Volume 1: Forsaken Land Chapter 65: Healing
Two days later, Kong Laosan returned from the mountains, carrying a straw basket with many old medicines that had been aged for many years, and a stick on his shoulder, on which was a three-foot-long python and a huge elk, and a dozen or so small beasts that looked like pheasants and hares.
"You went into the mountains by yourself?"
In the room, Xun'er stared at Kong Laosan with a pair of eyes, her eyebrows furrowed together, and she was quite in the posture of an interrogation.
"No, and the three of them!"
Kong Laosan said, three small snakes arched out of the cuffs, the snake's head the size of a baby's fist looked very cute, the snake was suffocating, and it seemed to be showing off something.
"Hehe, these are their credits, these beasts hunted this time are non-poisonous and can be eaten. ”
Seeing the three little snakes, Xun'er's face softened slightly, but his tone was still a little serious, "Even if they help, you can't go into the mountain alone next time, you don't know how dangerous the mountain is, my father was so powerful at the beginning, he was ......"
When Xun'er said this, her eyes seemed to be shining, and when she saw this scene, Kong Laosan had no choice but to respond to it all.
"By the way, what kind of herbs are those in your basket? Why haven't I seen many of them?"
After a while, Xun'er looked at the back basket next to Kong Laosan, and once again returned to the temperament of a hearty girl.
"It's all good medicine, I'm a Langzhong, many of these medicinal materials are used to nourish my flesh and bones, and they are made into medicinal baths, which can make the injuries on my body recover as soon as possible!"
"Are you really Langzhong, how are your medical skills?"
Hearing Kong Laosan boasting about himself, Xun'er's eyes lit up slightly, and he asked with some hesitation.
Hearing this, Kong Laosan thought about it for a while, and then understood Xun'er's plan, and felt a little emotional, and said with a slight smile, "Take me to see your grandmother first, if it is not a terminal illness, it should still be able to cure the disease!"
In the dim wooden house, an old woman with sparse white hair was lying quietly on the bed, with a thin figure, and intermittent moans came out of her mouth, as if she had reached the point of dying, perhaps because the whole house had not passed through the air for a long time, there was a faint smell all around, and an oil lamp above her head emitted a dim light, but she could see the surrounding scene clearly.
"Grandmother!"
Hearing the old woman's moan, Xun'er's face changed, and she hurriedly came to the bed, without saying a word, picked up a dirt ash bowl from a dark cabinet next to the bed, and scooped a spoonful of black soup made of not just some medicinal herbs to pour down to the old woman, but just scooped up the medicinal juice from the bowl, but was grabbed by a big hand.
"What are you doing?!"
Xun'er was furious, and his voice scolded eagerly, and he regretted it a little as soon as the words came out, and at this moment he thought that the person in front of him was a man, and there must be a reason for stopping him.
Thinking of this, Xun'er wanted to apologize, but at this moment, Kong Laosan had already come to the old woman's bed, pretending to stretch out two fingers on the other party's wrists, and the power of divine thoughts, which had recovered some of the divine thoughts, surged out from the purple mansion in the center of the eyebrows, and probed carefully.
Perhaps infected by Kong Laosan's calmness, at this moment, Xun'er, who was originally a little anxious, slowly calmed down, just looked at her grandmother who was still moaning in pain, her eyes were full of worry.
After about half a cup of tea, Kong Laosan opened his eyes gently, and sighed slightly in his heart, the old woman in front of him had obviously lost her spirit, and when she was dying, she might not be relieved of her only granddaughter, so she refused to swallow her breath.
From the mood fluctuations of the old woman, Kong Laosan can clearly feel a strong sense of pathos, perhaps the accident of the white-haired man sending the black-haired man three years ago gave him too much blow, and the serious illness in the body was brought out, and he was seriously ill immediately, and it was a miracle that he could drag it out until now.
Just looking at Xun'er's expectant gaze, Kong Laosan really couldn't bear to say this, just sighed lightly, "The old man has penetrated deep into the bone marrow, and he has also reached the age of returning to the west, and the power of non-medicinal stones can heal ......."
Hearing what Kong Laosan said, Xun'er's pretty face suddenly turned pale, pursed her lips and said nothing, this result Xun'er seemed to have expected a long time ago, relying on the family background left by her father, Xun'er didn't know how many doctors she invited for diagnosis and treatment, and she could only sigh with her bare hands, but these words really came out of Kong Laosan's mouth, and Xun'er still had a feeling of pain in her heart.
"However, I do have a few pills of the elixir passed down from the master here, which may be able to alleviate the pain of some elderly people and allow them to enjoy their time in peace for a few months......"
I really couldn't bear to see Xun'er's appearance, Kong Laosan's tone changed, he said softly, and as he spoke, he took out a thumb-sized emerald jade bottle from his arms, the bottle mouth was slanted, and a pale yellow pill the size of a broad bean rolled down the palm of his hand, and looked at the old woman on the bed, Kong Laosan frowned, and divided the pill into two, only taking part of it.
"Go get a bowl of water!"
In Xun'er's somewhat nervous gaze, Kong Laosan dissolved the small half-crushed pill into the water, and the originally clear and transparent bowl of water suddenly turned pale yellow, after doing this, Kong Laosan took out two jade bottles from his arms, poured out two pills the size of broad beans, and threw them directly into the water.
The two pills melted when they were put into the water, and the bowl of water turned pale green again.
In Xun'er's surprised gaze, Kong Laosan took out fifteen empty jade bottles from the palm-sized pocket on his waist in one go, divided the pale green water in the bowl into fifteen parts, and then turned around and said, "Take one bottle of these potions every morning, and after the fifteen bottles of potions are taken, the old man should be able to recover some of his vitality!"
Hearing this, Xun'er's pretty face looked very excited, looked at her grandmother who was still moaning softly on the bed, and then looked at the fifteen bottles on the table, and nodded vigorously.
"There are still some potions in the bowl, let's give them to the old man first, remember, from tomorrow, one bottle a day!"
Kong Laosan said that he was about to leave, but before leaving, he added, "It's better not to tell others about these things, the master didn't leave many pills......
Hearing these words, Xun'er turned her head, her bright eyes blinked, she pursed her lips and smiled, and nodded like a little fox.
Back in the side room, Kong Laosan disposed of the old medicine in the back basket and moved the wooden barrel used for bathing to the room, but thinking that this wooden barrel was used by Xun'er for bathing on weekdays, two thoughts suddenly appeared in his heart, but even though he laughed at himself, he directly extinguished this thought.
"Senior, does this medicated bath really work for my injuries?"
The old medicine is boiling in water, the water vapor is steaming, and in the wooden barrel, the black purple, viscous liquid medicine like batter "cooing" endlessly, and a strong bitter smell spreads around.
"Hmph, don't talk nonsense, hurry up and get in, stay in this place where birds don't, when can I help the ancestor find the body, if not, the ancestor will be lazy to care about your life or death!"
The Purple Mansion fluctuated, and a slightly weak old voice came out.
Hearing this, Kong Laosan no longer hesitated, took out a piece of rune paper, rubbed it gently, and the surrounding fluctuations were together, and a simple enchantment was spread all around.
Hot, this is Kong Laosan's only feeling, because he can't use his spiritual power to resist, he can only rely on his physical body to resist, and ordinary people really can't bear it.
As soon as he was submerged in it, Kong Laosan's burnt yellow skin bared his teeth and twisted up, and between the contact between the liquid medicine and the flesh skin, it made a sound like "zing" like frying, and the neck completely turned into blood, as if the blood of the whole body was gathered on the head, which looked a little crazy.
After five hours, when the sky gradually darkened, Kong Laosan left the bathtub, his skin was red, but there was an indescribable comfort, and the originally viscous black liquid had turned into a turbid pale yellow.
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Time passed slowly, the weather was getting colder and colder, and even a few snowflakes would fall in the sky from time to time, and Kong Laosan had been in Bainiu Village for five months.
During this period of time, Kong Laosan spent almost all of his time recovering from his injuries, and every ten days and a half months, he would go to the mountains to find some medicinal materials, not to mention, under the nourishment of the medicinal bath, the injuries that originally took about eight months to heal were already healed in just over five months.
Now Kong Laosan has been able to simply use some spiritual power, and even some simple spells have been able to unleash, but the wounds of the divine soul have not improved at all, and if he wants to recover completely, I am afraid that only after the old ghost in the Purple Mansion disappears, he can swallow the beast soul.
It is worth mentioning that after taking the medicinal liquid configured by Kong Laosan, Grandmother Xun'er was really much more energetic, and she was able to barely say a few words. After this incident, Xun'er was very grateful to Kong Laosan, and every time Kong Laosan entered the mountain, Xun'er would carry a bow and arrow, and call "Huangbao" to follow.
Huang Bao is the local dog raised by Xun'er.
In this regard, Kong Laosan was very solemnly dissuaded several times, but after learning about Xun'er's stubborn nature, he also did as she wished.
At the beginning of the next year, Kong Laosan, who has a good body and bones, can only say goodbye to Xun'er under the urging of the old ghost, Xun'er is very smart, since the last time he treated his grandmother, it seems that he has guessed the identity of Kong Laosan, after retaining to no avail, he proposed to Kong Laosan that he wanted to go out of the mountains and see the outside world.
As for whether Xun'er itself has a spiritual root, Kong Laosan is not sure, and leaving things behind, one is to repay the other party's life-saving care, and on the other hand, it is just to give Xun'er a hope.