In order to find and vine grass, the old patriarch personally went down to the cave of the cliff.

After peeling back the pile of grass and vines, he found a man lying inside.

It was a young man in his twenties, covered in blood, and at this moment, he was lying in the grass, and he was unconscious.

The old patriarch hurriedly stepped forward, and he found that the young man had bruises on his arms.

The black blood with a strong fishy smell was still bubbling out of the wound little by little.

From the tooth marks on the wound, the old patriarch could roughly tell that the young man had been bitten by the bat in this cave.

Sticking out his fingers, the old patriarch poked his nose lightly.

He found that the young man was still alive.

Although he didn't know why the young man had appeared in this cragy cave, the old patriarch decided to get him out first. After all, this is also a life, and the old patriarch can't see death without saving.

So he took the herbs he had picked and stuffed them into a cloth bag, and the old patriarch lifted the young man up and tied him with himself to the hemp rope.

Fortunately, the big pine tree at the top of the mountain was thick enough to fully withstand the weight of two people.

The old patriarch groped, climbing up little by little. As he passed the steep mountain walls again, he reached out and pulled some of the herbs.

Just like this, step by step, he finally got the young man and himself out.

Back in the mountain village, the patriarch did not alarm anyone, he quietly took the young man to his house.

It was time for the villagers to make dinner, so no one saw the village chief returning with an injured outsider on his back.

After the death of his wife, the old patriarch did not live with his son.

This bamboo house is lived by him alone, he is old, the old patriarch likes to be quiet, when he is alone, he feels very stable in his heart.

After settling the young man, the old patriarch went out.

He sent the four herbs to the feverish child, and after instructing the child's mother on some matters, he left without taking a sip of water.

Back at the bamboo house, the young man had woken up.

Seeing the old patriarch who suddenly came in, the young man was very scared.

There was an injury on his body, it was very painful, he couldn't get out of bed at all, so he could only shrink his body back, staring at the old clan battle, and asked in a low voice: "Who are you......"

The old patriarch didn't speak, he stepped forward and pulled the young man's arm.

The wound on it was very large, and the old patriarch looked solemn, judging by the situation, the young man's injuries were more serious than he had imagined.

The young man was still frightened, and he moved back in horror, trying to withdraw his arm, but he couldn't.

At this moment, the old patriarch let go of his hand.

When the young man saw this, he got up with all his strength and was about to run out of the door.

The old patriarch held a bowl of water, turned around, and said unhurriedly: "Your wounds are already very serious, if you run out now, it won't be long before you die." ”

The young man had already reached the door, and he wanted to open it and go out.

But at this moment, his wound was in sharp pain.

When I opened my sleeves, I saw that the bruises had begun to spread in all directions, except for the black mucus wounds.

The pain was so intense that he fell to his knees and shivered.

Seeing this, the old patriarch grabbed a handful of weeds from the cloth bag that he had just picked from the cliff.

After stuffing them in his mouth and chewing them, he spit them out.

The old patriarch stepped forward and covered all the slimy green plant tissues on the young man's festering wounds.

The young man suddenly felt a sense of coolness and comfort spread throughout his body.

Subsequently, the wound miraculously stopped hurting.

The old patriarch handed the bowl of water he had just poured to the young man:

"I'm applying the ghost needle grass to you, it can only temporarily relieve the toxicity for you, you were bitten by a cave bat, and if you want to be cured, you have to stay with me for a while longer."

After a long period of dehydration, the young man has already had a dry mouth and trembling limbs.

He took the bowl of water and poured it into his stomach.

The old patriarch stood up, and he said to him:

"You drink slowly, it's too fast and it's easy to choke on the trachea. You're lucky enough to meet me, the cave bat's saliva is highly poisonous, and I'm just able to treat this. ”

The young man listened, hesitated for a moment, and then said thank you to the old patriarch seriously.

The old patriarch nodded to him and told him to rest more and stop wandering around.

After saying this, the old patriarch left.

The young man stayed, and the old patriarch brought him a bowl of medicine every day, in addition to bringing him food.

It was boiled out of dendrobium by the old patriarch.

During the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, the Taoist classic "Daozang" listed Dendrobium officinale as the first of the nine immortal grasses.

This wild dendrobium is known as the "life-saving fairy grass", it grows in the steep mountain cliffs, and is a precious wild plant that can not be found.

Normal people can prolong their lives if they eat it, and people who are dying can continue their lives after taking it.

The poisoned person drank a decoction made of dendrobium, which could expel the poison from the body and save his life.

When the old patriarch rescued the young man from the cave under the cliff that day, he happened to see such a precious dendrobium growing on the steep mountain wall, and he suddenly felt that God would not let the young man die.

In that case, then save.

A month has passed in the blink of an eye.

A bowl of dendrobium boiled into a decoction, young people are drinking every day, intermittent from the cloth.

In the days when he was sick in the old patriarch's house, he never went out, and the only thing that accompanied him to relieve his boredom was the little chick who also escaped death.

Although one is a human and the other is an animal.

But when they get along together, this person is a chicken, but he has a feeling of sympathy and hatred for each other.

One day, the old patriarch asked the young man why he was in a cave in the cliff.

The young people said something like "overthrowing the old system", "uprising" or something, something that the old patriarch had never heard of.

The other party explained to him, but the old patriarch listened even more confused.

simply, I didn't ask more.

With a life without contention, there is no need to ask so much about the mountains.

Seeing that the old patriarch didn't understand the outside world, the young man didn't say anything anymore, holding the little chick, giggling and playing, as if talking to a friend.

When I first started taking the medicine, the young man's wound would heal a little every day.

But after a long time, the speed of wound recovery became slower and slower, and even sometimes, not only did not show better signs than before, but the bruises continued to spread.

So, the young man asked the old patriarch what was going on.

The old patriarch opened his wound and looked at it for a while, thought for a while and said, "It seems that this dendrobium still needs a medicine primer." ”

"What medicine?" The young man hurriedly asked.

The old patriarch glanced at the chicken cub who was being held in the arms of the young man.

In a month's time, this chick has grown to weigh half a catty.

It has a red cockscomb on the top of its head, which is small enough to prove that it is a rooster.

The old patriarch paused and said, "Cockscomb blood, fresh, freshly cut cockscomb blood, is the best medicine for this dendrobium." ”