The cold comes and the summer goes by, the four seasons change, and in the blink of an eye, another year passes.

Liu Ruxu still lives in the cottage on the top of the mountain, and hardly goes down the mountain except to visit her brother every month. Ten years, although it is dull and boring, but it is also enjoyable, and at the same time, no outsiders have found here.

Practicing with a deer's heart on weekdays, although the progress is slow, but the appearance is no longer as dark and chapped as when he was a child, and his skin has become white and moisturized, and his appearance has become soft and charming.

It's just that every year that this work passes, you need to use one more heart, and at the age of twenty-two this year, you should take twenty-two pills.

Liu Ruxu has no murderous thoughts, just wants to be able to silently guard her younger brother. As I grew up, my mind gradually matured, and I realized that ten years ago, my mother-in-law's family deliberately sent me to the mountain as a sacrifice to the mountain god.

Because the villagers still retain this custom, every few years a couple of virgins and a boy are placed in the mountain temple. And Liu Ruxu only took the tribute in the temple and did not hurt the lives of children.

Although she has resentment in her heart from time to time, those resentments have also disappeared with Qin'er marrying her younger brother.

On this day, Liu Ruxu sat cross-legged on the bed and exercised, the internal force began again and again in Xiao Zhoutian, the whirlpool in the dantian turned faster and faster, and the white and greasy skin was dripping with fine sweat, two hours later, the true qi in the body was divided into five strands and dissolved, and then a sour numbness defeted the whole body.

Liu Rufu's sideburns are windless and automatic, and he exhales a breath of turbidity gently, and when he opens his eyes, the black beads are bright, adding a layer of crystalline, knowing that the internal strength has entered another layer, and the "reincarnation mantra" will soon be able to break through the fourth layer.

Remembering that it was time to go down the mountain to visit his brother again, he got up and changed his clothes with joy and prepared to go down the mountain.

For ten years, she never told her brother that she was still alive, because the world was already difficult, and she didn't want to be a burden to her brother.

His mother-in-law died six years ago, and his son, a middle-aged man, also passed away last year due to illness.

Liu Ruxu thought of the past over the years, as if it happened yesterday as clearly, there was a trace of inexplicable gloom in her heart about people's life, old age, sickness and death, and at the same time, her eyes lit up, and she also made up her mind.

Liu Ruxu walked alone in the wilderness, seeing that the sky was getting late, and missed the hour, she immediately set off to walk quickly, walking on the hillside as if walking on the ground. I could only hear the wind whistling, and the trees beside the road retreated past me, and I was used to it.

After about a meal, you can see a hillside in the distance, and the village is at the bottom of the hillside. Liu Ruxu's body jumped up flatly, with the wind in her clothes, like a fallen leaf, quietly passing through more than ten houses, and gently standing behind her brother's new house.

didn't take two steps, but heard two violent coughs in the house, and Liu Ruxu felt a pang in her heart: "Someone is sick?"

Looking through the crack in the window, I saw an old man and a young man standing next to the bed, and an old man in blue in his sixties was checking the pulse of a man on the bed, and the person lying on the bed was his younger brother Liu Rufeng!

Liu Ruxu saw that the young woman standing was Qin'er, and the older one next to her was her mother. Qin'er asked the old man nervously, "Mr. Qin, how is it?"

Lang Zhong, surnamed Qin, didn't say a word, his hand on Liu Rufeng's pulse couldn't help frowning, thinking hard, and after a long time, he said slowly: "This child has a turbid breath in his body, and the surface is cold and damp and hot, but it doesn't look like it, it looks like poisoning." ”

Qin'er was obviously taken aback, and hurriedly asked, "Then you...... Do you know what poison is?"

Qin Langzhong shook his head and said: "The little old man's medical skills are shallow, and I don't know if it's right or not, I have the right to prescribe a prescription to invigorate blood and regulate qi, let him take it, and watch the after-effects." The mother and daughter hurriedly thanked Qin Langzhong one after another.

Liu Ruxu remembered that when he came last month, his younger brother was still talking and laughing with Qin'er, why did he suddenly fall ill, Qin Langzhong said that he was poisoned, could it be that his younger brother was bitten by poisoning insects in the mountains? Or was he invaded by miasma in the morning and evening?

Liu Rufeng was still coughing on the bed, Qin Langzhong frowned, wrote a prescription with a pen and paper on the table, and after handing it to Qin'er, he took out a pile of yellow paper packets from the medicine box, got up and said: "According to the medicinal materials on this, fry it into a bowl of water, three times a day." ”

Qin'er's mother agreed, took out the money from her arms and handed it to Qin Langzhong. Qin Langzhong sighed after taking the money, picked up the medicine box and walked to the door, and suddenly turned around and said, "Unless you ......"

Qin'er asked, "Unless what?"

Qin Langzhong said: "Unless you can get the blood of the silver fox, the silver fox belongs to yin, and its raw blood can detoxify all kinds of poisons." ”

Qin'er's mother and daughter were silent, everyone knew that the silver fox was scarce, and it was cunning by nature, and its actions were like electricity, how could it be so easy to catch? And now that there are only two girls left in the family, it is even more difficult to catch the fox.

Not long after Qin'er's mother sent Qin Langzhong out, Liu Rufeng coughed again, coughed for a while, suddenly raised the upper half of his body, shook it a few times, and with a "cough" sound, he vomited a mouthful of red blood on the ground.

Qin'er was suddenly at a loss, and hurriedly poured a bowl of water, patted Liu Rufeng on the back, and asked him to reluctantly accept it, and Liu Rufeng fell down again.

If it weren't for the fear of scaring others, Liu Ruxu really wanted to rush into the house. At this time, he was staring at the door, only in a hurry.

But seeing that his younger brother's face was gloomy, his chest was rising and falling, and his breathing was heavy, it was obvious that his condition was very serious, so he couldn't help biting his lower lip: "Silver fox blood?"

It was night, there were few stars, all the households in the village had already slept peacefully, and a figure flew by, it was a woman with a slender back and long hair fluttering, carrying a living thing in her hand, if Qin Langzhong was there, she would definitely recognize that the woman was carrying the cunning silver fox in her hand.

The woman's face was full of exhaustion, and when she saw that there was no one in the house, she opened the window, jumped into the room gently, and came to the bed of the willow like a wind in the inner room.

The woman tried to call twice, but when she saw that he was so confused that he couldn't even open his eyes, his heart was desolate, and he stood quietly for a long time, and couldn't help but shed tears.

He took a tea bowl from the table, and when he scratched his nails on the neck of the silver fox, blood dripped into the bowl, and the silver fox's whole body trembled and whined. This woman was her sister Liu Ruxu, and when she saw that the blood was no longer dripping, she fed the bowl of blood to her younger brother to drink......

In the next few days, Liu Rufeng would come every night, and he would also carry a large or small silver fox in his hand, so for three consecutive days, Liu Rufeng, who drank the blood of the silver fox, really stopped coughing, and his face returned to his previous ruddy color, but he failed to regain consciousness.

This night, Liu Ruxu still came to Qin'er's house with a silver fox in her hand, and was about to go straight to the back room, but saw footsteps in the house.

Liu Ruxu thought it was Qin'er, so she had to wait for her to go out before entering the house. I heard her footsteps hurrying, and it was Qin'er who sorted out her clothes and walked out of the house.

Liu Ruxu was in a hurry to feed her brother to drink silver fox blood, and she didn't care about her going out late at night, and after she left, she turned into the house and fed her brother silver fox blood to drink as usual. Liu Ruxu sat on the edge of the bed, looking at her younger brother's slightly childish face, with a happy smile on her tired face.

Another night later, still at this hour, Liu Ruxu, who came to send the blood of the silver fox, bumped into Qin'er and went out again.

Qin'er wore an embroidered red dress tonight, with a jewelry hairpin ring obliquely inserted at the end of her hair, walking in style, smiling phoenix eyes, and the breeze blowing, sending a rouge fragrance.

Liu Ruxu couldn't help but wonder in her heart: "It's so late, where is she going?" So she decided to go over and have a look.