In the cave, I, Hu Xiaoer, Xiao Jiu, and Aunt Gua faced the unconscious boy lying on the stone couch. Xiao Jiu was sitting on the edge of the stone couch and applying needles to the top of the young man's head, and Hu Xiaoer and I stood silently on one side.

And Aunt Gua looked at the figures on the stone couch, her eyes were tearful, her fists clenched, and her face was worried. Thinking about what she wanted to say again, she was afraid of delaying the doctor's treatment, so she had to wait with anxious eyes.

I had just gone up the mountain, and I had already told her a rough picture of the young man I saw with Hu Xiaoer in the cave. Before she could blame the two of us for following her up the mountain, she came with us to the cave in shock.

In the meantime, she said to us with a pale face that Master Mao had never told her about the heart hanging.

Xiao Jiu has been acupuncture for an hour, the young man's face is still unusually pale, his breathing fluctuations have stabilized, and at this moment it is more like he is asleep.

He took out an elixir from his arms and fed it to the young man's mouth, and then lifted the young man's back, lightly lucky. I saw that a piece of dirt between the young man's eyebrows dissipated, and the heart in front of his chest gradually returned to flattening.

Xiao Jiu put him down and continued to lie on the stone couch, slowly pulling out the silver needle from his head. Obviously, there was a slight hint of blood on the young man's face.

"Well, he'll wake up in a while. Xiao Jiu breathed a sigh of relief, put away the silver needle, and wiped the sweat beads on his forehead, "I'll go outside to pick some grass dew, he still needs to take it when he wakes up." ”

Aunt Gua hurriedly stopped him, "Doctor, I'd better go! How can I leave the doctor here, in case Brother Mao hurts again......"

"He'll be fine for a while," Xiao Jiu said with a serious expression, "Caolu is not easy to find, so I'll go." ”

Xiao Jiu said very resolutely. Aunt Gua looked at his back and walked out of the door of the cave, still quite worried when she wanted to speak.

I comforted her and said, "Don't worry, my junior brother's medical skills are excellent, and he said that he would be fine." ”

Aunt Gua retracted her gaze and nodded lightly, staring at the figure on the stone couch that was not moving for a moment, biting her lip, and her eyes turned red again.

Listening to her sobbing from small to loud, I also slowly gave birth to some difficulties. I think if the person lying on the stone couch is...... I was deep in thought, and suddenly a voice sounded in my ears.

"Aunt Gua, what happened to make this Mao senior become like this?"

The sobbing stopped abruptly.

Hu Xiaoer was looking at Aunt Gua very seriously, with a hint of sincerity in his eyes.

Aunt Gua held back her tears and spoke. After a while, she sighed and took out a handkerchief to wipe her tears and snot.

"It's better to let Brother Mao tell you these things in person. But...... According to his temperament, most of them did not want others to know about him. ”

She sat down gently on the edge of the stone couch. The young man lay quietly beside her, his face was green and harmless, but his facial features still maintained this vigilance. She stroked the wrinkles on his brows for him, and there was sadness in her eyes, "I can only tell you that what you see now is not the real appearance of Brother Mao. How ...... was Brother Mao in the past? A person in the scenery of the moon......"

Aunt Gua's hand slowly slid down her voice. She held the boy's black fingernails and trembled, "There is a reason why I am like this. It's because ...... It's because ...... Eighteen years ago......"

When Hu Xiaoer and I were listening carefully, the eyes on the stone couch opened little by little in her whispering.

"Beads...... Why are you ...... here?"

The young man, no, it should be said that Master Mao let out a weak moan, and was about to sit up with his hands on the bed board, when his eyes swept to me and Hu Xiaoer. His gaze immediately became fierce.

"It's you!"

He gritted his teeth, his breathing became louder, and his cheeks turned pale again.

"You two have evil intentions, what are you still doing here? Didn't you let you get out of Qingquan Mountain?"

"Master Mao, you misunderstood. We're just here to fight a sword, not what you think. "If Master Mao hadn't cleared up his misunderstanding of us, he wouldn't have told us what had happened to him.

Hu Xiaoer also waved his hand at him and said, "Senior Mao, we really didn't come to harm you. I just saw that you suddenly had a heart attack, and we found a doctor from the bottom of the mountain to see you. You need to recuperate at this moment, or your heart will hurt again. ”

"You, do you still know about heart hanging?" Master Mao's eyes suddenly widened, and he stretched out his hand and pointed at me and Hu Xiaoer in horror. Beads of sweat fell from the top of his head, and he clutched his chest and closed his eyes again.

"Zhuzhu, I told you, these two people can't believe it, why don't you drive them away......" Master Mao opened his eyes and stopped talking in amazement. I saw that the melon lady who had just come back to her senses suddenly threw herself into his arms and cried "wow".

"Brother Mao, are you really so ruthless? Since you have this disease, why don't you tell me...... Brother Mao, you'd rather be tortured like this than tell me, don't you think I'm too useless? Brother Mao, I'm useless...... I'm too clumsy to forge a sword, so I can't help you...... But all these years you have lived in a cave, and I have guarded the inn alone...... It's been eighteen years...... You, do you know my heart for you...... Brother Mao......"

Aunt Gua seemed to have burst out of the grievances and loneliness she had suffered over the years, and cried breathlessly in Master Mao's arms. Her questioning voice was so sincere.

can hide all the lust and stay alone in the guest house for eighteen years, but all of it is revealed in the eyes of people in an instant, which can be seen...... It can be seen how bitter she is in her heart.

Hu Xiaoer and I invariably stood a little farther away to leave enough space for the two of them.

He crossed his arms and said excitedly: "It turns out that women are all the same when they splash it." ”

"Oh?" I said, tilting my head to look at him, thoughtfully, "You've been through this, too?"

"Nope. ”

He also gave me a meaningful smile, "Maybe, soon." ”

Over there, Aunt Gua had already stopped her tears and slowly raised her head from Master Mao's arms. The man who had been lying on the stone couch for a long time seemed to be still caught in the sudden crying, and his expression was so dull that he was a little at a loss.

Until Aunt Gua's cheeks showed a slight crimson, she got up in a panic.

"I'm sorry, Brother Mao, I ......"

"Zhuzhu—" Master Mao grabbed Aunt Gua's arm and asked her to sit on the edge of the stone couch. This time he let out a long sigh, his eyebrows and words softening.

"I don't know your mind......"

With just one sentence, Aunt Gua couldn't cry anymore and fell into his arms.

Master Mao, who had the appearance of a teenager in front of him, hugged the woman with some fine lines on her forehead, and patted her back with his hand.

At this moment, I don't think this is much of a disobedience, but I see some endless regrets and desolation. It's just because although the person on the stone couch has a young face, his eyes reveal the vicissitudes and old age that have endured for a long time.

Master Mao took a deep breath and sighed again.

"Zhuzhu, you also see me like this. ”

The woman in her arms nodded slightly.

"Then do you know that I am not only sick with a heart heart, but also ......"

"I was poisoned. ”

Another young man's voice sounded, and Hu Xiaoer and I both looked back.

At the entrance of the cave, Xiao Jiu walked in with a frown holding a medicine bottle in one hand and a stone in the other.

The man on the stone couch changed his expression greatly, let go of the person in his arms, and asked vigilantly, "Who are you?"