Weicheng in early winter, the cold is unexpectedly steep.

A carriage walked briskly on the official road, and the carriage walked out of the city for nearly an hour, entering the boundary of Zhongnan Mountain, the road became more and more bumpy, and there were fewer and fewer people on the road.

"Sixth Senior Brother, I want to get out of the car and take a walk."

"It's okay, after sitting in the car for so long, the road is getting more and more uneven, and the skeleton is about to fall apart."

The carriage stopped, the curtain opened, and a man of about thirty years of age jumped out of the carriage first, and turned back to support the beautiful young woman who came down.

The two of them stood on the side of the road, looking at the still verdant peaks, and there were tears in the eyes of the beautiful woman: "Sixth Senior Brother, ten years have passed, and the master and his old man don't know what happened, and I don't know if they will blame me." The closer this got, the more panicked I became. ”

The middle-aged man took out a silk handkerchief and wiped the woman's tears: "Senior sister, you are cowardly in your hometown!" Master, the old man must be fine, and I don't know how happy I will be to see you when the time comes. ”

The young beautiful woman who was called her junior sister took the silk handkerchief and covered her eyes, and after a long while, she said, "Sixth senior brother, it's a pity that you can't bring Huan Lang to show your master." ”

The sixth senior brother put his arm around his junior sister's shoulders and comforted: "Huan Lang is only four years old, and he can't withstand the long journey, when he grows up, let's send him to study medicine with the master." ”

The young beautiful woman burst into tears and laughed: "Good." ”

The sixth senior brother pointed to the depths of the woods: "Senior sister, look, do you remember here?" ”

The young woman looked closely, and the sound of gurgling water could be faintly heard in the dimly lit woods.

"Ahh It turned out to be here, and in front of it was the ambergris pool! The young beauty was surprised and delighted: "I can't even recognize it, Sixth Senior Brother, you really have a good memory." ”

The sixth senior brother smiled: "Of course I remember, no matter how much changes here, I also remember." That's where I met you. ”

"Sixth Senior Brother, let's go over and take a look. I'm going to drink some ambergris water. ”

The sixth senior brother held the junior sister, clasped his fingers, and walked together.

Ambergris Pond is actually a small stream on the mountain that flows through here, crosses the woods, and finally joins the Weishui. Later, in order to get water conveniently, the people who lived in seclusion and cultivated in Zhongnan Mountain dug a large pond along the terrain where the stream fell, and built big stones around it. Moreover, the stream water in this place is sweet and cold, rich in minerals and trace elements, often drink it has the effect of fitness and longevity, there are good deeds on the legend that here is the nectar dripping from the dragon king in the sky, I don't know when, someone wrote "ambergris pool" three big characters on the mountain stone. Hunters and herb pickers pass by and come here to rest.

The young woman stood in front of the rocks of the "Ambergris Pond", her eyes blurred with tears, and she reached out to rub the words that had faded in vermilion.

The sixth senior brother picked up a palm-sized pebble by the pool, plucked up his courage, and hit the back of the junior sister's head hard.

The young beautiful woman was caught off guard, her forehead hit the rock, and suddenly her head was bloody, she held the rock with one hand, and touched the back of her head with the other, only to feel that her eyes were black, and the sky was spinning for a while.

The sixth senior brother had already changed his face, and said viciously behind her: "Zhang Jinwen, fifteen years ago, I saved you here, and my life was given by me. Now, since you are unwilling to honestly give up to the daughter of the Cao Governor's Mansion, then I have no choice but to take back your life here. ”

Zhang Jinwen turned around with the last of her strength, blood flowing down her forehead, blurring her eyes.

The sixth senior brother grabbed the stone and made up for it again, grabbed Zhang Jinwen's chest, lifted it and threw it at the ambergris pool, watched Zhang Jin's daughter sink to the bottom of the water without much struggle, looked around, checked his hands and clothes again, threw the blood-stained pebbles into the ambergris pool, soaked the blood stains on his hands in the pool water, turned around and hurried out of the woods, got into the carriage, and soon disappeared on the mountain road.

………………

Zhang Jinwen was cold and painful, her limbs were weak, and she was lying there shivering.

Someone was slapping her face: "Little brother, little brother, wake up." ”

Seeing that she didn't react, he leaned down on her heart and listened, and pressed her chest with both hands, quickly and urgently.

"Uh~, cough cough cough," Zhang Jinwen spat out a mouthful of water, coughed a few times, and then spit out a large puddle of water. She felt her head hurt, and coughing up was like a big rock hitting her head.

Big rocks? Wait, just now it was the sixth senior brother who attacked her head from behind with a stone, and her forehead seemed to hit the mountain rock.

When she finished spitting up, the hands began to press on her chest again.

Zhang Jinwen was shocked and angry, is the sixth senior brother going to kill them all? Okay, if you want me to die, then I'll also drag you to die too.

Thinking of this, Zhang Jinwen hugged the hands on her body and sat up hard.

She struggled to open her eyes, and what appeared in front of her was a thin young face, wet all over, and the tips of her hair and eyebrows were dripping.

"Whew, you're awake." The young man exhaled, trying to break free of her hand: "You lie here for a while, and I'll go find some herbs." ”

Seeing that it was not the sixth senior brother, Zhang Jinwen regarded this young man as a lifesaver, and clung to it: "Don't go, you take me out of here." ”

The young man smiled and comforted her: "Little brother, your head is injured and still bleeding, if you don't quickly apply herbs to stop the bleeding, I'm afraid you will faint again." ”

Brother? Zhang Jinwen was stunned, she let go of the young man and raised her hand in front of her eyes. It was a pair of half-grown children's hands, slender wrists, and a clenched fist the size of a green peach. Looking up from her hand, the blue-gray cloth clothes and pants clinging to her arm were her daily configuration when she was studying medicine with her master.

She touched her face, hair, and clothes in disbelief.

"Little brother, you just fell into the water, your body is covered with water, the wind is strong here, you either faint with excessive bleeding, or you are infected with typhoid fever by the mountain wind." The young man pointed behind Zhang Jinwen and explained to her: "Come, I'll help you to take shelter from the wind, you wait for me here, I'll go collect medicine." ”

The boy was referring to the mountain stone with the bright red words "Ambergris Pond" written on it.

Zhang Jinwen's mind went blank, she couldn't believe that the scene when she was eleven years old reappeared so clearly in front of her.

Fifteen years ago, she went out to collect medicine alone, passed by the "ambergris pool", and when she ran to drink water and rest, she saw that the water in the pool was crystal clear, and she thought that she would wash the herbs she had picked and bring them back, so she squatted on the big stone by the pool, and washed away the sediment one by one.

After washing the herbs in the basket, she stood up, but because she had been squatting for a long time, she did not stand firmly, fell to the side, hit her head on the rock, slipped under her feet, and threw herself into the pool.

When she woke up, she saw the sixth senior brother, who was not her sixth senior brother at that time, but Liu Qing, who came to Zhongnan Mountain to seek her master, squatted in front of her, gently wiped the blood on her head with a handkerchief, helped her with medicine, fed her some dry food, and learned that her master was Sun Shengshou, so he carried her back to the master. Since then, the two have formed a relationship between brothers and husbands and wives.

The young man in front of him is not Liu Qing, so who is he?