In the early morning, the bamboo forest was filled with a faint mist, and the dead leaves on the ground were all wet with a layer of dew.

"Hmm!" Shen Linfeng opened his eyes tiredly, and it was only at this moment that he realized that he had been lying on Hongyan's back all night.

He tried to move his body, but his entire upper body seemed to be unconscious.

Shen Linfeng tilted his head sideways and glanced forward, and there was a small winding dirt road under his feet. The dew wets the dirt, causing a faint earthy smell to fill the air.

Because the fog obscured his vision, Shen Linfeng didn't know where this path leads.

The stomach began to "gurgle", and the wound on the left shoulder had already lost consciousness.

As soon as the words of "Red Flame ......" came out, Shen Linfeng was startled by his own voice. Hoarse and weak, he looks like an old man who is close to old age.

Red Flame stopped slowing down, and raised its head high.

"Where is this? I'm afraid I'm dying......

Hongyan exhaled a breath of cold air, and continued to walk forward before Shen Linfeng finished speaking. The speed at which it walked increased, and the bumps on the horse's back made Shen Linfeng drowsy again.

Chenshi.

The sunlight pierced the fog layer and evenly sprinkled Shen Linfeng's whole body, and he opened his eyes slightly, feeling the rare warmth of his whole body. The fog was almost gone, and a tall black shadow appeared at the end of the path.

"Red Flame......!"

The dark shadow was approaching, and it was a tall courtyard wall. The walls are made of black bricks, and the gray tiles of the small gatehouse are overlapped, and the construction is also very chic.

Approaching the door, two black-lacquered doors closed tightly. The lantern in front of the door swayed with the wind and made a "squeak" sound, and between the shaking, a black word "Gan" appeared and disappeared from time to time.

Shen Linfeng was hungry, and his whole body was in pain. He motioned for Red Flame to bow down, intending to dismount and slam the door to visit.

At the same time, a young girl's voice suddenly came from the courtyard.

"Crescent grass, go to the wind and relieve the surface, win the dampness and relieve pain, and relieve spasmodics!"

"Purple flowers, slightly sweet smell, bitter in the mouth. It is used for diaphoresis and detoxification, warm and stop vomiting, warm the lungs and relieve cough!"

"Well, there's the poison wood. Feel rough and smell ...... Phew, what the hell, this smells terrible. ”

In the courtyard, a girl about 10 years old was stopping in front of baskets. She carried an ancient yellowed book in her hand, and she was dressed in a coarse cloth and floral dress.

The clothes are brightly colored, clean and tidy. But only the two sleeves were dirty, and in some places they had even been cut, and the white cotton inside was also hidden from time to time.

The girl turned her back to the wooden door, and she threw the "poison-breaking wood" in her hand back into the basket.

"Phew, bah, phew, the smell is dead, let me see what such a foul-smelling herb does?"

The girl picked up the ancient book in her hand again and looked at it carefully.

"Hey, there is! The poisonous wood is stinking and unpalatable. It can be used to dredge the meridians, replenish blood and nourish qi, and is quite effective in removing internal toxins. However, because it is poisonous and difficult to restrain medicinal materials, it is rarely used in medicine!"

After reading it, the girl immediately showed a look of disgust, and she looked at the poison cut wood in her hand. A finger is as long as it is, and the surface is uneven, like a toad jumping around after the rain.

"It's okay if you say you're ugly, but not only are you ugly, but you can't cure the disease. Then what's the use of me keeping you?" After speaking, the girl slammed the poison-breaking wood in her hand into the corner.

Perhaps remembering that the poisonous wood was still poisonous, the girl hurriedly rushed into the house and began to fetch water and wash her hands.

The fog that had been filling the morning had finally completely cleared, and the harsh sunlight shone directly into the courtyard against the gray tiles on the roof of the gatehouse.

The courtyard is not big, but it is very clean. Near the base of the wall, many agricultural tools are neatly arranged, and various food crops are hung under the eaves.

The girl may have rubbed her face twice as she went into the house to wash her hands, and when she came out of the house in the sun, her face was covered with fine droplets.

The girl tilted her head and let the sun warm her body. A pair of beautiful eyes were tightly closed, and two long braids hung down on their shoulders. The morning breeze blows, and the hair flutters. Instead of the biting cold of winter, there is an indescribable cool feeling.

The girl wiped the water stains on her face with her sleeves, and the dusty cuffs suddenly added a few black marks to her fair face.

The girl seemed unaware of it, and she carefully put the ancient book into a cloth bag on the side of the basket. Then he turned his gaze to the closed wooden door.

"Daddy went to the city to sell medicine, it stands to reason that he should have gone back yesterday, why hasn't he been seen until now? And what about my mother? Yesterday sunset said that he was looking for Daddy, why didn't she even know where she went?"

"Poof!" a muffled sound interrupted the girl's thoughts.

Her pink cheeks suddenly turned cloudy to clear.

"Daddy, mother, you're back!" the girl shouted as she rushed out the door.

But the moment the wooden door opened, she couldn't help but be shocked.

"Oops, what's that?"

Outside the door of the small courtyard, I saw a red horse half-lying on the ground. The strange thing is that there is still a creature that looks like a human but not a human, a ghost and not a ghost hanging on the side of the horse.

The "creature" lay flat on one leg on the ground, and the first one hung high on the horse's back. Judging by his posture, he should have fallen directly from the horse. The hat that was originally hanging on the back was impartially buckled in front of this inexplicable "creature" at this time. Not to mention his appearance, he couldn't tell if it was a human or a ghost, and even the girl with his head had never seen it.

I couldn't tell who it was, but there was one thing that the girl was sure of. This "creature" on earth is definitely not his own father.

"Bang dang!"

The girl closed the door and turned and rushed back into the courtyard.

"Squeak!"

When she came out again, she had an extra pole in her hand.

"Whoa, on the ground, is it a human or a ghost?" cried the girl.

"Hmm......"

Seeing him speak, the girl couldn't help but take two steps back.

"Please, okay?" the voice was hoarse and extremely unpleasant.

The girl couldn't help but frown.

"Let's talk about it first. But...... I didn't have to beg for food! Because I didn't eat either. ”

"Help me get the damn hat off!"

The girl didn't respond, but her hands had already handed the flat pole to the top of Shen Linfeng's head and began to fiddle with the hat.

The hat was removed, revealing a miserable white face in an instant. Half of his face was pressed to the ground, probably unable to move, but desperate to see the girl. So much so that his eyes rolled upwards without mentioning, and he looked very funny.

The girl couldn't help but think it was funny, how much danger could a man who couldn't even move, and so she dared to go to the side of the man underground.