I don't know how long it took.

Zhao Laosan opened his eyes and saw that there were several bamboos on his head to form a tripod, and on the shelf, the side of the shelf was covered with palm leaves and dry reeds, covering it. I saw a gap on the right hand side that was one man high and one foot wide, and there was a tattered straw mat blocking the wind, which turned out to be a shack. Zhao Laosan found himself lying on the mat, with thick reeds under the mat, knowing that he had been rescued, he wanted to sit up, but found that he couldn't move, and his left hand couldn't move, and it hurt when he moved. The right hand can move, but when it moves, it will tear the muscles around the body, so it is better not to move.

Zhao Laosan examined himself with the internal vision method and found that his internal injuries were still like that, but the wounds began to suppurate and become inflamed. I found that my whole body was naked, and I was shocked, and I endured the pain and touched my waist with my right hand, and there was nothing, and the short sword inserted in my waist before going down the river, and the package tied to my waist were gone. I thought to myself: "The enemy will not save himself, although there is no thing, it is good to be able to save his life." Only heal the wound as soon as possible, and then think about anything else. ”

Zhao Laosan calmed down, meditated, and used the whole body concentration method to gather essence.

I don't know how long it took to come, a sound of footsteps came, and Zhao Laosan immediately stopped meditating, judging that it was a person's footsteps.

A crack opened in the leaky straw mat, and a 6 or 7-year-old child got in. "Uncle, are you awake?"

Zhao Laosan opened his eyes and looked at the child standing in front of his bed. The child is ordinary, with very bright eyes and a clay pot in his hand. "Wake up. May I ask you, little brother, did you save me?"

"I found my uncle lying on the river beach in the morning, so I dragged you to my house. You have wounds all over your body, so I will strip you naked and dry you with a cloth, for fear that your wounds will suppurate. The child replied. "This is my home, and I live here. I'll bring you a jar of gruel, and you can drink it. The child showed Zhao Laosan a earthen jar in his hand.

Zhao Laosan's eyes looked at the child gently, and said kindly, "Thank you for saving me." Do you see what I have hanging around my waist?"

"Is this it?" The child put down the earthen pot he was carrying, and with his right hand, he took out a short sword from under the straw mat where Zhao Laosan was lying, and sealed a waterproof leather bag.

"Yes. Zhao Laosan breathed a long sigh of relief and thought, "Thank God, the thing is still there, I have been saved." He said happily to the child, "Open your pocket, take out a red round pill, melt it with water, and rub it on my wound; Take another white pill, remove the wax from the outside, and feed it to me, I can't move. ”

The child did what Zhao Laosan asked, fed Zhao Laosan and drank gruel, and went out.

After Zhao Laosan finished taking the medicine, he was determined: "This life is saved, and it is the key to recover your body and essence as soon as possible, otherwise any child can kill me." "Continue to meditate and gather energy.

In the morning, a morning sun shone on Zhao Laosan's face through the tattered straw mat used as a door curtain, Zhao Laosan woke up and felt that there was a person sleeping next to him, and if he looked closely, it was the child who gave him medicine. I thought to myself, "It's the morning of the second day, and it's another night." Children sleep here at night, and this shack is really a home for children. The kid wasn't lying. But is this child alone, without parents, brothers and sisters?"

Zhao Laosan has been in one position for a long time, and he wants to change his posture, but he wakes up the child as soon as he moves.

The child got up, looked at Zhao Laosan carefully, and said, "Uncle, you are much better, you have blood on your body." When I saw you on the beach, you were all white, and the skin on your wounds was bleached, which was terrifying. "Zhao Laosan is still naked.

"I caught some loaches yesterday, small fish, and I'll make you soup right away. The child went out with that.

Thirty minutes later, the child came in with a pot of earth. "Uncle, it's too hot, drink it cool. ”

Zhao Laosan nodded and said, "Okay." You are still the same as yesterday, you open your pocket, take out a red round pill, melt it with water, and rub it on my wound, and don't have too much water, otherwise it will be too thin, just melt it. Take another white pill, remove the wax from the outside, and feed it to me, I can't move. ”

The child did so, fed the fish soup to Zhao Laosan, helped Zhao Laosan to lie down, and said to Zhao Laosan: "Uncle, I have to go to the blacksmith shop to do chores, otherwise there will be no food, and I won't be able to come back at noon, and I won't be able to come back until evening." You take care of yourself. Then he turned and walked out of the hut, and ran quickly in the direction of the blacksmith's shop.

Zhao Laosan thought for a while and continued to meditate and concentrate.

A round of sunset hangs on the top of the mountain, the sunset shines on the river, and many small fish happily jump up and fall into the river, making the river surface ripple slightly, and there is a red light flickering from time to time.

A child ran to the river as fast as he could, and then he got into the reeds, and then into the shack: "Uncle, I'm back." I brought you steamed buns. ”

Three days passed.

Zhao Laosan's external injuries and small wounds have all been scarred, and only three major wounds have not healed yet, and he can already sit up on his own. But the left hand is not yet moving.

Another five days passed.

Except for Zhao Laosan's left hand, which could not move flexibly, the external injury was basically healed. A person who practices martial arts is in good health and recovers quickly, and he is already able to stand up and move on his own. That afternoon, Zhao Laosan walked out of the shack by himself and walked slowly around the shack. The shack was found on a mound in a U-shaped river channel, surrounded by reeds nearly a man high.

Zhao Laosan thought to himself: "This U-shaped river channel makes the river slow down and turn here, so I was washed on the river beach here." It's still relatively hidden here, my injuries are not finished, and there are many enemies, so I definitely can't beat them. It's better to heal your injuries here before leaving. If you're careful, lay two formations near the shack, one to help hide the shack and one to help you slip away in case of emergency. ”

Attention has been decided, and Zhao Laosan immediately got busy. It took four hours to move a few stones near the shack, remove a few reeds with a short sword, pick up a few planks from the river beach, chop them a few times with a short sword, and stick them near the shack.

"Hey, after all, the serious injury is not healed, it took so much time, if it were usual, it would be done in less than 30 minutes. Zhao Laosan said to himself, and slowly walked back to the shack to meditate.

A sound of footsteps woke Zhao Laosan up, and when he looked out through the gap in the straw mat, he saw the child walking around in the reeds, and muttered, "This is it." Why is there no longer my house?" Zhao Laosan woke up at once, it turned out that he had set up a formation outside the shack, and the child could not find the shack and could not enter.

Zhao Laosan walked out of the shack, said hello to the child, took the child into the shack, and told the child how to come in.

The child flashed a pair of bright eyes and said to Zhao Laosan: "Uncle, your formation is so amazing, can you teach me?"

Zhao Laosan looked at the child's eager eyes and couldn't bear to refuse. I thought, "I should repay the grace of saving my life." He nodded and agreed: "I will teach you when I get better." ”

After Zhao Laosan ate the food brought to him by the child, he chatted with the child about family life.

This place is Caizhuang, and the whole village is descended from an old ancestor, all with the same surname. The child's father was injured in a fight with a neighboring village for water, and soon died of illness. After the death of his father, he was orphaned and widowed, and his mother remarried when the child was five years old. The child's surname is Cai, and he has no name, because his father is at the bottom of the generation, and his name is Cai Jiu. The people of the whole village call the children: "Unit", and for convenience, they are used to calling children "demons".

Since the demon's father died fighting for water in the village, the whole village does not dislike the demon. Each family takes turns to provide a day's food and raise the demon until he is six years old. Seeing that the demon was still clever and obedient, he didn't become a gangster and endanger the village, so he asked the demon to go to the village blacksmith shop to help with chores and eat enough. If the demon can learn the trade of a blacksmith, he can also have a craft of eating when he grows up, and even have the money to marry a wife and have children to pass on the lineage.

The demon felt that it was inconvenient to live in someone else's house, so he came out and built a shack on the riverbank to make his own home. During the day, he went to the blacksmith shop to do chores, and at night he returned to the shack to live. Sometimes the blacksmith shop has nothing to do, and when it closes early, the demon goes to the river to catch small fish and shrimp, catch loaches to improve his life, and doing chores in the blacksmith shop is manual work, plus it is the period of physical development, and he needs to eat meat, and he lives a peaceful and free life.

Zhao Laosan thought to himself: "The children of poor families are in charge early. ”

Another five days passed.

Zhao Laosan woke up and found that the demon was not there, and assessed his physical condition with the internal vision method, and was very pleasantly surprised, except for the left arm, which had not fully recovered, all of them had scarred, in other words, the trauma was not infected and suppurated, as long as it took some time, it could be healed. Although there is no scar sealing on the left arm, there is no sign of infection and suppuration, and the essence is slowly recovering, although it is very slow, it means that the body is basically normal. "In just half a month, I can basically recover, and I will not be left with disabilities. Thanks to the demons, you can survive the disaster, and you have to repay it. ”

Zhao Laosan thought: "It's hard for a demon to live alone. I'll take the demon with me. I have no fixed place, I am adrift, the demon is still young, and my body can't bear it. Besides, I have a lot of enemies, and the demon has no ability to protect himself, and the enemy vents his hatred against me on the demon, but harms the demon. After all, the demon here does not have to worry about eating, and his life is still calm and stable, at least there is no danger to his life. ”

"It's much better for the demon to stay in Caizhuang. I taught him some basic exercises. Lay a solid foundation first, and then teach him the method of concentrating on essence, the method of internal vision, and the method of building muscles to lay the foundation first. If the demon can't be practiced, it is also good for the body, at least farming, being a blacksmith also has the strength, can solve the problem of life and food, and be an ordinary person. If he can practice, I will teach him some methods of walking the rivers and lakes, and take him to the rivers and lakes to practice. ”

"But the rivers and lakes are not easy to mix. As soon as you enter the rivers and lakes, you can't help yourself. The world is out of my generation, and as soon as I enter the rivers and lakes, I know the bloody wind and rain of the rivers and lakes when I enter the rivers and lakes. ”