Zeng Yu walked a few steps in front of Sixi, the burden on Sixi's back when he fell forward, the tiger bone compass knocked heavily on the heel of Zeng Yu's left foot, and he couldn't help screaming, and when he turned around, he saw Sixi falling on the road, and hurriedly asked: "How is it, the fall is not heavy, right?" "Saying that, he turned around to pull Sixi up—

Sixi couldn't stand up for a while, got up and squatted there, covering his forehead with his hand: "Young master, my forehead seems to be bleeding." The tone was clearly painful.

Zeng Yu said: "Wait for me to see." "Squatting down, he took off the book on his shoulder, which had four short legs and could stand upright on the ground.

Zeng Yu put the book on the side of the road, first quickly rubbed his left ankle a few times, thinking that it must have been black, and came over and squatted in front of Sixi, seeing Sixi covering the left corner of his forehead, and there seemed to be blood spilling between his fingers, and he hurriedly said: "You hold down the wound and don't move, I'll stop the bleeding for you." ”

Zeng Yu understands medical skills, and will naturally prepare some common medicines for colds and heat strokes and bruises, these herbs are in the burden of Sixi's back, and the burden was not completely thrown off when Sixi fell, and now the burden is hanging on Sixi's chest, Zeng Yu carefully untied the burden from Sixi's shoulder, opened the burden, sniffed it, picked up a handful of crane grass, and took a section of moxa rod with leaves, stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it together, chewed it thinly, spit it out to the palm of his hand, let Sixi move his hand away, quickly applied it to the wound, took a strip of cloth and tied his forehead, and said: "Okay, It's nothing, there's a light over there, Qingtian Village has arrived, you can't patronize when you walk, you forget your feet when you talk, especially when you walk at night-", when you speak, you touch the compass around through the baggage, fortunately, it shouldn't be damaged.

Sixi barely stood up, but his right leg didn't dare to straighten, and he stood on tiptoe, but it turned out that not only did his forehead bleed, but his right leg and knee were also bruised, and his pants were worn out. "I'm limping and I'm going to carry the burden on my back, Sixi is afraid of becoming a burden to Zeng Yu, Zeng Yu didn't plan to take him to Yuanzhou, it's Zeng's mother Zhou who must follow Sixi -

Zeng Yu said: "Hey, your fall is not light, I will carry the burden, you walk slowly, do you want me to carry it?" ”

Sixi hurriedly said: "Sixi can go, Sixi can go, I will carry the burden, young master?" ”

Zeng Yu shouted: "Don't be verbose, be careful of your feet, use a big umbrella as a crutch to support it, this umbrella is very strong, and my uncle often used it as a crutch when he climbed the mountain and waded in the water." As he spoke, he walked short, picked up the book, put the burden on his arm, and told Sixi to follow.

The master and servant went into a small road on the right side of the road in the dark, and there was a light shining through the forest gap there, and Sixi said: "Young master, it doesn't look like a village——"

Zeng Yu said with a smile: "It's impossible to still be a cemetery, no matter what, as long as someone has a light at home, they will rest there for a night, my heel also hurts, this kind of weather, anywhere will be overnight, even if you knock you out, I will treat you." ”

Sixi snorted: "Young master, I'm sorry, I'm sorry." ”

Zeng Yu said: "I'm sorry for what, do you want me to carry you to Yuanzhou, your leg is not broken, right?" ”

Sixi hurriedly said: "It didn't break, it didn't break, it hurt a little at first, but now it's relieved - Sixi is saying that he is causing trouble to the young master, and he fell without paying attention, I'm really useless." ”

Zeng Yu said: "I can't blame you, this time it's an accident, I missed staying in Lufang Township, this night road is really not going to go, if there is a moon is better, we will not fight for more than these miles in the future, and find a store to rest earlier, now this is not the speed of the trip." As he spoke, he twitched his nose and said, "Gardenia is so fragrant." ”

On both sides of the path, there are four or five feet tall yellow gardenias, pink and white flowers silently reveal their fragrance in the quiet night, the master and servant walked a little half a mile to the depths of the yellow gardenia path, and saw a group of earth walls, the earth walls are not high, the walls are crawling with ancient vines and thorns, the wooden door of the courtyard wall has a large gap, leaking out of the courtyard lights, thinking that it is a household, walking to the courtyard door, but faintly hearing the sound of chanting inside, the buzzing can not be heard clearly-

Zeng Yu said: "I don't know if it's a monastery or a nunnery or a Taoist temple, go knock on the door and ask, so you can rest and heal your wounds by the light - Sixi, you go knock on the door to inquire, you are still a child." He bent his knees and took off the book, and put his burden on the book.

Sixi limped forward and was about to knock on the door, when a fierce dog barking suddenly sounded in the courtyard, Sixi was startled, took two steps back, and shouted loudly: "Master inside, open the door and borrow a lamp, Amitabha, do a good job." ”

Zeng Yu said with a smile: "How can you think it's a Buddhist temple, maybe it's a Taoist temple, then ignore you." I thought: "Do you also have a dog in the Taoist temple of the Buddhist temple, it should still be an ordinary house, because the owner believes in Buddhism, is a monk at home, and recites scriptures at night." ”

The master and servant stood outside the courtyard gate in black and waited for a while, except for the barking of the dog, no other voices were heard in the courtyard, and the dog stopped barking and barked a few times, trying to scare the master and servant away, but the two were really tired and refused to leave.

Sixi knocked on the door again and shouted: "Taishang Laojun, Amitayus Shoufu, do a good job, we are the master and servant, we are going to Yuanzhou to catch the exam, I accidentally fell and injured my head while walking at night, please do a good job, let us spend the night with the master and servant." ”

Shouting out so many words in one breath, Sixi was out of breath.

Someone in the courtyard finally spoke up, and his voice was extremely sweet: "We don't believe in Taishang Laojun-"

Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by the voice of an old woman, who said viciously: "Go quickly, go quickly, no one will stay here, go quickly, don't let the dog bite again." ”

Zeng Yu was tired and hungry, when he met such a fierce old woman, he refused to spend the night, but he threatened to let the dog go, I Zeng Jiuli is not a useless scholar who has no power to tie the chicken, you let the dog out and try it, I will eat it with a sword-

Without waiting for Zeng Yu to attack, the sweet voice in the courtyard said: "Granny Yan, don't be so fierce, people are scholars rushing to take the exam-" Then the voice raised a little, and said to Zeng Yu and the two outside the door, "The guests outside the door, more than a mile ahead along the main road is Qingtian Village, you go there to stay, sorry, we don't want people to stay here." ”

This is a girl's voice, the age should not be very old, the voice is sweet, the tone is gentle, people listen to a very good feeling, when the girl speaks, the dog does not bark, the girl stops talking, the dog barks a few times, in the master of the momentum.

Zeng Yu said: "I'm sorry, it's just that Xiao Jiefang just fell, his head and feet were bleeding, and he wanted to borrow a lamp to see the injury, and he had his own healing medicine, so please make it convenient." ”

The evil Granny Yan sneered: "The old body is right, these people don't have to pay attention to it at all, let the dogs go, and they will naturally run away." ”

Zeng Yu said: "Why does this old man want to hurt people, he is just borrowing a lamp." ”

The wooden door creaked softly, presumably someone peeked out through the crack in the door, and then heard the girl say, "Then please wait a moment, I'll bring the lantern." ”

The old woman said, "I said ignore them, why don't you listen!" ”

The old woman, whose voice was like a night owl, seemed to be very majestic, and the girl said: "Granny Yan, if you have good thoughts and good deeds, you will be blessed, but you just borrow a lamp from others and raise your hands." ”

Granny Yan said, "No, never open the door." ”

The girl was silent for a moment, and then said, "Then pass the lantern over the wall, it's all right." ”

The old woman snorted, reluctantly agreeing.

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