Chapter 3: The Mysterious Post Station (1)
When night fell, Ding Yu was at home.
Xiao Yi sat on the bed, rolled up his sleeves, exposed his right arm, and waited for Ding Yu to rub the medicine, and the oil lamp at the bedside shone on the whole room.
Ding Yu squatted in front of the bed, pinched some freshly mashed herbs from the medicine mortar on the ground, and applied them to Xiao Yi's wound.
Xiao Yi's eyebrows furrowed, and he felt a piercing pain in the wound.
Ding Yu is twelve years old this year, his parents are running a post station, they rented this two-story small building to run a post station when Ding Yu was five years old, because they couldn't think of a better name at that time, they could only choose Ding Yu's father's name Ding Cheng to name this post station.
Xiao Yi said: "Thank you, Xiaoyu"
Ding Yu said: "I said I don't need to thank you, who made us good friends, okay, you wait for me"
Ding Yu got up and walked out of the room, hurriedly walked down the stairs, and went to the first floor.
In the hall on the first floor, a middle-aged woman about forty years old was standing in front of the counter looking at the account book in her hand, she was Ding Yu's mother, Xu Yan.
"Mother, did you do what I told you?" Ding Yu came to the first floor and asked his mother.
''What's the matter?'' Xu Yan asked, staring at the ledger.
"Just help me make room for me?"
"Not yet"
"What! Didn't you promise me?"
Xu Yan slammed the ledger on the table and said, "Where can I get you that room, the room is full, will you let my guests move outside to live?"
"I don't care, didn't you promise me?"
Xu Yan glared at Ding Yu fiercely and said, "I promised you a lot of things, and I made trouble all day long."
"I don't care, didn't you promise me?" Ding Yu cried sadly when he saw that his mother didn't help him: "Woo woo woo "How can you talk and not count?"
"Cry, cry, cry, you know how to cry all day long" Xu Yan's face became ugly.
Xiao Yi, who was sitting in the room on the second floor, heard the cry of Xiaoyu downstairs, got up and walked out of the room.
"Crying, crying, ruined child, I don't know where to get a wild child, his father doesn't care, what do you care." Xu Yan's voice reached Xiao Yi's ears.
Xiao Yi hesitated for a moment and hurriedly walked down the stairs.
When he came to the first floor, Xiao Yi saw that Ding Yu was still crying, and he comforted: "Xiaoyu, don't cry, thank you for your herbs, I'm leaving" He turned to Xu Yan and said, "Auntie, I'm sorry for causing you trouble." ”
Xu Yan didn't speak, glared at him.
Xiao Yi didn't see it, turned around and ran out of the building.
He ran outside the building and heard a voice behind him. 'Xiao Yi, where are you going?' turned his head to look, and saw Ding Yu standing in front of the door of the building looking at him, constantly wiping the tears on his face.
Xiao Yi said loudly to Ding Yu: "Xiao Yu, I'm fine, you go back quickly, don't quarrel with your mother, thank you" After he finished speaking, he turned around and ran towards the alley on the left side of Ding Cheng's station.
He ran desperately for a while, and when he saw that Ding Yu was not chasing, he stopped with confidence.
He remembered that it was not the first time he had heard such words, and Ding Yu's mother's words still echoed in his mind from time to time.
His mood was complicated, a feeling of loneliness and helplessness spread in the bottom of his heart, more and more clearly, more and more intense, but he did not hate anyone, who allowed himself to be a homeless child?
I saw that in the post stations on both sides of the road, there were dim copper lamps lit up, and the whole street was lit up.
Xiao Yi looked at the beautiful scenery on both sides of the road, but he had no idea where he was going.
He walked alone in the middle of the road, very slowly.
Perhaps, at this moment, only the moon in the sky can understand his mood, right?
It was the fifteenth town he had come to since he left his hometown, and every night he would choose an uninhabited and sheltered place to sleep in the open, and it seemed that it was the same today, but he was used to it.
Thinking back to what happened during the day, Xiao Yi felt that there were still many things in this world that he didn't know, such as magic, such as the flying stone,,,,, many things waiting for him to understand.
Suddenly, he remembered Xiaobai and suddenly realized.
He ran again, looking for the inn that the four boys had run into during the day, according to the memory in his mind.
Because Xiaobai was caught in the mountains with great effort, although Xiaobai only got along with him for five days, but in these five days, Xiaobai brought him a lot of happiness, he had to rescue Xiaobai no matter what, and he must not let those people bully him.
After a while, he ran to a wide road, looked back and forth, and saw several people in black robes not far in front of him enter a post house on the left side of the road, and he ran directly towards the post house.
By the time he reached the door, he was exhausted, gasping for air and feeling like his heart was going to burst.
I saw a signboard hanging on the gate of this post station, and the signboard was engraved with four big characters, the moon is full of post station.
Xiao Yi looked at the surroundings and made sure that this post station was the one that the four boys ran into during the day, and he immediately hid next to the gate and secretly looked inside the door.
I saw that inside the gate is a spacious courtyard, there is a black wooden building in the courtyard is brightly lit, the main entrance of the wooden building is wide open, two rows of stone pillars are erected in front of the building, the top of each stone pillar is hung with a bright copper lamp, a gust of wind blows, the copper lamp swings with the wind.
In the open space in front of the wooden building, there were many people in black robes walking around, their faces covered by black robes and hats, and it was impossible to see whether they were men or women.
When his heartbeat was stable and he saw that no one was looking here, Xiao Yi quietly walked into this post station and immediately ran to the dark place to hide.
Looking at these black-robed people wandering around in the courtyard, Xiao Yi faintly felt as if these people were waiting for something.
It didn't take long to hear a voice from outside the gate: "The master is here, get out of the way, get out of the way" I saw a black-robed man hurriedly running into the courtyard from outside the gate.
Immediately afterwards, the two beasts and horses each pulled a wooden cart carrying a tall wooden cage from outside the gate and slowly drove into the courtyard, the two tall wooden cages contained a huge black beast, the two black beasts, with long necks, eyes exuding a terrifying red light, the body was covered with fine scales, and the tail was the thickness of an ordinary person's thighs, and behind these two wooden carts, more than 30 black-robed people followed, they all wore robes and hats, and their faces could not be seen clearly, as if they came with these two wooden carts.
When Xiao Yi saw this, he couldn't help but have doubts in his heart, and said in his heart: "Strange, what are these people doing?"
After a while, the two carriages stopped in front of the wooden building, and two black-robed men walked briskly up the steps in front of the wooden building.
They walked to the main gate of the wooden building, clasped their hands into fists, bowed to the door, and said, "Secretary of the Beast Armor Regiment, please see the secretary."
A voice came from inside the wooden building, "Where is the master?"
The voice was fleeting, it was a man's voice.
One of the black-robed men said, "The master has come to the command."
As soon as the words fell, I only heard a few sounds, only to see four figures quickly crossed in front of me, and the afterimages were not dispersed, and the four figures galloped into the wooden building. The main entrance of the wooden building, with a click, closed without wind.
Xiao Yi was shocked, and said in his heart: "Strange, what is it?"
So, he tiptoed back to the wooden building in front of him.