Skiing downhill is fast.
About an hour later, Zhou Xiaoxiao came to a small town called Lijiatun at the foot of the mountain. This town is on the south side of the mountain, and it is about 20 miles away from Qiongcheng, which is located on the east side of the mountain. Zhou Xiaoxiao planned to stay in the town for one night, and then set off on the next day after buying a commuter animal.
Today, the town coincides with a market. Although the market is about to disperse, villagers from the surrounding villages gather on the muddy road that has been lively for a day.
All kinds of simple stalls are crowded on both sides of the uneven stone road, selling food, shoes and socks.
There are also many people walking on the road with grass signs, some holding two geese, some carrying a basket of eggs, and some carrying a load of firewood.
Because of the mountain, there are many hunters who trade various mountain goods.
At this moment, Zhou Xiaoxiao was wearing a double-eared dog-skin hat, a cotton-padded jacket, a tiger-skin waistcoat, double felt bumps on his feet, two obvious plateau reds on his dirty face, and a standard mountain hunter dress. . Mixed in the crowd is not at all inconspicuous.
Zhou Xiaoxiao carefully observed the circle and saw no conspicuous searchers. Just let go. Maybe this place and the Linfu Courtyard are in two directions of the mountain, and no one has searched here yet.
The lively and novel ancient market did not excite her.
She only felt uncomfortable in her heart, and she walked for a while in the crowd in annoyance, and saw a medical hall with a sign that said: Buy all kinds of herbal medicines.
Zhou Xiaoxiao knocked on the old wooden counter. The shop assistant was a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy. The boy smiled at her, showing his big white teeth.
"Is the guest officer seeking medical treatment or prescribing medicine?"
Zhou Xiaoxiao put the package up: "I have good tiger bone deer antler here. Does the store accept it?"
The young man turned his head and shouted to the inner room, "Father, here comes the herb seller."
"I've got it, I'll take it out first if my brother has anything." An old Chinese doctor with a gray beard came out of the back room.
The old man's price is very fair. In addition, Zhou Xiaoxiao didn't care about it because he had property from Lin Fushun for self-defense. Very simply took off the mountain goods.
"If my little brother still has some good skins, he can also give some to this old man. It's freezing cold, and this old man wants to make a leather jacket for this boy." The old doctor pointed to the tiger skin waistcoat on Zhou Xiaoxiao's body and said.
Zhou Xiaoxiao thought of the pile of furs in the cave, and immediately thought of Yu Xingzhi lying in the pile of furs. I don't know how he is now, if he can survive it.
I always feel that I have done something big wrong, and my heart is empty and uncomfortable. When leaving the hospital, Zhou Xiaoxiao carried a stack of medicines, stab wound medicine, scald medicine, anti-inflammatory herbs, frostbite cream and a pair of bone setting splints.
What the hell am I buying these for, Zhou Xiaoxiao thought about it.
She found an inn in the town and stayed there.
Filled with food, he fell on the warm kang in the inn, but couldn't sleep.
It was hard to fall asleep.
For a while, I dreamed that Yu Xingzhi was caught by Lin Bingren and chopped into several pieces bloody, and for a while, I dreamed that Yu Xingzhi was in a death hole and was devoured by wild beasts.
Waking up sweating profusely, the sky was bright.
She jumped up from the kang, rented a sled car and eight sled dogs from the innkeeper, bought a roll of bedding, and jumped onto the sled with the bedding and herbs.
The eight sled dogs ran wildly together, returned along the way they came, and ran towards the cave.
Back on the hillside, Zhou Xiaoxiao felt a brighter mood when she saw that the surroundings of the three cedars were the same as when she left.
She removed the snow and shelter at the entrance of the cave, drove the sled dog into the cave, and dragged the sled into the cave, just about to call for someone.
The scene inside the cave gave her a chill.
The bonfire was extinguished, and the stone room was dim, with the faint light shining through the hole, and a person could vaguely be seen lying motionless on the edge of the pile of fur.
The man had a pale back bare, and one arm stretched forward limply, not knowing whether to live or die.
Zhou Xiaoxiao snorted in her heart, ran forward quickly, and turned the person over carefully, only to see Yu Xingzhi's face like golden paper, his teeth clenched, and when he touched his forehead, it was terrifyingly hot.
Zhou Xiaoxiao finally felt a sense of guilt in her heart.
She blamed herself, how could you be so cruel, people didn't abandon you in the ice and snow, but you left such a seriously wounded person in a cave to fend for themselves.
Move quickly while condemning yourself.
The bonfire was rekindled, the bedding was covered, the herbs for oral administration were boiled in a crock pot, the wound medicine for external use was conditioned, and the wounds of the patient were re-treated and bandaged with medicine. It is also necessary to cover up the hole and place sled dogs. Just in a hurry. Suddenly a low moan was heard.
Zhou Xiaoxiao hurried to Yu Xingzhi's side.
"you're awake?"
When he touched his forehead, it was still burning badly.
"Bastard... bastard." He began to dream on and off, "Stop... stop... let me go."
It burned so badly that they were talking nonsense, and Zhou Xiaoxiao was anxious.
"It's me. I'm back." She could only comfort him softly.
After frying the anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving herbs, Zhou Xiaoxiao helped the weak patient and carefully poured it down.
After feeding the medicine, I just turned around.
A muffled voice came from behind.
"Don't... don't go, don't leave me."
Zhou Xiaoxiao felt a little sour.
She sat beside Yu Xingzhi, held his hand, and said softly, "I'm not leaving, don't be afraid."
However, the man was so dazed that he couldn't hear the outside voice, except for a few low, guttural sounds of unknown meaning from time to time.
Zhou Xiaoxiao thought to herself, if you begged me like this when I left, I might not have the heart to leave.
But you want to say goodbye in a gentle way, so I can't say anything to go back. The fever is so bad at the moment, what's the use of saying it again.
She felt ashamed in her heart, so she took care of Yu Xingzhi more meticulously, wiping his neck, armpits, limbs, and the soles of his hands and feet with cold water. The ice pads on the forehead were changed one after another. Until his high temperature finally dropped, he slowly woke up.
Yu Xingzhi opened his eyes and saw Zhou Xiaoxiao. For a moment, his eyes were shaking like stars. There seemed to be thousands of words but he couldn't get out. In the end, he only showed a weak smile. This shallow smile made Zhou Xiaoxiao feel that his heart was frozen. , with this laugh, a crack opened, and a few green shoots emerged from the crack.
Yu Xingzhi's injuries repeated. The fever subsided and burned again, and the fever subsided again and again.
People are sometimes awake and sometimes in a coma. When in a coma, he could always feel a warm body holding his hand beside him, encouraging him softly.
When I am awake, I can always see a busy figure feeding and changing dressings, helping each other with defecation, without shyness. A pair of round and bright eyes, always showing a candid and hearty smile when he sees himself looking over.
She took care of me so unapologetically.
If I am fortunate enough to get this life back, I will definitely seek to marry this girl, so as not to damage her reputation. He thought dazedly.
When he woke up slowly after another high fever subsided.
Yu Xingzhi saw that Zhou Xiaoxiao was cleaning up the things in the cave. The girl swiftly piled all the fur on the sled, and swiftly put the reins on the sled dogs.
She was leaving again. Realizing this, Yu Xingzhi felt that his heart sank into darkness. He wanted to speak to the cuckoo girl and ask her to stay with him. Don't let him be alone here. In the cold cave, he suffered from pain until he died.
However, good upbringing made him unable to speak, and he was unwilling and unable to drag a girl who had never lived into a dangerous situation. So he quickly forced himself to control his emotions. Get ready for another peaceful goodbye.
Zhou Xiaoxiao put on the sled dog, and when he turned around, he saw a sad expression on Yu Xingzhi's handsome face, but this expression quickly disappeared, he put on a calm face, and even forced himself to pose. A little smile. Zhou Xiaoxiao came over, rolled up Yu Xingzhi with the quilt, and placed it on the sled.
Yu Xingzhi was taken aback: "You... are you going to take me with you?"
"I'll take you to the doctor." Zhou Xiaoxiao put her dogskin hat on his head and fastened the belt, "You can't die."
Yu Xingzhi felt that his heart was rolling in a warm spring, and at the same time he knew that such an action was too dangerous and would implicate the girl, so he should quickly refuse.
However, when Zhou Xiaoxiao's round eyes were close to his face, he smiled at him, and stretched out his hand to press the fur quilt on his body, he felt a nostalgic warmth, out of greed for this warmth, Out of his desire for life, he finally did not speak out about his refusal.
When the sleigh started and went all the way down the mountain, Yu Xing knew that half of his heart was soaked in the happiness of being rescued, and the other half was soaked in the deep sense of condemnation for his selfishness.
The two arrived at Lijiatun in the evening. Zhou Xiaoxiao went straight to the previous hospital. The boy was dropping the door. Seeing them, he quickly put down his work and helped carry the patient into the inner hospital. The old doctor checked Yu Xingzhi's injury and stroked his beard with a solemn expression. Zhou Xiaoxiao quietly held a wrist release knife pinned to the lower waist with her backhand. If the situation was not right, she would not hesitate to use force to force him to treat Yu Xingzhi.
"Baby, go and drop the door panel. The candles in the front yard are all extinguished. Close the door."
He said to Zhou Xiaoxiao again: "I want my little brother to help the old man."
Zhou Xiaoxiao slowly released the hand holding the knife behind his back, and said, "Thank you sir." While remaining vigilant, he stepped forward to attack him.
Yu Xingzhi has a tough personality, even though the healing process was very painful, he didn't say a word, just gritted his teeth and turned his face away.
If it weren't for the trembling hands that clenched the fists tightly, people would even think that the ferocious wounds being handled by the doctor were not the same on him. It wasn't until the moment when the doctor connected his leg bone that he finally couldn't help groaning, sweating all over his head, and his face was white as paper and passed out.
Even the doctors who saw many injured people couldn't help sighing: "Alas, this Lin Mansion is so domineering. It humiliates people to death like this."
Zhou Xiaoxiao, who was wiping Yu Xingzhi's sweat, was shocked when she heard this, and turned her head to look at him vigilantly.