In the "inner room" of the abandoned mine, Wei Ran had just used the embers in the brazier to light up the long-abandoned clay stove. Unakan, the Oroqen girl, could no longer bear the fatigue of running around for days and fell asleep leaning on her luggage bag.
Glancing at the Ma Sihuan in the girl's arms, the flower-mouthed rollers and three boxes held in her left and right hands respectively, Wei Ran shook his head slightly, carried the empty brazier back to the living room, and filled it with a few lumps of dry food.
Hard horse dung and mule dung.
After trampling the animal dung in the basin, he followed his memory and went into the mine with stagnant water, dug out most of the basin of mud, stirred it evenly, then returned to the clay stove, and carefully repaired the smoke everywhere.
The fiery gap.
After everything was done, Wei Ran grabbed a handful of soil and rubbed his hands carelessly, added some extra firewood to the clay stove, placed the uneaten lunch boxes of the two of them against the edge of the clay stove, and walked to the mine alone.
The direction outside the cave.
In this situation, if he wanted to find Hu Bazhi and others, the most realistic way would be to ask Sun Da, the boss.
However, for a layman like him who only listened to a few words of slang, he was not sure whether he could sneak into the opponent's mountain.
If you really can't do it, just let the bandits kidnap me on purpose. When the time comes, bring him directly to Sun Da's plate and then arrest him!
Wei Ran made up his mind and decided to take a risk, and couldn't help but walk faster.
Before he was caught, he planned to visit Hu Bazhi's shack. Maybe the other party had moved back there. After all, Cao Dazhi was dead, right?
The cat ducked through the low mine and returned to the "living room" outside. At this time, the mule was ruminating leisurely with its eyes closed, and the two reindeer were also curled up on the hay bales, burying their noses in their crotches and sleeping.
Of great fragrance.
"Come on, let's ride you."
Wei Ran muttered to himself and patted the mule's neck. Unexpectedly, he hadn't even untied the reins tied to the ground wedge when he heard the sound of chains coming from the direction of the mine entrance!
broken!
Wei Ran's heart sank, and he quickly blew out the oil lamp, walked a few steps forward along the rock wall, and hid in the corner before the iron gate at the entrance of the mine was opened. He pulled out the box cannon and suppressed the large and small machines.
head.
After a while, a dim light slowly moved inward from the direction of the cave entrance. At the same time, he also heard the "crunching" sound of the oil lamp swinging, the breathing of the horses, and even the slow tapping of the horse's hooves on the rocky ground.
sound.
As the light and shadow on the rock wall moved, a man wearing a dog-skin coat, a dog-skin hat, and a nine-dragon belt tied around his waist like himself walked to the corner of the mine holding an oil lamp in one hand and a rein in the other.
However, before the light of the oil lamp could dispel the darkness around the corner, a box cannon hit his ribs.
Under this silent threat, the person who led the horse in couldn't help but stop. However, he also let go of the oil lamp in his hand at the same time.
Unexpectedly, the person holding the gun against him had already held the bottom of the oil lamp with his other hand.
"I don't know which English..."
"How did you find..."
In the narrow mine tunnel, the two people spoke at the same time, but stopped at the same time.
"Brother Wei!"
"Zhao Jinyu!"
In the next second, the two recognized each other.
While Wei Ran quickly moved the gun barrel, Zhao Jinyu also turned sideways in surprise and took off the hat on his head.
"Why are you here?!" The two asked the same question.
"Is your injury healed?" Zhao Jinyu let go of the reins and asked excitedly.
"Okay, everything is fine, nothing happened."
Wei Ran, who was still holding the kerosene lamp, replied while putting the box cannon on his waist after closing the nose of the aircraft.
"Quick, quick! Look at this! Do you still recognize it?!"
Zhao Jinyu said as he picked up the reins and pulled it forward. Then, a dark horse's head came over and thrust itself into Wei Ran's arms affectionately.
"Is this the biting horse? Why is it so tall?"
Wei Ran subconsciously hugged the head of the horse that was leaning towards him, and then he realized that it still had a bridle on its mouth, and as he said, the horse had grown a lot taller.
, the shoulder height is about 1.6 meters.
Of course, compared to this biting horse that had grown up a lot, he also noticed that in the gun bag on one side of the saddle, there was still the Japanese Type 44 cavalry rifle he used, and the scabbard on the other side.
Inside, there is a saber inserted, a saber belonging to Zhao Jinyu.
"But it's not him. He has the bad habit of biting people. If I don't put a halter on him, I won't dare to ride him."
Zhao Jinyu said with laughter and tears, "This horse is still young. It is the time when its body and bones are growing. Plus, I have been feeding it a lot of concentrate for the past six months."
Touching the small semicircular gap in the horse's ear that had been made by the bullet, Wei Ran sighed and asked, "Why are you here too?"
"I..."
Zhao Jinyu sighed, "Sister Shiyi lost contact..."
"What did you say?" Wei Ran couldn't help but trembled, and subconsciously looked towards the depths of the mine.
"Ever since I was alive...since I escaped, I've been away from home."
At the edge of the dim light, Zhao Jinyu said worriedly, "I waited for more than two months at the place where I exchanged letters with the Yang family caravan but no one was there. I guessed that something had happened, so I left a message for my sister there.
The letter has arrived.
Brother Wei, Brother Hu and Squad Leader Xiaohu...are they okay?"
Hearing this, Wei Ran shook his head and said in the face of the other party's panic and despair, "I just came here, just a few hours earlier than you. This place looks like it has been abandoned for a long time."
As soon as he finished speaking, Unakan, an Oroqen girl with a gun in her hand, emerged from the deep mine tunnel and looked warily at Wei Ran and Zhao Jinyu who were shrouded in light.
"Who is he/she?" Zhao Jinyu and Unakan asked the same question in unison.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "He is Zhao Jinyu" Wei Ran explained first.
"Are you Zhao Jinyu?" Unakan said as if he suddenly realized.
"Do you know him/me?" Wei Ran and Zhao Jinyu said in unison.
"The letter you sent to Zhao Jinshan was sent by me and my father. Shopkeeper Yang also showed me your photo." Unakan took the initiative to explain as if he had found a backbone, "I am here for you."
Uncle Beard is here to deliver a message."
"Let's chat first," Wei Ran greeted.
"You go in first, there is a horse outside, I will bring it in too."
As Zhao Jinyu spoke, he changed places with Wei Ran who was standing at the corner. After Wei Ran walked in with his horse, he immediately got out.
After a while, Zhao Jinyu walked in with a bay-red horse. Just by looking at the scars on the horse, Wei Ran could recognize that it was the horse that Zhao Jinyu rode when he was in the cavalry company.
After tying up the horses one after another, and waiting for Zhao Jinyu to lock the iron gate at the entrance of the mine, the three of them got back into the inner room of the mine by the light of the oil lamp.
After sitting around the clay stove and talking, the three of them had a general understanding of the cause and effect.
"I asked Big Beard to tell you to come to Langcaozigou to report to Hu Bazhi and the others?" Zhao Jinyu frowned and confirmed again.
Unakan nodded upon hearing this, "And we have to do it quickly, very urgently."
After thinking for a moment, Zhao Jinyu said, "I probably know where they are."
"You know?" Unakan was delighted when he heard this, and asked Wei Ran in unison, "Where is it?"
"They're in this mine, come with me, I'll take you to find them right now." Zhao Jinyu stood up as he spoke.
"What's going on?" Wei Ran asked.
"There is another exit from this mine. You forgot... Oh - I remembered that when we were looking for another exit, you were interrogating the two young bandits."
"It seems like there is such a thing." Wei Ran smacked his lips and said, as if there was such a thing.
"Come with me, I should still remember how to walk." Zhao Jinyu said and stood up.
"Can we go there faster by riding horses?" Unakan asked rather impatiently.
"It's on the other side of the mountain. What if we meet a wolf or a bandit?"
Zhao Jinyu explained, "And I'm not sure if they are there. Let's go through the mine tunnel first and take a look."
"Unakan, you go to the end."
Wei Ran then stood up and said, "Jin Yu, you walk behind me and help me show the way."
Zhao Jinyu was startled when he heard this, then nodded, pointed to the second mine fork on the right and said, "Go inside and go all the way to the end."
"Come with me"
As he spoke, Wei Ran picked up the oil lamp and adjusted it to the maximum brightness. He kept asking, "Is it still snowing outside?"
“It’s really fun to play.”
Zhao Jinyu, who was walking behind, paused after speaking, "I asked Lao Bai to take you back to Shanxi. Why are you here? I thought you had gone to Sichuan and Sichuan with Brother Wangchuan and Qinghe at this time."
"Why don't you go back?" Wei Yan asked as he got into the mine.
Zhao Jinyu was silent for a moment and then sighed, "I'm too embarrassed to go back."
"I guess Sui...Wangchuan didn't go back to Sichuan."
Wei Ran muttered vaguely, and then asked before the other party spoke, "Didn't we fall into the water? How did you meet Lao Bai? I remember I asked him to go back with Han Huyuan."
"They are going back"
Zhao Jinyu replied, "Not long after they left, they came back when they heard that there was another fight here. Didn't we fall into the water at that time? Thanks to the black horse, it held our waistbands and dragged us to the shore.
, and then ran away again, and when he came back, Lao Bai brought his mare with him."
"It's really amazing..." Wei Ran couldn't help but smacked his lips.
"That black horse may have a lot of bad things, but it's very humane. And you can tell by looking at its general appearance that it's a strange horse, and there's no guarantee that one will come out of the same horse group."
Zhao Jinyu murmured longingly, "After the Japs are defeated in the future, if it is still alive, choose some mares to mate it, and the foals it will give birth to will be bigger than ordinary horses. Brother Wei, by then you can
You have to give me a pony."
"Okay, I can give you the horse." Wei Ran smiled and made a promise, "You have to survive."
"You have to survive." There was a hint of smile in Zhao Jinyu's tone.
"It's over." Wei Ran, who was walking at the front, stopped as he spoke.
"Take the mine on the left," Zhao Jinyu said, "or go to the end."
Hearing this, Wei Ran bent down and got into the mine on the left. This mine was only less than one meter high, so the three of them could only crawl forward.
Not only that, but after crawling forward for less than a hundred meters, Wei Ran stopped.
"What's wrong?" Zhao Jinyu asked from behind.
"There seems to be a trap. Don't go forward and don't touch me yet."
Wei Ran said, lifting the kerosene lamp and getting closer, carefully observing the abnormality he just noticed.
It was an inconspicuous-looking rope that extended from the rock crevice in the upper left corner. At the other end of the rope, there was a fishhook about the size of a corn kernel.
It is almost certain that as long as the person who climbs over here is not careful and gets his clothes caught on this fishhook, something will be pulled out of the crack in the rock.
Carefully removing a stone the size of an egg, he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. There was a lemon grenade produced by Maozi stuffed into the crevice, and the rope was connected to its safety pin pull ring!
After a moment's hesitation, he did not eliminate the fatal grenade. Instead, he just stuffed the rope with the fishhook into the gap and blocked it with the egg-sized stone.
"Be careful," Wei Ran warned and continued to crawl forward holding the oil lamp.
When we came to the end again, there was only a cave entrance that was almost ninety degrees downward. On the rock wall of the cave entrance, there was a man-made gap that could be used to step on.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Wei Ran is still in front and Zhao Jinyu is behind. After the three of them came down carefully, they continued to walk forward under the guidance of Zhao Jinyu.
In addition to discovering a row of rusty but twice as lethal large animal traps from the bottom of the ankle-deep water when passing by a waterlogged road, Wei Ran also noticed that not far from the puddle
, there is a mountain spring flowing down against the rock wall all the time.
"Go forward, crawl through a crack and you'll almost be able to get out." Zhao Jinyu said in a low voice.
Hearing this, Wei Ran nodded, and after leading them through the puddle, they walked forward along the slowly rising mine tunnel for a hundred or two hundred meters, and finally saw a horizontal crack two meters above their head.
"Don't touch that rope," Wei Ran warned cautiously, pointing to the rope hanging from the crack above his head.
"Are you also a hunter?" Unakan, who had not spoken much along the way, asked.
"The person who arranged this is a hunter, an excellent hunter." Wei Ran said, and asked Zhao Jinyu to help build a ladder. He stepped on the other person's hands and supported the rock wall to climb up the crack carefully.
Sure enough, there was a second lemon grenade stuck on the other end of the rope!
Not only that, there was also a stick as thick as an arm placed in the crack. There were many branches deliberately left on the stick, which was obviously used as a ladder.
However, Wei Ran shook his head dumbfounded during this inspection. This ladder looked kind-hearted, but in fact there were at least a dozen saw slits hidden on it. If any honest person planned to step on this ladder, he would have to kick it down and be killed by those people.
The sharp branches cannot be poked into candied haws.
Moving the wooden ladder aside, Wei Ran first pulled up Unakan, who was climbing up with Zhao Jinyu's hands. Then he lay down on his side, arched one leg, and used the soles of his feet and knees as pitons to get stuck in.
Although the road was three meters long, it was only half a meter wide at most. He took off his armed belt and handed it to Zhao Jinyu.
After dragging him up, Wei Ran took the oil lamp carried by Unakan and still climbed to the front.
After he climbed through the crack, which was five or six meters deep, he found that most of the end was blocked by rocks and mud, leaving only a window less than half a meter square.
This artificial window is covered with a layer of newspaper from the outside. Through this newspaper, you can vaguely see a light on the other side.
Looking at Zhao Jinyu and Unakan who were lying next to him, Wei Ran extinguished the oil lamp gently, then imitated the flower picker in the costume TV series, wet his fingers, and stabbed the newspaper silently.
small hole, and then put his eyes up.
Looking through the holes in the newspaper, he could clearly see that on the other side was a cave that looked about 20 square meters.
The height of this cave can be three meters, and at this moment, I am almost at the top edge of the cave.
I turned my vision slightly and looked around. Everywhere I looked, there were stretched animal skins, ready-made leather shoes, and some dried meat hanging out in the air.
On one side of the cave, against the wall, there is a clay stove with a charcoal fire burning. Next to the clay stove is an earthen kang. At this time, there is a person lying on the earthen kang, and he is covered with
An animal skin blanket and a towel seemed to be placed on his forehead.
Apart from this person, there is no one else in this cave.
After thinking for a moment, he stretched out his hand to tear open the newspaper that sealed the escape window and looked outside. He saw a wooden ladder set up outside. He immediately turned around and let his legs go out first. He carefully stepped on the ladder and tried to lift his body.
He jumped with all his strength on it.
Seeing that the ladder could bear his own weight, he climbed down carefully.
When his feet stepped on the solid stone ground, Wei Ran finally breathed a sigh of relief, and then cautiously walked towards the man lying on the earthen bed.
As he got closer, he immediately recognized that the person lying on the kang turned out to be Miss Hongxia!
He reached out and touched the other person's forehead, and the hot temperature immediately made him realize that something was wrong.
Without bothering to check the surroundings, Wei Ran immediately took off the quilt covering the woman's body. At the same time, he picked up the towel, washed it in the wooden basin beside the kang, and put it on Miss Hongxia's forehead again.
"It's Hongxia"
Wei Ran said immediately when he saw Zhao Jinyu and Unakan walking over.
"It's really Sister Hongxia." Unakan immediately panicked when he saw the girl Hongxia who was unconscious due to high fever.
"Unakan, can you completely trust us now?" Wei Ran asked at this time.
"able!"
Unakan nodded without hesitation, and at the same time took off the roe deer horn hat on his head, bit open a thread with his teeth, and took out an envelope with three feathers attached and stained with a bloody fingerprint.
The envelope was handed over simply, "This is the letter from the bearded uncle to me. I must hand it to Sister Hongxia or..."
"Don't rush the letter first"
Wei Ran pointed to the girl Hongxia on the kang, "Wunakan, Jinyu and I are inconvenienced. Please help us. Use a towel to help Hongxia wipe her forehead, armpits, palms and soles of her feet over and over again. If she keeps burning like this
If you go down, everyone will be burned to death."
"good!"
Unakan simply took over the task, and Wei Ran and Zhao Jinyu also turned around and distanced themselves while observing the cave, which was not that big.
"It's a pity that the medicine my sister gave us is no longer available."
Zhao Jinyu said regretfully, "At this time, take ginseng soup and give Miss Hongxia an Angong Niuhuang Pill. She will definitely be able to reduce her fever."
"real?"
Wei Ran asked in surprise, his heartbeat even speeding up - he clearly remembered that the tin box given by Zhao Jinyu's sister was on the second layer of the metal book's food box!
“Nothing like that”
Zhao Jinyu said, "In order to save you, I gave Lao Bai the tin box that my sister gave me. If I had known I would have kept it, not to mention anything else, even if I could have kept the rhino horn.
.”
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Rhinoceros horns? Are there rhinoceros horns in there?" Wei Ran asked in astonishment.
"Why not?" Zhao Jinyu said firmly, "When you were seriously injured and had a high fever and fell unconscious, I ground rhino horn powder for you to eat to reduce the fever."
"I...I didn't pay attention"
Wei Ran paused for a moment, looked around, picked up a Japanese lunch box and said, "Jin Yu, go outside and get some clean water and come back. Be careful and see if there is anyone else here."
"good!"
Zhao Jinyu did not doubt that he was there, so he took the lunch box and walked out. At the same time, he also pulled out a box cannon from his waist - a box cannon that once belonged to the Li brothers.
Without waiting for the other party to go far, Wei Ran took out the food box under the cover of the animal skins drying around him, and as quickly as possible, he took out the tin box from the second layer of the food box.
The last time he opened the tin box, he just glanced at it without taking a closer look. Now after taking out the wild ginseng wrapped in red cloth from the tin box, he noticed that there was also a ginseng under the red cloth.
There was a piece of thick white cloth wrapped in a piece of rhinoceros horn that was about as thick as a cigarette box from later generations, but almost one-third narrower than the cigarette box.
The three sides of this rhinoceros horn are extremely rounded, and it has obviously been polished frequently, but only one side seems to have been hastily cut open with a saw. The rough section is not only covered with stubble, but also the fish roe on the other side.
The lines are not very clear.
Not only that, one side of the rhinoceros horn is also carved with a half-broken plum blossom. It seems that not only the sawed-off half contains part of the plum blossom, but also the matching other half.
So what is this object?
Before Wei Ran could figure it out, Zhao Jinyu had already ran back carrying a lunch box of snow.
"Is this thing here with you?!" Zhao Jinyu asked in surprise after seeing the tin box in Wei Ran's hand.
"Your sister also gave me a copy back then."
Wei Ran explained, then shook the rhino horn in his hand and asked curiously, "This is the rhino horn? Is it sawed off from something?"
"Can't"
Zhao Jinyu said, "That is half of a pair of paperweights, considered the treasure of the old man of the Ma family.
My sister's letter said that the old man sawed the pair of paperweights in half and left half of them to my little nephew.
The other three pieces were given to you, me and my brother-in-law respectively, so that we can keep them to save our own lives and the lives of the soldiers in the cavalry company."
"The old man of the Ma family is righteous"
Wei Ran sighed, "It's a pity that Captain Ma didn't..."
"There is no resurrection from the dead, and now is not the time to talk about this."
Zhao Jinyu said hurriedly before Wei Ran finished speaking, as if he was avoiding the matter.
"That's right"
Wei Ran nodded and handed the tin box to the other party, "How do you take these medicines?"
"She's hurt"
Before Zhao Jinyu could speak, Unakan, who was wiping Miss Hongxia's body, spoke in panic.
"Where is the injury?" Wei Ran asked immediately and walked over quickly.
"On the legs"
Before Unakan finished speaking, Wei Ran and Zhao Jinyu had already ran over.
At this time, the trouser leg of Miss Hongxia's right leg had been pushed to the knee position, which allowed Wei Ran to see clearly that her leg seemed to have been fractured from the front bone of the calf.
Not only that, there was a wound on the calf that, although bandaged, was still suppurating and smelling bad.
Obviously, the reason why she had a high fever and even became comatose at this time was probably because of this wound.
"Can you cure it?"
Zhao Jinyu asked, "I see there is a Japanese medicine box hanging outside."
"Really? Bring it quickly!"
Wei Ran immediately breathed a sigh of relief. As long as there was a medicine box and medicines, it would be easy.
"I'll go right away!"
Before Zhao Jinyu finished speaking, he had already put down the lunch box and tin box in his hand, and ran out again.
Not long after, he ran back carrying a Japanese medicine box, and Wei Ran recognized it at a glance. It was the one that Cui Dashu had snatched from the handlebar when he rescued Yang Shiyi.
Lifting the lid of the medicine box, Wei Ran breathed a sigh of relief. There were not only surgical equipment but also several anesthetics inside. This was the best news.
"can be cured"
Wei Ran said confidently, and then quickly added, "I mean, I can treat her fractures and wound infections, but there is nothing I can do about her high fever."
"It's okay, I'm sure."
Zhao Jinyu said, having already picked up the lunch box filled with ice and snow, "I'm going to make ginseng soup right now!"
Without wasting time, Wei Ran took out the steaming and sterilizing tray from the medicine box, poured the box of surgical instruments into it, added some snow, closed the lid, and placed it on the clay stove for roasting.
He took this time to check the medicines in the medical box again.
The news is mixed. The various injections are quite complete, but they may have expired.
In addition, there was only the bottom of a bottle of iodine that was less than two fingers high, there was no alcohol at all, and most of the other oral medications were no longer available.
I hope the medicine Zhao Jinyu and his sister prepared will work...
Wei Ran sighed secretly, stretched out his hand and carefully kneaded the swollen flesh at the broken bone.
After some inspection, Wei Ran, who was already confident, first found an ax and used the firewood piled on the side of the clay stove to chop out a few splints. Then he called on Unakan to help hold down Hongxia, who was unconscious, and asked him to
Watching with frightened little eyes, he pinched Hongxia's broken bone back bit by bit and aligned the fracture.
