Chapter 10 The Road to the Mountain

When www.biquge.info he thought of the pair of dog men and women, Tianchen gritted his teeth with hatred. If they suddenly appeared in front of Tianchen and didn't resist, Tianchen would be able to swallow him alive at once, and he didn't need to dip it in soy sauce.

Tianhe saw his younger brother's thoughts, and a different color suddenly flashed on his face, but it was only for a moment that he disappeared, and smiled and comforted Tianchen.

"You're not injured yet, don't be angry, take a good rest.Oh, by the way, I haven't had anything to eat these days, everyone is busy, I may not have much time to come and see you, I'm nearby, you call me if there's something."

Tianhe said as he solemnly put away the wooden box in his hand, and then placed Tianchen in place, and then left.

I saw him use his thin body, dragging a wooden cart, walking on the periphery of the flow of people, and moving eastward.

Tianchen's gray ointment really worked, Tianchen slowly regained consciousness, not as numb as before.

The wooden cart is about four feet wide and about half a zhang long, just enough for Tianchen to sleep alone, and the board surface is flat and there are not many protrusions, which makes Tianchen not notice anything wrong at first, and I don't know where they got it.

Although the body has improved, most of them are still numb, Tianchen did not come down and walked around, lying on the wooden board honestly, looking at the dark night sky, feeling the coolness of the breeze, and the little sour smell in the air.

After a while, Tianhe actually brought a bowl of sticky porridge for Tianchen, which attracted a wave of waiting from the surrounding refugees, staring at the broken bowl, and waited until Tianchen finished eating, and then reluctantly moved away.

The next morning, Tianhe came to wipe his brother's body, but the amount of water was very small, just wiped the parts that were still red and swollen, and there was basically no water in the middle.

This was the case for three days in a row.

In the early morning of the fourth day, Tianchen lay on the wooden board and couldn't fall asleep.

The swelling on his body has disappeared for most of these days, Tianchen has regained a lot of consciousness, shook his arms, and wanted to get out of the car and walk.

One foot on the hard loess, it feels good, and the other foot also stretches down, it feels okay.But just when Tianchen stood up hard and handed over all the weight to his legs, his legs bent down inexplicably, and he couldn't support it.

Tianchen used all his strength, swayed and stood up, and saw that Tianhe was still asleep, and then he breathed a sigh of relief, he was too tired these days, and he should have a good rest.

Tianchen began to walk like a baby, and his body swayed away.

The east is white, the world is hazy, Tianchen is very careful to maintain the balance of his body, walking slowly.

Suddenly, a familiar figure walked out not far away, Tianchen looked over, and found that it was Zhang Daniu, who immediately turned crooked, and walked over with some excitement, wanting to say hello.

Zhang Daniu also found Tianchen, he was stunned for a moment, and then his expression was flat, and he walked away without looking at Tianchen.

Tianchen felt strange and shouted: "Hey, Da Niu, why did you run away when you saw me?"

Da Niu was stunned, and replied very reluctantly: "It's nothing, I still have something?"

Tianchen walked behind Da Niu with difficulty, put his hand on Da Niu's shoulder, and wanted to rely on it to take a breath, but unexpectedly, Da Niu dodged on the side of his body, almost making Tianchen fall and gnaw mud.

Tianchen felt uncomfortable in his heart, but he still walked up to Da Niu and asked with a smile: "What are you doing these days? Why haven't I seen you come to see me?

Zhang Daniu turned his face, twisted his brows, and didn't say a word.

Tianchen saw that Da Niu had something on his mind, and asked in a lower voice: "What's the matter?" Is it that the porridge I have eaten in the past few days is too sticky, so that everyone has run out of food again? It's okay, when I get better, let's go get a lot of food and come back, so that everyone can eat enough.

I didn't know that Tianchen's words stimulated Zhang Daniu, he suddenly showed an angry look, and raised his hand to push Tianchen away.

Zhang Daniu's eyes were red and he shouted: "Eat, eat, eat, you have this ability? No one is there, what else are you eating? If it weren't for you messing around, you insisted on eating some horse leg meat, poking the horse's leg with something, how could those horses go crazy, how could my father's hand be cut off, and how could my sister ......?"

Looking at Tianchen's blank gaze, Da Niu suddenly thought of something, turned around sharply, and quickly left here, looking at the expression, as if he was on the run.

What's wrong with them? What's wrong with them? Second Uncle Zhang?

Tianchen was in a trance for a while, thinking about these questions all the time, he wanted to ask in person, but the big bull had already run away, Tianchen got up with difficulty, looked around for a while, and still didn't see half a figure.

Tianchen returned to the place with a heavy mind, only to see Tianhe looking around with a worried face, and saw Tianchen limping here, so he breathed a sigh of relief and smiled.

"Brother, what's wrong with Da Niu? What did he say that the person is gone, is Second Uncle Zhang already dead because of his arm?" As soon as they met, Tianchen asked in a somewhat dejected manner.

"What, did you see the big cow?" Tianhe was surprised.

"Well, I met just now, but he didn't speak clearly, and he complained about me. Tianchen was a little puzzled.

"No, hey, don't worry, Da Niu can't be relieved because his father had his left arm cut off, and he is angry with you, it's nothing, don't worry." Tianhe's expression eased, and he comforted him.

With just one glance, Tianchen saw that Tianhe was lying, and immediately said in a cold voice: "Brother, we have been brothers for more than ten years, what's wrong with you, I don't know? Your eyes were a little unnatural when you spoke just now! What happened? After so many days, why haven't I seen my sister come to see me? Just now Da Niu also mentioned Xue'er and Xiaohua, what's wrong? They also had an accident?"

Facing Tianchen's sharp gaze like a sword, Tianhe dodged a little, and his expression was full of hesitation.

"Hey, I originally wanted you to be in better health, and then tell you later, since this has happened, then you will know sooner or later, so I'll tell you now."

Tianchen's ears were pricked up and he listened carefully.

It turned out that when he came out of Zheng's Mansion that day, Zhang Bao saw that there was no blood flowing out of the broken left arm, and when he came back, he just comforted the child a few words, let Jiang Yun do a simple bandage, and let them take care of Tianchen who was red and swollen all over his body.

Tianchen is not optimistic here, he can't help but turn yellow and black all over his body, and some half-cooked skin that has been roasted by the flame has also begun to rot and suppurate.

Seeing that the two of them couldn't wake up, as if they were dead, Jiang Yun was anxious with so many children alone, but he had no choice but to watch them suffer, his heart was like a thousand blades twisting, almost every day he washed his face with tears, and he lost weight day by day.

Seven days ago, a large group of people suddenly appeared in the north of the refugee flow, about 100 or so people. Most of these people were dressed as business travelers, quite wealthy, and colorful flags fluttered in front and behind the procession, and several of them had big "ancient" characters written on them. There were several sedan chairs in the crowd, and there were very important people sitting in them. There were many domestic servants and bodyguards on the periphery, so that some coveted did not dare to come forward.

When people reach a desperate situation, even if they know that there is a sea of swords and fires in front of them, they will jump desperately.

When many refugees saw that these rich people were living so richly, their hearts immediately repulsed, and they rushed forward desperately, trying to grab something to fill their stomachs. The rich people's guards were not vegetarians, and these hungry refugees with weak hands and feet and eyes were their opponents, but they packed up more than 300 people in one meal, which was more than three times their total number.

The refugees were shocked and no longer dared to act rashly, but listening to the children behind them hungry and crying, the old and weak starved to death, the opportunity was in front of them, how could they be willing to take a step back.

Fortunately, at this time, the rich man's grandmother said something that made all the refugees overjoyed, and the conflict was resolved.

"Since we visit the immortals to pray for the blessings of our descendants, then now that everyone is in trouble, why do we give up the merits in front of us and do not take them, but instead give up the near and seek the farthest away? Most of the tributes are also wasted in the Luping Temple, so we should do good things for the immortals, and it can be regarded as accumulating some merit for the younger generations."

Originally, the family went out to worship the gods and Buddhas, and there were ten carriages of tribute piled up behind them.

The son of the head of the family below is very filial, naturally he does not dare to disobey the will of the elders, and agrees with a smile.

The old lady got out of the car and called the refugees to get up again and again. When she saw that there were many sick among the refugees, she sent a doctor to treat the refugees free of charge, and for five days and five nights, the two doctors almost fell into the group of refugees.

But who will go out with thousands of medicinal materials, there is no way for everyone to take the prescription, Jiang Yun is one of them.

"You mean, you want to exchange these two girls for some wound medicine to treat your relatives?"

A middle-aged man with an elegant face sat on a wooden chair and looked at the woman who was kneeling in front of him with some surprise.

"Yes, this is the little girl, this is the daughter of a friend, and the medicine for the injury this time is also to treat my husband and her brother.Alas, now they have been in a coma for eight days and eight nights, and I am a woman, even if I want to break my head, there is no way. If this continues, I am afraid that both of them will die.

A woman with a thin look, kneeling on the ground and kowtowing, her eyes swollen, her eyes bloodshot, and tears flowed profusely.

"What about you, this woman wants to sell you two to my ancient family as slaves, if this is done, your life and your children will be inferior." The elegant middle-aged man touched the beard on his chin and looked at the two little girls beside the woman intriguingly.

"I volunteered."

"As long as you are willing to save my brother and Second Uncle Zhang, whatever, I don't want them to die.

The two girls said anxiously with sad faces.

These three people are Jiang Yun, Zhang Huahua and Tianxue.

When the middle-aged man fell into deep thought again, thinking about whether to make this transaction, an old lady's voice suddenly came from the sedan chair behind him.

"Well, I think these two girls are also quite clever, I like it, two more mouths are nothing to our Gu family, if you can help, let's help."

"Yes." The elegant middle-aged man looked upright, immediately got up, faced the sedan chair that made a sound, and bowed. You've heard what the old lady said, so thank her for it."

"Thank you, old lady, you are a bodhisattva of kindness, thank you, come, Hua'er, Xue'er, kowtow to your benefactor, your father is saved, and Xiao Chen'er is also saved." Jiang Yun was overjoyed, and immediately pulled the two little girls and kept kowtowing.

There were more than a dozen knocks in a row, and the sound of "dong dong dong" kept coming, and the foreheads of the three of them were bloodstained, and the middle-aged Confucian couldn't bear it, so he waved his hand again and again to interrupt.

"Okay, okay, get up quickly, by the way, come over, call Dr. Huang, Dr. You, let's come over and see what kind of medicine they need.

"Yes." A servant dressed as a servant ran out quickly, followed by two drowsy and tired old men.

"The owner." The two old men clasped their fists and saluted the middle-aged Confucian student.

"The two gentlemen have worked hard, and they haven't had a good night's sleep these days." The middle-aged Confucian returned the salute, his expression full of respect.

"Where is the owner, it's too much to say that, isn't it?" An old man in a black robe spoke.

"This is the Jiang family, you went to practice medicine among the refugees a few days ago, you should have also seen her patients, tell me what kind of medicine you need to heal?" The middle-aged Confucian nodded and pointed to Jiang Yun and introduced.

The two old men asked Jiang Yun about the specific situation, Jiang Yun told the truth one by one, and the two old men couldn't help frowning after hearing it, and shook their heads again and again.

"Why, with the second elder's medical skills, there is no way to heal?" The middle-aged Confucian asked puzzled.

The second ancestor has been practicing medicine for generations, and has served their ancient family for three generations, but he knows very well that these two old men have excellent medical skills. Not to mention curing all diseases, it is also medicine to eliminate diseases. As long as they can say it, they have a way to deal with it. Basically, as long as they can get the prescription they prescribe and treat it according to the instructions, they are all cured. Now even these two elders feel that it is tricky, and the middle-aged Confucian suddenly became curious about this disease.

"Don't you know, this lady's husband is fine, it's just that the wound is infected, the tissue is necrosis, just scrape the bones to heal the wound, remove the dead muscles, and then apply some good ointment, and you can recover after a month of rest. An old man in a yellow robe sighed.

"Oh, what do you mean by that?"

"This little boy named Tianchen, Huang Lao and I have seen it.Well, how to say it, there is nothing strange about this disease, it's just that the fire poison has entered the body.But the difficulty is that the fire has penetrated deep into the bone marrow, and the general fire cooling medicine has not had much effect, and that child can't last long, and it is in the wilderness at the moment, where to find those precious medicinal materials now!" The black-robed old man twisted his beard, and then the yellow-robed old man said behind him.

"I see, how can this be good!" The middle-aged Confucian suddenly realized.

Hearing that Tianchen might die here, Tianxue's nose was sour, and she couldn't help sobbing.The old lady in the sedan chair originally liked these two little girls very much, but now she saw the little girl's crying through the curtain, and she couldn't bear it, so she spoke again.

"Since the second elder has a countermeasure, then you might as well talk about it, you need those medicinal materials."

In fact, most of the materials are available in our goods, and there are a lot of portions, even if there are a few flavors missing, they are not too expensive, as long as they send someone to a nearby town to collect them, they can also buy them.

"Yes, for example, three hundred-year-old snow spirit seeds, or five inches of black yin wood, a spoonful of ice toad juice, etc.

The old lady nodded, then took out a hardcover brocade box from her bosom and asked a maid beside her to hand it to the two old men.

"Let's see if this thing fits?"

The black-robed old man took the brocade box, opened it and looked at it, his face was suspicious, and then he picked up the black herbs that looked like withered branches inside, put them under his nose and smelled them, and then his face changed greatly, and he exclaimed in surprise: "Mo Yuzhi, it turned out to be this treasure, at least three hundred years old! Now I can see such a strange treasure, and I am not in vain in this life."

"What?"

The old man in the yellow robe was shocked when he heard this, and his trembling body suddenly became extremely flexible, snatched it from the old man in the black robe, and put it in front of him to look at it carefully.

"Sure enough, it's Mo Yuzhi, but you're a little wrong, old ghost, this thing is enough for five hundred years of Taoism."

"Ancestor, isn't this a 100-year-old gift from Sheng'er's girl? The middle-aged Confucian didn't know what Mo Yuzhi was, he felt familiar when he first saw this brocade box, and he was listening to what the two doctors said about hundreds of years of Taoism, so he remembered what it was, and said in surprise.

Three months ago, the old lady had a 100th birthday, and hundreds of descendants in the family all came back to participate in the congratulations, and Gu Sheng, the only one in the family who was fortunate enough to become a monk, was no exception.

"What's there to do? Isn't it just a medicinal herb, as long as it can save people, then it's not in the wrong place. My old bones, how many years to live? As long as I look at your children and grandchildren, the family is prosperous, harmonious and happy, I will be content. There is nothing more than family and a treasure that can make me live longer!" The old lady smiled heartily, helped the maid to get off the sedan chair, came to Tianxue's side, bent down, and wiped her tears.

"Don't cry, child, this thing is a treasure, that's what my great-granddaughter said when she gave it to me, your brother will definitely be saved."

Tianxue looked at the wrinkled but kind old woman in front of her with some excitement, cried with joy, and quickly kowtowed: "Thank you, old lady, old lady, you are really our living bodhisattva, thank you."

The old man burst into tears when he saw Tianxue, and said distressedly: "It's okay, it's okay, right, Doctor You, I heard this girl Sheng'er say that this thing is cold, and it needs to be combined with the things of the Great Yang to complement each other before it can be taken."

"This kind of treasure is naturally a priceless treasure, if it is used well, it is enough to prolong the old lady's life for two or three years, but it is a bit of a waste to use it to remove fire poison." The black-robed old man looked at Mo Yuzhi with a little pity.

"Hey, it's not a pity, it's not a pity, this dry grassland is a medicine, as long as you save someone's life, it's to make the best use of it, there's nothing to be sorry for. The old lady replied with a smile, and then looked at Zhang Huahua again.

"Thank you, old lady." Tianxue wiped her tears and laughed.

"Thank you, old lady." Zhang Huahua also smiled.

"That's right, you have to laugh often, so that you don't get sick and get old easily." The old lady laughed, reached out and pinched Tianxue and Zhang Huahua's faces, her eyes full of love.