Chapter 37: The Slums
It was raining heavily outside, and the rain went down the crooked ravine into the cave, and there was a small crack in the top of the head, and the water was dripping from the top of the head, but the small cave was too small to move its position. There was a large wound on www.biquge.info chest, caused by the desolate beast he encountered after falling into this jungle, and the raindrops fell on the wound that was still slowly healing, and the blood flowed as if his own life was passing.
The wound was white, and there was gradually no extra blood to flow out of the wound, Wu Potian's vision became blurred, probably he was hopeless......
Faintly, a black shadow covered the light in front of him, and gradually the black shadow grew larger.
"What a poor lad, alas......"
"Dada! Dada!! He's still breathing! ”
"Huh? Let me see...... Oh! It's true! And the heartbeat, let's carry him down, but he can be saved from too much blood loss! ”
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"Where is this?" Wu Potian slowly opened his eyes, and in front of him was a shed made of grass and wood, and the air around him was filled with the smell of Chinese medicine and some musty smell.
"Dada! He's awake!! "Listening to the voice should be a rather young teenager.
Wu Potian wanted to sit up, his elbow propped up his body, and there was a tearing pain in his abdomen, and Wu Potian saw that his abdomen was covered by a large black wet thing.
"Your wound hasn't healed yet, lie down!!" A skinny, skinny man anxiously helped Wu Potian to let him slowly sleep under the bed.
The man looked terrible, his face was basically a skeleton covered with a layer of black skin, but his eyes were greatly bulging, like a monster at all. The hand holding Wu Potian was so thin that it made people feel that they would be vulnerable to be broken in the next moment.
"Come, I've boiled some Chinese medicine, and I'll make you better faster."
The man was carrying a mud bowl with a puddle of liquid that smelled of Chinese medicine, and it looked sticky on the outside. After the man fed him, it tasted like moldy dirt with a fishy smell.
Wu Potian spit out, and reluctantly raised his hand to push the man away, "Are you feeding me!?" ”
The man smiled bitterly and picked up the bowl that fell to the ground, stirred it a few times, and said: "I'm really sorry, our family is poor and can't afford to buy the traditional Chinese medicine in the town, so we all make it ourselves, the taste is a little worse, but it can indeed drain blood and stasis." ”
Next to the man, a young man who was also skinny walked out, the boy was about twelve or thirteen years old, although he was also thin, but not as scarily thin as the man, he said: "There is a small yellow ginseng in it, and I Dada spent the last two copper coins of our family for this medicine......"
The man patted the boy on the shoulder and said, "Okay, Niu'er, how many times has Dada taught you." Being a man can't be careful, it's just a small amount of money, and if you can save a life, what are two copper coins? Know that life is the most precious. ”
The young man said aggrievedly: "Dada, you spent fifteen copper coins to save him, and you worked hard to move stones to earn one copper coin a day, and we have no money for food." ”
"If you don't have money for food, eat less, we still have steamed buns, which can last for a few days."
"Dada, you can't eat enough and don't have the strength, you can't move many stones, and the foreman won't pay the wages."
"Then borrow money from someone else, as long as you get through this period of time......"
"Dada, our family already owes two copper coins to the Xiaohua family, one copper coin to Aunt Pan's family, and three copper coins to the Dahai family, we can't afford it, no one is willing to lend it to us anymore."
The man froze in place, didn't speak again, walked to Wu Potian's side, and showed a completely unsightly smile, his teeth were black and stinky, and they were arranged unevenly, like weeds growing disorderly, "You bear with it, eat this and your injuries can heal quickly." ”
Wu Potian endured the stench and ate a few more bites, but there was no way, now that his injuries were not healed, he could only endure and eat them.
The place really made him feel sick, the bed he slept on was simply piled up by a pile of garbage, and a few pieces of blackened fluffy cloth were covered with a few pieces of fluffy blackened cloth, probably from which garbage heap was picked up. But this bed was the only one in their house.
The room was not big, water was still dripping in many places, and the table was a broken table with a broken foot, but that foot was supported by bamboo, and there was no chair, so they should not be able to pick up the chair, so they used stones as stools.
It was a slum, and all their furniture had been picked up from the town's garbage heap, with a broken bowl, clothes with holes, and shoes that didn't fit at all.
After enduring the disgusting Chinese medicine for several days, he was gradually able to get out of bed and move around, and his body also gained strength, but his cultivation was gone, and he became a mortal without mystical power again, an ordinary person.
"Here, eat more."
Wu Potian sat on a stone bench, looking at the plate of black dried fish on the table, and the bowl of moldy black rice on his bowl. He had endured this food for several days, eating it every day, and only two meals a day, moldy rice porridge in the morning and dried fish and black rice in the evening.
This place is five or six kilometers from the sea, and if the thin man wants to go back and forth to fish, plus the fishing time takes five or six hours, he has to carry stones in the stone yard every day, work ten hours, and when he comes home, he is half tired to death, most of the time he goes to the beach once a week, for him, every time is a life-and-death confrontation. Because he didn't know if he would die of exhaustion on the road, he didn't know if he would be discovered by wild beasts, and survival was difficult for him.
The skinny man's name was unknown, and the neighbors would call him Black Basket and his son Maverick.
His son was still young, and the black basket didn't dare to let him go to the beach, but the calf was sensible, and he knew how to dig up wild vegetables and wild fruits in the surrounding jungle, because their small village was too poor, and they all needed to dig and eat, and the short and thin calf couldn't compete with others, so he was often beaten to the point that his nose and eyes were swollen and he didn't get a piece of food that could replenish energy.
Wu Potian couldn't bear this kind of life, and he wanted to change. He tried to run the Yi Jin Sutra, but the Yi Jin Sutra needed the operation of blood qi, his blood qi was too weak now, and he couldn't eat enough for a long time, and he was maintained at the level of barely being able to survive, his body couldn't recover, the Yi Jin Jing couldn't function, and his cultivation couldn't recover.
The people here are like that, they are the poorest of the poor, and they have to work hard every day to survive. Every day is a war, and the calf should figure out the number of people in the jungle, if there are many people, he will not go to the jungle, but stay at home and do not move, not thinking, not moving, so that the body's energy consumption can be reduced.