Chapter 9: Gaogou Fort

Yes, it must be so. A few years ago, Duan often went to the vicinity of the sandbag, just because he felt that he could detoxify on the spot in the haze, but he had been ignorant, and now, this layer of window paper has been pierced: there must be a way to detoxify the poisonous place! This is what he got from Mr. Chen's words of mutual restraint back then.

The next day, as soon as the sky was bright, Duan You didn't care about practicing, so he went to the swamp, stood on the sandbag, stirred the water with sticks, and saw several locust snakes scurrying out of the holes and biting the sticks. He picked up a locust snake to the surface of the water and fell to the ground, wriggling and moving.

The locust snake is the size of an index finger, and it swims like an arrow in the water, and when it leaves the water, it is as slow as a snail. Duan You cut off a piece of yellow sheepskin wrapped around his body, wrapped the locust snake, tied it into a zongzi, only exposed his head, threw it aside, and then used a stick to pound a few pinches of green grass and moss at the mouth of the locust cave, first squeezed out the grass juice, dripped it into the mouth of the locust snake, and after a while, he saw that the locust snake did not change much, and dripped moss juice, but there was no change.

Duan Youzheng groaned to himself, glanced at it, and saw the corpse of a red-spotted four-legged snake on a thorny branch on the sandbag, and his heart moved, and he picked up the four-legged snake, and saw that his lips were purple and black, and his belly was broken, as if he had been squeezed to death. Duan You thought for a while, and seemed to have an understanding, so he unwrapped the locust snake, threw it on the sandbag, and held his breath with his own hand.

Sure enough, in less than five breaths, I saw a small red head poking through a flattened hole next to the root of a thorn on the sandbag, dripping and turning, and then a red-spotted four-horned snake pounced on the locust snake, swallowed it in one bite, and the stone in Duan You's hand flicked and hit the four-legged snake.

Duan You was overjoyed, quickly grabbed the four-legged snake, wrapped it tightly with skin, rushed to the nest shop, and said to Wei Tuo: "Grandpa Wei, the locust snake venom in you should be cured!"

After that, Duan You asked Wei Tuo to take off his clothes, half lie on the ground, take the four-legged snake, carefully peel off the skin, expose the snake's head, and aim the snake's head at a purple pustule on Wei Tuo's body.

When the four-legged snake bitten, Wei Tuo's body palpitated, and he couldn't help moaning, and then he smiled, looked at the four-legged snake, and there was doubt in his eyes, but he couldn't help but speak.

After a while, the four-legged snake was already full, and Duan You put it in a leather bag and told Wei Tuo the reason. Wei Tuo listened and sighed: "Chen Daoyou is really a strange person, I have also seen this four-legged snake, I am afraid that it is poisonous, but I am afraid that I can't avoid it, but I can solve the poison of the locust snake." ”

Duan You said: "Grandpa Chen said, the more colorful the snake body, the greater the toxicity, other four-legged snakes are not poisonous, this red-spotted four-legged snake is rare, but it must be poisonous, you have the poison of the locust snake in your blood, this red-spotted four-legged snake eats locust snakes, it seems to be its nemesis, this is called fighting poison with poison." After a pause, he added, "I'm not completely sure, if it doesn't work, or if I get the venom of the four-legged snake again, what can I do?"

Wei Tuo smiled and said: "It's okay, I am a dying person, poisonous or not, it doesn't matter, don't take it to heart, let it go and solve it boldly." ”

Duan You smiled and stopped talking, he could hear Wei Tuo still a little suspicious, but he was eight points sure, one was because of Mr. Chen's principle of restraining each other and fighting poison with poison, and more importantly, the example of the one-eyed ghost in front of him. Duan You deduced it like this: After the one-eyed ghost passed out, the four-legged snake smelled the venom of the locust snake and went to the neck of the one-eyed ghost to devour it, maybe not one. Because the venom of the locust snake in the one-eyed ghost did not last long, the snake venom was soon resolved, and the one-eyed ghost woke up and felt that something on his neck had bitten him, so he slapped it with one palm, and one snake was killed by slapping it, and the other snakes fled. The one-eyed ghost realized that the venom of the locust had been cured and immediately left.

Early the next morning, Veda said that there were signs of improvement. Three days later, the pustules on the body began to dry up, and after 12 days, devoured by the four-legged snake once a day, all the venom of the locust snake in the Veda was removed, the purple and black patches and pustules on the skin were all gone, the pain of numbness and tingling in the body also disappeared, the strength gradually recovered, and the face became rosy.

Wei Tuo was overjoyed, he took Tenzin, from the Kathmandu valley to the east, originally had a mission, to go to Luoyang, Zhongzhou, did not expect to Liangzhou after repeated attacks, to avoid the desert and the poison of the locust snake, helpless to cut off a leg, originally intended to struggle to go after a while, but did not expect that the snake venom is powerful, even a day is like a day, to see to die in this desert. Although he is a man of the way, he can't help but feel gloomy when he thinks that his mission is unfinished and he dies in a foreign country. Now that the poison is unexpected, it is a joy and a great sense of rebirth.

After more than ten days, Wei Tuo had fully recovered, Duan You prepared enough water, barbecue and Cistanche Suoyang, took off his leather robe, changed into clothes brought by the one-eyed ghost, let Wei Tuo sit on a camel, and went all the way to Liangzhou City in the southwest with Tenzin.

On the way, Wei Tuo said that he would break up after walking in the desert, and he and Tenzin would go to Luoyang, Zhongzhou, to find someone. Duan You listened to it and was stunned.

For more than eight years, the old man decorated his clothes during the day, prevented him from catching a cold at night, accompanied him day and night, and had long been in love with Weng Sun, he wanted to go back to Liangzhou, everyone lived together, served the old man well, and now he heard that the old man had to travel far away, and he was reluctant to give up. After thinking about it for a while, I secretly made up my mind: after returning to Liangzhou, I would keep the old man first, and after meeting my parents and sister, I would accompany the old man to Luoyang.

Thirty miles east of Liangzhou City, there is a village, named Gaogou Fort. Gaogou Fort is not big, more than 50 households, but it is a necessary place to pass from the East Road to Liangzhou City, there is a street that runs through the east and west, and the shops on both sides are lined up, and it is quite lively on weekdays.

In the middle of the night, Duan You waited for the two of them to come to Gaogou Fort with a mastiff and a camel. Seeing that the doors of the houses on both sides of the street were closed, there was silence, and there were faint lights at the head of the village, so he went to stay overnight.

When he got closer, there was a dilapidated courtyard, and someone was talking in the hall of the courtyard, and Veda signaled not to go in first, but to listen and then make a plan.

But in the room were a dozen beggars, divided into two groups, arguing about something. I only heard one person say: "Brother Zhu, let me ask you again, Xu Xiaoliu was bitten by that person's vicious dog, is this account counted or not?"

"Of course. The other said, "I will say it again, the settlement of accounts should also be based on reason, which of us should not be bitten by a dog? "Obviously, the person who spoke was Brother Nazhu.

"What's that? You can make it clear, we're called Huazi, but we can't still be bullied!" Brother Najing's voice became louder, "Brothers, are you right?"

There was a chorus of harmony in the room.

Duan You heard that the voice of the Jing brothers was familiar, so he stung forward, and looked at the man's broad jaw through the window, and his heart was happy: it was Duan Jing, the son of Duan Huo, the lord of the Duan Mansion in Liangzhou, and Duan Jing, who grew up with him since he was a child!

I didn't expect to meet the people of their Duan family here!

Duan You was excited, and was about to move forward to recognize each other, when he heard Brother Zhu say loudly: "Brothers, don't follow and coax, Brother Jing, let me ask you, if you go to that person's house to comment on a reason, ask for some compensation, only our brothers go, that is, why do you want to let 'Erhai' participate, they are not called Huazi, what do you want to do, I don't need to find out!" We have the duty to call Huazi, we can't force it, let alone rob it, right, brothers. ”

"Zhu Yuan, keep your mouth clean!" Suddenly, a man in his thirties beside Duan Jing jumped with a fierce momentum.

Duan You's heart suddenly suddenly, Zhu Yuan, the little beggar head Zhu Yuan, who was covering him and Duan Ling at the east gate of Liangzhou City, looked at it again, the familiar face eight years ago appeared in front of him, and although it had changed greatly, he still recognized it. Beside Zhu Yuan, there are two acquaintances: Tang Heizi and Deng Yuer.

Duan Youyou is happy. It's a great pleasure to meet so many acquaintances in the desert.

I saw Zhu Yuan facing the man in his thirties, showing no weakness, and said: "Why is my mouth not clean? According to me, where did the two of you come from and where are you going, we don't need to worry about the two heroes." He weighed down the word "hero" very much, obviously referring to something else.

On the rivers and lakes, calling people good men has two meanings: one is a good man, and the other is a bandit bully. Zhu Yuan's meaning is obviously the second layer. The two 'heroes' in his mouth, one is called Haibao, the other is called Haixi, for the brothers, is the notorious ruffian bully in the land of Changsong in Liangzhou, relying on some kung fu, bullying men and women on weekdays, robbing houses, stealing chickens and dogs, digging graves and robbing graves, known as "Changsong two evils". When Zhu Yuan said that they were 'two seas', Haibao heard it as "two evils", and at this time he said the word "hero" again, and he couldn't hold back the anger in his heart, so he glanced at Haixi, came to Zhu Yuan's side with a smile, and said, "Brother Zhu, let's discuss ...... well" suddenly flew to Zhu Yuan's yin, Zhu Yuan was caught off guard, and fell to the ground with a sigh.

Haibao kicked at Zhu Yuan again, and just raised his leg, suddenly one fell to the ground, and Haixi also fell to the ground at the same time, one of them hugged his knees, and the other covered his forehead and shouted.

Everyone was shocked, Duan You walked in from the door, didn't answer, lifted the two evils from the ground, kicked the two of them to the corner of the wall with two feet, and then grabbed Duan Jing's arm and walked outside the courtyard. The people in the room are stunned.

Duan Jing trembled all over, and asked in a trembling voice, "Big ...... Big brother, what are you going to do? I, I'm ......."

"Duan Jing, I'm Duan You. Duan You saw that he was frightened, and hurriedly said.

Duan Jing was taken aback, looked at Duan You, suddenly hugged him, and cried silently, Duan You couldn't help but shed tears.

Eight years ago, Duan's mansion suffered a great change, almost to the end of the door was destroyed, only Duan You, Duan Jing escaped, Duan You avoided the desert, Duan Jing fell from the young master to a beggar overnight, all of them had no relatives, and now they meet, although they are not blood relatives, they are always brothers who grew up together, so they are excited, hugging their heads and crying.