Volume 1 A Troubled Boy Chapter 1 The Beginning of the Story Section 9 Unexpected Salvation
When Luobei woke up, the sunset in the cloudy sky had already fallen down the mountain.
Leaving a colorful halo on the horizon in the distance, although the night is about to fall, but at this moment, in Luo Bei's eyes, the bright sunset on the horizon is also exceptionally beautiful.
It's like a little flower struggling among the withered grass and not wanting to give up its fate.
"Red coral, white begonia, even the grass is yellow, why haven't you withered yet?" Luo Bei gently brushed the tiny petals between the grass with his hand, and asked to himself.
In fact, there is no red coral here, and there are no white begonias, this is just the name that Zhuo Xiaochan gave to the red and white stars.
Luo Bei remembered that his father said that "flowers float by themselves", but he also knew that the flowers here were not just flowers, but also her friends, so she was sad because of the withering of flowers.
The red and white flowers kept swaying in the direction of his hand, as if they were making a silent reply.
Luo Bei smiled, put his hands on his curled legs, and then buried his face on them, through the gap between his legs, he saw the weak and strong little flower below, blinked his eyes and said to himself: "Fortunately, you can still accompany each other, otherwise how can you get it on this cold day......"
Everyone has probably had such a moment, facing the earth, facing the sky, and pouring out small thoughts.
Finally, under the sky, in the afterglow of the setting sun, there is a slanted and lonely back.
"Whew"
Two muffled cries were heard from nowhere.
Even though the sound was low, it was very clear in the quieter surroundings.
Without any psychological preparation, Luo Bei was still taken aback.
He subconsciously looked back nervously, but after a while, there was no movement behind him.
"Could it be a hallucination?"
Just as he was about to reassure, several equally muffled cries came in succession.
This time he could be sure that the sound was not an illusion, but a low roar from the direction behind him.
He quickly stood up, now that it was about to be dark, even the last ray of light on the horizon finally hung down the mountain, thinking of the dark wilderness, he couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.
Without much thought, he was ready to go the way he came, and now he wanted most to return to the thatched hut, which was lonely but safe at the same time.
There are a lot of beasts on the mountain, and now that it is getting late, it is difficult to say what will happen, and when there is no one around, I will inevitably fill the belly of the beast.
He hurried away, just as he walked past the end of the meadow beneath his feet, and was about to pass the bare mountain to enter the path into the rocky area.
Beneath the peak, there was a tremor in the deep grass, followed by several low hisses.
The sound was faint, like the last chirp of a dying beast.
Luo Bei remembered a puppy that he had at home when he was a child, jumping around all day long, following him, he felt very bored every time he saw it, but one day, he didn't know what he shouldn't eat outside, and when he got home, he lay on the grass in front of the door, tossed for a long time, and finally didn't get better.
He still remembered the puppy's pitiful look and the faint bark of the puppy when he was dying.
Although he didn't know what the low chirp in the grass was coming from, it sounded like the puppy.
Luo Bei took two steps forward, and then his body stopped again.
The low wail echoed in his ears.
Seeing that the sun had set, it was soon completely dark.
He struggled, his raised foot retracted.
After several hesitations, in the end he couldn't bear to leave, and if he didn't go to see what was going on, he estimated that he would feel guilty for a long time.
Maybe there was a wounded mountain eagle in the grass...... Or maybe it's a snow rabbit that can't find a home......
The grass under the mountain is very high, even half a head taller than the height of Luobei, most of them have withered and yellow, and the weeds are scattered, which looks extremely deep.
On the top of the head are two huge old vines, the trunk of the old vine is not known, stretching out like two huge arms, the top end is on a mountain rock, hanging down on both sides, like an arch.
It's all blocked by weeds, and you can't see what it's like inside.
Luo Bei had to use both hands and feet, and finally separated the weeds and pushed inside one by one.
I don't know where the grass comes from, and there are many hairs on the grass, and Luo Bei is covered all over his body, so he naturally can't care about it so much.
I don't know how far I walked in, and the last ray of light on the horizon shone in through the passage opened by Luobei.
Finally, he parted to block the weeds in front of him, and what came into his eyes was a snow-white thing shivering among the grass.
The snow-white little creature curled up all over, and even its head was shrunk in the middle of its body, revealing only its two small but erect ears.
The white hair all over the body is trembling with the body.
It turned out that it was a snow-white cat that was shivering in the grass, without a trace of variegation, and its whole body was curled up, and sometimes it let out a low roar.
Luo Bei shook his head and smiled bitterly, since it was a white cat in his hand, not a beast, the worries in his heart were finally relieved.
He leaned down and gently touched the soft white hair.
"How did you get to this deep mountain?" he looked at the white cat with pity, his hand gently caressing its snow-white body.
The white cat was touched by him, and its body suddenly tightened, as if it was maintaining some kind of vigilance, and then it may have been the sharp pain in its body that made it tremble again.
Luo Bei knew that it was frightened, so he comforted and said, "Don't worry, rest assured...... I'm not going to hurt you......"
He spoke to himself, not knowing if the white cat could understand, but the white cat probably still knew that he had no intention of harming, and really relaxed and let him pet it.
"Huh" Luo Bei let out an exclamation as he found a pool of black blood underneath the white cat's retreat.
At this time, he finally knew that the white cat was actually injured, no wonder his whole body trembled so much.
And this injury came from a hind leg, Luo Bei carefully examined the trembling back, and found that there were three small silver needles nailed side by side between the legs, deep into the bone, and the black blood was slowly overflowing from under the tiny pinhole.
Luo Bei didn't dare to pull out the needle easily, because it was likely that venom would be extracted from the needle, otherwise the blood would not be so colored.
Since he was a child, he followed his father up the mountain to collect medicine and firewood, and poisonous snakes, insects and ants were naturally inevitable on the mountain, so he knew that once the venom penetrated deep into the body, the blood that flowed out would change color, and the more powerful the poison, the darker the color of the blood.
And after poisoning, you can't move around, so as not to speed up the blood flow rate and infect the whole body, even the gods are afraid and difficult to save at that time.
So, Luo Bei carefully stretched his hands under the white cat's body, and then held it up, I don't know if the white cat can also know what Luo Bei means, the whole process is surprisingly honest.
Luo Bei carefully held the white cat on his chest, gently leaned his body on himself, and endured it with the strength of his body, lest the strength in his hands be insufficient after a long time.
Before he turned to leave, he looked up and saw a dark and deep cave in front of him, and the door of the cave was about a foot high.
The deep mountains are really mysterious, and I don't know what made such a big cave dig in such a secret place.
The cave was pitch black, and it seemed that there was no end, so he didn't dare to look more, so he hurriedly withdrew his gaze, and quickly hugged the white cat and turned away.
He knew he didn't have time to go to the cave right now, because the white cat's life was at stake
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When I got back to the hut, it was completely dark.
The room was also completely darkened, but fortunately, Luo Bei was already extremely familiar with every corner, so it would not prevent him from lighting the candles, although the candlelight did not illuminate the room very brightly, but fortunately, the room was not big, so the light was bright enough to see clearly.
Luo Bei carefully put the white cat next to his bed, this little life has begun to twitch intermittently, I don't know how much life it has left.
After putting it down, Luo Bei immediately thought of the wooden box placed next to the bed, so he quickly opened it, it was the medicine box prepared for him by Zhuo Xiaocicada, there were a lot of bottles and cans in it, it was said that she carried it here from a long distance.
There are a lot of large and small porcelain bottles in the box, there are palm-sized medicine boxes, there are powdered external injury medicines, and there are also pill-like internal injury medicines, which are quite complete, but I don't know if there is a cure for this toxin.
Luo Bei almost turned out all the medicines in the medicine box, there was no so-called medicine to treat toxins, he felt that his forehead was already full of beads of sweat, which were slowly flowing down his sideburns, but he didn't even have time to wipe the beads of sweat now, he needed to save his life, save a poor little life.
While he was turning over for a long time, the white cat lying next to the bed was almost immobile.
Luo Bei took a deep breath, and thought in his heart that there was really no way out, and he could only be a dead horse doctor, so he randomly selected a few medicines from the medicine box and hurriedly came to the white cat.
Removing the stopper on the porcelain bottle, a strong medicinal fragrance immediately floated out, and Luo Bei didn't have time to think about what medicine to use and how much to dose, so he poured several medicines on the wound of the white cat's hind legs.
I don't know if the medicine worked or if there was no more blood to spill out, and the wound on the hind leg soon stopped oozing black blood.
As soon as he finished applying the medicine, Luo Bei took two steps back and sat on the ground in a dejected manner, and at this time, the sweat on his body had almost soaked his clothes unconsciously.
Maybe out of nervousness, maybe it was the fatigue caused by a high concentration of mind, Luo Bei kept staring at the white cat lying on the side of the bed that was no longer moving, as well as a few medicine bottles and medicine jars scattered on the table and the ground.
He felt an inexplicable sadness in his heart.
At last it was lying there as motionless as the puppy it had been, and perhaps it didn't have to suffer any more pain at the moment.
I don't know how long it took, Luo Bei leaned on the side of the bed and fell asleep.
Although he still hoped for a miracle, in his subconscious, the little life may have completely stopped the beating of the heart, he did what he could do and think, and as for whether it could survive or not, an eight-year-old boy had done his best.
If it dies, it will be another death that Luobei has witnessed, even if it is just an insignificant cat.
He didn't even know why he cared so much about the life or death of a cat, could it be because he was alone on this mountain?
It can't be a sympathy, right?
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Dreams are a magical thing, in dreams you can have things you can't ask for, in dreams you can meet people you will never see again.
In the dream, Luo Bei stood in front of the cliff, behind him was a waterfall pouring down, the water fell, and countless splashes slammed, and the water splashed in the deep pool, making a deafening sound.
He held a sword in his hand, a real sword, the sword light flashed, and he slashed down against the fierce water, and at that moment the water was cut into two sections, he was heartbroken, and finally he practiced the unparalleled magic skill in the world, so he mentioned his true qi, jumped lightly from the cliff, and then rose into the clouds for dozens of zhang.
Just as he was excited, a voice was indifferent, like the sound of a steel knife grinding against a stone wall.
Then he seemed to see a face in the haze, very similar to his father, but he was already full of gray hair, Luo Bei thought that he had finally practiced martial arts, and his father would definitely praise him, but his father's face was still so blue.
At this moment, the water of the waterfall suddenly poured down, falling down towards his head, so big that the water swept him away with a wave of head and face, and his father stood in front of him and sneered, and he was completely drenched into a soup chicken.
He really didn't understand why the water of the waterfall suddenly turned back, he looked up at the sky, only to see that the sky was overcast, and he realized that it had rained heavily, and the rain fell like beads on the confused sky, so that he couldn't open his eyes.
He reached out and wiped the wet water from his face, and was about to open his eyes when the rain fell again, and he wiped it again, but each time it was drenched again......
At this time, his feet suddenly slipped, and the whole person fell backwards, and he was suddenly startled, and his hands kept waving, trying to grab something, and his father, who had been standing there, suddenly stretched out a hand.
But he fell too fast to catch the hand after all, and his father had turned around slowly, and when he looked at his back again, he was extremely old.
Luo Bei used all his strength, his eyes widened, he couldn't care about the raindrops falling from the sky into his eyes, he wanted to see more clearly, but everything backfired, the more he wanted to see clearly, the more blurred it became.
Finally, he opened his eyes in the midst of the struggle, his pupils were full of panic, and his whole body was already soaked in sweat.
His hands gripped one hand tightly, and he clutched it like that, never wanting to let go.
His heart rose and fell as he gasped, and it was then that he realized that he was not grasping his father's hand, but a white velvet paw.
A paw from a cat.
It turned out that everything was just a dream, and he sat up slowly, and the white cat fell into his arms.
He felt that his face was still wet, and subconsciously wiped it, and found that it was actually full of slimy liquid.
The white cat in his arms was staring at him with round eyes, and Luo Bei stopped talking, because he probably guessed that the rain in his dream fell on his face, why he couldn't wipe it clean even if he wiped it repeatedly.
The candle in the house had been extinguished, and it was dark again, and the cat's eyes were glowing green, and he was not afraid, and even a little lucky, glad that the little life did not disappear, but miraculously survived.
He didn't know if it was the medicine he used indiscriminately that worked, it didn't matter now, what mattered now was that the white cat was lying in his arms obediently, and he would never be alone late at night again.
He shook his head hard, he didn't know how long he had been sleeping, and his head still hurt a little.
As far as the eye could see, a faint glow shone in from the window, and the dust in the room turned into pulsing specks in the light.
And the sky outside is getting brighter.
Luo Bei looked at the white cat lying quietly in his arms, lazily stretched out his cat's paw and gently scratched Luo Bei's arm in front of it, which made Luo Bei itch for a while.
He smiled and reached for the cat's nose.
Only then did he see that the white cat was snow-white, and there was no trace of variegated white soft hair, only a small triangular black hair on its forehead.
So, after an unexpected rescue, a man and a cat finally became relaxed, even if it was not yet dawn outside, they no longer had sleepiness, rolling off each other on the ground, playing with each other.
Obviously, people can be friends with animals other than what humans think they are.
As long as you are willing to pay for it......
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