Volume 1 The Scourge of Ascension Chapter 3 Accidents
Back at home, my father and mother were busy in the back room. Cheng Hao was still thinking about everything that happened today, Grandpa Zhao was too abnormal today, he had never seen him so serious, he felt that Grandpa Zhao still had something to tell him, and he seemed to have some concerns......
"Don't think about it, Grandpa Zhao told me to go to him tomorrow morning, and everything will be known by then......"
Looking at the snowflakes floating outside the house, I want to put aside my thoughts and calm down and read. At this time, he heard someone calling for him outside.
"Mouse...... Rat...... Are you home?"
The title rat is a nickname given to Cheng Hao by children of the same age. Most of the people in the village have little culture, and generally give people a nickname based on a person's real name or physical characteristics, which is also their milk name, and no one cares about anything.
It was Huzi's voice outside, panicked, as if there was something urgent.
"What's the matter?" Cheng Hao responded when he walked to the door.
Seeing Cheng Hao come out, Huzi trotted into the door in three steps and two steps, panting and screaming urgently: "Something's wrong, there's an accident, the second dog fell into the cave in the back mountain and can't get out, you can help me think of a way!"
"Don't worry, talk slowly, what's going on?"
Hearing this, Cheng Hao also roughly understood what was going on. But you should go to an adult for this matter, what's the use of finding him a child?
This morning, I and Ergou saw that the snow was very deep outside, and we thought that we might be able to catch the hare on the mountain, but I thought that the snow was too thick, and I didn't pay attention to the Ergou and slipped into a cave in the back mountain, I didn't dare to tell the adults, if my father knew, he would have to pick my skin. ”
Speaking of this, Huzi's tears were about to fall, and he knew that he wouldn't run away if he was killed.
Huzi's name is Dong Wuxian, most of the families in the entire Shicun are surnamed Cheng, and there are also several other surnames, and Huzi's father is surnamed Dong. Huzi, like Cheng Hao, will be thirteen years old after the New Year, and he is very strong.
Don't look at him so strong now, he has been weak and sick until he was two or three years old, and her father and mother gave him the name No Injury in order to pray for him, hoping to let him grow up without illness and injury. His father has a bad temper, and Huzi is usually very naughty, and he has beaten him a lot since he was a child. Huzi is most afraid of his father, so he has no choice but to find Cheng Hao to see if there is any way.
"Don't worry, it's useless to be anxious now, let's go and see if we can get him back. ”
Saying that, Cheng Hao ran to the warehouse to get a thick hemp rope, and followed Huzi to the place where the second dog fell into the cave in the back mountain. I walked for more than half an hour...... Cheng Hao was a little speechless
"Why have you come so far?"
"Isn't it crazy to come out in the morning, I forgot the time while running, and it's going to be here if I hold on for a while."
Huzi will also be very depressed, regretting that he shouldn't have run so far, and it's useless to say anything now.
After another run, it was a barren mountain, surrounded by only a few low bushes, and a few large trees scattered here and there.
"This is it, there is a big hole under the old pine tree in front of me, and the second dog fell from here. ”
As he spoke, Huzi quickly ran to the bottom of the pine tree and pointed to the next hole under the tree.
Cheng Hao followed, looking at the hole with a diameter of about one meter. The edge of the cave is covered with long weeds and some shrubs, plus it is covered with snow, if it were not for the traces of the two dogs in front of him sliding down, even if you stand here, it is difficult to find this hole. Looking inside, it was dark inside, the light was blocked by weeds, and it was impossible to see what was inside.
"Two dogs, two dogs...... Can you hear me?" Cheng Hao called out from the entrance of the cave.
"No need to shout, I have tried it just now, he can't hear it, he may have fainted, what should we do now?"
Huzi is even more anxious at the moment, it's been almost three hours, if the second dog has three long and two short, what should he do?
"Don't panic, you tie this rope to the pine tree first, and wrap the other end around me, I'll go down and take a look. You have a lot of strength, pull a little outside, and slowly drag me down. ”
Cheng Hao didn't have a bottom in his heart at the moment, so he could only take one step at a time.
As soon as they said they would do it, the two began to act. Cheng Hao slowly climbed down the rope, the cave was pitch black, and the walls of the cave were covered with thick moss. Fortunately, the roots of the big pine tree at the entrance of the cave grew some along the cave wall, and the whole process was difficult but smooth, and it was over in a while.
At this time, Cheng Hao was a little embarrassed, his clothes were dirty, his clothes were torn several times, and his hands were also scratched and bleeding by stones. When you go to the bottom of the cave, you take out the fire fold on your body and start observing your surroundings.
The whole cave is not very large, the bottom of the cave is dark and damp, and the radius is only one zhang in size. The second dog was lying against the wall of the cave, already unconscious. Carrying the second dog on his back, he fixed him with a rope and shouted to the hole: "Huzi pull me up." As he spoke, he also grabbed the exposed tree roots next to him and climbed up, and after a while, he climbed out with the second dog on his back.
"Mouse, how is Ergou, what should we do now?"
Seeing that Ergou was unconscious, Huzi was a little flustered. Cheng Hao was also a little overwhelmed at this time, but after all, he had read a lot of books and had a tough personality, so he knew that he should be calm at this time.
"I'll see if I can wake him up"
After saying that, he put down Ergou and held him in his arms, and pinched Ergou a few times, but he still didn't wake up.
"Maybe he was scared by falling down just now, why don't you try pouring cold water on his face?"
"Okay...... Try. ”
After speaking, the two of them moved Ergou to a small puddle nearby, and splashed the water on Ergou's face with their hands...... After a while, Ergou shook his head and slowly opened his eyes
"That's that? Huzi, Mouse...... I'm not dead, am I?"
At this moment, Ergou is still in a trance, and he is still a little dazed when he wakes up!
"You're going to die, I can't go down to accompany you, you can worry about me to death, fortunately there are rats to help, otherwise we will have to be beaten a lot when we go back today......"
Seeing that Ergou woke up, Huzi was obviously relieved. At this time, the second dog was a little weak, but in fact, he was not injured much, but he was suddenly frightened when he fell down the cave and hit his head when he fell, which led to a coma.
"Okay, let's go back quickly, the clothes and injuries on my body must be dealt with quickly, it is too late for the adults to find out." ”
Cheng Hao urged. After speaking, the two of them went back together. At this time, Cheng Hao tidied up the clothes on his body casually with one hand, and suddenly, he found that the jade pendant in his arms was missing.
"Huzi, you wait for me, I have something to drop!" Cheng Hao was anxious.
"What's it, where did it fall?" asked Huzi nonsense!
"It should be in that hole, where the clothes were torn just now, and the thing should have fallen out of time. After speaking, Cheng Hao hurriedly ran back.
"Huzi, you still help me pull the rope, I'll go down and look for it. ”
"Okay, don't worry, be careful." Huzi replied.
Fortunately, the area at the bottom of the cave is not large, and Cheng Hao carefully searched for it with the faint light emitted by the fire fold. After a while, he finally found the jade pendant in the place where the second dog had just fallen unconscious.
"Fortunately, I found it, if I lost it, wouldn't it be a disappointment to Grandpa Zhao, and he would definitely scold me. ”
patting his chest, Cheng Hao picked up the jade pendant. As soon as he got it in his hand, something magical happened, and he saw that the wound in the place where he had just climbed down and scratched his palm healed almost instantly at a visible speed.
"This ...... This jade pendant...... What's going on?"
Cheng Hao was stunned, "Oh my God, there is such a magical thing in the world, I'm not dreaming, right?"
By the faint light of the fire fold in his hand, he stared at the wounded place in his hand.
"It's really healed, as if I've never been injured, I don't even have a scar! There is such a magical thing in the world? Such a magical jade pendant, why did Grandpa Zhao give it to me? Don't he know the magic of this jade pendant......? It's impossible, he's been carrying this jade pendant with him for decades, it's impossible not to know. And why? What is his real identity?"
Stretched out his hand and pinched himself vigorously, making sure that he was not dreaming! A series of questions came out of his mind, and his strong curiosity made him eager to know the true identity of Grandpa Zhao.
"I don't want to do this, Grandpa Zhao told me to come to him early tomorrow morning, and all the answers will be revealed tomorrow......"
"Mouse...... Rat...... Did you find something?
Just as Cheng Hao was thinking about it, there was a shout from the tiger on the ground!
"Oh, I'll come up, you pull me!"
Cheng Hao came back to his senses, answered, carefully put away the jade pendant, and climbed up.
After climbing a few times and then climbing up, it seemed much easier, and after a while, Cheng Hao came out of the hole.
"Why did you go down for so long! It's been a lot of delay, let's go back quickly! When I go back after dark, my father will ......beat me up."
Huzi muttered quietly while helping Cheng Hao untie the rope and put it away.
"Okay, don't say it, let's go back quickly! If it weren't for the help of the rat today, we wouldn't be able to eat and walk around." ”
The second dog on the side said. At this time, he looked a little weak, obviously frightened, and several people were desperate to go back. It's just that each has their own thoughts, and neither of them noticed that at this moment, except for some dirty things on Cheng Hao's body, all the scars have disappeared......
After sending Huzi and them back, it was almost dark, and Cheng Hao hurried back home. At this time, the meals at home had been prepared, and his father and mother were sitting at the dinner table waiting for him. As soon as he came back, his father scolded him, "You kid hasn't seen a man for a day, where did you go?" The father was obviously angry.
"Okay, aren't you coming back, the child is still young, it's normal to be naughty. I went to wash my hands and eat with my mother. ”
His mother wanted to scold him, but when she saw that her man was angry, she had to comfort her.
"Why are your clothes still torn, what's going on?"
His mother pulled Cheng Hao and was about to take him to wash his hands, but he didn't pay attention when it was dark, and when he got closer, he found a few scratches on Cheng Hao's coat.
"I'm sorry, mother, I played with Huzi and them today, and I accidentally scratched it. ”
Cheng Hao had no choice but to lie quietly.
"You kid, how can you be ignorant, how can your father and mother rest assured that you can go to the county seat to study alone, you won't be allowed in the future. ”
As she spoke, her mother pulled Cheng Hao to wash her hands
After eating, taking a shower and lying on the bed, Cheng Hao thought back to what happened today, and felt that it was too bizarre, and some even made him unimaginable. Thinking about it, I slowly fell asleep......
Nothing to say all night......