Volume 1: The Contest of Life and Death Chapter 12 Peeling

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Lianqi mountain range, vast thousands of miles.

There are strange beasts hidden in the mountains, and they are entrenched in fierce birds.

Jimu Town is located in a canyon at the foot of Lianqi Mountain.

There is a group of ordinary people who don't care about the world, but it's more like a cage that imprisons the people who live here.

The only winding mountain road is the exit from the village, but it is slippery due to the heavy rain that often pours down in the mountains.

A deep, fast river flows from the snowy regions of the north, nourishing the inhabitants of Jimu and keeping them alive.

There is a small road in the village that winds down the mountain and leads to the river in the gorge, and there are hundreds of large and small springs on the cliffs on both sides of the river, which gush sweet water endlessly.

Naughty children always like to sneak into the river below the mountain to play while the elders of the family are farming, and have a lot of fun.

The old people always say that the water is not clean, and there are some strange things lurking under the pool, but they sleep for a long time but never wake up.

The children just rolled their eyes at this, going in and out of their left ear.

There are often clouds and mist in the mountains, like a fairyland.

The water of the waterfall was still rushing fast, and no one noticed that a blackened dead tree lurked into the mountain village in the resounding waves.

Children playing in the water are playing with bamboo poles and homemade water guns, and children who are attacked by their playmates are smiling and diving into the water to seek shelter.

This harmonious picture was quickly shattered.

The charred trunk floated silently, and it slowly approached the shore with the rippling splash of the water.

The protruding river rocks soon became a harbor for it to stay, quietly waiting for someone to notice.

It was getting late, and the tired children finally put away their stubborn hearts, and rushed home on the stone paved road on the water in the company of the adults, their hungry stomachs already gurgling.

A naughty teenager inadvertently approached the charred trunk of a tree while bouncing, and curiosity drove him to find out.

Groping for the stones in his pocket, he raised his hand and threw it out.

The flattened stones swirled on the surface of the water and smashed quickly against the charred trunk of the tree, without making the dull sound of imagination.

The child was curious, threw another piece, and it turned out to be the same!

Restless, he raised his legs and ran to his mother behind him, hiding behind him and looking at the charred black trunk vigilantly, and pulling at his mother's sleeve in fear.

The mother, who had been tired from a long day's work, reached out and pointed to the child's front door to reprimand him for his vexatiousness, but she still noticed the unusual behavior.

She followed the child's gaze, and the charred trunk of the tree floated quietly on the water, blocking the way home.

The old woman scolded and walked forward with her farm tools, thinking that it was some blind village upstream that was throwing debris in the water, and she thought that she might find something if she could salvage it.

However, when she went down with a hoe, she found that it was a little different from what she imagined......

As the hoe flipped through the water, a pale face emerged from the water......

"Ah——!h

The panicked screams sounded in an instant, startling countless birds that were ready to sleep peacefully, and the dusk after this sunset was particularly noisy.

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The old horse was already old, and he was aggrieved, and he had to carry the mountain doctor to the village chief's house.

I don't know which turtle grandson came to knock on Li Langzhong's door in the middle of the night, but it was so bad that he had to move forward carefully on this slippery road.

Fortunately, the village in front of me was brightly lit, so I finally had to take a break.

The old village chief, who is in his eighties, is the oldest old man in this village, and he does not sleep in the middle of the night and stands at the head of the village with a lantern waiting for Li Langzhong.

Although the old horse is a brute, he is also the most shrewd of the brutes. People light up the red light, this old man lights a white light and wanders around, if the clothes are changing into white clothes, maybe the person will be scared to death in the middle of the night!

Before the old horse approached, the village chief hurriedly rushed over with a cane, and shouted anxiously: "Sir, you are here, quickly!

Li Langzhong has six out of forty, is the most knowledgeable talent in the village, in his early years as a teacher of education, after getting married and having children, he returned to his hometown but became a Langzhong who saved people and cured diseases, but the world is unpredictable!

Li Langzhong recognized the appearance of the old village chief, and knew that he didn't dare to snub the old man, so he hurriedly dismounted and greeted: "What's the matter, old man? What's wrong with making you so flustered?"

The old village chief's eyes were cloudy, and he sighed again and again and shook his head: "In recent years, the world has not been peaceful, and the village has been isolated from the world, but I didn't expect it to be involved!

"Child?" Li Langzhong opened his mouth, he probably understood something, there were outsiders in the village, and he was a young man who was not lightly injured!

The doctor has his own benevolent heart, and immediately took the old man into the village quickly, he wanted to see what kind of person could make the old village chief so moved.

Entering the old village chief's house, there was a charcoal fire in the room, and the temperature was extremely high, Li Langzhong knew at a glance that this was a way to ward off the cold, and with the smell of ephedra grass in the air, it seemed that it was indeed as the old man said, and the patient lying inside was already in danger!

Pushing open the door of the inner room, Li Langzhong saw what he thought was a very tragic injury, and he didn't even dare to imagine how the young man lying on the bed with burns all over his body had persevered until now.

"Quick! Burn the wine, light the charcoal basin, and prepare to peel the skin!"

Li Langzhong made a decision on the spot, and he could see that although the man on the bed had fallen into a coma, he was actually enduring great pain, and it was not difficult to see that his whole body was covered with dead skin left by the burning fire! If this dead skin does not go, people are afraid that they will not be able to live!

After a short time, a pot of burning coals was sent into the room, Li Langzhong hurriedly took out a bundle of medical knives from his arms, put them on the fire for a while, and comforted the injured young man and said, "Bear with ......it."

The scorching short knife gently cut through the dead skin on the boy's chest, and thick water mixed with blood flowed out all over the place, and a fishy stench instantly spread throughout the room!

"Uh-huh......!?"

The young man was in pain, and suddenly woke up from his slumber, he stared at Li Langzhong with a pair of bloodshot eyes, his eyes were full of puzzlement and shock, but when he saw the medical knife in Li Langzhong's hand, he gritted his teeth and lay down again.

The old village chief, who was standing by and watching, grinned and his eyebrows jumped, and he could see that the pain of peeling must be very bearable, and he stamped his feet anxiously.

"Bear with me, it'll be fine soon!" Li Langzhong comforted the young man, quietly tied the young man's limbs with hemp rope, and slowly removed the dead skin on the young man's body with a blade.

It was so slow that it lasted until dawn!

When the morning sun fell again, Li Langzhong wiped the cold sweat on his head and finally put down the medical knife in his hand.

He looked at the young man who fell into a coma again, pulled the old village chief out of the door, and said with a bad face: "Yun Bo, where did this child come from? How could he have such a serious injury?"

The old village chief stayed up all night, and his spirit was already in a trance, so he shook his head and told the origin of the young man's coming.

Li Langzhong frowned even more after hearing this, "Uncle Yun, I won't tell you, I can't heal this young man's injury, I can only heal his external injuries by doing this, but just now I took his last pulse for him, and I noticed that the injury in this young man's body is the most serious, and he should have been soaked in water for some days, the cold qi has already been deposited in his body, and it collided with an unknown fire in his body, I'm afraid he has already injured his internal organs, give up!"

"What can I do then?" The old man was also panicked for a while, he also saw that this child was pitiful, not to mention that he knew the roots, at least he couldn't see death without help.

The old man who has lived in the mountains all his life has a heart as magnificent as the mountains.

Li Langzhong shook his head, took out an ink pen, dipped it in the rainwater on the ground, tore off a wisp of clothes, wrote down a line of words, handed it to the old village chief and said: "Yun Bo, you also know that Li was once not talented, he was a gentleman in Lin'an, although Li is an ordinary person, but there have been some capable people and righteous people under the door, you still take this young man to Lin'an City, with this creed, Xing Xu can find a way to heal this young man!"

After that, Li Langzhong led the old horse and left.

The old village chief watched one person and one horse gradually go away, and he was reluctant to go back, he also knew in his heart that Li Langzhong had tried his best, as Li Langzhong said, he himself was just an ordinary man, who knew some medical skills, but he would not be able to cure the root of this young man, if he wanted to save people, he also needed to ask for another master!

Who is this young man and why he was so seriously injured, the old village chief doesn't understand this question, Li Langzhong's hurried departure seems to be unwilling to get involved in something, more like a taboo.

If you want to know everything, I'm afraid that only the person lying in bed will know when he wakes up!