Chapter 12: Auntie dies of illness in the cave
Master lived a bright and upright life, acting chivalrous and righteous, helping the weak and the poor. As his name suggests, Allah is friendly, extremely kind, never with malice, and never harmless.
The master hangs the pot to help the world, sympathizes with the suffering, can help, can help, help people tirelessly, help people without complaints.
In addition to his gratitude, he also took Master as his role model.
Missing his master inevitably caused sadness, but he finally wiped away his tears and returned to the cave with the herbs and clay pots.
In the afternoon, he fried herbs and boiled rice porridge. But Aunt Ulla still had difficulty swallowing, and ate less and less.
Alayanzong couldn't help but worry.
He examined the wound on Aunt Ula's abdomen and wiped the liquor for him again. He found that although the wound was not infected, it was not healed.
This made him feel very bad, and Aunt Ula's physical function was seriously degraded.
It was not easy for the wolf skin to dry on the branches outside, and then Alayanzong took the wolf skin to the cave and roasted it by the fire.
Alayanzong controlled the degree of roasting, and when the wolf skin reached eighty or ninety percent dry, he felt that it was okay.
In this way, the wolf's skin is neither damp nor hard, and it feels soft to the touch. Because there is still some moisture in the wolf skin, the whole wolf skin feels relatively heavy when lifted.
With the help of Ula Peach, Alayanzong spread the wolf skin under Aunt Ulla's body to make her more comfortable and warmer.
At night, the two of them still guard the campfire and take care of Aunt Ulla, but in the end they still have to sleep.
However, when they woke up the next morning, they could no longer hear Aunt Ulla's heavy gasps.
Aunt Ulla died.
The two were so grief-stricken that they naturally cried bitterly. After that, it is still necessary to bury Aunt Ula properly and put it into the ground.
The two finally discussed and decided, and buried Aunt Ulla in this cave. They can't live on this mountain forever, they still have to leave here and return to society.
The cave is not too deep and relatively dry. A little farther away from the entrance of the cave, Alayanzong found a relatively flat stone face, and thought it would be more appropriate for Aunt Ula to sleep there.
When Alayanzong wanted to spread the wolf's skin on the stone surface and make it forever the mattress of Aunt Ula, the peach of Ula objected.
It is said that the smell of wolf skin may attract wolves, and they will tear the mother's body to pieces, and they are unwilling to bury the wolf skin with their mother.
Alayanzong said that even without a wolf skin, Aunt Ula could be eaten by wolves.
The two of them had their own opinions, and after some arguments, Alayanzong still followed the opinion of Ula Peach, after all, it was her mother.
So she first laid a layer of hay on the stone slabs, and then a few of the bandits' garments, on which Aunt Ulla lay flat, and then covered her with two more clothes of her own.
Then the two of them picked up a lot of large and small pieces of rubble and built a tall tomb for Aunt Ulla.
After burying Aunt Ula, it was already afternoon, and the two decided to guard Aunt Ula in the cave for another night, and then set off the next day.
Taking advantage of the dawn, the two of them packed their luggage, there were so many things in the cave, it was impossible to carry them all.
After some deliberation, Alayanzong decided to take the wolf jerky, a scimitar, ropes, wine bags, money bags, and the wolf skin. And of course their own previous packages.
In addition, there are two pairs of shoes. The shoes of a tall and thin bandit, Alayanzong wore just right. The shoes of the short bandits, Ula no Peach wears a little bigger, but they can be worn improvised.
You can't bring anything else.
Alayanzong buried the other two scimitars next to Aunt Ula's grave, which can be regarded as the bandits' martyrdom for her.
Even if you pick it up, it's inconvenient to carry so many things. Fortunately, Ula Peach sewed two cloth bags from the clothes of the bandits, one for wolf jerky and the other for wolf skin.
In the mountains and forests, Alayanzong found another wrist-thick white wax rod, pinched the head and tail, cut off a man high, and shaved the skin with a short sword to make a flat pole.
One can be used to pick wolf skins and wolf jerky, and the other can also be used as a spare self-defense weapon.
At night, the two of them sat quietly around the campfire, guarding Aunt Ula's stone grave, for half the night, only to sleep for some hours later.
At dawn the next day, the two of them ate some dried meat, drank some spring water, and after kowtowing goodbye to Aunt Ulla's grave, they walked out of the cave.
The Alayanzong wanted Ula Peach to wear a short sword for self-defense, saying that it was easy to carry and light to use.
Ula Peach insisted that she carry a scimitar, saying that it was longer and that she felt safer.
In this way, Alayanzong carried the wolf skin and dried meat, and the two walked down the mountain together.
Ula Peach did not walk this road, and when he walked to the old Taoist temple, Alayanzong gave him a brief story about him and his master while giving him instructions.
Although Ula Peach can occasionally hear the deeds of Alayanzong's Alayan Sect talk about Ala's friendly master on weekdays, it is only a few words after all.
When I learned all about the life of Master Allah's Friendly Master, the peach of Ulla was even more sincerely admired.
After descending the mountain, when he came to the crossing of the Heavenly Thread, Alayanzong pointed out the tomb of his parents to the peach of Ula.
The peach of Ula means to worship.
Alayanzong accompanied Ula Peach and kowtowed to his parents' graves. The two of them hit the road again and headed south along the canyon.
Alayanzong also told the story of his parents to Ula Zhitao, because he didn't know much, and it was not as long as Master's story, so it was quickly finished.
The peach of Ula is naturally a sigh, sympathy and regret.
In this canyon, the two walked for half a day before they got out of the mountain.
Further on, there is an open field, which is considered to be a plain. At first, you can still see some wild grass and bushes, and the further south you go, the less green vegetation you have, until it disappears.
The smell of the sea is even stronger when the sea breeze wafts through the air. Maybe the place more than ten miles ahead is the reason for the sea, which is already a saline-alkali land, unusually desolate, and there are no people on the way.
But occasionally you can still see people, but it's just the bones of the forest in the roadside wasteland.
Some are just white bones.
Some of them also had carrion, indicating that the man had not been dead for a long time, but no one had buried him.
Alayanzong speculated that these people were most likely to die of the plague, and that no one was willing to go and bury them, perhaps without the right tools to bury them.
Seeing these tragic situations, Alayanzong may be relatively strong, psychologically tolerant, and able to endure it, and there is no uncomfortable reaction.
And Ula Peach retched every time he saw a corpse with carrion, and he couldn't bear to look at it again for the rest of the trip.
When the two of them walked not far from the sea, they finally saw a small village.
Looking around, they could no longer see other villages, so the two decided to spend the night in the village.