Halfway up the mountainside, he saw a small road, circling around the mountainside, Xie Mingzhou suddenly realized, it turned out that he had not found the road, and he thought that since the mountain was inhabited, there had to be a way to enter and exit.

At this time, Xie Mingzhou was not in a hurry, he walked slowly along the mountain road, while enjoying the scenery of the middle of the mountain.

This mountain is not only lush with trees, but also has a large sea of bamboo, the breeze blows, the leaves, bamboo branches "rustle", sometimes there are birds and finches startled, sometimes there are small beasts jumping over, the waterfall hangs, the mountain spring dingdong, make people feel comfortable. There is a stone pillar next to the mountain peak, about ten zhang high, pointing straight to the clouds, like a big bamboo shoot.

The path is extremely difficult, there are cliffs all around, only this road leads to the mountain, there are several passes in between, it is also extremely dangerous for a person to walk, it is possible to fall off the cliff if you don't pay attention to it, it can really be said that you can be a man, don't open it!

Finally up to the peak, the field of vision is even more broad, only to see the city of Luzhou looming in the distance, the Yangtze River flows slowly, the mountains stretch, the cliffs and cliffs nearby, the majestic and magnificent, the vast bamboo sea, the clouds and mist are swirling, it is really like a fairyland on earth.

Xie Mingzhou was so drunk that he came back to his senses and decided to find a place to retreat in this mountain!

Xie Mingzhou rested for a while, continued to march towards the mountain, and when the sun was about to set, he finally saw a family on the flat part of the mountainside, which was smoking at this time.

There is a dam outside the house, two children are playing with their bare buttocks, they see someone coming from a distance, and they are busy entering the house to call adults, when Xie Mingzhou walked to the side of the dam, a sixty-year-old woman was in rags and was poking her white head to see.

Xie Mingzhou made a mockery and said: "The old man is merciful, and the trail is polite." ”

When the old woman saw that it was a Taoist, she was polite, and asked the child to pour tea and move the bench out to sit.

Xie Mingzhou said to the old woman: "Old layman, I was originally a monk from Chongyan Qinzhenguan, and I fled to Luzhou because of the military disaster, and now I and my apprentice have also lived in Luzhou for a year, but Hongchen is in the city, and it is not where my monk lives. ”

"I heard that this ancient Lou Mountain is steep and the scenery is unique, so I want to come here to find a place to refresh, but it is to disturb you to be old. ”

The old woman said, "What bother? Sometimes there is no one in this mountain for months, and when a guest comes, he is happy." ”

Xie Mingzhou asked, "I don't know who else is in the old man's family?"

"There are sons and daughters-in-law, two grandchildren, plus an old woman and me, a total of five people. ”

"Then why didn't you see your son and daughter-in-law?"

The old woman said with a bitter face: "The daughter-in-law is cooking in the stove room, and my son broke his leg when he went into the mountains yesterday, and now he is lying on the bed to recuperate." ”

Xie Mingzhou hurriedly said: "Even if I hurt my leg, I also know a little about medicine, can I help your son take a look?"

The old woman couldn't ask for it, so she hurriedly took him into the inner room, only to see a man in his twenties and thirties lying on the bed, and when he saw that the old lady had brought someone in, his face was full of doubts.

The old woman said to him, "This is a passing gentleman, please come and help you look at your legs." ”

"I don't have the money to pay for the consultation, and besides, I have applied my own herbs, and it won't be long before I get better. The man said to Xie Mingzhou with his teeth cracked, obviously in great pain.

Xie Mingzhou said softly: "With a gesture, I won't accept your money, you can rest assured." After that, I took off the quilt and saw that it was swollen red from my knees to my toes, and my legs were wrapped with some herbs, and it seemed that the injuries were not light.

So he asked the old woman to bring clean water, washed the herbs, put her fingers on her calves, and put a trace of true qi into it to investigate carefully. Sure enough, the head-on bone had been broken and misaligned severely, and if it was not treated in time, the leg would have been useless.

Xie Mingzhou asked, "Why is the broken bone dislocation so serious?"

The old woman said: "After he fell, he found herbs to apply himself, and walked back by himself, but he couldn't move when he got home, and my daughter-in-law and I helped him to bed." ”

Xie Mingzhou said: "It's okay, I can heal, I'll help him straighten his bones first." With that, he put his hands on his hands, and gently stroked his true qi, and the man only felt comfortable, and his whole body relaxed.

At this time, Xie Mingzhou pulled hard with both hands, and the broken bones had been connected.

The man screamed in pain, and his mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were also at a loss.

After a while, when the man's pain was slightly reduced, Xie Mingzhou took the talisman again, mixed cinnabar with water, drew a wound relief charm on the man's injured calf, applied it with yellow paper, and recited the mantra to stop the injury.

Xie Mingzhou said: "You can get out of bed in two days, but you still need to maintain more, don't move more, you can pick horse urine and exhaust vine bark leaves to mash and compress, and you can be cured in three days, and you won't leave any troubles." "These two herbs are also ubiquitous in the mountains.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law hurriedly thanked again, Xie Mingzhou said: "It doesn't have to be like this, it is also fate to meet here, and besides, we are cultivators, and we should help the world and save people." ”

After being busy for so long, the daughter-in-law put on the prepared meal, Xie Mingzhou was not polite, just ate a bowl and stopped eating, the old woman said: "Seeing that Mr. is not very old, it is the time to grow bones, you must eat more." ”

Xie Mingzhou since the true qi condensation, every day to be convinced, do not feel how hungry, sometimes two or three days before eating, listening to the old woman say this, hurriedly said: "It's not that I'm polite, monks don't have much appetite, even if they don't eat for three or two days, they don't feel hungry, and they are full after eating a bowl, but it's not that I don't want to eat more." ”

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law no longer persuaded them, after eating, the daughter-in-law went to clean up, and it was not time to sleep, and the night in the mountains was still a little cold.

Only then did I know that the old woman's surname was Chen, her husband's surname was Dong, there was an eldest who had lived separately, and the old disappeared after two hours, Xu was taken by a tiger or something, and this was the third child lying on the bed, the name was Dong San, and the daughter-in-law's surname was He, no name, the young one called her Dong San's daughter-in-law, and the old one called her Dong He's.

Xie Mingzhou chatted with Aunt Dong for half a night, and probably figured out the situation in the mountains.

This area is all mountainous, only this Gulou Mountain is the largest and highest, and it is two opposite, there are dozens of miles in a radius, there are not many people on this mountain, about twenty or thirty households, all of them are self-cultivation, mainly corn and wheat, sometimes they also go to the mountain stream and small river to touch the fish, go to the mountain to hunt some prey, life is extremely difficult.

A few years ago, they could take some fur herbs out of the mountains to exchange for some oil and salt, but now there is chaos outside, and their family has not been out of the mountains for more than two years.