Chapter 3: The Mountains and Forests Are Rescued
When it comes to the Mid-Autumn Festival, although it is still very hot at noon, but it is also very cool in the morning and evening, the sky is already bright, the sun is slowly showing its head from the east, a small wind blows, a trace of coolness will wake up the sluggish Di Chong, see if he is still wearing only this underwear, no wonder he feels cold, and then look at the body of Mr., only to slowly put away the messy thoughts, thinking that he can't let Mr. be violent in the wilderness, he has to bury Mr. Yes, so he looked around. The pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info happened to see a pothole a few feet away, so he got up and put the things left by Mr. in his hand into his arms, and then walked to the pothole to look carefully.
The pothole is about two feet deep, Di Chong found a wooden stick from nearby, dug the pothole around, and then dragged the body to the edge of the pit with great effort, and another cool breeze blew, Di Chong felt a little trembling, looked at the long shirt on the corpse, and said helplessly, "Mr. offended" before peeling off the long shirt and putting it on himself, and then burying it, Di Chong rushed to this inconspicuous little dirt bag, kowtowed a few times, and then got up to look at the sky. Walk along the edge of the mountain to the east.
At this time, in Pingyang City, the sky was just dawning, and the fire of the Di family began to alarm many people, first the people who lived closer began to pick up tools to put out the fire, and some people hurried to the government to report to the official, with the official government officials to arrest the imminent. And the number of people fighting the fire increased, and the fire gradually extinguished after an hour, and dozens of charred corpses were found from the inland of the fire site one after another, and the matter shocked the entire Pingyang City.
The government didn't dare to slack off, while ordering the officials to arrest and investigate, while quickly reporting to the imperial court, if it was an ordinary rich family, the magistrate might not report it, but although the Di family has declined, but after all, the father-in-law of the head of the Di family is still in Kyoto as a servant of the Ministry of Officials, how dare this boss easily offend, plus the Di family is quite prestigious in Pingyang City, last night's fire was almost known to everyone, and it was impossible to hide it, so I could only take the risk to report.
Let's say that Di Chong was hurrying east with his head bored at this time, his eyes were still in a state of red, and the scenes of last night were still hovering in his mind, and the hatred in his heart made his little hands clench, and he suddenly yelled at the mountain in front of him: "I want to become stronger, I want to take revenge!" Yes... Ah......h
Di Chong silently hurried all the way, unconsciously the sky has gradually darkened, he didn't know how far he had walked in a day, a cool breeze blew, the leaves in the mountains and forests were blown rustling, and occasionally there were a few birds and beast calls, and then look at the sky getting darker, a sense of fear of the dark and unknown environment slowly attacked, at this time I saw that his expression began to become nervous, and he was also unaware of the hunger that had not eaten for a day, and a few beast howls came from the higher mountains in the distance to make him unconsciously creepy, and the hairs on his body stood upside down。
After walking for a while, he suddenly stopped, and began to look around, intending to find a place for himself to live at night, but after searching for a long time, he could not find a suitable place, so he had no choice but to walk to a larger stone not far away, sat down with his back against the stone, and looked around while slowly recovering his strength.
The night fell throughout, and through the gaps in the leaves on the top of the trees, you could see a few stars hanging in the sky, all around was a piece of darkness, a gust of wind blew, Di Chong unconsciously curled up his body, pulled the wide robe on his body and wrapped himself, and suddenly a feeling of hunger came, squeezing out a lot of fear in his heart, but with the howl of the beast, the hunger was suppressed, and so on. It may be that he was so tired from the rush that he fell asleep unconsciously.
The next morning, the animals in the mountains and forests began to come alive, the chirping of all kinds of birds, and a few rays of sunlight shone on Di Chong from between the gaps in the trees, but none of this could disturb him from his sleep. Suddenly, not far from Di Chong, a pheasant seemed to be frightened by some animal, quacking and fluttering and flying into the distance, which made the sleeping Di Chong wake up suddenly.
He quickly stood up, saw that it was a pheasant and gradually came back to his senses, rubbed his hazy eyes, and looked up at the hanging old sun, only to remember that he had slept for so long, and he didn't know when he fell asleep last night, and touched his somewhat hungry stomach with his hand, and looked around, it seemed that he had to find something to eat, and he couldn't let himself starve to death in the mountains and forests.
In the next few days, Di Chong continued to rush forward while looking for some wild fruits and other things to satisfy his hunger during the day, and after a few nights of fear, his courage gradually grew, and although he could not fill his stomach with some fruits along the way, he could also replenish a lot of physical strength.
After another two days, Di Chong suddenly felt that something was not quite right, according to his own thoughts, he should be able to get out of the mountains and forests at this moment, but he is still in the mountains and forests, is he lost, how is this good, with an anxious face, he can only silently think in his heart, how to get out of the mountains and forests, find a place with people, and after thinking for a long time, he can only continue to move forward, maybe he can only use this most helpless way.
Sunrise and sunset, dozens of days have passed in a blink of an eye, Di Chong at this time seems to have changed a person, his already thin body seems to have lost weight again, and his skin has become much darker because of dozens of days of wind and food, and the wide robe on his body has also been hung out of more than a dozen openings by the branches in the forest, it looks like a little flower child, Xin Yin has put a little effort into practicing martial arts in the past few months, and he has to put aside his previous body, and he may not be able to resist it in these dozens of days.
On this day, an old man of fifty or sixty years old and a young man of fifteen or sixteen years old each carried a bamboo basket and walked among the mountains and forests, each with a small hoe, and looked around as they walked. Although the old man was old, his steps looked quite light and steady, and the young man was excited.
"Master, you see there are a few firewood hues there, I'll go and dig them back,"
The old man turned his face to look at the herbs, and said with a smile on his face, "Well, be careful, remember not to plane those two seedlings;" "I know Master," the young man replied and couldn't wait to run towards the herbs.
At ten o'clock in the afternoon, the medicine basket of the master and apprentice was already filled with a lot of herbs, and then I saw the two of them sitting under a big tree, resting and eating dry food, and the young man was still excited, as if he liked the work of collecting medicine, and looked around from time to time.
Suddenly, his eyes lit up, as if he saw something he loved, "Master, Master, look, there is a big ginseng over there, right next to that big stone," the old man also looked up in the direction pointed by the young man, and then nodded slightly: "Well, look at its stems and leaves, it seems to be a little hot" At this time, the young man had jumped up excitedly, ready to run towards the ginseng.
"Don't worry, eat your dry food first and then pick it, it won't be able to run. ”
After hearing this, the young man swallowed the dry food in his hand in a few gulps, and walked quickly towards the herb. The old man looked at the young man and shook his head slightly. "Be careful not to hurt the rhizomes," the boy sighed, and squatted down around the herbs and began to dig the soil.
After a while, the young man stood up with an excited face, and when he was about to turn around and walk back, he suddenly saw a person lying there not far in front of him, motionless, frightened, he suddenly screamed, dropped the things in his hand and ran back, "Teacher... Master, there is a dead man there. ”
Seeing this, the old man quickly pushed aside the waist-deep grass and walked towards the "dead man", while the young man dragged the old man's shirt and hid behind the old man's back, and poked his head out from time to time to look at this side, showing a look of fear.
The old man walked over. I saw a teenage boy lying there, his clothes were very thin, and he was wearing a tattered and extremely ill-fitting gown outside, squatting down with a solemn face, first reaching out and putting his hand on the other party's wrist for a while, and then reaching out and touching his forehead, and said in a deep voice: "There is still breath, hunger and cold are invaded by wind and cold, it seems that the condition is not light," and then turned to the young man and said: "Stone, bring your water bag and feed him some water first,"
After listening to the old man's words, the young man came to his senses, untied the water bag from his waist, and walked over. While feeding the water, he asked with an inquiring look, "Master, what should we do now?"
"What should I do? Of course, it's important to save people, after a while, you carry him on his back, we will go home, his situation will not be delayed any longer, today I will no longer collect medicine, saving people's lives is better than creating a seventh-level floating slaughter!" "Ah! I carry it!" "Why are you still planning to call my old man to carry it, you look at his small body, you are still afraid that you can't carry it, I will help you take the medicine basket, let's go, hurry back, we must be benevolent in our medical practice, and we can't say anything without saving death." So the old and the young walked down the mountain against the noon sun.
I don't know how long it took, Di Chong opened his eyes with great difficulty, looked around and saw that he was no longer in the mountains and forests, and was in a simple room, he was lying on a bed, he wanted to get up, but as if the strength in his body was drained, and he still had a headache when he exerted his strength, and he fell asleep again after seeing a burst of dizziness.
When Di Chong woke up again, his eyes hadn't opened yet, and he faintly heard the sound of someone talking, and a crisp voice sounded: "Senior brother, this person has been in a coma for three days, why hasn't he woken up yet?"
"According to Master, he was hungry and cold for many days, his body was very weak, and he was invaded by wind and cold, so Master's prescription was relatively mild, and according to the power of medicine, he should be able to wake up today, and Master's words are never wrong. A man's voice replied.
"Senior brother, you see that he seems to have opened his eyes," At this time, Di Chong's eyes were slightly open, although his vision was not very clear, but he also saw two people standing in front of him, not very old, the man was about fourteen or fifteen years old, and the girl was about the same age as himself, and opened her mouth to say something.
"Don't talk yet, you're still very weak," he said, reaching out to his wrist and looking very serious. The girl in the back grinned, "Senior brother, you are still with him, can you be accurate?" The man's face showed displeasure and turned his head and said, "The pulse is much stronger than a few days ago, hurry up and call the master." ”