CHAPTER IX
Behind him is still the white Silver Dragon Mountain Range, but in front of him is a valley full of low trees, the valley is very wide, and you can vaguely see that the valley is also a tall mountain range, although it is night, but you can also see that the mountain range is not white, it must be the Xifeng Mountain Range that they said in their mouths.
And he is still in the middle of the Yinlong Mountain Range on a small cliff platform, beside him there is a sheep intestine path to the foot of the mountain, this road is not as natural as in the mountain range, this road is artificially built, circling some to the bottom of the mountain, Liu Laohan thought to himself that I don't know if this is the Xifeng Mountain Range to the Han country to go to the transit path.
Then Liu Laohan denied this idea, if it was, then every time Wei Liushan came to pick up people, he was not allowed to walk through the cave he had walked through during this time, but on the cliff, Wei Liushan obviously did not know this road, then now this road means that there must be people living in the valley here, but he has looked from north to south by this moonlight, and has never found that there are traces of the owner in this valley, the path that spirals to the foot of the mountain, and disappears after entering the low woods, Liu Laohan still goes down the mountain with doubts in his heart.
This mountain road is narrow and circling, it is very difficult to walk, Liu Laohan sat on the mountain stone on the way to rest, suddenly his stomach was uncomfortable and wanted to be convenient, so he put Lin Jiu on the stone and walked to the side, before reaching out in the hole without seeing the five fingers, every time he needed convenience, Liu Laohan has never gone far, now to the outside, there are people around, always feel uncomfortable, although he is still a baby in swaddling clothes, but Liu Laohan is used to taking two more steps to the side, a cold invasion, so that Liu Laohan shivered, Liu Laohan suddenly froze, now think about himself since he hit a person and held the child on the road, he did not feel cold again, even if he was sleepy and slept with Lin Jiu in his arms, he was no longer cold。
Thinking about it, he didn't care about this aspect of the problem in order to hurry at that time, and now out of the hole, a sudden cold made him remember the cold in the Yinlong Mountain Range, why is this, Liu Laohan thought about it and walked towards Lin Jiu, but just walked two steps, he was not cold anymore, he didn't feel cold at all, just like in the spring, Liu Laohan looked at Lin Jiu who was still lying on the stone in surprise, Liu Laohan hurriedly took two steps back, the biting cold, and walked back, like a spring breeze.
Changing positions back and forth a few times, Liu Laohan came to the conclusion that as long as it was within two zhang of Lin Jiu as the center, he couldn't feel cold, Liu Laohan walked quickly in front of Lin Jiu in surprise, picked up the child who was about to be full moon, and looked left and right and didn't find any problems, it was really strange.
Liu Laohan thought about it and estimated that the problem was still with the little white dragon, but he was out of trouble at the moment, and Lin Jiu had never had anything suspicious, which made Liu Laohan not know where to find the reason
"Alas, forget it, don't want to, maybe this is fate, he was born like this"
After resting, Liu Laohan walked to the foot of the mountain with the child in one breath, carefully looking for the original path, but no one walked for a long time, it was overgrown with weeds, Liu Laohan looked at the traces on the ground while walking, and walked to the northernmost part of the valley at dawn the next day until the afternoon, only to the northernmost part of the valley, which was a piece of low mountain wall that stretched out from Yinlong Mountain, there was a crack on it, Liu Laohan held the child and slowly squeezed through, and what caught his eye was a large piece of confiscated dealers.
Liu Laohan hurriedly stepped forward to take a look, it was this year's banker, it was planted by the croppers who had been farming for many years, and he was happily moving around, indicating that there were people living here.
After recovering his strength, Liu Laohan found the path between the fields and began to walk north, and found that the distance between the two mountains around him was getting farther and farther, and the road under his feet had deviated from the foot of the mountain range to the middle, and after walking for a few hours, it was dark again, and Liu Laohan had seen the smoke floating up from a distance.
At first glance, there was a family cooking in the distance, Liu Laohan didn't care about hunger, three steps and two steps to the smoke, after turning over two small hills, he saw a small river flowing from west to east, and on the opposite side of the river is a wooden house, at this moment every household is smoking from cooking, Liu Laohan walked slowly towards the river, even if he is now recovering his body, he is already tired and almost unable to walk.
Liu Laohan walked for a long time to walk to the river, and saw that the left hand side went up not far, it was a stone bridge across the river, Liu Laohan just walked on the stone bridge, he was tired and collapsed to the ground, and several women at the edge of the village saw it and hurriedly ran over
"Old man, how are you? Wake up" One of the women shook Liu Laohan's arm, but found that he did not show any signs of waking up, so he turned his head and said to the other women, "Sister-in-law Li, you hurry up and call the patriarch, I and Sister-in-law Junsheng and a few of them will carry this old man into my house and lie down first,"
"Okay, I'll go" The sister-in-law Li got up and ran towards the middle of the village
One of the remaining women carried the child in their arms, and the others carried Liu Laohan hand and foot to the woman's house at the entrance of Qiaotou Village
Soon there were many people gathered in this courtyard near the small bridge at the west end of the village, and everyone was talking about it, since the accident in Bailong Mountain, there have been no strangers again, is it that now this isolated place is open to the outside again?
"Sister-in-law of the Wang family, are you only aware of these two people?" asked a young man in the crowd in a low voice
The one who greeted a few women to save people was Wang Orion's daughter-in-law, who was the mother-in-law that Wang Orion married when he was an adult after Wang Orion's family settled here
"As far as their grandparents and grandchildren are concerned, no one else has been found," said Wang Orion's daughter-in-law, standing up
"The village chief is here, the village chief is here" The crowd of onlookers moved out of the way, and a white-bearded old man walked in slowly, followed by a middle-aged man
The white-bearded old man walked up to Liu Laohan and looked at it, then looked at the baby lying next to him, turned back to the middle-aged man and said, "Old Seven, you know a little about medical skills, show me what is going on, and there is any salvation."
"Okay uncle, I'll give him a pulse first" The middle-aged man walked to Liu Laohan and sat down, put his hand on the pulse, and put his right hand on his left hand, and the village chief was not in a hurry and stood next to him stroking his white beard, waiting quietly.
"It's not a big deal, it's just that I'm weak and weak, I guess I'm tired from the road, I guess I haven't eaten enough for a while, I'm hungry, and I guess I'll wake up after sleeping for a while," the middle-aged man stood up and said to the village chief
"Oh, that's good, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay, let them rest first, so what...... Xiu'e, you rescued the people?"
"Cough, that is, I saw it first with the tip of my eyes, and it was the big guy who helped carry it back"
"Well, no matter what, you still save people, so you saved them, let them live in your house first, and then I will let Lao Qi notify you from house to house, and each family will send you ten catties of food, which is their ration," the village chief said slowly
"Then thank the village chief in advance, anyway, my family still has an empty house, let him live first, it was also the village chief's kind family to take in, we should learn from the village chief, although Lao Wang did not come back from hunting, but he must be willing"
"Ten pounds of rations?"
"As it should be"
"Yes," whispered the surrounding villagers.
"Okay, let's all disperse, what should we do," the village chief shouted at the top of his voice
As soon as everyone saw that there was nothing serious, they all began to walk out. "Wait a minute, I forgot one thing, who mother-in-law in the village nurses the child, and each family takes turns to come here for a day, how can this baby do without milk" The village chief just remembered that there was a baby lying next to him, so he shouted loudly
"Uncle, I'll tell each family to deliver food later, and I'll explain to them," the middle-aged man named Lao Qi hurriedly said
"Well, it's okay, remember to inform me again, okay, I'll go back too, let them rest and rest, let's come back tomorrow and ask what's going on"
As soon as everyone heard that it was arranged, they slowly went home, Xiu'e saw that everyone was gone, and began to cook, and after a while, a simple meal was served on the table, looking at the sun that was about to set outside, and waited for Wang Orion to come back to eat together, at this time a young woman holding a child came in at the door, and when she saw Xiu'e just cooking, she smiled and greeted, "Sister-in-law Wang cooks very early"
"Qian Yong's daughter-in-law is here, you came to nurse first?" Xiu'e asked with a smile
"Yes, Brother Seventh just went to the house and said, Brother Yong will be loading food, saying that he will send it early tomorrow morning, today the third child of my family is not good at milk, this will be suffocating, I think it's okay at home, so I will come and feed this child" said and put the child in his arms next to Lin Jiu and let him lie down
"It's so suffocating, you still don't want your family Ah Yong to help you suck it, hahaha" Xiu'e walked over and picked up Qian Yong's child again
"When you milk your apricots, did Brother Wang help you suck them?" Qian Yong's daughter-in-law was not ashamed to tease Xiu'e
"You're looking for a beating," Xiu'e raised her hand to scare her
Qian Yong's daughter-in-law bent down to pick Lin Jiu up, and Lin Jiu, who was asleep, felt that someone picked him up, so he looked at it with wide eyes and didn't cry.
"Sister-in-law Wang, come and see, this child's big eyes are so good-looking, and he is really energetic," Qian Yong's daughter-in-law said in surprise
"Yes, the clear eyes are so good-looking, it's just that this child is quite pitiful, leaving his father and mother at such a young age"
"Sister-in-law Wang, don't say that, it's very uncomfortable for me to hear you say that," Qian Yong's daughter-in-law said and sat at the end of the bed, holding Lin Jiu with one hand and unbuttoning the clothes on the front with the other, and letting Lin Jiu eat her own milk.
"Xiu'e, I'm back, I just heard the fifth brother at the entrance of the village say that you saved a foreigner today?" Wang Orion's voice sounded outside the door, very loud, Xiu'e hurriedly hugged Qian Yong's child out of the house and blocked Wang Orion in the yard
"What are you doing here? I'll go inside and see what kind of person it is."
"Ah Yong's daughter-in-law is nursing the child inside, why are you rough old man going in?"
When Wang Orion heard this, he smiled and scratched his head with his hand and said, "That can't enter, that can't enter"
"You eat first, it's all on the table, Xing'er is still playing with the carpenter at the east end, and you will call her back to eat after you finish eating."
"Okay, I'll eat first, and I'll clean up today's meal when I'm done, I didn't get much today."
"No more, not too much, I have to be scared once you enter the mountain"
"Brother Wang, sister-in-law Wang, come on, this old man is awake," Qian Yong's daughter-in-law in the house shouted loudly
As soon as the two heard this, they hurriedly entered the house, and Qian Yong's daughter-in-law put Lin Jiu back on the bed, standing at the end of the bed and looking at Liu Laohan on the bed.
"Are you awake, old man?" asked Wang Orion, standing at the head of the bed, in a whisper
Before Liu Laohan fainted, he vaguely saw a few people running towards him at the entrance of the village, and now he was lying on the bed in the house, knowing that he was rescued by these people, and when he woke up, he saw the young woman at the end of the bed feeding Lin Jiu, and was glad that he was not dead, Liu Laohan struggled to get up and wanted to sit up, only to find that he didn't need any strength at all, Wang Orion saw that he quickly helped him up, and let him sit on the head of the bed. Old man Liu smiled and nodded at him
"The old gentleman is weak and weak, he must have been hungry for a long time, Xiu'e, hurry up and bring the food, don't take it dry, let the old gentleman drink a bowl of hot soup first"
"Okay, I'll go."
Wang Lihu waited for Liu Laohan to finish his meal slowly, and asked, "Old gentleman, feel better now?"
"This hero, under the old man, he can't be called a gentleman, but the hero's wife saved my grandfather and grandson, and he should be worshiped by the old man" said and got up and bowed
"I can't do it, I can't do it, doing good deeds and accumulating virtue is what I should do, and I'm just a hunter below, and I really don't dare to use the word hero"
"Thank you for the trouble"
"Where and where, no trouble, no trouble, I don't know where your ancestors and grandchildren came from, how did you end up like this"
"Alas, this matter is a long story" Liu Laohan slowly got off the bed, Wang Orion hurriedly helped, Liu Laohan smiled and waved his hand, walked to the table in the room and sat down, and then said, "I don't know what the surname of the strong man is called?"
"Don't dare, don't be surnamed Wang, the name is restored, what do you call the old gentleman?"
"The old man's surname is Liu, the third in the family, a single name is a three-word, the bed is my grandson, with her mother's surname Lin, her mother did not give a big name when she left, that is, a milk name is Jiu'er, we are from the south of the Han Kingdom to flee here, originally followed a few tongues to cross the Yinlong Mountains and Xifeng Mountains to the east of Wu to make a living, but on the way encountered an accident, I and Jiu'er's mother escaped, halfway her mother died in order to give birth to him, I took Jiu'er in the mountains for many days, I thought I couldn't get out, I didn't expect Jiu'er and his mother to bless us in the spirit of heaven to come out”
"The Silver Dragon Mountain Range, is it the long white mountain to the west of the village?"
"Exactly, how is it not the name?"
"Well, maybe the name outside is different from the village, the village has always been called Bailong Mountain, but after all, it's just called that in the village, I didn't hear my father say the name of this mountain, I didn't ask when I was young, and I also knew that it was called Bailong Mountain after I arrived in the village."
"I heard Wang Yingying say this, you also came here from outside?"
"Mr. Liu, don't call me a hero, the village husband can't be a hero, if my father is alive, he should be a few years older than you, I am a junior, if you don't dislike me, you can call you uncle"
"How can you dislike it, you are the lifesavers of me and Jiu'er, we are just too late to be happy"
"I heard Uncle Liu say just now that there is a West Wind Mountain Range, is it the relatively nameless mountain in the east?"
"Exactly, I also heard the name of the mountain from the people who fled with the Han Kingdom, why is there no name in the village?"
"That's not true, I just know that the one next to us is called Bailong Mountain, the one in the east is far away after all, and there is no name and no name, and no one usually goes so far east to go to Xifeng Mountain, all of them are hunting in the small mountains and forests on the periphery of this Bailong Mountain, and it is extremely cold when they enter the range of the mountain."
Liu San was silent when he saw that Wang Orion avoided the question he asked him just now and came from outside, and he didn't ask any more carefully, thinking that he had just met, after all, he was not familiar with it, how could he tell you that secret thing.
Later, Liu San ate some food, and the sleepiness came again, after all, he hadn't rested well for so long, and he was also an older person in the end, Haka Lianlian, Wang Orion looked at it and said, "Uncle Liu, go to bed early, have a good night's rest, Ming'er and I will accompany you to see the patriarch, his old man has come to see you today, and said that he will temporarily let you and Jiu'er live in my house temporarily, but you haven't woken up at that time, and you haven't known"
"It's easy to say, it's easy to say, even if that's the case, it's a troublesome two"
"Don't bother," Wang Orion got up and went out with Xiu'e and Qian Yong's daughter-in-law
Liu San watched the three of them leave, slowly got up and sat at the head of the bed, first reached out and touched the fragment hidden in his arms, it was still there.
Looking down at Lin Jiu, who was lying on the bed and sleeping on the bed, he said to himself, "Why don't we stay?" Then Wu Guo is not a good place to go, seeing that this place is so remote, it can be said to be a paradise, and the transit tongue is estimated to be dead this time, and no one can find here, the people here are simple, I saw the patriarch here, begged him, and took us in, I raised you as an adult and taught you a great kung fu, and then married a daughter-in-law for you to start a family, do you think it's good?"
Lin Jiu, who was asleep, tilted his head, as if he heard Liu San's speech, and Liu San also showed a kind smile on his face.
Nothing to say all night, the next morning Liu San got up early and had breakfast with Wang Orion, handed the child to Xiu'e to hold, and waited for another village woman to come to feed the child, Wang Orion and Liu San went out to the east, the patriarch's house was in the middle of the village, and the village walked to the patriarch's house in a short time, the two stepped forward and knocked on the door, it was the patriarch's wife who opened the door, "The light is here, this old gentleman is not in the way, right?" The patriarch's wife opened the door and asked the two
"Well, here comes the aunt"
"Don't get in the way, don't get in the way," the two agreed, one after the other
The three of them turned around and walked towards the hall, "Father, Guangfu and that stranger are here" The patriarch's wife shouted into the house, and stretched out her hand to the two, meaning that the patriarch was waiting inside
The two nodded and walked towards the house, the hall is not very big, but it is exceptionally clean, there is a big table in the room, the patriarch is sitting in the middle and making tea, the middle-aged man named Lao Qi is sitting next to him, seeing the two come in, Lao Qi hurriedly got up and said, "Brother Guangfu is here, sit down, sit down" The patriarch stretched out his hand and signaled the two to sit down across the table, and the seven gave each of them a cup of tea.
The patriarch opened his mouth first, "I don't know this brother's surname, where his original home is."
Liu San clasped his hands into fists and saluted and said, "Under the surname Liu, the family line three so a single name and a three-character person, there is no family in the rivers and lakes, what he used to do was to kill people, in order to help the benefactor repay the favor, the prisoner was chased and killed by the officers and soldiers of the Han State and fled here"
"Yes, Liu Zhuangshi is a cheerful person, willing to be honest with each other, very good"
"Don't dare, it was this village that saved our ancestors and grandchildren, of course I don't dare to hide anything"
The patriarch turned his head to look at Wang Orion and said, "Last night, the big guys sent the grain?"
"Well, they were all delivered, and the old five families and the old Zhang family were sent early this morning, saying that it was too late yesterday to go out."
"Well, that's good, put away the grain first, it should be enough for the two of them to eat for a while" The patriarch thought for a while and asked, "I don't know what Brother Liu's plans are next,"
"Even if the patriarch brother asked, then I won't hide it, we wanted to flee to Wu Kingdom, but the mountains and jungles on the east side are dense, and there is no familiar person to lead, I'm afraid it won't be able to pass, so I want to ask the patriarch to take us in."
The patriarch thought for a while and didn't answer, but asked again: "After this Bailong Mountain became a big mountain range many years ago, there was only one path to enter and exit, and then because of the landslide, this path was gone, I don't know how you got in, brother."
Liu Sanyi hurriedly told a series of things about how he took Jiu'er's cue ball to the border, how he met his tongue, how he was forced into the hole, and how Jiu'er's mother died tragically, and he walked out with Jiu'er's hard work, etc., but there were some things that could not be said in the middle, and his own was also vaguely piggybacked
"That means there is now a new way in and out," the patriarch asked
Liu San nodded
"Then you will live with the Guangfu family first, and I will discuss it with the big guys this afternoon to see if they are willing to let you stay," said the patriarch
"That's fine, if we can stay, we will definitely abide by the rules of the village and get along with everyone."
"It's okay, there are not so many rules in the small village, I can give you an answer tomorrow after discussing it with them"
Liu San and Wang Orion got up, Liu San thanked him again, and the two left the village chief's house and walked back
"Uncle Liu, hearing you say this, the caves and roads in the mountains are very difficult to walk," Wang Orion suddenly asked
"Yes, the five fingers in the hole are tortuous and long, but fortunately, I have made marks at the fork in the road, as long as there is no accident, I can still get out, why do you want to go out?"
"No, no, I'm just asking," Wang Orion hurriedly waved his hand
The next day, the patriarch took Lao Qi and three other people who were about the same age as Lao Qi to Wang Lihu's house, Xiu'e hurriedly let them into the hall, and after sitting down, the patriarch looked at the three bricks beside him and said to Liu San, "Brother Liu, we discussed it yesterday and felt that we could let you stay, and now you know the road to the mountain, and forget that you hide it in your heart and don't tell anyone, we have lived in seclusion here for generations, and we don't want people outside to disturb us."
"Thank you, Patriarch, for taking me in."
"I will ask Qian Yong to take a few young people to help you find a good location by the river, build your house first, and wait for the rest."
After finishing the business, several people chatted together for a while, and the most important thing was to listen to Liu San talk about the outside world now, and everyone was surprised after listening to it.
Within a few days, Qian Yong took people to build the house where Liu San lived, although it was not big, but it was enough for their ancestors and grandchildren to live, and on the day of the housewarming, the people in the village came to congratulate, Li Butcher killed a few pigs raised in the village, and after everyone ate and drank together, Liu San also saw people, and everyone said goodbye and went home