Luo Tianchu and the three of them walked five miles to the northwest and found that the nearby grass and trees were growing very luxuriantly, and there was a sound of "whooshing" water in the depths ahead. They were in high spirits and quickened their pace. After walking for a while, I opened a tuft of long grass and saw a stream in front of me. The stream water is clear and clear, the aquatic plants are tender and green, the flowers and stones are colorful, and the fish are playing. Their mouths were dry and their throats were on fire, and they wanted to jump into the stream and drink at once. Yet none of them moved, their eyes resting on a stranger.

The stranger was thirty-five or sixteen years old, with a white face and a slight beard, a square scarf on his head, and a gray cloth robe, like a white-faced scholar, who was sitting on the ashlar in the shade of a tree and fishing leisurely. In the bucket beside him were a few freshly caught herring, still spinning in the bucket. There was a small black box on the other side of the body, but I didn't know what it contained. He was surprised at first when he saw the two of them, and then gestured to them. Luo Tianchu thought that eighty percent of the wind chimes he hung, and he also saw that he had no martial arts, so he stepped forward and asked: "Mr. is so Yaxing, he is fishing in this deserted mountain." The man made a boo gesture, and after a while, he struck the rod and caught another large herring. After unhooking the fish hook and throwing it into the bucket, he said: "Xianggong doesn't know, and further on, there are seven villages, how can they be deserted." ”

Luo Tianchu said: "I see, I don't dare to disturb Mr. Yaxing, I just want to ask Mr. about something." The man said, "Please speak." Luo Tianchu said: "I don't know how many phoenix tails there are?" The man was suddenly stunned, quickly threw down the fishing rod, straightened his clothes, and bowed his hand and said: "Please ask Qinglong a few lines of beard." Subordinate Hu Bai, see the castle master. Luo Tianchu clasped his hands together and said: "Brother Hu doesn't have to be polite, I don't know how Brother Hu knew that we were in trouble here?" Hu Bai said: "Under is the informant of the Gongsun military division in Yanjing, a few days ago I got the flying pigeon transmission of the military division, and learned that the castle master and his party may return to Guanzhong in the near future, and the Jin people will also pursue and intercept, so we will all meet the informants of Jinqi and Qi." The letter also stated that the lord of the castle might have brought a large convoy with him this time, which made us pay special attention. Seeing that the two of you are here, you should be a lost merchant, so you didn't dare to come forward to recognize each other, and I hope to forgive you for your presumptuousness. Luo Tianchu smiled and said: "Brother Hu is polite, since it is our own family, then we will talk about it later, and if you are thirsty, go to the stream to drink first." Hu Bai smiled and said, "The castle master, please." ”

Liu Shaoqing sat by the stream, took a sip of water in both hands, and did not make any sound, as if he was tasting a bowl of shark fin soup. No matter how thirsty he is, his manners and movements are always so noble and elegant. At this time, he suddenly heard a "poof", Luo Tianchu flew and jumped into the water, and the splash splashed him, Liu Shaoqing sighed and continued to hold the water to drink. Luo Tianchu plunged into the water for half a day before he rushed out of the water like a big fish, shook his wet hair, and praised: "Happy! When he jumped out of the water again, he found that Liu Shaoqing had stopped drinking water, so he said strangely: "Do you still want to practice? You don't even drink water?" Liu Shaoqing said angrily: "When will you finish swimming, when will I drink again." Luo Tianchu smiled: "You are upstream, I am downstream, you can't drink my water." Liu Shaoqing said: "That's not good, it's uncomfortable to watch." Luo Tianchu laughed and said, "Then you can bear with it a little longer, I haven't swam enough." ”

When he went ashore, he saw that Hu Bai was feeding the unconscious Zhao Hengshan with a gourd to drink water, and Liu Shaoqing sat aside and told about Zhao Hengshan's injury. Luo Tianchu was ashamed, and he forgot about Zhao Hengshan in excitement. After feeding the water, Hu Bai opened the black box beside him, took out a pair of scissors from it, cut the clothes near Zhao Hengshan's injury, and couldn't help frowning when he saw a fist-sized abscess, first scooped water to rinse the abscess, and then took out a narrow knife, and instructed Luo Tianchu to pick up some dry firewood, light it with a fire fold, and then take the knife on the fire several times before starting to cut the sores for Zhao Hengshan. Every three knives, a new knife is used to clean and bake the fire. Luo Tianchu found that his small box was divided into two layers, and the upper layer contained a dozen knives and different kinds of silver needles, as well as cotton cloth, gauze and straps. The lower layer is filled with bottles and jars of gold sore medicine, hemostatic powder, and antidote pills. Hu Bai first removed the thick juice, sprinkled half a bottle of gold sore medicine after cleaning, and said: "Hall Master Zhao's life is saved, but it is not appropriate to bandage the wound now, I will change the dressing for him in two hours, and there are other external injuries on Hall Master Zhao's body, which also need to be taken care of slowly." ”

Luo Tianchu had already seen that he was a doctor, and said happily: "Great, I didn't expect Brother Hu to be a medical craftsman." Hu Bai smiled and said: "The castle lord is smiling, his subordinates are indeed from the medical profession." Luo Tianchuqi said: "Brother Hu's industry can live without worry, why let go of a good life and follow us to take risks?

Hu Bai cleaned the knives one by one and returned them to their places, and said slowly: "It is precisely because my fort is the mortal enemy of Jin and Qi that I am willing to swear allegiance to the death." Luo Tianchuqi said: "Why?" Hu Bai said gloomily: "My whole family died under the knife of the golden soldiers, even my six-year-old daughter did not let go! I only hated myself for studying medicine and not martial arts, if I held the ghost head knife in my hand instead of this surgical knife, my whole family of eleven would have died under the knife of three golden soldiers! In the end, I was the only one who escaped, keeping this cheap life to take revenge and take revenge on the Jin country with the rest of my life. Then I became the dark line of Gongsun Junshi in Yanjing. In the past few years, there have been several murders in Yanjing, and the people who died were either Jin or Qi, and no one could guess that it was me, an honest doctor, who did the trick. ”

Luo Tianchu sighed: "I didn't expect Brother Hu to have such a broken past, it was all the disaster of this troubled world." Hu Bai said: "Disasters are all caused by people, when today's son is weak, the courtiers are treacherous, the civil officials are flattering, and the soldiers are afraid of death, so the Song Dynasty is not remembered by the country of tigers and wolves? and does not let the people of the Great Song Dynasty feel cold? Unfortunately, heroes like the castle lord are rare in the world, and there are a few more who are not afraid of the Jin country." Luo Tianchu said: "Brother Hu is too much to look down on. Hu Bai said: "The castle owner has not walked around among the people, and I don't know that the people have long regarded you as the first hero in the world, and your reputation is still above Huxiang Yang Tai." After receiving the flying pigeon from the military advisor, I thought that I would have the opportunity to meet the castle owner, and I was excited for several days, so I spread the wind chime mark of my castle in a radius of 100 miles, hoping that the castle owner could see it when he passed by. Luo Tianchu said with a smile: "I hope that Brother Hu will not be disappointed after meeting." Hu Bai said: "It's better to be famous than to meet, the castle lord is heroic and informal, and he is heartfelt." ”

Luo Tianchu said earnestly: "I must make persistent efforts in the next place and live up to Brother Hu's trust." Hu Bai sighed: "It's a pity that my subordinates don't know martial arts, otherwise they would have to follow the castle lord to fight against the Jin Kingdom." Luo Tianchu said: "It is impossible to defeat the Jin Kingdom only by martial arts, our road is very difficult to walk, and we need talents from all walks of life to work together. If there is no Brother Hu, Brother Zhao will be dangerous. ”

Hu Bai said: "Thanks to the solid foundation of Hall Master Zhao, it is difficult to survive until now as an ordinary person." Luo Tianchu said: "I don't know when he will recover." Hu Bai said: "It's hard to say, Hall Master Zhao's wounds have seriously deteriorated, ordinary people have to recuperate for half a year, and Hall Master Zhao has to recuperate for at least two or three months." Luo Tianchu said: "Now that the war in Tongguan is tight, it can't be delayed in the next moment, how can this be good." Hu Bai said: "My subordinates have a thatched hut two miles away, which is specially used to domesticate carrier pigeons, which is clean and safe, and is the most suitable for recuperation." If the castle lord can trust his subordinates, you can leave Zhao Tang Master to be taken care of by his subordinates, and you can quickly support Tongguan. Luo Tianchu was overjoyed and said: "Then I will rest assured, Brother Zhao will ask Brother Hu." Hu Bai said: "It's a matter of subordination." Luo Tianchu said: "By the way, after we leave, we will ask Brother Hu Feige to pass a message to Gongsun Junshi, tell him our current situation, I will arrive at Tongguan in five days, and then bring my 'black lightning' and Guming Sword over, I will use it in wartime." Hu Bai said: "The subordinates receive the order." ”

Luo Tianchu said: "In addition, ask him to find a new dark line to replace Brother Hu's position." Hu Bai was shocked: "Why is this, did the subordinates make mistakes?" Luo Tianchu smiled and said: "There will be casualties on our side in the first battle of Tongguan, and there is a shortage of doctors in Guanzhong. Hu Bai was overjoyed and said: "It is an honor to be able to treat the wounds of the front-line soldiers. Luo Tianchu smiled: "That's good, you can come back together after Brother Zhao's injury is healed." Hu Bai said: "Yes!" Luo Tianchu said: "Then we won't stay and leave." Liu Shaoqing suddenly said: "Wait a little longer, I still have to drink some water." ”

After saying goodbye to Hu Bai, Luo Tianchu and Liu Shaoqing continued to hurry. Now they marched quickly, performing light feats along the way, filling their water bags with sweet stream water, sparing the herring that Hu Bai had caught, and roasting fish in the forest when they were hungry, and in good spirits. The next day they bought two plough horses from the village, and when they had horses, they would abandon their horses and run when they were exhausted.

Zhu Yushi and everyone tasted tea and enjoyed the sea on the deck during the day. In the evening, a sudden storm came, black clouds overheaded, the sea breeze howled, torrential rain poured down, and the monstrous waves crashed on the boat like a hill. Boss Hu led the sailors to brave the torrential rain to collect the sails and let the ships drift on the sea like lonely leaves. Everyone prayed secretly in the cabin, hoping that the sea god would calm down his anger as soon as possible, and never bring a boat full of people to meet the dragon king. The two ships were separated, but people were more concerned about surviving the rainstorms, and experienced sailors were lying in hammocks, so that the hull of the ship could not be injured even if it swayed.

Zhu Yushi went to sea for the first time, had no experience, and the person was crooked in the middle of the cabin, if it wasn't for his light work, he would have fallen early and was covered with bruises. What really bothered him was seasickness, and the violent turbulence made him vomit all the fish and tea he had eaten during the day, and even the bile was about to vomit out, only to feel that his eyes were clouded, dizzy, and uncomfortable. The storm lasted all night, and he stayed awake all night, and when the sky cleared, the storm had finally passed, and his cabin was in shambles. He was so tired that he fell asleep. But before he could fall asleep, he heard a knock at the door. (To be continued.) )