Chapter 12 Search

I did it for a night, the sky was just dawn, Bai Xiaofu took advantage of the shift change and secretly jumped into the sea, the sea water in the morning was very cold, but Bai Xiaofu couldn't feel it at all now, Bai Xiaofu could only dive down for a while, check the hull, and then float up for ventilation, and then repeat it in another place, until the dusk moment, Bai Xiaofu found that there was a sword hole in the hull that was inserted obliquely, Bai Xiaofu carefully checked it several times to confirm that he was not mistaken, and Bai Xiaofu finally had a glimmer of hope in his heart.

Bai Xiaofu climbed ashore and found that his legs were so cold that he was numb, and he couldn't climb directly on the shore, and the guards on the shore saw him in such an embarrassed manner, thinking that he was a beggar who had unfortunately fallen into the water, and directly picked up Bai Xiaofu and threw it on the street. Bai Xiaofu sat on the ground, the people on the street looked at him back and forth, Bai Xiaofu waited for the leg to be numb for a while, dragged the injured leg, found a corner with no people, and fell asleep groggy.

When he woke up, it was already dark, and the night market in Loulan had not yet dispersed, Bai Xiaofu bought a few hot buns and two jars of soju at the night market, and devoured five buns by himself, then uncovered the gauze that bandaged his injured leg, knocked open the sealing mud of a jar of soju, poured the wine on his already soaked wound, and the painful Bai Xiaofu rolled on the ground with his injured leg. Then pour out the powder and apply it to the wound, wring out the previous gauze and bandaging it. Then waiting for the night market to disperse, Bai Xiaofu carried the remaining buns and a jar of soju to the dock again, and said to the soldiers on the night vigil in the accent of the locals: "Big brother, it's hard." Would you like to eat something. ”

Then he nodded and handed over a jar of soju and the rest of the buns, the night watchman smiled and took the things in Bai Xiaofu's hand, patted Bai Xiaofu's shoulder, and said, "Little brother, what do you have to ask?" Go ahead. As he spoke, he slapped the mud of the shochu with his palm and took a sip with his head up.

Bai Xiaofu smiled and said: "Dissatisfied with the eldest brother, the younger brother saw the battle of the prince going to sea a few days ago is really majestic, although the boundary of our Loulan is good, I should call Huazi to visit all over the years, but I just want to know what the prince has seen, I also want to see what the prince sees, I also want to see what the prince sees." You see that the prince has returned to Beijing, and the eldest brother told me. ”

The vigil laughed and said, "It's just that you still want to see the prince in a place called Hanako, haha!" ”

Bai Xiaofu scratched his head with a bunch of messy hair embarrassedly and smiled awkwardly.

The night watchman laughed enough, turned around and told Bai Xiaofu: "It's not that I won't tell you, this is confidential, and I will take a big risk to tell you." ”

Bai Xiaofu still smiled and said, "Of course, the younger brother will not let the eldest brother take the risk in vain. Then he took out a rag bag from the waistband of his trousers, and opened it to the night watchman, and it contained ten taels of silver. The night watchman's eyes lit up suddenly, this must be his five-month moon, he stretched out his hand and wanted to take it, Bai Xiaofu hid and said to the night watchman: "Big brother, you haven't promised to tell me yet." ”

The night watchman snatched the silver, his happy mouth couldn't close, and he had to pretend to be serious: "I also think that the little brother is a strict mouth, and I won't tell him if I change someone else." That day, the prince went to sea first, and then when he heard that when he came back, he saw a lot of seabirds parked on the small pier in the next town, and when the boat sailed by, they spread their wings and flew high, so they made a detour to the next town, and then returned. Of course, it's not that we haven't been to Qingshui Town next door, that small wharf is about to be abandoned, and it has become a habitat for seabirds, but it has aroused the interest of the prince who is often in the Central Plains, and I don't know if Qingshui Town will increase the allocation of funds compared to our Lanhai Town in the future because of this matter. ”

Bai Xiaofu said a few more words to the night watchman, thanked him, rode a mule and rushed to Qingshui Town, until dawn to the dilapidated dock in Qingshui Town, Qingshui Town is much poorer than Lanhai Town, there are a few families scattered along the way, and they are all inconspicuous earthen houses, the wharf of Qingshui Town is also a very dilapidated abandoned wharf, there are no boats docked on the wharf, but there are many seabirds inhabited, Bai Xiaofu dragged his injured leg and waved away the seabirds that pounced on him, and walked around the dock with difficulty. Finally, two thinned bamboo poles connected together floating on the water surface were found in a dead end, which were really the two sections that Bai Xiaofu prepared for Jiang Zhen.

Bai Xiaofu immediately picked up a big rock and took a deep breath and jumped into the water, trying his best to watch the underwater situation, when the bottom of the water was clear, he let go of the stone he was holding and quickly swam upstream, Bai Xiaofu who floated on the surface seemed to be unable to control his emotions, and laughed and cried while holding the shore. There is no corpse of Jiang Zhen under the water, Jiang Zhen is still alive, must still be alive.

Bai Xiaofu climbed onto the dock, let the sea breeze dry his clothes, and looked for clues on the dock. Now it is the fifth day since the day of Jiang Zhen's accident, Bai Xiaofu is afraid that Jiang Zhen will not be able to survive after staying in the water for a long time, and he doesn't know if Jiang Zhen is injured, and because Jiang Zhen has lived in the Central Plains for a long time and has been detained in the palace for a long time, he will not know water at all. If you are still injured, it will be more than lucky.

Thinking about it like this, Bai Xiaofu couldn't help but speed up his movements again, and finally there was an inconspicuous bloodstain on the side of a path near the dock, and the deeper he walked into the path, the clearer the bloodstain became, Bai Xiaofu led the mule and searched for the bloodstain, and finally a dilapidated land temple appeared in front of him, and only half of the roof was left, and the other half had collapsed. Bai Xiaofu walked into the temple, and saw a person leaning on the corner, a bloody hand hanging down his side, and looking down his hand, there was a large pool of blood on the ground, which had coagulated and turned black, his hair was messy, his clothes were ajar, and the chicken intestines exposed on his chest were no longer angry and loose on his chest, many flies were around Jiang Zhen's body, and his hands and chicken intestines were crawling with flies, Jiang Zhen was just lying quietly, with a pale face and a pale mouth.

Bai Xiaofu quietly walked in front of Jiang Zhen, his outstretched hands were trembling, and he had been holding a string in his heart, don't die, don't die, won't die. Reaching out to Jiang Zhen's slightly open mouth, a faint breath brushed his fingers, Bai Xiaofu smiled, revealing the first relaxed smile in these days, and tears also flowed into his mouth along the corners of his lips across his cheeks, giving this smile a bitter taste.

Bai Xiaofu began to treat Jiang Zhen's wounds, Jiang Zhen only had a wound on his left hand, but it was more serious, the palm of his left hand was directly pierced by the sword, Bai Xiaofu first rinsed the wound with the water he prepared to drink, took off Jiang Zhen's clothes, tore off the chicken intestines that had begun to rot on Jiang Zhen's body, dragged Jiang Zhen to a clean stone slab, spread Jiang Zhen's coat on the ground, let Jiang Zhen lie flat on the ground, sprinkled anti-inflammatory and hemostatic powder on his injured left hand, and then rode a mule to find a farmer. I bought some items to be used from the farmer's house, and quickly returned to the broken temple, dressed Jiang Zhen in the coarse cloth clothes bought from the farmer, washed Jiang Zhen's underwear and pulled it into strips of cloth, lit a fire, put the strips of cloth and a bundle of thread in water and boiled them, steamed distilled water with seawater, hung the strips of cloth on the fire to dry, washed Jiang Zhen's wound again with hot distilled water, attached the powder to the wound on his left hand, put the needle on the flame and roasted it, sewn up the wound, and then bandaged the dried strip of cloth to Jiang Zhen. After boiling some porridge with steamed distilled water, boiling the medicine prescribed by Lang Zhong, and when the porridge was cooler, Bai Xiaofu held Jiang Zhen's head in his arms, scooped it up with a slender piece of wood, pinched Jiang Zhen's mouth, and fed it into Jiang Zhen's mouth little by little. After eating the porridge, Bai Xiaofu fed Jiang Zhen the medicine again. Only then did Bai Xiaofu remember to deal with his injured leg.

When all the work was done, it was already dark, and from the moment he confirmed that Jiang Zhen was still alive, Bai Xiaofu felt at ease. He doesn't know what will happen in the future, but as long as he can live, everything is hopeful. In his selfish heart, Bai Xiaofu hopes that Jiang Zhen can let go of the past and live a good life as an ordinary person from now on, but Bai Xiaofu feels that this is impossible, even he, a person who is from modern times and does not have such a strong sense of belonging to ancient times, cannot abandon the past and start over. Not to mention a true ancient man. Bai Xiaofu even hoped that Jiang Zhen would have amnesia like in the TV series.

The night was a little cold, Bai Xiaofu moved the fire to Jiang Zhen's side, fed Jiang Zhen some water, and fell asleep next to Jiang Zhen.

On the fifth watch, Jiang Zhen opened his eyes slightly, and the feeling of headache reminded Jiang Zhen that he was still alive, and tried to move his body slightly, but found that he couldn't exert his strength, so he had to lie stiffly in place. He still remembers the events of that day vividly, everything was normal at the beginning of that day, the general organized soldiers to conduct coastal defense simulation training, even if Jiang Zhen pretended to be a gentleman, he was enthusiastic to see it, and when he was about to return, Jiying asked himself to go to the deck to say something, and everyone avoided it, at that time, Jiying drew his sword to kill himself, he dodged and fell into the sea, took a deep breath before falling into the sea, took out his sword and nailed his left hand to the hull of the boat, and stuck the bamboo pole prepared by Bai Xiaofu against the hull of the boat and stretched out of the water, Just as his consciousness was about to disappear, the boat stopped, drew his sword stuck in the hull, and only went ashore when the boat was gone, and stumbled and fled to a ruined temple where he lost all his strength. Jiang Zhen couldn't believe that he was still alive, Jiang Zhen looked sideways, and then found that he was sitting next to a person, and there was a fire that was about to be extinguished, and when he looked closely, the person was Bai Xiaofu, Jiang Zhen didn't wake up Bai Xiaofu, he opened his eyes and looked at the dark and dreary sky above his head, looking forward to this night being longer, he didn't know how to face the current situation, he felt that he was ridiculous, he thought that his mother would definitely keep him, even if it was just to take advantage of it, but now he knows, A puppet can be exchanged for anyone, he is no longer the fourth prince, the throne, this thing has always been so far away from himself, it has never been set for himself, let alone become his own, he has worked hard for many years, it is just a joke, the ants who do not measure themselves think they are as powerful as elephants, and one day when they see the real elephant, they know that they are destined to be so.

A frustrated breath was suffocated in his heart, making him want to vent, but he felt that now he didn't even have a position to vent at will.