Chapter Forty-Seven: Fish and Dragon Village
Time flies, a month has passed in a blink of an eye, and all the people in the martial arts in Sanfu Gorge are searching for Fan Ping but still have nothing to find, and then all the people of the sect have issued a reward order, as long as they can provide information, they will be rewarded with a Xuan-level high-level exercise, and the reward for finding traces will be a local-level primary exercise and a ground-level weapon. For a while, the entire rivers and lakes were frantically searching for Fan Ping.
The Surabaya River spans three states, namely Qiongzhou, Liuzhou, and Cangzhou. It is a very important river.
At this time, by the Surabaya River in Cangzhou, a little girl of fifteen or six was fishing by the river with a little boy of eight or nine years old, both of them were wearing shabby clothes, the little girl was tied with two pigtails, two big eyes, and the delicate face was also a rare beauty, the only deficiency was that the body was a little thin. The little girl was casting a net by the river, and the little boy was playing not far away. Suddenly, the little boy said, "Sister, look, what is that?"
The little girl looked up, only to see a black thing floating in the distance, and soon this mass of things floated to the little girl's side, and landed steadily in the fishing net, the little girl approached to see, startled, and fell directly into the water without paying attention. Seeing this, the little boy was shocked and said, "Sister, sister, what's wrong with you." The little girl struggled to get up, and said in a somewhat muffled tone, "This, this, this is a person," the little boy said puzzledly, "What?," the little boy bravely stepped forward and pulled the man's clothes, and then a delicate but somewhat puffy face was revealed, and there were more than a dozen wounds of different sizes on the face, and the little boy was also startled by the unrecognizable face in front of him.
"Xiao Ming, how is he?" the little girl began. "He, he, he" The little boy had some difficulty in speaking, and finally pretended to have the courage to put his hand to his snort, and after a while, the little boy shouted happily, "Sister, he still has a little breath."
When the little girl heard this, she hurriedly ran over and said, "Quick, pull him ashore," and then the two joined forces and finally pulled him up.
The little boy looked at the scarred face and said, "Sister, what should I do now, you see that he is like this"
The little girl looked at his face, frowned slightly, and said, "Carry him back first, see if there is any rescue."
"How to lift it, he's so heavy,"
"You go find some larger branches, and some vines, and we'll make a 'raft' and pull him back," the little girl thought for a moment, "and I'll go with you," and then took the little boy and ran to the woods not far away.
Soon, the two of them came out with a simple raft and came to the river, and it took them a great deal of effort to carry him onto the raft, and then the sister and brother pulled the raft with great difficulty to their home.
This is a very small village, there are more than a dozen families in the whole village, most of them are the elderly, women and children, and the men in the village are basically absent. Walking towards a dilapidated yard. The two put the raft in the courtyard, and then sat down and gasped for air.
Not long after the two rested, an old voice came from one of the rooms in the middle, "Xiao Xi, Xiao Ming, are you back" The little girl quickly got up and said, "Grandpa, we are back" Then an old man with gray hair walked out of the house, and the old man was still holding a wooden stick in his hand.
The little girl hurriedly ran over to support the old man and said, "Grandpa, your eyes are not good, just rest in the house."
The old man smiled and said, "It's okay, it's been a long rest, come out and breathe fresh air, why, I came back so early today."
Before Xiao Xi could speak, Xiao Ming interjected, "Grandpa, we saved someone today, so we came back"
The old man said, "What kind of person?"
"A young man, but his face is scratched, so cute"
"Where are the people?"
"Lying here, still breathing"
"Then help me in,"
Xiaoxi said weakly, "Grandpa, you won't blame me, right?"
The old man stretched out his hand and touched Xiaoxi's head and said, "Silly boy, you save people, how can grandpa blame you, go quickly"
It took a lot of effort for the sister and brother to get the young man into the room, Xiao Xi said, "Xiao Ming, you take off his clothes first" Xiao Ming said in embarrassment, "Sister, he is so heavy, how can we move" Xiao Xi thought for a while and said, "Then you go and get a dress and towel first." Xiao Ming hurriedly ran out.
After Xiao Xi was silent for a while, he slowly began to take off the young man's clothes, and after taking off his shirt, Xiao Xi was startled, only to see that all his bodies were wounded, blue and purple. None of them are good. It took Xiao Xi a lot of effort to take off all his clothes with a red face. After taking the towel in Xiao Ming's hand and gently wiping it off his body, he gently covered the quilt.
After Xiao Xi finished this, he found that it was already noon, Xiao Xi hurriedly went to cook for his grandfather and younger brother, and after the meal, the sister and brother went to the river to fish, and then Xiao Xi went to the mountains to pick some herbs and came back.
It seems that it is good luck, or because of good retribution, Xiao Xi surprisingly caught more than a dozen fish today, and he used to catch one or two fish a day, and Xiao Xi burned a fish in the evening to improve the family's food. made Xiao Ming happy for a long time. Because I don't usually catch many fish, I will take it to the city every time to sell it and buy other daily necessities. Most of the vegetables eaten at home are wild vegetables from the mountains.
After the meal, Xiao Xi fried the herbs picked in the afternoon, and then spent more than an hour feeding the medicine to the young people.
After a while, Xiao Ming ran in and said, "Sister, he slept in our bed, where do I sleep at night?"
"You sleep with Grandpa first"
"What about you?"
"Leave me alone, you go to sleep first, I'll figure it out"
"Oh, then I'll go to sleep first"
Xiao Xi watched her younger brother leave, and then looked at the destitute home, and it was best to just put on a piece of clothing and fall asleep on the side of the bed.
Since then, Xiaoxi has one more job in her life, and that is to take care of this young man.
Fan Ping felt that he had a dream, he came to a dark space, this space seemed to be boundless, no matter how Fan Ping ran, he couldn't run to the end, no matter how Fan Ping shouted, there was no response. Fan Ping kept running and shouting, until one day, a crisp voice suddenly remembered "Don't go forward, turn back" The voice kept repeating, Fan Ping stopped, and then slowly turned back.
Xiao Xi sat quietly on the edge of the bed, holding the decoction medicine in his hand and said, "Why haven't you woken up yet, it's been three months, wake up quickly" Then Xiao Xi gave the medicine to the young man to drink, and Xiao Xi turned around and went out to get busy.
In the past three months, under Xiaoxi's care, the wounds on Fan Ping's body have basically healed, after all, they are just some external injuries. It's just that although the wound is healed, it has left dense traces. In today's terms, that's disfigured.
Not long after Xiao Xi left, the young man's fingers moved slightly, and then the five fingers began to move, and the young man slowly opened his eyes, and what came into his eyes was a dilapidated house, there was no furniture in it, and there was a table not far away, on which there was a copper mirror and a comb, and an old wooden box.
The young man tried to get up, and he tried to exert himself slightly, but found that there was no strength in his arms at all, as if he could not use any strength at all. The young man tried several times, but still without success.
Just as the young man was about to continue, an old voice said, "You're awake," and then a gray-haired old man appeared in the young man's sight. The young man said, "Where is this?" and "This is Yulong Village, you can call me Grandpa Long."
"Grandpa Long," the young man called softly.
"What is your name?" said the old man.
"What am I called, and who am I?"