Section 39 Spending time at the bottom of the pit
Mrs. Xiao asked, "What are written on these two pieces of paper?" Liu Yu said: "This is what my mother gave me, I have read it several times, but I can't figure it out." Mrs. Xiao said, "Show me!"
The light under the cave was very dim, Mrs. Xiao put the parchment under the tip of her nose and read a few lines, "The blockage of the meridians of all people is the same inside and the outside, and there are also internal differences and the same outside, so the five internal organs and six internal organs, and the congestion of the blood and veins, are not the eyes and ears, and the inner body must first judge them......
Then he returned the two pieces of parchment to Liu Yu and said: "What is written on this paper does not look like a martial arts cheats, but it may be the experience recorded by Lang Zhong." As she spoke, she stroked the top of Abaoji's head, a sad look between her eyebrows.
Liu Yu said: "Sister Xiao, I always thought that when I grow up, I want to be a famous hero in the martial arts, just like the heroes Guo Xie and the Zhu family in the early Han Dynasty written in the historical records. But after these days, I want to be a man more and more, not a hero. ”
Mrs. Xiao put her cheeks on Abaoji's red-hot little face and asked, "Your original idea is right, the hero is so majestic, admired by thousands of people, and worshiped by thousands of people." Why do you want to be a Langzhong now?" Liu Yu said: "If I am a Langzhong and have superb medical skills, then I can cure Uncle Gongsun Mao's illness and Abaoji's fever." ”
Mrs. Xiao smiled: "You are kind, who is that Gongsun Mao, I have never seen it." Liu Yu said: "He is Aunt Lu's man, he was seriously injured during the battle in Songzhou City, and he has not woken up until now." You didn't see him because he was still lying in the cellar. ”
Mrs. Xiao said: "That Aunt Lu looks very fierce, and she is not good to you, why do you still want to treat her man's injuries?" Liu Yu said: "Uncle Mao's injury has a lot to do with me. If Aunt Lu hates me because of this, I don't blame her. Although she was very fierce to me, I knew that she still cared about me in her heart. ”
Mrs. Xiao said: "Then why did you slip away alone and fall into this rock pit?" Liu Yu said: "Because Aunt Lu thought that my blood could cure Uncle Mao's illness, she forced me to let Uncle Mao drink, I was very afraid, and then Brother Bushou asked me to escape, so I escaped." Mrs. Xiao said: "So, she doesn't really care about you anymore, she still cares about her man." ”
Liu Yu said: "She was fierce to me because she misunderstood my blood and could be used as medicine for Uncle Mao." If I were a good man and cured Uncle Mao's illness, she would naturally not think so. Mrs. Xiao smiled: "I now kind of agree with your father's statement, you are indeed a little stupid." ”
Abaoji, who was in Mrs. Xiao's arms, was getting hotter and hotter. She sighed, but there was nothing else she could do, and said, "If only there was water here, you can put a cool towel on Abaoji's head." She turned her head and looked around, it was all black and covered with moss, and where could she find water.
Liu Yu was originally leaning against the rock wall, bowing her head in a daze, but when she said this, she said, "Sister Xiao, I have a way." He peeled off a large patch of moss from the rock wall, took out the piece of silk cloth that had been used to wrap parchment, and pressed it against the rock wall. After a while, the two pieces of silk cloth were soaked, and Liu Yu folded the silk cloth and applied it to Abaoji's forehead. After several times, Abaoji's fever gradually receded.
Mrs. Xiao said curiously: "How do you know that there will be water under the moss?" Liu Yu said: "Where there is no water, the moss will not grow so thick." When I used to be at home, I used to peel off the moss on the wall and tear off a large piece of wall skin, and my father beat me several times because of this. ”
He felt tired and hungry, his stomach croaked, so he took out the baked cake given to him by Xue Hongmei from his arms, took a bite, and was about to swallow it, when he looked up and saw Mrs. Xiao's mother and son, he tore off most of the baked cake and handed it to Mrs. Xiao.
Mrs. Xiao has been struggling for days in the past few days, and she is already hungry. Just because she was born in a Khitan aristocracy, she refused to lose her demeanor casually, so she has endured it until now. She took the baked cake from Liu Yu, and could no longer resist the temptation of food, so she swallowed it in a big gulp, and ate most of the baked cake cleanly. Liu Yu was a little unbearable, and handed over the small half of the baked cake in his hand, and said, "Sister Xiao, you can eat them all!" Mrs. Xiao said gratefully: "I ate these baked cakes just now, and I can't die of hunger, so you should eat them." ”
Liu Yu said: "I'm not hungry. He insisted on handing the baked cakes to Mrs. Xiao. Mrs. Xiao pushed the baked cake back and said, "Brother Xiao, when you help others in the future, you can't be so honest." If you are good to others, others may not be as good to you. Listen to my sister and eat it!" she snatched the small half of the biscuit from Liu Yu's hand and stuffed it into his mouth.
The two of them didn't know how long they sat under the cave, but gradually, the night was getting dark. Mrs. Xiao's mother and son fell asleep against the stone wall, making a slight snoring sound. Liu Yu looked up at the sky above the crater, and saw a bright moon supported by a few stars. Silvery-white moonlight poured down and shone on the moss-stripped stone wall. He saw a dozen lines of small characters crookedly engraved on the stone wall, the literature and science were very shallow, and the person who carved the words probably did not read much.
The crooked little words read: "Among the people in the world, this dog thief who belongs to the royal road is the most shameless." The old immortal I just went to his mother-in-law to discuss the knowledge of poison, and he locked the old immortal and me here, insulting me in every way, it is simply unreasonable. If future generations know, they will definitely avenge the old immortal!" The inscription is the last words of the Nine Poisons Old Immortal.
Nine poisonous old immortals, Liu Yu has never heard of it. However, he heard Lu Shengyan talk about a "Nine Poisons Old Monster", this person exchanged the fake "Book of Stasis" for the real copy of Gongsun Mao, Gongsun Mao came to the door several times, but failed to get it back, which shows that this person's martial arts are very strong. I don't know if this "Nine Poisons Old Immortal" and the "Nine Poisons Old Monster" are the same person.
He thought again, since the Nine Poisons Old Immortal had also been trapped here, but there were no bones of him here, how did he escape? Then he thought that if the Nine Poisons Old Immortal was strong in martial arts, it would not be difficult for him to climb the rock wall that was more than two feet high. And if he and Mrs. Xiao don't have the slightest martial arts, I'm afraid it will be impossible to escape from here.
Liu Yu thought about it for a while, but after all, he was too sleepy, and in a daze, he fell asleep against the rock wall. When he woke up, he saw that Mrs. Xiao was staring at him, silently not speaking. He asked, "Sister Xiao, are you awake?" Mrs. Xiao sighed: "What's the use of waking up or not, it's not that you're trapped here waiting to die." Mrs. Xiao hurriedly said: "Don't shout! ”
The two sat in the pit for two more days, and Abaoji lay in Mrs. Xiao's arms, still unconscious. Liu Yu and Mrs. Xiao chatted to quench their thirst by licking a thin layer of seepage water on the rock wall. Both were hungry, but they had nothing to eat. On this day, the two of them saw dark clouds rolling in the sky from the bottom of the crater, and a moment later the rain poured down. The water in the pit was accumulating more and more, and Mrs. Xiao said miserably: "Are we going to drown here!"
Liu Yu lowered his head and thought for a while, and said, "If the rain can rain for a longer time, it would be good, we can swim out." Mrs. Xiao said in frustration: "I am from the north and can't swim." Liu Yu said: "It's okay, I'll ask you to go up when the time comes." In the water, your body is so much lighter, I can afford to drag it. ”
Mrs. Xiao was overjoyed and said, "Thank you for that, brother." If I can get out of this trap, I will repay you in the future!" The two of them stood in the crater, drenched, and they both hoped that the rain would get heavier and heavier. It may be that God has appeared, this rain has been non-stop for a long time, and the rain in the pit is accumulating more and more. Liu Yu carried Mrs. Xiao on her shoulders, and Mrs. Xiao was wrapped in Abaoji on her back, and the three of them were immersed in the rain.
The rain fell for a while, then stopped, and the rain reached Liu's neck, only a few feet above the ground. Liu Yu stepped on the water and swam up, and Mrs. Xiao sat on his shoulder, stretched her hand up, and actually grabbed the upper edge of the pit. With the help of Liu Yu, she climbed out of the pit with some embarrassment. She lay on top of the pit, stretched out her right hand down, and said, "Brother Brother, grab my hand, come up quickly!"
Liu Yu was about to take her hand and climb out of the pit, when he heard a man's shout from outside the pit, speaking in Khitan language, and his voice was very hoarse, like the dwarf he had seen. A woman's voice followed: "Mrs. Xiao, there is a kind of you don't run, I Hua Sanniang will not be a person if I don't catch you!"
Mrs. Xiao was startled, retracted her right hand, carried Abaoji on her back, turned around and disappeared from above the pit. Liu Yu was soaked in the rain, and he couldn't go up or down. At the same time, the Yue Wu Room was getting closer and closer to the footsteps and scolding of Hua Sanniang. He took a deep breath and dived into the rain, waiting until the footsteps of the two faded away before poking his head out.
The rainwater in the pit slowly seeped down, and eventually only the mud at the bottom of the pit remained. At this time, although it was already spring, the weather after the rain was still extremely cold, as if all the spring was brought away by this heavy rain. Liu Yu's coat is still wrapped around Abaoji's body. He stood in the mud at the bottom of the crater, shivering with cold, cold and hungry.