how can they not see through the general trend? Qinzhou City is right under my nose, although I am not proficient in Wen Tao Wu strategy, but (body shēn) as my father's daughter, after years of hearing and seeing, all the movements that have occurred in this city, (body shēn) as the successor of the position of the city lord, I have an innate sensitivity.

He smiled inexplicably self-deprecatingly: "Maybe my father thinks he is ashamed of me." After all, he didn't (force bī)bī) die the mother of the other brothers. ”

It seems that Dugu Hao has always been unable to let go of his mother's death, and it is also how can a person always maintain 100,000 degrees of sobriety and sanity: "If you are not in his position, how do you know that Dugu Shibo is a person who has no (love qíng)?" Everyone has weaknesses, and he is no exception. He is cold on the surface, but after nearly ten years of getting along, hasn't he given you a trace of warmth (affection)? ”

There is a melancholy smell in the air, and it is ridiculous that we enjoy the life of a human being, but we have never felt the ordinary warmth of an ordinary family.

I was falling into a little sadness, Dugu Hao pressed my shoulder, startled me, and his expression condensed: "Don't move!" ”

Following his gaze, a small slender snake was spitting a dangerous red letter at my feet, and I was frightened, and instinctively shrunk my legs, saying that it was too late, and that my right foot was firmly bitten.

I instantly broke out in a cold sweat in pain, gasped, and clearly saw two small red dots oozing blood, and I almost fainted.

Dugu Hao took advantage of the situation to catch the little flower snake and finish it off, but he was more nervous than me: "This snake may be attracted by the fragrance of the mandala flowers, don't move, I'll see your injuries." ”

He raised my right foot to take off my shoes, but I stopped him and said weakly, "I'm fine, let's go down the mountain quickly and go back to the temple to get some medicine." ”

"No, you can't! A non-venomous snake will bite several wounds, and there is only one wound, which means that the snake's poison (性xìng) is not small, and if you delay it for a while, the poison (性xìng) will spread, and your life will be in danger. ”

When I heard him say this, I panicked, but I insisted on it because of the defense of men and women: "Then I'll come by myself." ”

I took off my shoes and socks with all my strength, revealing my small white feet, Dugu Hao stared at my feet alive, making me blush embarrassedly, and before I could be a little more shy, he had already lowered his head and sucked out a poisonous blood from the wound on my foot.

I was stunned.

When he vomited out the poisonous blood and was about to suck the second puff, I pushed him away: "Dugu Hao, you don't want to die!" ”

He was right, the snake was indeed venomous, and after only a short while, his lips were already a little purple. I can't sit back and watch him take risks for me, it's one thing to have sex since I was a child, it's another thing to be in a life-or-death situation, and I don't need him to joke with my life.

"You don't have to save me like this!" That being said, who can save me but him in this wilderness?

He was stunned and not intimidated by my momentum: "Just when I am willing to save you." Rest assured, this is not a deal and I will not let you exchange at an equivalent price. ”

"You-" He ignored me and went to suck the venom out for me, and again and again, I was a little overwhelmed, and my mind went blank except for gasping for air.

It was Dugu Hao who saved me recklessly, and it was Lonely Hao who was about to ten years when he didn't like each other, and I never dreamed that he would save me. Gradually, the blood he vomited ceased to be black, and returned to its normal red. He breathed a sigh of relief, took a square scarf from his sleeve, and tied a dead knot in the seat above my wound. I was in a daze during the whole process, and he said calmly: "Your wound is fine for the time being, we have to go back to Qinglu Temple as soon as possible." ”

I understood what he meant, the poison of the wound (性xìng) was suppressed for the time being, but there was still residual poison (性xìng) in my body to ensure that I (身shēn) still needed to be further rinsed and medicated, I pointed to his lips with a worried face: "Your lips—" Because of the help I took drugs, the bruises on his lips became more and more obvious, and I even felt that there was a dark blue under his eyes.

I struggled to get up, and he half-crouched beside me and said unquestioningly, "Come up." I'll carry you. ”

"Dugu Hao, you are crazy, such a long mountain road, by the time you carry me back, you will already be exhausted." The road up the mountain was so tortuous, and his (身shēn) body (情qíng) condition was not optimistic, and he couldn't withstand such a long toss.

He laughed very badly: "I deliberately took a long detour to bring you up, how can I be so stupid, I will pick the nearest path when I go down the mountain." ”

As soon as I heard it, I was annoyed, when did he still have the heart (情qíng) to joke, if he didn't get it right, he would die, I blackfaced: "Don't think that if you saved me, I will be grateful, you are self-inflicted, if you didn't deliberately trick me, we may not have ended up in this step." "It's true that his mouth is hard, and it's also true that I can't bear to let him be further damaged by my (body shēn) body.

"If you have three long and two short, my father may let me bury you with you. Rather than being complained about by you when you go to Hades (hall diàn), it is better to try its best to save you. Hurry up, if you are discovered by the monks in the temple later, it's time to go to the abbot and Qin Shibo to complain. ”

He said it easily, if my father found out that I could still sneak around like this when I went to the deep mountains and old forests, and let me stay in the temple for more than half a year in a fit of anger, then I would really cry without tears.

I couldn't resist him, so I lay on his back, and he carried me down the mountain. Looking back, the mandalas all over the mountains are still dazzling. Along the way, I fell asleep in a drowsy, sleepy, and when I fell asleep a few times, it was his chattering voice that pulled me back.

Rao is a person who is no longer physically strong, inhaled a small amount of snake venom, and carried me on his back for such a long distance before he arrived at the temple, and Dugu Hao collapsed due to physical exhaustion.