"Big brother, hurry up, it's coming. "The little girl of seven or eight years old carried a delicate bamboo basket on her back and walked on the mountain road, which was steep, but the little girl seemed to be used to walking on the mountain road and was not afraid at all.

Behind the little girl, followed by a man in rough clothes, his face was pale, although he was tall, he looked very thin, and he walked very slowly, and he didn't take a few steps before he had to stop and rest, this person was Qiu Xin.

He didn't know how he got here, he just remembered that he had raised his sword and cut off Ruzen's hair, and the rest of the matter was blank, and when he regained consciousness here, he lay on this mountain.

Then I met this little girl, named Ah Nan, who was dying at the time, and her life was short, thanks to this little girl who saved herself with her grandmother.

This mountain is called Wushan, it is within the Southern Wilderness, outside the eighteen states, isolated from the world, under the mountain is the Miao people's village, the little girl's grandmother is the Miao people's witch doctor, I don't know what means to seal the corpse poison of her body, to survive.

This time he followed the little girl up the mountain, it was the little girl who wanted to go up the mountain to collect medicine, and she needed to walk a long way, so she came with her, and her legs and feet were not good, and she rarely walked such a mountain road, and one fell far behind.

The little girl felt that Qiu Xin was slow, so she would stop and wait for him, "Big brother, grandma said that you have to walk more, otherwise your body will stiffen, and you can only lie down all the time." ”

Ah Nan turned around, a pair of big eyes seemed to be able to speak, and her long eyelashes were even more agile, but there was a large red fetal mark on the left half of her face, which seemed to make people feel sorry.

"Ah Nan, where is that medicine, I've been walking for half a day, and it's getting dark if I don't go back. Qiu Xin felt tired again, and covered her chest with her armrests.

Ah Nan ran over and pulled Qiu Xin's arm and said, "It's the place where I saw you last time, there is a dragon grass, and now it must be ripe, and if you pick it back, you can do a lot of healing medicine." ”

One after the other, one fast and one slow, until the sun rose, they arrived at the place, an extremely deep path, leading to a clearing, which was facing a cave, and the grass and trees in front of the cave were lush and lush.

In the clearing, there was a place where there was no grass, it was a human form, which was where Qiu Xin was lying at that time, and under the infiltration of corpse poison, it killed all the grass and trees around.

Next to the black humanoid clearing, a verdant grass, the grass trunk bends upward, with the image of a dragon and snake, half a waist high, Ah Nan saw this grass, jumped and ran over, and laughed, "If it weren't for this dragon grass, I wouldn't have found the big brother." ”

Qiu Xin smiled with relief, as if she was affected by the little girl, and reached out to touch her head, but she took into account that her body was poisonous, and her hand that was stretched out in the air was withdrawn, and said, "Ah Nan, do you usually come alone to collect medicine?"

Ah Nan took out a small shovel from the back basket and a piece of animal skin, spread the animal skin on the ground, and dug down the root of the dragon grass with a shovel in one hand, while saying, "When I was a child, my grandmother brought me here, but then my grandmother had bad legs and feet and couldn't collect medicine, so I came alone." ”

Ah Nan's movements are quite skillful, while digging up the dragon grass, it did not hurt the roots of the dragon grass, and also sandwiched the black soil, wrapped in the animal skin, so that it can survive for a period of time when brought back to the village, and the effect of the medicine will not be lost.

Although the mountain is beautiful, but it is deserted, Ah Nan usually collects medicine alone, which is really dangerous, Qiu Xin looked around and said, "Then don't your parents help collect medicine?"

Ah Nan had just wrapped the dragon grass, and when she heard the words, her eyes were already full of tears when she raised her head, "The food in the village was brought by my uncle and uncle to the forest, and my parents never came back from a hunting when I was young." ”

Qiu Xin regretted it in his heart, and secretly scolded himself for not mentioning Ah Nan's sadness, not having parents is indeed the most unbearable thing for her age, which he empathizes.

The dragon grass is a few leaves higher in the bamboo basket, and Ah Nan carries it like a grass growing behind him, which is very cute, and the unhappy things are forgotten in a blink of an eye, and he happily talks to Qiu Xin.

In the afternoon, the two of them walked to the village, where the priest's house was in the middle of the village, adjacent to the priest's house, and the outside of the house was covered with herbs, and the south was humid, and the herbs were most susceptible to moisture during this season.

"Young man, how are you feeling today?" The hunched old woman stood in the courtyard, and when she saw Qiu Xin and Ah Nan coming back, she looked at Ah Nan with a loving face.

"It's still the same today, the poison gas is too deep, it seems that it can't be cured. Qiu Xin knew that his body, all the meridians were blocked by the black corpse poison, if it wasn't for Grandma Nan, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to move now.

The old man walked up to Qiu Xin, Qiu Xin half-squatted his body, as tall as the old man, the old man stretched out his dry hand and pressed Qiu Xin's left and right shoulder blades, Qiu Xin took a deep breath, only felt the pulling sensation of flesh and skin, and did not feel any pain.

After that, the old man looked at the pupils of the ball again, and it was dilated outward, and after reading it, the old man stepped back, and Qiu Xin straightened up.

"This poison is extremely poisonous, and you are too deeply poisoned, if you are dyed for the first time, you can cut off the flesh and blood, and there is still a possibility of survival, and now the old woman really has no choice. ”

Qiu Xin smiled calmly, "The kid is a damned person, and after so many days, he is already very grateful to his mother-in-law and Ah Nan, how dare he ask for anything else." ”

When the old man heard this, he asked, "The mountains and forests of the Southern Wilderness are full of wild beasts and are extremely dangerous, but our Miao people have lived here for generations, and we have not cut off the inheritance, do you know why?"

Qiu Xin nodded, "What my mother-in-law said is because the people of the Miao nationality are not afraid of difficulties and have a strong desire to survive, so they can survive in the Southern Wilderness." ”

Ah Nan looked at the two of them, as if he understood or not, the old man said that he took off the back basket behind him, "You are right, the Miao people know the value of life, as a witch doctor, I understand that you are from the Central Plains, although I don't know why you are here, but your mind is not bad, tomorrow I will go to see the priest, you still have a chance of living." ”

"Mother-in-law is benevolent, and the boy is grateful, but I know that I have made many mistakes, and I am living in the world, and my heart is uneasy, how dare I make you work hard. ”

The old man didn't expect Qiu Xin to refuse, and snorted coldly, "What the old woman has seen in her life, whether it is livestock or people, you can do whatever it takes to survive, you are young, you think you can see through life and death, and you have nothing to be nostalgic for, it's really ridiculous, if you can save it, you can't save it or not, if you save it, it's not in vain to save you." ”

Seeing this, Qiu Xin knew that the old man was accusing of himself, and he didn't refuse, and said, "Thank you mother-in-law, it's my life to die, if you live, mother-in-law's words, the kid should obey it." ”

"That's very good. The old man didn't look at Qiu Xin, took Ah Nan's hand and walked into the house, when she saw the fetal marks on Ah Nan's face, she always showed a different look.

There are more than a dozen Miao villages under Wushan, and there are seven or eight thousand Miao people, and there are many people who come here every day to see a doctor, most of them go out to hunt and are injured by wild beasts.

The old man was very busy, Ah Nan also followed the dispensing of medicine and catching grass, Qiu Xin sometimes helped out, and the Miao people's respect for the witch doctor far exceeded Qiu Xin's expectations, and even Qiu Xin was greatly respected for this.

On the second day, the old man dressed up and handed over Ah Nan to Qiu Xin to take care of, or rather, Qiu Xin to Ah Nan to take care of, and went to the priest's residence next to him alone.

The priest's residence is all made of large stones, which is the most magnificent place in the whole Miao village, and once the priest here walks here, he is not allowed to go out of the altar for life.

The Miao people offer this place as a holy place, usually do not approach, only to the grand festival, will gather here, even the high-status witch doctor to enter here to dress up.

Not long after he went, the old man came back, and during this time, Qiu Xin's originally unwavering heart began to be apprehensive again, and a glimmer of hope rose in his heart, for fear that the old man would bring back bad news.

Qiu Xin laughed at himself in his heart, is it really as the old man said, he is really self-righteous, but deep down he really doesn't want to die.

When the old man came back, his face was heavy, and he was a little hesitant and reluctant, and said, "Within three days, you will eat a hundred kinds of herbs, accompanied by spirits, and you will not sleep during the period, and you will not be able to cut off for a moment." ”

Qiu Xin bowed down when she heard this, "Thank you, mother-in-law." "Although I don't know what method is to cure the corpse poison of my physical strength, and I don't know what price my mother-in-law paid, but my mother-in-law also has a purpose to save herself, and she was naturally able to repay the grace of saving her life at that time.

It was night, Qiu Xin began to eat herbs, about three quarters of an hour, and without exception, these sun-dried herbs, five dollars each, were extremely bitter in taste, and extremely difficult to chew.

And after eating a herb, he had to drink a bowl of spirits, and after eating seven or eight kinds, Qiu Xin began to be unable to hold on, and the spirits removed the water from his body, and made him dizzy.

The mouth is dry, but you have to endure the herbs into your mouth, the most bitter thing in the world, nothing is more than this, in the daytime, Qiu Xin's mouth has no feeling, his teeth have been bitten painfully, and there are countless thoughts of wanting to give up.

After the first day, Qiu Xin's lips were dry, but to his surprise, the alcohol with its strong medicinal effect touched his difficult meridians over and over again.

The next day passed, Qiu Xin was already delirious, and the old man and Ah Nan took turns looking at him, mechanically placing the herb in Qiu Xin's mouth, and at this time the corpse poison began to merge with the spirits.

On the third day, these spirits had melted all the tiny meridians in his body, and began to surge towards Ren Du's second vein, and the true qi frozen by the corpse poison began to stir.

When he ate a hundred kinds of herbs, his mouth was full of bitter water, he smelled the smell of herbs all over the room, and he wanted to vomit, because a little true qi could flow, his drunkenness was greatly reduced, and Qiu Xin was also a lot more sober, and the old woman also came to Qiu Xin, reached out and touched Qiu Xin's shoulder blades again, looked at Qiu Xin's pupils again, and nodded with satisfaction.