The courtyard outside the ruined temple is large and empty. The large copper cauldron in the middle is filled with water. The outside of the cauldron is densely carved with totems.
Lao Tong and Zhi Changle laid layers of trees and grass branches on the roof, and pressed many stones. After finishing their work, the two sat on it and looked at the furnace.
"Why are you so scared today?" Lao Tong asked.
Zhi Changle was so busy that he almost forgot about that, and frowned again when he heard this.
"Huh? I want to ask you something." Lao Tong stretched out his hand to push him.
Zhi Changle's eyes kept resting on the big cauldron, and he said softly: "We used to say that when people die, they go to the underworld, right?"
"What?"
Zhi Changle withdrew his gaze and looked at Old Tong: "Old Tong, what do you think the underworld is like? Has Brother Bai already arrived there?"
"Why do you ask me so many questions when you have something to say?" Lao Tong shouted dissatisfied, "I'm asking you, what did you see today?"
"I just saw the underworld."
Zhi Changle, with an earthy face, picked up the stone next to him and threw it towards the big furnace cauldron.
But he missed, and the stone hit the copper stove with a very heavy sound and a deep echo.
"Piles and piles of corpses," Zhi Changle said with difficulty, "Their brains...have all been dug out."
"What!?" Lao Tong's eyes widened.
"It's... it was dug up, and it was cut directly from the eyebrow bone. Some of the cuts were clean and neat, and some of them were not neatly cut..." Zhi Changle lowered his voice, "I was scared at the time, and Ah Li was also scared over there.
, I casually asked who did it, and Ah Li said..."
"What did you say?" Lao Tong asked hurriedly.
Zhi Changle's hands and feet were cold and he said: "...Maybe a fool used it to make medicine."
Lao Tong's expression instantly became horrified: "Oh my God, who did this! Kill with a thousand swords! How could you do such a thing?!"
Zhi Changle shook his head and was speechless.
Xia Zhaoyi came out of the door, raised his head and said, "You guys come down first."
Old Tong nodded with a pale face, climbed down with trembling hands and feet, and said hoarsely: "Ali, are you hungry?"
Xia Zhaoyi shook his head and asked, "Can you make spears?"
"Spear?"
"What are you doing this for?" Zhi Changle asked.
He was still sitting on it, not that he refused to come down, but that his hands and feet were still weak and trembling involuntarily.
Xia Zhaoyi turned around and walked towards the cauldron in the courtyard, washed the blood and herb juice from her fingers with the water in the giant cauldron, and said: "There are ferocious beasts in the mountains. If we don't take measures to deal with them, we may become their food."
Old Tong was stunned: "Beast?"
"Well," Xia Zhaoyi turned around and looked at them, "I'll go out and you can break some thick branches and cut them into long spears. If you can't, try to cut them as sharp as possible. I'll come back and trim them a little so that they can be used more easily.
Can."
"Where are you going?" Zhi Changle asked hurriedly, "How is the person in the room doing?"
"I've bandaged it up and he's awake. His life is not in danger for now." Xia Zhaoyi said, "Thank you for your hard work first. Remember to sharpen it. I'll be back in two hours at the latest."
After saying that, he lifted his feet and walked outside.
In the dim light of the sky, you can see a whip-like stick on her waist behind her, or is it a stick-like whip?
All in all, they were wrapped into a bundle, taking up too much space on her small back.
I had never seen her take it out before. There was really everything in the two tree baskets behind Qingyun that were exclusive to her.
"Come down quickly." Lao Tong raised his head and said to Zhi Changle, then turned and entered the lobby.
At a glance, he saw the injured man leaning on the incense table, with the blanket used by Xia Zhaoyi under him. He had no clothes on his upper body, his eyes were half-opened, his eyes were blank and sick, and he looked like he was stunned by the pain.
Zhi Changle followed him in and was startled when he saw the bandaged wounds on his body: "Why is Ah Li so fast?"
Not only were they bandaged up, but the mud stains on other parts of his body had also been scrubbed away. His skin was dark and wrinkled, and you could tell at a glance that he was a poor man who had been farming for many years.
As soon as Zhi Changle said this, Lao Tong noticed it and nodded blankly: "It's so fast. How long did it take?"
Thinking of Xia Zhaoyi's previous tricks, Lao Tong said again: "Ah Li seems to know everything. What's the word?"
"What?"
Old Tong remembered it and said, "It's omnipotent."
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The wind blew loudly from the depths of the forest, mixed with all kinds of strange smells.
Xia Zhaoyi tied a cloth rolled with wild flowers and herbs under her nose and wrapped it up to the back of her ears. Holding a thick wooden branch in her hand, she walked in a circle around the ruined temple along a one-mile radius with the ruined temple as the center.
After returning to the starting point more than an hour later, she found a slightly flat muddy ground, picked up a branch and drew on it.
She roughly outlined the terrain with simple lines. After making a brief judgment, she casually pulled out the miscellaneous trees on the ground, broke them into small strands, and inserted them in several places.
She squatted in deep thought, her little brows knitted together.
These ferocious beasts are usually fierce and will never let go of a living person if they encounter them. But now, these ferocious beasts have even eaten people.
Naturally, she does not understand the taste of human flesh, but her master has said that human flesh is delicious and has no fur. The ferocious beasts that eat meat are originally motivated by primitive greed. Once they taste it, they will become even crazier to pounce on it.
At that time, her master taught her how to survive alone in the wild and how to avoid these ferocious beasts.
After all, it was a small matter for her to be eaten alone, but it was a big deal to affect the peace of all the villages at the foot of the mountain.
Xia Zhaoyi breathed out softly and looked up towards the secluded place in the deep forest.
When she was bandaging the injured person earlier, she unintentionally made another calculation in her mind.
The four elephants represent two difficulties, facing away from each other, with two extremes: north and south.
It means suddenly encountering a desolate place, or the sky is clear and the earth is bright, or the mountains and rivers are exhausted.
The key point is that there will definitely be an intruder, and this intruder is ominous.
How the person who responds to the hexagram deals with this intruder is the key to reversing the entire situation, otherwise it is life or death.
At this time, the wind in the forest became stronger and the sky became darker and darker.
Xia Zhaoyi looked up at the sky filled with rolling clouds, stood up, picked up the wooden stick lying aside, and turned around to leave.
Not long after she left, heavy rain fell from the sky, and the earth, which had not yet recovered from the rain, was wreaked havoc again.
Everything was running away, looking for a place to hide. Apart from the sound of rain and the occasional thunder, there was nothing else in the world.
About half an hour later, a slim and slender figure walked slowly through the heavy rain in the distance.
Bamboo sticks and mango shoes, bamboo hats and coir raincoats, and bags on the back, but the book basket contained not books, but a pile of well-protected precious medicinal herbs.
He walked slowly and unhurriedly, not showing any signs of panic due to the heavy rain.
When he reached a flat place, he stopped and looked down at the muddy ground not far away. The very light patterns washed away by the heavy rain were a terrain.
