Chapter 128: Drifting
Ou Yan's convoy traveled on the road for a few more days, although the elders of the faction who received the reinforcement had not yet arrived, but the Lotus Dart Bureau and the stronghold of the Ethereal Sect in several surrounding towns had elite disciples coming over, and Ou Yan's safety was guaranteed, and then, Aunt Qin issued an order, asking the disciples of the faction who were close to the four to look for Zhang Xiaohua's people or body, and find a heavy reward along the river, so except for the disciples who had a task, everyone else went all the way along the river.
However, until the seventh day, Li Jian, Li Laoer, Liu Qingyang, and Liu Laowu, who came from Pingyang City, received Ou Yan's carriage, and there was still no news from that Zhang Xiaohua.
Zhang Xiaohua, is she dead or alive?
Let's say, that day, that night, that moment, Zhang Xiaohua was slapped on the chest by the old man in black, and immediately fainted, his body was shocked and flew out, and he fell obliquely to the river, Zhang Xiaohua carried Ou Yan on his back and went to the river, the place where they fought was not far from the river, Zhang Xiaohua was young, and the old man in black had strong palms, although this palm could not directly hit Zhang Xiaohua into the river, but only half of his chest was left on the riverbank, how turbulent the river was at that time, and in a moment, the river washed Zhang Xiaohua's legs, and dragged him into the riverγ
It is also Zhang Xiaohua's luck, if the palm power of the old man in black is added by half a point, Zhang Xiaohua will directly "plop" and fall into the river, then nine times out of ten it will sink directly, and then wash away, and Zhang Xiaohua's legs first entered the water, and the upper half was dragged into the water after that, but the head was exposed above the water, otherwise, even if he was not killed by the old man in black, the river would drown him.
Zhang Xiaohua, who was unconscious, was extremely relaxed, so it was easy to float on the river. At this time, the time has come, and Zhang Xiaohua in a coma is a flickering dream, but I don't know if he can see it.
In the dark, Zhang Xiaohua floated in the water, down the river, and flew straight down 3,000 feet. However, the drifting of this little flower is different from others, whenever someone falls into the water, they first float for a period of time, either sink into the water, or they lean on the shore and run aground there, which is also what Qin Auntie imagined, so let the disciples find it along the river. But this little flower is good, I don't know if it's still small, or the body is frivolous, or it's a flickering dream, his small body seems to have no weight, just floating in the river, and he firmly holds the small sword in his left hand, it seems that there is no weight in the past, Zhang Xiaohua's body is like a light and fluttering plank, how turbulent the river is, how fast he is.
Therefore, when He Tianshu looked for someone to look for him for the second time, Zhang Xiaohua had already been rushed to a distance beyond their imagination, and later the people assigned by Lan Dong only found a distance that they thought was "far" enough, and this "far" was surpassed by Zhang Xiaohua early.
At dawn, the rain still hadn't stopped, and the river was getting more and more urgent, and Zhang Xiaohua was on the river like this, not knowing how far she had drifted.
When it was almost evening, Zhang Xiaohua finally drifted to a winding river bay, and I don't know how far away it was from the place where Zhang Xiaohua fell into the water.
Next to the river bend is a simple thatched house, surrounded by several fences, from the open space of the grass house there is a haode wooden shelf into the river, at this time, there is a girl about ten years old, sitting there, holding a fishing rod in her hand, one hand supporting her cheeks, her eyes are looking ahead, the girl is wearing goose-yellow clothes, very neat, long black hair, tied from the top of the head with a handkerchief, scattered at random behind the head, the girl's face is duck egg-shaped, the eyes are big, there are slight eye bags, fair skin, there is a red beauty mole at the corner of the mouth, this girl is not extremely beautiful, however, black and white eyes, the slightly raised willow eyebrows, but her compelling temperament is undoubtedly expressed.
At this age, the little girl has not yet reached the season of spring, but why is she worried?
At this time, the fishing rod in the little girl's hand seemed to catch a big fish, and slid out, and the girl seemed to be unaware, and suddenly, a loving voice came from the grass house: "Silly child, if you get distracted, not only will you not be able to catch the fish, but your fishing rod will also be stolen by the fish." β
The little girl woke up like a dream, and quickly held the fishing rod that was about to be taken off, and when she raised her eyes to look into the river, she couldn't help but exclaim: "Mrs. Shi, it's a dead person." β
"Huh?" the people in the room let out a surprised cry and walked out of it, it was a kind fifty-year-old woman, dressed in a very clean moon-white robe, and a long sword hanging from her waist.
The old man walked quickly to the front of the shelf, and when he looked closely, the end of the fishing rod and the top of the fishing hook were not Zhang Xiaohua in a coma?
The little girl looked at Zhang Xiaohua's "corpse" and said sadly: "Poor child, I guess it's about the same as me, he fell into the water like this, and the family can't find him, so he must be very sad." β
As he spoke, he seemed to have touched something in his heart, and the sadness on his face became more and more obvious.
Mrs. Shi looked at the "corpse" in the water and said: "Then let's salvage him, although I don't know where he fell from the water, but last night it rained a lot, and the river also rose a lot, but it is not easy to find a place for him, why don't we bury him on the spot, and save it from soaking in the water and becoming food for fish and turtles." β
The girl's sad expression did not ease, she just nodded, pulled the fishing rod back hard, and waited to pull Zhang Xiaohua to the shore along the current, Mrs. Shi walked closer, and did not shy away from anything, and reached out to pull Zhang Xiaohua's arm, fortunately, the shelf on the water was not very high, and the water also rose a lot today, and Mrs. Shi leaned over a little and grabbed it.
Mrs. Shi grabbed Zhang Xiaohua's arm and was about to pull her luck to the shore, when she suddenly looked happy and shouted, "He's still alive." β
When the girl heard this, she was also very happy, and hurried over to help, but she was small and her strength was small, so what could she do to help? Moreover, Zhang Xiaohua's body was not heavy, so Mrs. Shi carried him out of the river with one hand, but she was more careful than just now.
Seeing that the little girl wanted to help, Mrs. Shi smiled and said, "You go boil water and boil some ginger soup." This child doesn't know how long he has been soaking in the water, he must be cold, drink some ginger soup to ward off the cold. β
When the little girl heard this, she jumped and ran away, and the sorrow between her brows seemed to be a little less.
When Mrs. Shi carried Zhang Xiaohua to the grass hut, changed out of her wet clothes, wrapped her in a thick quilt, and then carefully checked her pulse, Yun Neili visited him inside, and her expression became even more serious.
At this time, she saw the small sword that Zhang Xiaohua was holding in her left hand, and tentatively pulled it out with her hand, but she didn't pull it out, so she put Zhang Xiaohua's left hand and the small sword in her hand into the quilt.
When the little girl walked into the grass hut with the bowl, Mrs. Shi was still wrinkled, as if she was thinking about something, and the girl asked carefully: "Mrs. Shi, what's wrong with him? Can he still be saved?"
Seeing that the girl was worried, Mrs. Shi said: "He didn't fall into the water for nothing, but suffered a very serious internal injury and was knocked down the river." β
When the girl heard this, she was even more sad, and said, "He is about the same size as me, who can he offend?" It must be a bad person who caused him to do this, Shi Tai is not a martial arts master, he must be rescued." β
Hearing the girl's words, Mrs. Shi couldn't help but feel ashamed in her heart, she had really been in the rivers and lakes for a long time, and her thinking was too complicated, just now she actually wondered if this teenager was a bad person, and a little girl had not seen it clearly, a teenager could be a heinous bad person?
In that case, how can you not save yourself?
So, Mrs. Shi told the little girl to go out and get a wooden basin and put it in front of the kang, then helped Zhang Xiaohua up, put on a five-hearted meditation posture, and then sat on Zhang Xiaohua's back, with both palms on his back, and then used his master's unique method of healing the heart to help Zhang Xiaohua treat the injury of the light golden palm.
After a while, Zhang Xiaohua's face gradually became ruddy, and there was a faint heat steaming on his head, only to see that Shitai's right palm twitched, and immediately Zhang Xiaohua's back was forced, and then he slapped him on the shoulder with a "snap", Zhang Xiaohua's mouth opened in response, and several large mouthfuls of blood spurted out of his mouth, which was spitting in the wooden basin, and most of the blood was black and had coagulated blood clots.
Seeing Zhang Xiaohua vomit blood clots, Mrs. Shi took a breath, put away her palms, and carefully put Zhang Xiaohua flat on the kang, at this time, Zhang Xiaohua's face was slightly ruddy, her snort was also slightly stable, and she saw a fine sweat on her forehead, and she saw that there was a little sign of being alive.
The little girl hurriedly took the wooden basin out, poured the dirty blood into the river, returned to the house, and asked carefully, "Master, is this cured?"
Shi Tai smiled and said: "How can it be so simple? I just forced out the clogged blood, he has not practiced internal strength, the meridians are blocked, and the effect of using internal strength to heal injuries is not great, now only medicine stone treatment is the best, that is the doctor's ability, I can't do it, but in this barren mountain and wilderness, where to find a doctor? The nearest market town is also a day's journey, so it is still necessary to perform light skills, how can he withstand the bumps in this injury? I am afraid that he will die if he does not reach the market town. β
The little girl frowned and said, "What should I do?"
Shi Tai said: "This child doesn't know which thief was injured, this shot is very vicious, the organs in the body are displaced, if the heart is half a point heavier, it will die a long time ago, but it is estimated that it was beaten into the river, this time in the water drifting, but like sleeping on the kang, the organs in the body have not been harmed, has been slightly recovered, I still have a few good healing pills here, I will give him a while to see the effect, now the plan, only to recuperate, see how his luck is." β
The little girl seemed to understand, nodded slightly, looked at the ginger soup that was already cold next to her, and said, "Do you still feed him this?"
Mrs. Shi smiled and said: "This is not good, just now I thought it was a stumbling and falling into the water, ginger soup can drive away the cold, but now it is an internal injury, this ginger soup is a stimulating thing, wouldn't it be fatal for him to drink it? β
The little girl went to get the white water as she said, and the master took out a white porcelain bottle from her arms, opened it carefully, poured out a black pill the size of her thumb belly from it, and then pried open Zhang Xiaohua's teeth, stuffed the pill into her mouth, and washed it down with white water.
Zhang Xiaohua's arrival did not have too much impact on the lives of Mrs. Shi and the little girl, Mrs. Shi still went out every morning and came back in the evening, only in the evening to see Zhang Xiaohua's situation and feed him a pill, while the little girl was in the grass hut, either in a daze or running around without purpose, more often, she still took a fishing rod and sat by the river, full of worries about fishing.
Only the river was rushing every day, and I don't know where it rained a lot, but nothing appeared in the river, and her fish were never caught.
After a few more days, it became colder and colder, and it was almost winter, and the little girl could not bear the cold, and already wanted to build a stove in the grass hut. Shitai's originally peaceful mood began to be irritable, and her brows furrowed from time to time, thinking that she had encountered a great problem.
The little girl seemed to notice Mrs. Shi's abnormal mood, and she wanted to ask, but she didn't know how to speak.
That night, when Mrs. Shi fed a pill to Zhang Xiaohua, the little girl asked, "Mrs. Shi, your pill is gone, how can you feed him medicine tomorrow?"
Mrs. Shi took Zhang Xiaohua's vein, and lost another internal force to check it in his body, and said: "There are so many pills, if they can have an effect, these are enough, if it has no effect, no matter how much it is, it is useless." β
The little girl was a little worried, and said, "How is he now? Is it effective? Don't let us Baba fish him up, he is buried, it's not worth it." β
Mrs. Shi smiled and said: "Saving people is in the process, and it does not necessarily have results. However, don't worry, this child is recovering quickly, to my surprise, his life should be worry-free, but for some reason he has not woken up? If it goes on like this, it is not a way, I have to return to the pie before the year, and you have to go with me, but I can't leave you in the mountains anymore. But if he doesn't wake up, why don't you want us to take him with you?"
The little girl smiled, "Then let's take it with us." If you take one from me, you will receive another. β
Mrs. Shi patted her little head and said, "What you said lightly, my sect has always accepted women and not men, even if it is a male disciple, most of them belong to the outer sect, and besides, I have never thought of accepting a male disciple." β
The little girl spread out her hands and said, "Then you can only take him with you, send him to the nearest market town, and let him fend for himself." β
Mrs. Shi said: "Don't think of any radical schemes, don't say that if you send him to the town and fend for himself, he will destroy himself in this situation, that is, when he arrives in the town." β
The little girl blinked and said, "Well, maybe he will be fine before you finish your business?"
Mrs. Shi smiled and said: "It's not possible, I'm looking for a place ......" Speaking of this, she suddenly woke up, smiled bitterly, and said: "You girl, if you want to ask, just say it directly, why are you still beating around the bush, but this matter involves a lot, and I can't let you know for the time being." Even if someone asks, you can't say more, you know?"
The little girl said disapprovingly: "I know, Mrs. Shi, I'll keep it a secret for you." β
Mrs. Shi knew that she didn't care, and she didn't point it out, so she continued: "My matter, it seems that it can't be done this time, but I have already been mentally prepared, and I will continue to do it in the future, let's wait a few more days, see this time, it's too late to return to the mountain." β
The little girl pouted and said, "I listen to my wife, and I have nowhere to go anyway." β
Mrs. Shi touched her head and said lovingly, "It's okay, you'll have a place to go in the future." β
Two days later, in the early morning of this day, when the morning sun flew out of infinite light, on the kang of the grass house, Zhang Xiaohua, who had been unconscious, suddenly opened her eyes, and in her black eyes, a ball flickered, fleeting.
Zhang Xiaohua, who had just woken up, looked at the unfamiliar grass hall that greeted him, it was very strange, but he recalled it slightly, and knew the general emotion, he tried to turn over and sit up, but only slightly raised his chest, and immediately felt that the pain in his chest was unbearable, and he couldn't help moaning, and lay back on the kang, so he turned his head, looked around, opened his mouth, and wanted to call someone, but just wanted to speak, his chest was also painful, and he couldn't shout loudly, so he had to call a few times softly, "Is there anyone?"
The voice was so weak that it meowed like a cat's meow, and who could hear it?
Fortunately, Zhang Xiaohua's arm was still able to move, and he just wanted to move, but found that his left hand was still holding the little sword, Zhang Xiaohua took the little sword in front of him with infinite emotion, looking at the familiar toy, he once again questioned in his heart, what is this? Is it really a toy? When practicing sword moves on weekdays, it is understandable to pierce into a big tree or stone, but the martial arts of the old man in black, but even the disciples of the Ethereal Sect can't use a long sword to pierce the body, this small sword can easily pierce into it, it's really incredible, not to mention, this little sword is not sharp.
Zhang Xiaohua was thinking about it when she suddenly heard a crisp voice: "Are you awake?"
Zhang Xiaohua turned her head to see that there was a little girl with a figure about the same size as him standing at the door, her duck-egg-like face, which was a little ruddy from the cold, her big eyes were flashing with a hint of surprise, and she was holding a fishing rod in her hand.
Sure enough, the girl hurriedly put down the fishing rod and shouted, "You wait, I'll tell Mrs. Shi to go." β
After saying that, one turned around and ran out, and the black hair flew away, leaving a beautiful scenery.
After a while, Mrs. Shi walked away quickly, and said happily: "God bless, you finally woke up in time, let me take a look first." β
After speaking, he walked to Zhang Xiaohua's kang, took the pulse, and infused a wisp of true qi into Zhang Xiaohua's body, and then said: "Yes, child, you have recovered very well, in the past ten days, you have been able to recover half of your injuries, your body is really not ordinarily good, full of vitality." Alas, it's good to be young. Injuries can recover so quickly. β
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