"Brother Shi, I'm coming to see you again. Da Zhuang lowered his head and sat on the edge of the bed and said to Shi Keqi.

Because of his injury in the ancient temple, Shi Keqi was beaten by Shi Tian, and Da Zhuang was scolded by his mother.

The two of them drooped their heads and were speechless for a long time, seeing that Da Zhuang was depressed, Shi Keqi took out the red beads to show him like a treasure.

"Wow, Ruby, it's hairy. Da Zhuang was really interested, and he smirked like a wealth fan, although he had never seen rubies, but it did not prevent him from treating red beads as gems.

"No, grandpa confirmed. ”

"It's a pity. Da Zhuang drooped his head again and threw the gem back to Scoke.

Shi Keqi caught it and breathed at the red beads, the mist was very good.

"Little fat man, where are you, come back, have you gone to water the vegetable patch today?" shouted from the houses not far outside.

"I'm here. Da Zhuang heard his mother call out to himself, said yes, jumped up from the edge of the bed, and ran home with a puff of smoke, completely unaware that his left hand was thrown at Shi Keqi.

Shi Keqi's arm holding the red bead was slammed into Da Zhuang, and the red bead was stuffed straight into the open mouth, grunt, and stuck in the throat. He hurriedly put his fingers into his throat, trying to pull out the beads, but he could only touch the edge of the beads, and he couldn't take them out without force, and the person was about to suffocate.

He was ruthless, his fingertips were fierce, and with another "goo", the red beads slid down his throat and into his stomach.

Gastric juice corrodes the red beads.

Scoch grabbed the edge of the bed and half-leaned over retching, trying to vomit the beads. After dozens of times, he gave up, and after a while, it seemed that he was fine, so be it. Before the injury was healed, he fell into a groggy sleep.

Shi Tian came back from work and found that something was wrong with Shi Keqi, first saw that his whole face was red, and when he lifted the quilt, he saw that his hands, legs and body were all red, like cooked dried shrimp, so he didn't react, and touched his forehead with his hand, which was very hot.

Shi Tian panicked, and after calling the village doctor to come and see him, he diagnosed that Shi Keqi was suffering from a high fever, and if a person burns like this, he will become an idiot if he does not die, and the village doctor sentenced him to death in his heart, and left some herbs as much as possible, and then instructed Shi Tian to cool him down with a wet towel from time to time before leaving.

After a bit of tossing, it doesn't work. Shi Keqi burned even more, like a fire burning in his body, Shi Tian tried to find a wooden basin filled with water, put him in the basin, find a big bluestone to cushion his head, and expose his mouth and nose, no way, his head was too hot, and he couldn't hold it for too long.

After a while, the water began to bubble.

Put your hand in the water and try it, it's hot.

Shi Tian hurriedly scooped out the hot water and added cold water. After tossing like this for two hours, Shi Keqi's body temperature dropped to normal temperature, but he was still unconscious. Shi Tian wiped his body dry and put him back on the bed, and at night, he was still the same, Shi Tian kept watch, and the rice was not touched.

The night passed quickly. Early in the morning, Shi Keqi opened his eyes and found Shi Tian lying on the side of his bed asleep.

He didn't know anything about what happened yesterday, only remembered what happened before he swallowed the red bead. He lifted the quilt and planned to put Shi Tian to bed to sleep. As soon as he moved, Shi Tian woke up.

Shi Tian rubbed his eyes, as if he couldn't believe it, and looked at Shi Keqi carefully, but he didn't find any red marks on his face and hands. finally put his mind at ease and inquired, Shi Keqi learned that he had a high fever for a long time.

Shi Tian asked him why he had a fever, and he said he didn't know, but he knew that Hongzhu was the culprit, and he didn't dare to say it, for fear that Shi Tian would be worried, and second, he was afraid that Da Zhuang would be punished.

Looking at Shi Tian's haggard old face, the wrinkles deepened a lot after only one night's work. The corners of Shi Keqi's eyes were red, he hugged Shi Tian with both hands, and a thousand words were blocked in his throat, and he didn't know where to start for a while.

Shi Tian patted Shi Keqi's back, gently broke away from his hand, and his emotional face returned to its usual serious appearance, ready to go to get food.

Shi Keqi got up and grabbed Shi Tian's hand and said, "I'll cook, grandpa, you can take a rest." ”

Shi Tian took his hand away and walked strongly, the sky was spinning for a while, and Shi Tian stood firm with his chair. Only then did he stand firm, and then he walked again.

There was a sound of pots and pans clinking in the kitchen, and Shi Keqi shouted in the kitchen: "Grandpa, I've already started cooking, I'll call you later." The old man shook his head, and finally didn't go to the kitchen, but went back to his room to sleep, so sleepy.

Ten days later, Shi Keqi didn't find anything abnormal in his body, and it was estimated that the red beads had been digested, and the little worry in his heart was temporarily thrown out of the clouds.

That night, not long after Shi Keqi fell asleep, the entrance of the village suddenly became noisy, some people shouted and some shouted, and more people talked and buzzed...... The sound came far away in the night. He was woken up, whispered a few words of protest in dissatisfaction, pulled the quilt up, and tried to cover his head and continue to sleep.

Suddenly hearing the word mandrill, he paused, and then the drowsiness receded like a tide, and he walked out in the dark, putting on his shoes.

At the entrance of the village, a group of people held torches and surrounded a man who was paralyzed on the ground, talking nonsense. Shi Keqi recognized the man on the ground as a thin middle-aged man who was usually called Third Uncle, his face was pale at the moment, his swollen and blue wrist was held high, his purple lips trembled and he repeated "Mandrill".

The mandrill is a monster in the village and the entire empire, and is one of the most effective monsters for adults to scare children.

When the child in the family is disobedient, the adults will say that the mandrill is coming, come quickly, and there is a child here, and grab him with both hands and eat it.

Sometimes it is described as having a mouth bigger than a basin, big enough to swallow a child, a child, who laughs a few times before eating a mandrill, shouting that the meat is so fresh.

The mandrill has red and blue marks on its face, and the more children eat it, the more the blue mark slowly fades, and the red mark becomes more blood-red. Speak a few times, even a crying earth-shattering child will immediately stop his voice, timidly hide in the arms of adults, and shout not to speak.

It's really a must-have story for children to stop crying.

Time back to half an hour ago, there was no moonlight tonight, the third uncle took an earthen spear and a windproof lantern to the field to see the watermelon, and the melon field was remote and had to walk for a while to arrive.

The third uncle wants to plant some melons this year to increase his income, but there is no vacant land near the village, and there is wasteland in uninhabited and remote places, so the third uncle has no choice but to go farther away to open up the wasteland. In the first few months, I probably made several acres, sprinkled seeds, watered and fertilized.

Recently, the melon is almost ripe, and the third uncle is worried that people or animals may spoil the melon, especially at night, so he has to go to inspect it. It was already dark, and when he was halfway there, there was a sudden flutter of branches and birds chirping on the left side of the mountain. He was a little hairy in his heart at that time, but when he thought of the melon that was about to ripen, he still endured the fear and went on, and besides, there were always all kinds of noises in the mountains at night, the neighing of night insects, the howls of coyotes, the shrill calls of birds, and the occasional roar of beasts and the strange cries of all kinds of animals.

As long as there is nothing scary in front of you, you can probably walk at night if you should walk at night, and touch a dog if you should steal chickens.

The third uncle tightened the spear in his hand for self-defense, his heart was a lot calmer, and he continued to walk forward, walking and walking as he always felt like someone was following him, and when he looked back, there was nothing at the end of his sight. The night is not really pure black, even if there is no moonlight and no fire, there is still a little glimmer, even in the narrow mountain road, as long as there is nothing to block the view, you can see the general outline of people or things several meters away.

The third uncle sang a mountain song loudly, and the people in the village walked alone at night and encountered suspicious situations, either singing or coughing loudly, hoping to drive away the things that followed in the night.