Chapter Twenty-Five: Kunpeng
Li Bing poured the gunpowder on the wound with a trembling hand, and with a sigh, the fire flashed like fireworks, and Xiao Xiang shouted and fainted.
Li Bing wiped the sweat from her forehead and asked Lao Wu, "She, is she okay?"
Lao Wu said: "It's okay, it hurts too much, she's a little girl, and she still can't bear it." He took out a needle and thread from his pocket, handed it to Li Bing, and said, "Sew it up."
Li Bing said, "Why do you have everything?"
Lao Wu said: "I have to mend my clothes if they are rotten, can I do it without needles and threads?"
Li Bing asked, "Where is your wife?"
Old Wu choked up and said, "Don't ask."
Li Bing helped Sun Xiaoxiang stitch up the wound and pinched her person, and she finally woke up.
Li Bing hugged her excitedly, stroked her back and said, "It's finally okay, it's okay."
Sun Xiaoxiang gently kissed him on the neck and said, "Thank you for saving me."
Lao Wu coughed twice, and the car drove across the Soap River Bridge and slowly stopped on the side of the road. Yu Xiaolong sent a message saying: "Xiaoqing has been rescued, the situation is not optimistic, we will go to the hospital now."
Lao Wu said to himself, "I hope they're okay."
The group got out of the car, climbed over the high-speed guardrail, and walked down a steep slope to the edge of the Soahe River, where a fishing boat was quietly parked in the middle of the river.
Li Bing followed behind with one foot deep and one foot shallow, his feet and neck were already swollen like steamed buns, but he didn't say a word, just followed silently. Lao Wu beckoned to the boatman, and the fishing boat drove over with a motor.
The boatman drove a modern fishing boat, dressed like an ancient, with coarse cloth shoes, bloomers, a robe woven of reed leaves, and a hat on his head, the brim of which was pressed so low that it was impossible to see his face.
Li Bing felt strange and reminded Lao Wu to pay attention.
Lao Wu whispered: "I know, the three of us, are you afraid that he won't be able to do it alone?" With a smile on his face, he said to the boatman: "Master, take us to Xianyang, what is the price?" ”
The boatman raised his head, he was an old man with a wrinkled face, and he looked quite kind. He said: "I am a fishing boat, and if I carry people, it is okay, but it is expensive." ”
Lao Wu said: "It's okay, you just say how much?" ”
The boatman said: "One thousand yuan per person, if you want to sit, you can sit, if you don't want to sit, I still have to be busy." ”
Li Binggang was about to say, how could there be such a sky-high price? But Lao Wu grabbed the corner of his clothes and said: "It's good to say, three people are three thousand, no problem, please give us a ride." ”
The three of them got on the boat and sat down in the back row, Sun Xiaoxiang covered her wounds and leaned softly in Li Bing's arms.
The boat kept heading north, and there was a long wave behind it. Li Bing looked at the back of the boatman in front of him, and felt unhappy for a while: what an old man who sees money, seeing that Sun Xiaoxiang is injured, he sits on the ground and starts the price! I didn't want to speak.
Lao Wu didn't care at all, and chatted with the boatman, he said: "Master, how many years have you been fishing in the soap river?" Are there any fish in the river now? ”
The boatman said: "The fish are getting less and less day by day, and I also fish for three days and dry the nets for two days, so I don't come often." ”
Lao Wu said: "On a sunny day, how can you wear a raincoat?" ”
The boatman said, "I often walk in the water, how can I not get wet?" No matter which cloud rains, be prepared for the rain. ”
Li Bing heard it strangely, the weather forecast is not raining, what else do you say to take precautions? What a weird old man.
Lao Wu was thoughtful, if he had taken precautions today, he would not have ended up in the current predicament, but who would have expected it to happen suddenly? The opponent has obviously not laid out a day or two, and he is fully prepared and waiting for us to come, which is really a mistake!
The boat sailed into a reed, the sun was setting, and the water surface was rippling with golden light, Li Bing looked at the burning clouds in the sky, remembering the speed of life and death just now, and couldn't help but sigh. Sun Xiaoxiang leaned on Li Bing's shoulder, like a couple at this time, but Li Bing's heart was indescribably complicated.
The river was slow, and the boat was steady and downstream, but at the outlet of the reeds, something happened.
The boat jerked and swayed from side to side a few more times. The boatman looked ahead with a solemn face, and suddenly said, "Sit tight, the big fish is coming." ”
Before Li Bing understood what he meant, he saw a huge black shadow swimming over on the gradually widening water in front of him, and he shouted in a lost voice: "What is that in the water?" ”
The boatman said, "This is the fish god of the Saohe River, let's pull aside and let it pass." ”
The boat approached the river, and the shadows were getting closer and closer, taking up almost half of the river. As soon as the boat passed, the shadow leaped out of the water, revealing a back as smooth as a dolphin, and then soared upward, and a huge fish flew out, splashing the three of them with a splash.
The big fish flew close to the surface of the water for a while, and instead of falling into the water, it shot straight into the sky, babbling like a baby. The big fish swam higher and higher, heading straight for the fiery clouds on the horizon.
Li Bing wiped the water on his face and exclaimed, "What kind of fish is this?" Could it be another ancient divine beast? ”
The boatman smiled: "Little brother, you are right. ”
Li Bing said: "Could it be Kun!" ”
The boatman said: "Dapeng rides the wind and sways thousands of miles." ”
Li Bing said: "But this is not Peng." ”
The boatman said: "It's just that the time has not yet come, the fish will turn into a dragon, and the kun will turn into a peng, and there will be a fixed number." ”
Li Bing looked at the boatman and said, "Dare to ask who you are?" ”
The boatman said: "Master? It's a layman who fishes a dozen fishes. After that, he laughed and started the boat again, but the boat was not at all like just now, as if it was loaded with a rocket, and it sped away against the water, and in a blink of an eye, it reached the Xianyang realm.
The boatman said, "It's here, let's go ashore." ”
Li Bing was like in a dream, the three of them went ashore one after another, Lao Wu turned around to pay, but saw that the water was unstable, it was quiet, and there was still a trace of boats and fishermen.
Li Bing said: "What about people? What about the ship? Gone in the blink of an eye? ”
Lao Wu said: "This is the gods who have come to save us." After saying that, he folded his hands and bowed to the east.
The three of them took the road and took a taxi straight back to Xijing. The car stopped outside the Yuxiang Gate, and Lao Liu sent someone to answer it.
Xiao Gu helped Sun Xiaoxiang and asked how the injury was? Sun Xiaoxiang said that it was not in the way, thanks to Li Bing for saving him. Xiao Gu glanced at Li Bing and did not speak.
A few people went to the Chang'an Hall in the alley and settled down temporarily.
Sun Xiaoxiang said: "This hall is also opened by my family, and it has not been open to the public recently, so let's repair it first."
In the evening, Li Bing saw on TV that Liquan County had been put under martial law in the whole county, and police cars were whizzing past every street. The armed police with real guns and ammunition blocked all the intersections, and they were worried about Yu Xiaolong, and they didn't know what happened to them.
Lao Wu said: "Yu Xiaolong replied to the news, they have been transferred to Xianyang, Lao Liu has sent a car to pick them up, and they can come back in the middle of the night."
The wonderful hand doctor Gu Dana has been invited, put herbs on Li Bing's ankle, checked Sun Xiaoxiang's wound, cut open the sutures, re-treated it, and then covered it with an unknown plaster, saying: "Paste my magic medicine to ensure that there will be no scars in the future."
In the middle of the night, Yu Xiaolong finally came back, he had hung up the heavy color, his waist and shoulders were wrapped in gauze, and he still insisted on taking the stretcher and carrying Xiaoqing up.
Gu Dana looked at Xiaoqing's injury, frowned and said, "Come into the operating room, and operate on the two of you overnight tonight." Li Bing looked at Xiaoqing's burned face, such a beauty was destroyed in such a way, and he was depressed in his heart, and suddenly felt a pain in his heart, his blood rushed up, and he almost fell to the ground.
He slowly held on to the railing of the hallway, and it took him a long time to breathe. He sat down, not sleepy, and kept looking at the lights in the operating room.
Lao Wu came over and said, "Sleep." Put the inverted bucket in advance and rest for a few days. ”
Li Bing grabbed Lao Wu's arm and said, "Tell me, is it really so important to fight backwards?" Six people died last time, and all of them were injured this time, do you know how heavy Xiaoqing's injuries were? Just for that so-called baby? The professor gave me the blue elixir to save my life, I'm really not rare! ”
Lao Wu didn't expect Li Bing's reaction to be so big, he said: "The road ahead will be even more cruel!" How can you go on without any mental preparation! I don't think I heard what you just said, and you won't talk nonsense anymore! You just have to remember that no matter how big the cost, even if everyone dies, it's only worth it, understand? ”
Li Bing said, "Why? Why exactly? ”
Lao Wu stopped talking, shook off his arm, and walked away angrily.