Chapter 7: The Iron Ring and the Chalcedony Stone
People roar and horses neigh, and wind and rain howl.
Chu He stood in the middle of the street, his mind racing, thinking about countermeasures.
At this time, there was a tooth-sore sound of opening the door behind Chu He.
An old woman opened the door of her courtyard, poked her head out to look at Chu He, and before he could say anything, she quickly opened the door and stretched out her hand to greet her.
"Come in, quick!"
The sound of horses' hooves on both sides was getting closer and closer, and Chu He didn't have time to ask why the old woman was so kind, so he quickly led the horse into the yard.
After Chu He came in, the old woman hurriedly closed the door and plugged in two deadbolts.
After a while, I heard the sound of horses' hooves roaring outside, and then drifted away.
Fortunately, it is now dark, and it is raining heavily, and the visibility on the road is too low, so the Chu River has not been discovered by the two groups of Shengguo cavalry in front and behind.
"Auntie, you ......"
Before Chu He's words of thanks could be spoken, he was interrupted by the old woman.
"Quick, carry him into the house, and let him rain for a while, and this life will be taken."
Chu He nodded, he also knew that now was not the time to be polite, and it was important to save people's lives.
He carefully carried Yan Chen off the horse, followed the eldest lady step by step into the side room, and put him on the bed.
The Shengguo cavalry almost shot his head through the sugar gourd before, but it was Yan Chen who killed him and saved his life.
If Yan Chen was not there at that time, Chu He believed that he would never be able to escape.
Kindness must be avenged, revenge must be snowed, is the consistent purpose of the two generations of Chu He.
He didn't know if Yan Chen could be saved, but Chu He knew that only by doing his best could he be worthy of his heart.
Then the old woman came in with a basin of hot water and placed it beside the bed.
Chu He looked down and took a closer look, and saw that there were still a lot of medicinal herbs soaked in the basin of hot water.
"Help me take off his armor and lining, and the wounds on his body must be wiped with medicinal soup first, otherwise they will suppurate, but they will really not be saved."
The old woman looked very anxious, and beads of sweat the size of beans fell down her forehead.
After helping Yan Chen take off his clothes, Chu He began to run back and forth, helping the old lady to do it, going to the stove room to boil water for a while, and helping to cut out strips of cotton cloth for a while.
After working for about an hour, the first aid work finally came to an end, and looking at Yan Chen, who was wrapped in layers of cotton cloth and seemed to be a mummy, Chu He finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Dude, whether you can survive or not depends on you."
Yan Chen's forehead was so hot that the old woman wet a linen square towel with cold well water and placed it on his head.
Chu He leaned against the door frame and asked in a low voice, "Auntie, are you from Qianguo?" ”
The old lady turned around and wiped her sweat with her elbow, "No, I am from Shengguo, and I was born in this Qushui County." ”
"What about you...... Why did you help us two Qianguo soldiers? ”
At this time, the old lady was also a little puzzled, and asked rhetorically: "Don't you know that we people from Qushui County want to go to the east to be the children of Qianguo?" ”
Chu He scratched his head, "I also just joined the army, and I don't know much about some things. ”
The old woman nodded clearly, and then reached out to change a cold towel on Yan Chen's head, and explained: "The people of this prosperous country really can't be a person." Where are our people here being the common people, they are clearly the meat shields pushed out by the Shengguo, blocking the front of the Qianguo army. ”
"Those Shengguo soldiers are all livestock, dealing with the people of their own country, burning, killing and looting, doing all kinds of evil, and they will be shrunken turtles to the people of Shangqianguo."
"Then you can't move somewhere else?"
"The laws of Shengguo are strict, and if people want to leave their hometowns, they must hold the street signs issued by the government, otherwise they will move to other places rashly, and the light ones will go to prison, and the heavy ones will be beheaded."
The old woman's words were full of hatred for those in power in Shengguo.
Chu He suddenly thought that there seemed to be no trace of a man's life in this house, so he carefully worded and asked, "Auntie, do you live alone here?" ”
The hatred in the old woman's eyes was even stronger, "Because of what kind of palace our Dasheng Emperor wants to build, my husband and son have been requisitioned, and I don't know whether they are alive or dead now." Some people who sneaked back said that many people over there were exhausted to death, so they were buried directly under the palace. ”
Speaking of this, the old woman did not wipe her tears twice as Chu He imagined, but her face was full of anger.
I guess the tears have already dried up.
"Oh, look at it, just talking about this thing in my family, hungry kid, my aunt will give you a strip, he also has to drink some noodle soup, otherwise he won't be able to get through."
Chu He was indeed a little hungry, and said thank you repeatedly.
The old woman went to the stove room to work, Chu He helped Yan Chen change a cold towel, and then sat down at the table, leaning on the light of the two candles on the table, and began to carefully observe the ring on his left hand.
There are seven patterns on the ring, and Chu He speculates that it should be sealed with the souls of seven people.
The wand represents Dumbledore, and that vortex should be Ding Chunqiu, after all, he is one of the representatives of absorbing other people's internal forces.
"Then who do the remaining five patterns represent, and why are only Dumbledore and Ding Chunqiu awakened?" The ring couldn't be taken off, so Chu He could only turn his left hand and observe and study it over and over again.
After studying for a long time, Chu He finally found something wrong.
If you look close to the ring, you can see that the seven patterns engraved on it are faintly shining, some light and some dark, some deep and some shallow, among which the wand and the whirlpool are the most dim.
"Wand, Dumbledore...... Whirlpool, Ding Chunqiu ......"
"Sleeping, bleak ......"
"Awake, sleeping...... Energy storage, energy consumption ......"
The thoughts in Chu He's mind became clearer.
"In other words, there are seven souls sealed in this ring, and when one of them has enough energy storage, they will wake up, and when they wake up, they will consume energy until they run out of energy and fall asleep again?"
This best explains why those two patterns are the most bleak.
Of the remaining five patterns, the axe shines the brightest.
"If that's what I guessed, then how do I recharge them? Can we just wait? ”
Chu He scratched his head and studied for a long time, but he didn't understand, but he firmly believed that what he thought just now was absolutely correct.
The next one to wake up must be the figure corresponding to the axe pattern.
"Axe...... Who could it be? Cheng bites gold? Giant Axe Monka? Thor Thor? It can't be Xing Daorong, right? ”
Don't look at Chu He's last life as a playboy, he didn't learn anything, but he definitely didn't read less romance novels, and he was an out-and-out military enthusiast, and the classic battles of ancient and modern China and foreign countries can be treasured.
Chu He, who had studied for a long time and couldn't figure out the ring, suddenly remembered the small cloth bag that he had found on the body of the man in black, and quickly took it out of his arms.
With a thud, he collapsed on the table.
Inside was a small pile of broken silver, and two large silver ingots, and then two small squares of gold, with "one tael" engraved on them.
But what really attracted Chu He's attention was not these gold and silver, but five round small stones, the size of chestnuts, which seemed to contain chalcedony, and on the milky white stone, there were green threads, thick and thin.
And what attracted this stone was not only Chu He, but also the iron ring on his finger.
It seemed to be silently rejoicing.