Lu Youling only did the work of cleaning the fence during the day, so he was tired enough, and when he went to bed at night, he was arranged to sleep on the ground and spread a bamboo mat, so that he could sleep peacefully. It's just that before going to bed, he will witness Lao Ke standing under the oil lamp to apply medicine to the wound on his body, which is an unknown brown potion, and strangely enough, Lao Ke just applies it to his own hands, and then sprinkles a little with a twig at the entrance and exit of the cave before sleeping.

After a few days of going back and forth, Lu Youling finally couldn't help but ask Lao Ke what kind of potion he was using? Lao Ke just said mysteriously that you will know in the future.

The cave is not very big, and the two of them live in it and sometimes they can't even get out, but Lao Ke can always carry Lu Youling on his back to do something, Lu Youling can't understand it in his eyes, as soon as he asks Lao Ke, he will know in the future, and over time he will be used to these behaviors of Lao Ke, and he only needs to do his part every day.

Someone in the palace would bring food every day, and the food was surprisingly delicious, and there were meat dishes every meal, but it was never served with wine. Lu Youling used to eat wild vegetables and made herself a shriveled little monkey, but now she does heavy labor every day, but she eats very well, but she is not as tired as in Guojia Village, and she is often refreshed after a sleep, and her body is getting stronger and stronger. Lao Ke is different, his physical condition is getting worse and worse, every time he goes out to eat, the time is getting longer and longer, and when he comes back, he begins to sit on the chair and gasp, but he is naturally strong, and he never taboos dirty words in his mouth, and casually says "his grandmother's", the most mentioned in his daily words is the battle of Ye Yuecheng, he will resent himself, resentment Yundu, resentment of Situ Hongyuan and even resentment of Lu Youling, but he only does not hold grudges against God, after all, God gave him a life. It's just that Lu Youling's mouth occasionally began to dry up under his influence.

"Grandma's, there are so many moon lice today! Lao Ke, you can't put less every time you feed?"

"I know better than you how much moon lice eat, and if there are fewer of them, they will hit the cage and beg for it, so I don't want to be disturbed when I sleep at night!"

"That's right, by the way, Lao Ke, I've been here for almost half a month, why do you always let me shovel feces but don't let me do the work of feeding food?"

"You want to do the feeding work? Aren't you afraid?"

"I don't think you're in good health, and I've seen it every time you feed it, and it feels safe, so I want to try it too, what do you think?"

"Yes, it's rare that you have this thought, but you can, but it's definitely not okay when it's late today, I'll take you to try it tomorrow, but you still have to do the work of shoveling manure." ”

"Ahh

"You naughty boy, you haven't learned anything, but you have learned Lao Tzu's foul language. ”

Lao Ke smiled and said, "You finish what you are doing, and I will fetch a bucket of water for you to bathe and change your clothes." ”

Lu Youling wondered why this old man was suddenly so good to herself, she had never helped herself fetch water and bath before, she used to fetch water by herself. He didn't think about it so much.

After finishing the task at hand, Lu Youling returned to the cave and found that there was a wooden bucket in the original open space, and Lao Ke was standing next to the wooden bucket and was adding water to it.

"Why is this water so viscous?" Lu Youling wanted to test the temperature of the water, but when she stretched out her hand, she felt a little smooth and tender, and it was dark brown, which was not the usual bath water.

"Lao Tzu personally put water for you to bathe, how dare you chirp crookedly, hurry up and get in. Lao Ke didn't have a good face, so he directly pulled out Lu Youling's clothes when he came up, revealing his skinny little body.

Lu Youling felt a little timid, thinking that this old man had made up something strange again, but before he could think about it, he was lifted up by a pair of withered hands and thrown into the barrel.

"It's so cold," Lu Youling couldn't help but shiver as soon as she got out of the water, "Lao Ke, what are you using, how is it sticky." ”

"Don't move, I'll rub the dirt on your kid's back first," The pimple on Lao Ke's hand touched Lu Youling's white and tender skin, but this time it was not as abrupt as the previous few times, maybe because he was used to it, Lu Youling didn't respond to these hands again.

Lao Ke rubbed it and said: "This water is what I usually use on my body, so that the moon lice can distinguish what can be eaten and what cannot be eaten when feeding. ”

"And this water..."

"You kid is blessed, this water is full of toad crisp, but it's a nourishing medicine. ”

Lu Youling relieved herself when she heard that it was good medicine, but out of curiosity, she still asked: "What is this 'toad crisp'? It is cold and fluttering on the body, and it is quite comfortable." ”

"Why bother asking, just like it. ”

"It's so mysterious again, don't say it, Lao Tzu doesn't want to hear it. ”

Lu Youling turned her back and fell into the barrel to learn the appearance of Lao Ke resting on weekdays, but it amused Lao Ke.

"I'll tell you, this 'toad crisp' is made from the mucus on the back of the moon lice, which has the smell of their body, and the moon lice will not resist feeding when they smell it. It is also a good medicinal herb that can cure sores, so I apply it to my body every day. ”

After listening to Lao Ke's explanation, Lu Youling suddenly got up from the wooden barrel, Lao Ke held him down, but he struggled desperately: "Lao Ke, you are deliberately harming me! What kind of medicine is my question, it turned out to be the mucus on the toad's body, which made me smelly, so quickly let me go out to take a shower." ”

"Amu, listen to me, tomorrow you are going to feed, if there is no smell of toad, the moon lice will not only not eat what you feed, but will even treat you as food, if you are stubborn, I will no longer stop you, and collect the body for you." ”

Lao Ke let go of the clamp on Lu Youling's neck and arm, Lu Youling looked at him in a daze, but didn't make a fuss, just stood straight in the barrel, Lao Ke patted him on the shoulder: "The three soldiers who were in charge of feeding must have known to you that if you can't pass the hurdle in your heart, you can only go crazy or die, I taught you these things for your own good, if you don't listen, once I die, I guess you won't be able to live." ”

Lao Ke coaxed Lu Youling into the water and slapped his head, "I said that I don't want you to ask so much, but I am always curious, I am a person who is half cut into the ground, and I will not harm you little doll." ”

Lu Youling closed his eyes and closed his five senses, and let Lao Ke help him wipe his body. Surprisingly, he couldn't sleep peacefully at night, Lu Youling lay on the cold bamboo mat tossing and turning, and his mind was full of fragmented fragments, which included his parents, Guo Qingquan, Ji Dao Fei Lack, Lao Ke, Qin Miaoshi and some other people, these people have always appeared frequently in their lives recently, just like the stars in the sky, some will be bright, and some will be fleeting, Lu Youling can't tell the relationship between himself and these people at all, maybe it's like a nightmare in the past, I don't know when it will start and when it will be extinguished...

It wasn't until the fourth watch that Lu Youling barely fell asleep, but he vaguely heard some noisy sounds in his sleep, Lu Youling ignored it because he was too sleepy, until the next day, he suddenly realized that he was going to eat today and woke up.

Lu Youling rubbed her sparse sleepy eyes, and only then did she see that there was a person leaning on the side of the square table, it was Lao Ke.

Lao Ke was simply draped in a coat, his hair was messy, and the bags under his eyes were pulled down, as if he hadn't slept all night. Lu Youling called softly beside him, and seeing that he didn't open his eyes, he shouted loudly: "Old Ke!"

"Why are you noisy with me when you're not asleep?" said Lao Ke with half-squinted eyes.

"Lao Ke, didn't you sleep last night?"

"I fell asleep, but I woke up again. ”

"And what did you do when you woke up?"

"The palace sent someone to come late at night and take away all the moon lice beasts in the enclosure. ”

"How did I not know about last night?"

"You sleep like a pig, so many people go back and forth and you don't wake up, I really envy you, you can sleep so heartless every night. ”

"Someone from the palace took all the moon lice away, but Qin Miaoshi sent someone?"

Lao Ke looked up to the sky and roared: "Of course not, the palace sent someone to pick up the moon lice overnight, presumably there must be a combat mission, the day I was waiting for has finally come!"

Lu Youling panicked for a while, and hurriedly asked, "What is the combat mission you are referring to?

"As I expected, it's just that even the few moon lice that have not been released from the cage are also driving with the car, which is too hasty, there must be something wrong with the clouds, and they can only attack at night. ”

"In this way, Rizhao really declared war on Yundu... No, I'm going to Yundu now!"

Lu Youling rushed to the door before he could finish speaking, and Lao Ke grabbed his arm and scolded: "Stinky boy, what are you going to do!"

"Let go of me, my father and mother are still in Yundu, I have to inform them, you really don't have a good person in Rizhao, you actually invaded my Yundu country, how can I continue to stay here and serve the thieves of the country as a person in Yundu! Let go of me..."

"Smack!" Lao Ke finally got angry, stretched out his hand and slapped Lu Youling in the face, instantly stunned him. Lu Youling covered the left side of her face, blood flowed from the corners of her mouth, and she glared angrily at the veteran in front of her.

"You little kid, don't say you can't get out of here, even if you go to Yundu, you can only be sent to death in vain, the moon lice will not let you go because you are a child, today the city of Yundu will be bleeding into a river, corpses are piled up like a mountain, if your parents are blessed to be safe, you are still honest with me here." ”

Lu Youling didn't dare to move again, just stared at Lao Ke stupidly, Lao Ke also felt that his shot was a little heavier, so he took a bottle of reconstitution cream and handed it to Lu Youling and said: "Applying it to the face can reduce the swelling, otherwise the swelling will be unbearable." ”

Lu Youling's two little eyes were full of resentment, and he reached out to knock over the medicine bottle on the ground, Lao Ke was also stunned, he didn't expect the ten-year-old child in front of him to be so stubborn, and he couldn't help but like it more and more, he was really an unconvinced guy, just like himself when he was young, if he cried like a girl, he would have to make up for a few slaps.

"Amu, it was Lao Ke who did something wrong just now, but I also did it for your good, so let's do it, didn't I promise you to take you to feed the moon lice? ”

"You lied, you just said that the palace sent someone to take away the moon lice, how can there be moon lice left here. ”

"You come with me, and you'll see. ”

Lao Ke was holding a bamboo basket in one hand and Lu Youling in the other. He opened the cage door leading to the canyon, and sure enough, there was no moon lice in the canyon, Lu Youling was angry and refused to speak, turned his head and was about to leave, but was pulled by Lao Ke and said: "Don't worry, you can see that there is one left." ”

"Well, I'll take you for granted. ”

An old man and a young man carried each other to the depths of the canyon, and when they walked about half a pillar of incense, they came to a group of stone pinnacles. The limestone here has long since solidified and solidified by wind and rain, but it happens to grow green vegetation on it, and unlike the dry and barren canyons, this place has a world of its own.

There is a stone rock on the top of the peaks, surrounded into a cave, there is no light inside, but there is a small sound, Lu Youling approached the entrance of the cave, but the bangs were blown up, he hurriedly took a few steps back and hid behind Lao Ke.

Lao Ke signaled him not to be afraid, and he walked forward, and then lightly opened the bamboo basket he brought and put it upside down on the ground, and a few black pythons climbed out.

There was a sudden muffled sound in the cave, and Lao Ke hurriedly withdrew, took Lu Youling's hand and withdrew a few feet away. A red light suddenly appeared in the cave, and Lu Youling only felt a gust of wind in his ears, and the few black pythons in front of him disappeared without a trace.

There was still a bottomless black hole in front of him, and he couldn't see what was lying inside. Lu Youling gasped, then pulled Lao Ke's shirt and motioned for him to leave together. Lao Ke unhurriedly untied something from his belt, and Lu Youling found that it was another jade ring inlaid with jade pendants, but this jade was not transparent, and it was mixed with flaws like bloodstains, which looked much inferior to Qin Miaoshi's.

Lao Ke shook the bell slightly, then pulled Lu Youling's hand and stepped back a few zhang, until the two of them were ten zhang away from the entrance of the cave before they stopped.

"Ding Ding Ding Ding..."

A crisp sound continued to emanate from the Yingluo circle, and the earth seemed to respond first, and two tremors came from the cave in succession, Lu Youling's heart was raised to his throat, and he understood that the monster inside was about to appear.

Sure enough, as the earth shook, the gravel on the pinnacle began to fall, and the wind in the cave was fierce, and the vines at the entrance of the cave quickly grew outward, and the whole cave began to squirm as if it had life.

Lu Youling didn't see her true face, and she already expected that the moon lice in the cave must be a behemoth, far better than those in the canyon.

The bell in Lao Ke's hand shook even faster, and with a muffled sound in the cave, a moon lice beast entrenched in a radius of four or five zhang suddenly appeared in front of him.

Lu Youling was really startled when she saw such a big moon lice for the first time, only to see that it was graceful, the tiger was coiled on the earth, the tiger stripes on its back were multicolored glaze, a pair of wings like sails hung on the wing bones, and the skin was as indestructible as if it was wrapped in rock tooth dragon armor. The two big sharp eyes stared at everything, and there was an arrogance between the frontal bones that defied heaven and earth.

"How long has it been since I saw it, I miss it so much!"

Lao Ke somehow had tears in his eyes, and stepped forward, Lu Youling hurriedly dragged his clothes and shouted, "Lao Ke, don't go over!"

Who knew that he couldn't drag him at all, Lao Ke trotted for a while to the giant moon lice's side, and Lu Youling found that Lao Ke's rickety figure was not as big as the soles of the giant moon lice, and he couldn't help but sweat for him. Lao Ke stretched out his hand to hug the front leg of the moon lice, and muttered in his mouth: "Long time no see, Shi Huan, I thought I wouldn't see you until the day I died." ”

The moon lice named 'Shi Huan' was indifferent, but the corners of his mouth were slightly bent, and his jaw made a continuous "gurgling" sound.

Lao Ke said: "It doesn't matter, I knew that my life was short, and I was afraid that after I died, I would have no one to take care of you, so today I specially brought a child to replace me, and from now on I will see him as if I saw him." ”

Shi Huan still made a "gurgling" sound, which was a response, Lu Youling was stunned, and the two guys of different species in front of him seemed to be talking, and they seemed to be old acquaintances.