The night was already deep, and the dark clouds in the sky had dispersed, leaving only a few bright stars.

When the sharp pain hit, Shi An woke up with a cold snort. He opened his eyes, but he couldn't move at all. Holding back the pain, he turned his head to look around, only to see that there were scattered pine branches under and around his body, and when he looked up, the crowns of several vigorous pine trees directly above his head had been broken, and a clear night sky came into view. Presumably, he fell from a cliff and fell into a pine forest, and the pine branches blocked his falling body. The sky has eyes, and it seems that his life has been saved. Because he couldn't get up and sit upright, let alone move his body, Shi An had to lie quietly.

It was getting late, and the chill was heavier, and the biting cold was like a knife that stripped away his consciousness little by little.

"I didn't expect that I didn't fall to my death, but I was going to freeze to death here. This was Shi An's last thought before losing consciousness.

I don't know how long it took, a burst of warmth came from his chest, slowly spread throughout his body, and gradually Shi An regained consciousness. What is it that gives you heat, the burden or the jade pendant? There are only two things on the chest, the burden should not be hot, is it not that the jade pendant is emitting heat? It is impossible to think about it. Shi An, whose mind gradually became clearer, pondered and meditated for a long time but didn't figure it out.

After a while, with a sensation in his hand, Shi An tried to move his hands and feet. The hands can move, but the feet still do not obey. He endured the severe pain, and his arms were supported to stand up and watch, there was no blood on his body, and it seemed that there were no external injuries. Looking at the legs again, they are crooked from below the knees to the sides, showing a shocking "eight", which is an obvious fracture. Touching the chest and abdomen, there is only tenderness, no stinging sensation, fortunately it did not hurt the ribs, and there are no internal injuries.

It was never wise to stay here, and one should leave this place where Sun Lang or the beast would come at any time as soon as possible, and the top priority was to deal with the leg injury as soon as possible.

According to the medical skills taught by the master, Shi An knew that the treatment of fractures was divided into three stages, and in the early stage, herbs such as rhubarb, papaya, dandelion, blood exhaustion, turtle worm, and strychnine should be used to stop bleeding and remove stasis, reduce swelling and relieve pain. In the middle stage, the original prescription is still used, but drugs such as strychnine and turtle insects should be reduced. In the later stage, the bones have been continued, mainly to relax the muscles and invigorate the blood, smooth joints, eliminate stasis and eliminate knots, strengthen the muscles and bones, and use Liu Jinu, large and small thistles, Duhuo, Chuanxiong and safflower. What needs to be done now is to put the broken bone back in place and relieve the pain and stasis.

Rhubarb, dandelion, blood exhaustion, and strychnine are all common medicines, and Shi An has them in his baggage, and these medicinal materials were bought from several nearby pharmacies when he bought Wulingsan, in order to reduce the possibility of being discovered, and he was secretly glad that he threw them into the baggage when he left the master's house.

Opening the baggage, Shi An laboriously took out these herbs. Ignoring the bitterness, he put the rhubarb in his mouth several times and chewed it carefully, then spit out the dregs and put them on the side of the spread baggage, and then processed the other herbs in the same way, and then mixed them together. Then he gritted his teeth, endured the severe pain and moved his left leg, and restored the broken calf to its normal position. He tore his trouser legs, revealing black-purple and frighteningly swollen calves, and took half of the mixed medicine and applied it to the broken area.

He groped in the dark, picked up the pine branches scattered around him, picked a few straight and thick ones, peeled off the side branches with his hands, rubbed them against each other, and removed the protruding parts, making the sticks relatively smooth. Then he used all his strength to tear off a few pieces of filial piety clothes that had become tattered on his body, put them in his mouth, gasped and rested for a while, took three wooden sticks that had been processed and put them directly above, lower left and lower right at the broken bones, and then divided the strips of cloth that had been wet with saliva into one upper, middle and lower, and tightly wound the wooden sticks with the leg bones, and the fractured left leg was considered to be treated. Next, the right leg was processed in the same way.

"It's a pity that there are two kinds of medicinal herbs, and the turtle insect is easy to find, but now after all, it is in the woods, and there will be it in the humus under the roots, but the papaya is difficult to find. Why didn't you put a few more flavors in it at the beginning?" Thinking of this, Shi An smiled dumbly, "It's that these flavors of medicine are all made by yourself, which can be regarded as God's favor, where can you expect to prepare all the medicines? Now what we have to worry about is whether there will be sequelae if the medicine is not complete." ”

The broken leg was preliminarily dealt with, and Shi An's tight strings suddenly loosened, and he fainted again.

When I woke up again, it was already dawn, and my clothes and pants wet with cold sweat were frozen hard, but my body didn't feel too cold. Shi An slowly raised his hand and took out the jade pendant from the placket of his chest to look at it carefully. The jade pendant is still so ordinary, inky jade-like, not so shiny, not so warm, and it is still the temperature of the body in the hand, not like the heat source that warms the whole body.

"Whether or not this jade pendant saved me, I'm still alive anyway, and if I don't die, there will be a blessing in the future. Shi An comforted himself like this, "What should I do next?" It's okay to eat and drink, there are still unused tributes in the baggage, if you are thirsty, you can eat snow, and there is no problem to make ends meet for the time being, the problem is that you have to have a place to live, and you have to guard against the attack of fierce beasts, otherwise you still can't live." A series of questions gave Shi An a headache. "Leave him alone, get out of this valley first. ”

Hastily ate some of the tributes that were broken in the baggage, grabbed a handful of snow and stuffed it into his mouth, and slowly melted into water with his body temperature and swallowed it slowly.

After eating and drinking, and having some strength in his body, he reached out and tied the burden to his chest, and then tried to turn his body over, dragging his two waste legs, discerning the direction, and crawling along the valley to the north with difficulty.

Along the way, there will be unknown beast cries from time to time, Shi An'an was shocked to hear it, but the beast that could come out at any time did not appear from beginning to end, even if a wolf had quietly slipped in front of him, but for some reason glanced at him and trotted away, and then followed not far away for a while. Shi An couldn't help but think of the situation that the master had when he picked him up, and he was relieved that "the beasts around him didn't dare to approach". Maybe it's because my constitution is peculiar, he thought crankily.

Another day and night, Shi An barely crawled out of the road for six or seven miles. In the meantime, the corpses of many turtle insects were found under the pine trees. Papaya is not a product of this place, it must be impossible to find, but he even found a bitter vine blue. Although the effect of the medicine is not as good as that of papaya, it has a similar effect, and Shi An immediately added the two to the medicine on his legs.

The more he climbed, the more hungry he became, looking at the hares and pheasants that jumped out of the bushes on the edge of the valley from time to time, Shi An could only swallow his saliva, and there was no way to take them when he was healthy, let alone now. The tribute that was crushed into slag had already been eaten, so when he was hungry, he could only pick up the pine cones on the ground, peel off the shell and knock out the pine nuts with his teeth, chew and swallow them with the skin.

In the early morning of the third day, there was a sudden violent tremor in the valley, and the large and small rocks rolled down one after another, followed by a huge cracking sound, Shi An saw this and hurriedly climbed under a big tree nearby, although his body was hidden behind the trunk, there were still a few stones on his body.

"Earthquake?" Shi An shook off the snow that fell from the tree on his head, touched his body that was hurt by the stone, and secretly complained in his heart, there is nowhere to hide in this mountain, and there are mountains and rocks on both sides, if there is a real earthquake, I am afraid it will be difficult to have a chance to live.

Just as he was thinking, the valley shook a few more times, and there were several loud noises, but the movement was not as loud as just now. After another moment, there was a crackling sound like a firecracker, and then everything was calm. After waiting for a while, there was no more movement in the valley, and Shi An was secretly glad that the destructive power of the earthquake this time was not so great, and he was basically not injured again, so he could continue to move forward.

After climbing for another half a day, around noon, the valley came to an end, and a Taoist temple had jumped into view. Shi An's spirit suddenly came, and he crawled forward with all his strength, and in just one meal, he had already climbed to the Taoist temple.